Geochemistry, Nd Isotopic Characteristics of Metamorphic Complexes in Northern Hebei: Implications for Crustal Accretion

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Abstract: The middle segment of the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC) consists mainly of metamorphosed Archean Dantazi Complex, Paleoproterozoic Hongqiyingzi Complex and unmetamorphosed gabbro‐anorthosite‐meta‐alkaline granite, as well as metamorphosed Late Paleozoic mafic to granitoid rocks in the Damiao‐Changshaoying area. The ∼2.49 Ga Dantazi Complex comprises dioritic‐trondhjemitic‐granodoritic‐monzogranitic gneisses metamorphosed in amphibolite to granulite facies. Petrochemical characteristics reveal that most of the rocks belong to a medium‐ to high‐potassium calc‐alkaline series, and display Mg#less than 40, right‐declined REE patterns with no to obviously positive Eu anomalies, evidently negative Th, Nb, Ta and Ti anomalies in primitive mantle‐normalized spider diagrams, ∍Nd(t)=+0.65 to −0.03, and depleted mantle model ages TDM=2.78‐2.71 Ga. Study in petrogenesis indicates that the rocks were formed from magmatic mixing between mafic magma from the depleted mantle and granitoid magma from partial melting of recycled crustal mafic rocks in a continental margin setting. The 2.44‐2.41 Ga Hongqiyingzi Complex is dominated by metamorphic mafic‐granodioritic‐monzogranitic gneisses, displaying similar petrochemical features to the Dantazi Complex, namely medium to high potassium calc‐alkaline series, and the mafic rocks show evident change in LILEs, negative Th, Nb, Ta, Zr anomalies and positive P anomalies. And the other granitiod samples also exhibit negative Th, Nb, Ta, P and Ti anomalies. All rocks in the Hongqiyingzi Complex show right‐declined REE patterns without Eu anomaly. The metamorphic mafic rocks with ∍Nd(t)= −1.64 may not be an identical magmatic evolution series with granitoids that have ∍Nd(t) values of +3.19 to +1.94 and TDM ages of 2.55‐2.52 Ga. These granitic rocks originated from hybrid between mafic magma from the depleted mantle and magma from partial melting of juvenile crustal mafic rocks in an island arc setting. All the ∼311 Ma Late Paleozoic metamorphic mafic rocks and related granitic rocks show a medium‐potassium calc‐alkaline magmatic evolution series, characterized by high Mg#, obviously negative Th, Nb, Ta anomalies and positive Sr anomalies, from no to strongly negative Ti anomalies and flat REE patterns with ∍Nd(t)= +8.42, implying that the mafic magma was derived from the depleted mantle. However the other granitic rocks are characterized by right‐declined REE patterns with no to evidently positive Eu anomalies, significantly low ∍Nd(t)= −13.37 to −14.04, and TDM=1.97‐1.96 Ga, revealing that the granitoid magma was derived from hybrid between mafic magma that came from ∼311 Ma depleted mantle and granitoid magma from Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic ancient crustal recycling. The geochemistry and Nd isotopic characteristics as well as the above geological and geochronological results indicate that the middle segment of the northern margin of the NCC mainly experienced four crustal growth episodes from Archean to Late Paleozoic, which were dominated by three continental marginal arc accretions (∼2.49, ∼2.44 and 311 Ma), except the 1.76‐1.68 Ga episode related to post‐collisional extension, revealing that the crustal accretion of this segment was chiefly generated from arc accretion and amalgamation to the NCC continental block.