The late Paleoproterozoic Dagushi Formation comprises a fluvial-lacustrine succession and represents the initial fill of the Xiong'er Basin in the southern North China Craton.Employing integrated outcrop surveys a...The late Paleoproterozoic Dagushi Formation comprises a fluvial-lacustrine succession and represents the initial fill of the Xiong'er Basin in the southern North China Craton.Employing integrated outcrop surveys and detrital zircon UPb-Hf dating,this study examines the provenance and depositional setting of the Dagushi Formation.Five major depositional facies,including braided channel,distributary channel,subaqueous stream/mouth bar,pro-delta and shallow lake,were identified,based on lithofacies and associations.They were interpreted as representing a braided river deltalacustrine system.The ages of the last metamorphic event of the basement,covering volcanics and the youngest zircon together constrain a depositional age of ca.1.79 Ga for the Dagushi Formation.Zircon age distributions reveal a provenance change from ca.2.7–2.5 Ga rocks in the lower part,to ca.2.3–1.9 Ga sources in the middle-upper part of the Dagushi Formation.Considering the vertical sedimentology,this provenance change could be induced by the rising water-level caused by a tectonic subsidence.The ca.2.7–2.5 Ga zircons are suggested to be locally sourced from the late Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic metamorphic basement.The northeast Zhongtiao Mts area(current co-ordinates)is supposed to have appeared as a paleo-uplift and served as a source area for the Paleoproterozoic grains.The Dagushi Formation records an early‘underfilled'stage of the Xiong'er Rift.展开更多
The rock association of low-grade metasedimentary rocks and greenschists located within the Meso- Cenozoic Liupanshan Fault system on the southwestern margin of the North China Craton (NCC)is regarded as part of the P...The rock association of low-grade metasedimentary rocks and greenschists located within the Meso- Cenozoic Liupanshan Fault system on the southwestern margin of the North China Craton (NCC)is regarded as part of the Paleoproterozoic Xiong'er Group.These low- grade rocks are separated by normal faults,with the greenschist located in the hanging wails.Zircon LA-ICP- MS U-Pb ages of the greenschists range from 2455 to 423 Ma,suggesting that they are not Paleoproterozoic in age. The protolith ages (206-194 Ma)of the greenschists were determined by LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of zircons from two siltstone inteflayers.The petrology and geochemistry of the greenschists reveal that their protolith was continental tholeiitic basalt that formed in an extensional environment such as a continental rift.Thus,it is proposed that the protolith of the greenschists was a mafic volcanic rock of Late Triassic-Early Jurassic age and was metamorphosed during the Jurassic due to tectonism within the Liupanshan tectonic belt.These results show that the greenschists should be reclassified and removed from the Xiong'er Group,and explains why they differ so much from those of typical Xiong'er Group successions in other areas.The formation of the mafic volcanic rocks under conditions of continental rifting differs from that of coeval granitic rocks in the western Qinling Orogen,where the extension occurred during a post-collisional stage in the Late Triassic,which further suggests that the southwestern margin of the NCC became an extensional setting after the Late Triassic.展开更多
The Tieluping silver deposit, which is sited along NE-trending faults within the high-grade metamorphic basement of the Xiong’er terrane, is part of an important Mesozoic orogenic-type Ag-Pb and Au belt recently disc...The Tieluping silver deposit, which is sited along NE-trending faults within the high-grade metamorphic basement of the Xiong’er terrane, is part of an important Mesozoic orogenic-type Ag-Pb and Au belt recently discovered. Ore formation includes three stages: Early (E), Middle (M) and Late (L), which include quartz-pyrite (E), polymetallic sulfides (M) and carbonates (L), respectively. The E-stage fluids are characterized by δD=-90‰, and δ 18 O=9‰ at 373°C, and are deeply sourced; the L-stage fluids, with δD=-70‰, and δ 18 O=-2‰, are shallow-sourced meteoric water; whereas the M-stage fluids, with δD=-109‰, and δ 18 O=2‰, are a mix of deep-sourced and shallow-sourced fluids. Comparisons of the D-O-C isotopic systematics of the E- stage ore-forming fluids with the fluids derived from Mesozoic granites, Archean-Paleoproterozoic metamorphic basement and Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Xiong’er Group, show that these units cannot generate fluids with the measured isotopic composition (highδ 18 O and δ 13 C ratios and lowδD ratios) characteristic of the ore-forming fluids. This suggests that the E-stage ore-forming fluids originated from metamorphic devolatilization of a carbonate-shale-chert lithological association, locally rich in organic matter, which could correspond to the Meso-Neoproterozoic Guandaokou and Luanchuan Groups, rather than to geologic units in the Xiong’er terrane, the lower crust and the mantle. This supports the view that the rocks of the Guandaokou and Luanchuan Groups south of the Machaoying fault might be the favorable sources. A tectonic model that combines collisional orogeny, metallogeny and hydrothermal fluid flow is proposed to explain the formation of the Tieluping silver deposit. During the Mesozoic collision between the South and North China paleocontinents, a crustal slab containing a lithological association consisting of carbonate-shale-chert, locally rich in organic matter (carbonaceous shale) was thrust northwards beneath the Xiong’er terrane along the Machaoying fault. Metamorphic devolatilization of this underthrust slab provided the ore-forming fluids to develop the Au-Ag-(Pb-Zn) ore belt, which includes the Tieluping silver deposit.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.41872238)。
文摘The late Paleoproterozoic Dagushi Formation comprises a fluvial-lacustrine succession and represents the initial fill of the Xiong'er Basin in the southern North China Craton.Employing integrated outcrop surveys and detrital zircon UPb-Hf dating,this study examines the provenance and depositional setting of the Dagushi Formation.Five major depositional facies,including braided channel,distributary channel,subaqueous stream/mouth bar,pro-delta and shallow lake,were identified,based on lithofacies and associations.They were interpreted as representing a braided river deltalacustrine system.The ages of the last metamorphic event of the basement,covering volcanics and the youngest zircon together constrain a depositional age of ca.1.79 Ga for the Dagushi Formation.Zircon age distributions reveal a provenance change from ca.2.7–2.5 Ga rocks in the lower part,to ca.2.3–1.9 Ga sources in the middle-upper part of the Dagushi Formation.Considering the vertical sedimentology,this provenance change could be induced by the rising water-level caused by a tectonic subsidence.The ca.2.7–2.5 Ga zircons are suggested to be locally sourced from the late Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic metamorphic basement.The northeast Zhongtiao Mts area(current co-ordinates)is supposed to have appeared as a paleo-uplift and served as a source area for the Paleoproterozoic grains.The Dagushi Formation records an early‘underfilled'stage of the Xiong'er Rift.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41421002)MOST Special Fund from the State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics,Northwest University.
