The hot southern continent: Heat flow and heat production in Australian Proterozoic terranes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 372, Issue , 2003, Pages 157-167

  McLaren, S ^a,d   Sandiford, M ^a   Hand, M ^b   Neumann, N ^b   Wyborn, L ^c   Bastrakova, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Heat budget; Heat flow; Proterozoic; Terranes

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; GRANITE;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; HEAT BUDGET; PROTEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC TERRANES; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; SURFACE HEAT FLOW; TERRANES; THERMAL TRANSIENTS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLOW; HEAT PRODUCTION; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; PROTEROZOIC; TERRANE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84871409710     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (69)

1. ADAMS J. A. S., OSMOND K. & ROGERS J. J. W. 1959. The geochemistry of thorium and uranium. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 3, 298-348.
2. AHMAD M. 1998. Geology and mineral deposits of the Pine Creek Inlier and McArthur Basin, Northern Territory. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 17, 1-17. (Pubitemid 28507832)
3. ARNOLD J., SANDIFORD M. & WETHERLEY S. 1995. Metamorphlc events in the eastern Arunta Inlier, Part 1, Metamorphic petrology. Precambrlan Research 71, 183-205.
4. ATTOH K. 2000. Contrasting metamorphic record of heat production anomalies in the Penokean Orogen of Northern Michigan. Journal of Geology 108, 353-361. (Pubitemid 30483708)
5. BALLING N. 1995. Heat flow and thermal structure of the lithosphere across the Baltic Shield and northern Tornquist Zone. Tectonophyslcs 244, 13-50.
6. BEA F., MONTERO P. & MOLINA J. F. 1999. Mafic precursors, peraluminous granitoids, and late lamprophyres in the Avila Batholith: A model for the generation of Variscan Batholiths in Iberia. Journal of Geology 107, 399-419. (Pubitemid 30037554)
7. BIERMAN P. 1994. Using in situ cosmogenic isotopes to estimate rates of landscape evolution: A review from the geomorphic perspective. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 13885-13896.
8. BIERMAN P. & TURNER J. 1995.10Be and 26A1 evidence for exceptionally low rates of Australian bedrock erosion and the likely existence of pre-Pleistocene landscapes. Quaternary Research 44, 378-382. (Pubitemid 26442400)
9. BIRCH A. F., ROY R. F. & DECKER E. R. 1968. Heat flow and thermal history in New England and New York. In; Zen E., White W. S., Hadley J. B. & Thompson J. B. eds. Studies of Appalachian Geology: Northern and Maritime, pp. 437-451. Interscience, New York.
10. BODORKOS S., OLIVER N. H. S. & CAWOOD P. A. 1999. The thermal evolution of the Halls Creek Orogen, northern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 46, 453-465. (Pubitemid 29471548)
11. BOWLER J. M., HOPE G. S., IENNINGS J. N., SINGH G. & WALKER D. 1976. Late Quaternary climates of Australia and New Guinea. Quaternary Research 6, 359-394.
12. CHAPMAN D. S. & FURLONG K. P. 1977. Continental heat flow - age relationships. EOS 58, 1240.
13. CLIFFORD T. N., STUMPFL E. F., BURGER A. J., MACCARTHY T. S. & REX D. C. 1981. Mineral-chemical and isotopic studies of Namaqualand granulites, South Africa; a Grenville analogue. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 77, 225-250.
14. COLLINS C. D. N. 1991. The nature of the crust-mantle boundary under Australia from seismic evidence. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 17, 67-80.
15. COLLINS W. J. & TEYSSIER C. 1989. Crustal scale ductile fault systems in the Arunta Inlier, central Australia. Tectonophyslcs 158, 49-66.
16. CULL J. P. 1982. An appraisal of Australian heat-flow data. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 7, 11-21.
17. DREXEL J. F., Preiss W. V. & Parker A. J. 1993. The geology of South Australia, Vol. I, The Precambrian. Geological Survey of South Australia Bulletin 54.
18. DRUMMOND B. J. 1988. A review of crust/upper mantle structure in the Precambrlan areas of Australia and implications for Precambrian crustal evolution. Precambrlan Research 40/41, 101-116.
19. DRUMMOND B. J., GOLEBY B. R., GONCHAROV A. G., WYBORN L. A. I., COLLINS C. D. N. & MACCREADY T. 1998. Crustal-scale structures in the Proterozoic Mount Isa inlier of north Australia: their seismic response and influence on mineralisation. Tectonophyslcs 288, 43-56.
20. DONNELLAN N. C., HUSSEY K. J. & MORRISON R. S. 1995. Flynn 5759 and Tennant Creek 5758, 1:100 000 Geological Map Sheet Explanatory Notes. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin.
21. Durrance E. M. 1986. .Radioactivity in Geology: Principles and Applications. Halstead Press, New York.
22. ENGLAND P. C., OXBURGH E. R. & RICHARDSON S. W. 1980. Heat refraction and heat production in and around granite plutons in northeast England. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 62, 439-455.
