Geochemistry and Genesis of the Late Jurassic Granitoids at Northern Great Hinggan Range: Implications for Exploration

The Longgouhe and Ershiyizhan intrusions of the Late Jurassic, located in the Upper Heilongjiang Basin of the northern Great Hinggan Range, are closely related to porphyry Cu‐Au mineralizations. In lithology the intrusions are quartz diorite, quartz monzodiorite and granodiorite of high‐K calc‐alkaline series, with minor aspects of shoshonite series. Their SiO₂ and Al₂O₃ contents range from 61.37% to 66.59% and 15.35% to 17.06%, respectively. The MgO content ranges from 2.02% to 3.47%, with Mg^# indices of 44–59. The (La/Yb)_N and Eu/Eu* values range from 16.85 to 81.73 and 0.68 to 0.93, respectively, showing strong differentiation rare earth element (REE) patterns similar to those of adakites. The rocks are enriched in Ba, Sr and light REE (LREE), obviously depleted in Nb and Ta, slightly depleted in Rb and Ti, and poor in Yb and Y, with Yb and Y contents of 0.31–1.32 ppm and 4.32–12.07 ppm, respectively. As indicated by Sr/Y ratios of 67.74–220.60, the rocks are characterized by low‐Y and high‐Sr contents, which characterize the adakites in the world. Holistically, geochemical tracers suggest that the interested intrusions are adakitic rocks. Given that the Paleo‐Asian Ocean and Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean were closed in the Late Paleozoic and Permian‐Middle Jurassic, respectively, the interested intrusions should be formed by partial melting of delaminated crust, which had been thickened during collisional orogeny between the Siberian and Mongolian‐Sinokorean continents.