Late Mesozoic development of the southern Qinling–Dabieshan foreland fold-thrust belt, Central China, and its role in continent–continent collision

Liu, Shaofeng; Li, Wangpeng; Wang, Kai; Qian, Tao; Jiang, Chengxin

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.01.015

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“…Due to the reorganization of the paleo-Pacific subduction as well as the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk and Bangong-Nujiang oceans, the eastern Asian continent was surrounded by multidirected convergent tectonics during the Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous (Figure 12a). Indeed, intracontinental contractional tectonics during this period has been documented in many places of eastern China, such as the development of several thrust-fold belts surrounding the Ordos and Sichuan Basins (Dong et al, 2015;Li et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2015;Yan et al, 2003). This leads us to believe that the emplacement of the Dayunshan-Mufushan early-stage intrusion was partially assisted by a distal compressional regime as demonstrated by our multidisciplinary data (see also Part 1).…”

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confidence: 58%

“…S. Liu et al, 2016). Indeed, intracontinental contractional tectonics during this period has been documented in many places of eastern China, such as the development of several thrust-fold belts surrounding the Ordos and Sichuan Basins (Dong et al, 2015;Li et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2015;Yan et al, 2003). We further infer that the "magmatic quiescence" of the SCB probably foreshadowed the geodynamic transformation from slab foundering to slab rollback of the paleo-Pacific Plate.…”

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“…Two episodes of intracontinental orogeny with regional metamorphism and magmatism, respectively, during the Early Paleozoic and the Early Mesozoic significantly reworked the Precambrian tectonic framework of the SCB to different extent (e.g., Charvet et al, 2010;Chu, Faure, Lin, Wang, & Ji, 2012;Chu & Lin, 2014;Faure et al, 2009;Lin, Wang, & Chen, 2008;Shu et al, 2014Shu et al, , 2015Z. However, the western SCB seems to be dominated by a compressional tectonic regime, for instance, the Yangtze foreland belt of the Qinling-Dabie orogen and the thin-skinned tectonic system between the Sichuan basin and Xuefengshan belt, respectively, recorded SW directed and NW directed folding and thrusting during the Late Mesozoic (e.g., Li et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2015;Yan et al, 2003). The architecture of the NE-SW trending Xufengshan-Jiuling belt in the central SCB that superposed upon the preexisting Jiangnan orogen was chiefly built by the Triassic tectonism, accommodating a SE directed intracontinental subduction coeval with continental collision between the SCB and Indochina block to the south .…”

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“…As mentioned before, the Late Mesozoic geology of the eastern SCB is featured by widespread magmatism and numerous small rift basins, indicating an overall extensional tectonic regime related to the paleo-Pacific subduction (e.g., J. H. Shu et al, 2009;Wang & Shu, 2012;Zhou & Li, 2000;Zhou et al, 2006). However, the western SCB seems to be dominated by a compressional tectonic regime, for instance, the Yangtze foreland belt of the Qinling-Dabie orogen and the thin-skinned tectonic system between the Sichuan basin and Xuefengshan belt, respectively, recorded SW directed and NW directed folding and thrusting during the Late Mesozoic (e.g., Li et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2015;Yan et al, 2003).…”

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Multiple Emplacement and Exhumation History of the Late Mesozoic Dayunshan‐Mufushan Batholith in Southeast China and Its Tectonic Significance: 2. Magnetic Fabrics and Gravity Survey

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The Late Mesozoic magmatic province is a prominent feature of the South China Block (SCB). However, the tectonic regimes associated with the magmatism are still elusive. A combined anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and gravity study has been carried out to determine the fabric patterns and shape at depth of the Dayunshan‐Mufushan composite batholith in the north‐central SCB. This is a companion paper to Part 1 that presented the structural and geochronological data of this batholith. The magnetic fabrics in the batholith interior predominantly reflect magma flow structures. Two distinct patterns of the magnetic lineations are defined, around NNE‐SSW and WNW‐ESE trends for the early‐stage and late‐stage intrusions of the batholith, respectively. The gravity survey reveals that the early‐stage intrusion has a main feeder zone located below its northern part, while several linear feeder zones trending NNE‐SSW are inferred for the late‐stage intrusion. Integrating all results, a two‐stage construction of the batholith with distinct tectonic regimes has been established. It is concluded that the early‐stage intrusion experienced a southward magma transport during its emplacement, partially assisted by far‐field compression from the north at ca. 150 Ma. Conversely, the emplacement and exhumation of the late‐stage intrusion was accommodated by a NW‐SE crustal stretching involving a lateral magma expansion above the multiple feeder zones (likely corresponding to extensional fractures) and ductile shearing during 132–95 Ma localized mainly along the Dayunshan detachment fault. Finally, we discuss the geodynamic linkage between the paleo‐Pacific subduction and the Late Mesozoic tectonomagmatism in the SCB.

