An alternative emplacement model for the classic Ardnamurchan cone sheet swarm,NW Scotland,involving lateral magma supply via regional dykes

Sub-volcanic intrusive networks, of which cone sheets are recognised as a major constituent, partially control volcano growth and eruption style. The accepted cone sheet model is that these confocally dipping intrusions originate from an unexposed central magma chamber through dip-parallel magma flow. However, the emplacement mechanism of cone sheets remains poorly understood. The ∼58 Ma cone sheet swarm of Ardnamurchan, NW Scotland, offers an excellent opportunity to further resolve the emplacement dynamics of cone sheets, through studying magma flow, and their importance in volcanic edifice construction. Structural measurements and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analyses have constrained a lateral magma flow pattern, consistently oriented NW–SE, in the majority of the Ardnamurchan cone sheets. Field observations also highlight the importance of host rock structure and interference between competing local and regional stress fields in controlling intrusion geometry. Our observations suggest cone sheet formation may be linked to laterally propagating NW–SE trending regional dykes, sourced from laterally adjacent magmatic systems (likely the Palaeogene Mull Central Complex), which are deflected around the central complex by stress field interference. Implicitly, edifice construction and potential eruption precursors observed at a volcano may instigate, or result from, magmatic activity in laterally adjacent volcanic systems.     

Mechanics of growth of some laccolithic intrusions in the Henry mountains, Utah, I: Field observations, Gilbert's model, physical properties and flow of the magma

The shapes of sills and laccolithic intrusions and associated host rock deformation were studied at several locations on the flanks of the Henry Mountains. Diorite sills range from 0.5 to 10 m in thickness, are less than 1 km² in areal extent, and have blunt terminations. The laccolithic intrusions range from 10 to 200 m in thickness, and from 1 to 3 km² in areal extent. The host rock, principally sandstone and shale, is deformed along closely spaced cataclastic shear planes. This deformation is concentrated at contacts, especially near sill terminations and over laccolith peripheries. The diorite contains plagioclase phenocrysts which are usually sheared in a thin zone adjacent to each contact. Field observations suggest that sills are the forerunners of laccolithic intrusions which form only after magma has spread far enough laterally (greater than about 1 km² in the Henry Mountains) to gain leverage to bend the overburden upward. Further injection of magma results in laccolithic peripheries or terminations with one of three distinct cross-sectional forms: (1) blunt termination of the diorite accompanied by bending and minor faulting of the host rock; (2) termination at a peripheral diorite dike cutting upward across the host rock; or (3) abrupt termination of the diorite against a nearly vertical fault zone.In order to study some of the processes of sill and laccolith intrusion, mechanical models for the driving pressure, physical properties, and flow behavior of the diorite magma are derived and discussed. A static driving pressure (equal to the difference between total magma pressure and lithostatic pressure) of up to 700 bar is estimated. The rheological behavior of the magma in the Henry Mountains is unknown. However, flow behavior is calculated assuming three of the more common models for fluids: Newtonian viscous, pseudoplastic, and Bingham. Suspended crystals probably contributed to the finite strength of the magma (estimated to be at least 10³ dyn/cm² for the Henry Mountains magma) which enables it to support dense zenoliths and also fixes maximum limits on the lengths of sills or dikes. Pressure in magma flowing along tabular intrusions of uniform thickness drops linearly in the flow direction for all three rheological materials. Thickening of tabular intrusions tends to make the pressure drop less rapidly, but pressure drops more rapidly in the tapered region near a termination. Pressure distributions under these and other conditions are derived in order to use them in the models of host rock deformation presented in Part II.     

