冀北中低级变质表壳岩的年代学特征及其对华北克拉通构造演化的约束

华北克拉通在新太古代末期发生克拉通化,形成了现今规模的古陆,大量的太古宙岩石均经历了~2500Ma左右的区域高级变质作用(高角闪岩相-麻粒岩相)。而华北克拉通北部冀北地区出露一套中低级变质(绿片岩相-角闪岩相)的火山-沉积岩系,主要包括胡麻营地区红旗营子表壳岩和大阴山地区单塔子表壳岩中变质程度较低的部分。胡麻营地区红旗营子表壳岩系主要岩石组合为变基性火山岩、绿帘角闪岩、斜长角闪岩、含石榴石斜长角闪岩、角闪斜长片麻岩、黑云斜长片麻岩、黑云角闪斜长片麻岩、黑云二长片麻岩、石英片岩、磁铁石英岩等,SIMS锆石U-Pb定年结果表明斜长角闪岩形成于2486±18Ma(MSWD=1.4),而黑云斜长片麻岩形成于2507±37Ma(MSWD=2.0)。大阴山地区单塔子中低级变质表壳岩系主要由浅变质火山岩、云母石英片岩、斜长角闪岩、磁铁石英岩和大理岩等组成,SHRIMP锆石U-Pb定年结果显示,浅变质火山岩中的变玄武岩形成于2490±19Ma(MSWD=2.0),而变英安岩形成于2502±8Ma(MSWD=0.83)。因此,冀北中低级变质的表壳岩系主要形成于新太古代末期,形成年龄为2507~2486Ma;结合冀东青龙地区新太古代末期(2511~2503Ma)的浅变质火山-沉积岩系(青龙表壳岩),我们认为新太古代末期,中低级变质表壳岩系广泛分布于华北克拉通的核部和边缘地区,此套岩系覆盖在太古宙高级变质杂岩之上,代表华北克拉通化之后的稳定盖层,是克拉通化的主要标志之一。     

龟山杂岩的形成时代、构造属性及变质条件:对秦岭-桐柏造山带构造演化的指示

秦岭-桐柏-大别造山带是华北板块和扬子板块碰撞拼合的产物.桐柏造山带作为古生代秦岭增生造山带与中生代大别碰撞造山带之间的纽带,记录了两大板块之间从洋壳俯冲、地体增生到最终的碰撞造山过程.本文选取桐柏造山带龟山杂岩为研究对象,对其中变沉积岩、斜长角闪岩和花岗质脉体进行了岩相学、矿物学和锆石U-Pb年代学研究.结果指示变沉积岩碎屑锆石年龄峰值主要为～411 Ma,次要年龄峰值为～490 Ma,最年轻四颗碎屑锆石的加权平均年龄为352±11 Ma.斜长角闪岩原岩结晶时代为498±18 Ma,花岗质脉形成时代为412.8±4.4 Ma,两者中变质锆石加权平均年龄为320±10 Ma,指示它们共同经历了早石炭世变质作用.变质峰期温压条件为T=571～632℃,P=0.59～0.76 GPa,属于中压相系角闪岩相变质.区域年代对比分析显示,龟山杂岩变沉积岩物源来自于北侧的北秦岭地体,属于弧前沉积,沉积时代下限为早石炭世早期.结合前人研究,本文认为在古秦岭洋向北的俯冲过程中,上述沉积岩与斜长角闪岩因构造作用拼贴在一起,于～320 Ma发生中压角闪岩相变质作用.该研究结果也指示了古秦岭洋最终闭合时间可能晚于早石炭世早期.     

