The first U/Pb data on the age of detritus zircons from sandstones of the gold-bearing Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Alkesvozhskaya strata (Subpolar Urals)

The paper presents the novel isotope data on the age of sandstones of the gold-bearing Alkesvozhskaya sequence at the base of the Paleozoic section in the Subpolar Urals. The analysis of U/Pb dating of detrital zircons confirmed that the sandstones had been formed no earlier than in the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician. The predominant part of dating is in a narrow Late Riphean-Late Cambrian age interval, and zircons are represented by unrounded or weakly rounded crystals. The composition of the sandstones of the Alkesvozhskaya sequence are dominated by the destruction products of the underlying rocks of igneous complexes at various stages of the formation of timanides-protouralides.