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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (03): 433-442.

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Determination of the Bolejin Ductile Shear Zone in the Sonidzuoqi Area, Central Inner Mongolia and Its Geological Significance

ZHANG Xiangxin(), PENG Yu, LEI Shihe, GAO Yongfeng, WANG Guang   

  1. College of Resource Science, Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050031, China
  • Received:2016-09-07 Revised:2016-11-24 Online:2017-06-10 Published:2017-06-27

Abstract:

Based on the field geological investigation and microstructural observation, we recognized a NEE-striking sinistral thrust ductile shear zone in the Bolejin area of the north of Sonidzuoqi, central Inner Mongolia. The Bolejin ductile shear zone dips northward with angles of 70°-85°. There occur many typical macroscopic structures and microstructures such as mylonite rocks, mylonitic foliation, stretching lineation, S-C fabrics, asymmetrical folds, rotational porphyroclasts, domino structures and biotite-fishes in the ductile zone. In the light of field observation, the Bolejin ductile shear zone, about 10 km in length and 4 km in width, consists of several strong deformational zones and weak deformational domains. The deformational zones are approximately parallel to each other. The macroscopic structures, microstructures of the ductile shear zone, zircon U-Pb chronology, as well as regional geological data suggest that the Bolejin ductile shear zone is a structural feature of the Chaganobo-Arongqi fault. The shear zone was formed at 290-292 Ma in the early Early Permian. The Bolejin ductile shear zone resulted from the S-N collision between the North China and Siberian plates after the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Thus, the determination of the Bolejin ductile shear zone has provided constraints on the Late Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Xing’an Mongolian Orogenic Belt.

 

Key words: ductile shear zone, Early Permian, tectonic evolution, central Inner Mongolia, the Xing’an Mongolian Orogenic Belt

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