Unravelling metamorphic ages of suture zone rocks from the Sabzevar and Makran areas (Iran): Robust age constraints for the larger Arabia–Eurasian collision zone
Unravelling metamorphic ages of suture zone rocks from the Sabzevar and Makran areas (Iran): Robust age constraints for the larger Arabia–Eurasian collision zone
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揭开来自萨布泽瓦尔和莫克兰地区(伊朗)缝合带岩石的变质年龄:较大的阿拉伯-欧亚碰撞带的稳健年龄限制
DOI:
10.1111/jmg.12603
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Moslempour
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文献类型:
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作者:
Bröcker;Omrani;Berndt;Moslempour
In this study we establish a time frame for metamorphic processes affecting Neotethyan suture zones at the northern (Sabzevar) and southern (Makran) margin of the Central Iranian Microcontinent. For this purpose, we have applied Rb–Sr and U–Pb geochronology to blueschist‐ and amphibolite facies rocks from these occurrences. So far, no isotopic ages are available for high‐P/low‐Trocks from the Sabzevar area which are exposed in the Govain and Chili mountains near Soltanabad. Three newly dated blueschists from the Govain mountain yielded Rb–Sr ages of 56.52 ± 0.32, 57.20 ± 0.32, and 55.12 ± 0.33 Ma respectively. These ages provide the first unambiguous evidence for late Palaeocene to early Eocene high‐Pmetamorphism in the Sabzevar zone and confirm the accuracy of earlier age assignments that were derived indirectly. The clearly confirmed age difference between late Palaeocene–early Eocene blueschists of the Govain mountain and kilometre‐scale dismembered HP granulites with Early Cretaceous (Albian) metamorphic ages from outcropsc. 60 km to the west of Soltanabad further corroborates interpretations that these rocks are not related to the same subduction zone complex. The blueschists record closure of an Albian to Late Cretaceous back‐arc basin, whereas the granulites formed due to subduction of older oceanic lithosphere. Uranium–Pb zircon dating of an amphibolite from the Iranshahr region in the Makran Zone yielded an intercept age of 87.8 ± 1.8 Ma and weighted mean age of 88.1 ± 1.7 Ma. Rb–Sr mineral isochrons for seven blueschist‐ and amphibolite facies samples from the same area generated very consistent ages ofc. 84 Ma (± <1–3 Ma), regardless of metamorphic grade. The apparent contradiction that rocks recording differentP–Tconditions have identical metamorphic ages either indicates tectonic mixing of rocks during exhumation that originally had formed at the same time at different depths of the subduction system, or very rapid exhumation so that differences in closure temperatures became indistinguishable. The new data are similar, but much more precise, than previously reported K–Ar ages and suggest that most of the existing data had not been significantly compromised by contamination with extraneous Ar. Potassium–Ar indications for older blueschist‐ and/or amphibolite facies metamorphism (>85 Ma) have not yet been confirmed but can be reconciled with the larger geological frame implying that northward subduction of the Arabian plate beneath the Bajgan–Durkan continental block started shortly afterc. 120 Ma.
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影响因子:
2.3
作者:
H. Omrani;M. Moazzen;R. Oberhänsli;U. Altenberger;M. Lange
通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Renne, P. R.
影响因子:
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作者:
Whitney, Donna L.;Evans, Bernard W.
通讯作者:
Evans, Bernard W.
影响因子:
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通讯作者:
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