氟碳钙铈矿的42R、48R的16H新多型

采用CM12透射电镜,对我国四川昌北M稀土矿床中的氟碳钙铈矿微结构特征作了电子衍射分析和晶格象观察,揭示出氟碳钙铈矿晶体中混合多型体的堆垛序列,在不同部分观测到不同的多型体,其中以氟碳钙铈矿6R多型为常见普通多型体。本次工作发现了42R、48R和16H三种新多型,并进一步证明,氟碳钙铈矿晶体中存在的多型结构相当复杂,但以长周期堆垛形成的多型体出现的几率要比短周期堆垛的多型体少得多。     

钙稀土氟碳酸盐矿物中新多型体的HREM研究

利用高分辨电子显微术（ＨＲＥＭ）研究了钙稀土氟碳酸盐矿物系列中氟碳铈矿（Ｂ）／直氟碳钙铈矿（Ｓ）的混层结构。发现并确定了Ｂ＿５Ｓ＿２（ＩＨ，３Ｒ）、Ｂ＿５Ｓ＿４（３Ｒ，６Ｒ）和Ｂ＿（１８）Ｓ＿（１０）（ＩＨ）规则混层矿物中５种新多型的晶体结构类型、晶胞参数以及理论晶体化学式等。ＨＲＥＭ研究揭示出，在Ｂ＿ｍＳ＿ｎ（ｍ＞ｎ）型规则混层矿物新多型体的结晶过程中，成矿地质环境是复杂的。阐明了这些多型体是由该系列矿物中的氟碳铈矿（Ｂ）和直氟碳钙铈矿（Ｓ）结构单元层以不同比例沿ｃ轴方向的有序堆垛构成。     

氟碳钙铈矿中6R和3R多型微双晶结构的透射电镜研究

采用透射电镜技术,对产于我国西南地区的钙稀土氟碳酸盐矿物出现的微结构特征进行了研究。发现氟碳钙铈矿6R和3R两种多型均存在微双晶结构。电子衍射分析和晶格像观察表明,既使在微区范围,氟碳钙铈矿也多以混层晶、多型和微体双晶等衍生体产出。6R和3R多型微双晶共格连生,与主衍射体6R多型共存于一种自然晶粒,它们均以间距为1.40nm的单元层组成氟碳钙铈矿“多晶”。6R和3R多型组成的双晶类型相同,属(0001)为双晶面的面律(旋转)双晶。     

Distribution and occurrence of some naturally‐occurring polytypes of molybdenite in Australia and Papua New Guinea

156 samples of naturally‐occurring molybdenite from 87 localities in Australia have been examined to determine the distribution of the hexagonal (2H₁) and rhombohedral (3R) polytypes. 90% of the specimens examined are 2H₁ polytypes, the remainder being 3R and mixtures of 2H₁ and 3R polytypes. The 3R and mixed polytypes are more abundant in porphyry copper deposits or as disseminations, in veins, and in garnet‐quartz pipes in granite. 2H₁ polytypes are the sole modification observed in pegmatites, quart‐pegmatite pipes, simple quartz veins, and skarns.

The highest average concentrations of rhenium are in molybdenite from porphyry copper deposits, quartz porphyry pipes, skarn deposits, garnet‐quartz pipes, and pegmatites. Low concentrations occur in molybdenite which is disseminated or in quartz veins in granite and in quartz or pegmatitic pipes. Molybdenites in which the 2H₁ polytype is dominant have a lower average rhenium content than those with dominant 3R polytype.     

