平潭和漳州深成杂岩中斜长石捕虏晶与岩浆混合作用

在闽东南平潭和漳州火成杂岩中,广泛发育岩浆混合现象,表现为花岗质岩石中存在辉长－闪长质同深成岩墙和淬冷岩石包体。花岗质和闪长质岩石中普遍存在Ａｎ＞７０％的斜长石捕虏晶。这种成分的斜长石是辉长岩特有的,而不是任一种花岗岩的斑晶。在斜长石捕虏晶四周,都有与花岗岩中的斜长石成分相当的斜长石加生膜。斜长石捕虏晶可分为自形的、熔融状、筛孔状和碎片状等四类,它们各自形成于不同的动力环境     

黑龙江科洛富钾火山岩及其地幔包体中包裹体的初步研究

本文对富钾火山岩及其地幔包体和橄榄石捕虏晶中的包裹体进行了详细观察研究,并分别测量了熔融包裹体的均一温度(富钾火山岩1150—1200℃,地幔包体1200—1280℃,捕虏晶1200℃),在此基础上探讨了包裹体所反映的成因意义。通过包裹体的研究,进一步验证了如下结论:地幔包体与橄榄石捕虏晶有相同成因;地幔是含水的,地幔岩发生过部分熔融。     

Aspects of diamond mineralisation and distribution at the Helam Mine, South Africa

The diamonds from the Swartruggens dyke swarm are mainly tetrahexahedra, with subsidiary octahedral and cuboid crystals. They are predominantly colourless, with subordinate yellows, browns, and greens. The existence of discrete cores and oscillatory growth structures within the diamonds, together with the recognition of harzburgite, lherzolite, at least two eclogitic and a websteritic diamond paragenesis, variable nitrogen contents, and both Type IaAB and Type Ib–IaA diamonds provides evidence for episodic diamond growth in at least six different environments. The predominance of plastic deformation in the diamonds, the state of nitrogen aggregation, and the suite of inclusion minerals recovered are all consistent with a xenocrystic origin for the diamonds, with the Type Ib–IaA diamonds being much younger than the rest. Mantle storage at a time-averaged temperature of ±1100 °C is inferred for the Type IaAB diamonds. The distribution of mantle xenocrysts of garnet and chromite within the high-grade Main kimberlite dyke compared to the low-grade Changehouse kimberlite dyke strongly suggests that the difference in diamond content is due to an increased eclogitic component of diamonds in the Main kimberlite dyke.     

The Homestead kimberlite, central Montana, USA: mineralogy, xenocrysts, and upper-mantle xenoliths

The Homestead kimberlite was emplaced in lower Cretaceous marine shale and siltstone in the Grassrange area of central Montana. The Grassrange area includes aillikite, alnoite, carbonatite, kimberlite, and monchiquite and is situated within the Archean Wyoming craton. The kimberlite contains 25–30 modal% olivine as xenocrysts and phenocrysts in a matrix of phlogopite, monticellite, diopside, serpentine, chlorite, hydrous Ca–Al–Na silicates, perovskite, and spinel. The rock is kimberlite based on mineralogy, the presence of atoll-textured groundmass spinels, and kimberlitic core-rim zoning of groundmass spinels and groundmass phlogopites.

Garnet xenocrysts are mainly Cr-pyropes, of which 2–12% are G10 compositions, crustal almandines are rare and eclogitic garnets are absent. Spinel xenocrysts have MgO and Cr₂O₃ contents ranging into the diamond inclusion field. Mg-ilmenite xenocrysts contain 7–11 wt.% MgO and 0.8–1.9 wt.% Cr₂O₃, with (Fe⁺³/Fe^tot) from 0.17–0.31. Olivine is the only obvious megacryst mineral present. One microdiamond was recovered from caustic fusion of a 45-kg sample.

Upper-mantle xenoliths up to 70 cm size are abundant and are some of the largest known garnet peridotite xenoliths in North America. The xenolith suite is dominated by dunites, and harzburgites containing garnet and/or spinel. Granulites are rare and eclogites are absent. Among 153 xenoliths, 7% are lherzolites, 61% are harzburgites, 31% are dunites, and 1% are orthopyroxenites. Three of 30 peridotite xenoliths that were analysed are low-Ca garnet–spinel harzburgites containing G10 garnets. Xenolith textures are mainly coarse granular, and only 5% are porphyroclastic.