珠江口盆地白云凹陷新生代构造演化动力学

白云凹陷构造演化史的研究对在白云凹陷开展油气勘探和深水沉积研究具有重要的意义。通过对断裂与沉积结构平面和剖面特点的分析,结合岩浆活动特点,文中提出白云凹陷是一个复式地堑,推测这种结构特点与凹陷下地壳的强烈韧性减薄和颈缩变形有关,表现为热岩石圈的伸展。其发育机制推测与白云凹陷位于构造转换带上有关,特殊的构造位置使白云凹陷成为强烈构造变形区,岩石圈地壳强烈减薄,伴随伸展过程和地幔上涌,脆性地壳或上地幔中部分熔融物质的出现导致岩石圈强度的急剧降低,在区域伸展应力场下以韧性流变方式减薄。岩浆在构造转换带下聚集并发育主岩浆房,由于白云凹陷南北边缘没有发育正断裂系统,岩浆主要沿垂直伸展的方向运移,因此在珠琼运动一幕和二幕南南东向伸展应力作用下,岩浆向白云凹陷的东部和西部运移至北西向基底深大断裂处,那里由于北西向断裂表现为左行张剪性质而成为压力较低的地区,从而成为岩浆上涌和侵位的地方。在岩浆聚集的地区,活动岩浆体附近的脆性变形被分散的韧性变形所取代,因此在凹陷的东北和西南两个角上,发育了张性和张剪性小断裂群,由于热岩石圈弹性较差,白云凹陷长期持续沉降。白云凹陷的断裂活动和沉积演化史还受到南海海盆扩张活动的影响。     

In defense of magmatic diapirs

Diapirism as a crustal magma ascent mechanism has been recently criticized. We contend that this reflects an overly simplistic view that diapirs must resemble modeled hot-Stokes diapirs and the perception that magma ascent in dikes is a more problem-free mechanism for the construction of plutons. We describe four Cordilleran plutons that have characteristics much more compatible with diapirs than dike-fed chambers. These plutons were emplaced at depths ranging from ∼10 to 30 km and record different parts of diapiric ascent paths. Most ascended during complex visco-elastic flow of host rock during regional deformation, have narrow structural aureoles indicating power-law behavior of host rock, and were constructed of multiple batches of magma, attributes enabling them to ascend greater distances than single hot-Stokes diapirs. Some features of these plutons are not typically attributed to diapirs, and thus we introduce the term visco-elastic diapir for bodies consisting of one or more batches of magma rising together, with length to width ratios <100, surrounded by host rock deforming by brittle and ductile processes, and for which ascent is driven by buoyancy plus regional stress. We conclude that diapirism remains a valid magma ascent mechanism for the crust.     

Deformation structures associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion,Henry Mountains,Utah: Implications for sill and laccolith emplacement mechanisms

Deformation structures in the wall rocks of igneous intrusions emplaced at shallow crustal depths preserve an important record of how space was created for magma in the host rocks. Trachyte Mesa, a small Oligocene age intrusion in the Henry Mountains, Utah, is composed of a series of stacked tabular, sheet-like intrusions emplaced at 3–3.5 km depth into sandstone-dominated sedimentary sequences of late Palaeozoic–Mesozoic age. New structural analysis of the spatial distribution, geometry, kinematics and relative timings of deformation structures in the host rocks of the intrusion has enabled the recognition of distinct pre-, syn-, and late-stage-emplacement deformation phases. Our observations suggest a two-stage growth mechanism for individual sheets where radial growth of a thin sheet was followed by vertical inflation. Dip-slip faults formed during vertical inflation; they are restricted to the tips of individual sheets due to strain localisation, with magma preferentially exploiting these faults, initiating sill (sheet) climbing. The order in which sheets are stacked impacts on the intrusion geometry and associated deformation of wall rocks. Our results offer new insights into the incremental intrusion geometries of shallow-level magmatic bodies and the potential impact of their emplacement on surrounding host rocks.     

白云凹陷浅成岩浆侵入体发育特征、成因及油气地质意义

珠江口盆地白云凹陷内发育大量早中新世(约15.5 Ma)浅成岩浆侵入体(侵入深度<3 km).目前对其形态特征、相互关系以及岩浆侵入诱发的强制褶皱等尚缺乏系统研究.通过利用高精度三维地震资料,细致刻画了侵入体的形态、岩浆运移通道以及岩床复合体内各岩床的空间关系,定量分析了强制褶皱与侵入体的几何关系.白云凹陷内岩浆侵入体...     

