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Geochemical Characteristics of the Uljin Granitoids in Northeastern Part of the Yeongnam Massif, Korea

영남육괴 북동부 울진지역 화강암류의 지화학적 특성

  • Wee, SooMeen (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education) ;
  • Kim, Ji-Young (Woonam High School) ;
  • Lim, Sung-Man (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
  • 위수민 (한국교원대학교 지구과학교육과) ;
  • 김지영 (운암고등학교) ;
  • 임성만 (한국교원대학교 지구과학교육과)
  • Received : 2013.07.10
  • Accepted : 2013.08.09
  • Published : 2013.08.30
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Abstract

Jurassic granitoids in the northeastern part of the Yeongnam Massif are possibly the result of intensive magmatic activities that occurred in response to subduction of the proto-Pacific plate beneath the northeast portion of the Eurasian plate. Geochemical studies on the granitic rocks are carried out in order to constrain the petrogenesis of the granitic magma and to establish the paleotectonic environment of the area. Whole rock chemical data of the Uljin granitoids in the northeastern part of the Yeongnam Massif indicate that all of the rocks have the characteristics of calcalkaline series in subalkaline field. The overall major element trends show systematic variations in each granitic body, but the source materials of each granitoids seem to have different chemical composition. The Uljin granitoids are different from other granitic rocks, which distributed vicinity of the study area, in the contents of $Al_2O_3$ and trace elements such as Cr, Co, Ni, Sr, Y and Nb. The Uljin granitoids have geochemical features similar to slab-derived adakites such as high $Al_2O_3$, Sr contents and high Sr/Y, La/Yb ratios, but they have low Y and Yb contents. The major ($SiO_2$, $Al_2O_3$, MgO) and trace element (Sr, Y, La, Yb) contents of the Uljin granitoids fall well within the adakitic field. The Uljin granitoids have similar geochemical characteristics, paleotectonic environments and intrusion ages to those of the Yatsuo plutonic rocks of Hida belt located on northwestern part of Japan. Chondrite normalized REE patterns show generally enriched LREEs ($(La/Yb)_{CN}=10.6-103.4$) and are slight negative to flat Eu anomalies. On the ANK vs. A/CNK and tectonic discrimination diagrams, parental magma type of the granites corresponds to I-type and volcanic arc granite (VAG). Interpretations of the chemical characteristics of the granitic rocks favor their emplacement in a compressional tectonic regime at the continental margin during the subduction of Izanagi plate in Jurassic period.

영남육괴 북동부에 분포하는 쥐라기 심성암체들은 유라시아대륙의 동북부지역 아래로 고태평양판의 섭입에 의해서 야기된 활발했던 화성활동의 산물이다. 지화학적 연구를 통하여 이 지역에 분포하는 화강암류의 성인과 지구조환경을 유추하여 보았다. 영남육괴 북동부에 위치하는 울진화강암류는 비알칼리(subalkaline)영역에 속하는 칼크-알칼리(calc-alkaline)계열로, 분화에 따른 주성분원소의 변화 경향은 전반적으로 다른 지역의 쥐라기 화강암류의 분화 경향과 유사하게 나타나지만, 각 암체의 분화경향이나 화학조성을 살펴볼 때 각 암체의 마그마 근원물질은 서로 다른 것으로 사료된다. 울진화강암류는 연구지역 주변에 분포하는 다른 화강암류와 비교하여 $Al_2O_3$의 함량 및 Cr, Co, Ni, Sr, Y, Nb 등 미량원소의 함량에서 뚜렷한 차이를 보인다. 울진화강암류의 지화학적 특징은 높은 $Al_2O_3$, Sr 함량과 높은 Sr/Y, La/Yb비를 가지며, 낮은 Y과 Yb함량과 같은 슬랩용융(slab-melting)으로 생성된 아다카이트에서 흔히 관찰되는 지화학적 특성을 나타낸다. 울진화강암류의 주성분원소($SiO_2$, $Al_2O_3$, MgO) 및 미량원소(Sr, Y, La, Yb) 함량 범위는 아다카이트질 화강암의 범주에 포함되며, 지화학적 특성, 지구조환경 및 관입시기가 일본의 북서부 Hida belt에 위치한 Yatsuo심성암체와 유사하다. 연구지역의 암석의 희토류원소 패턴은 경희토류가 중희토류에 비해 부화($(La/Yb)_{CN}=10.6-103.4$)되어 나타나며, Eu의 부(-)이상을 보이지 않는다. ANK vs. A/CNK과 지구조판별도에서 화강암류의 모마그마는 I-type의 화산호 화강암의 특성을 나타내며, 이자나기(Izanagi)판의 섭입에 의한 압축장 응력이 작용하는 대륙연변부에서 생성된 것으로 해석된다.

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