Depositional Responses to the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean Closure in the Central Area of the Great Xing’an Range: Insights into Thrust Faults and Foreland Basins

Abstract

The Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean, which has been closing gradually from the west to the east beginning since the Late Paleozoic, was an important part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. It influenced the tectonic framework of Northeast Asia in the Mesozoic, especially the Late Mesozoic arc-basin system that is widely distributed in the Great Xing’an Range. However, the manner in which the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean affected the sedimentary basin development remains poorly understood. To address this issue, we conducted U-Pb dating of detrital zircon deposited sedimentary basins of the central Great Xing’an Range. By examining the possible provenances of the detrital zircon and the structural controls of the basins, we found that a key sedimentary unit was deposited around Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous. Its provenance was a felsic source in a back-arc setting of an active continental margin. The findings also suggest the existence of a unified geodynamic setting that affected the coeval development of basins in the northern Great Xing’an Range and the Yanshan fold-thrust belt along the northern margin of North China Craton. This research helps to better understand the complex tectonic processes which shaped the Northeast Asia during the Late Mesozoic.

Keywords

Mongol-Okhotsk tectonic domain / depositional responses / Murui Formation / zircon / geochemistry / tectonics

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