23. GERDES A., WORNER G. & HENK A. 2000. Post-collislonal granite generation and HT-LP metamorphism by radiogenic heating: the Variscan South Bohemian Batholith. Journal of the Geological Society of London 157,57-587.
24. GOES S., COVERS R. & VACHER P. 2000. Shallow mantle temperatures under Europe from P and S wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 11153-11169.
25. GUILLOU F. L., MARESCHAL J. C., JAUPART C., GARIEPY C., LAPOINTE P. & BIENFAIT G. 1995. Heat flow variations In the Grenville Province, Canada. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 136, 447-460. (Pubitemid 26461397)
26. HAENEL R., RYBACH L. & STEGENA L. 1988. Handbook of Tenestrtal Heat-flow Density Determination: with Guidelines and Recommendations of the International Heat Flow Commission. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
27. HAND M., DIRKS P. H. G. M., POWELL R. & BUICK I. S. 1992. How well established is isobaric cooling in Proterozoic erogenic belts? An example from the Arunta inlier, central Australia. Geology 20, 649-652.
28. HUERTA A. D., ROYDEN L. H. & HODGES K. V. 1998. The thermal structure of collisional orogens as a response to accretion, erosion and radiogenic heating. Journal of Geophysical Research 103, 15287-15302.
29. HUERTA A. D., ROYDEN L. H. & HODGES K. V. 1999. The effects of accretion, erosion and radiogenic heating on the metamorphic evolution of collisional orogens. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 17,349-366.
30. INDARES A. 1995. Metamorphic interpretation of high-pressure-temperature metapelites with preserved growth zoning in garnet, eastern Granville Province, Canadian Shield. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 13, 475-486.
31. JAUPART C. 1983. Horizontal heat transfer due to radioactivity contrasts: causes and consequences of the linear heat flow relation. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 75,411-435.
32. JAUPART C. & MARESCHAL J. C. 1999. The thermal structure and thickness of continental roots. Ltthos 48, 93-114. (Pubitemid 30034047)
33. JONES M. Q. W. 1987. Heat flow and heat production in the Namaqua mobile belt, South Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research 92, 6273-6289.
34. KENNETT B. L. N. & VAN DER HILST R. D. 1996. Using a synthetic continental array in Australia to study the Earth's interior. Journal of Physics of the Earth 44, 669-674. (Pubitemid 27409391)
35. KETCHUM J. W. F., JAMIESON R. A., HEAMAN L. M., CULSHAW N. G. & KROGH T. E. 1994. 1.45 Ga granulites in the southwestern Granville Province; geologic setting, P-T conditions, and U-Pb geochronology. Geology 22, 215-218. (Pubitemid 24424794)
36. KNUDSEN T. L. 1996. Petrology and geothermobarometry of granulitefacies metapelites from the Hisoy-Torungen area, South Norway; new data on the Sveconorveglan P-T-t path of the Bamble Sector. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 14, 267-287.
37. KUKKONEN I. T. & JOELEHT A. 1996. Geothermal modelling of the lithosphere in the central Baltic Shield and its southern slope. Tectonophyslcs 255, 25-45.
38. LACHENBRUCH A. H. 1968. Preliminary geothermal model of the Sierra Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research 73, 6977-6989.
39. LACHENBRUCH A. H. 1970. Crustal temperature and heat production: implications of the linear heat-flow relation. Journal of Geophysical Research 75, 3291-3300.
40. MCCULLOCH M. T. 1987. Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on the evolution of Precambrian crust in the Australian continent. American Geophysical Union Geodynamlcs Series 17, 115-130.
41. MCLAREN S. & SANDIFORD M. 2001. Long-term thermal consequences of tectonic activity at Mount Isa, Australia: implications for polyphase tectonism in the Proterozoic. Jn: Miller J. A., Holdsworth R. E., Buick I. S. & Hand M. eds. Continental Reactivation and Reworking, pp. 219-236. Geological Society of London Special Publication 184. (Pubitemid 33080114)
42. MCLENNAN S. M. & TAYLOR S. R. 1996. Heat flow and the chemical composition of continental crust. Journal of Geology 104, 369-377.
43. MARESCHAL J. C., JAUPART C., CHENG L. Z., ROLANDONE F., GARIEPY C., BIENFAIT G., GUILLOU F. L. & LAPOINTE R. 1999. Heat flow in the Trans-Hudson Orogen of the Canadian Shield; implications for Proterozoic continental growth. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 29007-29024.
44. MENGEL F. & RIVERS T. 1997. Metamorphism in the Palaeoproterozoic Torngat Orogen, Labrador; petrology and P-T-t paths of amphibolite- and granulite-facies rocks across the Komaktorvik shear zone. Canadian Mineralogist 35, 1137-1160.
45. MILDREN S. & SANDIFORD M. 1995. A heat refraction mechanism for low-P metamorphism in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, 241-247.
46. MORGAN P. 1984. The thermal structure and thermal evolution of the continental lithosphere. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 15, 107-185.
