Slyudyanka Crystalline Complex: From Ordovician Granulite-Facies Metamorphism to Late Cenozoic Exhumation

Abstract The paper presents the reconstructed thermal history of the Slyudyanka crystalline complex, southern margin of the Siberian Craton, from the Late Ordovician to the Cenozoic. The reconstructions were done by using medium- and low-temperature thermochronology methods. The cooling stages of the rocks from the peak temperatures of granulite-facies metamorphism (~800°C in the Ordovician) to their exhumation to the surface in the Cenozoic, associated with the Baikal rifting, have been reconstructed.