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Multiple Emplacement and Exhumation History of the Late Mesozoic Dayunshan‐Mufushan Batholith in Southeast China and Its Tectonic Significance: 2. Magnetic Fabrics and Gravity Survey

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“…After the collision between the North China and South China plates during the Late Triassic, the Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt, which was a southern margin of northeast Asia, underwent long-term suturing, intracontinental shortening and thrusting since the Jurassic (Liu et al, 2003;Liu et al, 2015b; (Li, 2015;Fig. 1).…”

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Reconstruction of northeast Asian deformation integrated with western Pacific plate subduction since 200 Ma

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Gurnis

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The configuration and kinematics of continental deformation and its marginal plate tectonics on the Earth's surface are intrinsic manifestations of plate-mantle coupling. The complex interactions of plate boundary forces result in plate motions that are dominated by slab pull and ridge push forces and the effects of mantle drag; these interactions also result in continental deformation with a complex basin-mountain architecture and evolution. The kinematics and evolution of the

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Multiple Emplacement and Exhumation History of the Late Mesozoic Dayunshan–Mufushan Batholith in Southeast China and Its Tectonic Significance: 1. Structural Analysis and Geochronological Constraints

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Lin

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The South China Block (SCB) experienced a polyphase reworking by the Phanerozoic tectonothermal events. To better understand its Late Mesozoic tectonics, an integrated multidisciplinary investigation has been conducted on the Dayunshan–Mufushan composite batholith in the north‐central SCB. This batholith consists of two major intrusions that recorded distinct emplacement features. According to our structural analysis, two deformation events in relation to batholith emplacement and subsequent exhumation are identified. The early one (D1) was observed mostly at the southern border of the batholith, characterized by a top‐to‐the‐SW ductile shearing in the early‐stage intrusion and along its contact zone. This deformation, chiefly associated with the pluton emplacement at ca. 150 Ma, was probably assisted by farfield compression from the northern Yangtze foreland belt. The second but main event (D2) involved two phases: (1) ductile shearing (D2a) prominently expressed along the Dayunshan detachment fault at the western border of the batholith where the syntectonic late‐stage intrusion and minor metasedimentary basement in the footwall suffered mylonitization with top‐to‐the‐NW kinematics; and (2) subsequent brittle faulting (D2b) further exhumed the entire batholith that behaved as rift shoulder with half‐graben basins developed on its both sides. Geochronological constraints show that the crustal ductile extension occurred during 132–95 Ma. Such a Cretaceous NW–SE extensional tectonic regime, as indicated by the D2 event, has been recognized in a vast area of East Asia. This tectonism was responsible not only for the destruction of the North China craton but also for the formation of the so‐called “southeast China basin and range tectonics.”

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Late Mesozoic development of the southern Qinling–Dabieshan foreland fold-thrust belt, Central China, and its role in continent–continent collision

Cited by 64 publications

References 43 publications

Multiple Emplacement and Exhumation History of the Late Mesozoic Dayunshan‐Mufushan Batholith in Southeast China and Its Tectonic Significance: 2. Magnetic Fabrics and Gravity Survey

Multiple Emplacement and Exhumation History of the Late Mesozoic Dayunshan‐Mufushan Batholith in Southeast China and Its Tectonic Significance: 2. Magnetic Fabrics and Gravity Survey

Reconstruction of northeast Asian deformation integrated with western Pacific plate subduction since 200 Ma

Multiple Emplacement and Exhumation History of the Late Mesozoic Dayunshan–Mufushan Batholith in Southeast China and Its Tectonic Significance: 1. Structural Analysis and Geochronological Constraints

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