The Late Archean history of the Wyoming province as recorded by granitic magmatism in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

Precambrian Research

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 145-173

  Frost, Carol D ^a   Frost, B Ronald ^a   Chamberlain, Kevin R ^a   Hulsebosch, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Calc alkaline granite; Geochemistry; Nd isotopes; Pb isotopes; Sr isotopes; U Pb geochronology; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE;

USA, WYOMING;

EID: 0031844515     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00082-x     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Aleinikoff, J.N., Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Stuckless, J.S., Worl, R.G., 1989. Evidence for an Early Archean component in the Middle to Late Archean gneisses of the Wind River Range, west-central Wyoming: conventional and ion microprobe U-Pb data. Contr. Miner. Petrol. 101, 198-206.
2. Arth, J.G., Barker, F., Stern, T.W., 1980. Geochronology of Archean gneisses in the Lake Helen area, southwestern Big Horn Mountains Wyoming., Precambrian Res. 11, 11-22.
3. Barker, F., 1982. Geologic map of the Lake Helen quadrangle, Big Horn and Johnson Counties, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Map GQ-1563, 1:24 000.
4. Barker, F., Arth, J.G., Millard, H.J., 1979. Archean trondhjemites of the southwestern Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming: a preliminary report. In: Barker, F. (Ed.) Trondhjemites. Dacites, and Related Rocks. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 401-414.
5. Barker, F., Millard, H.T., Lipman, P.W., 1979b. Four low-K siliceous rocks of the western USA. In: Barker, F. (Ed.), Trondhjemites, Dacites, and Related Rocks. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 415-433.
6. Barrus, R.B., 1970. Petrology of the Precambrian rocks of the High Peaks area, Wind River Mountains, Fremont County, Wyoming: Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington.
7. Barton Jr., J.M., 1975. Rb-Sr isotopic characteristics and chemistry of the 3.6 b.y. Hebron gneiss Labrador. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 27, 427-435.
8. Bayley, R.W., P.D. Proctor, K.C. Condie, 1973. Geology of the South Pass Area, Fremont County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper No. 793.
9. Card, K.D., 1990. A review of the Superior province of the Canadian Shield, a product of Archean accretion. Precambrian Res. 48, 99-156.
10. Condie, K.C., 1981. Archaean Greenstone Belts. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 434 pp.
11. DePaolo, D.J., Wasserburg, G.J., 1979. Sm-Nd age of the Stillwater Complex and the mantle evolution curve for neodymium. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 43, 999-1008.
12. Fischer, L.B., Stacey, J.S., 1986. Uranium-lead zircon ages and common lead measurements for the Archean gneisses of the Granite Mountains, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 1622, pp. 13-23.
13. Frost, C.D., Frost, B.R., 1993. The Archean history of the Wyoming province. In: Snoke, S.W., Steidtmann, J.R., Roberts, S.M. (Eds.), Geology of Wyoming. Geological Society of Wyoming Memoir No. 5, pp. 58-76.
14. Frost, C. D., 1993. Nd isotopic evidence for the antiquity of the Wyoming province. Geology 21, 351-354.
15. Goodwill, A.M., 1991. Precambrian Geology: the dynamic evolution of the continental crust. Academic Press, London, 666 pp.
16. Gosselin, D.C., Papike, J.J., Zartman, R.E., Peterman, Z.E., Laul, J.C., 1988. Archean rocks of the Black Hills, South Dakota: reworked basement from the southern extension of the Trans-Hudson orogen. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 100, 1244-1259.
17. Granger, H.C., McKay, E.J., Mattick, R.E., Patten, L.L., McIlroy, P., 1971. Mineral resources of the Glacier Primitive Area, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 1319-F, 113 pp.
18. Hausel, W. D., 1991. Economic Geology of the South Pass granite greenstone belt, southern Wind River Range, western Wyoming. Geological Survey of Wyoming Report of Investigations No. 44, 129 pp.
19. Heimlich, R.A., Banks, P.O., 1968. Radiometrie age determinations, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming . Am. J. Sci. 266, 180-192.
