The cause for Nuna breakup in the Early to Middle Mesoproterozoic
The cause for Nuna breakup in the Early to Middle Mesoproterozoic
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中元古代早中期努纳分裂的原因
DOI:
10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106287
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发表时间:
2021-08
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Shu Chutian
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作者:
Huang Zongying;Yuan Chao;Long Xiaoping;Zhang Yunying;Ma Xiaolong;Soldner Jeremie;Du Long;Shu Chutian
The dynamic mechanism responsible for the breakup of Nuna supercontinent (1.6–1.3 Ga) is a key for understanding the early to middle Mesoproterozoic environment, life and mineralization on Earth. Although much research has been done to unravel the dispersion of young supercontinents (e.g., Pangea), efforts by sorting out critical geological records to disclose the driving force for Nuna breakup are still rare. Here we focus on this issue by integrating new whole-rock geochemical data, zircon U–Pb ages, Hf-in-zircon and Nd isotopes for Mesoproterozoic granitoids in the Chinese Central Tianshan (CTB) at the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Moreover, global geological data in the early to middle Mesoproterozoic are compiled to place further constraints. The studied granitoids are I-type granites emplaced at ca. 1480–1450 Ma. They were formed in an active continental margin of CTB that once belonged to the Fennoscandia in the margin of Nuna. These results, together with the available geological records in CTB, CAOB and Fennoscandia, indicate a subduction system existed along the periphery of these domains in the early to middle Mesoproterozoic. This subduction system was temporally and spatially linked to the 1.6–1.3 Ga accretionary belts in the peripheral blocks of Nuna supercontinent, suggesting an encircling subduction system surrounding Nuna supercontinent. The encircling subduction system was accompanied by intermittent Mesoproterozoic plume magmatism, some of which were geochemically overprinted with subduction-related signatures, suggesting a dominant continuous circum-supercontinent subduction operating on the breakup of Nuna supercontinent. Moreover, these episodic plume-related magmatism are temporally and geodynamically linked to the exterior subduction surrounding the Nuna supercontinent. Our study therefore demonstrates that the development of an exterior subduction system gave rise to the breakup of Nuna supercontinent, which was accompanied by subordinate plume activities.
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发表时间:
2010
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Geological Science and Technology Information
影响因子:
--
作者:
Shi Wen-xiang
通讯作者:
Shi Wen-xiang
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Liu Xiaochun;Wang Wei-;Zhao Yue;Liu Jian;Chen Hong;Cui Yingchun;Song Biao
通讯作者:
Song Biao
影响因子:
2.6
作者:
N. Roberts;T. Slagstad
通讯作者:
N. Roberts;T. Slagstad
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
D. Weis;B. Kieffer;C. Maerschalk;W. Pretorius;J. Barling
通讯作者:
D. Weis;B. Kieffer;C. Maerschalk;W. Pretorius;J. Barling
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
H. Hrushikesh;N. Prabhakar;A. Bhattacharya
通讯作者:
H. Hrushikesh;N. Prabhakar;A. Bhattacharya