Petrology and SHRIMP chronology of mylonitized Tianger granite,Xinjiang:Also about the dating on hydrothermal zircon rim in granite.
Petrology and SHRIMP chronology of mylonitized Tianger granite,Xinjiang:Also about the dating on hydrothermal zircon rim in granite.
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Zhu Yong
The gneissic granite occurring along the Tianger mountain(Bingdaban)of the Central Tianshan Mountains was formed during the mylonitization process of the Early Silurian granite.The NWW-trending Tianger shear zone cut through the Tianger granite. This so-called gneissic granite was believed to be a component of the Precambrian basement of the Yili-Central Tianshan terrane.Here we present a geological section through the Tianger shear zone along Wuku road,petrography of the mylonitized granite and its zircon SHRIMP geochronology data.Zircons in the mylonitized granite show complex core-mantle-rim texture.The zircon cores have apparent SHRIMP ages of 470~1788Ma.The zircon mantles with clear magmatic zonation show apparent SHRIMP ages of 432~453 Ma.The hydrothermal zircon rims with dark cathodoluminescence images(non-luminescent)were formed during the mylonitization by fluid replacement of the magmatic zircon mantles at a late period probably<421Ma based on SHRIMP dating results.The Tianger granite probably intruded during 441.6±3.8Ma(MSWD=1.06)based on the SHRIMP data on the zircon mantles.The hydrothermal zircon rim was dated at 408.6±1.7Ma.The formation of the hydrothermal zircon rim probably was related with the mylonitizing process in the studied Early Silurian granite.