Abstract
Archean rock exposures in the Yangtze Craton of South China are scarce and have been only studied in small-scale outcrops for understanding its early crustal evolution. Geological investigations have been carried out for three Neoarchean gneissic granitic plutons from the Dabie orogen in the northeastern margin of the Yangtze Craton. Zircon U-Pb geochronology constrains the emplacement of high-K monzogranite at 2645±30 Ma, high-K syenogranite at 2630±37 Ma and Na-rich granodiorite at 2497±29 Ma. These findings provide direct evidence for the existence of ∼2.7–2.5 Ga rocks in the Dabie orogen, which significantly contribute to the distribution and evolution of Neoarchean basement rocks in the Yangtze Craton. Zircon crystals from the three granite samples give εHf(t) values of −0.9 to 3.7, −4.2 to −0.4 and −4.7 to 0.1, respectively, corresponding to TDM2 ages of 3186–2909, 3372–3141 and 3297–3005 Ma. The magmatic zircons have δ18O values of 5.06±0.27‰ to 5.79 ±0.30‰ (average 5.59‰), 6.14±0.24 to 7.35±0.26‰ (average 6.87‰) and 5.95±0.17‰ to 7.09±0.17‰ (average 6.55‰), respectively. Considering the possible decrease of δ18O value due to the lead loss during post-crystallization alteration, the primary δ18O values might be substantially higher than those of the normal mantle zircon value (δ18O=5.3±0.6‰). These isotopic data indicate that the Jiamiao Neoarchean granites were largely generated through reworking of Paleo-Mesoarchean basement rocks with a minor contribution of supracrustal material. Integrating our findings with previous results, we infer that the Archean-Paleoproterozoic complexes/terranes of the Yangtze Craton have distinct petrogenesis and the timings of the transition from Na-rich to high-K granites, crustal growth, and tectonothermal evolution before ∼2.0 Ga. However, all of them underwent metamorphism at about 2.0 Ga. These observations also reveal that the Yangtze Craton might comprise several microcontinents that evolved individually and collided to form a unified craton at ∼2.0 Ga, synchronous with the assembly of the Columbia supercontinent. However, the lack of relevant data from the southeastern Yangtze Craton may have a critical influence on this conclusion and should be solved in the future.
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We would like to thank all the team members of the “1: 50,000 Regional Geological Survey in Macheng-Tuanfeng Area, Hubei Province” project for their help in field investigation and sample collection; Jing TAN, Xin SHAO, Guimei LU and Qing WANG for sample analyses and data processing. Profs. Hanwen ZHOU and Yunxu WEI are thanked for their thoughtful and constructive comments and suggestions on an earlier version of the manuscript. Three anonymous reviewers are thanked for their constructive comments and suggestions. Prof. Manoj PANDIT is also thanked for the linguistic polishing. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41972242), the Regional Geological Survey Project of China Geological Survey (Grant Nos. DD20190050 & DD20221634), and the Open Fund of the Research Center for Petrogenesis and Mineralization of Granitoid Rocks (Grant Nos. PMGR202002 & PMGR202112).
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Tian, Y., Wang, W., Jin, W. et al. Neoarchean granitic rocks from the Jiamiao area of the Dabie orogen: Implications on the formation and early evolution of the Yangtze Craton. Sci. China Earth Sci. 65, 1568–1585 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9935-5
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