A Mesoproterozoic missing link between eastern Australia and China during the transition from Nuna to Rodinia?

Abstract

We document, for the first time, Mesoproterozoic-aged, continental arc magmatism in the Tasmanides. Granitoid samples intruding the Proterozoic Cape River Metamorphics in northeast Queensland contain abundant ∼ 1200 Ma igneous zircons, with early-Paleozoic metamorphic rim overgrowths. Analytical mixing between the igneous and metamorphic zircons produces cryptic discordant analyses, but the origin of said discordance is resolved with zircon Th/U ratios. Samples of the Fat Hen Creek Complex are peraluminous, calc-alkaline, S-type granitoids, that record high-grade metamorphism and trace element mobilization. The P3 and P42 intrusions are metaluminous, calc-alkaline, I-type granodiorite, which intruded the Cape River Metamorphics, and contain trace element signatures consistent with a continental-arc setting. We propose that a Mesoproterozoic continental terrane, herein referred to as the Oakvale Province, exists as basement to the Thomson Orogen. We propose several models for the formation of the Oakvale Province, with potential links to the Tarim Block, and the Yangtze Craton, during the late-Mesoproterozoic. We propose that the Oakvale Province supplied the Tasmanides with late-Mesoproterozoic detritus, and that such detritus was not solely sourced from the Musgrave Province as previously interpreted. Finally, we interpret the oroclinal bending of Paleozoic deformation and plutonic fabrics to reflect the buried extent of the Oakvale Province, and to potentially map out the Neoproterozoic rift margin associated with Rodinia break-up.

Keywords

Australia / China / Laurentia / Nuna / Rodinia / Mesoproterozoic / Tasmanides

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