40Ar(40Ar＊＋40ArE)、39Ar释气特征与过剩氩的甄别及年代学意义

对具有不同地质历史背景的3类⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar法样品中的⁴⁰Ar和³⁹Ar释出特征进行对比,研究结果表明,⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar法样品中的⁴⁰Ar、³⁹Ar释气曲线主要表现为以下3种形式:完全重合型、过剩氩型和不规则型。当⁴⁰Ar与³⁹Ar释气曲线呈完全重合型时,⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar法全熔年龄代表了岩体的形成年龄;当⁴⁰Ar、³⁹Ar释气曲线是过剩氩型时,⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar法全熔年龄则大于岩体的形成年龄;当⁴⁰Ar与³⁹Ar释气曲线呈不规则型时,表明样品中的放射成固氩(⁴⁰Ar^*)发生了丢失,其全熔年龄一般较岩体的形成年龄小。对于⁴⁰Ar、³⁹Ar释气曲线呈过剩氩型的样品,⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar法年龄谱通常呈马鞍形,且马鞍形年龄谱的底部年龄一般都具有地质意义,代表了岩体的形成年龄。对于⁴⁰Ar、³⁹Ar释气曲线呈不规则型的样品,对其年龄谱的解释应持谨慎态度。     

激光Ar/Ar微区定年的应用及展望

⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年中,存在一些使用传统的大样逐步升温技术难以处理的难题,如变质及沉积岩样品常含有多期次矿物而难以获得理想结果,过剩Ar在样品中的分布以及来源问题一直难以有效解决,根据缓慢冷却钾长石的⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年龄谱提出的热演化模型也因为Ar在矿物中扩散机制的不明确性而不断受到质疑。20世纪90年代将紫外激光（UV-laser）成功引入⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年代学分析后,为解决这些难题提供了一种思路。借助激光微区     

K-Ar、40Ar/39定年中尼尔值和初始氩比值

K-Ar、⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年中, 用以计算囚禁⁴⁰Ar绝对量的⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar, 称为初始氩比值.现代大气中的初始氩比值叫尼尔值, 为295.5.K-Ar、⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年的表观年龄都是在假设初始氩比值与现代大气中的尼尔值一致的基础上得到的.事实证明, 地球样品的初始氩比值不总是尼尔值, 因此这种假定不可靠, 尤其在对年轻样品进行K-Ar、⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年时, 会带来错误的表观年龄结果.对于K-Ar、⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar精细年代学, 特别对于年轻样品和低钾含量样品, 只有初始氩比值才对定年研究有意义, 而初始氩比值只能通过⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar等时线法求得.所以严格地讲, 只有等时线年龄才是可靠的.结合实验流程, 本文分析了⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年中为什么大多数等时线获取的初始氩比值接近尼尔值, 一是因为常规⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar坪年龄的计算方法, 二是因为吸附氩的干扰.初始氩比值的一致性, 被用来证明样品同位素同源和封闭特性, 对年龄数据的精度及可靠性有非常大的影响, 尤其是年轻样品.因此, 在⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年中要选取氩同位素初始比值一致的同源样品, 并在实验流程中尽量克服样品吸附气体.本文对传统⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar方法中坪年龄、年龄坪的意义提出了质疑, 对提高⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年的精度具有重要意义, 并使之能够应用到极年轻的火山岩定年中.     

柴北缘锡铁山地体花岗质片麻岩退变质作用和40Ar/39Ar年代学研究及其地质意义

本文对柴达木盆地北缘锡铁山地区含榴辉岩透镜体花岗质片麻岩进行了系统的矿物学、相平衡模拟以及黑云母和石英⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年代学研究,旨在查明花岗质片麻岩在加里东超高压变质之后,折返过程中发生角闪岩-绿片岩相退变质作用的变质条件和变质年代。矿物学和相平衡模拟显示,发育变形石英细脉的黑云母花岗质片麻岩高角闪岩相变质矿物组合(M1)为黑云母+钾长石+斜长石+石英+金红石+矽线石+钛铁矿,对应变质条件为T>620℃,P>0.16GPa;低角闪岩相-绿片岩相变质矿物组合(M2)为黑云母+白云母+斜长石+微斜长石+石英+榍石±绿泥石,变质条件为T=390～420℃和P=0.10～0.19 GPa。花岗质片麻岩中黑云母激光阶段加热⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar定年获得了一个上升的阶梯状表观年龄图谱,在中高温阶段则形成了一个平坦的表观年龄坪,坪年龄为353.9±1.8 Ma,对应的等时线年龄为356.7±5.6 Ma。变形石英脉样品真空击碎提取流体包裹体⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar...     

