Preface — Some words on the post-collisional magmatism
Preface — Some words on the post-collisional magmatism
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1998
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The post-collisional geodynamic setting has not been fully integrated in the model of plate tectonics, which is based on geological processes occurring at major plate edges, mid-ocean ridges, active margins and in spectacular intercontinental collisions. Studies on intraplate, in particular those devoted to intraplate anorogenic magmatism, have paid little attention to plate tectonics. The popular mantle plume hypothesis has only weak links with plate movements. In that framework, the post-collisional setting has had only minor consideration, often being described simply as a ‘relaxation phase’ following collision. This has resulted in a poor definition for the post collisional. It appears however that voluminous magmatism is produced during the post-collisional period. The colŽ . lision s.s. period of maximum convergence is not favourable for the ascent of magmas; and the intraplate period is characterized by widespread but often sparse magmatism. Magmatism from active subduction at a plate margin is to be metamorphosed during the collisions that inevitably follow. Many magmatic bodies must therefore be related to a distinctive post-collisional period. How we understand this magmatism depends however on the sense given to the expression postcollision. The prefix ‘post’ indicates that the period is younger than the collision, but also that it is still related to it. Most authors in this volume consider the collision as the initial major impact of two or more ‘continental’ plates, characterized by major thrusts and high-pressure metamorphism. This differentiates the collision event itself from the much longer period of plate convergence that follows ocean closure. In that sense, the post-collisional period begins generally in an intracontinental environment —the major ocean is closed—but still with large horizontal terrane movements along mega-shear zones, precluding its assimilation to an intraplate setting. Tibet and south-eastern Asia are present-day example of post-collisional setting: they are affected by large horizontal movements, the collision itself with India being represented by the oldest main thrusts. The intraplate setting will begin in this region with the end of these movements, as the entire area acquires a unique pole of rotation and constitutes a single plate. This transition from post-collisional to intraplate period thus marks also the end of the orogenic period. The beginning of the intraplate period can be considered as post-orogenic in the sense defined similarly as for post-collisional. This would be the case, for instance, of the Tassilis Cambrian–Ordovician sand sedimentation in the SaŽ 3. hara 9 millions km which post-dates Pan-African Ž . post-collisional magmatism 580–525 Ma , including late alkaline magmatism, as well as large horizontal movements along shear zones. However, its enormous volume, covering a major part of the newly formed African plate from Mauritania to Arabia, is a consequence of the Pan-African orogeny. Few magma emplace in this period, if any. Some geologists consider the whole period of plate convergence following impact as being a single collisional setting, the post-collisional period described above being called late-collisional, and the post-collision representing the end of this period. Although I had previously held this view, I now believe that this definition is blurring, the prefix ‘late’ being more vague than ‘post’. The transition from lateto post-collisional also is not clear. In fact, the prefix ‘late’ could be dropped without loss of