Article: 2480 Ma mafic magmatism in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota: a new link connecting the Wyoming and Superior cratons (1).

Abstract: The Laramide Black Hills uplift of southwest South Dakota exposes a Precambrian crystalline core of ~2560-2600 Ma basement granitoids nonconformably overlain by two Paleoproterozoic intracratonic rift successions. In the northern Black Hills, a 1 km thick, layered sill (the Blue Draw metagabbro) that intrudes the older rift succession provides a key constraint on the timing of mafic magmatism and of older rift-basin sedimentation. Ion microprobe spot analyses of megacrysts of magmatic titanite from a horizon of dioritic pegmatite in the uppermost sill portion yield a [sup.207]Pb/[sup.206]Pb upper-intercept age of 2480 [+ or -] 6 Ma (all age errors [+ or ...

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