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Assessment of the synchroneity between the Siberian Traps and the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB) mass extinction has led to the proposition that the Siberian flood volcanism was responsible for the severest biotic crisis in the Phanerozoic. However, recent studies suggest that the Siberian Traps may have postdated the main extinction horizon. In this paper, we demonstrate, using stratigraphy, a time...
The age of the Emeishan lavas in SW China remains poorly constrained because the extrusive rocks are (1) thermally overprinted and so represent an open system unsuitable for 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology and (2) in most cases devoid of zircon so that it is impossible for the application of U–Pb geochronology. Existing radiometric age constraints of Emeishan large igneous province are...
Despite considerable efforts, the Paleozoic tectonic setting (subduction vs. post-collision vs. mantle plume) in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) remains controversial. With aims of solving this issue, we examined zircon saturation temperatures of granitoids emplaced in different settings, and demonstrated that zircon saturation thermometry of felsic igneous rocks, especially when integrated...
The ~260Ma Emeishan Large Igneous Province (ELIP) in southwest China has previously been demonstrated to provide compelling evidence for pre-volcanic crustal doming in support of the mantle plume hypothesis. However this has been questioned by Ukstins-Peate and Bryan (2008) by showing hydrothermal magmatic activity at the Daqiao section. To solve this argument, a detailed characterization of the contact...
The Emeishan large igneous province in SW China comprises a bimodal mafic–silicic suite with the silicic rocks occurring at the uppermost part of the thick lava sequence. The silicic rocks have an age of 257–263Ma, and are thus roughly coeval with the Guadalupian–Loping (G–L) boundary event. Most silicic rocks (trachyte and rhyolite) from the Emeishan province have rather uniform ε Nd values...
Previous studies on the temporal link between the end-Guadalupian mass extinction event and Emeishan flood volcanism were mainly based on geochronological and bio- and chemostratigraphic correlation techniques (Wignall et al., 2009). The absence of material-based hard evidence that directly links the extinction with the Emeishan volcanism remains a major obstacle regardless of the indication of coincidence...
A suite of picrites and basalts from the Muli area, in the northwestern part of the Emeishan continental flood basalt province, provides new and valuable information on the geochemistry of the Emeishan Large Igneous Province (LIP) and its source. The Muli picrites can be classified as type-1 or type-2. The former shows ocean–island basalt-like trace element characteristics, with γ Os (260Ma)...
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