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Geodynamics of the eastern margin of Sarmatia in the Paleoproterozoic

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The eastern margin of Sarmatia comprises the Paleoproterozoic (2.1–2.05 Ga) rock associations of the eastern Voronezh Crystalline Massif, including the Lipetsk-Losevo volcanic-plutonic belt and the adjacent East Voronezh lithotectonic zone composed of metasedimentary rocks of the Vorontsovka Group. The isotopic and geochemical study of the available drill cores that characterize the main rock associations of the Lipetsk-Losevo belt and its nearest framework allowed us to furnish evidence for the formation of this belt in the regime of an island arc at the active margin of the Archean continent above a low-angle subduction zone. The juvenile isotopic and geochemical signatures of metaturbidites of the Vorontsovka Group indicate that only a fast growing mountain edifice with the Lipetsk-Losevo Belt in its highest part (foreland) could have been a provenance of the flysch basin. It is proposed to name this Paleoproterozoic mountain system the East Sarmatian Orogen. The hinterland of this orogen embraced the megablock of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly as a part of the Voronezh Massif and the Azov Block of the Ukrainian Shield. It has been shown that the East Sarmatian Orogen was formed in the same way as accretionary orogens of the Cordilleran type.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Shchipansky, A. V. Samsonov, A.Yu. Petrova, Yu.O. Larionova, 2007, published in Geotektonika, 2007, No. 1, pp. 43–70.

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Shchipansky, A.A., Samsonov, A.V., Petrova, A.Y. et al. Geodynamics of the eastern margin of Sarmatia in the Paleoproterozoic. Geotecton. 41, 38–62 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852107010050

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