Basement-cover sequences within the UHP unit of the Dabie Shan

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 531-538

  Schmid, R ^a   Romer, R L ^b   Franz, L ^c   Oberhansli R ^a   Martinotti, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basement cover sequences; Dabie Shan; U Pb dating; Ultrahigh pressure

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

CHINA;

EID: 0041821755     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1314.2003.00461.x     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ames, L., Tilton, G. R. & Zhou, G., 1993. Timing of collision of the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze cratons: U-Pb zircon dating of coesite-bearing eclogites. Geology, 21, 339-342.
2. Ames, L., Zhou, G. & Xiong, B., 1996. Geochronology and isotopic character of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism with implications for collision of the Sino-Korean and Yangtze cratons, central China. Tectonics, 472-489.
3. Anhui Institute of Regional Geological Survey (AIRGS), 1997. 1: 250,000 Geological map of Dabie Mountains area of Anhui province (Internal report).
4. Austrheim, H., 1987. Eclogitisation of lower crustal granulites by fluid migration through shear zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 81, 221-232.
5. Bohlen, S. R. & Boettcher, A. L., 1982. The quartz-coesite transformation: a pressure determination and the effects of other components. Journal of Geophysical Research, 87, 7073-7078.
6. Carswell, D. A., Wilson, R. N. & Zhai, M., 2000. Metamorphic evolution, mineral chemistry and thermobarometry of schists and orthogneisses hosting ultra-high pressure eclogites in the Dabieshan of Central China. Lithos, 52, 121-155.
7. Chavagnac, V. & Jahn, B.-M., 1996. Coesite-bearing eclogites from the Bixiling Complex, Dabie Mountains, China: Sm-Nd ages, geological characteristics and tectonic implications. Chemical Geology, 133, 29-51.
8. Dong, S., Oberhänsli, R., Schmid, R., Liu, X., Tang, J. & Xue, H., 2002. Occurrences of metastable rocks in deeply subducted continental crust from the Dabie Shan, central China. Episodes, 25, 84-89.
9. Dong, S., Wang, X. & Huang, D., 1997. Discovery of low grade metamorphic volcanic rock sheets within UHP in Dabie Mts. & its implications. Chinese Science Bulletin, 41, 815-820. (in Chinese).
10. Faure, M., Wie, L., Liangshu, S., Yan, S. & Schäfer, U., 1999. Tectonics of the Dabieshan (eastern China) and possible exhumation mechanism of ultra-high-pressure rocks. Terra Nova, 11, 251-258.
11. Gerstenberger, H. & Haase, G., 1997. A highly effective emitter substance for mass spectrometric Pb isotope ratio determinations. Chemical Geology, 136, 309-312.
12. Hacker, B. R., Ratschbacher, L., Webb, L., Ireland, T., Walker, D. & Dong, S., 1998. U/Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling-Dabie Orogen, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 161, 215-230.
13. Hacker, B. R., Ratschbacher, L., Webb, L. E., McWilliams, M., Ireland, T., Dong, S., Calvert, A. & Wenk, H.-R., 2000. Exhumation of the ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east-central China: Late Triassic Early Jurassic extension. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13339-13364.
14. Heinrich, C. A., 1986. Kyanite eclogite to amphibolite facies evolution of hydrous mafic and pelitic rocks, Adula nappe, central Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 81, 30-38.
15. 238U. Physics Review, C4, 1889-1906.
16. 2+ - Mg geothermometer: an updated calibration. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 18, 211-219.
17. Liou, J. G., Zhang, R. Y., Eide, E. A., Maruyama, S., Wang, X. & Ernst, W. G., 1996. Metamorphism and tectonics of high-P and ultrahigh-P belts in Dabie-Sulu regions, eastern China. In: The Tectonic Evolution of Asia (eds Yin. A. & Harrison, T. M.), pp. 300-343. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. Liu, X. & Dong, S., 2001. Neoproterozoic metagranite did not experience ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism from Bixiling, Dabie Shan, central China. European Union of Geosciences Meeting XI, Journal of Conference Abstracts. LS 06, 341.
19. Liu, J., Ye, K., Maruyama, S., Cong, B. & Fan, H., 2001. Mineral inclusions in zircon from gneisses in the Ultrahigh-Pressure zone of the Dabie Mountains, China. Journal of Geology. 109, 523-535.
20. Maruyama, S., Tabata, H., Nutman, A. B., Morikawa, T. & Liou, J. G., 1998. SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks of the Dabie Mountains, central China. Continental Dynamics, 3, 72-85.
21. Mattauer, M., Matte, P., Malavieille, J., Tapponnier, P., Maluski, H., Xu, Q., Lun, L. & Tang, Q., 1985. Tectonics of the Qinling belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia. Nature, 317, 496-500.
22. Oberhänsli, R., Hunziker, J. C., Martinotti, G. & Stern, W. B., 1982. Mucronites: an example of Eoalpine eclogitisation of Permian granitoids, Italy. Terra Cognita, 2, 325.
