Geochemistry and petrogenesis of post-collisional alkaline and peralkaline granites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: a case study from the southern tip of Sinai Peninsula,Egypt

The southern Sinai Peninsula, underlain by the northernmost extension of the Arabian-Nubian Shield, exposes post-collisional calc-alkaline and alkaline granites that represent the youngest phase of late Neoproterozoic igneous activity. We report a petrographic, mineralogical and geochemical investigation of post-collisional plutons of alkaline and, in some cases, peralkaline granite. These granites intrude metamorphosed country rocks as well as syn- and post-collisional calc-alkaline granitoids. The alkaline and peralkaline granites of the southern tip of Sinai divide into three subgroups: syenogranite, alkali feldspar granite and riebeckite granite. The rocks of these subgroups essentially consist of alkali feldspar and quartz with variable amounts of plagioclase and mafic minerals. The syenogranite and alkali feldspar granite contain small amounts of calcic amphibole and biotite, often less than 3%, while the riebeckite granite is distinguished by sodic amphibole (5–10%). These plutons have geochemical signatures typical of post-collisional A-type granites and were most likely emplaced during a transition between orogenic and anorogenic settings. The parental mafic magma may be linked to lithospheric delamination and upwelling of asthenospheric mantle material. Differentiation of the underplated basaltic magma with contributions from the juvenile crust eventually yielded the post-collisional alkaline granites. Petrogenetic modelling of the studied granitic suite shows that pure fractional crystallization cannot quantitatively explain chemical variations with the observed suite, with both major oxides and several trace elements displaying trends opposite to those required by the equilibrium phase assemblage. Instead, we show that compositional variation from syenogranite through alkali feldspar granite to riebeckite granite is dominated by mixing between a low-SiO₂ liquid as primitive or more primitive than the lowest-SiO₂ syenogranite and an evolved, high-SiO₂ liquid that might be a high-degree partial melt of lower crust.     

Post-collisional magmatism in the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: The geotectonic evolution of the alkaline suite at Gebel Tarbush area, south Sinai, Egypt

Post-collisional alkaline magmatism (∼610–580 Ma) is widely distributed in the northern part of the Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS), i.e. the northern part of the Egyptian Eastern Desert and Sinai. Alkaline rocks of G. Tarbush constitute the western limb of the Katharina ring complex (∼593 ± 16 Ma) in southern Sinai. This suite commenced with the extrusion of peralkaline volcanics and quartz syenite subvolcanics intruded by syenogranite and alkali feldspar granite. The mineralogy and geochemistry of these rocks indicate an alkaline/peralkaline within-plate affinity. Quartz syenite is relatively enriched in TiO₂, Fe₂O₃, MgO, CaO, Sr, Ba and depleted in SiO₂, Nb, Y, and Rb. The G. Tarbush alkaline suite most likely evolved via fractionation of mainly feldspar and minor mafic phases (hornblende, aegirine) from a common quartz syenite parental magma, which formed via partial melting of middle crustal rocks of ANS juvenile crust. Mantle melts could have provided the heat required for the middle crustal melting. The upper mantle melting was likely promoted by erosional decompression subsequent to lithospheric delamination and crustal uplift during the late-collisional stage of the ANS. Such an explanation could explain the absence or scarce occurrence of mafic and intermediate lithologies in the abundant late- to post-collisional calc-alkaline and alkaline suites in the northern ANS. Moreover, erosion related to crustal uplift during the late-collision stage could account for the lack or infrequent occurrence of older lithologies, i.e. island arc metavolcanics and marginal basin ophiolites, from the northern part of the ANS.     

Geochemistry,petrogenesis and radioactive mineralization of two coeval Neoproterozoic post-collisional calc-alkaline and alkaline granitoid suites from Sinai,Arabian Nubian Shield

