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Geoscience ›› 2008, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (5): 715-723.

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Nd Isotopic Compositions of Basement Rocks, Granitoids and Basalts from Middle-Eastern Inner Mongolia: Implication for the Regional Crustal Evolution

WANG Zhong1, LI Da-Feng2, LIU Jin-Bao1, CHEN Yue-Long2, HOU Jing-Xie2,LI Wei2, PI Jiao-Hui2, LIN Yu2   

  1. 1Geological Survey Institute of Inner Mongolia, Huhehot, Inner Mongolia010010, China; 2School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing100083, China
  • Received:2008-03-04 Revised:2008-07-20 Online:2008-10-20 Published:2009-11-12

Abstract:

Twenty one samples,including basement rocks, granitoids and basalts from the west segment of the North China Craton and the Xing-Meng Orogen, Inner Mongolia were chosen to study their Nd isotopic compositions. Through the comparison of their Nd depleted mantle model ages, it is indicated that the Xing-Meng Orogen and North China Craton show overall different features. The Nd depleted mantle model ages of the rocks from the Xing-Meng Orogen are generally lower than those in the west segment of the North China Craton in Inner Mongolia. The Nd depleted mantle model ages of the Xilinhot Block are between the ones in the North China Craton and the Xing-Meng Orogen. The samples’tDM values indicate that the accretion of the North China Craton in Inner Mongolia primarily occurred before Mesoproterozoic; in contrast, the accretion of the Xing-Meng Orogen in Inner Mongolia predominantly began at Neoproterozoic. The evolution diagram of εNd values with time from the north margin of the North China Craton suggests that  both reworking of old crust and crustal accretion dominated the regional crust in Mesoproterozoic and Hercynian periods. The accretion rate of the Xing-Meng Orogen shows that its crustal accretion primarily occurred at 1,000-700 Ma and the later formed igneous rocks show the involvement of the old crustal components.

Key words: Inner Mongolia, the North China Craton, the Xing-Meng Orogen, Nd depleted mantle model age

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