Sm-Nd isotope evidence for the provenance of the Skoorsteenberg Formation, Karoo Supergroup, South Africa

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-183

  Andersson, P O D ^a   Johansson, A ^b   Kumpulainen, R A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Karoo supergroup; Provenance; Skoorsteenberg formation; Sm Nd; South Africa

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MESOZOIC; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOZOIC; PROVENANCE; SAMARIUM; SANDSTONE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0041698443     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(03)00025-3     Document Type: Article

References (86)

1. Adelmann D. Fiedler K. Origin and characteristics of Late Permian submarine fan and deltaic sediments in the Laingsburg sub-basin (SW Karoo Basin, Cape Province/South Africa) Z. Deut. Geol. Ges. 149 1998 27-38
2. Allen R.B. Tucholke B.E. Petrography and implications of continental rocks from the Agulhas Plateau, southwest Indian Ocean Geology 9 1981 463-468
3. Armstrong R.A. de Wit M.J. Reid D. York D. Zartman R. Cape Town's Table Mountain reveals rapid Pan-African uplift of its basement rocks J. Afr. Earth Sci. 27 1998 10-11
4. Bangert B. Stollhofen H. Lorenz V. Armstrong R. The geochronology and significance of ash-fall tuffs in the glaciogenic Carboniferous-Permian Dwyka Group of Namibia and South Africa J. Afr. Earth Sci. 29 1999 33-49
5. Barnett W. Armstrong R.A. Stratigraphy of the upper Neoproterozoic Kango and lower Palaeozoic Table Mountain Groups of the Cape Fold Belt revisited S. Afr. J. Geol. 100 1997 237-251
6. Barton, E.S., Burger, A.J., 1983. Reconnaissance isotopic investigations in the Namaqua Mobile Belt and implications for Proterozoic crustal evolution, Upington geotraverse. In: Botha, B.J.V. (Ed.), Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex. Geol. Soc. S. Afr., Spec. Publ. 10, pp. 173-191
7. Barton J.M.Jr. Barton E.S. Kröner A. Age and isotopic evidence for the origin of the Archaean granitoid intrusives of the Johannesburg Dome, South Africa J. Afr. Earth Sci. 28 1999 693-702
8. Beckinsale R.D. Tarney J. Darbyshire D.P.F. Humm M.J. Rb-Sr and K-Ar age determinations on samples of the Falkland plateau basement at site 330, DSDP Init. Rep. Deep Sea Drilling Proj. 36 1977 923-927
9. Beukes N.J. Cairncross B. A lithostratigraphic-sedimentological reference profile for the Late Archean Mozaan Group, Pongola Sequence: Application to sequence stratigraphy and correlation with the Witwatersrand Supergroup S. Afr. J. Geol. 94 1991 44-69
10. Booth P.W.K. Shone R.W. A review of thrust faulting in the Eastern Cape Fold Belt, South Africa, and the implications for current lithostratigraphic interpretation of the Cape Supergroup J. Afr. Earth Sci. 34 2002 179-190
11. Booth P.W.K. Munro A.J. Shone R.W. Lithological and structural characteristics of Cape Supergroup rocks at Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa S. Afr. J. Geol. 102 1999 391-404
12. Bouma A.H. Wickens H.deV. Permian passive margin submarine fan complex, Karoo basin, South Africa: Possible model to Gulf of Mexico Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc XLI 1991 30-42
13. Broquet C.A.M. The sedimentary record of the Cape Supergroup: A review de Wit M.J. Ransome I.G.D. Inversion Tectonics of the Cape Fold Belt, Karoo and Cretaceous Basins of Southern Africa 1992 159-183 Balkema Rotterdam
