Adakite research: retrospect and prospect

Abstract：The paper reviews the major progress in the study of adakites in China, discusses the reason why so many papers on adakites have been published in China, summarizes the contribution and remaining problems of the adakite study and explores the present problems and future direction in the study. The author thinks that the study of adakites in China is on the upswing, which has been one of focuses of adakite study worldwide. However, generally the research level is not high though many papers have been published. Many questions and phenomena in the field remain unknown. The following are potentially key topics for future studies: (1) the origin of Mesozoic C-type adakite in eastern China; (2) the uplift mechanism of the eastern China Plateau in the Mesozoic; (3) the relationship between the adakite formation and uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and (4) the relationship between C-type adakite and porphyry Cu-Au mineralization.