Geochemistry of Archean Tonalitic—Ganodioritic Gneisses from Chicheng County,Northwestern Hebei Province

Detailed geological，chronological,mineralogical,petrological and geochemical studies have been conducted of the Chichent gneissic complex in northwestern Hebei province.The gneissic complex is composed mainly of tonalitic-granodioritic rocks according to O'Connor's classification.The zircou U-Pb age of the gneissic complex is 2468-27^+33 Ma.,consistent with that of the rocks in the North Tonalitic-granodioritic Gneiss Belt in the North China Platorm.The Archean Chicheng gneissic complex is part of the belt.No significant difference in composition between early anhedral metasomatic and late semi-euhedral plagiocalases suggests that the gneissic complex is not composed merely of mafic rocks replaced by felsic fiuids.The REE patterns in the complex,in conjunction with major and trace elements data,show that the gneissic complex is the mixture of felsic magma produced by partial melting of FI dacitic granulite and crystallate derived from the magma produced by 50%±partial melting of TH2 tholeiitic granulite and 40%±fractional crystallization of hornblende.

Geochemistry of Archean Tonalitic — granodioritic gneisses from Chicheng County,northwestern Hebei Province

Detailed geological, chronological, mineralogical, petrological and geochemical studies have been conducted of the Chicheng gneissic complex in northwestern Hebei Province. The gneissic complex is composed mainly of tonalitic —granodioritic rocks according to O’Connor’s classification. The zircon U-Pb age of the gneissic complex is 2468 ₋₂₇ ⁺³³ Ma., consistent with that of the rocks in the North Tonalitic —granodioritic Gneiss Belt in the North China Platform. The Archean Chicheng gneissic complex is part of the belt. No significant difference in composition between early anhedral metasomatic and late semi-euhedral plagioclases suggests that the gneissic complex is not composed merely of mafic rocks replaced by felsic fluids. The REE patterns in the complex, in conjunction with major and trace elements data, show that the gneissic complex is the mixture of felsic magma produced by partial melting of FI dacitic granulite and crystallate derived from the magma produced by 50% ±partial melting of TH₂ tholeiitic granulite and 40% ±fractional crystallization of hornblende.