堇青石的矿物学特征及其应用

堇青石作为一种天然矿物已被研究多年，它广泛分布于岩浆岩、变质岩和伟晶岩中，但确很少富集成矿。基于堇青石所具有的许多优良性能，使它在耐火材料、精细陶瓷、计算机集成电路的基片等领域中得到了广泛的应用。本文将从堇青石的矿物学角度出发，阐述人工合成堇青石的研究现状及发展前景。     

大容山花岗岩带中石榴子石,堇青石的成因研究

该花岗岩带中石榴子石富MgO而贫MnO,并且具正成分环带构造,证明是原岩残留晶;堇青石与残留包体中堇青石成分相似,均属镁堇青石,Na_2O<0.33％,表明不是岩浆晶出矿物,而是岩浆源区残留晶。矿物谱学工作表明,堇青石中赋存原生CO_2和H_2O,某组成是矿物形成温度的灵敏指示剂;另一方面,由于挥发分的存在,“湿”堇青石畸变系数△不能反映硅铝有序度,而红外分裂指数能够及“干”堇青石△可能能够反映硅铝有序度。石榴子石-堇青石组合是理想的地质温压逸度计,它给出了大容山岩体及旧州岩体源区的T、P、f_(H_2O)和P_(H_2O)。     

内蒙古千里山群片麻岩中堇青石的形成与演化

内蒙古西部千里山群片麻岩中堇青石比较发育。这种堇青石多数围绕石榴石生长并包裹矽线石，表明堇青石是由石榴石和矽线石反应形成的。由于与同构造期的花岗岩有关的钾、硅和流体的带入，使片麻岩中的堇青石转变为绢云母，而不是滑石和蛇纹石。堇青石多呈孤岛状残留，这种堇青石较富含钾。有的堇青石与绢云母呈环带状交替分布，并在化学成分上出现堇青石和绢云母过渡类型。     

堇青石合成的研究进展

堇青石是一种具有较低热膨胀系数、良好抗热震性的矿物材料。天然的堇青石矿物原料很少,因此常常采用人工合成的方法来合成堇青石材料。本文根据近年来合成堇青石的最新研究,论述了堇青石合成方法的研究进展,具体包括高纯氧化物高温固相反应合成法、天然矿物高温固相反应合成法、利用工业废料合成法、利用农业废料合成法、溶胶-凝胶法和低温燃烧合成法。目前工业化生产堇青石大多采用天然矿物高温固相反应法,此法虽有众多优点,但同时也存在许多的不足之处。因此,如何能将其他方法用于工业化生产,将成为合成堇青石今后研究中的一个发展方向。     

华北地台太古代麻粒岩相带的堇青石-夕线石组合:低压麻粒岩相的标志

华北地台北缘麻粒岩相带中,西起贺兰山东至辽吉地区,凡有高铝变质沉积岩发育的地方几乎都普遍存在堇青石-夕线石组合,它分别出现在含堇青石石英岩、片麻岩、麻粒岩和S-型花岗岩中;堇青石-石榴石-夕线石组合也极常见。用石榴石-堇青石矿物对计算的变质作用P-T条件约5.3×10~8～7.5×10~8Pa,700～810℃,地热梯度约30～40℃/km。这些数据与共生岩石中其他矿物对所得温压条件基本一致。堇青石-夕线石组合是低压变质作用的标志。因此该麻粒岩相带大部分属于低压麻粒岩相。     

煤矸石菱镁矿合成堇青石熟料研究

本文研究了以煤矸石和菱镁矿为主要原料合成堇青石熟料的可行性。实验表明选择高岭石含量高和碱金属氧化物及氧化铁含量低的煤矸石及高纯菱镁矿可以合成出高质量的堇青石熟料,其堇青石的含量可达９５％ 以上,最佳煅烧温度为１ ４００℃,保温１０ｈ,然后在降温过程中在１ ３５０℃再保温１０ ｈ。     

