scholarly journals Late Paleozoic rock deformation of the Kurai block: structural‐kinematic analysis (upper Kuraika river, Gorny Altai, Russia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 937-943
Author(s):  
M. A. Abildaeva ◽  
S. V. Zinoviev ◽  
M. M. Buslov

In the Kurai ridge located in the southeastern Gorny Altai (Altai Mountains, Russia) metamorphic rocks of the Kurai complex are widely developed: granite‐gneisses, crystalline schists and amphibolites, including widespread Early Carboniferous mylonites and blastomylonites. Oriented samples of blastomylonites were taken from the upper reaches of the Kuraika river for the microstructural study aimed to determine the kinematics of movements. The analyses of thin cut samples show structural‐kinematic indicators that suggest two deformation events (left‐lateral shearing, then right‐lateral shearing).

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Danil A. Ilyin ◽  
Irina P. Kokorina

The article deals with the study of geological sections of the Ordovic age in Gorny Altai. On the territory of the Altai Mountains, outcrops of rocks of the Ordovic age were found. As a result of the work on the sections, the lithological composition was analyzed and the fauna was collected, the taxonomic composition of which was then determined in the Paleozoic laboratory of the Institute of Geological and Geological Development of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. On the basis of the data of geological survey, mapping of the territory, the results of the study of geological sections, their lithology and faunistic composition, it is planned to create an interactive cartographic service in the future.


2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 1478-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-gang Sun ◽  
Bi-le Li ◽  
Feng-yue Sun ◽  
Qing-feng Ding ◽  
Ye Qian ◽  
...  

Geodynamic evolution in the late Paleozoic is significant for understanding the final amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). No consensus has yet been reached regarding the late Paleozoic geodynamic evolution of the northern Great Xing’an Range (GXR) in northeastern China, the eastern CAOB. Furthermore, late Paleozoic syenogranite–diabase dyke association is present in the Xiaokele area in northern GXR. It provides an important opportunity to understand the nature of magmatism and the geodynamic evolution during this period. This paper presents new zircon U–Pb ages, zircon Hf isotopic compositions, and geochemical data of whole rocks for Xiaokele syenogranite and diabase. Zircon U–Pb dating suggests that the Xiaokele syenogranite (292.5 ± 0.9 Ma) and diabase (298.3 ± 1.5 Ma) were emplaced during the early Permian. The Xiaokele syenogranites have high SiO2 contents, low MgO contents, and enriched zircon εHf(t) values, suggesting that their primary magma was generated by the partial melting of the juvenile crustal material. The Xiaokele diabases have low SiO2 contents, high MgO contents, are enriched in large-ion lithophile elements, depleted in high-field-strength elements, and exhibit enriched zircon εHf(t) values. They derived from a lithospheric mantle source that had previously been metasomatized by slab-derived fluids. Combined with previous research results, we believe that the continent–continent collision between the Xing’an and Songliao blocks occurred during the late early Carboniferous – early late Carboniferous (330–310 Ma), and the two blocks were transformed into a post-collisional extensional setting during the latest Carboniferous – early Permian.


1986 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 128-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Archangelsky

The paleobotanical literature contains frequent references to paleofloristic regions (often called “floral provinces”) for the Late Paleozoic. Halle (1937) published an early map showing the distribution of four different floral associations in Asia, viz. the Glossopteris Flora, the Angara Flora, the European Permo-Carboniferous Flora and the Cathaysia Flora. Gothan and Weylan (1954) completed this map by adding information from different parts of the world. In 1962 Wagner published a general map showing a Permo-Carboniferous Equatorial Belt separating the northern hemisphere Angara Flora from the southern hemisphere Gondwana Flora. The diagrammatic representation by Meyen (1969) shows the increasing diversifications of these floras with geological time. A later version (Meyen in Chaloner and Meyen, 1973, and in Vakhrameiev, et al., 1978) shows an early differentation into two major units, i.e., the Arcto-Carboniferous Kingdom and the Gondwana Kingdom. The former would be subdivided into the Euramerican and Angara areas, to be distinguished from the Early Carboniferous onwards.


2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W.F. Waldron ◽  
Carlos G. Roselli ◽  
John Utting ◽  
Stanley K. Johnston

A major zone of deformation affects Early Carboniferous rocks in the southern part of the Maritimes Basin of Nova Scotia, close to the boundary between the Avalon and Meguma terranes of the Appalachians. Field relationships at Cheverie indicate thrusting of Tournaisian Horton Group clastics over Viséan Windsor Group carbonates, evaporites, and clastics, a relationship confirmed by the Cheverie #01 well. Mapped relationships to the south indicate that a system of thrusts, here termed the Kennetcook thrust system, climbs upsection to the southeast, becoming a décollement within Windsor Group evaporites. Industry seismic profiles clearly show deformed Windsor Group, and include fold and fault structures indicative of evaporite flow and solution collapse. Below the Windsor Group, half-grabens filled with Horton Group are clearly imaged; offsets at graben-related faults show that these structures were inverted during later shortening. Above the Windsor Group, less deformed rocks of the Pennsylvanian Scotch Village Formation (Cumberland Group) fill minibasins created by the withdrawal or solution of deformed Windsor evaporites. The timing of thrusting is constrained by these relationships and by crosscutting intrusions to a narrow interval around the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary prior to ∼315 Ma. Deformation was probably related to dextral transpression along the former Avalon–Meguma boundary. Depending on how shortening was transmitted to the southeast, up to 1500 km2 of southern mainland Nova Scotia may be underlain by tectonically transported rocks.


2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 1277-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.L. Dobretsov ◽  
M.M. Buslov ◽  
E.S. Rubanova ◽  
A.N. Vasilevsky ◽  
A.V. Kulikova ◽  
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