嫩江—黑河晚古生代碰撞过程的岩石构造建造学响应

根据嫩江—黑河地区古生代地质体岩石组合特征,恢复原岩建造类型,并在分析岩浆作用、变质作用、构造组合关系及同位素年代学资料基础上,探讨嫩江—黑河晚古生代陆陆碰撞带的形成机制。研究认为,早石炭世兴安地块和松嫩地块开始沿嫩江—黑河一线汇聚拼贴,早石炭世洋陆俯冲阶段形成了岛弧与弧后盆地沉积;晚石炭世—早二叠世陆陆碰撞过程中形成花岗闪长岩和二长花岗岩侵位;早二叠世碰撞后伸展阶段形成了中二叠世弧后残余盆地。总体具有从俯冲-碰撞造山向造山后伸展演化的特点。     

黑龙江霍龙门地区早石炭世花岗岩的锆石U-Pb年龄、地球化学特征及构造意义

黑龙江霍龙门地区位于兴蒙造山带东部的兴安地块和松嫩地块接触带上,区内花岗岩类以晚古生代花岗岩为主,岩性主要为二长花岗岩、正长花岗岩、碱长花岗岩.研究区二长花岗岩SHRIMP锆石U-Pb定年结果为(351.5±3.5)Ma,表明其形成于早石炭世.该时代岩石的主量元素具有高硅、略富铝、富碱质、低镁和贫钙的特征;微量元素表现出Th、Zr、Nd、Rb、K明显富集,而Ba、Sr、Nb、P、Ti明显亏损;稀土元素具有明显的轻稀土元素富集、重稀土元素相对亏损的特征,有明显的负Eu异常,轻重稀土元素分馏程度较强.岩石总体上属于高钾钙碱性系列花岗岩.花岗岩的R1-R2构造环境判别图解与微量元素Rb-(Yb+Nb)、Rb-(Yb+Ta)构造环境判别图解显示,该期发育的早石炭世花岗岩为同碰撞与造山期后的环境,结合本区所处的构造环境推测研究区内早石炭世花岗岩应为兴安地块与松嫩地块北东向拼合挤压过程由碰撞俯冲阶段向后造山阶段构造转换过程的产物.     

东准噶尔卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带南侧侵入体的岩石学、地球化学及年代学特征

东准噶尔卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带南侧分布有大量的石炭纪侵入体,主要出露于五彩城、滴水泉一带及野马站地区。通过对卡拉麦里断裂以南侵入体岩石类型、锆石年代学、地球化学的综合分析,划分出早石炭世后碰撞I型花岗岩类及晚石炭世陆内双峰式侵入岩(碱长花岗岩+角闪辉长岩)。结合断裂以北黄羊山、老鸦泉岩体新近发表的数据及区域内火山岩的研究成果,对卡拉麦里地区石炭纪—二叠纪构造-岩浆演化过程给出了新认识,即卡拉麦里地区从后碰撞到陆内伸展的构造转换时间为早石炭世末期—晚石炭世早期,后碰撞阶段岩浆岩以钙碱性I型花岗岩、玄武安山岩、安山岩为特点,陆内伸展阶段以典型的双峰式岩浆岩(辉长岩+花岗岩、玄武岩+流纹岩)及A型花岗岩为特点,卡拉麦里地区具有正εNd值的花岗岩类来源于亏损地幔形成的年轻地壳的部分熔融。     

东天山觉罗塔格一带晚古生代岩浆岩地球化学特征及构造意义

通过对东天山觉罗塔格一带晚古生代岩浆岩地质特征、岩石化学特征等系统研究,认为该晚古生代岩浆岩主要由早石炭世至中二叠世的火山岩和侵入岩组成,其形成与康古尔洋向北俯冲有关。早石炭世岩浆岩为康古尔洋初始俯冲而成的钙碱性岛弧火山岩及具有低压、低温特征的高钾钙碱性I型花岗岩;晚石炭世岩浆岩为后碰撞弧火山岩;早二叠世岩浆岩为具有后碰撞弧和板内双重特征的火山岩及高温、高压特征的I型花岗岩;中二叠世发育具有低压、高温特征的高钾钙碱性A型花岗岩。综合前人资料及本文研究成果,初步认为觉罗塔格一带晚古生代经历了俯冲碰撞—碰撞造山—造山后陆内伸展的构造演化过程。     

