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Evidence, or not, for late Tonian break-up of Rodinia? The Dalradian Supergroup, Scotland

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03/03/2023
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Prave, Tony
Fallick, A.E.
Kirsimäe, K.
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The Tonian-Cambrian Dalradian Supergroup, Scotland, is a siliciclastic-carbonate succession as much as 10 km thick. The consensus view is that its lower part, the mid-late Tonian Grampian and Appin groups, formed in rift basins: deep-marine turbidites of the former infilled rift depocentres and shallow-marine strata of the latter marked basin-bounding palaeohighs. That scenario is used as evidence to infer onset of break-up of Rodinia between Laurentia and Baltica. However, deformation during mid-Ordovician Caledonian orogenesis obscured original depositional frameworks. Reconstructing those frameworks (and hypothesised rift basins) relied on trace- and major-element geochemistry of carbonate rocks to assign units to either the Grampian or Appin groups, i.e. to rift depocentres or basin-bounding palaeohighs, respectively. We report new carbon and oxygen isotope and geochemical data to create a revised stratigraphic framework for the Grampian and Appin groups. Our findings show that previous geochemical-based correlations are unreliable and that there is no evidence for palaeohighs or rift basins. Instead, the Grampian-Appin groups are a deeper- to a shallower-marine (flysch to molasse) succession formed in response to the mid-Tonian Knoydartian Orogeny. From a Scottish perspective, evidence for break-up of Rodinia is recorded higher in the Dalradian succession during deposition of the early Cryogenian Argyll Group.
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Prave , T , Fallick , A E & Kirsimäe , K 2023 , ' Evidence, or not, for late Tonian break-up of Rodinia? The Dalradian Supergroup, Scotland ' , Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 180 , no. 2 , jgs2022-134 . https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-134
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Journal of the Geological Society
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-134
ISSN
0016-7649
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Funding: Fieldwork was funded by A.R.P. Analyses funded by University of Tartu.
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https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6317830
https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/jgs2022-134
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27123

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