Petrochemistry of metapsammitic rocks from the Patom Highland: Reconstruction of the protolith composition |
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| Authors: | V N Sharov Yu I Sizykh |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Lermontova 128, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Precambrian psammitic rocks of the Patom Highland as constituents of metasedimentary groups belong to the quartz-polymictic family, which is divided in each group into the following five petrochemical types: (A) highly silicic quartz sandstones, (B) silicic quartz sandstones, (C) alkali silicic quartz sandstones, (D) Fe-Si polymictic sandstones, and (E) Fe-Al-Si polymictic sandstones. The mineralogic-petrographic classification elaborated by Shutov (1967) may be applied to the calculated quantitative mineral and component compositions of metasandstone protoliths. According to this classification, the petrochemical types A–E may be correlated with monomictic (A′), oligomictic (B′), and mesomictic (C′) sandstones, feldspar-quartz graywacke (D′) and graywacke proper (E′), respectively.Quartz-polymictic sandstones make up the direct petrographic (mineralogic-petrographic) series A′-B′-C′-D′-E′ and the almost mirror inverse series E′-D′-C′-B′. The direct series A′-E′ represent the transgressive branches of sedimentary cycles that begin with the crustal redeposited products of chemical weathering, including high-Al schists and monomictic (A′) and oligomictic (B′) quartz sandstones. As the humid climate became arid, the sandstones gave way to the mesomictic sandstones C′ and to the polymictic sandstones D′ and E′ in the middle sections of sedimentary cycles. The polymictic sandstones mark culminations of tectonic activity that led to the formation of high mountains. The inverse series E′-B′ begin from the periods of mountainous topography and characterize regressive branches of sedimentary cycles that mark the decreasing tectonic activity. Polymictic sandstones E′ and D′ are replaced by oligomictic sandstones B′ in these branches. Thus, petrographic or mineralogic-petrographic series reflect the compositional evolution of psammitic rocks between epochs of peneplanation. The termination of these epochs and resumption of orogenic movements are documented by deposition of the Teptorgo-Mama, Kadalikan, and Bodaibo sedimentary groups. The onset of tectonic events fell on the terminal Paleoproterozoic, Early Riphean, and the Middle-Late Riphean. The composition of sedimentary rocks underwent progressive changes during the tectonic evolution of the continental margin of the Siberian Craton and the concomitant variation of paleoclimate. |
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