Tectonic setting of a composite terrane: A review of the Philippine island arc system

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciano P. Yumul ◽  
Carla B. Dimalanta ◽  
Victor B. Maglambayan ◽  
Edanjarlo J. Marquez
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Philippine Island

scholarly journals GEODYNAMICS AND MAGMATISM OF THE PACIFIC-TYPE TRANSFORM MARGINS. ASPECTS AND DISCRIMINANT DIAGRAMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
A.V. Grebennikov ◽  
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A.I. Khanchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Igneous Rocks ◽  
High Alumina ◽  
Plate Boundaries ◽  
Spreading Ridge ◽  
Convergent Margins ◽  
Oceanic Plate ◽  
Plate Movement

Transform margins represent lithospheric plate boundaries with horizontal sliding of oceanic plate, which in time and space replaced the subduction related convergent margins. This happened due to: spreading ridge–trench intersection (California; Queen Charlotte–Northern Cordilleran, West of the Antarctic Peninsula, and probably the Late Miocene–Pleistocene Southernmost South America) or ridge death along continental margin (Baja California); change in the direction of oceanic plate movement (Western Aleutian–Komandorsk; Southernmost tip of the Andes); and island arc-continent collision (New Guinea Island). Post-subduction magmatism is related to a slab window that resulted either from the spreading ridge collision (subduction) with a continental margin or slab tear formation, or slab break-off after subduction cessation due to other reasons. Igneous magmatic series formed in consequence of these events show diversity of tholeiitic (sub-alkaline), alkaline or calc-alkaline, high-alumina and adakitic rocks. The comprehensive geochemical dataset (more than 2400 analyses) on igneous rocks of the model transform and convergent geodynamic settings allowed to substantiate the most informative triple diagrams for the petrogenic oxides TiO2 × 10 – Fe2O3Tot – MgO and trace elements Nb – La– Yb. Mostly approved for the rock compositions with SiO2 < 63 wt. %, the new plots are capable of distinguishing igneous rocks formed above zones of subduction at an island arc and continental margin (related to convergent margins), from those formed in the tectonic setting of transform margins along continents or island arcs.

The Macolod Corridor: A rift crossing the Philippine island arc

1990 ◽  
Vol 183 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hansgeorg Förster ◽  
Dietmar Oles ◽  
Ulrich Knittel ◽  
Marc J Defant ◽  
Ronnie C Torres
Keyword(s):  
Island Arc ◽  
Philippine Island

Geochemistry and origin of Mesoproterozoic metavolcanic rocks from Fisher Massif, Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Mikhalsky ◽  
J. W. Sheraton ◽  
A. A. Laiba ◽  
B. V. Beliatsky
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Active Continental Margin ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Granulite Facies ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Crustal Component ◽  
Basaltic Rocks ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
High K ◽  
Low K

Fisher Massif consists of Mesoproterozoic (c. 1300 Ma) lower amphibolite-facies metavolcanic rocks and associated metasediments, intruded by a variety of subvolcanic and plutonic bodies (gabbro to granite). It differs in both composition and metamorphic grade from the rest of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, which were metamorphosed to granulite facies about 1000 m.y. ago. The metavolcanic rocks consist mainly of basalt, but basaltic andesite, andesite, and more felsic rocks (dacite, rhyodacite, and rhyolite) are also common. Most of the basaltic rocks have compositions similar to low-K island arc tholeiites, but some are relatively Nb-rich and more akin to P-MORB. Intermediate to felsic medium to high-K volcanic rocks, which appear to postdate the basaltic succession, have calc-alkaline affinities and probably include a significant crustal component. On the present data, an active continental margin with associated island arc was the most likely tectonic setting for generation of the Fisher Massif volcanic rocks.

scholarly journals Geochemistry of the Um Had Plutonites, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Implications for Magma Evolution, and Tectonic Setting

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedal Qaoud
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Active Continental Margin ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Water Vapour Pressure ◽  
Calc Alkaline ◽  
Magma Evolution ◽  
Basement Complex ◽  
Central Eastern Desert ◽  
Pan African

Geochemistry of gabbroid and granitoid plutonites from the Um Had area indicates island arc subalkaline basic magma with tholeiitic affinity and calc-alkaline, metaluminous and slightly peraluminous magma, respectively. Although different in age both plutonite types were emplaced under compressional regime, where subduction-related environment was dominant. They were formed under relatively low to moderate water-vapour pressure (1–5 k-bars) at moderate depths (20–30 km). Biotite granites were formed at a relatively high temperature range (800–840 °C), while biotite-muscovite granites were formed under relatively moderate temperature conditions (760–800 °C). These two units may represent evolution from island arc to active continental margin. It is suggested that island arc gabbros might have sourced the late subduction-related calc-alkaline granitoids during the waning stages of the pan-African orogeny. The I-type nature of the investigated plutonites in the study area and elsewhere suggests the juvenile character of the basement complex of the Eastern Desert of Egypt.

