U-Pb geochronology of the Fort Augustus granite gneiss: Constrainst on the timing of Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic tectonothermal events in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-14

  Rogers, G ^a   Kinny, P D ^b   Strachan, R A ^c   Friend, C R L ^c   Paterson, B A ^a,d  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Isotopic Analytical Services Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Granite gneiss; Moine; Titanite; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

GNEISS; GRANITE; TITANITE; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035023082     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.158.1.7     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. AFTALION, M. & KNELLER, B.C. 1987. The isotopic and structural age of the Aberdeen Granite. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 144, 717 721.
2. AFTALION, M. & VAN BREEMEN, O. 1980. U-Pb zircon, monazite and Rb-Sr whole rock systematics of granitic gneiss and psammitic to semi-pelitic host gneiss from Glenfinnan, northwestern Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 72, 87-98.
3. BARR, D., ROBERTS, A.M., HIGHTON, A.J., PARSON, L.M. & HARRIS, A.L. 1985. Structural setting and geochronological significance of the West Highland Granitic Gneiss. a deformed early granite within Proterozoic, Moine rocks of NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 142, 663-675.
4. BARR, S., RAESIDE, R.P., MILLAR, B.V. & WHITE, C.E. 1995. Terrane evolution and accretion in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In: HIBBARD, J.P., VAN STAAL, C.R. & CAWOOD, P.A. (eds) Current Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen. Geological Association of Canada. Special Paper, 41, 391-407.
5. BLUCK, B.J., DEMPSTER, T.J. & ROGERS, G. 1997. Allochthonous metamorphic blocks on the Hebridean passive margin, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 921-924.
6. BREWER, M.S., BROOK, M. & POWELL, D. 1979. Dating of the tectonometamorphic history of the southwestern Moine, Scotland. In: HARRIS, A.L., HOLLAND, C.H. & LEAKE, B.E. (eds) The Caledonides of the British Isles reviewed. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 86, 129-137.
7. BROOK, M., POWELL, D. & BREWER, M.S. 1976. Grenville age for rocks in the Moine of north-western Scotland. Nature, 260, 515-517.
8. BROOK, M., POWELL, D. & BREWER, M.S. 1977. Grenville events in Moine rocks of the Northern Highlands, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 133, 489-496.
9. BROWN, R.L., DALZIEL, I.W.D. & JOHNSON, M.R.W. 1970. A review of the structure and stratigraphy of the Moinian of Ardgour, Moidart and Sunart, Argyll- and Inverness-shire. Scottish Journal of Geology, 6, 309-335.
10. CAWOOD, P., DUNNING, G.R., LUX, D. & VAN GOOL, J.A.M. 1994. Timing of peak metamorphism and deformation along the Appalachian margin of Laurentia in Newfoundland: Silurian not Ordovician. Geology, 22, 399-402.
11. CLIFF, R.A., YARDLEY, B.W.D. & BUSSY, F.R. 1996. U-Pb and Rb-Sr geochronology of magmatism and metamorphism in the Dalradian of Connemara, western Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 153, 383-390.
12. COWARD, M.P. 1990. The Precambrian, Caledonian and Variscan framework to NW Europe. In: HARDMAN, R.P.F. & BROOKS, J. (eds) Tectonic Events Responsible for Britain's Oil and Gas Reserves. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 55, 1-34.
13. DEWEY, J.F. & RYAN, P.D. 1990. The Ordovician evolution of the South Mayo Trough, Western Ireland. Tectonics, 9, 887-903.
14. DUNNING, G.R., O'BRIEN, S.J., COLMAN-SADD, S.P., BLACKWOOD, R.F., DICKSON, W.L., O'NEILL, P.P. & KROGH, T.E. 1990. Silurian orogeny in the Newfoundland Appalachians. Journal of Geology, 98, 895-913.
15. FREEMAN, S.R., BUTLER, R.W.H., CLIFF, R.A. & REX, D.C. 1998. Dating mylonitic evolution: an Rb-Sr and K-Ar study of the Moine mylonites, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 155, 745-758.
16. FRIEDRICH, A.M., BOWRING, S.A. & HODGES, K.V. 1999. Short-lived continental magmatic arc at Connemara, western Irish Caledonides: Implications for the age of the Grampian orogeny. Geology, 27, 27-30.
17. FRIEND, C.R.L. & KINNY, P.D. 1995. New evidence for the protolith ages of Lewisian granulites, northwest Scotland. Geology, 23, 1027-1030.
18. FRIEND, C.R.L., KINNY, P.D., ROGERS, G., STRACHAN, R.A. & PATERSON, B.A. 1997. U-Pb zircon geochronological evidence for Neoproterozoic events in the Glenfinnan Group (Moine Supergroup): the formation of the Ardgour granite gneiss, north-west Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 128, 101-113.
