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Petrogenesis and geochronology of the Arkasani Granophyre and felsic Dalma volcanic rocks: implications for the evolution of the Proterozoic North Singhbhum Mobile Belt, east India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2014

H.N. BHATTACHARYA ,
D.R. NELSON ,
E.R. THERN  and
W. ALTERMANN
H.N. BHATTACHARYA*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata 700 073, India
D.R. NELSON
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata 700 073, India
E.R. THERN
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth 6001, Australia
W. ALTERMANN
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kumba-Exxaro Chair in Geodynamics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
*
†Author for correspondence: hbaruamu@gmail.com
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Abstract

The North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB) is a 200 km long, curved Proterozoic fold–thrust belt that skirts the northern margin of the Archean Singhbhum Craton of NE India. The Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ) developed between the Dhanjori and Chaibasa formations near the southern margin of the NSMB and represents an important Cu-U-P metallotect. A SHRIMP U–Pb zircon date of 1861±6 Ma, obtained for the syn- to post-kinematic Arkasani Granophyre that has intruded the SSZ, provides a minimum age for the prolonged tectonic activity and mineralization along the SSZ and for the time of closure of the Chaibasa and Dhanjori sub-basins. The Dalma Volcanic Belt, a submarine rift-related bimodal mafic-felsic volcanic suite, forms the spine of the NSMB. A SHRIMP U–Pb zircon igneous crystallization date of 1631±6 Ma was obtained for an unfoliated felsic volcanic rock from the base of the Dalma volcanic sequence. These new findings suggest that the different sub-basins in the NSMB evolved diachronously under contrasting tectonic environments and were juxtaposed during a later orogenic movement.

Keywords

Arkasani GranophyreDalma volcanismNorth Singhbhum Mobile BeltSingbhum Shear Zone
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Geological Magazine , Volume 152 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 492 - 503
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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