Eclogites of the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician North Kokchetav tectonic zone (northern Kazakhstan): structural position and petrology

摘要

We consider the structural position and petrology of eclogites in the North Kokchetav accretion-collision zone located north of the Kokchetav metamorphic belt formed by high-and ultrahigh-pressure rocks. In the Early Ordovician North Kokchetav tectonic zone, thin sheets of mylonite and diaphthoric gneisses with eclogites are tectonically conjugate with the volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Stepnyak paleoisland-arc zone. Eclogites have been revealed at two sites of the North Kokchetav tectonic zone-Chaikino and Borovoe. The Chaikino eclogites formed at 800-850 degrees C and 18-20 kbar, and the Borovoe eclogites, at 750-800 degrees C and 17-18 kbar. Study of pyroxene-plagioclase symplectite replacing omphacite of the eclogites at both sites has recognized three stages of regressive magmatism: (1) formation of coarse-grained clinopyroxene-plagioclase symplectite at 760-790 degrees C and 11-12 kbar, (2) formation of fine-grained clinopyroxene-plagioclase symplectite at 700-730 degrees C and 7-8 kbar, and (3) amphibolization of pyroxene at 570-600 degrees C and 5-6 kbar. The Ar-Ar age of muscovite from the Borovoe mica schists hosting eclogites is 493 +/- 5 Ma, which corresponds to the time of cooling of metamorphic rocks to <370 degrees C. Hence, the peak of high-pressure metamorphism and all recognized stages of retrograde changes are dated to the Cambrian. The geological data evidence that eclogite-schist-gneiss sheets were localized in the accretion-collision zone and became conjugate with sedimentary and volcanic rocks no later than in the Middle Ordovician.