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Reworking of juvenile crust beneath the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone: Evidence from Late Cretaceous granite porphyries in Southern Qiangtang, Central Tibet TEXT SIZE: A A A
Crustal reworking in the collisional zones is commonly considered as an important process to result in continental crust differentiation and maturation. However, the reworking mechanism remains unclear. Here, a combined study of zircon SIMS U-Pb age, whole-rock major and trace element, Sr-Nd-Hf and zircon Hf-O isotopic geochemistry was carried out for the Duoma-Namuqie (DM-NMQ) granite porphyry intrusions, including DM, NMQ I, II and III intrusions, in southern Qiangtang, central Tibet. Zircon SIMS U-Pb dating yielded ages of 79-76 Ma, suggesting that they were formed in the later stage of Late Cretaceous. The DM granite porphyries are metaluminous to peraluminous with slightly low SiO2 (69.2-71.4 wt%) and high MgO (0.67-0.79 wt%) contents. They are depleted in high-field-strength elements (HFSEs) and enriched in light rare earth elements (LREEs), large ion lithophile elements (LILEs), and show weakly negative Eu anomalies. The NMQ III granite porphyries show similar elemental features to the DM granite porphyries, but have relatively high SiO2 (69.8-72.2 wt%) and low MgO (0.25-0.28 wt%) contents. Both of them belong to I-type granites. The NMQ I and II granite porphyries are relatively differentiated with high SiO2 (76.4-77.9 wt%), low MgO (0.11-0.16 wt %) contents, and significantly negative Eu anomalies. Extremely low LREE contents and notable REE tetrad effect can be observed in the NMQ II granite porphyries. The NMQ I and II intrusions are fractionated I-type granites. The whole-rock Sr-Nd-Hf and zircon Hf-O isotope data exhibit an enriched trend from the DM granite porphyries ((Sr-87/Sr-86)(i) = 0.7049-0.7050, epsilon(Nd)(t) = 1.2-1.6, epsilon(Hf)(t)(whole-rock) = 9.9-12.0, epsilon(Hf)(t)(zircon) = 7.4-11.5, delta O-18 = 6.2-7.1 parts per thousand) to the NMQ III granite porphyry ((Sr-87/Sr-86)(i) = 0.7058-0.7067, epsilon(Nd)(t) = -0.9 to -1.1, epsilon(Hf)(t)(whole-rock) = 7.0-7.4, epsilon(Hf)(t)(zircon) = 2.7-9.5, delta O-18 = 7.2-7.6 parts per thousand) to the NMQ I and II granite porphyries (epsilon(Nd)(t) = -3.0 to -4.3, epsilon(Hf)(t)(whole-rock) = 5.3-6.6, epsilon(Hf)(t)(zircon) = 1.5-7.4, delta O-18 = 6.6-9.2 parts per thousand). We suggest that the DM-NMQ granite porphyries were mainly derived by partial melting of the juvenile mafic lower crust with variable volumes of ancient crustal components involved in their magma sources. The way in which these granite porphyries were formed provides evidence for the crustal differentiation and maturation in a post-collisional extensional setting triggered by the far-field rollback of the subducted Neo-Tethys oceanic slab (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
 

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 LITHOS Volume: 390 Article Number: 106097 DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106097 Published: JUN 2021

Author(s)

 Wang, Zi-Long; Fan, Jing-Jing; Wang, Qiang; Hu, Wan-Long; Yang, Zong-Yong; Wang, Jun

Corresponding author(s) 

 WANG Qiang
 wqiang@gig.ac.cn  
 -Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Isotope Geochem, Guangzhou Inst Geochem, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China
 -Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
 -CAS Ctr Excellence Deep Earth Sci, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China

Author(s) from IGCAS   YANG Zongyong

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