长英质片麻岩中堇青石的一种可能的形成机制——以南极拉斯曼丘陵高级区为例

本文通过对南极拉斯曼丘陵长英质片麻岩变质过程中堇青石与其它矿物之间结构关系的研究 ,识别出明显不同的两种组合Pl Kfs Qtz(Grt)和Crd Opq Spl±Qtz,认为区内高级变质作用向深熔作用转化过程中发生了长英质组分和镁铁质组分的分凝。分凝出的长英质熔体与堇青石的形成没有直接关系 ;镁铁质组分较富Mg、Fe ,贫Si、Ca ,当镁铁质组分达到一定的富集程度时即形成堇青石。时间上 ,堇青石形成于降压过程中发生的深熔作用的晚期     

东南极拉斯曼丘陵柱晶紫苏堇青麻粒岩中堇青石的矿物学特征

东南极拉斯曼丘陵晚元古代（１０００Ｍａ）高级变质杂岩中区域性产出一套粗粒柱晶紫苏堇青麻粒岩，其原岩为含硼的富镁铝泥质岩。岩石中结晶粗大的堇青石在矿物化学成分上属于镁堇青石，其成分显示不均匀且具较明显成分环带的特征，从核部到边缘，其ＸＭｇ（Ｍｇ／Ｍｇ＋Ｆｅ２＋）比值由０．８５５变化为０．８１６。温压计算结果表明，所研究堇青石形成的Ｐ－Ｔ条件约为０．７６～０．７２ＧＰａ和８６０℃～８３０℃（核部至边缘）。Ｘ－射线粉晶结构分析证明这种堇青石属于低位结构状态的堇青石，晶体结构扭曲指数Δ＝０．２８～０．３０，在自然界比较少见。实验室合成的低位结构状态的堇青石只在持续较长时间的１３００℃～１４００℃的高温条件下稳定存在。因此，这意味着低位堇青石可能是由很高温变质作用及缓慢冷却的条件下结晶形成，这对于研究该区的地壳演化具有极其重要的意义。     

麻山群孔兹岩系中的堇青片麻岩

黑龙江省东部麻山群中堇青片麻岩的主要矿物组合有石榴石＋夕线石＋堇青石＋石英＋钾长石＋黑云母；石榴石＋夕线石＋堇青石＋钾长石＋尖晶石；堇青石＋夕线石＋斜长石；柱晶石＋堇青石＋斜长石＋夕线石＋石榴石＋电气石；堇青石＋紫苏辉石＋石榴石＋斜长石＋黑云母＋石英。这些含堇青石组合是在麻粒岩相条件下已存石榴石＋夕线石＋石英矿物组合分解反应的产物，其形成压力（０．４５－０．５ＧＰａ＿比麻粒岩相“高峰”压力明显低，     

堇青石矿物学研究进展：——Ⅱ人工合成堇青石的物理性质

工业用的堇青石多为人工合成，一些堇青石是在最终材料制作之前预先合成的，一些是在材料的制作和使用过程中生成的。堇青石具有许多优良的性能，包括低的热膨胀性，优良的抗热震性，较高的机械强度，低的介电常数和高的电阻率。随着材料生成条件不同，堇青石的物理性质也有较大变化     

Sound velocities and elasticity of cordierite and implications for deep crustal seismic anisotropy

The elastic properties of cordierite, a common volatile-bearing metamorphic mineral, were measured using Brillouin spectroscopy under ambient conditions. We obtain a bulk modulus of K_S =129(1) GPa, and a shear modulus of G=54.0(4) GPa. The bulk modulus of cordierite is much larger than those of other crustal framework silicates (e.g., quartz and feldspars), but is similar to K_S for denser upper mantle phases such as olivine. This is likely a result of the cordierite crystal structure, as suggested by a similarly high value of K_S for minerals with closely related structures. Cordierite has an unusually high K/G ratio of about 2.4, and a Poisson’s ratio of 0.31,which may be a diagnostic seismic properties of areas in which cordierite-rich metamorphic rocks occur. The overall velocity anisotropy of cordierite is relatively low (<14%) in comparison with many other metamorphic minerals. Calculated velocities for a representative lower crustal rock suggest that cordierite is not likely to explain the high seismic anisotropy observed in some lower crustal sections. Cordierite would have a strong influence on the bulk seismic anisotropy only in rocks where it is present in large concentrations and has a strong preferred orientation. Although such rocks are known to occur, they are uncommon. Received: 23 Deceber 1997/ Revised, accepted: 12 October 1998     

Co-existing cordierite-almandine-a key to the metamorphic history of Sri Lanka

A co-existing cordierite—almandine assemblage is described from the pelitic metasedimentary rocks of the Precambrian granulite-facies terrain of Sri Lanka. The chemical control on this assemblage is demonstrated, as has been observed in granulite-facies terrains elsewhere. The previous view of a low-pressure origin of cordierite in pelitic rocks, and the subdivision of the central granulite-facies belt of Sri Lanka based thereon, is hence doubtful.     

