Nuclear tracks in the Angra dos Reis and Moore County meteorites

Charged particle tracks were studied in the Angra dos Reis and Moore County meteorites, both of which contain an unexplained excess of He⁴. A selective annealing method was used to resolve cosmic-ray tracks from fission tracks. It gave the following cosmic-ray and fission-track densities, in units of 10⁶cm^?2: Angra dos Reis 1.3–4.4 and 7.8; Moore Co. feldspar 1.9–3.0 and 0.51; Moore Co. pigeonite 2.0–2.9 and 0.078–0.35. The fission-track densities are 10–100 times higher than expected from U²³⁸; the excess is probably due to extinct Pu²³⁸. The Pu²⁴⁴/U²³⁸ ratios at the start of track retention were 0.003 for Angra dos Reis and 0.002–0.03 for Moore Co. No evidence was found for fission tracks attributable to the unknown progenitor of excess He⁴ in these meteorites; the fission branch of this progenitor comprises less than 10^?5 the α-branch. A search for pleochroic halos also gave negative results.The preatmospheric radii of the two meteorites are ≥13 and ≥7cm. According to meteor theory, this implies geocentric velocities of ≥ 19 and ≥ 6 km/sec.The etching behavior of Angra dos Reis augite is highly anomalous, giving rise to spurious angular anisotropies and skewed length distributions. This confirms similar observation by Fleischer et al. (1970) on lunar augite.     

Noble gas investigations of lunar rocks 10017 and 10071

The noble gases He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe and also K and Ba were measured in the Apollo 11 igneous rocks 10017 and 10071, and in an ilmenite and two feldspar concentrates separated from rock 10071. Whole rock K/Ar ages of rocks 10017 and 10071 are (2350 ± 60) × 10⁶ yr and (2880 ± 60) × 10⁶ yr, respectively. The two feldspar concentrates of rock 10071 have distinctly higher ages: (3260 ± 60) × 10⁶ yr and (3350 ± 70) × 10⁶ yr. These ages are still 10 per cent lower than the Rb/Sr age obtained by Papanastassiouet al. (1970) and some Ar⁴⁰ diffusion loss must have occurred even in the relatively coarse-grained feldspar.The relative abundance patterns of spallation Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe are in agreement with the ratios predicted from meteoritic production rates. However, diffusion loss of spallation He³ is evident in the whole rock samples, and even more in the feldspar concentrates. The ilmenite shows little or no diffusion loss. The isotopic composition of spallation Kr and Xe is similar to the one observed in meteorites. Small, systematic differences in the spallation Kr spectra of rocks 10017 and 10071 are due to variations in the irradiation hardness (shielding). The Kr spallation spectra in the mineral concentrates are different from the whole rock spectra and also show individual variations, reflecting the differences in target element composition. The relative abundance of cosmic ray produced Xe¹³¹ differs by nearly 50 per cent in the two rocks. The other Xe isotopes show no variations of similar magnitude. The origin of the Xe¹³¹ yield variability is discussed.Kr⁸¹ was measured in all the samples investigated. The Kr⁸¹/Kr exposure ages of rocks 10017 and 10071 are (480 ± 25) × 10⁶ yr and (350 ± 15) × 10⁶ yr, respectively. Exposure ages derived from spallation Ne²¹, Ar³⁸, Kr⁸³ and Xe¹²⁶ are essentially in agreement with the Kr⁸¹/Kr ages. The age of rock 10071 might be somewhat low because of a possible recent exposure of our sample to solar flare particles.     

Supportive elements to the decision-making process in the emergency planning of the Angra dos Reis Nuclear Power Complex,Brazil

Accidents in nuclear power plants are problems of great complexity, mainly due to their consequences, such as the population evacuation from the enterprise influence area. The decision-making and emergency plans must be well articulated and require good local geographic space knowledge and the interactions of their environments. This study is a contribution to the emergency plans for the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Nuclear Power Plant, currently the only nuclear complex in Brazil, located in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro. The study confirmed the region’s main geoenvironmental aspects as winds and rainfall, landslides and population density were evaluated as important elements in the local emergency process. Their integrated analysis supported scenario identification and critical regional points and highlighted population evacuation escape routes. These important results characterized the support to local emergency management actions and guidelines. Furthermore, the geographic information systems was configured as an integrated spatial and temporal analysis platform to associate meteorological, geological/geomorphological and socio-economic data, playing a key role to support the evacuation planning in the event of nuclear power plant accidents.     

