Abstract
Dating of magmatic rocks from paleo-island arcs of orogenic belts helps to define the precise timing of subduction processes that took place during the formation of the orogen. Within the central (East Trans-Baikal) part of the Mongol-Okhotsk orogenic belt, the Kamensk island-arc terrane is an example of such paleo-island-arc complex. Its intrusive part is included into the Bereinsky complex, represented by a gabbro-diorite-tonalite-plagiogranite series of rocks demonstrating subduction geochemical characteristics. The dating of zircons from acidic rocks of this complex by the U–Pb classical method showed that they were produced in a narrow time interval – 203±1–205±1 Ma, which corresponds to Norian/Rhaetian boundary of the Late Triassic. Taking into account the previously obtained age of the diorites (254±5 Ma), the timing of formation of the entire series of intrusive rocks is about 50 Ma, thus indicating in the Late Permian – Late Triassic the subduction along the northern (in modern coordinates) margin of the Mongol-Okhotsk Paleocean beneath the Siberian paleocontinent. Diorites of the first phase have positive values ɛND(254MA) = 3.2–3.6 (TNd(DM) = 879–994 Ma), and plagiogranites – ɛND(205MA) = 2.3–3.5 (TNd(DM) = 859–1028 Ma), which points to the connection of these rocks with the substance of the depleted mantle source and is consistent with the Sm-Nd isotope characteristics of the juvenile crust of the Central Asian orogenic belt. This study was supported by Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 22-27-00775. The resources of the Shared Use Center for Isotope-Geochemical Research (Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk) were used in this work.
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