Abstract:
The SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon yielded a
206Pb/
238U age of 155.2±2.0Ma for rhyolites in Yudaokou basin, located in Weichang County, northern Hebei Province, indicating that its geological age is early Late Jurassic, consistent with that of Xinmin Formation of Liaoyuan Block and Tiaojishan Formation of the Yanshan intracontinental orogenic belt. The rhyolites can be divided into gray and pinkish red colors, and both are characterized by typical enrichment of SiO
2, K
2O and Al
2O
3, low content of CaO and MgO, thus belonging to high-K calc-alkaline series rocks. Only the ratios of K
2O/Na
2O and Fe
2O
3/FeO of cinnamon rhyolite are slightly higher than the values of the gray one. Furthermore, the rhyolites exhibit high content of ∑REE, obvious fractionation of LREE and HREE, and strong negative Eu anomaly, possessing features of enrichment of LREE. These rocks are characterized by enrichment of LILE such as Rb, Th, U, Ga and Y, but depletion of Ba and Sr. In addition, HFSE, such as Zr, Hf, Nb and Ta are enriched as well. All of the samples show the trace element characteristics of A2-type granite and low Sr-Ba rhyolite, sharing the features of relatively high (
87Sr/
86Sr)
i values (0.708606~0.711171), low
εNd(
t) values (-9.78~-7.11), and young
TDM2 (1520~1737Ma), lower (
206Pb/
204Pb)
t (16.93~17.06), (
207Pb/
204Pb)
t (15.37~15.43) and (
208Pb/
204Pb)
t (37.30~37.72). The projection points are located between the lower crust and the depleted mantle in the diagram of
εNd(
t)-(
87Sr/
86Sr)
i, and between the lower crust and mantle in the diagram of (
207Pb/
204Pb)
t-(
206Pb/
204Pb)
t and (
208Pb/
204Pb)
t-(
206Pb/
204Pb)
t, indicating that the rhyolite in the Yudaokou basin was probably formed by partial melting of young lower crust material which originated from DMM mantle, EMI enriched mantle magma and old lower crustal material. The source material was different from felsic volcanic-intrusive rocks in Liaoyuan Block, but similar to felsic volcanic-intrusive rocks in the Yanshan intracontinental orogenic belt.