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We studied newly found high Nb-Ta alkaline rhyolites in the northern volcanic belt of the Great Xing'an Range, China. The LA-ICP-MS U-Pb weighted mean age is 114.07 [+ or -] 0.55 Ma, indicating that the rocks formed during the late Early Cretaceous and were the product of the late eruption of a Mesozoic volcano. The major element contents are characterized by high Si, rich K, low Fe, and poor Ca and Mg. In the total alkaline--silicon diagram, the sample points are in the alkaline rhyolite region. Meanwhile, rare earth elements show obvious Ce/Ce* positive anomalies and Eu/Eu* negative anomalies. In addition, trace elements are characterized by high Nb, Ta, and Yb, and low Sr. The two-stage Nd isotopic model age [T.sub.2]DM of the depleted mantle is between 799-813 Ma, indicating that the diagenetic material originated from the depleted mantle or partial melting of newly formed young crustal materials. The source rocks melted at a relative shallow depth ( Key words: Xingan block, high Nb-Ta, alkaline rhyolite, zircon U-Pb chronology, geochemistry, petrogenesis. Nous avons etudie des rhyolites alcalines riches en Nb-Ta decouvertes recemment dans la ceinture volcanique septentrionale de la chaine du Grand Xing'an (Chine). L'age U-Pb pondere moyen obtenu par LA-ICP-MS est de 114,07 [+ or -] 0,55 Ma, ce qui indique que les roches se sont formees vers la fin du Cretace precoce et sont le produit de l'eruption tardive d'un volcan mesozoique. La signature des elements majeurs est riche en Si et K et pauvre en Fe, Ca et Mg. Dans le diagramme alcalis totaux-silice, les echantillons tombent dans la region des rhyolites alcalines. Les terres rares presentent pour leur part des anomalies positives du rapport Ce/Ce* et negatives du rapport Eu/Eu*; la signature des elements traces est en outre riche en Nb, Ta et Yb et pauvre en Sr. L'age [T.sub.2]DM obtenu des isotopes de Nb pour un modele a deux etapes du manteau appauvri est de 799-813 Ma, indiquant que le materiau source provient du manteau appauvri ou de la fusion partielle de jeunes materiaux crustaux nouvellement formes. La fusion des roches sources s'est produite a relativement faible profondeur ( Mots-cles : bloc de Xing'an, Nb-Ta eleves, rhyolite alcaline, geochronologie U-Pb sur zircon, geochimie, petrogenese., Introduction The northern volcanic belt of the Great Xing'an Range is the superimposed portion of the ancient Asian oceanic tectonic domain, the Pacific domain, and the Mongolia--Okhotsk oceanic domain (Wu [...]

A suite of xenoliths of eclogite, garnet clinopyroxenite, and felsic gneiss is found in Early Cretaceous high-Mg [[Mg.sup.#] >45, where [Mg.sup.#] = molar 100 x Mg/(Mg + [Fe.sub.total])] adakitic intrusions from the Xuzhou-Huaibei (Xu-Huai) region along the southeastern margin of the North China craton. The primary mineral assemblage of garnet + omphacite/augite + quartz + rutile [+ or -] pargasite of the eclogite and garnet clinopyroxenite xenoliths defines a minimum pressure of >1.5 GPa, while the estimated peak metamorphic temperatures range from 800 to 1060 [degrees]C. An Sm-Nd whole-rock--garnet isochron and zircon U-Pb dates show that timing of the eclogite facies metamorphism took place ca. 220 Ma. This Triassic age agrees with the age of eclogites from the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic (UHPM) belt. The ages of abundant Late Archean to early Paleoproterozoic (2.3-2.6Ga) inherited zircons correspond to the most prominent crustal growth event in the North China craton. In addition, these xenoliths and their host high-Mg adakitic intrusions have complementary major and trace element compositions, suggesting that the adakites formed by partial melting of Archean metabasalts that were the protoliths of the Xu-Huai eclogite and garnet clinopyroxenite xenoliths. Trace element and Sr-Nd isotopic modeling shows that the high-Mg adakitic intrusions can be modeled as melts from ~40% partial melting of the metabasalts in the eclogite facies, followed by interaction with the convecting mantle and variable degrees of crustal assimilation. Together with the similar zircon age populations between the xenoliths and the host rocks, these lines of evidence strongly suggest their genetic link via thickening, foundering, and partial melting of the Archean North China craton mafic lower crust, followed by adakitic melt-mantle interaction. The crustal thickening resulted from Triassic collision between the Yangtze craton and the North China craton, which produced the Dabie-Sulu UHPM belt in the subducting Yangtze plate and eclogitization of the basaltic crustal root of the overriding North China craton plate. Such processes may have played an important role in generating the high-Mg character of the continental crust. Keywords: eclogite, adakite, tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite, continental crust, partial melting, North China craton.

The turn-of-the-year or January effect is a phenomenon that refers to the unusual large returns exhibited by small stocks in the beginning days of January. The direct relation between institutional trading behavior in the United States equity market and anomalous turn-of-the-year return patterns of small stocks is examined. The empirical results of the study on this relation utilizing data from CDA Investment Technologies, Inc. and the Center for Research in Security Prices are presented.

Impact of corporate headquarter location on the stock returns comovement is discussed. Factors that influence the comovement of stock returns are presented.