Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources China University of Geosciences Beijing 100083 China cug.edu.cn
2. Geology Department Macalester College Saint Paul Minnesota 55105 USA macalester.edu
Abstract
Abstract
The Early Cretaceous Liaonan metamorphic core complex (MCC), eastern North China craton, provides a field setting to evaluate progressive middle-upper crustal subhorizontal shearing, doming, and detachment faulting. The MCC is bounded by a western Jinzhou detachment fault zone (JDFZ) and a southern Dongjiagou shear zone (DSZ) that were primarily suggested to be two segments of the master detachment fault zone. Integrated structural, microstructural, quartz c-axis fabrics, and fluid inclusion analysis and zircon U-Pb dating on mylonites and syn-kinematic granites along the DSZ and JDFZ reveal that the DSZ possesses deformation characteristics that are obviously different from those along the JDFZ. The DSZ is composed of a Lower Unit of sheared Archean gneisses and an Upper Unit of sheared Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks, between which there is an obvious tectonic discontinuity contact (TDC). Rocks from below and above the TDC possess structures and fabrics with consistent geometries and kinematics with those along the JDFZ. A metamorphic break exists between the two units that were sheared at contrasting deformation conditions. Dating of zircons from syn-kinematic granitic dikes from DSZ yields an age of ca. 134 Ma, which is similar to the ages of early shearing along the JDFZ. It is concluded that the Jinzhou and Dongjiagou faults formed parts of a detachment faulting with top-to-the WNW kinematics. Exhumation of the Liaonan MCC shearing initiation along both the JDFZ and DSZ at an early stage (ca. 133~134 Ma), subsequent progressive shearing, and doming during slow cooling and exhumation before ca. 120 Ma, followed by fast cooling and rapid exhumation of the MCC by detachment faulting along the JDFZ until ca. 107 Ma.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Key Research and Development Plan of China
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