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Permian Tectonic Evolution in the Middle Part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Newly Identified Volcanic Rocks in the Bilutu Area, Inner Mongolia
Shijie WANG,
Yang LIU,
Xiaojie DONG,
Zhongyuan XU,
Wenlong WANG,
Shichao LI,
Qiang SHI,
Weilong CUI,
Shijie WANG
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorYang LIU
Tianjin Center of Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300170 China
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Xiaojie DONG
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorZhongyuan XU
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorWenlong WANG
Tianjin Center of Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300170 China
Search for more papers by this authorShichao LI
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorQiang SHI
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorWeilong CUI
State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029 China
Search for more papers by this authorShijie WANG,
Yang LIU,
Xiaojie DONG,
Zhongyuan XU,
Wenlong WANG,
Shichao LI,
Qiang SHI,
Weilong CUI,
Shijie WANG
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorYang LIU
Tianjin Center of Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300170 China
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Xiaojie DONG
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorZhongyuan XU
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorWenlong WANG
Tianjin Center of Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300170 China
Search for more papers by this authorShichao LI
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorQiang SHI
College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130061 China
Search for more papers by this authorWeilong CUI
State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029 China
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WANG Shijie, male; born in 1993 in Heilongjiang, doctor; mainly engaged in tectonic geology, in Jilin University. E-mail: [email protected]
About the corresponding author:
DONG Xiaojie, male, born in 1984 in Hebei, lecturer; mainly engaged in tectonic geology and Precambrian geology, in Jilin University. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract
In this study, zircon U-Pb ages, geochemical and Lu-Hf isotopic data are presented for the newly identified volcanic rocks which were considered as Bainaimiao group in Bainaimiao Arc Belt (BAB), Inner Mongolia, which could provide important constraints on the evolution of the northern part of North China Block (NCB) and BAB. Basalt to basaltic andesite and andesite to dacite were collected from two sections, which showed eruption ages of 278.2±4.1 Ma and 258.3±3.0 Ma respectively. All samples are characterized by high abundances in Al2O3, LREEs, and LILEs, but depleted in HFSEs. Together with high Mg# ratios and low K/tholeiite to calc-alkaline series, these features indicated that basalt to andesite was likely derived from relatively low degree partial melting of the subduction-fluid related mantle in the spinel phase. And dacite was mainly from the partial melting of crust, then affected by mantle. All samples barely went through fractional crystallization process with the slight Eu anomaly. Compared with the contemporary basalt in NCB, rocks in BAB have a complex composition of zircon and a more positive εHf (t) value (–6.6–6.4), indicating that they had different magma sources of rocks. Though with different basements, NCB and BAB have become an integrated whole before 278 Ma. Therefore, it could be concluded that NCB and BAB belonged to the active continental margin and the PAO had not closed yet until late Permian and then it disappeared gradually and the CAOB developed into a condition of syn-post collision.
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