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Age and geochemistry of the Zhaheba ophiolite complex in eastern Junggar of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB): implications for the accretion process of the Junggar terrane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2016

XIAN-TAO YE ,
CHUAN-LIN ZHANG ,
HAI-BO ZOU ,
CHUN-YAN YAO  and
YONG-GUAN DONG
XIAN-TAO YE
Affiliation:
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100037, China Nanjing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Nanjing 210016, China
CHUAN-LIN ZHANG*
Affiliation:
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Nanjing 210016, China
HAI-BO ZOU
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, 36849-5305, USA
CHUN-YAN YAO
Affiliation:
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Nanjing 210016, China
YONG-GUAN DONG
Affiliation:
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Nanjing 210016, China
*
†Author for correspondence: zchuanlin1968@gmail.com
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Abstract

We report new field observations, zircon U–Pb ages and geochemical data for the discrete members of the Zhaheba ophiolite complex in northeastern Junggar of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) with the aim to understand the accretion process of the eastern Junggar terrane. The zircon age data reveal that the cumulates of the Zhaheba ophiolite crystallized at ~485 Ma while the volcanic sequences erupted at ~400 Ma. Thus, the volcanic sequences are not members of the Zhaheba ophiolite. Chromian spinels from the serpentinite have comparable elemental compositions to those of spinels from MORB-type ophiolites. Similarly, the rift affinity of clinopyroxene and positive zircon εHf(t) (13–20) and mantle δ18O (+5.37‰) values of the cumulates imply that the cumulates crystallized from primitive magmas derived from a depleted mantle source. Elemental and Nd isotopic compositions indicate that the basalts in the Zhaheba area were derived from partial melting of a mantle wedge metasomatized by adakitic melts and/or subduction-related fluids. The data presented in this contribution, together with previous studies, indicate that the Zhaheba–Almantai and Kelameili ophiolites were MORB-type, which implies that there were at least two mid-ocean ridges during Ordovician to early Devonian times in the Junggar Ocean. In the earlier stage, intra-oceanic subduction led to the formation of the intra-oceanic arc, and then the Kelameili ophiolite accreted to an intra-oceanic accretionary wedge. In the later stage, the Zhaheba–Almantai ophiolite accreted to the accretionary wedge along the southern margin of the Iritish suture zone during the roll-back of the subduction zone from north to south.

Keywords

Zhaheba ophioliteMORB-typeaccretion processCentral Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB)Junggar terrane
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Geological Magazine , Volume 154 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 419 - 440
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