The Indo-Myanmar Ranges (IMR) are an enigmatic mountain belt that occupy a complex tectonic zone in western Myanmar extending from the northern continuation of the active Sunda-Andaman arc into the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. The IMR are part of an accretionary fore-arc basin-arc complex that includes the Central Myanmar Basin and the Wuntho-Popa Arc to the east. New biostratigraphic, petrologic, and detrital zircon U-Pb age data are presented that are used to test and refine the divergent tectonic models that have been proposed for western Myanmar. These data suggest: 1) that the Upper Triassic Pane Chaung Formation was originally deposited adjacent to the NE Indian continental margin within northern Gondwana during the Late Triassic, and 2) that the Upper Cretaceous – Paleogene rocks of the IBR were mainly derived from the Wuntho-Popa Arc and Inner Belt, with a subordinate input from a crustal source, potentially from the Naga metamorphic-type Paleozoic basement. The Kalemyo ophiolite has an Early Cretaceous age similar to ages of ophiolites in the Indus Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, south Tibet and Nagaland, reinforcing the hypothesis that they were once part of the same Neo-Tethyan ocean floor.
Age, depositional history and tectonics of the Indo-Myanmar Ranges, Myanmar / T.T. Naing, S.A. Robinson, M.P. Searle, C.K. Morley, I. Millar, O.R. Green, P.R. Bown, T. Danelian, M.R. Petrizzo, G.M. Henderson. - In: JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0016-7649. - 180:5(2023 Sep 29), pp. jgs2022091.1-jgs2022091.27. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1144/jgs2022-091]
Age, depositional history and tectonics of the Indo-Myanmar Ranges, Myanmar
M.R. PetrizzoPenultimo
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2023
Abstract
The Indo-Myanmar Ranges (IMR) are an enigmatic mountain belt that occupy a complex tectonic zone in western Myanmar extending from the northern continuation of the active Sunda-Andaman arc into the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. The IMR are part of an accretionary fore-arc basin-arc complex that includes the Central Myanmar Basin and the Wuntho-Popa Arc to the east. New biostratigraphic, petrologic, and detrital zircon U-Pb age data are presented that are used to test and refine the divergent tectonic models that have been proposed for western Myanmar. These data suggest: 1) that the Upper Triassic Pane Chaung Formation was originally deposited adjacent to the NE Indian continental margin within northern Gondwana during the Late Triassic, and 2) that the Upper Cretaceous – Paleogene rocks of the IBR were mainly derived from the Wuntho-Popa Arc and Inner Belt, with a subordinate input from a crustal source, potentially from the Naga metamorphic-type Paleozoic basement. The Kalemyo ophiolite has an Early Cretaceous age similar to ages of ophiolites in the Indus Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, south Tibet and Nagaland, reinforcing the hypothesis that they were once part of the same Neo-Tethyan ocean floor.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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