First fission-track dating of zircons from Mesozoic complexes of the Crimea

The fission-track dating of detrital zircon from Mesozoic terrigenous complexes of the Crimean mountains has been carried out for the first time. A young zircon population from the Tavria Group of sandstones of the Yaman ravine was dated at 220.1 ± 12.6 Ma, and the zircon population from the same deposits of the Crimea’s southern coast, at 193.6 ± 13.1, 167.1 ± 12.1, and 154.0 ± 10.2 Ma. Sandstones from the lowermost parts of the Demerdzhi Formation on Mount Yuzhnaya Demerdzhi comprise the Middle Jurassic young zircon population (169.9 ± 8.6 Ma). The age of the young zircon population from the Chenka Formation in the region of the Settlement of Observatoriya corresponds to the initial Middle Jurassic (178.9 ± 9.1 Ma). The timing of the cooling of the Mount Kastel massif was established at 149.0 ± 10.9 Ma. In all the considered cases, the age of terrigenous complexes is close to the age of enclosed zircons. Volcanic and/or magmatic rocks that formed synchronously with accumulation of terrigenous complexes in the sedimentary basin are likely to have been sources of zircons. Hence, the data obtained allow the timing of the Triassic-Jurassic magmatism in the Crimean mountains to be refined and three stages of magmatism to be distinguished: Late Triassic (Carnian?), poorly expressed Early Jurassic, and Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bathonian).     

New paleomagnetic data of the Middle Jurassic igneous complex in the Bodrak River valley, Mountainous Crimea

In this paper, the results of paleomagnetic studies for the Middle Jurassic subvolcanic bodies and volcanogenic-sedimentary rocks that are exposed in the Bodrak River valley within the limits of the second range of the Crimean Mountains are presented. Detailed magnetic cleanings showed the applicability of most of the sampled objects for paleomagnetic studies. The natural remanent magnetization of the examined sample is usually the sum of two components; the most stable of them possesses a bipolar distribution, indicating its primary character. The similarity between the paleomagnetic directions of subvolcanic bodies and nearly coeval volcanogenic-sedimentary rocks, which occur at angles of about 60°, suggests the disturbed occurrence of the igneous bodies. These results can be used for further detailed paleomagnetic studies of the Middle Jurassic igneous complexes in Mountainous Crimea for paleomagnetic reconstruction and the solution of local geological and structural geological problems.     

Composition and conditions of formation of the parental melts of Jurassic dolerites of southwestern Crimea: Evidence from melt inclusions in olivine phenocrysts

This study focuses on Jurassic shallow intrusions and subvolcanic bodies from around Trudolyubovka village in the southwestern Crimea. All the rocks are similar in mineral composition and have similar geochemical features and occur in close spatial and geological association. This allows us to assign the intrusions to a single magmatic series and interpret them as differentiation products of a single parental melt. The investigation of melt inclusions in olivine from the most magnesian sample showed that the composition of igneous melts ranged from basalt to basaltic andesite of a moderately potassic subalkaline affinity. Compared with N-MORB, they are enriched in LILE, but have similar HFSE and REE contents. The early magmatic melts crystallized at temperatures ranging from 1240 to 1125°C, pressures of 6–8 kbar, and an oxygen fugacity of ΔQFM = +0.6; and later melts crystallized at 1090–940°C, ~1.5 kbar, and oxygen fugacity increasing from ΔQFM + 0.9 to ΔQFM + 2.3. The minimum pressure of groundmass crystallization was estimated as 40–60 bar. The primitive melts were formed in a mature island arc or an active continental margin setting by ~13% melting of a DMM-like source. The melting occurred at spinel-facies depths under the influence of a slab-derived fluid at a temperature 25°C below the dry peridotite solidus.     

Cretaceous and Jurassic intrusions in Crimean Mountains: The first data of U–Pb (SIMS SHRIMP) dating

U–Pb geochronological studies of igneous rocks of the Crimean Mountains were carried out for the first time. The ages of magma crystallization determined for gabbro–dolerites of the Dzhidair and Pervomaiskii intrusions point to the injection of these rocks during the Middle Jurassic Aalenian–Bajocian stage of magmatism. The Berriasian–Valanginian and Aptian age of sill-like bodies within the mass of volcanogenic–sedimentary rocks presumes the necessity to reconsider the common notion of an exclusively Albian magmatic event during the Cretaceous. High-precision U–Pb dating of magma intrusions allowed us to verify the age of Middle Jurassic magmatism and to distinguish the new Early Cretaceous Berriasian–Valanginian magmatism stage of basic composition.     

