Petrogenesis of the Triassic Bayan-Ulan alkaline granitic pluton in the North Gobi rift of central Mongolia: Implications for the evolution of Early Mesozoic granitoid magmatism in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 50-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dostal ◽  
J.V. Owen ◽  
J.G. Shellnutt ◽  
J.D. Keppie ◽  
O. Gerel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Granitoid Magmatism ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Granitic Pluton ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Mesozoic ◽  
Central Asian

scholarly journals Detrital Zircon Provenance Analysis in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt of Central and Southeastern Mongolia—A Palaeotectonic Model for the Mongolian Collage

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 880
Author(s):  
Wilfried Winkler ◽  
Denise Bussien ◽  
Munktsengel Baatar ◽  
Chimedtseren Anaad ◽  
Albrecht von Quadt
Keyword(s):  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Provenance Analysis ◽  
The South ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Basin Inversion ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Sandstone Provenance

Our study is aimed at reconstructing the Palaeozoic–early Mesozoic plate tectonic development of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in central and southeast Mongolia (Gobi). We use sandstone provenance signatures including laser ablation U-Pb ages of detrital zircons, their epsilon hafnium isotope signatures, and detrital framework grain analyses. We adopt a well-established terran subdivision of central and southeastern Mongolia. However, according to their affinity and tectonic assemblage we group them into three larger units consisting of continental basement, rift-passive continental margin and arc elements, respectively. These are in today’s coordinates: (i) in the north the late Cambrian collage from which the later Mongol-Okhotsk and the Central Mongolia-Erguna mountain ranges resulted, (ii) in the south a heterogeneous block from which the South Mongolia-Xin’gan and Inner Mongolia-Xilin belts developed, and (iii) in between we still distinguish the intra-oceanic volcanic arc of the Gurvansayhan terrane. We present a model for paleotectonic development for the period from Cambrian to Jurassic, which also integrates findings from the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in China and Russia. This mobilistic model implies an interplay of rift and drift processes, ocean formation, oceanic subduction, basin inversion, collision and suture formation in space and time. The final assemblage of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt occurred in Early Jurassic.

NEOPROTEROZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE OPHIOLITIC BAYANKHONGOR SUTURE ZONE, CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT (CENTRAL MONGOLIA)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Worthington ◽  
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Claire E. Bucholz ◽  
Uyanga Bold ◽  
Francis A. Macdonald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Suture Zone ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Central Asian

A mid-Palaeozoic ocean–continent transition in the Mazongshan subduction–accretion complex, Beishan, NW China: new structural, chemical and age data constrain the petrogenesis and tectonic evolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 (11) ◽  
pp. 1877-1897 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-X. Wang ◽  
K.-X. Zhang ◽  
Brian F. Windley ◽  
B.-W. Song ◽  
X.-H. Kou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Crust ◽  
Early Carboniferous ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
The North ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Tectonic Mélange

AbstractAccretionary orogens contain key evidence for the conversion of oceanic to continental crust. The late tectonic history and closure time of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean are recorded in the Mazongshan subduction–accretion complex in the southern Beishan margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. We present new data on the structure, petrology, geochemistry and zircon U–Pb isotope ages of the Mazongshan subduction–accretion complex, which is a tectonic mélange with a block-in-matrix structure. The blocks are of serpentinized peridotite, basalt, gabbro, basaltic andesite, chert and seamount sediments within a matrix that is mainly composed of fore-arc-trench turbidites. U–Pb zircon ages of two gabbros are 454.6 ± 2.5 Ma and 434.1 ± 3.6 Ma, an andesite has a U–Pb zircon age of 451.3 ± 3.5 Ma and a tuffaceous slate has the youngest U–Pb zircon age of 353.6 ± 5.1 Ma. These new isotopic ages, combined with published data on ophiolitic mélanges from central Beishan, indicate that the subduction–accretion of Beishan in the southernmost Central Asian Orogenic Belt lasted until Late Ordovician – Early Carboniferous time. Structure and age data demonstrate that the younging direction of accretion was southwards and that the subduction zone dipped continuously to the north. Accordingly, these results record the conversion of oceanic to continental crust in the southern Beishan accretionary collage.

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