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The origin and tectonic setting of Early Cretaceous adakitic rocks from the Luxi terrane in the eastern North China Block (NCB) remain debated. To resolve this issue, we determined whole-rock geochemistry, zircon U–Pb ages, and in situ Hf–O isotopes of the Mengyin and Liujing adakitic porphyries from the Luxi terrane. Zircon U–Pb dating results reveal that both the Mengyin and Liujing plutons were...
New zircon U–Pb dating results on the Carboniferous–Permian volcanic rocks in the northern margin of the North China block (NCB) indicate their eruption during the Early Carboniferous to Late Permian from 347±3Ma to 258±1Ma and a slight decrease of the upper limits of the volcanic sequences from west to east. They have a main rock association of basalt, basaltic andesite, andesite, dacite, rhyolite,...
The Doi Inthanon and Doi Suthep metamorphic core complexes in northern Thailand are comprised of amphibolite-grade migmatitic gneisses mantled by lower-grade mylonites and metasedimentary sequences, thought to represent Cordilleran-style core complexes exhumed through the mobilization of a low-angle detachment fault. Previous studies have interpreted two metamorphic events (Late Triassic and Late...
Kimberlite magmas are of economic and scientific importance because they represent the major host to diamonds and are probably the deepest magmas from continental regions. In addition, kimberlite magmas transport abundant mantle and crustal xenoliths, thus providing fundamental information on the composition of the sub-continental lithosphere. Despite their importance, the composition and ascent mechanism(s)...
Highly retrogressed eclogite is present in the Stak massif located on the northern edge of the Indian continental margin in northern Pakistan. Garnet in foliated samples contains omphacite inclusions (Xjd=0.33–0.40) and quartz inclusions and latter retain Raman spectroscopic evidence for high residual pressures up to 0.52GPa. These garnet grains do not show apparent compositional zoning. By contrast,...
Geophysical and petrological data indicate destruction of the cratonic lithosphere in North China in the Mesozoic, resulting in replacement of the ancient subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) by the juvenile SCLM. However, it remains to be answered when the craton destruction would have been terminated in the Mesozoic. This question is resolved by studying the two types of mafic igneous rocks...
The internal zone of the Pan-African Lufilian orogenic belt (Zambia) hosts a dozen uranium occurrences mostly located within kyanite micaschists in a shear zone marking the contact between metasedimentary rocks attributed to the Katanga Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence and migmatites coring domes developed dominantly at the expense of the pre-Neoproterozoic basement. The P–T–t–d paths reconstructed...
The Ponta Negra Pegmatites (PNP), part of a pegmatitic province in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, crop out along an intensely deformed, medium- to high-grade metamorphic area that is proximal to a crustal-scale thrust zone developed during the Brasiliano/Pan–African Orogeny. Fieldwork shows that the pegmatites formed in two distinct stages: (i) syn-collisional leucosome veins (Group I) conformable...
Abundances of precious metals and cobalt in the lithospheric mantle are typically obtained by bulk geochemical analyses of mantle xenoliths. These elements are strongly chalcophile and the mineralogy, texture and trace element composition of sulphide phases in such samples must be considered. In this study we assess the mineralogy, textures and trace element compositions of sulphides in spinel lherzolites...
This paper details the mode of occurrence, petrography, and chemistry of mineral inclusions hosted in chromian spinels of the Neoproterozoic chromitites in the Southern Eastern Desert of Egypt. Neoproterozoic podiform chromitites from the Arais, Balamhindit, and Abu Dahr areas, in the Southern Eastern Desert, can be texturally and chemically classified into two main types: primary high-Al (spinel...
Oceanic crust is continuously created at mid-ocean ridges by decompression melting of the upper mantle as it upwells due to plate separation. Decades of research on active spreading ridges have led to a growing understanding of the complex magmatic, tectonic and hydrothermal processes linked to the formation of new oceanic igneous crust. However, less is known about the timescales of magmatic processes...
Trace element abundances in constituent minerals from mafic and ultramafic rocks of a deep arc crustal section are studied to observe their abundance and distribution. Five cumulate rocks were selected from a sequence that consists of pyroxene hornblende peridotite, olivine hornblende gabbronorite, pyroxene hornblende gabbronorite, hornblende gabbronorite, gabbro and anorthosite. Solid/liquid partition...
Detailed petrographical observations and in-situ major- and trace-element data for minerals from ten spinel peridotite xenoliths from a new locality in Gundeweyn area, East Gojam, have been examined in order to understand the composition, equilibrium temperature and pressure conditions as well as depletion and enrichment processes of continental lithospheric mantle beneath the Ethiopian plateau. The...
The minerals constituting the Earth's upper mantle are nominally anhydrous silicates (NAMs). However they do contain hydrogen as a trace element, decorating point defects in their crystalline structure. Experimental petrology and mineralogy have quantified the maximum concentration under several compositional and thermodynamic conditions, but systematic studies on the hydrogen concentration in minerals...
The Xiaru dome is located in the middle section of the North Himalayan Gneiss Domes belt in southern Tibet. The leucogranite, which crops out in the core of the Xiaru dome, is a typical medium-grained garnet+tourmaline+muscovite leucogranite. U–(Th)–Pb dating of zircon and monazite from the leucogranite yielded ages of approximately 35Ma. This finding supports a growing body of evidence indicating...
Zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopes and whole-rock geochemical data are used to constrain the petrogenesis of the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic granitoids in southeastern China and their tectonic settings. The 225Ma Qiuwang and 178Ma Xiepu granites at Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, have εHf(t) values of −15.7 to −9.9 and −17.6 to −13.4, respectively. They are both ilmenite-series granitoids derived from the...
We study migmatites and other metamorphic rocks in the Zanjan–Takab region of NW Iran and use these results to report the first evidence of Oligocene core complex formation in Iran. Four samples of migmatites associated with paragneisses, including leucosomes and associated para-amphibolite melanosomes were selected for U–Pb dating and Hf–O isotopic analysis. Zircon cores – interpreted as originally...
New localities of granulite in the Bamble lithotectonic domain of south Norway illustrate localized distribution of granulite facies rocks in an amphibolite facies gneiss terrain. U–Pb zircon SIMS data constrain the magmatic age of the protoliths to be both 1545±7 to 1542±5Ma and 1149±8Ma. They provide a robust date of 1139±11Ma for metamorphic zircon, supporting available estimates for early-Sveconorwegian...
The Harrat Kishb area of western Saudi Arabia is part of the Cenozoic volcanic fields in the western margin of the Arabian Shield. Numerous fresh ultramafic xenoliths are entrained in the basanite lava of Harrat Kishb, providing an opportunity to study the nature and petrogenetic processes involved in the evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Arabian Shield. Based on the petrological characteristics...
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