Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of the ∼ 850 Ma Gangbian alkaline complex in South China: Evidence from in situ zircon U-Pb dating, Hf-O isotopes and whole-rock geochemistry

Lithos

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Li, Xian Hua ^a,b   Li, Wu Xian ^b   Li, Qiu Li ^a   Wang, Xuan Ce ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Yang, Yue Heng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Hf Nd isotopes; In situ zircon Hf O isotopes; South China; Syenites; U Pb zircon age

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ROCK; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; DIABASE; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; METASOMATISM; MONZONITE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; RIFTING; RODINIA; SYENITE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; CATHAYSIA BLOCK; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 71549152519     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

References (98)

1. 238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards. Chemical Geology 205 (2004) 115-140
2. Bonin B. Do coeval mafic and felsic magmas in post-collisional to within-plate regimes necessarily imply two contrasting, mantle and crustal, sources? A review. Lithos 78 (2004) 1-24
3. Charvet J., Shu L., Shi Y., Guo L., and Faure M. The building of south China: collision of Yangzi and Cathaysia blocks, problems and tentative answers. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences 13 (1996) 223-235
4. Chen S., and Xu Z. Age of Precambrian metavolcanic rocks from northeastern Jiangxi and their geological implication. Regional Geology of China 2 (1988) 187-188 (in Chinese with English abstract)
5. Chen J., Foland K.A., Xing F., Xu X., and Zhou T. Magmatism along the southeastern margin of the Yangtze block: Precambrian collision of the Yangtze and Cathysia blocks of China. Geology 19 (1991) 815-818
6. Chen Z.H., Xing G.F., Guo K.Y., Dong Y.G., Chen R., Zeng Y., Li L.M., He Z.Y., and Zhao L. Petrogenesis of the Pingshui keratophyre from Zhejiang: zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope constraints. Chinese Science Bulletin 54 (2009) 610-617 (in Chinese)
7. Cheng H. The late Proterozoic collision orogen in northwestern Zhejiang Province. Geology Review 3 (1991) 203-213 (in Chinese with English Abstract)
8. Fitton J.G. The Cameroon line, West Africa: a comparison between oceanic and continental alkaline volcanism. In: Fitton J.G., and Upton B.G. (Eds). Alkaline Igneous Rocks vol. 30 (1987), Geological Society Special Publication 273-291
9. Foley S.F. Petrological characterization of the source components of potassic magmas: geochemical and experimental constraints. Lithos 28 (1992) 187-204
10. Furman T., and Graham D. Erosion of lithospheric mantle beneath the East African Rift system: geochemical evidence from the Kivu volcanic province. Lithos 48 (1999) 237-262
11. Gao S., Ling W.L., Qiu Y.M., Lian Z., Hartmann G., and Simon K. Contrasting geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic compositions of Archean metasediments from the Kongling high-grade terrain of the Yangtze craton: evidence for Cratonic evolution and redistribution of REE during crustal anatexis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63 (1999) 2071-2088
12. Greentree M.R., and Li Z.X. The oldest known rocks in south western China: SHRIMP U-Pb magmatic crystallisation age and detrital provenance analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Dahongshan Group. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 33 (2008) 289-302
