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Geoscience ›› 2025, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (02): 277-293.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2024.062

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Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of Granite Porphyry Veins in the Shangjiao Uranium Deposit, Eastern Nanling Range

LAI Jing1,2,3(), LIU Wenquan1,2,3, ZHONG Fujun4   

  1. 1. Research Institute No.290,CNNC,Shaoguan,Guangdong 512029, China
    2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Radiation Tracking Research, Shaoguan,Guangdong 512029, China
    3. Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Radioactive Eco-Environmental Protection, Shaoguan,Guangdong 512029, China
    4. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment, East China University of Technology, Nanchang,Jiangxi 330013, China
  • Online:2025-04-10 Published:2025-05-08

Abstract:

To further constrain the Mesozoic geodynamic background and tectonic evolution of South China, this study investigates zircon U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotopes, and geochemical characteristics of granite porphyry from the Shangjiao Uranium Deposit in the Longyuanba pluton.Zircon U-Pb dating yields weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages of (190.6±2.2) Ma (MSWD=0.11) and (190.6±1.3) Ma, indicating Early Jurassic emplacement.Bulk-rock analyses reveal the granite porphyry is characterized by high silica (SiO2=68.97%-69.56%), alkali enrichment (Na2O+K2O=9.12%-9.28%), and depletion in calcium (CaO=0.50%-1.22%), magnesium (MgO=0.09%-0.11%), and phosphorus (P2O5=0.05%), classifying as high-K calc-alkaline (σ=3.16-3.27) metaluminous to weakly peraluminous rocks (A/CNK=0.98-1.09).Geochemically, the rocks show enrichment in large-ion lithophile elements (Rb, Th, U), depletion in high-field-strength elements (Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Ti), light rare earth element enrichment with negative Eu anomalies, and heavy rare earth element depletion, collectively indicating an A-type granite affinity.Zircon εHf(t) values range from+5.39 to+9.07 (average+6.91), corresponding to two-stage model ages (TDM2) of 652-887 Ma, suggesting derivation primarily from Neoproterozoic juvenile mafic crust formed through mantle magma differentiation.The granite porphyry formed in an intraplate extensional setting during Paleo-Pacific Plate subduction, with the Longyuanba pluton serving as critical evidence for the tectonic transition between the Paleo-Tethyan and Paleo-Pacific regimes.Combined with the chronological characteristics of regional magmatic rocks and the tectonic setting of South China, it was concluded that the transition from the Tethy orogenic regime to the Paleo-Pacific tectonic regime already started before 190 Ma.

Key words: zircon U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotope, geochemical signature, tectonic setting, granite porphyry, Shangjiao uranium deposit

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