内蒙古乌拉特中旗色尔腾山岩群东五分子岩组锆石SHRIMP定年及其地质意义

色尔腾山岩群是华北克拉通中西部早前寒武纪变质结晶基底的主要组成部分,对研究华北克拉通基底演化具有十分重要的意义。色尔腾山岩群的形成时代是目前研究的热点之一,本文通过岩石学和锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年研究,查明了内蒙古乌拉特中旗乌兰乡查干哈达地区色尔腾山岩群东五分子岩组的岩石组成和年代学特征。东五分子岩组遭受了后期岩浆和构造作用的强烈破坏,未见顶底,主要由中细粒斜长角闪岩、细粒黑云斜长片麻岩、眼球状细粒黑云斜长片麻岩、条带状细粒黑云斜长片麻岩和细粒黑云角闪片岩组成,矿物组合特征指示岩石经历了低绿片岩相-低角闪岩相变质。其中,眼球状细粒黑云斜长片麻岩出露相对较厚,与细粒黑云斜长片麻岩多呈互层状产出,局部偶夹细粒黑云斜长片麻岩。本次研究选取其中新鲜的细粒黑云斜长片麻岩进行了锆石SHRIMP U-Pb测年分析,其锆石多呈自形-半自形,发育震荡环带,主体为岩浆成因,锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年结果为（1 930.7±9.6）Ma,代表原岩（中酸性火山岩）冷凝结晶年龄,表明东五分子岩组经历变质作用的时代应晚于1 930 Ma。     

内蒙古狼山地区晚太古代变质杂岩特征探讨

狼山位于内蒙古中部巴彦淖尔盟,在狼山主峰出露一套角闪岩相变质杂岩,它主要由角闪斜长片麻岩、黑云斜长片麻岩、斜长角闪岩、角闪岩、黑云变粒岩、黑云石英片岩组成,局部夹磁铁石英岩。其原岩以中、基性火山岩为主,顶部则为变粘土质碎屑岩。这套变质杂岩,至少经历了两期混合岩化作用,它与狼山南、北坡中元古代狼山群有明显的差异,作者对其中黑云斜长片麻岩测得sm—Nd等时线年龄为2735 Ma,证明其时代应为晚太古代。从变质杂岩地层层序、岩石化学、微量元素特征来看,它与绿岩带有许多相似之处。狼山主峰变质杂岩是该区的结晶基底,中元古代狼山群中的层控多金属矿床,就是在该基底上发育的裂陷槽中形成的。结晶基底自身的岩石中,Cu、Pb、Zn、Au等元素含量均较高,亦具有一定的找矿前景。     

内蒙古营盘湾-东五分子一带的色尔腾山岩群的厘定及地质意义

色尔腾山岩群是华北克拉通西部陆块阴山地块早前寒武纪变质基底的主要组成部分,对探讨华北克拉通早前寒武纪基底构造演化有着十分重要的意义。本文根据对营盘湾-东五分子一带的色尔腾山岩群的地质填图、剖面测量、地球化学分析和SHRIMP测年,对色尔腾山岩群的组成、原岩建造、形成环境和形成时代进行了讨论。认为色尔腾山岩群由陈三沟岩组、柳树沟岩组和东五分子岩组组成,陈三沟岩组由灰黑色细粒斜长角闪岩、浅灰色细粒黑云斜长片麻岩夹角闪斜长片麻岩组成;东五分子岩组下段由细粒含石英黑云斜长角闪岩、黑云角闪斜长片麻岩、黑云斜长片麻岩呈韵律产出,顶部为灰白色细粒黑云斜长片麻岩夹薄层磁铁黑云斜长片麻岩,上段为由细粒黑云角闪片岩与浅肉红色黑云长英片麻岩互层,顶部有薄层白色透闪石大理岩;柳树沟岩组以角闪片岩、二云母片岩、二云石英片岩、石榴黑云片岩、黑云母片岩为特征。其原岩总体构成表现为:下部以火山岩为主,上部以碎屑沉积岩和化学沉积岩为主的火山-碎屑沉积建造。火山岩明显富碱,其中酸性火山岩明显富铝、贫镁;具有较高的大离子亲石元素含量、较低的Y和重稀土元素含量;具有轻稀土富集、重稀土亏损的稀土分布形式。地球化学特征与埃达克岩类似,形成于活动大陆边缘的构造环境下。通过对东五分子岩组上部互层产出的细粒长英片麻岩和黑云母片岩分别取样,进行锆石U-Pb SHRIMP测年,分别获得1980±9Ma、1946±16Ma的成岩年龄和1901±15Ma、1893±66Ma的变质年龄。综上所述可以得出,色尔腾山岩群的形成于1.95~1.98Ga之间,是在类似埃达克岩的活动大陆边缘岛弧环境下沉积的,在1.9Ga左右发生碰撞造山而发生变质。     