19. GILETTI, B.J., MOORBATH, S. & LAMBERT, R.ST.J. 1961. A geochronological study of the metamorphic complexes of the Scottish highlands. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 117, 233-272.
20. HARRIS, A.L. 1995. Nature and timing of orogenesis in the Scottish Highlands and the role of the Great Glen Fault. In: HIBBARD, J.P., VAN STAAL, C.R. & CAWOOD, P.A. (eds) Current Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen. Geological Association of Canada, Special Papers, 41, 65-79.
21. HIGHTON, A.J., HYSLOP, E.K. & NOBLE, S.R. 1999. U-Pb zircon geochronology of migmatization in the northern Central Highlands: evidence for pre-Caledonian (Neoproterozoic) tectonometamorphism in the Grampian block, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 1195-1204.
22. HOLDSWORTH, R.E., STRACHAN, R.A. & HARRIS, A.L. 1994. Precambrian rocks in northern Scotland east of the Moine Thrust: the Moine Supergroup. In: GIBBONS, W. & HARRIS, A.L. (eds) A revised correlation of Precambrian rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society, London, Special Reports, 22, 23-32.
23. JOHNSTONE, G.S. 1975. The Moine Succession. In: HARRIS, A.L., SHACKLETON, R.M., WATSON, J., DOWNIE, C., HARLAND, W.B. & MOORBATH, S. (eds) A correlation of the Precambrian rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society, London. Special Reports, 6, 30-42.
24. KELLEY, S.P. 1988. The relationship between K-Ar mineral ages, mica gramsizes and movement on the Moine Thrust Zone, NW Highlands, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 145, 1-10.
25. KELLEY, S.P. & POWELL, D. 1985. Relationships between marginal thrusting and movement on major, internal shear zones in the N. Highland Caledonides. Journal of Structural Geology, 7, 161-174.
26. KINNY, P.D., FRIEND, C.R.L., STRACHAN, R.A., WATT, G.R. & BURNS, I.M. 1999. U-Pb geochronology of regional migmatites in East Sutherland, Scotland: evidence for crustal melting during the Caledonian orogeny. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 1143-1152.
27. LONG, L.E. & LAMBERT, R.ST.J. 1963. Rb-Sr isotopic ages from the Moine series. In: JOHNSON, M.R.W. & STEWART, F.H. (eds) The British Caledonides. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 217-246.
28. LUDWIG, K.R. 1993. PBDAT: a computer program for processing Pb-U-Th isotope data. United States Geological Survey. Open-File Report, 88-542.
29. MAY, F. & HIGHTON, A.J. 1997. Geology of the Invermoriston district. Memoirs of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 73W (Scotland).
30. MILLAR, I.L. 1999. Neoproterozoic extensional basic magmatism associated with emplacement of the West Highland granite gneiss in the Moine Supergroup of NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 1153-1162.
31. NOBLE, S.R., HIGHTON, A.J., HYSLOP, E.K. & BARREIRO, B.A. 1997. A Rodinian connection for the Scottish Highlands? Evidence from U-Pb geochronology of Grampian terrane migmatites and pegmatites. Terra Nova. Abstract Supplement No. 1, 9, 165.
32. NOBLE, S.R., HYSLOP, E.K. & HIGHTON, A.J. 1996. High-precision U-Pb monazite geochronology of the c. 806 Ma Grampian Shear Zone and the implications for the evolution of the Central Highlands of Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 153, 511-514.
33. 39Ar geochronology. Journal of Geology, 123, 565-582.
34. OLIVER, G.J.H., CHEN, F., BUCHWALDT, R. & HEGNER, E. 2000. Fast tectonometamorphism and exhumation in the type area of the Barrovian and Buchan zones. Geology, 28, 459-462.
35. PEACH, B.N. & HORNE, J. 1930. Chapters on the geology of Scotland. Oxford University Press, London.
36. PHILLIPS, E.R., HIGHTON, A.J., HYSLOP, E.K. & SMITH, M. 1999. The timing and P-T conditions of regional metamorphism in the Central Highlands, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 1183-1193.
37. PIASECKI, M.A.J. 1984. Ductile thrusts as time markers in orogenic evolution: an example from the Scottish Caledonides. In: GALSON, D.A. & MUELLER, S.E. (eds) First European Geotraverse Workshop: the northern segment. Publications of the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, 109-114.
38. PIASECKI, M.A.J. & VAN BREEMEN, O. 1979. The 'Central Highland Granules': cover-basement tectonics in the Moine. In: HARRIS, A.L., HOLLAND, C.H. & LEAKE, B.E. (eds) The Caledonides of the British Isles -reviewed. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 8, 139-144.
39. PIASECKI, M.A.J. & VAN BREEMEN, O. 1983. Field and isotopic evidence for a c. 750 Ma tectonothermal event in Moine rocks in the Central Highland region of the Scottish Caledonides. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 73, 119-134.
