北祁连山清水沟蓝片岩带中含硬柱石蓝片岩和榴辉岩的岩石学﹑40Ar/39Ar年代学及其意义

本文在北祁连造山带清水沟高级蓝片岩中发现了硬柱石,硬柱石作为包体出现在石英颗粒中,颗粒细小(9.5～4μm),无自形晶。在与其伴随的榴辉岩中也发现了硬柱石包体。利用矿物内部一致性热力学数据和Domino/Theriak软件计算了清水沟含硬柱石榴辉岩、百经寺白石崖绿帘石蓝片岩、清水沟绿帘石蓝片岩和阿柔煤矿含硬柱石蓝片岩的温压条件分别是:495～519℃,2.24～2.39GPa;530～600℃,1.35～2.15GPa;520～545℃,2.20～2.35GPa;544～576℃,1.92～2.08GPa。反映清水沟高级蓝片岩带经历了硬柱石蓝片岩相到绿帘石蓝片岩相的变质转化,与含硬柱石榴辉岩的温压条件相似,代表了古祁连山洋向北俯冲发生高压低温变质作用的产物。40Ar/39Ar同位素年代学研究表明,绿帘石蓝片岩的变质年龄分别为447±1.7～447±5Ma和453±2～454±2Ma;低温榴辉岩中蓝闪石得到的蓝片岩相退变年龄为392±12～400±3Ma。综合以上岩石学﹑地球化学和同位素年代分析等资料,进一步探讨了北祁连造山带早古生代大地构造演化过程。     

西藏羌塘中部荣玛地区含石榴石蓝片岩变质特征及其构造意义

荣玛地区含石榴石蓝片岩产出于西藏尼玛县荣玛乡北蓝岭一带。含石榴石蓝片岩中的石榴石具有核部富锰,边部富铁、镁的特点,蓝闪石具有环带结构,以此推断,本区的含石榴石蓝片岩先期经历了硬柱石榴辉岩相的变质,后期经历了退变质的蓝片岩相的叠加变质。根据温压估算,含石榴石蓝片岩的变质压力为0.69~0.75 GPa,变质温度为420~460℃。含石榴石蓝片岩的~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar测年年龄在221±6 Ma,证明此区的含石榴子石蓝片岩形成于二叠-晚三叠时期南北羌塘陆块之间的洋壳俯冲过程中,这一俯冲最终使得古特提斯洋闭合、南北羌塘陆块成为统一。     

北祁连山硬柱石蓝片岩p-T条件相平衡计算及其岩石学意义

北祁连硬柱石蓝片岩主要分布在甘肃省肃南县九个泉一带,是目前中国唯一报道的、确切地含有硬柱石的蓝片岩。文中在详细的岩石学和矿物学研究基础上,根据矿物共生组合的不同,将北祁连低温蓝片岩进一步划分为绿纤石蓝片岩、硬柱石蓝片岩和绿帘石蓝片岩。绿纤石蓝片岩的特征变质矿物组合为蓝闪石(>40%)+绿纤石(30%)+绿泥石(10%)+钠长石(8%)+石英(5%)+硬柱石(<3%)±方解石/文石(<1%)。硬柱石蓝片岩的矿物组合为蓝闪石(35%~40%)+硬柱石(35%~40%)+绿泥石(10%)+钠长石(10%)+石榴石(1%~2%)+黝帘石/斜黝帘石(<2%)+石英(<1%),副矿物有磷灰石和榍石,总含量小于2%。绿帘石蓝片岩的矿物组合为蓝闪石(30%~35%)+黝帘石/斜黝帘石/绿帘石(~30%)+绿泥石(15%)+钠长石(15%)+石榴石(2%)+石英(<2%),副矿物有金红石、磷灰石和磁铁矿,总含量小于2%。利用矿物内部一致性热力学数据和Domino/Theriak软件计算了这三种类型的蓝片岩形成的峰期温压条件,它们分别是绿纤石蓝片岩为320~350℃,0.75~0.85GPa;硬柱石蓝片岩为335~355℃,0.8~0.95GPa;绿帘石蓝片岩为345~375℃;0.75~0.85GPa。北祁连低温蓝片岩带由硬柱石蓝片岩相到绿帘石蓝片岩相的转化代表了俯冲变质过程中的递进变质过程。     

