Samples from the lomonosov ridge place new constraints on the geological evolution of the arctic ocean
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Samples from the lomonosov ridge place new constraints on the geological evolution of the arctic ocean. / Knudsen, C.; Hopper, J. R.; Bierman, P. R.; Bjerager, M.; Funck, T.; Green, P. F.; Ineson, J. R.; Japsen, P.; Marcussen, C.; Sherlock, S. C.; Thomsen, T. B.
I: Geological Society Special Publication, Nr. 1, 2018, s. 397-418.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Samples from the lomonosov ridge place new constraints on the geological evolution of the arctic ocean
AU - Knudsen, C.
AU - Hopper, J. R.
AU - Bierman, P. R.
AU - Bjerager, M.
AU - Funck, T.
AU - Green, P. F.
AU - Ineson, J. R.
AU - Japsen, P.
AU - Marcussen, C.
AU - Sherlock, S. C.
AU - Thomsen, T. B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - A number of rock samples were collected from two dredge positions on the Lomonosov Ridge at water depths of 2-3.5 km. The dredge samples are dominated by sediments deformed and metamorphosed under greenschist-facies conditions 470 myr ago according to 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic muscovite. This shows that the Lomonosov Ridge was involved in a major Mid- Ordovician orogenic event that correlates with early arc-terrane accretion observed in northern Ellesmere Island, Svalbard, and other parts of the Caledonian belt. Detrital zircon age spectra of these metasediments span the Mesoproterozoic-Palaeoproterozoic with a main peak at around 1.6 Ga, and a pattern similar to that known from Caledonian metasedimentary rocks in East Greenland and northern Norway, as well as from Cambrian sediments in Estonia and Palaeozoic sediments on Novaya Zemlya. A second population of dredge samples comprises undeformed, non-metamorphic sandstones and siltstones. Detrital zircons in these sediments span the Palaeoproterozoic with a few Archaean zircons. Both rock types are covered by an up to 8 Ma ferromanganese crust and are evaluated to represent outcrop, and apatite fission-track data from three of the rock samples indicate that exposure at the seabed corresponds to a regional event of uplift and erosion that affected the Arctic in the Late Miocene. The data from the Lomonosov Ridge suggest that the 470 Ma orogenic event extended from Scotland and northern Scandinavia into the Arctic, including Svalbard, the Pearya Terrane and the Chukchi Borderlands.
AB - A number of rock samples were collected from two dredge positions on the Lomonosov Ridge at water depths of 2-3.5 km. The dredge samples are dominated by sediments deformed and metamorphosed under greenschist-facies conditions 470 myr ago according to 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic muscovite. This shows that the Lomonosov Ridge was involved in a major Mid- Ordovician orogenic event that correlates with early arc-terrane accretion observed in northern Ellesmere Island, Svalbard, and other parts of the Caledonian belt. Detrital zircon age spectra of these metasediments span the Mesoproterozoic-Palaeoproterozoic with a main peak at around 1.6 Ga, and a pattern similar to that known from Caledonian metasedimentary rocks in East Greenland and northern Norway, as well as from Cambrian sediments in Estonia and Palaeozoic sediments on Novaya Zemlya. A second population of dredge samples comprises undeformed, non-metamorphic sandstones and siltstones. Detrital zircons in these sediments span the Palaeoproterozoic with a few Archaean zircons. Both rock types are covered by an up to 8 Ma ferromanganese crust and are evaluated to represent outcrop, and apatite fission-track data from three of the rock samples indicate that exposure at the seabed corresponds to a regional event of uplift and erosion that affected the Arctic in the Late Miocene. The data from the Lomonosov Ridge suggest that the 470 Ma orogenic event extended from Scotland and northern Scandinavia into the Arctic, including Svalbard, the Pearya Terrane and the Chukchi Borderlands.
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M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85042652187
SP - 397
EP - 418
JO - Geological Society Special Publication
JF - Geological Society Special Publication
SN - 0305-8719
IS - 1
ER -
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