岩石显微构造分析现代技术——EBSD技术及应用

EBSD技术的发展，为岩石显微构造分析开辟了一个全新的领域。它与现代扫描电子显微镜和能谱分析等设备配合，可以同时对块状样品进行晶体结构与成分分析,从而使显微构造、微区成分与结晶学数据分析有机结合起来。 EBSD技术可以精确、快速定量标定包括各种晶系晶体颗粒的晶格方位和描述晶体颗粒的边界、形态等特征，对于具有低角度边界的晶体颗粒提供精确数据,为阐述岩石变形机制提供重要约束，并为高级晶族和不透明矿物结晶学组构与变形机制研究提供了有效的手段。EBSD尤其使获取微米级甚至纳米级尺度上颗粒（亚颗粒）或相之间的定向差别（达到20 nm的空间分辨率和0.3度角度分辨率）成为可能。EBSD技术在矿物相鉴定、亚微域内的应变分析、矿物出溶作用等方面的应用，进一步证明了这一新技术在显微构造分析及相关领域的应用前景。其广泛应用必将带来岩石显微构造研究的新突破，也将成为未来岩石变形机制与岩石圈流变学研究取得飞速发展不可或缺的技术手段。     

电子背散射衍射（EBSD）技术在大陆动力学研究中的应用

电子背散射衍射（Electron backscatter diffraction,简称EBSD）技术可以快捷准确地进行物相鉴定,确定矿物晶体的晶格优选定向和多相岩石中各矿物的空间分布,使其成为定量研究岩石显微构造的理想工具。将岩石组构测量、野外地质观察与矿物的变形实验研究相结合,可以判别物质运动的剪切指向和变形的温压条件,从而进行运动学和动力学机制的分析。本文首先介绍了EBSD技术的原理和主要矿物组构的实验研究进展,然后以国土资源部大陆动力学重点实验室5年来的成果为例,总结了EBSD技术在研究大陆深俯冲和折返的动力学机制和大陆造山带动力学研究中的应用。结果表明：橄榄石和绿辉石的组构揭示了板块深俯冲阶段的组构运动学特征,而石英、斜长石和夕线石的组构可以用来研究地壳内大型韧性剪切带的变形历史,如与苏鲁超高压变质岩折返相关的韧性剪切带、龙门山逆冲剪切带、西昆仑康西瓦走滑剪切带和喜马拉雅造山带的康马拆离剪切带。因此,EBSD技术的应用有助于实现显微构造与宏观构造相结合,建立变质-变形-运动学相统一的地球动力学模型。     

岩石组构学研究的最新技术——电子背散射衍射(EBSD)

岩石组构分析是构造地质学研究的一项基础工作,对理解许多地质过程非常关键。岩石组构学的理论研究和测试技术手段都有很大发展,取得了许多重要成果。最近十几年来,装备在扫描电镜上的电子背散射衍射（EBSD）新技术日臻成熟,已经成为地球科学和材料科学组构分析的强有力手段。作为革命性的新技术,EBSD的量化显微构造数据在地质学研究中具有广泛的应用前景,例如相鉴定、变形机制、位错滑移系、结晶学优选方位（CPO）和变质过程研究等。本文介绍了池际尚教授在开拓我国岩石组构学教学和科学研究以及人才培养方面的重要贡献,同时阐述了EBSD的仪器组成、基本原理和应用范围及其与费氏台、X射线衍射、中子衍射和透射电镜优缺点的对比,并展示了该方法在大别-苏鲁超高压榴辉岩组构分析中的应用。     

迁安铁矿变形岩石的EBSD组构分析

迁安铁矿是我国大型沉积变质型铁矿之一,该矿区含矿变质岩系为前寒武纪老变质岩石,时代老,变质程度深,现存岩石的内部矿物发生过多次变形、变质和重结晶等变化,宏观上表现为该区岩石矿物组构的复杂性。为了更深入、清晰地了解该区变形岩石的组构,采用电子背散射衍射(EBSD)技术对该区岩石样品做了分析,通过EBSD系统的配套软件(HKL公司开发的Channel 5),对采集数据进行处理绘制成相应磁铁矿和石英的极图,经分析后重点总结出变形岩石内部石英的组构特点,由此进一步反映出本区构造变形时主要为中温-中高温的变形温度环境,少量组构图反映叠加了中低温变形。     