13. Greentree M.R., Li Z.X., Li X.H., and Wu H. Late Mesoproterozoic to earliest Neoproterozoic basin record of the Sibao orogenesis in western South China and relationship to the assembly of Rodinia. Precambrian Research 151 (2006) 79-100
14. Griffin W.L., Wang X., Jackson S.E., Pearson N.J., O'Reilly S.Y., Xu X., and Zhou X. Zircon chemistry and magma mixing, SE China: in-situ analysis of Hf isotopes, Tonglu and Pingtan igneous complexes. Lithos 61 (2002) 237-269
15. Griffin W.L., Pearson N.J., Belousova E.A., and Saeed A. Comment: Hf-isotope heterogeneity in standard zircon 91500. Chemical Geology 233 (2006) 358-363
16. Jung S., Hoffer E., and Hoernes S. Neo-Proterozoic rift-related syenites (Northern Damara Belt, Namibia): geochemical and Nd-Sr-Pb-O isotope constraints for mantle sources and petrogenesis. Lithos 96 (2007) 415-435
17. Kemp A.I.S., Hawkesworth C.J., Foster G.L., Paterson B.A., Woodhead J.D., Hergt J.M., and Gray C.M. Magmatic and crustal differentiation history of granitic rocks from Hf-O isotopes in zircon. Science 315 (2007) 980-983
18. Li X.H. U-Pb zircon ages of granites from the southern margin of the Yangtze Block: timing of the Neoproterozoic Jinning Orogeny in SE China and implications for Rodinia assembly. Precambrian Research 97 (1999) 43-57
19. Li W.X., and Li X.H. Adakitic granites within the NE Jiangxi ophiolites, South China: geochemical and Nd isotopic evidence. Precambrian Research 122 (2003) 29-44
20. Li C., and Liao Q. Magmatic mixing and mingling of Precambrian Gangbian complex in northeastern Jiangxi province and their geological significance. Acta Petrology Mineralogy 25 (2006) 357-376 (in Chinese with English abstract)
21. Li Z.X., Zhang L.H., and McApowell C. South China in Rodinia: part of the missing link between Australia-East Antarctica and Laurentia?. Geology 23 (1995) 407-410
22. Li C., Xue C., Liao Q., and Zhao L. Petrology of Gangbian magma-mixed complex body and their genesis, Hengfeng County, Jiangxi province. Earth Sciences 22 (1997) 261-267 (in Chinese with English abstract)
23. Li X.H., Zhao J.X., McCulloch M.T., Zhou G.Q., and Xing F.M. Geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic study of late Proterozoic ophiolites from southeast China: implication for ophiolite petrogenesis and tectonic evolution. Precambrian Research 81 (1997) 129-144
24. Li Z.X., Li X.H., Kinny P.D., and Wang J. The breakup of Rodinia: did it start with a mantle plume beneath South China?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 173 (1999) 171-181
25. Li X.H., Sun M., Wei G.J., Liu Y., Lee C.Y., and Malpas J.G. Geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic study of amphibolites in the Cathaysia Block, SE China: evidence for extremely depleted mantle in the Paleoproterozoic. Precambrian Research 102 (2000) 251-262
26. Li X.H., Li Z.X., Zhou H., Liu Y., and Kinny P.D. U-Pb zircon geochronology, geochemistry and Nd isotopic study of Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanic rocks in the Kangdian Rift of South China: implications for the initial rifting of Rodinia. Precambrian Research 113 (2002) 135-154
27. Li X.H., Li Z.X., Ge W., Zhou H., Li W., Liu Y., and Wingate M.T.D. Neoproterozoic granitoids in South China: crustal melting above a mantle plume at ca. 825 Ma?. Precambrian Research 122 (2003) 45-83
28. Li X.H., Li Z.X., Zhou H.W., Liu Y., Liang X., and Li W. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age, geochemistry and Nd isotope of the Guandaoshan pluton in SW Sichuan: petrogenesis and tectonic significance. Science in China Series D, 46 (2003) 73-83 (Suppl.)
