Chemical and physical erosion rhythms of the West African Cenozoic morphogenesis: The 39 Ar-40 Ar dating of supergene K-Mn oxides

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Beauvais, Anicet ^a   Ruffet, Gilles ^b   Hénocque, Olivier ^a   Colin, Fabrice ^c  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; MIOCENE; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGOCENE; ORE DEPOSIT; SUPERGENE PROCESS;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 61849168028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF000996     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Aleva, G. J. J. (1984), Lateritisation, bauxitisation and cyclic landscape development in the Guiana shield, in Bauxite: Proceedings of the 1984 Bauxite Symposium, edited by L. Jacob Jr, pp. 111-151, Soc. for Min. Metal. Explor., New York.
2. Bardossy, G., and G. J. J. Aleva (1990), Lateritic Bauxites, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
3. Beauvais, A., A. Melfi, D. Nahon, and J. J. Trescases (1987), Pétrologie du gisement latéritique manganésifère d'Azul (Brésil), Miner. Deposita, 22, 124-134, doi:10.1007/BF00204689.
4. Beauvais, A., M. Ritz, J.-C. Parisot, M. Dukhan, and C. Bantsimba (1999), Analysis of poorly stratified lateritic terrains overlying a granitic bedrock in West Africa, using 2D electrical resistivity tomography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 173, 413-424, doi:10.1016/ S0012-821X(99)00245-9.
5. Beauvais, A., M. Ritz, J.-C. Parisot, C. Bantsimba, and M. Dukhan (2004), Combined ERT and GPR methods for investigating two stepped lateritic weathering systems, Geoderma, 119, 121-132, doi:10.1016/ j.geoderma.2003.06.001.
6. Berger, W. H., and G. Wefer (1996), Expeditions into the past: Paleoceanographic studies in the south Atlantic, in The South Atlantic: Present and Past Circulation, edited by G. Wefer et al., Springer, New York.
7. Boudouresque, L., D. Dubois, J. Lang, and J. Trichet (1982), Contribution to the stratigraphy and paleogeography of the western edge of the Iullemmeden basin during the upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic (Niger and Mali, West Africa), Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 24, 685-695.
8. Boulangé, B., and G. Millot (1988), La distribution des bauxites sur le craton Ouest Africain, Sci. Geol. Bull., 41, 113-123.
9. Boulanger, J. J., and H. Sanguinetti (1970), Evaluation générale du gisement de manganèse de Tambao, Haute Volta: Enquêtes sur le développement minier dans le nord-est et facteurs associés de transport, Rapp. 3, 48 pp., U. N. Dev. Programme, Ouagadougou.
10. Brown, T. E., D. L. Bourlès, F. Colin, Z. Sanfo, G. M. Raisbeck, and F. Yiou (1994), The development of iron crust lateritic systems in Burkina Faso, West Africa examined with in-situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 124, 19-33, doi:10.1016/ 0012-821X(94)00087-5.
11. Burns, R. G., and V. M. Burns (1979), Manganese oxides, in Marine Minerals, edited by P. H. Ribbe, pp. 1-46, Mineral. Soc. of Am., Washington, D. C.
12. Chamley, H., P. Debrabant, and R. Flicoteaux (1988), Comparative evolution of the Senegal and eastern central Atlantic basins, from mineralogical and geochemical investigations, Sedimentology, 35, 85-103, doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.1988.tb00906.x.
13. Chevillotte, V., D. Chardon, A. Beauvais, P. Maurizot, and F. Colin (2006), Long-term tropical morphogenesis of New Caledonia (Southwest Pacific): Importance of positive epirogeny and climate change, Geomorphology, 81, 361-375, doi:10.10l6/j.geomorph.2006.04.020.
14. Chukhrov, F. V., L. L. Shanin, and L. P. Yermilov (1966), Feasibility of absolute-age determination for potassium-carrying manganese minerals, Int. Geol. Rev., 8, 278-280.
15. 39Ar geochronology of lateritic manganiferous pisolites: Implications for the palaeogene history of a West African landscape, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 238, 172-188, doi:10.1016/ j.epsl.2005.06.052.
16. Dasgupta, S., S. Roy, and M. Fukuoka (1992), Depositional models for manganese oxides and carbonates deposits of the Precambrian Sausar group, India, Econ. Geol., 87(5), 1412-1418.
17. Faure, H. (1966), Reconnaissance géologique des formations sédimentaires post-paléozoïques du Niger oriental, Mém. BRGM 47, Univ. of Paris, Orléans, France.
18. Flower, B. P., and J. P. Kennett (1994), The middle Miocene climatic transition: East Antarctic ice sheet development, deep ocean circulation and global carbon cycling, Science, 108(3/4), 537-555.
19. Gavaud, M. (1977), Les grands traits de la pédogenèse au Niger méridional, Trav. Doc. ORSTOM, 76, 1-102.
20. Grandin, G. (1976), Aplanissements cuirassés et enrichissement des gisements de manganèse dans quelques régions d'Afrique de l'Ouest, Mém. ORSTOM 82, Univ. of Strasbourg, Paris.