白云鄂博稀土氟碳酸盐矿物的LA-ICP-MS多元素基体归一定量分析方法研究

研究稀土氟碳酸盐矿物的激光剥蚀电感耦合等离子体质谱(LA-ICP-MS)成分分析方法能为认识稀土矿床成因提供新的、简便的技术手段。本文选取白云鄂博产的氟碳铈矿和黄河矿,通过对常规基体归一定量法改进,按照稀土氟碳酸盐矿物的晶格配位模式对Ba、Ca元素以(Ba,Ca)CO_3的形式、轻稀土以REECO_3F的形式进行加和归一计算,获得的成分数据结果与电子探针和内标法结果基本吻合。该方法可在ICP-MS因电离能过高、不能准确测量C、F元素的情况下通过基体归一法实现稀土氟碳酸盐矿物多元素的定量分析,并且可替代繁琐的内标法,简化了LA-ICP-MS测试流程。多尺寸束斑条件数据比对结果表明,5μm小束斑条件下数据质量差,但10μm束斑条件下获得的氟碳铈矿成分与其他大束斑条件下的结果较为接近,基本能够满足小颗粒稀土氟碳酸盐矿物元素成分的测定。     

Geochronology and Geochemistry of Mafic Dikes from Hainan Island and Tectonic Implications

Abstract: In the present study, the major and trace element compositions, as well as Sr, Nd isotopic compositions and K-Ar age data in mafic dikes from Hainan Island, China, have been analyzed. Whole-rock K-Ar dating yielded a magmatic duration of 61–98 Ma for mafic dikes. Mafic dikes have a very high concentration of incompatible elements, for example, Ba, Rb, Sr, K, rare earth elements, and especially light rare earth elements (LREE), and negative anomalies of Nb, Ta, and Ti in the normalized trace element patterns. The initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios and εSr(t) of the mafic dikes are 0.70634–0.71193 and +27.7 to +112.2, respectively. In the 87Sr/86Sr versus εNd(t) diagram, the Hainan Island mafic dikes plot between fields for depleted mantle and enriched mantle type 2. All these characteristics show that the mantle (source region) of mafic dikes in this area experienced metasomatism by fluids relatively enriched in LREE and large ion lithophile elements. The genesis of Hainan Island mafic dikes is explained as a result of the mixing of asthenospheric mantle with lithospheric mantle that experienced metasomatism by the subduction of the Pacific Plate. This is different from the Hainan Island Cenozoic basalts mainly derived from depleted asthenospheric mantle, and possibly, minor metasomatised lithospheric mantle. This study suggests that the Mesozoic and Cenozoic lithospheric revolutions in Hainan Island can be divided into three stages: (1) the compression orogenesis stage before 98 Ma. The dominant factor during this stage is the subduction of the ancient Pacific Plate beneath this area. The lithospheric mantle changed into enriched mantle type 2 by metasomatism; (2) the thinning and extension stage during 61–98 Ma. The dominant factor during this stage is that the asthenospheric mantle invaded and corroded the lithospheric mantle; and (3) the large-scale thinning and extension stage after 61 Ma. The large-scale asthenospheric upwelling results in the strong erupting of Cenozoic basalts, large-scale thinning of the lithosphere, the southward translating and counterclockwise rotating of Hainan Island, and the opening of the South China Sea.     

Uranium and thorium in achondrites

The abundances of U and Th in 19 achondrites and two pallasite olivines have been measured by radiochemical neutron activation analysis. Brecciated eucrites are enriched relative to chondrites in both elements by factors between 10 and 20, perhaps as a result of a magmatic differentiation process. Two unbrecciated eucrites are far less enriched, possibly due to their origin as igneous cumulates. The diogenites Johnstown and Shalka contain approximately chondritic levels of U and Th, but Ellemeet is 10 times lower. The abundances in three howardites are in good agreement with those expected from major element data for a mixing model with eucrite and diogenite end members. The high O¹⁸ basaltic achondrites Nakhla, Shergotty and Angra dos Reis have a range of U and Th abundances similar to the brecciated eucrites and howardites, but have systematically higher Th/U ratios. The Bishopville aubrite has U and Th abundances and Th/U ratios similar to those of several enstatite chondrites, suggesting a genetic relationship. The Norton County aubrite has a low Th/U, similar to that observed in recrystallized and metamorphosed terrestrial ultrabasic rocks, indicating a more complex history. Pallasite olivines have low U and Th contents (0.5.4 ppb and 1.4.3 ppb, respectively) similar to those in terrestrial dunites. The Goalpara ureilite has very low U (<0–6 ppb) and Th (2.7 ppb) abundance consistent with an origin from carbonaceous chondrites by partial melting.     

