Architecture of the Sulu crustal suture between the North China Craton and Yangtze Craton: Constraints from Mesozoic granitoids

Zhao, Rui; Wang, Qingfei; Liu, Xuefei; Wang, Wei; Pan, Ruiguang

doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.10.018

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“…The country rocks of these granites include 2.6–2.5 Ga metamafic rocks, 2.7–2.4 Ga metagranites, and metamorphic sedimentary rocks deposited at 2.1–1.9 Ga (F. Liu et al., 2017). Zircons of K and Q plutons have inherited cores (e.g., Guo et al., 2005; R. Zhao et al., 2016) and were affected by the later thermal event (e.g., Xia et al., 2016), resulting in a broad range of ages (163–141 Ma, Figure 4a). Therefore, we consider statistical peak age (153 Ma) as their crystallization ages (Figure 4b).…”

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“… Available geochronological data of the QKYS massif. Date are from W. Chen et al., (1992); Goss et al., (2010); Guo et al., (2010); Hacker et al., (2006, 2009); F. Hu et al., (2004); J. W. Li et al., (2006); F. Liu et al., (2017); L. P. Liu et al., (2017); Tang et al., (2014); L. Wu (2014); L. Wu et al., (2018); Xia et al., (2016); D. Q. Zhang et al., (1995); T. Zhang & Y. Zhang (2007, 2008); H. Y. Zhang et al., (2007); J. Zhang et al., (2010); R. Zhao et al., (2016). Legends and abbreviations are the same in Figure 2.…”

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Episodic Crustal Extension and Contraction Characterizing the Late Mesozoic Tectonics of East China: Evidence From the Jiaodong Peninsula, East China

Meng

Lin

2021

Tectonics

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Episodic Crustal Extension and Contraction Characterizing the Late Mesozoic Tectonics of East China: Evidence From the Jiaodong Peninsula, East China

Meng

Lin

2021

Tectonics

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“…Early Cretaceous magmatic origin zircon grains extensively existed in the sample HY04, indicating that the Early Cretaceous granitoids had been widely exposed in this period. Most of the Precambrian zircons were derived from the Jiaobei Terrain in this period, and the detected Neoproterozoic zircons may come from Mesozoic plutons in the Jiaobei area (R. Zhao, Wang, Liu, Wang, & Pan, ). There is a distinct change of age spectrum feature from the middle Laiyang Group to the upper Laiyang Group.…”

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Differential exhumation of Jiaodong Peninsula during Early Cretaceous: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb isotopic dating

Gao

Zhong

2019

Geological Journal

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The significant Late Mesozoic thinning of lithospheric mantle in eastern China caused the formation of many basins and intensive volcanism. Crust exhumation process is a crucial part of supracrust response of lithosphere destruction. It has been studied in order to constrain the model of Late Mesozoic thinning of lithospheric mantle. The Sulu orogenic belt and the Jiaobei Terrane underwent a substantial exhumation process in Early Cretaceous, and though many studies have been carried out to investigate its exhumation history, it is still lacking understanding. Extensional terrestrial domain of the Jiaolai Basin was formed along with the Early Cretaceous exhumation of the Jiaobei Terrane and the Sulu orogenic belt. It provides an ideal research object for studying the exhumation process of Jiaodong Peninsula in Early Cretaceous because of the continuous sedimentary record in the basin. In this study, we analysed detrital zircon geochronology of three sandstone samples from Early Cretaceous sediments in north‐eastern part of the Jiaolai Basin. Detrital zircon age spectrums indicate that zircon ages consist mainly of six clusters, and they comprise Neoarchean ages, Palaeoproterozoic ages, Neoproterozoic ages, Triassic ages, Jurassic ages, and Early Cretaceous ages. The study shows that the Jiaobei Terrane and the Sulu orogenic belt served as source areas that provided detrital materials for Early Cretaceous strata in the Jiaolai Basin. Our results, along with those of previous studies, suggest that Jiaobei Terrane and the Sulu orogenic belt in Jiaodong Peninsula had discrepant exhumation history in Early Cretaceous.

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“…Our analyses are based on a comprehensive compilation of previously published geochronological and geochemical data obtained from the felsic intrusive rocks on the Jiaodong Peninsula (Late Jurassic granites (166-146 Ma) are from [26,[31][32][33][34][35]; Early Cretaceous granodiorites (136-123 Ma) are from [26,29,30,32,34,36]; latest Early Cretaceous granites (123-108 Ma) are from Huang et al, 2006;[26, 27, 32, 34, 37-42]). These datasets reveal major chemical variations over time, thus constituting a tool for tracking possible changes in the magmatic sources and lithospheric destruction.…”

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Geochemical Evidence for Thickening and Thinning of Lower Crust beneath the Jiaodong Peninsula: Implications for Late Mesozoic Destruction of the Eastern North China Craton

Liang

Guo

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Lithosphere

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The eastern North China Craton (NCC) has been recognised as undergoing cratonic destruction during the Mesozoic; however, the mechanism of its destruction is still unclear. The main difference between the proposed models is whether the lower continental crust (LCC) underwent thinning. In this study, we conducted comprehensive analyses of Late Mesozoic felsic intrusive rocks, including Late Jurassic granites (166–146 Ma), Early Cretaceous granodiorites (136–123 Ma), and latest Early Cretaceous granites (123–108 Ma) from the Jiaodong Peninsula, located on the southeastern margin of the NCC. These rocks allowed us to investigate variations in the LCC thickness in this region and to further discuss the destruction mechanism of the eastern NCC. Here, temporal variations in crustal thickness can be tracked using whole-rock La/Yb ratios of the felsic intrusive rocks. Our study shows that the continental crust in the eastern NCC thickened during the Late Jurassic (>40 km) due to compression and the westward subduction of the Palaeo-Pacific Ocean lithosphere beneath the NCC since the Early Jurassic. The continental crust further thickened during the Early Cretaceous, caused by the steepening of the subducting slab after ~144 Ma that produced crustal underplating of mantle-derived melts in an extensional setting. However, the continental crust thinned (20–40 km) during the latest Early Cretaceous, caused by the rollback of the subducting slab after ~123 Ma. The geochemical compositions of three stages of felsic intrusions also suggest that the regional tectonic stress that affects the eastern NCC altered from a compressional to an intraplate extensional environment after ~144 Ma. Thus, the Late Mesozoic destruction of the eastern NCC and its accompanying magmatism were controlled by prolonged thermomechanical-chemical erosion due to low-angle subduction, steepening, and rollback of the Palaeo-Pacific Oceanic lithosphere.

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Architecture of the Sulu crustal suture between the North China Craton and Yangtze Craton: Constraints from Mesozoic granitoids

Cited by 53 publications

References 102 publications

Episodic Crustal Extension and Contraction Characterizing the Late Mesozoic Tectonics of East China: Evidence From the Jiaodong Peninsula, East China

Episodic Crustal Extension and Contraction Characterizing the Late Mesozoic Tectonics of East China: Evidence From the Jiaodong Peninsula, East China

Differential exhumation of Jiaodong Peninsula during Early Cretaceous: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb isotopic dating

Geochemical Evidence for Thickening and Thinning of Lower Crust beneath the Jiaodong Peninsula: Implications for Late Mesozoic Destruction of the Eastern North China Craton

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