The thermo-tectonic history of the Song-Kul plateau, Kyrgyz Tien Shan: Constraints by apatite and titanite thermochronometry and zircon U/Pb dating

Gondwana Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 745-763

  De Grave, Johan ^a   Glorie, Stijn ^a   Buslov, Mikhail M ^b   Izmer, Andrei ^a   Fournier Carrie, Alena ^b   Batalev, Vladislav Yu ^c   Vanhaecke, Frank ^a   Elburg, Marlina ^a   Van den haute, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Song Kul; Tectonics; Thermochronology; Tien Shan; Zircon U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; EMPLACEMENT; FISSION TRACK DATING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OROGENY; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 80052883751     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Alekseev D.V., Aristov V.A., Degtyarev K.E. The age and tectonic setting of volcanic and cherty sequences in the ophiolite complex of the Atbashe Ridge (Southern Tien Shan). Doklady Earth Sciences 2007, 413:380-383.
2. Alekseev D.V., Degtyarev K.E., Kotov A.B., Sal'nikova E.B., Tret'yakov A.A., Yakovleva S.Z., Anisimova I.V., Shatagin K.N. Late Paleozoic subductional and collisional igneous complexes in the Naryn Segment of the Middle Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan). Doklady Earth Sciences 2009, 427:760-763.
3. Allen M.B., Vincent S.J. Fault reactivation in the Junggar region, northwest China: the role of basement structures during Mesozoic-Cenozoic compression. Journal of the Geological Society of London 1997, 154:151-155.
4. Allen M.B., Şengör A.M.C., Natal'in B.A. Junggar, Turfan and Alakol basins as Late Permian to ?Early Triassic extensional structures in a sinistral shear zone in the Altaid orogenic collage, Central Asia. Journal of the Geological Society of London 1995, 152:327-338.
5. Barbarand J., Carter A., Wood I., Hurford A.J. Compositional and structural control of fission-track annealing in apatite. Chemical Geology 2003, 198:107-137.
6. Biske Yu.S., Seltmann R. Paleozoic Tian-Shan as a transitional region between the Rheic and Urals-Turkestan oceans. Gondwana Research 2010, 17:602-613.
7. Blackburn T.J., Stockli D.F., Carlson R.W., Berendsen P. (U-Th)/He dating of kimberlites-a case study from north-eastern Kansas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2008, 275:111-120.
8. Braun J. Quantifying the effect of recent relief changes on age-elevation relationships. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2002, 200:331-343.
9. Bullen M.E., Burbank D.W., Garver J.I., Abdrakhmatov K.Ye. Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the northwestern Tien Shan: new age estimates for the initiation of mountain building. Geological Society of America Bulletin 2001, 113:1544-1559.
10. Burbank D.W., McLean J.K., Bullen M., Abdrakhmatov K.Y., Miller M.M. Partitioning of intramontane basins by thrust related folding, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. Basin Research 1999, 11:75-92.
11. Coyle D.A., Wagner G.A. Positioning the titanite fission-track partial annealing zone. Chemical Geology 1998, 149:117-125.
12. De Corte F., Bellemans F., Van den haute P., Ingelbrecht C., Nicholl C. A new U doped glass certified by the European Commission for the calibration of fission-track dating. Advances in fission-track geochronology 1998, 67-78. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. P. Van den haute, F. De Corte (Eds.).
13. De Grave J., Van den haute P. Denudation and cooling of the Lake Teletskoye region in the Altai Mountains (South Siberia) as revealed by apatite fission-track thermochronology. Tectonophysics 2002, 349:145-159.
14. De Grave J., Buslov M.M., Van den haute P. Distant effects of India-Eurasia convergence and Mesozoic intracontinental deformation in Central Asia: constraints from apatite fission-track thermochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2007, 29:188-204.
15. De Grave J., Van den haute P., Buslov M.M., Dehandschutter B., Glorie S. Apatite fission-track thermochronology applied to the Chulyshman Plateau, Siberian Altai Region. Radiation Measurements 2008, 43:38-42.
16. De Grave J., Buslov M.M., Van den haute P., Metcalf J., Dehandschutter B., Mc Williams M.O. Multi-Method chronometry of the Teletskoye graben and its basement, Siberian Altai Mountains: new insights on its thermo-tectonic evolution. The Geological Society of London Special Publication 2009, 324:237-259. F. Lisker, B. Ventura, U.A. Glasmacher (Eds.).
17. De Grave, J., Glorie, S., Ryabinin, A., Zhimulev, F., Buslov, M.M., Izmer, A., Elburg, M., Vanhaecke, F., Van den haute P., (in press). Late Palaeozoic and Meso-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Southern Kyrgyz Tien Shan: constraints from multi-method thermochronology in the Trans-Alai, Turkestan-Alai Section and the Southeastern Ferghana Basin. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, http://doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.019.
