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This study tests the overall consistency of geothermobarometric calibrations and thermodynamic internally consistent databases commonly used to retrieve temperature and pressure conditions in metapelitic and igneous mafic protolith metamorphosed at granulite-facies conditions. We examine a lithological sequence characterized by interbedded mafic and metapelitic protoliths that underwent partial melting...
The tectonic framework and the evolutionary history of the Qinling orogenic belt are keys for understanding the convergent processes between the North China and South China blocks. The widely exposed ophiolitic and subduction-related volcanic melange along the Shangdan and Erlangping belts provides important constraints on the tectonic evolutionary processes of the Qinling orogen. The melange in the...
The geological evolution in the southwestern Chinese Tianshan orogen in NW China is poorly understood because of controversial geochronological results of the low-temperature eclogites. It is likely due to Sm–Nd and Rb–Sr isotopic disequilibrium in different mineral fractions, excess 40 Ar in the high-pressure K-bearing minerals, and multi-stage growths of zircon in U–Pb system. Rutile, as...
In situ zircon U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic data, major and trace elements, and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions are reported for the Longbaoshan alkaline intrusive complex in the western Shandong Province (Luxi Block), southeastern North China Craton. The Longbaoshan complex, which consists of quartz syenite, aegirine–augite syenite, hornblende syenite, monzonite, and syenodiorite, was emplaced at 129...
U–Pb and Hf isotope analysis of zircons from granitoids of the Permian–Triassic New England Batholith (eastern Australia) was carried out to provide constraints on the evolution of an isotopically and compositionally diverse batholith. Incipient plutonism in the early Permian resulted in the formation of isotopically evolved, peraluminous granodiorites of the Hillgrove Suite. Following this, mixing...
Middle to Late Triassic lavas were sampled within three tectonostratigraphic groups of the Hawasina Nappes in the Oman Mountains. They are predominantly alkali basalts and trachybasalts, associated with minor sub-alkaline basalts, trachyandesites, trachytes and rhyolites. Their major, trace elements and Nd–Pb isotopic compositions are very similar to those of the Permian plume-related high-Ti basalts...
The studied ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) eclogites, located in the southwestern part of the North Dabie complex zone (NDZ) in central China, represent deeply subducted mafic lower continental crust of the South China Block and display a multiple metamorphic evolution. However, the exact timing of the UHP metamorphism in the NDZ is poorly constrained, and thus impedes our understanding of the tectonic...
The Helanshan Complex is located at the westernmost segment of the Khondalite Belt, a continent–continent collisional belt along which the Yinshan Block in the north collided with the Ordos Block in the south to form the Western Block of the North China Craton. The complex consists of S-type granites and high-grade pelitic granulite/gneiss, felsic paragneiss, quartzite, calc-silicate rock and marble,...
Neogene alkaline intraplate volcanic rocks from the Viliga Volcanic Field (NE-Russia) were studied both to precisely characterize their geochemical composition and to unravel their petrogenetic history. The sampled volcanic rocks crop out within the voluminous calc-alkaline sequences of the Cretaceous Okhostk–Chukokta Volcanic Belt, an Andean-type arc formed during subduction of the Paleo-Pacific...
The detailed study of zircon can provide vital clues about the petrogenetic environment of granitoid rocks. Morphological and chemical studies of zircon grains from the Jingshan monzogranite in the Bengbu Uplift (Anhui province, eastern China) identify three phases of growth. Zircon I is brown, translucent, ovoid, and occurs as inherited cores. It shows two groups of 206 Pb/ 238 U...
The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), emplaced at the Triassic–Jurassic (T–J) boundary (~200Ma), is among the largest igneous provinces on Earth. The Maranhão basin in NE Brazil is located around 700km inland and 2000km from the site of the earliest Pangea disruption. The CAMP tholeiites occur only in the western part of the basin and have been described as low and high-Ti. Here we document...
An extensive collection of moissanite (SiC) grains from the Mir, Aikhal and Udachnaya kimberlite pipes of Yakutia has been characterized in terms of structural perfection, defects and the major- and trace-element chemistry of SiC and its included phases. The natural grains are clearly distinct from synthetic SiC produced by various methods. Most of the natural SiC grains are 6H and 15R polytypes....
New major and trace element data and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar plateau ages constrain the timing, duration and time-related geochemical evolution of the Central Atlantic magmatic province in the U.S.A. (Newark and Culpeper basins) and refine correlations with basaltic lava flows from other Late Triassic–Early Jurassic circum-Atlantic basins. The precise, statistically robust 40 Ar/ ...
Solubility experiments of manganotantalite (MnTa 2 O 6 ) and manganocolumbite (MnNb 2 O 6 ) were conducted under nearly fluid-saturated conditions in synthetic haplogranitic (HPG) and natural granitic (NG) melts containing different amounts of fluorine at 800 to 1000°C and 200MPa. The experiments were carried out in cold seal pressure vessels (at 800°C) with water or...
The broad Sr isotopic variability exhibited by granitoid rocks is commonly interpreted to reflect the mixing of magmas from different sources. However, evidence from granites and migmatites indicates that melting and magma extraction from crustal sources can occur sufficiently rapidly that trace-element and isotopic equilibration between liquid and residual phases is commonly not achieved. Additionally,...
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