Zircon U-Pb ages of the basement rocks beneath the Songliao Basin, NE China

The basement of the Songliao Basin is mainly composed of slightly-metamorphosed or unmetamorphosed Paleozoic strata, granites and gneiss. Petrographical studies indicate that the gneiss was originally the granitic intrusions which were deformed in the later stage. One undeformed granitic rock sample gives a U-Pb age of (305±2) Ma, and the mylonitic granite yields a U-Pb age of (165±3) Ma. Both of the two samples contain no inherited zircon, which suggests that there is no large-scale Precambrian crystalline basement beneath the Songliao Basin.     

陇县地区新街片麻岩套锆石年龄及其地质意义

目的寻找秦-祁结合部位早古生代岛弧型岩浆活动的证据,为秦岭和祁连造山带的对比研究提供依据。方法依据岩石主、微量地球化学特征判别新街片麻岩套的构造属性,并通过LA-ICP-MS对其中的锆石进行U-Pb测年。结果新街片麻岩套富集大离子亲石元素(LILE)和轻稀土元素(LREE),亏损高场强元素(HSFE)和重稀土元素(HREE),指示其形成与俯冲作用有关,在构造判别图解中落入岛弧火山岩范围;U-Pb锆石测年结果显示,花岗质片麻岩的形成年龄为447.7±5.4Ma。结论该年龄与北秦岭和北祁连造山带内部的岛弧火山岩活动的时限一致。     

U-Pb zircon dating constraints on formation time of Qilian high-grade metamorphic rock and its tectonic implications

In order to constrain the formation time of high-grade metamorphic rocks in the Qilian Mountains, U-Pb zircon dating was carried out by using LA-ICPMS technique for a paragneiss of the Hualong Group in the Qilian Mountains basement series and a weakly foliated granite that intruds into the Hualong Group. Zircons from the paragneiss consist dominantly of detrital magma zircons with round or sub-round shape. They have 207Pb/206Pb ages mostly ranging from 880 to 900 Ma, with a weighted mean age of 891 ±9 Ma, which is interpreted as the magma crystallization age of its igneous provenance and can be taken as a lower age limit for the Hualong Group. Magma crystallization age for the weak-foliated granite is 875±8 Ma, which can be taken as an upper age limit for the Hualong Group. Accordingly, the formation time of the Hualong Group is constrained at sometime between 875 and 891 Ma. A few zir- cons from both paragneiss and weak-foliated granite display old inherited ages of 1000 to 1700 Ma and young metamorphic ages of Early Paleozoic. The zircon age distribution pattern confirms that the Qilian Mountains and the northern margin of Qaidam Basin had a united basement, with geotectonic affinity to the Yangtze Block. The results also reveal that sediments of the Hualong Group formed by rapid accumulation due to rapid crustal uplift-erosion. This process may result from intensive Neoproterozoic orogenesis due to assembly of the suppercontinent Rodinia.     

Zircon U-Pb ages for Wulian granites in northwest Sulu and their tectonic implications

The Sulu orogen is the eastern termination of the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt that results from the Triassic collision between the North China and the Yang-tze plates[1—4]. It contains ultrahigh pressure (UHP) meta-morphic rocks such as eclogite, granitic gneiss and marble. The Wulian complex zone, north to the Wulian fault in the Jiaonan area, is about 10—14 km wide and consists of metaigneous and metasedimentary rocks that only ex-perienced greenschist-facies metamorphism (Fig. …     

川西须家河组火山岩夹层时代及其地质意义

四川盆地西部的上三叠统须家河组作为反演前陆盆地构造演化的物质基础，因缺少精确的同位素地层年龄阻碍了对盆山演化的进一步理解。作者在四川盆地西部须家河组中发现了一套火山（碎屑）岩夹层，通过 LA-ICP-MS U-Pb 同位素定量分析，获得1件凝灰岩样品中岩浆锆石的结晶年龄，其加权平均值为（214．7±1．6）Ma，属于晚三叠世诺利期。该年龄结果对四川盆地西部须家河组岩石地层单元的划分与对比可提供重要参考，同时为进一步约束龙门山隆升与川西前陆盆地的演化、古特提斯洋关闭等重大事件时限提供了新证据。基于四川盆地及周缘的区域火山活动对比结果，表明诺利期中期（210～222 Ma B．P．）是中国西部地区一次强烈的区域火山喷发阶段，其范围从羌塘地体延伸到东昆仑地体，所对应的构造事件并非传统的印支运动作用。     

Finding of ancient materials in Cathaysia and implication for the formation of Precambrian crust

