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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0967
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Abstract Zircon and monazite from granulite- to amphibolite-facies rocks of the Vosges mountains (central Variscan Belt, eastern France) were dated by ion-microprobe and conventional U-Pb techniques. Different granulites of igneous (so-called leptynites) and sedimentary origin (kinzigites) and their leucosomes were dated at 334.9 ± 3.6, 335.4 ± 3.6 and 336.7 ± 3.5 Ma (conventional age 335.4 ± 0.6 Ma). Subsequent growth stages of zircon were distinguished by secondary electron (SEM) and cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging: (1) subsolidus growth producing round anhedral morphologies and sector zoning; (2) appearance of an intergranular fluid or melt phase at incipient dehydration melting that first resulted in resorption of pre-existing zircons, followed by growth of acicular zircons or overgrowths on round zircons consisting of planar growth zoning; (3) advanced melting producing euhedral prismatic zircons with oscillatory zoning overgrowing the sector zones. Two further lithologies, the Kaysersberg granite and the Trois-Epis units, were both formerly considered as migmatites. The intrusion of the Kaysersberg granite was dated at 325.8 ± 4.8 Ma. The Trois-Epis unit was found to be the product of volume recrystallization of a former granulite, which occurred under amphibolite-facies conditions 327.9 ± 4.4 Ma ago. The amphibolite-facies overprint of the Trois-Epis zircons led to the complete rejuvenation of most of the zircon domains by annealing and replacement/recrystallization processes. Annealing is assumed to occur in strained lattice domains, which are possibly disturbed by high trace element contents and/or large differences in decay damage between adjacent growth zones. Investigation of cathodoluminescence structures reveals that the replacement occurs along curved chemical reaction fronts that proceed from the surface towards the interior of the zircon. The monazite U-Pb system still records the age of high-grade metamorphism at around 335 Ma. The chemical reagent responsible for the rejuvenation of zircon obviously left the monazite unaffected.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1866
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Dans le fossé sédimentaire crétacé de la Bénoué (Nigéria), formé au sein du socle panafricain, des indices de Pb-Zn sont localisés dans les séries d'âge albien à cénomanien inférieur. Ces minéralisations sur fractures sont considérées comme hydrothermales et formées à des températures relativement basses (∼ 140°C). Les compositions isotopiques en plomb des gites d'Abakaliki (Basse-Bénoué) et de Zurak (Ha'ute-Bénoué), respectivement encaissés dans des formations marines (shales noirs) et détritiques (grès et arkoses), montrent pour chaque gîte une remarquable homogénéité. Prises dans leur ensemble, elles présentent un caractère faiblement radiogénique pour des galènes d'âge crétacé situées dans un environment de croûte continentale supérieure dont la différenciation majeure s'est produite à 600–700 Ma. Ce caractère comparé aux compositions isotopiques en plomb des roches encaissantes (shales, grès arkosique) de feldspaths du socle panafricain et d'un basalte mis en place dans le contexte d'ouverture du fossé de la Bénoué, indique une source appauvrie en uranium pour le plomb de ces minéralisations. Cette source correspondrait aux feldspaths issus de l'érosion du socle granitique pan-africain et concentrés dans les séries arkosiques; ces séries forment l'essentiel de la pile sédimentaire albienne en Haute-Bénoué et sont localisées à la base des formations marines albiennes en Basse-Bénoué.
    Notes: Abstract Lead-zinc deposits are localized within Albian to lower Cenomanian sedimentary sequences of the Cretaceous Benue trough which formed in the middle of the Pan-African Nigerian shield. The ore bodies, which occur as mineralized lodes, are of hydrothermal origin. The mineralization was probably formed at relatively low temperatures (ca. 140°C). Galena samples from the Abakaliki (lower Benue) and Zurak (upper Benue) deposits, located within marine black shales and arkosic sandstones, respectively, are homogeneous in their leadisotope composition. The lead is very unradiogenic (6/4=17.95–18.15) in view of the Cretaceous age of the mineralization and its location within the upper continental crust which was subject to a major differentiation about 600–700 Ma. The lead was therefore derived from a source strongly depleted in uranium when comparing the ore lead with the trace lead of the host rocks and possible source rocks (black shale, arkosic sandstone, Pan-African basement and basalt) the most likely lead sources are the detrital feldspars which were eroded from the Pan-African basement feldspars and concentrated within arkosic series (these series correspond to the whole Albian sedimentary pile in the upper Benue region and to the floor of the Albian marine shale formation in the lower Benue region).
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