Stop 27. 铁堡清水河(N38°53′53″ E113°43′46″)
[内容]:“铁堡不整合”,阜平杂岩的混合片麻岩,年龄2.51~2.50Ga,上部板峪口组长石石英岩中的碎屑锆石年龄:2.51-2.30Ga;接触界面观察描述、产状测量,
In the riverbank near Tiebu village [Lat. 38° 53' 40"; Long.113° 43' 39"], we can observe one of the classic localities in Chinese geological literature; the so-called Tiebu ’Unconformity‘. It is traditionally described as the contact between the Fuping ’Group‘ and the overlying Wutai ’Group‘. The Fuping rocks have been described as belonging to the Longquanguan augen gneisses (Tian et al., 1996). The Wutai portion is considered to be part of the Banyukou ’Formation‘ and, as such, is thought to represent the basal part of the Wutai succession.
The Wutai rocks consist of a 20 cm thick unit of biotite schist overlain by quartzfeldspar-biotite metasediment with clasts of pink arkose at the base. This unit shows upward depletion in biotite over about one meter and passes into a feldspathic quartzite. However, bedding planes are locally marked by muscovite. Zircons obtained from a sample of quartzite (95-PC-64), collected one meter from the basal contact, show a spread of ages from ca 2700 to 2510 Ma. The fact that the youngest grains give an age younger than the felsic volcanics from the so-called ’Middle‘ Wutai (see stop 17) means that this unit cannot be the base of the Wutai sequence (Cawood et al., 1998).
Two samples were collected from the Fuping gneisses: sample 95-PC-65 from the grey gneiss and sample 95-PC-66 from the pink granite phase (Wilde et al., in prep.). Sample 95-PC-65 contains three discrete suites of zircon (Fig. 47). The oldest four grains define a 207Pb/206Pb age of 2763±10 Ma. These are the oldest crystals known from either the Fuping or Hengshan Complexes and are interpreted to be xenocrysts incorporated in the igneous protolith to the grey gneiss. The largest population of 12 zircons define a 207Pb/206Pb age of 2660±7 Ma, taken to represent the crystallisation age of the igneous protolith. In addition, a group of 6 zircons give a 207Pb/206Pb age of 2534±10 Ma. This is similar to the age of granitic rocks elsewhere in the Fuping Complex (Guan et al., 2002; Zhao et al., 2002) and in the Hengshan and Wutai Complexes (see above). It is also overlaps within error the age of Sample 95-PC-66. This, however, contains discordant zircons and has a rather imprecise upper intercept age of ~2525 Ma. We interpret the younger zircons in sample 95-PC-65 as resulting from growth during emplacement of the extensive pink granitic layers.
The contact between the metasediments and the underlying gneiss is tectonic at this location. Whether there was an original unconformable relationship is unclear although, as discussed above, based on the age of the youngest detrital zircons, it is not possible for this quartzite unit to represent the base of the Wutai sequence. Approximately 2 km further upstream, a 5 meter-wide unit of quartzite is totally enclosed within Fuping grey gneisses, clearly indicating tectonic interleaving.