藏北羌塘中部绒玛地区蓝片岩岩石学、矿物学和40Ar/39Ar年代学

藏北羌塘中部沿龙木错-双湖-线出露一条低温高压变质带,目前已有多处蓝片岩的报道.然而,除冈玛错地区产有典型的蓝闪石外,多数地区并没有典型蓝闪石的报道.绒玛蓝片岩位于羌塘中部高压变质带的中段,是该带中规模最大、保存最好的蓝片岩,对蓝片岩进行了详细的岩石学和矿物学研究,钠质角闪石主要为蓝闪石、青铝闪石、钠闪石和镁钠闪石.对蓝片岩中蓝闪石和多硅白云母进行了40Ar/39Ar定年,获得了227.3±3.8Ma和215±1.5Ma的坪年龄,分别代表蓝片岩快速俯冲消减和俯冲作用结束开始折返抬升的时代.绒玛蓝片岩岩石学、矿物学和40Ar/39Ar年代学研究为羌塘中部高压变质带的研究提供了新的资料.     

西藏羌塘中部才多茶卡蓝闪石40Ar/39Ar年代学及地质意义

本文报道了藏北羌塘中部才多茶卡地区晚三叠世蓝闪石片岩及蓝闪石矿物的新发现及地质意义。通过对才多茶卡构造混杂岩地质剖面的实测,在剖面第6层灰绿色变基性火山岩(绿片岩)中新发现以产蓝闪石类矿物为特征的中—高压变质岩系——蓝闪石片岩。对蓝闪石片岩的岩石学和矿物学特征进行了详细室内研究。从蓝闪石片岩中挑选出蓝闪石单矿物进行了40Ar/39Ar同位素年龄测定,结果表明,蓝闪石单矿物的坪年龄值为209±4Ma,等时线年龄值为216±4Ma,坪年龄与等时线年龄基本一致,属于晚三叠世诺利期,这与区域上羌塘中部发育的红脊山—双湖蓝闪石片岩的中—高压变质事件相吻合。由于蓝闪石类矿物的产出具有特殊的构造机制和地质意义,因此双湖以东的才多茶卡地区蓝闪石片岩的新发现及蓝闪石矿物的40Ar/39Ar同位素年代学研究进一步补充和丰富了青藏高原腹地羌塘中部龙木错-双湖构造混杂岩带的物质组成和同位素年代学信息,同时也为解决羌塘地区"龙木错-双湖构造混杂岩带是否向东延伸"等重大基础性地质问题,提供了新的重要资料。研究资料表明,羌塘中部自西向东从冈玛错、红脊山、绒马,经嘎尔错到才多茶卡地区,沿构造线方向断续分布的长达600km的含蓝闪石片岩的中—高压变质岩系,都是龙木错-双湖构造混杂岩带印支期构造活动事件的产物。     

藏北依布茶卡地区发现石榴子石蓝片岩

在青藏高原北部,被认为具有前寒武纪变质基底的羌塘陆块（Chang 等, 1986）研究得相对较少,作为研究条件艰苦和程度较低的地区,被认为是冈瓦纳大陆与欧亚大陆板块之间的过渡区,但随着研究的深入,在该地区发现了蓝片岩.蓝片岩分布在改则县的冈玛日-桃形错、果干加年山、角木日和双湖办事处纳若、恰格勒拉等地（Henning,1915; 李才等,1995;鲍佩声等,1999;邓希光等.     

青藏高原羌塘高压变质带的特征及其构造意义

羌塘高压变质带分布于龙木错-双湖板块缝合带的南侧．西起红脊山．经片石山、蓝岭、角木查尕日、纳若．到双湖以东的才多茶卡,长约500km。向东已经延伸到巴青以北和昌都的吉塘地区,再向南进入滇西与澜沧江蓝片岩带共同构成一条断续延伸近2000km的高压变质带。羌塘高压变质带主要由蓝片岩和榴辉岩构成,蓝闪石片岩中蓝闪石和多硅白云母同位素定年结果为223-215Ma,榴辉岩的变质年龄为243-217Ma。估算蓝片岩的变质温度为410-460℃,变质压力为0．67-0．75GPa：榴辉岩相的变质作用温度不超过5000C,压力为1．56-2．35GPa。羌塘高压变质岩定年研究结果确定龙木错-双湖板块缝合带最终碰撞闭合发生在晚三叠世早期。羌塘高压变质带是冈瓦纳与欧亚大陆汇聚事件的重要记录。     

