Tectonic evolution of the Intra-Pontide suture zone in the Armutlu Peninsula, NW Turkey

The Armutlu Peninsula and adjacent areas in NW Turkey play a critical role in tectonic reconstructions of the southern margin of Eurasia in NW Turkey. This region includes an inferred Intra-Pontide oceanic basin that rifted from Eurasia in Early Mesozoic time and closed by Late Cretaceous time. The Armutlu Peninsula is divisible into two metamorphic units. The first, the Armutlu Metamorphics, comprises a ?Precambrian high-grade metamorphic basement, unconformably overlain by a ?Palaeozoic low-grade, mixed siliciclastic/carbonate/volcanogenic succession, including bimodal volcanics of inferred extensional origin, with a possibly inherited subduction signature. The second unit, the low-grade znik Metamorphics, is interpreted as a Triassic rift infilled with terrigenous, calcareous and volcanogenic lithologies, including basalts of within-plate type. The Triassic rift was unconformably overlain by a subsiding Jurassic–Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) passive margin including siliciclastic/carbonate turbidites, radiolarian cherts and manganese deposits. The margin later collapsed to form a flexural foredeep associated with the emplacement of ophiolitic rocks in Turonian time. Geochemical evidence from meta-basalt blocks within ophiolite-derived melange suggests a supra-subduction zone origin for the ophiolite. The above major tectonic units of the Armutlu Peninsula were sealed by a Maastrichtian unconformity. Comparative evidence comes from the separate Almacık Flake further east.Considering alternatives, it is concluded that a Mesozoic Intra-Pontide oceanic basin separated Eurasia from a Sakarya microcontinent, with a wider Northern Neotethys to the south. Lateral displacement of exotic terranes along the south-Eurasian continental margin probably also played a role, e.g. during Late Cretaceous suturing, in addition to overthrusting.     

Tectonic evolution of a restricted ocean basin: the Powell Basin (Northeastern Antarctic Peninsula)

Abstract

The Powell Basin is one of the few present-day examples of a small isolated ocean basin largely surrounded by blocks of continental crust. The continental blocks in this basin result from the fragmentation of the northern Antarctic Peninsula. This basin was created by the eastward motion of the South Orkney microcontinent relative to the Antarctic Peninsula. The axial rift, identified by multichannel seismic profiles obtained during the HESANT 92/93 cruise, and the gravimetric anomalies of the basin plain, together with the transcurrent faults along the northern and southern margins, indicate a predominant WSW-ENE trend of basin extension. The South Orkney microcontinent was incorporated into the Antarctic Plate during the Miocene as a consequence of the end of basin spreading. The eastern and western margins are conjugate and have an intermediate crust in the region of transition to the basin plain. The differences in the basement structure and the architecture of the depositional units suggest that the extensional process was asymmetrical. The southern transtensive margin and the northern transcurrent margin are rectilinear and steep, without any intermediate crust in the narrow fault zone between the base of the continentalblocks slope and the oceanic crust. The multichannel seismic profiles across the central sector of the basin reveal a spreading axis with a double ridge and a central depression filled with sediments. The geometry of the reflectors in this depression indicates that the ponded deposits belong to the early stages of oceaniccrust accretion. This structure is similar to the overlapping spreading centres observed in fast-spreading oceanic axes, where the spreading axis has relay and overlapping segments.

The depositional units of the margins and basin plain have been grouped into four depositional sequences, comprising the classic stages in the formation of an ocean basin: pre-rift (S1), syn-rift (S2), syn-drift (S3), and post-drift (S4). The pre-rift sequence has deformed reflectors and is observed in the southern and eastern margins. The syn-rift sequence, tectonically disrupted, fills depressions bounded by faults and is well-developed in the eastern margin where it is truncated by an erosive surface identified as the break-up unconformity. The syn-drift sequence is wedge-shaped in the basin, thickening towards the margins and having onlap relations on the flanks of the spreading ridge. The post-drift sequence is the thickest unit and is characterised by a cyclic pattern of alternating packages of high-amplitude reflectors, very continuous, and low-amplitude reflectors. Towards the western and eastern margins, the same sequence has channel-levee complexes and channelised, wedged bodies attributed to turbiditic deposits of submarine fans derived from canyons located in the slope and outer shelf. The cyclic nature of this sequence is probably related to advancing and receding grounded ice sheets in the continental shelf since the latest Miocene.     

