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Abundant magmatic rocks of various ages are exposed in Gangdese, southern Tibet. These rocks play an important role in understanding the tectonic transformation from the subduction of Neo-Tethyan oceanic crust to the collision of the Indian and Asian continents. Based on zircon U–Pb ages, geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotopic data of the Late Cretaceous to early Oligocene (~96–30Ma) intrusive rocks...
The Chalukou porphyry Mo deposit (2.46Mt @ 0.087% Mo), located in the northern Great Xing'an Range, NE China, is the largest Mo deposit discovered in China so far. The host rocks consist of aplite porphyry, granite porphyry and quartz porphyry, and are intruded into Lower Ordovician intermediate-felsic volcanic–sedimentary rocks and pre-ore monzogranite and are cut by post-ore feldspar porphyry, diorite...
Mesozoic intermediate–felsic intrusions are widely distributed in the southern Qiangtang terrane, central Tibet. Zircon U–Pb dating shows that these intrusions formed in two periods in the Jurassic (169–150Ma) and Cretaceous (127–113Ma). They mostly belong to the high-K calc-alkaline series, and show strong enrichments in large ion lithophile elements (e.g., Cs, Rb, and K), depletions in Nb, Ta, and...
The Duolong porphyry Cu–Au deposit (5.4Mt at 0.72% Cu, 41t at 0.23g/t Au), which is related to the granodiorite porphyry and the quartz–diorite porphyry from the Bangongco copper belt in central Tibet, formed in a continental arc setting. Here, we present the zircon U–Pb ages, geochemical whole-rock, Sr–Nd whole-rock and zircon in-situ Hf–O isotopic data for the Duolong porphyries. Secondary ion mass...
Extensive late Paleozoic mafic–ultramafic complexes in the Eastern Tianshan and Beishan regions in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) represent an ideal opportunity to assess the characteristics of the mantle in this area. Whole-rock Nd–Sr and zircon Hf–O isotopic data from the mafic–ultramafic complexes of the Jueluotage Belt, Middle Tianshan Massif and Beishan Rift were compiled for...
Porphyry Cu–Mo deposits, related to the Miocene adakitic porphyries from the Gangdese porphyry copper belt in the southern Tibet, formed in a post-collisional setting. Here, we present the new zircon U–Pb ages, whole-rock chemical, and Sr–Nd and zircon Hf isotopic data for the ore-bearing adakitic porphyries from Gangdese porphyry copper belt. LA-ICP-MS zircon dating for six samples yielded ages ranging...
In Central China, long-distance effects from collision between the North China and Yangtze cratons, uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and subduction of the Pacific Ocean are believed to converge in the Western Qinling. Mantle xenoliths from Baiguan and Haoti kamafugites in the Western Qinling were investigated to understand the lithospheric structure and mantle metasomatism beneath the orogenic belt....
The No. 1 feldspar porphyry in the Chanho area, western Yunnan, China is characterized by the development of deformed glomeroporphyritic aggregates (GA) that contain diagnostic gravity settling textures. These textures include interlocking curved grain boundaries caused by compaction, bent twins, and arch-like structures. The GAs are accumulated phenocrysts (AP) and antecrysts. The unstable textural...
Combustion of bituminous coal seams in a Carbonifeorus–Permian sequence of siltstone, quartzose sandstone, sideritic mudstone, kaolinite-rich and sulphide–ankerite rocks exposed on the left bank of the Yellow River, western border of Shanxi Province, China, has resulted in the formation of paralava and glassy clinker. Some paralavas have compositions similar to low alkali basalts and contain anorthite,...
Lamprophyres consisting mainly of diopside, phlogopite and K-feldspar formed in the early Tertiary around 60 Ma in the Beiya area and are characterized by low SiO 2 ±46–50 wt.%), Rb (31–45 ppm) and Sr (225–262 ppm), high Al 2 O 3 , (11.2–13.1 wt.%), CaO (8.0–8.7 wt.%), MgO (11.5–12.1 wt.%), K 2 O(4.9–5.5 wt.%), TiO 2 (2.9–3.3 wt.%) and REE (174–177 ppm), and...
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