The Seridó Group of NE Brazil, a late Neoproterozoic pre- to syn-collisional basin in West Gondwana: Insights from SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon ages and Sm-Nd crustal residence (TDM) ages

Precambrian Research

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 287-327

  Van Schmus, W R ^a   De Brito Neves, B B ^b   Williams, I S ^c   Hackspacher, P C ^d   Fetter, A H ^a   Dantas, E L ^a,d   Babinski, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Borborema Province; Brazil; Detrital zircons; Geochronology; Neoproterozoic; Serid Group

Indexed keywords

LEAD; NEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; GONDWANA; PROTEROZOIC;

BRAZIL; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROANALYSIS; PROTEROZOIC; REVIEW; ROCK; SEA; SEDIMENTATION; SENSITIVE HIGH RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO NORTE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0345730930     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00197-9     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Almeida, F.F.M., Hasui, Y., Brito Neves, B.B., Fuck, R.A., 1981. Brazilian structural provinces: an introduction. Earth Sci. Rev. 17, 1-29.
2. Anderson, C.B., Samson, S.D., 1995. Temporal changes in Nd isotopic composition of sedimentary rocks in the Sevier and Taconic foreland basins: increasing influence of juvenile sources. Geology 23, 983-986.
3. Archanjo, C.J., Salim, J., 1986. Posição da formaçåo Seridó no contexto estratigráfico regional (RN-PB). Soc. Geol. Brasileira-Núcleo Nordeste, João Pessoa-PB, Anais XII Simpósio de Geologia do Nordeste, 270-281.
4. Archanjo, C.J., Legrand, J.M., 1997. Pre-Brasiliano orogenic evolution in the Seridó belt, NE Brazil: conflicting geochronological and structural data (comment). Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 27, 309-310.
5. Arndt, N.T., Goldstein, S.L., 1987. Use and abuse of crust-formation ages. Geology 15, 893-895.
6. Barovich, K.M., Patchett, P.J., Peterman, Z.E., Sims, P.K., 1989. Nd isotopes and the origin of 1.9-1.7 Ga Penokean continental crust of the Lake Superior region. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 101, 333-338.
7. Bertrand, J.M., Jardim de Sá, E.F., 1990. Where are the Eburnian-Transamazonian collisional belts? Can. J. Earth Sci. 27, 1382-1393.
8. Bittar, S.M.B., 1998. Faixa Piancó-Alto Brígida: Terrenos tectonoestratifráficos sob regimes metamórphicos e deformacionais contrasstantes. PhD thesis. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
9. Boghossian, N.D., Patchett, J.P., Ross, G.M., Gehrels, G.E., 1996. Nd isotopes and the source of sediments in the miogeocline of the Canadian Cordillera. J. Geol. 104, 259-277.
10. Brito Neves, B.B., Sial, A.N., Rand, H.M., Manso, V.V., 1982. The Pemambuco-Alagoas Massif, northeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Geociências 12, 240-250.
11. Brito Neves, B., Van Schmus, W.R., dos Santos, E.J., Campos Neto, M.C., Kozuch, M., 1995. O evento Carirís Velhos na Província Borborema: intergração de dados, implicações e perspectivas. Revista Brasileira de Geociências 25, 279-296 (released in 1997).
12. Brito Neves, B.B., dos Santos, E.J., Van Schmus, W.R., 2000. Tectonic history of the Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil. In: Cordani, U., Milani, E.J., Thomaz Filho, A., Campos, D.A. (Eds.), Tectonic Evolution of South America. Proceedings of the Thirty-first International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 151-182.
13. Caby, R., Arthaud, M.H., Archanjo, C.J., 1995. Lithostratigraphy and petrostructural characterization of supracrustal units in the Brasiliano Belt of northeastern Brazil: geocynamic implications. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 8, 235-246.
14. Campos Neto, M.C., Bittar, S.M.B., Brito Neves, B.B., 1994. Domínio tectônico Rio Pajeú-Proveincia Borborema: orogieneses superpostas no ciclo Brasiliano/Pan-Africano. In: Congr. Bras. Geologia, 38, Bal. Camboriú, SC. Resumos Expandidos, Bal. Camboriú, Soc. Bras. Geol. 1, 221-222.
15. Castaing, C., Triboulet, C., Feybesse, J.L., Chevremont, P., 1993. Tectonometamorphic evolution of Ghana, Togo and Benin in the light of the Pan-African/Brasiliano orogeny. Tectonophysics 218, 323-342.
16. Castaing, C., Feybesse, J.L., Thiéblemont, D., Triboulet, C., Chevremont, P., 1994. Palaeogeographical reconstructions of the Pan-African/Brasiliano orogen: closure of an oceanic domain or intracontinental convergence between major blocks? Precambrian Res. 69, 327-344.
