Geochronology and tectonic significance of Middle Proterozoic granitic orthogneiss, North Qaidam HP/UHP terrane, Western China |
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| Authors: | C G Mattinson J L Wooden J G Liou D K Bird C L Wu |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.;(2) United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.;(3) Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | Summary Amphibolite-facies para- and orthogneisses near Dulan, in the southeast part of the North Qaidam terrane, enclose minor ultra-high
pressure (UHP) eclogite and peridotite. Field relations and coesite inclusions in zircons from paragneiss suggest that felsic,
mafic, and ultramafic rocks all experienced UHP metamorphism and a common amphibolite-facies retrogression. Ion microprobe
U–Pb and REE analyses of zircons from two granitic orthogneisses indicate magmatic crystallization at 927 ± Ma and 921 ± 7 Ma.
Zircon rims in one of these samples yield younger ages (397–618 Ma) compatible with partial zircon recrystallization during
in-situ Ordovician-Silurian eclogite-facies metamorphism previously determined from eclogite and paragneiss in this area.
The similarity between a 2496 ± 18 Ma xenocrystic core and 2.4–2.5 Ga zircon cores in the surrounding paragneiss suggests
that the granites intruded the sediments or that the granite is a melt of the older basement which supplied detritus to the
sediments. The magmatic ages of the granitic orthogneisses are similar to 920–930 Ma ages of (meta)granitoids described further
northwest in the North Qaidam terrane and its correlative west of the Altyn Tagh fault, suggesting that these areas formed
a coherent block prior to widespread Mid Proterozoic granitic magmatism. |
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