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Late Ordovician High Ba-Sr intrusion in the Eastern North Qilian Orogen: Implications for Crust-Mantle Interaction and Proto-Tethys Ocean Evolution

Shaoqing Zhao
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Lianfu Hai
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Bin Liu
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Huan Dong
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Chao Mei
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Qinghai Xu
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Caixia Mu
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Xiangcheng Wei
Version 1 : Received: 10 May 2023 / Approved: 10 May 2023 / Online: 10 May 2023 (14:32:41 CEST)

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Zhao, S.; Hai, L.; Liu, B.; Dong, H.; Mei, C.; Xu, Q.; Mu, C.; Wei, X. Late Ordovician High Ba-Sr Intrusion in the Eastern North Qilian Orogen: Implications for Crust–Mantle Interaction and Proto-Tethys Ocean Evolution. Minerals 2023, 13, 744. Zhao, S.; Hai, L.; Liu, B.; Dong, H.; Mei, C.; Xu, Q.; Mu, C.; Wei, X. Late Ordovician High Ba-Sr Intrusion in the Eastern North Qilian Orogen: Implications for Crust–Mantle Interaction and Proto-Tethys Ocean Evolution. Minerals 2023, 13, 744.

Abstract

The petrogenesis of high Ba-Sr granitoids provide a great significance to penetrate the Proto-Tethys evolution in the North Qilian orogenic belt. This paper presents a combination of zircon U-Pb age, whole-rock major and trace element concentrations, and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic data for Caowa high Ba-Sr dioritic intrusion from the eastern part of the North Qilian orogenic belt, aiming to decipher its petrogenesis and tectonic setting. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating yields an emplacement age of 447±3 Ma for the Caowa intrusion, indicating a magmatic activity of the late Ordovician. The Caowa quartz diorites contain moderate contents of SiO2, MgO, Mg# and resultant high concentrations of Na2O+K2O, Fe2O3T and Al2O3, displaying calc-alkaline and metaluminous characteristics. Their relatively elevated Ba (up to 1165 ppm) and Sr (561 to 646 ppm) contents, with obvious enrichment in LILEs (e.g. Ba、Th、U) and depletion in HFSEs (e.g. Nb、Ta、Ti) resemble those of typical high Ba-Sr granitoids in subduction zone. Together with enriched Sr-Nd isotopic compositons[(87Sr/86Sr)i=0.7082−0.7086, εNd(t)= -5.1 to -4.9], and relatively extensive εHf(t) values (-13.2 to +8.5) of zircons, it suggests that these high Ba-Sr quartz diorites were derived from a mixture magma source between the ancient crust materials and the enriched lithospheric mantle metasomatised by fluid was released from subducted oceanic crust or sediment. Taking into account the ophiolites, high pressure metamorphic rocks and arc magmatic rocks in the region, we infer that affected by the northward subduction of the Qilian Proto-Tethys ocean, the Laohushan oceanic crust of the North Qilian back-arc basin was subducted during the Late Ordovician and resulted in extensive metasomatism of lithospheric mantle by fluids derived from oceanic crust or sediments, and the Caowa high Ba-Sr quartz diorites generated in the process of crust-mantle interaction during the Late Ordovician.

Keywords

High Ba-Sr granitoids; Late Ordovician; Subduction; Proto-Tethys; North Qilian orogen

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geochemistry and Petrology

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