Geochemical characteristics of Cretaceous basaltic rocks in South China and constraints on Pacific plate subduction |
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| Authors: | Weifeng?Chen Email author" target="_blank">Peirong?ChenEmail author Xisheng?Xu Min?Zhang |
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| Institution: | The State Key Laboratory of Mineral Deposit Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China |
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| Abstract: | Middle-Late Cretaceous Basaltic rocks (85-110 Ma) are distributed in the contemporaneous downfaulted red basins and volcanic-sedimentary
basins in South China (including Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang provinces). They are geographically divided into
two groups delimited by Wuyishan Range, namely the west area basaltic rocks
(WABs) distributing over the west of Wuyishan Range and the east area basaltic rocks (EABs) distributing over the east of
Wuyishan Range, and observed having distinct geochemical and isotopic characters. WABs are characterized by relatively low
in K2O (0.44%-3.17%), alkalis (K2O+Na2O= 3.27%-6.80%) and Al2O3 (13.08%-16.75%) contents, but high in MgO (5.13%-8.78%) and TiO2 (1.12%-3.35%) contents. WABs are similar to ocean-island basalts (OIB) or intraplate basalts on trace elements and isotopes:
no negative Nb and Ta anomalies, relatively low σREE (74.66 μg/g-287.72 μg/g) and LaN/YbN (4.49-22.10), low (87Sr/86Sr)i (average ratio is 0.704679), high εNd(t) (-1.81-8.00). In contrast, EABs display relatively high in K2O (0.55%– 4.86%), alkalis (K2O+Na2O=2.95%-7.55%) and Al2O3 (15.80%-21.10%) contents, but low in MgO (2.63%-6.28%) and TiO2 (1.19%-1.86%) contents, strong negative Nb and Ta anomalies, enrichment in LILE (K, Rb, Ba and Th), relatively high σREE
(79.68 μg/g-327.61 μg/g) and LaN/YbN (5.25-26.37), high (87Sr/86Sr)i (average ratio is 0.707658) and negative εNd(t) (-8.50–1.22), similar to that of IAB (island arc basalts) or CAB (continental arc basalts). Accordingly, WABs were probably
generated under continental rifting tectonic setting related to asthenosphere upwelling, and hence their source was characterized
by mixing between EMII with DM. Source of EABs may be enriched lithoshperic mantle which had ever undergone the metasomatism
of fluid/melt derived from the subducted Pacific plate.This indicates that subduction of a paleo-Pacific plate (Kula) beneath
the Eurasian continent had ever occurred during the late Mesozoic period, but the metasomatism resulted from the subduction
was only limited to the east of Wuyishan Range. |
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| Keywords: | basalt imprint of subducted plate rifting Cretaceous basins South China |
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