THE AGE OF CAMPTONITE DIKES OF THE AGARDAG ALKALI-BASALT COMPLEX ( western Sangilen ): RESULTS OF Ar/Ar AND U/Pb DATING
A.A. Gibshera, V.G. Malkovetsa, A.V. Travinaa, E.A. Belousovab, V.V. Sharygina, and Z. Koncc,d
aV.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
bARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems/GEMOC, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
cInstituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas & Universidad de Granada (CSIC & UGR), Avenida de las Palmeras, 418100-Armilla (Granada), Spain
dLithosphere Fluid Research Lab (LRG) Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Pázmány Péter sétány, I/C, Budapest, H-117, Hungary
Keywords: Ar/Ar dating, U/Pb dating, camptonite, Sangilen, Tuva
Pages: 998-1013
Abstract
A camptonite dike swarm (Agardag alkali-basalt complex) in the western part of the Sangilen Upland abounds in mantle xenoliths. Mineralogical, petrographic, and petrochemical studies showed that the dikes are composed of lamprophyres of two groups, basic and ultrabasic. Ar/Ar dating of amphibole and phlogopite megacrysts yields an intrusion age for the dikes of 443.0 ± 1.3 Ma. 206Pb/238U dating of zircon from a glomeroporphyritic intergrowth in camptonite from one of the dikes yielded a core age of 489.0 ± 5.4 Ma. This corresponds to the time of formation of the Chzhargalanta granite-leucogranite complex (489.4 ± 2.6 Ma). The 206Pb/238U age of the zircon rim is 444.0 ± 7.5 Ma. The ages obtained by Ar/Ar dating of amphibole and biotite megacrysts and by U/Pb dating of the magmatic rim of zircon crystal from the camptonite coincide within the dating error, which indicates that the camptonite dikes formed in the Late Ordovician. These dikes are the oldest-known example of mantle-derived xenoliths in mafic volcanic rocks from an off-craton setting. These are samples of the Upper Ordovician lithospheric mantle.
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