Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The Dien Bien Phu (DBP) Fault strikes nearly perpendicular to the general tectonic framework, separating northwest Vietnam into two compartments. The DBP and Muong Lay granites are exposed respectively east and west of the fault. The U/Pb age of 277 ± 2 Ma obtained for the Muong Lay granite is similar to the age of the Chieng Khuong complex exposed within the Song Ma structure east of the DBP Fault. These two magmatic intrusions are considered as belonging to a same tectonic structure related to the subduction of the Song Ma Ocean under the Indochina Block during the Indosinian orogeny. The DBP Fault with a total post Permian dextral offset of 30-40 km shifts the Song Ma Suture. It could then be connected to the Ailao Shan-Shuanggou suture to the north. The undeformed DBP granite gave a U/Pb age of 230 ± 1 Ma sealing the Indosinian deformation on the fault. The Ladinian-Carnian activity of the fault is confirmed by the 40Ar/39Ar (biotite) age of 228 ± 4 Ma obtained from the paragneiss forming the fault zone. A geodynamic model is proposed to describe the various tectonic phases recorded by on the DBP Fault. It associates field data, stratigraphic observations, and geochronology analyses (U/Pb, Ar/Ar, fission tracks). Following the Late Triassic exhumation of the granite and the end of the Indosinian orogeny marked by the Norian unconformity, the granite was buried under Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments. A strong cooling event during the early Late Cretaceous (100 Ma) is associated with the reactivation of the DBP Fault and the accommodation of a southward thrusting of the Song Da terrane onto the Truong Son Belt. This newly recognised tectonic phase could be associated to the subduction of the Paleo-Pacific plate under the Indochina Block. No data are available yet to constrain the Tertiary evolution of the DBP system. However, the Tertiary deformation is likely similar to the Cretaceous one.
ISSN: 1342-937X

insu-01015379
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01015379
DOI : 10.1016/j.gr.2013.07.018

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : In Vietnam, recent studies demonstrated that the Kon Tum Massif was part of the Indosinian mountain system, together with the Truong Son Belt. One sector of the Kon Tum Massif (Song Ba valley) is a granulite facies terrain for which Ar–Ar and U–Pb ages cluster around 245–250 Ma. In the area of Song Bien river, also metamorphosed under granulite facies conditions, Ar–Ar ages of 410 Ma are displayed by biotite. In this study, U–Pb dating of monazite and zircon has been used to understand the reason for these two groups of ages, taking into account the metamorphic mineral assemblages related to granulite facies metamorphism in the two districts. For granulites of Song Ba valley, ages of 245–250 Ma are confirmed from monazites. In the Song Bien district, ages of 465–470 Ma displayed by monazites are interpreted to correspond to the metamorphic climax. Zircons from one of these samples record the age of anatexis that has affected the granulitic rocks. The younger age recorded in the Song Ba valley is considered to reflect high temperature related to charnockitic intrusions emplaced near the end of the Indosinian orogeny, overprinting the earlier formed granulites and resetting the U–Pb and Ar–Ar ages. For the first time, two HT events are dated in the Kon Tum Massif, one occurring during the Ordovician and the other during the Permo-Triassic.
ISSN: 0743-9547

hal-00404975
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00404975
DOI : 10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.01.005

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
Sedimentary basins, through the sedimentary successions and the nature of the deposits, reflect the geology of thearea from which the sediments were derived and thus provide valuable record of hinterland tectonism. As the collisionbetween the South China and the Indochina blocks (i.e. the Indosinian orogeny) is still the object of a numberof controversies regarding, for instance, its timing and the polarity of the subduction, the sedimentary basins associatedwith this mountain belt are likely to provide clues to reconstruct its geodynamic evolution. However, boththe Sam Nua Basin (located to the south of the inner zones of the Indosinian orogeny and the Song Ma ophiolites)and the Song Da Basin (located to the north of the inner zones), northern Vietnam, are still lacking importantinformation regarding the depositional environments and the ages of the main formations that they contain.Using sedimentological and dating analyses (foraminifers biostratigraphy and U-Pb dating on detrital zircon), weprovide a new stratigraphic framework for these basins and propose a geodynamic evolution of the present-daynorthern Vietnam.During the Early Triassic, the Sam Nua Basin was mainly supplied by volcaniclastic sediments originating froman active volcanic activity. Geochemical investigations, combined with sedimentological and structural analyses,support an arc-related setting for this magmatism. This magmatic arc resulted from the subduction of a south dippingoceanic slab that once separated the South China from the Indochina blocks. During the Middle to the LateTriassic, the Sam Nua Basin underwent erosion that lead to the formation of a major unconformity, termed theIndosinian unconformity. This unconformity is interpreted to result from the erosion of the Indosinian mountainbelt, built after the continental collision between the South China and the Indochina blocks. Later, during the LateTriassic, the Sam Nua Basin experienced the deposition of very coarse material, emplaced under continental settingand representing the product of the erosion of the Indosinian mountain belt.To the North, the Song Da Basin is characterized by strongly diachronous deposits over a basal unconformitydeveloped at the expense of volcanic and volcaniclastic deposits related to the Emeishan Large Igneous Province.The sedimentary succession indicates a foreland setting during the Early to the Middle Triassic, which contrastswith the commonly assumed rift setting for these sediments. Thus, the Song Da Basin documents the formation ofthe Indosinian thrust belt, located immediately to the South of the basin.
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017
Vienne, Austria