北阿尔金HP/LT蓝片岩和榴辉岩的Ar-Ar年代学及其区域构造意义

在北阿尔金的红柳泉一带,新识别出蓝片岩和榴辉岩的出露。它们与泥质片岩、钙质片岩和石英片岩等一起构成HP/LT变质带,与相邻的蛇绿混杂岩呈断层接触。根据估算的温度和压力显示榴辉岩形成的峰期温压条件为T=430～540℃,P=2.0～2.3GPa。分别对榴辉岩和蓝片岩中的多硅白云母和钠云母进行39Ar-40Ar年代学测定,获得榴辉岩中多硅白云母的坪年龄为(512±3)Ma,等时线年龄为(513±5)Ma;蓝片岩中钠云母的坪年龄为(491±3)Ma,等时线年龄为(497±10)Ma。这些年龄资料显示北阿尔金HP/LT变质带形成时代可能早于北祁连HP/LT变质带,反映了北阿尔金—北祁连早古生代洋壳俯冲存在穿时性。     

新疆西南天山哈布腾苏河高压-超高压变质带中榴辉岩和蓝片岩的岩石学及变质演化

对西南天山哈布腾苏河一带出露的典型榴辉岩和蓝片岩进行了详细的岩相学、矿物化学和温压条件综合研究。榴辉岩可分为蓝闪石榴辉岩、钠云母榴辉岩、绿帘石榴辉岩和蓝闪石榴角闪岩(退变榴辉岩)4类,蓝片岩可分为含蓝闪石石榴白云母钠长片岩、石榴白云母蓝闪片岩和石榴白云母蓝闪石英片岩3类。新鲜榴辉岩主要矿物组合为石榴石+绿辉石+钠云母+绿帘石,退变榴辉岩则为石榴石+蓝闪石+角闪石;蓝片岩主要矿物组合为石榴石+蓝闪石+多硅白云母+钠云母+钠长石+石英。榴辉岩和蓝片岩中石榴石变斑晶均保存进变质生长环带,从核部到边部XMn和XFe降低,XMg和XCa升高,指示了升温进变质的演化过程。根据榴辉岩矿物共生组合、石榴石内部包体组合分布特征及传统地质温压计估算结果,确定榴辉岩经历了4阶段的变质演化:早期硬柱石蓝片岩相进变质阶段、峰期榴辉岩相变质阶段(t=543～579℃,p=1.5～1.6 GPa)、峰后绿帘蓝片岩相退变质阶段(t=～450℃,p1.0GPa)和晚期蓝闪绿片岩相退变质阶段(t400℃,p0.5 GPa)。利用p-T视剖面图计算的榴辉岩、蓝片岩峰期变质温压条件与传统地质温压计估算结果十分相近,其中榴辉岩的峰期变质条件t=520～550℃,p=1.7～1.9 GPa;蓝片岩峰期变质条件t=520～620℃,p=1.7～2.3 GPa。本文估算的榴辉岩峰期变质压力条件与前人根据柯石英的发现而认为研究区部分榴辉岩及其围岩曾经历超高压变质作用的认识明显相悖,原因可能如下:①后期退变质作用引起研究区榴辉岩全岩成分、矿物化学成分的调整,在采用Grt-Cpx-Phe温压计和以全岩成分为基础的相平衡模拟方法估算峰期温压条件时受到影响,从而使估算峰期压力条件普遍偏低;②西南天山的榴辉岩可能并非全都经历了超高压变质作用,高压、超高压榴辉岩可能分别代表了不同变基性岩块在不同俯冲深度变质的产物。     

