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Pb-Nd-Sr Isotopic Study of the Middle Jurassic Basalts in Southern Jiangxi Province:Characteristics of Mantle Source and Tectonic Implication

ZHANG Bang-tong, CHEN Pei-rong, LING Hong-fei, KONG Xin-gong   

  1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research and Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Received:2004-06-20 Revised:2004-06-20 Online:2004-06-20 Published:2004-06-20

Abstract: The basalts of the Changpu Formation of the Yutian Group in the Longnan-Xunwu area of Southern Jianxi were formed in the Middle Jurassic Epoch with a Rb-Sr isochron age of 173-176 Ma,and are the basic endmenber of the bimodal volcanic rock assosiation.The Pb-Nd-Sr isotope compositions of basalts are as follows:enriched in radiogenic lead,(206Pb/204Pb)i= 17.872~18.653,(207Pb/204Pb)i=15.434 ~16.131,(208Pb/204Pb)i=37.837 ~39.194;intermediate initial Nd isotopic ratios,εNd(t)= -0.4+1.1;and distinctive high initial Sr isotopic ratios,ISr=0.70835~0.71115.On the Pb-Pb diagrams.the basalts are plotted above NHRL line and have obvious Dural anomaly:Δ7/4Pb=0.19~61.7(22.1 in average);△8/4Pb=59.2~101.5(71.03 in averag);ΔSr=80~111.5(91.5 in average).The Sr-Nd,Sr-Pb,Nd-Pb,Pb-Pb relationships of basalts strongly suggest a mixing source of the depleted mid.ocean ridge basalt mantle endmenber(DMM)and with the EM II enriched mantle endmenber.According to double-variation and two-component(Sr-Nd)mixing equation,calculation shows that the depleted mantle endmember and the EMII enriched mantle endmember for rock-forming materials of southern Jiangxi basalts are 58% 一64% and 42% 一36% .respectively.The E-W trending Middle Jurassic bimodal volcanic rock belt in East Nanling area implies a major extensional tectonic event during the Early Yianshanian period.On the basis of Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemical and tectonic features mentioned above,it is assumed that the endmember component of EM II of Mesozoic mantle souses in southern Jiangxi was derived from the Gondwanaland.