Late Jurassic Nb‐enriched basalts from the Bilong Co area in the southern Qiangtang Terrane, central Tibet, and their implications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbo Cheng ◽  
Yalin Li ◽  
Haiyang He ◽  
Siqi Xiao ◽  
Wenjun Bi ◽  
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Lithos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 34-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalin Li ◽  
Juan He ◽  
Zhongpeng Han ◽  
Chengshan Wang ◽  
Pengfei Ma ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 750 ◽  
pp. 359-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Han ◽  
Haibing Li ◽  
Jiawei Pan ◽  
Haijian Lu ◽  
Yong Zheng ◽  
...  

Geology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Dan ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
William M. White ◽  
Xian-Hua Li ◽  
Xiu-Zheng Zhang ◽  
...  

We report on a ca. 239 Ma mafic dike swarm intruded in the Southern Qiangtang terrane, central Tibet, that was generated on the passive continental margin of a subducting lower plate. The dikes are tholeiitic basalts and exhibit light rare earth element enrichment, modest negative anomalies in Nb and Ta, and enriched isotopic signatures. The dikes are coeval with a back-arc basin formed in the upper plate as a result of the rollback of the Paleo-Tethys oceanic slab. Thus, after ocean-ridge subduction, enhanced slab-pull forces related to slab rollback on one side of the ocean induced extension and magmatism in the passive margin on the opposite side. We argue that enhanced slab-pull forces are a previously unrecognized mechanism for the generation of lower-plate passive-margin magmatism.


2013 ◽  
Vol 125 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1800-1819 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Chen ◽  
J. Wu ◽  
J. Xu ◽  
Y. Dong ◽  
B. Wang ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Zhao ◽  
P. D. Bons ◽  
G. Wang ◽  
A. Soesoo ◽  
Y. Liu

Abstract. Conflicting interpretations of the > 500 km long, east-west trending Qiangtang Metamorphic Belt have led to very different and contradicting models for the Permo-Triassic tectonic evolution of Central Tibet. We define two metamorphic events, one that only affected Pre-Ordovician basement rocks and one subduction-related Triassic high-pressure metamorphism event. Detailed mapping and structural analysis allowed us to define three main units that were juxtaposed due to collision of the North and South Qiangtang terranes after closure of the Ordovician-Triassic ocean that separated them. The base is formed by the Precambrian-Carboniferous basement, followed by non-metamorphic ophiolitic mélange, containing mafic rocks that range in age from the Ordovician to Middle Triassic. The top of the sequence is formed by strongly deformed sedimentary mélange that contains up to > 10 km size rafts of both un-metamorphosed Permian sediments and high-pressure blueschists. We propose that the high-pressure rocks were exhumed from underneath the South Qiangtang Terrane in an extensional setting caused by the pull of the northward subducting slab of the Shuanghu-Tethys. High-pressure rocks, sedimentary mélange and margin sediments were thrust on top of the ophiolitic mélange that was scraped off the subducting plate. Both units were subsequently thrust on top of the South Qiantang Terrane continental basement. Onset of Late Triassic sedimentation marked the end of the amalgamation of both Qiangtang terranes and the beginning of spreading between Qiantang and North Lhasa to the south, leading to the deposition of thick flysch deposits in the Jurassic.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Liu ◽  
W.J. Xiao ◽  
et al.

Sampling details (Table S1), zircon geochronological data (Table S2), geochemical data (Table S3), and a summary of zircon morphology and geochronology (Table S4) for Carboniferous-Triassic samples from the northern Qiangtang terrane. Geochemical data set of Carboniferous-Triassic magmatic rocks from the northern Qiangtang terrane (Table S5).


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