柴北缘鱼卡多硅白云母40Ar/39Ar年代学研究及其外来40Ar来源探讨

采用激光阶段加热40Ar/39Ar定年技术,选取柴北缘超高压变质带鱼卡地体超高压变质岩及其围岩的6个多硅白云母进行了Ar同位素分析,获得丰富年代学数据。榴辉岩和云母斜长角闪岩多硅白云母具有高Si、高Mg含量的特征,阶段加热给出复杂的表观年龄图谱,总气体年龄（708~534 Ma）和等时年龄（681~513 Ma）都明显老于区内榴辉岩锆石U Pb年龄,暗示样品含大量外来40Ar。相比之下,围岩花岗质片麻岩和白云母石英片岩多硅白云母具有相对低Si高Fe的特征,阶段加热给出平坦的40Ar/39Ar年龄谱,对应坪年龄分别为454和418 Ma。构成年龄坪的数据点形成了线性关系良好的反等时线,并获得同坪年龄一致的等时年龄,能与区域地质年龄很好地吻合。坪年龄454 Ma解释为花岗质片麻岩冷却到约400 ℃时的时间,同时也代表了鱼卡变质岩在经历了深俯冲超高压变质作用后,从上地幔折返抬升至中上地壳深度的时限;片岩多硅白云母坪年龄418 Ma纪录的则是区内一次强韧性剪切事件发生的时代。考虑到榴辉岩和斜长角闪岩原岩为变基性玄武岩类,其主要含钾矿物角闪石的Ar封闭稳定性较高,同时在超高压变质过程中,它们处在一个相对封闭和缺乏流体活动的极端地质环境,所以认为鱼卡榴辉岩多硅白云母外来40Ar来自原岩而非后期渗入的流体,属于“继承”40Ar的范畴。     

40Ar/39Ar dating of cleavage formation in tuffs during anchizonal metamorphism

⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar incremental-release analyses were carried out on whole-rock and constituent white mica (illite)-rich size fractions (0.63–1 to 6.3–20 m) within two very-low grade, penetratively cleaved metatuffs of contrasting anchizonal metamorphic grade (northeastern Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Federal Republic of Germany). One sample from the upper anchizone displays internally concordant ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar spectra with plateau ages ranging between ca. 316 and 325 Ma. These are similar to conventional K-Ar ages determined for the whole-rock and size fractions. Together the isotopic results suggest that cleavage formed at ca. 320 Ma during a concomitant very-low grade metamorphism. This is consistent with biostratigraphic controls which suggest that metamorphism and cleavage formation occurred during the Westphalian.A metatuff sample from the middle anchizone records more internally discordant ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age spectra with total-gas ages ranging from 366 to 372 Ma. These are ca. 35–45 Ma older than corresponding conventional K-Ar ages, indicating marked recoil-loss of ³⁹Ar occurred during irradiation. Transmission electron microscopy reveals that white mica grains within size fractions from the upper anchizone sample have clearly defined, straight edges whereas those within the middle anchizone samples are embayed and diffuse. This results in an increase in surface/volume ratio and therefore greater susceptibility for recoil-loss of ³⁹Ar in the middle anchizone sample. Grain-edge morphology appears to be a major factor in determining the extent of recoil-loss of ³⁹Ar during ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar analysis of fine-grained size fractions.     