20. Hills, F.A., Armstrong, R.L., 1974. Geochronology of Precambrian rocks in the Laramie Range and implications for the tectonic framework of Precambrian southern Wyoming. Precambrian Res. 1, 213-225.
21. Houston, R.S., Erslev, E.A., Frost, C.D., Karlstrom, K.E., Page, N.J., Zientek, M.L., Reed, J.C., Jr, Snyder, G.L., Worl, R.G., Bryant, B., Reynolds, M.W., Peterman, Z.E., 1993. The Wyoming province. In: Reed. J.C. Jr, Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., Van Schmus, W.R. (Eds.), Precambrian: Conterminous U.S. Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, C-2: pp. 121-170.
22. Hulsebosch, T.P., 1993. Aspects of crustal evolution in the Archean Wind River Range, Wyoming. PhD Thesis, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
23. Huppert, H.E., Sparks, R.J.S., 1988. The generation of granitic magmas by intrusion of basalt into continental crust. J. Petrol. 29, 599-624.
24. Hurst, R.W., Bridgwater, D., Collerson, K.D., Wetherill, G.W., 1975. 3600 m.y. Rb-Sr ages from very Early Archean gneisses from Saglek Bay, Labrador. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 27, 393-403.
25. Koesterer, M.E., Frost, C.D., Frost, B.R., Hulsebosch, T.P., Bridgwater, D., 1987. Development of the Archean crust in the Medina Mountain area, Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA. Precambviim Res. 37, 287-304.
26. Krogh, T.E., 1973. A low-contamination method for hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic age determination. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 37, 485-494.
27. Kusky, T.M., 1989. Accretion of the Archean Slave province. Geology 17, 63-67.
28. Jahn, B.-M., Glikson, A.Y., Peucat, J.J., Hickman, A.M., 1981. REE geochemistry and isotopic data of Archean silicic volcanics and granitoids from the Pilbara Block, Western Australia: implications for early crustal evolution. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 45, 1633-1652.
29. Johnson, R.C., Hills, F.A., 1976. Precambrian geochronology and geology of the Boxelder Canyon area, northern Laramie Range, Wyoming. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 87, 809-817.
30. Ludwig, K.R., 1988. PBDAT for MS-DOS, a computer program for IBM-PC compatibles for processing raw Pb-U-Th isotope data, revised June, 1993. U.S. Geological Survey open-file report 88-542.
31. Ludwig, K.R., 1991. ISOPLOT for MS-DOS, a plotting and regression program for radiogenic isotope data, for IBM-PC compatible computers, revised October, 1994. U.S. Geological Survey open-file report 91-445.
32. Ludwig, K.R., Silver, L.T., 1977. Lead-isotopic inhomogeneity in Precambrian igneous K-feldspars. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 41, 1457-1471.
33. Ludwig, K.R., Stuckless, J.S., 1978. Uranium-Lead isotope systematics and apparent ages of zircons and other minerals in Precambrian granitic rocks, Granite Mountains, Wyoming. Contrib. Miner. Petrol. 65. 243-254.
34. Marshall, D.M., 1987. Structure and petrology of an Archean shear zone. Cresent Lake area, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming: M.S. thesis. University of Wyoming, Laramie. WY.
35. Martin, H., 1994. Archean grey gneisses and the genesis of continental crust. In: Condie, K.C. (Eds.), Archean Crustal Evolution. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 205-259.
36. McGregor, V.R., 1979. Archean gray gneisses and the origin of the continental crust: evidence from the Godthåb region, West Greenland. In: Barker, F. (Ed.), Trondhjemites, Dacites, and Related Rocks. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 169-204.
37. Miller, C.F., 1985. Are strongly peraluminous magmas derived from pelitic sedimentary sources? J. Geol. 93, 673-690.
38. Mogk, D.W., Mueller, P.A., Wooden, J.L., 1988. The nature of Archean terrane boundaries: an example from the northern Wyoming province. Precambrian Res. 55, 155-168.
39. Mueller, P.A., Wooden, J.L., Mogk, D.W., Nutman, A.P., Williams, LS., 1996. Extended history of a 3.5 Ga trondhjemitic gneiss. Wyoming province. USA: evidence from U-Pb systematics in zircon. Precambrian Res. 78, 41-52.
40. Mueller, P.A., Wooden, J.L., Nutman, A.P., 1992, 3.96 Ga zircons from an Archean quartzite, Beartooth Mountains, Montana. Geology 20, 327-330.
