The U-Pb zircon dates obtained for the Sutara (480 ± 4 Ma), Kabalinskii (471 ± 10 Ma), and Durilovskii (461 ± 5 Ma) massifs reliably confirm an Early Proterozoic orogenic event, which took place after granulite metamorphism at approximately 500 Ma (Wilde et al., 2003) in the Lesser Khingan (Jiamusi) terrane. The rocks emplaced most shortly after the main metamorphic event are the granites of the Sutara Massif and leucogranites of the Kabalinskii Massif, whose geochemistry is close to that of collision granites. The quartz diorites and subalkaline granites of the Durilovskii Massif, whose geochemistry suggests their origin in a postcollision environment with the participation of an enriched mantle source, were emplaced longer after metamorphic event and after the aforementioned massifs.
1 November 2015 in Russian Journal of Pacific Geology
U–Pb geochronological studies reveal that the gabbro of the Mikitkin Massif and quartz diorite of the Ust’-Garin Massif of the Mamyn Terrane, which were provisionally assigned to the Early Proterozoic Garin Complex, have ages of 583 ± 6 Ma and 607 ± 8 Ma, i.e. Upper Riphean–Lower Vendian. The geochemical features of the magmatic rocks of the studied massifs indicate their suprasubduction origin. The parental melts of the magmatic rocks of the Garin Complex were formed in an active continental margin or ensialic island-arc setting due to melting of the subduction-modified depleted mantle source and the occurrence of contamination and fractional crystallization. These massifs were developed during the Ediacaran Stage of the geological evolution of the Mamyn Terrane and presumably reflect Neoproterozoic convergent geodynamic processes. These processes likely caused the ultimate formation of the Precambrian continental massifs in the eastern Central Asian fold belt, which were subsequently amalgamated into the structure of the epi-Paleozoic Amur microcontinent.
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New geological, isotopic-geochronological, petrochemical, and isotopic geochemical data were obtained on the Porosozero and Kolmozero sanukitoid intrusions in the Kola region. The Porosozero differentiated intrusion was formed in four phases successively emplaced during approximately 60 Ma. Phase 1 consists of a gabbrodiorite-quartz monzodiorite-granodiorite-granite series. The zircon ages of granodiorite and quartz monzodiorite from the Porosozero are 2733 ± 6 and 2734 ± 4 Ma, respectively. Phase 2 of the intrusion comprises biotite leucogranites and aplite and leucoplagiogranite veins. The zircon age of the leucogranite is 2712 ± 6 Ma. Phase 3 consists of lamprophyre dikes of odinite-spessartite-vogesite composition. The emplacement age of the lamprophyres is constrained by the age of magmatic zircon from an odinite dike: 2680 ± 10 Ma. The age of the metasomatic zircon is 2629 ± 8 Ma. Phase 4 is composed of the youngest pegmatite veins. The Rb-Sr isochron age of the phase-1 rocks is 2724 ± 74 Ma. The zircon age of granitoids from the Kolmozero is 2736 ± 4 Ma. The rocks of the sanukitoid intrusions affiliate with the calc-alkaline series, have Mg# = 0.45−0.60, are enriched in Ba, Sr, K, P, and LREE, and contain elevated concentrations of Cr and Ni. Sm-Nd isotopic data on sanukitoids from both intrusions suggest that they were derived from a mantle source enriched in LILE and LREE and having ɛNd(2740) from +1.02 to +0.36. It was melted approximately 140 Ma after its origin [T(DM) = 2.9−2.8 Ga]. The rocks of the Porosozero and Kolmozero are proved to be similar to magmatic sanukitoid series of Archean and Phanerozoic age whose genesis was controlled by mantle-crustal interaction in suprasubduction environments at active continental margins. Elevated concentrations of Ag and Au in rocks from the Porosozero make it metallogenically promising in terms of precious metals.
The first results of U–Pb geochronological studies of acid volcanic rocks from the Oktyabrsk Complex of the Mamyn Terrane, which had previously been conventionally attributed to the Late Proterozoic, are reported. It is established that rhyodacite of the Gar’–Dzheltulak volcanic field has Late Vendian age (546 ± 14 Ma) and trachyrhyodacite of the Kosmatinsk field has Late Cambrian age (490 ± 2 Ma). As a whole, the data obtained indicate two stages of acid volcanism on the Mamyn Terrane of the eastern part of the Central Asian Fold Belt covering the boundary between the Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic, as well as the Late Cambrian. Based on the geochemical peculiarities of rocks, it may be assumed that the early stage of volcanism was controlled by subduction, whereas the late stage was governed by riftogenic processes.
It is established that the igneous rocks of the northern Bureya continental massif, which are ascribed to the Amur, Drevnyaya Bureya, and Nyatygran complexes, are Late Paleozoic and Early...