Slab break-off origin of 105 Ma A-type porphyritic granites in the Asa area of Tibet

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 (8) ◽  
pp. 1281-1298
Author(s):  
Hang Li ◽  
Ming Wang ◽  
Xiao-Wen Zeng ◽  
An-Bo Luo ◽  
Yun-Peng Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oceanic Crust ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Lower Crust ◽  
Isotopic Analysis ◽  
Geochemical Analysis ◽  
Geodynamic Evolution ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
Oceanic Sediment ◽  
Slab Window

AbstractThe study of the petrogenesis of some magmatic rocks with special geochemical attributes provides effective information for us to explore the deep geodynamic background of their formation. A series of granitic porphyry dykes have been found in the mélange zone of the Asa region in southern Tibet, whose genesis may be closely related to the evolution of the Meso-Tethyan Ocean. Regional geodynamic evolution is investigated by whole-rock geochemical analysis, zircon U–Pb dating and Lu–Hf isotopic analysis of two porphyritic granites. The Asa porphyritic granites have high SiO2 (74.29–78.65 wt %) and alkalis (Na2O + K2O = 6.51–9.35 wt %) contents, and low Al2O3 (11.60–14.51 wt %), CaO (0.04–0.19 wt MgO (0.01–0.10 wt %) contents. They are enriched in Zr, Nb, Ce, Y and Hf and depleted in Ti, Ba, Sr and P, consistent with A-type granites. The samples are relatively rich in LREEs, with LREE/HREE ratios of 1.73–3.04. They display negative Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu* = 0.24–0.28) and obvious Ce anomalies in some samples. Zircon U–Pb analyses show that the porphyritic granites formed in late Early Cretaceous time, 107.4 to 105.5 Ma. Zircon εHf(t) values are in the range of 6.9 to 12.0. These data indicate that the porphyritic granites were sourced from interaction between mantle-derived and juvenile lower crust-derived melts, with the addition of oceanic sediment-derived melts. This occurred when the subducting Bangong–Nujiang oceanic crust split to create a slab window. Rising asthenosphere triggered re-melting of lower crust basalts, resulting in the formation of the late Early Cretaceous A-type granites around Asa.

scholarly journals Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Implications of Miocene Felsic Magmatic Rocks in the Wuyu Basin, Southern Gangdese Belt, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 655
Author(s):  
Hanzhi Chen ◽  
Mingcai Hou ◽  
Fuhao Xiong ◽  
Hongwei Tang ◽  
Gangqiang Shao
Keyword(s):  
Lower Crust ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Mixed Product ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
Adakitic Rocks ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Miocene felsic magmatic rocks with high Sr/Y ratios are widely distributed throughout the Gangdese belt of southern Tibet. These provide a good opportunity to explore the magmatic process and deep dynamic mechanisms that occurred after collision between the Indo and the Asian plates. In this paper, felsic volcanic rocks from the Zongdangcun Formation in the Wuyu Basin in the central part of the southern Gangdese belt are used to disclose their origin. Zircon U-Pb geochronology analysis shows that the felsic magmatism occurred at ca. 10.3 ± 0.2 Ma, indicating that the Zongdangcun Formation formed during the Miocene. Most of these felsic magmatic rocks plot in the rhyolite area in the TAS diagram. The rhyolite specimens from the Zongdangcun Formation have the characteristics of high SiO2 (>64%), K2O, SiO2, and Sr contents, a low Y content and a high Sr/Y ratio, and the rocks are rich in LREE and depleted in HREE, showing geochemical affinity to adakitic rocks. The rocks have an enriched Sr-Nd isotopic composition (εNd(t) = −6.76 to −6.68, (87Sr/86Sr)i = 0.7082–0.7088), which is similar to the mixed product of the juvenile Lhasa lower continental crust and the ancient Indian crust. The Hf isotopes of zircon define a wide compositional range (εHf(t) = −4.19 to 6.72) with predominant enriched signatures. The Miocene-aged crustal thickness in southern Tibet, calculated on the basis of the Sr/Y and (La/Yb)N ratios was approximately 60–80 km, which is consistent with the thickening of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The origin of Miocene felsic magmatic rocks with high Sr/Y ratios in the middle section of the Gangdese belt likely involved a partial melting of the thickened lower crust, essentially formed by the lower crust of the Lhasa block, with minor contribution from the ancient Indian crust. After comprehensively analyzing the post-collisional high Sr/Y magmatic rocks (33–8 Ma) collected from the southern margin of the Gangdese belt, we propose that the front edge tearing and segmented subduction of the Indian continental slab may be the major factor driving the east-west trending compositional changes of the Miocene adakitic rocks in southern Tibet.