祁连山玉石沟橄榄岩显微构造特征及演化

橄榄岩作为上地幔的主要成分,影响着上地幔的流变学行为,其显微构造记录了岩石形成发展过程中所经受的构造事件.通过对祁连山玉石沟橄榄岩样品的镜下显微构造观察、岩石组构测定及TEM位错分析,探讨了与变形相关的温度、围压、含水性和应变速率等因素,总结该岩石的变形机制和变形历史,并推断其形成发展时大地构造环境.研究表明,玉石沟橄榄岩产自上地幔,其变形改造经历了上地幔演化和脆-韧性变形2个阶段.上地幔演化阶段橄榄石发育明显的A型原生组构,电子背散射衍射技术（EBSD）测定的橄榄石显微组构表明,该地区橄榄岩形成于高温（＞ 1200℃）、低应力（＜350 MPa）、低应变速率、低含水量的地幔浅部环境条件下;脆-韧性变形阶段叠加改造了原生A型组构,而发育明显的D型次生组构.橄榄石变形主控因素为动态恢复作用,普遍发育亚晶粒、消光带和扭折显微构造等相关组构,并与透射电镜下所观察到的位错排对应,同时还发育以微破裂为主的一套脆性变形组构,表现出两组共轭剪破裂和另一组张性破裂等现象,揭示出与韧性动态恢复现象一致的应力场方向指示.     

电子背散射衍射(EBSD)技术在地壳构造变形研究中的应用

电子背散射衍射(EBSD)技术是岩组学研究的一项革命性新技术。该技术可以对传统的岩石薄片进行分析,实用性高,观测精度达到亚微米级别。配合扫描电子显微镜、阴极发光、波谱、能谱分析设备,EBSD技术可以对透明和非透明的任何对称性晶体进行取向测量,快速获取晶体显微结构、微区成分与晶体学参数,可以对晶体开展形貌观察、晶体优选方向(CPO)、取向差分析、物相鉴定、应变测量、晶界分析、变形机制、位错滑移系、晶内变形、温压条件研究。结合聚焦离子束(FIB)技术,可以获取矿物的三维结构图像。对地壳的主要矿物进行组构分析,结合野外矿物变形特征与试验岩石学研究成果,可以开展地壳构造运动学、动力学的研究。本文介绍岩组学的研究历史,以及EBSD技术在地壳常见矿物石英、钾长石、斜长石、角闪石以及假熔岩构造变形研究中的最新进展与典型实例,并对EBSD研究结果中一些潜在的不确定性因素进行了讨论。     

苏南地区几条北西向断裂显微构造与组构的初步研究

地壳发生的一切变形都是地应力作用的结果。在构造应力作用下,组成地壳的岩石、矿物必然发生变形,这些变形也必然在岩石、矿物内遗留下各种构造形迹——显微构造;同时,矿物的形体方位和晶格方位也会产生相应的定向排列(优选方位)——组构。近年来,显微构造与组构的研究不仅用于地质构造的运动学和动力学研究,而且日益受到构造地质、地震地质和岩石力学的研究者们的重视。     

变形矿物岩石显微构造研究的进展

变形矿物岩石的显微构造研究与组构分析,有助于阐明和恢复岩石变形过程中的环境条件和变形历史。因此,凡是与岩石变形有关的地质学问题,变形显微构造研究和组构分析都可以直接或间接地发挥作用。近年来,地学工作者越来越清楚地认识到,大型、中型、小型与微型构造之间存在密切的联系和成因上的相似性,也更加注意到结晶物质在变形过程中不     

构造地质研究中应用x光岩组方法需注意的几个问题

本文简述了x光岩组分析的特点和样品的选择,重点阐述了石英组构特征与岩石整体变形及石英矿物粒内变形的关系。在介绍石英x光极图转换成石英光轴图的方法之后,作者运用实例说明了将x光岩组方法与其它显微构造及组构方法(如费氏台岩组测量)结合起来,可获得更多的信息用于构造地质研究。      

辽东鞍山齐大山韧性剪切带运动学解析及形成机制

关于太古宙早期地壳演化构造机制的争论已经持续了数十年,其焦点主要集中于水平构造还是垂向构造两大经典构造模式的探讨.对于早期地壳构造演化方面的研究,将会有助于我们更好地理解早前寒武纪的地球动力学机制.本文对华北克拉通东北部鞍山地区花岗-绿岩带内齐大山韧性剪切带的构造变形特征进行了详细的解析,揭示了该区新太古代垂向构造作用样式.研究结果表明,齐大山韧性剪切带内花岗质岩石长英质矿物塑性拉长特征明显,条带状构造发育,面理向NWW方向陡倾,不对称组构特征和矿物拉伸线理产状指示向NWW的陡倾正滑移剪切作用.变形岩石中的长英质矿物均发育中低温显微变形特征,石英C轴电子背散射衍射（EBSD）组构分析揭示石英以菱面＜a＞和底面＜a＞滑移系为主,岩石经历了中低温非共轴变形.根据矿物的变形行为以及石英的结晶优选方位推测变形温度约为400~500℃,岩石变形特征以位错蠕变为主.有限应变分析结果表明,靠近铁矿带方向,构造岩类型由L=S构造岩过渡为LS构造岩,岩石应变强度呈明显增强趋势.运动学涡度测量结果显示齐大山韧性剪切带内大多数岩石样品的W_k值大于0.75,岩石形成于以简单剪切作用为主的一般剪切作用.对比花岗-绿岩带西侧的白家坟韧性剪切带,显示二者均具有相向的陡倾正滑移运动学特征,表明新太古代时期鞍山地区地壳构造演化模式以垂向构造作用为主.      

Polymineralic orientation analysis of magmatic rocks using Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction: Implications for igneous fabric origin and evolution

Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction (EBSD), which provides an easy way of acquiring large numbers of individual crystallographic orientation data from different phases, has been applied to the study of magmatic fabrics. Using this technique, the crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) of plagioclase, biotite, orthopyroxene, hornblende and quartz in natural tonalites and quartzdiorites (from the Santa Olalla Igneous Complex, SW Iberia) deformed during the magmatic stage have been determined. Plagioclase is the coarser phase defining the main fabric in each sample, whereas biotite can display either the same fabric as plagioclase or a completely different one. The differences between these two phases occur because: (1) smaller phases interact with the larger ones to produce more random orientations, (2) under simple shear, finer phases can completely rotate giving a girdle included in the XZ plane, (3) finer phases can more easily preserve relict fabrics, while the coarser phases are completely reoriented by the last stress tensor. The last phases to crystallize show weak to completely random CPOs (hornblende) or completely random distributions (quartz). The study was completed with a shape preferred orientation analysis using the Intercept Method in order to detect weak magmatic lineations, and numerical modelling simulations of theoretically equivalent simple shear situations for each sample.     

海南文昌二辉橄榄岩中辉石出溶结构的结晶学取向分析

本文用电子背散射衍射技术(electron backscatter diffraction,EBSD)测试了海南文昌玄武岩中二辉橄榄岩包体中的辉石主晶与其出溶片晶的结晶学取向关系。结合电子探针成分测试,得出:单斜辉石(透辉石)主晶中出溶了两组不同方向的片晶,一组为斜方辉石(顽火辉石-易变辉石)片晶,另一组为单斜辉石(普通辉石)片晶。由于出溶片晶在EBSD测试切面上体现为以线状体,因此需要找到一种方法将线状体所代表的片晶的晶面符号推算出来。本文介绍了一种利用吴氏网进行坐标系旋转的"晶带相交法",该方法可以作图推算出溶片晶的晶面符号。根据"晶带相交法"得出,斜方辉石(顽火辉石-易变辉石)出溶片晶为(100),单斜辉石(普通辉石)出溶片晶为~(401)。根据前人的研究资料,出溶片晶~(401)可能指示最小出溶压力为9.5~12.5GPa。出溶片晶的结晶学取向涉及到主晶与出溶体的晶体结构匹配关系,并且与出溶温度-压力有关,因此出溶片晶的结晶学取向分析具有晶体化学理论意义和反映地质温压过程的实际意义。这种"晶带相交法"可以推广应用于其他矿物出溶结构的结晶学取向研究中。     

When epitaxy controls garnet growth

Within a mica schist from the coesite-bearing Brossasco-Isasca Unit (Western Alps), microstructural analysis shows that Alpine garnet grains are aligned with the crenulated foliation. Garnet crystallographic orientation was analysed with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD): the obtained crystallographic dispersion patterns and distribution patterns of misorientation axes suggest a strong parallelism of {110} garnet planes with a 56°W-dipping foliation. The data are interpreted as evidence for an epitaxial growth of garnet upon (001) biotite planes, sometime during and/or after dispersion of the biotite/garnet crystals from their initially foliation-parallel orientation by rotation about the Alpine crenulation axis. This interpretation is based on the comparison of the measured EBSD data with: (i) theoretical dispersion trajectories of garnet crystallographic data, (ii) numerically modelled pole figures, and (iii) numerically modelled misorientation axis distribution patterns. Our data suggest that epitaxial growth of garnet upon biotite is allowed by distortion of the pseudohexagonal basal oxygen ring structure on (001) biotite surfaces, and that distortion is driven by introduction of missing ions. Our data further suggest that the spatial distribution of precursor phases influences the distribution patterns of garnet within mica schists.     