西藏羌塘中部绒马地区石榴蓝闪片岩变质演化过程的视剖面模拟及其意义

藏北羌塘地体中部产出一变质杂岩带,因其地貌突起,将羌塘地体一分为二,故常称其为羌中隆起带。虽然在该变质杂岩带中先后识别出蓝片岩、榴辉岩等变质岩,但对该变质杂岩带演化过程的认识却存在截然不同的观点,一种观点认为该变质杂岩带是原位的古特提斯板块缝合带的标志;另一观点则针锋相对,认为该变质杂岩带系外来的、底辟上升的杂岩带,不能作为古板块缝合带的证据。在该变质杂岩带中部的绒马乡,石榴蓝闪片岩呈大小不一的岩片和/或透镜体产出于石榴石多硅白云母石英片岩内,主要由石榴石变斑晶和由蓝闪石、绿泥石、白云母、绿帘石、石英、钠长石、金红石/钛铁矿、磷灰石、黑云母等矿物构成的基质组成。石榴石变斑晶粒径达2 mm,具典型的生长环带：核部富锰,锰铝榴石分子摩尔分数可达22%,至边部,铁铝榴石和镁铝榴石分子含量显著升高,而锰铝榴石分子含量则快速下降。石榴石变斑晶内部包体发育,可再细分为两类,一类包体产出于核部,包括被解释为硬柱石假象的细粒钠云母,绿帘石所构成的细粒板状集合体和细粒富铁蓝闪石、石英及金红石等包体;另一类包体则为数量较少的自形大颗粒绿帘石包体,产出于石榴石边部,在其内部还有细粒蓝闪石、金红石与石英等包体产出。基质中的角闪石可识别出3期：核部为富铁的蓝闪石,幔部为贫铁的蓝闪石,最外部为冻蓝闪石。基质中的绿帘石和绿泥石常为自形,绿帘石内常见细粒蓝闪石、石英、金红石等包体,而绿泥石边部常有黑云母的冠状体。在PEXPLE程序计算的p T视剖面图中,石榴石核部形成的p T条件为20 GPa、470 ℃,对应硬柱石榴辉岩相,而石榴石边部形成的p T条件为17~18 GPa、530~540 ℃,对应绿帘石榴辉岩相。岩相学观察与p T视剖面模拟研究充分反映了绒马地区石榴蓝闪片岩分别经历了硬柱石榴辉岩相、绿帘石榴辉岩相和近等温快速降压的退变质等变质过程,系冷洋壳快速俯冲与折返的产物,因此,文中支持该变质杂岩带为原位古特提斯板块缝合带的观点。硬柱石转变为绿帘石时,在俯冲通道中释放了大量的流体。T O视剖面研究进一步表明这种矿物相转变只发生于高氧逸度条件下,暗示所释放的流体可能也是高氧逸度流体。该高氧逸度流体可交代上覆地幔楔,并诱发后者发生部分熔融作用形成高氧逸度岩浆,如果这一推测是合理的,则羌塘地块内部应该存在斑岩型铜金矿床。 关键词：羌塘地体; 石榴蓝闪片岩; 视剖面模拟; 富氧流体     

蓝岭地区蓝片岩和含硬柱石多硅白云母片岩变质P-T轨迹

羌塘中部蓝岭地区的蓝片岩呈透镜状包裹于多硅白云母片岩中.首次在多硅白云母片岩中发现的硬柱石被包裹于石榴石边部的石英颗粒中,正确厘定蓝片岩和含硬柱石多硅白云母片岩的变质P-T轨迹对进一步探讨龙木错-双湖低温高压变质带的形成与演化具有重要意义.详细的岩相学和相平衡模拟显示,蓝片岩经历了较为明显的热驰豫过程（压力峰期条件为490 ℃/2.4 GPa、温度峰期条件为540 ℃/2.1 GPa）,而含硬柱石多硅白云母片岩却经历了相对较弱的热驰豫过程（峰期温压条件为530 ℃/2.2 GPa）.另外,蓝片岩和含硬柱石多硅白云母片岩经历了相似的近等温降压的退变质轨迹,这可能暗示着密度较大的基性蓝片岩在折返过程中是借助于大面积、低密度的含硬柱石多硅白云母片岩的浮力才得以折返至地壳层次.      

