Citation: | Zhendong You, Zengqiu Zhong, Shutian Suo, Zeming Zhang, Bize Wei. New Findings in High-Pressure and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Belt of Tongbaishan-Dabieshan Regions, Central China. Journal of Earth Science, 2000, 11(3): 228-233. |
The Tongbai-Dabieshan high-pressure (HP) and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) belt is sandwiched between the Yangtze and the Sinokorean cratons. It connects the Qinling orogenic belt in the west and links toward the east to the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) belt. At present there is a consensus that the UHP metamorphic rocks are the products of the oblique collision between the Yangtze and Sinokorean cratons during the Triassic. However, there is still a lot of controversies about the formation and exhumation of the HP-and UHP-metamorphic belts. The present research work on the composition and the structural geometry and kinetics of the HP-and UHP-metamorphic belt has shown the following new results: (1) The overall structural geometry pattern of Dabieshan is similar to the metamorphic core complex developed in the western North America; (2) The discoveries of HP and UHP metamorphic rocks in the north of Dabieshan indicate that the significance of Shuihou-Wuhe fault should be re-evaluated; (3) A series of micro-structural evidence, including the newly-found retrograde granulite facies assemblages in the garnet pyroxenites, substantiate the extensional processes following the collision event; (4) The discovery of partial melting phenomena in the UHP-metamorphic belts illuminates the relationship between the HP-and UHP metamorphic rocks and their associated granite gneiss. All of these new findings will greatly improve our understanding of the formation and exhumation of the high-pressure and ultrahigh pressure metamorphic belts.
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