Abstract:The Tianhu granite pluton consists of six intrusive rocks, which can be divided into three lithofacies units but belong to one superunit. The roundshaped plutonic body was the product of three intrusive actitites of the same magma. Zircon LAICPMS UPb dating result shows that the Tianhu pluton intruded in early Triassic between 241Ma and 243Ma and the product of early Indosinian period. Zircon insitu Hf isotopic composition analysis yields the εHf(t) and tDM2 values of -2.6~5.5 and twostage mode age of 941~1435Ma for the Tianhu pluton, suggesting that the magma originated from depleted mantlederived juvenile crustal rock. Geochemically, the pluton is characterized by the high content of SiO2(69.14%~76.62%), and high K2O+Na2O value(7.39%~8.83%), low contents of Ti, Ca, Fe and Mg, with the ratios of (K2O+Na2O)/Al2O3 varying between 0.69 and 0.82, and the ratios of A/CNK between 0.95 and 1.04. All these features indicate that the pluton belongs to calcalkaline granite. The pluton is also rich in LILE(K, Rb), HFSE(Ba, Th)and depleted in Ta, Nb, Ce, Hf, Zr, Sm, Y and Yb. Chondritenormalized REE distribution pattern of the Tianhu pluton displays right skewed shapes, distinct fractionation between LREE and HREE, with slightly negative Eu anomalies (δEu=0.24~0.78). Petrological and geochemical studies of the Tianhu pluton indicate that the pluton resulted from mantle magma underpalting and intraplating induced partial melting of the Mesoneoproterozoic newborn lower crust. Magma intrusion was driven by northward subduction of the Tethys Ocean from late Hercynian to early Indosinian and subsequently intense intracontinental extension in the eastern Tianshan Mountains.