Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998m%26ps...33.1259t&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1259-1269.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
Ten pseudotachylyte samples from the North Range of the 1850 Ma Sudbury impact structure have been analyzed by the 40Ar/39Ar laser spot fusion method. Field and petrological evidence indicate that the pseudotachylytes were formed at 1850 Ma by comminution and frictional melting due to impact-induced faulting. The cryptocrystalline to microcrystalline grain size (<30 _?m) of the pseudotachylyte matrices, and the predominance of orthoclase as the main K-bearing phase, have rendered the rocks particularly susceptible to argon loss. The age determinations range from ?1850 Ma to ?1000 Ma, with some samples yielding multiple ages that cannot be correlated with known geological events in the area. However, if the finite-difference algorithm of Wheeler (1996) is used to calculate combined argon loss and the accumulation of radiogenic argon for the K-bearing phases, it is possible to reproduce the range of observed ages. The model infers that the long-term volume diffusion of Ar has occurred and that, as a result, the Ar system cannot be treated with a conventional closure temperature approach. The algorithm requires burial of the impact structure to 5-6 km depth and 160-180 deg C at 1850 Ma, followed by exhumation at ?1000 Ma. These ages may be equated with two events: Penokean thin-skinned overthrusting in the North Range, immediately following impact, and exhumation ?850 Ma later, coincident with the Grenville orogeny to the southeast. The results suggest that, contrary to previously accepted paradigms, the North Range has been affected by a protracted period of post-impact, low-grade thermal metamorphism. If this event also involved tectonic shortening within the North Range, as has been documented for the South Range, then the original size of the Sudbury impact structure has been underestimated.
Kelley Simon P.
Spray John G.
Thompson Lucy M.
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