大别山南部宿松杂岩的U-Pb锆石和Ar-Ar角闪石年龄及其地质意义

大别造山带南部宿松杂岩中花岗片麻岩和斜长角闪岩的U-Pb锆石年龄和Ar/Ar角闪石年龄测定结果表明,二长花岗片麻岩的形成年龄为2018±73Ma和2010±38Ma,白云斜长片麻岩的形成年龄为741±7Ma,宿松杂岩经过228Ma左右的变质作用。这些结果表明大别山南缘存在较大规模的古元古代花岗质结晶基底,广泛分布在宿松杂岩中的花岗片麻岩和由花岗片麻岩强烈剪切变形而成的白云斜长片麻岩、白云钠长石英片岩形成于新元古代,不整合覆于二长花岗片麻岩之上并被新元古代花岗片麻岩侵入的变质沉积岩形成于中元古代晚期-新元古代早期。由此得出,宿松杂岩主要由古元古代二长花岗片麻岩、中新元古代变质沉积岩和新元古代变质花岗岩和变质基性岩组成,因而也是扬子板块的俯冲陆壳基底的一部分。     

Determination of Early Paleozoic metamorphic event in the Longshan Complex and its geological implicationSCIEI北大核心CSCD

长期以来,陇山杂岩的归属问题一直存在争议。本文对出露于秦岭-祁连山结合部位的陇山杂岩中石榴黑云斜长片麻岩和石榴斜长角闪岩进行了详细的岩石学、P-T温压计算、独居石和榍石U-Pb年代学研究。通过详细的岩相学观察,石榴黑云斜长片麻岩的变质峰期矿物组合为石榴子石+黑云母+斜长石+石英;石榴斜长角闪岩中则识别出了以石榴子石+单斜辉石+角闪石+斜长石+石英为峰期的变质矿物组合。通过传统温压计计算,石榴黑云斜长片麻岩(样品21LS40)和石榴斜长角闪岩样品(样品21LS42-1)的峰期变质P-T条件分别为700℃、0.72GPa和710℃、0.74GPa。激光剥蚀电感耦合等离子体质谱(LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb数据表明,石榴黑云斜长片麻岩中独居石的206Pb/238U的加权平均年龄为407~435Ma。石榴斜长角闪岩中榍石的下交点年龄分别为410±7Ma、409±5Ma和426±10Ma,榍石中Zr含量温度计的计算结果分别为750℃、751℃和748℃(假定压力为0.7GPa)。本文从变质作用的角度出发,将陇山杂岩与秦岭杂岩进行温压条件和变质时代对比研究,认为陇山杂岩与东秦岭杂岩高压-超高压岩石的最后一期退变质作用和西秦岭天水地区的秦岭杂岩麻粒岩相变质作用类似,可能为北秦岭造山带的西延。     

南米仓山变质岩变质时代及地质意义

通过对汪家坪岩组的两件黑云斜长变粒岩变质岩样品进行LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年代学研究,获得的~(206)Pb/~(238)U年龄介于843.3~904.9Ma之间,最古老的年龄达1138.46±16.7Ma,表示南米仓山结晶基底在新元古代早期曾发生过强烈的构造-岩浆活动;具有变质锆石特征的样品,获得的年龄数据表明南米仓山地区在新元古代发生过两期变质作用,早期的变质作用峰值年龄约为810.0~900.0Ma,代表着晋宁末期华北大陆板块与扬子板块逐渐对接拼合,古秦岭洋壳迅速向南北两侧俯冲消减事件;晚期变质作用发生在约为550.0~760.0Ma,记录了这一阶段的澄江期岩浆热事件引起的接触变质事件。     

