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阿拉善地区新元古代晋宁期变形花岗岩的发现及其地质意义 总被引：19，自引：2，他引：19
在内蒙古阿拉善地区原划分的阿拉善岩群中识别并划分出了新元古代（晋宁期）的变形花岗岩。该期变形花岗岩主要为眼还需状片麻岩，以高SiO2、碱（NaO2 K2O）、REE，低MgO、TFeO、CaO且K2O大于Na2O，具强烈负Eu异常为特点。两相样品的锆石逐层蒸发法年龄分别为971Ma和845Ma，表明它们是晋宁期岩浆事件的产物。地球化学特征和含有电气石、白云母的矿物组合特点表明，阿拉善地区晋宁期的变形花岗岩形成于同碰撞构造环境。该区晋宁期变形花岗岩的发现意味着新元古代早期的岩浆活动一直影响到华北地台的西北缘。 相似文献
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前寒武纪变沉积岩系是阿拉善地块重要组成部分,准确测定其原岩成岩时代和变质时代,对于进一步认识阿拉善地块起源、形成、演化与亲缘性具有十分重要的科学意义.本文对阿拉善地块东部阿拉坦敖包地区德尔和通特组含蓝晶石石榴云母石英片岩开展了系统的野外地质调查、岩相学观察和同位素年代学研究.碎屑锆石U-Pb定年和野外地质调查表明,阿拉坦敖包地区德尔和通特组和祖宗毛道组碎屑锆石年龄介于3 306~1 146 Ma,并以出现中元古代锆石年龄（1 800~1 100 Ma）高频区为特征,最小一组碎屑锆石年龄约为1 123 Ma,结合区域上它们被约900 Ma花岗质片麻岩侵入的野外关系,阿拉坦敖包地区德尔和通特组与祖宗毛道组变沉积岩系的沉积时代被限定在1 123~900 Ma之间,为一套中元古代晚期?新元古代早期陆缘沉积建造,具有亲华北板块的特点.此外,变质独居石和变质锆石U-Pb定年和微量元素分析表明,阿拉坦敖包地区德尔和通特组含蓝晶石泥质片岩中发育大量变质独居石,它们具有典型变质独居石的稀土元素配分模式（轻稀土元素强烈富集而重稀土元素强烈亏损）,其加权平均年龄为419±3 Ma（MSWD=7.1,n=40）,类似地,一个锆石变质边也记录了406±7 Ma的206Pb/238U年龄.这些变质年龄被解释为阿拉善地块东部阿拉坦敖包地区德尔和通特组含蓝晶石石榴云母石英片岩遭受早古生代末角闪岩相变质?变形作用的时代,可能是阿拉善地块与周缘微陆块早古生代末碰撞造山作用的响应. 相似文献
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阿拉善变质基底中的早二叠世岩浆热事件——来自同位素年代学的证据 总被引：11，自引：3，他引：8
在阿拉善变质基底中发现了大量的早二叠世的弱变形花岗岩类。采自阿拉善东部的闪长质片麻岩(AL0705-1)、含石榴英云闪长质片麻岩(AL0709-1)、英云闪长岩(AL0718-1)、条痕状黑云斜长片麻岩(AL0822-1)和片麻状花岗岩(AL0822-3)的锆石U-Pb年龄分别为270±1.6Ma、276±1.8Ma、269±2.4Ma、276±2.4Ma和287±2.5Ma。采自阿拉善变质基底西部的花岗闪长质片麻岩(AL0805-1)、闪长质片麻岩(AL0805-4)、粗粒花岗闪长质片麻岩(AL0810-1)和中粒闪长质片麻岩(AL0810-2)的锆石LA-ICP-MSU-Pb年龄分别为284±3Ma、289±3Ma、276±2Ma和279±2Ma。尽管早二叠世花岗岩的岩石类型和化学成分不同,但它们都形成于269～289Ma一个较短的时间范围,属于同一期岩浆热事件的产物。早二叠世花岗岩的形成年龄与基底变质岩中角闪石39Ar-40Ar的坪年龄277～288Ma近于一致,表明这期岩浆热事件对基底变质岩石产生了改造,使角闪石等变质矿物的Ar-Ar同位素体系发生了重置。在阿拉善变质基底中大量早二叠世花岗岩类侵入体的发现表明,阿拉善变质基底在古生代晚期受到中亚造山带碰撞造山作用的强烈影响和改造。 相似文献
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波罗斯坦庙杂岩是东阿拉善地块典型的中-高级变质杂岩之一,它的深入研究对进一步认识阿拉善地块起源、形成与演化过程具有十分重要的科学意义.通过对波罗斯坦庙杂岩中石英闪长质片麻岩、斜长角闪岩与花岗伟晶岩的野外观察、岩石学与锆石U-Pb定年发现,波罗斯坦庙杂岩中石英闪长质片麻岩、斜长角闪岩与花岗伟晶岩的岩浆锆石加权平均年龄分别为284±2 Ma、278±3 Ma,276±2 Ma、271±3 Ma与242±7 Ma,该组年龄被解释为其原岩成岩时代.石英闪长质片麻岩与斜长角闪岩中变质锆石加权平均年龄分别为274±6 Ma、272±5 Ma与269±3 Ma、268±2 Ma,代表它们遭受了晚古生代变质作用的时间.综合以上分析与前人研究资料,初步认为以往曾被认为是新太古代-古元古代的波罗斯坦庙杂岩,实际上可能是一个古元古代-晚古生代中-高级变质杂岩,并遭受了280~260 Ma角闪岩相变质作用,指示它们曾被卷入到中亚造山带晚古生代造山作用过程. 相似文献
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阿拉善地块西部的北大山地区识别出两期韧性变形构造,早期的韧性变形以从南(南东)向北(北西)逆冲为特征,晚期的韧性变形以近东西向左行剪切为特征。利用LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年方法,在记录早期韧性变形的片麻岩中获得锆石的变质年龄为422±1 Ma,代表晚志留世变质事件;在记录晚期韧性变形的2件二长花岗岩中获得锆石结晶年龄分别为326.2±1.2 Ma和323.8±2.6 Ma,代表早石炭世岩浆活动。结合前人研究成果,发现阿拉善地块西部北大山地区的两期韧性变形特征、变形时代与阿拉善地块东部巴彦乌拉山-狼山地区相似,同时阿拉善地块东、西部晚奥陶世-石炭纪多期岩浆活动的岩石类型、期次、地化及Nd同位素等特征也非常相似。以上特征表明,阿拉善地块东、西部经历了相同的构造演化历史,形成一条发育在早前寒武纪变质基底之上、呈近东西向弧形展布的晚奥陶世-石炭纪构造-岩浆岩带(西起桃花拉山,经北大山、诺尔公-巴彦乌拉山,东到狼山),其成因与古亚洲洋的俯冲造山事件密切相关。 相似文献