天山造山带古生代侵入岩地质特征及构造意义

通过对天山造山带古生代侵入岩岩石类型、岩石地球化学特征及年代学研究,初步厘定不同构造带侵入岩浆序列及形成构造环境。天山地区古生代侵入岩主要包括奥陶—志留纪俯冲期钙碱性花岗岩、泥盆纪后碰撞型正长花岗岩、石炭纪中早期俯冲型钙碱性花岗岩、石炭纪晚期后碰撞型正长花岗岩、石炭纪末后碰撞型镁铁-超镁铁质岩、二叠纪早期后造山型碱性花岗岩及洋壳残片等。俯冲期侵入岩主要为花岗闪长岩-石英二长闪长岩-石英闪长岩组合;同碰撞期为花岗闪长岩-二长花岗岩组合;后碰撞期为组成花岗岩-二长花岗岩组合;后造山期为正长花岗岩-碱性花岗岩组合。认为该地区古生代侵入岩与Terskey洋、北天山洋、南天山洋等洋盆演化密切相关,并建立了天山地区古生代构造演化模式图。     

小兴安岭西北部花岗质糜棱岩锆石LA-ICP-MSU-Pb年龄、岩石地球化学特征及地质意义

通过对位于小兴安岭西北部黑河-呼玛地区与元古宙变质岩系伴生出露的三处强变形的花岗质岩石的锆石U-Pb LA-ICP-MS测年和岩石学、岩石地球化学研究,确认样品岩性分别为花岗闪长质糜棱岩(样品1-3-4和1-5-1)、角砾状花岗闪长岩(样品1121和1211)和花岗质糜棱岩(样品1218),锆石U-Pb年龄为299.6±1.0Ma、300.8±1.1Ma和294.3±1.0 Ma,形成于晚石炭世末至早二叠世初,而非前人确定的元古宙或早石炭世,并初步认为岩石韧性变形作用发生时间介于184~170 Ma之间。三种花岗岩分别属于富硅、高铝、贫钾的过铝质钙碱性系列(I-3-4和1-5-1)、贫硅偏铝、高钙铁镁的偏铝质高钾钙碱性系列(1121和1211)和富硅钾、低钙镁铝的弱过铝质钾玄质系列(1218),稀土元素特征相似,富集轻稀土,相对亏损重稀土,具有明显或弱的Eu负异常,微量元素富集Rb、La、Th、U等大离子亲石元素,相对亏损Sr和高场强元素Nb、Ta、Zr、Hf,具有高分异Ⅰ型花岗岩和A型花岗岩的特征,在构造环境判别图R_1-E_2图上分别落在同碰撞造山、晚造山和造山后环境,在Nb-Y图落入火山弧-同碰撞环境和板内环境。结合区域资料,认为上述花岗岩是兴安地块与松嫩地块晚古生代碰撞造山的产物,记录了两块体间碰撞造山到造山后伸展作用。     

小兴安岭西北部晚石炭世造山后达音河岩体的 特征及其地质意义

小兴安岭西北部达音河岩体主要由碱长花岗岩、正长花岗岩组成。碱长花岗岩的锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年结果为304.4±1.3 Ma,时代属于晚石炭世,而不是过去认为的晚侏罗世。该岩体化学组成以高硅、钾、钠,低钙为特征,富集Rb、La、Th等大离子亲石元素,亏损Ba、Sr、Eu等大离子亲石元素和Nb、Ta、Zr高场强元素,反映斜长石作为源区残留相对岩浆地球化学特征的控制。该岩体同区域上十二站、新开岭、龙镇、扎兰屯等岩体构成晚石炭世造山后伸展背景下形成的I型和A型花岗岩带,反映了兴安、松嫩块体在晚石炭世结束块体碰撞造山,转入造山后伸展环境。     

大兴安岭东北部霍龙门地区早二叠世花岗岩的锆石U-Pb年龄、地球化学特征及构造意义

黑龙江霍龙门地区位于兴蒙造山带东部的兴安地块和松嫩地块接触带上,区内花岗岩类以晚古生代花岗岩为主,岩性主要为正长花岗岩、二长花岗岩、碱长花岗岩和二长闪长岩等。研究区的正长花岗岩的SHRIMP锆石U-Pb定年结果为294.8 Ma±1.8Ma,表明其形成于早二叠世,且在早三叠世(244.6 Ma±4.1 Ma)遭受了较弱的岩浆侵位事件的叠加影响。该时代岩石的主量元素具有高钾(K_2O质量分数平均为4.52%)、富钠(Na_2O质量分数平均为3.85%)、略富铝(Al_2O_3质量分数平均为13.73%)、低镁(MgO质量分数平均为0.21%)和贫磷(P_2O_5质量分数平均为0.06%)贫钙(CaO质量分数平均为0.61%)的特征;微量元素表现出Th,Zr,Nd,Rb明显富集,而Ba,Sr,P,Ti明显亏损;稀土元素具有轻稀土元素富集、重稀土元素相对亏损的特征,有较明显的负Eu异常(δEu平均为0.49),轻重稀土元素分馏程度较强。岩石总体上属于高钾钙碱性系列花岗岩。花岗岩的R_1-R_2构造环境判别图解与微量元素Rb-Yb+Nb,Rb-Yb+Ta构造环境判别图解显示,该期发育的早二叠世花岗岩处于碰撞造山晚期向造山期后伸展的构造环境,结合区域北东向大量分布晚石炭世-早二叠世期间反映造山期后伸展环境的A型花岗岩的特征及本区所处的构造环境推测,研究区内早二叠世花岗岩应为兴安地块与松嫩地块北东向碰撞造山晚期向造山期后伸展拉张环境下岩浆侵位的产物。     

