Abstract:
Located at the junction of North China Plate intersection, Tarim plate and Kazakhstan plate, Beishan area is characterized by nearly EW-trending tectonic-magmatic activity. The rocks mainly include rhyolite, rhyolitic breccias-containing debris crystal tuff, dacitic crystal tuff, andesitic crystal tuff and a small amount of dacite. They can be divided into two sections based on features and rock eruption spatial superposition relationship. Geochemistry shows that rhyolites have high SiO
2 content (77.05%~77.52%) and low TiO
2(0.06%-0.19%), CaO (0.38%-1.04%), MgO (0.09%-0.17%) content with K
2O/Na
2O higher than 1. They are relatively enriched in large ion lithophile elements (LILE) Rb and K, while depleted in high field strength elements (HFSE) Nb, Ta, P and Ti. The total amount of light rare earth elements (ΣLREE average value being 127.55×10
-6) is significantly higher than that of the heavy rare earth elements (ΣHREE average value being 10.92×10
-6), and LREE fractionation obviously ((La/Yb)
N varies from 6.37 to 7.88, with an average of 7.05, whereas (La/Sm)
N varies from 4.51 to 4.61, with an average of 4.55. Eu has obvious negative anomaly (
δ Eu average value being only 0.62). Petrological and geochemical characteristics indicate that the tectonic setting was a continental-margin-arc. Zircon U-Pb age is 318.5±1.2 Ma for rhyolite by LA-IC-MS method. Combined with regional geological features, the authors believe that Baishan Formation in Fengleishan formed in the Late Carboniferous.