21. Gunnell, Y. (2003), Radiometric ages of laterites and constraints on long-term denudation rates in West Africa, Geology, 31(2), 131-134, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0131:RAOLAC>2.0.CO;2.
22. Hall, C. M., R. C. Walter, J. A. Westgate, and D. York (1984), Geochronology, stratigraphy and geochemistry of Cindery Tuff in Pliocene hominid-bearing sediments of the middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 308 26-31, doi:10.1038/308026a0.
23. 39Ar dating of central European K-Mn oxides a chronological framework of supergene alteration processes during the Neogene, Chem. Geol., 170(1-4), 37-80, doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00241-7.
24. 39Ar dating of West African lateritic cryptomelanes, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 62(16), 2739-2756, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00185-9.
25. Kennett, J. P., and N. J. Shackleton (1976), Oxygen isotopic evidence for the development of the psychrosphere 38 Ma ago, Science, 260, 513-515.
26. King, L. C. (1967), The Morphology of the Earth: A Study and Synthesis of World Scenery, 2nd ed., Olivier and Boyd, Edinburgh, Scotland.
27. Lang, J., et al. (1990), The continental terminal of West Africa, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 10(1-2), 79-99, doi:10.1016/0899-5362(90)90048-J.
28. Lawver, L. A., L. M. Gahagan, and M. F. Coffin (1992), The development of paleoseaways around Antarctica, in The Antarctic Paleoenvironment: A Perspective on Global Change, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 56, edited by L. P. Kennett and D. A. Warnke, pp. 7-30, AGU, Washington, D. C.
29. 39Ar ages of Precambrian manganese ore minerals from Sweden, India and Morocco, Miner. Deposita, 30, 246-256, doi:10.1007/BF00196360.
30. Ly, A. (1985), Le tertiaire de Casamance (Sénégal):Biostratigraphie (foraminifères) et sédimentologie d'après les données de subsurface, D.Sc. thesis, 215 pp., Univ. of Aix-Marseille III, Marseille, France.
31. Ly, A., and R. Anglada (1991), Le bassin Sénégalo-Mauritanien dans l'évolution des marges périatlantiques au tertiaire, Cah. Micropaléontol., 6(2), 23-40.
32. Michel, P. (1973), Les bassins des fleuves Sénégal et Gambie: Étude géomorphologique, Mem. ORSTOM 63, Univ. of Strasbourg, Paris.
33. Michel, P. (1978), Cuirasses bauxitiques et ferrugineuses d'Afrique Occidentale Aperçu chronologique, Trav. Doc. Géogr. Trop., 33, 11-32.
34. Miller, K. G., M. A. Kominz, J. V. Browning, J. D. Wright, G. S. Mountain, M. E. Katz, P. J. Sugaman, B. S. Cramer, N. Christie-Blick, and S. F. Pekar (2005), The phanerozoic record of global sea-level change, Science, 310, 1293-1298, doi:10.1126/science.1116412.
35. Millot, G. (1970), Geology of Clays, Chapman and Hall, London.
36. Millot, G. (1983), Planation of continents by intertropical weathering and pedogenetic processes, in Lateritisation Processes: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Lateritisation Processes, edited by A. J. Melfi and A. Carvalho, pp. 53-63, A. A.. Balkema, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
37. Nahon, D. (1991), Introduction to the Petrology of Soils and Chemical Weathering, John Wiley, New York.
38. Nahon, D., A. Beauvais, P. Nziengui-Mapangou, and J. Ducloux (1984), Chemical weathering of Mn-garnets under lateritic conditions in northwest Ivory Coast (West Africa), Chem. Geol., 45, 53-71, doi:10.1016/0009-2541(84)90115-3.
39. Nahon, D., B. Boulangé, and F. Colin (1992), Metallogeny of weathering: An introduction, in Weathering, Soils and Paleosols, Dev. Earth Surf. Processes Ser., vol. 2, edited by I. P. Martini and W. Chesworth, pp. 445-467, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
40. Oswald, J. (1992), Genesis and paragenesis of the tretravalent manganese oxides of the Australian continent, Econ. Geol., 87(5), 1237-1253.
41. Parc, S., D. Nahon, Y. Tardy, and P. Vieillard (1989), Estimated solubility products and field of stability for cryptomelane, nsutite, birnessite and lithiophorite based on natural lateritic weathering sequences, Am. Mineral., 74, 466-475.
42. Partridge, T. C., and R. R. Maud (1987), Geomorphic evolution of Southern Africa since the Mesozoic, S. Afr. J. Geol., 90, 179-208.
43. Pedro, G. (1968), Distribution des principaux types d'altération chimique à la surface du globe, Rev. Geogr. Phys. Geol. Dyn., 10(5), 457-470.
