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This study provides SHRIMP-RG data on zircons from garnet gedritites, the products of retrograde metamorphism of eclogite-like rocks constituting belonging to the basement of the Omolon Massif. The earliest episode recorded by oscillatory-zoned cores having high HREE and Ti contents occurred at 3.25–3.22 Ga (Paleoarchean) and is interpreted to represent an upper age limit of a metamorphic or magmatic protolith. One zircon core with a pronounced negative Eu anomaly yielded a concordant age of 2.6 Ga, which is interpreted to mark a Neoarchean episode of granite formation. The studied population of zircons provides the most distinct record of a Paleoproterozoic (1.9 Ga) event, which is marked by formation of garnet gedritites under amphibolite-facies conditions. This event is recorded by transparent recrystallization rims of preexisting large zircon grains and small newly-formed grains, which are characterized, compared with their cores, by lower crystallization temperatures and one order of magnitude lower concentrations of U, Th, and HREE, and the presence of garnet micro-inclusions.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Akinin, I.L. Zhulanova, 2016, published in Geokhimiya, 2016, No. 8, pp. 675–684.
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Akinin, V.V., Zhulanova, I.L. Age and geochemistry of zircon from the oldest metamorphic rocks of the Omolon Massif (Northeast Russia). Geochem. Int. 54, 651–659 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702916060021
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