黑龙江省嫩江-黑河地区古、中生代洋陆转换的岩浆岩记录及相关的矿床类型

黑龙江省嫩江-黑河地区显生宙岩浆活动强烈,发育一系列大、中型矿床,为了了解研究区古、中生代的洋陆过程及其成矿背景,系统总结了研究区近年来岩浆岩和矿床学研究中取得的成果,梳理出洋内弧前弧岩石组合的埃达克质岩石、高镁岩石和TTG花岗岩等,并结合火山-沉积建造特征,探讨研究区的洋陆转换及相关的矿床类型代表的成矿事件.研究区古生代发育早寒武世、晚寒武世、中奥陶世、早志留世的高镁岩石和早奥陶世、中奥陶世、晚泥盆世的埃达克质岩石,一直处于嫩江-黑河洋的俯冲环境,在晚石炭世-二叠纪转为晚造山-后造山阶段,成矿作用以奥陶纪最为强烈,且与洋内弧前弧岩石组合的高镁岩石、埃达克质岩石密切相关,出现俯冲造弧阶段的斑岩与浅成低温热液成矿系统,需要进一步加强可能的VMS型矿床、造山型金矿等找矿勘查工作.研究区中生代发育与蒙古-鄂霍茨克大洋板片南向俯冲作用有关的中三叠世、早侏罗世埃达克质岩石和晚三叠世的镁质岩石及早-中侏罗世TTG花岗岩,而早白垩世晚期的弧火山岩和产出的一系列大、中型金矿床可能与古太平洋板块俯冲-后撤有关.      

兴蒙造山带南段白音图嘎地区A型花岗岩地球化学特征及其对古亚洲洋演化的制约

关于兴蒙造山带晚石炭世-早二叠世A型花岗岩成因及其形成构造背景目前仍存在分歧。本文针对兴蒙造山带南段白音图嘎地区二长花岗岩和碱长花岗岩开展了锆石U-Pb年代学以及全岩地球化学研究,从而探讨其岩石成因以及对晚古生代该区构造演化的制约。分析结果显示:二长花岗岩和碱长花岗岩的锆石LA-ICP-MSU-Pb年龄分别为312±2Ma和294±2Ma,为晚石炭世和早二叠世岩浆活动产物。两者具有相似的地球化学组成,都有高硅(SiO_2=70.83%～73.85%)、高钾(K_2O=5.66%～7.97%)、高碱(Na_2O+K_2O=9.87%～13.29%)、低铝(Al_2O_3=10.72%～12.93%)、低钙镁(CaO=0.19%～1.22%,MgO=0.10%～0.26%)和低磷钛(TiO_2=0.01%～0.25%, P_2O_5=0.03%～0.21%)的特征,均强烈亏损Ba、Sr、P、Ti、Eu,弱亏损Nb、Ta等元素,具有较弱的轻重稀土元素分异以及强负Eu异常((La/Yb)N=2.4～5.8,Eu/Eu*=0.05～0.66),岩石类型都为过碱质A型花岗岩。此外,岩石还富K贫Na,低Ga、Ce,高Y,低Rb/Ba、K/Rb值。岩石地球化学特征显示其为新生下地壳熔融,源区富含辉石和钾长石,缺乏石榴子石和黑云母,形成于后碰撞伸展背景中,而古亚洲洋在312Ma年前就已闭合。综合区域构造演化史以及同时代岩浆岩的年代学和地球化学特征表明,由于早石炭世古亚洲洋俯冲板片后撤和弧后拉张作用的影响,贺根山洋在白音宝力道弧后打开。在晚石炭世造山后伸展大背景下还存在着小规模的晚石炭世-早二叠世俯冲-碰撞造山运动,从而导致区域上晚石炭世-早二叠世同时存在钙碱性岛弧火山岩以及后碰撞A型花岗岩。     

Zircon U–Pb ages and tectonic implications of Paleozoic plutons in northern West Junggar,North Xinjiang,China