Geochemistry of Cenomanian/Turonian boundary sediments in the mountainous part of Crimea and the northwestern Caucasus

Detailed data obtained on the chemistry of sedimentary rocks from the mountainous part of Crimea and the northwestern Caucasus that were dated at the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary and were formed during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2) make it possible to calculate the dissolved oxygen concentration in the bottom waters of the sedimentation basin. The enrichment coefficients of trace elements in the black shales are revised and an explanation is suggested for the genesis of the rocks with regard for unusual climatic changes.     

内蒙古狼山地区侏罗系LA-ICP-MS碎屑锆石U-Pb定年及其物源意义

运用碎屑锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb测年和地球化学方法,对内蒙古狼山东升庙和义和久地区侏罗系石拐群物源进行了探讨。通过对111颗有效锆石年龄统计分析可知,年龄峰值以晚古生代(259~308Ma)为主,其次为古元古代(1.74~2.18Ga)和早古元古代—新太古代(2.39~2.58Ga)。晚古生代年龄与狼山大规模出露的海西期岩浆岩年龄一致,古元古代—新太古代年龄与狼山地区古元古代岩浆岩、孔兹岩带年龄分布特征相近。侏罗系砂岩稀土元素配分特征与海西期岩浆岩、乌拉山群、孔兹岩系相似。结合石拐群样品薄片和砾岩分析,认为侏罗系为近源沉积,其物源主要为狼山地区大规模海西期岩浆岩,其次来自河套地区孔兹岩带,狼山地区太古宙乌拉山群、古元古代岩浆岩和早—中三叠世岩浆岩可能提供了部分物源。另外,根据碎屑锆石最年轻年龄为243Ma(中三叠世),结合前人植物化石组合研究及狼山地区整体缺失三叠纪地层的特点,认为该套地层的时代应为早—中侏罗世。狼山地区侏罗系沉积物源模式为南北两侧为隆起物源区,主要物源为北侧狼山隆起,南侧河套隆起向北提供部分物源,不同地区物源存在一定差异。     

安徽铜陵冬瓜山铜、金矿床两阶段成矿模式

冬瓜山铜金矿床包括层状硫化物矿体、矽卡岩型和斑岩型矿体。层状硫化物矿体具层状形态和层控特征，矿石具块状、层纹状和揉皱状构造。燕山期岩浆岩及其岩浆流体对层状矿体进行了叠加和改造，改变了其结构构造、矿物组合和矿石成分，并在其上叠加蚀变和矿化。层状矿体中的铜是由含铜流体交代块状硫化物矿石形成的。冬瓜山铜金矿床经历了两次成矿作用：第一成矿阶段．在石炭纪中期，海底喷流作用形成了块状硫化物矿床，矿石成分以硫、铁矿为主；第二成矿阶段。燕山期岩浆侵人，一方面岩浆热液与围岩相互作用发生矽卡岩化、硅化、钾长石化、石英绢云母化和青磐岩化，形成矽卡岩型和斑岩型矿体，另一方面岩浆流体对块状硫化物矿体进行叠加改造，致使块状硫化物矿体富集铜等成矿物质。     

燕山构造带北部喀喇沁地区晚古生代-中生代岩浆活动的构造背景分析

燕山构造带北缘喀喇沁地区发育了晚古生代一中生代多期岩浆活动,记录了多期构造变形事件,是认识该构造带大地构造演化的理想地区。本文通过对该地区岩浆岩的系统定年及各期构造变形事件的研究,结合区域地质资料,综合分析了晚古生代一中生代的大地构造演化历史。分析结果表明,燕山构造带在早石炭世晚期一早二叠世处于古亚洲洋俯冲背景下的活动陆缘环境,出现了弧岩浆活动。中二叠世古亚洲洋沿索伦克缝合线关闭,使得燕山构造带成为周缘前陆挤压变形带,并对应着岩浆活动的平静期。之后燕山构造带分别出现了晚二叠世一三叠纪、中侏罗世、晚侏罗世与早白垩世4期伸展背景下的岩浆活动。在这些岩浆活动之间的平静期,先后发生了早侏罗世、晚侏罗世初、早白垩世初3期挤压事件。这些现象还表明,岩浆活动与构造演化具有明显的耦合关系,板内环境下岩浆活动发生在伸展背景中,而岩浆活动平静期多对应区域挤压活动。     

Low‐pressure–high‐temperature metamorphism during extension in a Jurassic magmatic arc,Central Pontides,Turkey

