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Geoscience ›› 2025, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (04): 964-980.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2024.036

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Late Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks and Stratigraphic Delimitation in the Nanyandang Mountain Area, Southeastern Zhejiang

PAN Shaojun(), CHEN Xiaoyou*(), ZHANG Jianfang, ZENG Fanfei, GU Mingguang, MA Junxiang   

  1. Zhejiang Institute ofGeosciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
  • Online:2025-08-10 Published:2025-08-27
  • Contact: CHEN Xiaoyou

Abstract:

This study focuses on the Baiyunshan volcanic edifice in the Nanyandang Mountain area, southeastern Zhejiang. Zircon U-Pb dating was conducted on volcanic rocks and syenite porphyry from the central intrusion of the edifice, yielding 8 sets of high-precision data. Four volcanic rock samples and one syenite porphyry sample yielded ages ranging from 90.32 to 98.37 Ma, confirming intense volcanic activity in the region during the Late Cretaceous.Geochemical analysis of 6 Late Cretaceous volcanic clastic rock samples reveals the following characteristics: major elements are characterized by high silica, high alkali, low aluminum, depletion in Ca, Fe, Mg, P, and Ti, and high differentiation. Trace and rare earth elements show enrichment in large ion lithophile elements (Rb, K, Th, U), depletion in Ba, Nb, Sr, P, and Ti, and low contents of siderophile elements (Co, Ni, Cr). These features indicate that the volcanic rocks belong to quasi-aluminous to peraluminous high-K calc-alkaline series, with high degrees of fractional crystallization and crustal origin.The genesis of the Late Cretaceous volcanic rocks is attributed to the subduction of the Pacific Plate, which sustained upper crustal compression and extensional tectonics in southeastern Zhejiang from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous, triggering volcanic activity in the Nanyandang Mountain area.Recent discoveries of Late Cretaceous volcanic rocks in southeastern Zhejiang, with expanding outcrops, show lithological and geochemical differences from the Xiaoxiong Formation. To better “accommodate” these volcanic strata, it is proposed to establish a new “Yandang Mountain Group” and subdivide it into “Formation-Member” units based on lithological assemblages and geochemical characteristics.

Key words: Late Cretaceous, volcanic rock, U-Pb dating, geological significance, Nanyandang Mountain area, southeastern Zhejiang

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