40. PICKERING, K.T., BASSETT, M.G. & SIVETER, D.J. 1988. Late Ordovician-early Silurian destruction of the Iapetus Ocean: Newfoundland, British Isles and Scandinavia - a discussion. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 79, 361-382.
41. PIDGEON, R.T. & AFTALION, M. 1978. Cogenetic and inherited zircon U-Pb systems in granites: Palaeozoic granites of Scotland and England. Geological Journal Special Issue, 10, 183-220.
42. POWELL, D. 1974. Stratigraphy and structure of the western Moine and problem of Moine orogenesis. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 130, 575-593.
43. POWELL, D. & PHILLIPS, W.E.A. 1985. Time of deformation in the Caledonide orogen of Britain and Ireland. In: HARRIS, A.L. (ed.) The nature and timing of orogenic activity in the Caledonian rocks of the British Isles. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 9, 17-39.
44. POWELL, D., BROOK, M. & BAIRD, A.W. 1983. Structural dating of a Precambrian pegmatite in Moine rocks of northern Scotland and its bearing on the status of the 'Morarian Orogeny'. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 140, 813-823.
45. RAMSAY, J.G. 1958. Moine-Lewisian relations at Glenelg, Inverness-shire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 113, 487-520.
46. ROGERS, G. & DUNNING, G.R. 1991. Geochronology of appinitic and related granitic magmatism in the W. Highlands of Scotland: constraints on the timing of transcurrent fault movement. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 17-27.
47. ROGERS, G., DEMPSTER, T.J., BLUCK, B.J. & TANNER, P.W.G. 1989. A high-precision U-Pb age for the Ben Vuirich granite: implications for the evolution of the Scottish Dalradian Supergroup. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 146, 789-798.
48. ROGERS, G., HYSLOP, E.K., STRACHAN, R.A., PATERSON, B.A. & HOLDSWORTH, R.E. 1998. The structural setting and U-Pb geochronology of Knoydartian pegmatites in W Inverness-shire: evidence for Neoproterozoic tectonothermal events in the Moine of NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 155, 685-696.
49. ROGERS, G., PATERSON, B.A., DEMPSTER, T.J. & REDWOOD, S.D. 1994. U-Pb geochronology of the 'Newer' Gabbros, NE Grampians (abstract). In: Caledonian Terrane Relationships in Britain. British Geological Survey, Keyworth.
50. SOPER, N.J. 1994. Was Scotland a Vendian RRR junction? Journal of the Geological Society, London, 151, 579-582.
51. SOPER, N.J. & ENGLAND, R.W. 1995. Vendian and Riphean rifting in NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 152, 11-14.
52. SOPER, N.J. & HARRIS, A.L. 1997. Report: Highland field workshops 1995-1996. Scottish Journal of Geology, 33, 187-190.
53. SOPER, N.J. & HUTTON, D.H.W. 1984. Late Caledonian sinistral displacements in Britain: implications for a three-plate collision model. Tectonics, 3, 781-794.
54. SOPER, N.J., HARRIS, A.L. & STRACHAN, R.A. 1998. Tectonostratigraphy of the Moine Supergroup: a synthesis. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 155, 13-24.
55. SOPER, N.J., RYAN, P.D. & DEWEY, J.F. 1999. Age of the Grampian Orogeny. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 1231-1236.
56. SOPER, N.J., STRACHAN, R.A., HOLDSWORTH, R.E., GAYER, R.A. & GREILING, R.O. 1992. Sinistral transpression and the Silurian closure of Iapetus. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 149, 871-880.
57. STACEY, J.S. & KRAMERS, J.D. 1975. Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 26, 207-221.
58. TOBISCH, O.T., FLEUTY, MJ., MERH, S.S., MUKHOPADHYAY, D. & RAMSAY, J.G. 1970. Deformational and metamorphic history of Moinian and Lewisian rocks between Strathconon and Glen Affric. Scottish Journal of Geology, 6, 243-265.
59. VAN BREEMEN, O., AFTALION, M. & JOHNSON, M.R.W. 1979. Age of the Loch Borrolan complex, Assynt, and late movements along the Moine Thrust Zone. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 136, 489-495.
60. VAN BREEMEN, O., HALLIDAY, A.N., JOHNSON, M.R.W. & BOWES, D.R. 1978. Crustal additions in late Precambrian times. In: BOWES, D.R. & LEAKE, B.E. (eds) Crustal evolution in northwestern Britain and adjacent regions. Geological Journal Special Issue, 10, 81-106.
61. VAN BREEMEN, O., PIDGEON, R.T. & JOHNSON, M.R.W. 1974. Precambrian and Palaeozoic pegmatites in the Moines of northern Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 130, 493-507.
62. VANCE, D., STRACHAN, R.A. & JONES, K.A. 1998. Extensional versus compressional settings for metamorphism: garnet chronometry and pressure-temperature-time histories in the Moine Supergroup, northwest Scotland. Geology, 26, 927-930.