Silurian provenance variation in the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland, assessed using neodymium isotopes and linked with regional tectonic evolution

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 447-455

  Stone, P ^a   Evans, J A ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gala Group; greywacke; Hawick Group; Iapetus Ocean; Lake District; Midland Valley

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; IAPETUS OCEAN; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PROVENANCE; SILURIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034885930     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300008294     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Anderson M. W., Barker A. J., Bennet D. G. & Dallmeyer R. D. 1992. A tectonic model for Scandian terrane accretion in the northern Scandinavian Caledonides. Journal of the Geological Society, London 149, 727–41.
2. Armstrong H. A., Owen A. W., Scrutton C. T., Clarkson E. N. K. & Taylor C. M. 1996. Evolution of the Northern Belt, Southern Uplands: implications for the Southern Uplands controversy. Journal of the Geological Society, London 153, 197–205.
3. Bluck B. J. 1983. Role of the Midland Valley of Scotland in the Caledonian orogeny. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 74, 119–36.
4. Bouch J. E., Hole M. J., Trewin N. H. & Morton A. 1995. Low temperature mobility of the rare-earth elements during sandstone diagenesis. Journal of the Geological Society, London 152, 895–8.
5. British Geological Survey 1993. Regional geochemistry of southern Scotland and part of northern England. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey.
6. Davies G. R., Gledhill A. & Hawksworth C. J. 1985. Upper crustal recycling in southern Britain: evidence from neodymium and strontium isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 75, 1–12.
7. Duller P. R. & Floyd J. D. 1995. Turbidite geochemistry and provenance studies in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Geological Magazine 132, 557–69.
8. Evans J. A., Stone P. & Floyd J. D. 1991. Isotopic characteristics of Ordovician greywacke provenance in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. In Morton A. C., Todd S. P., Haughton P. D. W. (eds) Developments in sedimentary provenance studies. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 57, 161–72.
9. Evans J. A. & Zalasiewicz J. 1996. U–Pb, Pb–Pb and Sm–Nd dating of authigenic monazite: implications for the diagenetic evolution of the Welsh Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 144, 421–33.
10. Harland W. B., Armstrong R. L., Cox A. V., Craig L. E., Smith A. G. & Smith D.G. 1990. A geologic time scale 1989. Cambridge University Press.
11. Jacobsen S. B. & Wasserburg G. J. 1980. Sm–Nd evolution of chondrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 50, 139–55.
12. Kassi A. M. & Weir J. A. 1993. Depositional and geotectonic history of the Gala area, eastern Southern Uplands, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84, 161–73.
13. Kemp A. E. S. 1991. Discussion on Silurian collision and sediment dispersal patterns in southern Britain. Geological Magazine 128, 673.
14. Kneller B. C. 1991. A foreland basin on the southern margin of Iapetus. Journal of the Geological Society, London 148, 207–10.
15. Kneller B. C., King L. M. & Bell A. M. 1993. Foreland basin development and tectonics on the northwest margin of eastern Avalonia. Geological Magazine 130, 691–7.
16. Leggett J. K. 1987. The Southern Uplands as an accretionary prism: the importance of analogues in reconstructing palaeogeography. Journal of the Geological Society, London 144, 737–52.
17. Leggett J. K., McKerrow W. S. & Eales M. H. 1979. The Southern Uplands of Scotland: a Lower Palaeozoic accretionary prism. Journal of the Geological Society, London 136, 755–70.
18. Leggett J. K., McKerrow W. S. & Casey D. M. 1982. The anatomy of a Lower Palaeozoic accretionary forearc: the Southern Uplands of Scotland. In Leggett J.K. (ed.) Trench-Forearc Geology. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 10, 495–520.
19. Lugmair G. W. & Marti K. 1978. Lunar initial 143Nd/144Nd: differential evolution of the lunar crust and mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 39, 349–57.
