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Juvenile versus recycled crust in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt : Implications from ocean plate stratigraphy, blueschist belts and intra-oceanic arcs. / Safonova, Inna.
In: Gondwana Research, Vol. 47, 01.07.2017, p. 6-27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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T1 - Juvenile versus recycled crust in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
T2 - Implications from ocean plate stratigraphy, blueschist belts and intra-oceanic arcs
AU - Safonova, Inna
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 International Association for Gondwana Research
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - New or “juvenile” crust forms and grows mainly through mafic to andesitic magmatism at Pacific-type or accretionary type convergent margins as well as via tectonic accretion of oceanic and island-arc terranes and translation of continental terranes. During the last decades the juvenile or recycled nature of crust has been commonly evaluated using whole-rock isotope and Hf-in-zircon isotope methods. However, evidence for the accretionary or Pacific-type nature of an orogenic belt comes from geological data, for example, from the presence of accretionary complexes (AC), intra-oceanic arcs (IOA), oceanic plate stratigraphy units (OPS), and MORB-OIB derived blueschist belts (BSB). The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) represents the world's largest province of Phanerozoic juvenile crustal growth during ca. 800 m.y. between the East European, Siberian, North China and Tarim cratons. From geological point of view, the CAOB is a typical Pacific-type belt as it hosts numerous occurrences of accretionary complexes, intra-oceanic arcs, OPS units, and MORB-OIB derived blueschist belts. In spite of its accretionary nature, supported by positive whole rock Nd isotope characteristics in CAOB granitoids, the Hf-in-zircon isotope data reveal a big portion of recycled crust. Such a controversy can be explained by presence of accreted microcontinents, isotopically mixed igneous reservoirs and by the tectonic erosion of juvenile crust. The most probable localities of tectonic erosion in the CAOB are the middle and southern Tienshan and southern Transbaikalia because these regions comprise a predominantly recycled crust (based on isotope data), but the geological data show the presence of intra-oceanic arcs, blueschist belts and accreted OPS with oceanic island basalts (OIB) and tectonically juxtaposed coeval arc granitoids and accretionary units. This warrants combination of detailed geological studies with isotopic results, as on their own they may not reflect such processes as tectonic erosion of juvenile crust and/or arc subduction.
AB - New or “juvenile” crust forms and grows mainly through mafic to andesitic magmatism at Pacific-type or accretionary type convergent margins as well as via tectonic accretion of oceanic and island-arc terranes and translation of continental terranes. During the last decades the juvenile or recycled nature of crust has been commonly evaluated using whole-rock isotope and Hf-in-zircon isotope methods. However, evidence for the accretionary or Pacific-type nature of an orogenic belt comes from geological data, for example, from the presence of accretionary complexes (AC), intra-oceanic arcs (IOA), oceanic plate stratigraphy units (OPS), and MORB-OIB derived blueschist belts (BSB). The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) represents the world's largest province of Phanerozoic juvenile crustal growth during ca. 800 m.y. between the East European, Siberian, North China and Tarim cratons. From geological point of view, the CAOB is a typical Pacific-type belt as it hosts numerous occurrences of accretionary complexes, intra-oceanic arcs, OPS units, and MORB-OIB derived blueschist belts. In spite of its accretionary nature, supported by positive whole rock Nd isotope characteristics in CAOB granitoids, the Hf-in-zircon isotope data reveal a big portion of recycled crust. Such a controversy can be explained by presence of accreted microcontinents, isotopically mixed igneous reservoirs and by the tectonic erosion of juvenile crust. The most probable localities of tectonic erosion in the CAOB are the middle and southern Tienshan and southern Transbaikalia because these regions comprise a predominantly recycled crust (based on isotope data), but the geological data show the presence of intra-oceanic arcs, blueschist belts and accreted OPS with oceanic island basalts (OIB) and tectonically juxtaposed coeval arc granitoids and accretionary units. This warrants combination of detailed geological studies with isotopic results, as on their own they may not reflect such processes as tectonic erosion of juvenile crust and/or arc subduction.
KW - Accretionary complex
KW - Geological mapping
KW - Nd and Hf isotopes
KW - Pacific-type orogeny
KW - Tectonic erosion
KW - ISLAND-ARC
KW - ZIRCON U-PB
KW - INNER-MONGOLIA
KW - ND ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE
KW - CONTINENTAL-CRUST
KW - GORNY-ALTAI
KW - PAIRED METAMORPHIC BELTS
KW - MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE
KW - MONGOL-OKHOTSK OCEAN
KW - TECTONIC EVOLUTION
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gr.2016.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.gr.2016.09.003
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85006106486
VL - 47
SP - 6
EP - 27
JO - Gondwana Research
JF - Gondwana Research
SN - 1342-937X
ER -
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