Pacific subduction and Mesozoic mineralization in eastern China

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Dec 2009

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #GP24A-03

Physics

[3640] Mineralogy And Petrology / Igneous Petrology, [8170] Tectonophysics / Subduction Zone Processes

Scientific paper

Northeastern China is well known for the removal of subcontinental lithosphere mantle of the North China craton in the Late Mesozoic and the Cretaceous giant igneous event, while southeastern China is famous for its large scale magmatism and mineralization from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. All these can be plausibly interpreted by the interaction between eastern China and the subducting Pacific plate. From Jurassic to Cretaceous, Eastern China was related to the subduction of the Pacific plate under Eurasia in the south, concurrent with oblique subduction of the Izanagi plate in the north (Maruyama et al., 1997; Li and Li, 2007; Sun et al., 2007; Zhou et al., 2000). Cretaceous tectonic evolution of eastern China matches remarkably well with the drifting history of the Pacific plate. The most pronounced phenomena are: (1) eastern China large-scale orogenic lode gold (Au) mineralisation occurred contemporaneously with an abrupt change of ~80 degree in the drifting direction of the subducting Pacific plate, concurrent with the formation of the Ontong Java Plateau (Sun et al., 2007); (2) the subduction of the ridge between the Pacific and Izanagi Plates can plausibly explain the mineralization and rock distribution of the Lower Yangtze River mineralization belt (Ling et al., 2009); (3) southwestward subduction of the Pacific plate and corresponding slab rollback can feasibly interprete the formation of the late Mesozoic (180-125 Ma) magmatism and metallogenic events in SE China. Reference Li, Z. X., and Li, X. H., 2007, Formation of the 1300-km-wide intracontinental orogen and postorogenic magmatic province in Mesozoic South China: A flat-slab subduction model: Geology, v. 35, p. 179-182. Ling, M. X., Wang, F. Y., Ding, X., Hu, Y. H., Zhou, J. B., Zartman, R. E., Yang, X. Y., and Sun, W. D., 2009, Cretaceous ridge subduction along the Lower Yangtze River Belt, eastern China: Economic Geology, v. 104, p. 303-321. Maruyama, S., 1997, Pacific-type orogeny revisited: Miyashiro-type orogeny proposed: Island Arc, v. 6, p. 91-120. Sun, W. D., Ding, X., Hu, Y. H., and Li, X. H., 2007a, The golden transformation of the Cretaceous plate subduction in the west Pacific: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 262, p. 533-542. Zhou, X. M., and Li, W. X., 2000, Origin of Late Mesozoic igneous rocks in Southeastern China: implications for lithosphere subduction and underplating of mafic magmas: Tectonophysics, v. 326, p. 269-287.

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