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Geoscience ›› 2023, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (06): 1624-1633.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.051

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New Discovery of the Middle Devonian I-Type Xiwuqi Quartz Diorite in Inner Mongolia and Its Geological Significance

CHENG Tianshe1(), YANG Wenjing2(), TENG Chao1, ZHANG Xuebin2, YANG Xinjie1, LAI Lin2, WU Rongze2, ZHOU Changhong2   

  1. 1. Cores and Samples Center of Natural Resources,China Geological Survey,Sanhe,Hebei 065201,China
    2. Tianjin Institute of Geological Survey,Tianjin 300191,China
  • Received:2019-08-30 Revised:2023-06-20 Online:2023-12-10 Published:2024-01-24

Abstract:

The Xiwuqi area,situated in the southern section of the Paleozoic Hegenshan suture zone,is a key tectonic unit for revealing the evolution of the Paleozoic Hegenshan ocean,a branch of the Paleo-Asian Ocean.There are a few Devonian magmatic rocks in this area,and the evolution of the Devonian Hegenshan ocean is not well studied.In the regional geological survey,a quartz diorite body was newly discovered at Uhelchulu and Xiwuqi.Here,we studied the petrography,zircon U-Pb chronology and geochemistry of the quartz diorite samples.LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating obtained the weighted average 206Pb/238U age of 395.8±7.5 Ma (MSWD=1.4, n=8),indicating an Early Devonian pluton emplacement.Geochemistry of the quartz diorite indicates that it is calc-alkaline,characterized by high Si and Na and metaluminous.The pluton is enriched in LILEs(e.g.,Rb,Ba,Th,U,Pb,and Sr) and depleted in HFSEs(e.g.,Zr,Hf,Nb,Ta,and Ti).The ΣREE content is relatively low with moderate LREE/HREE fractionation and weak negative Eu anomalies.Basing on this study and published data,we considered the quartz diorite to be I-type.The Y-Nb and(Y+Nb)-Rb granite discrimination diagrams suggest that the pluton was formed in the volcanic arc setting related to oceanic plate subduction.The discovery of the quartz diorite indicates that the Hegenshan ocean basin probably had existed in the Early Devonian,and it undergone southward subduction beneath the Xilinhot micro-continent.This new finding is different from the conventional understanding that the Hegenshan ocean has only subducted northward.

Key words: Devonian Hegenshan ocean, bidirectional subduction, I-type granite, volcanic arc

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