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鄂东北麻城两路口地区新元古代变质岩锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
鄂东北麻城两路口地区位于北大别杂岩带南部,对该区变质岩的研究有重要的古构造和古气候环境意义。本文对该地区6个变质岩样品进行了LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年。结果显示,3个花岗质片麻岩和1个变质浅色花岗岩样品得到742±38~805±7 Ma的年龄,而2个斜长角闪岩样品则得到793±11~843±72Ma的年龄。其中1个斜长角闪岩样品的年龄值(793 11 Ma)与花岗质片麻岩和变质花岗岩样品的年龄值(792~805 Ma)在误差范围内一致,表明该区存在新元古代双峰式岩浆活动。秦岭(北秦岭、武当地区)–桐柏、大别和苏鲁造山带几近同时的新元古代岩浆作用表明它们在新元古代时可能是统一整体,且属于扬子陆块的组成部分;大别-苏鲁造山带新元古代岩浆岩的形成可能与Rodinia超大陆裂解、雪球地球事件和裂谷作用相关。 相似文献
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中国东北地区是解决东亚大陆构造演化的关键地区,备受众多学者关注。近年来,关于额尔古纳地块基底性质和东界问题一直存在争议。本文对太平林场花岗片麻岩进行了锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb测年,锆石年龄主要集中在840～830 Ma、800～780 Ma和730～720 Ma的3个时间段内,可能为新元古代时期的3期岩浆热事件时间。其中21个锆石测点 206Pb/238U 年龄的加权平均值为779±20 Ma(MSWD=8.3),表明原岩在新元古代就已侵位结晶; 1个锆石测点U-Pb同位素年龄为494±10 Ma,Th/U比值为0.06,暗示了锆石应为变质成因,可能为花岗片麻岩的变质年龄。结合前人已报道额尔古纳地块和兴安地块上花岗质岩石年龄数据,对比发现仅额尔古纳地块经历了新元古代岩浆热事件作用; 同时对比两地块上花岗岩Hf同位素特征发现,二者具有不同的地壳早期演化阶段。因此,在早古生代早期二者应该沿塔河-喜桂图缝合带拼合并共同经历了古生代以来的岩浆作用改造,而不是传统观点认为的德尔布干断裂作为两地块的边界。 相似文献
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甘肃北山西部地处塔里木、柴达木和华北 (阿拉善 )三个前寒武纪地块的交汇部位 ,是受显生宙天山造山带、祁连造山带和阿尔金造山带多次叠加改造的地区。近几年 ,随着新元古代榴辉岩、花岗岩的新发现 ,结合新元古代伟晶岩脉群、辉绿岩墙群和震旦纪未变质沉积盖层 ,初步确定了该地区新元古代陆块汇聚与裂解的地质事件框架。在新元古代早期 ,塔里木地块与柴达木地块可能发生斜向汇聚 ,并以深层次韧性剪切带进行焊接 ,其时间在 913Ma左右。稍后 ,在塔里木地块北部的柳园一带 ,塔里木地块与另一个地块发生碰撞 ,形成了榴辉岩和大面积带状分布的花岗岩 ,其时间在 86 0～ 880Ma左右。之后 ,在经过汇聚的大陆块内部发生裂解 ,形成了两期辉绿岩墙群。随着裂解作用的进一步加强 ,该地区进入到陆相砂砾岩和海相碳酸盐沉积阶段 ,形成了安南坝群沉积建造 ,其时间在 70 0Ma左右。 相似文献
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大别山南部宿松杂岩的U-Pb锆石和Ar-Ar角闪石年龄及其地质意义 总被引：12，自引：2，他引：12
大别造山带南部宿松杂岩中花岗片麻岩和斜长角闪岩的U-Pb锆石年龄和Ar/Ar角闪石年龄测定结果表明,二长花岗片麻岩的形成年龄为2018±73Ma和2010±38Ma,白云斜长片麻岩的形成年龄为741±7Ma,宿松杂岩经过228Ma左右的变质作用。这些结果表明大别山南缘存在较大规模的古元古代花岗质结晶基底,广泛分布在宿松杂岩中的花岗片麻岩和由花岗片麻岩强烈剪切变形而成的白云斜长片麻岩、白云钠长石英片岩形成于新元古代,不整合覆于二长花岗片麻岩之上并被新元古代花岗片麻岩侵入的变质沉积岩形成于中元古代晚期-新元古代早期。由此得出,宿松杂岩主要由古元古代二长花岗片麻岩、中新元古代变质沉积岩和新元古代变质花岗岩和变质基性岩组成,因而也是扬子板块的俯冲陆壳基底的一部分。 相似文献
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色尔腾山岩群是华北克拉通中西部早前寒武纪变质结晶基底的主要组成部分,对研究华北克拉通基底演化具有十分重要的意义。色尔腾山岩群的形成时代是目前研究的热点之一,本文通过岩石学和锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年研究,查明了内蒙古乌拉特中旗乌兰乡查干哈达地区色尔腾山岩群东五分子岩组的岩石组成和年代学特征。东五分子岩组遭受了后期岩浆和构造作用的强烈破坏,未见顶底,主要由中细粒斜长角闪岩、细粒黑云斜长片麻岩、眼球状细粒黑云斜长片麻岩、条带状细粒黑云斜长片麻岩和细粒黑云角闪片岩组成,矿物组合特征指示岩石经历了低绿片岩相-低角闪岩相变质。其中,眼球状细粒黑云斜长片麻岩出露相对较厚,与细粒黑云斜长片麻岩多呈互层状产出,局部偶夹细粒黑云斜长片麻岩。本次研究选取其中新鲜的细粒黑云斜长片麻岩进行了锆石SHRIMP U-Pb测年分析,其锆石多呈自形-半自形,发育震荡环带,主体为岩浆成因,锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年结果为（1 930.7±9.6）Ma,代表原岩（中酸性火山岩）冷凝结晶年龄,表明东五分子岩组经历变质作用的时代应晚于1 930 Ma。 相似文献
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东喜马拉雅构造结南迦巴瓦岩群花岗质片麻岩的初步研究 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
