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Vol. 1 (1998 year), No. 3

Balagansky V.V., Timmerman M.Ya., Kislitsyn R.V., Dayly J.S., Balashov Yu.A., Gannibal L.F., Sherstenikova O.G., Ryunenen G.I.
The Isotope Age of the Kolvitsa Belt and the Umba Granulite Terrane (South-East of the Lapland Granulite Belt), the Kola Peninsula

The Lapland Granulite Belt (LGB) in the northern Baltic Shield is interpreted to have resulted from plate tectonic processes in the Palaeoproterozoic. The Kolvitsa Belt and the tectonically overlying metasedimentary Umba Granulite Terrane (UGT) are thought to be isolated fragments of the LGB in the Kola Peninsula. U-Pb (on zircon) and Rb-Sr (whole rock) ages, as well as Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr data presented in the paper indicate that the Kandalaksha metabasalt sequence, the Por’ya Guba mafic to intermediate granulite complex, the Kolvitsa massif of gabbro-anorthosites and its dyke complex are related to a single volcano-plutonic suite, which was developing 2.43-2.47 Ga ago at an initial stage of the earliest Palaeoproterozoic rifting of a Neoarchaean craton. Values of initial 143Nd/144Nd and 87Sr/86Sr ratios in rocks of this Kolvitsa suite coincide with those of 2.44-2.50 Ga old layered mafic intrusions in the Baltic Shield. In contrast with the Kolvitsa suite, the deposition of sedimentary protoliths of garnet-quartz-feldspar granulites and garnet, sillimanite and cordierite gneisses of the UGT was occurring ca. 2.0-2.1 Ga ago as suggested by model depleted mantle ages of 2.1-2.4 Ga and age data available on the granulite metamorphism (1.91 Ga). The sedimentary protoliths of the Umba paragranulites were derived largely from Palaeoproterozoic juvenile material, which permits to interprete the depositional environment as an island arc setting.

(in Russian, стр.14, fig. 5, tables. 3, ref 44, MS Word 95, MS Word 95 1420 Kb)