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Paleoproterozoic (ca. 1.7 Ga) magmatism in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Trans-North China Orogen

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The Meilin porphyritic biotite granite is located along the northern margin of the North China Craton and the northern central orogenic belt. The Meilin granite is complex but is dominated by a porphyritic biotite granite. Isotopic dating using zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS analyses indicates that the porphyritic biotite granite was emplaced at 1715.6 ± 9.6 Ma during the Late Paleoproterozoic, rather than during the Permian as previously thought. The Meilin granite is an A-type, and all samples from this granite are characterized by relatively high contents of silica (SiO2 = 69.86–71.70%), alkalis ((Na2O + K2O) = 8.69–9.40%), alumina (Al2O3 = 13.71–14.59%), high ratios of FeOt/MgO, low contents of calcium (CaO = 0.26–0.39%), and a negative Eu anomaly (Eu = 0.47–0.57). Additionally, all samples display strong enrichment in Th, K, La, Ce, and P and depletion in U, Ti, Ta, and Nb. These characteristics indicate that the granite formed in a rift environment, where rifting caused mantle decompression and the formation of basic magma. Underplating of the basic magma provided a heat source, leading to the partial melting of the lower crust. Sr isotopes of the Meilin porphyritic biotite granite suggest that the magma source was the remelting of the metamorphic basement. The granite was therefore emplaced in a non-orogenic extensional tectonic setting, which may have been related to the initial breakup of the Columbia supercontinent during the Late Paleoproterozoic.

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Thanks are due to two anonymous reviewers and the editors of Arabian Journal of Geosciences for their careful review and insightful suggestions, which resulted in great improvements to this article.

This work was supported by the basic scientific research project of the Central University Teachers (ZY20150201), the Innovation Team funding program (ZY20160109), and Higher School Science and Technology Research Key Project in Hebei Province (ZD2015203).

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  1. Institute of Disaster Prevention, Department of Earthquake Science, Beijing, 101601, China

    Zhenjun Sun, Henan Yu & Huaiyu Xue

  2. Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100037, China

    Zhenjun Sun

  3. Geological Survey Institute of Jilin province, Changchun, 130061, China

    Chao Li

  4. Hunan Vocational College of Engineering, Changsha, 410151, China

    Huifeng Zhang

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Sun, Z., Yu, H., Li, C. et al. Paleoproterozoic (ca. 1.7 Ga) magmatism in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Trans-North China Orogen. Arab J Geosci 10, 453 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-017-3206-7

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