华北地块中东部中生代侵入杂岩中角闪石和黑云母的40Ar/39Ar定年:对岩石圈减薄时间的制约

华北地块中东部中生代侵入杂岩存在有富闪侵入岩和花岗闪长岩类两套岩石组合.对其中 8个侵入杂岩体中的角闪石和黑云母进行了 40Ar/39Ar定年研究.山西临汾塔儿山正长闪长斑岩、山西长治西安里岩体和河南安阳东冶岩体富闪侵入岩中角闪石的 40Ar/39Ar坪年龄分别为(124.9± 0.3)Ma,(127.7± 0.3)Ma和(127.1± 0.1)Ma;鲁西临朐铁寨正长闪长岩和枣庄流井花岗闪长斑岩中角闪石的 40Ar/39Ar坪年龄均为(124.9± 0.2)Ma;鲁西莱芜铁铜沟辉石闪长岩和蒙阴虎头崖花岗闪长斑岩中黑云母的 40Ar/39Ar坪年龄分别为(132.8± 0.3)Ma和(124.4± 0.3)Ma;皖北管店花岗闪长斑岩中角闪石的 40Ar/39Ar坪年龄为(126.9± 0.2)Ma.上述结果显示华北地块中生代的岩浆活动主要发生在早白垩世.含有丰富幔源捕虏体的富闪侵入岩类和具有地壳成因的花岗闪长岩类岩石的共存,暗示早白垩世华北地块中生代岩石圈减薄达到了峰期.     

激光显微探针40Ar/39Ar 定年方法研究

实验结果表明，在激光探针40Ar/36Ar年龄和常规40Ar/39Ar年龄之间有较好的吻合性，多次测定BSP-1角闪石国际标样年龄值大部分在2020-20900Ma之间，多次测定周口店花岗岩中ZBH-25国内标样年龄值大部分在130-135.9Ma。分析区域可小到30μm以下（激光束本身可被聚集到10μm以下）。研究表明，激光显微探针技术在下述工作中将是一个极有前途的工具①测定不易大量获取的样品年龄；②研究遭受多期地质历史事件作用因而有复杂Ar状态的岩石年代；③研究在岩石样品中填充在不同结构位置上的矿物年     

^40Ar／^39Ar测年中的冷却年龄和变形年龄

^40Ar／^39Ar法年龄数据的解释与Ar同位素在矿物中的封闭温度有关。冷却年龄只能限制变质——变形事件发生的时间区间,不能真正代表地质事件的发生时间。因此,必须想办法得到变形年龄。本文从封闭温度概念出发,探讨了压力、冷却速率、有效扩散范围和几何形态、颗粒大小、动力学参数等对矿物封闭温度的影响,介绍了新近提出的“封闭窗”概念,并讨论了在什么情况下可以获得变形年龄。     

Formation and exhumation of blueschists and eclogites from NE Oman: new perspectives from Rb–Sr and 40Ar/39Ar dating

Seven eclogite facies samples from lithologically different units which structurally underlie the Semail ophiolite were dated by the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and Rb–Sr methods. Despite extensive efforts, phengite dated by the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method yielded saddle, hump or irregularly shaped spectra with uninterpretable isochrons. The total gas ages for the phengite ranged from 136 to 85 Ma. Clinopyroxene–phengite, epidote–phengite and whole‐rock–phengite Rb–Sr isochrons for the same samples yielded ages of 78 ± 2 Ma. We therefore conclude that the eclogite facies rocks cooled through 500 °C at c. 78 ± 2 Ma, and that the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates can only constrain maximum ages due to the occurrence of excess Ar inhomogeneously distributed in different sites. Our new results lead us to conclude that high‐pressure metamorphism of the Oman margin took place in the Late Cretaceous, contemporaneous with ophiolite emplacement. Previously published structural and petrological data lead us to suggest that this metamorphism resulted from intracontinental subduction and crustal thickening along a NE‐dipping zone. Choking of this subduction zone followed by ductile thinning of a crustal mass wedged between deeply subducted continental material and overthrust shelf and slope units facilitated the exhumation of the eclogite facies rocks from depths of c. 50 km to 10–15 km within c. 10 Ma, and led to their juxtaposition against overlying lower grade rocks. Final exhumation of all high‐pressure rocks was driven primarily by erosion and assisted by normal faulting in the upper plate.     

