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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (03): 535-550.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.002

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Lithology of Likou Group from Around the Anhui-Jiangxi Boundary, South China: Implications for Post-orogenic Collapse of Supercontinent Breakup

ZENG Yan(), YU Xinqi(), LIU Xiu, HU Jun, LIU Mengyan, WANG Zishen   

  1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083,China
  • Received:2018-12-17 Revised:2019-03-20 Online:2019-06-23 Published:2019-06-24
  • Contact: YU Xinqi

Abstract:

The Likou Group comprises a volcanic-sedimentary succession distributed to the north of the Qimen-Qiankou-Shexian fault zone near the boundary between Anhui and Jiangxi, South China. It is the upper part of Neoproterozoic epimetamorphic basement in the eastern part of the Jiangnan orogen. Interbedded basalt from the Dengjia and Pulin formations have Continental Arc Basalt (CAB)-like REE distribution ((La/Yb)N=2.97-4.47) and trace-element patterns. The Dengjia and Pulin Formation basalts have Rittmann Index of 0.029-2.203 and 4.304-6.538, respectively, suggesting comagmatic products of different stages. The Dengjia, Pulin and Xiao’anli formations of the Likou Group have clear boundary surfaces and probably continuous rock formation, and therefore can be merged into one formation (still named Dengjia Formation). The Pulin and Xiao’anli formations represent the upper and top parts of the newly-defined Dengjia Formation, respectively. Basalt from the Dengjia Formation is dated to be (804.2±7.4) Ma by high-precision LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating. The zircons from interbedded basalt have initial176Hf/177Hf ratios of 0.281,837 to 0.282,076, εHf(t) of -15.9 to -7.0, and two-stage Hf model ages of 2.16 to 2.68 Ga, indicating a magmatic source with significant ancient crustal input. The results may reflect that the intermediate stage of rifting had ended, and the magmatism had progressed to the earth surface. Sedimentary characteristics of the Likou Group indicate that the Neoproterozoic rift basin in the eastern part of the Jiangnan orogen was a passive rift basin, which was controlled mainly by subduction rollback, and the Rodinia plume activities may have also made significant impact to the tectonic evolution. We suggest that the rifting was resulted from the interactions between plate subduction and Rodinia superplume.

Key words: Likou Group, basalt, eastern part of Jiangnan orogen, rift basin, plume

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