Welcome to visit Geoscience!

Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (05): 987-1000.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.026

• Petrology • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, Geochemistry and Geological Significance of Granitoids in the Yazigou,Qimantage Area of East Kunlun Mountains

WANG Panxi1,2,3(), GUO Feng1,3, WANG Zhenning1,2   

  1. 1. Zhengzhou Institute of Multipurpose Utilization of Mineral Resources, CAGS, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006,China
    2. National Research Center of Multipurpose Utilization of Non-metallic Mineral Resources, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006,China
    3. Northwest China Center for Geoscience Innovation, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710054,China
  • Received:2018-12-21 Revised:2019-12-31 Online:2020-10-28 Published:2020-10-29

Abstract:

To enhance our understanding on the regional tectonic evolution and metallogenic regularity in the east Kunlun mountains, The authors report a synthesis of the petrology, geochronology and geochemistry of grani-toids in Yazigou area, Qimantage, and discuss the petrogenesis, tectonic setting and its metallogenic relations. Zircon grains from the monzodiorite with biotite and quartz yielded 206Pb/ 238U age of (415.5±2.6) Ma, indicating that the rock was formed in the earliest Devonian. Comparing syenite and adamellite with diorite, they all have similarly high SiO2, K2O, and total alkali, and low CaO, MgO, FeOT, and TiO2. They have similar Al2O3 content. The K2O content is lower than Na2O in diorite, but higher Na2O in the other rock types. The rocks are meta-aluminous to weakly peraluminous, and are either subalkalic or alkaline. They have average total ∑REE content of 305×10 -6, and mostly negative Eu anomaly (δEu = 0.26-1.03, average 0.61). The chondrite-normalized REE patterns are right-inclining with LREE enrichments and LREE/HREE fractionation. The rocks have significant enrichments in large ion lithophile elements (LILEs, e.g.Cs, Rb, K, U, and Th), LREEs and Pb, but depletions in high field strength elements (HFSEs, e.g.Nb, Ta, Zr, P, and Ti), Ba, and Sr. The Yazigou granitoids may have derived mainly from a mantle source with little crustal material input, belonging to a crust-mantle mixed origin. The rocks were likely formed by upward ascent of mantle-derived materials along continental margin rift under the Caledonian post-orogenic setting. Considering the structural features and regional geological setting, it is inferred that the intrusive body was formed in a post-collisional extension environment, and closely related to Pb-Zn mineralization, Attention should be paid to the Early Variscan granitoids in future mineral exploration.

Key words: granitoid, geochronology, geochemistry, Qimantage

CLC Number: