剪切带中变斑晶的生长及包裹体痕迹的演化

韧性剪切带中，由于变形分解作用的存在，岩石发生递进变形过程中，产于共轴或非共轴递进缩短带内的变斑晶不发生旋转，而变斑晶内的包裹体痕迹是递进变形过程中遗留在变斑晶内的变形变质痕迹。利用未旋转斑晶中的包裹体痕迹可以确定早期面理的取向，寻找构造演化的时间标志，确定变形变质的关系及其演化史。对北祁连托勒牧场大型走滑韧性剪切带中石榴石、黑云母等变斑晶及包裹体痕迹的研究，揭示了变斑晶的生长和包、裹体痕迹与褶劈理的演化有着重要联系以及剪切变形过程中变形变质演化史、应变速率的变化。递进变形相应地发生递增变质，但两者存在着一定的差异性。     

变斑晶包体形迹研究的几个问题

变斑晶是联系变质与变形的重要媒介。变斑晶内的包体按几何形态可分为９大类。在发生递进变形的变质岩中，斑晶成核生长于变形分解作用的递进缩短带内。除少数螺旋状石榴石外，产于共轴或非共轴递进不均匀缩短变形过程中的斑晶不发生旋转。在韧性剪切带中，由于存在变形分解作用，在岩石发生递进变形过程中，产于共轴或非共轴递进缩短带内的变斑晶也不发生旋转。利用未旋转斑晶中包体形迹可以确定早期面理的取向，寻找构造演化时间标志，确定变形变质关系及其演化史。如在大背坞地区，根据黄铁矿变斑晶的旋转演化，可以恢复韧性剪切带的成生演化历史。近十几年来由于计算机模拟的引人，使变斑晶微构造研究从定性步入定量阶段。     

变斑晶包体形迹研究的几个问题

变斑晶是联系变质与变形的重要媒介。变斑晶内的包体按几何形态可分为９大类。在发生递进变形的变质岩中，斑晶成核生长于变形分解作用的递进缩短带内。除少数螺旋状石榴石外，产于共轴或非共轴递进不均匀缩短变形过程中的斑晶不发生旋转。在韧性剪切带中，由于存在变形分解作用，在岩石发生递进变形过程中，产于共轴或非共轴递进缩短带内的变斑晶也不发生旋转。利用未旋转斑晶中包体形迹可以确定早期面理的取向，寻找构造演化时间标     

变质岩中变斑晶成核生长及旋转问题的述评

发生递进变形的变质岩中,斑晶成核生长于变形分解作用的递进缩短带内,斑晶的大小受两侧递进剪切变形带的限制。除少数螺旋状石榴石外,产于共轴或非共轴递进不均匀缩短变形过程中的斑晶不发生旋转,斑晶内部包体形迹(Si)反映外部面理(Se)的再活化。利用未旋转斑晶中的包体形迹可以确定早期面理的取向,寻找构造演化的时间标志,确定褶皱轴迹等,本文给出了斑晶中包体形迹弯曲的成因模式图。     

江西大背坞地区同构造变斑晶研究

大背坞地区浅变质碎屑岩内的韧性剪切带中发育有同构造成因的菱铁矿变斑晶和黄铁矿变斑晶,它们是进变质剪切变形的产物和标志。作为同构造成因,这类变斑晶的发育与剪切变形及强度、变形变质矿物绢云母的含量和晶体大小关系密切,具有独特的晶形并保留基质片理等特征。根据变斑晶的旋转效应可以恢复大背坞韧性剪切带的成生演化历史:右行逆冲剪切→压扁变形→左行正断剪切.      

横穿变质带的温度—时间关系:在递进变形的变泥质岩中,变斑晶—基质关系的证据

在递进区域变质作用的岩石中,相当于一定的变质作用的等温线是连续改变的,而由于应变的不断增加,相同岩石也产生递进变形构造。泥质叶理的变斑晶能提供有关变质作用和变形作用方面的证据。它们不仅能够说明这个地体的温度、压力演化,而且它们的包裹轨迹也能提供在变斑晶生长时变形阶段的线索。利用与基质叶理相对应的包裹轨迹的显微构造关系,结合在递进反应序列的岩石学资料,就能够再造变质体内不同变质带的温度—时间关系。在北昆斯兰的两个元古代地区,Mary Kathleen褶皱带和Robertson河亚群,横穿变质带已经发现了包裹轨迹模式的系统变化。显微构造—岩石学的研究,往往限制了不同带的T—t演化。在两个研究区内,包裹轨迹摸式的区域分布表明变形同时影响高级带和低级带。     

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.     

