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    Formation of the Jurassic South China Large Granitic Province: Insights from the genesis of the Jiufeng pluton

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    Huang, H.
    Li, X.
    Li, Zheng-Xiang
    Li, W.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Huang, H. and Li, X. and Li, Z. and Li, W. 2015. Formation of the Jurassic South China Large Granitic Province: Insights from the genesis of the Jiufeng pluton. Chemical Geology. 401: pp. 43-58.
    Source Title
    Chemical Geology
    DOI
    10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.02.019
    ISSN
    0009-2541
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    Department of Applied Geology
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29699
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    The magma source and thermal regime for the formation of Large Granitic Provinces (LGPs) have been the subjects of much debate. As mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic variations of plutonic rocks preserve records of crustal thermal evolution, the Jiufeng pluton was comprehensively studied to gain insights into material and heat sources and tectonic process in the formation of the South China LGP. SIMS zircon U-Pb analyses of a biotite granite (158.9±1.3Ma), three two-mica granites (stage I: 159.7±1.2Ma, stage II: 158.6±1.2Ma and 156.8±1.2Ma) and a muscovite granodiorite (159.0±4.4Ma) of the Jiufeng pluton suggest that they are coeval and were emplaced in a short period of no more than 5.3m.y. Limited variations in whole-rock Nd isotope (eNd(t)=-12.6 to -9.5) and zircon Hf-O isotopes (eHf(t)=-12.0 to -6.3, d18O=6.8‰-9.4‰) suggest that the Jiufeng pluton was mainly derived from melting of a common metasedimentary source, possibly with a minor basaltic contribution. We consider the geochemical variations of the Jiufeng pluton are primarily a result of incremental assembly of magma batches produced from rapid step-like transition from fluid-saturated to fluid-absent melting of the source. The muscovite granodiorite, with high Na2O (>3.80wt.%; K2O/Na2O=~1), is interpreted to have been produced by fluid-saturated melting at low temperature (~650°C). High P2O5 (0.09-0.17wt.%), zircon saturation temperature (TZr=769-816°C) and La/Yb ratios (8.4-55.8) of the stage II two-mica granite support its formation from high-temperature (>800°C) biotite-dehydration melting, whereas lower P2O5 (<0.02wt.%), TZr (685-742°C) and La/Yb (<3) of the stage I two-mica granite suggest its generation at lower temperature, likely by muscovite-dehydration melting. We propose that extensive emplacement of basaltic melts in the lower crust most likely drove the rapid increase of mid-crustal (~20km) temperature (~50°C/m.y.) and widespread crustal melting for the formation of the Jurassic South China LGP. Therefore, formation of the LGP signifies prominent crustal growth as well as crustal reworking in an intraplate setting and was likely a response to flat-slab delamination and foundering.

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