The Okuhinotsuchi granitic mass in the South Kitakami terrane: pre-Silurian basement or Permian intrusives.

ADACHI Mamoru, SUZUKI Kazuhiro, YOGO Setsuo, YOSHIDA Shizuo

doi:10.2465/ganko.89.21

Chemical Th-U-total Pb isochron (CHIME) ages were determined on monazite, xenotime and zircon from coarse-grained leucogranite, quartzose pegmatite and residual arkose (weathered granite) of the Okuhinotsuchi granitic mass (Okuhinotsuchi Mass) in the South Kitakami terrane, Northeast Japan. Leucogranite, characterized by higher K₂O/Na₂O and lower CaO/(Na₂O+K₂O) ratios, yields latest Permian ages of 250-260 Ma for monazite and/or zircon. Some of the granite contains xenocrysts of Th-rich monazite or zircon that yields late Silurian to early Devonian ages of 400-410 Ma. Quartzose pegmatite or quartz vein, cutting in places leucogranite and rarely sediments of the Lower-Middle Silurian Okuhinotsuchi Formation, yields unequivocal CHIME ages of 240-250 Ma for Th-poor monazite, zircon and/or xenotime. Residual arkose that occurs immediately below the unconformity, is more disintegrated, altered and depleted in K₂O than leucogranite. The arkose contains Th- and U-bearing minerals with different CHIME ages: (1) both Th-rich (420 Ma) and Th-poor (260 Ma) monazites, (2) zoned xenotime grains with 410-420 Ma core mantled by 350 or 250 Ma rim, (3) euhedral ca. 250 Ma zircon, or (4) rounded inherited zircon grains of ca. 500-1000 Ma. All the CHIME age data demonstrate that the Okuhinotsuchi Mass is unlikely to be the pre-Silurian basement.<br> The CHIME geochronology also reveals that the leucogranite of the Okuhinotsuchi Mass is a remnant of the source rock for some Permian granitoid clasts in the Usuginu Conglomerate in the South Kitakami terrane, whose provenance has long been an open problem.

The Okuhinotsuchi granitic mass in the South Kitakami terrane: pre-Silurian basement or Permian intrusives.

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