SEISMOGRAVITY STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST OF THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE SIBERIAN CRATON (3-DV PROFILE)

The data are part of a complex of geophysical studies along the 3-DV profile, which is part of the system of regional profiles of the Russian Federation. Seismic and gravity observations characterizing the structure of the Earth’s crust along an about 600-km-long section of the 3-DV profile crossing the eastern margin of the Archean Siberian Craton, which borders the Mesozoic Verkhoyansk-Kolyma fold system, are considered.

3D reconstruction of syn-tectonic strata in a salt-related orogen: learnings from the Llert syncline (South-central Pyrenees)

The Llert syncline is located in the South-central Pyrenees, between the eastern termination of the EW-trending Cotiella Basin and the north-western limb of the NS-trending Turbón-Serrado fold system. The Cotiella Basin is an inverted upper Coniacian-lower Santonian salt-floored post-rift extensional basin developed along the northern Iberian rift system. The Turbón-Serrado fold system consists of upper Santonian – Maastrichtian contractional salt-cored anticlines developed along an inverted transfer zone of the Pyrenean rift system. Based on field research, this paper presents a 3D reconstruction of the Llert syncline in order to further constrain the transition between these oblique salt-related structures. Our results suggest that the evolution of the Llert syncline was mainly controlled by tectonic shortening related to the tectonic inversion of the Cotiella Basin synchronously to the growth of the Turbón-Serrado detachment anticline, and by the pre-compressional structural framework of the Pyrenean rift system. Our contribution provides new insight into the geometric and kinematic relationships of structures developed during the inversion of passive margins involving salt.

Strike-slip fault tectogenesis in formation of the East Sikhote-Alin volcano-plutonic belt: Structural and dynamic analysis

Study object. The role of strike-slip fault tectogenesis in magmatism of the large (North Eastern Primorye) fragment of the Eastern Sikhote-Alin volcano-plutonic belt (ESAVPB) is studied. Materials and methods. The materials of geological mapping and field geostructural thematic-line research are used. Study methods are based on the concept of the geostructural patterns being formed by lateral, namely, strike-slip movements of crustal blocks. Results. There is recognized the system of the NE-trending sinistral faults, whose activation taken place during two stages. The pre-Late-Cretaceous fold-and-strike-slip-fault (orogenic) stage is characterized by the widely developed fold system within the stratified formations covering active strike-slip faults of the pre-Mesozoic consolidated basement. By the Late Cretaceous, the strike-slip faults cut the fold system into narrow blocks, creating the preconditions for the strike-slip faults’ activation during the next destructionand-strike-slip-fault (riftogenic) stage (Late Cretaceous – Cenozoic). During the latter, the strike-slip faults were activated under transtension (strike slip with extension) with formation of volcano-tectonic extension structures (VTES) nearcrosswise the strike-slip faults. The VTES played, on the one hand, the role of magma-feeding channels. On the other hand, the extension caused preconditions for formation of the depression subsidences that accumulated large volumes of the volcanics covering and «crosslinking» the VTES, resulting in wide development of volcanic covers within the ESAVPB. Conclusion. The VTES’ opening is thereby the effect of lateral (strike-slip) displacements of continental geoblocks that is not consistent with a priori ideas of the development of the East Sikhote-Alin volcano-plutonic belt under the oceanic plates’ subduction. The resulting materials complement the formulations according to which the East Asian volcanic belt formed under the structural-and-dynamic conditions being caused by the evolution of the East Asian global strike-slip fault zone resulting from displacement of the Asian continent to the south-west under the Earth’s rotational geodynamics.

New U-Pb geochronological data on the age of volcanic-plutonic assemblage of Oloy belt, Alazey-Oloy fold system (West Chukotka)

New U-Pb (SIMS and LA-ICP-MS) geochronological data for rocks of Egdygkych complex of hypabyssal intrusions, Nichan and Vukney plutons, and felsic volcanic rocks and tuffs from host strata of Oloy volcanic belt of Alasey-Oloy fold system are obtained. Concordant ages of Egdygkych complex rocks correspond to Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian), those for host strata, to the end of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) - beginning of Early Cretaceous (Berriasian). New U-Pb geochronological data allow confidently to distinguish uniform volcanic-plutonic assemblage of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) - Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian) age of Oloy volcanic belt. Obtained data more definitely determine age limits of Au-Mo-Cu mineralization, associated with contacts between rocks of Egdydkych complex and host volcanic-sedimentary rocks or contacts of separated intrusive phases.

Vendian and Permian-Triassic plagiogranite magmatism of the Ust’-Belaya Mountains, West-Koryak fold system, Northeastern of Russia

Vendian and Permian-Triassic plagiogranite magmatism is distinguished for Ust’-Belsky and Algansky terranes of West-Koryak fold system. U–Pb zircon ages from Vendian and Permian-Triassic plagiogranites are 556 ± 3 Ma (SIMS), 538 ± 7 Ma (LA–ICP–MS) and 235 ± 2 Ma (SIMS) consequently. It is revealed, that Vendian and Permian-Triassic plagiogranites are mainly low-K and low-Al. Sr–Nd isotopy and rare-earth element patterns allow supposing their formation by partial melting of primarily mantle substrate or by fractional crystallization of basic magma. Vendian plagiogranites formed within active margin in ensimatic island arc simultaneously with deposition of lower part of volcanic-sedimentary complex of Otrozhninskaya slice. We suggest the Permian-Triassic plagiogranites were being formed within the limits of Ust’-Belsky segment of Koni-Taigonos arc during partial melting of melanocratic ophiolite material build up as fragments in accretionary structure of that arc or by fractional crystallization of basic magmas melted from the similar substrate.