The widespread Early Permian and Triassic sequences outcropping in the Chagbu-Shuanghu area of northern Xizang, China, are mainly characterized by volcanic rocks belonging to tholeiite with subordinate veins of dialla...The widespread Early Permian and Triassic sequences outcropping in the Chagbu-Shuanghu area of northern Xizang, China, are mainly characterized by volcanic rocks belonging to tholeiite with subordinate veins of diallagite. wehrlite and limburgites schlierens. These ultrabasic rocks do not carry plastic deformational fabrics from upper mantle and may result from the crystallization of fused mass derived from mantle under condition of deeper crust or earlier segregation of tholeiitic magma. These volcanic rocks, as interlayers or lens, are generally involved in slates, limestones and pebbly slates or breccia and geochemically different from MORB. It is reasonable to conclude from research results that the volcanic activities during the Early Permian and Late Triassic would be able to occur in an intraplale environment suffering initial extension of continental crust or an aulacogen. Therefore, these basic-ultrabasic and volcanic rocks did not constitute an ophiolitic association with an occurrence 6f the 'plate suture zone' represented by the above rocks.展开更多
文摘The widespread Early Permian and Triassic sequences outcropping in the Chagbu-Shuanghu area of northern Xizang, China, are mainly characterized by volcanic rocks belonging to tholeiite with subordinate veins of diallagite. wehrlite and limburgites schlierens. These ultrabasic rocks do not carry plastic deformational fabrics from upper mantle and may result from the crystallization of fused mass derived from mantle under condition of deeper crust or earlier segregation of tholeiitic magma. These volcanic rocks, as interlayers or lens, are generally involved in slates, limestones and pebbly slates or breccia and geochemically different from MORB. It is reasonable to conclude from research results that the volcanic activities during the Early Permian and Late Triassic would be able to occur in an intraplale environment suffering initial extension of continental crust or an aulacogen. Therefore, these basic-ultrabasic and volcanic rocks did not constitute an ophiolitic association with an occurrence 6f the 'plate suture zone' represented by the above rocks.
