Late Permian to Triassic intraplate orogeny of the southern Tianshan and adjacent regions, NW China

作     者：Wei Ju Guiting Hou 

作者机构：School of Earth and Space Science Peking University The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution Ministry of Education 

出 版 物：《Geoscience Frontiers》 (地学前缘（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第5卷第1期

页      面：83-93页

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学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 070901[理学-矿物学、岩石学、矿床学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40772121, 40314141 and 40172066) China National Project No. 973 (2009CB219302) IGCP Project #592 "Continental construction in Central Asia" supported by UNESCO-IUGS 

主　　题：Central Asian Orogenic Belt Northern Xinjiang South Tianshan Ocean Tectonics Tarim North Asia collision 

摘      要：The South Tianshan Orogen and adjacent regions of Central Asia are located in the southwestern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The formation of South Tianshan Orogen was a diachronous, scissors-like process, which took place during the Palaeozoic, and its western segment was accepted as a site of the final collision between the Tarim Craton and the North Asian continent, which occurred in the late Palaeozoic. However, the post-collisional tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan Orogen and adjacent regions remains debatable. Based on previous studies and recent geochronogical data, we suggest that the final collision between the Tarim Craton and the North Asian continent occurred during the late Carboniferous. Therefore, the Permian was a period of intracontinental environment in the southern Tianshan and adjacent regions. We propose that an earlier, small-scale intraplate orogenic stage occurred in late Permian to Triassic time, which was the first intraplate process in the South Tianshan Orogen and adjacent regions. The later large- scale and well-known Neogene to Quaternary intraplate orogeny was induced by the collision between the India subcontinent and the Eurasian plate. The paper presents a new evolutionary model for the South Tianshan Orogen and adjacent regions, which includes seven stages： （I） late Ordovician-early Silurian opening of the South Tianshan Ocean; （11） middle Silurian-middle Devonian subduction of the South Tianshan Ocean beneath an active margin of the North Asian continent; （111） late Devonian-late Carboniferous closure of the South Tianshan Ocean and collision between the Kazakhstan-Yili and Tarirn continental blocks; （IV） early Permian post-collisional magmatism and rifting; （V） late Permian-Triassic the first intraplate orogeny; （Vt） Jurassic-Palaeogene tectonic stagnation and （VII） Neocene-Quaternary intraplate orogeny.