Provenance, Age, and Tectonic Settings of Rock Complexes (Transangarian Yenisey Ridge, East Siberia): Geochemical and Geochronological Evidence

The tectonic evolution of the Siberian Cratonic margins offers important clues for global paleogeographic reconstructions, particularly with regard to the complex geological history of Central Asia and Precambrian supercontinents Columbia/Nuna and Rodinia and its subsequent breakup with the opening...

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Published in:Geosciences
Main Author: Igor I. Likhanov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12110402
https://doaj.org/article/754ca71a5a8347cb96b2461b84d12fd9
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Summary:The tectonic evolution of the Siberian Cratonic margins offers important clues for global paleogeographic reconstructions, particularly with regard to the complex geological history of Central Asia and Precambrian supercontinents Columbia/Nuna and Rodinia and its subsequent breakup with the opening of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Here, we present an overview of geochemical, petrological, and geochronological data from a suite of various rocks to clarify the age, tectonic settings, and nature of their protolith, with an emphasis on understanding the tectonic history of the Yenisey Ridge fold-and-thrust belt at the western margin of the Siberian Craton. These pre-Grenville, Grenville, and post-Grenville episodes of regional crustal evolution are correlated with the synchronous successions and similar style of rocks along the Arctic margin of Nuna-Columbia and Rodinia and support the possible spatial proximity of Siberia and North Atlantic cratons (Laurentia and Baltica) over a long period ~1.4–0.55 Ga.