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Geological Magazine; July 2007; v. 144; no. 4; p. 619-631; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807003494
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Contrasting origins of late Mesozoic adakitic granitoids from the northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, east China: implications for crustal thickening to delamination

MING-LAN HOU*,{dagger}, YAO-HUI JIANG*,{ddagger}, SHAO-YONG JIANG*, HONG-FEI LING* and KUI-DONG ZHAO*

* State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R. China
{dagger} Shandong Bureau of China Exploration and Engineering Bureau, Ji’nan 250000, P.R. China

{ddagger} Author for correspondence: yhj186{at}hotmail.com

Two suites of granitoids, the Late Jurassic (158 ± 3 Ma) Linglong suite and the Early Cretaceous (130–126 Ma) Guojialing suite, crop out in the northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, eastern China. The Linglong suite is a monzogranite, comprising alkali feldspar, plagioclase, quartz and Fe-rich biotite. The Guojialing suite includes at least five plutonic bodies of both granodiorite and monzogranite. The rocks are composed of plagioclase, alkali feldspar, quartz, Mg-rich amphibole and Mg-rich biotite. Both the Linglong and Guojialing suites have adakitic affinity. They are enriched in LREE with high La/Yb ratios and show positive Eu anomalies. The rocks are also enriched in LILE and depleted in HFSE with high Sr/Y ratios. The Linglong granite shows very uniform Sr–Nd isotopic compositions with initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios of 0.7119–0.7126 and {varepsilon}Nd (T) values of –21.3 to –21.6, which are similar to those of the local Neoarchaean basement. The Guojialing suite has variable initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.7108–0.7120) and {varepsilon}Nd (T) values (–10.8 to –17.2), which are distinct both from those of the Neoarchaean basement and from those of the local enriched lithospheric mantle inferred from the coeval mafic dykes in the studied area. Detailed petrological and geochemical data indicate that the Linglong suite was derived by partial melting of Neoarchaean metamorphic lower-crustal rocks at depth of > 50 km with a eclogite residue, whereas the Guojialing suite was formed by the reaction of delaminated eclogitic crust-derived melt with the upwelling asthenospheric mantle. The petrogenesis of these two contrasting adakitic granitoids suggests intensive lower-crustal delamination during Early Cretaceous times, following a crustal thickening process from the late stage of the Early Jurassic to early stage of the Late Jurassic with crustal thickness of < 32 km to > 50 km, respectively.

Key Words: granitoid • adakite • crustal thickening • delamination • Jiaodong Peninsula






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