Advances in Earth Science ›› 2007, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (8): 818-827. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2007.08.0818

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Zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Dating of the Gabbro from the BaihuaIgneous 

PEI Xian-zhi,LIU Zhan-qing,DING Sa-ping,LI Zuo-chen,LI Gao-yang,LI Rui-bao,WANG Fei,Li Fu-jie   

  1. Key Laboratory of Western Geological Resources and Geological Engineering of Ministry of Education,Collegey of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
  • Received:2007-03-10 Revised:2007-07-05 Online:2007-08-10 Published:2007-08-10

PEI Xian-zhi,LIU Zhan-qing,DING Sa-ping,LI Zuo-chen,LI Gao-yang,LI Rui-bao,et al. Zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Dating of the Gabbro from the BaihuaIgneous [J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2007, 22(8): 818-827.

Using cathodoluminescence(CL)imaging and LA-ICP-MS in site U-Pb isotope dating technigue,this paper presents zircon U-Pb dating for the gabbro from the Baihua igneous complex in Tianshui area,eastern Gansu pvovince and reveals interesting tectonic implication. Baihua igneous complex consists mainly of pyroxenite-gabbro(diorite)-diorite-quartz diorite. They form a complete comagmatic evolutionary series. The tectonics environment discrimination of trace element geochemistry reveals the igneous complexs formed in an island-arc setting. The LA-ICP-MS single-zircons U-Pb age of the gabbro from Baihua igneous complex is (449.7±3.1)Ma(MSWD=1.9),which shows that the forming time of the island-arc type magmatite in northern zone of West Qinling is Late Ordovician,also reveals that the timing of subduction of paleoocean basin represented by the Guanzizhen ophiolite and resulting island-arc-type magmatic activities is probably Middle-Late Ordovician.

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