Xenolith modal mineralogy and mineral compositions indicate ancient major-element depletion as observed in other Wyoming craton xenolith assemblages, followed by younger enrichment events evidenced by tectonized or undeformed veins of orthopyroxenite, clinopyroxenite, websterite, and the presence of phlogopite-bearing veins and disseminated phlogopite. Phlogopite-bearing veins may represent kimberlite-related addition and/or earlier K-metasomatism.

Xenolith thermobarometry using published two-pyroxene and Al-in-opx methods suggest that garnet–spinel peridotites are derived from 1180 to 1390 °C and 3.6 to 4.7 GPa, close to the diamond–graphite boundary and above a 38 mW/m² shield geotherm. Low-Ca garnet–spinel harzburgites with G10 garnets fall in about the same T and P range. Most spinel peridotites with assumed 2.0 GPa pressure are in the same T range, possibly indicating heating of the shallow mantle. Four of 79 Cr diopside xenocrysts have P–T estimates in the diamond stability field using published single-pyroxene P–T calculation methods.     

Lithium elemental and isotopic variations in rock-melt interaction

Despite the occurrence of highly variable lithium (Li) elemental distribution and isotopic fractionation in mantle mineral, the mechanism of Li heterogeneity and fractionation remains a controversial issue. We measured Li contents and isotopic compositions of olivine and clinopyroxene xenocrysts and phenocrysts from kamafugite host lavas, as well as minerals in melt pockets occurring as metasomatic products in peridotite xenoliths from the Western Qinling, central China. The olivine xenocrysts in the kamafugites show compositional zonation. The cores have high Mg# (100 × Mg/(Mg+Fe); 91.0–92.2) and Li abundances (5.63–21.7 ppm), low CaO contents (≤0.12 wt%) and low δ⁷Li values (−39.6 to −6.76‰), which overlap with the compositional ranges of the olivines in the melt pockets as well as those in peridotite xenoliths. The rims of the olivine xenocrysts display relatively low Mg# (85.9–88.2), high CaO contents (0.19–0.38 wt%) and high δ⁷Li values (18.3–26.9‰), which are comparable to the olivine phenocrysts (Mg#: 86.4–87.1; CaO: 0.20–0.28 wt%; Li: 12.4–36.8 ppm; δ⁷Li: 18.1–26.0‰) and the silicate-melt metasomatized olivines. The clinopyroxene phenocrysts and clinopyroxenes in the melt pockets have no distinct characteristics with respect to the Li abundances and δ⁷Li values, but show higher and lower CaO contents, respectively, than the clinopyroxenes from silicate and carbonatite metasomatized samples. These features indicate that Li concentration and isotopic signatures of the cores of the xenocrysts recorded carbonatite melt-peridotite reaction (carbonatite metasomatism) at mantle depth, and the variations in the rims probably resulted from xenocryst–host magma interaction during ascent. Our results reveal that the interaction with carbonatite and silicate melts gave rise to an increase in Li abundance in minerals of peridotite xenoliths at mantle depth or during transportation. In terms of δ⁷Li, the carbonatite and silicate melts produced remarkably contrasting δ⁷Li variations in olivine. Based on the systematic variations of Li abundances and Li isotopes in olivines, we suggest that the δ⁷Li value of olivine is a more important indicator than that of clinopyroxene in discriminating carbonatite and silicate melt interaction agents with peridotites.     

辽西义县组玻基方辉安山岩成因及其构造背景

辽西下白垩统义县组顶部有一套高镁的玻基方辉安山岩，它们在矿物组成和结构上存在一系列不平衡现象。斜方辉石和玻璃质的常量、微量元素研究揭示它们具有壳、幔不同来源的组分特征。本文采用下地壳、岩石圈地幔等不同来源熔体混合的观点解释斜方辉石的存在和玻基方辉安山岩的形成，根据研究区在玻基方辉安山岩快速喷发后出现的亏损地幔来源的玄武岩，笔者认为这是早白垩世末中国东部岩浆来源从富集岩石圈地幔向亏损的软流圈地幔转型的表现。     