西藏羌塘中部冈玛错－双湖蓝片岩带及其构造意义

冈玛错－双湖蓝片岩带将羌塘地区一分为二，其南例为冈瓦纳型碳酸盐岩　拉斑玄武岩区，北侧为欧亚大陆型碳酸盐岩－碎屑岩区。根据蓝片岩的地质特征和年代学研究，高压变质作用发生在二叠纪－三叠纪早期，是在区域绿片岩相基础上继承发生的。该蓝片岩带标志晚古生代时冈瓦纳与欧亚大陆的分界线。     

西藏羌塘中部冈玛错—双湖蓝片岩带及其构造意义

冈玛错－双湖蓝片岩带将羌塘地区一分为二，其南侧为冈瓦纳型碳酸盐岩－拉斑玄武岩区，北侧为欧亚大陆型碳酸盐岩－碎屑岩区。根据蓝片岩的地质特征和年代学研究，高压变质作用发生在二叠纪－三叠纪早期，是在区域绿片岩相基础上继承发生的。该蓝片岩带标志晚古生代时冈瓦纳与欧亚大陆的分界线。     

青藏高原羌塘中部蓝片岩的地球化学特征及其构造意义

青藏高原羌塘中部的冈玛日－桃形错地区蓝片岩被认为是板块构造边界的产物，通过对其主量元素、微量元素和稀土元素的地球化学特征的综合研究，其原岩属于洋岛型碱性玄武岩。再结合该地区的地质研究，表明在该地区存在一个古提斯洋，可以作为晚古生代冈瓦纳与劳亚大陆的分界线。     

藏北羌塘中北部红脊山地区蓝闪石＋硬柱石变质矿物组合的特征及其意义

蓝闪石 硬柱石是羌塘中北部红脊山地区首次发现的呈北西-南东走向展布的硬柱蓝闪片岩带中典型的低温高压变质矿物组合.蓝闪石呈浅蓝灰色,纤柱状;硬柱石无色,多呈团块状,较均匀地与蓝闪石混杂分布.电子探针分析表明,蓝闪石主要为铁蓝闪石和青铝闪石,硬柱石为较典型的硬柱石.硬柱蓝闪片岩呈(透镜状)构造岩块分布,与围岩呈断层接触,原岩主要为变质玄武岩及少量辉(长)绿岩、基性火山碎屑岩,围岩为变质砂岩、板岩和少量碳酸盐岩.红脊山硬柱蓝闪片岩带伴有构造混杂岩发育,二者共存构成红脊山地区北羌塘甜水河陆块与南羌塘查多岗日陆块之间的分界线.     

藏北羌塘中北部红脊山地区蓝闪石 硬柱石变质矿物组合的特征及其意义

蓝闪石 硬柱石是羌塘中北部红脊山地区首次发现的呈北西-南东走向展布的硬柱蓝闪片岩带中典型的低温高压变质矿物组合.蓝闪石呈浅蓝灰色,纤柱状;硬柱石无色,多呈团块状,较均匀地与蓝闪石混杂分布.电子探针分析表明,蓝闪石主要为铁蓝闪石和青铝闪石,硬柱石为较典型的硬柱石.硬柱蓝闪片岩呈(透镜状)构造岩块分布,与围岩呈断层接触,原岩主要为变质玄武岩及少量辉(长)绿岩、基性火山碎屑岩,围岩为变质砂岩、板岩和少量碳酸盐岩.红脊山硬柱蓝闪片岩带伴有构造混杂岩发育,二者共存构成红脊山地区北羌塘甜水河陆块与南羌塘查多岗日陆块之间的分界线.     