Tectonic setting of late Archean bimodal volcanism in the Michipicoten (Wawa) greenstone belt, Ontario

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1120-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Sylvester ◽  
Kodjo Attoh ◽  
Klaus J. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Oceanic Island ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Basaltic Rocks ◽  
Bimodal Volcanism ◽  
Continental Arc ◽  
Convergent Plate Margin

The tectono-stratigraphic relationships, depositional environments, rock associations, and major- and trace-element compositions of the late Archean (2744–2696 Ma) bimodal basalt–rhyolite volcanic rocks of the Michipicoten (Wawa) greenstone belt, Ontario, are compatible with an origin along a convergent plate margin that varied laterally from an immature island arc built on oceanic crust to a more mature arc underlain by continental crust. This environment is similar to that of the Cenozoic Taupo–Kermadec–Tonga volcanic zone. Michipicoten basaltic rocks, most of which are proximal deposits compositionally similar ([La/Yb]n = 0.63–1.18) to modern oceanic island-arc tholeiites, are interpreted as having formed along the largely submerged island arc. Voluminous Michipicoten rhyolitic pyroclastic rocks ([La/Yb]n = 4.3–18.7, Ybn = 5.7–15.9) probably erupted subaerially from the continental arc, with distal facies deposited subaqueously on the adjacent oceanic island arc and proximal facies deposited in subaerial and shallow subaqueous environments on, or along the flanks of, the continental arc. The compositional similarity between the lower (2744 Ma) and upper (2696 Ma) volcanic sequences of the belt suggests that this island- and continental-arc configuration existed for at least 45 Ma. The Michipicoten belt may be a remnant of a larger, laterally heterogeneous volcanic terrane that also included the Abitibi greenstone belt.

What underlies the Philippine island arc? Clues from the Calaton Hill, Tablas island, Romblon (Central Philippines)

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 371-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.D. Payot ◽  
S. Arai ◽  
R.A. Tamayo ◽  
G.P. Yumul
Keyword(s):  
Island Arc ◽  
Philippine Island

Geochemical patterns in Norwegian greenstones

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Gale ◽  
J. A. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Trace Elements ◽  
Rare Earth ◽  
Trace Element ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Ocean Floor ◽  
Spreading Axis ◽  
Southern Norway ◽  
Representative Samples

Representative samples of Caledonian greenstones from the Grong, Joma, Løkken, Støren, Stavenes, and Bømlo areas in central and southern Norway have been analysed for major elements and over 20 trace elements. Ocean-floor tholeiite-normalized trace-element patterns and chondrite-normalized rare-earth patterns both provide clues to the genesis, original tectonic setting, petrologic character, and effects of alteration of these greenstones. We conclude that the Støren, Stavenes, and Løkken greenstones were generated at spreading axes within the Caledonian ocean, the Grong and possibly the Bømlo submarine greenstones were erupted in an island-arc system, and the Joma and Bømlo subaerial greenstones were erupted in a within-plate setting. The Løkken greenstones may have been generated in a marginal basin, whereas those from Støren and Stavenes were probably generated at a rapidly spreading axis in a major ocean.

Cambrian to early Silurian ophiolite and accretionary processes in the Beishan collage, NW China: implications for the architecture of the Southern Altaids

2011 ◽  
Vol 149 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. AO ◽  
W. J. XIAO ◽  
C. M. HAN ◽  
X. H. LI ◽  
J. F. QU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
Ophiolite Complex ◽  
The North ◽  
Ophiolitic Mélange ◽  
Continental Growth

AbstractThe mechanism of continental growth of the Altaids is currently under debate between models invoking continuous subduction-accretion or punctuated accretion by closure of multiple ocean basins. We use the Yueyashan–Xichangjing ophiolite belt of the Beishan collage (southern Altaids) to constrain the earliest oceanic crust in the southern Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Five lithotectonic units were identified from S to N: the Huaniushan block, a sedimentary passive margin, the structurally incoherent Yueyashan–Xichangjing ophiolite complex, a coherent sedimentary package and the Mazongshan island arc with granitic rocks. We present a structural analysis of the accretionary complex, which is composed of the incoherent ophiolitic melange and coherent sedimentary rocks, to work out the tectonic polarity. A new weighted mean206Pb–238U age of 533 ± 1.7 Ma from a plagiogranite in the Yueyashan–Xichangjing ophiolite indicates that the ocean floor formed in early Cambrian time. Furthermore, we present new geochemical data to constrain the tectonic setting of the Yueyashan–Xichangjing ophiolite. The Yueyashan–Xichangjing ophiolite was emplaced as a result of northward subduction of an oceanic plate beneath the Mazongshan island arc to the north in late Ordovician to early Silurian time. Together with data from the literature, our work demonstrates that multiple overlapping periods of accretion existed in the Palaeozoic in the northern and southern Altaids. Therefore, a model of multiple accretion by closure of several ocean basins is most viable.

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