长乐—南澳断裂带变形火成岩的U-Pb和40Ar/39Ar年龄

长乐—南澳断裂带中同构造变形的花岗闪长岩主岩和闪长岩包体的锆石UPb法和角闪石⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar法定年结果分别为～130Ma和～95Ma。锆石UPb年龄代表了变形花岗质岩石的形成年龄,也表明长乐—南澳断裂带至少在此时已经开始活动。角闪石⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年龄不能代表长乐—南澳断裂带的活动年龄,它记录的是与大规模、未变形的早白垩世晚期(相当于石帽山群)火成活动相关的热变质事件的时间。     

大别山碧溪岭榴辉岩激光探针40Ar-39Ar年龄

采用激光探针⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar法对大别山碧溪岭榴辉岩样品中的石榴石和绿辉石单颗粒矿物进行原位测定,获得了两条等时线年龄。结果表明该区榴辉岩经历了两期构造热事件:榴辉岩超高压变质作用发生在加里东期,燕山期年龄为快速抬升折返的热事件年代记录。     

稀有气体同位素地球化学在矿床学研究中的应用进展

稀有气体因其化学惰性以及在不同来源地质体中的同位素组成差异很大,在研究成矿流体来源、演化和壳-幔相互作用过程中具有非常重要的意义。另外,由于~4He、⁴⁰Ar是放射成因子体同位素,具有年代积累效应,因此,它们常被用于同位素测年。本文简要回顾了流体包裹体中稀有气体同位素的后生影响和样品、分析方法选择注意事项,以及近年来稀有气体同位素在成矿流体示踪,⁴⁰K-⁴⁰Ar、⁴⁰Ar-39Ar定年及(U-Th)/He定年方面的研究进展。已有研究证实流体包裹体中的稀有气体可能受后期扩散丢失、后生叠加和同位素分馏的影响,要根据目的选择不同的分析方法;稀有气体同位素可以示踪不同类型矿床的流体来源、演化及壳-幔相互作用、稀有气体同位素与卤素联合运用可以用来指示流体和盐度来源、演化过程以及矿物沉淀机制等,~3He/热的研究可以追溯流体的热源及其运移方式;流体包裹体⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar可以用于矿床直接定年,表生含钾矿物的⁴⁰K-⁴⁰Ar、⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar定年以及锆石、磷灰石和铁氧化物(U-Th)/He定年可为矿床及氧化带的形成时间、矿床形成后的抬升、剥露历史、古气候演化等重大地质问题讨论提供大量有意义的信息。     

K-Ar法地质年龄标准物质ZBJ角闪石的定值结果

为了满足K-Ar定年中K和⁴⁰Ar^*分析的质量监控及Ar-Ar法样品在反应堆照射时中子通量监测的需要,我国氩同位素年代学工作者研制了一个K-Ar法年龄标准物质ZBJ角闪石,它采自北京房山花岗闪长岩体。它的⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar阶段加热分析结果表明:⁴⁰Ar^*在矿物晶格中保存均匀稳定,年龄谱平坦,³⁹Ar析出量高达97%。这些证据充分表明该黑云母结晶以后未受过热扰动,40K-⁴⁰Ar^*同位素计时体系封闭良好。坪年龄为133.3±0.6Ma,总气体年龄为134.4±1.4Ma,³⁶Ar/⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar/⁴⁰Ar反等时线年龄为133.2±0.8Ma,⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar初始值为297.6±4.8,此值与(⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar)a大气氩丰度比(295.5±0.5)处于同一范围,表明样品不含过剩氩。这几个年龄值的一致性,说明该样品具有良好的均匀性和稳定性,它作为K-Ar和Ar-Ar法地质年龄标准物质是适合的。ZBJ角闪石均匀性检验结果表明:在0.05显著性水平下经统计学方法检验,证明K和⁴⁰Ar^*的F分布值小于F临界值,说明该样品是均匀的。国内8个实验室参加了ZBJ角闪石K含量和⁴⁰Ar^*含量的定值分析,经统计学方法检验,结果显示全部定值数据都服从正态分布并具等精度。在置信概率为0.95时,⁴⁰Ar*和K含量的相对标准偏差都小于1%。两个特性量值定值分析结果的一致值(认定值)和不确定度分别为:⁴⁰Ar^*=(2.464±0.018)×10^-10mol/g,K=(1.027±0.008)%,K-Ar年龄(标准值)=133.3±1.5Ma(2σ)。此标准物质纯度为98.1%,粒度为0.15～0.30mm,总重量为740g,缩分成最小样品单元共100瓶,每瓶7.4g,可供我国K-Ar和Ar-Ar法同位素年代学实验室使用37年。     

