A Rb-Sr study of the lower silurian stage circle Shale, Canberra, Australia

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Apr 1970

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 34, Issue 4, pp.433-445

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The radiometric age of the Upper Silurian (Lower Ludlovian) has been measured as equal to or older than 438 ± 4 m.y., using whole-rock and biotite samples from dacitic ash flows. Relative to this, the deposition of the Lower Silurian State Circle Shale is placed at about 445 ± 7 m.y. (Upper Llandoverian). Samples of the Shale have real differences in initial Sr 87 / Sr 86 for this age and two groups are recognized: one having uniform Sr 87 / Sr 86 of 0.720, and the other having Sr 87 / Sr 86 about 0.73, with some scatter. Regression-lines through each group on the isochron-diagram have indistinguishable slopes, the pooled value being equivalent to an age of440 ± 9 m.y. A single regression through all the data gives 455 ± 15 m.y. Neither of these results can be separated from the estimated 445 ± 7 m.y., so that no inheritence in age from the provenance is detected. No difference can be detected between oxidized (weathered, probably in the Tertiary) and unaltered samples. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that the Shale is composed of quartz, chlorite, L M and (principally) 2 M muscovite, small amounts of feldspars, and in the oxidized zone, goethite and kaolinite. The samples having low depositional Sr 87 / Sr 86 are distinguished by an absence of K-feldspar, presumably reflecting some difference in provenance. The micas may be all detrital or much of the 2 M may have grown from l M during low-grade metamorphism and folding after deposition. At present we favour the latter hypothesis, and interpret the 440 ± 9 m.y. event registered by the Shale as relating to a period of folding in the Lower Ludlovian.

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