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Magmato-sedimentary Carboniferous to Jurassic evolution of the western Tauern window, Eastern Alps (constraints from U-Pb zircon dating and geochemistry)

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New geochronological U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) zircon data and geochemical analyses from the Variscan orthogneisses and metavolcanic rocks in the western Tauern window are presented and used to reconstruct the pre-Alpine evolution of this area. The late- and post-Variscan stage in the Tauern window was characterised by distinct magmatic pulses accompanied by the formation of volcano-sedimentary basins. The magmatic activity started in the Visean (335.4 ± 1.5 Ma) with the intrusion of a K-rich, durbachitic biotite-granite (protolith of the Ahorn gneiss). Following a period of exhumation and erosion, Westfalian–Stefanian volcanics were deposited (Grierkar meta-rhyodacite: 309.8 ± 1.5 Ma; Venntal meta-rhyolite: 304.0 ± 3.0 Ma). A renewed magmatic pulse occurred in the Early Permian, producing large volumes of tonalites and granodiorites (Tux meta-granodiorite: 292.1 ± 1.9 Ma). The youngest magmatism is characterised by pyroclastic and tuffitic deposits (Pfitsch meta-rhyolite: 280.5 ± 2.6 Ma; Schönach valley meta-andesite: 279.0 ± 4.8 Ma). This volcanism was probably related to crustal extensional faulting within an intra-continental graben and horst setting, asthenospheric upwelling and heat flow increase due to the onset of the Permian rifting. The Permo-Triassic peneplanation and subsidence is documented by shallow marine and evaporitic deposits. Probably in the Middle Jurassic times, the area was flooded and in the Late Jurassic the whole area was covered by limestones, representing post-rift sediments on the southern European continental margin.

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We would like to thank Franz Neubauer (Innsbruck) und Urs Klötzli (Vienna) for careful reviews and critical comments on an earlier version of this paper and Bernd Lammerer (Munich) for a stimulating and informal discussion. The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) financially supported Petra Veselá.

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    Veselá Petra & Söllner Frank

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  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Institut of Geoscience, Mineralogy, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Table 3 LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircon growth zones of Ahorn gneiss AHO2, Zemmgrund, Tauern window/Austria
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Table 4 LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircons of the granodiorite-gneiss TUX, Schlegeis water reservoir, Tauern window/Austria
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Table 5 LA-ICP-MS analyses of magmatic zircon growth of the meta-rhyodacite GKAR, Grierkar, Tauern window/Austria
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Table 6 LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircon growth zones of the Venntal meta-rhyolite VE1, Tauern window/Austria
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Table 7 LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircon growth zones of the meta-rhyolite PJF, Pfitscher Joch, Tauern window/Italy
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Table 8 LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircon growth zones of meta-andesite SNA1, Schönach valley, Tauern window/Austria
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Petra, V., Frank, S., Friedrich, F. et al. Magmato-sedimentary Carboniferous to Jurassic evolution of the western Tauern window, Eastern Alps (constraints from U-Pb zircon dating and geochemistry). Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 100, 993–1027 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-010-0596-0

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