STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE MAGNITOGORSK FOREARC BASIN: IDENTIFYING UPPER CRUSTAL PROCESSES DURING ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION IN THE SOUTHERN URALS
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STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE MAGNITOGORSK FOREARC BASIN: IDENTIFYING UPPER CRUSTAL PROCESSES DURING ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION IN THE SOUTHERN URALS
Brown D.; Alvarez-Marrón J.; Pérez-Estaún A.; Puchkov V.; Gorozhanina Y.; Ayarza P.
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Tectonics, 2001, 20, 3, 364-375
Date:
2001
Abstract:
The southern Urals of Russia contain a well-preserved example of a Paleozoic arc-continent collision in which the intraoceanic Magnitogorsk volcanic arc and its forearc basin sediments accreted to the East European Craton during the Devonian. The Magnitogorsk arc records the evolution from incipient intraoceanic subduction to a mature arc, and by comparing its surface geological features with those in active arc-continent collision settings it is possible to identify upper crustal processes that were active in the southern Urals. The arc edifice can be divided into western and eastern volcanic fronts that were active during different stages of arc evolution and for which two distinct phases of forearc basin development can be recognized. The late Lower to Middle Devonian Aktau Formation represents a remnant of the intraoceanic to collisional forearc basin to the Irendyk volcanic front, whereas the Middle Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Ulutau, Koltubanian, and Zilair Formations were deposited in a suture forearc basin to the east Magnitogorsk volcanic front. It was not until the Late Devonian that these two basins were joined. Structural mapping, combined with reflection seismic profiling, shows these basins to be affected by open, nonlinear, volcanic basement-cored synsedimentary folds. The Karamalytash anticline appears to have the geometry of a growth fold that formed during deposition of sediments in the suture forearc basin. The forearc region is affected by minor thrusting that involves the volcanic basement, although it is not clear if these thrusts reactivate preexisting trench-parallel faults. Synsedimentary deformation, slumping, and olistostrome development were common throughout the suture forearc basin history but were especially widespread during the Late Devonian, when the full thickness of the continental crust is interpreted as having arrived at the subduction zone.
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