日本马氏贝珍珠化学组成的同步辐射X射线荧光光谱分析

采用同步辐射微区X射线荧光光谱技术,探测古铜色日本马氏贝珍珠剖面(珠核与珍珠层)的元素分布。测试结果表明,样品中主要含有Ca、Sr、Ba等3种碱土金属元素,Mn、Fe、Cu、Zn等4种3d过渡金属元素以及稀土元素,各元素在珍珠中表现出一定的空间分布规律:珠核表面稀土元素浓度最高,珍珠层和珠核的稀土元素浓度大致相当;Mn和Fe元素浓度自珠核浅表层向珠核表面有降低趋势;珍珠层内Mn和Fe元素浓度都出现大幅降低现象,且是在相同的圈层降低,显示其具有一定正相关性,推测二者大幅降低的圈层是平行层和棱柱层的分界,且Mn元素主要赋存于棱柱层;Ca与Sr、Ba元素的分布具有负相关性。     

Formation of the Permian Taipinggou igneous rocks,north of Luobei (Northeast China): implications for the subduction of the Mudanjiang Ocean beneath the Bureya–Jiamusi Massif

Controversy has long surrounded the tectonic framework and evolution of the Mudanjiang Ocean between the Bureya–Jiamusi–Khanka Massif and Songnen–Zhangguangcai Range Massif, which are located in the easternmost segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. To address these issues, we present zircon U-Pb ages, geochemical data, and zircon Hf isotopic compositions of the Taipinggou amphibolite and metagabbro exposed along the boundary area of Bureya–Jiamusi Massif and Songnen–Zhangguangcai Range Massif. Magmatic zircons from the amphibolite and metagabbro yield ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U ages of 267 ± 2 Ma and 264 ± 2 Ma, respectively, which are interpreted as protolith ages. The geochemical data of the amphibolite samples show transitional characteristics of calcalkaline to tholeiitic series, with high MgO concentrations (9.44–10.48 wt.%) and Mg-numbers (73–75). These samples are enriched in large ion lithophile elements (e.g. Rb, Ba, and K) and light rare earth elements and are depleted in high-field-strength elements (e.g. Nb, Ta, and Ti) and heavy rare earth elements, with εHf(t) values of ?6.63 to ?3.26. It is inferred that the parental magma originated from an enriched lithospheric mantle that had been metasomatized by fluids derived from subducted oceanic slab. During magma evolution, the magma that formed the amphibolite mainly experienced accumulation with a shallow-level evolutionary process involving fractional crystallization. The Taipinggou metagabbro samples are subalkaline series and also characterized by enrichment in large ion lithophile elements (e.g. Rb, Ba, and K) and light rare earth elements and by depletion in Nb–Ta–P–Ti, with εHf(t) values of ?3.09 to +1.16. The Taipinggou metagabbro and amphibolite have similar geochemical and Hf isotopic compositions, indicating a common parental magma source but with different degrees of magmatic differentiation. Based on the new geochronological and geochemical data presented in this study, we propose that both the Taipinggou metagabbro and amphibolite formed in a Middle Permian continental arc setting, closely related to eastward subduction beneath the Bureya–Jiamusi Massif. Combined with previous studies and regional geological observations, we suggest that a double-side subduction model is favoured for the Late Palaeozoic–Early Mesozoic geodynamic processes along the boundary area of Bureya–Jiamusi–Khanka Massif and Songnen–Zhangguangcai Range Massif.     