新疆西南天山哈布腾苏河高压-超高压变质带中榴辉岩和蓝片岩的岩石学及变质演化

对西南天山哈布腾苏河一带出露的典型榴辉岩和蓝片岩进行了详细的岩相学、矿物化学和温压条件综合研究。榴辉岩可分为蓝闪石榴辉岩、钠云母榴辉岩、绿帘石榴辉岩和蓝闪石榴角闪岩（退变榴辉岩）4类,蓝片岩可分为含蓝闪石石榴白云母钠长片岩、石榴白云母蓝闪片岩和石榴白云母蓝闪石英片岩3类。新鲜榴辉岩主要矿物组合为石榴石+绿辉石+钠云母+绿帘石,退变榴辉岩则为石榴石+蓝闪石+角闪石;蓝片岩主要矿物组合为石榴石+蓝闪石+多硅白云母+钠云母+钠长石+石英。榴辉岩和蓝片岩中石榴石变斑晶均保存进变质生长环带,从核部到边部X_Mn和X_Fe降低,X_Mg和X_Ca升高,指示了升温进变质的演化过程。根据榴辉岩矿物共生组合、石榴石内部包体组合分布特征及传统地质温压计估算结果,确定榴辉岩经历了4阶段的变质演化：早期硬柱石蓝片岩相进变质阶段、峰期榴辉岩相变质阶段（t=543～579℃,p=1.5～1.6 GPa）、峰后绿帘蓝片岩相退变质阶段（t=～450℃,p<1.0 GPa）和晚期蓝闪绿片岩相退变质阶段（t<400℃,p<0.5 GPa）。利用p-T视剖面图计算的榴辉岩、蓝片岩峰期变质温压条件与传统地质温压计估算结果十分相近,其中榴辉岩的峰期变质条件t=520～550℃,p=1.7～1.9 GPa;蓝片岩峰期变质条件t=520～620℃,p=1.7～2.3 GPa。本文估算的榴辉岩峰期变质压力条件与前人根据柯石英的发现而认为研究区部分榴辉岩及其围岩曾经历超高压变质作用的认识明显相悖,原因可能如下：① 后期退变质作用引起研究区榴辉岩全岩成分、矿物化学成分的调整,在采用Grt-Cpx-Phe温压计和以全岩成分为基础的相平衡模拟方法估算峰期温压条件时受到影响,从而使估算峰期压力条件普遍偏低;② 西南天山的榴辉岩可能并非全都经历了超高压变质作用,高压、超高压榴辉岩可能分别代表了不同变基性岩块在不同俯冲深度变质的产物。     

两条不同类型的HP/LT和UHP变质带对祁连-阿尔金早古生代造山作用的制约

在祁连-阿尔金造山带的南北两侧,分别出露有北祁连-北阿尔金HP/LT变质带和柴北缘-南阿尔金UHP变质带。北祁连-北阿尔金HP/LT变质带主要由蓝片岩、低温榴辉岩和高压变沉积岩所组成,榴辉岩形成的温压条件为420～570℃和2.0～2.5GPa,形成时代为510～440Ma。含硬柱石榴辉岩和含纤柱石高压变沉积岩的存在显示洋壳俯冲把大量水带到地幔深处。与HP/LT变质带伴生的早古生代蛇绿岩、俯冲增生杂岩、岛弧、弧后盆地等显示北祁连-北阿尔金为典型的早古生代增生造山带。柴北缘-南阿尔金UHP变质带由榴辉岩、石榴橄榄岩、高压麻粒岩及具有陆壳性质的正副片麻岩所组成,它们遭受了超高压变质作用(T700℃,P2.8GPa),UHP变质时代为500～420Ma,榴辉岩的原岩时代为750～850Ma,形成于新元古代的大陆裂谷环境。野外地质关系、岩石学及年代学研究显示柴北缘-南阿尔金HP-UHP变质带为大陆深俯冲作用的产物。在柴北缘-南阿尔金UHP变质带中,超高压榴辉岩和高压麻粒岩同时形成在不同的构造热环境中,构成大陆俯冲及碰撞造山带中的"双变质带",同时也显示柴北缘-南阿尔金造山带具有典型碰撞造山带的特征。祁连-阿尔金造山带南北两侧几乎同时发生增生造山作用和碰撞造山作用,构成由不同造山类型所组成的复合造山带。南北两侧的HP/LT变质带和UHP变质带以及可能存在的不同类型双变质带制约了祁连-阿尔金造山带早古生代的造山性质、造山类型以及造山机制。     

