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Trading partners: Tectonic ancestry of southern Africa and western Australia, in Archean supercratons Vaalbara and Zimgarn

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Original connections among the world's extant Archean cratons are becoming tractable by the use of integrated paleomagnetic and geochronologic studies on Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms. Here we report new high-quality paleomagnetic data from the ～2.41Ga Widgiemooltha dyke swarm of the Yilgarn craton in western Australia, confirming earlier results from that unit, in which the primary origin of characteristic remanent magnetization is now confirmed by baked-contact tests. The corresponding paleomagnetic pole (10.2°S, 159.2°E, A_(95)=7.5°), in combination with newly available ages on dykes from Zimbabwe, allow for a direct connection between the Zimbabwe and Yilgarn cratons at 2.41Ga, with implied connections as early as their cratonization intervals at 2.7-2.6Ga. The proposed " Zimgarn" supercraton was likely distinct from Vaalbara (Kaapvaal plus Pilbara) at 2.4Ga, but both of those entities independently fragmented at ca. 2.1-2.0Ga, reassembling into the Kalahari and West Australian cratons by 1.95-1.8Ga.

Kaapvaal cratonPaleomagnetismPaleoproterozoicPilbaraYilgarnZimbabve craton

Smirnov, A.V.、Evans, D.A.D.、Ernst, R.E.、S?derlund, U.、Li, Z.-X.

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Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, United States

Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States

Ernst Geosciences, Ottawa K1T 3Y2, Canada

Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Division of Geology, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden

Center of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

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2013

10.1016/j.precamres.2012.09.020

Precambrian Research

Precambrian Research

SCI
ISSN：0301-9268
年,卷(期)：2013.224
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