SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronology and lithogeochemistry of Caledonian Granites from the Laojunshan area, southeastern Yunnan province, China: Implications for the collision between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks

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  • GUO LIGUO
    State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • LIU YUPING
    State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • LI CHAOYANG
    Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • XU WEI
    Department of Project Supervising, Shenli Oil Field Stock Ltd. Co.
  • YE LIN
    State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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2009
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  • 10.2343/geochemj.1.0012
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GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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At the border between China and Vietnam, a deformed and metamorphosed dome (the Laojunshan-Song Chay Dome) developed at the western prong of the “Caledonian” South China Granitic Fold Belt, north of the Red River fault zone. The main section of the dome, in China, is called the Laojunshan Metamorphic Core Complex. Systematic SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating has been undertaken on these Caledonian Granites for the first time. The ages of the Nanlao Gneisses (DN4015B), and granites of the Tuantian (LJS-2), Laochengpo (LJS-3) and Nanjiahe (DN4058) Units, are 435.7 ± 6.4, 442.2 ± 8.3, 437.9 ± 9.5 and 418 ± 5.8 Ma respectively. These ages indicate an extended period of igneous activity (ca. 24 million years) that can be divided into two episodes (at ca. 440 and 420 Ma) representing the ages of syn-collisional and post-collisional/late-orogenic granitoid plutons respectively. Inherited zircon with 206Pb/238U ages of 710 ± 22, 1051 ± 24 and 1657 ± 48 Ma is also present in these samples. The Neoproterozoic zircon might record igneous activity related to the break-up of the Rodinia Supercontinent. Lithogeochemistry results show that most of these rocks are “fractioned” S-type granites related to the Caledonian syn-collisional orogeny. A few of them have affinities to I-type granites produced by partial melting of intermediate-mafic rocks in the upper crust. Based on the geochronology and geochemical data, the inferred provenance and tectonic setting of the granites, and research on geotectonics and regional geology, the granites are interpreted as the products of the Caledonian collision between the Cathaysia and Yangtze blocks, and the fault zones along Shizong-Mile-Luoping-Xingyi-Wangmo-Luodian are proposed to be the southwestern boundary between those two blocks.

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