Petrogenesis of multistage S-type granites from the Malay Peninsula in the Southeast Asian tin belt and their relationship to Tethyan evolution

The relationship between plate tectonics and the reworking of continental crust remains controversial. Multistage, hornblende-free, S-type granites across the Malay Peninsula Sn belt are ideal for investigating this research question. Here we present zircon U-Pb ages, in-situ apatite Nd and zircon Hf isotope data, and whole-rock major and trace element data for these S-type granites and spatially associated dykes. Four generations of Permian–Triassic (276–272, 262–260, 231–222, and 202 Ma) S-type granites were identified. The different S-type granites show distinct in-situ zircon Hf and apatite Nd isotopic compositions, implying generation from different sedimentary protoliths. Input of mantle-derived components for the formation of all these S-type granites, further indicating that both continental crustal reworking and growth occurred in the Malay Peninsula during the Permian–Triassic. A 250 Ma dolerite dyke in the Eastern Province was derived from an E-MORB-like mantle source. However, a 202 Ma monzonite dyke in the Western Province, was derived from mafic magmas produced by the melting of enriched mantle, followed by subsequent incorporation of crustal materials. All these S-type granitic magmas were reduced that inherited from sedimentary protoliths, which were favourable for Sn mineralization. Apatite F-Cl concentrations and F/Cl ratios in the S-type granites and related dykes changed systematically through time. We infer that the formation of these S-type granites and related dykes corresponds to the Palaeo-Tethyan evolution (i.e., early subduction of Palaeo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere and subsequent collision between the Sibumasu and Indochina blocks). Our study also support that multistage S-type granites can be generated in distinct tectonic environments at different times in the same region.     

Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonics of the Malay Peninsula constrained by thermochronology

New thermochronological analyses of granites from the Malay Peninsula record the region’s thermal history during the Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and (U–Th–Sm)/He analyses are combined with existing fission track data to provide a comprehensive set of temperature and time data. Fully and partially reset K-feldspar and biotite mica ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar analyses indicate a significant period of thermal perturbation between ∼100 and ∼90 Ma, and a second lesser perturbation between ∼51 and ∼43 Ma. Zircon (U–Th–Sm)/He analyses and existing fission track data indicate exhumation of the Malay Peninsula in the Cretaceous, and renewed, localised exhumation in the early Paleogene. Apatite (U–Th–Sm)/He and fission track data indicate rapid exhumation of the region in the Late Eocene and Oligocene. Late Cretaceous tectonism is linked to the reversal of a regional dynamic topographic low following the cessation of subduction along the Sundaland margin in the Late Cretaceous, causing regional uplift and exhumation and the addition of significant heat into the crust via mantle upwelling. Early Paleogene exhumation may reflect the continuation of Cretaceous tectonism or a discrete phase of Paleocene exhumation linked to localised transpressional tectonics. Eocene tectonism is coincident with major subsidence offshore of the Malay Peninsula, interpreted to reflect regional block faulting in response to north–south compression driven by the resumption of subduction along the southern margin of Sundaland in the Eocene.     

Early to Middle Paleozoic tectonometamorphic evolution of the Hongseong area,central western Korean Peninsula: Tectonic implications

The migmatized gneiss (viz. Gwangcheon gneiss) of the southern Hongseong area, central–western Korean Peninsula underwent intermediate to high granulite-facies metamorphism (ca. 9.2–12.0 kbar and 770–870 °C) during Early Silurian to Early Devonian in age. Field and petrographic evidences from the Gwangcheon migmatite provide a clear indication of partial melting. Particularly the migmatized paragneiss is juxtaposed with arc-related doleritic metagabbro, which might be related to the heat source of the migmatization. The migmatized paragneiss has similar arc-related geochemical characteristics, such as depletions in Ta–Nb, Sr, P, and Ti and enrichments in large ion lithophile elements (LILE) caused by the partial melting effect related to the doleritic metagabbro. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) zircon U–Pb dating of the migmatized paragneiss yielded ages of 432 ± 6 Ma, 431 ± 10 Ma, 421 ± 3 Ma, and 403 ± 3 Ma. The U–Pb ages of inherited zircons from the migmatized paragneiss yielded an age spectra from Neoarchean to Early Paleozoic, with a dominant age population at Neoproterozoic. In contrast, new-growth and recrystallized equant zircons showed dominant concordant Early Silurian to Early Devonian ages that provide critical evidence on the timing of migmatization. These age results and the tectonic signatures are similar to those reported from the Central China Orogenic Belt in China, indicating their tectonic linkage at the northeastern margin of eastern Gondwana during Early to Middle Paleozoic in age.     