新疆阿尔泰印支期伟晶岩的成矿年代学研究

阿尔泰的伟晶岩长期以来被认为是海西期造山过程的产物。为了查明伟晶岩矿床的成矿时代,本文通过对伟晶岩型稀有金属矿床中白云母的40Ar 39Ar法同位素定年研究,首次在阿尔泰中部的大喀拉苏大型稀有金属矿床和小喀拉苏稀有金属矿床获得了新的同位素年龄数据,其坪年龄分别为248.42±2.11Ma和233.79±0.41Ma,从而证实了印支期稀有金属成矿作用的存在,提出了伟晶岩型矿床形成于多个时代,且稀有金属成矿作用主要发生在海西期造山运动之后的看法。     

藏北羌塘戈木错北部新生代钾质火山岩40Ar/39Ar定年

1∶25万玛依岗日幅区域地质调查期间,在藏北戈木错北部发现了一套新生代钾质火山岩。对保存较好的3处火山岩的样品进行40Ar/39Ar年代学研究,获得了30.6Ma±0.4Ma、30.0Ma±0.2Ma和29.8Ma±0.3Ma三个坪年龄,代表该地区火山岩的喷溢时代。戈木错北部火山岩的地球化学特征与钾质火山岩的类似,它与鱼鳞山、走构由茶错、多格错仁等地区的新生代火山岩共同构成了羌塘地区钾质—超钾质火山岩带,它们的形成与印度大陆同亚洲大陆的碰撞和青藏高原的隆升密不可分。     

藏北羌塘戈木错北部新生代钾质火山岩40Ar/39Ar定年

1∶25万玛依岗日幅区域地质调查期间,在藏北戈木错北部发现了一套新生代钾质火山岩。对保存较好的3处火山岩的样品进行40Ar/39Ar年代学研究,获得了30.6Ma±0.4Ma、30.0Ma±0.2Ma和29.8Ma±0.3Ma三个坪年龄,代表该地区火山岩的喷溢时代。戈木错北部火山岩的地球化学特征与钾质火山岩的类似,它与鱼鳞山、走构由茶错、多格错仁等地区的新生代火山岩共同构成了羌塘地区钾质—超钾质火山岩带,它们的形成与印度大陆同亚洲大陆的碰撞和青藏高原的隆升密不可分。     

Phlogopite40Ar/39Ar geochronology of mantle xenoliths from the North China Craton: Constraints on the eruption ages of Cenozoic basalts

Mantle xenoliths provide direct information about lithospheric evolution and asthenosphere–lithosphere interaction, and therefore precise dating of the host basalts which carried the xenoliths is important. Here we report ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of phlogopite separates from five spinel lherzolite xenoliths collected from the North China Craton (Hannuoba of Hebei Province, Sanyitang of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Hebi of Henan Province), as well as the groundmass of the host basalts. Argon extraction was performed by conventional step heating technique and ultra-violet laser ablation microprobe (UVLAMP) technique. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar incremental heating results on groundmass yielded geologically meaningless ages. However, conventional step heating on phlogopites produced Miocene cooling ages, identical to the eruption ages obtained from the K–Ar dating methods of the Hannuoba and Sanyitang basalts. Adopting procedures to exclude potential influence of excess radiogenic Ar from a deep fluid source on a phlogopite separate from lherzolite yielded results with a good agreement of ages suggesting that the argon isotopes are distributed homogenously in this mineral, with no influence of excess argon. Phlogopites from Hebi yield ages between 6.43 and 6.44 Ma which are slightly older than those obtained from K–Ar method on whole-rocks. The discrepancy in the K–Ar ages obtained from the altered whole-rock samples suggests partial loss of ⁴⁰Ar. As a consequence, phlogopite Ar–Ar ages are considered more accurate than that of the whole-rocks. These results suggest that ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar chronology of phlogopite provides reliable and precise ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of host basalts.     

