Temperature and timing of ductile deformation of the Longquanguan shear zone, Trans-North China Orogen |
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Determination of temperature conditions and timing of ductile shearing is important in understanding the deformation mechanisms and tectonic evolution. The Longquanguan shear zone locates in the middle section of the Trans-North China Orogen, extending similar to 100 km long in NNE-SSW direction and exposing abundant granitic and granodioritic mylonites, characterized by well-developed NW-dipping mylonitic foliation and penetrative NW-plunging mineral stretching lineation. The mylonite exhibits regionally heterogeneous mechanisms of dynamic recrystallization, dominated by subgrain rotation. Ti-in-quartz (TitaniQ) geothermometer was applied to assess the deformational temperature along five profiles across this shear zone. In the northern part of this shear zone, quartz ribbons of the three narrower profiles display relatively homogeneous Ti content and record similar temperatures of 474-505 degrees C, 500-539 degrees C, and 492-521 degrees C, respectively. In the southern part, quartz ribbons of the two wider profiles show eastward increasing Ti content and record temperature increasing from 440 to 557 degrees C, and from 461 to 553 degrees C, respectively. A temperature gradient is estimated to be 20-25 degrees C/km, which possibly relates to the geothermal gradient between the hanging wall and the footwall. The shear zone, along with the temperature gradient narrows out to the north, possibly resulted from differential erosion/denudation. The hornblende and mica Ar-40/Ar-39 age data indicate that the ductile deformation occurred at similar to 1.85-1.80 Ga, followed by quick cooling occurred at 1.83-1.78 Ga. Therefore, the Longquanguan shear zone records ductile shear deformation, which possibly occurred during the collision between the Western and Eastern Blocks of the NCC in the Late Paleoproterozoic.
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PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH Volume: 359 Article Number: 106217 DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106217 Published: JUL 1 2021 |
Author(s) |
Liu, Jia-Hui; Chen, Yi-Chao; Li, Zhen M. G.; Zhang, Qian W. L.; Lan, Ting-Guang; Zhang, Qing; Wu, Chun-Ming |
Corresponding author(s) |
CHEN Yichao chenyc@ucas.ac.cn Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, POB 4588, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China. |
Author(s) from IGCAS |
LAN Tingguang | View here for the details
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