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滇西地区出露的古生界公养河群和孟定街群分别位于保山地块的西部和东部，其沉积时代、构造归属、碎屑物质来源及在早古生代冈瓦纳大陆重建中的古地理位置具有重要研究意义。本文对公养河群2个砂岩样品和孟定街群的4个变质砂岩样品的碎屑锆石进行U-Pb定年和Lu-Hf同位素分析。其中，公养河群的碎屑锆石年龄谱范围是3862~533Ma，eHf（t）值的范围是-37.8~+11.0，最小年龄峰期为549~533Ma，表明该群的最大沉积年龄为早寒武世早期，该群可能为寒武系地层。孟定街群的碎屑锆石年龄谱范围是3097~542Ma，eHf（t）值的范围是-39.5~+10.5，其最小年龄峰期（576~458Ma）将该群的沉积下限时代限制在晚奥陶世。结合保山地块的其他古生代地层的碎屑锆石研究，我们认为保山地块在早古生代位于冈瓦纳大陆北缘，物源主要来自印度大陆，但~1.17Ga年龄峰的出现说明其东部可能接受了一定比例来自西澳大利亚的沉积物质。这一结果表明保山地块在冈瓦纳大陆北缘重建中的位置应该靠近印度大陆，而其东缘接近澳大利亚大陆。

The LA-ICPMS zircon U-Pb geochronology of three typically Indosinian granitic plutons yielded weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages of 214.1±5.9 Ma and 210.3±4.7 Ma for the biotite monzonitic granites from the Xiema and Xiangzikou plutons in Hunan Province, and 205.3±1.6 Ma for biotite granite from the Napeng pluton, western Guandong Province, respectively, showing a similar late Indosinian age of crystallization. In combination with other geochronological data from Indosinian granites within the South China Block (SCB), it is proposed that those late Indosinian granites with an age of −210 Ma and the early Indosinian granites (230–245 Ma) have the similar petrogenesis in identical tectonic setting. The Indosinian granites within the SCB might be the products of anatexis of the thickening crust in a compressive regime. These data provide a further understanding for the temporal and spatial distribution of the Indosinian granites and the dynamic evolution of the SCB.

The SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronology of three typical samples, including two monzonitic granites from the Lincang batholith and a rhyolite from the Manghuai Formation are presented in the southern Lancangjiang, western Yunnan Province. The analyses of zircons for the biotite monzonitic granites from the northern (02DX-137) and southern (20JH-10) Lincang batholith show the single and tight clusters on the concordia, and yield the weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages of 229.4 ± 3.0 Ma and 230.4 ± 3.6 Ma, respectively, representing the crystallized ages of these granites. The zircons for the rhyolitic sample (02DX-95) from the Manghuai Formation give a weighted mean 206Pb/238U age of 231.0 ± 5.0 Ma. These data suggest that the igneous rocks from the Lincang granitic batholith and Manghuai Formation have a similar crystallized age. In combination with other data, it is inferred that both were generated at a narrow age span (∼230 Ma) and were originated from the postcollisional tectonic regime. An early Proterozoic 206Pb/238U apparent age of 1977±44 Ma is additionally obtained from one zircon from the biotite monzonitic granite (southern Lincang batholith), indicative of development of the early Proterozoic Yangtze basement in the region. These precisely geochronological data provide important constraints on better understanding the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Tethys, western Yunnan Province.

Yunkaidashan, located at the southern South China block (SCB) and closely adjacent to the Indochina block, is an ideal region for better understanding the temporal and spatial framework of tectonothermal overprinting at the southern SCB since Mesozoic. Apatite and zircon fission track thermochronology of various-type rocks from Yunkaidashan is presented in this paper. The results show, no matter what rocks are, the apparent ages of zircon fission track range from 97.4 to 133.0 Ma, and those of apatite fission track from 43.2 to 68.4 Ma. The length of apatite fission track yields an average confined track length of ∼13 μm and shows normal distribution of unimodal frequency. It is inferred that the uplifting amplitude has been more than 5 km in Yunkaidashan since late Mesozoic. The difference of fission track apparent ages at different locations in Yunkaidashan suggests a paleophysiognomic scenario of the heterogeneous uplift/denudation. These data of the fission track thermochronology provide new constraints for better understanding the tectonophysiognomic pattern of the SCB since late Mesozoic.