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PETROCHEMICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VARIOUS GEODYNAMIC SETTING BAIKALIDES, EARLY CALEDONIAN AND CALEDONIAN GRANITOIDS

(ON EXAMPLE OF THE SIBERIAN PLATFORM SOUTH-WESTERN MARGIN STRUCTURES)


Datsenko V.M.

Krasnoyarsk Scientific Research Institute of the Geology and Mineral Resources, Krasnoyarsk, Russia datsenko@kniigims.ru


Granitoids as an indicator of the geodynamic settings of the past plate tectonic model are adopted now and then as a single criterion for the establishment of this or that geodynamic setting. The geodinamic standarting was carried out on the basis of the complex of geological and structure-formation signs, including the data received by the author on the petrochemical and geochemical studies of the granitoids and the classification and discrimination in diagrams, taking into account the latest isotopic-geochronological data of the complex. Reviving the of idea E. Suess about the centrifugas spread of the continents now developed by I.V. Gordienko (2006 et al.), one may say that beginning with the Neoproterozoic the Siberian craton (in modern coordinates) in his SW segment developed at the expense of the ocean surrounding area it. The fold belt Baikalides (the Yenisei Ridge, the Protero-Sayan), the Late Caledonides (the Cambrian-Sayan, the Kuznetsk Alatau), real Caledonides (the West Sayan) and the Hercynides (the Mountainjus and the Mongolian Altai) consecutively joined them. The figurative expression I.V. Gordienko (1987, p. 3), the area understudy is the “unique natural laboratory” for the study of granitoids, formed under various geodynamic conditions. The indicator role of magmatites for the geodynamic reconstructions of the Altai-Sayan area and the Enisei Ridge was shown inthe papers by L.P. Zonenshain, M.I. Kuzmin, I.V. Gordienko,A.N. Distanova, A.E. & V.A. Vernikovsky, the author and etc. Our research includes the region of the Krasnoyarsk territory from the Podkamennaya Tunguska river in the north up to Tuva in the south and the time period from the Early Proterozoic to Devonian including (Datsenko et al., 1994; Datsenko, 1998, 2000 and etc).

The granite formation processes related to the plate tectonics, in the structures margining the Siberian craton are confidently fixed from Neo-Proterozoic. Till this time, the episodes of the within plate subduction and continental collision (unmagnetite S-granites Taraka complex of the Yenisei Ridge, 2-1, 85 Ga) are very notable on the continent. The Baikalides themselves displayed mainly on the Yenisei Ridge, the Neo-Proterozoic deposits, being accumulated on the crust of the continental type under the condition of the pericraton lowering the Siberian craton border. As a result of the destruction, this area was divided into several terranes, the stacking of which brought to the successive display of the collision processes, taking more than 200 Ma. We suppose that the collisional granites of the Central terrane of the Yenisei Ridge, that were previously united into the Tatarka-Ayakhta complex of the unmagnetite granites, must be considered as the temporary series of the collisional Kalami (about 870 Ma), Ayakhta (760 Ma) and Tatarka (630 Ma) complexes (all the data obtained with use of the of U-Pb zircon method by Vernikovsky and Vernikovsaya). Granites belong to the IS-type. The consideration of this paradox reasons is beyond the scope of the short paper.

It is necessary to say that the late collisional leucogranites of the Glushikha and Garevka complexes were widely developed in the west in autonomous formed Angaro-Tissk terrane (720-750 Ma, according to A.E. and V.A. Vernikovsky). They are the typical crust S-type granites, specialized in the rare metals.

We can see another situation in the Altai-Sayan accretion-collision area that formed in the place of the Paleo-Asian ocean. Its geological structure is mosaic-block. It includes several terranes of the ancient platform, the ocean structure relicts, island-arc complexes, collision belts, late-collision grabens, etc. Their collision with the Siberian continent and the surrounding terranes (the Derbina type) brought to the creation of the subduction zone and formation of the typical magmatic and ore formation above them. The ore magmatic zonation associated with the PZ1 island-arc and margin-continental complex evolution was clearly observed in the «ocean-continent» joint zone. During the Early Caledonian (Salair period), the plagiogranites of the tholeitic (Hercynides, according to L.V.Tauson) geochemical series (the Maina M-type granites complex with copper ore, 550-532 Ma) had been formed in the frontal volcano-plutonic arcs. In the active continental margin, the formation of andesitic geochemical type granitoids was taking place: the auriferous Olkhovka (544-515 Ma), Zun Kholba and other I-type granite complexes. In back-arc basin situation, near the continental Derbina terrane, the latite geochemical type granitoids - Buedzhul A-type granite complex with molybdenum-porphyry mineralization (533-521 Ma) were developed.

During the Ordovic, in the same area, the crust torsion had been transforming into collision and the collisional granite belts were formed: the Bellyk (465 Ma), the Kuturchin (474±8 Ma) crust granite complexes with larger mantle component.

In the back-arc basin zones, the compression effects in the collision belts were compensated by the stretching processes and those of the late collisional graben formation (Oslo-type), with the volcano-plutonic formations having been widely developed. In the Agul graben, the late collisional molybdenum-containing granites and leucogranites of the Ognit complex were represented by the peraluminous A-type granites (440-450 Ma).

The Caledonian granitoid magmatism had been well demonstrated in the West Sayan, where the granites and leucogranites of the Dzhoj complex formed the extended granite belt (more than 200 km). The granitoids belong to A-type (415-393 Ma).

The results obtained allow to more reasonably solve the problems of about the correlation between the granitoid mineral composition and the tectonic development regime. This should be taken into consideration when mapping and evaluating the ore content granite potential.


References

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Datsenko V.M. (2000) Petrogeochemical typization of the Siberian Platform south-western rim granitoids // Petrography at the boundary of XXI century: results and perspectives. (Materials of the 2nd All-Union Petrographic Meeting.Vol.III. Syktyvkar. Institute of Geology, Komi Research Centre, Urals Branch RAS. P.270-274. (in Russian)

Datsenko V.M., Aleksandrovsky Yu.S., Kosorukov A.P. et al. (1994) The most significant epochs and geodynamic settings of granitoid magmatism and endogenic ore formation in structures of the Siberian Platform south-western rim // Russian Geology. N10. p.27-39. (in Russian)

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Gordienko I.V. (2006) Geodynamic evolution of southern Siberian Platform fold rim late baikalids and paleozoids. // Geology and Geophysics. V.47. N1. p.53-70. (in Russian)