Ca. 1050 Ma intra-continental rift-related A-type felsic rocks in the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China | |
Wei Terry Chen; Wei-Hua; Sun; Mei-Fu Zhou; Wei Wang | |
2017 | |
Source Publication | Precambrian Research |
Volume | 309Pages:22-44 |
Abstract | Late Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks have been traditionally thought to mark Grenvillian orogens and are thus widely used for the reconstruction of Rodinia. In the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China, 1050 Ma dacites and rhyolites in Huili and granites in Julin are rich in large ion lithophile elements (LILE; e.g., Rb, Ba, Th and U) and poor in Nb, Ta, and Ti relative to the primitive mantle. These felsic rocks contain similarly high Zr, Hf, Ga, and HREE contents and Ga/Al ratios, and have high calculated zircon saturation temperatures (900 C in average), thus resembling A-type granitoids. However, the dacites have whole-rock eNd(t) (7.2 to 4.5) and zircon eHf(t) values (20.8 to +1.0) much lower than the rhyolites/ granites, and were interpreted to be derived from partial melting of an ancient continental crust. In contrast, rhyolites and granites have much higher eNd(t) (0.4 to +1.8) and eHf(t) (3.2 to +11.2) values, indicative of their derivation from primary magmas generated by partial melting of newly formed underplating crust, with possibly minor contributions from mantle-derived materials. These A-type felsic rocks have high Y (20–100 ppm) and Nb (10–40 ppm) contents similar to ‘‘within-plate” magmatic rocks in the frequently-used Y vs. Nb and Rb vs. Y + Nb plots for tectonic discrimination. Such a feature, in combination with rift-related, coeval mafic rocks in the region, indicates that they have formed in an intra-plate rifting setting. Our work thus argues against the existence of the so-called Grenvillian Orogen in the southwestern Yangtze Block. In view of the subsequent Neoproterozoic arc magmatism (950–730 Ma) in the region, we propose that the 1050 Ma A-type granitoids and coeval mafic rocks were produced under a continental rifting basin that was transformed to an compression setting during early Neoproterozoic. 20 |
Keyword | Julin Group Within-plate Magmatism Grenvillian Yangtze Block Rodinia |
Indexed By | SCI |
Language | 英语 |
Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.gyig.ac.cn/handle/42920512-1/8163 |
Collection | 矿床地球化学国家重点实验室 |
Affiliation | 1.State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China 2.Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China 3.School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China 4.State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wei Terry Chen;Wei-Hua;Sun;Mei-Fu Zhou;Wei Wang. Ca. 1050 Ma intra-continental rift-related A-type felsic rocks in the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China[J]. Precambrian Research,2017,309:22-44. |
APA | Wei Terry Chen;Wei-Hua;Sun;Mei-Fu Zhou;Wei Wang.(2017).Ca. 1050 Ma intra-continental rift-related A-type felsic rocks in the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China.Precambrian Research,309,22-44. |
MLA | Wei Terry Chen;Wei-Hua;Sun;Mei-Fu Zhou;Wei Wang."Ca. 1050 Ma intra-continental rift-related A-type felsic rocks in the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China".Precambrian Research 309(2017):22-44. |
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