Direct ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of Late Ordovician and Silurian brittle faulting in the southwestern Norwegian Caledonides

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• 作者：Thomas Scheiber ; Giulio Viola ; Camilla Maya Wilkinson ; Morgan Ganerø ; d ; Ø ; yvind Skå ; r and Deta Gasser
• 刊名：Terra Nova
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：28
• 期：5
• 页码：374-382
• 全文大小：7177K
• ISSN：1365-3121

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Structural data as well as U–Pb zircon and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar biotite and muscovite ages were collected from the Rolvsnes granodiorite in western Norway. The granodiorite intruded at c. 466 Ma, cooled quickly and escaped later viscous deformation. Brittle top-to-the-NNW thrust faults (Set I) and WNW–ESE striking dextral strike-slip faults (Set II) formed in a NNW–SSE transpressional regime. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of synkinematic mica from both sets reveals a c. 450 Ma (Late Ordovician) age of faulting, which constrains early-Caledonian brittle deformation. Set I and II faults are overprinted by a set of lower-grade, variably oriented chlorite- and epidote-coated faults (Set III) constraining WNW–ESE shortening. A lamprophyric dyke oriented compatibly with this stress field intruded at c. 435 Ma (Silurian), indicating that Set III formed at the onset of the Scandian Baltica–Laurentia collision. The preservation of Caledonian brittle structures indicates that the Rolvsnes granodiorite occupied a high tectonic level throughout the Caledonian orogeny.