The basement of the Songliao Basin mainly contains low-grade metamorphic rocks and granites. It has been long disputed whether the basin has Precambrian metamorphic basement. This is a report of zircon SHRIMP U-Pb dating results of a meta-diorite sample, which was taken from the Si-5 drilling hole in the southern portion of the Songliao Basin. The SHRIMP analyses indicate that the meta-diorite with a weighted mean 207Pb/206Pb age of 1839±7 Ma (2σ, n = 8) was emplaced during Paleo-Proterozoic time. Additionally, the meta-diorite has old Nd model ages (TDM1: 2999Ma; TDM2: 2849Ma). These data suggest that the south- ern part of the Songliao Basin do possess Precambrian base- ment.
WANG YingZHANG FuqinZHANG DaweiMIAO LaichengLI TieshengXIE HangqiangMENG QingrenLIU Dunyi
The Xilin Gol Complex, consisting of deformed and metamorphosed rocks, was exposed as a large geological unit within the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, but its forming and subsequent deformed and metamorphic time has been an issue of little consensus. Petrographic analyses and SHRIMP dating on biotite-plagioclase gneiss, one of the ma-jor rocks within the Xilin Gol Complex, in southeast Xilinhot City, Inner Mongolia, China, where the Xilin Gol Complex was identified and named, yield its lower limit age of 437 3 Ma (2s ) by its magmatic zircon SHRIMP U-Pb dating, and an upper limit age of 316 3Ma (2s ), which was constrained by SHRIMP dating of magmatic zircons from adjacent un-deformed garnet-bearing granite which intruded the Com-plex. The Complex was thus determined to be formed and subsequently deformed/metamorphosed from the late Ordovi-cian-early Silurian to the mid-Carboniferous. Consequently, it is not the Precambrian terrane as previously considered by most geologists. More or less, the major rock——biotite- plagioclase gneiss within the Complex is more likely to be Paleozoic fore-arc turbidite formation before metamorphism and intensive deformation, in which the detrital zircons gave sporadic Precambrian ages as old as up to 3.1 Ga. The source of the turbidite formation is multiple, which may be derived either from the North China Craton, or from the South- Mongolia Micro-continent, or probably came from a poten-tial and undiscovered in situ terranes aged 600—800 Ma or even up to ca 3.1 Ga near the Complex.
The Xilin Gol Complex,consisting of deformed and metamorphosed rocks,was exposed as a large geological unit wi...
SHI Guanghai~1,LIU Dunyi~2,ZHANG Fuqin~1, JIAN Ping~2,MIAO Laicheng~1,SHI Yuruo~2 & TAO Hua~2 1.Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029,China
The recently identified Huashan ophiolitic mélange was considered as the eastern part of the Mianlüe suture in the Qinling orogenic belt. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronology on gabbro from the Huashan ophiolite and granite intruding basic volcanic rocks indicates crystallization ages of 947±14 Ma and 876±17 Ma respectively. These ages do not support a recently proposed Hercynian Huashan Ocean, but rather favor that a Neoproterozoic suture assemblage （ophiolite） is incorporated into the younger （Phanerozoic） Qinling orogenic belt.
SHI YuruoLIU DunyiZHANG ZongqingMIAO LaichengZHANG FuqinXUE Hongmei