秦岭岩群中两类斜长角闪岩的性质和时代及其地质意义

在北秦岭造山带核部秦岭岩群内发育两类不同产状的斜长角闪岩.一类与秦岭岩群中的大理岩紧密共生,呈规模较大的似层状或较小块体产于大理岩内,另一类则呈密集岩墙群型式侵入于秦岭岩群南段二云母石英片岩中.不同的产出状态表明两类斜长角闪岩的成因和时代存在显著差异,也具有不同的地质构造意义.地球化学上,两类不同产状的斜长角闪岩的原岩皆为玄武岩质的.侵入秦岭岩群二云母石英片岩中的斜长角闪岩墙群形成于板内拉张环境,SHRIMP锆石U-Pb测年揭示该类斜长角闪岩形成于晚奥陶世(449±11Ma),Sr-Nd同位素特征显示其岩浆源区为亏损地幔源区,40Ar/39Ar热年代学研究显示该类斜长角闪岩的角闪岩相变质作用发生于石炭纪末期(301.3±6.4Ma).地球化学和Sr-Nd同位素特征显示与秦岭岩群大理岩共生的似层状或块状斜长角闪岩的形成环境与侵入云母石英片岩中的斜长角闪岩墙群的存在显著差异,其形成于洋岛(OIB)或海山环境.40Ar/39Ar热年代学研究显示该类斜长角闪岩于晚二叠世(258.1±5.7Ma)发生了角闪岩相变质作用.不同性质、形成和变质时代、相似的变质作用等特点表明,秦岭岩群中的两类角闪岩分属不同性质的构造块体,秦岭岩群高级变地质地体可能是一个构造拼合地体.斜长角闪岩岩墙为晚奥陶世(449±11Ma)侵入秦岭岩群云英片岩中的基性岩墙群,是北秦岭晚加里东期后造山期热收缩而致的地壳伸展或岩圈拆离减薄的产物.与秦岭岩群大理岩共生的斜长角闪岩则可能是洋隆体的基性喷出岩+碳酸盐岩帽组合,是中二叠世(312～260Ma)期间构造移置而来的外来块体.     

扬子地台西缘结晶基底的时代

对扬子地台西缘结晶基底变质地层以及岩浆片麻岩中变质地层残片或包裹体中锆石SHRIMP U-Pb同位素年龄研究表明,在康定地区辉长–闪长质片麻岩中,表壳岩包体—糜棱岩化的长英质片岩和宝兴地区黑云斜长角闪岩的年龄分别为816±8.6 Ma和826±13 Ma,代表了它们的原岩——酸性火山岩和火山凝灰岩的形成年龄;泸定地区变质岩层中长英质糜棱岩和斜长角闪岩的年龄分别为816±9 Ma和818±8 Ma,代表了中性火山岩和基性火山岩的形成时代;茨达地区斜长角闪岩和角闪黑云斜长片麻岩的年龄分别为830±7 Ma和827±10 Ma,代表了其原岩火山–沉积建造的形成时代。以上数据表明,所谓的结晶基底都是新元古代的产物,在形成时间上与盐边群、盐井群等褶皱基底的相一致,只是变质程度上略有差异。因此该区并不存在古老（太古宙—古元古代）的结晶基底。     

深港西部通道填海区地下水铜、钒、铊、镉、钨迁移的实验研究

填海工程使滨海地区的地下水物理化学条件改变,导致该区域地下水中重金属浓度升高。本文以深港西部通道填海区为例,采用实验室模拟填海条件的办法,初步探讨了影响填海区地下水重金属迁移的关键因素。模拟实验结果表明,填海区地下水中钨元素含量升高与地下水淡化、淤泥氧化过程以及填料风化有关;铜元素含量升高则与淤泥氧化过程以及填料风化有关;钒元素含量升高与地下水淡化和淤泥氧化过程有关,而其他元素含量升高则主要与填料风化释放有关。     

新疆阿图什市木吉地区木吉群孢粉化石的发现

新疆维吾尔自治区阿图什市木吉地区邻近帕米尔,是印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞挤压应力最集中的地区,地层变质和变形强烈,研究基础薄弱。木吉群由变质砂岩、板岩、千枚岩、石英岩、钙质石英岩、变粒岩、二云石英片岩、大理岩等组成,一直未发现任何化石。最近,笔者在木吉乡的喀拉足克沟和阿拉木陶沟的粉砂岩、钙质粉砂岩中发现了一些植物管胞片和孢粉化石:Gran-ulatisporites sp.,Cycloranisporites sp.,Verrucosisporites sp.,Pityosporites sp.,Punetatosporites sp.,Leiotriletes sp.,Apicu-latisporites sp.,Platysaccus sp.,Cycodopites sp.等。从地层接触关系和孢粉化石的整体面貌看,木吉地区含上述孢粉化石的木吉群的时代可能为泥盆纪—石炭纪。     

西藏措勤县雄玛地区始新统林子宗群帕那组 火山岩地球化学特征及构造背景

西藏措勤县雄玛地区林子宗群帕那组火山岩大地构造位置位于冈底斯—念青唐古拉山板片,地层分区上属于冈底斯地层区、隆格尔—南木林地层分区。岩性主要为一套以浅灰色、灰绿色流纹质凝灰岩为主,夹浅黄绿色、灰绿色流纹岩及英安岩、火山角砾岩、杂砂岩及砾岩的岩石组合。之下与永珠组和拉嘎组呈喷发不整合接触。岩石地球化学特征表明该火山岩系属过铝质的高钾钙碱性—亚碱性系列,稀土元素地球化学中轻稀土元素明显富集,微量元素中大离子亲石元素(Rb、K、Th、U、LREE)富集,高场强元素(Nb、P、Ti)亏损。以上特征说明雄玛地区林子宗群帕那组火山岩岩浆源于陆壳重熔,属与俯冲造山有关的陆相火山岩,同时又兼具陆—陆碰撞的特点。推测帕那组火山岩形成于新特提斯洋壳俯冲基本结束,印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞开始的构造背景下,年龄大概在38Ma左右,为始新世晚期。     

Breakthroughs in the biodiversity, biogeography, biostratigraphy, and basin analysis of the Beaufort group

Over the past decade researchers working on the rocks of the Beaufort Group in the main Karoo Basin of South Africa have vastly increased our understanding of this important Permo-Triassic sequence. Many new fossil forms have been discovered, allowing for breakthroughs into the biodiversity, biogeography and biostratigraphy of the group. Taxonomic and phylogenetic advances are many and varied, and cover most of the vertebrate taxa, but with emphasis placed on the temnospondyl amphibians, archosauriforms and non-mammalian synapsids, in particular the anomodontia. Biostratigraphic breakthroughs have centered on the Middle Permian Eodicynodon and Tapinocephalus assemblage zones, the Late Permian Dicynodon Assemblage Zone, and the Triassic Lystrosaurus and Cynognathus assemblage zones. Correlation of these biozones with better dated sequences in Europe, Russia and China has allowed for many chronostratigraphic refinements, which are in turn vital for sequence stratigraphical analysis of the basin fill. Based on fossil data, both the lower (Ecca–Beaufort) and upper (Beaufort–Molteno) contacts of the group have been proved to be highly diachronous. The refined chronostratigraphic framework has also allowed for a better analysis of the basin evolution through time, particularly in terms of the correlation of external stimuli that affect basin sedimentation patterns.     

藏北羌塘丁固—加措地区康托组的时代

自西藏区域地质调查大队创建康托组以来,康托组岩石地层单位广泛应用于羌塘地区,普遍认为其时代为新近纪.笔者于丁固-加措地区的康托组地层中采获古近纪轮藻化石Obtusocharat sp.,O.lanpingenis,Gyrogona qinajiangica和部分孢粉化石,并在康托组底部安山岩中获K-Ar年龄65.1～66.5Ma.上述轮藻组合与同位素年龄指示的地层时代为古新世-始新世,据此将测区康托组的时代确定为古近纪.由于测区康托组之上被唢纳湖组或鱼鳞山组角度不整合覆盖,因此康托组时代的确定不仅进一步完善了测区新生代地层系统,还指示测区在康托组与唢纳湖组或鱼鳞山组之间发生了一次强烈的构造运动.     