辽西义县组玄武岩捕虏晶的发现及其意义

辽西早白垩世义县组底部有一套镁含量较高（MgO=8％～10％）的橄榄玄武岩，有人称之为“高镁玄武岩”。通过这些玄武岩所含的橄榄石、单斜辉石的形态特征、环带结构以及所包含不透明矿物的研究，笔者认为它们属于地幔捕虏晶。捕虏晶和玄武质熔体反应的结果形成了环带结构，由于捕虏晶比玄武质熔体富Mg、Ni、Cr，贫Fe、Mn、Ca，因此作用结果提高了熔体的镁含量。此外，辉石的反环带以及复杂环带结构反映了两种熔体的混合作用。因此上述橄榄石、辉石捕虏晶的发现有助于揭示：1）岩石圈地幔和熔体相互作用以及高镁岩石的成因；2）两种熔体的混合作用。这一发现对进一步研究华北中生代岩石圈地幔的改造与破坏，理解华北克拉通东部中生代地球动力学背景和构造环境是有意义的。     

Fractal geochronology — dating of the past, planning for the future

Dates for regional-scale geological events are typically determined by analysis of radioactive decay processes within micron-scale closed systems, demonstrating that geochronology information is “fractal” — that is, largely independent of the scale of magnification. This has important implications for the way geochronology data should be stored, retrieved and processed in order to maximize extraction of useful geological information.     

Layered mantle at the Karelian Craton margin: P–T of mantle xenocrysts and xenoliths from the Kaavi–Kuopio kimberlites, Finland

Peridotitic clinopyroxene (cpx) and pyrope garnet xenocrysts from four kimberlite pipes in the Kaavi–Kuopio area of Eastern Finland have been studied using major and trace element geochemistry to obtain information on the vertical compositional variability of the underlying mantle. The xenocryst data, when combined with the petrological constraints provided by peridotite xenoliths, yield a relatively complete section through the lithospheric mantle. Single-grain cpx thermobarometry fits with a 36-mW/m² geotherm calculated using heat flow constraints and xenolith modes and geophysical properties. Ni thermometry on pyrope xenocrysts gives 700–1350 °C and, based on the cpx xenocryst/xenolith geotherm, indicates a wide sampling interval, ca. 80–230 km. Plotting pyrope major and trace element compositions as a function of temperature shows there are three distinct layers in the local lithospheric mantle:

(1) A low-temperature (<850 °C) harzburgite layer distinguished by Ca-rich but Ti-, Y- and Zr-depleted pyropes. The xenoliths originating from this layer are all fine-grained garnet-spinel harzburgites with secondary cpx.

(2) A variably depleted lherzolitic, harzburgitic and wehrlitic horizon from 950 to 1150 °C or 130 to 180 km.

(3) A deep layer from 180 to 240 km composed largely of fertile material.

The peridotitic diamond window at Kaavi–Kuopio stretches from the top of the diamond stability field at 140 km to the base of the harzburgite-bearing mantle at about 180 km, implying a roughly 40-km-wide prospective zone.     

土耳其中部阿哲格尔火山湖新生代玄武岩的地球化学与岩石成因

阿哲格尔火山湖玄武岩是位于卡帕多利亚火成岩省(CVP)东部的第四纪火山岩之一。与CVP中其他火山岩相比,玄武岩具有演化程度较低,成分上更接近原始岩浆的特征。玄武岩记录了两期深部岩浆活动:橄榄石捕掳晶Fo值高达89,尖晶石包裹体具有低Cr~#、高Al的特征,表明了早期岩浆源区可能为受俯冲板片流体交代的岩石圈地幔;除样品TCA02外,玄武岩ΣCe/ΣY比值为1.39~2.11,~(143)Nd/~(144)Nd比值为0.51287~0.51288,Th/Nb比值为0.15~0.16,具有大陆裂谷玄武岩的特征,反应了晚期的碱性岩浆起源于软流圈地幔。与CVP早-中更新世钙碱性岩浆相对比,晚期碱性岩浆的高场强元素(如Nb、Ta)具有弱的负异常,K、Ba等大离子亲石元素富集程度较低,揭示了岩浆在上升演化过程中存在富集交代的岩石圈地幔物质的加入。