Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

The linkage between intracontinental extension and the Early Cretaceous Cu-Mo-W polymetallic metallogenesis in the Middle-Lower Yangtze River Belt (MLYRB) has long been a subject of controversy due to the lack of convincing petrogenetic evidence to identify the nature of magmatic sources and their geological histories during extensional mantle upwelling. Here we present new zircon U-Pb ages, isotopic and geochemical data for granodiorites, quartz diorites and mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) in the Tongshankou area. Comparing the MMEs with their host porphyries, the different ratios of incompatible elements and the similar formation ages, coupled with quenched margins and the xenocrysts in the MMEs, indicate that the MMEs was most likely formed by mixing between mafic magma and their host felsic magma. The MMEs share similar geochemical and isotopic characteristics with the Cretaceous mafic rocks from MLYRB, indicating that MMEs were mostly derived from an enriched lithospheric mantle source without adakitic characteristics. Mixing of a crustal melt derived by melting of an amphibolite bearing juvenile lower crust with a mantle melt derived from melting of enriched lithospheric mantle can account for the generation of the Tongshankou prophyries. The melting of juvenile mafic lower crust and enriched lithospheric mantle is suggested to be caused by upwelling of asthenospheric mantle and the reactivity of trans-lithospheric faults in the intracontinental extensional environment. Our results therefore highlight that juvenile mafic lower crust beneath the Yangtze plate is one of the likely source for ore-forming magmatic rocks in the Early Cretaceous.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Chu, G and Chen, H and Falloon, TJ and Han, J and Zhang, S and Cheng, J and Zhang, X
Keywords:	mafic microgranular enclave, adakitic magma, geochemistry, juvenile lower crust melting, extensional mantle upwelling
Journal or Publication Title:	Gondwana Research
Publisher:	Int Assoc Gondwana Research
ISSN:	1342-937X
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.02.004
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2020 International Association for Gondwana Research
Related URLs:	UTAS Profile: Falloon, TJ
Item Statistics:	View statistics for this item

Actions (login required)

Item Control Page