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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (06): 1691-1701.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.120

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Records of Middle-Late Triassic Plate Collision Events on the West Qinling: Evidence from Zircon U-Pb Age and Geochemistry of the Volcanic Rocks in the Hezuo Area

YANG Weigang1(), LI Yongsheng2,3(), LI Tongyuan1, ZHANG Jun1, REN Pengfei1   

  1. 1. Geological Survey of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000,China
    2. Development and Research Center, China Geological Survey, Beijing 100037, China
    3. Technical Guidance Center for Mineral Resources Exploration, MNR, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2021-06-15 Revised:2021-10-08 Online:2021-12-10 Published:2022-02-14
  • Contact: LI Yongsheng

Abstract:

Strong magmatic activities dominated by the Indosinian high potassic calc-alkaline granitoids in Western Qinling orogenic belt. A small number of volcanic rocks were developed. The volcanic rocks from the Hezuo area of West Qinling,as reposed in this paper,are intermediate-acid rocks which contain mainly tuffaceous lava with volcanic breccia and dacite.The andesite was limited by the zircon U-Pb age of (237.7±1.9) Ma in the Dewulu area,the andesite was limited by the zircon U-Pb age of (234.8±2.1) Ma in the Zhayougoukou area, indicating that these volcanic rocks erupted in the early Late Triassic. The results show that andesite belongs to the calc-alkaline series and shows the characteristics of potassium-rich volcanic rocks. They are characterized by enrichment in Rb,Ba,Th,U,La,Ce,Sr,low REE(LREE/HREE=6.79-17.15) and relative depletion in δEu(δEu=0.76-0.86).Hezuo volcanic rocks were generated by the mantle, some of them might also be related to the contamination of upper crustal materials. Strong extrusion and subduction proceed between some small ocean basins and some small plates, when the initial collision between the North China block and Yangtze block. The mantle materials were contaminated with upper crustal materials and the magma rose after the initial collision. A series of volcanic rocks of different time periods were formed in the late Triassic after repetitive plate collisional crushing-relaxation.

Key words: Western Qinling, Hezuo area, Indosinian, volcanic rock, plate collision

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