东南极新元古代晚期-早古生代(泛非期)花岗岩类研究综述

东南极内部发育毛德和普里兹两条新元古代晚期-早古生代(泛非期)造山带,这两条造山带中均发育大量同-后构造花岗岩类。本文系统总结了以往东南极泛非期花岗岩类的岩石学、地球化学和年代学方面的研究成果,对不同地区岩体的岩石类型、岩浆源区及形成的构造环境进行了对比研究。结果表明:除南龙达讷山为I型花岗岩外,大部分花岗岩类表现出与碰撞造山作用相关的A型(或S型)花岗岩的特征。泛非期岩浆作用与区域高级变质作用的时代吻合(600—500Ma)。两条造山带中泛非期岩浆作用与碰撞后岩石圈减薄、岩浆底侵以及上地壳的伸展垮塌相联系,均具有碰撞造山带的构造演化特点。所以,冈瓦纳超大陆的形成很可能是通过西冈瓦纳、印度-南极陆块和澳大利亚-南极陆块等3个陆块沿着两条造山带(毛德造山带和普里兹造山带)近于同期发生拼合碰撞的结果。     

东南极格罗夫山：普里兹造山带中一个典型的泛非期变质地体

提要：距我国中山站以南约400 km的格罗夫山是普里兹造山带向南极内陆的延伸部分,其基底地体由约在920?910 Ma期间侵入的镁铁质－长英质火成岩和少量中元古代的沉积岩构成,这些岩石仅在泛非期（约570?500 Ma）经历了单相变质－构造旋回,因此是一个典型的泛非期变质地体。泛非期高峰变质作用并不象前人所认为的那样仅为中低压麻粒岩相,而是高达770?840?C、1.18?1.40 GPa,并在随后经历了近等温减压（约0.6 GPa）的P-T演化过程。大规模的A型紫苏花岗岩和花岗岩在同造山－后造山阶段侵位,并造成了麻粒岩地体近等压降温的P-T轨迹。这些花岗质岩石是由长期富集地幔的底侵物质（碱性玄武质岩石）经部分溶融而形成的。结合相邻地质体的研究资料,我们认为普里兹造山带可能发育在太古宙－格林维尔期基底地体之上,这些基底地体可能与新元古代（？）盖层卷入到了统一的泛非期造山作用过程。在泛非期造山作用过程中,地壳曾被增厚约达40?50 km,而后又经历了厚约20 km的地壳伸展垮塌和剥蚀。所以,普里兹造山带应代表东冈瓦纳陆块内部由板块缝合作用所形成的一条泛非期碰撞造山带。     

中国东南极地质考察20年进展与展望

在1998—2017年期间,我国组织了14次东南极地质考察,将考察的范围从中山站所在的拉斯曼丘陵向外扩展了约400 km,主要包括格罗夫山、埃默里冰架东缘-西南普里兹湾、北查尔斯王子山、布朗山、赖于尔群岛和西福尔丘陵等露岩区。通过大、中比例尺的地质编图和多学科综合研究,取得如下重要进展:(1)确定格罗夫山冰下高地为泛非期(~570—500 Ma)单相变质地体,发现镁铁质和泥质高压麻粒岩并刻画了泛非期造山的精细过程,为普里兹造山带的碰撞造山成因以及冈瓦纳超大陆的多陆块汇聚模型提供了岩石学支撑;(2)论证在印度克拉通与东南极陆块之间存在一个延长2 000 km的中元古代长寿命大陆岛弧,岛弧岩浆作用从~1 500 Ma一直持续到~1 000 Ma,提出雷纳造山带格林维尔期(~1 000—900 Ma)的构造演化可能经历了从弧陆碰撞到陆陆碰撞的过程;(3)在赖于尔群岛超高温变泥质岩中识别出早期蓝晶石的残留,确定了超高温变质作用顺时针演化的精细P-T轨迹;(4)在西福尔丘陵西南部基性岩墙群中发现了格林维尔期(~960—940 Ma)不均匀麻粒岩化,变质条件达820—870℃、0.84—0.97 GPa,认为西福尔陆块也卷入到印度克拉通与东南极陆块的碰撞造山过程;(5)在西福尔丘陵东南部浅变质冰川漂砾和松散砂中获得~3.5—3.3 Ga的古老锆石U-Pb年龄,推测在西福尔丘陵东南方向存在一个从前未知的古太古代冰下陆块。建议今后在东南极面向印度洋构造域的地质考察要进一步扩展到南查尔斯王子山、内皮尔杂岩和登曼冰川,研究工作的重点仍聚焦在南极大陆如何响应地质历史时期里超级大陆的聚散过程这一关键科学问题上,并可在以下几个方面展开:(1)太古宙古老地壳及陆核的识别与全球对比;(2)格林维尔期造山记录与罗迪尼亚超大陆汇聚;(3)泛非期造山记录与冈瓦纳超大陆汇聚;(4)显生宙冈瓦纳超大陆裂解及陆块分离。通过这些考察和研究工作,可以促使我国对南极地质科学的研究达到国际先进水平。     