北祁连山高压变质带的变形和变质特征及其对俯冲带折返的意义

北祁连造山带是早古生代大洋板块"冷"俯冲的典型地区,形成了一系列高压低温变质的岩石组合.基性榴辉岩是俯冲洋壳变质的产物,根据其结构构造特征可以划分为(1)粒状榴辉岩,峰期变质矿物组合为Grt+Omp+Phn+Rut±Lws,硬柱石呈包裹体和假象分布于石榴石内,变质温压条件T=465～508℃,P=2.30～2.60GPa.(2)片状榴辉岩,岩石具片状构造,其共生矿物组合Omp+Czo/Ep+Phn+Gln构成透入性面理S1和线理L1,以及宏观和显微同斜褶皱F1.其峰期变质温压条件为T=466～510℃,P=1.9～2.2GPa.(3)蓝片岩相退化变质榴辉岩,蓝片岩相变质矿物Gln+Ep+Phn±Ab强烈交代榴辉岩相矿物,并发生强烈D2期变形作用,岩石形成明显的透入性面理S2和线理L2,以及同斜剪切褶皱F2.蓝闪石和多硅白云母线理的统计揭示D2期变形以斜向走滑剪切为主,与D1期变形的榴辉岩的运动学特征大体相似.D2同变质的温压条件为T=422～487℃,P=1.15～1.37GPa.高压变质带晚期的绿片岩相叠加和D3期变形,形成透入性面理S3和线理L3,其运动特征为近于垂直构造线的逆冲剪切.结合榴辉岩变形特征,变质温压条件和同位素年代学资料,我们认为退变质的强弱与变形程度有密切关系.峰期变质后的榴辉岩经过早期绿帘石榴辉岩相到蓝片岩相斜向走滑剪切,和晚期绿片岩相逆冲,在泥盆纪早期快速折返的出露地表.     

Reactions in Amphibolite, Greenschist and Blueschist

Mineral assemblages in which chlorite [CHL], epidote [EPI],clinoamphibole [AMP], plagioclase [PLG] and quartz [QTZ] aremajor phases are characteristic of many low-grade mafic schists.The possible heterogeneous reactions in such an assemblage maybe separated into two types, exchange reactions and net-transferreactions. Only the latter alter significantly the modal proportionsof the minerals. A set of linearly independent reactions defines a reaction spaceof as many dimensions as there are independent reactions. Thespace defined by the net-transfer reactions alone is a sub-spacethat can be portrayed in three dimensions for the above assemblage.A procedure is presented herein that gives a set of independentreactions that may be taken as basis reactions for definingsuch a reaction space. All other reactions that can be writtenfor this assemblage, as well as observed whole-rock reactions,can be portrayed as vectors in these reaction spaces. Thesevectors connect the region (mineral facies) accessible to theabove assemblage. The whole-rock reactions of Laird (1980) relatinggreenschist, blueschist and various low-grade amphibolites fromVermont, provide informative examples, as do the whole-rockexperiments of Liou et al. (1974). Although reaction spaces apply to both equilibrium and disequilibriumassemblages the reactions selected as basis vectors correspondone-for-one to the chemical conditions for equilibrium thatmust obtain in any fully equilibrated assemblage. The set selectedis one that provides maximum sensitivity for geothermometric,geobarometric and geohygrometric purposes.     