燕山北部崇礼-隆化-阜新构造带形变特征及其控矿作用

崇礼-隆化-阜新构造带是燕山北部重要的控岩控矿构造。晚华力西期-印支期,该构造带以韧性剪切变形为主,形成一系列近EW向断续分布的韧性剪切带。燕山期,该构造带以韧脆性-脆性断裂变形为主,在早期韧性剪切变形的基础上叠加一系列同方向的高角度压性-压扭性逆冲断裂。喜马拉雅期,该构造带仍有一定的继承性活动,以张扭性-扭性断裂活动为主。
崇礼-隆化-阜新构造带对金矿化分布有明显的制约作用。在空间上,该构造带控制了张家口-隆化-阜新金矿带及其中5个金矿化集中区的展布;在时间上,该构造带不同类型的形变伴有不同类型的金矿化。该构造带与NE向、NW向断裂带的复合部位是金矿成矿的有利部位.      

Fault-valve behaviour in optimally oriented shear zones: an example at the Revenge gold mine, Kambalda, Western Australia

Quartz vein systems developed in and adjacent to shear zones host major gold deposits in the Kambalda region of the Norseman–Wiluna greenstone belt. At the Revenge Mine, two groups of mineralised reverse shear zones formed as conjugate, near-optimally oriented sets during ESE subhorizontal shortening adjacent to a major transpressional shear system. The shear zones developed at temperatures of about 400°C in a transitional brittle–ductile regime. Deformation was associated with high fluid fluxes and involved fault-valve behaviour at transiently near-lithostatic fluid pressures. During progressive evolution of the shear system, early brittle and ductile deformation was overprinted by predominantly brittle deformation. Brittle shear failure was associated with fault dilation and the formation of fault-fill veins, particularly at fault bends and jogs. A transition from predominantly brittle shear failure to combined shear along faults and extension failure adjacent to faults occurred late during shear zone evolution and is interpreted as a response to a progressive decrease in maximum shear stress and a decrease in effective stresses. The formation of subhorizontal stylolites, locally subvertical extension veins and minor normal faults in association with thrust faulting, indicates episodic or transient reorientation of the near-field maximum principal stress from a subhorizontal to a near-vertical attitude during some fault-valve cycles. Local stress re-orientation is interpreted as resulting from near-total shear stress release and overshoot during some rupture events. Previously described fault-valve systems have formed predominantly in severely misoriented faults. The shear systems at Revenge Mine indicate that fault-valve action, and associated fluctuations in shear stress and fluid pressure, can influence the mechanical behaviour of optimally-oriented faults.     

Rift-zone development around a plume-related magma centre on the Isle of Skye (Scotland): a model for stress inversions

ABSTRACT Using the example of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, we investigate the influence of pressure variations in upper-crustal magma reservoirs on the development of rift-type normal faulting around central volcanoes. The regional synmagmatic stress regime is of strike-slip type in Scotland during the Lower Tertiary. During a prolonged period of overall high pressure in the Skye magma reservoir (gabbro intrusion stage), crustal extension results from the injection of basaltic dykes parallel to the trend of the far-field maximum stress. During a subsequent period of pressure decrease in the reservoir (granites intrusion stage) normal faults trending parallel to the dykes are initiated. These faults tilt the upper-crustal blocks along with the former dyke swarm and associated lava pile. Finite-element modelling shows that a decrease of magma pressure in a circular cavity may lead, as in Skye, to a change from a regional strike-slip to a local rift-type normal stress regime.     

Mechanics of growth of some laccolithic intrusions in the Henry mountains, Utah, II: Bending and failure of overburden layers and sill formation

Deformation of host rocks during growth of a laccolithic intrusion is analyzed using the theory of bending a stack of thin elastic plates. The theoretical model suggests that magma spreading laterally in the form of a sill will eventually gain sufficient leverage on the overlying strata to deflect them upward and form a laccolith. The amount of bending increases as the fourth power of the distance the magma spreads, whereas the overburden resists bending as the third power of its effective thickness. Effective thickness is the thickness of a single layer which has the same resistance to bending as a multilayer of similar length and elastic modulus. The effective thickness of overburden in the Henry Mountains is estimated as between and of the actual thickness. The form of bending is similar for Newtonian, pseudoplastic, and Bingham magmas. The magnitude of the bending depends upon the total upward force and its distribution and is not simply related to magma viscosity as has been suggested by several previous investigators.After elastic bending strata should fail over the periphery of an intrusion, the site of maximum bending strain and differential stress predicted by the theory. Field observations described in Part I correlate well with these predictions. Because bending strains are proportional to layer thickness, strata of comparable strength but different thicknesses fail at different stages of laccolith development. This leads to the different cross-sectional forms of laccoliths observed in the field.The effect of host rocks on sill form and growth is analyzed using the elastic solution for an elliptical hole under uniform pressure. The theory suggests that sill thickness increases in proportion to length. The concentration of high stresses near the sill termination should induce permanent deformation and account for the blunt terminations described in Part I. This blunting is most likely to occur in relatively ductile rocks whereas sills simply split brittle rocks and maintain sharp terminations. The driving pressure in sills can be calculated from measurements of length and termination radius of curvature, if the yield strength of the host rocks can be estimated. This driving pressure must be greater than the overburden pressure, but sills apparently do not form or propagate by lifting their overburdens. Instead they propagate by locally deforming the host rock. After spreading over a distance about three times the effective overburden thickness, the overlying layers begin to bend upward significantly. This stage marks the transition from a sill to a laccolithic intrusion.     