Metasomatic effects in the Faraday Metagabbro,Bancroft, Ontario,Canada

Summary The Middle Proterozoic Faraday Metagabbro in the Bancroft area of eastern Ontario has been subjected to syn-orogenic textural and mineralogical modifications resulting in the formation of scapolite-bearing metagabbro and gabbroic blastomylonite assemblages. The elemental flux during cryptic and overt scapolitization has been calculated usingGresens general metasomatic equation which applies corrections for density and volume changes during alteration. Metasomatic variation diagrams using analyses from two primary gabbros and six altered rocks indicate that Na, K, Cl, Li, Rb, and Ba are the principal introduced elements and that Cu and S were removed. These changes are very similar to those involved in the formation of metasomatic nepheline-bearing rocks elsewhere in the district and, furthermore, nephelinization and scapolitization were broadly coincident in time and space. It is concluded that the nephelin- and scapolite-bearing rocks and their cryptic facies are different manifestations of the same metasomatic agent and that the source of the fluids was a possible horizon of evaporitic sediments within the country rocks in which the gabbro was emplaced.

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Metasomatose im Faraday-Metagabbro, Bancroft, Ontario, Kanada

Zusammenfassung Der Mittel-proterozoische Faraday-Gabbro in der Umgebung von Bancroft (Ost-Ontario) erfuhr synorogene Veränderungen in Textur und Mineralogie, die zur Bildung skapolit-haltiger Metagabbros und gabbroider Blastomylonite führten. Die während kryptischer und offener Skapolitisierung stattfindende Elementtransport wurde mit Hilfe der vonGresens entwickelten generellen metasomatischen Gleichung errechnet; Korrekturen für Varänderungen in spezifischer Dichte und Volumen wurden angebracht. Metasomatische Variationsdiagramme basierend auf Analysen an zwei primären Gabbros und sechs modifizierten Gesteinen zeigen, daß Na, K, Cl, Li, Rb und Ba die hauptsächlich zugeführten Elemente darstellen, und daß Cu-und S-Konzentrationen abgebaut wurden. Diese Veränderungen sind vergleichbar mit solchen, wie sie bei der Bildung metasomatischer, Nephelin-haltiger Gesteine erkannt wurden. Außerdem fallen Nephelinisierung und Skapolitisierung zeitlich und räumlich in etwa zusammen. Daraus kann geschlossen werden, daß Nephelin- und Skapolit-haltige Gesteine und deren kryptische Phasen durch den gleichen metasomatischen Prozeß entstanden sind, und daß die Herkunft der umwandelnden Lösungen möglicherweise in evaporitischen Sedimenten zu suchen ist, in die der Gabbro intrudierte.

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Geochronology of the Dovyren intrusive complex, northwestern Baikal area, Russia, in the Neoproterozoic

The paper reports newly obtained data on the geochronology of the Dovyren intrusive complex and associated metarhyolites of the Inyaptuk Formation in the Synnyr Range. The data were obtained by local LA-ICPMS analysis of zircons in samples. The U-Pb age of olivine-free gabbronorite from near the roof of the Yoko-Dovyren Massif is 730 ± 6 Ma (MSWD = 1.7, n = 33, three samples) is close to the estimated age of 731 ± 4 Ma (MSWD = 1.3, n = 56, five samples) of a 200-m-thick sill beneath the pluton. These data overlap the age of recrystallized hornfels found within the massif (“charnockitoid”, 723 ± 7 Ma, MSWD = 0.12, n = 10) and a dike of sulfidated gabbronorite below the bottom of the massif (725 ± 8 Ma, MSWD = 2.0, n = 15). The estimates are also consistent with the age of albite hornfels (721 ± 6 Ma, MSWD = 0.78, n = 12), which was produced in a low-temperature contact metamorphic facies of the host rocks. The average age of the Dovyren Complex is 728.4 ± 3.4 Ma (MSWD = 1.8, n = 99) based on data on the sill, near-roof gabbronorite, and “charnockitoid”) and is roughly 55 Ma older than the estimate of 673 ± 22 Ma (Sm-Nd; [13]). The U-Pb system of zircon in two quartz metaporphyre samples from the bottom portion of the Inyaptuk volcanic formation in the northeastern part of the Yoko-Dovyren Massif turns out to be disturbed. The scatter of the data points can be explained by the effect of two discrete events. The age of the first zircon population is then 729 ± 14 Ma (MSWD = 0.74, n = 8), and that of the second population is 667 ± 14 Ma (MSWD = 1.9, n = 13). The older value pertains to intrusive rocks of Dovyren, and the age of the “rejuvenated” zircon grains corresponds to the hydrothermal-metasomatic processes, which affected the whole volcano-plutonic sequence and involved the serpentinization of the hyperbasites. This is validated by the results of Rb-Sr isotopic studies with the partial acid leaching of two serpentinized peridotite samples from the Verblyud Sill. These studies date the overprinted processes at 659 ± 5 Ma (MSWD = 1.3, n = 3).     