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.     

Blueschist alteration during serpentinization

The petrogenesis of Franciscan-type blueschists is controversial or paradoxial in regard to the possible significance of the serpentinite-blueschist association, the isochemical vs. allochemical character of blueschist metamorphism, the significance of high pressure mineralogy, and the physical-geologic-tectonic conditions existing during metamorphism. A model for blueschist alteration during serpentinization is presented that departs from conventional treatments of metamorphism because the reaction path rather then the thermodynamically lowest energy state is considered to be a controlling factor.Alteration of ultramafic rocks to serpentinites requires oxidation of iron in the rock and selective withdrawal of water from saline pore fluids derived from surrounding eugeosynclinal rocks. Pore fluids become concentrated and chemically reducing in the vicinity of serpentinites.The activated pore fluids may react with surrounding rocks via reactions that include a reduction step. The pore fluids may also affect the reaction path through surface chemical effects existing between mineral surfaces and/or growth units and the reducing pore fluid. The degree of polarization of oxygen ions in the silicate structural types, a function of polymerization and aluminum substitution, may control the surface effects and result in the preferential growth of chain silicates, and, more generally, of silicates with low amounts of tetrahedral aluminum.The ratio Mg⁺²/H⁺ in the pore fluid can change during serpentinization depending on the extent to which magnesium is lost from the original mafic rock. This ratio may be an important control on the growth of jadeite vs. glaucophane in the presence of excess quartz.The reduction reactions and those involving conventional fluid-solid equilibria cause a change in pore fluid chemistry as the reaction proceeds. Such reactions may explain short-range metasomatic transitions observed in some blueschists. The kinetic controls involving surface chemical effects are catalytic and may explain isochemical phenomena.The ultimate drive for the process is the large negative free energy change of serpentinization that results when ultramafic rocks are emplaced in eugeosynclinal rocks with which they are not in equilibrium. Removal of this overwhelming disequilibrium may induce secondary disequilibrium and activation of pore fluids, producing Franciscan-type blueschists.     

Blueschist metamorphism and P-T regimes in active subduction zones

Blueschist-type metamorphism involves the progressive development of some of the following minerals: at low grades, zeolites, pumpellyite, lawsonite + quartz, aragonite, jadeitic pyroxene + quartz; then at higher grades, zoisite-epidote, kyanite, omphacite, garnet and blue-green hornblende. Comparisons of natural assemblages with experimentally determined phase equilibria and oxygen isotopic analyses yield apparent physical conditions in the range 150–500° C at fluid (≈ lithostatic) pressures on the order of 3–8 + kbar. The unusually low metamorphic geothermal gradient indicated is on the order of 10–15°C/km.Blueschist belts seem to be confined to oceanic trench-type environments where they are hypothesized to represent subducted material which has buoyantly returned to the surface since recrystallization. Calculated downward deflections of the isotherms in the subducted lithospheric slabs yield similar or even lower geothermal gradients than deduced from the mineral parageneses. The disposition of relatively high-pressure isogradic surfaces in the upper portions of a model subduction zone demonstrates that the observed sequence of metamorphic facies reflects the direction of lithospheric plate descent.The approximate magnitude of inferred underflow can be gauged by the presence or absence of a contemporaneous high-temperature volcanic + plutonic + metamorphic complex in the non-subducted lithospheric plate. Greater amounts of underflow evidently are required to build up larger, relatively high-temperature, low-pressure terranes.Blueschist belts tend to be associated in time and space, indicating that since Late Paleozoic time, many convergent plate junctions have remained in approximately the same positions relative to the stable lithospheric slabs. The fact that, where preserved, older blueschistic belts, hence plate sutures, are located farther inland suggests that in some cases the subduction zones have stepped seaward with time, allowing, for the episodic return towards the surface of old trench melanges, hence growth of the non-subducted plates.     

