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Discovery of the Precambrian Nb-Enriched Basalts in the Northern Hebei Province

WANG Ren-min1,FENG Yong-gang1, CHENG Su-hua2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution of Ministry of Education,School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;2. School of Geosciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2007-09-20 Revised:2007-09-20 Online:2007-09-20 Published:2007-09-20

Abstract: There are a series of ancient oceanic crust relics along the fracture belt between the Archean granulite belt and the Paleoproterozoic Hongqiyingzi group in the North Hebei Province. Recently we have found widespread Nb-enriched basalt (Nb > 7×10-6 and Nb/Th+Nb/La > 0.6 ) in this area, which is very rare in other regions. The discovery will provide powerful proof for distinguishing ancient oceanic crust and will also supply important information for the Precambrian geological and tectonic evolution.