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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (06): 1633-1650.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.114

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Petrogenesis of Host Rocks in the Dashegou Tungsten Orefield, East Qinling Orogen: Evidences from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Geochemistry

GE Zhanlin(), HAO Di, ZHANG Xiaoxing, ZHENG Yanrong, LI Xiaodong, WU Haiwen, ZHANG Long   

  1. Xi'an Center of Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710100, China
  • Received:2021-08-27 Revised:2021-10-07 Online:2021-12-10 Published:2022-02-14

Abstract:

The Dashegou is a typical quartz-vein type tungsten deposit in the Yangxie-Fengbeihe Au-W metallogenic belt, East Qinling Orogen. The orebodies occur in the NE-ENE-striking faults of the Yangxie gneissic suite. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating yielded a weighted average age of (434.2±1.6) Ma (MSWD=0.022, n=24) for the porphyroblastic augen plagiogneiss, indicating that the protolith was formed in the Early Silurian. Whole-rock geochemical data show that the plagiogneiss belongs to high-K calc-alkaline peraluminous I-type granitoids, and is relatively enriched in large ion lithophile elements (LILEs, e.g., Rb, Ba, K, Pb, Sr) and LREEs, and depleted in high field strength elements (HFSEs, e.g., Nb, Ta, P, Ti) and HREEs. In addition, the rocks have high Sr, high Sr/Y and La/Yb, low Y and low Yb, and weakly positive Eu anomalies, resembling typical adakites. This indicates that the parental magma was probably derived from partial melting of garnet amphibolite in the thickened lower crust. Considering also the regional tectonic setting, it is inferred that protolith of the porphyroblastic augen plagiogneiss was formed by island arc magmatism during the Early Paleo-zoic north-dipping subduction of the Shangdan Ocean beneath the North Qinling plate.

Key words: zircon U-Pb dating, geochemistry, porphyroblastic augen plagiogneiss, Dashegou tungsten deposit, East Qinling

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