18. Donelick R.A., O'Sullivan P.B., Ketcham R.A. Apatite fission-track analysis. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 2005, 58:49-94.
19. Dumitru T.A., Zhou D., Chang E.Z., Graham S.A. Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Chinese Tian Shan. Geological Society of America Memoir 2001, 194:71-99.
20. Dunkl I., Mikes T., Frei D., Gerdes A., von Eynatten H. PepiAGE: data reduction program for time-resolved U/Pb analyses-introduction and call for tests and discussion 2009, University of Goettingen Publication, 15 pp. http://www.sediment.uni-goettingen.de/staff/dunkl/zips/PepiAGE-introduction-c1.pdf.
21. Enkelmann E., Jonckheere R., Ratschbacher L. The effects of radiation damage accumulation and annealing on fission-track dating of titanite. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 2005, B227:567-576.
22. Farley K.A. (U-Th)/He dating: techniques, calibrations, and applications. Noble Gas Geochemistry, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 2002, 47:819-844.
23. Farley K.A., Wolf R.A., Silver L.T. The effects of long alpha-stopping distances on (U-Th)/He ages. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1996, 60:4223-4229.
24. Fitzgerald P.G., Stump E. Cretaceous and Cenozoic episodic denudation of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: new constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology in the Scott Glacier region. Journal of Geophysical Research 1997, 102(B4):7747-7765.
25. Gallagher K., Brown R. The onshore record of passive margin evolution. Journal of the Geological Society of London 1997, 154:451-457.
26. Galliker D., Hugentobler E., Hahn B. Spontane kernspaltung von 238U und 241Am. Helveticae Physicae Acta 1970, 43:593-606.
27. Gao J., Long L.L., Klemd R., Qian Q., Liu D.Y., Xiong X.M., Su W., Liu W., Wang Y.T., Yang F.Q. Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks. International Journal of Earth Science 2009, 98:1221-1238.
28. Gleadow A.J.W., Fitzgerald P.G. Uplift history and structure of the Transantarctic Mountains: new evidence from fission track dating of basement apatites in the Dry Valley area, southern Victoria Land. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1987, 82:1-14.
29. Gleadow A.J.W., Duddy I.R., Green P.F., Lovering J.F. Confined fission track lengths in apatite: a diagnostic tool for thermal history analysis. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1986, 94:405-415.
30. Glorie S., De Grave J., Buslov M.M., Elburg M.A., Stockli D.F., Van den haute P., Gerdes A. Multi-method chronometric constraints on the evolution of the Northern Kyrgyz Tien Shan batholith: from emplacement to exhumation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2010, 38:131-146.
31. Glorie S., De Grave J., Van den haute P., Elburg M.A. Evaluating the effect of anisotropy on fossil fission track length distributions in apatite. Abstract, Thermo2010, 12th International Conference on Thermochronology 2010, 120.
32. Glorie S., De Grave J., Buslov M.M., Zhimulev F.I., Izmer A., Vandoorne W., Ryabinin A., Van den haute P., Elburg M.A. Formation and Palaeozoic evolution of the Gorny-Altai - Altai-Mongolia suture zone (South Siberia): zircon U/Pb constraints on the igneous record. Gondwana Research 2011, 20:465-484.
33. Gradstein F.M., Ogg J.G., Smith A.G., Bleeker W., Lourens L.J. A new geological time scale, with special reference to Precambrian and Neogene. Episodes 2004, 27:83-100.
34. Graham S.A., Hendrix M.S., Wang L.B., Carroll A.R. Collisional successor basins of western China: impact of tectonic inheritance on sand composition. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1993, 105:323-344.
35. Green P.F. Comparison of zeta calibration baselines for fission-track dating of apatite, zircon and sphene. Chemical Geology 1985, 58:1-22.
36. Green P.F. On the thermo-tectonic evolution of northern England: evidence from fission track analysis. Geological Magazine 1986, 123:493-506.
37. Green P.F., Duddy I.R. Interpretation of apatite (U-Th)/He ages and fission track ages from cratons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, 244:541-547.
38. Hendrix M.S. Evolution of Mesozoic sandstone compositions, southern Junggar, northern Tarim, and western Turpan basins, northwest China: a detrital record of the ancestral Tian Shan. Journal of Sedimentary Research 2000, 70:520-532.
39. Huntington K.W., Ehlers T.A., Hodges K.V., Whipp D.M. Topography, exhumation pathway, age uncertainties, and the interpretation of thermochronometer data. Tectonics 2007, 26:TC4012. 23 pp.
40. Hurford A.J. Standardization of fission track dating calibration: recommendation by the Fission Track Working Group of the I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Geochronology. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section) 1990, 80:171-178.
