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Oxygen isotope geochemistry of rocks from the Pre-Pilot Hole of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project (CCSD-PPH1)

¹ Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 26 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing, 100037, China
² Geophysical Laboratory, 5251 Broad Branch Road N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015, U.S.A.
³ Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.
⁴ Geoscience Centre, University of Goettingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 1, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany

Correspondence: ^* E-mail: rumble{at}gl.ciw.edu

The Qinglongshan O- and H-isotope anomaly occurs within a coesite-bearing, eclogite-facies regional metamorphic belt in Eastern China near Donghai in Jiangsu province. The anomaly is defined by low values of ¹⁸O and D. Garnets from eclogite have ¹⁸O as low as –11 and rutiles are –15 (VSMOW). Phengites have D of –120 (VSMOW). The anomaly is Neoproterozoic in age. Surface outcrops of coesite-eclogite-facies rocks with unusually low ¹⁸O and D values extend over an area of at least 1600 km². The Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling project has made it possible to investigate the depth of the Qinglongshan anomaly and to measure an O-isotope profile across a garnet peridotite body sandwiched between crustal rocks. New O-isotope analyses of minerals separated from drill core gneisses, eclogites, amphibolite, and quartzite verify that the Qinglongshan O-isotope anomaly extends to a depth of at least 432 m. Crustal rocks with unusually low ¹⁸O form both the hanging- and foot-walls of a 100 m thick, fault-bounded, garnet peridotite body intersected by the drill. Minerals of the garnet peridotite body have ¹⁸O values indistinguishable from mantle nodules and megacrysts. The garnet peridotites may have originated from enriched mantle sources in sub-cratonic lithosphere, isolated from mantle convection. This origin is consistent with the collision of the Archean Sino-Korean craton with the Yangtze plate, consequent subduction, and UHP metamorphism. The garnet peridotite was transported from the mantle and emplaced into UHP crustal rocks during Triassic subduction and cratonic collision.