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Russian Geology and Geophysics

2018 year, number 6

THE P-T PATH OF METAMORPHISM AND AGE OF MIGMATITES FROM THE NORTHWESTERN IRKUT BLOCK (Sharyzhalgai uplift of the Siberian Platform)

V.P. Sukhorukov1,2, O.M. Turkina1,2
1V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
2Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: Мигматиты, ITD, PT-тренд, симплектиты, PERPLEX, U-Pb возраст циркона, палеопротерозой, Шарыжалгайский выступ, фундамент Сибирской платформы, Мigmatites, ITD, P-T path, symplectites, PERPLEX, U-Pb zircon age, Paleoproterozoic, Sharyzhalgai uplift, Siberian Platform basement

Abstract

We study migmatized aluminous gneisses in the northwest of the Irkut granulite complex in the southeastern Sharyzhalgai uplift of the Siberian Platform basement. Migmatized gneisses with the mineral assemblage Grt + Sil + Bt + Kfs + Pl + Qz (+ Crd + Opx + Spl) contain a leucosome and widespread cordierite-bearing (+ orthopyroxene, quartz, and spinel) symplectites developed after garnet and sillimanite. Study of the microstructural relationships of minerals and modeling using the PERPLEX 672 software have shown a retrograde P - T path of metamorphism for the metasedimentary gneisses, close to the isothermal decompression (ITD). The parameters of the peak of metamorphism are T = 850-870 ºC and P ≥ 7 kbar. The weighted average age of zircon from the metasedimentary gneisses (1856 ± 13 Ma, SHRIMP) corresponds to the time of metamorphism. The decompression type of retrograde metamorphism of the rocks in the northwest of the Irkut block indicates their formation in the crust extension and thinning setting. The presence of domal structures in the section of the Irkut block on the shore of Lake Baikal suggests that the dome tectogenesis was involved in the exhumation processes. The Paleoproterozoic metamorphism and granite formation were associated with the same stage of collision processes, when the compression setting was changed by an extension one (1.88-1.85 Ga).