20. McCaffrey W. D. 1994. Sm–Nd isotopic characteristics of sedimentary provenance: the Windermere Supergroup of NW England. Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 1017–21.
21. Miller R. G. & O'Nions R. K. 1984. The provenance and crustal residence ages of British sediments in relation to palaeogeographic reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 68, 459–70.
22. Molyneux S. G. 1987. Probable early Wenlock acritarchs from the Linkim Beds of the Southern Uplands. Scottish Journal of Geology 23, 301–13.
23. Morris J. H. 1987. The Northern Belt of the Longford–Down inlier, Ireland and Southern Uplands, Scotland: an Ordovician backarc basin. Journal of the Geological Society, London 144, 773–86.
24. Phillips E. R., Smith R. A. & Carroll S. 1998. Strike-slip, terrane accretion and the pre-Carboniferous evolution of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 88 (for 1997), 209–24.
25. Rollinson H. 1993. Using geochemical data: evaluation, presentation, interpretation. Harlow: Longman.
26. Rushton A. W. A., Stone P. & Hughes R. A. 1996. Biostratigraphical control of thrust models for the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 86 (for 1995), 137–52.
27. Soper N. J. & Woodcock N. H. 1990. Silurian collision and sediment dispersal patterns in southern Britain. Geological Magazine 127, 527–42.
28. Stone P. 1995. Geology of the Rhins of Galloway district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 1 and 3 (Scotland). Keyworth, Nottingham: BGS.
29. Stone P., Floyd J. D., Barnes R. P. & Lintern B. C. 1987. A sequential back-arc and foreland basin thrust duplex model for the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 144, 753–64.
30. Stone P., Green P. M., Lintern B. C., Simpson P. R. & Plant J. A. 1993. Regional geochemical variation across the Iapetus Suture Zone: tectonic implications. Scottish Journal of Geology 29, 113–21.
31. Stone P., Green P. M. & Williams T. M. 1997. Relationship of source and drainage geochemistry in the British paratectonic Caledonides: an exploratory regional assessment. Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy 106, B79–B84.
32. Stone P., Plant J. A., Mendum J. R. & Green P. M. 1999. A regional geochemical assessment of some terrane relationships in the British Caledonides. Scottish Journal of Geology 35, 145–56.
33. Stone P. & Evans J. A. 1995. Nd-isotope study of provenance patterns across the British sector of the Iapetus Suture. Geological Magazine 132, 571–80.
34. Stone P. & Evans J. A. 1997. A comparison of the Skiddaw and Manx groups (English Lake District and Isle of Man) using neodymium isotopes. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 51, 343–7.
35. Styles M. T., Perez-Alvarez M. & Floyd J. D. 1995. Pyroxenous greywackes in the Southern Uplands of Scotland and their petrotectonic implications. Geological Magazine 132, 539–47.
36. Syba E. 1989. The sedimentation and provenance of the Lower Old Red Sandstone Greywacke Conglomerate, southern Midland Valley, Scotland (Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow).
37. Thorogood E. J. 1990. Provenance of pre-Devonian sediments of England and Wales: Sm–Nd isotopic evidence. Journal of the Geological Society, London 147, 591–4.
38. Walton E. K. & Oliver G. J. H. 1991. Lower Palaeozoic—Stratigraphy. In Craig G. Y. (ed.) Geology of Scotland (3rd edn). London: The Geological Society.
39. Wasserburg G. L., Jacobsen S. B., DePaolo D. J., McCulloch M. T. & Wen T. 1981. Precise determination of Sm/Nd ratios, Sm and Nd isotopic abundances in standard solutions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45, 2311–22.
40. White D. E., Barron H. F., Barnes R. P. & Lintern B. C. 1991. Biostratigraphy of late Llandovery (Telychian) and Wenlock turbiditic sequences in the SW Southern Uplands, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 82, 297–322.
41. Williams T. M., Henney P. J., Stone P. & Lintern B. C. 1996. Rare earth element geochemistry of Lower Palaeozoic turbidites in the British trans-Iapetus zone: provenance patterns and basin evolution. Scottish Journal of Geology 32, 1–8.