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New age data from the Lesnaya Group: A key to understanding the timing of arc‐continent collision, Kamchatka, Russia
Author(s) -
Soloviev Alexei V.,
Shapiro Mikhail N.,
Garver John I.,
Shcherbinina Ekaterina A.,
KravchenkoBerezhnoy Igor R.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
island arc
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.554
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1440-1738
pISSN - 1038-4871
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1738.2002.00353.x
Subject(s) - geology , terrane , cretaceous , paleontology , group (periodic table) , island arc , back arc basin , subduction , tectonics , chemistry , organic chemistry
The Lesnaya Group is part of a thick, poorly dated turbidite assemblage that sits in the footwall of a regionally extensive collision zone in which the Cretaceous–Paleocene Olutorsky island arc terrane was obducted onto continental margin basin strata. Nannoplankton from 18 samples from the upper part of the Lesnaya Group yield Paleocene through Middle Eocene assemblages. Detrital zircons from nine sandstone samples have a young population of fission‐track ages that range from 43.7 ± 3.4 to 55.5 ± 3.5 Ma (uppermost Paleocene to Middle Eocene). The deformed footwall rocks of the Lesnaya Group and the overlying thrusts of the Olutorsky arc terrane, are unconformably overlain by neoautochthonous deposits which are Lutetian (lower Middle Eocene) and younger. Together, these new data indicate that thrusting, which is inferred to have been driven by collision of the Cretaceous–Paleocene island arc with north‐eastern Asia, took place in the mid‐Lutetian, at about 45 Ma.