U-Pb dating for fifty-six detrltsl zircons from a paragneiss in Nanxiong area, northern Guangdong Province, Indicates that the latest Neoproterozoic sediments in Cathaysia hinterland are composed of numerous Grenvillian and Necerchaean clasUc materials, as well as some Mesoproterozolc detritus. Minor Paleoarchaean （3.76 Ga） and Mesoarchaean （3.0-3.2 Ga） zircons, which are the oldest zircons In South China, also are firstly found in the sediments, suggesting that the Cathaysia Block may contsln very old materials. The Hf isotope compositions of thirty-seven zircons reveal that these clastlc materials have different origins. Minor zircons crystslllzed from magma generated from relatively juvenile crust, while the parental magma of most zircons was derived from ancient crust. Integration of U-Pb dating and Hf Isotope analysis of these zircons suggests that the generation of juvenile crust in the Cathaysia block mainly occurred at 2.5-2.6 Ga. Mesoarchaean （3.0-3.3 Ga）, late Paleoproterozolc （-1.8 Ga） and Paleoarchaean （-3.7 Ga） may also be important episodes of crustal growth. Grenvllllan magmatism is extremely Intense, but it mainly involved recycling of ancient crustal components with little formation of Juvenile crust. The marked presence of -2.1 Ga Hf model ages and the absence of the zircons with crystsllizatlon ages at -2.1 Ga suggest that the parental magma of many zircons was probably derived from the mixed source consisting of Neoarchaean and late Paleoproterozoic materlals.     

柴西西岔沟剖面新生界碎屑锆石裂变径迹年龄对物源区构造活动的制约

对柴西西岔沟新生界碎屑锆石裂变径迹年龄的研究表明:沉积源区主要为遭受150～290 Ma热事件影响的阿尔金山带,在晚近纪晚期以后有古近系的加入;同时记录的发生于源区的构造热事件最早为海西早期,在海西中期有所加强,海西晚期之后至燕山早期为主要时期,尤以海西末-印支期最为鼎盛;在整个新生代源区抬升渐强、剥蚀加快.阿尔金断裂在8 Ma活动加强,在新近纪晚期表现为活动加剧,同名山系快速隆升,成为柴西主要物源区.柴西地区沉积源区在相对固定的态势下,也有一定分异性,即物源区的变更.古阿尔金断裂是存在的,随青藏高原内不同块体依次向北拼贴,且阿尔金断裂具有多阶段活动的特点.     

Activation of northern margin of the North China Craton in Late Paleozoic: Evidence from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the Upper Carboniferous Taiyuan Formation in the Ningwu-Jingle basin

LA-MC-ICPMS U-Pb dating has been performed on detrital zircons from the Upper Carboniferous Tai-yuan Formation (N-8) in the Ningwu-Jingle Basin, west of the North China Craton (NCC). The ages of 72 detrital zircon grains are divided into three groups: 303―320 Ma (6 grains), 1631―2194 Ma (37 grains, peaked at 1850 Ma), 2318―2646 Ma (29 grains, peaked at 2500 Ma). Detrital zircons of Group 2 and Group 3 were likely derived from the basement of the NCC. Group 1 zircons exhibit 176Hf/177Hf ratios ranging from 0...     

福建明溪锆石巨晶中的斜锆石、锆石矿物包裹体及其成因启示

福建明溪是我国和火山岩有关的锆石巨晶的典型产地.通过对该地的锆石巨晶晶体形态及其包裹体的研究发现,福建明溪锆石巨晶四方柱明显较双锥发育,表面有熔蚀结构,内部结构均匀;锆石巨晶中发现的斜锆石包裹体和其它产地斜锆石相比具有贫大离子半径元素U,Th,Y,Zr/Hf高的特点.巨晶中的锆石包裹体的拉曼光谱有两种不同类型,其中一类锆石包裹体的拉曼谱和变质及热处理锆石相似,说明锆石巨晶形成时曾经历过变质作用过程.锆石巨晶及其包裹体特征暗示锆石巨晶不是玄武岩结晶产物,和伴生的刚玉巨晶相比其来源可能更深,是壳一幔物质相互作用产物.     

西昆仑赞坎铁矿区英安班岩锆石U-Pb年代学研究

西昆仑赞坎英安斑岩的锆石LA-ICPMS年龄和LA-MC-ICPMS Hf同位素分析结果表明,两个样品均获得了较为一致的主体年龄,分别为533±10 Ma及527.4±9.0 Ma,都归为古生代,而不是前人所归为的前寒武纪布伦阔勒群.选用其中一个样品进行,锆石Hf同位素组成实验,其赞坎英安斑岩εHf（t）值为-3.31~-9.02,平均为-5.40,具有明显的不均一性,Hf平均地壳模式年龄为TDMC=1.70~2.06 Ga（去除其中两个U-Pb年龄异常高值）,峰值在1.7~1.8 Ga左右,与锆石形成年龄533 Ma相差甚远,说明这类锆石的母岩中主体是再造的古老地壳,同时也可能混合幔源,对应着1.7~2.0 Ga地壳再造.