Initiation Timing of the Jiamusi–Yitong Fault Zone in NE China
Quanbo WEN
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
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Yongjiang LIU
Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, Institute for Advanced Ocean Study, College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100 China
Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237 China
Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorChenyue LIANG
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Key laboratory of Mineral Resources Evaluation in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Land and Resources, Changchun, 130061
Search for more papers by this authorLi Weimin
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Key laboratory of Mineral Resources Evaluation in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Land and Resources, Changchun, 130061
Search for more papers by this authorYilun SHAO
Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016 New Zealand
Search for more papers by this authorQian ZHANG
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorDuo ZHANG
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorXinyue LIU
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorQuanbo WEN
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
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Yongjiang LIU
Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, Institute for Advanced Ocean Study, College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100 China
Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237 China
Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorChenyue LIANG
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Key laboratory of Mineral Resources Evaluation in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Land and Resources, Changchun, 130061
Search for more papers by this authorLi Weimin
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Key laboratory of Mineral Resources Evaluation in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Land and Resources, Changchun, 130061
Search for more papers by this authorYilun SHAO
Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016 New Zealand
Search for more papers by this authorQian ZHANG
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorDuo ZHANG
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorXinyue LIU
College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorAbout the first author:
WEN Quanbo, male, born in 1978 in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province; lecturer; graduated from Jilin University; College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University. He is now interested in the study on structural geology, Basic tectonics. Email: [email protected]; phone: 13624316646.
About the corresponding author:
LIU Yongjiang, male, born in 1964 in Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province; professor; graduate from University of Salzburg; Ocean University of China. He is now interested in the study on structural geology, rheology and tectonics. Email: [email protected]; phone: 13844803058
Abstract
The NE–striking Jiamusi–Yitong fault zone (JYFZ) is the most important branch in the northern segment of the Tancheng–Lujiang fault zone. The precise shearing time of its large–scale sinistral strike–slip has yet to determined and must be constrained. Detailed field investigations and comprehensive analyses show that strike–slip faults or ductile shear belts exist as origination structures along the western region of Yitong Graben. The strike of the shear belts trend to the NE–SW with steep mylonitic foliation. The zircon U–Pb dating result for the granite was 264.1±1 Ma in the ductile shear belt of the JYFZ. The microstructural observation (rotated feldspar porphyroclasts, S–C fabrics, and quartz c–axis fabrics, etc.) demonstrated the sinistral shearing of the ductile shear zones. Moreover, the recrystallized quartz types show a transitional stage of the subgrain rotation toward the recrystallization of the grain boundary migration (SR–GBM). Therefore, we suggest that the metamorphic grade of the shear zone in the ductile shear zones should have reached high greenschist facies conditions, and the deformation temperatures should approximately 450–500°C, which is obviously higher than the blocking temperature of muscovite (300–400°C). Hence, the 40Ar /39Ar isochron age of muscovite from ductile shear zones should be a cooling age (162.7±1 Ma). We infer that the sinistral strike–slipping event at the JYFZ occurred in the late Jurassic period, and it was further inferred from the ages of the main geological events in this region that the second sinistral strike–slip age of the Tancheng–Lujiang fault zone occurred during the period of tectonic movements in the Circum–Pacific tectonic domain. This discovery also indicates the age of the Tancheng–Lujiang fault zone that stretches to northeastern China. The initiation of the JYFZ in the late Jurassic is related to the speed and direction of oblique subduction of the west Pacific Plate under the Eurasian continent and is responsible for collision during the Jurassic period.
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