Abstract:
The Chengba Complex on the southern margin of the Gangdise batholiths in southern Tibet comprises mainly granodio-rite and subordinately dioritic enclaves and leucogabbro. Zircon U-Pb analytical results demonstrate that the granodiorites formed at 29.40±0.18Ma to 29.42±0.25Ma, whereas the fine-grained dioritic enclaves formed at 30.02±0.15Ma. Bulk-rock major and trace el-ement and isotope(Sr-Nd-Hf) analyses indicate that the granodiorites are characterized by relatively high SiO
2(65.2%~66.2%) and K
2O(3.2%~4.0%) but low FeO and MgO, and high Sr(774×10
-6~813×10
-6), low Y(9.9×10
-6~11.2×10
-6), and hence high Sr/Y ratios(>60 and up to 82). In contrast, the dioritic enclaves are relatively low in SiO
2(53%~56.1%) and K
2O(1.5%~3.2%), but high in MgO and FeO with relatively high Na/K ratios(≥2). Both are enriched in LREE and LILE and depleted in HREE and HFSE and have similar relatively high zircon
εHf(
t) values(+1.1~+6.2) as well as negative whole-rock
εNd(
t) values(-2.9~-5.9). Combined with data available, the new results obtained by the authors suggest that the Chengba granodiorite and dioritic enclaves were formed within a time span of ca.1Ma. Similar isotopic characteristics imply that they were derived from similar sources. The high Sr/Y ratios in Chengba granodiorite, in contrast to low Sr/Y ratios in the mafic enclaves, possibly do not represent primary magma composition. Instead, the high Sr/Y and high Ba characteristics of the Chengba granodiorite might have resulted from fractional crystallization of parent magmas with low Sr/Y ratios and low Ba content like those mafic enclaves.