新疆西天山的变形序列解析

在西天山的构造演化中，至少发生了三个变形旋回和六个变形世代的构造事件，并伴随着密切相关的沉积事件、变质事件和岩浆事件。这些变形序列的详细研究，为认识西天山地区地质发展和找矿方向提供了科学依据。     

寄主岩浆硫化物和氧化物矿床的镁铁质-超镁铁质岩体对比分析与成矿过程评述

镁铁质-超镁铁质岩体是世界上岩浆硫化物(Ni-Cu-PGE)和氧化物(Fe-Ti-V-P)矿床的主要载体.全球主要岩浆硫化物和氧化物矿床均可以产于大火成岩省、克拉通区的裂谷带或伸展环境、褶皱带内的后碰撞伸展环境.寄主岩浆硫化物矿床的岩体规模相差甚大(从6×104km2到＜0.1km2),既有超镁铁质岩石组合也有镁铁质岩石组合,但其原生岩浆主要为拉斑玄武质岩浆.含镍铜的铂族元素矿床主要赋存于规模很大的层状岩体中,而镍铜硫化物矿床主要赋存于小岩体中.寄主钒钛磁铁矿或磁铁矿矿床的岩体主要是以辉长岩为主的层状杂岩体.寄主钛铁矿-磷灰石矿床的岩体均为层状的斜长岩-纹长二长岩-紫苏花岗岩岩体.尽管其岩石组合相差很大,但其原生岩浆均属拉斑玄武质.寄主硫化物矿床的岩体相对富Si、Mg、Cr、Ni,而寄主氧化物矿床的岩体相对富Fe-Ti-P-V,造岩矿物晶体化学也反映了这种差异.对全球主要含矿岩体的对比分析表明,导致这种反差的主要控制因素应该是岩浆生成时的压力状态,源区性质和熔融程度的差异可能只在局部范围内起作用.对岩浆硫化物矿床成矿过程的认识集中体现在金川模式和岩浆通道模式上,对岩浆氧化物矿床成矿过程的认识体现在氧化物和磷灰石是堆晶相还是从不混溶的矿浆中结晶的.对比分析表明,成矿过程具有多样性,试图用一种模式概括所有同类矿床成矿过程的想法未必可取.毫无疑问,适宜的氧化还原环境是形成岩浆矿床的必要务件,伴随岩浆演化及成矿过程的氧速度变化及其诱因问题尚待进一步探索.     

Rock interface strength influences fluid-filled fracture propagation pathways in the crust

Rock interface strengths have often been assumed to be zero in numerical and analogue models of fracture propagation and magma intrusion in the crust. Rock strength tests were performed to explore the role that rock interfaces have on the geometry and propagation dynamics of fluid-filled fractures in the crust. We used a 1 kN test machine to study 5 mm thick cuboidal specimens cut from a sandstone-siltstone rock core, where the strata were known to host magma intrusions and the rock interface between the units was intact. By measuring the load required to grow a crack running along the lithological contact between the layers we calculate its fracture toughness K_c. The siltstone had an average K_c of 0.56 ± 0.03 MPa m^1/2 compared to the sandstone at 0.42 ± 0.02 MPa m^1/2. The rock interface had intermediate average fracture toughness to the parent units at 0.45 ± 0.03 MPa m^1/2. These results have important implications on fracture propagation pathways through rocks, as well as for the geometry and propagation dynamics of magma intrusions in the crust.     

