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In this paper, we present mineralogical, whole-rock geochemical, Sr and Pb isotopic, and zircon trace elemental and U–Pb geochronological data for the newly-discovered Pengco listvenite in central Tibet, in an attempt to probe the petrogenesis of listvenite and the tectonic environment. The listvenite is composed of magnesite, quartz and minor dolomite and Cr-spinel. Chemistry of abundant protogenetic Cr-spinel in the Pengco listvenite as well as the whole-rock Cr and Ni concentrations and low rare-earth element contents indicates the harzburgite protolith. Addition of Ca and K and redistribution of Si at sample scale suggest that the formation of Pengco listvenite was not an isochemical process. Serpentinization could partly accounts for the enrichments in some fluid mobile elements before listvenitization. The εHf(t) values of xenocrystic zircons in the Pengco listvenite are dominantly negative, suggesting a continental crustal source. The zircon age spectra and high whole-rock initial 87Sr/86Sr values (0.7094–0.7107, and one up to 0.7193) and high 207Pb/204Pb (15.750–15.759), 208Pb/204Pb (39.145–39.215) and 206Pb/204Pb (18.542–18.567) of the Pengco listvenite are similar to those of the Qiangtang continental sediments/upper crust, indicating the terrigenous source of reactant fluids and fluid-assisted solid-state transfer during the formation of listvenite. The Pengco listvenite is likely formed in the forearc extensional environment of the Bangong Meso-Tethyan ocean during the Late Jurassic.
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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 42272254) and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program (grant 2019QZKK0703-02). We are grateful to Dr. Wei Chen for assistance in the fieldwork, and to the associate editor for kind editorial handling and English polishing on the manuscript. Constructive and thoughtful review comments from the AE, Prof. Juan Carlos de Obeso, and two anonymous reviewers are greatly acknowledged, which have helped to improve the manuscript significantly.
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Supplementary Table S1. Mineral assemblages of the Pengco listvenite. Table S2. Whole-rock major and trace element compositions of the Pengco listvenite. Table S3. Representative electron probe analyses of spinel, magnesite and dolomite in the Pengco listvenite. Table S4. U–Pb isotopes and ages of the zircons from the Pengco listvenite. Table S5. Hf isotope compositions of the zircons from the Pengco listvenite. Table S6. Trace elements of the zircons from the Pengco listvenite. Table S7. Whole-rock Sr and Pb isotope compositions of the Pengco listvenites (XLSX 59 KB)
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Supplementary Fig. S1. BSE imagines showing the fractured Cr-spinel (a, b), and sulfides of Ni (c) and Pb (d) in the Pengco listvenite (TIF 11184 KB)
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Supplementary Fig. S2. Ternary diagrams showing the compositions of dolomite and magnesite in the Pengco listvenite (TIF 5820 KB)
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Supplementary Fig. S4. SEM X-ray mappings showing that all Mg were distributed into carbonate minerals and all Si in quartz (TIF 17431 KB)
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Supplementary Fig. S6. Chondrite-normalized REE pattern of the late Cretaceous zircons in the Pengco listvenite (TIF 5332 KB)
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Ji, C., Zhang, KJ. & Yan, LL. Hydrothermal metasomatism and solid-phase transfer in petrogenesis of listvenite: the Meso-Tethyan ophiolite, central Tibet, China. Contrib Mineral Petrol 178, 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01988-5
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