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Geology and Zircon U-Pb Isotopic Chronology of Dantazi Complex, Northern Hebei Province

LIU Shu-wen1,3, LU ¨ Yong-jun1, FENG Yong-gang1, ZHANG Chen1,TIAN Wei1,YAN Quan-ren2, LIU Xiao-ming3   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, MOE, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University,Beijing 100871, China; 2. Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China;3. State key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
  • Received:2007-09-20 Revised:2007-09-20 Online:2007-09-20 Published:2007-09-20

Abstract: The Dantazi complex in northern Hebei province, located in the middle segment of northern margin of the North China Craton, consists of the tonalitic, trondhjemitic and granodioritic gneisses (TTG) metamorphosed in high amphibolite facies to granulite facies, and a supracrustal rock association of mafic two-pyroxene granulites, clinopyroxene amphibolites, garnet plagioclase fine-grained gneisses, garnet sillimanite biotite schists and minor marbles. Detailed studies in SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS zircon U-Pb isotopic chronology reveal that the Dantazi complex experienced seven stages of evolution: (1) 2 600-2 530 Ma, the formation of the country rocks of the TTG gneisses, including some mafic supracrustal rocks that might be sources of the TTG magma; (2) 2 517-2 505 Ma, tonalitic magma emplaced and crystallized; (3) 2 494-2 473 Ma, trondhjemitic magma emplaced and crystallized;(4) 2 427-2 404 Ma, the plutonic and supracrustal lithological associations in the complex were metamorphosed and deformed in high amphibolite facies to granulite facies (earlier stage) and reworked; (5) ~1 859 Ma, mafic magma emplaced, forming some mafic dykes and stocks; (6) ~1 834 Ma to 1 793 Ma, the Datazi complex experienced an intensive regional metamorphism in granulite facies (later stage); (7) ~1 730 Ma, the complex was altered by intensive activation of geological fluids. However, there is no ~300 Ma Paleozoic age record in all the samples analyzed for zircon U-Pb isotopic chronology, suggesting that the Dantazi complex did not experience the Paleozoic metamorphism.