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Timing of anatexis in metapelites from the Adirondack lowlands and southern highlands: A manifestation of the Shawinigan orogeny and subsequent anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite magmatism

Matthew J. Heumann¹, M.E. Bickford^,1, Barbara M. Hill¹, James M. McLelland², Bruce W. Selleck² and Michael J. Jercinovic³

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1070, USA
² Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 13346, USA
³ Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9297, USA

Anatectic leucogranites are common in metapelites within both the highlands and lowlands terranes of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State. The formation of these igneous bodies, which are folded in the lowlands and commonly mylonitized in the highlands, has been widely considered an event accompanying the ca. 1050 Ma Ottawan orogeny, during which metamorphic grade reached granulite facies in the highlands, while the lowlands experienced amphibolite facies metamorphism. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) analyses of zircons separated from leucosomes and melanosomes in both the southern highlands and the lowlands indicate that primary anatexis occurred ca. 1180–1160 Ma, and is thus a manifestation of heating during the earlier Shawinigan orogeny (ca. 1210–1160 Ma) and associated anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite (AMCG) magmatism (ca. 1165–1150 Ma). The absence of Ottawan overgrowths on Shawinigan zircons in these leucosomes suggests that by Ottawan time the rocks were too dry for further melting or zircon growth to occur. However, electron microprobe analyses of monazites from the southern highlands reveal multiple age zones, including cores with ages of ca. 1170–1180 Ma, consistent with primary growth during Shawinigan orogenesis, complex zones formed ca. 1140–1155 Ma during AMCG magmatism, and ca. 1050–1020 Ma formed during Ottawan orogenesis and high-grade metamorphism. Throughout the Adirondacks, leucosomes and melanosomes contain older, ca. 1320 Ma, zircons that are considered to be remnant detrital zircons derived from arc rocks of the Elzevirian terrane. The apparent absence of Archean detrital zircons suggests that the protoliths of the metapelites were deposited in restricted basins that did not receive detritus from the Superior craton.

Key Words: Adirondacks • zircons • anatexis • monazites • Grenville orogenic cycle • Shawinigan orogeny

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