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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 1993; v. 74; p. 123-138;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1993.074.01.10
© 1993 Geological Society of London

North and West Pakistan

Evolution of the lower arc crust in Kohistan, N. Pakistan: temporal arc magmatism through early, mature and intra-arc rift stages

M. Asif Khan1, M. Qasim Jan1 & B. L. Weaver2

1 NCE in Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
2 School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA

The middle to lower island-arc crust in southern Kohistan represents a 40 Ma life-span of subduction-related magmatism in an intraoceanic setting. The Kamila amphibolite belt comprises two varieties of metavolcanic amphibolites. One enriched in high-field strength (HFS) and heavy rare-earth (HRE) elements is transitional in character between N- and E-MORB with a minor subduction-related component, and represents the earliest arc basement in Kohistan. The other variety of the metavolcanic amphibolites, together with deformed and amphibolitised intrusive basic plutons, has a transitional tholeiitic to calc-alkaline nature marked by depleted HFS and HRE elements and a distinct negative anomaly for Nb, suggesting emplacement in the early to mature stages of arc growth. The subsequent magmatism in southern Kohistan took place in two stages. The extensive calc-alkaline gabbronorites of the Chilas complex were derived from partial melting of a mantle diapir emplaced into a mature arc or, more probably, during the initial stages of sub-arc splitting. This intra-arc rifting, at its advanced stages, generated tholeiitic picrite to high-Mg basalts which crystallized the ultramafic-mafic-anorthosite (UMA) association and basic dykes of the Chilas complex. The Late Cretaceous accretion of the Kohistan island arc with the Karakoram plate in the north ceased the intraoceanic history of magmatism in southern Kohistan.





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