藏北羌塘盆地构造特征及演化

羌塘盆地基底由元古宙变质岩系组成,具双层结构,下部为结晶"硬基底"、上部为变质"软基底";构造上具两坳夹一隆和断凸断凹特征。盆地盖层由中泥盆统至第三系组成,主要为海相碳酸盐岩和碎屑岩及白垩系、第三系陆相砂、砾岩。盖层中变形强烈,发育多组褶皱、断裂。变形在平面上方向性、分带性、等距性明显;在剖面上具差异性、不协调性。盆地主要变形期为燕山期-喜马拉雅期。     

样子哨盆地构造演化特征

样子哨盆地基底为龙岗地块,盖层以晚元古代地层、古生代地层为主。基底构造变形以韧塑性变形和塑性纵弯柔流褶皱及固态流变剪切变形为主,发生片理、片麻理、褶皱及条带状构造。盖层经历多次挤压隆升和拉张断陷运动,屡次遭受海侵—海退,沉积了典型的地台型沉积建造。后经断块运动,改造或继承先期断裂,形成盆地—山岭式构造。     

A Review of the Bentong-Raub Suture vis-à-vis New Insight of the Tectonic Evolution of Malay Peninsula,South East Asia

Genesis of the so‐called Bentong‐Raub Suture of Malay Peninsula does not fit to the model of subduction‐related collision. It has evolved from transpression tectonics resulting closure and exhumation of the inland basin which underwent extensive back‐arc extension during Triassic. Crust having similar thickness (average ～35 km) below entire Malay Peninsula nagate collision of two separate continental blocks rather supports single continental block that collided with South China continental block during Permo‐Triassic. Westward subduction of intervening sea (Proto South China Sea) below Malay Peninsula resulted in widespread I‐ and S‐Type granitization and volcanism in the back‐arc basins during Triassic. Extensive occurrence of Permo‐Triassic Pahang volcanics of predominantly rhyolitic tuff suggest its derivation from back‐arc extension. Back‐arc extension, basin development and sedimentation of the central belt of the peninsula continued until Cretaceous. A‐Type granite of metaluminous to peraluminous character indicates their emplacement in an intraplate tectonic setting. Malay Peninsula suffered an anticlockwise rotation due to the rifting of Luconia–Dangerous Grounds from the east Asia in the Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary. Extensive ductile and brittle deformation including crustal segmentation, pull‐apart fracturing and faulting occurred during the closure and exhumation of the basins developed in the peninsula during Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary. Crustal shortening in the central belt of the peninsula has been accomodated through strike‐slip displacement, shearing and uplift.     

Tectonic evolution of the Triassic fold belts of Tibet

The Triassic fold belt of North Tibet is mainly composed, from west to east, of the Bayan Har, Songpan–Garzê, and Yidun (or Litang–Batang) terranes. The Indosinian orogeny results from interactions between the South China, North China and Qiangtang (North Tibet) blocks during the closure of the Palaeotethys. A synthesis of the tectonic and geochronological data available on this belt is presented and a new geodynamic model of its formation is proposed. At the end of the Permian, a synchronous activity along three subduction zones, Kunlun–Anyemaqen to the north, Jinsha to the south and Yushu–Batang to the east, induced the growth of wide accretionary orogens until the end of the Triassic period. The onset of subduction in Tibet is contemporaneous with Indosinian tectonism in Indochina (pre-Norian). However, the main tectonic events that lead to the closure of the Tethysian basin and the subsequent building of the Triassic belts are younger (220–200 Ma).     

Recent Tectonic Rupturing on the Mud Volcano of Mount Karabetova,Taman Peninsula

Doklady Earth Sciences - In October 2019, extremely impressive, fresh ruptures of the surface on the mud volcano of Mount Karabetova were discovered. The ruptures are represented by all the main...     

