GRANITES OF THE NORTHERN TIMAN – PROBABLE INDICATORS OF NEOPROTEROZOIC STAGES OF RODINIA BREAKUP

Abstract

The Northern Timan is an uplifted block of Late Precambrian basement of the Timan Ridge, where Neoproterozoic sedimentary-metamorphic rocks of the Barmin Group are cut by intrusive rocks of different composition and all unconformably overlain by Lower Silurian limestone. To determine the age of granites, U-Pb dating of zircons was carried out using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Two episodes of Neoproterozoic granite magmatism were established. Granite rocks of the Bolshoy Kameshek (613 ± 6 Ma) and Cape Bolshoy Rumyanichny (614 ± 11 Ma) plutons are interpreted to be associated with the formation of Central Iapetus Magmatic Province and record the Ediacaran stage of Rodinia breakup. The granites of the Sopki Kamennyie pluton (723‒727 Ma) formed in Cryogenian time and are assumed to represent an earlier episode of Rodinia breakup. Their ages correlate with the age of the Franklin LIP that existed in Northern Laurentia and is believed to have spread to South Siberia.

Keywords

• granites
• northern timan
• zircon
• u-pb isotopic age
• rodinia