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Archive | 2016

The Paleoproterozoic Continental Evolution in the Southern North China Craton: Constrains from Magmatism and Sedimentation

Yanyan Zhou; Qianying Sun; Taiping Zhao; Chunrong Diwu

Recently, increasing lines of evidence for the 2.45–2.00 Ga magmatic rocks and Paleoproterozoic low-grade metasedimentary sequences have been identified, which can provide diagnostic constrains on the debate on the Paleoproterozoic (2.45–2.00 Ga) evolutional regime of the NCC. The widespread 2.45–2.20 Ga magmatisms occurred in the southern NCC mainly include TTG, dioritic-gabbroic gneiss, amphibolite, and high-K granites. The 2.45–2.20 Ga TTG or TTG-like gneisses show variable Mg# values, low Cr, Ni, and high Rb/Sr ratios, suggesting that they most likely derived from partial melting of basaltic lower crust with juvenile materials addition. The 2.45–2.20 Ga dioritic-gabbroic gneisses show the similar geochemical characteristics with adakitic rocks from thickened lower crust. Their e Hf(t) and e Nd(t) values are variable, and have weak Ta enrichment, and not obvious negative Nb anomalies, suggesting they were produced by partial melting of metasomatized lithospheric mantle. The 2.45–2.20 Ga amphibolites are consistent with magma derivation from MORB-like mantle wedge. The 2.45–2.20 Ga (high-K) calc-alkaline granites are representative of syn-collisional granites, and derived from older crust with variable mixing of a juvenile melt in a subduction-collision related setting. The 2.20–2.00 Ga magmatism reveals a major period of crustal reworking, rather than one of crustal addition. The 2.20–2.00 Ga monzonites have mixed IAB- and OIB-like geochemical signatures, possibly related to extension and thinning of the lithosphere and upwelling of asthenosphere. The 2.20–2.00 Ga potassic granites belong to highly fractionated aluminous A-type granite, and formed in an extensional-rift setting. As indicated by the zircon in situ Hf isotopic compositions, the injection of basaltic melt into the crust has been widely considered as an important mechanism to generate silicious melts. The 2.20–2.00 Ga tonalite would be derived from partial melting of delaminated lower crust. The temporal change from mostly 2.45–2.20 Ga low-K igneous rocks (TTG) to 2.20–2.0 Ga mostly high-K igneous rocks in the southern segment of the NCC indicates a tectonic transformation from accretionary orogenesis (ca. 2.30 Ga) to extensional regimes (ca. 2.10 Ga). On the other hand, provenances, depositional ages and tectonic settings of low-grade Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary units in the NCC can also provide rigorous constraints on the tectonic evolution in the period between 2.45 and 2.00 Ga. In the Henan-Shaanxi province on the southern NCC, the Paleoproterozoic sedimentary sequences include the Shangtaihua Group, the Songshan Group, the Yinyugou Group, and the Tietonggou Formation. The low-grade metasedimentary Songshan Group deposited after 2.35 Ga and before 1.78 Ga and sourced from felsic rocks including major 3.00–2.40 Ga TTG gneisses, 2.40–1.95 Ga granitoid plutons and meta-rhyolites of the Dengfeng, Zhongtiao and Taihua complexes in the southern NCC, and minor 3.70–3.00 Ga transported exotic Paleoarchean and Mesoarchean crustal materials because no lithologies or zircons with such age founded in study areas. The Tietonggou Formation deposited at 1.91–1.80 Ga, with detrital zircon age peak of ~2.10 Ga which possibly sourced from ~2.10 Ga lithologic units in the south of NCC. The depositional ages of the Paleoproterozoic low-grade metasedimentary units in the NCC are constrained at a certain period of 2.35–1.78 Ga, which overlaps with the stage of subduction-collision related 2.45–2.20 Ga magmatisms and rift setting related 2.20–2.00 Ga magmatisms. The detrital zircon Hf isotopes of the low-grade sediments varied mainly toward the reduction of the radiogenic Hf isotope and gradually show a similar trend of the isotope trajectories of crustal evolution. Like previous studies, all these groups were deposited in basin settings which were not simple long-lived foreland basins. Combining with 2.45–2.00 Ga igneous rocks, they may evolved from back-arc or intra-arc basins developing at the subduction-collision stage (from ∼2.45 Ga) to rift stage (from ∼2.20 Ga) and then to foreland basins at the collision stage (from ∼1.85 to ∼1.80 Ga).


Gondwana Research | 2011

Geochronology and geochemistry of 2.5 to 2.4 Ga granitic plutons from the southern margin of the North China Craton: Implications for a tectonic transition from arc to post-collisional setting

Yanyan Zhou; Taiping Zhao; Christina Yan Wang; Guohui Hu


Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2014

Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of the early Paleoproterozoic potassic granite in the Lushan area, southern margin of the North China Craton

Yanyan Zhou; Mingguo Zhai; Taiping Zhao; Zhongwu Lan; Qianying Sun


Precambrian Research | 2014

Depositional age, provenance and tectonic setting of the Proterozoic Ruyang Group, southern margin of the North China Craton

Guohui Hu; Taiping Zhao; Yanyan Zhou


Precambrian Research | 2014

Petrogenesis of the Archean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) and granites in the Lushan area, southern margin of the North China Craton: Implications for crustal accretion and transformation

Yanyan Zhou; Taiping Zhao; Mingguo Zhai; Jian-Feng Gao; Qianying Sun


Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2015

Zircon U–Pb ages, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes of the TTG gneisses from the Jiaobei terrane: Implications for Neoarchean crustal evolution in the North China Craton

Houxiang Shan; Mingguo Zhai; Fang Wang; Yanyan Zhou; M. Santosh; Xi-Yan Zhu; Hua-Feng Zhang; Wei Wang


Precambrian Research | 2015

Petrogenesis of the 2.1 Ga Lushan garnet-bearing quartz monzonite on the southern margin of the North China Craton and its tectonic implications

Yanyan Zhou; Taiping Zhao; Mingguo Zhai; Jian-Feng Gao; Zhongwu Lan; Qianying Sun


Precambrian Research | 2017

Depositional age and protoliths of the Paleoproterozoic upper Taihua Group in the Wuyang area in the southern margin of the North China Craton: New insights into stratigraphic subdivision and tectonic setting

Caiyun Lan; Yanyan Zhou; Changle Wang; Taiping Zhao


Precambrian Research | 2017

Formation and evolution of the Paleoproterozoic meta-mafic and associated supracrustal rocks from the Lushan Taihua Complex, southern North China Craton: Insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology and whole-rock geochemistry

Qianying Sun; Yanyan Zhou; Wei Wang; Chengdong Li; Taiping Zhao


Precambrian Research | 2018

Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of the 2.6–2.5 Ga amphibolites, low- and high-Al TTGs in the Wangwushan area, southern North China Craton: Implications for the Neoarchean crustal evolution

Yanyan Zhou; Taiping Zhao; Qianying Sun; Mingguo Zhai

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Taiping Zhao

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Qianying Sun

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Mingguo Zhai

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Wei Wang

China University of Geosciences

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Zhongwu Lan

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Guohui Hu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Jian-Feng Gao

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Caiyun Lan

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Changle Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Christina Yan Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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