Provenance analysis of Permian sandstones in the central and southern Da Xingan Mountains, China Constraints on the evolution of the eastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt》.pdf

Tectonophysics 580 (2012) 100–113 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Tectonophysics journal homepage: /locate/tecto Provenance analysis of Permian sandstones in the central and southern Da Xingan Mountains, China: Constraints on the evolution of the eastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt Guoqing Han a,b, Yongjiang Liu a,⁎, Franz Neubauer b, Johann Genser b, Yingli Zhao a, Quanbo Wen a, Wei Li a,b, Linna Wu a, Xiaoyan Jiang a, Limin Zhao a a College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Jianshe Str. 2199, Changchun 130061, Jilin, China b Department Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunner Str. 34, Salzburg A-5020, Austria a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Modal, chemical and U–Pb zircon data from Permian sandstones in the central and southern Da Xingan Received 11 March 2012 Mountains (eastern Inner Mongolia, China) constrain, for the first time, plate collision processes between Received in revised form 28 August 2012 the northern margin of the North China craton and the composite Erguna–Xingan–Songliao block. The Accepted 29 August 2012 study area is located between the Ondor Sum-Xar Moron and Hegenshan suture zones of the eastern segment Available online 7 September 2012 of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Modal and geochemical analyses of Permian sandstones suggest derivation from dissected continent