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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geodynamics Année : 2016

Late Paleozoic evolution of the South Tien Shan: Insights from P–T estimates and allanite geochronology on retrogressed eclogites (Chatkal range, Kyrgyzstan),

Chloé Loury
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Yann Rolland
Bénédicte Cenki-Tok
Stéphane Guillot

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In the South Tien Shan range (Kyrgyzstan), the Late Paleozoic geodynamic evolution remains debated especially to the west of the Talas-Fergana fault (TFF) fault where suture-related high-pressure (HP) rocks are scarce. We provide new petrological and geochronological data on garnet amphibolites from the Chatkal range, to the west of the TFF, northwest of the South Tien Shan suture. These rocks are retrogressed eclogites. We used a micro-mapping approach combined with forward modeling and empirical thermobarometry to decipher the P–T path of these amphibolitized eclogites. The metamorphic peak conditions culminated at 490 ± 50 °C and 18.5 ± 2 kbar and were followed by higher temperature retrogression (∼560 °C at 11–7 kbar). In order to constrain the age of the HP stage, we dated allanite crystals texturally coeval to the HP mineral assemblage. Allanite grains dated in situ with a U–Pb LA-ICPMS methodology yield an age of 301 ± 15 Ma. Compared with previously published data for the east of the TFF, these P–T constraints allow improving the understanding of the Late Paleozoic geodynamic evolution of the South Tien Shan. To the east of TFF, the Turkestan Ocean closed around 320 Ma with the collision of the Tarim Craton with the Kazakh microcontinent. To the west of TFF, the Turkestan Ocean closed around 300 Ma, when the Alai block collided with the Kazakh microcontinent. This later collision involved nappe-stacking and intense subvertical folding in the western South Tien Shan. This complex folding explains the S-shape of the suture to the west of the TFF that cannot be observed in the eastern part. These new data allow us to propose a distinct tectonic evolution of the two sides of the TFF, which suggests that this fault was a major transform fault before being a strike-slip intra-continental fault.
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hal-01347171 , version 1 (20-07-2016)

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Chloé Loury, Yann Rolland, Bénédicte Cenki-Tok, Pierre Lanari, Stéphane Guillot. Late Paleozoic evolution of the South Tien Shan: Insights from P–T estimates and allanite geochronology on retrogressed eclogites (Chatkal range, Kyrgyzstan),. Journal of Geodynamics, 2016, 96, pp.62-80. ⟨10.1016/j.jog.2015.06.005⟩. ⟨hal-01347171⟩
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