Numerical modeling of the formation of Indo-Sinian peraluminous granitoids in Hunan Province:Basaltic underplating versus tectonic thickening  

作　　者：王岳军 Y.Zhang 范蔚茗 席先武 郭锋 林舸 

出　　处：《Science China Earth Sciences》2002年第11期1042-1056,共15页中国科学（地球科学英文版）

基　　金：This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Gram Nos. KZCX2-102 and KZCX3-113);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. G1999043209);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40002007)

摘　　要：The genesis of Indo-Sinian granitic plutons with peraluminous and potassium-rich affinities from Hunan Province, China has been investigated by numerical modeling using the numerical code FLAC. On the basis of the regional geological evolution in South China, we employed a realistic numerical model in an attempt to unravel the influences of basaltic underplating and tectonic crustal thickening on the crustal anatexis. Heat production derived from basaltic underplating (e.g. ca. 220 Ma gabbro xenoliths) can result in dehydration melting of fluid-bearing minerals in crustal rocks such as gneisses and metapelites, but its effect is limited in a relatively short time span (5-15 Ma) and on a small scale. Accordingly, it is very difficult for basaltic underplating to generate the large-scale Indo-Sinian granitic bathliths unless voluminous mafic magmas had been underplated at the lower/middle crust during this period. Alternatively, crustal thickening induced by tectonic compression can also lead to geothermal elevation, during which the temperature at the boundary between lower and middle crusts can be up to or greater than 700°C, triggering dehydration melting of muscovite in gneiss and metapelite. The proportion of melts from muscovite-induced dehydration melting is close to critical melt percentage (?20%) once the thickening factor reaches 1.3. These melts can be effectively transferred to the crust-level magma chamber and form large-scale granitic batholiths. In combination with the Indo-Sinian convergent tectonic setting in South China as well as sparse outcrops of contemporary mafic igneous rocks, we consider that tectonic crustal thickening is likely to be the predominant factor controlling the formation of the Indo-Sinian peraluminous and potassium-rich granitoids in Hunan Province.The genesis of Indo-Sinian granitic plutons with peraluminous and potassium-rich affini-ties from Hunan Province, China has been investigated by numerical modeling using the numericalcode FLAC. On the basis of the regional geological evolution in South China, we employed a real-istic numerical model in an attempt to unravel the influences of basaltic underplating and tectoniccrustal thickening on the crustal anatexis. Heat production derived from basaltic underplating (e.g.ca. 220 Ma gabbro xenoliths) can result in dehydration melting of fluid-bearing minerals in crustalrocks such as gneisses and metapelites, but its effect is limited in a relatively short time span (5-15 Ma) and on a small scale, Accordingly, it is very difficult for basaltic underplating to generate thelarge-scale Indo-Sinian granitic bathliths unless voluminous mafic magmas had been underplatedat the lower/middle crust during this period. Alternatively, crustal thickening induced by tectoniccompression can also lead to geothermal elevation, during which the temperature at the boundarybetween lower and middle crusts can be up to or greater than 700℃, triggering dehydration melt-ing of muscovite in gneiss and metapelite. The proportion of melts from muscovite-induced dehy-dration melting is close to critical melt percentage (≥20%) once the thickening factor reaches 1.3.These melts can be effectively transferred to the crust-level magma chamber and form large-scalegranitic batholiths. In combination with the Indo-Sinian convergent tectonic setting in South Chinaas well as sparse outcrops of contemporary mafic igneous rocks, we consider that tectonic crustalthickening is likely to be the predominant factor controlling the formation of the Indo-Sinian per-aluminous and potassium-rich granitoids in Hunan Province.

关 键 词：Indo-Sinian granitoids  dehydrated melting  BASALTIC undedrplating  TECTONIC thickening  NUMERICAL modeling Hunan Province. 

分 类 号：P588.1[天文地球—岩石学]