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PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH
Volume 309, Issue -, Pages 166-180Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.02.012
Keywords
Jiangnan orogen; Jingtan Formation; Post-collisional extension; South Anhui Province; Volcanic rocks
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- China NSFC grant [41573023, 41472166]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- HFUT
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An integrated study of zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry, together with Nd-Hf isotopes, have been carried out on the rhyodacite and rhyolitic tuff of the Jingtan Formation in the eastern part of the Jiangnan orogen. SIMS zircon U-Pb dating of two samples yielded weighted mean Pb-206/U-238 ages of 784 +/- 6 Ma and 788 +/- 6 Ma, respectively. Geochemically, they are peraluminous (A/CNK mostly around 1.2) and are characterized by enrichments in Rb, Th, REEs and HFSEs (e.g. Zr and Y) but depletions in Ba, Sr, P, Eu and Ti. The volcanic rocks show a clear A-type granite geochemical signature with high total alkalis (K2O + Na2O = 5.3-7.64 wt%), FeOt/MgO ratios and low CaO, MgO and TiO2 contents. They have negative whole-rock epsilon(Nd)(t) (-4.2 to -1) and positive zircon epsilon(Hf)(t) (+1.26 to +11.6) values, illustrating decoupled Nd-Hf isotopes which may be genetically related to their petrogenesis process. The positive epsilon(Hf)(t) values and juvenile T-DM1(Hf) (0.89-1.3 Ga) of zircons indicate that the volcanic rocks may have been derived from the partial melting of the Neoproterozoic to late Mesoproterozoic crustal materials. Combined with the occurrence of significant volumes of contemporary bimodal volcanic rocks in eastern section of the Jiangnan orogen, it is inferred that the Jingtan felsic volcanic rocks formed during post-collisional extension shortly after the final amalgamation of Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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