Zircon U-Pb geochronology and petrology of the tholeiitic gabbro from the Kovanlik (Giresun) area: Constraints for the Late Cretaceous bimodal arc magmatism in the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt, NE Turkey

TEMİZEL İ., ARSLAN M., Yazar E. A., Aslan Z., Kaygusuz A., Eraydin T. B.

LITHOS, cilt.428, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 428
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106840
  • Dergi Adı: LITHOS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Chemical Abstracts Core, Geobase, INSPEC, Pollution Abstracts
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Tholeiitic, Petrology, Zircon dating, Gabbro, Kovanlik (Giresun), NE Turkey, POSTCOLLISIONAL VOLCANIC-ROCKS, TRACE-ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY, LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE, WHOLE-ROCK, I-TYPE, CLINOPYROXENE COMPOSITION, ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS, NORTHERN PART, ARTVIN AREA, LOWER CRUST
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Mafic intrusions of the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt (EPOB) in NE Turkey are found rarely in varying ages, sizes and compositions. Of these, tholeiitic gabbro stocks, namely Kovanlik gabbro, consist of pyroxene gabbro and minor hornblende gabbro with a mainly granular texture. The pymxene gabbro contains plagioclase, clinoand ortho-pyroxene, olivine, and Fe-Ti oxides, whereas the hornblende gabbro includes mainly plagioclase, hornblende, rarely biotite and Fe-Ti oxides. The clinopymxene compositions of the pyroxene gabbro exhibit arc-related tholeiitic magmas. The Kovanlik gabbroic rocks have high U/Yb zircon ratios, implying continental arc-related tectonic settings. Zircon U - Pb dating on the Kovanlik gabbro yielded a concordia age of similar to 92 Ma (Turonian). Petrochemically, the gabbmic rocks have a tholeiitic character and show arc- and MORB-like signatures. The gabbroic rocks show positive Rb, Ba, K, Pb, Sr, Ti and negative Nb, Ce, Nd, Hf, Zr anomalies in NMORB normalized diagrams. The chondrite-normalized REE plots of the rocks show flat to feeble right-dipping REE patterns (La-N/Lu-N = 0.94-2.56) with positive Eu anomalies (Eu-N/Eu-* = 1.15-2.14; except for two pymxene gabbro samples). The gabbmic rocks have Sr-87/(86)Srm ratios (0.704533 to 0.706265), epsilon Nd-(i) values (4.04-4.85), Pb-206/Pb-204 (18.56-18.68) and Pb-207/Pb-204 (15.61-15.64) ratios. Low Nb/La and Nb/Y ratios, as well as high Sr/Yb and Ba/Rb ratios, indicate that source regions were modified by slab-derived fluids and/or melts. The obtained zircon dating, isotopic and geochemical data, as well as regional geology, revealed that the tholeiitic mafic magma derived from a spinel-lherzolite mantle at a relatively shallow depth, and the Kovanlik gabbro in the EPOB represents one of the first mafic intrusions of Late Cretaceous bimodal arc magmatism related to the roll-back of the northwards subducting Tethys oceanic plate.