期刊
GONDWANA RESEARCH
卷 37, 期 -, 页码 449-464出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2015.10.007
关键词
Zircon U-Pb geochronology; Lu-Hf isotopes; Geochemistry; Homblende gabbro; Gangdese magmatic belt
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [40921001]
- Geological Survey of China [1212010818094, 1212011121275, 12120115026801]
The Gangdese magmatic belt, located in the southern margin of the Lhasa terrane and carrying significant copper and polymetallic mineralization, preserves important information relating to the tectonics associated with Indian-Eurasian collision and the crustal growth of southern Tibet. Here we investigate the Quxu batholith in the central domain of the Gangdese magmatic belt and report the occurrence of hornblende gabbros for the first time. We present petrologic zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic and bulk-rock chemistry data on these rocks. The hornblende gabbros display sub-alkaline features, and correspond to tholeiite composition. They also show medium K talc-alkaline to low K affinity. The rocks show enrichment in LILEs and LREEs, but are depleted in HFSEs, indicating a subduction-related active continental margin setting for the magma genesis. Our computations show that the gabbroic pluton was emplaced in the middle-lower crustal depth of ca. 18 km. Zircons from the hornblende gabbros yield crystallization age of ca. 210 Ma, revealing a late Triassic magmatic event. Combined with available data from the Gangdese magmatic belt, our study suggests that the northward subduction of the Neo-Tethys oceanic crust beneath the southern margin of the Lhasa terrane might have been initiated not later than the Norian period of Triassic. Zircons from the hornblende gabbro show positive epsilon(Hf)(t) values of 956 to 14.75 (mean value 12.44), corresponding to single stage model ages (T-DMI) in the range of 256 Ma to 459 Ma, attesting to crustal growth in the southern Lhasa terrane associated with the subduction of the Neo-Tethys oceanic crust. (C) 2015 International Association for Gondwana Research. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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