29. Li Z.X., Li X.H., and Kinny P.D. Geochronology of Neoproterozoic syn-rift magmatism in the Yangtze Craton, South China and correlations with other continents: evidence for a mantle superplume that broke up Rodinia. Precambrian Research 122 (2003) 85-109
30. Li X.H., Liu D.Y., Sun M., Li W.X., Liang X.R., and Liu Y. Precise Sm-Nd and U-Pb isotopic dating of the super-giant Shizhuyuan polymetallic deposit and its host granite, Southeast China. Geological Magazine 141 (2004) 225-231
31. Li X.H., Su L., Chung S.L., Li Z.X., Liu Y., Song B., and Liu D.Y. Formation of the Jinchuan ultramafic intrusion and the world's third largest Ni-Cu sulfide deposit: associated with the ∼ 825 Ma south China mantle plume?. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystem 6 (2005) Q11004 10.1029/2005GC001006
32. Li X.H., Qi C.S., Liu Y., Liang X.R., Tu X.L., Xie L.W., and Yang Y.H. Petrogenesis of the Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanic rocks along the western margin of the Yangtze Block: new constraints from Hf isotopes and Fe/Mn ratios. Chinese Science Bulletin 50 (2005) 2481-2486
33. Li W.X., Li X.H., and Li Z.X. Neoproterozoic bimodal magmatism in the Cathaysia Block of South China and its tectonic significance. Precambrian Research 136 (2005) 51-66
34. Li X.H., Li Z.X., Sinclair J.A., Li W.X., and Carter G. Revisiting the "Yanbian Terrane": implications for Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the western Yangtze Block, South China. Precambrian Research 151 (2006) 14-30
35. 39Ar dating and SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon provenance constraints. Precambrian Research 159 (2007) 79-94
36. Li X.H., Liu Y., Yang Y.H., Chen F.K., Tu X.L., and Qi C.S. Rapid separation of Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd from a single rock dissolution and precise measurement of Hf-Nd isotopic ratios for national rock standards. Acta Petrologica Sinica 23 (2007) 221-226 (in Chinese with English abstract)
37. Li W.X., Li X.H., Li Z.X., and Lou F.S. Obduction-type granites within the NE Jiangxi Ophiolite: implications for the final amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks. Gondwana Research 13 (2008) 288-301
38. Li W.X., Li X.H., and Li Z.X. Middle Neoproterozoic syn-rifting volcanic rocks in Guangfeng, South China: petrogenesis and tectonic significance. Geological Magazine 145 (2008) 475-489
39. Li X.H., Li W.X., Li Z.X., and Liu Y. 850-790 Ma bimodal volcanic and intrusive rocks in northern Zhejiang, South China: a major episode of continental rift magmatism during the breakup of Rodinia. Lithos 102 (2008) 341-357
40. Li Z.X., Bogdanova S.V., Collins A.S., Davidson A., De Waele B., Ernst R.E., Fitzsimons I.C.W., Fuck R.A., Gladkochub D.P., Jacobs J., Karlstrom K.E., Lu S., Natapov L.M., Pease V., Pisarevsky S.A., Thrane K., and Vernikovsky V. Assembly, configuration, and breakup. Precambrian Research 160 (2008) 179-210
41. Li Z.X., Li X.H., Li W.X., and Ding S.J. Was Cathaysia part of Proterozoic Laurentia? - new data from Hainan Island, south China. Terra Nova 20 (2008) 154-164
42. Li X.H., Liu Y., Li Q.L., Guo C.H., and Chamberlain K.R. Precise determination of Phanerozoic zircon Pb/Pb age by multi-collector SIMS without external standardization. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystem 10 (2009) Q04010 10.1029/2009GC002400
43. Li X.H., Li W.X., Li Z.X., Lo C.H., Wang J., Ye M.F., and Yang Y.H. Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China: constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd-Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks. Precambrian Research 174 (2009) 117-128
44. Lin G.C., Li X.H., and Li W.X. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age, geochemistry and Nd-Hf isotopes of the Neoproterozoic mafic dykes from western Sichuan: petrogenesis and tectonic implications. Science in China Series D 50 (2007) 1-16
45. Ling W., Gao S., Zhang B., Li H., Liu Y., and Cheng J. Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the northwestern Yangtze Craton, South China: implications for amalgamation and break-up of the Rodinia Supercontinent. Precambrian Research 122 (2003) 111-140