野外地质填图和研究发现,东喜马拉雅构造结高喜马拉雅结晶岩系中有古老的花岗岩侵入,并在鲁霞地区圈定了9个花岗质侵入体。古老的花岗质岩石主要侵位于南迦巴瓦岩群直白岩组中,与南迦巴瓦岩群一起经历了麻粒岩相变质作用而形成花岗质片麻岩套。岩石类型有花岗闪长质片麻岩、黑云母花岗质片麻岩、闪长质片麻岩等。岩石化学研究表明这些花岗片麻岩套具“S”型特征,可能有深部幔源物质的加入。花岗岩形成深度在2～5km之间．侵位时代为552～525Ma,为新元古代晚期,属泛非期陆内演化阶段的产物。高喜马拉雅地区在元古宙末期形成了结晶基底。 相似文献
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Precambrian crystalline basement in southern Mongolia as revealed by SHRIMP zircon dating 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Antoine Demoux Alfred Kröner Dunyi Liu Gombosuren Badarch 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2009,98(6):1365-1380
Single zircon ages determined by ion microprobe (SHRIMP II) for granitoid gneisses from the southern slope of the Baga Bogd
massif (Gobi-Altai, southern Mongolia) reveal several episodes of zircon growth, ranging from late Palaeoproterozoic to late
Cambrian. The oldest events are documented by a zircon crystallization age for a gneiss protolith at 1519 ± 11 Ma and by a
xenocrystic zircon from a dark grey augen-gneiss yielding an age of c. 1701 Ma. Discrete igneous events are recorded in granite-gneisses
with protolith emplacement ages of 983 ± 6, 956 ± 3 and 954 ± 8 Ma. These ages provide the first record of early Neoproterozoic
magmatic activity in this region. A much younger and discrete magmatic event is recorded by several dioritic to granitic orthogneisses
which are tectonically interlayered with the older gneisses and have protolith emplacement ages between 502 and 498 Ma. These
late Cambrian granitoids of calc-alkaline affinity are likely to have been emplaced along an active continental margin and
suggest that the Baga Bogd Precambrian crustal fragment was either docked against the southward (present-day coordinates)
growing margin of the CAOB or was a large enough crustal entity to develop an arc along its margin. We speculate that the
Precambrian gneisses of this massif may be part of a crustal fragment rifted off the Tarim Craton. 相似文献
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东昆仑祁漫塔格花岗片麻岩记录的岩浆和变质事件 总被引：14，自引：6，他引：8
东昆仑青海祁漫塔格尕林格一带原定为金水口群的眼球状花岗片麻岩,实际为新元古代早期形成的花岗岩.采用SHRIMP和LA-MC-ICP-MS两种方法对其中的锆石进行了测试,获得的年龄分别为938±5Ma和938±2Ma,代表了花岗岩的形成时代.花岗岩地球化学特征显示为S-型,属于钙碱性系列的弱过铝-过铝质花岗岩,εNd(0)为-9.4～-11.7,εNd(t=938Ma)为-0.6～-3.2,显示低的负值,tDM为1.6 ～2.1Ga,推测其源岩与白沙河岩组类似.东昆仑东段、柴北缘以及阿尔金均有1000～900Ma的花岗岩形成,表明这次岩浆活动比较广泛,可能与我国西部不同陆块间的汇聚有关,是我国西部新元古代克拉通基底形成的反映,同时也响应于全球Rodinia超大陆的形成.花岗片麻岩中1粒锆石边部获得了416±11Ma的年龄,与区域上志留-泥盆纪花岗岩形成时代一致,代表了新元古代花岗岩发生变质作用的时代,其中白云母40Ar/39Ar的坪年龄和等时线年龄为406±2Ma,代表了变质花岗岩的冷却年龄,这些年龄表明新元古代花岗岩卷入了古生代中期与祁漫塔格洋/海盆关闭有关的造山事件. 相似文献
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F. Himmerkus P. Zachariadis T. Reischmann D. Kostopoulos 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2012,101(6):1467-1485