文摘The rock association of low-grade metasedimentary rocks and greenschists located within the Meso- Cenozoic Liupanshan Fault system on the southwestern margin of the North China Craton (NCC)is regarded as part of the Paleoproterozoic Xiong'er Group.These low- grade rocks are separated by normal faults,with the greenschist located in the hanging wails.Zircon LA-ICP- MS U-Pb ages of the greenschists range from 2455 to 423 Ma,suggesting that they are not Paleoproterozoic in age. The protolith ages (206-194 Ma)of the greenschists were determined by LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of zircons from two siltstone inteflayers.The petrology and geochemistry of the greenschists reveal that their protolith was continental tholeiitic basalt that formed in an extensional environment such as a continental rift.Thus,it is proposed that the protolith of the greenschists was a mafic volcanic rock of Late Triassic-Early Jurassic age and was metamorphosed during the Jurassic due to tectonism within the Liupanshan tectonic belt.These results show that the greenschists should be reclassified and removed from the Xiong'er Group,and explains why they differ so much from those of typical Xiong'er Group successions in other areas.The formation of the mafic volcanic rocks under conditions of continental rifting differs from that of coeval granitic rocks in the western Qinling Orogen,where the extension occurred during a post-collisional stage in the Late Triassic,which further suggests that the southwestern margin of the NCC became an extensional setting after the Late Triassic.
基金the Ministry ofScience and Technology of China(Grant No.95-Pre-39-04)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40425006,49972035,40352003)+1 种基金the Hundred YoungScientists Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) the Trans-Century Teacher Program of theEducation Ministry of China.
文摘The Tieluping silver deposit, which is sited along NE-trending faults within the high-grade metamorphic basement of the Xiong’er terrane, is part of an important Mesozoic orogenic-type Ag-Pb and Au belt recently discovered. Ore formation includes three stages: Early (E), Middle (M) and Late (L), which include quartz-pyrite (E), polymetallic sulfides (M) and carbonates (L), respectively. The E-stage fluids are characterized by δD=-90‰, and δ 18 O=9‰ at 373°C, and are deeply sourced; the L-stage fluids, with δD=-70‰, and δ 18 O=-2‰, are shallow-sourced meteoric water; whereas the M-stage fluids, with δD=-109‰, and δ 18 O=2‰, are a mix of deep-sourced and shallow-sourced fluids. Comparisons of the D-O-C isotopic systematics of the E- stage ore-forming fluids with the fluids derived from Mesozoic granites, Archean-Paleoproterozoic metamorphic basement and Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Xiong’er Group, show that these units cannot generate fluids with the measured isotopic composition (highδ 18 O and δ 13 C ratios and lowδD ratios) characteristic of the ore-forming fluids. This suggests that the E-stage ore-forming fluids originated from metamorphic devolatilization of a carbonate-shale-chert lithological association, locally rich in organic matter, which could correspond to the Meso-Neoproterozoic Guandaokou and Luanchuan Groups, rather than to geologic units in the Xiong’er terrane, the lower crust and the mantle. This supports the view that the rocks of the Guandaokou and Luanchuan Groups south of the Machaoying fault might be the favorable sources. A tectonic model that combines collisional orogeny, metallogeny and hydrothermal fluid flow is proposed to explain the formation of the Tieluping silver deposit. During the Mesozoic collision between the South and North China paleocontinents, a crustal slab containing a lithological association consisting of carbonate-shale-chert, locally rich in organic matter (carbonaceous shale) was thrust northwards beneath the Xiong’er terrane along the Machaoying fault. Metamorphic devolatilization of this underthrust slab provided the ore-forming fluids to develop the Au-Ag-(Pb-Zn) ore belt, which includes the Tieluping silver deposit.
