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dc.contributor.authorYao, Jinlong
dc.contributor.authorCawood, Peter A.
dc.contributor.authorShu, Liangshu
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Guochun
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-03T07:51:13Z
dc.date.available2020-06-03T07:51:13Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.identifier259230430
dc.identifierbadd5388-eb52-4e73-9d11-81331fa18520
dc.identifier85066929225
dc.identifier000482246200002
dc.identifier.citationYao , J , Cawood , P A , Shu , L & Zhao , G 2019 , ' Jiangnan Orogen, South China : a ~970–820 Ma Rodinia margin accretionary belt ' , Earth Science Reviews , vol. 196 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.05.016en
dc.identifier.issn0012-8252
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:71E5B55AEC98195985A017A1BA004744
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20038
dc.descriptionAuthors thank the Major State Research Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0600202) for financial support, as well as financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41330208, 41572200 and 41190070) and State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research (Nanjing University) (ZZKT–201603). Peter A. Cawood acknowledges support from Australian Research Council grant FL160100168.en
dc.description.abstractThe Neoproterozoic Jiangnan Orogen in South China records a succession of arc-trench-basin assemblages culminating in accretion of the bounding Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks to form the stabilized South China Craton. The orogen can be traced over some 1500 km and extends up to 100 km across strike. It is divisible into three domains: the northeast domain (also referred to as the Huaiyu or Shuangxiwu Terrane), the central domain (Jiuling Terrane), and an undifferentiated southwest domain. The northeast domain contains arc type volcanic suites and I-type granitoids dated at ca. 970–850 Ma. It is interpreted as an intra–oceanic terrane based on the juvenile radiogenic isotopic signature of the igneous rocks, the absence of older detritus and inherited xenocrysts, and the presence of ophiolites along its southwestern and western margins. The central and southwest domains contain trench-arc-basin assemblages of clastic sedimentary units, mappable magmatic arc suites and ophiolitic mélanges (Sibao and equivalent groups) that range in age from ca. 880 to 820–815 Ma. The presence of old zircon grains within these two domains, both as detritus within sedimentary units and as inherited zircon in arc basalt, suggest they formed at convergent continental margins. S-type granites dated at 845–815 Ma are a distinctive element of the central and southwest domains. The ages of these granites overlap with convergent plate magmatism in the two domains, arguing against previous models for plume-rift and post-collisional geodynamic settings. Instead, these bodies likely formed in an accretionary orogenic margin setting in which granitic magmatism occurred in an extensional regime triggered by slab rollback. The slab-rollback process triggered mantle-sourced thermal input and partial melting of the older and buried arc-bounding basin sediments. Early Paleozoic S-type granites in the Lachlan and New England belts in eastern Australia and Jurassic ones in the Cordillera belt of the western US provide analogous geodynamic environments. Isotopic data indicate that the central Jiangnan domain experienced significant crustal growth, whereas in the southwest domain there was a greater degree of crustal reworking. The character and distribution of the early Neoproterozoic sedimentary and igneous succession in the orogen suggests it represents a ca. 970–820 Ma accretionary orogen. Upper age limits on the Jiangnan Orogen are provided by a regional angular unconformity in the central and southwest domains at ca. 810–805 Ma, and in the northeast domain at ca. 825 Ma, along with the overlying bimodal volcanic and clastic sedimentary successions mostly dated at ca. 810–730 Ma. Thus, timing of final assembly of South China displays variations across the Jiangnan Orogen, from ca. 825 Ma in the northeast to ca. 820–805 Ma in the central and southwest of the orogen. Post-assembly successions are parts of the Nanhua Basin and are interpreted to have formed during regional lithospheric extension across the eastern and central South China Craton. The age patterns across the South China Craton are indicative of northwest directed accretion of fragments and suggest an external rather than an internal position of the craton within the assembled Rodinia supercontinent. Paleomagnetic data, regional correlations and sedimentary records are consistent with a position along the northern margin of Rodinia, adjacent to India and Australia. The Jiangnan Orogen recorded the accretion of trench-arc assemblages and ultimately the Yangtze Block to the Cathaysia Block that was already located on the margin of Rodinia. The Panxi-Hanan belt, which lies along the western and northwestern margin of the Yangtze Block, formed on the upper plate to a subduction system that both overlaps with, and is younger than, the Jiangnan Orogen. The belt provides a record of ongoing accretion on the Rodinia margin until the mid-Neoproterozoic.
dc.format.extent938067
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEarth Science Reviewsen
dc.subjectNeoproterozoic Jiangnan Orogenen
dc.subjectSouth Chinaen
dc.subjectRodiniaen
dc.subjectAccretionary orogenyen
dc.subjectJuvenile arcen
dc.subjectConvergent continental marginen
dc.subjectS-type granitesen
dc.subjectQE Geologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQEen
dc.titleJiangnan Orogen, South China : a ~970–820 Ma Rodinia margin accretionary belten
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.05.016
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-06-03


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