40Ar-39Ar dating and geochemical characteristics of late Cenozoic basaltic rocks from the Zhejiang-Fujian region, SE China: Eruption ages, magma evolution and petrogenesis

Chemical Geology

Volumn 197, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 287-318

  Ho, Kung Suan ^a   Chen, Ju Chin ^b   Lo, Ching Hua ^c   Zhao, Hai Ling ^d  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Late Cenozoic; Magmatism; Petrogenesis; South China

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; CENOZOIC; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS; VOLCANISM;

(SOUTHEAST); CHINA;

EID: 0038032741     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00399-6     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Angelier, J., Bergerat, F., Chu, H. T., Juang, W. S., & Lu, C. Y. (1990). Paleostress analysis as a key to margin extension: the Penghu Islands, South China Sea. Tectonophysics, 183 161-176.
2. Arvanne, S. E., Balogh, K., Nguyen, V. Q., Ravasz, C., & Ravaszne-Baranyai, L. (1990). Magmatectonic relations and K/Ar dating of the basaltic rocks in the region of Bao Loc and Di Linh (South Vietnam). AMAll Foldt. Intez. Evi Jel. Az., I 486-496.
3. Barr, S. M., & MacDonald, A. S. (1981). Geochemistry and geochronology of late Cenozoic basalts of Southeast Asia. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. (Part II), 92 1069-1142.
4. Basu, A. R., Wang, J. W., Huang, W. K., Xie, G. H., & Tatsumoto, M. (1991). Major element, REE and Pb, Nd and Sr isotopic geochemistry of Cenozoic volcanic rocks of eastern China: implication for their origin from sub-oceanic type mantle reservoirs. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 105 149-169.
5. Briais, A., Patriat, P., & Tapponnier, P. (1993). Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the South China Sea: implications for the Tertiary tectonics of Southeast Asia. J. Geophys. Res., 98 6299-6328.
6. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Fujian Province, (1985). Regional Geology of Fujian Province. Beijing: Geological Publishing House.
7. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Zhejiang Province, (1989). Regional Geology of Zhejiang Province. Beijing: Geological Publishing House.
8. Chen, C. H. (1990). Igneous Rocks in Taiwan. The Geology of Taiwan, vol. 1 ROC: Central Geol. Surv., MOEA.
9. Chih, C. S. (1988). The Study of Cenozoic Basalts and the Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern China (Attachment: Kimberlites). Wuhan: China Geosciences Univ. Press.
10. Chung, S. L., & Sun, S. S. (1992). A new genetic model for the East Taiwan Ophiolite and its implications for Dupal domains in the northern hemisphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 109 133-145.
11. Chung, S. L., Sun, S. S., Tu, K., Chen, C. H., & Lee, C. Y. (1994). Late Cenozoic basaltic volcanism around the Taiwan Strait, SE China: product of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction during continental extension. Chem. Geol., 112 1-20.
12. Chung, S. L., Yang, T. F., Chen, S. J., Chen, C. H., Lee, T., & Chen, C. H. (1995). Sr-Nd isotope compositions of high-pressure megacrysts and a lherzite inclusion in alkali basalts from western Taiwan. J. Geol. Soc. China, 38(1), 15-24.
13. Chung, S. L., Cheng, H., Jahn, B. M., O'Reilly, S. Y., & Zhu, B. (1997). Major and trace element, and Sr-Nd isotope constraints on the origin of Paleogene volcanism in South China prior to the South China Sea opening. Lithos, 40 203-220.
14. Fan, Q. C., & Hooper, P. R. (1989). The mineral chemistry of ultramafic xenoliths of eastern China: implications for upper mantle composition and the paleogeotherms. J. Petrol., 30 1117-1158.
15. 39Ar analyses and conventional K-Ar dating. Chem. Geol., Isot. Geosci. Sect., 66 41-51.
16. Ge, T. M., Chen, W. J., Xu, X., Lee, D. M., Fan, L. M., Lee, Q., Wen, S. Y., & Wang, X. (1989). The geomagnetic polarity time scale of Quaternary for Leiqiong area-K-Ar dating and palaeomagnetic evidence from volcanic rocks. Acta Geophys. Sin., 32 550-557.
17. Govindaraju, K. (1994). 1994 compilation of working values and sample description for 383 geostandards. Geostand. Newsl., 18 1-158.
18. Hart, S. R., & Allegre, C. J. (1980). Trace element constraints on magma genesis. In R. B. Hargraves (Ed.), Physics of Magmatic Processes, 121-139. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