44. Perseil, E. A., and G. Grandin (1978), Evolution minéralogique du manganèse dans trois gisements d'Afrique de l'Ouest: Mokta, Tambao, Nsuta, Miner. Deposita, 13, 295-311, doi:10.1007 /BF00206565.
45. Petters, S. W. (1977), Ancient seaway across the Sahara, Niger. Field, 42, 23-31.
46. Picot, P., and R. Trinquard (1969), La manganosite (MnO) du gîte de manganèse de Tambao (Haute-Volta), Bull. Soc. Fr. Mineral. Cristallogr., 92, 500-502.
47. Pracejus, B.; and B. R. Bolton (1992), Geochemistry of supergene manganese oxide deposits, Groote Eylandt, Australia, Econ. Geol., 87(5), 1310-1335.
48. Retallack, G. J., J. G. Wynn, and T. J. Fremd (2004), Glacial-interglacial-scale paleoclimatic change without large ice sheets in the Oligocene of central Oregon, Geology, 32(4), 297-300, doi:10.1130/G20247.1.
49. 39Ar standards, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 47, 887-898, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(83)90154-0.
50. Roy, S. (1981), Manganese Deposits, Academic, London.
51. Roy, S. (1988), Manganese metallogenesis: A review, Ore Geol. Rev., 4(1-2), 155-170, doi:10.1016/0169-1368(88)90011-X.
52. 87Sr study of K-Mn oxides from the weathering sequence of Azul (Brazil), Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 2219-2232, dci:10.1016/ 0016-7037(96)00080-4.
53. Salamy, K. A., and J. C. Zachos (1999), Latest Eocene-Early Oligocene climate change and Southern Ocean fertility: Inferences from sediment accumulation and stable isotope data, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 145, 61-77.
54. Segev, A., L. Halicz, B. Lang, and G. Steinitz (1991), K-Ar dating of manganese minerals from the Eisenbach region, Black Forest, southwest Germany, Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt., 71, 101-114.
55. Tardy, Y., and C. Roquin (1998), Dérive des Continents, Paléoclimats et Altérations Tropicales, Bur. de Rech. Géol. et Min., Orléans, France.
56. Thomas, M. F. (1994), Geomoprhology in the Tropics: A Study of Weathering and Denudation in Low Latitudes, John Wiley, New York.
57. 39Ar ages from the lunar maria, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 11, 169-191, doi:10.1016 /0012-821X(71)90161-0.
58. 39Ar dating, Proc. Fifth Lunar Sci. Conf., 2, 1601-1615.
59. Turner, S., and P. R. Buseck (1979), Manganese oxide tunnel structures and their intergrowths, Science, 203, 456-458, doi:10.1126/ science.203.4379.456.
60. Varentsov, I. M. (1996), Manganese Ores of Supergene Zone: Geochemistry of Formation, Kluwer Acad., Dordrecht, Netherlands.
61. Varentsov, I. M., and D. I. Golovin (1987), Groote Eylandt manganese deposit, North Australia: K-Ar age of cryptomelane ores and aspects of genesis, Rep. Acad. Sci. USSR, 294(1), 203-207.
62. 39Ar geochronology of weathering processes, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 27, 183-229, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.27.1.183.
63. 39Ar analysis of potassium-manganese oxides, Science, 258, 451-455, doi:10.1126/science.258.5081.451.
64. 39Ar and K-Ar analysis of supergene K-Mn oxides, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 1635-1665, doi:10.1016 /0016-7037(94)90565-7.
65. 39Ar analysis, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 59(10), 2057-2070, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(95)00126-3.
66. Vogt, J. (1959), Aspects de l'évolution géomorphologique récente de l'Ouest Africain, Ann. Géogr. Fr., 68(367), 193-206.
67. Wijbrans, J. R., M. S. Pringle, A. A. P. Koppers, and R. Scheveers (1995), Argon geochronology of small samples using the Vulkaan argon laser probe, Proc. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam, 98(2), 185-218.
68. Yashvili, L. P., and R. K. Gukasyan (1974), Use of cryptomelane for potassium-argon dating of manganese ore of the Sevkar-Sargyukh deposit, Armenia, Dokl. Earth Sci., 212, 49-51.
69. Zachos, J. C., L. D. Stott, and K. C. Lohmann (1994), Evolution of early Cenozoic marine temperatures, Paleoceanography, 9(2), 353-387, dci:10.1029/93PA03266.
70. Zachos, J. C., T. M. Quinn, and K. A. Salamy (1996), High-resolution (104 years) deep-sea foraminiferal stable isotope records of the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition, Paleoceanography, 11(3), 251-266, doi:10.1029/96PA00571.
71. Zachos, J. C., M. Pagani, L. Sloan, E. Thomas, and K. Billups (2001), Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present, Science, 292, 686-693, doi:10.1126/science.1059412.
72. Zartman, R. E. (1964), A geochronological study of the Love Grove Pluton from the Llano uplift, Texas, J. Petrol., 5, 359-408.