North Xinjiang, Northwest China, is made up of several Paleozoic orogens. From north to south these are the Chinese Altai, Junggar, and Tian Shan. It is characterized by widespread development of Late Carboniferous–Permian granitoids, which are commonly accepted as the products of post-collisional magmatism. Except for the Chinese Altai, East Junggar, and Tian Shan, little is known about the Devonian and older granitoids in the West Junggar, leading to an incomplete understanding of its Paleozoic tectonic history. New SHRIMP and LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages were determined for seventeen plutons in northern West Junggar and these ages confirm the presence of Late Silurian–Early Devonian plutons in the West Junggar. New age data, combined with those available from the literature, help us distinguish three groups of plutons in northern West Junggar. The first is represented by Late Silurian–Early Devonian (ca. 422 to 405 Ma) plutons in the EW-striking Xiemisitai and Saier Mountains, including A-type granite with aegirine–augite and arfvedsonite, and associated diorite, K-feldspar granite, and subvolcanic rocks. The second is composed of the Early Carboniferous (ca. 346 to 321 Ma) granodiorite, diorite, and monzonitic and K-feldspar granites, which mainly occur in the EW-extending Tarbgatay and Saur (also spelled as Sawuer in Chinese) Mountains. The third is mainly characterized by the latest Late Carboniferous–Middle Permian (ca. 304 to 263 Ma) granitoids in the Wuerkashier, Tarbgatay, and Saur Mountains.As a whole, the three epochs of plutons in northern West Junggar have different implications for tectonic evolution. The volcano-sedimentary strata in the Xiemisitai and Saier Mountains may not be Middle and Late Devonian as suggested previously because they are crosscut by the Late Silurian–Early Devonian plutons. Therefore, they are probably the eastern extension of the Early Paleozoic Boshchekul–Chingiz volcanic arc of East Kazakhstan in China. It is uncertain at present if these plutons might have been generated in either a subduction or post-collisional setting. The early Carboniferous plutons in the Tarbgatay and Saur Mountains may be part of the Late Paleozoic Zharma–Saur volcanic arc of the Kazakhstan block. They occur along the active margin of the Kazakhstan block, and their generation may be related to southward subduction of the Irtysh–Zaysan Ocean between Kazakhstan in the south and Altai in the north. The latest Late Carboniferous–Middle Permian plutons occur in the Zharma–Saur volcanic arc, Hebukesaier Depression, and the West Junggar accretionary complexes and significantly postdate the closure of the Irtysh–Zaysan Ocean in the Late Carboniferous because they are concurrent with the stitching plutons crosscutting the Irtysh–Zaysan suture zone. Hence the latest Late Carboniferous–Middle Permian plutons were generated in a post-collisional setting. The oldest stitching plutons in the Irtysh–Zaysan suture zone are coeval with those in northern West Junggar, together they place an upper age bound for the final amalgamation of the Altai and Kazakhstan blocks to be earlier than 307 Ma (before the Kaslmovian stage, Late Carboniferous). This is nearly coincident with widespread post-collisional granitoid plutons in North Xinjiang.     

内蒙古西部苦楚乌拉—英巴地区花岗岩锆石U-Pb定年及地球化学特征

锆石U?Pb定年结果表明,内蒙古西部苦楚乌拉—英巴地区花岗岩包括晚泥盆世二长花岗岩((371±2)Ma)、中二叠世钾长花岗岩((271±1)~(270±1)Ma)和早白垩世二长花岗岩((133±1)Ma)。结合前人资料,将研究区晚古生代以来的酸性岩浆活动分为4期:晚泥盆世(~371 Ma)、晚石炭世(313~311 Ma)、早—中二叠世(282~270 Ma)和早白垩世(133~130 Ma)。地球化学组成上,晚泥盆世二长花岗岩属于非典型的S型花岗岩,反映了一种后碰撞的构造背景,一方面说明珠斯楞—杭乌苏构造带在石炭纪之前已经开始出现岩浆活动,另一方面可能也恰好反映了哈萨克斯坦+塔里木+华北板块与西伯利亚板块拼合时间的下限;中二叠世钾长花岗岩则属A型花岗岩,反映了地壳伸展减薄的构造背景,与同时期区域强烈的拉张构造背景具有良好的对应关系;早白垩世二长花岗岩与晚泥盆世二长花岗岩具有相似的地球化学特征,同样反映了一种后碰撞的构造背景,与同时期区域后碰撞的拉张构造背景一致。     

Late Paleozoic – Mesozoic subduction-related magmatism at the southern margin of the Siberian continent and the 150 million-year history of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean

The paper reviews geological, geochronological and geochemical data from the Late Paleozoic – Mesozoic magmatic complexes of the Siberian continent north of the Mongol-Okhotsk suture. These data imply that these complexes are related to the subduction of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean under the Siberian continent. We suggest that this subduction started in the Devonian, prior to the peak of magmatic activity. Studied magmatic complexes are of variable compositions possibly controlled by changes of the subduction regime and by possible input from enriched mantle sources (hot spots).The oceanic lithosphere of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean had shallowly subducted under the Siberian continent in the Devonian. Steeper subduction in the Early – Late Carboniferous led to switching from an extensional to compressional tectonic regime resulting in fold-thrust deformation, to the development of duplex structures and finally to the thickening of the continental crust. This stage was marked by emplacement of voluminous autochthonous biotite granites of the Angara-Vitim batholith into the thickened crust. The igneous activity in the Late Carboniferous – Early Permian was controlled by the destruction of the subducted slab. The allochthonous granitoids of the Angara-Vitim batholith, and the alkaline granitoids and volcanics of the Western Transbaikalian belt were formed at this stage. All these complexes are indicative of extension of the thickened continental crust. A normal-angle subduction in the Late Permian – Late Triassic caused emplacement of various types of intrusions and volcanism. The calc-alkaline granitoids of the Late Permian – Middle Triassic Khangay batholith and Late Triassic Khentey batholith were intruded near the Mongol-Okhotsk suture, whereas alkaline granitoids and bimodal lavas were formed in the hinterland above the broken slab. The Jurassic is characterized by a significant decrease of magmatic activity, probably related to the end of Mongol-Okhotsk subduction beneath the studied area.The spatial relationship of the Late Permian – Middle Triassic granitoids, and the Late Triassic granitoids is typical for an active continental margin developing above a subduction zone. All the Late Carboniferous to Late Jurassic mafic rocks are geochemically similar to subduction-related basalts. They are depleted in Nb, Ta, Ti and enriched in Sr, Ba, Pb. However, the basaltoids located farther from the Mongol-Okhotsk suture are geochemically similar to a transition type between island-arc basalts and within-plate basalts. Such chemical characteristics might be caused by input of hot spot related enriched mantle to the lithospheric mantle modified by subduction. The Early Permian and Late Triassic alkaline granitoids of southern Siberia are of the A₂-type geochemical affinities, which is also typical of active continental margins. Only the basaltoids generated at the end of Early Cretaceous are geochemically similar to typical within-plate basalts, reflecting the final closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean.     

Lithospheric dripping in a soft collision zone: Insights from late Paleozoic magmatism suites of the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

The closure of Paleo-Asian Ocean is considered to have occurred along the Solonker Suture in the southernmost segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), the largest Phanerozoic accretionary orogen on the globe. The suture branches to the east to form the northern Hegenshan–Heihe Suture and the southern Solonker–Changchun Suture. The Hegenshan–Heihe Suture is an ideal natural laboratory for studying the post-collisional geodynamic processes operating in a soft collision zone driven by divergent double-sided subduction. Here we report results from an integrated study of the petrology, geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic compositions of the Early Carboniferous–Early Permian magmatic suite in the Hailar Basin of the Xing’an–Erguna Block. The Early Carboniferous igneous rocks are represented by 356–349 Ma andesitic tuffs, exhibiting typical subduction-related features, such as enrichment in large-ion lithophile elements and depletion in high-field-strength elements. These features, together with the relatively depleted Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic compositions, constant Nb/Y values, but highly variable Rb/Y and Ba values indicate that these rocks were generated by partial melting of a depleted mantle wedge metasomatized by slab-derived fluids. The Late Carboniferous–Early Permian magmatic suite (317–295 Ma) is characterized by high Sr contents (313–1080 ppm) and low Y contents (5–13 ppm), and these can be subdivided into calc-alkaline adakitic rocks and high-K calc-alkaline adakitic rocks. The calc-alkaline adakitic rocks have higher values of Sr/Y, (Sm/Yb)_{source normalized}, and Mg#, and lower values of Y, Yb_{source normalized}, and K₂O/Na₂O than the high-K calc-alkaline adakitic rocks, which suggests that the former was generated by partial melting of foundered lower continental crust and the latter by partial melting of normal lower continental crust. Based on our new data, in conjunction with those in previous studies, we conclude that the tectonic evolution of the Hegenshan–Heihe Suture involved Early Carboniferous double-sided subduction of the Nenjiang Ocean, latest Early Carboniferous soft collision between the Xing’an–Erguna and Songliao blocks, and Late Carboniferous–Early Permian post-collisional extension. We also propose a new geodynamic scenario in which removal of the lithospheric root might have occurred in a soft collision zone during the post-collision period via repeated and localized lithospheric dripping, which results from combined effects of hydration weakening of the lithosphere caused by pre-collision subduction and asthenospheric stirring triggered by slab break-off.     