Sapphirine parageneses from the Caraiba complex, Bahia, Brazil: the influence of Fe2+–Fe3+ distribution on the stability of sapphirine in natural assemblages

Abstract Sapphirine-bearing rocks occur in three conformable, metre-size lenses in intrusive quartzo-feldspathic orthogneisses in the Curaçà valley of the Archaean Caraiba complex of Brazil. In the lenses there are six different sapphirine-bearing rock types, which have the following phases (each containing phlogopite in addition): A: Sapphirine, orthopyroxene; B: Sapphirine, cordierite, orthopyroxene, spinel; C: Sapphirine, cordierite; D: Sapphirine, cordierite, orthopyroxene, quartz; E: Sapphirine, cordierite, orthopyroxene, sillimanite, quartz; F: Sapphirine, cordierite, K-feldspar, quartz. Neither sapphirine and quartz nor orthopyroxene and sillimanite have been found in contact, however. During mylonitization, introduction of silica into the three quartz-free rocks (which represent relict protolith material) gave rise to the three cordierite and quartz-bearing rocks. Stable parageneses in the more magnesian rocks were sapphirine–orthopyroxene and sapphirine–cordierite. In more iron-rich rocks, sapphirine–cordierite, sapphirine-cordierite–sillimanite, cordierite–sillimanite, sapphirine–cordierite–spinel–magnetite and quartz–cordierite–orthopyroxene were stable. The iron oxide content in sapphirine of the six rocks increases from an average of 2.0 to 10.5 wt % (total Fe as FeO) in the order: C,F–A,D–B,E. With increase in Fe there is an increase in recalculated Fe₂O₃ in sapphirine. The four rock types associated with the sapphirine-bearing lenses are: I: Orthopyroxene, cordierite, biotite, quartz, feldspar tonalitic to grandioritic gneiss; II: Biotite, quartz, feldspar gneiss; III: Orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, hornblende, plagioclase meta-norite; IV: Biotite, orthopyroxene, quartz, feldspar, garnet, cordierite, sillimanite granulite gneiss. The stable parageneses in type IV are orthopyroxene–cordierite–quartz, garnet–sillimanite–quartz and garnet–cordierite–sillimanite. Geothermobarometry suggests that the associated host rocks equilibrated at 720–750°C and 5.5–6.5 kbar. Petrogenetic grids for the FMASH and FMAFSH (FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–Fe₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O) model systems indicate that sapphirine-bearing assemblages without garnet were stabilized by a high Fe³⁺ content and a high X_Mg= (Mg/ (Mg+Fe²⁺)) under these P–T conditions.     

Heterogeneous growth of cordierite in low P/T Tsukuba metamorphic rocks from central Japan

This paper examines the spatial statistics of matrix minerals and complex patterned cordierite porphyroblasts in the low‐pressure, high‐temperature (low P/T) Tsukuba metamorphic rocks from central Japan, using a density correlation function. The cordierite‐producing reaction is sillimanite + biotite + quartz = K‐feldspar + cordierite + water. The density correlation function shows that quartz is distributed randomly. However, the density correlation functions of biotite, plagioclase and K‐feldspar show that their spatial distributions are clearly affected by the formation of cordierite porphyroblasts. These observations suggest that cordierite growth occurred through a selective growth mechanism: quartz adjacent to cordierite has a tendency to prevent the growth of cordierite, whereas other matrix minerals adjacent to cordierite have a tendency to enhance the growth of cordierite. The density correlation functions of complex patterned cordierite porphyroblasts show power‐law behaviour. A selective growth mechanism alone cannot explain the origin of the power‐law behaviour. Comparison of the morphology and fractal dimension of cordierite with two‐dimensional sections from a three‐dimensional diffusion‐limited aggregation (DLA) suggests that the formation of cordierite porphyroblasts can be modelled as a DLA process. DLA is the simple statistical model for the universal fractal pattern developed in a macroscopic diffusion field. Diffusion‐controlled growth interacting with a random field is essential to the formation of a DLA‐like pattern. The selective growth mechanism will provide a random noise for the growth of cordierite due to random distribution of quartz. Therefore, a selective growth mechanism coupled with diffusion‐controlled growth is proposed to explain the power‐law behaviour of the density correlation function of complex patterned cordierite. The results in this paper suggest that not only the growth kinetics but also the spatial distribution of matrix minerals affect the progress of the metamorphic reaction and pattern formation of metamorphic rocks.     

