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INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW
Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 216-227Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2015.1065207
Keywords
Tibet; southern Qiangtang; detrital zircon; clastic rocks; Gondwana
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- National Science Foundation of China [41272240, 41072166]
- China Geological Survey [1212011221093, 12120113036700]
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This article reports the results of field mapping and the petrology of clastic rocks in the Dabure area, southern Qiangtang, Tibet, together with the results of U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from these rocks. The Dabure clastic rocks are characterized by low compositional and textural maturity, and they have been affected by lower greenschist facies metamorphism. The deposits exhibit the typical features of turbidites. Altogether, 279 detrital zircons were selected for U-Pb dating, and the ages fall into five groups: 550-650, similar to 800, 900-1100, 1600-1800, and 2300-2500Ma. In general, the ages of the detrital zircons that are older than similar to 550Ma are similar to those found elsewhere in the southern Qiangtang and Himalayan terranes. The most reliable youngest age of a detrital zircon from the Dabure clastic rocks is similar to 550Ma. In the southern part of the Tibet Plateau, strata with the same ages and lithologies as the Dabure clastic rocks are widespread, especially in the Himalayan terrane. Combining our data with previous work on the basalts in the Dabure area (the Dabure basalts), we tentatively suggest that the Dabure clastic rocks represent the late Ediacaran (similar to 550Ma) sedimentary record for the Qiangtang terrane, and that before the late Neoproterozoic the southern Qiangtang terrane was possibly connected to the Himalayan terrane.
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