Late Paleozoic tectonic -magmatic evolution history of the northeastern ChinaSCIEI北大核心CSCD

Northeastern China is suited in the eastern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, and it is mainly composed of Erguna Massif, Xing'an Massif, Songnen-Zhangguangcai Range Massif, Jiamusi Massif, and Nadanhada Terrane. The Late Paleozoic magmatism was relatively intense accompanied with multiple stages of amalgamation in several microcontinents, therefore these magmatic products are an important media in recording the Late Paleozoic tectonic evolution history of the northeastern China. According to the petrological, geochronological, and geochemical characteristics of Late Paleozoic igneous rocks in the northeastern China, we found that the Late Paleozoic magmatism was based on Carboniferous -Permian igneous rocks. The Early Carboniferous magmatic products are gabbro, diorite and granite, the Late Carboniferous magmatic products are mainly composed of granitoids with minor gabbro, and the Permian magmatic products are mainly granitoids. Meanwhile, these Late Paleozoic igneous rocks mostly exhibit typical arc characteristics. In addition, the Late Paleozoic igneous rocks in eastern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces are mainly Permian granitoids with minor gabbro, and these Permian igneous rocks show typical arc characteristics. Combined with petrological, geochronological, geochemical and isotopic characteristics, we suggest that the Late Paleozoic igneous rocks in the Great Xing'an Range and eastern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces underwent different magmatic evolution history, and the microcontinents in NE China had different crustal growth history.     

Tectonic evolution of the Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula is characterised by three north–south belts, the Western, Central, and Eastern belts based on distinct differences in stratigraphy, structure, magmatism, geophysical signatures and geological evolution. The Western Belt forms part of the Sibumasu Terrane, derived from the NW Australian Gondwana margin in the late Early Permian. The Central and Eastern Belts represent the Sukhothai Arc constructed in the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian on the margin of the Indochina Block (derived from the Gondwana margin in the Early Devonian). This arc was then separated from Indochina by back-arc spreading in the Permian. The Bentong-Raub suture zone forms the boundary between the Sibumasu Terrane (Western Belt) and Sukhothai Arc (Central and Eastern Belts) and preserves remnants of the Devonian–Permian main Palaeo-Tethys ocean basin destroyed by subduction beneath the Indochina Block/Sukhothai Arc, which produced the Permian–Triassic andesitic volcanism and I-Type granitoids observed in the Central and Eastern Belts of the Malay Peninsula. The collision between Sibumasu and the Sukhothai Arc began in Early Triassic times and was completed by the Late Triassic. Triassic cherts, turbidites and conglomerates of the Semanggol “Formation” were deposited in a fore-deep basin constructed on the leading edge of Sibumasu and the uplifted accretionary complex. Collisional crustal thickening, coupled with slab break off and rising hot asthenosphere produced the Main Range Late Triassic-earliest Jurassic S-Type granitoids that intrude the Western Belt and Bentong-Raub suture zone. The Sukhothai back-arc basin opened in the Early Permian and collapsed and closed in the Middle–Late Triassic. Marine sedimentation ceased in the Late Triassic in the Malay Peninsula due to tectonic and isostatic uplift, and Jurassic–Cretaceous continental red beds form a cover sequence. A significant Late Cretaceous tectono-thermal event affected the Peninsula with major faulting, granitoid intrusion and re-setting of palaeomagnetic signatures.     

Evolution of calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism through Carboniferous convergence to Permian transcurrent tectonics,western Chinese Tianshan

Continuous magmatic activity occurred in the western Chinese Tianshan, Central Asia, from the Carboniferous to the Permian, i.e. before and after the Late Carboniferous amalgamation of Junggar and the Yili Blocks. Zircon U–Pb LA-ICPMS and Ar–Ar data reveal a coincidence in time between regional wrench faulting and granitoid emplacement. Permian post-collisional granitoids crop out within or at the margins of large-scale dextral strike-slip shear zones, some of them show synkinematic fabrics. The whole rock geochemical features of the Early-Middle Permian granitoids indicate an evolution from high-K calc-alkaline towards alkaline series. In other places of the North Tianshan, alkaline magmatism occurred together with deep marine sedimentation within elongated troughs controlled by wrench faults. Therefore, in contrast with previous interpretations that forwarded continental rift or mantle plume hypotheses, the coexistence of diverse magmatic sources during the same tectonic episode suggests that post-collisional lithosphere-scale transcurrent shearing tightly controlled the magmatic activity during the transition from convergent margin to intraplate anorogenic processes.     