钙稀土氟碳酸盐矿物中不同多型体间共晶格取向连生的微结构研究

利用透射电子显微镜研究钙稀土氟碳酸盐矿物中不同多型体间共晶格取向连生的微结构，发现氟碳钙铈矿（ＢＳ）及Ｂ＿２Ｓ规则混层矿物不同多型体之间存在５种新的共晶格取向连生现象，共晶格取向连生面网为（０００１）．研究表明，多型体间共晶格取向连生结构与Ｂ＿ｍＳ＿ｎ型规则混层矿物、多型体、微体双晶和矿物种间的共晶格取向连生等以衍生体的形式共存于氟碳钙柿矿自然品位之中。这种多型休间共晶格取向连生结构的形成可能与氟碳钙柿矿中ＣＯ＿３在结构层间的分布和排列有关。     

Polytype distribution of circumstellar silicon carbide: microstructural characterization by transmission electron microscopy

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a particularly interesting species of presolar grain because it is known to form on the order of a hundred different polytypes in the laboratory, and the formation of a particular polytype is sensitive to growth conditions. Astronomical evidence for the formation of SiC in expanding circumstellar atmospheres of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) carbon stars is provided by infrared (IR) studies. However, identification of the crystallographic structure of SiC from IR spectra is controversial. Since >95% of the presolar SiC isolated from meteorites formed around carbon stars, a determination of the structure of presolar SiC is, to first order, a direct determination of the structure of circumstellar SiC. We therefore determined the polytype distribution of presolar SiC from the Murchison CM2 carbonaceous meteorite using analytical and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). High-resolution lattice images and electron diffraction of 508 individual SiC grains demonstrate that only two polytypes are present, the cubic 3C (β-SiC) polytype (79.4% of population by number) and the hexagonal 2H (α-SiC) polytype (2.7%). Intergrowths of these two polytypes are relatively abundant (17.1%). No other polytypes were found. A small population of one-dimensionally disordered SiC grains (0.9%), whose high density of stacking faults precluded classification as any polytype, was also observed. The presolar origin of 2H α-SiC is unambiguously established by tens-of-nanometers-resolution secondary ion mass spectroscopy (NanoSIMS). Isotopic maps of a TEM-characterized 2H α-SiC grain exhibit non-solar isotopic compositions of ¹²C/¹³C = 64 ± 4 and ¹⁴N/¹⁵N = 575 ± 24. These measurements are consistent with mainstream presolar SiC thought to originate in the expanding atmospheres of AGB carbon stars. Equilibrium condensation calculations together with inferred mineral condensation sequences predict relatively low SiC condensation temperatures in carbon stars. The laboratory observed condensation temperatures of 2H and 3C SiC are generally the lowest of all SiC polytypes and fall within the predictions of the equilibrium calculations. These points account for the occurrence of only 2H and 3C polytypes of SiC in circumstellar outflows. The 2H and 3C SiC polytypes presumably condense at different radii (i.e., temperatures) in the expanding stellar atmospheres of AGB carbon stars.     

Polysynthetically-twinned structures of enstatite and wollastonite

Crystal structures of clinoenstatite, orthoenstatite, wollastonite-1T and wollastonite-2M (parawollastonite) were refined to an R factor 3–4 percent level. Molar volumes at room temperature are 31.270(15), 31.315(8), 39.842(5) and 39.901(10) cm³/MSiO₃, in the above-mentioned order, indicating that one-layer polytypes (clinoenstatite and wollastonite-1T) are stable at higher pressures than two-layer polytypes (orthoenstatite and wollastonite-2M). The polytypic relation of the enstatite polytypes can be described by four twinning operations — b glide ∥ to (110), a glide ∥ to (001), twofold screw axis ∥ to a (of orthoenstatite) and a twofold screw axis ∥ to c. For the wollastonite polytypes, twinning operations are twofold screw axis ∥ to b and a glide ∥ to (010). Structural adjustments after twinning are not necessarily the largest at the twin boundary (true in enstatite but not so in wollastonite). In both cases octahedral sites that involve bridging oxygens tend to show relatively large changes. Lattice strain ellipsoids associated with twinning are also different for enstatite and wollastonite, which implies that wollastonite may react differently from enstatite to non-hydrostatic pressure.     

