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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (06): 1147-1156.

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Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of Intermediate Basic Rocks from Kawabulak Complex in Central Tianshan: Constraints from Elemental Geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb Isotopes

MADINA Nurtay1(), NIJAT Abdurusul1,2, MUHTAR Zari1,2(), WU Zhaoning1, ZHANG Long1   

  1. 1. College of Geology and Mining Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, China
    2. Xinjiang Key Laboratory for Geodynamic Processes and Metallogenic Prognosis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, China
  • Received:2016-11-29 Revised:2017-05-18 Online:2017-12-10 Published:2017-12-25

Abstract:

The study of the petrogenesis of Kawabulak Complex has great significance to reconstruct Paleozoic oceanic-continental framework and tectonic evolution processes of southern central Tianshan. On the basis of mineralogical and petrological examinations,major and trace elements and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of the intermediate basic components from Kawabulack Complex are studied. The rock samples are mainly of low-K-tholeiite series with relatively high contents of Na. These rocks are relatively enriched in LREEs (Rb, U, Sr) and LILEs, and are depleted in HREE and HFSE (Nb, Ta, Zr). Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic geochemistry shows that the values of ISr range from 0.706 to 0.709, while εNd(t)values change from 6.84 to 9.76. They have relatively low Pb isotopic compositions characterized by (206Pb/204Pb)i=18.015-18.239, (207Pb/204Pb)i=15.573-15.593 and (208Pb/204Pb)i=37.871-38.207. Combining with previous studies and regional geology, the authors have come to the conclusion that the parent magma of intermediate-basic rocks from Kawabulak Complex, as a product of island arc magmatism, is originated from a juvenile lithospheric mantle that was previously metasomatized by subduction zone fluids/melts in the Paleozoic, representing a section of Late Paleozoic magmatic arc of this region.

Key words: central Tianshan, Kawabulak, medium-basis rock, Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes, lithology

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