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Gently sloping shear zones in the Belomorian Mobile Belt: Geology, structure, and P–T parameters

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The Belomorian Mobile Belt (BMB) in northern Karelia mostly consists of gently sloping shear zones, whose gneisses and migmatized amphibolites and blastomylonites are typically thinly banded, with their banding consistently dipping north- and northeastward. These gently sloping shear zones were not affected by folding after they were produced and are not cut by Paleoproterozoic metabasite dikes. Intrusive metabasites in the gently sloping shear zones make up relatively small (usually <5 m) equant or elongate bodies and occur as fragments of larger bodies. These fragments are often concentrated in stripes. Metabasites in the gently sloping shear zone are sometimes also found as lenses and tabular bodies of relatively small thickness, which are conformable with the foliation of the host rocks. The gently sloping shear zones cut across older domains of more complicated structure, which suggests that these zones are gently sloping ductile shear zones. Along these zones, the nappes were thrust south- and southwestward, and this process was the last in the origin of major structural features of BMB when the Paleoproterozoic Lapland–Kola orogen was formed. Practically identical age values were obtained for the gently sloping shear zone in the two widely separated Engonozero and Chupa segments of BMB: 1879 ± 21 Ma (40Ar/39Ar amphibole age of amphibolite whose protolith was mafic rock) and 1857 ± 13 Ma (Sm–Nd mineral isochron age of garnet amphibolites after gabbronorite). The P–T metamorphic parameters in these gently sloping shear zones are remarkably different from the metamorphic parameters outside these zones: the pressure is 3–4 kbar lower and the temperature is 60–100°C lower. Thrusting-related decompression triggered the transition from the older high-pressure episode of Paleoproterozoic metamorphism to a younger syn-thrusting higher temperature metamorphic episode. The peak metamorphic parameters corresponding to the boundary between the amphibolite and granulite facies were reached only in the central portions of the shear zones: T= 680–760°C, P = 8.0–11.9 kbar. In areas of the most intense migmatization, temperature estimates in the central portions of the shear are as high as 810–830°C. The marginal portions of the shear zones were formed at lower temperatures of 610–630°C. The temperature heterogeneous and rock heating in the gently sloping shear zones may have resulted from flows of high-temperature metamorphic fluid that were focused to the central portions of the zones.

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    V. M. Kozlovskii, D. I. Korpechkov, M. N. Zaitseva & E. B. Kurdyukov

  2. Institute of Geology, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya ul. 3, Petrozavodsk, 185035, Russia

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  6. Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences, nab. Makarova 2, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Kozlovskii, V.V. Travin, D.I. Korpechkov, M.N. Zaitseva, E.B. Kurdyukov, A.V. Travin, L.B. Terent’eva, V.M. Savatenkov, 2016, published in Geotektonika, 2016, No. 6, pp. 52–74.

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Kozlovskii, V.M., Travin, V.V., Korpechkov, D.I. et al. Gently sloping shear zones in the Belomorian Mobile Belt: Geology, structure, and P–T parameters. Geotecton. 50, 579–597 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852116060042

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