Petrology, Geochemistry and Protolith of the Biotite Plagiogneiss from Hongqiyingzi Group in Chicheng County, Northern Hebei Province
摘要
///Biotite plagiogneiss samples from Hongqiyingzi Group in Chicheng County of northern Hebei Province have porphyroblastic texture with medium-fine grained lepido-granoblastic groundmass and gneissic structure. Blastopsammitic texture is preserved locally. The rocks mainly consist of plagioclase (28%~32%), quartz (35 % ~ 40%) and biotite (18 %~25%), with minor garnet (2%~8%, as porphyroblast) and graphite (1%~4%). Garnet compositional characteristics reveal that the temperature and pressure fell contemporaneously during the main metamorphic evolution. The geochemical characteristics of the biotite plagiogneiss samples from Hongqiyingzi Group suggest that their protolith might have been pelitic (or pelitic-bearing) sandstone and was formed in a tectonic environment similar to the continental island arc.