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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (05): 863-873.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.05.01

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Discovery of the Early Indosinian Granite in Lujing Area, Hunan and Jiangxi Border and Its Geological Significance

ZHANG Wanliang(), GAO Mengqi, LÜ Chuan, HUANG Chao, HUANG Di, XIE Zhicong   

  1. Research Institute No.270, Nuclear Industry, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330200, China
  • Received:2018-02-22 Revised:2018-04-12 Online:2018-10-10 Published:2018-11-04

Abstract:

Indosinian granites are widely distributed in Southern China. Previous studies indicate that the Indosinian granites mainly concentrated in the Middle-Late Triassic are attributed to post-collisional granite type. In this paper, we reported a Jiaoyelong concealed granite from Lujing area, the border of the Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. The results show that this granite with medium-coarse grained granitic texture and muscovite is chara-cterized by high contents of silicon (SiO2=73.97%-76.92%), aluminum (Al2O3=12.56%-13.86%), potassium (K2O=4.02%-5.13%), and K2O>Na2O, and belongs to high potassium calcalkaline series. The A/CNK ranges from 1.17 to 1.30,suggesting a peraluminous series. It is rich in large ion lithophile elements (Rb, K, etc.) and high field intensity elements (Th, U, Ta, Nb, Zr, Hf, etc). The contents of U range from 3.24 × 10-6 to 15.40×10-6, with the average content of 8.31 × 10-6. The ratio of Th/U is 1.21-1.98, indicating a rich uranium pluton property. This granite enriched in LREE has a relatively high fractionation between LREE and HREE. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of the granite yields a mean age of (247±2.2) Ma, belonging to the early Indosinian intrusion. Furthermore, the aluminum saturation index and Rb/30-Hf-3Ta diagram show that the pluton formed in the collisional continental margin tectonic background, suggesting that a tectonic transition from compression to extension took place in Southern China during the Early-Middle Triassic.

Key words: medium-coarse grained granite, zircon age, syn-collision, tectonic transformation, Hunan-Jiangxi border

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