Experimental investigation of the formation of cordierite-orthopyroxene parageneses in pelitic rocks

Cordierite and orthopyroxene (or orthoamphibole) are widespread in migmatitic terranes, and partial melting of pelitic rocks may be important in their production. In particular, the reaction quartz +albite+biotite+garnet+water vapor = cordierite +orthopyroxene or orthoamphibole+melt was among reactions discussed by Grant (1973) but poorly constrained in pressure-temperature space.This reaction involves too many phases to be readily studied experimentally. Therefore simpler melting and dehydration reactions involving quartzalbite-biotite-cordierite-orthopyroxene were investigated.In conjunction with the work of Hoffer (1976, 1978) these experiments place useful constraints on the above reaction and on the reaction quartz+albite+aluminosilicate+biotite+vapor = cordierite+garnet+melt. In pelitic rocks near the second illimanite isograd, cordierite and garnet may coexist with melt as low as 660° C and cordierite and orthopyroxene may coexist with melt at temperatures less than 675° C. In the absence of significant Mn or Ca, in pelitic rocks within the realm of melting, biotite+garnet assemblages are probably limited to pressures greater than 2kb and aluminosilicate+biotite assemblages to pressures greater than 3kb.     

Genesis of Zn-Cu deposits in the basic Ransko massif (Eastern Bohemia)

Watkinson et al. (1978) have reinterpreted the Zn-Cu deposits in the Ransko massif as xenoliths of volcanogenic ores enclosed in and contact-metamorphosed by a basic magma. A detailed reexamination of different xenoliths within the massif, and their comparison with the cordierite hornfelses carriers of Zn-Cu ores, has shown essential differences between them, and confirmed the previous opinions on the metasomatic origin of the deposits. The cordierite hornfels originated by selective magnesian metasomatism of intrusive rocks rich in feldspar (quartz diorite, troctolite), particularly by the replacement of feldspars by cordierite. Around the stocks of cordierite hornfels, a conspicuous concentric metasomatic zonation of rocks developed in mafic intrusives. The Zn-Cu deposits of the Ransko massif resemble sulfide deposits connected with magnesian metasomatism, especially those of the Hitachi area in Japan.     

中国北方烧变岩的分布、特征及研究意义*

中国北方烧变岩分布广泛,见于以昆仑山—秦岭—大别山为界的中国北方地区多个沉积盆地边缘,但地质学家对其研究较为薄弱。野外调查显示中国北方烧变岩主要以4种方式分布: (1)大面积连片分布,(2)沿山脉走向的线状分布,(3)沿河流下切河谷分布,(4)为第四系黄土覆盖。烧变岩主要为侏罗系、石炭—二叠系煤层自燃所致。各类型的烧变岩在中国烧变岩区不同程度发育,具瓷化结构、白化结构、烧熔结构、残余构造、气孔构造、微柱状节理、角砾状构造、垮塌构造、裂缝充填等结构和构造。其颜色以砖红色、赭红色、棕色、钢灰色最为典型,岩石中发育鳞石英、方石英、堇青石、铁堇青石、莫来石等典型高温矿物。中新世以来,中国西部、北部地区构造活动强烈,干旱气候加剧,烧变岩也主要形成于这一时期,但煤层自燃与构造运动、环境变化、古野火事件的耦合关系还鲜有提及,其所蕴含的各种地质信息值得在今后的研究中予以关注。     

Partial melting and decompression of the Thor-Odin dome, Shuswap metamorphic core complex, Canadian Cordillera

The Thor-Odin dome region of the Shuswap metamorphic core complex, British Columbia, contains migmatitic rocks exhumed from the deep mid-crust of the Cordilleran orogen. Extensive partial melting occurred during decompression of the structurally deepest rocks, and this decompression path is particularly well recorded by mafic boudins of silica-undersaturated, aluminous rocks. These mafic boudins contain the high-temperature assemblages gedrite+cordierite+spinel+corundum+kyanite/sillimanite±sapphirine±högbomite and gedrite+cordierite+spinel+corundum+kyanite/sillimanite+garnet±staurolite (relict)±anorthite. The boudins are interlayered with migmatitic metapelitic gneiss and orthogneiss in this region.

