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Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (01): 51-63.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.012

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Zircon U-Pb Ages, Geochemistry and Tectonic Implications of Adamellite in Ophiolite Mélange Belt in South Altyn Tagh

LI Qi1(), WANG Jiangtao2, ZENG Zhongcheng3, SHI Wei1, LI Hui1, GUO Qianyi1   

  1. 1. Shaanxi Hydrogeology,Engineering Geology and Enviroment Geology Survey Center, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710068, China
    2. Xi’an Research Institute of China Coal Technology & Engineering Group, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710077, China
    3. Shaanxi Center of Mineral Geological Survey, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710068, China
  • Received:2018-06-10 Revised:2019-10-20 Online:2020-03-05 Published:2020-03-07

Abstract:

The large Yusupuleke Tagh batholiths intruded the Mangya ophiolite mélange belt in South Altyn Tagh. We carried out detailed geochronologic and geochemical analyses on the adamellite from the Yusupuleke Tagh batholiths. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating yielded a Late Ordovician to Early Silurian weighted average age of (443.7±2.3) Ma. Geochemical analysis show that the rocks are characterized by high SiO2(73.72%-75.08%), low TiO2(0.11%-0.21%), low CaO (0.63%-1.45%), alkali-rich(N2O+K2O=7.19%-8.16%),high K2O(K2O/Na2O=1.32-1.56) and low Mg#(15.95-28.94) contents and A/CNK=1.11-1.26, suggesting high-K calc-alkaline and peraluminous affinities. REE distribution patterns show negative Eu anomalies, and distinctly high value of LREE/HREE. The chondrite-normalized REE patterns are right-inclined, with a clear V trough. The adamellite is rich in large ion lithophile elements (LILEs, e.g., Cs, K, Pb) as well as Th and Nd and depleted in high field strength elements (HFSEs, e.g., Nb, Ce, Ti) as well as Ba and P. Such geochemical features indicate that the rocks were formed by the partial melting of metamorphic sandstones in the middle-lower crust under a post-collisional setting. Considering the regional geology, the adamellite was likely formed in a compressional to extensional transition tectonic regime, younger than the previously reported ages in South Altyn Tagh. This suggests that the subduction and collision between the Azhong Block and Qaidam Block had occurred, and that the South Altyn Tagh ocean basin had completely closed at about 443 Ma.

Key words: adamellite, LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating, geochemistry, post-collisional tectonic, ophiolite mélange belt

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