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| Mesozoic radiolarian chert from the middle sector of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone,Tibet and its tectonic implications | |
| 基金项目： | 中国地质大学科研和教改项目 |
| 摘 要： | The middle sector of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone stretches over 200 km long from Ngamring through Geding to Rinbung, roughly along Yarlung Zangbo River valley (Fig. 1). This belt resulted from the closure of the Tethyan ocean and the collision be- tween Indian plate and Lhasa block1―8]. Lots of works demonstrated that rifting of the Tethyan basin in southern Tibet started from Triassic time. Initial oce- anic crust appeared in the Late Jurassic, and then ex- perienced a rapid sprea… |
| 收稿时间： | 10 October 2004 |
| 修稿时间： | 4 July 2005 |
Mesozoic radiolarian chert from the middle sector of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, Tibet and its tectonic implications |
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| Authors: | ZHU Jie DU Yuansheng LIU Zaoxue FENG Qinglai TIAN Wangxue LI Jinping WANG Changping |
| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Earth Sciences,China University of Geology, Wuhan 430074, China;Hubei Institute of Regional Geology Survey, Wuhan 430034, China 2. Faculty of Earth Sciences,China University of Geology, Wuhan 430074, China 3. Hubei Institute of Regional Geology Survey, Wuhan 430034, China |
| Abstract: | Three radiolarian fauna, aged as the Middle-Late Triassic, Late Jurassic-Early Creta- ceous and Cretaceous radiolarian fauna, have been recognised in the radiolarian cherts from the middle sector of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, southern Tibet, China. The average contents of SiO2 in the radiolarian cherts of the Middle-Late Triassic and Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous are 90.24% and 92.58% respectively, with average ratios of Al/(Al Fe Mn) as 0.75 and 0.74 respectively, the average ratios of MnO/TiO2 as 0.36 and 1.24, the average ratios of Ce/Ce* as 1.15 and 1.03, and the average ratios of LaN/CeN as 0.85 and 0.93. These geochemical features indicate that both of them are biogenic, deposited in a continental margin basin. The SiO2 content of the Early Cretaceous radiolarian chert is 94.12%, with the ratio of Al/(Al Fe Mn) as 0.59, ratio of MnO/TiO2 as 4.30, ratio of Ce/Ce* as 0.60, ratio of LaN/CeN as 1.59, which imply that the chert is biogenic and was deposited in a pelagic basin. The Middle-Late Triassic association of the radiolarian chert and turbidites as well as their geochemical characteristics indicates the existence of a strong rifting marginal basin in the belt of the Yarlung Zangbo River then. The association of radiolarian chert and bedded basalt indicate an initial Tethyan ocean basin in southern Tibet during the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous. The early Cretaceous radiolarian chert coexisting with pillow basalt in top of the ophiolite suite represents sediments from the oceanic Tethyan basin. |
| Keywords: | radiolarian chert sedimentary geochemistry Mesozoic Yarlung Zangbo suture zone Tibet |
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