SMR and Kinematic analysis for slope instability along Bodi-Bodimettu ghat section,Tamil Nadu

This study evaluates slope stability of 19km stretch Bodimettu ghat section, Theni,Tamil Nadu. The study involves 107.8km to 117.5km stretch by dividing it into two zones - Kaththuparai and Bodimettu slope. These two sections are considered for slope stability studies. In this study, analysis of the rock slope stability was performed using Modified SMR technique. Hoek and Bray (1981) analysis have been used for rock cut slopes. 12 rock slopes were identified in Kaththuparai section and four slopes in Bodimettu section. The detailed field investigations were carried out to collect data required for RMR and SMR calculation and SMR was calculated for each section. As per Hoek and Bray (1981) stereographic projection methods, FOS was calculated. In this study, sections R1 and R2 fulfill wedge conditions and R1, R2, R5, R7, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14 and R16 are suitable for planar and stereographic analysis. The details are furnished in this paper. The planar analysis shows that, FOS for the sections R2/J2, R5, R9, R10, and R11/J3 was < 1, and stereographic projection study shows that sections R2, R5, R7, R9, R10, R11/J3 and R13 are present in unstable zone.     

Wollastonite polytypes in the CaO-SiO2 system.

This work deals with the identification and kinetics of crystallisation of the wollastonite polytypes which form in the system CaO-SiO₂ in the temperature range 700–1000 °C. The kinetics of phase transformations in the system have been determined from analysis of in situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data. Two different systems with the same compositions were investigated: one is more reactive, having grains with a larger surface area per unit volume, the other is less reactive, being composed of grains with a smaller surface area per unit volume. 1T-wollastonite forms first and progressively transforms in an intermediate 1Td-wollastonite disordered form. Both phases in turn transform into 2M-wollastonite polytype. Differences in the polytypes forming and reaction kinetics were observed for the two systems. In the more reactive system, the conversion 1T to 1Td polytypes is the dominant process. The kinetic parameters calculated using the Avrami models fully describe the reaction process of formation of both polytypes and transformation of one polytype into the other. Received: 3 August 1999 / Accepted: 20 March 2000     

Lithostratigraphical correlation of the Neoproterozoic Roan Supergroup from Shaba (Zaire) and Zambia, in the central African copper-cobalt metallogenic province

New data on the lower Katangan sequences in Shaba (Zaire) and Zambia, collected during the 1989 and 1990 UNESCO-sponsored Geotraverses, reveal an important development on friction breccias throughout the Zambian Copperbelt, which still remains poorly documented, and shows that the Zairean and Zambian facies of the Roan Supergroup can be correlated in detail.As in Zaire, the deformation of Katangan terranes during the Lufilian orogeny produced important friction breccias in Zambia. Such breccias occur mostly between the upper part of the Lower Roan Supergroup and the Mwashya Group (R-4): above the shale with grit (RL3) at Konkola and Mindola, or within the Upper Roan Dolomite at Chambishi South, Muliashi and Nchanga. At Mufulira, a typical fragment of Shaba Mines Group was observed within a major heterogeneous tectonic breccia. This situation is similar to that reported at Kipapila (Kimpe) and Lubembe in Zaire, both located on the same tectonic trend as Mufulira.However, a continuous stratigraphical succession can be observed in Zambia from the basal unconformity to the Mwashya Group. Strong lithological similarities were found, formation by formation, between the Roan sequences of Zambia and Zaire. In particular, the complete Mines Group of Zaire (R-2) and the units from the RL6 to the RL4 in Zambia were deposited under comparable conditions of sedimentation and show a similar and correlatable evolution of lithologies. Furthermore, the overlying Dipeta Group (R-3) of Zaire and the RL3, RU2/RU1 of Zambia, are equally comparable. Above the Upper Roan Dolomite, Lower Mwashya dolomitic rocks, identical with the ones of Shaba, have been noted to occur in Zambia in stratigraphical continuity with the typical black shales of the Upper Mwashya. The correlation between the coarse clastics of the Zambian footwall (RL7) and the red dolomitic argillites and sandstones of the Zairean R.A.T. (Roches Argillo Talqueuses: R-1) remains uncertain. However these two sequences show some similarities suggesting a lateral facies change from high-energy siliciclastic sedimentation in Zambia, to quieter, less clastic and more carbonate rich sedimentation in Zaire.In agreement with the proposed lithostratigraphical correlation, volcanic and pyroclastic rocks, occurring both in Zaire and Zambia in the Lower Mwashya, testify to a major period of igneous activity in the region. Intrusive rocks found in the Zambian Roan Group and in the Zairean Dipeta Group can probably be attributed to the same episode of magmatism.Finally it can be shown that several copper-cobalt orebodies are found at the same lithostratigraphical position in Zambia and Zaire: the Zambian ore shale corresponds to the classical Shaba orebodies at the base of the Mines Group (R-2), the Nchanga upper orebody to the lower R-2.3 mineralization and the Zambian RL3 anomalous copper occurrences to those of the R-3.1.2 Dipeta unit.     

