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Two linear NE–SW trending belts of platformal orthoquartzite-carbonate sequence, namely, the East Jahazpur Belt (EJB) and the West Jahazpur Belt (WJB), within a vast tract of slate–argillite–metagreywacke and subordinate metavolcanics of Hindoli Group (HG) together occur sandwiched between Vindhyan sediments to the east and Banded Gneissic Complex-II (BGC-II) to the west, at the eastern boundary of Aravalli Craton, Rajasthan, India. A NE–SW trending crustal-scale transpressive shear separates this low-grade supracrustal sequence from the gneisses of older Mangalwar Complex (BGC-II) to the west and the Great Boundary Fault (GBF) restricts it in the east against the Vindhyan rocks. A lensoid body of strongly deformed and mylonitised Jahazpur Granite (JG), is the basement for the supracrustal rocks and occupies the core of a SE verging D1-antiformal nappe defined by the EJB (Jahazpur Group-I) rocks. This large scale D1 thrust nappe structure in the EJB is manifested by stacking of early recumbent folds in the carbonate and quartzite units and a prominent zone of brecciation and ferruginisation all along the eastern margin of EJB. In the WJB (Jahazpur Group-II), D1 is represented by large scale isoclinal reclined fold geometry, likely to be influenced by the major transpressive shear and refolding at its western margin. D2 deformation phase, variably superposed over the D1 structures, together controls the NE–SW disposition of Hindoli and Jahazpur rocks. Based on the structural patterns and lithostratigraphic characters, we propose a revised stratigraphy of the Hindoli–Jahazpur rocks. Whole rock Rb–Sr dating of the strongly deformed and mylonitised Jahazpur Granite constrained the age of the tectono-metamorphic event that affected these rocks. Two suites of mylonitised Jahazpur Granite from two different localities yielded ages of 1423 ± 52 and 1393 ± 33 Ma, using Sector 54 TIMS. The tectonism that resulted in folding, thrust nappe, shearing and mylonitisation involving basement JG of Neoarchean age and the overlying Paleoproterozoic Jahazpur–Hindoli supracrustal sequences, therefore, represents a Mesoproterozoic (~1.4 Ga) orogeny that is correlatable with the breaking-up of Columbian Supercontinent along the eastern margin of the Aravalli craton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data on the age of gneissic granites from the Precambrian Kharbei Complex (Polar Urals) have been obtained for the first time. Local U-Pb dating was carried out using a SHRIMP-II ion microprobe. Zircons were taken from three granitic bodies close in petrographic and petrochemical parameters. The formation of gneissic granites was implemented in two stages: during the Late Ediacarian (556 ± 2.2 Ma) and in the Late Cambrian (497 ± 3 and 487.1 ± 2.1 Ma). The rocks formed owing to rheomorphic flow of granitic material, caused by tectonic events related to Timanian (Baikalian) tectogenesis and epicontinental riftogenesis, which occurred prior to the appearance of the Paleouralian Ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]