Progresses and overviews of voluminous meta-sedimentary series within the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt,North China Craton
Progresses and overviews of voluminous meta-sedimentary series within the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt,North China Craton
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L. Fu
Three Paleoproterozoic tectonic belts have been identified within the North China Craton,including the Jiao-Liao-Ji belt in the Eastern Block,the Khondalite belt in the Western Block,and the Trans-North China Orogen between the Eastern and Western blocks. In the last two decades,extensive structural, metamorphic, magmatic, geochemical, geochronological and geophysical investigations have been carried out on these Paleoproterozoic tectonic belts,producing an abundant amount of new data and competing interpretations,which have resulted in significant reinterpretations of the formation and evolution of three tectonic belts and the Paleoproterozoic amalgamation of the North China Craton. The Jiao-Liao-Ji belt is the most important Paleoproterozoic orogenic / mobile belt in the North China Craton,which has not only received huge mount of Paleoproterozoic continental crust deposits,but also experienced a very complex tectonic evolution, accompanied with multi-stage magmatic-metamorphic events simultaneously. As previous studies,the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt located in the Eastern Block subdivides the block into the Longgang and Langrim blocks. The belt consists mainly of voluminous meta-sedimentary and volcanic successions with associated granitic and mafic intrusions.The sedimentary and volcanic successions,including the Macheonayeong Group in North Korea,the Ji'an and Laoling groups in the southern Jilin,the North and South Liaohe groups in the southeastern Liaoning Peninsula,the Fenzishan and Jingshang groups in the Jiaobei massif,and the Wuhe Group in Anhui Province,are transitional from a basal clastic-rich sequence and a lower bimodalvolcanic sequence,through a middle carbonate-rich sequence,to an upper pelite-rich sequence. Associated with the sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt are abundant Paleoproterozoic granitoid and mafic intrusions,of which the granitoid plutons are composed of deformed A-type granites and undeformed alkaline syenites and rapakivi granites,and mafic intrusions consist of meta-gabbros and-dolerites. In general,the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt is NE-trending and is ca. 1000 km long. Based on the rock assemblage and spatial distribution,the Jingshan Group is comparable with the South Liaohe and Ji'an groups,whereas the Fenzishan group is comparable with the North Liaohe and Laoling groups. However,the original stratigraphic sequences and contact relationships for each group / formation have been completely destroyed due to the multi-stage intensive deformation,which outcrop currently as varying scale of tectonic slices separated by faults or ductile shear zones. The massive sedimentary rocks are mainly sourced from the Paleoproterozoic granitic rocks within the orogenic / mobile belt and the metamorphic basement of the surrounding ancient blocks,and the protoliths were formed between 2. 15 Ga and 1. 95 Ga. Previous studies show that the Paleoproterozoic metamorphism is very heterogeneous across the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile zone,in which the( medium to high pressure) granulite-facies metamorphism is only constrained within the Jingshan Group and adjacent rocks. However,the Fenzishan,South and North Liaohe,Ji'an and Laoling groups only experienced amphibolite-facies and locally greenschist-facies metamorphism.The metamorphic evolution for the Fenzishan,North Liaohe and Laoling groups are characterized by similar clockwise metamorphic P-Tt paths,whereas the Jingshan,South Liaohe and Ji'an groups are featured by counterclockwise P-T-t paths. It is noted that various petrographic evidence for the Paleoproterozoic granulite-facies metamorphism have been identified throughout the South Liaohe and Ji'an groups,which have similar clockwise P-T-t paths with near-isothermal decompression( ITD) to those of the pelitic and mafic granulites of the Jingshan Group. Abundant geochronological data show that the peak metamorphic age of the granulite-facies metamorphism is around 1. 90 ~ 1. 95 Ga throughout the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt. Field observations and petrographic studies show that the pelitic granulites of the Jingshan,South Liaohe and Ji 'an groups have experienced widespread anatexis( or partial melting),and various felsic veins outcrop as irregular veinlets,stockworks and lenticular in the host rocks with gradual transition relationships. Abundant U-Pb dating results of anatexis zircons show that an regional partial melting event happened at 1. 84 Ga to 1. 86 Ga,indicating that the widespread anatexis should occur at the post-peak low-pressure granulite-facies metamorphic stage during exhumation of the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt.Up to now,there have been distinct disagreements and controversies about spatial distribution,north and south boundaries,extension pattern and tectonic setting of the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt. Recent studies show that the outcrops,and granitic,mafic granulite and Al-rich gneissic cores in the Bengbu-Huoqiu area recorded a granulite facies-metamorphism occurring at ~ 1. 85 Ga to 1. 95 Ga,suggesting that the belt likely extends across the Tan-Lu fault,through the southwestern Shandong Province and to the Bengbu-Huoqiu metamorphic basement beneath the Quaternary coverage. A widespread overprint of a Paleoproterozoic( ~ 1. 85 Ga to1. 95Ga) metamorphic event and two stages of magmatic events at ~ 2. 1Ga and 1. 8Ga to 1. 9Ga in the Southern Liaoning and Langrim blocks suggest that both of them( at least part of the metamorphic basement) have been involved in the Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt. A variety of models have been proposed for the Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt,including those invoking arc-continent collision and those involving the opening and closing of an intra-continental rift. Recently,a newly model for the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt have been proposed,including the opening of a rift basin,followed by the development of an initial ocean basin,and the final closure of the ocean basin through subduction and collision. However,it is difficult to adopt any of these models to explain the extremely complex and massive volcanicsedimentary rocks,multi-stage magmatic events,different types of metamorphism and various metamorphic P-T-t paths and multi-stage deformation within the Jiao-Liao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt. Thus,further studies should be carried out about determination of its southern boundary,tectonic attribution of the Southern Liaoning and Langrim blocks and especially the tectonic setting and evolution for the JiaoLiao-Ji orogenic / mobile belt at the Paleoproterozoic.