46. Liu X.M., Gao S., Diwu C.R., and Ling W.L. Age and evolution of Yangtze Craton, South China. American Journal of Science 308 (2008) 421-468
47. McKenzie D. Some remarks on the movement of small melt fractions in the mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 95 (1989) 53-72
48. Middlemost E.A.K. Naming materials in the magma/igneous rock system. Earth-Science Review 37 (1994) 215-224
49. Müller D., and Groves D. Direct and indirect associations between potassic igneous rocks, shoshonites and gold-copper deposits. Ore Geology Reviews 8 (1993) 383-406
50. Müller D., Rock N.M.S., and Groves D. Geochemical discrimination between shoshonitic and potassic volcanic rocks in different tectonic settings: a pilot study. Mineralogy and Petrology 46 (1992) 259-289
51. Müller D., Stumpfl E.F., and Taylor W.R. Shoshonitic and alkaline lamprophyres with elevated Au and PGE concentrations from the Kreuzeck Mountains, Eastern Alps, Austria. Mineralogy and Petrology 46 (1992) 23-42
52. Nowell G.M., Kempton P.D., Noble S.R., Fitton J.G., Saunders A.D., Mahoney J.J., and Taylor R.N. High precision Hf isotope measurements of MORB and OIB by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry: insights into the depleted mantle. Chemical Geology 149 (1998) 211-233
53. Pearce J.A. Trace element characteristics of lavas from destructive plate boundaries. In: Thorpe R.S. (Ed). Andesites (1982), Wiley, New York 525-548
54. Peccerillo A., and Taylor S.R. Geochemistry of Eocene calcalkaline volcanic rocks from the Kastamonu area, northern Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 58 (1976) 130-143
55. Peccerillo A., Barberio M.R., Yirgu G., Ayalew D., Barbieri M., and Wu T.W. Relationship between mafic and peralkaline felsic magmatism in continental rift settings: a petrological, geochemical and isotopic study of the Gedemsa Volcano, Central Ethiopian Rift. Journal of Petrology 44 (2003) 2003-2032
56. Qiu Y.M., Gao S., McNaughton N.J., Groves D.L., and Ling W.L. First evidence of > 3.2 Ga continental crust in the Yangtze craton of South China and its implications for Archean crustal evolution and Phanerozoic tectonics. Geology 28 (2000) 11-14
57. Rogers N.W. Potassic magmatism as a key to trace-element enrichment processes in the upper mantle. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 50 (1992) 85-99
58. Rogers N.W., James D., Kelley S.P., and De Mulder M. The generation of potassic lavas from the eastern Virunga province. Rwanda. Journal of Petrology 39 (1998) 1223-1247
59. Rollinson H.R. Using Geochemical Data: Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation: London, Longman Geochemistry Society (1993) 352 pp.
60. Shervais J.W. Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 59 (1982) 101-118
61. 176Lu decay constant determined by Lu-Hf and U-Pb isotope systematics of Precambrian mafic intrusions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 219 (2004) 311-324
62. Stacey J.S., and Kramers J.D. Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 26 (1975) 207-221
63. Sun S.S., and McDonough W.F. Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalt: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: Sanders A.D., and Norry M.J. (Eds). Magmatism in the Ocean Basins. Geological Society Special Publication vol. 42 (1989) 528-548
64. Sun W.H., and Zhou M.F. The ∼ 860-Ma, Cordilleran-type Guandaoshan dioritic pluton in the Yangtze Block, SW China: implications for the origin of Neoproterozoic magmatism. Journal of Geology 116 (2008) 238-253
65. Turner S., Arnaud N., Liu J., Rogers N., Hawkesworth C., Harris N., Kelley S., Van Calsteren P., and Deng W. Post-collision, shoshonitic volcanism on the Tibetan plateau: implications for convective thinning of the lithosphere and the source of ocean island basalts. Journal of Petrology 37 (1996) 45-71
66. Valley J.W., Kinny P.D., Schulze D.J., and Spicuzza M.J. Zircon megacrysts from kimberlite: oxygen isotope variability among mantle melts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 133 (1998) 1-11