辽西义县组火山岩40Ar/39Ar、K-Ar法年龄测定

义县组为辽西地区广泛分布的陆相火山-沉积地层,义县火山旋回分为 4个亚旋回.含珍稀化石的湖相沉积层与第二亚旋回火山岩伴生.运用激光微区 40Ar/39Ar法、常规 40Ar/39Ar阶段升温测年法和 K- Ar法,对义县旋回火山岩进行了系统的年龄测定,结果表明,直接覆盖义县组底砾岩的义县旋回第一亚旋回第一小旋回玄武岩的 K- Ar年龄为 (133.3± 2.6) Ma、 (133.6± 2.6) Ma,激光微区 40Ar/39Ar法给出的相关性很好的 Ar- Ar等时线年龄为 (132.9± 4.5) Ma,第三、第四小旋回玄武岩样品 40Ar/39Ar阶段升温获得平坦的年龄谱线,坪年龄分别为 (130.6± 0.5) Ma、 (127.7± 0.2) Ma;第二亚旋回玄武岩和流纹质凝灰岩样品 Ar- Ar等时线年龄为 (126.1± 1.7) Ma、 (127.4± 1.3) Ma,第三亚旋回火山岩全岩 K- Ar年龄为 (124.4± 2.4)～ (124.9± 2.4) Ma.义县火山旋回发生的时间大致介于 120～ 135 Ma之间, 义县组的时代应为早白垩世.     

西藏沙让斑岩钼矿床锆石SHRIMP定年和角闪石Ar-Ar定年及其地质意义

采用SHRIMP锆石微区U-Pb测年及角闪石40Ar-39Ar测年对冈底斯成矿带东段工布江达县沙让斑岩钼矿区的角闪石闪长岩体进行了年代学研究。对角闪石闪长岩中单颗粒锆石11个样品点分析,其206Pb/238U年龄范围在(45.39±0.77)～(52.7±3.3)Ma之间,加权平均值为(47.17±0.41)Ma,(n=11,MSWD=2.0)。对角闪石样品采用40Ar-39Ar阶段升温测年,年龄谱呈马鞍形,说明角闪石样品存在过剩氩,加权平均年龄(55.10±0.79)Ma不具地质意义,最低坪年龄(53.25±0.60)Ma接近但大于角闪石的结晶年龄。综合前人研究结果,笔者认为:①角闪石闪长岩体形成年龄为(53.25±0.60)Ma,属于喜马拉雅期,相当于始新世,岩体侵入时间早于含矿主岩体斜长花岗斑岩的形成时间。②受后期花岗斑岩体侵入热事件的影响,锆石的蜕晶化作用导致年龄偏小,角闪石Ar-Ar法最低坪年龄基本代表成岩年龄。③斑岩钼矿的形成与主碰撞期岩浆底侵作用有关,始新世早期,冈底斯成矿带的地壳已经增厚到可以产生地壳熔融的厚度,形成斑岩钼矿。④冈底斯成矿带存在40～65Ma的主碰撞期,显示出念青唐古拉成矿带具...     

激光显微探针40Ar-39Ar定年技术——大别山朱家冲榴闪岩年代学研究

高空间分辨率紫外激光显微探针40Ar–39Ar定年技术在钾矿物环带、次生加大边、多世代矿物和难分选矿物之年代学研究中发挥越来越重要的作用。本文利用该技术成功测定了南大别山朱家冲退变质榴辉岩之石榴子石环外的角闪石 “绿眼圈” 年龄为217 ± 3 Ma, 石榴子石环内的多硅白云母年龄265 ± 3 Ma, 环外的钠云母年龄223 ± 4 Ma。榴闪岩基质激光阶段加热40Ar–39Ar分析, 获得高温阶段坪年龄为230 Ma。多硅白云母年龄可能指示朱家冲榴辉岩超高压变质作用发生在265 Ma之前;基质年龄代表了退变质作用峰期发生于230 Ma;而217 Ma角闪石 “绿眼圈” 为榴闪岩退变质作用晚期产物。这些40Ar–39Ar年龄印证了岩石薄片观察的矿物结晶顺序。     

