Widespread refertilization of cratonic and circum-cratonic lithospheric mantle

YJ Tang, HF Zhang, JF Ying, BX Su - Earth-science reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Studies of mantle xenoliths have confirmed that Archean subcontinental lithospheric mantle
(SCLM) is highly depleted in basaltic components (such as Al, Ca and Na) due to high …

Nature and secular evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton

Y Tang, J Ying, Y Zhao, X Xu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The Archean mantle lithosphere beneath the North China Craton (NCC) was transformed in
the Mesozoic, leading to the craton destruction. Despite the significant breakthroughs in the …

Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton

S Gao, RL Rudnick, WL Xu, HL Yuan, YS Liu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Early Cretaceous alkaline picrites and high-magnesium basalts from the North China craton
provide evidence for recycling of continental lithosphere by density foundering. Both the …

Recycled crust controls contrasting source compositions of Mesozoic and Cenozoic basalts in the North China Craton

Y Liu, S Gao, PB Kelemen, W Xu - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 2008 - Elsevier
We explore Fe/Mn and Nb/Ta ratios of basalts as potential tracers for differentiating melts of
recycled mafic crustal lithologies from peridotitic melts. Trace elements and Fe/Mn ratios of …

Interaction of adakitic melt-peridotite: Implications for the high-Mg# signature of Mesozoic adakitic rocks in the eastern North China Craton

W Xu, JM Hergt, S Gao, F Pei, W Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Abundant dunite and harzbugite xenoliths are preserved in Early Cretaceous high-Mg#[63–
67, where Mg#= molar 100× Mg/(Mg+ Fetot)] diorite intrusions from western Shandong in the …

Formation of high-Mg diorites through assimilation of peridotite by monzodiorite magma at crustal depths

Q Qian, J Hermann - Journal of Petrology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The 134–130 Ma Han-**ng diorite–monzodiorite complex intrudes the central part
of the North China block (NCB). The high-Mg diorites have intermediate SiO2, high MgO, Cr …

Spatial extent of the influence of the deeply subducted South China Block on the southeastern North China Block: constraints from Sr–Nd–Pb isotopes in Mesozoic …

DB Yang, WL Xu, FP Pei, CH Yang, QH Wang - Lithos, 2012 - Elsevier
Spatial variations in whole-rock Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions were investigated for Early
Cretaceous mafic igneous rocks from western Shandong in the southeastern edge of the …

Source of metals in the Guocheng gold deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, North China Craton: link to early Cretaceous mafic magmatism originating from Paleoproterozoic …

J Tan, J Wei, A Audétat, T Pettke - Ore Geology Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Widespread Mesozoic Au and other hydrothermal polymetal (Zn–Pb–Cu–Mo–Ag–W–Fe–
REE) deposits or smaller prospects occur in association with ancient mobile belts …

Recycling of deeply subducted continental crust in the Dabie Mountains, central China

F Huang, S Li, F Dong, Q Li, F Chen, Y Wang, W Yang - Lithos, 2007 - Elsevier
Post-collisional mafic–ultramafic intrusive rocks from the North Dabie zone show evidence
for derivation from a mantle source that was overprinted by partial melts derived from …

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and major, trace elemental and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic geochemistry of mafic dykes in western Shandong Province, east China: constrains on …

S Liu, RZ Hu, S Gao, CX Feng, L Qi, H Zhong, T **ao… - Chemical …, 2008 - Elsevier
Mesozoic mafic dykes in western Shandong Province (Luxi), SE, the North China Craton
(NCC) provide an opportunity to examine the nature of their mantle source and the secular …