高分辨电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定地质样品中稀土元素的氧化物干扰研究

电感耦合等离子体质谱(ICP-MS)用于测定稀土元素经常会引起M+、MO+、MOH+离子的质谱重叠干扰,其中制约分析准确度和精密度的主要因素是多原子离子干扰,尤其是轻稀土元素的氧化物和氢氧化物对重稀土元素的干扰,以及钡的7个天然同位素形成的氧化物和氢氧化物对轻稀土元素的干扰.本文采用高温高压密闭消解地质样品,高分辨电感耦合等离子体质谱法(ICP-MS)测定其中的痕量稀土元素,研究了低、中、高三种分辨率模式下氧化物的干扰情况,确定了最佳的测定同位素和合适的分辨率.分析结果表明,在低、中分辨率模式下,轻稀土元素Ce、Pr、Nd、Sm的氧化物和Ba的氧化物干扰明显,Gd元素的测定值严重偏离;在高分辨模式下,Ba氧化物对Eu的干扰以及大部分轻稀土元素氧化物对重稀土元素的干扰基本可以消除,无需进行校正,而只有157Gd受到141pr16O的干扰突出,当样品中Pr/Gd的浓度比值大于100时,Gd的测量值必须进行数学校正.     

Quartz diorites derived by partial melting of eclogite or amphibolite at mantle depths

Rare earth elements, Rb, Sr, Ba and K have been determined in tonalite, trondhjemite, dacite, tholeiite and graywacke from the 2700 m.y. old Early Precambrian greenstone-granite terrane of northeastern Minnesota-northwestern Ontario, and also in trondhjemite from the 3550 m.y. old Morton Gneiss, southwestern Minnesota; and the Mesozoic Craggy Peak Pluton, Klamath Mountains, California.The Early Precambrian tholeiites have trace element compositions similar to modern oceanic tholeiites, while the quartz dioritic rocks, regardless of age, have total rare earth contents lower than that of tholeiitic basalts, with near chondritic heavy rare earth contents. Rb, Sr, Ba and K contents of the quartz diorites are about five times that of oceanic tholeiites, with similar alkali and alkaline earth ratios. The Early Precambrian graywacke has a rare earth content intermediate between greenstone and quartz diorite, reflecting its provenance.It is proposed that the analyzed quartz dioritic rocks, whether plutonic tonalite, dacite porphyry, gneissic or plutonic trondhjemite, or trondhjemite dikes had similar modes of origin, and were derived by partial melting of amphibolite or eclogite of basaltic or gabbroic composition at depths greater than thirty kilometers, leaving a residue consisting predominantly of garnet and clinopyroxene.     

Determination of Rare Earth Elements in Sixteen Silicate Reference Samples by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Using Conventional Energy Filtering Technique*

Rare earth elements were determined by secondary ion mass spectrometry for 13 silicate rock samples, ranging from ultramafic-mafic to acidic compositions, 2 feldspar and 1 biotite separates. As a whole, the investigated samples are characterized by matrices and rare earth elements spectra covering most geological applications. The present data are compared with reference values. The advantage of using secondary ion mass spectrometry as a fundamental tool for trace element detection in bulk samples in the few ppm-ppb region is demonstrated.     

Mobility of trace elements during subduction metamorphism as exemplified by the blueschists of the Kurtushibinsky Range,Western Sayan

In order to evaluate the mobility of trace elements during subduction metamorphism, the geochemistry of blueschists of the Dzhebash Group from the Kurtushibinsky Range of the Western Sayan (basins of the Koyard and Oresh rivers) was studied, and the chemical compositions of high-pressure rocks were compared with weakly altered basalts from the same region. The protoliths of the blueschists were probably metabasalts of similar age from the ophiolitic dike complex, the pillow lavas of the Verkhnekoyardsky Formation crowning them, and the pillow basalts of the Kurtushibinsky Formation. The spatial association of the blueschists with the Kurtushibinsky Formation basalts and identical trace element patterns in these rocks allow us to suppose the cogenetic character of their protoliths. Geological and geochemical data suggest their formation in an oceanic plateau setting, whereas the mafic rocks of the dike complex and the Verkhnekoyardsky Formation show island-arc affinity. A comparison of the Dzhebash Group blueschists with the chemically equivalent Kurtushibinsky basalts showed that high-pressure metamorphism caused only minor changes in their compositions. These rocks are almost indistinguishable with respect to such fluid-immobile components as Ti, P, Zr, Hf, Y, and middle and heavy rare earth elements. On the other hand, the blueschists are strongly depleted in potassium. The selective removal of Rb and Ba during blueschist metamorphism was observed only in those samples that showed the most extensive removal of potassium.     

