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The Products of Partial Melting of the Lower Crust: Origin of Early Yanshanian Lapu Monzogranite, Guangdong Province

Liu Chang-shi, Chen Xiao-ming, Wang Ru-cheng, Zhang Ai-cheng, Hu Huan   

  1. Department of Earth Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposit Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Received:2005-09-20 Revised:2005-09-20 Online:2005-09-20 Published:2005-09-20

Abstract: Exposed at the south of Conghua city, Guangdong province, the Lapu amphibole- and biotite-bearing monzonitic granite occupies an area of about 500 km2. The rock is composed of calcic amphibole (0.5%), biotite ( 11 - 13% ), plagioclase (An35 -41,29 -31% ), cryptoperthite (24 -31% ) and quartz (36 -37% ), carrying some amounts of Ca-, Ti-rich minor minerals such as allanite and titanite. Based on zircon U-Pb isotopic dating, the rock emplaced at 163 ±2 Ma (mid-Jurassic). Petrochemically, the Lapu granite is weakly peraluminous (A/ NKC = 1. 043 in average) and with higher K20 content (4.72% in average), belonging to the high-K calcic-alkaline series. The rock has high EREE contents (( 180 -460) × 10-6), showing an evident LREE-enriched and HREE-depleted tendency, and with higher (La/Yb)N values (19 in average). These features indicate that partial melting of source materials for forming Lapu magma occurred at a deeper ( lower crust) level (p 〉 10 × l0s Pa) and that garnet would be a main residual phase, which resulted in HREE depletion in the melt. According to many trac- ers for source rocks (Patino Douce, 1999), it is suggested that the source rocks for forming Lapu magma were metagreywakes or meta-amphibolites. Analyses for Sr, Nd, Pb isotopic compositions of the Lapu granite yielded a feebly high Isr (0.7124 - 0.7155 ) and lower εNd (t) values ( - 11. 18 - - 11. 54 ). Model calculation shows that the melt formed by 55% partial melting of the lower crust rocks would have the similar geochemical features as those of real Lapu granite magma.