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J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 393-.

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Geological and Geochemical Characteristics and Petrogenesis of the Mafic Rocks from Zhangyuan, Northern Jiangnan Orogen

ZHANG Yan-Jie, ZHOU Xiao-Hua, LIAO Sheng-Bing, TU Ming-Gang, JIANG Ren, JIANG Yang   

  1. Nanjing Center, China Geological Survey, Nanjing  210016,
  • Received:2010-10-15 Revised:2010-12-17 Online:2011-09-20 Published:2011-09-20
  • About author:Zhang Yanjie, Senior engineer. E-mail: njzyj@126.com

Abstract:

          Zhangyuan mafic rocks of NE-SW trend are distributed along the Yaoli-Zhangyuan-Jiangtan line in the northern slope of Zhanggong Mountain, between Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. They occur as structural shivers and  fragments  in  flysch matrix textured by Neoproterozoic volcano-fine clastic rocks of continental margin, and overall display characteristics of tectonic melange belt. Mafic  fragments  include altered pillow-block basic  lava, gabbro, dolerite, etc, which were concomitant  in space since  the Neoproterozoic. By analyzing geological and geochemical characteristics of the Zhangyuan mafic rocks, their origin is considered to be  in a  small,  slow expansion oceanic basin  spreading  ridge of  the continental margin environment, with  the  features of primitive oceanic crust mafic rocks. It is proposed that Zhangyuan mafic rocks belong to westward extension of Fuchuan ophiolite in Southern Anhui province.

Key words: northern Jiangnan orogen, Neoproterozoic, mafic rocks, geology and geochemistry, petrogenesis

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