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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (05): 1003-1014.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.05.07

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LA-ICP-MS Zircon U-Pb Age and Geological Significance of the Early Cretaceous Monzogranite in Xiaowulangou, Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia

TENG Chao(), ZHANG Xiaofei, ZHOU Yi, FENG Junling, LI Shucai   

  1. Cores and Samples Center of Natural Resources, China Geological Survey, Sanhe, Hebei 065201, China
  • Received:2018-04-07 Revised:2019-09-10 Online:2019-10-26 Published:2019-10-28

Abstract:

Based on 1∶50,000 regional geological survey, we studied the monzogranite in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) at Xiaowulangou (Xilin Hot, Inner Mongolia)based on its petrology, zircon U-Pb age and geochemistry. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating yielded Early Cretaceous age of (121.29±0.63) Ma. Petrological and geochemical data reveal that the monzogranite is characterized by high Si and K, low Mg, Ca, P and Ti. The rocks are high-K calc-alkaline and peraluminous. The rocks are enriched in large ion lithophilic elements (LILEs, e.g.Rb) and some high field strength elements (HFSEs, e.g.Th and Ta), but depleted in Nb, Sr and Ba. Rare earth element (REE) compositions are characterized by slight LREE enrichments and negative Eu anomalies. Geochemical characteristics suggest that the monzogranite is A-type, and may have been a product of partial melting of continental crustal rocks. Tectonic discrimination diagrams show that these rocks resemble post-orogenic A2-type granite, indicating that the region was likely in a post-orogenic extensional setting during the Early Cretaceous.

 

Key words: Xilinhot, Early Cretaceous, A-type granite, Zircon U-Pb age, extensional tectonic setting

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