玲珑金矿田花岗岩中韧性剪切带与成矿的关系

珑玲燕山期交代型花岗岩,是在构造活动的驱使下,由共存重熔岩浆交代胶东群变质岩生成的壳源花岗岩,成岩作用是在可塑性准固体状态下进行的。伴随底辟侵位广泛形成韧性剪切带,发育有各种塑变、应变结构和糜棱岩化。随着岩体温度和可塑度的降低,相继发生脆性断裂,往往叠加在韧性剪切带之上。这种构造叠加部位为矿液造成良好的通道和富集部位。     

Footwall mineralization during Late Miocene extension along the West Cycladic Detachment System,Lavrion, Greece

The West Cycladic Detachment System (WCDS) has been mapped from the western Cycladic islands to Lavrion (mainland Greece), where several top‐to‐SSW low‐angle normal faults at different structural levels are observed. Near the detachment horizon, hydrothermal fluid flow originating from Miocene intrusions lead to high‐temperature carbonate strata‐bound Pb–Ag–Zn ore deposits. Zircon (U–Th)/He cooling ages from the mineralized footwall are 7.1 ± 0.6 to 7.9 ± 0.6 Ma. Carbon‐ and O‐isotope analyses of the carbonate host indicate high water‐to‐rock ratios during brittle deformation‐induced metasomatism, and that this interaction, unrelated to proximity of the intrusions, plays the dominant role in the mineralization. The Late Miocene geology of Lavrion is strikingly similar to Serifos island on the SE termination of the WCDS, both characterized by strong localization of detachment faulting and the interaction of brittle deformation with the injection of fluids related to granitoid intrusions.     

Damage formation associated with bending under a constant moment

Deformation within the Earth's lithosphere is largely controlled by the rheology of the rock. Fracture and faulting are characterized by elastic rheologies with brittle mechanisms, while folding and flow are characterized by plastic and/or viscous rheologies due to ductile mechanisms. However, it has been recognized that deformation that resembles ductile behavior can be produced within the confines of the brittle lithosphere. Specific examples are folds that form in the shallow crust, steep hinges at subduction zones that are accompanied by seismicity, and large-scale deformation at plate boundaries. In these cases, the brittle lithosphere behaves elastically with fracture and faulting yet produces ductile behavior. In this paper, we attempt to simulate such ductile behavior in elastic materials using continuum damage mechanics. Engineers utilize damage mechanics to model the continuum deformation of brittle materials. We utilize a modified form of damage mechanics that represents a reduction in frictional strength of preexisting fractures and faults. We use this empirical approach to simulate the bending of the lithosphere under the application of a constant moment.We use numerical simulations to obtain elastostatic solutions for plate bending and where the longitudinal stress at a particular node exceeds a yield stress, we apply damage to reduce Young's modulus at the node. Damage is calculated at each time step by a power-law relationship of the ratio of the yield stress to the longitudinal stress and the yield strain to the longitudinal strain. This results in the relaxation of the material due to increasing damage. To test our method, we apply our damage rheology to an infinite plate deforming under a constant bending moment. We simulate a wide range of behaviors from slow relaxation to instantaneous failure, over timescales that span six orders of magnitude. Using this method, stress relaxation produces elastic-perfectly plastic behavior in cases where failure does not occur. For cases of failure, we observe a rapid increase in damage leading to failure, analogous to the acceleration of microcrack formation and acoustic emissions prior to failure. The changes in the rate of damage accumulation in failure cases are similar to the changes in b-values of acoustic emissions observed in triaxial compression tests of fractured rock and b-value changes prior to some large earthquakes. Thus continuum damage mechanics can simulate the phenomenon of ductile behavior due to brittle mechanisms as well as observations of laboratory experiments and seismicity.     

