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There exist two parallel A-type syenite-granite belts on both banks of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province: one is the Dalongshan-Chengshan-Huangmeijian belt on the north bank and the other is the Huayuangong-Maotan-Banshiling belt on the south bank. Both of them consist of syenite, quartz-syenite and alkali feldspar granite, which were formed at about 125 Ma ago and are enriched in alkalies and high-field-strength elements but depleted in water, with the total alkali accounting for 9–12%. and H2O+ only for 0.50%. The Ga× 10−4/Al ratio is as high as 2.7 to 3.8 for granite. They were formed in the extension stage of ancient rifting. So they are considered to be the A-type syenite-granite belts. Granites in the two belts resulted from a syenite magma by an AFC mechanism while the magma was derived from alkali basalt magma through the fractional-crystallization-dominated AFC mechanism.
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Fengming, X., Xiang, X. Two A-type syenite-granite belts in Anhui. Chin. J. of Geochem. 13, 340–354 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02838523
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