scholarly journals Age and sources of detrital zircons from Jurassic conglomerates of the Strelka Depression (northern frame of the Mongol-Okhotsk fold belt)

2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-478
Author(s):  
V. A. Zaika ◽  
A. A. Sorokin ◽  
V. P. Kovach ◽  
A. P. Sorokin ◽  
A. B. Kotov
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
North Asian Craton ◽  
Sedimentation Basin ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Margin

The article presents the results of U-Th-Pb geochronological studies of clastic zircons from cement of the Jurassic conglomerates of the Strelka Depression extended in a sublatitudinal direction along the border between the southern margin of the Selengino-Stanovoy Superterrane and the Mongol-Okhotsk fold belt. It has been shown that Paleoproterozoic and Neoarchean zircons dominate in the conglomerate cement. This indicates that the main demolition of the material to the sedimentation basin was carried out from the southeastern frame of the North Asian Craton (from the north in modern coordinates). In our view, the Strelka Depression formed after the completion of orogenic processes associated with the formation of the Mongolo-Okhotsk structure.

scholarly journals Age and sources of the metasedimrntary rocks of the Tokur terrane in the Mongol-Okhotsk fold belt: results of the U–Pb geoсhronological and Lu–Hf isotope studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 486 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-450
Author(s):  
V. A. Zaika ◽  
A. A. Sorokin ◽  
A. P. Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Hf Isotope ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
North Asia ◽  
Southeastern Margin ◽  
Isotope Studies ◽  
Metamorphic Complexes

This paper presents the results of U–Pb (LA–ICP–MS) and Lu–Hf ­isotope studies of detrital zircons from metasedimentary rocks of the Tokur Terrane. It has been shown that metasedimentary rocks of the Tokur and Ekimchan formations are characterized by similar age peaks of detrital zircons, which indicates a close (or same) age of these formations. The lower age of the sedimentation is determined by the age of the youngest zircons of 326–323 Ma. The upper age boundary is determined of 254–251 Ma, based on the intruded of the Late Permian granitoids. The main sources of zircons in the metasedimentary rocks of the Tokur Terrane are the igneous and metamorphic complexes of the southeast framing of the North Asia Craton. The Tokur Terrane can be considered as a fragment of the Paleozoic accretionary complex, the formation in front of the southeastern margin of the North Asia Craton.

scholarly journals Sources and source areas of the Upper Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Dzhagda terrane of the Mongol-Okhotsk fold belt: the results of Sm-Nd isotope geochemical studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1331-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Zaika ◽  
A. A. Sorokin ◽  
V. P. Kovach
Keyword(s):  
Fold Belt ◽  
North Asian Craton ◽  
Nd Isotope ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Upper Paleozoic ◽  
Geochemical Studies ◽  
Nd Model Age ◽  
Metaterrigenous Rocks

The article presents the results of Sm-Nd isotope geochemical studies of the Upper Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Dzheskogon, Nektera and Bochagor suites of the Dzhagda terrane. These rocks are characterized by slightly varying values of the Nd model age tNd(DM)=1.5–1.0 Gyr, which gives evidence that the main sources of protoliths were the rocks of the Mesoproterozoic Nd model age (in average). This Nd model age is similar to the ages of the metaterrigenous rocks of the Teply Klyuch, Garmakan and Alga suites of the Tukuringra terrane of the Mongol-Okhotsk Belt. The results obtained in our studies suggest that the sedimentary rocks of the Dzhagda and Tukuringra terranes developed from the material that was mainly sourced from the Amur superterrane (from the south in modern coordinates). A supply of the material from the southern margin of the North Asian craton (from the north in modern coordinates) was either absent or minimal.

scholarly journals AGE AND SOURCES OF PROTOLITHS OF METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE EASTERN TUKURINGRA TERRANE OF THE MONGOL-OKHOTSK FOLD BELT: RESULTS OF U-TH-PB, LU-HF, AND SM-ND ISOTOPE STUDIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
V.A. Zaika ◽  
◽  
A.A. Sorokin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
North Asian Craton ◽  
Nd Isotope ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Isotope Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Mesozoic ◽  
Isotope Studies

The article presents detrital zircon U-Th-Pb and Lu-Hf isotope data for metasedimentary rocks from the eastern Tukuringra Terrane, as well as whole-rock Sm-Nd isotope data. Our analyses show that the zircons in metasedimentary rocks are mostly early Mesozoic in age. Early Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic zircons are also common, whereas early Precambrian zircons are virtually absent. The age of the youngest zircon population places a lower age limit on the age of the Tungalin Formation at 204 Ma (Late Triassic, Rhaetian), the Dugda Formation at 181 Ma (Early Jurassic, Toarcian), and the Tangomen Formation at 189 Ma (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian). Essentially all Mesozoic, Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic zircons are characterized by Neo- and Mesoproterozoic Hf-model ages (tHf(DM) = 1.41–0.46 Ga, tHf(C) = 1.55–0.49) and Mesoproterozoic Nd-model ages (tNd(DM) = 1.25–1.10 Ga, tNd(С) = 1.31–1.14). Our results suggest that sediments for deposition were sourced mainly from the continental Amuria Superterrane, but not from the southern margin of the North Asian Craton.

