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    Discovery of a Devonian mafic magmatism on the western border of the Murzuq basin (Saharan metacraton): Paleomagnetic dating and geodynamical implications.

    Authors
    Derder, M.E.M
    Maouche, S.
    Liégeois, J.P.
    Henry, B.
    Ouabadi, A.
    Bellon, H.
    Bruguier, O.
    Bayou, B.
    Bestandji, R.
    Nouar, O.
    Bouabdellah, H.
    Ayache, M.
    Beddiaf, M.
    Amenna, M.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Geodynamics and mineral resources
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2016
    Publisher
    Elsvier
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    Description
    Intraplate deformation is most often linked to major stress applied on plate margins. When such intraplate events are accompanied by magmatism, the use of several dating methods integrated within a multidisciplinary approach can bring constraints on the age, nature and source mobilized for generating the magma and in turn on the nature of the intraplate deformation. This study focuses on the large gabbro Arrikine sill (35 km in extension) emplaced within the Silurian sediments of the western margin of the Murzuq cratonic basin in southeastern Algeria. Its emplacement is dated during the early Devonian (415-400 Ma) through the determination of a reliable paleomagnetic pole by comparison with the Gondwana Apparent Polar Wander Path (APWP). This age can be correlated with deep phreatic eruptions before Pragian time thought to be at the origin of sand injections and associated circular structures in Algeria and Libya. For the sill, the K Ar age of 325.6 ± 7.7 Ma is related to a K-rich aplitic phase that has K-enriched by more than 20% the Devonian gabbro. Laser-ICP-MS U Pb method dates only inherited zircons mostly at c. 2030 Ma with additional ages at c. 2700 Ma and younger ones in the 766-598 Ma age range. The Arrikine sill is a high-Ti alkaline gabbro having the geochemical composition of a hawaiite akin to several intraplate continental and oceanic provinces, including the contemporaneous Aïr ring complexes province in Niger, but also to the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. This peculiar composition akin to that of the contemporaneous Aïr province is in agreement with a lower Devonian age for the Arrikine sill. The lower Devonian Arrikine sill emplacement is related to a Caledonian transtensive reactivation of the western metacratonic boundary of the Murzuq craton. This event also generated in the Saharan platform the so-called Caledonian unconformity of regional extension, the Aïr ring complexes and magmatic rocks that produced sand injections. It could be related to rifting of the Hun terranes that occurred at the plate margin to the north (Stampfli and Borel, 2002, Blackey, 2008 and references therein). The mid-Carboniferous (c. 326 Ma) reactivation corresponds to Variscan compression on NW Africa generating aplitic fluids, but also to the major Hercynian unconformity of regional extension. The generation of the Arrikine magma is attributed to partial melting through adiabatic pressure release of uprising asthenosphere along tectonically reactivated mega-shear zones, here bordering the relictual Murzuq craton enclosed in the Saharan metacraton.
    Citation
    Derder, M.E.M; Maouche, S.; Liégeois, J.P.; Henry, B.; Ouabadi, A.; Bellon, H.; Bruguier, O.; Bayou, B.; Bestandji, R.; Nouar, O.; Bouabdellah, H.; Ayache, M.; Beddiaf, M.; Amenna, M. (2016). Discovery of a Devonian mafic magmatism on the western border of the Murzuq basin (Saharan metacraton): Paleomagnetic dating and geodynamical implications.. , Journal of African Earth Sciences, Vol. 115, 159-176, Elsvier, ISSN: 1464-343X, DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.11.019.
    Identifiers
    issn: 1464-343X
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/2638
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.11.019
    url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X15301138
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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