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Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South ChinaConstraints from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd-Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks [查看] Xian-HuaLi、Wu-XianLi、Zheng-XiangLi、Ching-HuaLo、JianWange、Mei-FangYe、Yue-HengYang

South China was formed through the amalgamation of the Yangtze Block with the Cathaysia Block, but the timing of this amalgamation is controversial, ranging from Mesoproterozoic to Mesozoic. We report here SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu Group volcanic rocks from the southeastern Yangtze Block. These rocks were strongly deformed, metamorphosed to greenschist-facies, intruded by 849±7Ma dolerites, and unconformably overlain by Neoproterozoic rift successions of no older than ca. 820 Ma. The Beiwu and Zhangcun volcanic rocks from the middle and uppermost Shuangxiwu Group were dated at 926±15Ma and 891±12 Ma, respectively. All the studied rocks are characterized by highly positive Nd(T) (5.4–8.7) and Hf(T) (11.0–15.3) values. The Pingshui basaltic and andesitic rocks from the lower Shuangxiwu Group, whichwere previously dated at ca. 970 Ma, are high in Al2O3 (15–20%) but low in MgO (<8%), and are characterized by enrichments in Th and LREE but depletions in Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf and Ti, broadly similar to high-Al basaltic rocks in many volcanic arcs. The Beiwu andesitic to rhyolitic rocks have higherMgOthan the experimental melts of basaltic rocks, and their Al2O3 content decreases with increasing SiO2, similar to the regional coeval tonalites and granodiorites,suggesting their formation by crystal fractionation of basaltic parent magma. The Zhangcun volcanic rocks are high in SiO2 (mostly >69%), low in MgO (0.35–1.2%), and have nearly constant Al2O3 contents of 14–15%and relatively uniform trace element concentrations. Theywere generatedby remelting of juvenile mafic to intermediate arc rocks. Overall, the Shuangxiwu Group volcanic rocks and associated intrusive tonalites and granodiorites constitute a typical calc-alkaline magmatic assemblage of a 970–890Maactive continental margin. These results and the 849±7Ma zircon U–Pb age for the undeformed doleritic dikes intruding the Shuangxiwu Group suggest that the tectonic regime of the study region transformed from plate convergence to intracontinental rifting in the time period between ca. 890Ma and ca. 850 Ma.Previously reported 1.04–0.94Ga metamorphic and deformation ages from the nearby Tianli Schists and evidence for the final closure of the back-arc basin at ca. 880Ma (ophilitic obduction at Xiwan), further suggest that the amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks, likely through “soft docking”at the eastern segment of the Sibao orogen, was completed at ca. 880Ma or soon after.

Early history of the eastern Sibao Orogen (South China) during the assembly of Rodinia New mica 40Ar39Ar dating andSHRIMP U–Pb detrital zircon provenance constraints [查看] Zheng-XiangLi、Jo-AnneWartho、SandraOcchipinti、Chuan-LinZhang、Xian-HuaLi、JianWang、ChaominBao

The Sibao Orogen in South China is one of the poorest known Grenville-aged orogenic belts through which the Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia assembled. We report here the first UV laser spot 40Ar/39Ar mica and SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages from a rare Grenville-aged metamorphic complex, the Tianli Schists, in the eastern Sibao Orogen. Our U–Pb zircon provenance ages indicate that the protolith of the Tianli Schists was a clastic sedimentary succession most likely derived from the Yangtze Block.The depositional age of the protolith is younger than 1530 Ma, as constrained by the youngest detrital zircon grains, but is older than 1040 Ma as constrained by the oldest 40Ar/39Ar muscovite ages. The Yangtze Block provenance for the Tianli Schists suggests that the Sibaoan ophiolitic complexes in northeastern Jiangxi, the ca. 970 Ma Xiwan adakitic granite intrusions, and the ca. 900 Ma(?) Xiwan blueschists, all to the northwest of the study region, were likely formed during the closure of a back-arc basin along the margin of the Yangtze Block. Our in situ UV laser 40Ar/39Ar results from S1 and S2 muscovites suggest that the Tianli Schists underwent metamorphism and deformation at 1042±7Ma to 1015±4 Ma, the oldest known metamorphic event in the easternSibao Orogen. Muscovite/biotite cooling ages of ca. 968±4 and 942±8Ma are recorded by deformed and recrystallised muscovite and biotite, respectively, indicating tectonic reactivation before 900 Ma, during the later stages of the Sibao Orogeny. Together with previous results from the western Sibao Orogen, our work suggests that the closure of the ocean between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks during the assembly of Rodinia was diachronous: ≥1000 Ma at the western Sibao Orogen and ca. 900 Ma at the eastern Sibao Orogen.

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