青海滩间山金矿床地质特征和控矿因素分析

滩间山金矿床产于中元古界万洞沟群碳质糜棱片岩和华力西晚期侵入岩中。矿床是在热水沉积、区域变质和热变质的预富集基础上,与区域进变质型绿片岩相韧性剪切带的退化演化同步,经历了脆韧性、韧脆性和脆性剪切变形成矿阶段的演化,并遭受华力西晚期侵入岩浆活动相伴的热液成矿作用的叠加改造形成的。不同时期、不同成矿作用的叠加和多种有利因素的结合控制了滩间山金矿床的形成。经生产实践证实,具有形成大型金矿床的多种有利成矿地质条件     

深埋脆性岩石力学参数评估与变形特性探讨

隧道工程开挖深度有逐渐增加的趋势,深部岩石具高强度及高应力环境。虽然脆性岩石在高围压应力下,将转而呈现延性特性,但隧道开挖所产生的径向解压,使隧道周边一定范围内的岩体处在低围压状态,故这部分围岩的变形仍由脆性性质所掌控。对于脆性岩石呈现峰后强度弱化特性,文中汇整各种岩石峰后强度弱化参数评估方法后,提出结合Hoek-Brown准则与岩心试验的强度损失试验评估法。以实际工程案例分析结果显示,600 m埋深时岩石峰后强度弱化与否,对隧道围岩变形量影响不大,但隧道埋深超过2 000 m后,变形量的差异将达到3～4倍左右,显示脆性岩石峰后强度弱化特性,对深埋隧道施工变形影响不可忽视。     

Strain partitioning and deformation mode analysis of the normal faults at Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama

In a low-temperature environment, the thin-section scale rock-deformation mode is primarily a function of confining pressure and total strain at geological strain rates. A deformation mode diagram is constructed from published experimental data by plotting the deformation mode on a graph of total strain versus the confining pressure. Four deformation modes are shown on the diagram: extensional fracturing, mesoscopic faulting, incipient faulting, and uniform flow. By determining the total strain and the deformation mode of a naturally deformed sample, the confining pressure and hence the depth at which the rock was deformed can be evaluated. The method is applied to normal faults exposed on the gently dipping southeast limb of the Birmingham anticlinorium in the Red Mountain expressway cut in Birmingham, Alabama. Samples of the Ordovician Chickamauga Limestone within and adjacent to the faults contain brittle structures, including mesoscopic faults and veins, and ductile deformation features including calcite twins, intergranular and transgranular pressure solution, and deformed burrows. During compaction, a vertical shortening of about 45 to 80% in shale is indicated by deformed burrows and relative compaction of shale to burrows, about 6% in limestone by stylolites. The normal faults formed after the Ordovician rocks were consolidated because the faults and associated veins truncate the deformed burrows and stylolites, which truncate the calcite cement. A total strain of 2.0% was caused by mesoscopic faults during normal faulting. A later homogenous deformation, indicated by the calcite twins in veins, cement and fossil fragments, has its major principal shortening strain in the dip direction at a low angle (about 22°) to bedding. The strain magnitude is about 2.6%. By locating the observed data on the deformation mode diagram, it is found that the normal faulting characterized by brittle deformation occurred under low confining pressure (< 18 MPa) at shallow depth (< 800 m), and the homogenous horizontal compression characterized by uniform flow occurred under higher confining pressure (at least 60 MPa) at greater depth (> 2.5 km).     

Tectonic evolution of a crustal-scale oblique ramp,Hellenides thrust belt,Greece

This study investigates the tectonic evolution of the Omalos transverse zone, which served as a crustal-scale oblique ramp in the External Hellenides thrust belt on Crete island. The Omalos oblique ramp developed above an inherited Mesozoic fault zone that strikes NE–SW, oblique to the regional SSW-directed tectonic transport. During the Early Miocene–Pleistocene evolution of the thrust belt, the oblique ramp was repeatedly reactivated localizing deformation above the inherited structure. Geological and structural mapping combined with kinematic analysis of ductile and brittle structures suggest that the Omalos oblique ramp generated a local kinematic field, which deviated significantly from the regional kinematic pattern in the thrust belt. The most conspicuous feature in the tectonic evolution of the oblique ramp is a change from a ductile wrench-dominated to a brittle, primarily reverse faulting regime across the brittle–ductile transition, followed by brittle wrench deformation after the final exhumation of high-pressure (HP) rocks. Deflections of transport and compression orientations from the regional pattern are attributed to buttressing against basement-cover offsets produced by the pre-existing fault zone, to oblique ramping, and to transfer faulting, respectively. Our findings are potentially applicable to other examples of crustal-scale oblique thrust ramps in various tectonic settings.