The Middle Permian to Triassic tectono-magmatic system in the southern Korean Peninsula

Sung Won Kim, Sanghoon Kwon, Youn Joong Jeong, Weon Seo Kee, Byung Choon Lee, Uk Hwan Byun, Kyoungtae Ko, Deung Lyong Cho, Paul S. Hong, Seung Ik Park, M. Santosh

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Abstract

The Permo-Triassic adakitic magmatism in the southern Korean Peninsula preserves important tectonomagmatic records along the East Asian continental margin. In this study, we present SHRIMP/LA–MC–ICPMS U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotope signature with whole-rock geochemical compositions of the Middle Permian to Middle Triassic granitoid gneiss-granitoid suites and the Middle to Late Triassic plutonic rocks in the southeastern Korean Peninsula. The former yields three age groups of ca. 272–263 Ma, ca. 258–251 Ma and ca. 243–240 Ma, respectively. The latter group yields ca. 237–216 Ma ages, indicating a long term magmatism that lasted from the Middle Permian to late Triassic. The granitoid gneiss-granitoid suites have chemical compositions similar to high silica adakitic rocks, showing high SiO2 (59.55–73.97 wt.%), Na2O (3.55–5.30 wt.%), Sr/Y (30–401), and La/YbN (11–173), and low MgO (0.18–1.82 wt.%), Y (2–14 ppm) and YbN (2–7). These rocks are peraluminous with high Ba and Sr, and show relatively high K2O contents and K2O/Na2O ratios (> 0.7), with positive correlation between La/YbN vs. Sr/Y ratios and high initial Sr ratios. These features reflect different contribution of the slab-derived adakite melts that interacted with peridotitic mantle in the metasomatized mantle wedge and the Middle Paleoproterozoic lower crustal basement of the Yeongnam Massif. On the contrary, the Triassic alkaline magmatism in the Yeongnam Massif is alternatively interpreted either by a tectonic switch to the extension-dominated arc system or by a delamination of an overthickened arc. The results from this study offer important evidence for a common subduction-accretion system existed between the North and South China Cratons and microcontinents between them along margins of the East Asian continental blocks, with different plate interaction in different locations generating distinct magmatic suites.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)302-322
Number of pages21
JournalGondwana Research
Volume100
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

Keywords

  • Adakitic rocks
  • Southern Korean Peninsula
  • Subducted slab melting
  • Tectono magmatic system
  • Zircon U-Pb geochronology

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