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Recurrent mesoproterozoic continental magmatism in South-Central Norway

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We report U–Pb dates and Lu–Hf isotope data, obtained by LAM-ICPMS, for zircons from metamorphic rocks of the Setesdalen valley, situated in the Telemark block south of the classic Telemark region of southern Norway. The samples include infracrustal rocks from the metamorphic basement, metaigneous rocks and metasediments from the Byglandsfjorden supracrustal cover sequence, and metaigneous rocks which intruded the whole succession. The main crustal evolution took place from 1,550–1,020 Ma, beginning with the emplacement of juvenile tonalitic melts; the contribution of older crustal material increased with time. Around 1,320 Ma, further addition of juvenile material occurred, involving both mafic and felsic melts, metamorphism and deformation. Acid magmas with high FeO*/MgO were intruded at 1,215 Ma, coinciding with underplating elsewhere in South Norway. The period starting at 1,215 Ma is represented by supracrustal rocks, principally metarhyolites with minor mafic material and immature sediments of the Byglandsfjorden Group. The crust generation processes ended with the intrusion of diorites and granodiorites at 1,030 Ma, late in the Sveconorwegian orogeny. Regional processes of metamorphism and deformation (around 1,290 and 1,000 Ma) can be related to the assembly of Rodinia.

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SP and JKM want to thank the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting this study. TA thanks the University of Oslo and Macquarie University for economic support to this project, Prof. S.Y. O’Reilly for repeated invitations to GEMOC, and Norman Pearson, Suzy Elhlou, Kirsty Thomlinson and Stuart Graham for support in the lab. Ulf Bertil Andersson and Karsten Haase are thanked for constructive and helpful reviews. This work was supported by ARC Discovery grants (S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin). Analytical data were obtained using instrumentation funded by ARC LIEF, and DEST Systemic Infrastructure Grants and Macquarie University (GEMOC) and the Norwegian Research Council and the University of Oslo (Department of Geosciences). This is publication number no. #516 from the ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents (http://www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/) and Contribution no. 3 from the University of Oslo Isotope Geology Laboratory.

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  3. GEMOC Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planet Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia

    William L. Griffin

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Pedersen, S., Andersen, T., Konnerup-Madsen, J. et al. Recurrent mesoproterozoic continental magmatism in South-Central Norway. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 98, 1151–1171 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-008-0309-0

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