Volcanism and intrusive magmatism of the Magnitogorsk paleoarc in the epoch of its “soft” collision with a margin of the East European continent

Research subject . The article sets out to investigate the change of the geodynamic regime from the island-arc type to the accretionary-collisional type in the Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous, which occurred as a result of 1) a collision between the Western part of the Magnitogorsk island arc and the Eastern margin of the East European continent and 2) its later coupling with the heterogeneous composite East Uralian terrain. Materials and methods . The content of petrogenic elements and microelements in the rocks of the Late Paleozoic island-arc complexes of the Magnitogorsk island arc were determined using XRF and ICP MS methods at the Laboratory of Physicochemical Research Methods of the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition, available publications on the composition and formation conditions of these complexes were reviewed. Results . It was found that, in the Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous period, the process of island-arc magmatism of the Magnitogorsk paleoarc was substituted with the formation of intraplate volcano-intrusive complexes. The island-arc magmageneration and its manifestations were controlled by a latitudinal linear zoning and different depths of formation of magmatic cameras, reflecting the self-consistency and spatial isolation of these events. Conclusion . Due to the intensifying collision, melts from different mantle sources were mixing, thus contaminating the island-arc rocks by intraplate (plume-dependent) magmas. According to the composition and concentrations of high-field strength and fluid-mobile chemical elements, suprasubductional fluids played an important role in the evolution of late-island arc magmatic series.