The Heilongjiang Complex is a high-pressure accretionary belt composed mainly of serpentinite, glaucophane-bearing metabasalt, epidote-glaucophanealbite schist, greenschist, marble, two-mica schist, muscovite-albite schist, quartz schist, and quartzite (chert), located along the suture zone separating the Jiamusi and Songliao blocks in NE China. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon analyses of two samples of granitic gneiss from Yilan that are interleaved with the Heilongjiang Complex record diverse protolith ages that are consistent with derivation from regional Permian granitoids (263 ؎ 7 Ma) and the adjacent Mashan Complex (492 ؎ 6 Ma), indicating tectonic incorporation of older granitic components into the accretionary complex. The age of the basaltic protolith of two samples of glaucophane-albite schist from Yilan is ϳ245 Ma and is slightly younger than the protolith age of two samples of amphibole schist from Mudanjiang, located about 200 km south of Yilan, that define weighted mean 206
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