Provenance and tectonic implications of the Carboniferous sediments in the Bainaimiao arc belt, northern margin of the N
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Provenance and tectonic implications of the Carboniferous sediments in the Bainaimiao arc belt, northern margin of the North China Craton: evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes and trace elements Xingan Wang1,2 · Chad D. Deering2 · Zhenghong Liu3 · Olivier Bachmann4 · Marcel Guillong4 Received: 25 February 2020 / Accepted: 30 October 2020 © Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (GV) 2020
Abstract Sedimentological and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic analyses of the Carboniferous strata in the Bainaimiao arc belt (BAB) provide provenance information for the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC). The late Carboniferous strata in the eastern BAB were dominantly shallow marine carbonate-clastic deposits. Detrital zircon data show that: (1) sandstone from lower Sidaozhangpeng Formation displays two major age peaks of 369 Ma and 2522 Ma, with εHf (t) values of − 25.9 to − 20.4 and 2.2–6.4, respectively; (2) sandstone from upper Sidaozhangpeng Formation shows a significant age peak at 384 Ma, with εHf (t) values of − 25.3 to − 14.5. Determination of detrital zircon parent rock types based on trace element proxies suggests that the protolith rock types consist of felsic (73%) and mafic rocks (22%), with minor alkaline rocks (5%), implying a continental arc setting. The U–Pb–Hf dating of the Carboniferous strata in the western and eastern BAB shows different provenances: the Carboniferous sediments in the western BAB were derived from early Paleozoic magmatic rocks, micro-block (Hunshandake Block) and the NCC basement; the provenances of the Carboniferous strata from the eastern BAB were mainly local Devonian magmatic rocks, with subordinate input of the Neoarchean NCC basement rocks. The early Paleozoic zircon grains recorded by the early Devonian rhyolitic tuff and late Carboniferous sandstone indicate that the early Paleozoic arc magmatic activities also occurred in the eastern BAB. Keywords Detrital zircons · U–Pb–Hf isotope · Provenance · Carboniferous · North China Craton
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Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01955-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Xingan Wang [email protected] 1
School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China
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Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
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College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China
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Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiusstrasse 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Detrital zircons from sedimentary rocks are a powerful tool used for sedimentary provenance analysis and crustal evolution studies (Cawood et al. 2007, 2012; Hawkesworth et al. 2010). The combination of U–Pb–Hf isotopes and trace element data of detrital zircons can provide important information about the magmatic activities and tectonic setting (Gehre
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