日本三波川变质带的演化

三波川变质带位于亚洲大陆的东部边部,构成西南日本侏罗系杂岩体的一部分,它的俯冲可能与在赤道区形成的Kurosgaua地体的碰撞有关。三波川片岩第一带变形发生在韧性条件下,构造置换方向为N30°E,与大陆边缘平行,变形过程中伴有鞘褶皱及矿物拉伸线理的形成。在此阶段,发生大量矿物反应,并伴有变斑晶如石榴石、钠长石的同构造生长,它们在生长过程中发生以垂直流动方向为轴的旋转。变斑晶中的矿物包裹体研究表明,这期变形作用一直持续到变质作用的退变阶段。在本期变形的较晚阶段,发生周态变质的超基性、基性岩石的侵位,高温榴辉岩体的侵位使得角闪片岩发生榴辉岩化进变质作用,并发生接触变质。变质相系由绿纤石     

江西大背坞地区韧性剪切带中岩石变形与矿物变化的关系

浅变质碎屑岩中韧性剪切变形往往引起进变质作用,并导致矿物变化,其主要表同为同构造变斑晶,绢云母重结晶和形成动力分异条带,从剪切带外侧到剪切带中心,同构造变斑晶由小变大,重结晶须云母含量逐渐增高,动力分异条带仅发育于剪切带中心强变形区,在一定变形范围内,重结晶绢云母含量与应变强度呈线性正相关。     

变斑晶晶内微构造应用研究进展

变斑晶晶内包体径迹在变质地质学和构造地质学中具有广泛的用途。尤其在造山带研究、PTt轨迹、变质与变形关系及历史、变形机制及褶皱和剪切带运动学、变质变形程度、变斑晶生长率、应变量、应变速率等方面的应用取得许多重大进展。其中所有变斑晶都是同运动的、未旋转的“固定论”新观点、新应用,值得重视和深入综合研究。另外,在任何应用之前都宜首先确定变斑晶旋转与否。     

Deformation partitioning and porphyroblast rotation in meta-morphic rocks: a radical reinterpretation

Abstract Most porphyroblasts never rotate during ductile deformation, provided they do not internally deform during subsequent events, with the exception of relatively uncommon but spectacular examples of spiralling garnets. Instead, the surrounding foliation rotates and reactivates due to partitioning of the deformation around the porphyroblast. Consequently, porphyroblasts commonly preserve the orientation of early foliations and stretching lineations within strain shadows or inclusion trails, even where these structures have been rotated or obliterated in the matrix due to subsequent deformation. These relationships can be readily used to help develop an understanding of the processes of foliation development and they demonstrate the prominent role of reactivation of old foliations during subsequent deformation. They can also be used to determine the deformation history, as porphyroblasts only rotate when the deformation cannot partition and involves progressive shearing with no combined bulk shortening component.     

Porphyroblast inclusion trails: the key to orogenesis

Detailed microstructural analysis of inclusion trails in hundreds of garnet porphyroblasts from rocks where spiral-shaped inclusion trails are common indicates that spiral-shaped trails did not form by rotation of the growing porphyroblasts relative to geographic coordinates. They formed instead by progressive growth by porphyroblasts over several sets of near-orthogonal foliations that successively overprint one another. The orientations of these near-orthogonal foliations are alternately near-vertical and near-horizontal in all porphyroblasts examined. This provides very strong evidence for lack of porphyroblast rotation.
The deformation path recorded by these porphyroblasts indicates that the process of orogenesis involves a multiply repeated two-stage cycle of: (1) crustal shortening and thickening, with the development of a near-vertical foliation with a steep stretching lineation; followed by (2) gravitational instability and collapse of this uplifted pile with the development of a near-horizontal foliation, gravitational spreading, near-coaxial vertical shortening and consequent thrusting on the orogen margins. Correlation of inclusion trail overprinting relationships and asymmetry in porphyroblasts with foliation overprinting relationships observed in the field allows determination of where the rocks studied lie and have moved within an orogen. This information, combined with information about chemical zoning in porphyroblasts, provides details about the structural/metamorphic ( P-T-t ) paths the rocks have followed.
The ductile deformation environment in which a porphyroblast can rotate relative to geographic coordinates during orogenesis is spatially restricted in continental crust to vertical, ductile tear/transcurrent faults across which there is no component of bulk shortening or transpression.     

