| Title | Mesozoic metamorphism and its tectonic implication along the Solonker suture zone in central Inner Mongolia, China |
| Authors | Zhang, Jinrui Wei, Chunjing Chu, Hang Chen, Yaping |
| Affiliation | Peking Univ, Sch Earth & Space Sci, MOE Key Lab Orogen Belt & Crustal Evolut, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Tianjin Inst Geol & Mineral Resources, Tianjin 300170, Peoples R China. |
| Keywords | Metabasite Garnet-mica schist Low-temperature metamorphism Zircon dating Solonker suture zone ASIAN OROGENIC BELT U-PB AGES XILIN GOL COMPLEX NORTH CHINA GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE CONTINENTAL GROWTH VOLCANIC-ROCKS GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS REGIONAL METAMORPHISM MIXING PROPERTIES |
| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Publisher | LITHOS |
| Citation | LITHOS.2016,261(,SI),262-277. |
| Abstract | The Xing'an-Inner Mongolia Orogenic Belt (XIMOB) exposed in the eastern section of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is generally thought to have resulted from closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. However, disputations still exist on the age and detailed tectonic processes involved in its final amalgamation. The Solonker suture zone in the central Inner Mongolia, once recognized as the major paleo-plate boundary recording the terminal collision of the XIMOB, is characterized by extensive regional low-temperature metamorphism of greenschist to epidote-amphibolite facies with local presence of blueschists, which lacks systematic study. Four metabasite and garnet mica schist samples were studied for determination of metamorphic P-T evolution using pseudosection and conventional thermobarometry. The two metabasite samples from Wulangou and Daqing Pasture contain actinolite, albite, epidote, chlorite and hornblende (in Daqing Pasture) and are estimated to have peak P-T conditions of 52-5.9 kbar/415-450 degrees C in Wulangou and 7.0-7.9 kbar/470-475 degrees C in Daqing Pasture. Two garnet-mica schist samples from Shuangjing (or Shuangjing schist) contain garnet porphyroblasts, muscovite,quartz, plagioclase, chlorite with or without potassium feldspar, biotite, and calcite, and are modeled to record prograde P-T vectors respectively of 3.0 kbar/482 degrees C-33 kbar/495 degrees C and 42 kbar/478 degrees C-4.8 kbar/483 degrees C, followed by near-isothermal decompression. The zircon U-Pb dating analyses suggest that the metamorphism probably occurred soon afterwards in the Early Mesozoic. The peak P-T conditions for the metabasite and garnet-mica schist samples yield thermal gradients respectively of 18-22 degrees C/km and 26-33 degrees C/km, being intermediate and low P/T series, and the metamorphic evolution in these rocks characteristic of clockwise P-T paths may correspond to tectonic thickening and thinning processes. The extensive low-temperature metamorphism of intermediate to low PIT types along the Solonker suture zone is alternatively interpreted to have resulted from closure of limited ocean basins. Thus, the Solonker suture zone may not represent a typical suture after closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean but a tectonic belt that records the closure of the limited basins. The closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the central Inner Mongolia should have occurred much earlier in the Devonian. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/447961 |
| ISSN | 0024-4937 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.03.014 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 地球与空间科学学院 造山带与地壳演化教育部重点实验室 |
