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Geoscience ›› 2024, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (01): 117-127.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2023.053

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Apatite U-Pb Geochronology of the Trachy Dacite in Mashan Area, Jiaolai Basin, North China Craton, and Its Geological Significance

ZHU Tuo1,2,3(), HE Dengyang1,2,3, HUANG Yaqi1,2,3, QIU Kunfeng1,2,3()   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Beijing 100083, China
    3. Frontiers Science Center for Deep-time Digital Earth, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2022-12-13 Revised:2023-11-27 Online:2024-02-10 Published:2024-03-20

Abstract:

The Wulian-Qingdao-Yantai fault (WQYF) is one of the most important basin-controlling faults in the Jiaolai basin, where the fault dominates the formation and evolution of the basin.This fault is mainly composed of abundant NNE faults, such as Muping-Jimo fault and Taocun fault.The WQYF experienced sinistral strike-slip movement in Late Jurassic, extensional rift in Early Cretaceous, and dextral strike-slip movement during Late Cretaceous-Paleocene.However, the most key question that the duration of the Cenozoic dextral strike-slip movement still remains unclear.Previous studies suggested that temperature of strike-slip movement in this region is about 550-650 ℃, which is higher than the closure temperature, 350-550 ℃, of the apatite U-Pb system.Therefore, in this case apatite can be an ideal candidate to investigate the dextral strike-slip of the WQYF.In this study, we conducted U-Pb dating of apatite from the Early Cretaceous trachy-dacite in the Mashan area and obtained the U-Pb age of 64.1±3.7 Ma.The measured magmatic age of apatite is different from the crystallization age of the Mashan trachy-dacite, indicating that at least there was one geothermal event which reset the apatite U-Pb isotope system in Early Paleocene.Since Early Cretaceous, the collision between the Indian plate and Eurasian plate, and the switch of subduction direction of the paleo-Pacific plate from NWW to NW result in a north-south extension of the Jiaolai basin and the dextral strike-slip of the Muping-Jimo fault.Therefore, we propose that the apatite U-Pb age of the Mashan trachy-dacite documented the dextral strike-slip thermal event of the WQYF, and indicates that the dextral strike-slip may continue until Paleocene.

Key words: apatite U-Pb geochronology, trachy-dacite, Wulian-Qingdao-Yantai fault, Paleocene dextral strike-slip

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