insu-01510331
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01510331

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag
Résumé : The Triassic fold belt of North Tibet is mainly composed, from west to east, of the Bayan Har, Songpan-Garze, and Yidun (or Litang-Batang) terranes. The Indosinian orogeny results from interactions between the South China, North China and Qiangtang (North Tibet) blocks during the closure of the Palaeotethys. A synthesis of the tectonic and geochronological data available on this belt is presented and a new geodynamic model of its formation is proposed. At the end of the Permian, a synchronous activity along three subduction zones, Kunlun-Anyemaqen to the north, Jinsha to the south and Yushu-Batang to the east, induced the growth of wide accretionary orogens until the end of the Triassic period. The onset of subduction in Tibet is contemporaneous with Indosinian tectonism in Indochina (pre-Norian). However, the main tectonic events that lead to the closure of the Tethysian basin and the subsequent building of the Triassic belts are younger (220-200 Ma).
ISSN: 0010-7999

hal-00411202
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00411202
DOI : 10.1016/j.crte.2007.10.014

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The Paleozoic-early Mesozoic geology of Tibet was controlled by the rift-drift, seafloor spreading and subduction zone tectonics of a Paleo-Tethyan realm, which evolved between the West Cathaysides (WC) and the East Cimmerides (EC). Different suture zones with ophiolites and ophiolitic mélanges, high-pressure metamorphic belts, magmatic arcs and accretionary prism complexes separating different terranes mark multiple subduction-accretion systems within this Paleo-Tethyan domain, reminiscent of the modern Western Pacific Ocean. Discrete basins separated by different continental blocks and magmatic arcs constituted a complex paleogeography of Paleo-Tethys, and these oceanic strands were closed as a result of subduction with different polarities during the late Paleozoic-Triassic. The Longmu Tso Shuanghu-Changning Menglian Suture zone (LS-CMS) in Tibet represents the main tectonic boundary between the WC and EC that developed in the Devonian. The East Kunlun-A’nyemaqen oceanic slab was subducted northward beneath the East Kunlun terrane in northern Tibet, whereas the Sumdo oceanic slab was subducted northward beneath the South Qiangtang-North Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet. The Longmu Tso Shuanghu-Changning Menglian and Jinshajiang-Ailaoshan-Song Ma ophiolites were developed and emplaced in subduction-accretion systems with opposite polarities (westward and eastward) beneath the North Qiangtang-Qamdo-Simao-Indochina terrane in central Tibet. The Jinshajiang-Ailaoshan-Song Ma oceanic slab was subducted westward beneath the North Qiangtang-Simao-Indochina terrane along the Jinshajiang and Ailaoshan-Song Ma trenches in a trench-ridge-trench triple junction plate configuration. The Emeishan mantle plume produced a large Permian basaltic terrane, developed on the western passive margin of the South China block. The final closure of the Paleo-Tethyan oceanic branches resulted in continental collisions and development of a vast Indosinian orogenic collage in the latest Triassic-Jurassic.
ISSN: 0743-9547

insu-01119604
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01119604
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01119604/document
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01119604/file/Xu-JAES-2015.pdf
DOI : 10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.01.021