西昆仑库地韧性剪切带的40Ar/39Ar年龄

西昆仑库地以南有一套变质变形较强的岩系,前人依照区域对比关系将其划为前寒武的古老基底。对西昆仑早期构造演化的论述均基于该观点,但没有提供确凿的同位素年代学证据。笔者通过野外观察、室内研究,确认库地以南的变质变形岩系是大型韧性推覆剪切作用的产物。通过对新生变质矿物角闪石和黑云母单矿物的⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年龄分析,确定剪切变质年龄为426-451Ma,说明库地的变质变形岩系是形成于早古生代晚期的一条大型韧性剪切带,这对于解释西昆仑的早期构造演化具有重要意义。     

黑龙江省嫩江地区科洛杂岩隆升时代

科洛杂岩出露于黑龙江省嫩江县大兴安岭北段,构造解析指示其为一大型伸展滑脱构造,整体反映杂岩体向南东伸展滑脱的特征。依据杂岩体显微构造特征,推测科洛地区伸展滑脱变形带变形温度约为300～450 ℃。滑脱带中变形花岗片麻岩样品中黑云母单矿物的 ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar 年龄为118.39～117.37 Ma,指示伸展滑脱带形成时代为早白垩世晚期。结合大兴安岭地区中生代岩浆活动特征和南北变质核杂岩对比研究,认为大兴安岭整体经历了早白垩世中晚期的快速隆升,形成一系列变质核杂岩,发育大规模伸展变形作用,与松辽盆地坳陷期具有良好的耦合关系。     

Strain partitioning and preservation of Ar/Ar ages during Variscan exhumation of a subducted crust (Malpica–Tui complex, NW Spain)

The Malpica–Tui complex (NW Iberian Massif) consists of a Lower Continental Unit of variably deformed and recrystallized granitoids, metasediments and sparse metabasites, overridden by an upper unit with rocks of oceanic affinities. Metamorphic minerals dated by the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method record a coherent temporal history of progressive deformation during Variscan metamorphism and exhumation. The earliest stages of deformation (D1) under high-pressure conditions are recorded in phengitic white micas from eclogite-facies rocks at 365–370 Ma. Following this eclogite-facies peak-metamorphism, the continental slab became attached to the overriding plate at deep-crustal levels at ca. 340–350 Ma (D2). Exhumation was accompanied by pervasive deformation (D3) within the continental slab at ca. 330 Ma and major deformation (D4) in the underlying para-autochthon at 315–325 Ma. Final tectonothermal evolution included late folding, localized shearing and granitic intrusions at 280–310 Ma.

Dating of high-pressure rocks by the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method yields ages that are synchronous with published Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd ages obtained for both the Malpica–Tui complex and its correlative, the Champtoceaux complex in the French Armorican Massif. The results indicate that phengitic white mica retains its radiogenic argon despite been subjected to relatively high temperatures (500–600 °C) for a period of 20–30 My corresponding to the time-span from the static, eclogite-facies M1 peak-metamorphism through D1-M2 eclogite-facies deformation to amphibolite-facies D2-M3. Our study provides additional evidence that under certain geological conditions (i.e., strain partitioning, fluid deficiency) argon isotope mobility is limited at high temperatures, and that ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology can be a reliable method for dating high pressure metamorphism.     

Very fast exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks with excess Ar and inherited Sr, Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain

In order to attempt to further constrain the age of the early Alpine tectonic evolution of the Mulhacén Complex and to explore the influence of inherited isotopes, micas from a small number of well-characterised rocks from the Sierra de los Filábres, with a penetrative tectonic fabric related to the exhumation of eclogite-facies metamorphic rocks, were selected for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and Rb–Sr dating.

