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Late Carboniferous Rhyolites of the Amur Fragment of the Nora–Sukhotino Terrane: Geochemistry and Geochronology

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This paper presents the first geochemical, isotope-geochemical (Sm–Nd) and geochronological (U–Pb, LA–ICP–MS) data on acid volcanic rocks collected in the Bogdanikha River basin of the Priamursky fragment of the Nora–Sukhotino terrane in the northeastern South Mongolia–Khingan orogenic belt. In terms of the contents of rock-forming components, the studied volcanic rocks correspond to high-silica and high-alumina rhyolites. The elevated contents of alkalis, Ga, Zr, Nb, and Y, lower concentrations of Ba, Sr, Ti, and Eu, and mantle values of εNd(t) = +3.0…+3.6 allow the rhyolites from the Bogdanikha River basin to be classified as A2-type rhyolites. The concordant age of the youngest zircon population from the rhyolite, according to geochronological (U–Pb, LA—ICP–MS) studies, is 301 ± 4 Ma, which corresponds to the Late Carboniferous. Taking the geochemical features of the studied rhyolites and the existing models for the formation of the South Mongolia–Khingan orogenic belt into account, it is most likely that they formed in a collisional setting as a result of slab break-off.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to collaborators of the Center for Collective Use of the Amur Center of the Mineralogical-Geochemical Studies of the Institute of Geology and Nature Management of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (E.N. Voropaeva, O.G. Medvedeva, V.I. Rozhdestvina, A.S. Segrenev, E.S. Sapozhnik, and E.V. Ushakova), IGC SB RAS (О.V. Zarubina, N.V. Bryanskii, T.N. Galkina) as well as staff of the Geospektr Center for Collective Use of the Geological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan Ude) for performance of the analytical studies.

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The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 21-77-10001, https://rscf.ru/project/21-77-10001/).

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  1. Institute of Geology and Nature Management, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 675000, Blagoveshchensk, Russia

    Yu. V. Smirnov

  2. Dobretsov Geological Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 670047, Ulan Ude, Russia

    V. B. Khubanov

  3. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    S. I. Dril

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Smirnov, Y.V., Khubanov, V.B. & Dril, S.I. Late Carboniferous Rhyolites of the Amur Fragment of the Nora–Sukhotino Terrane: Geochemistry and Geochronology. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 17, 501–515 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714023050081

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