Late Jurassic high-Mg andesites in the Youjiang Basin and their significance for the southward continuation of the Jiangnan Orogen, South China
| Autor: | Chengshi Gan, Xin Qian, Tiffany L. Barry, Yuejun Wang, Yuzhi Zhang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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South china
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology Subduction Andesites Geochemistry Geology Structural basin 010502 geochemistry & geophysics biology.organism_classification Block (meteorology) 01 natural sciences Lithospheric mantle Lithophile 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Zircon |
| Zdroj: | Gondwana Research. 77:260-273 |
| ISSN: | 1342-937X |
| Popis: | The South China Block (SCB) consists of the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks which, in the northeast, are separated from each other by the Jiangnan Orogen. The southward continuation of the Jiangnan Orogen into the Youjiang Basin remains much debated. Here, we present detailed petrological, chemical and isotope evidence from the Late Jurassic (~159 Ma) Yangtun and Liuliang high-Mg andesites (HMA), eastern Youjiang Basin, to place important constraints on an ancient subduction event. These HMA are enriched in large ion lithophile elements and depleted in Nb-Ta-Ti, with negative whole-rock eNd(t) and zircon eHf(t) values, similar to Neoproterozoic high-Mg rocks that occur in the eastern Yangtze Block. Considering the distance of our study areas to penecontemporaneous Pacific or Tethyan trenches, we infer that these HMA derived from a metasomatised lithospheric mantle preserved beneath the eastern Yangtze Block, which was associated with a Neoproterozoic subduction event. The Late Jurassic HMA in the eastern Youjiang Basin provide potential clues for the southward continuation of the Jiangnan Orogen into the basin. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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