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http://dx.doi.org/10.9727/jmsk.2013.26.3.161

U-Pb(SHRIMP) and K-Ar Age Dating of Intrusive Rocks and Skarn Minerals at the W-Skarn in Weondong Deposit  

Park, Changyun (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Song, Yungoo (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Chi, Se Jung (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kang, Il-Mo (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Yi, Keewook (Division of Earth and Environmental Science, Korea Basic Science Institute)
Chung, Donghoon (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
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Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea / v.26, no.3, 2013 , pp. 161-174 More about this Journal
Abstract
The geology of the weondong deposit area consists mainly of Cambro-Ordovician and Carboniferous-Triassic formations, and intruded quartz porphyry and dyke. The skarn mineralized zone in the weondong deposit is the most prospective region for the useful W-mineral deposits. To determine the skarn-mineralization age, U-Pb SHRIMP and K-Ar age dating methods were employed. The U-Pb zircon ages of quartz porphyry intrusion (WD-A) and feldspar porphyry dyke (WD-B) are 79.37 Ma and 50.64 Ma. The K-Ar ages of coarse-grained crystalline phlogopite (WD-1), massive phlogopite (WDR-1), phlogopite coexisted with skarn minerals (WD-M), and vein type illite (WD-2) were determined as $49.1{\pm}1.1$ Ma, $49.2{\pm}1.2$ Ma, $49.9{\pm}3.6$ Ma, and $48.3{\pm}1.1$ Ma, respectively. And the ages of the high uranium zircon of hydrothermally altered quartz porphyry (WD-C) range from 59.7 to 38.7 Ma, which dependson zircon's textures affected by hydrothermal fluids. It is regarded as the effect of some hydrothermal events, which may precipitate and overgrow the high-U zircons, and happen the zircon's metamictization and dissolution-reprecipitation reactions. Based on the K-Ar age datings for the skarn minerals and field evidences, we suggest that the timing of W-skarn mineralization in weondong deposit may be about 50 Ma. However, for the accurate timing of skarn mineralization in this area, the additional researches about the sequence of superposition at the skarn minerals and geological relationship between skarn deposits and dyke should be needed in the future.
Keywords
Weondong deposit; zircon U-Pb (SHRIMP) age dating; K-Ar age dating; high Uranium zircon; zircon metamictization texture; zircon dissolution-reprecipitation texture;
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