Foliation development and refraction in metamorphic rocks: reactivation of earlier foliations and decrenulation due to shifting patterns of deformation partitioning

Abstract Reactivation of early foliations accounts for much of the progressive strain at more advanced stages of deformation. Its role has generally been insufficiently emphasized because evidence is best preserved where porphyroblasts which contain inclusion trails are present. Reactivation occurs when progressive shearing, operating in a synthetic anastomosing fashion parallel to the axial planes of folds, changes to a combination of coarse- and finescale zones of progressive shearing, some of which operate antithetically relative to the bulk shear on a fold limb. Reactivation of earlier foliations occurs in these latter zones. Reactivation decrenulates pre-existing or just-formed crenulations, generating shearing along the decrenulated or rotated pre-existing foliation planes. Partitioning of deformation within these foliation planes, such that phyllosilicates and/or graphite take up progressive shearing strain and other minerals accommodate progressive shortening strain, causes dissolution of these other minerals. This results in concentration of the phyllosilicates in a similar, but more penetrative manner to the formation of a differentiated crenulation cleavage, except that the foliation can form or intensify on a fold limb at a considerable angle to the axial plane of synchronous macroscopic folds. Reactivation can generate bedding-parallel schistosity in multideformed and metamorphosed terrains without associated folds. Heterogeneous reactivation of bedding generates rootless intrafolial folds with sigmoidal axial planes from formerly through-going structures. Reactivation causes rotation or ‘refraction’of axial-plane foliations (forming in the same deformation event causing reactivation) in those beds or zones in which an earlier foliation has been reactivated, and results in destruction of the originally axial-plane foliation at high strains. Reactivation also provides a simple explanation for the apparently ‘wrong sense’, but normally observed ‘rotation’of garnet porphyroblasts, whereby the external foliation has undergone rotation due to antithetic shear on the reactivated foliation. Alternatively, the rotation of the external foliation can be due to its reactivation in a subsequent deformation event. Porphyroblasts with inclusion trails commonly preserve evidence of reactivation of earlier foliations and therefore can be used to identify the presence of a deformation that has not been recognized by normal geometric methods, because of penetrative reactivation. Reactivation often reverses the asymmetry between pre-existing foliations and bedding on one limb of a later fold, leading to problems in the geometric analysis of an area when the location of early fold hinges is essential. The stretching lineation in a reactivated foliation can be radically reoriented, potentially causing major errors in determining movement directions in mylonitic schistosities in folded thrusts. Geometric relationships which result from reactivation of foliations around porphyroblasts can be used to aid determination of the timing of the growth of porphyroblasts relative to deformation events. Other aspects of reactivation, however, can lead to complications in timing of porphyroblast growth if the presence of this phenomenon is not recognized; for example, D₂-grown porphyroblasts may be dissolved against reactivated S₁ and hence appear to have grown syn-D₁.     

Spiral and staircase inclusion trail axes within garnet and staurolite porphyroblasts from schists of the Bolton Syncline, Connecticut: timing of porphyroblast growth and the effects of fold development

In the Littleton Formation, garnet porphyroblasts preserve three generations of growth that occurred before formation of the Bolton Syncline. Inclusion trails of foliations overgrown by these porphyroblasts are always truncated by the matrix foliation suggesting that garnet growth predated the matrix foliation. In contrast, many staurolite porphyroblasts grew synchronously with formation of the Bolton Syncline. However, local rim overgrowths of the matrix foliation suggest that some staurolite porphyroblasts continued to grow after development of the fold during younger crenulation producing deformations. The axes of curvature or intersection of foliations defined by inclusion trails inside the garnet porphyroblasts lie oblique to the axial plane of the Bolton Syncline but do not change orientation across it. This suggests the garnets were not rotated during the subsequent deformation associated with fold development or during even younger crenulation events. Three samples also contain a different set of axes defined by curvature of inclusion trails in the cores of garnet porphyroblasts suggesting a protracted history of garnet growth. Foliation intersection axes in staurolite porphyroblasts are consistently orientated close to the trend of the axial plane of the Bolton Syncline on both limbs of the fold. In contrast, axes defined by curvature or intersection of foliations in the rims of staurolite porphyroblasts in two samples exhibit a different trend. This phase of staurolite growth is associated with a crenulation producing deformation that postdated formation of the Bolton Syncline. Measurement of foliation intersection axes defined by inclusion trails in both garnet and staurolite porphyroblasts has enabled the timing of growth relative to one another and to the development of the Bolton Syncline to be distinguished in rocks where other approaches have not been successful. Consistent orientation of foliation intersection axes across a range of younger structures suggests that the porphyroblasts did not rotate relative to geographical coordinates during subsequent ductile deformation. Foliation intersection axes in porphyroblasts are thus useful for correlating phases of porphyroblastic growth in this region.     

