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Geochronology of the Dovyren intrusive complex, northwestern Baikal area, Russia, in the Neoproterozoic

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The paper reports newly obtained data on the geochronology of the Dovyren intrusive complex and associated metarhyolites of the Inyaptuk Formation in the Synnyr Range. The data were obtained by local LA-ICPMS analysis of zircons in samples. The U-Pb age of olivine-free gabbronorite from near the roof of the Yoko-Dovyren Massif is 730 ± 6 Ma (MSWD = 1.7, n = 33, three samples) is close to the estimated age of 731 ± 4 Ma (MSWD = 1.3, n = 56, five samples) of a 200-m-thick sill beneath the pluton. These data overlap the age of recrystallized hornfels found within the massif (“charnockitoid”, 723 ± 7 Ma, MSWD = 0.12, n = 10) and a dike of sulfidated gabbronorite below the bottom of the massif (725 ± 8 Ma, MSWD = 2.0, n = 15). The estimates are also consistent with the age of albite hornfels (721 ± 6 Ma, MSWD = 0.78, n = 12), which was produced in a low-temperature contact metamorphic facies of the host rocks. The average age of the Dovyren Complex is 728.4 ± 3.4 Ma (MSWD = 1.8, n = 99) based on data on the sill, near-roof gabbronorite, and “charnockitoid”) and is roughly 55 Ma older than the estimate of 673 ± 22 Ma (Sm-Nd; [13]). The U-Pb system of zircon in two quartz metaporphyre samples from the bottom portion of the Inyaptuk volcanic formation in the northeastern part of the Yoko-Dovyren Massif turns out to be disturbed. The scatter of the data points can be explained by the effect of two discrete events. The age of the first zircon population is then 729 ± 14 Ma (MSWD = 0.74, n = 8), and that of the second population is 667 ± 14 Ma (MSWD = 1.9, n = 13). The older value pertains to intrusive rocks of Dovyren, and the age of the “rejuvenated” zircon grains corresponds to the hydrothermal-metasomatic processes, which affected the whole volcano-plutonic sequence and involved the serpentinization of the hyperbasites. This is validated by the results of Rb-Sr isotopic studies with the partial acid leaching of two serpentinized peridotite samples from the Verblyud Sill. These studies date the overprinted processes at 659 ± 5 Ma (MSWD = 1.3, n = 3).

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  1. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. A. Ariskin, Yu. A. Kostitsyn & G. S. Nikolaev

  2. Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Institutskaya 4, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432, Russia

    E. G. Konnikov

  3. Centre for Ore Deposit and Exploration Studies (CODES), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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  4. Geological Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Sakh’yanovoi 6, Ulan-Ude, 670042, Russia

    E. V. Kislov & D. A. Orsoev

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Ariskin, Yu.A. Kostitsyn, E.G. Konnikov, L.V. Danyushevsky, S. Meffre, G.S. Nikolaev, A. McNeill, E.V. Kislov, D.A. Orsoev, 2013, published in Geokhimiya, 2013, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 957–970.

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Ariskin, A.A., Kostitsyn, Y.A., Konnikov, E.G. et al. Geochronology of the Dovyren intrusive complex, northwestern Baikal area, Russia, in the Neoproterozoic. Geochem. Int. 51, 859–875 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702913110025

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