Determination and Geological Significance of Late Carboniferous Magma Mixing Granitoids in the West Tianshan Mountains ——Evidence from Zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Ages and Petro-geochemical Characteristics of Yuqibulake and Wutujinghe Plutons
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    The Yuqibulake and Wutujinghe plutons in the Boluokenu area are typical mixing granitoids with numerous mafic enclaves in West Tianshan Orogen. Poikilitic, disequilibrium magmatic textures and needlelike apatite are very developed in the mafic enclaves, suggesting an origin of twoend member magma mixing. In contrasting to the host granitoids, the enclaves show relatively lower SiO2, K2O and higher CaO, FeOT, MgO. While, both of the host granitoids and enclaves have a similar characteristics of trace elements with enrichment in LILE, such as Rb, Th, U and K, depletion in Sr, Nb, Ta, P and Ti, presenting a result from the twoend magma mixing. The Yuqibulake granites and mafic enclaves yielded zircon UPb ages of 301 Ma and 308 Ma, respectively. The ages of 303 Ma and 298 Ma were obtained from Wutujinghe granites and enclaves, suggesting that the coeval mantlederived basic magmatism was occurred with this period of granitoid magmatism. The host granitoids have positive εHf(t) varied from +420 to +833 for Yuqibulake pluton and from +497 to +709 for Wutujinghe pluton with TDMC of 782~1045 Ma and 863~998 Ma, respectively, indicating they were partially melted from the early Neoproterozoic crust materials. The enclaves from both plutons also have positive εHf(t) of +275 to +641 and +463 to +792, respectively, similar to those εHf(t) and εNd(t) from coeval basic dykes in western Tianshan Mountais . Combined with the coeval granitoids with higher εHf(t),εNd(t) and medium n(87Sr)/ n(86Sr), we proposed that they were formed by mixing of the magmas from partial melting of early Neoproterozoic crustal materials and from slightly depleted lithospheric mantle. This magmatism evolved from HighK calcalkaline granitoids in Late Carboniferous to Krich granite and Atype granite in Early Permian, representative of products formed in a transitional tectonic setting from postcollision to extension. The crustal extension resulted in mantle upwelling to produce mantlederived basic magma and then trigged partial melting of crustal materials, leading to a strong and wide granitoid magmatism by the mixing of twoend member magmas, and being a significant vertical crust growth in west Tianshan Mountais .

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YANG Rong, ZHANG Chengli, CHEN Chunyong, ZHANG Xiaoqi, GOU Longlong, MA Zhongping, GAO Xiaofeng, WEI Qiang, SUN Jiming, LI Ping.2017. Determination and Geological Significance of Late Carboniferous Magma Mixing Granitoids in the West Tianshan Mountains ——Evidence from Zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Ages and Petro-geochemical Characteristics of Yuqibulake and Wutujinghe Plutons[J]. Geological Review,63(5):1226-1254.

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  • Received:July 09,2016
  • Revised:June 24,2017
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  • Online: September 13,2017
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