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Geological sketch map (a) (after Zheng GR et al., 2013), the tectonic location (b) (after Shi XJ et al., 2020) of the northern Alxa, and zircon U-Pb concordia diagram for the Yagan gabbro in Alxa, Inner Mongolia (c and d). 1‒Precambrian; 2‒Ordovician; 3‒Silurian; 4‒Devonian; 5‒Carboniferous; 6‒Permian; 7‒Triassic; 8‒Meso-Cenozoic cover; 9‒Silurian granite; 10‒Devonian granite; 11‒Carboniferous granite; 12-Permian gabbro; 13‒Permian granite; 14‒Mesozoic granite; 15‒alkaline rock; 16‒fault; 17‒national boundary; 18‒provincial boundary; 19‒city name.