| Title | The Early Silurian Gabbro in the Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northeast Tibet: Constraints on the Proto-Tethyan Ocean Closure |
| Authors | Zhou, Wenxiao Li, Haiquan Chang, Feng Lv, Xinbiao |
| Affiliation | China Univ Geosci, Inst Geol Survey, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China Sinopec Northwest China Petr Bur, Res Inst Petr Explorat & Dev, Urumqi 830011, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Sch Earth & Space Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China China Univ Geosci, Fac Earth Resources, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China China Univ Geosci, State Key Lab Geol Proc & Mineral Resources, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China |
| Keywords | U-PB AGE TRACE-ELEMENT COMPOSITION LA-ICP-MS TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE MASS-SPECTROMETRY VOLCANIC-ROCKS CENTRAL ZONE HF ISOTOPE ISLAND-ARC LU-HF |
| Issue Date | Sep-2020 |
| Publisher | MINERALS |
| Abstract | The early Paleozoic is a crucial period in the formation and evolution of the Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt (EKOB), and is of great significance for understanding the evolutionary history of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean. This paper presents new petrography, geochemistry, zircon U-Pb dating, and Lu-Hf isotopic research on the Yuejingshan gabbro from the eastern segment of the EKOB. Zircon U-Pb data suggests that the gabbro formed in the Early Silurian (435 +/- 2 Ma). All samples have relatively low TiO2 contents (0.45-2.97%), widely varying MgO (6.58-8.41%) and Mg-# (58-65) contents, and are rich in large ion lithophile elements (LILE such as Rb, Ba, Th, and U) and light rare earth elements (LREE). This indicates that it has a similar geochemical composition to island arc basalt. The major element features indicate that the formation of this gabbro underwent fractional crystallization of clinopyroxene, olivine, and plagioclase. The depletion of high field strength elements (HFSE, such as Nb, Ta, and Ti), and a slightly positive Hf isotope (with epsilon Hf-(t) ranging from 1.13 to 2.45) may be related to the partial melting of spinel-bearing peridotite, led by slab fluid metasomatism. The gabbro likely represents magmatic records of the latest period of the early Paleozoic oceanic crust subduction in the Eastern Kunlun. Therefore, the final closure of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean and the beginning of collisional orogeny occurred before the Early Silurian. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/593088 |
| DOI | 10.3390/min10090794 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 地球与空间科学学院 |