40Ar39Ar dating of glauconites: Measured 39Ar recoil loss from well-crystallized specimens

Nine glauconite samples with relatively high K concentrations and which appear to be well crystallized using normal X-ray diffraction techniques have been studied using the ${}^{40}\text{Ar}{}^{39}\text{Ar}$ method. The glauconite ${}^{40}\text{Ar}{}^{39}\text{Ar}$ apparent ages exceed their KAr, RbSr and, in most cases, stratigraphic ages by substantial amounts. ${}^{40}\text{Ar}{}^{39}\text{Ar}$ release spectra sometimes yield plateaus but these apparent ages have no geological significance. The results indicate that ³⁹Ar is lost by recoil from mineral grains during neutron irradiation, consistent with previously reported observations. The amount of ³⁹Ar loss was measured by isotope dilution for four samples and varied from 29% to 17%. In contrast, radiogenic ⁴⁰Ar is quantitatively retained during irradiation. The very fine blades which make up glauconite grains yield the mineral susceptible to large amounts of ³⁹Ar loss and unsuitable for ${}^{40}\text{Ar}{}^{39}\text{Ar}$ dating.     

The effects of sub-blocking temperature metamorphism on the K/Ar systematics of hornblendes: 40Ar/39Ar dating of polymetamorphic garnet amphibolite from the Franciscan Complex,California

The effects of sub-blocking temperature metamorphism on the K/Ar system in hornblende, as revealed by ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar release spectra, have been studied in a polymetamorphic knocker from the Franciscan Complex (FC), California. A primary amphibolite assemblage of horn-blende +rutile+epidote+apatite±garnet±sphene is variably overprinted by a blueschist facies assemblage of blue amphibole +lawsonite+chlorite+white mica+pumpellyite±sphene. The secondary assemblage formed at a temperature of 370° C, below that at which rapid Ar diffusion is expected in hornblende. Hornblendes from three, variably-altered samples of garnet amphibolite yield total gas ages of 147 to 161 Ma, but the corresponding plateau ages of 163.0±2.8, 160.6±2.2, and 161.8±2.2 Ma are identical within error. Hornblende separates with lower total gas ages come from more highly overprinted rocks, have excess K compared to that expected on the basis of electron probe analyses, and exhibit anomalously high K/Ca ratios in the low-temperature fractions of their incremental heating spectra. The reduced total gas ages result from the presence of thin (2 m) sheets of younger white mica in hornblendes from the moderately and highly altered amphibolites. The secondary micas are difficult to detect because of their small size and low abundance (2%), but because their K content is 50 to 100 times that of the host hornblende, they contribute significantly to the K and Ar budgets of the sample. The mica intergrowths are not removed by normal sample preparation, but because the mica inclusions degas at lower temperatures than hornblende during vacuum extraction, incremental heating analyses can provide precise cooling ages for the hornblendes as well as useful estimates of the age of the mica inclusions. The hornblende separate from the most altered sample contained 20±10% younger blue amphibole replacing hornblende, but its plateau age was not significantly affected. This is consistent with a replacement process in which K and Ar loss from the hornblende are coupled, leaving the K/Ar system undisturbed in relict primary grains. The K and Ar budgets of the sample are not strongly affected by the blue amphibole because of its very low K content. Because partial replacement of primary amphibole by high-K phyllosilicates occurs in many geological environments, effects like those described here could be widespread.     