17. Cordani, U., Milani, E.J., Thomaz Filho, A., Campos, D.A. (Eds.), 2000. Tectonic evolution of South America. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-first International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 854 pp.
18. Dantas, E.L., 1997. Geochronologia U/Pb e Sm/Nd de terrenos Arqueanos e Paleoproterozóicos do Maciço Caldas Brandão, NE Brasil. Unpublished PhD dissertation. Universidade Estaudal Paulista-UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, 201 pp.
19. Dantas, E.L., Hackspacher, P.C., Van Schmus, W.R., de Brito Neves, B.B., 1998. Archean accretion in the São José do Campestre massif, Borborema Province, northeast Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 28, 221-228.
20. DePaolo, D.J., 1981. A neodymium and strontium isotopic study of the Mesozoic calc-alkaline granitic batholithys of the Sierra Nevada and Peninsular Ranges, California. J. Geophys. Res. 86, 10470-10488.
21. DNPM, 1998. Mapa Geológico do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral, Brazil, 1:500,000.
22. Ebert, H., 1970. The Precambrian geology of the Borborema Belt (states of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil), and the origin of its mineral resources. Geol. Rundschau 59, 1299-1326.
23. Fetter, A.H., 1999. U-Pb and Sm-Nd Constraints on the Crustal Framework and Geologic History of Ceará State, NW Borborema Province, NE Brazil: Implications for the Assembly of Gondwana. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
24. Fetter, A.H., Van Schmus, W.R., 1996. Determinação da época do magmatismo e metamorfismo na região NW do Ceará com base em datação de zircão, monazita, titanita e granada. XXXIX Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Salvador, Bahia, September 2-6. Anais 6, 467-470.
25. Fetter, A.H., dos Santos, T.J.S., Van Schmus, W.R., Hackspacher, P.C., Brito Neves, B.B., Arthaud, M.H., Nogueira Neto, J.A., Wernick, E., 2003. Evidence for Neoproterozoic continental arc magmatism in the Santa Quitéria batholith of Ceará State, NW Borborema Province, NE Brazil: implications for assembly of West Gondwana. Gondwana Res. 6, 265-273.
26. Guimarães, I.P., Silva Filho, A.F., 1998. Nd- and Sr-isotopic and U-Pb geochronological constraints for the evolution of the shoshonitic Brasiliano Bom Jardim and Toritama complexes, evidences for a Transamazonian enriched mantle under Borborema tectonic province, Brazil. Int. Geol. Rev. 40, 500-527.
27. Guimaraes, I.P., Silva Filho, A.F., Almeida, C.N., Araújo, J.M., Melo, S.C., Sales, A., 1998. The Brasiliano granitoids from the Pajeú Paraíba Belt and Teixeira High: Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry and U/Pb in zircon ages. Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, Anais XL Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Belo Horizonte-MG, p. 48.
28. Guimaraes, I.P., Almeida, C.N., Silva Filho, A.F., Araújo, J.M.M., 2000. Granitoids marking the end of the Brasiliano (Pan-African) orogeny within the central Tectonic Domain of the Borborema Province. Revista Brasileira de Geociências 30, 177-181.
29. Hackspacher, P.C., Van Schmus, W.R., Dantas, E.L., 1990. Um embasamento Transamazônico na Provincia Borborema. Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, 36, Natal, Anais 6, 2683-2696.
30. Hackspacher, P.C., Brito Neves, B.B., Legrand, J.M., 1997. Northwestern overthrusting and related lateral escape during the Braqsiliano orogeny north of the Patos Lineament, Borborema Province, northeast Brazil. Int. Geol. Rev. 39, 609-620.
31. Jardim de Sá, E.F., 1994. A Faixa Seridó (Província Borborema, NE do Brasil) e o seu significado geodynâmico na cadeia Brasiliana/Pan-Africana. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. Brasilia, Brazil.
32. Jardim de Sá, E.F., 1995. A Faixa Seridó (Província Borborema, NE do Brasil) e o seu significado geodynâmico na cadeia Brasiliana/Pan-Africana. XVI Simpósio de Geologia do Nordeste: Boletim no. 14, Soc. Bras. de Geologia Núcleo Nordeste, pp. 394-398.
33. Jardim de Sá, E.F., Fuck, R.A., Macedo, M.H.F., Peucat, J.J., Kawashita, K., Souza, Z.S., Bertrand, J.M., 1995. Pre-Brasiliano orogenic evolution in the Seridó belt, NE Brazil: conflicting geochronological and structural data. Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 25, 307-314 (printed in 1997).
34. Jardim de Sá, E.F., Fuck, R.A., Macedo, M.H.F., Peucat, J.J., Kawashita, K., Souza, Z.S., Bertrand, J.M., 1997. Pre-Brasiliano orogenic evolution in the Seridó belt, NE Brazil: conflicting geochronological and structural data (reply). Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 27, 311-314.
35. Jardim de Sa, E.F., Macedo, M.H.F., Torres, H.H.F., Kawashita K., 1988. Geochronology of metaplutonics and the evolution of supracrustal belts in the Borborema Province, N.E. Brazil. Anais do VII Congresso Latino-Americano de Geologia, Belem, Brazil 1, 49-62.
36. Kozuch, M., 2003. Isotopic and Trace Element Geochemistry of Early Neoproterozoic Gneissic and Metavolcanic Rocks in the Cariris Velhos Orogen of the Borborema Province, Brazil, and Their Bearing on Tectonic Setting. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
37. Kozuch, M., Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., 1997a. Ages and isotope geochemistry of two pre-brasiliano magmatic events in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil. Extended Abstracts, South American Symposium on Isotope Geology, Campos do Jordão-SP, Brazil, June 1997, pp. 157-160.
38. Kozuch, M., Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., Bretas Bittar, S.M., 1997b. 2.1 Ga Transamazonian crust as a cource for more recent melt events in northeast Brazil: 1.0 and 0.75Ga. GSA Abstracts with programs 29 (6), 409.
39. Kozuch, M., Bretas Bittar, S.M., Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., 1997c. Late Mesoproterozoic and middle Neoproterozoic magmatism in the Zona Transversal of the Borborema Province, Brazil. Resumos Expandidos, XVII Simposio de Geologia do Nordeste, Boletim no. 15, Soc. Bras. Geol.-Nucleo Nordeste, Fortaleza, pp. 47-50.
40. Krogh, T.E., 1973. A low contamination method for hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic age determinations. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 37, 485-494.
41. Krogh, T.E., 1982. Improved accuracy of U-Pb zircon ages by the creation of more concordant systems using an air abrasion technique. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 46, 637-649.
42. Legrand, J.M., Liegeois, J.P., Deutsch, S., 1991. Datação U/Pb e Rb/Sr das rochas Precambrianas da região de Caicó: reavaliação da definição de um embasamento arqueano. Actas 14° Simp. Geol. Nordeste, 185-188.
43. McLennan, S.M., Hemming, S., 1992. Samarium/neodymium elemental and isotopic systematics in sedimentary rocks. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56, 887-898.
44. McLennan, S.M., Hemming, S.R., Taylor, S.R., Eriksson, K.A., 1995. Early Proterozoic crustal evolution: geochemical and Nd-Pb isotopic evidence from metasedimentary rocks, southwestern North America. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 1153-1177.
45. Paces, J.B., Miller Jr., J.D., 1993. Precise U-Pb ages of Duluth complex and related mafic intrusions, northeastern Minnesota: geochronological insights into physical, petrographic, paleomagnetic, and tectonomagmatic processes associated with the 1.1 Ga midcontinental rift system. J. Geophys. Res. 98, 13997-14013.
46. Parrish, R.R., 1987. An improved micro-capsule for zircon dissolution in U-Pb geochronology. Isot. Geosci. 66, 99-102.
47. Patchett, P.J., Ruiz, J., 1987. Nd isotopic ages of crust formation and metamorphism in the Precambrian of eastern and southern Mexico. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 96, 523-528.
48. Pimentel, M.M., Fuck, R.A., 1992. Neoproterozoic crustal accretion in central Brazil. Geology 20, 375-379.
49. Pimentel, M.M., Whitehouse, M.J., Viana, M.G., Fuck, R.A., Machado, N., 1997. The Mara Rosa arc in the Tocantins province: further evidence for Neoproterozoic crustal accretion in central Brazil. Precambrian Res. 81, 299-310.
50. Sá, J.M., McReath, I., Leterrier, J., 1995. Petrology, geochemistry, and geodynamic setting of Proterozoic igneous suites of the Orós fold belt (Borborema Province, northeast Brazil). J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 8, 299-314.
51. Sá, J., Macedo, M.H.F., Fernandes, N.R., 1998. Ambiente Tectônico da parte oriental da Sequência Salgueiro-Cachoeirinha, Provincia Borborema. Anais XL Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Belo Horizonte-MG, p. 15.
52. Santos, E.J., Brito Neves, B.B., 1984. Província Borborema. In: O Pré- Cambriano do Brasil (coord. by F.F.M. Almeida and Y. Hasui). Editora Edgard Blücher Ltd., São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 123-186.
