期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
卷 102, 期 3, 页码 605-626出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-012-0831-y
关键词
Ailao Shan shear zone; Granitic plutons (dykes); Structural and microstructural analysis; Geochronological dating; South China Sea
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41172190]
- Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China [20110022130001]
- China Geological Survey [1212010661311, 1212010913036, 1212011120343]
- Ministry of Land and Resources [201011027-1]
As the boundary between the Indochina and the South China blocks, the Ailao Shan-Red River (ASRR) shear zone underwent a sinistral strike-slip shearing which is characterized by ductile deformation structures along the Ailao Shan range. The timing issue of left-lateral shearing along the ASRR shear zone is of first-order importance in constraining the nature and regional significance of the shear zone. It has been, therefore, focused on by many previous studies, but debates still exist on the age of initiation and termination of shearing along the shear zone. In this paper, we dated 5 samples of granitic plutons (dykes) along the Ailao Shan shear zone. Zircon U-Pb ages of four sheared or partly sheared granitic rocks give ages of 30.9 +/- A 0.7, 36.6 +/- A 0.1, 25.9 +/- A 1.0 and 27.2 +/- A 0.2 Ma, respectively. An undeformed granitic dyke intruding mylonitic foliation gives crystallization age of 21.8 +/- A 1 Ma. The Th/U ratios of zircon grains from these rocks fall into two populations (0.17-1.01 and 0.07-0.08), reflecting magmatic and metamorphic origins of the zircons. Detailed structural and microstructural analysis reveals that the granitic intrusions are ascribed to pre-, syn- and post-shearing magmatisms. The zircon U-Pb ages of these granites provide constraints on timing of the initiation (later than 31 Ma from pre-shearing granitic plutons, but earlier than 27 Ma from syn-shearing granitic dykes) and termination (ca. 21 Ma from the post-shearing granitic dykes) of strong ductile left-lateral shearing, which is consistent with previous results on the Diancang Shan and Day Nui Con Voi massifs in the literature. We also conclude that the left-lateral shearing along the ASRR shear zone is the result of southeastward extrusion of the Indochina block during the Indian-Eurasian plate collision. Furthermore, the left-lateral shearing was accompanied by the ridge jump, postdating the opening, of the South China Sea.
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