A spessartite-rich alteration assemblage from the Bega Granite,N.S.W., Australia

Pipe deposits of quartz-bismuthinite-molybdenite in the roof zone of a granitic pluton metasomatised to a leucocratic soda syenite are surrounded by concentric spessartitic and sericitic alteration zones. Chemical and petrographic data on the alteration zones are presented. It is suggested that the alteration has formed from laterally moving acidic hydrothermal solutions which changed in composition as a result of reaction. The lateral change in MoS₂ from the 2H polytype of the pipes to mixtures of the 2H and 3R polytypes in the surrounding altered rocks may reflect the lateral changes of solution chemistry.     

Reply: Middle Pleistocene sedimentation at Pakefield,Suffolk, England: a response to Lee et al. (2006) P. L. Gibbard,A. Moscariello,H. W. Bailey,S. Boreham,C. Koch,A. R. Lord,J. E. Whittaker,C. A. Whiteman

Journal of Quaternary Science Published online 9 August 2007. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1118 The above paper was incorrectly titled. The correct title should be: Comment: Middle Pleistocene sedimentation at Pakefield, Suffolk, England J. R. LEE, J. ROSE, I. CANDY and R. W. BARENDREGT (2006) Journal of Quaternary Science 21 : 155–179 The error will be corrected prior to print publication.     

滇西澜沧变质带中白云母的研究及其地质意义

本文以滇西澜沧变质带中最为广泛分布的造岩矿物—白云母为对象，详细研究和 分析了其成分、多型类型及ba值等，探讨了白云母的发育规律。研究结果表明，本带中绝大多数白云母为多硅白云母，且为3T+2M,型，与蓝闪石共生的则以3T多硅白云母为主。此外，斓沧变质 带经历了蓝闪石片岩亚相的高压变质作用，与古特提斯构造演化密切相突，并可与世界著名的高 压带对比。     

自然界中的辉锑矿-硒锑矿矿物系列

自然界中的辉锑矿-硒锑矿系列发现于西秦岭寒武系拉尔玛、邛莫金矿床中。与其密切共生的矿物有硒汞矿、硒铅矿、硒质块硫锑铜矿、硒镍矿、自然金以及石英、重晶石等。辉锑矿–硒锑矿系列的显微压力硬度为101.26~103 kg/mm²。主要元素的质量分数为: Sb 43.78%~73.81%,S 0.00%~28.76%,Se 0.00%~49.72%(但缺乏30.59%~43.04%之间的数据)。根据电子探针分析数据中Se/(S+Se)比值(原子比),可将所测矿物系列划分为(含硒质)辉锑矿、硒质辉锑矿、硫质硒锑矿和(含硫质)硒锑矿。矿物系列代表性的反射率(%)：(470 nm)Rg’=42.62~47.62,Rp’=30.83~40.55;(550 nm)Rg’=41.84~46.75,Rp’=31.48~38.85;(590 nm)Rg’=42.25~46.63,Rp’=30.73~39.46;(650 nm)Rg’=43.30~46.48,Rp’=30.01~41.56。两个含Se量为3%~5%含硒质辉锑矿的晶胞参数值为:a=1.120 9~1.121 2 nm,b=1.1299~1.130 3 nm,c=0.384 7~0.384 9 nm;而硫质硒锑矿、硒锑矿的晶胞参数值分别为：a=1.159 1~1.159 3 nm;b=1.172 4~1.174 7 nm;c=0.394 1~0.398 4 nm。晶胞参数的变化与矿物中硫、硒含量变化密切相关。     

