Permian Tectonic Evolution in the Middle Part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Newly Identified Volcanic Rocks in the Bilutu Area, Inner Mongolia
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We gratefully acknowledge the editor Prof. Li Shan for his work about this study. We thank the anonymous reviewers for a thorough revision of the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41872203, 41872194), and the China Geological Survey Project (DD2016041–16, DD20190038–2)

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    In this study, zircon U-Pb ages, geochemical and Lu-Hf isotopic data are presented for the newly identified volcanic rocks which were considered as Bainaimiao group in Bainaimiao Arc Belt (BAB), Inner Mongolia, which could provide important constraints on the evolution of the northern part of North China Block (NCB) and BAB. Basalt to basaltic andesite and andesite to dacite were collected from two sections, which showed eruption ages of 278.2±4.1 Ma and 258.3±3.0 Ma respectively. All samples are characterized by high abundances in Al2O3, LREEs, and LILEs, but depleted in HFSEs. Together with high Mg# ratios and low K/tholeiite to calc-alkaline series, these features indicated that basalt to andesite was likely derived from relatively low degree partial melting of the subduction-fluid related mantle in the spinel phase. And dacite was mainly from the partial melting of crust, then affected by mantle. All samples barely went through fractional crystallization process with the slight Eu anomaly. Compared with the contemporary basalt in NCB, rocks in BAB have a complex composition of zircon and a more positive εHf (t) value (?6.6–6.4), indicating that they had different magma sources of rocks. Though with different basements, NCB and BAB have become an integrated whole before 278 Ma. Therefore, it could be concluded that NCB and BAB belonged to the active continental margin and the PAO had not closed yet until late Permian and then it disappeared gradually and the CAOB developed into a condition of syn-post collision.

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WANG Shijie, LIU Yang, DONG Xiaojie, XU Zhongyuan, WANG Wenlong, LI Shichao, SHI Qiang, CUI Weilong.2019. Permian Tectonic Evolution in the Middle Part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Newly Identified Volcanic Rocks in the Bilutu Area, Inner Mongolia[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),93(5):1281-1299

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  • Received:May 15,2019
  • Revised:August 14,2019
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  • Online: October 29,2019
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