41. Jackson S.E., Pearson N.J., Griffin W.L., Belousova E.A. The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U-Pb zircon geochronology. Chemical Geology 2004, 211:47-69.
42. Jenchuraeva R. Paleozoic geodynamics, magmatism, and metallogeny of the Tien Shan. Paleozoic geodynamics and gold deposits in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan, IGCP-373 excursion guide book, Bishkek 2001, 29-70. R. Seltmann, R. Jenchuraeva (Eds.).
43. Jenchuraeva R., Bakirov A., Ghes M., Seltmann R., Shatov V., Popov V. Mineral Deposits Map of Kyrgyzstan, 1:1,000,000. International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, London-Bishkek 2001.
44. Jonckheere R.C., Wagner G.A. On the thermal stability of fossil and neutron-induced fission-tracks in natural titanite. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 2000, B168:78-87.
45. Jonckheere R.C., Wagner G.A. On the occurrence of anomalous fission tracks in apatite and titanite. American Mineralogist 2000, 85:1744-1753.
46. Jonckheere R., Ratschbacher L., Wagner G. A repositioning technique for counting induced fission tracks in muscovite external detectors in single-grain dating of minerals with low and inhomogeneous uranium concentrations. Radiation Measurements 2003, 37:217-219.
47. Ketcham R.A. Forward and inverse modeling of low-temperature thermochronometry data. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 2005, 58:275-314.
48. Ketcham R.A., Carter A., Donelick R.A., Barbarand J., Hurford A.J. Improved modelling of fission-track annealing in apatite. American Mineralogist 2007, 92:799-810.
49. Konopelko D., Biske G., Seltmann R., Eklund O., Belyatsky B. Hercynian post-collisional A-type granites of the Kokshaal Range, Southern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. Lithos 2007, 97:140-160.
50. Konopelko D., Biske G., Seltmann R., Kiseleva M., Matukov D., Sergeev S. Deciphering Caledonian events: timing and geochemistry of the Caledonian magmatic arc in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2008, 32:131-141.
51. Konopelko D., Seltmann R., Biske G., Lepekhina E., Sergeev S. Possible source dichotomy of contemporaneous post-collision barren I-type versus tin-bearing A-type granites, lying on opposite sides of the South Tien Shan suture. Ore Geology Reviews 2009, 35:206-216.
52. Kröner A., Alexeiev D.V., Mikolaichuk A., Xia X., Zack T., Windley B.F., Sun M., Rojas-Agramonte Y., Liu D. New single zircon ages of Precambrian and Palaeozoic rocks from the Northern, Middle and Southern Tianshan belts in Kyrgyzstan. Abstract, International Excursion and Workshop on tectonic evolution and crustal structure of the Tien Shan belt and related terrains in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Bishkek, 9-17 June 2009 2009, 30.
53. Ludwig K. User's Manual for Isoplot 3.00, A Geochronological Toolkit for Microsoft Excel. Berkeley Geochronology Center Special Publication 2003, v. 4.
54. Maksumova R.A., Dzhenchuraeva A.V., Berezanskii A.V. Structure and evolution of the Tien Shan nappe-folded orogen. Russian Geology and Geophysics 2001, 42:1367-1374.
55. Mao J., Konopelko D., Seltmann R., Lehmann B., Chen W., Wang Y., Eklund O., Usubaliev T. Postcollisional age of the Kumtor gold deposit and timing of Hercynian events in the Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. Economic Geology 2004, 99:1771-1780.
56. Mikolaichuk A.V., Kurenkov S.A., Degtyarev K.E., Rubtsov V.I. Northern Tien Shan main stages of geodynamic evolution. Geotectonics 1997, 31:445-462.
57. Molnar P., Tapponnier P. Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: effects of a continental collision. Science 1975, 189:419-426.
58. Omuralieva A., Nakajima J., Hasegawa A. Three-dimensional seismic velocity structure of the crust beneath the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: implications for large- and small-scale mountain building. Tectonophysics 2009, 465:30-44.
59. Otto S.C. Mesozoic-Cenozoic history of deformation and petroleum systems in sedimentary basins of Central Asia: implications of collisions on the Eurasian margin. Petroleum Geoscience 1997, 3:327-341.
60. Pirajno F. Intracontinental strike-slip faults, associated magmatism, mineral systems and mantle dynamics: examples from NW China and Altay-Sayan (Siberia). Journal of Geodynamics 2010, 50:325-346.
61. Schwab M., Ratschbacher L., Siebel W., McWilliams M., Minaev V., Lutkov V., Chen F., Stanek K., Nelson B., Frisch F., Wooden J.L. Assembly of the Pamirs: age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet. Tectonics 2004, 23:TC4002. 31 pp. 10.1029/2003TC001583.
