Age and sources of protoliths of metasedimentary rocks in the Eastern Tukuringra Terrane of the Mongol-Okhotsk Fold Belt: Results of U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf, and Sm-Nd isotope studies
The article presents detrital zircon U-Th-Pb and Lu-Hf isotope data for metasedimentary rocks from the eastern Tukuringra Terrane, as well as whole-rock Sm-Nd isotope data. Our analyses show that the zircons in metasedimentary rocks are mostly early Mesozoic in age. Early Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic zircons are also common, whereas early Precambrian zircons are virtually absent. The age of the youngest zircon population places a lower age limit on the age of the Tungalin Formation at 204 Ma (Late Triassic, Rhaetian), the Dugda Formation at 181 Ma (Early Jurassic, Toarcian), and the Tangomen Formation at 189 Ma (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian). Essentially all Mesozoic, Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic zircons are characterized by Neo- and Mesoproterozoic Hf-model ages (tHf(DM) = 1.41-0.46 Ga, tHf(C) = 1.55-0.49) and Mesoproterozoic Nd-model ages (tNd(DM) = 1.25-1.10 Ga, tNd(С) = 1.31-1.14). Our results suggest that sediments for deposition were sourced mainly from the continental Amuria Superterrane, but not from the southern margin of the North Asian Craton.