A single phengite grain from an amphibolite yielded an ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar laser step heating plateau age of 86.9±1.2 Ma (2σ; 70% ³⁹Ar released) and an inverse isochron age of 86.2±2.4 Ma with an ³⁶Ar/⁴⁰Ar intercept within error of the atmospheric value. Induction furnace step heating of a biotite separate from a gabbro relic in an eclogite yielded a weighted mean age of 173.2±6.3 Ma (2σ; 95% ³⁹Ar released). These ages are diagnostic of excess argon (⁴⁰Ar_XS) incorporation, as they are older than independent age estimates for the timing of eclogite-facies metamorphism and intrusion of the gabbros. ⁴⁰Ar_XS incorporation probably resulted from restricted fluid mobility in the magmatic rocks during their metamorphic recrystallisation.

Rb–Sr whole-rock–phengite ages of graphite-bearing mica schists from Paleozoic rocks (Secano unit) show a dramatic variation (66.1±3.2, 40.6±2.6 and 14.1±2.2 Ma). An albite chlorite mica schist from the Mesozoic series of the Nevado–Lubrín unit has a whole-rock–mica–albite age of 17.2±1.9 Ma, which is within error of an ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar plateau age published previously and of the youngest Rb–Sr age of the Paleozoic series obtained in this study. The significant spread in Rb–Sr ages implies that progressive partial resetting of an older isotopic system has occurred. The microstructure of the samples with pre-Miocene Rb–Sr ages reveals incomplete recrystallisation of white mica and inhibited grain growth due to the presence of graphite particles. This interpretation agrees with previously published, disturbed and slightly dome-shaped ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age spectra that may point similarly to the presence of an older isotope component. The progressively reset Rb–Sr system is a relic of Variscan metamorphism of the Paleozoic series of the Mulhacén Complex. In contrast, the origin of the ca. 17.2 Ma old sample from the Mesozoic series precludes any isotopic inheritance, in agreement with its pervasive tectono-metamorphic recrystallisation during the Miocene.

Exhumation of the eclogite-facies Mulhacén Complex occurred in two stages with contrasting rates of about 22.5 mm/year during the early phase and 9–10 mm/year during the late phase; the latter with a cooling rate in the order of 330 °C/Ma.     

辽宁阜新排山楼金矿的40Ar/39Ar成矿年龄

排山楼大型金矿床产于辽西高级变质太古宙花岗岩-绿岩带中,受绿岩中、上部层位的基性-中酸性火山岩系和东西向韧性剪切带控制。容矿岩石主要是变质安山质-英安质火山岩类。为解决主矿体的形成时代,选取含金石英细脉浸染状矿石中的石英测定了⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年龄为2105.2±10.4Ma。谱线特征为马鞍型,其底坪年龄为石英的结晶年龄。由此提出排山楼金矿的成因主要与吕梁期的东西向韧性剪切带有关。     

北秦岭二郎坪岩群两侧韧性剪切带的构造变形及其意义

北秦岭二郎坪岩群南、北两侧分别被朱夏韧性剪切带和瓦乔韧性剪切带与秦岭岩群和宽坪岩群分开,这两条韧性剪切带对二郎坪弧后盆地的演化起着十分重要的作用。本文对这两条剪切带进行了详细的几何学、运动学和⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar年代学研究。几何学和运动学分析结果指示瓦乔剪切带具有由北向南逆冲剪切的运动学特征,而朱夏剪切带早期具有由南向北逆冲的运动学特征,而后期又发生右行走滑活动。对瓦乔剪切带和朱夏剪切带内的糜棱岩中白云母进行了⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar法定年,结果指示瓦乔剪切带逆冲活动发生在387±1.7 Ma,朱夏韧性剪切早期逆冲发生在晚古生代,后期右行走滑的年龄为146±2.8 Ma。综合两条剪切带的构造变形特征和年代学数据,结合前人的地质资料,本文认为二郎坪弧后盆地曾沿着瓦乔剪切带和朱夏剪切带发生双向式俯冲。     

金属成矿40Ar/39Ar年代学的进展与问题——以黄铁矿、闪锌矿为例

长期以来, 由于金属成矿的多期性及易受后期蚀变的干扰, 成矿时代的确定成为难题, 进而成为成矿机理、矿床勘探等研究的制约因素。本文以黄铁矿和闪锌矿这两种典型的矿石矿物为例, 回顾了利用⁴⁰ Ar/³⁹ Ar法直接确定成矿时代的研究现状, 探讨了其中的问题、可能的解决方法及以后的发展前景, 为进一步开展矿石矿物的⁴⁰ Ar/³⁹ Ar年代学提供参考。同时对采自辽宁丹东青城子矿中的黄铁矿和闪锌矿样品做了包裹体镜下观察和电子探针的元素分析, 以期更好地理解矿石矿物⁴⁰ Ar/³⁹ Ar法直接定年的潜力。     

