scholarly journals Accreted Terranes in the Paleo‐Asian Ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (S2) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
Gaoxue YANG ◽  
Yongjun LI ◽  
Lili TONG ◽  
Zuopeng WANG ◽  
Fenghao DUAN
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10.1029/ft307 ◽  
1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Tabor ◽  
R. A. Haugerud ◽  
E. H. Brown ◽  
R. S. Babcock ◽  
R. B. Miller

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (22) ◽  
pp. 12,293-12,301 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Quiros ◽  
J. Pulliam ◽  
D. Barman ◽  
E. Polanco Rivera ◽  
V. Huerfano

1983 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Nur
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2021 ◽  
pp. jgs2021-035
Author(s):  
Wanchese M. Saktura ◽  
Solomon Buckman ◽  
Allen P. Nutman ◽  
Renjie Zhou

The Jurassic–Cretaceous Tsoltak Formation from the eastern borderlands of Ladakh Himalaya consists of conglomerates, sandstones and shales, and is intruded by norite sills. It is the oldest sequence of continent-derived sedimentary rocks within the Shyok Suture. It also represents a rare outcrop of the basement rocks to the voluminous Late Cretaceous–Eocene Ladakh Batholith. The Shyok Formation is a younger sequence of volcaniclastic rocks that overlie the Tsoltak Formation and record the Late Cretaceous closure of the Mesotethys Ocean. The petrogenesis of these formations, ophiolite-related harzburgites and norite sill is investigated through petrography, whole-rock geochemistry and U–Pb zircon geochronology. The youngest detrital zircon grains from the Tsoltak Formation indicate Early Cretaceous maximum depositional age and distinctly Gondwanan, Lhasa microcontinent-related provenance with no Eurasian input. The Shyok Formation has Late Cretaceous maximum depositional age and displays a distinct change in provenance to igneous detritus characteristic of the Jurassic–Cretaceous magmatic arc along the southern margin of Eurasia. This is interpreted as a sign of collision of the Lhasa microcontinent and the Shyok ophiolite with Eurasia along the once continuous Shyok–Bangong Suture. The accreted terranes became the new southernmost margin of Eurasia and the basement to the Trans-Himalayan Batholith associated with the India-Eurasia convergence.Supplementary material:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5633162


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cees R. Van Staal ◽  
Alexandre Zagorevski ◽  
Vicki J. McNicoll ◽  
Neil Rogers

We propose an intimate relationship between Silurian terrestrial red bed sedimentation (Old Red Sandstone), slab breakoff-related magmatism and deformation in the Newfoundland Appalachians. Red bed sedimentation started during the Early Silurian, and records the progressive rise of the Salinic mountains in the tectonic hinterland of the orogen. The red beds were mainly deposited in molasse-style foreland basins in front of an east-propagating terminal Salinic deformation front. New U–Pb zircon dating of volcanic rocks interlayered with the Silurian red beds in key structural locations yielded ages ranging between 425 and 418 Ma, which, combined with the existing geochronological database, suggests that the sedimentary rocks are progressively younger from west to east and overstep the accreted Gondwana-derived terranes. We propose that deposition of the red beds is a good proxy for the time of cratonization of the accreted terranes. Eastward migration of the Salinic deformation front was accompanied by eastward-widening of a slab-breakoff-related asthenospheric window. The latter is interpreted to have formed due to a combination of progressive steepening of the down-going plate following entrance of the leading edge of the Gander margin and its eduction. Gander margin eduction (reversed subduction) is proposed to have been instigated by the trench migration of the Acadian coastal arc built upon the trailing edge of the Gander margin, which developed contemporaneously with the Salinic collision. The resultant thinning of the lithosphere beneath the Salinic orogen, built upon the leading edge of the Gander margin immediately prior to the onset of the Early Devonian Acadian orogeny, set the stage for generation of the widespread bloom of Acadian magmatism.SOMMAIRENous proposons qu’il y a eu une relation intime entre la sédimentation des couches rouges continentales au Silurien (vieux-grès-rouges), un magmatisme lié à une rupture de segments de croûte, et la déformation appalachienne à Terre-Neuve.  La sédimentation des couches rouges qui a débuté au début du Silurien témoigne du soulèvement progressif des monts saliniques de l’arrière-pays tectonique de l’orogène.  Les couches rouges se sont déposées sous forme de molasses dans des bassins d’avant-pays, à l’avant du front de déformation salinique terminale qui se déployait vers l’est.  De nouvelles datations U-Pb sur zircon de roches volcaniques interstratifiées avec des couches rouges siluriennes en des lieux structurels stratégiques montrent des âges qui varient entre 425 Ma et 418 Ma, ce qui, combiné aux bases de données géochronologiques existantes permet de penser que les roches sédimentaires sont progressivement plus jeunes d’ouest en est, et qu’elles surplombent les terranes accrétés du Gondwana.  Nous suggérons que les couches rouges sont de bons indicateurs temporels de la cratonisation des terranes accrétés.  La migration vers l’est du front de la déformation salinique a été accompagnée par un élargissement vers l’est d’une fenêtre asthénosphérique liée à une rupture de la croûte.  Cette dernière aurait été provoquée par la combinaison de l’enfoncement progressif de la plaque qui a suivi l’entrée du bord d’attaque de la marge de Gander, et son éduction.  Nous proposons que l’éduction (l’inverse de la subduction) de la marge de Gander a été provoquée par la migration de la fosse tectonique côtière acadienne, induite par la migration du bord d’attaque de la marge de Gander, contemporaine de la collision salinique.  L’amincissement de la lithosphère sous l’orogène salinique qui en a résulté, et qui s’est déployé au bord d’attaque de la marge de Gander juste avant l’enclenchement de l’orogénie acadienne au début du Dévonien, a préparé le terrain du déploiement à grande échelle du magmatisme acadien.


2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 796-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.H. Brown

The San Juan Islands – northwest Cascades thrust system in Washington and British Columbia is composed of previously accreted terranes now assembled as four broadly defined composite nappes stacked on a continental footwall of Wrangellia and the Coast Plutonic Complex. Emplacement ages of the nappe sequence are interpreted from zircon ages, field relations, and lithlogies, to young upward. The basal nappe was emplaced prior to early Turonian time (∼93 Ma), indicated by the occurrence of age-distinctive zircons from this nappe in the Sidney Island Formation of the Nanaimo Group. The emplacement age of the highest nappe in the thrust system postdates 87 Ma detrital zircons within the nappe. The nappes bear high-pressure – low-temperature (HP–LT) mineral assemblages indicative of deep burial in a thrust wedge; however, several features indicate that metamorphism occurred prior to nappe assembly: metamorphic discontinuities at nappe boundaries, absence of HP–LT assemblages in the footwall to the nappe pile, and absence of significant unroofing detritus in the Nanaimo Group. A synorogenic relationship of the thrust system to the Nanaimo Group is evident from mutually overlapping ages and by conglomerates of Nanaimo affinity that lie within the nappe pile. From the foregoing relations, and broader Cordilleran geology, the tectonic history of the nappe terranes is interpreted to involve initial accretion and subduction-zone metamorphism south of the present locality, uplift and exhumation, orogen-parallel northward transport of the nappes as part of a forearc sliver, and finally obduction at the present site over the truncated south end of Wrangellia and the Coast Plutonic Complex.


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