Compositional diversity of ca. 110Ma magmatism in the northern Lhasa Terrane, Tibet: Implications for the magmatic origin and crustal growth in a continent-continent collision zone

Lithos

Volumn 168-169, Issue , 2013, Pages 144-159

  Sui, Qing Lin ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Zhu, Di Cheng ^a   Zhao, Zhi Dan ^a   Chen, Yue ^a   Santosh, M ^a,b   Hu, Zhao Chu ^c   Yuan, Hong Lin ^d   Mo, Xuan Xue ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compositional diversity; Crustal growth; Lhasa Terrane; Lhasa Qiangtang collision zone; Slab break off; Tibet

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PORPHYRY; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA; LHASA; XIZANG;

EID: 84875253774     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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118. Zhang K.J., Zhang Y.X., Tang X.C., Xia B. Late Mesozoic tectonic evolution and growth of the Tibetan plateau prior to the Indo-Asian collision. Earth-Science Reviews 2012, 14:236-249.
119. Zhou C.Y., Zhu D.C., Zhao Z.D., Xu J.F., Wang L.Q., Chen H.H., Xie L.W., Dong G.C., Zhou S. Petrogenesis of Daxiong pluton in western Gangdese. Tibet: zircon U-Pb dating and Hf isotopic constraints. Acta Petrologica Sinica 2008, 24:348-358. (in Chinese with English abstract).
120. Zhu D.C., Pan G., Mo X., Liao Z., Jiang X., Wang L., Zhao Z. Petrogenesis of volcanic rocks in the Sangxiu Formation, central segment of Tethyan Himalaya: a probable example of plume-lithosphere interaction. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2007, 29:320-335.
121. Zhu D.C., Pan G.T., Chung S.L., Liao Z.L., Wang L.Q., Li G.M. SHRIMP zircon age and geochemical constraints on the origin of lower Jurassic volcanic rocks from the Yeba Formation, southern Gangdese, south Tibet. International Geology Review 2008, 50:442-471.
122. Zhu D.C., Mo X.X., Zhao Z.D., Xu J.F., Zhou C.Y., Sun C.G., Wang L.Q., Chen H.H., Dong G.C., Zhou S. Zircon U-Pb geochronology of Zenong Group volcanic rocks in Coqen area of the Gangdese, Tibet and tectonic significance. Acta Petrologica Sinica 2008, 24:401-412. (in Chinese with English abstract).
123. Zhu D.C., Mo X.X., Niu Y., Zhao Z.D., Wang L.Q., Liu Y.S., Wu F.Y. Geochemical investigation of Early Cretaceous igneous rocks along an east-west traverse throughout the central Lhasa Terrane, Tibet. Chemical Geology 2009, 268:298-312.
124. Zhu D.C., Pan G.T., Zhao Z.D., Lee H.Y., Kang Z.Q., Liao Z.L., Wang L.Q., Li G.M., Dong G.C., Liu B. Early Cretaceous subduction-related adakite-like rocks in the Gangdese, south Tibet: products of slab melting and subsequent melt-peridotite interaction?. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2009, 34:298-309.
125. Zhu D.C., Chung S.L., Mo X.X., Zhao Z.D., Niu Y., Song B., Yang Y.H. The 132Ma Comei-Bunbury large igneous province: remnants identified in present-day southeastern Tibet and southwestern Australia. Geology 2009, 37:583-586.
126. Zhu D.C., Mo X.X., Wang L.Q., Zhao Z.D., Niu Y.L., Zhou C.Y., Yang Y.H. Petrogenesis of highly fractionated I-type granites in the Zayu area of eastern Gangdese, Tibet: constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences 2009, 52:1223-1239.
127. Zhu D.C., Zhao Z.D., Niu Y., Mo X.X., Chung S.L., Hou Z.Q. The Lhasa Terrane: record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2011, 301:241-255.
128. Zhu D.C., Zhao Z.D., Niu Y., Dilek Y., Wang Q., Ji W.H., Dong G.C., Sui Q.L., Liu Y.S., Yuan H.L. Cambrian bimodal volcanism in the Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet: record of an early Paleozoic Andean-type magmatic arc in the Australian proto-Tethyan margin. Chemical Geology 2012, 328:290-308.
129. Zhu D.C., Zhao Z.D., Niu Y.L., Dilek Y., Hou Z.Q., Mo X.X. The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. Gondwana Research 2013, 23:1430-1455.