The North China Craton （NCC） is the largest and oldest one among the worldwide cratons. It preserves important imprints of the Earth＇s early history, including crust formation, stabilization and reworking. The Yins...The North China Craton （NCC） is the largest and oldest one among the worldwide cratons. It preserves important imprints of the Earth＇s early history, including crust formation, stabilization and reworking. The Yinshan Block （YB） constitutes the northwestern part of NCC, and contains extensive exposure of Archean rocks （Fig. 1）.展开更多
Models for when and how the continental crust was formed are constrained by estimates in the rates o crustal growth. The record of events preserved in the continental crust is heterogeneous in time with distinctive pe...Models for when and how the continental crust was formed are constrained by estimates in the rates o crustal growth. The record of events preserved in the continental crust is heterogeneous in time with distinctive peaks and troughs of ages for igneous crystallisation, metamorphism, continental margin and mineralisation. For the most part these are global signatures, and the peaks of ages tend to b associated with periods of increased reworking of pre-existing crust, reflected in the Hf isotope ratios o zircons and their elevated oxygen isotope ratios. Increased crustal reworking is attributed to periods o crustal thickening associated with compressional tectonics and the development of supercontinents Magma types similar to those from recent within-plate and subduction related settings appear to hav been generated in different areas at broadly similar times before ~3.0 Ga. It can be difficult to put th results of such detailed case studies into a more global context, but one approach is to consider when plate tectonics became the dominant mechanism involved in the generation of juvenile continental crust The development of crustal growth models for the continental crust are discussed, and a number o models based on different data sets indicate that 65%-70% of the present volume of the continental crus was generated by 3 Ga. Such estimates may represent minimum values, but since ~3 Ga there has been reduction in the rates of growth of the continental crust. This reduction is linked to an increase in th rates at which continental crust is recycled back into the mantle, and not to a reduction in the rates a which continental crust was generated. Plate tectonics results in both the generation of new crust and it destruction along destructive plate margins. Thus, the reduction in the rate of continental crustal growth at ~3 Ga is taken to reflect the period in which plate tectonics became the dominant mechanism b which new continental crust was generated.展开更多
The following equation is proposed in this paper to estimate the crustal growth rate of the North China Platform on the basis of mass equilibrium between the crust and the mantle:The results indicate that the mass fra...The following equation is proposed in this paper to estimate the crustal growth rate of the North China Platform on the basis of mass equilibrium between the crust and the mantle:The results indicate that the mass fractions of the crust during different geological periods are close to the real mass fractions of the crust in the upper mantle and the whole mantle (2-2.5% and 0.5 -0.6%, respectively, Hofmann, 1986), and the discrepancy of the results is probably related to that the heterogeneous contribution of the mantle to the crust both in space and in element. The results also show that the mass of the Archaean crust is only half that of the Proterozoic crust, and the crustal mass remained unchanged from Proterozoic to Paleozoic. suggesting that the plate movement at least started from the Late Proterozoic.展开更多
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(grants No.41572174 and 41202138)
文摘The North China Craton （NCC） is the largest and oldest one among the worldwide cratons. It preserves important imprints of the Earth＇s early history, including crust formation, stabilization and reworking. The Yinshan Block （YB） constitutes the northwestern part of NCC, and contains extensive exposure of Archean rocks （Fig. 1）.
基金supported by grants from the LeverhulmeTrust RPG-2015-422 and EM-2017-047\4 to Chris HawkesworthNERC NE/K008862/1 to Bruno Dhuimefrom AustralianResearch Council FL160100168 to Peter A. Cawood
文摘Models for when and how the continental crust was formed are constrained by estimates in the rates o crustal growth. The record of events preserved in the continental crust is heterogeneous in time with distinctive peaks and troughs of ages for igneous crystallisation, metamorphism, continental margin and mineralisation. For the most part these are global signatures, and the peaks of ages tend to b associated with periods of increased reworking of pre-existing crust, reflected in the Hf isotope ratios o zircons and their elevated oxygen isotope ratios. Increased crustal reworking is attributed to periods o crustal thickening associated with compressional tectonics and the development of supercontinents Magma types similar to those from recent within-plate and subduction related settings appear to hav been generated in different areas at broadly similar times before ~3.0 Ga. It can be difficult to put th results of such detailed case studies into a more global context, but one approach is to consider when plate tectonics became the dominant mechanism involved in the generation of juvenile continental crust The development of crustal growth models for the continental crust are discussed, and a number o models based on different data sets indicate that 65%-70% of the present volume of the continental crus was generated by 3 Ga. Such estimates may represent minimum values, but since ~3 Ga there has been reduction in the rates of growth of the continental crust. This reduction is linked to an increase in th rates at which continental crust is recycled back into the mantle, and not to a reduction in the rates a which continental crust was generated. Plate tectonics results in both the generation of new crust and it destruction along destructive plate margins. Thus, the reduction in the rate of continental crustal growth at ~3 Ga is taken to reflect the period in which plate tectonics became the dominant mechanism b which new continental crust was generated.
文摘The following equation is proposed in this paper to estimate the crustal growth rate of the North China Platform on the basis of mass equilibrium between the crust and the mantle:The results indicate that the mass fractions of the crust during different geological periods are close to the real mass fractions of the crust in the upper mantle and the whole mantle (2-2.5% and 0.5 -0.6%, respectively, Hofmann, 1986), and the discrepancy of the results is probably related to that the heterogeneous contribution of the mantle to the crust both in space and in element. The results also show that the mass of the Archaean crust is only half that of the Proterozoic crust, and the crustal mass remained unchanged from Proterozoic to Paleozoic. suggesting that the plate movement at least started from the Late Proterozoic.
