uot;TEXT-INDENT: -123.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 123.75pt; tab-stops: list 123.75pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1" class=MsoNormal>uot;COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang=EN-US>uot;Times New Roman">The age of the Jingangtai volcanic rocks, which spread over the central part of uot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />uot;on">North Huaiyang volcanic rock belt, has been in controversy for a long time. New observations indicate that Jingangtai volcanic rocks unconformably overlie the early Cretaceous Shangcheng Pluton, hence they must have not formed in the Jurassic.uot;mso-spacerun: yes"> A SHRIMP U-Pb dating on individual zircons from three representative samples of Jingangtai volcanic rocks shows that the age of extrusive biotite trachyte (B09) is (128.4+3.6) Ma, the age of subvolcanic diorite porphyrite (B21) is (129.1+2.2) Ma and the age of trachyandesite (B26) representing the lower part of volcanic rock series is (129+2) Ma. Combined with the foregoing research works, the regional geological features and the denudation mechanism of Shangcheng Pluton show: that 1) before the forming of Jingangtai volcaruc rocks, the region had undergone intensively compressional uplift; uot;mso-spacerun: yes"> 2) Jingangtai volcanic rocks are the products of lithosphere delamination; and 3) after the forming of Jingangtai volcanic rocks, the regional lithosphere had been extended for a long time, thus 129 Ma is the boundary of tectonic transition for Dabie Orogen.uot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />