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The Gabbro–Granodiorite Magmatic Complex of the Kronotsky Paleoarc (Eastern Kamchatka): Composition, Age, and Tectonic Position

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New U‒Pb (LA-ICP-MS) geochronological data have been obtained on accessory zircons from granodiorites and on detrital zircons from stream-sediment samples from the Shipunsky massif in the Eastern Kamchatka region. The age of accessory zircons from amphibole–biotite granodiorites has been estimated at 49–44 Ma. Detrital zircons have the Late Paleocene–Early Eocene age from ~57 to ~49 Ma. Based on the geological and geochronological data, the massif was formed in two stages: a gabbroid intrusion (56‒51 Ma) and the quartz diorite-granodiorite intrusion (49‒44 Ma). In terms of the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of the Upper Cretaceous–Eocene volcanic rocks in the Shipunsky Peninsula and granitoids in the Shipunsky massif, they were formed in the suprasubduction setting. The Shipunsky granitoids belong to the I-type granites. The Shipunsky massif was formed as a part of the Kronotsky intraoceanic paleoarc during the Paleocene–Eocene in two stages. The southern segment of the Kronotsky paleoarc collided with the Kamchatka continental margin and the deformed rocks of this massif were brought to the surface.

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We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and to the editor for careful editing.

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The work was carried out under the state assignment of the Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (project no. 0135-2019-0049), with a partial financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 22-27-00440 (A.V. Soloviev)); under the state assignment of the Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (M.V. Luchitskaya); the research topic no. 0282-2019-0004 of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (D.P. Savelyev); and the state assignment of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (project no. FMWE-2021-0004 (N.V. Tsukanov)). The zircon dating at the University of Kiel was supported by the GEOMAR Ocean Research Center (Kiel, Germany).

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    N. V. Tsukanov

  2. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    M. V. Luchitskaya & A. V. Soloviev

  3. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, 24148, Kiel, Germany

    M. V. Portnyagin

  4. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 683000, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

    D. P. Savelyev

  5. All-Russia Research Institute of Oil Geology, 105118, Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Soloviev

  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences at University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, United States

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Tsukanov, N.V., Luchitskaya, M.V., Portnyagin, M.V. et al. The Gabbro–Granodiorite Magmatic Complex of the Kronotsky Paleoarc (Eastern Kamchatka): Composition, Age, and Tectonic Position. Geotecton. 56, 607–630 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852122050089

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