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Geoscience ›› 2023, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (06): 1609-1623.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2023.010

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Geochronology,Geochemistry and Tectonic Implications of Early Neoproterozoic Tuyaodong Intrusive Rocks in the East Kunlun Orogen in Xinjiang

XI Zhen1,2(), MA Decheng2,3, LI Huan2, GAO Guangming2, XIANG Xianan1   

  1. 1. School of Municipal and Geomatics Engineering,Hunan City University,Yiyang,Hunan 413000,China
    2. Key Laboratory of Metallogenic Prediction of Nonferrous Metals and Geological Environment Monitoring, Ministry of Education,Central South University,Changsha,Hunan 410083,China
    3. No.701 Geological Team,Xinjiang Nonferrous Geoexploration Bureau,Changji,Xinjiang 831100,China
  • Received:2022-06-01 Revised:2023-03-03 Online:2023-12-10 Published:2024-01-24

Abstract:

The western section of the East Kunlun Orogen(EKO) developed Proterozoic granites,and the magmatic timeframe and tectonic setting remain controversial,which restricts our understandings of the Proterozoic EKO tectonic evolution.Here,we investigate the regional tectonic evolution via LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating and whole-rock elemental analysis of the Tuyaodong granitoids in the western EKO.The monzonite and syenogranite show gneissic structure and have Al-rich minerals such as muscovite.The rocks have high contents of SiO2(67.37%-76.35%),Al2O3(12%-14.25%),and K2O(1.59%-6.01%),but low TiO2(0.16%-0.56%),Na2O(2.13%-3.86%),and CaO(0.9%-4.25%),with average A/CNK=1.02 and A/NK=1.47.The chondrite-normalized REE patterns and primitive mantle-normalized spider-diagram of the monzonite and syenogranite are similar,which are enriched in LREE ((La/Yb)N=5.04-16.76)and have obvious negative Eu anomaly(average δEu=0.47).The primitive mantle-normalized trace element diagrams show that the rocks are enriched in Rb,K and Th,depleted in Nb,Ba,Sr,P and Ti,and have high CaO/Na2O ratios(0.35 to 1.41).The zircon 206Pb/238U weighted average age of the granite is (932.7± 2.4) Ma,indicating that the rock was formed in the Early Neoproterozoic.Comprehensive analysis suggests that the Tuyaodong monzonite and syenogranite belong to S-type and their magmas were originated from melting of clastic sediments with minor muddy components in the upper crust.They may have formed in the same collisional extrusion setting, which is in response to the Rodinia supercontinent assembly in the EKO.

Key words: S-type granite, Neoproterozoic, East Kunlun Orogen, Rodinia super-continent, Tuyaodong

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