14. Carlson R.W. Hunter D.R. Barker F. Sm-Nd age and isotopic systematics of the bimodal suite, ancient gneiss complex, Swaziland Nature 305 1983 701-704
15. Cole D.I. Evolution and development of the Karoo Basin de Wit M.J. Ransome I.G.D. Inversion Tectonics of the Cape Fold Belt, Karoo and Cretaceous Basins of Southern Africa 1992 87-100 Balkema Rotterdam
16. Conradie J.A. Schoch A.E. Rare earth element geochemistry of an anorthosite-diorite suite, namaqua mobile belt, South Africa Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 87 1988 409-422
17. Cornell D.H. Schütte S.S. Eglington B.L. The Ongeluk basaltic andesite formation in Griqualand West, South Africa: Submarine alternation in a 2222 Ma Proterozoic sea Precambrian Res. 79 1996 101-123
18. Dalziel I.W.D. Antarctica; a tale of two supercontinents? Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci 20 1992 501-526
19. Da Silva, L.C., McNaughton, N.J., Hartmann, L.A., Flechter, I.R., Gresse, P.G., Scheepers, R., 1997. U-Pb (SHRIMP) isotopic constraints for the evolution of southern Brazilian granitic province, and some correlated South African, Pan-African plutons. 2nd International Symposium on Granites and Associated Mineralizations, Salvador, 24-29 August, pp. 276-277
20. Da Silva L.C. Gresse P.G. Scheepers R. McNaughton N.J. Hartmann L.A. Fletcher I. U-Pb and Sm-Nd age constrains on the timing and source of the Pan-African Cape Granite Suite, South Africa J. Afr. Earth Sci. 30 2000 795-815
21. De Beer, C.H., 1989. Structure of the Cape Fold Belt in the Ceres syntaxis. M.Sc. Thesis (unpublished), University of Stellenbosch
22. De Beer C.H. Gough D.I. Conductive structures in southernmost Africa: A magnetometer array study Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc. 63 1980 479-495
23. De Beer C.H. Van Zijl J.S.V. Bahnemann F.K. Plate tectonic origin for the Cape Fold Belt? Nature 252 1974 675-676
24. DePaolo D.J. Neodymium isotopes in the Colorado Front Range and crust-mantle evolution in the Proterozoic Nature 291 1981 193-196
25. de Wit M.J. The evolution of the Scotia Arc as a key to the reconstruction of southwestern Gondwanaland Tectonophysics 37 1977 53-81
26. Dia A. Allegre C.J. Erlank A.J. The development of continental crust through geological time: The South African case Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 98 1990 74-89
27. Dickinson, W.R., 1974. Plate tectonics and sedimentation. In: Dickinson, W.R. (Eds.), Tectonics and Sedimentation. SEPM Spec. Publ. 22, pp. 1-27
28. Duane M.J. Welke H.J. Allsopp H.L. Wilsher W.A. U-Pb isotope systematics, ages and genesis of Karoo uranium deposits, South Africa S. Afr. J. Geol. 92 1989 49-64
29. Elliot D.H. Johnson M. The Gondwanide orogeny: New data from South Africa and the problem of the Falkland Island Abstr. Progm., Geol. Soc. Amer. 4 1972 498-499
30. Elliot D.H. Watts D.R. The nature and origin of volcaniclastic material in some Karoo and Beacon rocks Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 77 1974 109-111
31. Geringer G.J. Ludick D.J. Middle-Proterozoic calc-alkaline, shoshonite volcanism along the eastern margin of the Namaqua Mobile Belt-implications for tectonic evolution in the area S. Afr. J. Geol. 93 1990 389-399
32. Geringer G.J. Schoch A.E. Sukhanov M. Zhuravlev D. Geochemical and isotopic characteristics of different types of anorthosite in the Namaqua mobile belt, South Africa Chem. Geol. 145 1998 17-46
33. Hamilton P.J. Evensen N.M. O'Nions R.K. Sm-Nd dating of Onverwacht Group Volcanics, southern Africa Nature 279 1979 298-300
34. Hartnady C.J.H. Joubert P. Stowe C.W. Proterozoic crustal evolution in southwestern Africa Episodes 8 1985 236-244
35. Harvey J.D. de Wit M.J. Stankiewicz J. Doucouré C.M. Structural variations of the crust in the Southwestern Cape, deduced from seismic receiver functions S. Afr. J. Geol. 104 2001 231-242
36. Havenga, A.T., 1992. Petrologiese en geochemiese aspekte van die Oranjekom Kompleks langs die oostelike rand van die Namakwalandse mobiele gordel. Unpublished M.Sc. Dissertation. University of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein
37. Hegner E. Kröner A. Hofmann A.W. Age and isotope geochemistry of the Archaean Pongola and Usushwana suites in Swaziland, southern Africa: A case for crustal contamination on mantle-derived magma Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 70 1984 267-279
38. Henderson D.R. Long L.E. Barton J.M.Jr. Isotopic ages and chemical and isotopic composition of the Archaean Turfloop Batholith, Pietersburg granite-greenstone terrane, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa S. Afr. J. Geol. 103 2000 38-46
39. Hunter D.R. Wilson A.H. A continuous record of Archaean evolution from 3.5 to 2.6 Ga in Swaziland and northern Natal S. Afr. J. Geol. 91 1988 57-74
40. Hälbich, I.W., 1983. Geodynamics of the Cape Fold Belt in the Republic of South Africa, a summary. In: Rast, N., Delaney, F.M. (Eds.), Profiles of orogenic belts. Geodynamics series 10, 21-29. Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, DC
41. Hälbich, I.W., 1992. The Cape Fold Belt - Agulhas bank Transect across the Gondwana Suture in Southern Africa. Global Geotransect 9. American Geophysical Union and Interunion Commitee on the Lithosphere, Washington, DC, pp. 1-17
42. Hälbich, I.W., Swart, J., 1983. Structural zoning and dynamic history of the cover rocks of the Cape Fold Belt. In: Söhnge, A.P.G., Hälbich, I.W. (Eds.), Geodynamics of the Cape Fold Belt. Geol. Soc. S. Afr., Spec. Publ. 12, pp. 75-100
43. Hälbich, I.W., Fitch, F.J., Miller, J.A., 1983. Dating the Cape orogeny. In: Söhnge, A.P.G., Hälbich, I.W, (Eds.), Geodynamics of the Cape Fold Belt. Geol. Soc. S. Afr., Spec. Publ. 12, pp. 149-164
44. Jacobs J. Thomas R.J. Armstrong R.A. Henjes-Kunst F. Age and thermal evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Cape Meredith Complex, West Falkland J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 156 1999 917-928
45. Jacobsen S.B. Wasserburg G.J. Sm-Nd isotopic evolution of chondrites and achondrites, II Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 67 1984 137-150
46. Johnson M.R. Sandstone petrography, provenance and plate tectonic setting in Gondwana context of the southeastern Cape-Karoo Basin S. Afr. J. Geol. 94 1991 137-154
47. Johnson M.R. van Vuuren C.J. Hegenberger W.F. Key R. Shoko U. Stratigraphy of the Karoo Supergroup in southern Africa: An overview J. Afr. Earth Sci. 23 1996 3-15
48. Kingsley C.S. A composite submarine fan-delta-fluvial model for the Ecca and lower Beaufort groups of Permian age in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 84 1981 27-40
49. Köppel, V., 1980. Lead isotope studies of stratiform ore deposits of Namaqualand, NW Cape Province, South Africa, and their implications on the age of the Bushmanland Sequence. Proc. 5th IAGOD Symp. 1, pp. 195-207
50. Lock B.E. Flat-plate subduction and the Cape Fold Belt of South Africa Geology 8 1980 35-39