Magmatic arcs are zones of high heat flow; however, examples of metamorphic belts formed under magmatic arcs are rare. In the Pontides in northern Turkey, along the southern active margin of Eurasia, high temperature–low pressure metamorphic rocks and associated magmatic rocks are interpreted to have formed under a Jurassic continental magmatic arc, which extends for 2800 km through the Crimea and Caucasus to Iran. The metamorphism and magmatism occurred in an extensional tectonic environment as shown by the absence of a regional Jurassic contractional deformation, and the presence of Jurassic extensional volcaniclastic marine basin in the Pontides, over 2 km in thickness, where deposition was coeval with the high‐T metamorphism at depth. The heat flow was focused during the metamorphism, and unmetamorphosed Triassic sequences crop out within a few kilometres of the Jurassic metamorphic rocks. The heat for the high‐T metamorphism was brought up to crustal levels by mantle melts, relicts of which are found as ultramafic, gabbroic and dioritic enclaves in the Jurassic granitoids. The metamorphic rocks are predominantly gneiss and migmatite with the characteristic mineral assemblage quartz + K‐feldspar + plagioclase + biotite + cordierite ± sillimanite ± garnet. Mineral equilibria give peak metamorphic conditions of 4 ± 1 kbar and 720 ± 40 °C. Zircon U–Pb and biotite Ar–Ar ages show that the peak metamorphism took place during the Middle Jurassic at c. 172 Ma, and the rocks cooled to 300 °C at c. 162 Ma, when they were intruded by shallow‐level dacitic and andesitic porphyries and granitoids. The geochemistry of the Jurassic porphyries and volcanic rocks has a distinct arc signature with a crustal melt component. A crustal melt component is also suggested by cordierite and garnet in the magmatic assemblage and the abundance of inherited zircons in the porphyries.     

Revisiting Early–Middle Jurassic igneous activity in the Nanling Mountains,South China: Geochemistry and implications for regional geodynamics

Early–Middle Jurassic igneous rocks (190–170 Ma) are distributed in an E–W-trending band within the Nanling Tectonic Belt, and have a wide range of compositions but are only present in limited volumes. This scenario contrasts with the uniform but voluminous Middle–Late Jurassic igneous rocks (165–150 Ma) in this area. The Early–Middle Jurassic rocks include oceanic-island basalt (OIB)-type alkali basalts, tholeiitic basalts and gabbros, bimodal volcanic rocks, syenites, A-type granites, and high-K calc–alkaline granodiorites. Geochemical and isotopic data indicate that alkaline and tholeiitic basalts and syenites were derived from melting of the asthenospheric mantle, with asthenosphere-derived magmas mixing with variable amounts of magmas derived from melting of metasomatized lithospheric mantle. In comparison, A-type granites in the study area were probably generated by shallow dehydration-related melting of hornblende-bearing continental crustal rocks that were heated by contemporaneous intrusion of mantle-derived basaltic magmas, and high-K calc-alkaline granodiorites resulted from the interaction between melts from upwelling asthenospheric mantle and the lower crust. The Early–Middle Jurassic magmatic event is spatially variable in terms of lithology, geochemistry, and isotopic systematics. This indicates that the deep mantle sources of the magmas that formed these igneous rocks were significantly heterogeneous, and magmatism had a gradual decrease in the involvement of the asthenospheric mantle from west to east. These variations in composition and sourcing of magmas, in addition to the spatial distribution and the thermal structure of the crust–mantle boundary during this magmatic event, indicates that these igneous rocks formed during a period of rifting after the Indosinian Orogeny rather than during subduction of the paleo-Pacific oceanic crust.     

On the characteristics of the Ammonitico Rosso facies in Callovian (Middle Jurassic) sediments near planerskoe (East Crimea)

A condensed section of the Ammonitico Rosso facies has been described and studied for the first time in East Crimea. The Middle Callovian age of the sediment sequence was justified based on ammonites (the Reineckeia anceps zone). It is assumed that the sequence formed due to a eustatic rise of the sea level (sequence J2.4).     

The first finding of reliable Jurassic radiolarians in the Crimea

Radiolarians of Leugeonidae Yang et Wang, 1990, which represent a morphologically distinctive group of spherical radiolarians of the Spumellaria order, were found for the first time in Crimea and reliably confirm the Jurassic age of the finding. The nodules, which host the Jurassic radiolarians, were collected by A.S. Alekseev in 1983 in the terrigenous sequence of the Lozovskaya tectonic zone. The radiolarian assemblage in the nodules includes Levileugeo ordinarius Yang et Wang, Triactoma jonesi Pessagno, Pseudocrucella aff. prava Blome, Paronella kotura Baumgartner, P. ex gr. mulleri Pessagno, and Praeconocaryomma sp. The Levileugeo genus is easily identified due to its unique hexagonal element, which is typical only of the Jurassic, in particular, Upper Bajocian–Lower Tithonian radiolarians.     

