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Geoscience ›› 2023, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (03): 613-626.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.053

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Identification and Significance of Early Cretaceous Highly Fractionated Alihe Granites, Northern Great Xing’an Range

XU Liming(), LIU Tao, ZHENG Jilin   

  1. Harbin Center for Integrated Natural Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150086, China
  • Received:2021-04-12 Revised:2023-03-05 Online:2023-06-10 Published:2023-07-20

Abstract:

There are voluminous Mesozoic granitic rocks in the Great Xing’an Range. In this study, zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Alihe granites in the northern Great Xing’an Range were analyzed, and were compared with the Mesozoic granites in the northern, middle and southern Great Xing’an Range and South China. The petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Alihe granites were then discussed. Zircon U-Pb dating on two granite samples yielded Early Cretaceous ages (134.6±1.5 Ma and 134.4±1.0 Ma). The Alihe granites are mainly composed of monzogranite, syenogranite, and alkali-feldspar granites, which contain few mafic mi-nerals and miarolitic cavities. Alaskite and aplite were found in the field investigation route and pegmatite veins were found on the granitic pluton margin. Chemically, these plutons are peraluminous (A/CNK=1.01-1.11) and show high contents of SiO2 (73.63%-77.81%), alkalis (Na2O+K2O=7.78%-8.97%), and DI (91.71-96.80), and low Ca and Mg contents. They are also enriched in Rb, Th, U, K, but depleted in Nb, Ta, P, Ti. The varying Zr/Hf and Nb/Ta ratios resemble highly-fractionated granites in South China. Integrating geological and geochemical data, we suggested that the Alihe plutons are highly fractionated I-type granites, which were formed in a post-orogenic extension setting after the Mongolia-Okhotsk Ocean closure.

Key words: highly-fractionated granite, miarolitic cavity, Early Cretaceous, Alihe pluton

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