Burial and exhumation of the western border of the Ukrainian Shield (Podolia): a multi‐disciplinary approach

The Podolia region is located along the western border of the Eastern European Craton, which is also known as Ukrainian Shield. From the Ordovician to the Miocene, this area formed part of an epicontinental basin system. In order to investigate the effects of orogenic cycles occurring along the plat...

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Published in:Basin research 2018-02, Vol.30 (S1), p.532-549
Main Authors: Schito, Andrea, Andreucci, Benedetta, Aldega, Luca, Corrado, Sveva, Di Paolo, Lea, Zattin, Massimiliano, Szaniawski, Rafal, Jankowski, Leszek, Mazzoli, Stefano
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Language:English
Subjects:
Alpine environments
Area
Carboniferous
Cratons
Data
Devonian
Ecological succession
Fossils
Fronts
Illite
Illites
Jurassic
Low temperature
Miocene
Ordovician
Paleozoic
Plate margins
Reflectance
Silurian
Smectites
Stratigraphy
Temperature
Triassic
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Summary:The Podolia region is located along the western border of the Eastern European Craton, which is also known as Ukrainian Shield. From the Ordovician to the Miocene, this area formed part of an epicontinental basin system. In order to investigate the effects of orogenic cycles occurring along the plate margin, a multi‐disciplinary approach was used in this study. Paleotemperature analysis and low‐temperature thermochronometry were combined with stratigraphic data to obtain a burial model for the Paleozoic succession exposed in the study area. Maximum burial for Silurian and Devonian rocks occurred during the Devonian and Early Carboniferous at depths of 4–5 km, as constrained by vitrinite reflectance and illite content in mixed illite‐smectite layers. Thermochronometric data indicate that exhumation through the 45–120 °C temperature range took place between the Late Triassic and the Early Jurassic, and that no significant burial occurred afterwards (temperatures characterising the stratigraphically lowermost units remaining below ca. 60 °C). These results point to a major exhumation event coeval with the Cimmerian orogenesis, which took place a few hundreds of kilometres away from the study area. On the other hand, no significant effect of the Alpine orogenesis was recorded, although the collisional front was located
ISSN:0950-091X
1365-2117
DOI:10.1111/bre.12235