Abstract
The article considers the material composition of sandy rocks from the Upper Triassic deposits of the Mongugai formation of South-Western Primorye and presents the results of its paleogeodynamic interpretation. It has been established that, according to their mineralogical and geochemical parameters, sandstones are petrogenic, correspond to graywackes and, only partially, to lithite arenites, are characterized by a significant degree of geochemical maturity of the clastic material, and their formation occurred due to the erosion of significantly weathered parent rocks of the source areas. Generalization and paleogeodynamic interpretation of the data obtained indicate that in the Late Triassic in the southwestern part of Primorye, sedimentation occurred in basins associated with the environment of the active continental margin and, probably, complicated by strike-slip dislocations along transform faults. The dominant source of clastic matter was continental land: cratons and projections of crystalline basement framed by rift zones or along transform faults. Acidic granite-metamorphic complexes were eroded with the participation of sedimentary rocks enriched with ancient components. A secondary source was a deeply dissected continental margin magmatic arc, which supplied the basin with an additional amount of sialic material, as well as a small amount of the basic-medium volcanoclastic. U-Pb geochronological studies of detrital zircons from sandy rocks of the formation made it possible to establish the age and possible location of magmatic complexes, due to the destruction of which the deposits were formed.
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