19. Hart, S. R., Gerlach, D. C., & White, W. M. (1986). A possible new Sr-Nd-Pb mantle array and consequences for mantle mixing. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 50 1551-1557.
20. Ho, K.S., 1998. Petrology and geochemistry of Cenozoic basalts from southern China. PhD thesis, Inst. Oceanog., National Taiwan Univ. 580 pp. (in Chinese with English abstract).
21. Ho, K. S. (1999). Sr-Nd isotope and geochemical evidence for the origin of clinopyroxene, amphibole and mica megacrysts in alkali basaltic rocks from southeastern China and Penghu Islands. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., 12 1-31.
22. Ho, K. S., Chen, J. C., & Juang, W. S. (2000). Geochronology and geochemistry of late Cenozoic basalts from the Leiqiong area, Southern China. J. Asian Earth Sci., 18 307-324.
23. Ho, K. S., Chen, J. C., Smith, A. D., & Juang, W. S. (2000). Petrogenesis of two groups of pyroxenite from Tungchihsu, Penghu Islands, Taiwan Strait: implications for mantle metasomatism beneath SE China. Chem. Geol., 167 355-372.
24. Irving, A. J. (1984). Polybaric mixing and fractionation of alkalic magma: evidence from megacryst suites. EOS, 65 1153.
25. Jahn, B. M. (1986). Mid-ocean ridge or marginal basin origin of the East Taiwan Ophiolite: chemical and isotopic evidence. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 92 194-206.
26. Juang, W. S. (1996). Geochronology and geochemistry of basalts in the Western Foothills, Taiwan. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., 7 45-98.
27. Juang, W. S., & Chen, J. C. (1992). Geochronology and geochemistry of Penghu basalts, Taiwan Strait and their tectonic significance. J. Southeast Asian Earth Sci., 7(2/3), 185-193.
28. Lan, C. Y., Chung, S. L., Mertzman, S. A., & Hsu, W. Y. (1994). Petrology, geochemistry and Nd-Sr isotope of late Miocene basalts in Liehyu and Chinmen, Fujian. J. Geol. Soc. China, 37(3), 309-334.
29. 39Ar data in evaluation of disturbed K-Ar systems. Open-file Rep. (U. S. Geol. Surv.), 78-701 241-243.
30. Latin, D., & White, N. (1990). Generating melt during lithospheric extension: pure shear vs. simple shear. Geology, 18 327-331.
31. LaTourrette, T., Hervig, R. L., & Holloway, J. R. (1995). Trace element partitioning between amphibole, phlogopite, and basanite melt. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 135 13-30.
32. Le Bas, M. J. (1987). Nephelinites and carbonatites. In J. G. Fitton, & B. G. Upton (Eds.), Alkaline Igneous Rocks, 53-83. London: Blackwell.
33. Le Bas, M. J. (2000). IUGS reclassification of the high-Mg and picritic volcanic rocks. J. Petrol., 41 1467-1470.
34. Lee, C.Y., 1994. Chronology and geochemistry of basaltic rocks from Penghu Islands and mafic dikes from east Fujian: implications for mantle evolution of SE China since late Mesozoic. PhD thesis, Inst. Geology, National Taiwan Univ. 233 pp. (in Chinese with English abstract).
35. 39Ar dating result of Neogene basalts in Vietnam and its tectonic implication. In M. F. Flower, S. L. Chung, C. H. Lo, & T. Y. Lee (Eds.), Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia, vol. 27 317-330. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union Press.
36. Liu, R. X., Chen, W. J., Sun, J. Z., & Li, D. M. (1992). The K-Ar age and tectonic environment of Cenozoic rock in China. In R. X. Liu (Ed.), The Age and Geochemistry of Cenozoic Volcanic Rock in China, 1-43. Beijing: Seismic Press.
37. Liu, C. Q., Masuda, A., & Xie, G. H. (1994). Major- and trace-element compositions of Cenozoic basalts in eastern China: petrogenesis and mantle source. Chem. Geol., 114 19-42.
38. 39Ar method of K-Ar age determination of geological samples using Tsing-Hua Open Pool (THOR) Reactor. J. Geol. Soc. China, 37(1), 1-22.
39. 39Ar dating for the whole-rock volcanic samples from the Luzon Arc near Taiwan. Chem. Geol., 114 157-178.
40. Ma, X., & Wu, D. (1987). Cenozoic extensional tectonics in China. Tectonophysics, 133 243-255.
41. Middlemost, E. A. (1989). Iron oxidation ratios, norms and the classification of volcanic rocks. Chem. Geol., 77 19-26.
42. Odin, G. S. (1982). Interlaboratory standards for dating potassium-argon age determinations. In G. S. Odin (Ed.), Numerical Dating in Stratigraphy, 123-149. Chichester: Wiley.
43. Peng, Z. C., Zartman, R. E., Futa, K., & Chen, D. G. (1986). Pb, Sr and Nd isotopic systematics and chemical characteristics of Cenozoic basalts, eastern China. Chem. Geol., Isot. Geosci. Sect., 59 3-33.
44. Philpotts, J. A., & Schnetzler, C. C. (1968). Europium anomalies and the genesis of basalts. Chem. Geol., 3 5-13.
