| Early J_2 basalts in SE China:Incipience of large-scale late Mesozoic magmatism |
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| 摘 要： | The voluminous late Mesozoic igneous rocks in SE China were formed by the multi-stage magmatism. Between 204 Ma (the Ar-39Ar age of limburgite sam- 40 pled at Daoxian in Hunan Province1]) and 180 Ma, magmatism was dormant for a period of about 25 Ma. Then the magmatism started to become active in the study region during 180―170 Ma (early J2), and con-tinued until the end of the Cretaceous2]. Therefore, the magmatism in 180―170 Ma is the incipience of large-scale late Mesozoic magmat…
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Early J2 basalts in SE China: Incipience of large-scale late Mesozoic magmatism |
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| Authors: | XIE Xin XU Xisheng ZOU Haibo JIANG Shaoyong ZHANG Ming QIU Jiansheng |
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| Abstract: | Magmatism in SE China was dormant during 204-180 Ma, but was reactivated in 180-170 Ma (early J2), and then became more and more intensive towards the end of early Cretaceous. The small-scale early J2 magmatism is the incipience to long-term and large-scale magmatism in this region. A near east-west (EW) trend volcanic belt was distributed across south Hunan, south Jiangxi and southwest Fujian was formed during early J2 time. Along this belt from the inland toward the coast, the lithology of basalts changes from alkali into tholeiite, and the amount of erupted volcanic rocks and the proportions of rhyolites coexisting with the basalts increase. On the basis of geochemical characteristics of these basalts, we infer that the melting degree of source rocks and the extent of fractional crystallization and crustal contamination all increased whereas the depth of mantle source decreased from the inland to the coast, which led to the variations of geological characteristics of the volcanic belt. In early J2, the western spreading Pacific plate began to subduct underneath SE China continental block, reactivating near EW trend deep fault that was originally formed during the Indosinian event. The stress of the western spreading Pacific plate and the extent of asthenosphere upwelling increased from the inland to the coast, which is consistent with the generation and evolution of early J2 basalts. |
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| Keywords: | early J2 basalts upwelling of asthenosphere large-scale magmatism SE China the Pacific plate |
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