Preliminary detrital zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Wasatch Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-266
Author(s):  
Ian Anderson ◽  
David H. Malone ◽  
John Craddock
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Powder River Basin ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Lower Eocene ◽  
The North ◽  
Mountain Front ◽  
Fluvial Sandstone

The lower Eocene Wasatch Formation is more than 1500 m thick in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. The Wasatch is a Laramide synorgenic deposit that consists of paludal and lacustrine mudstone, fluvial sandstone, and coal. U-Pb geochronologic data on detrital zircons were gathered for a sandstone unit in the middle part of the succession. The Wasatch was collected along Interstate 90 just west of the Powder River, which is about 50 km east of the Bighorn Mountain front. The sandstone is lenticular in geometry and consists of arkosic arenite and wacke. The detrital zircon age spectrum ranged (n=99) from 1433-2957 Ma in age, and consisted of more than 95% Archean age grains, with an age peak of about 2900 Ma. Three populations of Archean ages are evident: 2886.6±10 Ma (24%), 2906.6±8.4 Ma (56%) and 2934.1±6.6 Ma (20%; all results 2 sigma). These ages are consistent with the age of Archean rocks exposed in the northern part of the range. The sparse Proterozoic grains were likely derived from the recycling of Cambrian and Carboniferous strata. These sands were transported to the Powder River Basin through the alluvial fans adjacent to the Piney Creek thrust. Drainage continued to the north through the basin and eventually into the Ancestral Missouri River and Gulf of Mexico. The provenance of the Wasatch is distinct from coeval Tatman and Willwood strata in the Bighorn and Absaroka basins, which were derived from distal source (>500 km) areas in the Sevier Highlands of Idaho and the Laramide Beartooth and Tobacco Root uplifts. Why the Bighorn Mountains shed abundant Eocene strata only to the east and not to the west remains enigmatic, and merits further study.

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope analyses of the Wulian complex in the Sulu orogenic belt, eastern China: tectonic affinity and implications for early Precambrian crustal growth and recycling in the South China Craton

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jian-Hui Liu ◽  
Fu-Lai Liu ◽  
Zheng-Jiang Ding ◽  
Hong Yang ◽  
Ping-Hua Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Crust ◽  
South China ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Crustal Growth ◽  
Gneissic Granite ◽  
Early Precambrian ◽  
The North ◽  
South China Craton ◽  
Sulu Orogenic Belt

Abstract The Wulian complex is located on the northern margin of the Sulu orogenic belt, and was formed by collision between the North China Craton (NCC) to the north and South China Craton (SCC) to the south. It consists of the metasedimentary Wulian Group, gneissic granite and meta-diorite. The U–Pb analyses for the detrital zircons from the Wulian Group exhibit one predominant age population of 2600–2400 Ma with a peak at c. 2.5 Ga and several secondary age populations of > 3000, 3000–2800, 2800–2600, 2200–2000, 1900–1800, 1500–1300 and 1250–950 Ma; some metamorphic zircons have metamorphic ages of c. 2.7, 2.55–2.45, 2.1–2.0 and 1.95–1.80 Ga, which are consistent with magmatic-metamorphic events in the SCC. Additionally, the Wulian Group was intruded by the gneissic granite and meta-diorite at c. 0.76 Ga, attributed to Neoproterozoic syn-rifting bimodal magmatic activity in the SCC and derived from partial melting of Archaean continental crust and depleted mantle, respectively. The Wulian Group therefore has tectonic affinity to the SCC and was mainly sourced from the SCC. The detrital zircons have positive and negative ϵHf(t) values, indicating that their source rocks were derived from reworking of both ancient and juvenile crustal rocks. The major early Precambrian crustal growth took place during c. 3.4–2.5 Ga with a dominant peak at 2.96 Ga and several secondary peaks at 3.27, 2.74 and 2.52 Ga. The two oldest zircons with ages of 3307 and 3347 Ma record the recycling of ancient continental crust (> 3.35 Ga) and crustal growth prior to c. 3.95 Ga in the SCC.

Late mesozoic adakite volcanism of the Ugan volcanic structure (Southeastern Margin of the North Asian Craton): 40Ar/39Ar geochronological and geochemical evidence

2012 ◽  
Vol 445 (2) ◽  
pp. 947-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Sorokin ◽  
A. P. Sorokin ◽  
V. A. Ponomarchuk ◽  
Yu. A. Martynov ◽  
A. M. Larin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Structure ◽  
North Asian Craton ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
Geochemical Evidence ◽  
The North ◽  
Southeastern Margin

Timing of magmatism, foreland basin development, metamorphism and inversion in the Anglo-Brabant fold belt

1997 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. VAN GROOTEL ◽  
J. VERNIERS ◽  
B. GEERKENS ◽  
D. LADURON ◽  
M. VERHAEREN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Basin Inversion ◽  
Tectonic Model ◽  
The North ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
And Inversion

New data implying crustal activation of Eastern Avalonia along the Anglo-Brabant fold belt are presented. Late Ordovician subduction-related magmatism in East Anglia and the Brabant Massif, coupled with accelerated subsidence in the Anglia Basin and in the Brabant Massif during Silurian time, indicate a foreland basin development. Final collision resulted in folding, cleavage development and thrusting during the mid-Lochkovian to mid-Eifelian. In the southeast of the Anglo-Brabant fold belt, Acadian deformation produced basin inversion and the regional antiformal structure of the Brabant Massif. The uplift, inferred from the sedimentology, petrography and reworked palynomorphs in the Lower Devonian of the Dinant Synclinorium is confirmed by illite crystallinity studies. The tectonic model discussed implies the presence of two subduction zones in the eastern part of Eastern Avalonia, one along the Anglo-Brabant fold belt and another under the North Sea in the prolongation of the North German–Polish Caledonides.

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