Metamorphic K-Feldspar in Low-grade Metasediments from the Ogcheon Metamorphic Belt in South Korea

Metamorphic K-feldspar was found in the low-grade pelitic rocks from the Ogcheon metamorphic belt in South Korea. It occurs as extremely fine-grained crystals (5-15 mm in width and 15-25 mm in length) closely associated with fine-grained muscovite and biotite. Their micro structural relations by X-ray mapping analyses using an electron-probe microanalyzer strongly suggest that K-feldspar has grown directly from the matrix phases as a stable phase coexisting with muscovite and biotite during the Ogcheon metamorphism. The phengite component in muscovite indicates about 4.2 kbar at 400°C, suggesting intermediate P/T type of metamorphism. Muscovite separates of two size fractions, 2-4 and 4-8 mm, give K-Ar ages of 153.4±3.3 and 156.7±3.4 Ma, respectively. The biotite separate is 156.5±3.3 Ma in age. Coarse-grained biotite crystal (ca. 0.5 mm) often occurs and it was analyzed by ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method using a laser probe step heating technique. It gives a plateau age of 158.2±0.5 Ma that is the same as the K-Ar muscovite and biotite ages. These data, including the previous works, suggest that intermediate P/T type of Ogcheon metamorphic belt exhumed in Middle Jurassic with the dextral strike-slip fault movement.     

Mesozoic tectonothermal development of the Sambagawa, Mikabu and Chichibu belts, south-west Japan: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar whole-rock phyllite ages

Abstract Five whole-rock ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar plateau ages from low-grade sectors of the Sambagawa belt (Besshi nappe complex) range between 87 and 97 Ma. Two whole-rock phyllite samples from the Mikabu greenstone belt record well-defined ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar plateau ages of 96 and 98 Ma. Together these ages suggest that a high-pressure metamorphism occurred in both the Sambagawa and Mikabu belts at c. 90–100 Ma. The northern Chichibu sub-belt may consist of several distinct geochronological units because metamorphic ages increase systematically from north ( c. 110 Ma) to south ( c. 215 Ma). The northern Chichibu sub-belt is correlated with the Kuma nappe complex (Sambagawa belt). Two whole-rock phyllite samples from the Kurosegawa terrane display markedly older metamorphic ages than either the Sambagawa or the Chichibu belts.
Accretion of Sambagawa-Chichibu protoliths began prior to the middle Jurrasic. Depositional ages decrease from middle Jurassic (Kuma-Chichibu nappe complex) to c. 100 Ma (Oboke nappe complex) toward lower tectonostratigraphic units. The ages of metamorphic culmination also decrease from upper to lower tectonostratigraphic units. The Kurosegawa belt and the geological units to the south belong to distinctly different terrances than the Sambagawa-Chichibu belts. These have been juxtaposed as a result of transcurrent faulting during the Cretaceous.     

Reconsideration of the age of blueschist facies metamorphism on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, based on phengite 40Ar/39Ar results

Abstract ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar step-heating and single-grain laser fusion ages from phengites from the polydeformed and polymetamorphosed blueschist-greenschist facies Nome Group fall into two groups. Samples from the upper part of the structural section that have experienced a relatively weak metamorphic and deformational post-blueschist facies overprint and one sample from the Cape Nome orthogneiss yield plateau ages of 116-125 Ma. More intensely overprinted samples yield hump-shaped spectra with minimum ages of 123 Ma and maximum ages of 334 Ma. Samples with hump-shaped spectra are derived from a greater structural depth than most samples with plateau ages. Unreasonably old maximum ages from some of the disturbed spectra suggest that the hump-shaped spectra result from the incorporation of excess ⁴⁰Ar. This interpretation conflicts with previous interpretations of similarly disturbed spectra from the Brooks Range, which have been argued to provide minimum ages for blueschist facies metamorphism. Since the maximum temperatures achieved by all samples were probably above the blocking temperature of Ar in phengite, the 116-125 Ma plateau ages are a minimum age for blueschist facies metamorphism on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.