Geological characteristics of Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites in Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province, and their implications
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    The Luoguhe area along the southern part of the Heilong River is located in northwestern Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province. Many copper, lead, zinc, tungsten-molybdenum ore bodies and Early Paleozoic granites were found in recent years. Moreover, the Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites (TLTG) that had never been reported before were also discovered. On the basis of petrological and petrogeochemical characteristics of the Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites, this paper studied the probable provenance and tectonic setting of these rocks.The Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites are cropped out in the western part of the upper Heilongjiang basin within Ergun block. The basement rocks of this basin are composed mainly of Paleoproterozoic Xinghuadukou Rock Group,Early Cambrian Ergun Formation and Early Paleozoic granites, and the cap rocks consist of Early-Middle Jurassic sedimentary formation and Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks. Tectonically, the study area is predominated by faults, with well-developed thrust-nappes and ductile shear belts. The Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites should be assigned compositionally to monzonitic granite, which comprises perthite (30%~40%), plagioclase (20%~28%), quartz (30%~40%) and biotite (1%~3%) with minor accessory tourmaline (2%~5%), zircon and apatite. Due to fragmentation and mylonitization, most of the studied rocks display porphycroclastic texture. The accessory mineral tourmaline which occurs both in the porphycroclast and in the matrix displays bamboo joint texture in the former case and allotriomorphic granular texture in the latter case. The analyses of samples show that the studied rocks should be classified as adamellite in the Q-ANOR diagram, belonging to the high-K calc-alkaline series. The Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites have the following characteristics: SiO2=65.08%~73.18%, K2O+Na2O=5.49%~7.22%, K2O>Na2O, Al2O3=14.42%~16.64%, and A/CNK=1.18~1.31 (>1.1). Moreover, corundum canbe found in the CIPW norm minerals, possessing some features of strongly peraluminous granites. Chondrite-normalized REE patterns of the tourmaline-bearing granites are characterized by ∑REE 97.4×10-6~250.9×10-6, (La/Yb)N 5.85~21.95 (12.2 on average) and pronounced negative Eu anomalies (δEu=0.37~0.59), consistent well with REE patterns of basement metasandstone in the study area. Primitive mantle-normalized element concentration patterns show remarkable negative anomalies of Ba, Sr, Ta, Nb, Ti, P and positive anomalies of Rb,Th ,U, La, Ce, Nd, Zr, Hf, Sm. Likewise, the patterns with some characteristics of island arc volcanic rocks are very similar to the patterns of basement metasandstone in the study area.According to the experiment on the provenance of strong peraluminous granites, it is most probable that the studied rocks (5 samples) whose CaO/Na2O ratios are equal to 0.41~4.68 (>0.3 on average) can be genetically attributed to partial melting of basement metasandstone in the upper Heilongjiang basin, because the two different kinds of rocks have similar normalized patterns.In the R1-R2 and Rb-Yb+Ta discrimination diagrams, most of the studied rocks fall in the syn-collisional field and can thus be regarded as syn-collisional granites.Combined with zircon U-Pb dating (485±6 Ma) of the Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites, zircon SHRIMP dating (504~517 Ma) of the Luoguhe pluton, zircon crystallization age (480~494 Ma) and corresponding xenolith zircon ages (517~531 Ma) of Tahe pluton, it is thought that there existed two stages of granitic magmatic events in the Ergun block in Early Paleozoic, being 504~531 Ma and 480~494 Ma in age respectively. Accordingly, the first magmatic event occurred in the late stage of collision between the Ergun block and the Siberia block, and the second magmatic event might have led to the formation of Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites in response to the southeastward movement of Xing'an block towards the Ergun block, which had been collaged with the Siberia block. Due to subsequent compression, the crust was thickened and resulted in the remelting of metasandstone and the formation of the Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites with some features of strongly peraluminous syn-collisional S type granite.

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钟 辉,王希今,王宏博,李之彤,李广远,庞庆邦,2010,黑龙江省漠河县洛古河含电气石花岗岩地质特征及意义[J].岩石矿物学杂志,29(1):23~31. ZHONG Hui, WANG Xi_jin, WANG Hong_bo, LI Zhi_tong, LI Guang_yuan, PANG Qing_bang,2010,Geological characteristics of Luoguhe tourmaline-bearing granites in Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province, and their implications[J]. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica,29(1):23~31.

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