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dc.contributor.authorVerencar, A.
dc.contributor.authorSaha, A.
dc.contributor.authorGanguly, S.
dc.contributor.authorManikyamba, C.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-31
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-09T10:13:08Z
dc.date.available2021-01-15
dc.date.available2021-02-09T10:13:08Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationGeoscience Frontiers, vol.12(3); 2021; Article no: 101096
dc.identifier.issn1674-9871
dc.identifier.otherhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987120302280
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2020.10.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/8350
dc.descriptionIF2019 - 4.202
dc.description.abstractThe Naga Hills Ophiolite (NHO) belt in the Indo-Myanmar range (IMR) represents a segment of Tethyan oceanic crust and upper mantle that was involved in an eastward convergence and collision of the Indian Plate with the Burmese Plate during the Late Cretaceous-Eocene. Here, we present a detailed petrological and geochemical account for the mantle and crustal sections of NHO, northeastern India to address (i) the mantle processes and tectonic regimes involved in their genesis and (ii) their coherence in terms of the thermo-tectonic evolution of Tethyan oceanic crust and upper mantle. The NHO suite comprises well preserved crustal and mantle sections discretely exposed at Moki, Ziphu, Molen, Washelo and Lacham areas. The ultramafic-mafic lithologies of NHO are mineralogically composed of variable proportions of olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and plagioclase. The primary igneous textures for the mantle peridotites have been overprinted by extensive serpentinisation whereas the crustal section rocks reflect crystal cumulation in a magma chamber. Chondrite normalised REE profiles for the cumulate peridotite-olivine gabbro-gabbro assemblage constituting the crustal section of NHO show flat to depleted LREE patterns consistent with their generation from depleted MORB-type precursor melt in an extensional tectonic setting, while the mantle peridotites depict U-shaped REE patterns marked by relative enrichment of LREE and HREE over MREE. These features collectively imply a dual role of depleted MORB-type and enriched arc-type mantle components for their genesis with imprints of melt-rock and fluid-rock interactions. Tectonically, studied lithologies from NHO correspond to a boninitic to slab-proximal Island Arc Tholeiite affinity thereby conforming to an intraoceanic supra subduction zone (SSZ) fore-arc regime coherent with the subduction initiation process. The geochemical attributes for the crustal and mantle sections of NHO as mirrored by Zr/Hf, Zr/Sm, Nb/Ta, Zr/Nb, Nb/U, Ba/Nb, Ba/Th, Ba/La and Nd/Hf ratios propound a two-stage petrogenetic process: (i) a depleted fore arc basalt (FAB) type tholeiitic melt parental to the crustal lithologies was extracted from the upwelling asthenospheric mantle at SSZ fore-arc extensional regime thereby rendering a refractory residual upper mantle; (ii) the crust and upper mantle of the SSZ fore arc were progressively refertilised by boninitic melts generated in response to subduction initiation and slab-dehydration.
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dc.publisherElsevier BV
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dc.titleTectono-magmatic evolution of Tethyan oceanic lithosphere in supra subduction zone forearc regime: Geochemical fingerprints from crust-mantle sections of Naga Hills Ophiolite
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.affiliation.authorCSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India


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