Sedimentary structures in the Lower Greensand of the Weald,England, and Bas-Boulonnais,France

Study of the cross-stratification and other sedimentary structures in the Lower Greensand of the Weald, England, and Bas-Boulonnais, France, indicates that the sediments were deposited by the lateral migration of sand waves in a neritic sea. Comparison of the Lower Greensand sea with the modern North Sea was attempted. If those sediments were deposited as a result of tidal current similar to the present-day North Sea then the Lower Greensand shoreline could be deduced as running northwest-southeast, indication that the western part of the London Platform was submerged.     

Sedimentology in metamorphic rocks,the Willyama Supergroup,Broken Hill,Australia

In the upper greenschist to granulite grade rocks of the Willyama Supergroup at Broken Hill, Australia, earlier recognition of metamorphosed graded bedding in siliciclastic metasedimentary rocks led to interpretations of these rocks as deep-water turbidites. However, graded beds can also be deposited in shelfal environments below storm wave base. This study identified other tempestite features including wave oscillation ripples, hummocky cross-stratification and swaley cross-stratification indicating that deposition took place above the wave base of the larger storms.

Albitised metasedimentary rocks of the upper Thackaringa Group show structures such as swaley cross-stratification typical of shallow-water conditions above fair-weather wave base. Deposition of the Broken Hill Group commenced with muddy Allendale Metasediments conformable on the Thackaringa Group. The Ettlewood Calc-Silicate Member, originally a dolomitic, siliceous sediment, is interpreted as coastal sabkha indicating onset of a marine transgression. The Parnell Gneiss represents a volcanic or volcaniclastic interruption, heralding gradually increasing input of sand in the Freyers Metasediments reaching a maximum in middle Freyers Metasediments, followed by an abrupt reversion to mud, still influenced by wave action. An open marine shelf is interpreted, possibly 30 m deep (no more than 100 m) in the final stage of a developing rift. The Broken Hill Group terminated with the massive Hores Gneiss volcanic unit.

Sedimentation of the siliciclastic Sundown Group took place in similar conditions, commencing with a muddy interval overlying the Hores Gneiss. The shallowing produced by ～90 m thickness of volcanic/volcaniclastic Hores Gneiss was compensated by subsidence.

Paragon Group deposition commenced with substantial black mud, resulting from isolation from the sand supply and probably isolation from the sea. A fresh connection to the sea led first to the deposition of dolomitic carbonate (King Gunnia Calc-Silicate Member), then to deposition of parallel-laminated fine sand below wave base (upper Cartwrights Creek Metasediments), followed by ripple cross-laminated sand above wave base (Bijerkerno Metasediments). The Dalnit Bore Metasediments show abundant very thin graded silt–mud units possibly deposited below storm wave base, and thicker units of stacked wave oscillation ripples deposited above the wave base of larger storms.

The Broken Hill orebody is hosted by altered Broken Hill Group metasedimentary rocks deposited at water depths of ～30 m. Unless the ore fluid temperature was less than 150°C, it is likely that the orebody formed below the seafloor: at such shallow-water depths, the confining pressure would be inadequate to suppress boiling of hotter rising hydrothermal fluids.     

海南长塘岭矿区大坡岩体岩石学、地球化学特征及其含矿性初探

海南大坡岩体位于五指山褶皱带内,主要受昌江—琼海构造带、琼西构造带与潭爷断陷构造带控制.岩石地球化学及岩石学研究表明,大坡岩体形成于海西-印支晚期,岩性单一,主要为中细粒似斑状黑云母二长花岗岩.岩体显示为Ⅰ型花岗岩与S型花岗岩的混合,主体以地壳物质部分熔融为主,形成过程有少量地幔物质加入.元素对的比值及稀土元素配分特征说明岩体钨锡等多金属含矿性可能较差.