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Oceanic and Continental Mantle Fragments in Ophiolites of the Northwestern Pacific Margins: Composition, Age, and Genesis of Sakhalin Peridotites

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The paper presents the results from a study of original and published data on the chemical composition and age of mantle peridotites from Sakhalin Island ophiolites. The material and genetic proximity of peridotites from the Berezovsky and Shelting plutons, on the one hand, and mélange zone serpentinites, on the other, have been established. In composition and Fe2O3 and MgO variations, Sakhalin peridotites differ radically from those of the Northeast Asia ophiolite complexes (Krasnogorsky Massif, Karaginsky Island Massif, etc.), which are fragments of Pacific Plate mantle. Conversely, Sakhalin peridotites have a subcontinental genesis and are compositionally close to xenoliths of lherzolites from Hankai Microcontinent mantle (southern Sikhote-Alin). The rythmics of alternation in compression and expansion at the margin of the Asian continent in the last 180 million years, caused by cyclical changes in the Pacific spreading rate, have been considered. According to data obtained by U-Pb dating of zircons, the formation of the Berezovsky Massif took place 169–154 Ma ago during Jurassic expansion of the continental margin. Matching age and composition data demonstrate that the Sakhalin ophiolites formed within the marginal sea basin during riftinduced destruction of the periphery of the Hankai Craton. The assumed tectonic setting was close to that reconstructed for the Jurassic Josephine ophiolites of the California margin of the North American continent. The continental genesis of the studied ophiolites agrees with the age and tectonic mode of ophiolite formation for Sakhalin Island.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Stepashko, F.P. Lesnov, 2018, published in Okeanologiya, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 488–500.

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Stepashko, A.A., Lesnov, F.P. Oceanic and Continental Mantle Fragments in Ophiolites of the Northwestern Pacific Margins: Composition, Age, and Genesis of Sakhalin Peridotites. Oceanology 58, 459–469 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437018030189

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