Early Cenozoic partial melting of meta-sedimentary rocks of the eastern Gangdese arc, southern Tibet, and its contribution to syn-collisional magmatism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Yuan Jiang ◽  
Ze-Ming Zhang ◽  
Richard M. Palin ◽  
Hui-Xia Ding ◽  
Xuan-Xue Mo
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Lower Crust ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Magmatic Arc ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
Deep Crust ◽  
Juvenile Crust ◽  
Early Cenozoic

Continental magmatic arcs are characterized by the accretion of voluminous mantle-derived magmatic rocks and the growth of juvenile crust. However, significant volumes of meta-sedimentary rocks occur in the middle and lower arc crust, and the contributions of these rocks to the evolution of arc crust remain unclear. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study of petrology, geochronology, and geochemistry of migmatitic paragneisses from the eastern Gangdese magmatic arc, southern Tibet. The results show that the paragneisses were derived from late Carboniferous greywacke, and underwent an early Cenozoic (69−41 Ma) upper amphibolite-facies metamorphism and partial melting at pressure-temperature conditions of ∼11 kbar and ∼740 °C, and generated granitic melts with enriched Hf isotopic compositions (anatectic zircon εHf(t) = −10.57 to +0.78). Combined with the existing results, we conclude that the widely distributed meta-sedimentary rocks in the eastern Gangdese arc deep crust have the same protolith ages of late Carboniferous, and record northwestward-decreasing metamorphic conditions. We consider that the deeply buried sedimentary rocks resulted in the compositional change of juvenile lower crust from mafic to felsic and the formation of syn-collisional S-type granitoids. The mixing of melts derived from mantle, juvenile lower crust, and ancient crustal materials resulted in the isotopic enrichment of the syn-collisional arc-type magmatic rocks of the Gangdese arc. We suggest that crustal shortening and underthrusting, and the accretion of mantle-derived magma during the Indo-Asian collision transported the supracrustal rocks to the deep crust of the Gangdese arc.

Geochemical analysis of magmatic rocks from Shyok Suture Zone (SSZ) Trans-Himalaya, NW India: Insights for geodynamic evolution of the terrane

Lithos ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 106594
Author(s):  
S. Sivaprabha ◽  
Irfan M. Bhat ◽  
T. Ahmad ◽  
T. Tanaka ◽  
S. Balakrishnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suture Zone ◽  
Geochemical Analysis ◽  
Geodynamic Evolution ◽  
Magmatic Rocks

Isotopic spatial-temporal evolution of magmatic rocks in the Gangdese belt: Implications for the origin of Miocene post-collisional giant porphyry deposits in southern Tibet

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Hao Luo ◽  
Rui Wang ◽  
Roberto F. Weinberg ◽  
Zengqian Hou
Keyword(s):  
Lithospheric Mantle ◽  
Lower Crust ◽  
Isotopic Ratios ◽  
Crustal Growth ◽  
Deposit Formation ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Porphyry Deposit ◽  
Arc Magmas ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
Three Stages

