Earth Science Frontiers ›› 2022, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 416-430.DOI: 10.13745/j.esf.sf.2021.10.50

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Continent-continent collision at the southwestern margin of the Cretaceous Qiangtang terrane: Constraints from granite in the western Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone

FU Shun1,3(), ZHAO Yingquan2,*(), WANG Jinjun4, YU Yu2, ZHU Yingtang5, FU Xingzhe6   

  1. 1. Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Mathematical Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
    3. College of Mathematics and Physics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
    4. No.283 Team, Sichuan Geological Bureau, Dazhou 635099, China
    5. Hainan Geological Bureau, Haikou 570206, China
    6. Hope College, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610400, China
  • Received:2021-10-25 Revised:2022-02-10 Online:2022-03-25 Published:2022-03-31
  • Contact: ZHAO Yingquan

Abstract:

A large number of moderately felsic to basic intrusive rocks in the forms of rock strains or rock branches are distributed in the southwestern margin of the Qiangtang terrane. These intrusive rocks are characterized by petrographic analysis as peraluminous granite with low SiO2 (67.99%-73.32%) and high Al2O3 (12.82%-15.02%) contents, and defined as calc alkaline based on the Ritmann serial indices of 2.09-2.63 (σ<3.3). They show strong enrichment of light rare earth elements (REE) and strong depletion of heavy REE, with a high degree of magma crystallographic differentiation. The geochemical characteristics of the rocks and REE in granite indicate its tectonic environment is mainly type I, with some variability, and its formation and intrusion should be related to the closure of the ancient Tethys Ocean and the expansion of the new Tethys Ocean, which suggests an intracontinental collisional orogenic granite origin. The zircon laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) dating of several granite masses in this area yielded a formation age of 107-116 Ma, which is consistent with the time of continent-continent collision at the southern margin of the Qiangtang terrane in the late Early Cretaceous.

Key words: Cretaceous, Qiangtang terrane, Bangong-Nujiang suture zone, continent-continent collision, granite

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