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Zircon U-Pb geochronology of tuffite beds in the Baishugou Formation: Constraints on the revision of Ectasian System at the southern margin of the North China Craton

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The Xiamaling Formation of 1.4–1.35 Ga in Jixian Section and adjoining areas represents a unique Ectasian Period (Mesoproterozoic) sedimentary sequence in the North China Craton (NCC). Studies carried out during the last decade have contributed significantly in improving our understanding about the Ectasian sedimentation tectonics in the NCC during this transitional interval between the breakup of Supercontinent Columbia and the assembly of Rodinia. The present study reports, for the first time, tuffite beds interlayered with carbonaceous-siliceous slate-phyllite in the upper Baishugou Formation (western Henan Province), at the southern margin of NCC. The LA-MC-ICPMS U-Pb geochronology of zircons from two tuffite samples has yielded almost identical ages of 1330±10 Ma (MSWD=0.43, N=38) and 1332±10 Ma (MSWD=0.90, N=24), that constrain a 1.33 Ga depositional age (Ectasian Period) for the Baishugou Formation. A close similarity in lithological characteristics and their respective superimposed lithostratigraphic relationships of the Baishugou and Xiamaling formations, underline a comparable depositional environment for them. The high-precision geochronology data on the Baishugou Formation would stimulate a relook into the Meso-Neoproterozoic chronostratigraphic framework of the NCC, and further research would lead to a comprehensive understanding of the geological evolution of the NCC during Ectasian Period and its correlation with analogous global events.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. Chengli Zhang in Northwest University in Xi’an and his postgraduate student Tian Lei for their help in the field survey and sample collection. We thank Prof. Hongying Zhou and Drs. Jiarun Tu, Zhibin Xiao and Jian Zhang in Tianjin Geological Survey Center, for their support in zircon U-Pb age dating. We express our sincere appreciation to Prof. M. K. Pandit in University of Rajasthan (India) for his detailed modification on grammar. We also express our gratitude to two anonymous reviewers and the Editor-in-Chief for their comments and suggestions that have immensely improved the manuscript. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41630211, 41872198, 41772028 &; 41890834).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Xiyan Zhu & Mingguo Zhai

  2. Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Xiyan Zhu, Taiping Zhao, Lanyin Pang & Mingguo Zhai

  3. Henan Institute of Geological Survey, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Shiyan Wang

  4. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China

    Wenbo Su

  5. Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Taiping Zhao & Lanyin Pang

  6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Lanyin Pang & Mingguo Zhai

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Zhu, X., Wang, S., Su, W. et al. Zircon U-Pb geochronology of tuffite beds in the Baishugou Formation: Constraints on the revision of Ectasian System at the southern margin of the North China Craton. Sci. China Earth Sci. 63, 1817–1830 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-020-9657-0

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