Cenozoic continental weathering and its implications for the palaeoclimate: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of supergene K-Mn oxides in Mt Tabor, central Queensland, Australia

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Jun 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002e%26psl.200..223l&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 200, Issue 1-2, p. 223-239.

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One hundred and twenty-five mineral grains from 45 visually pure K-bearing Mn oxide (hollandite group) samples collected from weathering profiles in the Mt Tabor region of central Queensland, Australia, were analysed by the 40Ar/39Ar laser probe technique. These K-Mn oxides precipitated mainly through a process of cavity filling (direct precipitation from weathering solution), with botryoidal texture formed by micrometric mineral bands. Well-defined and reproducible plateau ages have been obtained for most samples, ranging from 27.2+/-0.8 to 6.8+/-0.5 Ma (2σ). Statistical analysis of the geochronological results by mixture modelling suggests an episodic mineral precipitation history, with two major peaks at 20.2+/-0.22 Ma and 16.5+/-0.17 Ma. The geochronological results, when combined with information on paragenetic relationships and mineralogical textures obtained from petrographic, scanning electron microscopy, and electron microprobe investigations, indicate that warm and humid palaeoclimatic conditions favourable to intense chemical weathering prevailed in central Queensland from late Oligocene to middle Miocene, particularly in the early Miocene. These results, in conjunction with previous and ongoing investigations in NW and eastern Queensland, suggest that most of Queensland was dominated by humid climates during the Miocene.

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