Geochemistry of high-Mg andesites from the early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, western Liaoning: Implications for lower crustal delamination and Sr/Y variations

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 904-914

  Wang, Xiaorui ^a   Gao, Shan ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoming ^a   Yuan, Honglin ^a   Hu, Zhaochu ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a,c   Wang, Xuance ^d  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Adakite; Delamination; High Mg andesite; North China Craton; Yixian Formation

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CRUSTAL DELAMINATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ADAKITE; ANDESITE; BASALT; CRATON; CRETACEOUS; DELAMINATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGNESIUM; PERIDOTITE; PLAGIOCLASE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 33751020838     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-006-2016-7     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Chen P J, Dong Z M, Zhen S N. An exceptionally well preserved dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of China. Nature, 1998, 391: 147-152
2. Ji Q, Luo Z X, Ji S A. A Chinese triconodont mammals and mosaic evolution of the mammalian skeleton. Nature, 1999, 398: 326-330
3. Hou L H, Zhou Z H, Martin C D, et al. A beaked bird from the Jurassic of China. Nature, 1995, 377: 616-618
4. Ji Q. The Rehe Biota in Mesozoic of Western Liaoning, China [M] (in Chinese). Beijing: Geological Publishing House, 2004. 1-375
5. Swisher III C C, Wang Y Q, Wang X L, et al. Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China. Nature, 1999, 400: 58-61.
6. 39 Ar dating of Tuchengzi Formation. Chin Sci Bull, 2001, 46: 2009-2012
7. Wang S S, Wang Y Q, Hu G H, et al. The existing time of Sihetun vertebrate in western Liaoning, China - Evidence from U-Pb dating of zircon. Chin Sci Bull (in Chinese), 2001, 46: 779-781
8. Wang S S, Hu H G, Li P X, et al. Further discussion on the geologic age of Sihetun vertebrate assemblage in western Liaoning, China: Evidence from Ar-Ar dating. Acta Petrol Sin (in Chinese), 2001, 17: 663-668
9. Pan Y X, Zhu R X, John S, et al. Magnetic polarity ages of the fossil-bearing strata at the Sihetun section, West Liaoning, A preliminary result. Chin Sci Bull, 2001, 46: 1473-1476
10. 39Ar and K-Ar dating of the Yixian Formation volcanic rocks, western Liaoning Province, China. Geochimica, 2003, 32: 427-435
11. Zhu R X, Shao J A, Pan Y X, et al. Paleomagnetic data from the Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks of West Liaoning: Evidence for intracontinental rotation. Chin Sci Bull, 2002, 47: 1832-1837
12. Zhang H, Wang W L. Integrated study of Yixian Formation in Beipiao and Yixian area, western Liaoning. Geol Bull China, 2004, 23: 766-777
13. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Liaoning Province. Regional Geology of Liaoning Province (in Chinese). Beijing: Geological Publishing House, 1989. 521-543
14. Shi B Q, Wu Z P, Zhou Y Q, et al. Study on volcanic activities of Mesozoic Yixian cycle, western Liaoning. Geol J China Univ (in Chinese), 1998, 4: 413-422
15. Peng Y D, Zhang L D, Zhang C J, et al. Rare earth element characteristics of volcanic rocks from Yixian Formation of western Liaoning. Northwestern Geology (in Chinese), 2003, 36: 35-42
16. Wang G H, Zhang C H. Tectonic framework of western Liaoning province and its evolution during Mesozoic. Geoscience (in Chinese), 2001, 15: 1-7
17. Rudnick R L, Gao S, Ling W L, et al. Petrology and geochemistry of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Hannuoba and Qixia. North China craton. Lithos, 2004, 77: 609-637
18. Gao S, Rudnick R L, Yuan H L, et al. Recycling lower continental crust in the North China craton. Nature, 2004, 432: 892-897
19. Defant M, Drummond M S. Derivation of some modern are magmas by melting of young subducted lithosphere. Nature, 1990, 347: 662-665
