By
means of the LA-MC-ICPMS zircon U-Pb dating, the high-precise dates of the volcanic
eruption, (1 611 ±8) Ma, of an interbedded tuffite layer in the middle
part of the Luoyukou Formation at the Yangpo Section, Ruzhou City, Henan Province, has been obtained. With this dates, the depositional age of the Luoyukou Formation
can be calibrated accurately as the first time, which indicates that the top age of this
formation should be most likely about 1 600 Ma. The new dating achievement of
the Luoyukou Formation will result in a major revision in chronostratigraphy
that both of the two groups should be lowered down to the older Mesoproterozoic
Changchengian System.