庐枞地区安粗岩系

Volcanic rocks discussed here are distributed in the Lujizng-Zongyang region, Anhui province, covering an area of about 100 km^2, where a set of potash-rich intermediate series is developed which is particularly referred to as “Latitic Series”. The characters of the latitic series are as follows: (1) It was formed during middle Yenshanian (108--132 m.y.) ; (2) Spatially, it occurs frequently on the continental side of closing slab boundary stretching along the deep rift zone; (3) It is mainly composed of latite, trashybasalt and trachyte; (4) It contains sanidine coexisting with augite, plagioclase (labradonite, andesine and oligoclase) and magnetite, and clinopyroxene, formed under high pressure conditions, as well as pseudoleucite with no orthopyroxene and quartz; (5) The chemical composition is characterized by high alkalis, especially potasinm,with the ratio of K2O/Na2O≥1 and high alnminium but low titanium. The formation of latitis magma could be related with the slab movement. It has been shown that volcanic activities during middle Yenshanian were rather weak in intensity and small in scale as compared with those during late Yenshanian. The rather slow movement of Pacific slab during middle Yenshanian could not provide sufficient water and rubbing heat energy to the slab boundary, and therefore, partial melting could proceed only at the upper mantle depth (100-200km). It is believed that the partial melting of phlogopitelberzolite in some local regions of the continental mantle along the dosing slab boundary was responsible for the formation of potash- and aluminium-rich latitic magma,