The Mount Athos Peninsula is situated in the south-easternmost part of the Chalkidiki Peninsula in northern Greece. It belongs to the Serbo-Macedonian Massif (SMM), a large basement massif within the Internal Hellenides. The south-eastern part of the Mount Athos peninsula is built by fine-grained banded biotite gneisses and migmatites forming a domal structure. The southern tip of the peninsula, which also comprises Mount Athos itself, is built by limestone, marble and low-grade metamorphic rocks of the Chortiatis Unit. The northern part and the majority of the western shore of the Mount Athos peninsula are composed of highly deformed rocks belonging to a tectonic mélange termed the Athos-Volvi-Suture Zone (AVZ), which separates two major basement units: the Vertiskos Terrane in the west and the Kerdillion Unit in the east. The rock-types in this mélange range from metasediments, marbles and gneisses to amphibolites, eclogites and peridotites. The gneisses are tectonic slivers of the adjacent basement complexes. The mélange zone and the gneisses were intruded by granites (Ierissos, Ouranoupolis and Gregoriou). The Ouranoupolis intrusion obscures the contact between the mélange and the gneisses. The granites are only slightly deformed and therefore postdate the accretionary event that assembled the units and created the mélange. Pb–Pb- and U–Pb-SHRIMP-dating of igneous zircons of the gneisses and granites of the eastern Athos peninsula in conjunction with geochemical and isotopic analyses are used to put Athos into the context of a regional tectonic model. The ages form three clusters: The basement age is indicated by two samples that yielded Permo-Carboniferous U–Pb-ages of 292.6?±?2.9?Ma and 299.4?±?3.5?Ma. The main magmatic event of the granitoids now forming the gneiss dome is dated by Pb–Pb-ages between 140.0?±?2.6?Ma and 155.7?±?5.1?Ma with a mean of 144.7?±?2.4?Ma. A within-error identical age of 146.6?±?2.3?Ma was obtained by the U–Pb-SHRIMP method. This Late Jurassic age is also known from the Kerdillion Unit and the Rhodope Terrane. The rather undeformed granites are interpreted as piercing plutons. The small granite stocks sampled have Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary ages of 66.8?±?0.8?Ma and 68.0?±?1.0?Ma (U–Pb-SHRIMP)/62.8?±?3.9?Ma (Pb–Pb). The main accretionary event was according to these data in the Late Jurassic since all younger rocks show little or no deformation. The age distribution together with the geochemical and isotopic signature and the lithology indicates that the eastern part of the Mount Athos peninsula is part of a large-scale gneiss dome also building the Kerdillion Unit of the eastern SMM and the Rhodope Massif. This finding extends the area of this dome significantly to the south and indicates that the tectonic boundary between the SMM and the Rhodope Massif lies within the AVZ. 相似文献