川西甲基卡锂资源富集区根系土壤重金属含量水平及时空分布特征

锂能源金属的战略地位不断提高,与锂矿床及锂金属相关的研究也在不断跟进,锂矿区土壤重金属污染近年来持续受到关注,其含量分布情况值得深入研究。本文对亚洲最大的锂矿区——川西甲基卡根系土壤环境进行重金属含量监测,调查和评价锂矿区土壤重金属含量水平及其安全性。2016—2018年于川西甲基卡锂资源富集区采集根系土壤样品68件,采用电感耦合等离子体质谱法(ICP-MS)测定根系土壤Cd、As、Pb、Cr、Cu、Ni、Zn含量。测试结果表明,甲基卡矿区根系土壤Cd、As、Pb、Cr、Cu、Ni、Zn含量平均值分别为0.13、15.31、25.47、60.57、16.12、23.59、66.83mg/kg,与2018年8月最新颁布的农用地土壤标准对比,无一超标,均低于风险筛选值及管制值。常见矿床的尾矿库区土壤一般存在严重的重金属污染,而甲基卡尾矿库土壤重金属含量均低于环境标准限值,且矿业活动停止的三年期间尾矿库区根系土壤中Cd、As、Cr含量明显呈逐年下降趋势。本研究认为,选矿厂房及尾矿库周边根系土壤重金属由于人为源的存在有一定的富集现象,但不构成危害,废弃物对环境污染小。     

碱熔沉淀分离-电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定伴生重晶石稀土矿中的稀土元素

采用电感耦合等离子体质谱法(ICP-MS)测定伴生重晶石轻稀土矿中的稀土元素时,Ba以及轻稀土元素La、Ce、Pr、Nd、Sm等对中重稀土造成严重的质谱重叠干扰,因此在保证矿石完全消解的同时,若能选择合适的前处理方法实现目标元素与基体的有效分离,将有利于减少质谱干扰。本文采用过氧化钠-碳酸钠熔融分解伴生重晶石的稀土矿样品,熔融物用三乙醇胺溶液提取,将沉淀过滤去除硅、铁、锰、铝等大量基体元素,而稀土元素与钡、锶、钙等留存于沉淀中,沉淀经盐酸溶解后再用氨水进行二次沉淀,将稀土元素与伴生的高含量钡、锶、钙等元素分离,分离率超过96%,从而极大地降低了由钡的氧化物和氢氧化物对~(153)Eu等元素质量数的质谱干扰。轻稀土元素对中重稀土元素的干扰则通过测定高浓度的单元素标准溶液在m/z 138～175处的表观浓度来计算干扰校正系数,对干扰量进行扣除校正。该方法通过稀土矿石标准物质GBW07187、GBW07188验证,测定值与认定值的相对误差10%;应用于伴生重晶石稀土矿石实际样品分析,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=12)为0.5%～4.6%,证明了本方法可用于分析高钡矿石中的稀土元素。     

Origin of native sulfur ball from the Kueishantao hydrothermal field offshore northeast Taiwan: Evidence from trace and rare earth element composition

We first report the trace and rare earth element compositions of native sulfur ball with sulfur contents varying from 97.08 wt.% to 99.85 wt.% from the Kueishantao hydrothermal field, off NE Taiwan. We then discuss the sources of trace and rare earth elements incorporated into the native sulfur ball during formation. Comparison of our results with native sulfur from crater lakes and other volcanic areas shows the sulfur content of native sulfur ball from the Kueishantao hydrothermal field is very high, and that the rare earth element (REE) and trace element constituents of the native sulfur balls are very low (∑REE < 35 ppb). In the native sulfur ball, V, Cr, Co, Ni, Nb, Rb, Cs, Ba, Pb, Th, U, Al, Ti and REE are mostly derived from andesite; Mg, K and Mn are mostly derived from seawater; and Fe, Cu, Zn and Ni are partly derived from magma. Based on the sulfur contents, trace and rare earth element compositions, and local environment, we suggest that the growth of the native sulfur ball is significantly slower than that of native sulfur chimneys, which results in the relatively higher contents of trace and rare earth element contents in the native sulfur ball than in the native sulfur chimneys from the Kueishantao hydrothermal field. Finally, we suggest a “glue pudding” growth model for understanding the origin of the native sulfur ball in the Kueishantao hydrothermal field, whereby the native sulfur ball forms from a mixture of oxygenated seawater and acidic, low-temperature hydrothermal fluid with H₂S and SO₂ gases, and is subsequently shaped by tidal and/or bottom currents.     

