断层电子自旋共振定年中石英信号强度的影响因素分析

电子自旋共振(ESR)是一种利用矿物在地质环境中的累计辐射能进行测年的技术方法,它采用的测年矿物石英广泛分布,并具有记录断层作用良好的计时零点,是同位素测年的重要补充。ESR信号强度是决定ESR年龄精确度的关键因素,但是各种参数条件对测量结果的影响方式及其程度缺乏系统研究。本文以取自断层带石英的一种顺磁中心——E’心为研究对象,运用单因素重复性实验方法,分析石英ESR定年中5种影响因素与ESR信号强度的相关关系。结果表明,微波功率、调制幅度、扫描宽度是影响ESR信号强度的主控因素,样品管方位及直径对测量结果影响不大。微波功率0.02~0.1 m W、调制幅度0.25~0.4 Gs可作为精确测量断层泥石英E’心普适性的参数区间,过大或过小的扫描宽度均不利于ESR测量,可利用在大扫描宽度条件下先预扫描再精细扫描的方法确定合适的扫描宽度,重复测量后求取平均值可有效降低测量误差。利用本文提出的参数区间及其确定的方法测量断层泥石英的E’心信号强度,能显著提高ESR测量精度。     

石英ESR测年信号衰退特征研究进展

电子自旋共振(ESR)测年法是第四纪地质年代学的重要测试方法之一,其测年范围广,特别是对于20万年至百万年尺度的第四纪样品有着重要意义.准确测量古剂量是影响ESR测年法精度和可信度的重要因素之一,而掌握ESR信号衰退特征及机制是获得准确、可信古剂量的重要前提.ESR测年法适用的地质样品种类较多,如热液石英脉、地质断层泥、水系沉积物等,不同样品的ESR信号衰退特征和机制有较大差异.近年来,国内外学者针对不同地质样品中石英ESR信号的衰退特征和机制深入开展了一系列的实验室模拟和野外观测研究,取得了诸多新认识.回顾了近年来在石英ESR信号衰退特征领域取得的进展,特别是水系沉积物石英ESR信号的衰退特征,并展望了这一领域的未来工作重点.     

沉积物中石英E′心的热力学特性及其地质应用意义

对8个取自南海珠江口盆地XJ33-2-1井的样品进行了热力学实验,使用电子自旋共振(ESR)技术获取了样品中石英E′心天然状况下的ESR信号强度I1对经热活化技术处理后石英E′心的ESR信号强度I2的比值.实验结果表明:每个样品的活化温度不完全相同,这与母岩的特性有关;I1/I2值与古地温呈正相关关系;I1/I2值与地层年龄有很强的相关性,相关系数高达0.99.说明I1/I2值具有古地温指示和地质计时的实际意义.     

石英电子自旋共振（ESR）的地学研究现状与展望

电子自旋共振（ESR）是一种对断层物质、燧石、火山灰和沉积物（水系、风成、冰川）定年的重要方法,它广为接受的测年范围为第四纪。对断层泥和沉积物样品,石英ESR信号的不完全归零往往使ESR年龄偏老,多重ESR中心法和颗粒大小“平顶判据”是判断信号归零特征的两种有效方法。为将ESR测年范围拓展至前第四纪,通常采用石英氧空位在加热转化后极大增强的E’心作为测年信号,但由于石英氧空位形成转化机理不明确,加热后增强的ESR信号与地质年龄的相关性有待进一步验证。近期研究表明石英ESR的封闭温度为49 ℃～82 ℃,可在比磷灰石（U-Th）/He更低的温度区间内研究地球近地表的构造演化过程。释光技术热年代学研究发展迅速,与之测年原理接近的ESR在低温热年代学领域展现了良好的应用前景,它与释光及磷灰石（U-Th）/He可相互比对、共同提高地球近地表构造和地形演化问题的分析精度。     

沉积物中石英E'心的热力学特性及其地质应用意义

对 8个取自南海珠江口盆地XJ33-2 -1井的样品进行了热力学实验 ,使用电子自旋共振 (ESR)技术获取了样品中石英E′心天然状况下的ESR信号强度I1对经热活化技术处理后石英E′心的ESR信号强度I2 的比值。实验结果表明 :每个样品的活化温度不完全相同 ,这与母岩的特性有关 ;I1/I2 值与古地温呈正相关关系 ;I1/I2 值与地层年龄有很强的相关性 ,相关系数高达0 .99。说明I1/I2 值具有古地温指示和地质计时的实际意义。     

