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Verfasst von:Land, Jarred S. [VerfasserIn]   i
 Tsikos, Harilaos [VerfasserIn]   i
 Cousins, David [VerfasserIn]   i
 Luvizotto, George Luiz [VerfasserIn]   i
 Zack, Thomas [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Origin of red beds and paleosols in the Palaeoproterozoic Transvaal and Olifansthoek Supergroups of South Africa
Titelzusatz:provenance versus metasomatic controls
Verf.angabe:Jarred S. Land, Harilaos Tsikos, David Cousins, George Luvizotto, Thomas Zack
Jahr:2018
Jahr des Originals:2017
Fussnoten:First published: 25 January 2017 ; Gesehen am 04.11.2019
Titel Quelle:Enthalten in: Geological journal
Ort Quelle:New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley, 1964
Jahr Quelle:2018
Band/Heft Quelle:53(2018), 1, Seite 191-202$t
ISSN Quelle:1099-1034
Abstract:The Palaeoproterozoic Transvaal and Olifantshoek Supergroups of South Africa contain some of the earliest hematite-rich sedimentary rocks (red-beds) and paleosols on record. The origin of these rocks has been variously attributed to surface processes under an oxygenated atmosphere that post-dated the ca. 2.3 Ga Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Interpretations of their geochemical signatures, however, have been inconclusive with respect to the causes of the apparent K-enrichment that these rocks record. Here, we re-visit the basal Mapedi Formation of the Olifantshoek Supergroup and the unconformably underlying Drakenstein palaeo-weathering profile that develops against the Ongeluk Formation of the upper Transvaal Supergroup, and present new petrographic and geochemical data in an attempt to constrain the burial metasomatic history of these rocks. Apart from the strong hematitic nature and K-metasomatic overprint seen in both the Mapedi Formation and Ongeluk paleosol, a curious and hitherto unexplored enrichment in high-field strength elements (HFSEs: Ti, Nb, Y, Zr, REE, etc.) by several orders of magnitude higher than average shale characterizes the lower part of the Mapedi Formation as examined here. We show that such enrichments cannot be explained by normal source-to sink weathering processes, unless an unlikely provenance of special geochemical composition (i.e. alkali igneous rocks) is to be invoked. We conclude that the HFSE enrichment, K-metasomatism and evidently transgressive Fe-oxidation effects in the Mapedi shales can only be accounted for via post-depositional fluid-rock interaction, possibly involving F-bearing diagenetic brines. This opens the distinct possibility that such fluids may have also been implicated in alteration processes, enhanced Fe mobility and development of epigenetic hematitic iron-ores as seen at the Transvaal-Olifantshoek unconformity on regional scales. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DOI:doi:10.1002/gj.2885
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Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.2885
 Verlag: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gj.2885
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.2885
Datenträger:Online-Ressource
Sprache:eng
Sach-SW:metasomatism
 Palaeoproterozoic
 paleosol
 provenance
 red beds
 South Africa
K10plus-PPN:1680873067
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