The Younger Granites of Yahmid-Um Adawi area, located in the southeastern part of Sinai Peninsula, comprise two coeval Late Neoproterozoic post-collisional alkaline (hypersolvous alkali-feldspar granites; 608–580?Ma) and calc-alkaline (transsolvous monzo- and syenogranites; 635–590?Ma) suites. The calc-alkaline suite granitoids are magnesian and peraluminous to metaluminous, whereas the alkaline ones are magnesian to ferroan alkaline to slightly metaluminous. Both granitoid suites exhibit many of the typical geochemical features of A-type granites such as enrichment in Nb (>20?ppm), Zr (>250?ppm), Zn (>100?ppm) and Ce (>100?ppm) and high 10000*Ga/Al₂O₃ ratios (>2.6) and Zr?+?Nb?+?Y?+?Ce (>350?ppm). Accessory mineral saturation thermometers demonstrated former crystallization of apatite at high temperatures prior to zircon and monazite separation from the magma for both granitoid suites. The mild zircon saturation temperatures of the studied Younger Granites (around 800?°C) imply low-temperature crustal fusion and incomplete melting of the largely refractory zircon. The two Younger Granite suites were semi-synchronously evolved during the post-collisional stage of the Arabian-Nubian Shield subsequent to the collision between the juvenile shield crust and the older pre-Neoproterozoic continental blocks of west Gondwana. Their parental magmas has been generated by melting of crustal source rocks with minor involvement from mantle, which might participated chiefly as a source of heat necessary for fusion of the crustal precursor. Extensive in-situ gamma-ray spectrometry revealed anomalously high radioactivity of some Younger Granite exposures along Wadi Um Adawi (eU; 388–746?ppm and eTh; 1857–2527?ppm) and pegmatitic pockets pertaining to the calc-alkaline suite (equivalent U and Th; 212–252?ppm and 750–1757?ppm, respectively). The radioactivity of the syngenetic pegmatites arises from the primary radioactive minerals uranothorite and thorite together with the U- and/or Th-bearing minerals zircon, columbite, samarskite and monazite. The anomalously high radioactivity of some Younger Granite exposures in Wadi Um Adawi stem from their appreciable enclosure of the epigenetic uranium minerals metatorbenite and uranophane.     

Constraints of Mantle and Crustal Sources Interaction during Orogenesis of Pre- and Post-collision Granitoids from the Northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: A Case Study from Wadi El-Akhder Granitoids,Southern Sinai,Egypt

The Egyptian older and younger granitic rocks emplaced during pre- and post-collision stages of Neoproterozoic Pan-African orogeny, respectively, are widely distributed in the southern Sinai Peninsula, constituting 70% of the basement outcrops. The Wadi El-Akhder, southwestern Sinai, is a mountainous terrain exposing two granitoid suites, namely the Wadi El-Akhder Older Granites (AOG) and the Homra Younger Granites (HYG). The AOG (granodiorites with subordinate tonalite compositions) have geochemical characteristics of medium-K calc-alkaline, metaluminous to mildly peraluminous granitoids formed in an island-arc environment, which are conformable with well-known Egyptian older granitoids rocks, whereas the HYG display calc-alkaline to slightly alkaline nature, peraluminous syeno-, monzogranites and alkali feldspar granites matching well those of the Egyptian younger granites. With respect to the AOG granitoids, the HYG granites contain lower Al2O3, FeO*, MgO, MnO, CaO, TiO2, Sr, Ba, and V, but higher Na2O, K2O, Nb, Zr, Th, and Rb. The AOG are generally characterized by enrichment in LILE and LREE and depletion in HFSE relative to N-MORB values (e.g., negative Nb and Ta anomalies). The geochemical features of the AOG follow assimilation-fractional crystallization (AFC) trends indicative of extensive crustal contamination of magma derived from a mantle source. The chemical characteristics of the AOG are remarkably similar to those of subduction-related granitoids from the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS). The compositional variations from monzogranites through syenogranites to alkali feldspar granite within HYG could not be explained by fractional crystallization solely. Correlating the whole-rock composition of the HYG to melts generated by experimental dehydration melting of meta-sedimentary and magmatic rocks reveals that they appear to be derived by extended melting of psammitic and pelitic metasediments, which is similar to the most of younger granitic suites in the ANS.     

Magmatic and post-magmatic evolution of post-collisional rare-metal bearing granite: The Neoproterozoic Homrit Akarem Granitic Intrusion,south Eastern Desert of Egypt,Arabian-Nubian Shield

