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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
卷 75, 期 1, 页码 242-255出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.09.035
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- NSFC [41072047, 90714002, 41073026]
- ARC
- Ministry of Education of China
- State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs of China [B07039]
- ARC LIEF
- DEST
- Macquarie University
How has the Earth's continental crust evolved? Most of our knowledge comes from surface exposures, but zircon xenocrysts in volcanic rocks can provide samples of deeper crustal levels. The U-Pb and Hf-isotope systematics of xenocrystic zircons brought to the surface by the Cenozoic (48-49 Ma) Pingnan basaltic rocks and the Mesozoic (166 Ma) Pingle minettes in Guangxi Province (South China), suggest the presence of unexposed relict Archean basement beneath the western Cathaysia Block, where the oldest exposed rocks are Neoproterozoic-Phanerozoic in age. This basement has provided zircons with several distinct age populations: 3.85, 3.55, 3.3-3.2 and mainly 2.9-2.5 Ga. These have Hf depleted-mantle model ages (T-DM) of 2.5 to >= 3.9 Ga. The oldest T-DM (similar to 3.9 Ga) shows the existence of Paleo- to Eoarchean components in this area. This relict basement experienced complex modification, including the addition of juvenile mantle material (with epsilon(Hf) up to +12.7) at ca 3.6-3.2, 2.5, 1.0 and 0.5 Ga. The zircons also record thermal events that reworked (remelted) the older crustal components of the block at ca 2.0-1.8, 1.6-1.5 Ga and similar to 80 Ma. Although these younger events have modified the Archean nature of the basement, it seems that they do not represent significant post-Archean crustal growth. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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