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Geoscience ›› 2024, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (01): 154-168.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2023.080

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Petrogenesis and Tectonic Setting of the Nanpaotai Granite Porphyry in Inner Mongolia: Constraints from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, Hf Isotopes, and Whole-rock Geochemistry

LIU Qingzhan(), JIANG Xiaojun(), WANG Guo, LI Tianyu, LI Dongpeng   

  1. No.208 Geological Party, CNNC, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 014010, China
  • Received:2022-11-05 Revised:2023-12-07 Online:2024-02-10 Published:2024-03-20

Abstract:

Intensive magmatism in early Early Cretaceous is recorded in the Duolun area, which is located in the middle segment of the northern margin of North China Plate.Interpretation of the tectonic setting can aid to resolve the controversy whether the magmatism is controlled by the Mongol-Okhotsk tectonic activities or by the subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate.This paper presents the LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotopes, and whole-rock geochemistry of the Nanpaotai granite porphyry in Duolun.Zircons U-Pb dating on the granite porphyry shows a weighted mean age of 136±1 Ma, indicating that it was formed in early Early Cretaceous.The zircon εHf(t) values vary between -8.1 and +1.9, with Hf isotopes crustal model ages ($\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{DM}}{ }^{\mathrm{C}}$) ranging from 1,044 to 1,680 Ma.The Nanpaotai granite porphyry belongs to slightly peraluminous shoshonite series, enriched in SiO2 (70.53%-72.72%), total alkali (K2O+Na2O=9.09%-9.48%), but poor in MgO (0.19%-0.39%), CaO (0.55%-0.67%), and P2O5 (0.19%-0.39%).It is also enriched in LREE and LILEs (e.g., K, Cs and Rb), depleted in HFSEs (e.g., Nb, Ta and Ti), Sr and P elements, with (La/Yb)N ratio varying between 22.10 and 57.67, and showing a negative Eu anomaly (δEu=0.38-0.52).Comprehensive geochemical evidence indicate that the Nanpaotai granite porphyry was formed in the intraplate anorogenic extensional tectonic environment and belongs to A-type granite.The primary magma mainly derived from the partial melting of the ancient lower crust, and there was mixing of mantle-derived components.Combined with the regional tectonic evolution, it is considered that the early Early Cretaceous magmatism in Duolun is related to an extensional tectonic environment after the closure of Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean.This suggests that the influence of the Mongol-Okhotsk tectonic system along the southeast direction had extended to Southeastern Inner Mongolia in the middle segment of the northern margin of North China Plate.

Key words: granite porphyry, zircon U-Pb age, Hf isotopes, petrogeochemistry, geological significance

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