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Geoscience ›› 2024, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (01): 169-182.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2023.100

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Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of the Zhongpai Fine-grained Granite in Qingshanbao, Gansu: Constraints from Geochemistry and Zircon U-Pb Chronology

CHEN Yaoxin1(), LIU Wenheng1,2(), WANG Kaixing1,2, LIU Xiaodong2, SUN Liqiang1, YIN Donghua1   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences,East China University of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China
  • Received:2023-06-25 Revised:2023-12-20 Online:2024-02-10 Published:2024-03-20

Abstract:

The Longshoushan uranium mineralization belt is located at the junction of North Qilian Orogenic Belt and Alxa Block.This mineralization belt is controlled by the tectonic activities of Qilian Orogenic Belt during Middle Silurian-Early Devonian and formed in a post-collision extensional environment.However, the ending of the Longshoushan uranium mineralization still lacks constraints from a precise geochronologic method.In this paper, we studied the whole-rock geochemistry, petrography, and zircon U-Pb chronology of the Zhongpai fine-grained granites in Qingshanbao, and discussed their rock types and genesis, and tectonic background.The results show that the diagenetic age of the Zhongpai fine-grained granites is (413.7±3.0) Ma, indicating it was formed from the Early Devonian magmatism in a post-collision extensional environment.The rocks are characterized by a high Si content, alkali, and low contents of CaO, MgO and P2O5, and with a A/CNK ratio of ~1.01-1.04.These rocks are enriched in light rare earth elements and Th, U, Nd, K, and depleted in heavy rare earth elements and Ba, Sr, P, Ti, and with a distinct negative Eu anomaly.These comprehensive geochemical data indicate that the Zhongpai fine-grained granites belong to the weakly peraluminous and highly differentiated I-type granite.The result also shows that the magma originated from the lower crust.The main residual mineral facies in the magma is amphibole, and the magma had undergone significant crystal fractionation and differentiation during its evolution.Combined with the previous studies, the magmatism occurred in Early Paleozoic in Longshoushan can be divided into two stages: the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian (~452-438 Ma) and Middle Silurian-Early Devonian (~430-412 Ma), which corresponds to the subduction stage and post-collision stage, respectively.

Key words: Zhongpai fine-grained granite, highly-differentiated I-type granite, tectonic environment, petrogenesis, zircon U-Pb dating, bulk geochemistry

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