Abstract
Mafic xenoliths occur in Mesozoic diorites from nine localities in eastern Inner Mongolia from the Da Hinggan Mts. to Huabei craton. Their petrologic and geochemical features suggest that they are an intact suite of cumulate complex whose mineral assemblages contain typical patent mantle metasomatism minerals such as pargosite, phlogopite and apatite. Their REEs and trace element characteristics suggest a comagmatic relationship in these cumulates with different compositions. Isotopic dating of the xenoliths indicates that they are products of the mantle magmatic underplating in the Early Mesozoic (237–224 Ma), and they may provide direct evidence for the crust-mantle interaction and vertical accretion of continental crust under a background of the mantle upwelling in the Early Mesozoic in Huabei region.
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Shao, J., Han, Q., Zhang, L. et al. Cumulate complex xenoliths in the Early Mesozoic in eastern Inner Mongolia. Chin.Sci.Bull. 44, 1272–1279 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02885842
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