兴蒙陆内造山带

本文提出了"兴蒙陆内造山带"的新概念(Xing-Meng Intracontinent Orogenic Belt,XMIOB),从大地构造、沉积建造、岩浆作用和变质作用等方面论述了XMIOB从晚古生代到中生代初的陆内伸展及陆内造山过程,为探讨晚古生代构造演化提供了新模式。根据对内蒙古中西部晚古生代构造格局的总体认识,可将XMIOB划分为五个构造单元即:早石炭世二连-贺根山裂谷带、晚石炭世陆表海盆地、早二叠世艾力格庙-二连伸展构造带、早-中二叠世盆岭构造带和晚二叠世索伦山-乌兰沟伸展构造带。晚石炭世末-二叠纪在兴蒙造山带基底上发育三期伸展构造:第一期见于内蒙古北部二连-艾力格庙地区,形成陆内裂谷盆地及其盆缘三角洲沉积,发育时代为302～298Ma;第二期在内蒙古中西部广泛分布,以隆起与凹陷相间分布的盆岭构造为特征,发育时代为290～260Ma;第三期见于内蒙古南部索伦山到温都尔庙乌兰沟一带,形成主动裂谷背景下的红海型小洋盆,发育时代为260～250Ma。晚古生代与伸展过程有关的岩浆活动可分四期:1)早石炭世贺根山期:以蛇绿岩为主,发育于具有前寒武纪古老基底和早古生代造山带年轻基底的陆壳伸展区; 2)晚石炭世达青牧场期:主要沿北造山带分布,以基性和酸性岩浆构成的双峰式侵火成岩为特征; 3)早二叠世大石寨期:形成的岩石种类多样,分布广泛,包括双峰式火山岩、双峰式侵入岩和碱性岩; 4)二叠纪末-三叠纪初索伦山期:形成陆缘型蛇绿岩或基性岩-超基性岩组合,产生于软流圈上涌造成的主动裂谷背景。兴蒙陆内造山带的构造变形可分为两期,第一期为晚古生代地层大范围褶皱变形,造成盆-岭构造带的缩短;第二期为沿盆-岭构造的边界强烈剪切变形,产生向东逃逸的挤出构造,其构造背景是北部蒙古-鄂霍茨克造山带和南部大别-秦岭中央造山带的远距离效应引起的被动闭合作用。兴蒙陆内造山带的变质作用分为两个阶段,早期变质作用主要表现为石炭纪期间与陆内伸展有关的低压高温变质,晚期为二叠纪末到三叠纪初区域大面积的低压绿片岩相变质以及沿构造边界的局部中-低压型低温变质。     

Metallogeny and tectonic development of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland

The northern part of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland comprises three segments, the Thomson, Hodgkinson- Broken River, and New England Fold Belts. The evolution of each fold belt can be traced through pre-cratonic (orogenic), transitional, and cratonic stages. The different timing of these stages within each fold belt indicates differing tectonic histories, although connecting links can be recognised between them from Late Devonian time onward. In general, orogenesis became younger from west to east towards the present continental margin. The most recent folding, confined to the New England Fold Belt, was of Early to mid-Cretaceous age. It is considered that this eastward migration of orogenic activity may reflect progressive continental accretion, although the total amount of accretion since the inception of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Cambrian time is uncertain.The Thomson Fold Belt is largely concealed beneath late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic intracratonic basin sediments. In addition, the age of the more highly deformed and metamorphosed rocks exposed in the northeast is unknown, being either Precambrian or early Palaeozoic. Therefore, the tectonic evolution of this fold belt must remain very speculative. In its early stages (Precambrian or early Palaeozoic), the Thomson Fold Belt was probably a rifted continental margin adjacent to the Early to Middle Proterozoic craton to the west and north. The presence of calc-alkaline volcanics of Late Cambrian Early Ordovician and Early-Middle Devonian age suggests that the fold belt evolved to a convergent Pacific-type continental margin. The tectonic setting of the pre-cratonic (orogenic) stage of the Hodgkinson—Broken River Fold Belt is also uncertain. Most of this fold belt consists of strongly deformed, flysch-type sediments of Silurian-Devonian age. Forearc, back-arc and rifted margin settings have all been proposed for these deposits. The transitional stage of the Hodgkinson—Broken River Fold Belt was characterised by eruption of extensive silicic continental volcanics, mainly ignimbrites, and intrusion of comagmatic granitoids in Late Carboniferous Early Permian time. An Andean-type continental margin model, with calc-alkaline volcanics erupted above a west-dipping subduction zone, has been suggested for this period. The tectonic history of the New England Fold Belt is believed to be relatively well understood. It was the site of extensive and repeated eruption of calc-alkaline volcanics from Late Silurian to Early Cretaceous time. The oldest rocks may have formed in a volcanic island arc. From the Late Devonian, the fold belt was a convergent continental margin above a west-dipping subduction zone. For Late Devonian- Early Carboniferous time, parallel belts representing continental margin volcanic arc, forearc basin, and subduction complex can be recognised.A great variety of mineral deposits, ranging in age from Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician and possibly even Precambrian to Early Cretaceous, is present in the exposed rocks of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland. Volcanogenic massive sulphides and slate belt-type gold-bearing quartz veins are the most important deposits formed in the pre-cratonic (orogenic) stage of all three fold belts. The voicanogenic massive sulphides include classic Kuroko-type orebodies associated with silicic volcanics, such as those at Thalanga (Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician. Thomson Fold Belt) and at Mount Chalmers (Early Permian New England Fold Belt), and Kieslager or Besshi-type deposits related to submarine mafic volcanics, such as Peak Downs (Precambrian or early Palaeozoic, Thomson Fold Belt) and Dianne. OK and Mount Molloy (Silurian—Devonian, Hodgkinson Broken River Fold Belt). The major gold—copper orebody at Mount Morgan (Middle Devonian, New England Fold Belt), is considered to be of volcanic or subvolcanic origin, but is not a typical volcanogenic massive sulphide.The most numerous ore deposits are associated with calc-alkaline volcanics and granitoid intrusives of the transitional tectonic stage of the three fold belts, particularly the Late Carboniferous Early Perman of the Hodgkinson—Broken River Fold Belt and the Late Permian—Middle Triassic of the southeast Queensland part of the New England Fold Belt. In general, these deposits are small but rich. They include tin, tungsten, molybdenum and bismuth in granites and adjacent metasediments, base metals in contact meta somatic skarns, gold in volcanic breccia pipes, gold-bearing quartz veins within granitoid intrusives and in volcanic contact rocks, and low-grade disseminated porphyry-type copper and molybdenum deposits. The porphyry-type deposits occur in distinct belts related to intrusives of different ages: Devonian (Thomson Fold Belt), Late Carboniferous—Early Permian (Hodgkinson—Broken River Fold Belt). Late Permian Middle Triassic (southeast Queensland part of the New England Fold Belt), and Early Cretaceous (northern New England Fold Belt). All are too low grade to be of economic importance at present.Tertiary deep weathering events were responsible for the formation of lateritic nickel deposits on ultramafics and surficial manganese concentrations from disseminated mineralisation in cherts and jaspers.     

