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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (03): 812-823.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.024

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Geochronology, Geochemistry,and Tectonic Significance of Carboniferous Andesite in the Zhongguai Uplift, Northwestern Margin of the Junggar Basin

SHAO Longfei1(), YU Fusheng1(), WANG Dandan2, LI Chao3   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
    2. Marine Geological Survey Institute of the Fifth Geological Brigade of Hebei Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Tangshan, Hebei 063000, China
    3. Urumqi Branch of CNPC Oriental Geophysical Exploration company, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830016, China
  • Received:2021-10-17 Revised:2022-05-02 Online:2022-06-10 Published:2022-07-19
  • Contact: YU Fusheng

Abstract:

To deepen our understanding in the Carboniferous tectonic background in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt, drill-core samples of andesite in Jinlong 10 well area of Zhongguai uplift (northwestern margin of Junggar basin) were studied via petrography, chronology and geochemistry. The results show that our andesite samples are low-K to medium-K calc-alkaline, with slightly right-inclining REE diagram and weakly negative Eu anomaly. In the primitive mantle-normalized spider diagram, the rocks have Pb and LILE (Rb, Ba) enrichments and HFSE (Nb, Ta, Zr) depletions, resembling those of typical subduction-related arc volcanic rocks. The Th/La, Th/Ce and Lu/Yb ratios of andesite are below those of the average continental crust, but similar to those of typical mantle-derived magmas. The andesite samples belong to the normal island arc volcanic rocks, which are derived from the water-rich mantle wedge and by partial melting of the fluid-metasomatized mantle wedge (produced by subducting-slab dehydration). LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of the andesite yielded Middle Carboniferous age of (322.4±1.1) Ma. Combined with regional geological background and compared with coeval magmatism, we considered that the andesite in the Zhongguai uplift was formed in a continental arc setting, and was the subduction product of residual oceanic basin in West Junggar, which was not completely closed at (322.4±1.1) Ma.

Key words: northwestern margin of Junggar Basin, Zhongguai uplift, Carboniferous, andesite, chronology, geochemistry

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