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François Guillot Urs Schaltegger Jean-Michel Bertrand Étienne Deloule Thierry Baudin 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2002,91(6):964-978
Among the Middle Penninic basements of the Internal NW-Alps, the Ruitor massif shows the best preserved remnants of pre-Permian metamorphic rocks. Their Barrovian-type mineral associations are somewhat masked by the greenschist to blueschist Alpine metamorphism of Tertiary age. Four Ruitor gneisses have been analysed, showing geochemical characters of granitoids from orogenic zones. Zircon morphology also suggests magmatic protoliths and a crustal source; some of the morphological zircon types suggest anatectic granites. The first U-Pb ages on zircon for this massif have been obtained concurrently through conventional multigrain and ion microprobe dating. Two metavolcanic rocks at 471LJ and 468ᆪ Ma could be slightly older than the porphyritic augen gneisses at 465ᆟ and 460lj Ma. Regional data from the other Internal basement massifs suggest that the Variscan event is poorly recorded, except in Ruitor-type units. Ruitor and Sapey gneisses belonged to the same unit (Nappe des Pontis), which was affected by a 480-450-Ma event including volcanism and anatexis and ended with a late calc-alkaline granite emplacement at 460-450 Ma. The distribution of Variscan basement units roughly parallels Alpine zonation. 相似文献
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滇西哀牢山变质岩系锆石U-Pb定年及其地质意义 总被引：11，自引：7，他引：4
哀牢山-红河构造带是滇西地区最著名的带状变质带之一,其主体由哀牢山深变质岩系(哀牢山岩群)组成,一直被认为是扬子陆块古元古代结晶基底.本文选取哀牢山深变质岩系内的花岗片麻岩(11 ALl7-1和11AL09-1)和石英岩(11AL08-1),以及邻区的花岗岩(11ALl2-1)进行LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年.结果显示,花岗片麻岩11 ALl7-1有岩浆和变质两类锆石,两者的206Pb/238U年龄加权平均值分别为700±6Ma(MSWD=1.4,n=14)和27.4±1.2Ma(MSWD=1.9,n=3),代表原岩形成时代和变质年龄.花岗片麻岩llAL09-1岩浆锆石206 pb/238U年龄为220±3Ma(MSWD=3.1,n=14),变质锆石年龄为31.2±2.3Ma(MSWD =6,n=5),分别代表原岩结晶时代和后期变质年龄.石英岩11AL08-1中所有锆石具有核-边结构,92颗锆石核部年龄集中分布在6组,分别为493～528Ma(n=42)、635 ～ 640Ma(n=2)、701～784Ma(n=44)、976 ～980Ma(n=2)、1839Ma(n=1)和2487Ma(n=1).92个核部分析点具有高的Th/U比值(＞0.23),指示岩浆来源.最年轻一组的42个核部年龄加权平均值为509Ma,代表石英岩原岩的最大沉积时代.7颗锆石变质边年龄为26～ 75 Ma内,代表变质年龄.花岗岩11 ALl2-1锆石206pb/238U年龄加权平均值为750±4Ma(MSWD =0.6),代表岩石形成时代.这些年龄表明哀牢山变质岩系是一个原岩复杂的变质杂岩带,它的原始物质至少包含新元古代～ 700Ma岩浆岩、～509 Ma沉积地层及220 ～ 240Ma的岩浆岩和地层,而不是以往认为的古元古代结晶基底.现今所见的哀牢山岩群“古老”岩石面貌主要是由地质历史上的浅变质或未变质的地层和岩浆岩在新生代26～31Ma发生变质变形作用改造的结果.哀牢山变质带的源区物质特征和主要岩浆事件与扬子陆块西缘十分相似,具有亲扬子的构造属性. 相似文献
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《Journal of African Earth Sciences》1999,28(2):427-442