The mineral assemblages and reaction textures in these rocks record decompression from the kyanite zone (P>8–10 kbar) to the sillimanite–cordierite zone (P<5 kbar) at T750 °C, with maximum recorded temperatures of 800 °C. Evidence for high-temperature decompression includes the partial replacement of garnet by cordierite, the partial to complete replacement of kyanite by corundum+cordierite+spinel (hercynite)±sapphirine±högbomite symplectite, and the replacement of some kyanite grains by sillimanite. Kyanite partially replaced by sillimanite, and sillimanite with coronas of cordierite±spinel are also observed in the associated metapelitic rocks.

Partial melt from the surrounding migmatitic gneisses has invaded the mafic boudins. Cordierite reaction rims occur where minerals in the boudins interacted with leucocratic melt. When combined with existing structural and geochronologic data from migmatites and leucogranites in the region, these petrologic constraints suggest that high-temperature decompression was coeval with partial melting in the Thor-Odin dome. These data are used to evaluate the relationship between partial melting of the mid-crust and localized exhumation of deep, hot rocks by extensional and diapiric processes.     

The reaction 3 cordierite = 2 garnet + 4 sillimanite + 5 quartz as a geological thermometer in the Opinicon Lake region,Ontario

In equilibrated metamorphic rocks containing coexisting garnet, cordierite, quartz and sillimanite, the exchange of iron and magnesium between cordierite and garnet offers a highly favourable geological thermometer and barometer, because this exchange reaction is insensitive to pressure. Thermodynamic analysis shows that this thermometer may be calibrated from knowledge of the breakdown reactions for iron and magnesian cordierite end members to garnet. The thermometer was experimentally calibrated using cordierites of intermediate composition. When applied to rocks showing petrographic evidence of equilibrium, and chemical evidence of reaction between garnet and cordierite, the thermometer yielded temperatures of 600–750:C, and pressures of 5.7–6.7 kilobars. Similar conditions are indicated by other literature data on cordierite-garnet gneisses, and are believed to represent hornblende granulite grade of metamorphism.     

Progressive sequence of reactions of the Ryoke metamorphism in the Yanai district, southwest Japan: the formation of cordierite

The compositions of biotite and muscovite were examined in terms of the paragenesis and the metamorphic grade in low- to medium-grade pelitic rocks of the Ryoke metamorphism in the Yanai district, southwest Japan. The biotite and muscovite that coexist with K-feldspar have a higher K component in an A'KF diagram than those in rocks lacking K-feldspar. This fact reflects an increase in the K₂O content in muscovite, but in biotite it reflects an increase of not only the K₂O content but also of the octahedral vacancy.
At higher metamorphic grade beyond the cordierite isograd, where cordierite coexists with neither chlorite nor K-feldspar, the biotite shows an increase in illite, K Aliv □xii−1 Si−1, and Tschermak components, Alvi Aliv R+−1 Si−1, where □xii and R+ denote the interlayer vacancy and (Fe+Mg+Mn), respectively. A reaction to define the cordierite isograd is proposed by treating this chemical change as being responsible for the first appearance of cordierite, i.e. K,Al-poor biotite+phengitic muscovite=K,Al-rich biotite+cordierite+quartz+water .By treating this as a key reaction in medium-grade metamorphism, a set of reaction in a progressive metamorphism is established for the Ryoke metamorphism, a typical low-pressure type metamorphism. Some textures in one of the high-grade areas, the K-feldspar-cordierite zone, suggest that a further two prograde reactions have taken place, i.e. andalusite+biotite+quartz=cordierite+K-feldspar+water
and   andalusite=sillimanite.quartz=cordierite+K-feldspar+water
This implies that this zone probably has a P–T  path involving isobaric heating.