The Jiashan Syenite in northern Hebei: A record of lithospheric thinning in the Yanshan Intracontinental Orogenic Belt

The Early Cretaceous Jiashan Syenite is located in a region of late Jurassic crustal thickening. The Jiashan Syenite can be divided into three concentrically arranged units, the Jiangjiawan, Longtangou and Longtannangou units, which were intruded sequentially. Geochemically, the Jiashan Syenite has a high Ga/Al ratio (>3), is enriched in silica, alkalis, Fe, REE, Th, Ga, Nb, Zr and Hf, is depleted in Mg, Ba, Sr and Ti and in transition elements such as Cr, Co, Ni and V. The three units of the Jiashan Syenite have Ce/Pb ratios ranging from 6.12 to 13.41 and are enriched in light REE (LREE) with a moderate Eu negative anomaly. The 87Sr/86Sr initial ratios range from 0.701409 to 0.707405, with a mean of 0.70379. The εNd (t) values of −2.27 to −5.58 indicate that the magma was probably derived from enriched mantle. The Jiashan Syenite is a post-orogenic intrusion, and can be considered to be an A-type granite. It was emplaced in an environment of lithospheric extension during asthenospheric mantle upwelling. This suggests that the regional compressional shortening and crustal thickening tectonic regime in the Yanshan Orogenic Belt during the Late Jurassic (ca. 135 Ma) changed to lithospheric extension and thinning in the Early Cretaceous.