Origin of heavy rare earth elements in highly fractionated peraluminous granites

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.12.019" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gca.2022.12.019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Origin of heavy rare earth elements in highly fractionated peraluminous granites

Original language description

Rare earth elements (REEs + Y) play an important role in modern industry. Heavy REEs (HREEs) are particularly critical because of their relative scarcity in nature. Global HREE resources are predominantly present in granitoid weathering crusts in southern China. Although it is well known that REEs are generally enriched in alkaline rocks, in contrast, the parental granitoids in most Chinese HREE deposits are peraluminous. Here, we examined different REE mineral compositions, distribution patterns, and Nd isotope ratios of the granitoid complex in Zudong, South China, whose weathering crusts form the largest HREE deposits globally. The complex is composed of granodiorite, biotite-muscovite, and muscovite alkalifeldspar granites, whose REE patterns change from HREE depletion to enrichment relative to light REEs (LREEs) with increasing negative Eu anomalies. They are not fractional crystallization products from the same parental melts owing to the different zircon U-Pb ages ( 191, 169, and 154 Ma for granodiorite, biotite-muscovite, and muscovite granites, respectively). However, magmatic zircons from the three types of granitoids show consistent initial Hf isotope compositions [eHf(t) = 3.4 to 8.6], indicating they evolved from the same sources. The granodiorite contains primary LREE minerals with low eNd(t) values (13.8 to 10.1), decoupled from high zircon Hf isotopes. This indicates a garnet-containing basement source resulted in Lu (HREE) remaining preferentially in the garnet phase, with Hf entering the melt. This contradicts the high HREE concentration recorded in the biotite-muscovite and muscovite granites, which contain abundant HREE minerals associated with muscovite, fluorite, and recrystallized quartz. The whole-rocks and their secondary REE minerals show variable and higher initial Nd isotope ratios [eNd(t) = 3.7 to 2.9 and 11.4 to 7.1 for biotite-muscovite and muscovite granites, respectively] than the early granodiorites and their primary REE minerals, indicating minimal 143Nd was derived from radioactive decay of 147Sm in the basement and wall rocks. This constrained the contribution of external REE-, volatile-rich liquids, which drove the segregation of highly evolved silicate melts from the magma chamber. This increased volatile saturation and fluid exsolution, which may have mobilized the HREEs and metasomatized the granites during their emplacement. Therefore, we infer that external fluid metasomatism appears to be crucial for the HREE enrichment in highly fractionated peraluminous granites.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX19-29124X" target="_blank" >GX19-29124X: EVOLUTION AND POST-EMPLACEMENT HISTORY OF CARBONATITES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOBILITY AND CONCENTRATION OF CRITICAL METALS</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

ISSN

0016-7037

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

343

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15 February 2023

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

371-383

UT code for WoS article

000929549300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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