41. Mueller, P.A., Shuster, R.D., Wooden, J.L., Erslev, E.A., Bowes, D.R., 1993. Age and composition of Archean crystalline rocks from the southern Madison Range, Montana: implications for crustal evolution in the Wyoming craton. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 105, 437-446.
42. 6 year old pluton from the southern Wind River Range, Wyoming., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 34, 1133-1159.
43. Nunes, P.D., Tilton, G.R., 1971. Uranium-lead ages of minerals from the Stillwater igneous complex and associated rocks. Montana. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 82, 2231-2250.
44. O'Nions, R.K., Pankhurst, R.J., 1974. Rare-earth distribution in Archean gneisses and anorthosites, Godthaab area, West Greenland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 22, 328-338.
45. Perry, K., Jr., 1964. High-grade regional metamorphism of Precambrutn gneisses and associated rocks. Paradise Basin quadrangle. Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, PhD Thesis, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
46. Peterman, Z.E., Futa, K., 1988. Contrasts in Nd crustal residence ages between the Superior and Wyoming cratons. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Program 20, A137
47. Peterman, Z.E., Hildreth, R.A., 1978. Reconnaissance geology and geochronology of the Precambrian of the Granite mountains. Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper No. 1055, 22 pp.
48. Premo, W.R., Van Schmus, W.R., 1989. Zircon geochronology of Precambrian rocks in southeastern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Geological Society of America Special Paper 235, pp. 13-32.
49. Sawaka, W.M., Chappel, B.W., 1988. Fractionation of uranium, thorium and rare earth elements in a vertically zoned granodiorite. Implications for heat production distributions in the Sierra Nevada batholith, California, USA. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52, 1131-1143.
50. Shand, S.J., 1947. Eruptive rocks. Wiley, New York, 479 pp.
51. Snyder, G.L., Siems, D.F., Wandles, G.A., Nealey, L.D., Bartel, A.J., Brandt, E.L., 1995. Geologic maps and petrochemistry of Precambrian rocks of the Reese Mountain Hightower SW, and Potato Creek areas, Albany and Platte Counties, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Scries Map I-2234. 1:24 000.
52. Stuckless, J.S., 1989. Petrogenesis of two contrasting, Late Archean granitoids, Wind River Range. Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper No. 1491, 38 pp.
53. Stuckless, J.S., Nkomo, I.T., Butt, K.A., 1986. Uranium-thorium-lead systematics of an Archean granite from the Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1388-C, p. 39-48.
54. Stuckless, J.S., Hedge, C.E., Worl, R.G., Simmons, K.R., Nkomo, I.T., Wenner, D.B., 1985. Isotopic studies of the late Archean plutonic rocks of the Wind River Range, Wyoming, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 96, 850-860.
55. Sylvester, P.J., 1994. Archean granite plutons. In: Condie, K.C. (Ed.), Archean crustal evolution. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 261-314.
56. Tilton, G.R., 1973. Isotopic lead ages of chondritic meteorites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 19, 321-329.
57. Verts, L.A., Chamberlain, K.R., Frost, C.D., 1996. U-Pb sphene dating of metamorphism: the importance of sphene growth in the contact aureole of the Red Mountain pluton. Laramie Mountains, Wyoming, Contr. Miner. Petrol. 125, 186-199.
58. Viljoen, M.J., Viljoen, R.P., 1969. The geochemical evolution of the granitic rocks of the Barberton region. Geol. Soc. S. African Spec. Publ. 2, 189-219.
59. Wiedenbeck, M., Watkins, K.P., 1993. A time scale for granitoid emplacement in the Archean Murchison Province, Western Australia, by single zircon geochronology. Precambrian Res. 61, 1-26.
60. Wooden, J.L., Mueller, P.A., 1988. Pb. Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of a suite of Late Archean igneous rocks, eastern Beartooth Mountains: implications for crust-mantle evolution. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 87, 59-72.
61. Worl, R.G., Koesterer, M.E., Hulsebosch, T.P., 1986. Geologic map of the Bridger Wilderness and the Green-Sweetwater roadless area, Sublette and Fremont counties, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1636-B.
62. Zartman, Z.E., Doe, B.R., 1981. Plumbotectonics-the model. Tectonophysics 75, 135-162.