Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the proto-Korean Peninsula along the East Asian continental margin from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry

Abstract

Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope analysis can be used for inferring provenance characteristics, and to evaluate the tectonic evolution of sedimentary basins and their link with regional orogenesis. The Paleozoic sequences of the Okcheon Belt consist of the Lower Paleozoic Joseon and the Upper Paleozoic Pyeongan supergroups with Middle Paleozoic hiatus locally on top of the Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanic rocks, reflecting an intracontinental rift setting between the two basements (viz. Gyeonggi and Yeongnam massifs) at southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Our detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotope results show that all these Paleozoic strata commonly have Paleoproterozoic and Paleozoic zircon ages with rare Meso- to Neoproterozoic ages. The individual zircon populations display following features, allowing estimation of their sedimentary provenances: (i) The Paleoproterozoic zircons (ca. 1.85 Ga and 2.50 Ga) with similar ranges of ε_Hf(t) values are most common in the basement rocks of the Korean Peninsula, and were sourced from both the Gyeonggi and Yeongnam massifs. (ii) The Meso- to Neoproterozoic zircons, preserved only in the Middle to Late Cambrian clastic sedimentary rocks within the carbonate sequences probably reflect proximal provenance. (iii) The youngest Paleozoic zircons of each formation, almost coincident with their deposition ages, suggest presence of syndepositional magmatism, indicating proximal magmatic sources during their deposition. (iv) The Cambrian-Ordovician zircons, from the Lower Paleozoic sequences, but rare in the successive Upper Paleozoic sequences, suggest a provenance change after the hiatus between the two sedimentary successions. (v) The Permian zircons showing different ε_Hf(t) values indicate that detrital sources were varied at that time. The integrated results in our study suggest provenance variability linked to diverse tectonic environments, reflecting prolonged subduction-related crustal evolution of the proto-Korean Peninsula during the Paleozoic.

Keywords

Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes / Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks / Okcheon Belt / Taebaeksan zone / Korean Peninsula

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Taimoor Hassan Farooq: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Software, Writing – review & editing. Shagufta Jabeen: Methodology, Investigation, Writing – original draft. Awais Shakoor: Writing – review & editing. Muhammad Saleem Arif: Writing – review & editing. Nadia Siddique: Methodology, Software. Khuram Shahzad: Writing – review & editing. Muhammad Umair Riaz: Methodology, Investigation. Yong Li: Writing – review & editing.

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgments

This research was financially supported by Central South University of Forestry and Technology Research Funding (70702-45200003), and Scientific Research Foundation of Hunan Provincial Education Department (70702-22200007).

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