西藏羌塘中部冈玛错-双湖变质带变质变形作用关系研究

通过对冈玛错-双湖变质带中蓝闪石矿物种属的划分及矿物特征的研究,以及对石榴石和钠长石变斑晶中包裹体痕迹的确定、铁蓝闪石和青铝闪石具明显环带的发现、一系列褶劈理和皱劈理变形及退变质作用特征的描述,并通过对蓝闪石40Ar/39Ar快中子活化分析,获得蓝闪石的年龄谱图.确认了该变质带经历了3期变质变形事件.指出各期变质变形特征的综合分析能指示冈玛错-双湖变质带形成及隆升的演化过程.     

羌塘中部高压变质带的形成过程

羌塘中部高压变质带由榴辉岩、石榴石白云母片岩和蓝片岩等组成,与蛇绿混杂岩、晚古生代浅变质地层岩片等共同构成了龙木错-双湖板块缝合带这一构造混杂岩带,是伴随古特提斯洋闭合的深俯冲作用及后期构造作用的产物。通过对其野外地质特征、不同岩石类型岩石学、矿物学以及同位素年代学等的研究,确认榴辉岩和石榴石白云母片岩在早期分别经历了各自的形成过程,在榴辉岩形成之后的折返过程中二者共同构成了高压变质带,并且在折返过程中榴辉岩发生蓝片岩相退变质作用,同时导致了带内蓝片岩的形成。同位素年代学研究结果表明,龙木错-双湖板块缝合带闭合过程中的榴辉岩相变质作用发生于240Ma左右,折返过程中的蓝片岩相退变质作用及蓝片岩的形成应在220～200Ma,高压变质带最终在214Ma之前抬升出露地表。     

Late Palaeozoic 40Ar/39Ar ages of the HP-LT metamorphic rocks from the Kekesu Valley,Chinese southwestern Tianshan: new constraints on exhumation tectonics

abstract

Although numerous ages have been obtained for the Chinese southwestern Tianshan high pressure/ultrahigh pressure-low temperature (HP/UHP-LT) metamorphic belt in the past two decades, its exhumation history is still controversial. The poor age constraint was related to the appealing low metamorphic temperatures and excess Ar commonly present under HP/UHP conditions. This study aims to provide new age constraints on the orogen’s exhumation by obtaining ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar mica ages using the conventional step-heating technique, with emphasis on the avoidance of excess Ar contamination. From a cross section along the Kekesu Valley, four samples, three from the HP-LT metamorphic belt (TK050, TK051, and TK081) and one from the southern margin of the low pressure metamorphic belt (TK097), were selected for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating. Phengites from garnet glaucophane schist TK050 and the surrounding rock garnet phengite schist TK051 yield comparable plateau ages of 321.4 ± 1.6 and 318.6 ± 1.6 Ma, respectively, while epidote mica schist TK081 gives a younger plateau age of 293.3 ± 1.5 Ma. Considering the chemical compositions of phengites, mineral assemblages, and microstructures in the thin slices, we suppose that the former represents the time the HP rocks retrograded from the peak stage (eclogite facies) to the (epidote)-blueschist facies, whereas the latter reflects greenschist facies overprinting. Biotite and muscovite from two-mica quartzite TK097 give similar plateau ages of 253.0 ± 1.3 and 247.1 ± 1.2 Ma, interpreted to date movement on the post collisional transcrustal South Nalati ductile shear zone. By combining our new ages with published data, a two-stage exhumation model is suggested for the Chinese southwestern Tianshan HP/UHP-LT metamorphic belt: initial fast exhumation to a depth of about 30–35 km by ~320 Ma was followed by relatively slow (~1 mm year^–1) uplift to ~10 km by ~293 Ma.     

