A JOURNAL REVIEW

LA-ICP-MS ZIRCON U–PB AND MUSCOVITE

K–AR AGES OF BASEMENT ROCKS
FROM THE SOUTH ARM OF SULAWESI,
INDONESIA
BY ASRI JAYA,OSAMU NISHIKAWA, YASUTAKA HAYASAKA
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DATING OF ZIRCON U-Pb AND MUSCOVITE K-Ar BANTIMALA,BARRU AND BIRU

BASEMENT PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR TIMING OF COMPLEXIBILITY
GEOLOGICAL PROCESS:
1. MAGMATISM
2. METAMORPHISM
3. SEDIMENTATION
WHICH ARE CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION OF ORIGIN OF STUDY AREA
 COMPLEXITY
OF STUDY AREA
SULAWESI ISLAND IS LOCATED IN ONE
OF THE MOST COMPLEX TECTONIC
SETTINGS IN THE WORLD. THIS ISLAND
LIES NEAR THE JUNCTURE BETWEEN
THREE MAJOR LITHOSPHERIC PLATES,
THE EURASIAN PLATE TO THE WEST, THE
PACIfiC PLATE TO THE EAST, AND THE
AUSTRALIAN–INDIAN PLATE TO THE
SOUTHEAST
 RESEARCH METHOD
1. BY USING LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-MASS SPECTROMETRY
(LA-ICP-MS) PROVIDE ORIGIN OF ZIRCON AS WELL AS THE PRECISE AGE OF THE
INDIVIDUAL GRAIN CAN OBTAIN DATA FOR EXPLAIN UNDERSTOOD TECTONIC
HISTORY OF CONTINENTAL
2. 8 SAMPLE COLLECTING FROM 3 BASEMENT COMPLEXES IN THE SOUTH ARM OF
SULAWESI PRIOR RESEARCH STUDY BEGIN
- 2 GRANITE FRAGMENTS, 1 SANDSTONE FROM PAREMBA BANTIMALA COMPLEX
- 2 SCHIST SAMPLES AND 1 PORPHYRITIC DACITE SAMPLE WERE COLLECTED FROM THE
BARRU COMPLEX
- 1 GRANODIORITE AND 1 AMPHIBOLITE SAMPLES WERE IN THE BIRU COMPLEX
SAMPLES LOCATION

2 SCHIST (18-DNG AND 31-DNG FROM

DENGENGE RIVER, 1 PORPHYRITIC DATIC
BRT-1 FROM BARRU RIVER) REPRESENT FOR
BARRU

2 GRANITES AT PATTEYANG RIVER (P-1)

CEPPAGA RIVER (MG-9), 1 FOR SANDSTONE
AT CEPPAGA (PR 1) REPRESENT FOR
BANTIMALAMA

GRANODIORITE (SBL-11), AMPHIBOLITE (PM-

7) BULUKBULUK AND BILA RIVER REPRESENT
FOR BIRU COMPLEX
DATING RESULT
 ANALYSIS RESULT

BOTH ZIRCON U–PB AGES AND A MUSCOVITE K–AR AGE YIELDED FROM THE BASEMENT ROCKS IN
THE BANTIMALA AND THE BIRU COMPLEXES MOSTLY FALL IN THE CRETACEOUS (BETWEEN 109 AND
115 MA), WHEREAS THE YOUNGEST DETRITAL ZIRCON IN THE SCHIST SAMPLES FROM THE BARRU
COMPLEX FALL INTO THE TRIASSIC IN AGE (BETWEEN 243 AND 247 MA). THESE NEW AGES INDICATE
THAT THE PHOTOLITHS OF THREE BASEMENT COMPLEXES WERE INVOLVED IN THE SUBDUCTION
SYSTEM AND METAMORPHOSED IN THE LATE EARLY CRETACEOUS, AND THE BASEMENT ROCKS IN THE
BARRU COMPLEX HAD BEEN OUT OF THE INflUENCE OF THE CRETACEOUS MAGMATISM.

THE DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE BASEMENT ROCKS IN THE SOUTH ARM OF
SULAWESI DISPLAY PREDOMINANT MESOZOIC (CRETACEOUS AND TRIASSIC) AND PALEOZOIC AGES
WITH A SMALL POPULATION OF PROTEROZOIC AGES, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THOSE UNDER THE
INflUENCE OF THE BIRD'S HEAD AUSTRALIAN. THIS fiNDING INDICATES THAT WESTERN SULAWESI
WAS ORIGINALLY LOCATED IN THE INNER PART OF THE INNER BANDA EMBAYMENT.
 ANALYSIS RESULT

THE ABSENCE OF JURASSIC ZIRCON AGE POPULATION IN THE SOUTH ARM OF SULAWESI SUGGEST
THAT THE DIVISION OF SOUTH ARM OF SULAWESI FROM THE INNER BANDA BLOCK IN THE EARLY
STAGE OF RIFTING. WESTERN SULAWESI IS COMPOSED OF SEVERAL BLOCKS SEPARATED FROM THE
INNER BANDA BLOCK WITH DIFFERENT HISTORIES, WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY THE VARIETIES OF ZIRCON
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION IN THE BASEMENT ROCKS IN THE WESTERN SULAWESI AND ALSO
DIFFERENCE OF GENERAL ORIENTATIONS OF STRUCTURAL FEATURES BETWEEN THE BANTIMALA AND
THE BARRU COMPLEXES.

LATE CRETACEOUS VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IS CONfiRMED BY A ZIRCON U–PB AGE FROM A PORPHYRITIC
DACITE INTRUDED IN THE BARRU COMPLEX. THIS DATE IS SIMILAR TO THOSE REPORTED FROM THE
MERATUS COMPLEX OF SOUTH KALIMANTAN.
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