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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (04): 662-671.

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Geochemistry and Geochronology of West Shadegai Granites in Wulashan of Inner Mongolia and Its Geological Significance

DAI Chaocheng1(), HUANG Cheng2, JIAO Zheng1, WANG Xinliang2   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences,East China University of Technology,Nanchang,Jiangxi 330013,China
    2. Inner Mongolia Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration,Hohhot,Inner Mongolia 010010,China
  • Received:2016-04-28 Revised:2016-12-15 Online:2017-08-10 Published:2017-09-15

Abstract:

The West Shadegai granites in Wulashan of Inner Mongolia is located in Hadamengou molybdenum orefield,tectonically located in the west part of the northern margin of North China Craton,whose lithology is syenogranite. Geochemical characteristics show that the granite is characterized by high silicon (the mass fraction of SiO2 is 74.08%-75.95%),rich potassium (K2O/Na2O=1.20-3.39),rich alkali (K2O+Na2O= 7.03%-8.46%),weakly peraluminous (mass fraction of Al2O3 is 11.22%-13.06%,A/CNK= 1.002-1.284).The Litman index belongs to the calc alkaline.The REEs are of enrichment of light rare earth elements,loss of heavy rare earth elements (LREE/HREE=19.84-27.83),and obvious loss of Eu (δEu=0.36-0.53).The enriched trace elements include Rb,Th,U,Pb,Zr,Hf,Sm; the loss elements include Ba,Ta,P,Ti;high field strength elements including Nb and Sr are slightly low,showing the characteristics of continental crust reformation type granite.The LA-ICP-MS 206Pb/ 238 U weighted average age of 22 zircon samples from Shadegai pluton is (231±0.8) Ma,belonging to Middle Triassic. According to the contrast of the mineralization age and the diagenetic age,the diagenesis and mineralization both occurred in Late Triassic,and the mineralization age is slightly less than the diagenetic age,showing the pluton belongs to the product of extensional tectonic magmatic activity after Indosinian. According to the available age data,we concluded that significant tectono-magmatic molybdenite mineralization events had ever occurred in Indosinian.

Key words: West Shadegai granite, continental crust reformation type granite, molybdenum deposit, geochemistry, geochronology, Indosinian

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