内蒙古科尔沁右翼中旗花岗斑岩年代学研究

对内蒙古科尔沁右翼中旗花岗斑岩的同位素年代学研究结果表明,花岗斑岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb加权平均年龄为163.3±2.9 Ma,显示花岗斑岩体侵位于中侏罗世晚期.花岗斑岩具A型花岗岩特征,代表伸展构造岩浆活动.结合区域地质资料和前人相关研究,该区中侏罗世花岗斑岩可能形成于造山后伸展环境.花岗斑岩的期次厘定为松辽盆地的成生演化关系提供了新资料.     

对雅鲁藏布江结合带形成演化的再探讨

通过1∶5万区域地质调查和收集相关资料的综合研究,本文对雅鲁藏布江结合带的形成演化作了进一步的探讨。雅鲁藏布江特提斯洋具有弧后扩张洋盆的性质,在早三叠世至中三叠世中期洋盆初步形成,中三叠世晚期至晚三叠世洋盆全面形成,从早侏罗世至晚白垩世洋盆逐步萎缩,到古新世至始新世关闭。南带的蛇绿岩主要为洋中脊扩张型(MORB型),形成于中三叠世晚期至晚三叠世。北带的蛇绿岩主要为与洋内俯冲相关的俯冲带上盘型(SSZ型),形成于早中侏罗世。带内侏罗纪至白垩纪其他岩浆岩主要为前弧玄武岩类(FAB型)。显示雅鲁藏布江特提斯洋从早侏罗世开始发生了洋内俯冲,并同步向北向冈底斯带之下主动俯冲消减和向南向喜马拉雅地块之下被动俯冲消减,持续发展到晚白垩世,在古新世至始新世俯冲碰撞消亡转化为结合带。     

Biostratigraphy of Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary sediments in the Eastern Crimea

The Dvuyakornaya Formation section in the eastern Crimea is described and subdivided into biostratigraphic units based on ammonites, foraminifers, and ostracodes. The lower part of the formation contains first discovered ammonites of the upper Kimmeridgian (Lingulaticears cf. procurvum (Ziegler), Pseudowaagenia gemmellariana Olóriz, Euvirgalithacoceras cf. tantalus (Herbich), Subplanites sp.) and Tithonian (?(Lingulaticeras efimovi (Rogov), Phylloceras consaguineum Gemmellaro, Oloriziceras cf. schneidi Tavera, and Paraulacosphinctes cf. transitorius (Oppel)). Based on the assemblage of characteristic ammonite species, the upper part of the formation is attributed to the Berriasian Jacobi Zone. Five biostratigraphic units (zones and beds with fauna) distinguished based on foraminifers are the Epistomina ventriosa-Melathrokerion eospirialis Beds and Anchispirocyclina lusitanica-Melathrokerion spirialis Zone in the upper Kimmeridgian-Tithonian, the Protopeneroplis ultragranulatus-Siphoninella antiqua, Frondicularia cuspidiata-Saracenaria inflanta zones, and Textularia crimica Beds in the Berriasian. The Cyrherelloidea tortuosa-Palaeocytheridea grossi Beds of the Upper Jurassic and Raymoorea peculiaris-Eucytherura ardescae-Protocythere revili Beds of the Berriasian are defined based on ostracodes. A new biostratigraphic scale is proposed for the upper Kimmeridgian-Berriasian of the eastern Crimea. The Dvyyakornaya Formation sediments are considered as deepwater facies accumulated on the continental slope.     

