Lithospheric composition and structure beneath the northern margin of the Qinling orogenic belt |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Lu?FengxiangEmail author Wang?Chunyang Zheng?Jianping |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 430074 Wuhan, China |
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| Abstract: | Swarms of mafic-intermediate volcaniclastic bodies occur in the Minggang region of Henan Province, a tectonic boundary between
the North Qinling and the North China Block, and emplaced at (178.31±3.77) Ma. These volcanic rocks are subalkaline basaltic
andesites and contain abundance of lower crust and mantle xenoliths. Thus this area is an ideal place to reveal the lithospheric
composition and structure beneath the northern margin of the Qinling orogenic belt. Geochemical data indicate that these mafic
granulites, eclogites and metagabbros have trace elemental and Pb isotopic characteristics very similar to those rocks from
the South Qinling Block, representing the lower part of lower crust of the South Qinling which subducted beneath the North
China Block. Talcic peridotites represent the overlying mantle wedge materials of the North China Block, which underwent the
metasomatism of the acidic melt/fluid released from the underlying lower crust of the South Qinling Block. Deep tectonic model
proposed in this paper is that after the Late Paleozoic South Qinling lithosphere subducted northward and decoupled, the upper
part of the lithosphere emplaced under the North Qinling and the lower part continuously subducted northward under the North
China Block. In Early Mesozoic, the North Qinling Block obducted northward and the North China Block inserted into the Qinling
orogenic belt in a crocodile-mouth shape. |
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| Keywords: | lithosphere structure deep-seated xenolith decoupling and subduction |
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