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Precambrian crustal contribution to the Variscan accretionary prism of the Kaczawa Mountains (Sudetes, SW Poland): evidence from SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons

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SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons from sandstones of the Gackowa Formation (Kaczawa Complex, Sudetes, SW Poland) indicates input from late (550–750 Ma) and early Proterozoic to Archaean sources (∼2.0–3.4 Ga, the latter being the oldest recorded age from the Sudetic region). These dates preclude within-terrane derivation from seemingly correlatory acid volcanic rocks of early Palaeozoic age. Rather, they indicate provenance from Cadomian and older rocks that currently form part of other, geographically distant terranes; the most likely source identified to date is the Lusatian Block in the Saxothuringian Zone. Hence, the Gackowa Formation may be late Proterozoic rather than early Palaeozoic in depositional age, possibly coeval with the late Proterozoic (pre-Cadomian) greywackes of Lusatia, being subsequently tectonically interleaved with early Palaeozoic volcanic rocks into the Kaczawa accretionary prism during the Variscan orogeny. However, correlation with the lithologically similar early Ordovician Dubrau Quartzite of Saxothuringia, and so assignation to the early Paleozoic (post-Cadomian) rift succession deposited at the northern margin of Gondwana, cannot yet be precluded.

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Acknowledgments

Wrocław University Internal Grant 2022/W/ING/05 provided funds for the SHRIMP study. Maciek Kryza helped in preparing computerized figures. The mounting and preparation of zircons was done by Anna Saltykova (CIR VSEGEI). Ulf Linnemann and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their constructive comments.

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  1. Institute of Geological Sciences, Wrocław University, ul. Cybulskiego 30, 50-205, Wrocław, Poland

    Ryszard Kryza, Stanisław Mazur & Paweł Aleksandrowski

  2. Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    Jan Zalasiewicz

  3. Center of Isotopic Research, A.P. Karpinsky All Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), 74 Sredny Pr, St Petersburg, 199 106, Russia

    Sergey Sergeev & Alexander Larionov

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Kryza, R., Zalasiewicz, J., Mazur, S. et al. Precambrian crustal contribution to the Variscan accretionary prism of the Kaczawa Mountains (Sudetes, SW Poland): evidence from SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 96, 1153–1162 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-006-0147-x

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