23. Oberhänsli, R., Hunziker, J. C., Martinotti, G. & Stern, W. B., 1985. Geochemistry, geochronology and petrology of Monte Mucrone: an example of Eo-alpine eclogitization of Permian granitoids in the Sesia-Lanzo zone, western Alps. Italy. Chemical Geology, 52, 165-184.
24. Oberhänsli, R., Martinotti, G., Schmid, R. & Liu, X., 2002. Preservation of primary volcanic textures in the UHP-terrain of Dabie Shan. Geology, 30, 699-694.
25. Okay, A. I., Shutong, X. & Sengör, A. M., 1989. Coesite from the Dabie Shan eclogites, central China. European Journal of Mineralogy, 1, 595-598.
26. Powell, R., 1985. Regression diagnostics and robust regression in geothermometer/geobarometer calibration: the garnet-clinopyroxene geothermometer revisited. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 3, 327-342.
27. Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. R., Calvert, A., Webb, L. E., Grimmer, J. C., McWilliams, M., Ireland, T., Dong, S. & Hu, J., 2003. Tectonics of the Qinling (Central China): tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation kinematics. Tectonophysics, 366, 1-53.
28. Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. R., Webb, L. E., McWilliams, M., Ireland, T., Dong, S., Calvert, A. & Wenk, H.-R., 2000. Exhumation of the ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east-central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan-Lu fault. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13303-13338.
29. Rowley, D. B., Xue, F., Tucker, R. D., Peng, Z. X., Baker, J. & Davis, A., 1997. Ages of ultrahigh pressure metamorphism and protolith orthogneisses from the eastern Dabie Shan: U/Pb zircon geochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 151, 191-203.
30. Schmid, R., 2001. Geology of ultrahigh-pressure rocks from the Dabie Shan, eastern China. PhD Thesis, Institut für Geowissenschaften, University of Potsdam, Potsdam. (http://pub.ub.uni-potsdam.de/2001/0007/schmid_r.rpdf).
31. Schmid, R., Franz, L., Oberhänsli, R. & Dong, S., 2000. High Si-phengite, mineral chemistry and P-T evolution of ultrahigh-pressure eclogites and calc-silicates from the Dabie Shan, eastern PR China. Geological Journal, 35, 185-207.
32. Schmid, J. C., Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. R., Gaitzsch, I. & Dong, S., 1999. How did the foreland react? Yangtze foreland fold-and-thrust belt deformation related to exhumation of the Dabie Shan ultrahigh-pressure continental crust (eastern China). Terra Nova, 11, 266-272.
33. Schmid, R., Wilke, M., Oberhänsli, R., Janssens, K., Falkenberg, G., Franz, L. & Gaab, A., 2003. Micro-XANES determination of ferric iron and its application in thermobarometry. Lithos, in press.
34. Steiger, R. H. & Jäger, E., 1977. Subcommission of geochronology: convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 36, 359-362.
35. Tabata, H., Yamauchi, K., Maruyama, S. & Liou, J. G., 1998. Tracing the extend of a UHP metamorphic terrane: mineral-inclusion study of zircons in gneisses from the Dabie Shan. In: When Continents Collide: Geodynamics and Geochemistry of Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks (eds Hacker, B. R. & Lion, J. G.), pp. 261-273, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
36. Tang, J., Qian, C. & Gao, T., 1995. Discovery of low-grade metamorphic volcanic-detrital rock association in eclogite belt in the Dabie Mountains and its geological significance. Geology of Anhui. 5, 29-35. (in Chinese with English abstract).
37. Tang, J., Qian, C., Jia, S., Gao, T., Lu, X., Lu, S. & Yang, S., 1997. 1:10,000 Geological map of Changpu Area, Yuexi County, Anhui Province (Internal report).
38. Wang, X. & Liou, J. G., 1991. Regional ultrahigh-pressure coesite-bearing eclogitic terrane in central China: evidence from country rocks, gneiss, marble and metapelite. Geology, 19, 933-936.
39. Wang, X. & Liou, J. G., 1993. Ultra-high-pressure metamorphism of carbonate rocks in the Dabie Mountains, central China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 11, 575-588.
40. Wang, X., Liou, J. G. & Mao, H. K., 1989. Coesite-bearing eclogite from the Dabie Mountains in central China. Geology, 17, 1085-1088.
41. Zhang, R, Y., Liou, J. G. & Cong, B. L., 1995. TaIc-, magnesite- and Ti-clinohumite-bearing ultrahigh-pressure meta-mafic and ultramafic complex in the Dabie Mountains, China. Journal of Petrology, 36, 1011-1037.
42. Zhang, R. Y., Liou, J. G., Yang, J. S. & Yen, T.-F., 2000. Petrochemical constraints for dual origin of garnet peridotites from the Dabie-Sulu UHP terrane, eastern-central China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 149-166.
43. Zhang, R. Y., Liou, J. G., Zhang, Y. F. & Fu, B., 2003. Transition of UHP eclogites to gneissic rocks of low-grade amphibolite facies during exhumation: Evidence from the Dabie terrane, central China. Lithos, in press.