51. Marshall J.E.A. The Falkland Islands: A key element in Gondwana paleogeography Tectonics 13 1994 499-514
52. Martin A.K. Hartnady C.J.H. Plate tectonic development of the southwest Indian Ocean: A revised reconstruction of East Antarctica and Africa J. Geophys. Res. 91 1986 4767-4786
53. Martini J.E.J. On the presence of ash beds and volcanic fragments in the graywackes of the Karoo system in the southern Cape Province (South Africa) Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 77 1974 113-116
54. Massari, F., Grandesso, P., Stefani, C., Jobstraibizer, P.G., 1986. A small polyhistory foreland basin evolving in a context of oblique convergence: the Venetian basin (Chattian to Recent, Southern Alps, Italy). In: Allen, P.A., Homewood, P. (Eds.), Foreland Basins. Int. Assoc. Sedimentol., Spec. Publ. 8, pp. 141-168
55. Matthews P.E. Possible Precambrian obduction and plate tectonics in southeastern Africa Nature 240 1972 37-39
56. Moen H.F.G. The Koras Group and related intrusives north of Upington: A reinvestigation Geol. Surv. S. Afr. 85 1987 20
57. Moen H.F.G. Petrology of the Wilgenhoutsdrift Group Bull. Geol. Surv. S. Afr. 89 1988 37
58. Moen H.F.G. The Kheis Tectonic Subprovince, southern Africa: A lithostratigraphic perspective S. Afr. J. Geol. 102 1999 27-42
59. Nelson D.R. Trendall A.F. de Laeter J.R. Grobler N.J. Fletcher I.R. A comparative study of the geochemical and isotopic systematics of late Archaean flood basalts from the Pilbara and Kaapvaal Cratons Precambrian Res. 54 1992 231-256
60. Pin C. Zalduegui J.F.S. Sequential separation of light rare-earth elements, thorium and uranium by miniaturized extraction chromatography: Application to isotopic analyses of silicate rocks Anal. Chim. Acta. 339 1997 79-89
61. Pitts B.E. Maher M.J. De Beer J.H. Gough D.I. Interpretation of magnetic, gravity and magnetotelluric data across the Cape Fold Belt and Karoo Basin de Wit M.J. Ransome I.G.D. Inversion Tectonics of the Cape Fold Belt, Karoo and Cretaceous Basins of Southern Africa 1992 27-32 Balkema Rotterdam
62. Powell C.McA. Li Z.X. McElhinny M.W. Meert J.G. Park J.K. Paleomagnetic constraints on timing of the Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia and the Cambrian formation of Gondwana Geology 21 1993 889-892
63. Reid D.L. Sm-Nd age and REE geochemistry of Proterozoic arc-related igneous rocks in the Richtersveld Subprovince, Namaqua Mobile Belt, Southern Africa J. Afr. Earth Sci. 24 1997 621-633
64. Reid D.L. Smith C.B. Whole-rock radiometric age patterns in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, central Bushmanland, South Africa S. Afr. J. Geol. 100 1997 11-23
65. Reid D.L. Welke H.J. Erlank A.J. Betton P.J. Composition, age and tectonic setting of amphibolites in the central Bushmanland Group, western Namaqua Province, southern Africa Precambrian Res. 36 1987 99-126
66. Rex D.C. Tanner P.W.G. Precambrian age for gneisses at Cape Meredith in the Falkland Island Craddock G. Antarctic Geoscience 1982 107-108 University of Wisconsin Press Madison
67. Roberts D. Gee D.G. An introduction to the structure of the Scandinavian Caledonides Gee D.G. Sturt B.A. The Caledonide Orogen-Scandinavia and Related Areas, Part 1 1985 55-68 Wiley - Sons Chichester
68. Rozendaal A. Gresse P.G. Scheepers R. Le Roux J.P. Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian crustal evolution of the Pan-African Saldania Belt, South Africa Precambrian Res. 97 1999 303-323
