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The basalt and trachydacite with about 10 m in thickness are found overlying on the Late Triassic granite at Qitaidaban, about 10km east to the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway and 5600m above sea level. Geochemical data showed that the high-alkaline volcanic rocks are enriched in LILE and LPvEE, loss of HPvEE, middle negative Eu anomaly and high Sr, low Nd. They belong to shoshonitic series and may arise from a crust-mantle mixed layer. Determination of whole-rock 40Ar-39Ar plateau age is 8.27 Ma±0.32 Ma (900~1400°C, 39Ar cumulant 66%). The apatite fission track age of the granite after baking by the volcanic rocks is 7.9 Ma±1.0 Ma. The similar ages of volcanic rocks and the apatite track of granites indicate that the eruption of volcanic rocks occurred at about 8 Ma in the Late Miocene. In addition, they have similar age to Dahongliutan volcanic rocks (7.97 Ma±0.14 Ma). The discovery of Qitaidaban volcanic rocks make the data relating to Late Cenozoic magmatic activity in the northwestern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau more plentiful and the results showing that the volcanic acitivity is frequent along Kangxiwa-Quanshuigou during Late Miocene-Pliocene, and indicate that volcanic activity and the movement of large-scale fault zone have very close relationship.
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Geological Bulletin of China
ISSN: 1671-2552
CN: 11-4648/P
Year: 2010
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 29
Page: 237-242
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