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The Oshurkovo Complex is a plutonic sheeted complex which represents numerous successive magmatic injections into an expanding system of subparallel and subvertical fractures. It comprises a wide range of rock types including alkali monzodiorite, monzonite, plagioclase-bearing and alkali-feldspar syenites, in the proportion of about 70% mafic rocks to 30% syenite. We suggest that the variation within...
The Monte Capanne pluton (Tuscan Magmatic Province, Elba Island, Italy) displays a great variety of magmatic products. Mafic microgranular enclaves (MME) are widespread and display variable size, texture and composition. Petrographic and mineralogical features highlight the importance of magma mixing in their genesis. In particular, patchy-zoned phenocrysts and corroded An-rich plagioclase are common...
Sr–Nd isotopic analyses on some mantle xenolith samples from the Northern, Southern and Austral Andean volcanic zones exhibit radiogenic Sr enrichment without dramatic changing of the Nd isotopic composition. This anomalous effect (Sr–Nd decoupling) makes these samples plot displaced to the right side of the “mantle array” trend (here called the “MORB–OIB–BSE trend”) in the 87 Sr/ 86 ...
In the Niigata region of the NE Japan arc, basaltic and intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks (silicic andesite, dacite and rhyolite) have been produced during the Early Miocene, Middle Miocene and Pliocene ages, spanning the pre-Japan Sea opening to post-opening stages. Early Miocene basaltic rocks are characterized by enriched Sr and Nd isotopic signatures (initial 87 Sr/ 86 Sr (SrI)=0...
Major and trace element, whole rock Sr and Nd isotope and zircon Hf isotope data are reported for a suite of A-type granites and mafic microgranular enclaves from the Early Cretaceous (126±2 Ma) Qianshan pluton, Liaodong Peninsula, northeast China, with the aim of investigating the sources and petrogenesis of A-type granites. The Qianshan pluton includes hornblende alkali-feldspar granite, graphic...
A suite of schists, gneisses, migmatites, and biotite granitoids from the Puerto Edén Igneous and Metamorphic Complex (PEIMC) and biotite–hornblende granitoids of the South Patagonian batholith (southern Chile) has been studied. For that purpose, the chemistry of minerals and the bulk rock composition of major and trace elements including Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd isotopes were determined. Mineralogical observations...
We report trace element and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of Early Miocene (22–18 Ma) basaltic rocks distributed along the back-arc margin of the NE Japan arc over 500 km. These rocks are divided into higher TiO 2 (>1.5 wt.%; referred to as HT) and lower TiO 2 (<1.5 wt.%; LT) basalts. HT basalt has higher Na 2 O+K 2 O, HFSE and LREE, Zr/Y, and La/Yb compared to...
Whole-rock major-trace elements and Sr–Nd isotopes, mineral chemistry, and zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope compositions are reported for I-type monzogranite and its mafic microgranular enclaves from the Triassic Mishuling granite in the Qinling orogen, central China. Zircon U–Pb dating yields an age of 212±5 Ma for the mafic enclaves and 213±3 Ma for the host monzogranite. Whole-rock major-trace elements,...
The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is well-known for its massive generation of juvenile crust in the Phanerozoic. In eastern CAOB, voluminous peralkaline and alkaline (alkali-feldspar) granitoids and genetically related bimodal volcanics were emplaced in three stages from Early Permian to late Mesozoic: 295–270Ma, 230–190Ma and 150–120Ma. They occur as huge granitoid belts in extensional tectonic...
Early Cenozoic (48–50 Ma) adakitic volcanic rocks from the Eastern Pontides, NE Turkey, consist of calc-alkaline and high-K calc-alkaline andesite and dacite, with SiO 2 contents ranging from 56.01 to 65.44 wt.%. This is the first time that Early Eocene volcanism and adakites have been reported from the region. The rocks are composed of plagioclase, amphibole, quartz, and Mg-rich biotite....
Neogene igneous activity in the Aegean region comprised both extrusive volcanism and intrusive granitoid plutonism. Granitoid plutonism in the Cyclades was established in the mid-Miocene period and lasted until late Miocene (18 to 9Ma). The timing of granitoid intrusion was associated with the initiation of extensional tectonics in the Aegean. These intrusions form a broad belt about 200km long running...
The intrusion of granitoids into the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas in the Early Carboniferous took place after a long period of mainly compressional deformation that included the Famatinian (Ordovician) and Achalian (Devonian) orogenies. These granitoids occur as small scattered plutons emplaced in a dominant extensional setting, within older metamorphic and igneous rocks, and many of them are arranged...
A compilation of published and unpublished geochronological and isotopic data from garnet-bearing orogenic peridotites in the HP/UHP Western Gneiss Region (WGR) of the Norwegian Caledonides indicate a common origin for all WGR peridotites, followed by different, though related, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic histories for those in the northwestern WGR (NW peridotites) compared to those in the central...
Basalts and felsic volcanic rocks (mainly dacite and rhyolite) found in southwest Hokkaido, northern part of the NE Japan arc, result from protracted volcanism during the Oligocene (34–30Ma), Early Miocene (25–17Ma), Middle Miocene (16–12Ma), Late Miocene (10–5Ma), Pliocene (4Ma) and Quaternary (2Ma), thus spanning the pre-Japan Sea opening to post-opening stages.The majority of basaltic rocks after...
The Kid Group is one of the few exposures of Neoproterozoic metavolcano-sedimentary rocks in the basement of southern Sinai in the northernmost Arabian–Nubian Shield. It is divided into the mostly metamorphosed volcaniclastic Melhaq and siliciclastic Um Zariq formations in the north and the mostly volcanic Heib and Tarr formations in the south. The Heib, Tarr, and Melhaq formations reflect an intense...
During the Eocene, the northern Neo-Tethys suture zone and immediately adjacent areas in NW Turkey were loci of emplacement of a number of granitoid plutons with age relations and geochemical signatures indicative of magma generation in association with plate convergence. Discrete granitoid plutons of Eocene age in this region are exposed mainly in two distinct belts within and north of the northern...
Whole-rock and constituent hornblende and plagioclase geochemical and isotopic compositions of 52 mafic xenoliths from the Ichinomegata maar in the Oga Peninsula, located on the backarc side of Northeastern Japan, were investigated to further understand the nature of lower crustal materials beneath the Oga Peninsula. The inter-rock variations in isotopic compositions ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr...
The bimodal association of basalts and rhyolites in the Hongshankou area of the East Tianshan area (NW China) provides an important suite to investigate magma petrogenesis and tectonics evolution in a convergent margin setting. In this study we present petrological, geochemical and zircon U–Pb geochronological data from the basalts and rhyolites. Zircons from the basalts yield crystallization ages...
Whole-rock geochemistry, 40 Ar– 39 Ar data, and Sr–Nd isotopes are presented for the Eocene Borçka volcanic rocks on the eastern corner of the eastern Pontide orogenic belt (NE Turkey). Borçka (Artvin) volcanic rocks are divided into three suites—basic dyke, Borçka basalt, and Civanköy suite. These rocks contain plagioclase (An 49–88 ), clinopyroxene (Wo 38–49 En ...
The Jitang granitic pluton, which is situated in the southern margin of the North Qiangtang block in eastern Tibet, may provide critical information about the source and derivation of the North Qiangtang block during Gondwana breakup and dispersion. In this paper we report relevant data such as zircon U–Pb age, whole-rock major and trace element abundances, and Sr–Nd isotopes for the Jitang pluton...
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