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Index Terms

  • Tectonophysics: Continental tectonics—extensional
  • Geochemistry: Geochronology
  • Mineralogy and Petrology: Metamorphic petrology
  • Information Related to Geologic Time: Mesozoic
  • Information Related to Geographic Region: Asia
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Abstract

Exhumation tectonics of the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Qinling orogen in east China: New petrological-structural-radiometric insights from the Shandong Peninsula

Michel Faure

Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, UMR 6113, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Wei Lin

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Patrick Monié

Laboratoire de Géophysique, Tectonique et Sédimentologie, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, France

Nicole Le Breton

Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, UMR 6113, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Stéphane Poussineau

Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, UMR 6113, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Dominique Panis

Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, UMR 6113, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Etienne Deloule

Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochiminique and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRPG-CNRS), Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

In eastern China, the Sulu area is recognized as the eastern extension of the Qinling-Dabie Belt, which is famous for its ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism. Although numerous petrologic and geochemical works are available, structural data are still rare. This paper provides the first extensive study of bulk geometry and kinematic analysis of the Shandong Peninsula. The study area is divided into three tectonic areas by Cretaceous faults, namely, a southern UHP belt or Sulu area, a northern migmatite area, and an eastern eclogite and migmatite area or Weihai area. Conversely to the deeply entrenched idea that the later area belongs to the North China Belt, and the two others to the South China Block (SCB), we argue that all three areas are parts of the SCB. Structural, petrologic, 40Ar/39Ar, and U/Pb data comply with this new interpretation. In the North Shandong area, mafic granulites enclosed as blocks within gneissic migmatites do not significantly differ from the Sulu and Weihai eclogites which also experienced a granulite facies overprint before migmatization. The circa 210–200 Ma age of the main ductile deformation is related to an extensional event during the Triassic (or Indosinian) orogeny. This date corresponds to the temperature climax, but the time of the pressure peak, i.e., the real age of the UHP metamorphism is discussed.

Received 20 August 2002; accepted 13 February 2003; published 17 May 2003.

Citation: Faure, M., W. Lin, P. Monié, N. Le Breton, S. Poussineau, D. Panis, and E. Deloule (2003), Exhumation tectonics of the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Qinling orogen in east China: New petrological-structural-radiometric insights from the Shandong Peninsula, Tectonics, 22(3), 1018, doi:10.1029/2002TC001450.

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