南堡凹陷沉积岩化学元素分布特征及多元统计方法研究

对南堡凹陷Ed₁亚段、Ng_下、Ng_上、Nm_底地层的75个沉积岩样品进行了主量、微量元素分析,结果表明粒度效应造成砂岩和泥岩元素丰度明显不同,砂岩除富集K、Na、Sr、Ba、Si外,其余元素均较泥岩亏损.根据地层垂向上元素丰度由高—低—高的变化规律,可将这4个亚段分为Ed₁、Ng_下和Ng_上、Nm_底3个阶段,与凹陷构造演化特征响应.因子分析、聚类分析等多元统计方法表明,表生环境中元素具有不同的迁移富集规律,Ca、Na、Sr等具有较强的活动性,Zr、Hf等少数元素则在粗粒级中含量较高,而其余元素则多在黏土粒级中富集.元素在表生环境中地球化学行为的不同主要受化学结构特征控制,沉积环境对其也有影响.     

D’Orbigny: A non-igneous angritic achondrite?

D’Orbigny is the sixth and by far the largest angrite known. Its bulk chemical and mineral chemical compositions, rare gas abundances and oxygen and rare gas isotope compositions fit the compositional ranges known from other angrites. It is, however, peculiar with respect to three features: the abundance of hollow shells, the presence of abundant open druses and the abundant presence of glasses.The shape, structure and texture of D’Orbigny and its mineral and bulk chemical compositions indicate an unusual genesis under changing redox conditions. In our view, data and observations are incompatible with an igneous origin of this rock but are suggestive of a complex growth and metasomatism scenario. The sequence of events apparently began with the formation of spheres of a phase which later vanished and therefore is unknown but could have been CaS. On top of these spheres (sizes from < 1-30 mm) olivine-anorthite intergrowths precipitated forming compact shells and fluffy protrusions. Aggregation of these objects plus occasional large plates made of the same intergrowths led to formation of a highly porous object with abundant large open space between the olivine-anorthite intergrowths. The aggregate also included previously formed olivines, olivinite rocks and Al-spinels. The latter carry highly porous decomposition rims of Cr-enriched Al-spinel and record mildly oxidizing conditions prevailing very early in D’Orbigny’s history. Conditions changed (with falling T?) and became oxidizing causing the phase(s) that constituted the spheres to become unstable. Their breakdown liberated large amounts of Ca and trace elements which at least in part re-precipitated by reacting with Si and Mg from the vapor to form augites that grew into the open space thus forming augite druses. Also, some of the preexisting olivine was converted into augite, which is very rich in refractory lithophile trace elements (abundances ∼ 10 × CI). Augites grew mainly under oxidizing conditions leading to atomic Fe/(Fe+Mg) ratios of about 0.44. Finally, conditions became highly oxidizing and strongly mobilized Ca from a source that apparently became unstable. The high partial pressures of Ca and Fe (and also Ti) led to precipitation of Ca-olivine and kirschsteinite (∼Fo1La20 and ∼Fo1La33, respectively) and of titaniferous aluminous hedenbergite—atomic Fe/(Fe+Mg) ∼ 0.97. Ulvöspinel and sulfides were also precipitated. Because the original phase(s) forming the early spheres vanished during these oxidizing events, the shells remained empty.In this scenario, D’Orbigny provides us with a record of changing conditions ranging from extremely reducing to highly oxidizing and with a record of the formation of an achondritic rock from a chondritic source. Angrites bear many similarities with CAIs, texturally, mineralogically and chemically. Possibly, they can be seen as CAIs, which grew larger than the ones we know from carbonaceous chondrites. Thus, angrites may bear a record of rare and special conditions in some part of the early solar nebula. They reproduce most of the textures and structures of CAIs: crystallized liquids (Asuka 881371, LEW 87051), metasomatic granoblastic rocks (LEW 86010, Angra dos Reis?) and aggregates (D’Orbigny). In addition, all angrites record metasomatic alterations, subsolidus processing after formation, also similar to what is recorded by most CAIs. Obviously, they missed the alkali metasomatic event recorded by many CAIs but they record a siderophile—lithophile element separation event that is not recorded by CAIs.     