Crustal growth is commonly associated with porphyry deposit formation whether in continental arcs or collisional orogens. The Miocene high-K calc-alkaline granitoids in the Gangdese belt in southern Tibet, associated with porphyry copper deposits, are derived from the juvenile lower crust with input from lithospheric mantle trachytic magmas, and are characterized by adakitic affinity with high-Sr/Y and La/Yb ratios as well as high Mg# and more evolved isotopic ratios. Researchers have argued, lower crust with metal fertilization was mainly formed by previous subduction-related modification. The issue is that the arc is composed of three stages of magmatism including Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Paleocene−Eocene, with peaks of activity at 200 Ma, 90 Ma, and ca. 50 Ma, respectively. All three stages of arc growth are essentially similar in terms of their whole-rock geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic compositions, making it difficult to distinguish Miocene magma sources. This study is based on ∼430 bulk-rock Sr-Nd isotope data and ∼270 zircon Lu-Hf isotope data and >800 whole-rock geochemistry analyses in a 900-km-long section of the Gangdese belt. We found large scale variations along the length of the arc where the Nd-Hf isotopic ratios of the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Paleocene−Eocene arc rocks change differently from east to west. A significant feature is that the spatial distribution of Nd-Hf isotopic values of the Paleocene−Eocene arc magmas and the Miocene granitoids, including metallogenic ones, are “bell-shaped” from east to west, with a peak of εNd(t) and εHf(t) at ∼91°E. In contrast, the Jurassic and Cretaceous arc magmas have different isotopic distribution patterns as a function of longitude. The isotopic spatial similarity of the Paleocene−Eocene and Miocene suites suggests that the lower crust source of the metallogenic Miocene magmas is composed dominantly of the Paleocene−Eocene arc rocks. This is further supported by abundant inherited zircons dominated by Paleocene−Eocene ages in the Miocene rocks. Another important discovery from the large data set is that the Miocene magmatic rocks have higher Mg# and more evolved Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic compositions than all preceding magmatic arcs. These characteristics indicate that the involvement of another different source was required to form the Miocene magmatic rocks. Hybridization of the isotopically unevolved primary magmas with isotopically evolved, lithospheric mantle-derived trachytic magmas is consistent with the geochemical, xenolith, and seismic evidence and is essential for the Miocene crustal growth and porphyry deposit formation. We recognize that the crustal growth in the collisional orogen is a two-step process, the first is the subduction stage dominated by typical magmatic arc processes leading to lower crust fertilization, the second is the collisional stage dominated by partial melting of a subduction-modified lower crust and mixing with a lithospheric mantle-derived melt at the source depth.

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Isotopic spatial-temporal evolution of magmatic rocks in the Gangdese belt: Implications for the origin of Miocene post-collisional giant porphyry deposits in southern Tibet

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Hao Luo ◽  
Rui Wang ◽  
et al.
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Magma Mixing ◽  
Mixing Models ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Porphyry Deposits ◽  
Magmatic Rocks

Two supplemental pictures and five supplemental tables. The pictures exhibit the Nd-Hf isotopic spatial distribution of the Gangdese belt magmatic rocks, southern Tibet, by using the average isotopic values of per 0.5 longitude (Fig. S1) and two additional magma mixing models related to the Jurassic and Cretaceous Gangdese belt magmatic rocks, southern Tibet (Fig. S2). The talbes contain all the data used in this research and their references.

Late Paleocene radiolarian fauna from Tibet and its geological implications

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1364-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinping Liang ◽  
Kexin Zhang ◽  
Yadong Xu ◽  
Weihong He ◽  
Xianyin An ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oceanic Crust ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
The West ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Terminal Stage ◽  
Oceanic Basin ◽  
Late Paleocene ◽  
Geological Implications ◽  
Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone ◽  
Radiolarian Fauna

A diverse, abundant, and well-preserved radiolarian fauna in Jiazhu, Zhongba County of Tibet, in the western sector of Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone, is assigned to a late Paleocene radiolarian zone, the Buryella pentadica interval zone, spanning 59–56.5 Ma. Regionally, a late Paleocene basalt block in the bathyal–abyssal siliceous mudstone and graywacke yielded an age of 59.1 Ma (zircon SHRIMP U–Pb). The late Paleocene radiolarian fauna, the tectonic attribution of the radiolarian cherts and the basalt block indicate that oceanic crust persisted in the Zhongba area until the late Paleocene and the initial collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates post-dates the late Paleocene. It is inferred that the Neo-Tethys transformed into a remnant oceanic basin in the late Paleocene, at the terminal stage of the oceanic crust subduction, and the closure of the remnant oceanic basin in the studied region took place after the late Paleocene. In contrast to the previous investigations, we suggest that there was a remnant oceanic basin to the west of the Saga area and a foreland basin to the east of Saga in southern Tibet during the late Paleocene. We argue that the closure of the Neo-Tethys progressed from east to west.

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