Blueschist ophiolites in the melange zone,northern New Caledonia

A regional melange zone, 150 km long and 30 km wide, forms the southern boundary and structural capping to a high-pressure blueschist belt in northern New Caledonia. The disrupted country rocks in the melange zone are Mesozoic metagrey-wackes and Eocene chert-limestone sequences which have been penetrated from below by tectonically-injected ophiolite slivers containing metamorphosed serpentinite, gabbro, dolerite, basalt, tuff, chert and shale. An ocean crust origin for these rocks is indicated by chemical, mineralogical and radiometric data from coastal outcrops at Anse Ponandou on the northeast coast. The age (41 m.y.), metamorphic environment (350 ° C at 7 kb), and mineral association (acmitic jadeite-riebeckite-pyropic spessartine-pistacitic epidote-lawsonite-high Si phengite) are significantly different from those of the adjacent regional high-pressure schist belt, indicating a separate structural site for blueschist metamorphism of buried ophiolitic ocean crust during early Tertiary orogenesis.     

Metamorphic Evolution of the Seward Peninsula Blueschist Terrane

Blucschists and greenschists of the central Seward Peninsula(the Nome Group) crop out over an 8000 km² area. The protolithpackage for the mid-Jurassic high P/T metamorphism consistedlargely of Cambrian, possibly also Precambrian, to Devoniansedimentary rocks (limestones, marls, pelites, carbonaceoussiltites, quartzites) of shallow water miogeoclinal origin,which maintained a coherent lithostratigraphy during metamorphismand concurrent high-strain, noncoaxial deformation. Several experimentally and empirically calibrated geothermobarometershave been integrated with textural and microstructural observationsin order to derive a pressure-temperature (P-T) path for themetamorphism of the Nome Group. These data, coupled with previouslyobtained Rb-Sr phengite-whole-rock isochron ages, yield a P-T-tpath showing a steep burial segment followed by a prolongedperiod ({small tilde}55 Ma) of isothermal decompression. Peakpressures, obtained from the jadeite content of clinopyroxenein rare, isofacial eclogites, and from the celadonite contentin phengite yield {small tilde}12 kb. Temperatures at this pressure,gained from garnet-clinopyroxene and microcline-plagioclasepairs, were 460?30?C. Decompression temperatures were essentiallythe same, as evidenced by calcite-dolomite and garnet-biotitethermometry. Uniformity of metamorphic conditions throughoutthe Seward Peninsula blueschist terrane coupled with the miogeoclinalnature of the protolith package indicate burial beneath a flat-lying(A-type) subduction zone. The derived P-T-t path is difficultto reconcile with one-dimensional thermal models of collisionalblueschists, where peak P and T are not generally coincident.     

黑龙江依兰地区蓝片岩相变质作用及其演化

依兰地区蓝片岩作为黑龙江杂岩的重要组成部分,其变质作用演化问题一直存在较大争议。本文通过对依兰地区蓝片岩的岩相学及矿物微区化学成分的研究,并运用PERPLE_X软件,在Na_2O-CaO-K_2O-MnO-FeO-MgO-Al_2O_3-SiO_2-H_2O-TiO_2-O(Fe_2O_3)(NCKMnFMASHTO)体系下对石榴石冻蓝闪石片岩(g-brs-wnc-act-phn-chl-ep-ab-stlp)、绿泥绿帘蓝闪石片岩(gl-brs-wnc-act-chl-ep-stlp)和白云母蓝闪石片岩(gl-wnc-phn-ab-ep-chl-sph)进行了相平衡模拟,并分别获得了500~525℃/1.14~1.2GPa、480℃/1.4GPa、450~500℃/0.95~1.2GPa峰期变质作用的温压条件,其峰期变质级别都达到了绿帘-蓝片岩相。结合前人发表的地球化学和年代学数据,建立了蓝片岩相岩石的顺时针变质演化P-T轨迹。研究区蓝片岩的形成标志着新生洋壳的俯冲作用,同时代表古亚洲洋构造域的结束和环太平洋构造域的开始。相平衡模拟中,P-T轨迹记录了峰期前温压条件递增的过程,温度峰期与压力峰期同时到达,说明蓝片岩相变质作用是在俯冲过程中实现的,而不是折返过程中达到的。减压阶段的轨迹近于平行追溯进变质轨迹,揭示与进变质过程相似的地热体制下(11～14℃/km),相对缓慢的抬升过程     