The Homrit Akarem granitic intrusion (HAGI) outcrops near the western edge of the south Eastern Desert basement exposure in Egypt. It is a composite of two cogenetic intrusive bodies: an early albite granite phase shallowly emplaced at the apex of a magmatic cupola, and a later subjacent pink granite phase with a marginal zone of muscovite granite and better preservation of magmatic features. Mineral chemistry of primary biotite and garnet, together with whole-rock chemistry, identify the HAGI as a highly fractionated A-type peraluminous intrusion. The chemistry of F-dominant, Li-bearing, Fe³⁺-rich primary magmatic mica in the pink granite resembles that typically found in highly evolved Nb-Y-F pegmatites. The HAGI is the evolved product of a primary magma generated by partial melting of juvenile crust of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS), emplaced along a regional strike-slip fault system that promoted its ascent. The main emplacement mechanism and evolutionary sequence of the HAGI was magmatic, although secondary minerals and textures resulting from hydrothermal fluid interactions are observed, especially at its margins. Primary columbite-(Mn) crystallized from melt and was partly replaced by secondary fluorcalciomicrolite. The high fluorine content of magmatic fluids exsolved from the intrusion is indicated by quartz-fluorite veins, greisenization, albitization, and F-bearing secondary oxide minerals. The magmatic derivation of this fluid is demonstrated by the F-dominant primary mica, a siderophyllite-polylithionite solid solution commonly known as zinnwaldite. The chemistry of zinnwaldite constrains the F/OH activity ratio and oxygen fugacity of its parental melt and thereby resolves the ambiguity between pressure and the effects of F in controlling the normative quartz content of rare-metal granites. The HAGI is less mineralized than the post-collisional rare-metal granites found further east in the south Eastern Desert, replicating a trend observed previously in the central Eastern Desert and suggesting that east-west zoning in rare metal enrichment is a persistent feature across latitudes at the western edge of the ANS.     

Transpressive Structures in the Ghadir Shear Belt,Eastern Desert,Egypt: Evidence for Partitioning of Oblique Convergence in the Arabian‐Nubian Shield during Gondwana Agglutination

Transpressional deformation has played an important role in the late Neoproterozoic evolution of the ArabianNubian Shield including the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Ghadir Shear Belt is a 35 km-long, NW-oriented brittleductile shear zone that underwent overall sinistral transpression during the Late Neoproterozoic. Within this shear belt, strain is highly partitioned into shortening, oblique, extensional and strike-slip structures at multiple scales. Moreover, strain partitioning is heterogeneous along-strike giving rise to three distinct structural domains. In the East Ghadir and Ambaut shear belts, the strain is pure-shear dominated whereas the narrow sectors parallel to the shear walls in the West Ghadir Shear Zone are simple-shear dominated. These domains are comparable to splay-dominated and thrust-dominated strike-slip shear zones. The kinematic transition along the Ghadir shear belt is consistent with separate strike-slip and thrustsense shear zones. The earlier fabric(S1), is locally recognized in low strain areas and SW-ward thrusts. S2 is associated with a shallowly plunging stretching lineation(L2), and defines ～NW-SE major upright macroscopic folds in the East Ghadir shear belt. F2 folds are superimposed by ～NNW–SSE tight-minor and major F3 folds that are kinematically compatible with sinistral transpressional deformation along the West Ghadir Shear Zone and may represent strain partitioning during deformation. F2 and F3 folds are superimposed by ENE–WSW gentle F4 folds in the Ambaut shear belt. The sub-parallelism of F3 and F4 fold axes with the shear zones may have resulted from strain partitioning associated with simple shear deformation along narrow mylonite zones and pure shear-dominant deformation in fold zones. Dextral ENEstriking shear zones were subsequently active at ca. 595 Ma, coeval with sinistral shearing along NW-to NNW-striking shear zones. The occurrence of upright folds and folds with vertical axes suggests that transpression plays a significant role in the tectonic evolution of the Ghadir shear belt. Oblique convergence may have been provoked by the buckling of the Hafafit gneiss-cored domes and relative rotations between its segments. Upright folds, fold with vertical axes and sinistral strike-slip shear zones developed in response to strain partitioning. The West Ghadir Shear Zone contains thrusts and strikeslip shear zones that resulted from lateral escape tectonics associated with lateral imbrication and transpression in response to oblique squeezing of the Arabian-Nubian Shield during agglutination of East and West Gondwana.     

Rare metal-bearing pegmatites from the Southeastern Desert of Egypt： Geology, geochemical characteristics, and petrogenesis

