Depositional age and tectonic environment of the Gouap banded iron formations from the Nyong group,SW Cameroon:Insights from isotopic,geochemical and geochronological studies of drillcore samples  

作　　者：Landry Soh Tamehe Chongtao Wei Sylvestre Ganno Carlos Alberto Rosiere Jean Paul Nzenti Chesther Gatse Ebotehouna Guanwen Lu 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of CBM Resources and Reservoir Formation Process,Chinese Ministry of Education,China University of Mining and Technology,Xuzhou,Jiangsu,221116,China [2]Department of Earth Sciences,University of Yaounde I,P.O.Box 812,Yaounde,Cameroon [3]Department of Geology,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,31270-901,Belo Horizonte,Minas Gerais,Brazil [4]School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of Science and Technology Beijing,Beijing 100083,China

出　　处：《Geoscience Frontiers》2021年第2期549-572,共24页地学前缘（英文版）

基　　金：the“Fundamental Research Funds for the Chinese Central Universities”(Grant No.2017CXNL03);the Chinese Scholarship Council(Grant No.2015120T19).

摘　　要：The discovery of the Gouap banded iron formations(BIFs)-hosted iron mineralization in the northwestern of the Nyong Group(Ntem Complex)in southwestern Cameroon provides unique insights into the geology of this region.In this contribution,we firstly report detailed study of geochemistry,isotopic and geochronology of well preserved samples of the Gouap BIFs collected from diamond drillcores.The Gouap BIFs consist mainly of amphibole BIFs and amphibole-pyrite BIFs characterized by dominant Fe_(2)O_(3)+SiO_(2)contents and variable contents of CaO,MgO and SO_(3),consistent with the presence of amphibole,chlorite,epidote and pyrite,formed during amphibolite facies metamorphism and overprinted hydrothermal event.The amphibole–pyrite BIFs are typically enriched in trace and rare earth elements(REE)compared to the amphibole BIFs,suggesting the influence of detrital materials as well as secondary hydrothermal alteration.The Post Archean Australian Shale(PAAS)-normalized REE–Y profiles of the Gouap BIFs display positive La,Eu anomalies,weak negative Ce anomalies,indicating a mixture of low-temperature hydrothermal fluids and relatively oxic conditions probably under relative shallow seawater.We present here the first isotopic data of BIFs within the Ntem Complex.Theδ^(30)Si_(NBS28)values of the quartz from the Gouap BIFs vary from-1.5‰to-0.3‰and from-0.8‰to-0.9‰for the amphibole BIFs and amphibole–pyrite BIFs,respectively.The quartz hasδ^(18)OV-SMOW values of 6.8‰–9.5‰(amphibole BIFs)and 9.2‰–10.6‰(amphibole–pyrite BIFs).The magnetite from the Gouap BIFs showsδ^(18)O values ranging from-3.5‰to-1.8‰and from-3‰to-1.7‰for the amphibole BIFs and amphibole–pyrite BIFs,respectively.Moreover,the pyrite grains in the amphibole–pyrite BIFs displayδ34S values of 1.1‰–1.8‰.All isotopic data of the Gouap BIFs confirm that they might have precipitated from low-temperature hydrothermal fluids with detrital input distant from the volcanic activity.According to their geochemical and isotopi

关 键 词：Gouap Banded iron formations Isotope geochemistry Zircon geochronology Ryacian period Brasiliano-Congo orogeny 

分 类 号：P542[天文地球—构造地质学]