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : National audience
se sont accrétés au cours du Mésozoïque. Ainsi, la collisionentre les blocs Indochine et Chine du Sud a engendré l’orogénèseIndosinienne. Durant la première moitié du XXè siècle, cet orogènea été défini et documenté à partir d’une discordance, dite Indosinienne,mise en évidence dans le Nord du Vietnam. Les études alorsréalisées ont permis d’estimer un âge antérieur au Jurassique inférieurpour cette discordance, qui n’a depuis pas fait l’objet deréévaluation. Outre la discordance Indosinienne, de nombreux débatsportent sur l’âge de la collision, la vergence de la subductionocéanique qui l’a précédée ou encore l’existence d’un véritable domaineocéanique ayant séparé l’Indochine de la Chine du Sud.Les bassins permo-triasiques du Nord du Vietnam (bassins deSam Nua et de Song Da), situés de part et d’autre de la sutureophiolitique de Song Ma, constituent, via le flux sédimentaireprovenant de l’érosion et du volcanisme des zones adjacentes, desarchives essentielles pour documenter l’évolution tectonique ducouple Indochine-Chine du Sud. A partir de données sédimentologiques,géochronologiques (datation U-Pb sur zircons) et biostratigraphiques(foraminifères), nous proposons une réévaluationdu cadre stratigraphique du Nord du Vietnam. Ces données nouspermettent d’envisager un âge postérieur au Trias moyen pour ladiscordance Indosinienne. A l’aide de données géochimiques et del’analyse du remplissage sédimentaire et volcanique des bassins,il est possible de documenter un volcanisme d’arc, actif au Triasinférieur. La position de cet arc par rapport aux limites des blocsIndochine et Chine du Sud, marquée par la suture ophiolitique deSong Ma, implique (i) une zone de subduction qui plongeait vers leSud (coordonnées actuelles), sous le bloc Indochine, en marge (ii)d’un véritable domaine océanique, et non pas d’une croûte continentaleamincie, séparant les deux blocs jusqu’au Trias moyen.Nos interprétations, issues de l’analyse des bassins sédimentairespermo-triasiques du Nord Vietnam, permettent également de reconstituerl’évolution de l’orogénèse Indosinienne. Celle-ci faitsuite à la subduction de la croûte océanique rattachée à une plaqueChine du Sud sous une plaque Indochine au Trias inférieur (etprobablement au moins depuis le Permien inférieur). A partir dela fin du Trias moyen, les blocs Indochine et Chine du Sud entrenten collision et forment l’orogène Indosinienne.
RST 2016, livre des résumés
Caen, France

insu-01388676
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01388676

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : 1 p.
International audience
The 12th May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the Longmen Shan occurred on a large thrust fault largely inherited from an Indosinian structure itself probably controlled by an older structural heritage of the South China block continental margin. Within the whole northeast Tibet region, such a structural inheritance has had a major impact on the Tertiary deformation. It appears of primary importance to assess the pre-Tertiary tectonic evolution of the main blocks involved to understand the actual deformation in the eastern edge of Tibet. Over the past decades, the Proterozoic to Cenozoic tectonic, metamorphic and geochronologic history of the Longmen Shan and Songpan Garzê area have been largely studied. We present a synthesis of the tectonic evolution of the Songpan Garzê fold and thrust belt from Triassic to present. The Songpan-Garzê belt was formed during closure of a wide oceanic basin ?lled with a thick (5 to 15 km) sequence of Triassic ?yschoid sediments. Closure of the basin due to Triassic subduction involved strong shortening, intense folding and faulting of the Triassic series. A large-scale décollement, that presently outcrops along the eastern boundary of the belt (Danba area), allowed the growth of a wide and thick accretionary wedge. It develops in the Paleozoic and Triassic series and separates the accretionary prism from an autochthonous crystalline basement which shares many similarities with the basement of the Yangtze Craton (0.7-0.9 Ga). To the north and northwest, below the thickened Triassic series of the belt, the composition (oceanic or continental) of the basement remains unknown. During the Indosinian orogeny the emplacement of orogenic granites (220 - 150 Ma) was associated to crustal thickening. The isotopic composition of granitoids shows that their magma source were predominantly derived from melting of the proterozoic basement with varying degrees of sedimentary material and negligible mantle source contribution. In the Danba area, the décollement outcrops in a large tertiary antiform with a NNW-SSE axis. It has been exhumed too in the hanging wall of the NE-SW faults of the Tertiary Longmen-Shan belt that marks the present day transition from the Tibetan plateau to the Sichuan basin. These faults have episodically absorbed signi?cant shortening since the Late Triassic. The amount and precise timing of post-triassic deformation are dif?cult to constrain especially because of the dif?culty to isolate the tertiary thermochronological signal from the protracted late Triassic - Cretaceous thermal history. Nonetheless it is generally accepted that Jurassic - Cretaceous tectonism did not modi?ed the general Triassic architecture of eastern Tibet contrarily to the Tertiary deformation. The long-term cooling histories obtained on Mesozoic granites and on the metamorphic series of the Danba dome are very similar showing a very slow and regular cooling during Jurassic andCretaceous, con?rming the absence of major tectonic event between c.a. 150 and 30 Ma. Low temperature thermochronology data indicate that ?nal exhumation and cooling occurred in theTertiary with an acceleration between 10 and 5 Ma along the major tectonic structures. Within the Longmen Shan range, a total denudation of 7 to 10 km is estimated for the late Cenozoic period. Similar amounts of late Tertiary denudation have been estimated along an east-west section across the Xianshuihe fault
Asian climate and tectonics seminar
Utrecht, Netherlands

insu-00610298
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00610298
DOI : 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.03.008