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The U-Pb SIMS age dating of zircons from different-age granitoid assemblages varying in composition of the Verkhisetsk batholith shows that it comprises rocks of three age groups, formed at different stages of the Ural Mobile Belt. The first age group is represented by quartz diorites (396 ± 5 Ma) with insignificant distribution in area. Their formation was synchronous to island arc volcanism, manifested in the area of study from the second half of the Emsian to late Givetian-early Frasnian. According to this, we could consider these granitoides as comagmatic to island arc volcanites. The second age group includes tonalites and trondhjemites (367 ± 4 Ma), comprising the western part of the batholith. On the basis of similarity between these rocks and granitoides of modern active continental margins in material composition, it is assumed that they formed throughout the island arc-continental stage of development of the Ural Mobile Belt. Granitoides of the third age group, dominating in the Verkhisetsk batholith, formed as a result of several homodrome rhythms of granodiorite-granite intrusions of moderate-potassium composition during a short period of time (315–300 Ma). Their formation is related to the initial stage of the collision stage of development of the region, lasting from the early Bashkirian to Late Permian in the Middle Urals, which is fixed by deposition of flysch and molasse sediments in the Ural Foredeep. The data obtained change our understanding significantly of the character of evolution of granitoid magmatism and the place of rock assemblages studied in the geological history of the Urals.
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Original Russian Text © V.N. Smirnov, K.S. Ivanov, A.N. Larionov, 2014, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2014, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 26–44.
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Smirnov, V.N., Ivanov, K.S. & Larionov, A.N. The U-Pb SIMS zircon age and geodynamic conditions of formation of granitoides of the Verkhisetsk batholith, the eastern slope of the Middle Urals. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 22, 576–593 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593814060057
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