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The Oka Belt (Southern Siberia and Northern Mongolia): A Neoproterozoic analog of the Japanese Shimanto Belt?
Authors:Alexander  Kuzmichev  Evgeny  Sklyarov  Anatoly  Postnikov and Elena  Bibikova
Institution:Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky 7, 119017 Moscow, Russia (email: ),;Institute of the Earth's Crust of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lermontova 128, Irkutsk, Russia,;Institute of Geology of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, Russia and;Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Kosygina Str. 19, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:Abstract   The Oka Belt, composed of clastic rocks and greenschists, extends for approximately 600 km in the South-Siberian Sayan region and adjacent northern Mongolia. For a long time the Oka Belt's age and tectonic setting were the most controversial problem in the region. We argue that the belt was formed in Late Neoproterozoic as an accretionary prism. The Oka Belt shows imbricated thrust structure, which had originally seaward vergence and reflected the Neoproterozoic accretion process. The Early Paleozoic orogeny had minor effect on its structural style. The belt contains tectonic slivers of mid-ocean ridge basalts, some oceanic-island basalts and possible pelagic sediments. In several localities they are associated with gabbro and serpentinite. All these rocks represent the oceanic lithosphere subducting beneath the Oka prism and trapped within it. In the inner zone of the Oka Belt are the blueschists exhumed from the deeper prism level. The northern Oka Belt includes mafic intrusions geochemically similar to normal mid-oceanic ridge basalt and felsic volcaniclastic rocks. This segment of the belt is very similar to the Tertiary portion of northern Shimanto Belt, in Japan, and has also experienced the subduction of orthogonal oceanic ridge beneath the prism. This event dates back to 753 ± 16 Ma (the U-Pb zircon discordia). The Oka prism started accreting in Mid-Neoproterozoic after the subduction had initiated under the Japan-like South-Siberian continental terrain. The prism existed through the second half of Neoproterozoic and accumulated a huge volume of sialic material to enlarge the nearby continent. Currently, the Oka Belt remains poorly studied and is very promising for further investigation and discoveries.
Keywords:accretionary prism  blueschists  Central-Asian Fold Belt  Mongolia  Neoproterozoic tectonics  Sayan  Siberia
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