Rare Earth Elements Tracing Crustal Evolution Through Time: A Detrital Zircon Study

稀土元素随时间追踪地壳演化：碎屑锆石研究

基本信息

批准号：
1725002
负责人：
Mihai Ducea
金额：
$ 20.96万
依托单位：
University of Arizona
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-07-01 至 2021-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725002&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Rare Earth Elements Tracing Crustal

项目摘要

Multiple recent lines of evidence suggest that the onset of modern-like plate tectonic processes started rather abruptly in the Archean (about 3 billion years ago) and that tectonically, the Earth has evolved through several distinctive dynamic stages. The overarching question here is to test the hypothesis of several step-like changes in the tectono-magmatic evolution of the Earth. Such change should be reflected in the geochemical composition of intermediate and felsic igneous rocks - the basic building blocks of continental masses. If this did happen, can we better constrain the age of that change, was it sudden or gradual? Unraveling tectonics stages and transitions between them on our dynamic planet has important implications for our overall understanding of resource distribution as well as feedbacks with other evolutionary processes in the mineral and biologic realms. In the project, the researchers will use detrital zircon U-Pb ages and trace elemental concentrations (with a focus on the rare earth elements) on grains from sediments and sedimentary rocks that satisfy the following conditions: (1) are draining sizable segments of the continental mass, and (2) contain zircons encompassing large geologic time intervals, especially from the Precambrian. The age range target will especially focus on the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic area. Recent work shows that whole rock geochemical parameters measured on young igneous rocks correlate positively with crustal thickness globally and regionally. La/Yb and other trace elemental ratios are calibrated against crustal thickness on intermediate igneous rocks from modern subduction systems and have been used to show variations in crustal thickness over time in a few Phanerozoic orogenic regions. The implied variation in crustal thickness is consistent with the tens of million years cyclicity of crustal thickness in continental areas being affected by modern plate tectonics and is also indicative of the fact that the deepest parts of the continental crust (regardless of its thickness) are the factories of differentiation leading to the diversity of intermediate igneous rocks found in subduction and collision systems.

最近的多种证据表明，现代式板块构造过程的发作突然在大帝（大约30亿年前）开始，并且从构造中，地球已经通过几个独特的动态阶段进化。这里的总体问题是测试地球构造魔术演化中几种阶梯状变化的假设。这种变化应反映在中间和长英雄岩石的地球化学组成中 - 大陆质量的基本构建块。如果这确实发生了，我们可以更好地限制这种变化的年龄吗？在我们的动态星球上解散构造阶段和它们之间的过渡对我们对资源分布的整体理解以及矿物和生物学领域中其他进化过程的反馈具有重要意义。在该项目中，研究人员将使用碎屑锆石U-PB年龄和痕量元素浓度（重点关注稀土元素）对满足以下条件的沉积物和沉积岩石的谷物：（1）在大陆质量上排出了相当大的段，（2）包含Zircons的大型地球时时间间隔，特别是来自Zircons。年龄范围的目标将特别关注Hadean，Archean和Protererodoc区域。最近的工作表明，在年轻的火成岩上测量的整个岩石地球化学参数与全球和区域上的地壳厚度正相关。 LA/YB和其他痕量元素比在现代俯冲系统中型火成岩上与地壳厚度进行了校准，并已用于显示几个phanerozoic区域的地壳厚度的变化。 The implied variation in crustal thickness is consistent with the tens of million years cyclicity of crustal thickness in continental areas being affected by modern plate tectonics and is also indicative of the fact that the deepest parts of the continental crust (regardless of its thickness) are the factories of differentiation leading to the diversity of intermediate igneous rocks found in subduction and collision systems.

项目成果

期刊论文数量（9）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

U-PB Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Lower Danube and Its Tributaries: Implications for the Geology of the Carpathians

多瑙河下游及其支流的 U-PB 碎屑锆石年代学：对喀尔巴阡山脉地质学的启示

DOI：
10.1029/2018gc007659
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
Geosystems
影响因子：
0
作者：
Ducea, Mihai N.;Giosan, Liviu;Carter, Andrew;Balica, Constantin;Stoica, Adriana M.;Roban, Relu D.;Balintoni, Ion;Filip, Florin;Petrescu, Lucian
通讯作者：
Petrescu, Lucian

Early arc development recorded in Permian–Triassic plutons of the northern Mojave Desert region, California, USA

美国加利福尼亚州莫哈韦沙漠北部地区二叠纪至三叠纪岩体记录的早期弧发育

DOI：
10.1130/b31963.1
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
GSA Bulletin
影响因子：
0
作者：
Cecil, M. Robinson;Ferrer, Mary Ann;Riggs, Nancy R.;Marsaglia, Kathleen;Kylander-Clark, Andrew;Ducea, Mihai N.;Stone, Paul
通讯作者：
Stone, Paul

A zircon petrochronologic view on granitoids and continental evolution

DOI：
10.1016/j.epsl.2019.116005
发表时间：
2020-02-01
期刊：
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
影响因子：
5.3
作者：
Balica, C.;Ducea, M. N.;Petrescu, L.
通讯作者：
Petrescu, L.

Resolving mid- to upper-crustal exhumation through apatite petrochronology and thermochronology

DOI：
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120071
发表时间：
2021-01
期刊：
Chemical Geology
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
G. Jepson;B. Carrapa;S. George;A. Triantafyllou;S. M. Egan;K. Constenius;G. Gehrels;M. Ducea
通讯作者：
G. Jepson;B. Carrapa;S. George;A. Triantafyllou;S. M. Egan;K. Constenius;G. Gehrels;M. Ducea

Mesozoic to Cenozoic magmatic history of the Pamir

DOI：
10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.041
发表时间：
2018-01
期刊：
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
影响因子：
5.3
作者：
J. Chapman;Shane H. Scoggin;P. Kapp;B. Carrapa;M. Ducea;J. Worthington;Ilhomjon Oimahmadov;M. Gad
通讯作者：
J. Chapman;Shane H. Scoggin;P. Kapp;B. Carrapa;M. Ducea;J. Worthington;Ilhomjon Oimahmadov;M. Gad