Cooling and Exhumation of the Late Cretaceous Laojunshan Granites in Southeast Yunnan Province, China: Constraints from Fission-Track Thermochronology and Tectonic Implications

Abstract

The Song Chay Dome in southeastern Yunnan Province, China, is intruded by the Late Cretaceous Laojunshan granites. New apatite and zircon fission-track data for the Laojunshan granites allow us to reconstruct the exhumation history of the Song Chay Dome. The fission-track dating indicates that the Laojunshan granites experienced four main stages of rapid cooling and exhumation at 75–63, 53–43, 31–20, and 12–4 Ma. The first stage was related to the thermal equilibration with surrounding rocks after magma emplacement. The rapid cooling and exhumation at 53–43 Ma were caused by normal faulting in the Late Mesozoic–Early Cenozoic extensional setting of southwestern South China, which resulted in the Laojunshan granites and Song Chay Dome being exhumed in the footwall of faults. The third stage (31–20 Ma) was the result of southeastward extrusion of the Tibetan Plateau and sinistral strike-slip movement on the NW-SE-trending Nanwenhe and Maguan-Dulong faults. The 31 Ma representing the beginning of the interaction between the Tethyan Himalayan tectonic domain and the South China Block. The final stage was mainly due to activity on the Nanwenhe Fault to the north of the Laojunshan granites, caused by lateral extrusion of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since ca. 15 Ma. These cooling and exhumation events since the Late Cretaceous indicate that the Song Chay Dome and southwestern South China Block have been affected by the Himalayan Orogeny since the Oligocene.

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