Petrogenesis of the Late Silurian to Early Devonian potassic alkaline rocks on the northern margin of the North China Craton and their constraints on the tectonic evolution
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    The Late Silurian to Early Devonian potassic alkaline rocks on the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC) is a key geological unit to understand the interaction processes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean and the NCC in the Paleozoic. In this paper, we report new zircon U-Pb age, mineral chemistry, whole-rock geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopic compositions from the Late Silurian potassic Huangheshao (HHS) syenties on the northern margin of the NCC, and discuss its petrogenesis. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) zircon U-Pb dating has revealed a crystallization age of 417.6±4.7 Ma for the HHS pluton. Alkali-feldspar syenite is the main rock type; Aegirine-augite and sanidine (An0Ab2~5Or95~98) are the major minerals, with subordinate albite (An0Ab95~100Or0~5). Aegirine-augites locally transferred into winchite or magnesio-riebeckite. The HHS syenites have high total alkali contents (Na2O+K2O=12.79%~15.30%),high Rittmann index (σ=8.48~11.09), high K2O contents (8.66%~13.78%), and high K2O/Na2O ratios (2.10~9.07), suggesting their alkaline, potassic-ultrapotassic affinity. High Sr abundances and radiogenic Sr isotopic compositions (initial 87Sr/86Sr=0.704 1~0.706 1) argue for an enriched subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) source for the HHS magmas,which was previously metasomatized by melts/fluids from the subducted sediments on the down-going oceanic crust. The development of the Late Silurian to Early Devonian potassic alkaline rocks on the northern margin of the NCC indicates that the Paleo-Asian oceanic slab had subducted beneath the NCC in the Early Pleozoic, and the subducted materials metasomatised the SCLM, forming a phlogopite/K-amphibole-bearing, fertile mantle source. During the end of the Late Silurian to Early Devonian, due to the accretion or collision of a microcontinent, the northern margin the NCC has entered into a temporary, post-collisional extension tectonic setting.

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牛晓露,刘飞,冯光英,毛小红,2021,华北克拉通北缘晚志留世末-早泥盆世钾质碱性岩的成因及对区域构造演化的限定[J].岩石矿物学杂志,40(5):835~858. NIU Xiao-lu, LIU Fei, FENG Guang-ying, MAO Xiao-hong,2021,Petrogenesis of the Late Silurian to Early Devonian potassic alkaline rocks on the northern margin of the North China Craton and their constraints on the tectonic evolution[J]. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica,40(5):835~858.

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  • Received:February 09,2021
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