西澳平贾拉造山带中元古代–早古生代地质事件及其与东南极雷纳造山带地质事件对比

澳大利亚西缘的平贾拉造山带遭受了格林维尔期和泛非期两期高级构造热事件的影响,其构造演化过程与罗迪尼亚超大陆的聚散和冈瓦纳超大陆的拼合密切相关。本文系统总结和评述了平贾拉造山带在中元古代–早古生代期间经历的三期主要地质事件及其构造意义,并与东南极雷纳造山带的地质事件进行了对比研究。平贾拉造山带中记录的三期主要地质事件包括:(1)中元古代晚期岩浆/变质事件(1090—1020Ma),与全球格林维尔期造山作用有关,但对其详细的构造含义争议较大;(2)新元古代中期岩浆事件(780—660 Ma),具有伸展/裂谷岩浆作用特征,可能与罗迪尼亚超大陆的裂解有关;(3)新元古代晚期–早古生代(即泛非期)岩浆/变质事件(540—520 Ma),与东冈瓦纳大陆的聚合有关。地质对比研究表明,平贾拉造山带与东南极雷纳造山带所记录的中–新元古代地质事件存在明显的差别,两者不能连成一个统一的格林维尔期造山带。平贾拉造山带与普里兹湾地区的雷纳造山带部分(即普里兹造山带)都遭受到新元古代晚期–早古生代构造热事件的强烈改造,两者可能存在内在的联系。但是,普里兹湾地区新元古代中期岩浆事件的缺失表明两者可能还不能直接相连。因此,关于西澳平贾拉造山带向东南极的延伸问题尚存争议,这也是今后需要进一步研究的方向。     

关于拉斯曼丘陵泛非期高级变质作用时代的限定

就目前认识,拉斯曼丘陵地区的所有基底和盖层岩石都卷入到了格林威尔期和泛非期高级变质和变形作用。泛非期高峰变质的时代大致在550—530 Ma,其造山晚期的花岗质岩浆作用遍及全区。我们观察到,中山站区石榴黑云斜长片麻岩固相变质作用过程,主要是对早期锆石的重启、改造,例如,对早期岩浆锆石环带的模糊化,对锆石棱、角的溶蚀,甚至同位素体系的重启等,难以形成变质锆石(边),退变或重启年龄平均值为522.7±6.6 Ma。峰期变质之后侵位的花岗岩结晶年龄为545±9 Ma,意味着峰期变质应不晚于该年龄。泛非期的变形、变质作用及花岗岩可对早期"干"岩石进行某种程度的退变质改造,从而造成高级变质岩变质结构的复杂性。这种变质作用及有关的花岗岩活动似乎缘于陆块内部的活化,而不是不同陆块间的碰撞所致。     

关于拉斯曼丘陵泛非期高级变质作用时代的新限

就目前认识,拉斯曼丘陵地区的所有基底和盖层岩石都卷入到了格林威尔期和泛非期高级变质和变形作用。泛非期高峰变质的时代大致在550—530 Ma,其造山晚期的花岗质岩浆作用遍及全区。我们观察到,中山站区石榴黑 云斜长片麻岩固相变质作用过程,主要是对早期锆石的重启、改造,例如,对早期岩浆锆石环带的模糊化,对锆石棱、角的溶蚀,甚至同位素体系的重启等,难以形成变质锆石（边）,退变或重启年龄平均值为522.7±6.6 Ma。峰期变质 之后侵位的花岗岩结晶年龄为545±9 Ma,意味着峰期变质应不晚于该年龄。泛非期的变形、变质作用及花岗岩可对早期“干”岩石进行某种程度的退变质改造,从而造成高级变质岩变质结构的复杂性。这种变质作用及有关的花岗岩活动似乎缘于陆块内部的活化,而不是不同陆块间的碰撞所致。     

