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Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of Pennsylvanian–Permian sandstones from the Turnaicum and Meliaticum (Western Carpathians, Slovakia): provenance and tectonic implications

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The blueschist-bearing Bôrka Nappe regarded as a part of the Meliaticum Unit s. l. and the Turnaicum Unit in its hanging-wall were thrusted together to the north on the Inner Western Carpathians basement during the orogenic events of the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous. A new U–Pb sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) magmatic, as well as detrital-zircon ages were used to constrain provenance and paleogeography. The detrital-zircon age spectrum of the studied metasediments contains mainly ages of the Ediacaran–Cryogenian (550–720 Ma) and Tonian–Stenian (0.9–1.1 Ga), which correspond to the Pan-African Belt and Saharan Metacraton. Subordinate Archean ages were likely derived from the Saharan Metacraton of North Gondwana (1.7–2.2 and 2.5–2.7 Ga). The 273 ± 2 Ma zircon age of a metarhyolite, along with the youngest detrital zircon of 265 ± 4 Ma from the associated metasediments, specify the maximum depositional age of the Bučina Fm. from the Bôrka Nappe to the Guadalupian. The rhyolite olistoliths from the Middle/Late Jurassic Meliaticum olistostrome yielded the latest Cambrian/earliest Ordovician (488 ± 6 Ma) and Middle Ordovician (~ 465 Ma) zircon ages. This is consistent with the U–Pb zircon ages from the foot-walling Southern Gemericum basement metavolcanites, which are, therefore, regarded as a potential source. The obtained zircon ages confirm the provenance from the Southern Gemericum basement and its Permian envelope for the Meliaticum-Bôrka Nappe and Turnaicum sedimentary embayment.

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The financial support of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (projects ID: APVV-0546-11 and APVV-0146-16) and of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (project VEGA 1/0141/15) is gratefully appreciated. We would like to thank A. Gärtner, A. Abbo and A. Gerdes for their helpful and critical comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. We also thank M. J. Sabo for reviewing the English content.

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    Anna Vozárová & Katarína Šarinová

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Vozárová, A., Rodionov, N., Šarinová, K. et al. Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of Pennsylvanian–Permian sandstones from the Turnaicum and Meliaticum (Western Carpathians, Slovakia): provenance and tectonic implications. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 108, 1793–1815 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01733-7

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