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Early Paleoproterozoic Metallogenic Explosion in North China Craton

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Main Tectonic Events and Metallogeny of the North China Craton

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This chapter compiles the geology and geochronology of numerous ores, including graphite, phosphorite, the Lake Superior type BIFs, marble, boron, magnesite, and lead-zinc deposits, hosted in 2.5–1.8 Ga stata from the North China Craton (NCC) and elsewhere, and thereby provides insights into understanding the mineralization of the early Paleoproterozoic metallogenic explosion in NCC. These mineralized records, accompanied with the blooms of biological photosynthesis (indicated by graphite, phosphorite deposits, organics in black shale), suggested different mineralizations, which responded to different stages of dramatic Earth’s environmental changes characteristic of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). These changes includes that the early-stage hydrosphere oxidation (2.5–2.3 Ga), indicated by numerous development of the Lake Superior type BIFs; through the turnpoint from hydrosphere to atmosphere oxidation (2.3–2.25 Ga), indicated by the 2.29–2.25 Ga Huronnian Glaciation Event (HGE) and devoid of Rand-type Au–U deposits, to the late-stage atmospheric oxygenation, followed by 2.25–1.8 Ga sediments of thick-bedded carbonates strata and related deposits (e.g., marble, magnesite, boron, and lead-zinc deposits), the 2.25–1.95 Ga red beds, 2.22–2.06 Ga δ13Ccarb positive excursion (Lomagundi/Jatulian Event), as well as the prevail of black shales at 2.0–1.7 Ga and disappear of BIFs at ca. 1.8 Ga.

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This study was funded by the National 973-Program (Project Nos. 2012CB416602, 2006CB403508) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 40,352,003, 40425006, 40373007) and Frontier Field Project of the State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Constructive suggestions, pertient comments and careful corrections by Prof. Xiao-Yong Yang of the University of Science and Technology of China greatly improved the quality of the mamuscript.

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    Yanjing Chen, Kaiyue Li & Weiyu Chen

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    Xiaohui Sun

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Tang, H. et al. (2016). Early Paleoproterozoic Metallogenic Explosion in North China Craton. In: Zhai, M., Zhao, Y., Zhao, T. (eds) Main Tectonic Events and Metallogeny of the North China Craton. Springer Geology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1064-4_12

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