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The Early Cretaceous Baijuhuajian pluton is an A-type granitic intrusion, emplaced along the Jiangshan-Shaoxing (JSSX) fault zone in western Zhejiang Province, SE South China. It intruded into a Late Jurassic volcanic basin bounded by Proterozoic sandstone and siltstone. The granite has a coarse-grained, porphyritic texture and is composed of alkali feldspar phenocrysts in a matrix of K-feldspar,...
Cathodoluminescence (CL) reveals red and blue colors within single, non-turbid albite (Ab 98–99 ) grains from the Georgeville granite, Nova Scotia. A 720 nm X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) peak characterizes red CL regions, while a 280 nm XEOL feature dominates blue CL regions. Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence results indicate that red CL and the 720 nm XEOL peak intensities relate...
Voluminous Late Paleozoic igneous rocks and associated Cu–Au–Mo deposits occur in the northwestern Tianshan district, Xinjiang, west China. However, the tectonic setting and petrogenesis of these rocks remain controversial. This paper reports zircon U–Pb and Hf CUU isotopic data, major and trace elements, and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic data for the intrusive rocks and minor dacites in the Lamasu–Dabate area...
The Gan-Hang rift, trending at least 450km in a NE–SW direction, is a part of a Mesozoic Basin and Range Province in southeastern China. Detailed SHRIMP zircon U–Pb chronology, major and trace element, and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope data of three granitic plutons and a diabasic dike in the northwest of the Gan-Hang rift, are used to explore the origin of these granites and their relationship to the evolution...
The Mannum granite in South Australia is a classic A-type granite which displays good evidence for magma mingling, such as numerous syn-plutonic mafic enclaves, and rapakivi feldspars in both the granite and enclave. Study of the Sr and Nd isotopes show that the systems are dominantly controlled by plagioclase and titanite, respectively. The contrasting behaviour of these minerals during the development...
Identification of the Mesoproterozoic A-type Jining granite and granite porphyry, which with abundant coeval mafic dike sills and volcanic rocks on the northern margin of the Precambrian North China Craton (NCC), may suggest intraplate extension of Columbia supercontinent. Major and trace elements of the Jining granite show an affinity to A-type granites, and may reflect an intraplate rift setting...
Early Cretaceous A-type granites in the Lower Yangtze River belt, central eastern China, with both A 1 and A 2 chemical subgroups, formed at 125±2Ma, after a Cretaceous ridge subduction. Remarkably, A 1 and A 2 group granites are distributed in three zones, roughly parallel to each other and to a slightly older adakite belt. In general, A 1 granites form in...
The widespread occurrence of Mesozoic granites in the Gan-Hang Belt in Southeast China is associated with similarly widespread, economically important mineralization, but the precise timing, origin, and plate tectonic significance of these granites are not well understood. We have studied two of these (Early Cretaceous) granite bodies, the Yangmeiwan granite and the Daqiaowu granitic porphyry, from...
The close association of mantle-derived mafic rocks and crust-derived felsic rocks in AMCG suites the world over is now interpreted in terms of delamination of the lithospheric keel of an orogen within a short time after the cessation of a major collision. The stage is set for the ascent of an asthenospheric diapir, which is accompanied by the ascent of a stream of H 2 O–CO 2 representing...
The Sanandaj–Sirjan metamorphic–plutonic Belt (SSB) in west central Iran is a polyphase metamorphic terrain composed of dominantly greenschist-grade metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks, and felsic to mafic plutons, of Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic ages. The Hasanrobat granite in central SSB occurs as a single pluton, ~20km 2 surface area, with relatively consistent mineralogy and chemistry...
The Krušné hory/Erzgebirge Mountains is one of the best-known provinces of granite magmatism and associated metallogenesis in Europe. Variscan magmatic activity in the Krušné hory/Erzgebirge area spanned the period from 330 to 295Ma. For much of this time, two types of magma were generated and emplaced in close proximity in this province. Strongly peraluminous P-rich (S-type) melts were formed alongside...
New whole-rock geochemistry and LA-MC-ICPMS and Pb-evaporation geochronological data were obtained on zircon from the Neoarchean Planalto suite granites and associated charnockitic rocks of the Canaã area of the Carajás province, eastern Amazonian craton, Brazil. The Pb-evaporation ages of three samples from the Planalto suite are around 2730Ma (2733±2Ma, 2731±1Ma and 2736±4Ma), whereas U–Pb LA-MC-ICPMS...
The emplacement of anorogenic magmas, be they mantle-derived or crust-derived and silica-undersaturated or silica-oversaturated, marks a period of rifting or tectonic relaxation and apparent quiescence. In a given area, such magmatism commonly recurs episodically, and can yield even more strongly alkaline products than in the first cycle, in spite of the depletion that resulted from that episode of...
The Zabili granitic pluton (SW Chad) exposed in the Mayo Kebbi massif is dominated by a coarse-grained hornblende biotite granite grading into a fine-grained biotite granite along its southern margin. Petrologic (micrographic intergrowth of quartz and alkali feldspars, granophyric microstructures, the presence of fluorite and bastnaesite as accessory minerals) and geochemical data (high silica, alkalis...
The South Tianshan Collisional Belt (STCB) and northern margin of the Tarim Block (NTB) are key areas for understanding the prolonged tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The Halajun region in Xinjiang province, NW China is located within the tectonic transition zone between STCB and Tarim Blocks. Several granitic intrusions and one mafic–ultramafic complex (Piqiang complex)...
A detailed study utilizing zircon U–Pb dating, major and trace element geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope geochemistry has been carried out for the Caijiang granite in Jiangxi Province and the Gaoxi granite in Fujian Province, South China. The new data indicate that the Caijiang and Gaoxi granites are Triassic (228–230Ma) and have the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of A-type granites...
The uncommon association of cogenetic and nearly contemporaneous potassic K-feldspar A-type granites and sodic albite granites is observed within the 347Ma-old bimodal Saint-Jean-du-Doigt (SJDD) intrusion, Brittany, France. A-type granites outcrop as small bodies (<1km 2 ) of fine-grained, pinkish to yellowish rock or as meter-thick sills in-between mafic layers. They emplaced early within...
Whole rock major and trace element, Nd–Sr and zircon Hf isotopic compositions and secondary-ion mass spectrometry zircon U–Pb ages of eleven granitoid intrusions and dioritic rocks from the East Junggar (NW China) were analyzed in this study. The East Junggar granitoids were emplaced during terminal Early to Late Carboniferous (325–301Ma) following volcanic eruption of the Batamayi Formation. Zircons...
In the early Permian large volumes of volcanic rocks developed in the Eastern Tianshan of the southern Altaids. The Shaerhu alkaline complex, which occurs along a NW-trending transcurrent fault in the Dananhu arc, is composed of alkaline gabbro intrusions, granites and rhyolites; the gabbros and rhyolites have similar zircon crystallization ages of 286.5±2.1Ma and 286.7±2.1Ma, respectively. The granitic...
Permian mafic and felsic intrusions occur along the Kangguer Shear Zone (KSZ) in the Jueluotage area, Eastern Tianshan, northwest China. This study focuses on the Permian felsic intrusions (288–276.2Ma). Systematic geological and geochemical investigations show that granite plutons in the western KSZ (Dikan, Guandao and Hongshi) have lower Al and higher alkali contents than those in the eastern KSZ...
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