Recycling of oceanic crust from a stagnant slab in the mantle transition zone Evidence from Cenozoic continental basalts in Zhejiang Province, SE China》.pdf

Lithos 230 (2015) 146–165 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Lithos jour nal homepage: www.el sevier. com/ locate/ lithos Recycling of oceanic crust from a stagnant slab in the mantle transition zone: Evidence from Cenozoic continental basalts in Zhejiang Province, SE China Yan-Qing Li a, Chang-Qian Ma a,⁎, Paul T. Robinson a, Qin Zhou a, Ming-Liang Liu a,b a State Key Laboratory of Geological Process and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China b Faculty of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Cenozoic continental basalts from Zhejiang Province, southeast China are tholeiitic to weakly alkalic in composi- Received 11 February 2015 tion, with moderate MgO contents (6–11 wt.%) and an average Mg# of 62. They display typical OIB-like trace Accepted 30 May 2015 element features, including enrichment in most incompatible elements, both LILE and LREE, and negative K, Available online 6 June 2015 Pb, Zr, Hf anomalies. In particular, they are characterized by high Fe/Mn (73 ± 5), La/Yb (19 ± 6) and Nb/Ta (18.8 ± 0.4) ratios, which can be attributed to the presence of residual clinopyroxene, garnet and rutile in Keywords: Cenozoic basalt the mantle source. Based on these minerals, the following hybrid source rocks ar