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Type: Journal article
Title: Late Palaeogene emplacement and late Neogene-Quaternary exhumation of the Kuril island-arc root (Kunashir island) constrained by multi-method thermochronometry
Author: De Grave, J.
Zhimulev, F.
Glorie, S.
Kuznetsov, G.
Evans, N.
Vanhaecke, F.
McInnes, B.
Citation: Geoscience Frontiers, 2016; 7(2):211-220
Publisher: China University of Geosciencs and Peking University
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1674-9871
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J. De Grave, F.I. Zhimulev, S. Glorie, G.V. Kuznetsov, N. Evans, F. Vanhaecke, B. McInnes
Abstract: The Kuril islands constitute a volcanic island arc-trench system, stretching from eastern Hokkaido (Japan) to Kamchatka (Russia) along the northwestern Pacific subduction system. The current arc consists of several volcanic islands mainly with Neogene basement and capped by several, predominantly andesitic, active subduction stratovolcanoes. Kunashir Island is the southwestern-most island of the arc, just off the Hokkaido coast and represents the study area in this paper. The island is composed of a Lower Complex of mainly late Miocene to Pliocene volcanic rocks, covered by an Upper Complex of younger (basaltic) andesitic lava flows and tuffs on which currently four active volcanic edifices are built. In the Lower Complex sub-volcanic and deeper-seated intrusives of the so-called Prasolov and Dokuchaev magmatic complexes are found. More differentiated, tonalitic-granodioritic rocks were collected from these small intrusive bodies. An early Oligocene zircon LA-ICP-MS U/Pb age of 31 Ma for the Prasolov Complex was obtained, showing that the basement of Kunashir Island is older than previously thought. Thermo- chronometry (apatite fi ssion-track and U-Th-Sm/He and zircon U-Th/He analyses) further shows that the magmatic basement of the island was rapidly exhumed in the Pleistocene to present levels in a differential pattern, with He-ages ranging from 1.9 to 0.8 Ma. It is shown that the northern section of the island was hereby exhumed more intensely.
Keywords: Kuril Island arc; Kunashir Island; Northwest Pacific; thermochronometry; zircon U-Pb dating
Rights: © 2015, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Peking University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under t he CC BY-NC- ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2015.05.002
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101730
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2015.05.002
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