摘要
The Tongbai orogen is a key region to investigate the evolution of the Qingling-Tongbai-Dabie-Sulu metamorphic belt. Three migmatite samples from the Tongbai complex, including one melanosome and two leucosomes, were selected for LA-ICPMS zircon U-Pb dating. The protolith formation age might correspond to magmatism during the Mid-Neoproterozoic in the northern margin of South China Block. On the other hand, new growth zircons in the leucosome samples show planar or weakly oscillatory zoning, low Th/U ratios. The morphological and internal structure features of zircons suggest that their growths were associated with partial melting. The timing of the anatexis in the Tongbai high-grade metamorphic complex is coeval with the widespread post-collision magmatism in the Tongbai-Dabie orogen. It suggests that the onset of extensional tectonism in the Tongbai orogen is no later than 135 Ma.