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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (02): 504-513.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.069

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Geochronological and Geochemical Characteristics of Tuanbaoshan Granite Pluton in Qinghai and Geological Implications

ZHANG Baotao1,2(), HU Zhaoguo1(), JIANG Xiaoping1, WANG Xiangwei3, SUN Luwei3, ZHANG Yang1, WANG Xiaoyu1, ZHAO Xiaobo1, GUO Wei1   

  1. 1. Geological Exploration Institute of Shandong Zhengyuan, China Metallurgical Geology Bureau, Jinan,Shandong 250013, China
    2. Institute of Mineral Resources, China Metallurgical Geology Bureau, Beijing 100131, China
    3. Shandong Zhenyuan Geological Resources Exploration Co. Ltd., Jinan,Shandong 250101, China
  • Received:2019-07-19 Revised:2020-06-22 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-05-25
  • Contact: HU Zhaoguo

Abstract:

The Tuanbaoshan granite pluton is located in the eastern South Qilian, and is emplaced into the Paleoproterozoic epimetamorphic rocks. Samples from the granite pluton are LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dated and geochemically analyzed to constrain its emplacement age, petrogenesis and tectonic setting. The zircon U-Pb dating yielded weighted mean age of (776±8) Ma. The rocks contain relatively contents of SiO2, Al2O3 and K2O, and relatively low contents of FeOT, MgO and CaO, with K2O/Na2O>1. The Tuanbaoshan granites are enriched in Rb, Th, and depleted in Ba and Zr, with chondrite-normalized LREE-enriched patterns. Based on these characteristics, we suggest that: the Tuanbaoshan granites are calc-alkalic highly-differentiated S-type, and were emplaced in a Late Proterozoic continent-continent collision setting. Source rocks of the Tuanbaoshan granites may have been argillaceous sandstone or graywacke, and the pluton may have subsequently experienced two magmatic events during the end of Jinning movement and the Mid Caledonian movement.

Key words: granite, Late Proterozoic, syn-collision, Tuanbaoshan, Qinghai

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