The pegmatite province of the Southeastern Desert (SED) is part of a pegmatite district that extends from Egypt (extends to 1200 km2). Rare metal pegmatites are divided into (1) unzoned, Sn-mineralized; (2) zoned Li, Nb, Ta and Be-bearing; and (3) pegmatites and pegmatites containing colored, gem-quality tourmaline. The Rb/Sr data reflect a crustal origin for the rare metal pegmatites and indicate that the original SED magma was generated during the peak of regional metamorphism and predates the intrusion of post-tectonic leucogranites. These bodies developed an early border zone consisting of coarse to very coarse muscovite quartz alkali feldspar, followed by an intermediate zone of dominant quartz feldspar muscovite rock. Garnet, tourmaline, beryl, galena, pyrite, amblygonite, apatite and monazite are rare accessories in both zones. Cassiterite tends to concentrate in replacement zones and along fractures in albite quartz muscovite-rich portions. The highest concentrations of cassiterite occur in irregular greisenized zones which consist dominantly of micaceous aggregates of green Li-rich muscovite, quartz, albite and coarse-grained cassiterite. The different metasomatic post-solidification alterations include sodic and potassic metasomatism, greisenization and tourmalinization. Geochemically, the pegmatite-generating granites have a metaluminous composition, showing a differentiation trend from coarse-grained, unfractionated plagioclase-rich granite towards highly fractionated fine- to medium-grained, local albite-rich rock. Economically important ore minerals introduced by volatile-rich, rare metal-bearing fluids, either primarily or during the breakdown of the primary mineral assemblages, are niobium-tantalum oxides, Sn-oxides (cassiterite), Li-silicates (petalite, spodumene, euctyptite, and pollucite), Li-phosphates (amblygonite, montebrasite and lithopilite) and minor REE-minerals (Hf-zircon, monazite, xenotime, thorian, loparite and yttrio-fluorite). The pollucite is typically associated with spodumene, petalite, amblygonite, quartz and feldspar. The primary pollucite has Si/Al (at) ratios of 2.53-2.65 and CRK of 79.5- 82.2. Thorian loparite is essentially a member of the loparite (NaLREETi2O6)-lueshite (NaNbO3)-ThTi2O6-ThNb4O12 quaternary system with low or negligible contents of other end-member compositions. The mineral compositionally evolved from niobian loparite to niobian thorian and thorian loparite gave rise to ceriobetafite and belyankinite with high ThO2 contents. Thorian loparite is metamict or partly metamict and upon heating regains a structure close to that of synthetic loparite NaLaTi2O6.     

Geochronological and geochemical characteristics of fractionated I-type granites associated with the skarn mineralization in the Sangan mining region,NE Iran

The Sangan mining region, which has a proven reserve of approximately 1000 Mt of 53% iron ore, is located in the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardeskan volcano-plutonic belt in northeastern Iran. The geological units in the eastern zone of the Sangan region consist of Precambrian schists, Jurassic sedimentary rocks and Tertiary subvolcanic granitoid intrusions. Iron skarn mineralization consists of stratiform and massive bodies in the carbonate rocks that are adjacent to the granitoid intrusions. Detailed field mapping revealed that 39-Ma syenitic intrusive bodies in the western and central zones of the Sangan region were the main sources of heat and fluid for the iron mineralization.A Mid-Cenozoic biotite granite pluton is associated with the eastern anomalies. However, field relationships suggested that this pluton is not the source of the metals, heat or fluids that were responsible for the iron mineralization. This pluton is rich in silica (SiO₂ contents from 66.4 to 79.1 wt%) and is characterized by high-K series with metaluminous to slightly peraluminous affinity.Geochronological (U-Pb zircon method) and geochemical data, including major and trace elements and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes, define the complex origin of these plutons, which consist of alkaline granitoids that appear to be A-type in character but also show I-type affinity.New geochemical and isotopic data from plutons in the eastern anomalies and data from previous studies of the western and central anomalies and the southeastern intrusive rocks in the Sangan region show that these plutons have close affiliation with lower to upper crust-derived melts and were largely modified into highly fractionated I-type granite. These rocks were derived from and emplaced by varying degrees of partial melting during the Middle Eocene (Bartonian to Lutetian, 38.3–43.9 Ma) from a crustal protolith in a normal to mature volcanic continental arc setting.The Sangan granitoids were produced from crustal assimilation by a heat source from mantle melts, which are associated with the Kashmar-Neotethyan slab that subducted under Eurasia. The Khaf-Kashmar-Bardeskan igneous rocks reflect an active Cenozoic plate margin that was related to the closure of the Kashmar-Neotethyan Sea between the Lut and Eurasia blocks because of the continuous convergence between the Arabian and Iran plates during the Late Cretaceous–Early Paleocene.     

