Provenance of Upper Devonian clastic (meta)sediments of the Böllstein Odenwald (Mid-German-Crystalline-Zone, Variscides)

Detrital zircons separated from paragneisses of the northern Bollstein Odenwald (Mid-German Crystalline Zone, Variscides) yielded Cambrian to Upper Devonian U–Pb ages. The age of the youngest detrital zircon population (371 ± 3 Ma) and the Lower Carboniferous metamorphic overprint indicate an Upper Devonian depositional age of the paragneiss protolith. The age spectra of detrital zircons suggest the latter to be derived from (1) Ordovician...