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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (06): 1212-1226.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.06.10

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Age and Geochemistry of the Early Cretaceous Intrusive Rocks in Southern Tahe, Northern Great Xing’an Range

XU Liming(), WANG Dake, LIU Yu, ZHENG Jilin, ZHANG Wenqiang, LIANG Zhongkai   

  1. No.3 Gold Geological Party,CAPF,Haerbin, Heilongjiang 150086,China
  • Received:2018-03-21 Revised:2018-09-10 Online:2018-12-10 Published:2018-12-20

Abstract:

This paper presents zircon U-Pb dating, in-situ zircon Hf isotopic and geochemical data for the intrusive rocks from southern Tahe, northern Great Xing’an Range, to constrain their petrogenesis and tectonic settings. The rocks consist of a continuous mafic to felsic magmatic suite (SiO2=51.27%-74.90%). Zircon U-Pb dating indicates that the two intrusive rock samples analyzed were emplaced in the Early Cretaceous (126.9±0.8) Ma and (123.4±0.9) Ma). In the Harker diagrams, most of the major elements and trace elements have a good linear evolutionary trend with increasing SiO2 content (except K2O and Rb). The rocks are generally enriched in Pb and LILEs (K, Rb, Ba), depleted in HFSEs (Nb, Ta, Ti, P), and have similar Sr and Nb isotope characteristics (87Sr/86Sri=0.705,517-0.706,827, εNd(t)=-6.82-0.79). This indicates that the Early Cretaceous intrusive rocks in southern Tahe derived from a mixed source of garnet lherzolite (predominant) and spinel lherzolite, which were metasomatized by subduction-related fluids or melts. During the rapid magma ascent, the magma has experienced fractionation, eventually forming a broad compositional spectrum of rocks. The paper reviews the distribution of volcanic rocks in northeast China, paleomagnetic data, the timing of the Mongolia-Okhotsk ocean closure and the subduction direction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate. These data imply that the Early Cretaceous intrusive rocks in southern Tahe were likely formed in a post-collisional setting after the closure of the Mongolia-Okhotsk ocean.

Key words: Great Xing’an Range, zircon U-Pb dating, fractional crystallization, Early Cretaceous, Mongolia-Okhotsk ocean

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