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Isotope-geochronological (U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf) study of the zircons from the archean magmatic and metasedimentary rocks of the Podolia domain, Ukrainian shield

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Zircons from the oldest magmatic and metasedimentary rocks of the Podolia domain of the Ukrainian shield were studied and dated by U-Pb method on a NORDSIM secondary-ion mass spectrometer. The age of zircon cores in the enderbite gneisses taken in the Kazachii Yar and Odessa quarries on the opposite banks of the Yuzhnyi Bug River reaches 3790 Ma. Cores of the terrigenous zircons in the quartzites from the Odessa quarry as well as in the garnet gneisses from the Zaval’e graphite quarry have an age within 3650–3750 Ma. Zircon rims record two metamorphic events at 2750–2850 Ma and around 1900–2000 Ma. Extremely low U content in the zircons of the second age group indicates conditions of the granulite-facies metamorphism in the Paleoproterozoic within the Podolia domain. Obtained data on the orthorocks (enderbite-gneiss) and metasedimentary rocks unambiguously suggest the existence of ancient Paleoarchean crust in the Podolia (Dniester-Bug) domain of the Ukrainian shield. They contribute in our knowledge of scales of the formation and geochemical features of the primordial crust.

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  1. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    E. V. Bibikova, A. A. Fedotova, T. I. Kirnozova & M. M. Fugzan

  2. Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-10405, Stockholm, Sweden

    S. Claesson & L. S. Il’insky

  3. Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Ore Genesis, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pr. Palladina 34, Kiev-142, 03680, Ukraine

    L. M. Stepanyuk & L. V. Shumlyansky

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Original Russian Text © E.V. Bibikova, S. Claesson, A.A. Fedotova, L.M. Stepanyuk, L.V. Shumlyansky, T.I. Kirnozova, M.M. Fugzan, L.S. Il’insky, 2013, published in Geokhimiya, 2013, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 99–121.

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Bibikova, E.V., Claesson, S., Fedotova, A.A. et al. Isotope-geochronological (U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf) study of the zircons from the archean magmatic and metasedimentary rocks of the Podolia domain, Ukrainian shield. Geochem. Int. 51, 87–108 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702913020031

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