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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (05): 1025-1035.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.05.09

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Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of the Jintonghu Granitic Porphyry in Zijinshan Orefield, Fujian Province

ZHANG Qian1,2,3(), WU Xiangbin1,2, YANG Mu1,2, QIAN Meiping3, DIAO Qian3, MENG Feisi3   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Metallogenic Prediction of Nonferrous Metals and Geological Environment Monitoring,Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China
    2. School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China
    3. Basic Geological Exploration Co., Ltd, East China Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China
  • Received:2018-05-27 Revised:2018-11-11 Online:2019-10-26 Published:2019-10-28
  • Contact: ZHANG Qian

Abstract:

Genesis of Mesozoic granites in South China is important for studying the evolution of the lithosphere, as well as the regional granite petrogenesis and related mineralization. In this contribution, in-situ LA-ICP-MS U-Pb, trace element and Hf isotope analyses of zircon were conducted to constrain the emplacement age and petrogenesis of the granitic porphyry at the Jintonghu Cu-Mo deposit, western Fujian, China. The Jintonghu granitic porphyry is U-Pb dated to be Early Cretaceous (101.1±1.9 Ma). The zircon εHf(t) values (-6.1 to 0.7) and the two-stage Hf model ages (1.09 to 1.51 Ga) preclude the possiblilty that the parental magmas of the Jintonghu granitic porphyry was dominantly sourced from the basement materials or metasedimentary rocks. The low zircon Ce4+/Ce3+ ratios suggest that the Jintonghu granitic porphyry mimics fractionated I-type granites in the Nanling Range, and the magmas were likely derived from older felsic igneous domains with little juvenile material contributions. Interpretations of the elemental and isotopic data suggests that the Jintonghu granite was most likely derived from partial melting of old deep-seated magmatic rocks due to the subduction of Paleo-Pacific Plate in an active continental marginal setting.

Key words: zircon, geochronology, trace element, Hf isotope, Jintonghu, Zijinshan

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