Polysomatism,polytypism, defect microstructures,and reaction mechanisms in regularly and randomly interstratified serpentine and chlorite

High-resolution (HRTEM) and analytical electron (AEM) microscopic evidence for a polysomatic series based on regular interstratifications of serpentine (amesite) and chlorite (clinochlore) are reported from an altered skarn in Irian Jaya. The assemblage includes regular interstratifications of one clinochlore and two (2:1; three structural variants), three (3:1), and four (4:1) amesite composition 1:1 layers as well as randomly interstratified serpentine and chlorite. The order of abundance of regularly interstratified minerals is 1:1>2:1>4:1>3:1. Atomic-resolution images, image simulations, and comparison between calculated and observed diffracted intensities verify the proposed 1:1 and 2:1 structures and reveal details of their defect microstructures. AEM data show that compositions are linear combinations of the associated amesite and clinochlore. The 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1 minerals occur both as discrete sub-micron crystals and as domains within serpentine or chlorite. Some crystals of the 2:1 phase were sufficiently large for study by X-ray precession and powder methods. Crystals of the regularly interstratified 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1 phases are usually bent. High-resolution images reveal that, within polygonal segments, the layers commonly exhibit a few degrees of curvature with segments separated by antigorite-type offsets. Deformed chlorite crystals are probably replaced by interstratified minerals during an aluminum metasomatic event. Al may have been deposited from sulfuric acid-rich solutions when they interacted with calcite and dolomite to form the anhydrite-rich corona around the phyllosilicate-rich region of the core. The interstratified chlorite (clinochlore composition) suggests aluminum addition by selective conversion of a sub-set of the chlorite layers to amesite. Defect microstructures suggest that crystals of regularly interstratified material grew by direct structural modification of preexisting chlorite. Regular interstratifications may form in response to thermally controlled limits on Al solubility in chlorite and heterogeneities in the distribution of Al-rich solutions during metasomatism. Regularly interstratified minerals coexist with randomly interstratified serpentine/chlorite, chrysotile, antigorite, lizardite, and several amesite and chlorite polytypes. Tentative chlorite and amesite identifications include one-layer (b=97°, probably IIbb), one-layer (b=90, possibly Ibb), two-, and three-layer chlorites, and 2H₁ (but possibly 1M or 1T), rhombohedral (3R or 6R), and twelve-layer (Tc; non standard) serpentine polytypes. The complex phyllosilicates attest to rampant chemical and structural disequilibrium.     

Mechanisms of polytype stabilization during the wurtzite-sphalerite transition

Two mechanisms of solid-state formation of polytypes are suggested. The first is structural-kinetic by nature, the stabilization of short-period polytype (for example, 4H) being due to the fact that there are two possible structural types of nuclei in the wurtzite structure: when new phase growth takes place by means of two-dimensional nucleation, these short-period polytypes become kinetically stable although they do not correspond to the minimum of free energy, and appear as transitional phases. The second mechanism of polytype formation below the transition temperature is influenced by impurities which stabilize the hexagonal modification, in which case polytypes may arise as states that are stable with respect to a diffusionless structural wurtzite-sphalerite transformation and metastable relative to small fluctuations of impurity concentration.     

Synthesis of New Polytypic Modifications of Fe7C3 at 5.5 GPa

Doklady Earth Sciences - The results of experimental synthesis of carbide Fe7C3 at 5.5 GPa are presented. It is found that carbide Fe3C and several polytypes of carbide Fe7C3 are formed along with...     