The chromite deposits associated with ophiolite complexes, Southeastern Desert, Egypt： Petrological and geochemical characteristics and mineralization

1 Introduction The association of massive Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides andchromite is a very unusual feature of podiformchromitites occurring in mantle tectonites of ophioliticcomplexes. It has only been described in theSoutheastern Desert, Egypt, where sulfides a…     

胶东晚中生代花岗岩的源区性质与构造环境演化及其对金成矿的启示

胶东地区位于华北板块与大别-苏鲁造山带拼合位置的东北端,晚中生代发育强烈的构造-岩浆事件,是研究区域构造活动体制转换和克拉通破坏过程的理想之地.本文以晚中生代花岗岩为研究对象,通过详细的岩相学、岩石地球化学、锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb年代学及Sr-Nd同位素研究,探讨了岩浆源区性质和成岩成矿的构造环境演变历史.研...     

川西扎乌龙-青海草陇花岗伟晶岩型稀有金属矿床磷灰石地球化学特征及地质意义

扎乌龙-草陇锂矿床位于松潘-甘孜造山带中西部,为典型的花岗伟晶岩型稀有金属矿床。前人基于矿区花岗岩和伟晶岩紧密的时空及成因关系,认为伟晶岩与白云母花岗岩同源且成矿与花岗质岩浆的分异相关。然而,岩浆分异演化过程中熔体的信息记录及其何种地质过程对成矿起主导作用,仍缺乏有效制约。本文对矿区花岗质岩浆来源及其演化过程开展了研究,即对白云母花岗岩、14号成矿伟晶岩脉进行了精细的磷灰石微区原位分析测试。结果显示,磷灰石具有高的Sr同位素、高F低Cl及还原性质特征,指示了扎乌龙矿区初始岩浆源自于造山过程中深部三叠纪复理石沉积物的部分熔融作用。岩浆磷灰石记录了白云母花岗岩从中间相至边缘相,Th、U、Mn含量以及Th/U值升高,REEs、Y以及F含量降低;流体交代磷灰石则记录了伟晶岩阶段变化的但整体偏高的Th、U、Mn含量以及Th/U值,降低的REEs、Y以及F含量。这些地球化学的系统变化充分表明,白云母花岗岩为较原始的岩浆,伟晶岩为岩浆高度演化的产物。从白云母花岗岩到伟晶岩的岩浆演化过程中,经历了斜长石、钾长石、云母、锆石、独居石、榍石、石榴石和磷灰石的分离结晶作用。当岩浆演化到伟晶岩阶段时,熔体氧逸度升高并高度富集H₂O、F等挥发性组分,导致了熔体结构发生实质性变化并有利于Li、Be等稀有金属元素的富集。研究表明,花岗质岩浆的高度分异是花岗伟晶岩型稀有金属矿床成矿的关键控制因素。

     

东准噶尔卡拉麦里断裂以南幔源底侵体、“钉合花岗岩体”的发现及其地质意义

新疆富蕴县滴水泉-畜牧办侵入体出露于卡拉麦里断裂以南,呈北西西向带状分布,以碱长花岗岩体为主,也可见规模较小的角闪辉长岩体。碱长花岗岩体的岩石组合为碱长花岗斑岩+碱长花岗岩,高硅(SiO_2=71.07%~76.71%),富碱(Na_2O+K_2O=7.41%~9.07%)、K_2ONa_2O(平均为1.10),显示出A型花岗岩的特点。角闪辉长岩体涌动侵入于碱长花岗岩体之中,二者接触带附近发育浆混性质的石英闪长岩。辉长岩+花岗岩的双峰式岩石组合、构造判别图解R2-R1及区域地质背景指示滴水泉侵入体形成于陆内伸展环境,且花岗岩体具有"钉合岩体"的作用,穿插了卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带。结合岩体的LA-ICP-MS锆石年龄(碱长花岗岩的206Pb/238U加权平均年龄为321±2Ma,角闪辉长岩的206Pb/238U加权平均年龄为319±3Ma)可知,卡拉麦里洋盆在晚石炭世早期(321Ma)之前已经闭合。同位素及微量元素特征显示,碱长花岗岩为年轻地壳部分熔合融的产物,而角闪辉长岩则来源于亏损的软流圈地幔及俯冲交代的地幔楔物质,代表了同期花岗岩的底侵岩浆演化的产物。辉长岩与花岗岩相似的εNd(t)值及明显的岩浆混合作用表明该区的花岗岩体并非来源于底侵岩浆的高度分异或底侵体的部分熔融,而最可能为底侵体之上的年轻地壳的部分熔融,这一结论与最近一些学者研究的断裂以北的花岗岩体成因机制相同。晚石炭世早期幔源底侵体的发现,为卡拉麦里地区后碰撞花岗岩类的幔源底侵作用提供了可靠的地质依据。     

青海南山地区加里东期强过铝质花岗岩锆石U-Pb年龄、地球化学特征及其地质意义

青海南山地区位于南祁连构造带和西秦岭造山带的交接部位,在该地区元古宇变质地层中新厘定出一套含石榴子石白云母二长花岗岩,并对其进行了详细的岩石学、岩石地球化学和LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年研究。结果表明,浪日娘含石榴子石白云母二长花岗岩结晶年龄为438.7±4.2Ma,形成于早志留世早期。岩石含石榴子石、白云母、电气石等高铝矿物,同时具高SiO_2、富Al_2O_3特征,高铝饱和指数A/CNK=1.09～1.28,属高钾钙碱性强过铝质S型花岗岩;微量元素富集大离子亲石元素Cs、Rb、U、K和Pb,亏损高场强元素Nb、Ti、Zr、P和Ba、Sr;稀土元素总量低,配分曲线为轻稀土元素富集的右倾模式,具有弱-中等负Eu异常。高Rb/Sr值(1.83～3.95)、低CaO/Na_2O值(0.11～0.19),伴随有Pb正异常和Ba负异常,暗示源区物质成分为泥质岩并经历了缺水熔融条件下的白云母脱水熔融。结合岩体年龄及区域地质资料,推断其可能形成于原特提斯洋闭合碰撞造山过程。     

Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of scheelite-bearing skarns,and genetic relations between skarn mineralization and petrogenesis of the associated granitoid pluton at Sargipali,Sundergarh District,Eastern India

Skarn rocks occur at the contact between calcite-bearing dolomitic marbles and granitoids (massive varieties with pegmatites) in close spatial association with the mica schist-hosted Proterozoic Pb–Cu–Ag sulfide deposits at Sargipali, Sundergarh District, Eastern India. The exoskarn (pyroxene–garnet) of variable width (1 to 30 m) occurs in marble proximal to the granitic intrusion, and endoskarn (pyroxene–epidote) is variably developed (< 1 to 10 m). Molybdenum-free scheelite with minor pyrrhotite (0.2%) is found only in late garnet–clinopyroxene exoskarn assemblages.     

Geochronological, geochemical and geothermal constraints on petrogenesis of the Indosinian peraluminous granites in the South China Block: A case study in the Hunan Province

The Indosinian granites in the South China Block (SCB) have important tectonic significance for the evolution of East Asia. Samples collected from Hunan Province can be geochemically classified into two groups. Group 1 is strongly peraluminous (A/CNK > 1.1), similar to S-type granites, and Group 2 has A/CNK = 1.0–1.1, with an affinity to I-type granites. Group 1 has lower FeOt, Al₂O₃, MgO, CaO, TiO₂ and ε_Nd(t) values but higher K₂O + Na₂O, Rb/Sr, Rb/Ba and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr(t) than those of Group 2. Samples of both groups have similar LREE enriched pattern, with (Eu/Eu) = 0.19–0.69, and strongly negative Ba, Sr, Nb, P and Ti anomalies. Geothermobarometry study indicates that the precursor magmas were emplaced at high-level depth with relatively low temperature (734–827 °C). Geochemical data suggest that Group 1 was originated from a source dominated by pelitic composition and Group 2 was from a mixing source of pelitic and basaltic rocks with insignificant addition of newly mantle-derived magma. Eight granitic samples in Hunan Province are dated at the cluster of 243–235 and 218–210 Ma by zircon U–Pb geochronology. Together with recent zircon U–Pb ages for other areas in the SCB, two age-clusters, including 243–228 Ma just after peak-metamorphism ( 246–252 Ma) and 220–206 Ma shortly after magma underplating event (224 Ma), are observed. It is proposed that in-situ radiogenic heating from the over-thickened crust induced dehydrated reaction of muscovite and epidote/zoisite to form the early Indosinian granites in response to the isostatic readjustments of tectonically thickened crust. Conductive heating from the underplating magma in the postcollisional setting triggered the formation of late Indosinian granites. Such a consideration is supported by the results from FLAC numerical simulation.     

