Ordovician and Silurian siliciclastic strata of the Middle Tianshan (Eastern Kyrgyzstan): age and provenance according to the detrital zircon dating

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Abstract

Detrital zircon dating allows us to elucidate the age and provenance of siliciclastic strata of the Sarydjaz and Ichkebash formations in the Middle Tianshan of eastern Kyrgyzstan, previously thought to be of the Middle or Late Ordovician age. New data indicate that the upper part of the Ichkebash Formation contains Lower Silurian strata, previously unknown in this region. The Kanachu Formation, which lies stratigraphically above, is also not older than the Silurian in age. The absence of marine fauna at these levels apparently reflects the predominant development of deltaic facies. The paleocurrent indicators and the ages of detrital zircons point at the provenance in the North Tianshan (NTS). Grains with ages from the Late Cambrian to the Silurian, synchronous with the main stage of the Early Paleozoic magmatism in the NTSh, predominate in the Ichkebash Formation. The occurrence of Precambrian detrital zircons in all dated samples and especially in the Sarydjaz Formation indicates the erosion of Precambrian rocks. The provenance most likely located in the Chu-Kendyktas Massif, where Precambrian detrital zircons in Neoproterozoic and Early Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks demonstrate a similar age distribution. The foredeep in the Middle Tianshan was formed in the Late Ordovician and Early Silurian generally subsynchronously with the main orogenic event in the NTS.

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D. V. Alexeiev

Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; St. Petersburg State University

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Email: dvalexeiev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; St. Petersburg

A. K. Khudoley

St. Petersburg State University

Email: dvalexeiev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

S. A. DuFrane

University of Alberta

Email: dvalexeiev@mail.ru

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Canada, Edmonton

A. V. Kushnareva

St. Petersburg State University

Email: dvalexeiev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

N. V. Bryanskiy

Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: dvalexeiev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Irkutsk

A. A. Karimov

Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; A.P. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: dvalexeiev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Irkutsk; Irkutsk

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