62. Seltmann, R., Konopelko, D., Biske, G., Divaev, F., Sergeev, S., in press. Hercynian post-collisional magmatism in the context of Paleozoic magmatic evolution of the Tien Shan orogenic belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, http://doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.08.016.
63. Shuster D.L., Flowers R.M., Farley K.A. The influence of natural radiation damage on helium diffusion kinetics in apatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, 249:148-161.
64. Sláma J., Košler J., Condon D.J., Crowley J.L., Gerdes A., Hanchar J.M., Horstwood M.S.A., Morris G.A., Nasdala L., Norberg N., Schaltegger U., Schoene B., Tubrett M.N., Whitehouse M.J. Plešovice zircon-a new natural reference material for U-Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis. Chemical Geology 2008, 249:1-35.
65. Sobel E.R., Seward D. Influence of etching conditions on apatite fission-track etch pit diameter. Chemical Geology 2010, 271:59-69.
66. Sobel E.R., Hilley G.E., Strecker M.R. Formation of internally drained contractional basins by aridity-limited bedrock incision. Journal of Geophysical Research 2003, 108(B7):2344. 23 pp.
67. Sobel E., Chen J., Heermance R.V. Late Oligocene-Early Miocene initiation of shortening in the SW Chinese Tian Shan: implications for Neogene shortening rate variations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, 247:70-81.
68. Sobel E.R., Oskin M., Burbank D., Mikolaichuk A. Exhumation of basement-cored uplifts: example of the Kyrgyz Range quantified with apatite fission track thermochronology. Tectonics 2006, 25:1-17.
69. Solomovich L.I. Postcollisional magmatism in the South Tien Shan Variscan Orogenic Belt, Kyrgyzstan: evidence for high-temperature and high-pressure collision. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2007, 30:142-153.
70. Spiegel C., Kohn B., Belton D., Berner Z., Gleadow A. Apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology of rapidly cooled samples: the effect of He implantation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2009, 285:105-114.
71. Stacey J.S., Kramers J.D. Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1975, 26:207-221.
72. Stockli D.F., Farley K.A., Dumitru T.A. Calibration of the apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometer on an exhumed fault block, White Mountains, California. Geology 2000, 28:983-986.
73. Tian W., Campbell I.H., Allen C.M., Guan P., Pan W., Chen M., Yu H., Zhu W. The Tarim picrite-basalt-rhyolite suite, a Permian flood basalt from northwest China with contrasting rhyolites produced by fractional crystallization and anatexis. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2010, 160:407-425.
74. Tursungaziev B.T., Petrov O.B. Geological map of the Kyrgyz Republic, 1:500,000. Agency of Geology and Mineralogical Resources of the Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek 2008.
75. Van der Beek P.A., Valla P.G., Herman F., Braun J., Persano C., Dobson K.J., Labrin E. Inversion of thermochronological age-elevation profiles to extract independent estimates of denudation and relief history-II: application to the French Western Alps. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2010, 296:9-22.
76. Vincent S.J., Allen M.B. Sedimentary record of Mesozoic intracontinental deformation in the eastern Junggar Basin, northwest China: response to orogeny at the Asian margin. Geological Society of America Memoir 2001, 194:341-360.
77. Wagner G.A., Van den haute P. Fission Track-Dating 1992, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 285 pp.
78. Wiedenbeck M., Alle P., Corfu F., Griffin W., Meier M., Oberli F., von Quadt A., Roddick J.C., Spiegel W. Three natural zircon standards for U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf, trace element and REE analysis. Geostandards Newsletter 1995, 19:1-23.
79. Williams I.S., Tetley N.W., Compston W., McDougall I. A comparison of K-Ar and Rb-Sr ages of rapidly cooled igneous rocks: two points in the Paleozoic time scale re-evaluated. Journal of the Geological Society of London 1982, 139:557-568.
80. Windley B.F., Alexeiev D., Xiao W., Kröner A., Badarch G. Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of the Geological Society of London 2007, 164:31-47.
81. Xiao W.J., Windley B.F., Huang B.C., Han C.M., Yuan C., Chen H.L., Sun M., Sun S., Li J.L. End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental growth, and metallogeny of Central Asia. International Journal of Earth Science 2009, 98:1189-1217.
82. Xiao W.J., Huang B.C., Han C.M., Sun S., Li J.L. A review of the western part of the Altaids: a key to understanding the architecture of accretionary orogens. Gondwana Research 2010, 18:253-273.
83. Zhang C.-L., Li Z.-X., Li X.-H., Ye H.-M., Li C.-N. A Permian layered intrusive complex in the western Tarim Block, NW China: product of a ca. 275Ma mantle plume?. The Journal of Geology 2008, 116:269-287.
84. Zhang Y., Liu J., Guo Z. Permian basaltic rocks in the Tarim basin, NW China: implications for plume-lithosphere interaction. Gondwana Research 2010, 18:596-610.