Depth of crustal conducting layer and asthenosphere in the Pannonian basin determined by magnetotellurics

On the basis of numerical modelling and statistical investigations of the horizontal electrical inhomogeneities (narrow fractures, change of conductance of the surface sediments) ρ_min magnetotelluric (MT)-sounding curves were found to be less distorted and, therefore, they can be used for the determination of deep conducting formations in the crust and upper mantle.Carefully selected MT curves indicate the crustal conductive layer at depths of 7–13 km and the conductive asthenosphere between 50 and 80 km.The relatively shallow position of the asthenosphere corresponds to the high heat flow (q > 80 mWm^?1) in the Pannonian basin according to the empirical relation derived by Ádám (1978).     

Tatarinovite Са<Subscript>3</Subscript>Al(SO<Subscript>4</Subscript>)[В(ОH)<Subscript>4</Subscript>](ОH)<Subscript>6</Subscript> · 12H<Subscript>2</Subscript>O,a new ettringite-group mineral from the Bazhenovskoe deposit,Middle Urals,Russia, and its crystal structure

A new mineral, tatarinovite, ideally Са₃Аl(SO₄)[В(ОН)₄](ОН)₆ · 12Н₂O, has been found in cavities of rhodingites at the Bazhenovskoe chrysotile asbestos deposit, Middle Urals, Russia. It occurs (1) colorless, with vitreous luster, bipyramidal crystals up to 1 mm across in cavities within massive diopside, in association with xonotlite, clinochlore, pectolite and calcite, and (2) as white granular aggregates up to 5 mm in size on grossular with pectolite, diopside, calcite, and xonotlite. The Mohs hardness is 3; perfect cleavage on (100) is observed. D _meas = 1.79(1), D _calc = 1.777 g/cm³. Tatarinovite is optically uniaxial (+), ω = 1.475(2), ε = 1.496(2). The IR spectrum contains characteristic bands of SO₄ ^2?, CO₃ ^2?, B(OH)₄ ^?, B(OH)₃, Al(OH)₆ ^3-, Si(OH)₆ ^2-, OH^–, and H₂O. The chemical composition of tatarinovite (wt %; ICP-AES; H₂O was determined by the Alimarin method; CO₂ was determined by selective sorption on askarite) is as follows: 27.40 CaO, 4.06 B₂O₃, 6.34 A1₂O₃, 0.03 Fe₂O₃, 2.43 SiO₂, 8.48 SO₃, 4.2 CO₂, 46.1 H₂O, total is 99.04. The empirical formula (calculated on the basis of 3Ca apfu) is H_31.41Ca_3.00(Al_0.76Si_0.25)_Σ1.01 · (B_0.72S_0.65C_0.59)Σ_1.96O_24.55. Tatarinovite is hexagonal, space gr. P6₃, a = 11.1110(4) Å, c = 10.6294(6) Å, V = 1136.44(9) A³, Z = 2. Its crystal chemical formula is Са₃(Аl_0.70Si_0.30) · {[SO₄]_0.34[В(ОН)₄]_0.33[СO₃]0.₂₄}{[SO₄]_0.30[В(ОН)₄]_0.34[СО₃]_0.30[В(ОН)₃]_0.06}(ОН_5·73О_0.27) · 12Н₂O. The strongest reflections of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d, Å (I, %) (hkl)] are 9.63 (100) (100), 5.556 (30) (110), 4.654 (14) (102), 3.841 (21) (112), 3.441 (12) (211), 2.746 (10) (302), 2.538 (12) (213). Tatarinovite was named in memory of the Russian geologist and petrologist Pavel Mikhailovich Tatarinov (1895–1976), a well-known specialist in chrysotile asbestos deposits. Type specimens have been deposited at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.     

Mineralogy of Copper in Sulfide-Free Endogenic Pb–Zn–Sb Mineralization of the Pelagonian Massif,Republic of North Macedonia

Geology of Ore Deposits - Behavior of copper in sulfide-free metasomatic ores of the Pelagonian massif, Republic of North Macedonia has been studied. It is shown that the highest copper activity...     

July 2020 heavy rainfall in Japan: effect of real-time river discharge on ocean circulation based on a coupled river-ocean model

Ocean Dynamics - In July 2020, a stationary atmospheric front over Japan caused persistent, nearly continuous rain for most of the month that resulted in new historical highest rainfall records in...     

Two Stages of Assembly of the Pangea Supercontinent in the Polar Urals: The First U/Pb (LA-ICP-MS) and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Yarkeu Complex

Doklady Earth Sciences - In the Polar Urals, there are a few small granitoid intrusions (Yarkeu, Yajyu, and Pogurei complexes), which are usually associated with the Urals collision. Their...     

High-Temperature Metasomatism of the Layered Mafic–Ultramafic Massif in Kiy Island,Belomorian Mobile Belt

The paper presents results of a detailed petrologic study of metasomatites and their host metagabbroids in the northwestern part of Kiy Island, Onega Bay, White Sea. The first evidence is acquired that coronitization and amphibolization of the host rocks took place at the peak of Svecofennian metamorphism at Т = 700–640°C, Р = 9–10 kbar, and \({a_{{H_2}O}}\) = 0.2–0.3. Accompanying metasomatism has formed a number of long (up to several meters long) melanocratic hornblendite and garnet–amphibole veins 0.3–2 m thick. In this area, metasomatites of another type make up single relatively thin amphibole–zoisite lenses that sometimes host ruby-like corundum. The fluid phase that induced metasomatism was poor in salts (Na,K)Cl, and hence, the rocks do not contain sodic plagioclase, and their amphibole is tschermakite but not pargasite. The compositions of the metasomatites of the two types are proved to be complementary, and this indicates that they were most likely produced by high-temperature metasomatism but not via the removal of components by fluid from migmatization zones.     

The First U–Pb Isotopic Systematics of Natural Aeschynite and Coexisting Monazite

We have been the first to study in situ the U–Pb isotopic system of aeschynite identified in the gold-bearing magnetite–chlorite–dolomite rocks of the Karabash serpentine massif in the Southern Urals. In the concordia diagram, the U–Pb LA–ICP–MS data on aeschynite are characterized by a considerable discordance, which is consistent with the regression line, the lower crossing of which with the concordia corresponds to an age of 298 ± 18 Ma, whereas the figurative ellipses of coexisting monazite reveal an almost concordant cluster corresponding to the U–Pb age of 317.3 ± 3.3 Ma. It has been established that the closure temperature of the aeschynite system is lower than that of the coexisting monazite.