Categories of Vendian catchments – sources of fine-grained aluminosiliciclastic materials for the Serebryanka and Sylvitsa group deposits (Middle Urals)
https://doi.org/10.24930/1681-9004-2020-20-6-751-770
Abstract
Research subject. The article discusses a number of geochemical features (distribution of lanthanides and Th, values of (La/Yb)N and Eu/Eu*) of fine-grained clastic/clay rocks of various Vendian regional stages of the western slope of the Middle Urals. The results were interpreted in the context of data on the composition of the catchment areas of a number of modern rivers and information on the distribution of the same characteristics in suspended matter and modern bottom sediments of the “downstream North Dvina River–White Sea”.
Methods and materials. The content of La, Sm, Eu, Gd, Yb, and Th in as many as 200 samples of shales and mudstones of the Serebryanka and Sylvitsa groups served as a research material. The research method was an analysis of the localization of individual and average data points of clayey rocks of the Laplandian, Redkinian, Belomorian and Kotlinian regional stages on paired diagrams (La/Yb)N–Eu/Eu* and (La/Yb)N–Th developed on the basis of analytical data on the composition of bottom sediments of estuarine parts of different categories/classes of modern rivers.
Results. It was shown that the sedimentary sequences of the western slope of the Middle Urals are mainly composed of fine-grained clastic material belonging to categories 1 (sediments of world major rivers) and 2 (sediments of rivers draining sedimentary/mixed sedimentary formations). This material is likely to have entered the sedimentation area from the east, from the growing Kadomian Varanger-Kanin-Timan folded-thrust belt/Timan orogen, or/and from the west (Riphean sedimentary sequences of Kama-Belsk aulacogen). In addition, the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the East European Platform basement composing the structures, which could be classified as “igneous/metamorphic terranes” under modern classification, were likely to have made a certain contribution.
Conclusions. The obtained results agree well with the conclusions obtained earlier as a result of mineralogical and petrographic studies of the conglomerates and sandstones of the Serebryanka and Sylvitsa groups, as well as with the data from a previous geochemical analysis of clay rocks.
About the Author
A. V. Maslov
A.N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, UB RAS
Russian Federation
15 Akad. Vonsovsky st., Ekaterinburg 620016
Russian Federation
15 Akad. Vonsovsky st., Ekaterinburg 620016
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