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Evolution of subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath eastern China: Re–Os isotopic evidence from mantle xenoliths in Paleozoic kimberlites and Mesozoic basalts

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The ages of subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the North China and South China cratons are less well-constrained than the overlying crust. We report Re–Os isotope systematics of mantle xenoliths entrained in Paleozoic kimberlites and Mesozoic basalts from eastern China. Peridotite xenoliths from the Fuxian and Mengyin Paleozoic diamondiferous kimberlites in the North China Craton give Archean Re depletion ages of 2.6–3.2 Ga and melt depletion ages of 2.9–3.4 Ga. No obvious differences in Re and Os abundances, Os isotopic ratios and model ages are observed between spinel-facies and garnet-facies peridotites from both kimberlite localities. The Re–Os isotopic data, together with the PGE concentrations, demonstrate that beneath the Archean continental crust of the eastern North China Craton, Archean lithospheric mantle of spinel- to diamond-facies existed without apparent compositional stratification during the Paleozoic. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic basalt-borne peridotite and pyroxenite xenoliths, on the other hand, show geochemical features indicating metasomatic enrichment, along with a large range of the Re–Os isotopic model ages from Proterozoic to Phanerozoic. These features indicate that lithospheric transformation or refertilization through melt-peridotite interaction could be the primary mechanism for compositional changes during the Phanerozoic, rather than delamination or thermal-mechanical erosion, despite the potential of these latter processes to play an important role for the loss of garnet-facies mantle. A fresh garnet lherzolite xenolith from the Yangtze Block has a Re depletion age of ∼1.04 Ga, much younger than overlying Archean crustal rocks but the same Re depletion ages as spinel lherzolite xenoliths from adjacent Mesozoic basalts, indicating Neoproterozoic resetting of the Re–Os system in the South China Craton.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Weiming Fan for providing the Ningyuan samples. We are also indebted to Meifu Zhou and Xiao Fu for their assistance with XRF and ICPMS analyses for major oxides, trace elements and PGE concentrations at the University of Hong Kong, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink for advice on sparging, which helped greatly in setting up the measurement procedures for Os isotopes at Lamont, and Alberto Saal for assistance with preparation of Re–Os for analyses. Constructive reviews and comments of T. Grove, R. Carlson, and an anonymous reviewer greatly helped to improve the manuscript. This research was financially supported by funding from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, as grants from the Nature Science Foundation of China (40534022) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-103) to HF Zhang, and a Hong Kong RGC Grant to M Sun. This is LDEO contribution #7063.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing, 100029, China

    Hong-Fu Zhang & Xin-Hua Zhou

  2. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, 61 Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY, 10964, USA

    Steven L. Goldstein & Yue Cai

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

    Min Sun

  4. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Jian-Ping Zheng

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Zhang, HF., Goldstein, S.L., Zhou, XH. et al. Evolution of subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath eastern China: Re–Os isotopic evidence from mantle xenoliths in Paleozoic kimberlites and Mesozoic basalts. Contrib Mineral Petrol 155, 271–293 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-007-0241-5

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