ESR测年技术在第四纪冰川年代学中的研究综述

近些年,宇宙成因核素暴露年代、光释光和放射性碳埋藏年代等方法在第四纪冰碛物的年代测定中已经取得显著进展.但对于第四纪冰川沉积物10万年甚至百万年以上的冰碛物样品的埋藏年代和暴露年代,由于方法自身问题或沉积物后期地质地貌过程的改造,使上述方法存在定年方面的挑战.而电子自旋共振（ESR）广泛的测年范围,使其在第四纪样品的测年中发挥着不可替代的作用.目前,石英ESR信号的衰退特征已有许多研究进展,但是对于冰碛物中的ESR信号的研究还很少.ESR测年方法由于缺乏测年机理的研究,西方学者和国内一些测年学者对这种方法的定年存有疑虑.因此,我们在典型冰川区开展对冰碛物中石英砂ESR信号变化的机理研究,得到人工研磨可以使ESR信号强度下降到原来值的53%~69%,但并不能使ESR信号完全归零.如果在以后的研究中能够找出这些残留信号值大小,并予以扣除,将会大大提高ESR冰碛物测年精度.在今后的研究中应探求其测年机理,提高测试样品的石英纯度,增强ESR测年信号的精度,使这种方法成为冰碛物交叉测年中独立可信的测年方法之一,为第四纪冰川研究中的老冰碛物的定年提供准确的年代依据.     

沉积物中石英E'心的热力学特性及其地质应用意义

对８个取自南海蛛江口盆地ＸＪ３３－２－１井的样品进行了热力学实验,使用电子自谢共振（ＥＳＲ）技术获取了样品中石英Ｅ’心天然状况下的ＥＳＲ信号强度Ｉ１对经热活化技术处理后石英Ｅ’的ＥＳＲ信号强度Ｉ２的比值。实验结果表明：每个样品的 活化温度不完全相同,这与母岩的特性有关;Ｉ１／Ｉ２值与不地温呈正相关关系;Ｉ１／Ｉ２值与地层年龄有很强有相关性,相关系数高达０．９９。说明Ｉ１／Ｉ２值具有古地温指示和地质     

PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON DATING USING IRSL AND [ POST-IR] OSL SIGNALS FROM FINE-GRAINED POLYMINERALS AND OSL SIGNAL FROM FINE-GRAINED QUARTZ IN LOESS AT NORTHERN SLOPE OF KUNLUN MTS.,XINJIANG

使用感量校正多测片再生(SMAR)法对新疆昆仑山北坡的12个黄土样品的细颗粒混合矿物和细颗粒石英进行了等效剂量(De)的测量.测试结果显示,该地区黄土的[ post-IR]OSL和OSL信号强度相对于黄土高原的样品偏低,初步认为与物源不同及粉尘堆积和堆积后经受的风化作用微弱有关.细颗粒混合矿物的IRSL等效剂量值基本上小于其细颗粒石英OSL的,反映出长石存在明显的异常衰减现象;[post-IR] OSL信号主要来自于长石,用于测年需谨慎;细颗粒石英OSL更适合用于对该地区黄土的测年.     

ESR定年：一种确定脆性断层活动年龄的方法原理与应用

在浅层低温环境中，脆性断层活动难以生成新的变质矿物，断层的准确活动年龄就难以确定。但在浅层断层活动中，往往伴生有同期生成的石英脉，对石英脉采用热活化电子自旋共振(ESR)测年，能够确定石英脉的生成年龄，从而能提供断层活动的年龄。如果断层带中发育有多期石英脉，通过测定还能提供断层多次活动的年龄。以雪峰山2条断裂带为例，使用ESR定年方法获得了202.3~60.6 Ma的地质年龄，并探讨了2条断裂带的演化与区域构造活动的关系，最后对ESR测年的可信性与使用条件进行了讨论。     

γ辐照对高庙子钠基膨润土矿物成分和微观结构的影响

为了解γ辐照对高庙子天然钠基膨润土中矿物组分和微观结构的影响,拓展高放地质处置缓冲材料性能评价范围,以内蒙古高庙子天然钠基膨润土和北山地下水为研究对象,利用红外光谱仪、X射线衍射仪和穆斯堡尔谱仪分析了不同γ辐照剂量(500、1000、1500、2000、2500和3000kGy)照射后的高庙子天然钠基膨润土中基团、矿物组分以及Fe的赋存状态和含量变化,并对其中Si元素在北山地下水中的溶解性进行测试。结果表明,随着累积辐照剂量的增加,膨润土中Fe(Ⅱ)含量明显增大,Fe(Ⅲ)含量显著减小;可溶性偏硅酸根随累积辐照剂量的增加而增加;辐射后膨润土的相关基团数量有所变化,蒙脱石含量增加,石英和钠长石含量下降,但没有发生种类变化。总体而言,γ辐照引起了高庙子天然钠基膨润土某些参数的显著变化,具体变化有待深入研究。     

Direct and indirect luminescence dating of tephra: A review

In Quaternary studies, tephras are widely used as marker horizons to correlate geological deposits. Therefore, accurate and precise dating is crucial. Among radiometric dating techniques, luminescence dating has the potential to date tephra directly using glass shards, volcanic minerals that formed during the eruption or mineral fragments that originate from the shattered country rock. Moreover, sediments that frame the tephra can be dated to attain an indirect age bracket. A review of numerous luminescence dating studies highlights the method's potential and challenges. While reliable direct dating of volcanic quartz and feldspar as a component in tephra is still methodically difficult mainly due to thermal and athermal signal instability, red thermoluminescence of volcanic quartz and the far-red emission of volcanic feldspar have been used successfully. Furthermore, the dating of xenolithic quartz within tephra shows great potential. Numerous studies date tephra successfully indirectly. Dating surrounding sediments is generally straightforward as long as samples are not taken too close to the tephra horizons. Here, issues arise from the occurrence of glass shards within the sediments or unreliable determination of dose rates. This includes relocation of radioelements, mixing of tephra into the sediment and disregarding different dose rates of adjacent material.     

