Age and origin of middle Neoproterozoic mafic magmatism in southern Yangtze Block and relevance to the break-up of Rodinia |
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| Authors: | Jibin Zhou Xian-Hua Li Wenchun Ge Zheng-Xiang Li |
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| Institution: | aKey Laboratory of Isotope Geochronology and Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;bGraduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China;cDepartment of Geology, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China;dTectonics Special Research Centre, School of Earth and Geographic Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia |
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| Abstract: | SHRIMP U–Pb zircon age, geochemical and Sm–Nd isotopic data are reported for mid-Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks and mafic intrusions in northern Guangxi (Guibei) and western Hunan (Xiangxi) Provinces along the southern margin of the Yangtze Block. The mafic igneous rocks studied are generally synchronous, dated at  765 Ma. The least-contaminated dolerite samples from Xiangxi are characterized by high εNd(T) value of 3.3 to 5.3 and OIB-type geochemical features, indicating that they were derived from an OIB-like mantle source in a continental rift setting. The spilites and gabbros in Guibei show basaltic compositions transitional between the tholeiitic and calc-alkaline series. Despite depletion in Nb and Ta relative to La and Th, they have Zr/Sm = 27–35 and Ti/V = 30–40, affinitive to intraplate basalts. Their εNd(T) values are variable, ranging from − 1.2 to 3.2 for the spilites and from − 1.7 to 2.9 for the gabbros, suggesting that these spilites and gabbros crystallized from crustal-contaminated mafic magmas derived from a metasomatised subcontinental lithospheric mantle source. We conclude that the 765 Ma mafic magmatic rocks in Guibei and Xiangxi were formed in a single continental rift setting as part of the broadly concurrent 780–750 Ma rift magmatism over much of South China, which may be related to the plume activities during the breakup of Rodinia. |
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| Keywords: | Neoproterozoic Mafic magmatism U– Pb zircon age Geochemistry South China |
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