Fission–track Ages and Magnetic Susceptibility of Cretaceous to Paleogene Volcanic Rocks in Southeastern Sikhote Alin, Far East Russia

Matsuda, T.; Sakiyama, Tohru; Enami, Ryo; Otofuji, Yo–ichiro; Sakhno, V. G.; Matunin, Anatoly P.; Kulinich, R; Zimin, Petr S.

doi:10.1111/j.1751-3928.1998.tb00025.x

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“…This group is assigned a Late Campanian age from subtropical Monastyrsky horizon flora (Krassilov 1990). Subsequent volcanism was associated with large caldera formation, and produced andesitic to rhyolitic welded tuffs of the Sijanov Group (66-52 Ma) and rhyolitic welded tuffs of the Bogopol Group (53-50 Ma) studied by Otofuji et al (1995) and Matsuda et al (1998).…”

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Late Cretaceous palaeomagnetic results from Sikhote Alin, far eastern Russia: tectonic implications for the eastern margin of the Mongolia Block

Otofuji

Matsuda

Enami

et al. 2003

Geophysical Journal International

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SUMMARY We present palaeomagnetic results from Late Cretaceous welded tuffs in the Kisin Group (Monastirskaya Suite, Primorskaya Series) collected at 27 sites from the Sikhote Alin mountain range. A high unblocking temperature magnetization component (>590°C) was isolated after stepwise thermal demagnetization from 25 sites. Combined with previously reported data, reliable characteristic remanence directions from 39 sites are distributed at eight areas ranging from 46.7°N, 138.1°E to 43.4 °N, 134.8°E in the Sikhote Alin Block. The bedding‐tilt test is positive for two area mean directions and inconclusive for the remaining six areas. The data set for all 39 sites reveals a positive bedding‐tilt test at the 99 per cent confidence level, and their tilt‐corrected mean direction is D= 335.6°, I= 54.4° (α95= 8.5°), corresponding to a palaeopole at 71.5°N, 38.9°E with A95= 9.9°. This westerly direction is ascertained through the tilt‐corrected mean direction (D= 331.1°, I= 53.5°, α95= 8.5°) based on the 25 data selected from four areas (Kema river, Terney, Plastun and Moryak‐Rybolov) where each data set passes the positive bedding‐tilt test or reveals an increase in the precision parameter after tilt correction. Palaeomagnetic declination indicates that the Sikhote Alin Block has rotated counterclockwise by 41°± 16° with respect to the Eurasian continent between Late Cretaceous times and 53–50 Ma. Compared with palaeomagnetic data from the surrounding regions, we find that the rotation recorded in Sikhote Alin extends westward into the interior of the Mongolia Block. The eastern margin of the Asian continent experienced both counterclockwise rotation of the eastern part of the Mongolia Block and clockwise rotation of the eastern part of the North China Block over the Cretaceous. We interpret these data in terms of a strong net horizontal force towards the ocean side, acting on the lithosphere at the eastern margin of the Asian continent between the Late Cretaceous and 53–50 Ma. Intermittently occurring upwellings of mantle and associated horizontal flows may have played an important role in producing the net horizontal force acting on the continental block during Late Cretaceous times.

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Late Cretaceous palaeomagnetic results from Sikhote Alin, far eastern Russia: tectonic implications for the eastern margin of the Mongolia Block

Otofuji

Matsuda

Enami

et al. 2003

Geophysical Journal International

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“…Late Cretaceous‐Pliocene basalts outcropped in NE China date back to about 80 Ma (e.g., Liu, 1987; J. Zhou et al., 2020), and the eastern Sikhote‐Alin volcanism has occurred since about 40 Ma (Matsuda et al., 1998; Nohda, 2009), while the basement basalts in the Japan Sea are relatively young, about 24–18 Ma (Tamaki et al., 1992). Therefore, the volcanic activities likely began in the Sikhote‐Alin region and migrated to the northeast Japan region across the Japan Sea, accompanied by the eastward injection of asthenosphere into the mantle wedge during the Miocene (Nohda, 2009; Nohda et al., 1988; Tatsumi et al., 1989).…”

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“Double Door” Opening of the Japan Sea Inferred by Pn Attenuation Tomography

