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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Yishak Volcanic Sequence, Kudi ophiolite, West Kunlun (NW China): implications for the magmatic evolution in a subduction zone environment

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The Yishak Volcanic Series (YVS) is part of the Late Cambrian Kudi ophiolite in the western Kunlun Mountains, NW China, which marks the oldest suture zone in the Tibetan Plateau. The YVS is a well-preserved sequence comprising five conformable units (A to E) of basalts to andesites, with mafic dykes in Units A to D. These rocks are sequentially characterized upward by geochemical features of N-MORB (Unit A), E-MORB (Unit B), island-arc basalt (Unit C), BABB (Unit D and mafic dykes) and boninite series rocks (Unit E), reflecting complex interactions among various source components. The evolution of magma compositions from MORB-dominated to boninite series rocks clearly indicates temporally increasing subduction signatures, which, in combination with the extensional tectonic background, suggests that the Kudi ophiolite most likely formed in a spontaneous nucleation of subduction zone.

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We thank Drs. Hou Quanlin, Chen Hanlin, Wang Zhihong, Zhang Guocheng and Fang Aimin for their assistance during field work in Kunlun and Profs. Li Ji-Liang, Pan Yu-Sheng, Zhang-Qi and Xu Yi-gang for helpful discussions. We are indebted to Profs. Paul Robinson, Sun S.-s and Nicholas Arndt for their valuable suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. Prof. Stern and an anonymous reviewer are deeply thanked for their insightful and constructive comments, which have greatly improved the manuscript. We are grateful to Ms. Fu Xiao and Ms. Liu Ying for their help with the major and trace element analyses. Special thanks are given to the Sino-British Trust for a fellowship to Chao Yuan. This work is jointly supported by research grants from the NSFC (projects 4003005, 40421303, 40372042 and 40172080), Innovation Projects of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-SW-119; GIGCX-03-02) and Hong Kong RGC grant HKU 7040/04P.

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    Chao Yuan, Min Sun & Mei-Fu Zhou

  3. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Wenjiao Xiao

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Yuan, C., Sun, M., Zhou, MF. et al. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Yishak Volcanic Sequence, Kudi ophiolite, West Kunlun (NW China): implications for the magmatic evolution in a subduction zone environment. Contrib Mineral Petrol 150, 195–211 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-005-0012-0

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