内蒙古北山造山带小红山地区三叠纪花岗岩成因—来自锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素的约束

对北山造山带小红山地区三叠纪花岗斑岩锆石U-Pb年龄、锆石Hf同位素和全岩地球化学组成进行了研究。LA-MC-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年结果显示,2个花岗斑岩样品的锆石206Pb/238U年龄为211.8±1.6 Ma和205.9±1.7 Ma,显示花岗斑岩的侵位时代为晚三叠世晚期。花岗斑岩具有高硅、富碱、准铝,贫钙、镁、铁的特征,属于高钾钙碱性至钾玄岩系列,分异程度较高,属高分异Ⅰ型花岗岩,富集Rb、Th、U、La、Ce等大离子亲石元素,亏损Nb、P、Ti等高场强元素和Ba、Sr,表现出低Sr,高Yb和Y的特点,并具有明显的负Eu异常。εHf（t）值较高（-1.43~9.93）,Hf同位素地壳模式年龄TDMC为610~1335 Ma,指示花岗斑岩均源于具有幔源烙印的新生地壳并混有重熔的古老地壳。结合最近获得的数据及区域地质资料,提出在后造山伸展体制下,基性岩浆底侵带来的热导致新元古代—古生代新生地壳的部分熔融,并遭受了下元古界古老地壳重熔的岩浆混染,形成的岩浆经过分离结晶作用,最终在中上地壳侵位形成了晚三叠世花岗斑岩。     

湘东北金井地区花岗岩成因及地球动力学暗示：岩石学、地球化学和Sr-Nd同位素制约

出露于湘东北地区的燕山期花岗质岩岩体,呈岩基或岩株状广泛侵位于中元古界冷家溪群浅变质碎屑沉积岩中, 部分岩体为白垩纪红层覆盖。文章详细研究了金井岩体的岩石学、地球化学及Sr-Nd同位素特征,并与其围岩冷家溪群进行了对比。该岩体具有较高的SiO2(71．44-74．31wt．％)、K2O(3．86-4．98wt．％)和Na2O(3．24-3．84wt．％),以及较低的 FeO Fe2O3 MgO TiO2(均小于3％),结合高含量的Al2O3(13．25-14．89wt．％)及高ASI值(普遍大于1．1),为典型的强过铝质(SP)高钾钙碱性花岗岩。金井花岗岩富硅、碱和高Sr、Ba丰度、高LILE／HSFE和LREE／HREE比值,低镁铁质及REE 含量,表明金井岩体为高度分异的花岗岩,其源区的残留物中黑云母含量高。REE配分图和原始地幔多元素标准化图谱上 Rb、Th、U、K和LREE相对富集,而Ba、Sr和高强场元素(Nb、Ta、P和Ti)相对亏损,Eu可变的负异常(δEu:0．53-0．78),表明存在角闪石、黑云母、堇青石、磷灰石和钛铁矿等分异演化的影响,类似于同碰撞型花岗岩地球化学特征。高Rb／Sr(3-6)、低 Sr／Ba(0．2-0．7)、高P2O5含量(0．09-0．15wt．％)、低Al2O3／TiO2比值(40-700．4和<0．2两组)以及Nd同位素的不同(高Nd和低Nd两组),类似于围岩冷家溪群砂质和泥质沉积岩特征,以及高Sr[(87Sr／86Sr)i=0．72204-0．72540]、低Nd[εNd(145 Ma)=-10--12]等均表明花岗质岩浆主要起源于中元古代冷家溪群变质砂岩(高Ca)和变质泥岩(低Ca)的部分熔融或中下地壳物质的熔融,但有少量地幔物质的加入。结合印支期以来华南及湘东北地区地球动力学演化史,作者认为金井燕山期花岗岩形成于陆内碰撞造山晚期,是160-140Ma 陆内俯冲(A型俯冲)碰撞造山作用增温减压体制达到鼎盛阶段的产物,标志湘东北地区由此全面转入陆内伸展阶段。     

Isotope geochronology,geochemistry, and mineral chemistry of the U-bearing and barren granites from the Zhuguangshan complex,South China: Implications for petrogenesis and uranium mineralization

