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Reconstruction of the Cryogenian palaeogeography in the Yangtze Domain: constraints from detrital age patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2018

YU LIU ,
KUNGUANG YANG ,
ALI POLAT  and
XIAO MA
YU LIU
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan 430074, China Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan 430074, China
KUNGUANG YANG*
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan 430074, China Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan 430074, China
ALI POLAT
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada Centre for Global Tectonics, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, 430074, China
XIAO MA
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan 430074, China Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan 430074, China
*
†Author for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Detrital zircons are often used to constrain the maximum sedimentary age of strata and sedimentary provenance. This study aimed at reconstructing the Cryogenian palaeogeography of the Yangtze Domain based on U–Pb ages and Lu–Hf isotopic signatures of detrital zircons from sandstones in the southeastern part of the Yangtze Domain. U–Pb ages of the youngest detrital zircon grains from the Niuguping, Gucheng and Datangpo formations yielded average ages of 712±24 Ma, 679.2±6.2 Ma and 665.1±7.4 Ma, respectively, which are close to the depositional ages of their respective formations. An integrated study of detrital zircon Lu–Hf isotopes and U–Pb ages from three samples revealed six main peak ages in the samples from the Anhua section at c. 680 Ma, c. 780 Ma, c. 820 Ma, c. 940 Ma, c. 2000 Ma and c. 2500 Ma. The characteristics of the U–Pb ages and Hf isotopes indicate a link between the north and southeast margins of the Yangtze Domain as early as c. 680 Ma, and the provenance of the coeval sedimentary sequences in the SE Yangtze Domain was the South Qinling Block on the northern margin of the Yangtze Domain. The provenance analysis on the c. 680 Ma detritus composing upper Neoproterozoic strata in the Yangtze Domain revealed that the detritus was transported southward from South Qinling to the southeast margin of the Yangtze Domain through the Exi Strait, but was hindered by the Jiangnan Orogenic Belt.

Keywords

South Chinawestern Hunandetrital zirconsprovenanceU–Pb datingHf isotopes
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Geological Magazine , Volume 156 , Issue 7 , July 2019 , pp. 1247 - 1264
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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