藏北羌塘中部高压变质带中石榴子石白云母片岩的岩石学和变质特征

羌塘中部的高压变质带位于龙木错-双湖-澜沧江板块缝合带之上,由榴辉岩、蓝片岩和石榴子石白云母片岩组成,其形成过程对探讨板块缝合带的构造演化具有重要意义。以其中的石榴子石白云母片岩为研究对象,通过岩相学研究并结合电子探针成分分析,认为石榴子石白云母片岩中的石榴子石具有多期次变质结晶的特征,保留了岩石多期次变质的信息。结合岩石组构特征,最终确定石榴子石白云母片岩至少经历了3期次的变质作用。第一、二期均为绿片岩相,当时岩石不具定向构造且未达到高压;第三期为低温高压蓝片岩相变质作用,与区域上蓝片岩的形成及榴辉岩的蓝片岩相退变质作用大体同时,该期变质变形作用形成了岩石的片理,最终成为石榴子石白云母片岩,变质作用时代为218Ma左右。     

羌塘中部高压变质带的退变质作用及其构造侵位

羌塘中部的高压变质带主要由榴辉岩、石榴石白云母片岩和蓝片岩等组成,它们在遭受高压变质作用之后折返,构造侵位于晚古生代展金组地层中,二者以韧性变形带为接触边界.本文以高压变质带中的榴辉岩和韧性变形带为研究对象,讨论了高压变质带折返过程中的退变质作用特征及折返时代.研究表明,榴辉岩在高峰期变质作用之后的折返过程中经历了由榴辉岩相→蓝片岩相→绿帘角闪岩相的退变质作用演化过程;在高压变质带构造侵位过程形成的韧性变形带中,白云母石英片岩的白云母40Ar-39Ar坪年龄为219±2Ma.高压变质带在219Ma左右构造侵位于展金组地层中,并于214Ma之前最终抬升出露地表.     

Geothermobarometry, P–T paths and metamorphic field gradients of high-pressure rocks from the Adula Nappe, Central Alps

Metabasic rocks from the Adula Nappe in the Central Alps record a regional high‐pressure metamorphic event during the Eocene, and display a regional variation in high‐pressure mineral assemblages from barroisite, or glaucophane, bearing garnet amphibolites in the north to kyanite eclogites in the central part of the nappe. High‐pressure rocks from all parts of the nappe show the same metamorphic evolution of assemblages consistent with prograde blueschist, high‐pressure amphibolite or eclogite facies conditions followed by peak‐pressure eclogite facies conditions and decompression to the greenschist or amphibolite facies. Average PT calculations (using thermocalc ) quantitatively establish nested, clockwise P–T paths for different parts of the Adula Nappe that are displaced to higher pressure and temperature from north to south. Metamorphic conditions at peak pressure increase from about 17 kbar, 640 °C in the north to 22 kbar, 750 °C in the centre and 25 kbar, 750 °C in the south. The northern and central Adula Nappe behaved as a coherent tectonic unit at peak pressures and during decompression, and thermobarometric results are interpreted in terms of a metamorphic field gradient of 9.6 ± 2.0 °C km^?1 and 0.20 ± 0.05 kbar km^?1. These results constrain the peak‐pressure position and orientation of the nappe to a depth of 55–75 km, dipping at an angle of approximately 45° towards the south. Results from the southern Adula Nappe are not consistent with the metamorphic field gradient determined for the northern and central parts, which suggests that the southern Adula Nappe may have been separated from central and northern parts at peak pressure.     

40Ar‐39Ar Geochronology and Tectonic Implications of the Blueschist from Northwestern Qiangtang,Northern Tibet,Western China

Blueschist exposed in the northwestern Qiangtang terrane, northern Tibet, western China (~84°30′ E, 34°24′ N), provides new constraints on the tectonic evolution of Qiangtang as well as northern Tibet. The blueschist represented by lawsonite- and glaucophane-bearing assemblages equilibrated at 375–400 °C and ~11 kbar. 40Ar-39Ar analysis on mineral separate from one blueschist sample yielded a well-defined plateau age of ~242 Ma. Geochemical studies show the blueschist is metamorphosed within-plate basalts. The high pressure-low temperature blueschist indicates a Triassic event of lithosphere subduction, and clearly represents an extension of the central Qiangtang metamorphic belt, and defines an in?situ suture between eastern and western Qiangtang.     