67. Valley J.W., Lackey J.S., Cavosie A.J., Clechenko C.C., Spicuzza M.J., Basei M.A.S., Bindeman I.N., Ferreira V.P., Sial A.N., King E.M., Peck W.H., Sinha A.K., and Wei C.S. 4.4 billion years of crustal maturation: oxygen isotope ratios of magmatic zircon. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 150 (2005) 561-580
68. Wang J., and Li Z.X. History of Neoproterozoic rift basins in South China: implications for Rodinia break-up. Precambrian Research 122 (2003) 141-158
69. Wang J., Li X.H., Duan T.Z., Liu D.Y., Song B., Li Z.X., and Gao Y.H. Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb dating for the Cangshuipu volcanic rocks and its implications for the lower boundary age of the Nanhua strata in South China. Chinese Science Bulletin 48 (2003) 1663-1669
70. Wang X.L., Zhou J.C., Qiu J.S., and Gao J.F. Geochemistry of the Meso- to Neoproterozoic basic-acid rocks from Hunan Province, South China: implications for the evolution of the western Jiangnan orogen. Precambrian Research 135 (2004) 79-103
71. Wang X.L., Zhou J.C., Qiu J.S., Zhang W.L., Liu X.M., and Zhang G.L. LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Neoproterozoic igneous rocks from Northern Guangxi, South China: implications for tectonic evolution. Precambrian Research 145 (2006) 111-130
72. Wang X.C., Li X.H., Li W.X., and Li Z.X. The Bikou basalts in the northwestern Yangtze block, South China: remnants of 820-810 Ma continental flood basalts?. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (2008) 10.1130/B26310.1
73. Wang X.C., Li X.H., Li W.X., and Li Z.X. Ca. 825 Ma komatiitic basalts in South China: first evidence for > 1500 °C mantle melts by a Rodinian mantle plume. Geology 35 (2007) 1103-1106
74. Wang X.L., Zhou J.C., Griffin W.L., Wang R.C., Qiu J.S., O'Reilly S.Y., Xu X.S., Liu X.M., and Zhang G.L. Detrital zircon geochronology of Precambrian basement sequences in the Jiangnan orogen: dating the assembly of the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks. Precambrian Research 159 (2007) 117-131
75. Whitehouse M.J., and Kamber B.S. Assigning dates to thin gneissic veins in high-grade metamorphic terranes: a cautionary tale from Akilia, Southwest Greenland. Journal of Petrology 46 (2005) 291-318
76. Whitehouse M.J., Kamber B.S., and Moorbath S. Age significance of U-Th-Pb zircon data from early Archaean rocks of west Greenland - A reassessment based on combined ion-microprobe and imaging studies. Chemical Geology 160 (1999) 201-224
77. Wiedenbeck M., Alle P., Corfu F., Griffin W.L., Meier M., Oberli F., Vonquadt A., Roddick J.C., and Speigel W. Three natural zircon standards for U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf, trace-element and REE analyses. Geostandard Newsletter 19 (1995) 1-23
78. Wiedenbeck M., Hanchar J.M., Peck W.H., Sylvester P., Valley J., Whitehouse M., Kronz A., Morishita Y., Nasdala L., Fiebig J., Franchi I., Girard J.P., Greenwood R.C., Hinton R., Kita N., Mason P.R.D., Norman M., Ogasawara M., Piccoli R., Rhede D., Satoh H., Schulz-Dobrick B., Skar O., Spicuzza M.J., Terada K., Tindle A., Togashi S., Vennemann T., Xie Q., and Zheng Y.F. Further characterisation of the 91500 zircon crystal. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 28 (2004) 9-39
79. Wu F.Y., Yang Y.H., Xie L.W., Yang J.H., and Xu P. Hf isotopic compositions of the standard zircons and baddeleyites used in U-Pb geochronology. Chemical Geology 234 (2006) 105-126
80. Wu R.X., Zheng Y.F., Wu Y.B., Zhao Z.F., Zhang S.B., Liu X.M., and Wu F.Y. Reworking of juvenile crust: element and isotope evidence from Neoproterozoic granodiorite in South China. Precambrian Researcg 146 (2006) 179-212
81. Wyllie P.J., and Sekine T. The formation of mantle phlogopite in subduction zone hybridization. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 79 (1982) 375-380
82. Yang J.H., Chung S.L., Wilde S.A., Wu F.Y., Chu M.F., Lo C.H., and Fan H.R. Petrogenesis of post-orogenic syenites in the Sulu Orogenic Belt, East China: geochronological, geochemical and Nd-Sr isotopic evidence. Chemical Geology 214 (2005) 99-125