四川稀土矿尾砂的稀土元素和微量元素地球化学特征及开发利用意义

四川是我国轻稀土的重要产地,稀土开采至今已有二十多年的历史,积存了大量尾砂。尾砂中仍然有丰富的稀土资源,但这部分资源究竟有多大的量、能不能再次回收,如何回收,则是当务之急。为查明稀土尾砂中各类元素的分布特征,本文对A、B、C、D四个稀土矿山的尾砂开展了稀土元素和微量元素地球化学特征的初步研究。结果表明:尾砂中稀土元素配分特征继承了原矿石,稀土氧化物含量普遍偏高(0.78%~2.12%),均超过了现行工业指标的边界品位(0.5%~1.0%),且老尾砂的稀土含量高于新尾砂;除了富集稀土元素之外,B尾砂中Sr含量超过10%,C矿区尾砂中Sr含量为2.7%,A矿区尾砂中Ba含量可达1.8%。同时,不同矿区的尾砂中Mo、Bi、Pb、Ag等有用元素发生了不同程度地富集(值得综合回收利用),尤其是Mo达到了边界品位(磁选后的尾砂Mo含量达到2.275%)。本文提出,今后不仅要加强保护四川稀土尾砂,而且需对富集的有用元素采取恰当的方式加以综合回收。     

Barium Isotopic Compositions in Thirty‐Four Geological Reference Materials Analysed by MC‐ICP‐MS

Measurement of Ba isotope ratios of widely available reference materials is required for interlaboratory comparison of data. Here, we present new Ba isotope data for thirty‐four geological reference materials, including silicates, carbonates, river/marine sediments and soils. These reference materials (RMs) cover a wide range of compositions, with Ba mass fractions ranging from 6.4 to 1900 µg g^?1, SiO₂ from 0.62% to 90.36% m/m and MgO from 0.08% to 41.03% m/m. Accuracy and precision of our data were assessed by the analyses of duplicate samples and USGS rock RMs. Barium isotopic compositions for all RMs were in agreement with each other within uncertainty. The variation of δ^138/134Ba in these RMs was up to 0.7‰. The shale reference sample, affected by a high degree of chemical weathering, had the highest δ^138/134Ba (0.37 ± 0.03‰), while the stream sediment obtained from a tributary draining carbonate rocks was characterised by the lowest δ^138/134Ba (?0.30 ± 0.05‰). Geochemical RMs play a fundamental role in the high‐precision and accurate determination of Ba isotopic compositions for natural samples with similar matrices. Analyses of these RMs could provide universal comparability for Ba isotope data and enable assessment of accuracy for interlaboratory data.     

阿尔金造山带南缘中―晚奥陶世正长花岗岩的发现及其地质意义

出露于阿尔金造山带帕夏拉依档沟一带的正长花岗岩,LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年结果显示其形成年龄为455.1±3.6Ma,属中―晚奥陶世。地球化学结果显示,主量元素具有富硅、富铝、富钾,低钛、贫钙、贫镁的特点,为强过铝质花岗岩系列,具高钾钙碱性特征。稀土元素总量较高,轻稀土元素富集、重稀土元素亏损,稀土元素球粒陨石标准化配分曲线有右倾型特征和明显的负Eu异常,与典型壳源花岗岩配分曲线一致。Ba、Sr、Ti等具负异常,Rb、Th、K等大离子亲石元素具正异常,显示S型花岗岩特征。结合原岩判别图解,推断其源区物质主要来源于上地壳变泥质沉积岩类。结合区域资料,认为正长花岗岩形成于挤压体制向拉张体制转换的构造环境,属后碰撞花岗岩类,表明在中―晚奥陶世阿中地块和柴达木地块已由挤压碰撞阶段转为伸展后碰撞阶段。