Paper No. 111-0
RECONSTRUCTION OF TERRANE BOUNDARIES IN THE FINNISH SVECOFENNIAN: OXYGEN ISOTOPES FROM ZIRCON
ELLIOTT, Brent A., Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Univ of North Alabama, P.O. Box 5172, Florence, AL 35632-0001, brent.elliott@helsinki.fi, PECK, William H., Department of Geology, Colgate Univ, 13 Oak Dr, Hamilton, NY 13346, wpeck@mail.colgate.edu, RÄMÖ, O. Tapani, Department of Geology, Univ of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland, VAASJOKI, M., Geol Survey of Finland, Espoo, 02150, Finland, and VALLEY, John W., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706

Oxygen isotope ratios in zircon from 1.88-1.87 Ga post-kinematic magmatism in central Finland and 1.65-1.54 Ga anorogenic (rapakivi) magmatism in southern Finland provide insights into the evolution and growth of the Precambrian crust during the Svecofennian Orogeny. The distribution of these magmatic suites, emplaced shortly after cratonization, helps to define paleosutures and tectonic boundaries between highly metamorphosed accreted terranes. The oxygen isotope compositions from a suite of undeformed 1.88-1.87 Ga granitoid plutons across the Central Finland Granitoid Complex (CFGC) are relatively homogeneous (d18Ozircon=6.22±0.48‰, n=7), with the exception of three plutons in contact with supracrustal rocks in the adjacent greenstone and metasedimentary belts (d18Ozircon=7.70±0.09‰). Whole rock d18O for these rocks would be ~0.8 to 1.3‰ higher than d18Ozircon. Oxygen isotope ratios of this suite do not correlate with geochemistry or emplacement age. The oxygen isotope composition of the classic 1.65-1.54 Ga anorogenic granites in southern Finland are distinct from the 1.88-1.87 Ga suite and show a shift in d18O in zircon from north to south, independent of their emplacement age. The three southern-most anorogenic granites have d18Ozircon=6.14±0.07‰, but the northern plutons have an average d18Ozircon=7.95±0.68‰ (n=6). This division also correlates with a discontinuity in Nd isotopes (eNd=-0.9 to +0.7 for granitoids of various ages in the south vs. eNd=1.5 to 3.0 in the north). Boundaries between island arc terranes accreted during the Paleoproterozoic are revealed by the preservation of oxygen isotope ratios in zircons associated with the 1.88-1.87 Ga and 1.65-1.54 Ga magmatism in southern Finland.

GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001
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Session No. 111
Focus on IGCP: Modern and Ancient Plate Boundaries and Orogens (Posters): In Memory of Chris McA. Powell
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