佳木斯地块构造演化

佳木斯地块位于中亚造山带东段,是我国东北地区一个重要的大地构造单元,古生代以来经历了复杂的多构造体系叠合的演化过程。本文在总结近二十年已报导的相关研究成果基础上,结合笔者近年工作,探讨了佳木斯地块的基底属性和来源,重塑了佳木斯地块西缘碰撞拼贴,以及东缘俯冲-增生的构造演化过程。研究表明,佳木斯地块具有亲冈瓦纳大陆的构造属性,裂离后经历了长距离的北漂。与松辽地块先后两次拼合,首次发生于中志留世(～425Ma),在晚二叠世前后(～250Ma)沿原缝合带位置发生裂解,拉张出新的有限洋盆(牡丹江洋),并于侏罗纪(185～145Ma)与松辽地块沿牡丹江-依兰构造带再次碰撞拼贴,形成了高压变质的黑龙江增生杂岩带。而佳木斯地块东缘受晚石炭世-晚三叠世(305～250Ma)泛大洋的俯冲-增生事件影响,形成了跃进山增生杂岩,随后于中侏罗世-早白垩世(165～128Ma)在古太平洋板块的西向俯冲作用下,形成了饶河增生杂岩。因此,佳木斯地块的构造演化既涉及了晚古生代古亚洲洋构造域的消亡,又经历了中生代古太平洋构造域的叠加与改造,而黑龙江杂岩的形成标志着古太平洋构造体制与古亚洲洋构造体制的转换始于晚三叠世(～210Ma)。     

Tectonic progradation and plate tectonic evolution of the Alps

Rifting and spreading, trench formation, flysch deposition, subduction and nappe formation prograde from internal to external parts of the Alpine orogen. The progradation is a characteristic feature of the evolution of the Alps. A plate tectonics model based on this cognition is presented and an attempt is made to integrate the plate movements of the Alpine region during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic into the plate pattern of the Western Mediterranean.

Important events in the evolution of the Alps are the successive opening and closing of the Piedmont (South Penninic) and Valais (North Penninic) oceans, and the two continental collisions related to this. The southward drift of the Briançonian plate in the Cretaceous closes the Piedmont and opens the Valais ocean. The evolution of these oceans is related to the plate movements in the North Atlantic. The second continental collision is followed by the formation of an exogeosyncline, the molasse foredeep.

Prograding orogens like the Alps are most likely to evolve in an originally continental environment by rifting. Retrograding orogens, however, indicate an originally oceanic environment with well-developed magmatic arcs and back-arc basins.     

胶东郭城地区脉岩类岩石地球化学特征及成岩构造背景

胶东海阳郭城地区高密度、高频率产出多种脉岩类岩石,主要包括辉绿岩(βμ)、煌斑岩(χ)、闪长岩(δ)、闪长玢岩(δμ)、花岗斑岩(νπ)、正长斑岩(ξπ)等,且脉岩与金矿密切伴生。为了探讨该区脉岩的成因、源区性质及成岩构造背景,本文通过岩石学和地球化学研究表明,该区脉岩总体属于钾质钙碱性系列,高Mg、Fe、Al,低Ti,来自深部同一岩浆源区,富集LILE和LREE,相对亏损HFSE,为弥散状角闪石相橄榄岩富集地幔部分熔融作用(9.52%)的产物。成岩过程中岩浆经历了橄榄石、单斜辉石、角闪石等暗色矿物以及少量斜长石的分离结晶作用,岩浆侵位过程中没有受到地壳物质的混染。脉岩形成于大陆板内环境,同时具有大陆弧钙碱性玄武岩的地球化学特征,暗示了在构造背景上与太平洋板块的俯冲作用及晚侏罗世至早白垩世华北地块岩石圈的区域性伸展—减薄机制有关,可能与郯庐断裂带在该时期的左行走滑引张关系更为密切。     