Multistage Variscan magmatism in the central Tauern Window (Austria) unveiled by U/Pb SHRIMP zircon data

U/Pb SHRIMP ages of nine Variscan leucocratic orthogneisses from the central Tauern Window (Austria) reveal three distinct pulses of magmatism in Early Carboniferous (Visean), Late Carboniferous (Stephanian) and Early Permian, each involving granitoid intrusions and a contemporaneous opening of volcano-sedimentary basins. A similar relationship has been reported for the Carboniferous parts of the basement of the Alps further to the west, e.g. the “External massifs” in Switzerland. After the intrusion of subduction-related, volcanic-arc granitoids (374?±?10?Ma; Zwölferkogel gneiss), collisional intrusive-granitic, anatectic and extrusive-rhyolitic/dacitic rocks were produced over a short interval at ca. 340?Ma (Augengneiss of Felbertauern: 340?±?4?Ma, Hochweißenfeld gneiss: 342?± 5?Ma, Falkenbachlappen gneiss: 343?±?6?Ma). This Early Carboniferous magmatism, which produced relatively small volumes of melt, can be attributed to the amalgamation of the Gondwana-derived “Tauern Window” terrane with Laurussia–Avalonia. Probably due to the oblique nature of the collision, transtensional phenomena (i.e. volcano-sedimentary troughs and high-level intrusives) and transpressional regimes (i.e. regional metamorphism and stacked nappes with anatexis next to thrust planes) evolved contemporaneously. The magmas are mainly of the high-K I-type and may have been generated during a short phase of decompressional melting of lithospheric mantle and lower crustal sources. In the Late Carboniferous, a second pulse of magmatism occurred, producing batholiths of calc-alkaline I-type granitoids (e.g. Venediger tonalite: 296?±?4?Ma) and minor coeval bodies of felsic and intermediate volcanics (Heuschartenkopf gneiss: 299?±?4?Ma, Peitingalm gneiss: 300?±?5?Ma). Prior to this magmatism, several kilometres of upper crust must have been eroded, because volcano-sedimentary sequences hosting the Heu- schartenkopf and Peitingalm gneisses rest unconformably on 340-Ma-old granitoids. The youngest (Permian) period of magma generation contains the intrusion of the S-type Granatspitz Central Gneiss at 271?±?4?Ma and the extrusion of the rhyolitic Schönbachwald gneiss protolith at 279?±?9?Ma. These magmatic rocks may have been associated with local extension along continental wrench zones through the Variscan orogenic crust or with a Permian rifting event. The Permian and the above-mentioned Late Carboniferous volcano-sedimentary sequences were probably deposited in intra-continental graben structures, which survived post-Variscan uplift and Alpine compressional tectonics.