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ON THE DEEP CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE LATE ARCHAEAN EASTERN YILGARN
CRATON: A COMPARISON WITH PALAEOZOIC AND MODERN ANALOGUES
Richard Blewett1, Paul Henson1, Bruce Goleby1, David Champion1,
Kevin Cassidy1, and Bruce Groenewald2
pmd*CRC c/o Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378 Canberra ACT 2601([email protected])
Geological Survey of Western Australia, PO Box 1664 Kalgoorlie WA 6433
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SIZE-Mick flattens
Wallaby structure
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SIZE-Mick flattens
Wallaby structure
‘Seis mic’ = crustal structure = orogenic process =mineral system =gold deposit (e.g., Wallaby)
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Flatten structureSeismic > 1991
Pre-Seismic: Laverton 1:250K (Gower & Vogwill, 1972)
Seismic through Laverton 1:250K (GA, 2001)
3 km
10 km
5 km
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Eastern Goldfields Lode Au
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All Blacks strike and slip
Eagles expand their wings
Le Chook crumples under pressure
Golden Wallabies
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All Blacks strike and slip
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Strike-slip orogens
0-5 MaSteep fault, narrow orogenAfter Stern & McBride 1998
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Strike-slip orogens
~400 Ma
Norembega FZ in AppalachiansAfter Stern & McBride 1998
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Strike-slip orogens
• Steep structures
• Moho offset or
deflection?
• Narrow orogen
~400 Ma0 Ma
After Stern & McBride 1998
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Eagles expand their wings
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Extensional orogens
• Lower crustal reflectivity• Low-angle detachment• Half-grabens and basins in upper plate
~25 Ma
After Kruger et al., 1998
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Extensional orogens
~250 Ma
• Big basins with or without apparent Moho effect• Question timing of reflectors
After Kruger et al., 1998
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Le Chook crumples under pressure
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Collisional orogens
Variscan of N France
~300 Ma• Broad orogenic belt
• Ramps and flats
• Thin-skinned style
• ‘Eroded’ mountain root in early Palaeozoic Bois et al., 1990
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Collisional orogens
• ‘Crocodiles’
• Duplexes
• Deep penetrating low-angle faults (late)
• Undulating Moho
~300 Ma
Variscan of Germany
Dekorp Research Grp 1990
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Vertical orogenesis
No known seismic comparisons possible ;)
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Vertical orogenesis
Rey et al., in press
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Blue = gravity low
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Golden Wallabies
~2650 Ma
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Deep Crustal SectionKalgoorlie
Leonora to Lake Yeo
• Moho deepens east
• three broad crustal layers
• Prominent low-angle east dip
• Four crustal-penetrating shear zones
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Tectonic mode?
• Strike-slip?
• Extension?
• Compression?
• Vertical?
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Strike-slip structures
2 km
10 kmN=1200
dip
• Evidence for late (D3+) strike-slip
• Little evidence in seismic
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Extensional structures
NW
CeliaV/h 3:1
3D model base of greenstone normal offset
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Extensional structures
Yilgarn Yilgarn CratonCraton
MesoproterozoicMesoproterozoicsuccessionssuccessions
Extensional inversion of Archaean thrusts
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Compressional structuresEW
• Duplexes
• A sense of bivergence
• ‘Y’ front
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Compressional structuresEW
• Folds (ramp anticlines)
• ‘Crocodiles’
• Low-angle deep penetrating faults
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Compressional structures
• Flat structures
• Strong sense of W-vergence
SE
NW
3D model sections
50 km
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Tectonic mode in Goldfields?• Seismic geometry suggests compressional fold-
thrust belt
• Little strike-slip
• Late extension
• No evidence for diapirism
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Seismic flattens the Wallaby structure
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Questions?
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Extensive regolith
Colours are outcrop (~10%) on magnetics
Seismic line
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Yilgarn Craton
Seismic line
Crustal section of
Eastern Goldfields
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Collisional orogensPyrenees
~30 Ma• Crustal penetration
• Bivergence
• Significant root and moho offsets
Bois et al., 1990