Granulite Facies Metamorphic Age and Tectonic Implications of BIFs from the Kongling Group in the Northern Huangling Anticline

Yang Cen; Yang Cen; Timothy M Kusky; Xingfu Jiang; Lu Wang

doi:10.1007/s12583-012-0286-x

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Yang Cen, Yang Cen, Timothy M Kusky, Xingfu Jiang, Lu Wang. Granulite Facies Metamorphic Age and Tectonic Implications of BIFs from the Kongling Group in the Northern Huangling Anticline. Journal of Earth Science, 2012, 23(5): 648-658. doi: 10.1007/s12583-012-0286-x

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Yang Cen, Yang Cen, Timothy M Kusky, Xingfu Jiang, Lu Wang. Granulite Facies Metamorphic Age and Tectonic Implications of BIFs from the Kongling Group in the Northern Huangling Anticline. Journal of Earth Science, 2012, 23(5): 648-658. doi: 10.1007/s12583-012-0286-x

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Yang Cen, Yang Cen, Timothy M Kusky, Xingfu Jiang, Lu Wang. Granulite Facies Metamorphic Age and Tectonic Implications of BIFs from the Kongling Group in the Northern Huangling Anticline. Journal of Earth Science, 2012, 23(5): 648-658. doi: 10.1007/s12583-012-0286-x

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Granulite Facies Metamorphic Age and Tectonic Implications of BIFs from the Kongling Group in the Northern Huangling Anticline

doi: 10.1007/s12583-012-0286-x

Yang Cen^{1, 2},
Yang Cen^{1, 3
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,},
Timothy M Kusky^{2, 3},
Xingfu Jiang^{1, 2},
Lu Wang^{2, 3}

1.
Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
2.
State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
3.
Three Gorges Research Center for Geo-hazard, Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

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the Postdoctoral Science Foundation 20100471203

the Ministry of Land and Resources 1212010670104

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 91014002

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40821061

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 41272242

Ministry of Education of China B07039

Ministry of Education of China TGRC201024

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Corresponding author: Songbai Peng, psb200301@yahoo.com.cn
Received Date: 11 Nov 2011
Accepted Date: 18 Jan 2012
Publish Date: 01 Oct 2012

Abstract

Abstract

We report preliminary results of a geochemical study on banded iron formations (BIFs) in the Zhaojiayangpo (赵家阳坡) area from the Kongling (崆岭) Group in the northern Huangling (黄陵) anticline, on the northern margin of the Yangtze craton. The CL (cathodoluminescence) images of zircons mostly have sector zoning, fir-tree zoning and patched zoning, and a few show core-rim textures with rims having patched zoning. The calculated formation temperatures using the Ti-in-zircon thermometer are 660–808 ℃ (714 ℃ in average), all indicating that the BIFs underwent granulite facies metamorphism. The age of zircons with granulite facies metamorphism is 1 990±14 Ma by LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating, indicating that there was a significant granulite facies tectonothermal event in the northern Huangling anticline in the Paleoproterozoic, which may be related with tectonic thermal events of the metamorphism caused by the assembly of the Columbia supercontinent with South China. Moreover, the REE pattern is characterized by depletion in LREE while relatively flat in HREE, La_N/Yb_N=0.26, with a positive Eu anomaly (Eu/Eu*=1.59), which reveals its hydrothermal sedimentation origin and it may have formed in the environment of submarine exhalation.
- Huangling anticline,
- banded iron formation (BIF),
- zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating,
- granulite facies metamorphism,
- Columbia supercontinent

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