Accumulation of structural radiation defects in quartz in cooling systems: basis for dating

Determination of the mineral age based on the creation of radiation structure defects depends on the thermal stability of these defects. Accumulation of radiation defects in solids in cooling systems taking into account their time dependent first-order as well as second-order annihilation is analyzed theoretically. Second-order kinetics in comparison with first-order leads to increased duration of a transitional period and to a lower accumulation rate. The contribution of the transitional period is determined by the cooling rate of the geological system and by the production rate of structure defects. Resulting formulas are applied for dating rock-forming quartz from the Eldzhurtinsky granite massif (Great Caucasus, Russia) with the help of electron paramagnetic resonance. It is shown that the EPR age calculated with the formulas derived in this study in comparison with the results of the conventional additive dose technique is closer to the results of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating. Due to annihilation of radiation defects even at low temperature the EPR dating method can be applied to a limited time range. Received: 18 March 1997 / Revised, accepted: 28 July 1997     

Dating of a volcanic rock by electron spin resonance

The age of a volcanic rock has been determined by ESR dating using the Ge center in quartz. The total dose of natural radiation and the age obtained from the Ge center are 460 krad and 2.07 ± 0.50 Ma, respectively, and those from the unidentified defect at g = 2.011 are 484 krad and 2.16 ± 0.21 Ma, respectively. These dates agree well with the age of 2.0 ± 0.5 Ma determined by the fission-track method. High stress or temperature destroy these accumulated defects but, in the same time, produce a lot of new diamagnetic precursors which enable us to observe the clear ESR signal.     

Optically stimulated luminescence dating of fluvial deposits: a review

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating allows age determination of sediments deposited during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. This relatively new technique therefore enables chronological frameworks to be established for fluvial deposits that often cannot be dated by other means. The OSL signal of quartz and feldspar minerals is reset by light exposure during fluvial transport, and builds up as a result of ionizing radiation after burial of the minerals. Incomplete resetting of the OSL signal because of inadequate light exposure in the fluvial environment can result in age overestimations, especially for relatively young samples. Methods used for the detection of incomplete resetting, or poor bleaching, are reviewed. It is argued that technique s measuring the OSL signal from small subsamples (aliquots) are most promising for detecting poor bleaching and for obtaining the true age for a sample in which not all grains had their OSL signal completely removed at deposition. Quartz should be the mineral of choice, because it has been shown to yield the most reliable results and because its OSL signal is more rapidly reset than that of feldspar. Aliquot size should be small, with aliquots ideally consisting of a single grain of quartz for samples in which the majority of grains are poorly bleached. Using single-aliquot dating of coarse-grain quartz, age offsets between zero and a few thousand years have been found for modern fluvial deposits. The validity of single-aliquot quartz OSL dating has been demonstrated by application to known-age samples, but for the older age range (>˜13 ka) further proof of the accuracy of the method is essential. The application of quartz OSL dating to investigations of fluvial deposits opens a new realm of possibilities to be explored, as is highlighted by some examples of geological applications.     

贵州荔波第四纪晚近期石笋地质年表与气候事件

南方岩溶区大型石笋年代地层学研究表明石笋是第四纪 (系 )研究的主要对象之一 ,石笋比其他第四纪沉积物更易高精度定年。贵州荔波地区以 6 8个TIMS U系正序平行测年 ,建立了第四纪晚近期 16 2 .3ka以来的地质年表 ,确定全新世与晚更新世以 9.36 3ka分界 ,而晚更新世与中更新世以12 8.5ka分界 ,提出距今 35 0年、2 30 0年……和新仙女木、类Heinrich等一系列冷事件的跃变年代 ,事件的冷暖转 (突 )变时限具区域对比意义。认定应以大型石笋系统测年建立第四纪地质年表 ,不宜用少数测年值按 2～ 3个沉积速率推算建年表 ,亦不宜以小型石笋“系统”测年建年表 ,以免因间断沉积造成自然的、人为的缺层和漏测 ,使年表失实。     

洛川黄土细颗粒混合矿物红外释光信号 异常衰减的初步研究*

对洛川末次冰期的黄土细颗粒混合矿物红外释光(IRSL)信号异常衰减行为的初步研究结果表明: 1)预加热只能部分消除异常衰减对等效剂量测定的影响,不能完全消除这种影响,IRSL异常衰减过程也许存在着热效应和非热效应两种组分; 2)对16个已知年龄的马兰黄土(15~70ka)样品细颗粒混合矿物天然IRSL信号的ED值与期望ED值的比较初步显示,马兰黄土细颗粒混合矿物IRSL信号异常衰减不断发生,导致混合矿物IRSL的年龄测定值可能被低估达20 ％ 以上。