Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints
Results of biostratigraphic and geochronological investigations in eastern Nagaland and Manipur, NE India, provide new constraints on the tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate. U/Pb zircon ages indicate that the Naga Hills ophiolite developed in a suprasubduction zone sett...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:fb31df1 2023-05-15T13:55:03+02:00 Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints Aitchison, Jonathan C. Ao, Aliba Bhowmik, Santanu Clarke, Geoffrey L. Ireland, Trevor R. Kachovich, Sarah Lokho, Kapesa Stojanovic, Denis Roeder, Tara Truscott, Naomi Zhen, Yan Zhou, Renjie 2019-04-17 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:fb31df1 eng eng Wiley-Blackwell Publishing doi:10.1029/2018tc005049 issn:0278-7407 issn:1944-9194 orcid:0000-0002-3659-5849 orcid:0000-0001-5627-6610 orcid:0000-0001-7232-8820 AISRF07021 Ophiolite Radiolaria Zircon Tectonic reconstruction Collision Suture zone 1906 Geochemistry and Petrology 1908 Geophysics Journal Article 2019 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.1029/2018tc005049 2020-12-08T05:59:01Z Results of biostratigraphic and geochronological investigations in eastern Nagaland and Manipur, NE India, provide new constraints on the tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate. U/Pb zircon ages indicate that the Naga Hills ophiolite developed in a suprasubduction zone setting as part of an intraoceanic island arc developed during late Early Cretaceous (mid-Aptian) time and is younger than similar rocks exposed along the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone. Radiolarian microfossils provide Jurassic and Cretaceous age constraints for Tethyan ocean floor sediments that were subducted beneath the forming ophiolite. Timing of the emplacement of these rocks onto the passive margin of eastern India is constrained by Paleocene/Eocene radiolarians in sediments over which the ophiolitic assemblage has been thrust. Previously undated schists and gneisses in the Naga Metamorphics are of Early Ordovician age, and their sedimentary protolith was most likely derived from sources in the south of Western Australian and East Antarctica. After Barrovian-style metamorphism, these rocks were uplifted and eroded becoming an important source of detritus shed into the Eocene Phokphur Formation. This unit also contains abundant clasts sourced from the disrupted basement of the Naga Hills ophiolite, which it overlies. It also contains Permo-Triassic-aged detritus eroded off an enigmatic source that was possibly a continental convergent margin arc system somewhere along the northern margin of Gondwana. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica East Antarctica The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace East Antarctica Tectonics 38 5 1718 1741 |
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Ophiolite Radiolaria Zircon Tectonic reconstruction Collision Suture zone 1906 Geochemistry and Petrology 1908 Geophysics Aitchison, Jonathan C. Ao, Aliba Bhowmik, Santanu Clarke, Geoffrey L. Ireland, Trevor R. Kachovich, Sarah Lokho, Kapesa Stojanovic, Denis Roeder, Tara Truscott, Naomi Zhen, Yan Zhou, Renjie Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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Results of biostratigraphic and geochronological investigations in eastern Nagaland and Manipur, NE India, provide new constraints on the tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate. U/Pb zircon ages indicate that the Naga Hills ophiolite developed in a suprasubduction zone setting as part of an intraoceanic island arc developed during late Early Cretaceous (mid-Aptian) time and is younger than similar rocks exposed along the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone. Radiolarian microfossils provide Jurassic and Cretaceous age constraints for Tethyan ocean floor sediments that were subducted beneath the forming ophiolite. Timing of the emplacement of these rocks onto the passive margin of eastern India is constrained by Paleocene/Eocene radiolarians in sediments over which the ophiolitic assemblage has been thrust. Previously undated schists and gneisses in the Naga Metamorphics are of Early Ordovician age, and their sedimentary protolith was most likely derived from sources in the south of Western Australian and East Antarctica. After Barrovian-style metamorphism, these rocks were uplifted and eroded becoming an important source of detritus shed into the Eocene Phokphur Formation. This unit also contains abundant clasts sourced from the disrupted basement of the Naga Hills ophiolite, which it overlies. It also contains Permo-Triassic-aged detritus eroded off an enigmatic source that was possibly a continental convergent margin arc system somewhere along the northern margin of Gondwana. |
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Aitchison, Jonathan C. Ao, Aliba Bhowmik, Santanu Clarke, Geoffrey L. Ireland, Trevor R. Kachovich, Sarah Lokho, Kapesa Stojanovic, Denis Roeder, Tara Truscott, Naomi Zhen, Yan Zhou, Renjie |
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Aitchison, Jonathan C. Ao, Aliba Bhowmik, Santanu Clarke, Geoffrey L. Ireland, Trevor R. Kachovich, Sarah Lokho, Kapesa Stojanovic, Denis Roeder, Tara Truscott, Naomi Zhen, Yan Zhou, Renjie |
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Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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tectonic evolution of the western margin of the burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints |
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