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Metasomatism of the lithospheric mantle by subduction-related fluids/melts is recorded in the Early Cretaceous Xinkailing high magnesium andesites (HMAs) from Western Liaoning. Olivine-hosted melt inclusions within the Xinkailing HMAs are alkaline and record a much lower SiO2 content and higher Al2O3 and CaO contents than the sub-alkaline bulk rock compositions. These observed compositional differences...
The provenance of karstic bauxite deposits is difficult to constrain as such deposits are the products of intensively weathered rocks. We have studied the geochemistry of interbedded clastic rocks and isotopic characteristics of detrital zircons in late Permian karstic bauxite deposits in SW China to understand their provenance. The U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from both clastic rocks and bauxite...
Understanding how adakitic magmas form is important for understanding the formation of the continental crust. Generating such high-Sr/Y rocks by crystal fractionation of basalts/basaltic andesites in magma chambers has been proposed in a wide range of tectonic settings. However, the complementary cumulates predicted by this scenario have rarely been observed. The late Triassic (~227Ma) Ningcheng complex...
Considerable debate persists as to the tectonic setting of the Tianshan Orogen during the Late Paleozoic, with active subduction system and intraplate large igneous provinces as two dominant schools. With aims of providing constraints on this issue, geochronological and geochemical analyses have been carried out on the Late Carboniferous high-Al basaltic lava (HAB) from the Bogda Mountains. These...
Pacific subduction has been suggested as the trigger of the destruction of the North China Craton, but evidence for it remains ambiguous. To further investigate this issue, we studied Wulian pyroxene monzonite (123±1Ma) in the west and Rushan gabbro-diorite (115±1Ma) in the east of the Sulu orogen, East China. The rocks of both locations are characterized by low TiO2 but high SiO2 and K2O, fractionated...
The tectonic nature of the Chinese Tianshan Orogen during the Late Paleozoic has been long disputed. With aims of providing constraints on this issue, an integrated study of geochronology and geochemistry has been carried out on the Late Carboniferous pillow basaltic lava of the Qijiagou Group from the Bogda Mountains, Chinese North Tianshan. Zircon SHRIMP U–Pb dating of a dacite ignimbrite, which...
Numerous alkaline basaltic dykes crosscut the Early Permian Xiaohaizi wehrlite in drill-cores and syenite intrusion in the Tarim large igneous province, NW China. One basaltic dyke contains abundant clinopyroxene macrocrysts with strong resorption textures. Such a textural disequilibrium is consistent with their contrasting chemistry between the macrocrysts (Mg#=80–89) and the host dyke (Mg#=39, corresponding...
The Xiaoling lavas, erupted at ca. 110Ma in the Liaodong Peninsula, North China, provide vital constraints on the thermochemical state of subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) during the destruction of the craton. The Xiaoling lavas comprise basalt, andesite and dacite. They are characterized by depletion of high field strength elements (HFSE), enrichment of large ion lithophile elements (LILE)...
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