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Characteristics of Zircons for Dating from Daping Mylonitized Alkaline Granite in Yunnan and Their Geologic Implications

ZHANG Yu-quan, XIA Bin, LIANG Hua-ying, LIU Hong-ying, LIN Qing-cha   

  1. Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry & South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • Received:2004-09-20 Revised:2004-09-20 Online:2004-09-20 Published:2004-09-20

Abstract: The Daping mylonitized riebeckite-aegirine granite is located in the southern part of the Ailaoshan-Jinshajiang Cenozoic alkaline magmatic rock belt.The zircons for dating form this granite are of two types:the metamorphic zircons and the metamorphic composite zircons which have old cores and new shells.Their crystal morphology is irregular and/or rounded.Th e high-degree concentration and layering of zircons are observed in rock thin sections.The results of dating are as following:the old core U-Th-Pb age is 247 Ma by using ELA-ICP-MS and the new shell U-Pb age is 145 Ma by using SHRIMP in metamorphic composite zircons.At the same time,there was a regional metamorphic process before mylonitization.In the weakly mylonitized segments the rocks have prism-granular blastic texture and granoblastic texture.The rocks have clear layering,which suggests a sedimentary-metamorphic genesis of this granite.