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Tectonic driving of Neoproterozoic glaciations Evidence from extreme oxygen isotope signature of meteoric water in granite [查看] Yong-FeiZheng、Yuan-BaoWu、BingGong、Ren-XuChen、JunTang、Zi-FuZhao

The global context of glaciation in the Neoproterozoic has been hypothesized to result from the massive reorganization of the Earth's land and ocean systems due to breakup and dispersal of the supercontinent Rodinia at about 750 Ma. This hypothesis gains support from unusually light O isotope records of hydrothermally altered rocks in a rift tectonic zone at that time, which is indicative of interaction with meteoric water of low mean annual temperature, and thus tectonic driving of cold paleoclimate at the time of hydrothermal alteration. Very negative δ18O values of −14.4 to −10.0‰ are found for garnet from Neoproterozoic granite in South China, which are the lightest O isotope record so far reported for minerals from igneous rocks. Negative δD values of −129 to −109‰ are obtained for garnet, magnetite and zircon. Thus high-T meteoric-hydrothermal alteration occurred during magma emplacement. SHRIMP U–Pb dating for magmatic and hydrothermal zircons yields two groups of ages at 782±3 Ma and 748±3 Ma, respectively, responsible for granite crystallization and hydrothermal alteration. The garnet is in O isotope disequilibrium with zircon, indicating differential effects of subsolidus hydrothermal alteration on the minerals of different O diffusion rates. Occurrence of the unusually negative δ18O granite at mid-low paleolatitudes provides a geochemical proxy for a cold paleoclimate at 748±3 Ma, possibly a continental glaciation corresponding to the Kaigas iceage. It suggests a tectonic link to the climatic effect of uplifted rift flanks due to the Rodinia breakup at about 750 Ma, and thus the ice–fire interaction by syn-rift magmatism of low δ18O imprints in association with the mantle event of asthenospheric upwelling. Hence the tectonic driving is evident for regional glaciations in supercontinental rift basins.

Zircon U-Pb age and Hf-O isotope evidence for Paleoproterozoic metamorphic event in South China [查看] Shao-BingZhang、Yong-FeiZheng、Yuan-BaoWu、Zi-FuZhaoa、ShanGaob、Fu-YuanWu

To understand the connection between continental cratonization and global tectonothermal event is essential for recognizing the formation and evolution of continental crust. Paleoproterozoic is an important era with occurrence of megascale tectonomagmatism in the world, but it has been intriguing whether they also influenced the oldest continent in South China. In order to decipher the nature of Paleoproterozoic event in South China, a combined study of zircon U-Pb dating, Hf and O isotope analyses was carried out for metasediments and amphibolite from the Kongling terrane, the only Archean microcontinent outcropped in South China. U-Pb ages of 1.97±0.03 Ga were obtained with low Th/U ratios of 0.01–0.14, indicating that the ages are a record of Paleoproterozoic metamorphic event.18O values of ∼11‰ and ∼8‰ were measured for quartz from the metasediments and garnet from the amphibolite, respectively, suggesting that their sources experienced supracrustal recycling. εHf(t) values of about −6.5 and model Hf ages of about 3.0 Ga were acquired for zircons from the metapelites, suggesting an Archean source. Thus a response to the Paleoproterozoic global tectonothermal event in South China is reworking of Archean continental nucleus. Compared with Archean rocks at Kongling, abrupt changes in K2O/Na2O, REE and other trace elements are observed in the Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks. This is interpreted to reflect a change in upper crustal composition at the Archean–Proterozoic boundary.A survey of Paleoproterozoic ages throughout the Yangtze Block suggests that metamorphic event and subsequent magmatic activity occurred in the north, but only magmatic activity in the south. Both metamorphic and magmatic activities are associated with formation of a unified basement responsible for cratonization of the Yangtze Block. This provides a geodynamic connection between the formation of this craton and the global tectonomagmatism in the Paleoproterozoic, marking continental accretion by arc-continent collision orogeny during assembly of the supercontinent Columbia.

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