Stages of Carboniferous-Triassic magmatism in the Black Sea region based on isotope-geochronological study of detrital zircons from jurassic coarse clastic strata of the Mountainous Crimea

The article presents the results of U-Pb isotope dating of detrital zircons from the Jurassic coarse rocks in the apex and the western slope of Mnt. Biyuk-Sinor (the southern wall of the Baidar basin, near the village of Orlinoe). These dates are compared with the detrital zircon dates obtained for sandy rocks from the Upper Jurassic coarse clastic strata composing the slopes of Mnt. Spilia near Balaklava Harbor and Mnt. Southern Demerdzhi near Alushta city, as well as the Middle Jurassic Bitak conglomerates near the village of Strogonovka (suburb of Simferopol city). The comparison shows a high degree of similarity of the averaged age characteristics of the main detrital zircon populations. Sandy rocks of Jurassic coarse clastic strata for zircon dating were sampled in four locations of the Mountaineous Crimea. Based on their dates and a summary set of ages of detrital zircon grains from sandstones of the Southern Coast of Crimea, spanning the stratigraphic interval from the Middle Jurassic to Neogene, we can provide a statistically reliable specification of the Carboniferous-Triassic time interval (360–200 Ma) of magmatic activity within the Black Sea region. This period was bounded in time by the Late Devonian and Early Jurassic relative magmatic lulls. None of the zircon grains of the Carboniferous-Triassic age has revealed Hf-isotopic characteristics indicating any significant contribution of crustal material older than the Mesoproterozoic into the protolith of the parent zircon rocks. Within the Carboniferous-Triassic interval of magmatic activity, three stages are distinguished: (I) 360–315 Ma, (II) 315–270 Ma, and (III) 270–200 Ma. Magmatic stage I (360–315 Ma) is related to the closure of the Reik ocean, which completed after the subducted slab ‘broke off’ into the mantle and was accompanied by the ubiquitously manifested HT-LP metamorphism. Zircon grains of stage I are characterized by peak ages of about 325–340 Ma and the dominance of negative εHf. Magmatic stages II (315–270 Ma) and III (270–200 Ma) correlate with functioning of the Scythian-Pontian volcanic suprasubduction belt. In these magmatic stages, zircon εHf values scatter from weakly negative to substantially positive (referred to the depleted mantle), which is typical for volcanic arcs. Fuzzy separation of stages II and III and strong variability of the peak ages of zircons from the studied samples (which we associate with these stages) can be due both to changes in magmatic activity in different segments of the belt, and to changes in the erosion intensity of crystalline complexes of the belt during the subsequent stages evolution caused by tectonic rearrangements within the Paleo-Tethys ocean and its peri-oceanic structures.

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