TY - JOUR
T1 - The Heilongjiang group
T2 - a Jurassic accretionary complex in the Jiamusi Massif at the western Pacific margin of northeastern China
AU - Wu, Fu Yuan
AU - Yang, Jin Hui
AU - Lo, Ching Hua
AU - Wilde, Simon A.
AU - Sun, De You
AU - Jahn, Bor Ming
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - The tectonic setting of the Eastern Asian continental margin in the Jurassic is highly controversial. In the current study, we have selected the Heilongjiang complex located at the western margin of the Jiamusi Massif in northeastern China for geochronological investigation to address this issue. Field and petrographic investigations indicate that the Heilongjiang complex is composed predominately of granitic gneiss, marble, mafic-ultramafic rocks, blueschist, greenschist, quartzite, muscovite-albite schist and two-mica schist that were tectonically interleaved, indicating they represent a mélange. The marble, two-mica schist and granitic gneiss were most probably derived from the Mashan complex, a high-grade gneiss complex in the Jiamusi Massif with which the Heilongjiang Group is intimately associated. The ultramafic rocks, blueschist, greenschist and quartzite (chert) are similar to components in ophiolite. The sensitive high mass-resolution ion microprobe U-Pb zircon age of 265 ± 4 Ma for the granitic gneiss indicates that the protolith granite was emplaced coevally with Permian batholiths in the Jiamusi Massif. 40Ar/39Ar dating of biotite and phengite from the granitic gneiss and mica schist yields a late Early Jurassic metamorphic age between 184 and 174 Ma. Early components of the Jiamusi Massif, including the Mashan complex, probably formed part of an exotic block from Gondwana, affected by late Pan-African orogenesis, and collided with the Asian continental margin during the Early Jurassic. Subduction of oceanic crust between the Jiamusi block and the eastern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt resulted in the formation of a huge volume of Jurassic granites in the Zhangguangcai Range. Consequently, the collision of the Jiamusi Massif with the Central Asian Orogenic Belt to the west can be considered as the result of circum-Pacific accretion, unrelated to the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The widespread development of Jurassic accretionary complexes along the Asian continental margin supports such an interpretation.
AB - The tectonic setting of the Eastern Asian continental margin in the Jurassic is highly controversial. In the current study, we have selected the Heilongjiang complex located at the western margin of the Jiamusi Massif in northeastern China for geochronological investigation to address this issue. Field and petrographic investigations indicate that the Heilongjiang complex is composed predominately of granitic gneiss, marble, mafic-ultramafic rocks, blueschist, greenschist, quartzite, muscovite-albite schist and two-mica schist that were tectonically interleaved, indicating they represent a mélange. The marble, two-mica schist and granitic gneiss were most probably derived from the Mashan complex, a high-grade gneiss complex in the Jiamusi Massif with which the Heilongjiang Group is intimately associated. The ultramafic rocks, blueschist, greenschist and quartzite (chert) are similar to components in ophiolite. The sensitive high mass-resolution ion microprobe U-Pb zircon age of 265 ± 4 Ma for the granitic gneiss indicates that the protolith granite was emplaced coevally with Permian batholiths in the Jiamusi Massif. 40Ar/39Ar dating of biotite and phengite from the granitic gneiss and mica schist yields a late Early Jurassic metamorphic age between 184 and 174 Ma. Early components of the Jiamusi Massif, including the Mashan complex, probably formed part of an exotic block from Gondwana, affected by late Pan-African orogenesis, and collided with the Asian continental margin during the Early Jurassic. Subduction of oceanic crust between the Jiamusi block and the eastern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt resulted in the formation of a huge volume of Jurassic granites in the Zhangguangcai Range. Consequently, the collision of the Jiamusi Massif with the Central Asian Orogenic Belt to the west can be considered as the result of circum-Pacific accretion, unrelated to the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The widespread development of Jurassic accretionary complexes along the Asian continental margin supports such an interpretation.
KW - Heilongjiang complex
KW - Jiamusi Massif
KW - Jurassic subduction
KW - Northeastern China
KW - Ophiolite
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00564.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00564.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847141958
SN - 1038-4871
VL - 16
SP - 156
EP - 172
JO - Island Arc
JF - Island Arc
IS - 1
ER -