西藏班公湖-怒江缝合带西段中特提斯洋盆的双向俯冲:来自岛弧型花岗岩锆石U-Pb年龄和元素地球化学的证据

笔者调查发现西藏班公湖-怒江缝合带西段狮泉河-改则-洞错蛇绿岩带北侧和拉果错蛇绿岩带南侧都有岛弧型花岗岩岩基产出。这些岩体岩性上以中粒花岗闪长岩为主,岩石化学上明显富集大离子不相容元素(LILE) Rb、Th、U、K、Pb,亏损高场强元素(HFSE)Nb、Ta、Ti,具有岛弧型岩浆岩的本质特征,指示着班公湖中特提斯洋盆存在双向俯冲。锆石U-Pb LAICPMS定年结果显示岩体在不同构造位置年龄并不一致,位于狮泉河-改则-洞错蛇绿岩带北侧的嘎拉勒和改则北两个岩体锆石²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U加权平均年龄分别为155.6±1.1Ma(MSWD=1.7)和142.15±0.35Ma(MSWD=2.9),位于拉果错蛇绿岩带南侧的扎布耶北岩体的锆石²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U加权平均年龄为134.07±0.77Ma(MSWD=1.8),表明班公湖中特提斯洋盆向北俯冲发生在晚侏罗世,而向南的俯冲发生在早白垩世,两者相差约8Ma。岛弧花岗岩浆都是由地幔楔部分熔融而成,岩浆源区经历过来自俯冲板片的沉积物熔体的交代。不同岩体的源区沉积物熔体的交代比例不同:扎布耶北岩体最多,大体在12%~16%之间;嘎拉勒岩体次之,在9%~13%之间;改则北岩体最少,为5%~10%。     

Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the Erguna massif basement,NE China – subduction history of the Mongol–Okhotsk oceanic crust

We present new geochronological and geochemical data for granites and volcanic rocks of the Erguna massif, NE China. These data are integrated with previous findings to better constrain the nature of the massif basement and to provide new insights into the subduction history of Mongol–Okhotsk oceanic crust and its closure. U–Pb dating of zircons from 12 granites previously mapped as Palaeoproterozoic and from three granites reported as Neoproterozoic yield exclusively Phanerozoic ages. These new ages, together with recently reported isotopic dates for the metamorphic and igneous basement rocks, as well as Nd–Hf crustal-residence ages, suggest that it is unlikely that pre-Mesoproterozoic basement exists in the Erguna massif. The geochronological and geochemical results are consistent with a three-stage subduction history of Mongol–Okhotsk oceanic crust beneath the Erguna massif, as follows. (1) The Erguna massif records a transition from Late Devonian A-type magmatism to Carboniferous adakitic magmatism. This indicates that southward subduction of the Mongol–Okhotsk oceanic crust along the northern margin of the Erguna massif began in the Carboniferous. (2) Late Permian–Middle Triassic granitoids in the Erguna massif are distributed along the Mongol–Okhotsk suture zone and coeval magmatic rocks in the Xing’an terrane are scarce, suggesting that they are unlikely to have formed in association with the collision between the North China Craton and the Jiamusi–Mongolia block along the Solonker–Xra Moron–Changchun–Yanji suture zone. Instead, the apparent subduction-related signature of the granites and their proximity to the Mongol–Okhotsk suture zone suggest that they are related to southward subduction of Mongol–Okhotsk oceanic crust. (3) A conspicuous lack of magmatic activity during the Middle Jurassic marks an abrupt shift in magmatic style from Late Triassic–Early Jurassic normal and adakite-like calc-alkaline magmatism (pre-quiescent episode) to Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous A-type felsic magmatism (post-quiescent episode). Evidently a significant change in geodynamic processes took place during the Middle Jurassic. Late Triassic–Early Jurassic subduction-related signatures and adakitic affinities confirm the existence of subduction during this time. Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous post-collision magmatism constrains the timing of the final closure of the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean involving collision between the Jiamusi–Mongolia block and the Siberian Craton to the Middle Jurassic.     

浙西开化地区桐村花岗斑岩LA-ICP-MS 锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

报道了浙西开化地区桐村含Cu、Mo花岗斑岩的LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄,2个样品加权平均年龄介于167.6~155.6 Ma之间,反映花岗斑岩形成于中、晚侏罗世。该时期同时又是燕山运动活跃的时期,区域构造以北西—南东向挤压为特征,形成走向北东的压性断裂和配套的南东向张性断裂。2组断裂交会产生的应力薄弱区为燕山期发生的规模性岩浆活动提供了侵位通道。因此,浙西地区拥有良好的构造和岩浆成矿条件,成矿潜力巨大。     

浙西开化地区桐村花岗斑岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

报道了浙西开化地区桐村含Cu、Mo花岗斑岩的LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄,2个样品加权平均年龄介于167.6～155.6Ma之间,反映花岗斑岩形成于中、晚侏罗世。该时期同时又是燕山运动活跃的时期,区域构造以北西—南东向挤压为特征,形成走向北东的压性断裂和配套的南东向张性断裂。2组断裂交会产生的应力薄弱区为燕山期发生的规模性岩浆活动提供了侵位通道。因此,浙西地区拥有良好的构造和岩浆成矿条件,成矿潜力巨大。