Provenance of the Early-Middle Devonian Shugouzi Formation in the Quruqtagh,Northeastern Xinjiang:Constraints from Sandstone Geochemistry and Heavy Mineral Analysis
Provenance of the Early–Middle Devonian Shugouzi Formation in the Quruqtagh, Northeastern Xinjiang: Constraints from Sandstone Geochemistry and Heavy Mineral Analysis作者机构:MNR Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Mineral AssessmentInstitute of Mineral ResourcesChinese Academy of Geological SciencesBeijing 100037China Institute of GeologyChinese Academy of Geological SciencesBeijing 100037China
出 版 物:《Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)》 (地质学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2022年第96卷第1期
页 面:193-207页
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学科分类:081803[工学-地质工程] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程]
基 金:financially supported by Deep Resources Exploration and Mining Project(Grant No.2019YFC0605202) Chinese Geological Survey(Grant No.DD20221684)
主 题:Shugouzi Formation provenance analysis tectonic setting passive continental margin Quruqtagh
摘 要:The Early-Middle Devonian Shugouzi Formation in the Quruqtagh block consists mainly of clastic ***,their provenance has been scarcely studied since it was *** of clastic rocks was commonly used to interpret the *** heavy mineral analyses help frame the U-Pb age from zircon grains,integrated with geochemical data from detrital tourmaline and *** techniques were used to characterize components of the sediment flux and define erosion areas in the Qurugtagh block,further providing evidence about the tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan and Tarim *** maximum depositional age constrained by detrital zircon dating was Early-Middle *** diagrams for sedimentary provenance using major and trace elements indicate that continental island arc-related felsic rocks were the major source rocks for the Shugouzi *** tourmalines are dravite and *** results of detrital tourmaline electron probe microanalysis(EPMA)show that the source rocks are mainly metasedimentary rocks and *** detrital chromian spinels within the sediments are characterized by high chroumium(Cr^(#))and varying magnesium(Mg^(#)).The discrimination plots reveal that these spinels were sourced from island arc magmatic *** laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry(LA-ICP-MS)U-Pb chronology of detrital zircons suggests that the sediments were derived mainly from 414-491 Ma and 744-996 Ma magmatic *** restoration,sandstone geochemistry,EPMA,and detrital zircon geochronology indicate that the source rocks were predominantly derived from Late Ordovician and Devonian magmatic rocks and subordinately from recycled Neoproterozoic magmatic *** analyses of the source areas suggest that a remnant arc still existed in the Early Devonian and the Shugouzi Formation was deposited in a passive continental margin.