Phase equilibria modelling of blueschist and eclogite from the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt of southwest Japan reveals along‐strike consistency in tectonothermal architecture

The Sanbagawa metamorphic belt of southwest Japan is one of the type localities of subduction‐related high‐P metamorphism. However, variable pressure–temperature (P–T) paths and metabasic assemblages have been reported for eclogite units in the region, leading to uncertainty about the subduction zone paleo‐thermal structure and associated tectonometamorphic conditions. To analyse this variation, phase equilibria modelling was applied to the three main high‐P metabasic rock types documented in the region – glaucophane eclogite, barroisite eclogite and garnet blueschist – with modelling performed over a range of P, T, bulk rock H₂O and bulk rock ferric iron conditions using thermocalc . All samples are calculated to share a common steep prograde P–T path to similar peak conditions of ～16–20 kbar and 560–610 °C. The results establish that regional assemblage variation is systematic, with the alternation in peak amphibole phase due to peak conditions overlapping the glaucophane–barroisite solvus, and bulk composition effects stabilizing blueschist v. eclogite facies assemblages at similar P–T conditions. Furthermore, the results reveal that a steep prograde P–T path is common to all eclogite units in the Sanbagawa belt, indicating that metamorphic conditions were consistent along strike. All localities are compatible with predictions made by a ridge approach model, which attributes eclogite facies metamorphism and exhumation of the Sanbagawa belt to the approach of a spreading ridge.     

Chloritoid–glaucophane schist in the north Qilian orogen, NW China: phase equilibria and P–T path from garnet zonation

Chloritoid–glaucophane‐bearing rocks are widespread in the high‐pressure belt of the north Qilian orogen, NW China. They are interbedded and cofacial with felsic schists originated from greywackes, mafic garnet blueschists and low‐T eclogites. Two representative chloritoid–glaucophane‐bearing assemblages are chloritoid + glaucophane + garnet + talc + quartz (sample Q5‐49) and chloritoid + glaucophane + garnet + phengite + epidote + quartz (sample Q5‐12). Garnet in sample Q5‐49 is coarse‐, medium‐ and fine‐grained and shows two types of zonation patterns. In pattern I, X_grs is constant as X_py rises, and in pattern II X_grs decreases as X_py rises. Phase equilibrium modelling in the NC(K)MnFMASH system with Thermocalc 3.25 indicates that pattern I can be formed during progressive metamorphism in lawsonite‐stable assemblages, while pattern II zonation can be formed with further heating after lawsonite has been consumed. Garnet growth in Q5‐49 is consistent with a continuous progressive metamorphic process from ～14.5 kbar at 470 °C to ～22.5 kbar at 560 °C. Garnet in sample Q5‐12 develops with pattern I zonation, which is consistent with a progressive metamorphic process from ～21 kbar at 540 °C to ～23.5 kbar at 580 °C with lawsonite present in the whole garnet growth. The latter sample shows the highest P–T conditions of the reported chloritoid–glaucophane‐bearing assemblages. Phase equilibrium calculation in the NCKFMASH system with a recent mixing model of amphibole indicates that chloritoid + glaucophane paragenesis does not have a low‐pressure limit of 18–19 kbar as previously suggested, but has a much larger pressure range from 7–8 to 27–30 kbar, with the low‐pressure part being within the stability field of albite.     

Jadeite–chloritoid–glaucophane–lawsonite blueschists in north-west Turkey: unusually high P/T ratios in continental crust

Sodic metapelites with jadeite, chloritoid, glaucophane and lawsonite form a coherent regional metamorphic sequence, several tens of square kilometres in size, and over a kilometre thick, in the Orhaneli region of northwest Turkey. The low‐variance mineral assemblage in the sodic metapelites is quartz + phengite + jadeite + glaucophane + chloritoid + lawsonite. The associated metabasites are characterized by sodic amphibole + lawsonite ± garnet paragenesis. The stable coexistence of jadeite + chloritoid + glaucophane + lawsonite, not reported before, indicates metamorphic pressures of 24 ± 3 kbar and temperatures of 430 ± 30 °C for the peak blueschist facies conditions. These P–T conditions correspond to a geotherm of 5 °C km^?1, one of the lowest recorded in continental crustal rocks. The low geotherm, and the known rate of convergence during the Cretaceous subduction suggest low shear stresses at the top of the downgoing continental slab.