Study of molasse within the middle segment of the Bangong‐Nujiang suture zone, central Tibet: Constraints of ocean–continent transform,Geological Journal

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Study of molasse within the middle segment of the Bangong‐Nujiang suture zone, central Tibet: Constraints of ocean–continent transform
Geological Journal ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 , DOI: 10.1002/gj.3832
Yiling Hu ₁ , Zhi‐Bo Liu ₂ , Genhou Wang ₁ , Jinhan Gao ₁ , Yang Song ₂ , Ming Zheng ₂ , Dian Li ₃

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The Bangong‐Nujiang suture zone, separating the Lhasa and South Qiangtang terranes of the Tibetan Plateau, is marked by remnants of the Bangong‐Nujiang oceanic basin. In the Zanzong Co area of central Tibet, non‐marine molasse deposits of the newly identified Jingzhushan Formation record the eventual collision between these two terranes and subsequent ocean–continent transform along the middle segment of the Bangong‐Nujiang suture zone. In this contribution, it is observed that the Jingzhushan Formation, characterized by lacustrine facies and braided delta facies, rests unconformably on the underlying marine strata and ophiolite. Zircon U–Pb dating has been conducted with samples of four interlayer volcanic rocks and two sandstones from the Jingzhushan Formation. The interlayer volcanic rocks constrain the depositing age from ca. 115 to 72 Ma. Based on the youngest detrital zircon ages, the maximum depositional ages of the Jingzhushan Formation are suggested to be ca. 78 Ma. Petrographic and detrital zircon isotopic results indicate that sediments in the Jingzhushan Formation have mixed sources from the South Qiangtang terrane and the intervening Bangong‐Nujiang suture zone. Provenance analysis, together with regional data, suggests that the newly identified Jingzhushan Formation reflects continental molasse deposition in an intermontane basin during the post‐collisional stage. The development of the intermontane basin evidenced by molasse deposition of the Jingzhushan Formation reveals that the ocean–continent transform of the middle segment of the Bangong‐Nujiang Ocean had been completed in the late Early Cretaceous (ca. 115 Ma).

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