The Makuti Group of northwest Zimbabwe is composed of mafic and intermediate biotite-rich gneisses interlayered with quartzofeldspathic gneisses of granitic composition, and minor sedimentary units. The gneisses have experienced a multi-staged metamorphic history, including an early high temperature-high pressure event and subsequent reworking at upper- to mid-amphibolite-facies conditions. They are positioned along the strongly deformed, southern margin of the east-west trending Zambezi Belt, and have been correlated with supracrustal gneiss units along the northern margin of the Zimbabwe Craton.The Makuti Group is characterised by an intensely developed gneissic layering and complex disharmonic folds that resulted from non-coaxial deformation involving repeated stages of transposition. The basal contact of the g roup coincides with a decrease in strain intensity, but not with a directional change of characteristic structural elements (e.g. lineations, fold axes), nor with a clear change in rock types. Pink quartzofeldspathic gneisses of granitic composition are typical for the Makuti Group, but locally intrude basement gneiss as well. The quartzofeldspathic gneisses occur as porphyritic and non-porphyritic varieties that are, invariably, intensely sheared.The age and nature of the basal contact of the Makuti Group and its relationship to the quartzofeldspathic gneisses has been investigated. Samples for single zircon PbPb dating were collected from a felsic biotite gneiss just below (2704 ± 0.3 Ma) and above (2510 ± 0.4 Ma) the lower contact of the Makuti Group at an ‘unconformity’ 2 km northwest of Vuti. Further samples were collected from pink quartzofeldspathic units at the base (737 ± 0.9 Ma), central part (764 ± 0.9 Ma; 797 ± 0.9 Ma) and top (794 ± 0.5 Ma; 854 ± 0.8 Ma) of the Makuti Group. Two samples of Kariba orthogneiss (1920 ± 0.4 and 1963 ± 0.4 Ma) underlying the Makuti Group in the northwest were also collected. In all samples, long-prismatic, colourless to brown, igneous zircon grains were selected. Dates were obtained using a stepwise single-grain evaporation technique. Although this technique only allows minimum age estimates, the dates are highly reproducible, indicating that they approximate emplacement ages. The ages conform with the field observations that the basement has been reworked in the Makuti Group and that the quartzofeldspathic units may have been emplaced as granites.It is proposed that the Makuti Group represents a crustal scale shear zone that partly reworked basement gneisses and acted as a conduit for granite emplacement. Shearing took place in an extensional setting around 800 Ma ago, and may have resulted in the exhumation of lower crustal rocks. 相似文献