Basement-cover sequences within the UHP unit of the Dabie Shan

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Abstract

Field data define two lithologically distinct basement-cover sequences within the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic (UHPM) unit of the Dabie Shan, eastern China. One of the cover units, the Changpu unit, comprises calc-arenitic metasediments in stratigraphic contact with a basement consisting of gneisses of the Yangtze craton. The second cover unit, the Ganghe unit, consists of felsic-intermediate metavolcanics and clastic metasediments. Basement exposure of the Ganghe unit is not known. Fold axes in the Ganghe unit are oblique to those of the Changpu unit, which are parallel to those of the Yangtze gneisses. Preservation of primary textures in some volcanic rocks, and tectonic separation from the Yangtze gneisses by a greenschist facies mylonite, support an interpretation of the Ganghe unit as a low-strain domain. Protolith associations in the Ganghe and Changpu units are compatible with deposition in a rift setting and along a passive continental margin, respectively. A U-Pb single zircon age of 761 ± 33 Ma for volcanoclastic rocks of the Ganghe unit demonstrates a Neoproterozoic deposition age, concordant with inferred rifting at that time. Eclogite facies parageneses in the gneisses and both cover units, along with P-T data demonstrate regional UHPM in the Dabie Shan.

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Schmid, R., Romer, R. L., Franz, L., Oberhänsli, R., & Martinotti, G. (2003). Basement-cover sequences within the UHP unit of the Dabie Shan. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21(6), 531–538. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1314.2003.00461.x

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