PROVENANCE AND AGE CONSTRAINTS OF THE RIPHEAN SANDSTONES FROM THE IVANOVSKY GRABEN (THE KOLA PENINSULA) BASED ON THE U-Pb LA-ICP-MS DATING AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF DETRITAL ZIRCON

Abstract

The results of U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of 150 detrital zircon grains from the Precambrian (Riphean?) sandstones of the Kildin group on the coast of the Ivanovka Bay (northeastern Kola Peninsula) are presented. A group of three youngest grains yielded constraint on the sandstone maximum depositional age of 1179±45 Ma. Detrital zircon age distribution is dominated by three maximums of 1.9, 2.4 and 2.7 Ga. The authors consider two complementary scenarios of interpretation of the data obtained. The first scenario involves the contribution of distant provenance out of granitoids in the Lapland-Kola orogen (~1.9 Ga) and adjacent areas of the Kola-Karelia region (~2.7 Ga), Imandra-Varzuga structure (~2.4 Ga), and Sveconorwegian belt (~1.2 Ga); the off-Baltic (Greenland?) sources of the detrital zircon also cannot be excluded. According to the second scenario, the Ivanovsky graben received zircons also from the proximal sources – sialic complexes formed upon melting of granite-gneiss substratum of the upper crust of the Murmansk craton during largescale episodic mafic magmatism 1.86, 2.50 and 2.68 Ga. The Raman spectroscopy showed that about 25 % of the analyzed detrital zircon grains experienced a 1.4-Ga-old thermal effect which did not lead to Pb losses but partially restored the crystalline structure of zircon. This result can be used as an additional constraint in the detailed provenance analysis of the northeastern East European Platform sedimentary basins and is indicative of 1.4-Ga-old large-scale magmatic events related to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna.

Keywords

• detrital zircon
• u-pb geochronology
• riphean
• the kola peninsula
• ivanovsky graben
• provenance
• stratigraphic correlation
• raman spectroscopy