Early Palaeozoic reduction of the Palaeo‐Asian Ocean: Evidence from the Ordovician strata and ophiolitic mélanges of northern West Junggar, NW China,Geological Journal

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Early Palaeozoic reduction of the Palaeo‐Asian Ocean: Evidence from the Ordovician strata and ophiolitic mélanges of northern West Junggar, NW China
Geological Journal ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 , DOI: 10.1002/gj.3925
Ruiwen Zong _{1,

2} , Yiming Gong ₁

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West Junggar is an important part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, which is the evolutionary product of the Palaeo‐Asian Ocean (PAO). In this area, sporadically distributed ophiolitic mélanges and associated Palaeozoic stratal succession provided research materials revealing the reduction and closure of the PAO. Based on the systematically reviewed Ordovician strata in the northern West Junggar, we find that the Lower Ordovician is mainly composed of ultramafic and mafic rocks of ophiolitic mélanges, the Middle Ordovician is made up of island arc volcanic rocks and pelagic sedimentary rocks from the ophiolitic mélanges, and the Upper Ordovician consists of coarse volcaniclastic turbidites. The geochemical characteristics of the Middle Ordovician radiolarian‐bearing siliceous rocks show that these deposits formed in a limited oceanic basin controlled by terrestrial sources, and that the basin‐filling succession began with the occurrence of the Upper Ordovician proximal turbidites. The above shows that the Ordovician PAO underwent an evolutionary process from oceanic basin to limited oceanic basin and to marginal sea in northern West Junggar, and constrains the age of the ocean–continent transformation to the Middle–Late Ordovician transition, with northern West Junggar entering the evolutionary stage of marginal sea in the Late Ordovician.

更新日期：2020-07-30

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