The Zhuguangshan complex carries some of the most important granite-hosted uranium deposits in South China. Here we investigate the Changjiang and Jiufeng granites which represent typical U-bearing and barren granites in the complex, using zircon U-Pb ages, whole-rock geochemistry, Sr-Nd isotopic and zircon Hf isotopic data, and mineral chemistry, to constrain the petrogenesis and uranium mineralization. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating shows that both the Changjiang and Jiufeng granites were emplaced ca. 160 Ma. These rocks show high silica, weakly to strongly peraluminous compositions, enrichment in Rb, Th, and U, and depletion in Ba, Nb, Sr, P, and Ti. These features coupled with the high initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios, negative εNd(t) values and εHf(t) values, and the Paleoproterozoic two stage model ages of these two granites suggest that the two granites belong to S-type granites, and the parental magmas of the two granites were derived from the Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks. However, the granitoids show different mineralogical characteristics. The biotite in the Changjiang granite belongs to siderophyllite, marking higher degree of chloritization, whereas the biotite in the Jiufeng granite is ferribiotite, characterized by only slight chloritization. Compared with the Jiufeng granite, the biotite in the Changjiang granite has lower crystallization temperature and oxygen fugacity, but higher F content, and the uraninite has higher UO₂ content but lower ThO₂ content, and stronger corrosion. The chemical ages of uraninites from both granites are (within error) consistent with the zircon U-Pb ages and are considered to represent the emplacement ages of granites. Chemical ages of pitchblende in the Changjiang granite yield 118 ± 8 Ma, 87 ± 4 Ma, and 68 ± 6 Ma, representing multiple episodes of hydrothermal events that are responsible for the precipitation of U ores in the Changjiang uranium ore field. Our study suggests that the degree of magma differentiation and physicochemical conditions of the magmatic-hydrothermal system are the key factors that control the different U contents of these two granites. The mineralogical characteristics of uraninite and biotite can be used to distinguish between U-bearing and barren granites, and serve as a potential tool for prospecting granite-hosted uranium deposits.     

大兴安岭明水地区三叠纪花岗岩的锆石U-Pb年龄、地球化学特征及构造意义

大兴安岭中段明水地区头道河岩体主要由花岗闪长岩、二长花岗岩组成。锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb同位素测年结果显示,头道河岩体形成于243~240 Ma的中三叠世。岩石地球化学资料显示头道河岩体具有高硅(Si O2=61.32%~78.19%),富铝(Al2O3=11.85%~16.87%),贫铁(TFe2O3=0.56%~5.93%)、镁(Mg O=0.16%~3.30%)、钙(Ca O=0.26%~2.94%)的特征,为一套高钾钙碱性的I型花岗岩;稀土元素总量偏低(ΣREE=75.5×10-6~149.49×10-6),稀土元素分馏明显,(La/Yb)N介于8.71~17.61之间,无明显铕异常;微量元素以富集Rb、Pb、Th、U等大离子亲石元素,亏损Nb、Ta、Ti等高场强元素为特征。锆石原位Hf同位素分析表明,该岩体花岗质岩石的176Hf/177Hf值为0.282 811~0.283 227,εHf(t)为较高的正值(+6.55~+12.19),Hf二阶段模式年龄(tDM2)介于595~1 107 Ma之间。上述地球化学特征指示,头道河岩体源区物质为中元古代显生宙期间从亏损地幔增生的年轻火成岩地壳物质。结合区域地质资料及同期火成岩物质的时空展布规律,认为中三叠世头道河岩体形成于古亚洲洋闭合后的造山后伸展构造环境。     

西藏那曲中酸性火山岩的锆石U-Pb年龄、Hf同位素和地球化学特征及岩石成因

西藏拉萨地块北部广泛分布着中生代岩浆岩,然其岩浆源区和岩石成因仍存在多种争议。本文对那曲地区中酸性火山岩进行了全岩地球化学、LA-ICPMS锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素的研究。结果显示:1)那曲地区粗面安山岩的时代为111.9±1.2Ma,英安岩为109.2±3.5Ma,二者在误差范围内一致,均为早白垩世;2)火山岩Si O2为51.88%~74.62%,具有低MgO含量(0.37%~3.65%),并且样品大多显示较低的Mg#(16~40)值。岩石为过铝质特征,在原始地幔标准化蛛网图上显示Th-U正异常,而Nb、Ta、P、Ti等负异常。稀土元素整体表现为轻稀土富集、重稀土亏损的趋势,且轻重稀土分异程度强,(La/Yb)N=8.79~14.85,具负Eu异常(δEu=0.46);3)那曲中酸性火山岩体的锆石Ti温度计为720℃左右。锆石Ce(Ⅳ)/Ce(Ⅲ)300,普遍在2~250之间,指示岩浆具有低的氧逸度;4)那曲中酸性火山岩锆石εHf(t)值大多集中在-7.7~0.5之间,对应的Hf模式年龄(tCDM)为918~1336Ma。综合以上岩石学和地球化学数据,认为那曲中酸性火山岩为壳幔混合成因,可能是在班公湖-怒江洋壳南向俯冲引起板片断离背景下,羌塘与拉萨地块碰撞引起地壳加厚继而发生部分熔融,并加入了少量的受早期流体交代的安多微陆块古老岩石圈地幔物质,且其熔融产物经历了不同程度的分离结晶作用。