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TECTONICS
Volume 33, Issue 12, Pages 2490-2504Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003748
Keywords
detrital zircon; early Paleozoic suture; Hainan Island; South China; Western Australia; Gondwana
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41472086, 41272120]
- 111 Project [B08030]
- fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) [CUG2012019240, CUG2013019137]
- China Scholarship Council [201208420001]
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Hainan Island, located near the southern end of mainland South China, consists of the Qiongzhong Block to the north and the Sanya Block to the south. In the Cambrian, these blocks were separated by an intervening ocean. U-Pb ages and Hf isotope compositions of detrital zircons from the Cambrian succession in the Sanya Block suggest that the unit contains detritus derived from late Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic units along the western margin of the West Australia Craton (e.g., Northampton Complex) or the Albany-Fraser-Wilkes orogen, which separates the West Australia and Mawson cratons. Thus, in the Cambrian the Sanya Block was not part of the South China Craton but rather part of the West Australian Craton and its environs. In contrast, overlying Late Ordovician strata display evidence for input of detritus from the Qiongzhong Block, which constituted part of the southeastern convergent plate margin of the South China Craton in the early Paleozoic. The evolving provenance record of the Cambrian and Ordovician strata suggests that the juxtaposition of South China and West Australian cratons occurred during the early to mid-Ordovician. The event was linked with the northern continuation of Kuungan Orogeny, with South China providing a record of final assembly of Gondwana.
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