东南极格罗夫山地区冰碛石碎石带中高压麻粒岩和正片麻岩的锆石年代学研究及其构造意义

东南极的格罗夫山是普里兹造山带向南极内陆的延伸部分。对格罗夫山不同碎石带中收集的高压麻粒岩和正片麻岩进行锆石U-Pb年代学研究。四个高压麻粒岩的锆石多数为变质新生锆石,仅少数保留有继承核,其年龄为2633—2502 Ma。在变质锆石中获得~570 Ma和~555—545 Ma两个阶段变质年龄,锆石微量元素特征显示为重稀土亏损,结合前人研究结果,推测这两阶段年龄分别代表了变质作用过程中的进变质和高压峰期变质年龄。两个正片麻岩的锆石普遍发育核-边结构,由一个发育振荡环带的岩浆核和均匀无环带的变质边组成。正片麻岩的原岩年龄存在差异,在样品GR14-3-4的锆石核部获得了1060±40 Ma的上交点年龄,其原岩可能来自格罗夫山东南部的冰下高地,而在样品GR14-5-4的锆石核部获得的原岩年龄为917±4 Ma,与格罗夫山基岩中的基性麻粒岩和正片麻岩的原岩年龄一致。在锆石边部获得的变质年龄较为一致,为~530 Ma,与以前在高压麻粒岩中获得的退变质年龄相当。本次研究确认了高压麻粒岩在格罗夫山地区不同碎石带中分布的广泛性,表明其可能普遍存在于格罗夫山冰下高地之中。同时也进一步证明格罗夫山冰下高地并没有受到格林维尔期构造热事件的影响,而是只经历了泛非期的单相变质构造旋回。     

综合物探方法在安徽省大别山区地下热水勘查方面的应用

研究区位于大别山变质岩浆构造带的北部,该岩浆构造带是华北与扬子陆块最终实现敛合形成的碰撞造山带,它是以深大断裂构造所围限的"东宽西窄"的楔形地质块体,间夹于华北与扬子陆块之中。综合物探工作主要任务是在前期地质及水文等综合异常较好地区,采用高精度磁法,圈定隐伏花岗岩体范围及分布;在工作区分别进行直流电阻率联合剖面、直流电测深、α卡等综合物探剖面工作,对物探异常进行多参数综合分析研究,以控制地下热水分布范围或圈定新的地下水水源,为钻探验证工作提供参考依据,研究结果为综合开发利用地热资源提供了重要的参考价值。     

柴北缘地区印支期构造背景、岩浆活动及稀有金属成矿作用

柴北缘地区大地构造位置处于古亚洲构造域与特提斯构造域结合部位的多旋回弧盆造山系；岩浆活动强烈,印支期岩浆岩主要分布于新青界山、察汗诺、哈莉哈德山南以及橡皮山等地区,岩浆岩以中酸性岩为主,花岗岩类分异程度高,与稀有金属矿产关系密切,形成于印支期柴北缘活动大陆边缘俯冲碰撞环境。柴北缘地区伟晶岩脉断续出露200余公里,伟晶岩具有集中性、分片性产出特征,其成矿作用与岩浆活动密切相关；印支期是伟晶岩型稀有金属成矿重要时期；厘定出稀有金属主要成矿类型为伟晶岩型、花岗岩型。     

内蒙古东部中侏罗世中—酸性侵入岩特征、成因及环境

内蒙古东部中侏罗世中—酸性侵入岩主要分布于大兴安岭侵入岩带、额尔古纳侵入岩带及阴山—燕山侵入岩带。其中闪长岩、石英二长闪长岩、花岗闪长岩总体属铝饱和型,高钾钙碱性系列。总体轻稀土相对富集,重稀土相对亏损,铕总体上显示弱亏损。二长花岗岩总体属略富碱弱过铝质高钾钙碱性花岗岩;总体为轻稀土富集型,铕强亏损。二长花岗斑岩属钠质类型,总体属高钾钙碱性系列;属轻稀土富集型。正长花岗岩总体属富硅、钙,高钾钙碱性系列;轻、重稀土的分馏程度较低,且发育强烈的负铕异常。碱长花岗岩、花岗斑岩总体属富硅,高钾钙碱性系列。轻重稀土的分馏程度较低,发育较强的负铕异常。该期侵入岩总体为S型,少数为I型。表现出兼具大陆弧花岗岩(CAG)、大陆碰撞花岗岩(CCG)与后造山花岗岩(POG)的多重构造环境的特点^[1]。     

东南极埃默里冰架东缘赖茵博尔特丘陵构造变形过程及其构造意义

对赖茵博尔特丘陵地区的构造变形过程分析表明,该地区发育4期主要构造变形.D1期主要是区域性近EW向片麻理形成阶段,其变形时代为＞970 Ma;D2期是在正片麻岩形成了近EW向轴面陡立韧性剪切褶皱,以及剪切面理上发育的各种紧闭不对称褶皱和低角度拉伸线理,其变形时代为新元古代早期.D3期变形发生在寒武纪早期,以构造抬升至地...     

