Geochronology and Petrogenesis of the Late Paleozoic Yulinhe Granodiorite in the Dunhuang Block, Western China

The Dunhuang Block is located in the conjunction area of the Tarim Craton,Central Asian Orogenic Belt.North China Craton.and Tethyan tectonic domain,and is traditionally regarded as a Precambrian crystalline basement block.However,recent research concluded that the Dunhuang Block represents a Paleozoic orogenic belt.The granitoids that outcrop in the Dunhuang Block recorded tectonic-thermal events in both the Early and Late Paleozoic,which are crucial to understand the tectonic evolutionary history of the Dunhuang Block.In this study,we carried out new petrographic,zircon U-Pb geochronological,and geochemical analyses on the Late Paleozoic Yunlinhe granodiorite,and evaluated its petrogenesis,especially in terms of genesis type and the residual rock.