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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (04): 692-703.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.04.06

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Discovery of Bimodal Volcanics and Its Geological Significance in the Xiemisitai Region, Western Junggar, China

WENG Kai1(), MA Zhongping1, ZHANG Xue2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory for the Study of Focused Magmatism and Giant Ore Deposits of MLR, Xi’an Center of Geological Survey, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710054, China
    2. School of Earth Science & Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710054, China
  • Received:2017-06-07 Revised:2017-12-13 Online:2018-08-10 Published:2018-09-19

Abstract:

The Xiemisitai region in the Western Junggar is a key region to investigate the tectonic evolution of the Junggar ocean basin. The discovery of the Xiemisitai bimodal volcanics and their composition, petrogeochemistry, and zircon U-Pb age are important to discriminate formation mechanism and tectonic setting, reconstruct the tectonic framework of Western Junggar orogenic belt. The following acquaintances were obtained by this paper.The bimodal volcanics are composed of alkaline basalt and calc-alkaline rhyolite, and the LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of the rhyolite is (431.8±2.3) Ma. The mafic magma was likely derived from partial melting of the mantle metasomatized by subduction-related fluid, and the felsic magma was derived from the partial melting of crust materials. The bimodal volcanics may have formed in an early Silurian incipient back-arc basin. Combined with previous studies, we suggest that there was a complete Early Paleozoic trench-arc-basin system in the Xiemisitai region, Western Junggar.

Key words: bimodal volcanics, geochemistry, zircon U-Pb dating, trench-arc-basin system, Western Junggar

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