Inferred ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism of amphibolitized olivine granulite from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

This paper reports the first evidence of ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) metamorphism from the Sør Rondane Mountains, eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, which is evident as orthopyroxene + spinel symplectite in an amphibolitized mafic granulite. The granulite consists of olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, pargasitic amphibole, plagioclase, and ilmenite, and it possesses a within-plate alkali basalt signature. The local bulk chemical composition of symplectite, major and trace element compositions, and thermodynamic calculations for the symplectite, suggest the presence of garnet at the high-pressure stage and that the symplectite formed from garnet, olivine, and primary orthopyroxene by decompression from more than 12 kbar at 1000 °C. The granulite records a subsequent amphibolite-facies overprint (<700 °C at <6 kbar) that involved the chemical re-equilibration of several phases. The obtained pressure–temperature (P–T) conditions and P–T path are different from the UHT metamorphism from the Schirmacher Hills, central Dronning Maud Land, which is considered to have occurred in a back-arc tectonic setting. The relatively high-P conditions and the decompression path reconstructed in the present study are similar to those reported for southern India, Sri Lanka, and part of northeastern Mozambique, possibly reflecting continental thickening and exhumation during the main collision event between East and West Gondwana.     

Late- to post-orogenic basins of the Pan-African – Brasiliano collision orogen in southern Africa and southern Brazil

Late- to post-orogenic basins formed on both sides of the Pan-African – Brasiliano orogen when the Congo and Kalahari Cratons collided with the Rio de la Plata Craton during the formation of western Gondwana. Trace fossil evidence and radiometric age dating indicate that deposits on both sides are coeval and span the Cambrian–Precambrian boundary. A peripheral foreland basin, the Nama Basin, developed on the subducting southern African plate. Lower, craton-derived fluviomarine clastics are overlain by marine platform carbonates and deltaic flysch derived in part from the rising subduction complex along the northern (Damara Belt) and western (Gariep Belt) orogenic margins. Rare, thin volcanic ash layers (tuffs and cherts) are present. Upper sediments consist of unconformable red molasse related to collisional orogenesis. Orogenic loading from the north and west led to crustal flexure and the formation of a remnant ocean that drained to the south and closed progressively from north to south. During final collision SE-, E- and NE-verging nappes overrode the active basin margins. Although younger than most of the post-orogenic magmatism, its setting on the cratonic edge of the subducting plate precluded marked volcanism or granitic intrusion, the only exception being the youngest intrusions of the Kuboos-Bremen Suite dated at 521±6 Ma to 491±8 Ma. Two foreland-type basins, perhaps faulted remnants of a much larger NE–SW elongated retroarc foreland basin, are found west of the Dom Feliciano Belt on the edge of the Rio de la Plata Craton in southern Brazil. In the southern Camaqua Basin, basal fluvial deposits are followed by cyclical marine and coarsening-up deltaic deposits with a notable volcanic and volcaniclastic component. This lower deformed succession, comprising mainly red beds, contain stratabound Cu and Pb–Zn deposits and is overlain unconformably by a fluviodeltaic to aeolian succession of sandstones and conglomerates (with minor andesitic volcanics), derived primarily from an eastern orogenic source and showing southerly longitudinal transport. In the northern Itajaí Basin, sediments range from basal fluvial and platform sediments to fining-up submarine fan and turbidite deposits with intercalated acid tuffs. The Brazilian basins had faulted margins off which alluvial fans were shed. They also overlie parts of the Ribeira Belt. Thrust deformation along the orogenic margin bordering the Dom Feliciano Belt was directed westward in the Camaqua and Itajaí basins, but reactivated strike-slip and normal faults are also present. Late- to post-orogenic granitoids and volcanics of the Dom Feliciano Belt, ranging in age from 568±6 Ma to 529±4 Ma, occur in the foreland basins and are geochemically related to some of the synsedimentary volcanics.     