45. Qi, Q., Taylor, L. A., & Zhou, X. (1995). Petrology and geochemistry of mantle peridotite xenoliths from SE China. J. Petrol., 36 55-79.
46. Rangin, C., Huchon, P., Le Pichon, X., Bellon, H., Lepvrier, C., Roques, D., Hoe, N. D., & Quynh, P. V. (1995). Cenozoic deformation of central and south Vietnam. Tectonophysics, 251 179-196.
47. Smith, A. D. (1998). The geodynamic significance of the DUPAL anomaly in Asia. In M. F. Flower, S. L. Chung, C. H. Lo, & T. Y. Lee (Eds.), Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia, vol. 27 89-105. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union Press.
48. Smith, A. D., & Huang, L. Y. (1997). The use of extraction chromatographic materials in procedures for the isotopic analysis of neodymium and strontium in rocks by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry. J. Natl. Cheng-Kung Univ. Sci. Eng. Med. Sect., 32 1-10.
49. Staudigel, H., Zindler, A., Hart, S. R., Leslie, T., Chen, C. Y., & Clague, D. (1984). The isotope systematic of a juvenile intraplate volcano: Pb, Nd and Sr isotope ratios of basalts from Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 69 13-29.
50. Sun, S. C. (1985). The Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Taiwan. Energy, 10 421-432.
51. Sun, J. S. (1991). Cenozoic volcanic activity in the northern South China Sea and Guangdong coastal area. Mar. Geol. Quat. Geol., 11 45-67.
52. Sun, S. S., & Hanson, G. N. (1975). Origin of Ross Island basanitoids and limitations upon the heterogeneity of mantle source for alkali basalts and nephelinites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 53 77-106.
53. Sun, W., & Lai, Z. (1980). Petrochemical characteristics of Cenozoic volcanic rocks in Fujian province and its relationship to tectonics. Geochimica, 2 134-147.
54. Sun, S. S., & McDonough, W. F. (1989). Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., 42 313-345.
55. Taylor, B., & Hayes, D. E. (1983). Origin and history of the South China Basin. In D. E. Hayes (Ed.), Tectonic and Geologic Evolution of Southeast Asian Seas and Islands, Part 2, vol. 27 23-56.
56. Teng, L. S. (1992). Geotectonic evolution of Tertiary continental margin basins of Taiwan. Petrol. Geol. Taiwan, 27 1-19.
57. Tu, K., Flower, M. F., Carlson, R. W., Zhang, M., & Xie, G. (1991). Sr, Nd and Pb isotopic compositions of Hainan Basalts (South China): implications for subcontinental lithosphere Dupal source. Geology, 19 567-569.
58. Tu, K., Flower, M. F., Carlson, R. W., Xie, G. H., Chen, C. Y., & Zhang, M. (1992). Magmatism in the South China Basin: 1. Isotopic and trace element evidence for an endogenous Dupal mantle component. Chem. Geol., 97 47-63.
59. Wang, R., & Yang, S. (1987). Research on Cenozoic basalts and inclusions in Shengxian-Xinchang counties, Zhejiang province. Earth Sci. - J. Wuhan Coll. Geol., 12(3), 241-248.
60. Wilson, M. (1989). Igneous Petrogenesis. London: Harper Collins Academic.
61. Yoder, H. S., & Tilley, C. E. (1962). Origin of basalt magmas: an experimental study of natural and synthetic rock system. J. Petrol., 3 346-532.
62. York, D. (1969). Least-squares fitting of a straight line with correlated errors. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 5 320-324.
63. Zhang, J. B., & Chen, D. G. (1992). The geochemistry of basalts from Longhai and Mingxi areas in Fujian province. In R. X. Liu (Ed.), The Age and Geochemistry of Cenozoic Volcanic Rock in China, 298-319. Beijing: Seismic Press.
64. Zhang, M., Tu, K., Xie, G. H., & Flower, M. F. (1996). Subduction-modified subcontinental mantle in South China: trace element and isotope evidence in basalts from Hainan Island. Chin. J. Geochem., 15(1), 1-19.
65. Zhao, H. L. (1990). Neogene-Quaternary Continental Rifting Volcanism and Deep Process in the Southeast Coast of China. Wuhan: China Geosciences Univ. Press.
66. Zhu, B. Q., & Wang, H. F. (1989). Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic and chemical evidence for the volcanism with MORB-OIB source characteristics in the Leiqiong area, China. Geochimica, 3 193-201.
67. Zindler, A., & Hart, S. R. (1986). Chemical geodynamics. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 14 493-571.
68. Zou, H., Zindler, A., Xu, X., & Qi, Q. (2000). Major, trace element, and Nd, Sr and Pb isotope studies of Cenozoic basalts in SE China: mantle sources, regional variations, and tectonic significance. Chem. Geol., 171 33-47.