Strain distribution across a partially molten middle crust: Insights from the AMS mapping of the Carlos Chagas Anatexite,Araçuaí belt (East Brazil)

The easternmost part of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí belt comprises an anatectic domain that involves anatexites (the Carlos Chagas unit), leucogranites and migmatitic granulites that display a well-developed fabric. Microstructural observations support that the deformation occurred in the magmatic to submagmatic state. Structural mapping integrating field and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) revealed a complex, 3D structure. The northern domain displays gently dipping foliations bearing a NW-trending lineation, southward, the lineation trend progressively rotates to EW then SW and the foliation is gently folded. The eastern domain displays E–W and NE–SW trending foliations with moderate to steeply dips bearing a dominantly NS trending lineation. Magnetic mineralogy investigation suggests biotite as the main carrier of the magnetic susceptibility in the anatexites and ferromagnetic minerals in the granulites. Crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) measurements using the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique suggest that the magnetic fabric comes from the crystalline anisotropy of biotite and feldspar grains, especially. The delineation of several structural domains with contrasted flow fabric suggests a 3D flow field involving westward thrusting orthogonal to the belt, northwestward orogen-oblique escape tectonics and NS orogen-parallel flow. This complex deformation pattern may be due to interplay of collision-driven and gravity-driven deformations.     

西藏马攸木地区雅江南带方辉橄榄岩的显微构造特征及其矿物结构水的初步研究

青藏高原地区广泛出露地幔橄榄岩体,但对其显微构造特征和矿物结构水的研究仍很缺乏。本文以马攸木地区雅江南带方辉橄榄岩为研究对象,采用光学显微镜、电子背散射衍射(EBSD)及傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)对其进行系统分析。研究结果表明:(1)马攸木地区雅江南带方辉橄榄岩中橄榄石发育扭折带和波状消光,并具有显著的结晶学优选方位(A型组构),指示其主导变形机制为位错蠕变;(2)红外光谱测试表明,马攸木方辉橄榄岩中橄榄石几乎没有明显的结构水吸收峰,推断其经历了明显的H丢失。斜方辉石含水量处于85wt ppm~209wt ppm之间,代表地幔源区含水量或其下限值;(3)该区橄榄岩中橄榄石含水量低于包体和造山带橄榄岩中橄榄石含水量,斜方辉石结构水含量则与包体和造山带橄榄岩中斜方辉石的可以比较。我们的研究结果为了解青藏高原地幔橄榄岩中橄榄石的结构水和变形机制提供了初步资料。     

Three-dimensional cathodoluminescence imaging and electron backscatter diffraction: tools for studying the genetic nature of diamond inclusions

As a step towards resolving the genesis of inclusions in diamonds, a new technique is presented. This technique combines cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) using a focused ion beam–scanning electron microscope (FIB–SEM) instrument with the aim of determining, in detail, the three-dimensional diamond zonation adjacent to a diamond inclusion. EBSD reveals that mineral inclusions in a single diamond have similar crystallographic orientations to the host, within ±0.4°. The chromite inclusions record a systematic change in Mg# and Cr# from core to the rim of the diamond that corresponds with a ~80°C decrease of their formation temperature as established by zinc thermometry. A chromite inclusion, positioned adjacent to a boundary between two major diamond growth zones, is multi-faceted with preferred octahedral and cubic faces. The chromite is surrounded by a volume of non-luminescent diamond (CL halo) that partially obscures any diamond growth structures. The CL halo has apparent crystallographic morphology with symmetrically oriented pointed features. The CL halo is enriched in ~200 ppm Cr and ~80 ppm Fe and is interpreted to have a secondary origin as it overprints a major primary diamond growth structure. The diamond zonation adjacent to the chromite is complex and records both syngenetic and protogenetic features based on current inclusion entrapment models. In this specific case, a syngenetic origin is favoured with the complex form of the inclusion and growth layers indicating changes of growth rates at the diamond–chromite interface. Combined EBSD and 3D-CL imaging appears an extremely useful tool in resolving the ongoing discussion about the timing of inclusion growth and the significance of diamond inclusion studies.