Yang

Zhao

Xie

et al. 2022

Geophysical Research Letters

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The eastern Asian and western Pacific margins, including the Japan Sea, are areas related to plate subduction and extrusion due to the collision of the Pacific, Philippine Sea, Eurasian, and Okhotsk plates during the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic (Lallemand & Jolivet, 1985;Martin, 2011) (Figure 1a). However, the opening mechanism of the Japan Sea, a representative example of a virtually intact continent-ocean back-arc system, is still unclear and under debate (Van Horne et al., 2017). In general, the formation of a marginal sea in combination with back-arc extension can be ascribed to two driving mechanisms: small-scale convection in mantle wedge induced by descending lithosphere (Toksöz & Bird, 1977) (Figure 1b) and ascending convection generated by both the foundering of the descending lithosphere and seaward migration of the trench (Uyeda & Kanamori, 1979) (Figure 1c). However, the Japan Sea may have experienced complex evolution driven by the superposition of multiple mechanisms, which finally produced a diamond-shaped ocean (Van Horne et al., 2017).The Japanese Islands were part of the northeastern edge of the Asian continent before the Late Cretaceous (Lallemand & Jolivet, 1985). Through short-term continental breakage and seafloor spreading, the Japan Sea began to open and gradually met the Pacific and Philippine plates at a trench-trench-trench triple junction. Kawai et al. (1961) discovered the difference in the magnetization directions of the rocks collected in the southwestern and northeastern parts of the Japan Arc and suggested that this contrast may have been caused by deformation of the Japanese Islands in the late Mesozoic or early Tertiary. Otofuji et al. (1985) further proposed a

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“…AFT results and changes in sedimentary architecture in the Songliao Basin are compared with regional tectonic events. Exhumation events in NE, China (Chen, ; Deng et al, ; Li & Gong, ; Li et al, , ; Sun et al, ), Pacific dynamics (Hourigan et al, ; Matsuda et al, ; Northrup et al, ; Ren et al, ; Soloviev et al, ; Song et al, ; Stepashko, ), and Neo‐Tethys (Copley et al, ; Hu et al, ; Jagoutz et al, ; Ji et al, ; Ma et al, ; Wang et al, , ).…”

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Post‐rift Tectonic History of the Songliao Basin, NE China: Cooling Events and Post‐rift Unconformities Driven by Orogenic Pulses From Plate Boundaries

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The classic lithosphere‐stretching model predicts that the post‐rift evolution of extensional basin should be exclusively controlled by decaying thermal subsidence. However, the stratigraphy of the Songliao Basin in northeastern China shows that the post‐rift evolution was punctuated by multiple episodes of uplift and exhumation events, commonly attributed to the response to regional tectonic events, including the far‐field compression from plate margins. Three prominent tectonostratigraphic post‐rift unconformities are recognized in the Late Cretaceous strata of the basin: T11, T03, and T02. The subsequent Cenozoic history is less constrained due to the incomplete record of younger deposits. In this paper, we utilize detrital apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology to unravel the enigmatic timing and origin of post‐rift unconformities. Relating the AFT results to the unconformities and other geological data, we conclude that in the post‐rift stage, the basin experienced a multiepisodic tectonic evolution with four distinct cooling and exhumation events. The thermal history and age pattern document the timing of the unconformities in the Cretaceous succession: the T11 unconformity at ~88–86 Ma, the T03 unconformity at ~79–75 Ma, and the T02 unconformity at ~65–50 Ma. A previously unrecognized Oligocene unconformity is also defined by a ~32–24 Ma cooling event. Tectonically, all the cooling episodes were regional, controlled by plate boundary stresses. We propose that Pacific dynamics influenced the wider part of eastern Asia during the Late Cretaceous until Cenozoic, whereas the far‐field effects of the Neo‐Tethys subduction and collision processes became another tectonic driver in the later Cenozoic.

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Fission–track Ages and Magnetic Susceptibility of Cretaceous to Paleogene Volcanic Rocks in Southeastern Sikhote Alin, Far East Russia

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Late Cretaceous palaeomagnetic results from Sikhote Alin, far eastern Russia: tectonic implications for the eastern margin of the Mongolia Block

Late Cretaceous palaeomagnetic results from Sikhote Alin, far eastern Russia: tectonic implications for the eastern margin of the Mongolia Block

“Double Door” Opening of the Japan Sea Inferred by Pn Attenuation Tomography

Post‐rift Tectonic History of the Songliao Basin, NE China: Cooling Events and Post‐rift Unconformities Driven by Orogenic Pulses From Plate Boundaries

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