47. NEUMANN N. L., SANDIFORD M. & FODEN J. 2000. Regional geochemistry and continental heat flow: Implications for the origin of the South Australian heat flow anomaly. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 83, 107-120. (Pubitemid 32010668)
48. NYBLADE A. A. & POLLACK H. N. 1993. A global analysis of heat flow from Precambrian terrains: implications for the thermal structure of Archaean and Proterozoic lithosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 12207-12218.
49. POLLACK H. N., HURTER S. J. & JOHNSON J. R. 1993. Heat flow from the Earth's interior: analysis of the global data set. Reviews of Geophysics 31,267-280. (Pubitemid 24420748)
50. RAITH J. G. 1995. Petrogenesis of the Concordia Granite Gneiss and its relation to W-Mo mineralization in western Namaqualand, South Africa. Precambrian Research 70, 303-335.
51. RUBENACH M. J. 1992. Proterozoic low-pressure/high-temperature metamorphism and anti-clockwise P-T-t paths for the Hazeldene area, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 10, 333-346.
52. RUDNICK R. L. & FOUNTAIN D. 1995. Nature and composition of the continental crust: A lower crustal perspective. Reviews of Geophysics. 33, 267-309. (Pubitemid 26456752)
53. RUDNICK R. L., MCDONOUGH S. M. & O'CONNELL R. J. 1998. Thermal structure, thickness and composition of continental lithosphere. Chemical Geology 145, 395-411. (Pubitemid 28426469)
54. SANDIFORD M. 2003. Neotectonics of southeastern Australia: linking the Quaternary faulting record with seismicity and in situ stress. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 107-119.
55. SANDIFORD M., HAND M. & MCLAREN S. 1998. High geothermal gradient metamorphism during thermal subsidence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 163, 149-165. (Pubitemid 29094457)
56. SANDIFORD M., HAND M. & MCLAREN S. 2001. Tectonic feedback, intraplate orogeny and the geochemical structure of the crust: A central Australian perspective. In: Miller J. A., Holdsworth R. E., Buick I. S. & Hand M. eds. Continental Reactivation and Reworking, pp. 195-218. Geological Society of London Special Publication 184. (Pubitemid 33080113)
57. SASS J. H. & LACHENBRUCH A. H. 1979. Thermal regime of the Australian continental crust. Jn: McElhinny M. W. ed. The Earth-its Origin, Structure and Evolution, pp. 301-351. Academic Press, London.
58. SASS J. H., LACHENBRUCH A. H., GALANIS S. P., MORGAN P., PREIST S. S., MOSES T. H. & MUNROE R. J. 1994. Thermal regime of the southern Basin and Range Province: 1. Heat flow data from Arizona and the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 22093-22119.
59. SCRIMGEOUR I. & SANDIFORD M. 1993. Early Proterozoic metamorphism at The Granites Gold Mine, Northern Territory: implications for the timing of fluid production in high-temperature, low-pressure terranes. Economic Geology 88, 1099-1113. (Pubitemid 24423629)
60. SCRIMGEOUR I. & CLOSE D. 1999. Regional high-pressure metamorphism during intracratonic deformation; the Petermann Orogeny, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 17, 557-572. (Pubitemid 30039644)
61. SHAW R. D., ZEITLER P. K., MCDOUGALL I. & TINGATE P. R. 1992. The Palaeozoic history of an unusual intracratonic thrust belt in central Australia based on 40Ar/39Ar, K/Ar and fission track dating. Journal of the Geological Society of London 149, 937-954. (Pubitemid 23387583)
62. ST-ONGE M. R., WODICKA N. & LUCAS S. B. 2000. Granulite- and amphibolite-facies metamorphism in a convergent plate margin setting: synthesis of the Quebec-Baffin segment of the Trans- Hudson Orogen. Canadian Mineralogist 38, 379-398.
63. TAYLOR S. R. & MCLENNAN S. M. 1985. The Continental Crust: its Composition and Evolution. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
64. TURCOTTE D. L. & SCHUBERT G. 1982. Geodynamlcs: Applications of Continuum Physics to Geological Problems. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.
65. WILSON C. J. L. & POWELL R. 2001. Strain localization and high-grade metamorphism at Broken Hill, Australia: A view from the Southern Cross area. Tectonophystcs 335, 193-210. (Pubitemid 32719341)
66. WITHNALL I. W. 1996. Stratigraphy, structure and metamorphism of the Proterozoic Etheridge and Langovale Groups, Georgetown region, North Queensland. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 1996/15.
67. WYBORN L. A. I., BUDD A. R. & BASTRAKOVA I. V. 1998. The Metallogentc Potential of Australian Proterozotc Granites. Granite CIS (Partial Release) CD ROM, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra.
68. WYBORN L. A. I., WYBORN D., WARREN R. G. & DRUMMOND B. J. 1992. Proterozoic granite types In Australia: implications for lower crust composition, structure and evolution. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 83, 201-209. (Pubitemid 23385444)
69. ZIELHAUS A. & VAN DER HILST R. D. 1996. Upper-mantle shear velocity beneath eastern Australian from inversion of waveforms from SKIPPY portable arrays. Geophysical Journal International 127, 1-16. (Pubitemid 126534117)