69. Scott, E.D., 1997. Tectonics and sedimentation: The evolution, tectonic influences and correlation of the Tanqua and Laingsburg subbasins, southwest Karoo basin, South Africa. Ph.D. Thesis, Louisiana State University
70. Slabber, N., 1995. The geology and geochemistry of the Bridgetown Formation of the Malmesbury Group, Western Cape Province. M.Sc. Thesis (unpublished). University of Stellenbosch
71. Tankard A.J. Jackson M.P.A. Eriksson K.A. Hobday D.K. Hunter D.R. Minter W.E.L. 3.5 Billion Years of Crustal Evolution of Southern Africa 1982 Springer-Verlag New York pp. 523
72. Theron J.N. The Baviaanskloof Range-a South African nappe Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 72 1969 29-30
73. Thomas R.J. Eglington B.M. Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and U-Pb zircon isotopic study of the Mzumbe Suite, the oldest intrusive granitoid in southern Natal, South Africa S. Afr. J. Geol. 93 1990 761-765
74. Thomas R.J. Eglington B.M. Bowring S.A. Retief E.A. Walraven F. New isotope data from a Late Proterozoic porphyritic granite-charnockite association from Natal, South Africa Precambrian Res. 61 1993 83-101
75. Thomas R.J. Eglington B.M. Bowring S.A. Dating the cessation of Kibaran magmatism in Natal, South Africa J. Afr. Earth Sci. 28 1993 215-238
76. Thomas R.J. Agenbacht A.L.D. Cornell D.H. Moore J.M. The Kibaran of southern Africa: Tectonic evolution and metallogeny Ore Geol. Rev. 9 1994 131-160
77. Thomas R.J. Jacobs J. Eglington B.M. Geochemistry and isotopic evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Cape Meredith Complex, West Falkland Geol. Mag. 137 2000 537-553
78. Turner B.R. Uranium mineralization in the Karoo Basin, South Africa Econ. Geol. 80 1985 256-269
79. Veevers, J.J., Cole, D.I., Cowan, E.J., 1994. Southern Africa: Karroo Basin and Cape Fold Belt. In: Veevers, J.J., Powell, C.McA., (Eds.), Permian-Triassic Pangean Basins and Foldbelts along the Panthalassan margin of Gondwana. Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 184, pp. 223-279
80. Visser J.N.J. Changes in sediment transport direction in the Cape-Karroo Basin (Silurian-Triassic) in South Africa S. Afr. J. Sci. 75 1979 72-75
81. Visser J.N.J. Discussion on U-Pb isotope systematics, ages and genesis of Karoo uranium deposits, South Africa S. Afr. J. Geol. 92 1989 466-469
82. Visser J.N.J. Basin tectonics in southwestern Gondwana during the Carboniferous and Permian de Wit M.J. Ransome I.G.D. Inversion Tectonics of the Cape Fold Belt, Karoo and Cretaceous Basins of Southern Africa 1992 109-115 Balkema Rotterdam
83. von Veh M.W. Compressional and extensional tectonics in the southernmost exposures of the Cape Fold Belt de Wit M.J. Ransome I.G.D. Inversion Tectonics of the Cape Fold Belt, Karoo and Cretaceous Basins of Southern Africa 1992 185-192 Balkema Rotterdam
84. Watkeys M.K. The Achab Gneiss: A "flaw" in Bushmanland or a floor in Namaqualand Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 89 1986 103-116
85. Wickens, H.deV., 1984. Die stratigrafie en sedimentologie van die Groep Ecca wes van Sutherland. M.Sc. Thesis (unpublished). University of Port Elisabeth
86. Wickens H.deV. Submarine fans of the Permian Ecca Group in the SW Karoo basin: Their origin and reflection on the tectonic evolution of the basin and its source areas de Wit M.J. Ransome I.G.D. Inversion Tectonics of the Cape Fold Belt, Karoo and Cretaceous Basins of Southern Africa 1992 117-125 Balkema Rotterdam