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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (02): 258-266.

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Geochemical Characteristics and Tectonic Implications of Gabbro in Mayigangri Area, Tibet

CUI Yuliang1(), WANG Genhou2(), LIANG Xiao2   

  1. 1. Beijing Institute of Exploration Engineering,Beijing 100083, China
    2. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2015-12-11 Revised:2016-05-26 Online:2017-04-10 Published:2017-04-25

Abstract:

The intrusive dikes in Mayigangri area of Tibet are gabbros. Based on the micrograph of the gabbrosamples, the contents of major elements, trace elements and REEs are measured. The results show that the rocks are characterized by an enrichment of LREE, and a depletion of HREE. There is no positive or negative Eu anomaly. The gabbro are enriched in Hf, La, Nd and Ti, and are depleted in P, Yb, Y and other elements. The geochemical features indicate that the gabbros are generated in an intracontinental rift environment; and the magma is derived from enriched mantle with a contamination of salic crust materials. Combined with the fact that gabbro surrounding rocks are Late Paleozoic low metamorphic rock series and undeveloped dike swarms in strata after late Early Permian, and based on the age restrictions that the basic dike swarms in south part of northern Qiangtang is formed from Late Carboniferous to Early Permian by the predecessors, it is deduced that the gabbro is the product that paleo-Tethys ocean in this region opened initially.

Key words: Mayigangri, gabbro, geochemistry, Tibet

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