Affiliation:
1. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Central Research Institute of Geological Prospecting for Base and Precious Metals
3. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
The paper presents the first data of the isotopic zircon U–Pb study (LA–ICP–MS method) on the granodiorite-granite from the Sardara (Sarykty) pluton in the district of the giant Muruntau Au deposit in the Western Tien Shan (Uzbekistan). In a single sample, three age groups of zircon crystals identified, with their concordant U–Pb age being 322.0 ± 3.7 Ma (MSWD = 3.1, 4 zircon grains), 301.6 ± 2.1 Ma (MSWD = 0.17, 11 zircon grains), and 289.1 ± 4.9 Ma (MSWD = 0.98, 2 zircon grains), respectively. The scatter of the isotope age data obtained can be interpreted using the model of subsequent crystallization of various zircon generations in variably-deep magmatic batches, followed by zircon capturing during the magma differentiation and crystallization. Notable is a quite close coincidence of the two (the younger) age intervals to the concordant U–Pb zircon ages, which were published before for the granitoid rocks found directly at the Muruntau deposit. The latter thus can represent the dike “splits” occurred at the respective stages of the magma evolution (progressing differentiation) in the deeper batches of the granitoid magma, with its larger intrusions represented by the Sardara (Sarykty) and other plutons outcropping at some distance from the deposit. Overall, the older isotopic U–Pb zircon data of the Sardara (Sarykty) pluton (in the order of 322 Ма and 302 Ма, respectively) correspond closer to the subduction event, whereas the younger U–Pb zircon data (in the order of 289.5 Ma) are quite relevant to the post-collisional stage occurred in the region. Therefore, the initiation and initial development of the magma batches in the Muruntau deposit district could occur in the subduction environment but the final granitoid magma differentiation and crystallization were completed already at the post-collisional stage.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences
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