LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating and petrogenesis of the Bikou Group basalt in Huachanggou area, South Qinling
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    Abstract: The Bikou Group basalt lenticular or banded in form is distributed in tuffs and tuffaceous phyllites of Huachanggou area. Based on detailed field geological survey and systematic laboratory studies including microscope observation, major and trace element analysis and radioactive isotope analysis, the authors investigated the petrological, geochemical and chronological characteristics of the basalt. The result shows that the basalt in Bikou Group has been subjected to metamorphism of greenschist facies, and mainly consists of plagioclase, chlorite and epidote. The basalt exhibits low SiO2 (44.67%-49.76%), TiO2 (1.14%-1.34%) and REE, high TFe2O3 (12.03%-15.47%), MgO (7.57%-9.3%) and CaO (7.29%-10.54%), with LREE depletion and HREE enrichment. It originated from asthenosphere, occurred in N-MORB setting and was mixed with the old crust. The basalt sample yielded zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb age of (316.3±6.0) Ma (MSWD=0.78; n=7), which indicates that the Bikou Group volcanic rocks are products of at least two periods of volcanic activities, i.e., Neoproterozoic and late Paleozoic. They were formed massively in Neoproterozoic and reformed by the volcanic activity in late Paleozoic.

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WU Jie, LIU Jia-jun, LI Jing-xian, JIA Lei, LIU Chong-hao, YANG Shang-song, WANG Li-xin, YU Kang-wei, LI Zhi-guo. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating and petrogenesis of the Bikou Group basalt in Huachanggou area, South Qinling[J]. Geology in China, 2014, 41(4): 1341-1355(in Chinese with English abstract).

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