20. Defant M J, Kepezhinskas P M. Evidence suggests slab melting. EOS, 2001, 82: 65-69
21. Martin H. Adakitic magmas: Modern analogues of Archean granitoids. Lithos, 1999, 46: 411-419
22. Ryuichi S. Geochemistry of high Mg andesites and the tectonic evolution of the Okinawa Trough-Ryukyu arc system. Chem Geol, 1999, 157: 69-88
23. Zhao Z H. Principles of Trace Element Geochemistry (in Chinese). Beijing: Science Press, 1997. 24-55
24. Dunn T, Sen C. Mineral/matrix partition-coefficients for orthopyroxene, plagioclase, and olivine in basaltic to andesitic systems - A combined analytical and experimental study. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 1994, 58: 717-733
25. Nielsen R L, Gallahan W E, Newberger F. Experimentally determined mineral-melt partition coefficients for Sc, Y and REE for olivine, orthopyroxene, pigeonite, magnetite and ilmenite. Contrib Mineral Petrol, 1992, 110: 488-499
26. Ewart A, Griffin W L. Application of proton-microprobe data to trace element partitioning in volcanic rocks. Chem Geol, 1994, 117: 251-284
27. Taylor S R, McLennan S M. The Continental Crust: Its Composition and Evolution. London: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1985. 1-71
28. Taylor S R, McLennan S M. The geochemical evolution of the continental crust. Rev Geophys, 1995, 33: 241-265
29. Gao S, Luo T C, Zhang B R, et al. Chemical composition of the continental crust as revealed by studies in East China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1998, 62: 1959-1975
30. Kushiro I. Melting of hydrous upper mantle and possible generation of andesitic magma: An approach from synthetic systems. Earth Planet Sci Lett, 1974, 22: 294-299
31. Tatsumi Y. Origin of high-magnesian andesites in the Setouchi volcanic belt, southwest Japan: II. Melting phase relations at high pressures. Earth Planet Sci Lett, 1982, 60: 305-317
32. Hirose K. Melting experiments on lherzolite KLB-1 under hydrous conditions and generation of high-magnesian andesitic melts. Geology, 1997, 25: 42-44
33. Kelemen P B. Reaction between ultramafic rock and fractionating basaltic magma: I. Phase relations, the origin of calc-alkaline magma series, and the formation of discordant dunite. J Petrol, 1990, 31: 51-98
34. Kelemen P B. Genesis of high Mg andesites and the continental crust. Contrib Mineral Petrol, 1995, 120: 1-19
35. Yogodzinski G M, Volynets O N, Koloskov A V, et al. Magnesian andesites and the subduction component in a strongly calc-alkaline series at PiipVolcano, far western Aleutians. J Petrol, 1994, 35: 163-204
36. Stern C R, Kilian R. Role of the subducted slab, mantle wedge and continental crust in the generation of adakites from the Andean Austral Volcanic Zone. Contrib Miner Petrol, 1996, 123: 263-281
37. Petford N, Atherton M. Na-rich partial melts from newly underplated basaltic crust: The Cordillera Blanca Batholith, Peru. J Petrol, 1996, 37: 1491-1521
38. Kay R W, Kay S M. Andean adakites: Three ways to make them. Acta Petrol Sinica, 2002, 18: 303-311
39. Kay R W, Kay S M. Delamination and delamination magmatism. Tectonophysics, 1993, 219: 177-189
40. Xu J F, Shinjo R, Defant M C, et al. Origin of Mesozoic adakitic intrusive rocks in the Ningzhen area of east China: Partial melting of delaminated lower continental crust? Geology, 2002, 30: 1111-1114
41. Rapp R B, Watson E B. Dehydration melting of metabasalt at 8-32 kbar: Implications for continental growth and crust-mantle recycling. J Petrol, 1995, 36: 891-931
42. Rapp R P, Shimizu N, Norman M D, et al. Reaction between slab-derived melts and peridotite in the mantle wedge: Experimental constraints at 3.8 GPa. Chem Geol, 1999, 160: 335-356
43. Foley S, Tiepolo M, Vannucci R. Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones. Nature, 2002, 417: 837-840
44. Grove T L, Linda T, Elkins-Tanton L T, et al. Fractional crystallization and mantle melting controls on calc-alkaline differentiation trends. Contrib Mineral Petrol, 2003, DOI 10.1007/s00410-003-0448-z.