寿山叶蜡石矿床中叶蜡石的多型及其转变

叶蜡石具有1Tc和2M_1两种多型。寿山叶蜡石矿床中的叶蜡石不但具有普遍报道的2M_1型及1Tc与2M_1的混合型,而且具有同类矿床中少见的、但在本区却大量出现的1Tc型。本文对寿山叶蜡石多型变体的X射线衍射特征、镜下特征及化学成分特征作了写实性描述,指出本区叶蜡石存在着2M_1型向1Tc型转变的客观事实,并可能存在二者的中间类型;探讨了叶蜡石多型转变的条件,提出“表生溶液”是实现该转变的主要因素。     

A study in early diagenesis: Biomarker composition of a suite of immature coals and coaly shales

A suite of samples from the Funan Mine, N.E. China, has allowed a comparison to be made between hydrocarbon-rich coals and coaly shales. These are immature coals and the known geological history suggests that they have experienced only a mild geothermal history. Analyses of the di- and sesquiterpenoid components show that compounds based on the kaurane skeleton are absent unlike Australian brown coals; and the diterpenes isopimarane, pimarane and 16α (H)-phyllocladane relate to a different community of higher plants such as Pinaceae and Taxodiaceae from those recognized in Australian brown coals. A consideration of geochimical parameters and biomarker composition leads to the conclusion that the geolipid concentrations in the sample suite are environmentally determined. It is concluded, therefore, that 22R-17β (H),21β (H)-bishomohopanoic acid and the 22R-17α (H),21β (H)-homohopane, both predominant components in their respective classes, are derived from different sources. Labdanic acids have been identified in these coals. They are likely to be derived from resin constituents of the coal and not from microbial biomass. They could potentially be developed as a maturation parameter. Cis and trans isomers of a triaromatic hydrocarbon based on the oleanane skeleton which has been previously identified in Victorian brown coal are present in the Funan coals. The more oxidizing the environment the less advanced is the isomerization of cis to trans and again the environment of deposition is the controlling factor. This study emphasizes the importance of understanding pathways of early diagenesis for the interpretation of data derived from more mature samples.     

Oxygen isotopic SIMS analysis in Allende CAI: details of the very early thermal history of the solar system

The oxygen isotopic micro-distributions within and among minerals in a coarse-grained Ca, Al-rich inclusion (CAI), 7R-19-1 from the Allende meteorite, were measured by in situ using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). All values of O isotopic ratios in 7R-19-1 minerals fall along the carbonaceous chondrite anhydrous mineral mixing (CCAM) line on a δ¹⁷O_SMOW vs. δ¹⁸O_SMOW plot. Major refractory minerals (spinel, fassaite and melilite) in 7R-19-1 showed large negative anomalies of Δ¹⁷O in the order, spinel (−21‰) > ¹⁶O-rich melilite (∼−18‰) > fassaite (−15 to +1‰) > ¹⁶O-poor melilite (−8 to +2‰). However, the lower limit values of Δ¹⁷O are similar at about −21‰, a value commonly observed in CAIs. The similarity in the extreme values of the isotope anomaly anomalies suggests that crystallization of all CAIs started from an ¹⁶O enrichment of 21‰ (Δ¹⁷O) relative to terrestrial values. The order of the O isotopic anomalies observed for 7R-19-1, except for ¹⁶O-poor melilite, is parallel to the crystallization sequence determined by experiment from CAI liquid (Stolper, 1982), indicating that the O isotopic exchange in 7R-19-1 occurred between CAI melt and surrounding gas while 7R-19-1 was crystallizing from the ¹⁶O enriched CAI liquid (∼−21‰ in Δ¹⁷O) in the ¹⁶O-poor solar nebula. However, the a single crystallization sequence during the cooling stage cannot explain the existence of ¹⁶O-poor melilite. The presence of ¹⁶O-poor melilite suggests that multiple heating events occurred during CAI formation. The sharp contact between ¹⁶O-rich and ¹⁶O-poor melilite crystals and within ¹⁶O-rich melilite indicates that these multiple heatings occurred quickly. Based on the O isotopic and chemical compositions, fassaite crystals were aggregates of relic crystals formed from CAI melt whichthat have had various O isotopic compositions from the remelting processes. The results of intra-mineral distributions of O isotopes also support multiple heating events during CAI formation.