83. Ye M.F., Li X.H., Li W.X., Liu Y., and Li Z.X. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronological and whole-rock geochemical evidence for an early Neoproterozoic Sibaoan magmatic arc along the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block. Gondwana Research 12 (2007) 144-156
84. Zhang B.T., Ling H.F., Shen W.Z., Liu J.S., Yang J.D., and Tao X.C. Sm-Nd isochronic age of spilite-keratophyre of Shuangxiwu Group in Xiqiu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Journal of Nanjing University (Earth Science) 2 (1990) 9-14 (in Chinese with English Abstract)
85. Zhang Z.J., Badal B., Li Y.K., Chen Y., Yang L.P., and Teng J.W. Crust-upper mantle seismic velocity structure across Southeastern China. Tectonophysics, 395 (2005) 137-157
86. Zhang S.B., Zheng Y.F., Wu Y.B., Zhao Z.F., Gao S., and Wu F.Y. Zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope evidence for 3.8 Ga crustal remnant and episodic reworking of Archean crust in South China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 252 (2006) 56-71
87. Zhao G.C., and Cawood P.A. Tectonothermal evolution of the Mayuan assemblage in the Cathaysia Block: implications for Neoproterozoic collision-related assembly of the South China craton. American Journal of Science 299 (1999) 309-339
88. Zhao J.H., and Zhou M.F. Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic mafic intrusions in the Panzhihua district (Sichuan Province, SW China): implications for subduction-related metasomatism in the upper mantle. Precambrian Research 152 (2007) 27-47
89. Zhao J.X., Shiraishi K., Ellis D.J., and Sheraton J.W. Geochemical and isotopic studies from the Yamato Mountains, East Antarctica: implications for the origin of syenitic magmas. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59 (1995) 1363-1382
90. Zheng Y.F., Zhang S.B., Zhao Z.F., Wu Y.B., Li X.H., Li Z.X., and Wu F.Y. Contrasting zircon Hf and O isotopes in the two episodes of Neoproterozoic granitoids in South China: implications for growth and reworking of continental crust. Lithos 96 (2007) 127-150
91. Zheng Y.F., Wu R.X., Wu Y.B., Zhang S.B., Yuan H.L., and Wu F.Y. Rift melting of juvenile arc-derived crust: geochemical evidence from Neoproterozoic volcanic and granitic rocks in the Jiangnan Orogen, South China. Precambrian Research 163 (2008) 351-383
92. Zhou J.C., Wang X.L., Qiu J.S., and Gao J.F. Geochemistry of Meso- and Neoproterozoic mafic-ultramafic rocks from northern Guangxi, China: arc or plume magmatism?. Geochemical Journal 38 (2004) 139-152
93. Zhou J.B., Li X.H., Ge W.C., and Li Z.X. Age and origin of middle Neoproterozoic mafic magmatism in southern Yangtze Block and relevance to the break-up of Rodinia. Gondwana Research 12 (2007) 184-197
94. Zhou M.F., Yan D.P., Kennedy A.K., Li Y., and Ding J. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronological and geochemical evidence for Neoproterozoic arc-magmatism along the western margin of the Yangtze Block, South China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 196 (2002) 51-67
95. Zhou M.F., Ma Y., Yan D.P., Xia X., Zhao J.H., and Sun M. The Yanbian Terrane (Southern Sichuan Province, SW China): a Neoproterozoic arc assemblage in the western margin of the Yangtze Block. Precambrian Research 144 (2006) 19-38
96. Zhu W.G., Zhong H., Deng H.L., Wilson A.H., Liu B.G., and Li C.Y. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age, geochemistry and Nd-Sr isotopes of the Gaojiacun mafic-ultramafic intrusive complex, SW China. International Geology Review 48 (2006) 650-668
97. 39Ar age, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of the Neoproterozoic Lengshuiqing Cu-Ni sulfide-bearing mafic-ultramafic complex, SW China. Precambrian Research 155 (2007) 98-124
98. Zhu W.G., Zhong H., Li X.H., Deng H.L., He D.F., Wu K.W., and Bai Z.J. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronology, elemental, and Nd isotopic geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic mafic dykes in the Yanbian area, SW China. Precambrian Research 164 (2008) 66-85