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Tectonic Implications: Zircon age of Sedimentary Rocks from Khabarovsk, Samarka, and Zhuravlevka-Amur Terranes in the Northern Sikhote-Alin Orogenic Belt

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Geochronological dating was performed on the detrital zircons of 20 sedimentary rock samples from the Khabarovsk, Samarka, and Zhuravlevka–Amur terranes in the northern Sikhote-Alin Orogenic Belt to establish that (1) the isotopic 206Pb/238U ages of the youngest detrital zircon populations of two sedimentary rock samples from the Gorin (K1b) and Pioner (K1b-v) formations, as well as one sample from the Svetlorechensk massif (J3t), were significantly younger than the upper limit of the accepted stratigraphic age of these rocks and (2) sedimentary rocks accumulating in the accretionary prisms matrix of the Khabarovsk–Voronezh tectonostratigraphic zone in the Khabarovsk Terrane and turbidites in the Gorin tectonostratigraphic zone pull-apart basin of the Zhuravlevka–Amur Terrane were derived from sources located within the eastern part of the Central Asian Belt. The source of sedimentary rocks accumulating in the turbidite matrix of the accretionary prisms in the Anyui tectonostratigraphic zone of the Samarka Terrane and turbidites in the pull-apart basin of the Koppi–Luzhki tectonostratigraphic zone of the Zhuravlevka–Amur Terrane was found in the North China Craton.

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  1. Applying this term, we are guided by the following considerations: (1) according to the basics of terrane analysis, terrane can be divided into subterranes and/or tectonostratigraphic complexes/units [for example, 3]; (2) in Russia, adjacent blocks differing sharply in composition and origin are still recognized as structural–formational/structure–facies zones, especially during geological survey [for example, 5, 6, 7, 12, etc.]; and (3) in foreign literature the term “tectonostratigraphic zone” is in general use. We believe that the use of the term “tectonostratigraphic zone” is appropriate.

  2. Steno’s law [35 et al.] is not applicable to stratigraphic dismembering of sections of accretionary prisms as, in their structure, there are “deposits of deep-sea plains, trough, continental slope, and shelf, and these deposits are getting younger in a regular manner as you move from the upper structural levels to the lower levels” [3].

  3. See measurement data for all 20 samples and the corresponding plots in the Supplement to the electronic version of the paper: http://itig.as.khb.ru/POG.

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The authors are grateful to A.I. Khanchuk, whose valuable comments and suggestions were taken into consideration in reviewing the manuscript. Thanks are extended to reviewers N.N. Kruk and A.A. Sorokin, whose comments and suggestions improved the content of the paper. Special thanks to S.V. Zyabrev for being most helpful in choosing research targets and for participating in the fieldwork. The authors express appreciation to E.Yu. Didenko and O.M. Menshikova for help in preparing the manuscript for publication and drivers S.V. Burya and V.I. Chepilov, who ensured the coordinated group fieldwork .

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Didenko, A.N., Otoh, S., Kudymov, A.V. et al. Tectonic Implications: Zircon age of Sedimentary Rocks from Khabarovsk, Samarka, and Zhuravlevka-Amur Terranes in the Northern Sikhote-Alin Orogenic Belt. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 14, 1–19 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714020010030

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