North American Precambrian history recorded in a single sample: high-resolution U-Pb systematics of the Potsdam sandstone detrital zircons, New York State

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Jul 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981e%26psl..54..248g&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 54, Issue 2, p. 248-260.

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Zircons separated from the Cambrian Potsdam sandstone of New York yield four distinct populations which can be defined by a number of analytical techniques. U-Pb isotopic analyses of small samples and monozircons of each population reveal a fine chronology not apparent in milligram-sized sample analysis, and define source area ages of 1180, 1320, 2100 and 2700 m.y. for the Cambrian detrital suite. These ages correspond to well-defined sources in the Superior and Grenville Provinces of the Canadian Shield (2700 and 2100 m.y.) and the well established Grenville age rocks of the Adirondack Mountains (1180 m.y.). The 1320-m.y. age appears to be derived from the Adirondacks, and suggests the existence of pre-Grenville basement in that massif. Our techniques allow the interpretation of the Precambrian history of a large portion of eastern North America from a single sample, and thus should be valuable in the definition of source areas in paleogeographic reconstruction, and in studies of continental crustal evolution.

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