53. Santos, T.J.S., Fetter, A.H., Nogueira Neto, J.A., Hackspacher, P.C., Van Schmus, R., 1998. Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Médio Coreaú domain, NW Borborema Province. Anais, XL Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Belo Horizonte, October, 1998, p. 29.
54. Silva Filho, A.F., Luna, E.B.A., Siqueira, D.V., Guimarães, I.P., Van Schmus, W.R., 2000. Granitoids of ca. 1 Ga TDM in the southern Pemambuco-Alagoas massif margin, NE Brazil: a Mesoproterozoic plate? Abstract volume (CD-ROM), Thirty-first International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August.
55. Stacey, J.S., Kramers, J.D., 1975. Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two stage model. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 26, 207-221.
56. Steiger, R.H., Jäger, E., 1977. Subcommission on Geochronology-convention and use of decay constants in geochronology and cosmochronology. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 36, 359-362.
57. Stern, R.A., 1997. The GSC Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP): analytical techniques of zircon U-Th-Pb age determinations and performance evaluation. In: Radiogenic Age and Isotopic Studies: Report 10. Geol. Surv. Can. Curr. Res. 1997-F, 1-31.
58. Toteu, S.F., Bertrand, J.M., Penaye, J., Macaudiere, J., Angoua, S., Barbey, P., 1990. Cameroon: a tectonic keystone in the Pan-African network. In: Lewry, J.F., Stauffer, M.R. (Eds.), The Early Proterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogen of North America. Geol. Assoc. Can. Special Paper 37, 483-496.
59. Toteu, S.F., Van Schmus, W.R., Penaye, J., Nyobe, J.B., 1994. U-Pb and Sm-Nd evidence for Ebumian and Pan-African high-grade metamorphism in cratonic rocks of southern Cameroon. Precambrian Res. 67, 321-347.
60. Toteu, S.F., Van Schmus, W.R., Penaye, J., Michard, A., 2001. New U-Pb and Sm-Nd data from north-central Camroon and its bearing on pre-Pan African history of central Africa. Precambrian Res. 108, 45-73.
61. Trompette, R., 1994. Geology of Western Gondwana (translated into English by A.V. Carozzi). A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 350 pp.
62. Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., Hackspacher, P., Babinski, M., 1995a. U/Pb and Sm/Nd geochronolgic studies of eastern Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil: initial conclusions. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 8, 267-288.
63. Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., Hackspacher, P.C., Babinski, M., Fetter, A.H., Dantas, E.L., 1995b. Neoproterozoic and late Mesoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic sequences in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil. XVI Simpósio de Geologia do Nordeste: Boletim no. 14, Sociedade Brasileiria de Geologia, Núcleo Nordeste, pp. 391-393.
64. Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B. de, Hackspacher, P.C., Babinski, M., Fetter, A.H., Dantas, E.L., 1997. Application of U-Pb and Sm-Nd geochronology to understanding the geotectonic history of the Borborema Province, NE Brazil and its implications for the evolution of West Gondwana. Extended Abstracts, South American Symposium on Isotope Geology, Campos do Jordão-SP, Brazil, June, 27-29.
65. Van Schmus, W.R., Fetter, A.H., Brito Neves, B.B., Williams, I.S., 1999. Ages of detrital zircon populations from Neoproterozoic supracrustal units in NE Brazil: Implications for assembly of West Gondwanaland. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs 31 (7), A-299.
66. Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., Hackspacher, P.C., Williams, I.S., Fetter, A.H., 2000. The Seridó Group, NE Brazil: a late neoproterozoic (650 Ma), pre-collisional, Brasiliano flysch basin? Abstract volume (CD-ROM), Thirty-first International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August.
67. Vauchez, A., Neves, S., Caby, R., Corsini, M., Egydio-Silva, M., Arthaud, M., Amaro, V., 1995. The Borborema shear zone systems, NE Brazil. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 8, 247-266.
68. Williams, I.S., 1998a. Chapter 1: U-Th-Pb Geochronology by Ion Microprobe. In: McKibben, M.A., Shanks III, W.C., Ridley, W.I. (Eds.), Applications of Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Mineralizing Processes. Rev. Econ. Geol. 7, 1-35.
69. Williams, I.S., 1998b. Southeastern Australia: a SHRIMP's eye view of crustal growth in eastern Gondwana. Gondana 10: event stratigraphy of Gondwana. J. Afr. Earth Sci. 27, 211-212.
70. Williams, I.S., Chappell, B.W., 1998. Crustal evolution in southeastern Australia: a zircon viewpoint. Abstract Volume, The Bruce Chappell Symposium (Canberra), Australian Geological Survey Organization, Record 1998/33, p. 44.