Tectonic evolution of the Pacific Ocean since 74 ma

A recent re-evaluation of the Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic sea-floor spreading data in the eastern Pacific has allowed us to make a new interpretation of the timing and sequence of the tectonic events which produced the present configuration of the plates (Whitman and Harrison, 1981; Whitman, 1981). Rotation parameters specifying the relative motion between all pairs of plates in the ocean basin have been calculated from the best fit of oceanic magnetic anomalies, with additional input from bathymetry and crustal ages of the Deep Sea Drilling Project sites. The rotation parameters for the relative motion between the Pacific and Antarctic plates are taken from Weissel et al. (1977) and the continental rotation parameters are from Barron et al. (1981).Plate motions have been determined back to 74 Ma. This time marks the initiation of spreading at the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge which caused the separation of the Campbell Plateau from Antarctica (Barron et al., 1981). Thus, this time is the earliest fix on the position of the Pacific plate relative to the continents surrounding the Pacific Ocean basin using sea-floor spreading. Since it is not possible to derive quantitative information about the relative motion between two plates separated by a trench, all rotations for the oceanic plates of the Pacific basin have been calculated relative to the Pacific plate and then relative to North America through the plate circuit: Pacific-Antarctica-Africa-North AmericaSince we also know the relative position of North America with respect to the other continents, we can show the relative position of the Pacific plate and the other oceanic plates with respect to all of the continental plates surrounding the Pacific Ocean basin.     

藏东类乌齐-左贡成矿带构造演化与成矿作用

藏东类乌齐-左贡成矿带(简称类-左带)是三江特提斯成矿域内一条重要的成矿带,其整体的研究较为薄弱、零散。本文基于最新的研究成果,按照成矿时代、地质背景、成矿作用及成矿元素组合将带内矿床划分为了6个成矿系列,包括：(1)印支期晶质石墨矿系列;(2)印支期蛇绿岩相关风化淋滤型菱镁矿系列;(3)印支期沉积-改造型Fe-Cu多金属系列;(4)燕山期与中酸性岩浆岩相关的W-Sn-Mo-Cu多金属系列;(5)燕山期热液脉型Pb-Zn多金属系列;(6)喜山期MVT型Pb-Zn多金属系列。针对每一个成矿系列,作者选取了典型矿床对其成矿地质特征进行了简要论述,并对其成因机制进行了重点剖析。此外,作者深入探讨了类-左带内区域构造演化与成矿作用之间的关系,指出各类矿床在带内大量发育是古、中、新特提斯构造长期演化的结果。本项研究有助于深入认识类-左带内的成矿作用与成矿规律,并对区内未来的找矿勘查工作具有重要的参考价值。     

Tectonic evolution of the Iceland region,North Atlantic

Major hypotheses on the formation of the Iceland region are considered. It is noted that plate- and plume-tectonic genesis is the most substantiated hypothesis for this region. Model estimations of the effect of hot plume on the formation of genetically different oceanic ridges are obtained. Computer calculations are performed for the thermal subsidence rate of aseismic ridges (Ninetyeast and Hawaiian-Emperor) in the asthenosphere of the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comparative analysis of the calculated subsidence rates of these ridges with those in the Iceland region (Reykjanes and Kolbeinsey ridges) is performed. The results suggest that the thermophysical processes of formation of the spreading Reykjanes and Kolbeinsey ridges were similar to those of the aseismic Ninetyeast and Hawaiian-Emperor ridges: the genesis of all these ridges is related to the functioning of a hotspot. Analysis of the heat flux distribution in the Iceland Island and Hawaiian Rise areas is carried out. Analysis and numerical calculations indicate that the genesis of Iceland was initially characterized by the plume-tectonic transformation of a continental rather than oceanic lithosphere. The level of geothermal regime near Iceland was two times higher (100 mW/m²) relative to the Hawaiian Rise area (50 mW/m²) because the average lithosphere thickness of the Reykjanes and Kolbeinsey ridges near the Iceland was approximately two times less (40 km) relative to the thickness of the Pacific Plate (80 km) in the Hawaiian area. The main stages of evolution of the Iceland region are based on geological and geothermal data and numerical thermophysical modeling. The Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the region is considered. Paleogeodynamic reconstructions of the North Atlantic in the hotspot system at 60, 50, and 20 Ma are obtained.     

抚顺浑南地区构造演化与成矿作用

本文通过对抚顺浑南地区区域地质构造发展演化阶段和地质事件分析,确定本区地壳具有多旋回演化的特点,经历了中朝准地台结晶基底形成阶段(太古代—早元古代)、地台稳定盖层发展阶段(中元古代—中三叠世)和大陆边缘活动带发展阶段(晚三叠世—新生代)三个大地构造演化阶段;依据区内各矿床成矿地质条件、矿产类型、同位素年龄资料的研究,对各成矿时代的成矿作用进行了归纳和探讨,确定区内有3个主要成矿期,这一新的认识对指导找矿具有重要意义。