An 40Ar–39Ar investigation of high-pressure metamorphism and the retrogressive history of mafic eclogites from the Lanterman Range (Antarctica): evidence against a simple temperature control on argon transport in amphibole

Mafic eclogites sampled from a restricted area in the Lanterman Range (Antarctica) retrogressed variably under amphibolite facies metamorphism. Assemblages range from well-preserved eclogite, with minor growth of Na-Ca amphibole, to strongly retrogressed ones with extensive development of Ca amphibole. ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar furnace step-heating experiments on the different amphiboles yield results varying from plateau ages of ~498 Ma to a near-plateau age of ~490 Ma, and the greater the amphibolite retrogression, the younger the age. ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar infrared laser-probe analyses on rock chips from a well-preserved eclogite and a slightly retrogressed one reveal the presence of an excess argon component. Whereas excess argon is invariably present in garnet and clinopyroxene developed under high-pressure metamorphism, it is heterogeneously distributed in amphibole on a millimetre scale. Results indicate that excess argon was incorporated during high-pressure metamorphism; this component was then lost during retrogression, while a change in composition of ambient argon to atmospheric argon occurred. New ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar data and previously published Sm-Nd garnet and U-Pb rutile ages obtained from the same well-preserved eclogite sample suggest that the oldest Na-Ca amphibole age is reliable and not an artefact due to the incorporation of excess argon. The variably retrogressed eclogites are thought to derive from different parts of the enclosing metasedimentary rocks that were variably invaded by fluids during amphibolite facies metamorphism. Thus the circulation of fluids promoting (re)crystallisation, and not temperature, was the main process controlling the rate of argon transport in the studied eclogites. The different ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar ages are interpreted to record diachronous amphibole growth at different crustal levels during exhumation. Data indicate that there was about a 10-Ma interval between the eclogite facies stage (at ̿.5 GPa) and the Ca amphibole-hydration forming reaction (at 0.3-0.5 GPa); this translates into an average exhumation rate of 3-4 km/Ma.     

40Ar/39Ar Thermochronological Constraints on the Timing of Collisional Orogeny in the Mian-Lüe Collision Belt,Southern Qinling Mountains

Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous geological bodies in the Mianxian-Lüeyang (Mian-Lüe) collisional belt (MLB) and its neighbouring areas, southern Qinling Mountains, China, show similar characteristics of having undergone deformation of two stages. The earlier one, which is inferred to be related to collisional orogeny between the Yangtze and Sino-Korean palaeocontinents based on previous geological data, is responsible for large-scale, north-verging recumbent folds and overthrusts, and associated with low greenschist facies metamorphism. 40Ar/39Ar dating of three muscovite samples taken from different localities yields plateau ages of 226.9(0.9 and 219.5(1.4 Ma and an apparent age of 194.5(3.0 Ma. Thus, the late Triassic collision between the Yangtze and Sino-Korean palaeocontinents has been constrained.     

激光Ar/Ar微区定年的应用及展望

40Ar/39Ar定年中,存在一些使用传统的大样逐步升温技术难以处理的难题,如变质及沉积岩样品常含有多期次矿物而难以获得理想结果,过剩Ar在样品中的分布以及来源问题一直难以有效解决,根据缓慢冷却钾长石的40Ar/39Ar年龄谱提出的热演化模型也因为Ar在矿物中扩散机制的不明确性而不断受到质疑。20世纪90年代将紫外激光（UV-laser）成功引入40Ar/39Ar年代学分析后,为解决这些难题提供了一种思路。借助激光微区     

Laser probe 40Ar/39Ar dating: History and development from a technical perspective

The ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method using a laser probe opened the door to microscale measurements and diffusion profiles frozen in samples. In the first decade since the initial application of a laser for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating in 1973, practical applications have been few. This is due not only to the fact that the laser and vacuum technologies were immature but that mass spectrometry was also in its infancy. In those days, the sensitivity of a mass spectrometer was generally insufficient to measure the small amount of argon degassed from a geological sample by a laser. These problems have subsequently been solved by new technologies. To understand their current status, a brief history of their development is outlined. This outline focuses on the required detection limit in micro scale measurement, practical approaches for accurate measurement are explained through examples in our laboratory specifically relating to the technical aspects of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating.