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Typical ophiolitic rock assemblages such as siliciclastic rocks, basalts and gabbros, together with the subduction-related intermediate-acidic intrusive rocks, are newly discovered in the Tongjiang-Fuyuan area of the Heilongjiang Provence, NE China. To determine the formation age and genesis of the mafic rocks (basalts and gabbros) and intermediate-acidic intrusive rocks (granodiorites) in the area, as well as their geodynamic settings, the whole-rock geochemical analysis and zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating were carried out. Zircon U-Pb results suggest that the granodiorites are 93–95 Ma and gabbro is 95 Ma, respectively. Geochemical results show that the gabbros and basalts exhibit characteristics of ocean island basalt (OIB) affinity and are typically related to having originated from mantle plumes. While the granodiorites show the nature of the island-arc magmatic rocks and may originate from the lower crust. Based on the coeval igneous rock associations and regional tectonic evolution, we conclude that the late Cretaceous magmatic rocks in the Tongjiang-Fuyuan area are the product of continuous subduction of the Palaeo-Pacific plate and reflect the subduction rollback process of the Palaeo-Pacific plate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New U–Pb age data and Hf isotope systematics on zircons from Middle Devonian and Lower Carboniferous units from NE China provide evidence for the depositional age of these poorly constrained units as well as for the timing of the collision between the Erguna (Ergun in some references) and Xing’an blocks in the eastern end of Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The detrital zircons from the Devonian and Carboniferous sandstones yielded similar age spectra in probability diagrams showing three distinct peaks at ∼450 Ma, ∼500 Ma and ∼540 Ma, respectively, along with Proterozoic and Archean age groups, except for a relatively young age population at ∼360 Ma detected for zircons from the Hongshuiquan Fm. The dating results suggest that the depositional time of the Niqiuhe Fm. should be younger than Late Silurian, as indicated by the youngest 422-Ma detrital zircon from this Fm., and that of the Hongshuiguan Fm. with a youngest detrital age of ca. 338 Ma, is younger than Middle Mississippian (Visean), which is in accordance with those inferred from biostratigraphic data. These dominant age groups are widely found in the Erguna and Xing’an blocks, it is suggested that the sediments of the studied sandstones from Niuqiuhe and Hongshuiquan Fms come mainly from the Erguna and Xing’an blocks. The ε Hf ( t ) value of dated zircons from our sandstones has a wide range (−21 to 16), which shows a mixed signature of that from Paleozoic granitoids in Xing’an block (6–17) and Erguna block (−2 to 6), indicating that Erguna and Xing’an blocks had connected before the Middle Devonian deposition of the Niqiuhe Fm. (422 ± 5 Ma). Combined with the age data, we suggest that the Erguna and Xing’an blocks started to accrete at ∼540 Ma, reached the peak of collision at ∼500 Ma, and went into the post-collision stage from ∼490 to ∼450 Ma. The study provides more evidences and constraints for the early Paleozoic evolutions of the inter-continental block amalgamations and accretions in CAOB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]