摘要
The ore-bearing porphyry of Balazha in mid-northern Lhasa terrane shows some typical geochemical characteristics of an adakite. The geochemical features, combined with other characteristics of Late Cretaceous lavas in mid-northern Lhasa terrane, indicate that they did not result from melting of young oceanic crust, assimilation and fractional crystallization, or from either underplated or thickened continental crust. Instead, they were possibly derived from partial melting of delaminated lower continental crust. On the other hand, they are also likely to the result of partial melting of crust-mantle material, triggered by slab break-off of south-dipping subduction of Slainajap ocean or Bangong Co-Nujiang ocean.