Lack of porphyroblast rotation in the Otago schists, New Zealand: implications for crenulation cleavage development, folding and deformation partitioning

Porphyroblasts of garnet and plagioclase in the Otago schists have not rotated relative to geographic coordinates during non-coaxial deformation that post-dates their growth. Inclusion trails in most of the porphyroblasts are oriented near-vertical and near-horizontal, and the strike of near-vertical inclusion trails is consistent over 3000 km². Microstructural relationships indicate that the porphyroblasts grew in zones of progressive shortening strain, and that the sense of shear affecting the geometry of porphyroblast inclusion trails on the long limbs of folds is the same as the bulk sense of displacement of fold closures. This is contrary to the sense of shear inferred when porphyroblasts are interpreted as having rotated during folding.
Several crenulation cleavage/fold models have previously been developed to accommodate the apparent sense of rotation of porphyroblasts that grew during folding. In the light of accumulating evidence that porphyroblasts do not generally rotate, the applicability of these models to deformed rocks is questionable.
Whether or not porphyroblasts rotate depends on how deformation is partitioned. Lack of rotation requires that progressive shearing strain (rotational deformation) be partitioned around rigid heterogeneities, such as porphyroblasts, which occupy zones of progressive shortening or no strain (non-rotational deformation). Therefore, processes operating at the porphyroblast/matrix boundary are important considerations. Five qualitative models are presented that accommodate stress and strain energy at the boundary without rotating the porphyroblast: (a) a thin layer of fluid at the porphyroblast boundary; (2) grain-boundary sliding; (3) a locked porphyroblast/matrix boundary; (4) dissolution at the porphyroblast/matrix boundary, and (5) an ellipsoidal porphyroblast/shadow unit.     

康古尔韧性剪切带变形特征及控矿作用

康古尔韧性剪切带具明显的遥感影像特征和区域重、磁异常变化特征。韧性剪切引起的变质作用表现为强应力下的岩石变质、变形，变质相序从绿片岩相到角闪岩相，变质岩石类型为千枚岩、片岩、变粒岩、糜棱岩及糜校岩化的岩石。韧性剪切变形和塑性流动形成的面理、线理、招皱、韧性断裂等构造形迹十分明显，构成一条东百长1000多千米，南北宽20～30km的狭长线形构造带（强应变带）；它经历了多期次、多种构造作用交替叠加的变化过程，按性质分类属大型平移断裂系统。康古尔韧性剪切带控制着重要的金矿、铜镍矿床及稀有金属等矿产，是新疆东部有重要找矿意义的成矿带。     

Microstructural analysis of the classical spiral garnet porphyroblasts of south-east Vermont: evidence for non-rotation

New data strongly suggest that the classical spiral garnet porphyroblasts of south-east Vermont, USA, generally did not rotate, relative to geographical coordinates, throughout several stages of non-coaxial ductile deformation. The continuity of inclusion trails (S_i) in these porphyroblasts is commonly disrupted by planar to weakly arcuate discontinuities, consisting of truncations and differentiation zones where quartz–graphite S_i bend sharply into more graphitic S_i. Discontinuous, tight microfold hinges with relatively straight axial planes are also present. These microstructures form part of a complete morphological gradation between near-orthogonally arranged, discontinuous inclusion segments and smoothly curving, continuous S_i spirals. Some 2700 pitch measurements of well-developed inclusion discontinuities and discontinuous microfold axial planes were taken from several hundred vertically orientated thin sections of various strike, from specimens collected at 28 different locations around the Chester and Athens domes. The results indicate that the discontinuities have predominantly subvertical and subhorizontal orientations, irrespective of variations in the external foliation attitude, macrostructural geometry and apparent porphyroblast-matrix rotation angles. Combined with evidence for textural zoning, this supports the recent hypothesis that porphyroblasts grow incrementally during successive cycles of subvertical and subhorizontal crenulation cleavage development. Less common inclined discontinuities are interpreted as resulting from deflection of anastomosing matrix foliations around obliquely orientated crystal faces prior to inclusion. Most of the idioblastic garnet porphyroblasts have a preferred crystallographic orientation. Dimensionally elongate idioblasts also have a preferred shape orientation, with long axes orientated normal to the mica folia, within which epitaxial nucleation occurred. Truncations and differentiation zones result from the formation of differentiated crenulation cleavage seams against porphyroblast margins, in association with progressive and selective strain-induced dissolution of matrix minerals and locally also the porphyroblast margin. Non-rotation of porphyroblasts, relative to geographical coordinates, suggests that deformation at the microscale is heterogeneous and discontinuous in the presence of undeformed, relatively large and rigid heterogeneities, which cause the progressive shearing (rotational) component of deformation to partition around them. The spiral garnet porphyroblasts therefore preserve the most complete record of the complex, polyphase tectonic and metamorphic history experienced in this area, most of which was destroyed in the matrix by progressive foliation rotation and reactivation, together with recrystallization.