COCORP deep seismic reflection traverses of the U.S. Cordillera

Summary. COCORP seismic reflection traverses of the U.S. Cordillera at 40°N and 48.5°N latitude reveal some fundamental similarities as well as significant differences in reflection patterns. On both traverses, autochthonous crust beneath thin-skinned thrust belts of the eastern part of the Cordillera is unreflective; immediately to the west the Cordilleran interior is very reflective above a flat, prominent reflection Moho. Mesozoic accreted terranes in the western part of the orogen are underlain on both traverses by very complex reflection patterns, in constrast to more easily deciphered patterns beneath areas of Cenozoic accretion. The prominent reflection Moho beneath the orogenic interior on both transects probably evolved through a combination of magmatic and deformational processes during Cenozoic extension. The main differences between the two traverses lie in the reflection patterns of the middle and lower crust in the Cordilleran interior; these differences are probably related to the way Cenozoic extension was accommodated at depth. Laminated middle and lower crust above the reflection Moho in the western Basin and Range (40°N) may be related to magmatism, ductile pure shear and large-scale transposition during Cenozoic extension. By contrast, beneath the eastern Basin and Range (40°N), and the orogenic interior in the NW United States (48.5°N), Cenozoic extension was probably accommodated along dipping deformation zones throughout the crust.     

Additional Rb-Sr and single-grain zircon datings of Caledonian granitoid rocks from Albert I Land, northwest Spitsbergen

Previous K-Ar and Rb-Sr datings of the metamorphic and granitic rocks from the northwestern basement region of Spitsbergen mainly show the cooling time of the rocks, except for a Rb-Sr isochron age of the Hornemantoppen granitoid. New samples were collected during several years of geological mapping in the area and the Rb-Sr whole rock isochron and single-grain zircon evaporation methods were applied to the Hornemantoppen granitoids and the grey granites. A dioritic dyke was also dated by the latter method. The bulk rock chemistry study shows that most of both granitic rocks are of the S-type and probably post orogenic, with distinctive incorporation of crustal materials. The isotopic data also support this interpretation. The results of the Rb-Sr isotope analyses, 412 ± 4.8 Ma and the zircon Pb evaporation age of 424 ± 56 Ma, confirm the previous age of the Hornemantoppen granitoid, 414 ± 10 Ma. An older zircon age of 547 ± 19 Ma is considered to be the minimum age of inherited zircon. Zircons from the grey granites suggest an age of ca. 420 Ma with a large error. Field relations demonstrate that the grey granites are older than the Hornemantoppen granitoids. A minimum inherited zircon age, 952 ± 20 Ma, has been obtained from the grey granites. Three multi-grain Pb ages, 423 ± 22 Ma (2 grains), 461 ± 42 Ma and 561 ± 93 Ma (the last two 3 grains) were considered to be mixed ages. Although no definitive evidence for the presence of Grenvillian granites in this area has been obtained in the present study, preliminary results from the multi-grain zircon evaporation method, carried out in the Russian laboratory at Apatity, infer Paleo- and Mesoproterozoic protoliths for the metamorphic rocks of northwestern Spitsbergen.     

Seismic anisotropy beneath Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, revealed by shear wave splitting

Shear wave splitting analyses have been carried out using teleseismic data from broad-band seismograph stations deployed at temporary and permanent locations in Dronning Maud Land (DML), Antarctica. In most cases, the observed anisotropy can be related to major tectonic events that formed the present-day Antarctic continent. We rule out an anisotropic contribution from recent asthenospheric flow. At the Russian base Novolazarevskaya near the coast in central DML, waveform inversion suggests a two-layer model where the fast direction of the upper layer is oriented parallel to Archean fabrics in the lithosphere, whereas the anisotropy of the lower layer is interpreted to have been created during the Jurassic Gondwana break-up. Recordings at the South African base Sanae IV, however, show enigmatic results. For narrow backazimuthal segments, splitting parameters show strong variations together with a multitude of isotropic measurements, indicative of complex scattering that cannot be explained by simple one- or two-layer anisotropic models. In the interior of the continent, the data are consistent with single-layer anisotropy, but show significant spatial variations in splitting parameters. A set of temporary stations across the Heimefront shear zone in western DML yield splitting directions that we interpret as frozen anisotropy from Proterozoic assembly of the craton. An abrupt change in fast axis direction appears to mark a suture between the Grunehogna craton, a fragment of the Kalahari–Kaapvaal craton in southern Africa and the Mesoproterozoic Maudheim Province.