Origin of early Cretaceous calc-alkaline lamprophyres from the Sulu orogen in eastern China: implications for enrichment processes beneath continental collisional belt

摘要

K-Ar dating, major- and trace-element and Sr-Nd isotopic analyses were carried out for early Cretaceous (122-127 Ma) lamprophyres from the Sulu orogen in eastern China. The results show strong fractionation in rare-earth elements with (LREE) 100 times chondrite, but HREE 10 times chondrite, indicating the presence of residual garnet in the melting source. These rocks are characterized by significant LILE and LREE enrichment but Nb and Ta depletion with moderate Zr/Hf (39.8-50.8 with regard to 36 for primitive mantle) and Nb/Ta (17.8-23.0, compared with 17.5 for primitive mantle) fractionations, probably as a consequence of carbonate- and rutile-rich melt metasomatism induced by dehydration and/or melting of subducted continental slab at mantle depths. Age-correlated Sr-Nd isotope ratios show moderate ranges of 87Sr/86Sr(i) from 0.70787 to 0.70934 and -17.2 to -11.6 of εNd(t). The lamprophyres from the Sulu orogen were derived from decompression melting of such a metasomatized lithospheric mantle that was mainly composed of phlogophite garnet peridotites and experienced crystal fractionation of a mineral assemblage of olivine+clinopyroxene±plagioclase en route to the surface. Such geochemical and isotopic signatures are also prevalent in the contemporaneous basaltic lavas in the Dabie-Sulu belt, suggesting predominant enrichment processes by carbonate- and rutile-rich metasomatic assemblage beneath the continental collisional belt.