Blueschist metamorphism during accretion in the Lachlan Orogen, south-eastern Australia

Low‐T, intermediate to high‐P assemblages indicative of the prehnite–pumpellyite, greenschist and blueschist facies are preserved in mélange zones and slivers of oceanic crust within two major fault zones of the turbidite‐dominated Lachlan Orogen. In one of these fault zones (Governor Fault Zone), blueschists occur as Franciscan‐like blocks in a serpentinite/talc matrix that is interleaved with phyllites and slates, and structurally overlain by a fault slice or duplex of predominantly pillow basalt, chert, and turbidite. The blueschist metavolcanics are interpreted to have formed at < 450 °C and at a depth of approximately 21–27 km. The presence of blue amphibole in the blocks, rinds and matrix indicate that the metavolcanics were emplaced in the matrix prior to blueschist metamorphism. Blocks and matrix were partially exhumed, interleaved with tectonic slices of phyllite and slate, and subsequently folded at about 10–12 km depth, inferred from b_o values of the dominant mica fabric in the phyllites and slates. Metamorphic P–T is highest in the structurally lowest slice (mélange zone) and lowest in the overlying ophiolitic fault slice, suggestive of an accretionary burial metamorphic pattern formed by underplating of the mélange. In the other fault zone (Heathcote Fault Zone), blueschists transitional to greenschist facies are interpreted to have formed at < 450 °C and at a depth of approximately 15–21 km. They occur as blocks in serpentinite/talc‐matrix mélange and are also associated with fault slices of oceanic crust. Textural and mineralogical evidence suggests that the protoliths for the blueschists in both fault zones were boninitic pillow lavas. The metamorphic facies and patterns, and the structural and lithological associations, can be interpreted in terms of disruption of oceanic crust and overlying sediments during subduction, and formation of serpentinite‐matrix mélange overprinted by blueschist metamorphism either prior to or during underplating of the mélange and duplex formation. The presence of blueschist metavolcanics indicate that these processes occurred at considerable depth. These interpretations have implications for the evolution of large‐scale fault zones in noncollisional, convergent oceanic settings.     

Coexisting Amphiboles from Blueschist Facies Metamorphic Rocks

Four pairs of associated calcic and sodic amphiboles from blueschistfacies metamorphic rocks were analyzed with the electron microprobeand studied by single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques.Except for ranges in the ratios Mg/(Mg+Fe) and Fe³⁺/(Fe³⁺+Al+Ti),the sodic amphiboles are similar in chemical composition. Theamount of calcium in the M(4)-site ranges only from 0·18to 0·21 ion per formula unit. The calcic amphiboles,in addition to a range in Mg/(Mg+Fe), vary in Na/(Na+Ca) ratio(0·29–0·48). Three of the calcic amphibolescontain less than 1·5 calcium ions per formula unit,indicating a significant solid solution of sodic amphibole componentsin the calcic amphibole phase. The a and b unit-cell parametersof the calcic amphiboles decrease with increased content ofthe sodic component.     

西藏中北部双湖地区蓝片岩带及其构造涵义

西藏中北部的蓝片岩岩块断续出露长达３００ｋｍ,东起西亚尔岗双湖及其以西的恰格勒拉,经纳岩,角木日,冈塘错,果干加年山,玛依岗日,西至冈玛错一带,除恰勒拉及果干加年山的蓝片岩早年有简要报导外,其余均为李才等近年的新发现,蓝片岩的原岩主要为冈瓦纳大陆北缘晚石炭世一早二叠世裂谷型（裂陷槽）沉积－火山岩系,包括基性火山岩（或火山碎屑岩）泥质砂岩,泥质灰岩等,尚有少量基性煌斑岩,高压低温变质矿物主要为青铝闪