Simulating coseismic deformation of quartz in the middle crust and fabric evolution during postseismic stress relaxation — An experimental study

Non-steady state deformation and annealing experiments on vein quartz are designed to simulate earthquake-driven episodic deformation in the middle crust. Three types of experiments were carried out using a modified Griggs-type solid medium deformation apparatus. All three start with high stress deformation at a temperature of 400 °C and a constant strain rate of 10^− 4 s^− 1 (type A), some are followed by annealing in the stability field of α-quartz for 14–15 h at zero nominal differential stress and temperatures of 800–1000 °C (type A + B), or by annealing for 15 h at 900 °C and at a residual stress (type A + C).The quartz samples reveal a very high strength > 2 GPa at a few percent of permanent strain. The microstructures after short-term high stress deformation (type A) record localized brittle and plastic deformation. Statisc annealing (type A + B) results in recrystallisation restricted to the highly damaged zones. The new grains aligned in strings and without crystallographic preferred orientation, indicate nucleation and growth. Annealing at non-hydrostatic conditions (type A + C) results in shear zones that also develop from deformation bands or cracks that formed during the preceding high stress deformation. In this case, however, the recrystallised zone is several grain diameters wide, the grains are elongate, and a marked crystallographic preferred orientation indicates flow by dislocation creep with dynamic recrystallisation. Quartz microstructures identical to those produced in type A + B experiments are observed in cores recovered from Long Valley Exploratory Well in the Quaternary Long Valley Caldera, California, with considerable seismic activity.The experiments demonstrate the behaviour of quartz at coseismic loading (type A) and subsequent static annealing (type A + B) or creep at decaying stress (type A + C) in the middle crust. The experimentally produced microfabrics allow to identify similar processes and conditions in exhumed rocks.     

Dislocation generation, slip systems, and dynamic recrystallization in experimentally deformed plagioclase single crystals

Three samples of gem quality plagioclase crystals of An60 were experimentally deformed at 900 °C, 1 GPa confining pressure and strain rates of 7.5–8.7×10⁻⁷ s⁻¹. The starting material is effectively dislocation-free so that all observed defects were introduced during the experiments. Two samples were shortened normal to one of the principal slip planes (010), corresponding to a “hard” orientation, and one sample was deformed with a Schmid factor of 0.45 for the principal slip system [001](010), corresponding to a “soft” orientation. Several slip systems were activated in the “soft” sample: dislocations of the [001](010) and 110(001) system are about equally abundant, whereas 110{111} and [101] in ( 31) to ( 42) are less common. In the “soft” sample plastic deformation is pervasive and deformation bands are abundant. In the “hard” samples the plastic deformation is concentrated in rims along the sample boundaries. Deformation bands and shear fractures are common. Twinning occurs in close association with fracturing, and the processes are clearly interrelated. Glissile dislocations of all observed slip systems are associated with fractures and deformation bands indicating that deformation bands and fractures are important sites of dislocation generation. Grain boundaries of tiny, defect-free grains in healed fracture zones have migrated subsequent to fracturing. These grains represent former fragments of the fracture process and may act as nuclei for new grains during dynamic recrystallization. Nucleation via small fragments can explain a non-host-controlled orientation of recrystallized grains in plagioclase and possibly in other silicate materials which have been plastically deformed near the semi-brittle to plastic transition.     

Luminescence sensitivities of quartz grains from eolian deposits in northern China and their implications for provenance

The thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) sensitivities of quartz grains from deserts and loess–red clay sequences are used to trace eolian provenances in northern China. Our results indicate that the 110°C TL peak and OSL sensitivities of quartz grains show differences among Chinese deserts, which can be subdivided into four groups according to the spatial variations of luminescence sensitivities. Such differences are related mostly to the regional difference in rock types of mountains surrounding or adjacent to the deserts. We also examine the possible provenance changes between the Quaternary loess and the Tertiary eolian red clay, and the results indicate that the luminescence sensitivity of Tertiary red clay is higher than that of Quaternary loess (L1, L15, and L33), implying source materials of the eolian deposits changed relative to those of the Quaternary.     

库车坳陷白垩系砂岩储层石英溶蚀非均质性特征及其主控因素

库车坳陷白垩系巴什基奇克组砂岩储层内石英颗粒溶蚀作用较发育,溶蚀主要发育在颗粒内部或颗粒边缘.储层内石英颗粒的溶蚀效应呈现出明显的平面非均质性特征,溶蚀增孔量高值区的储层内不仅在胶结物上富集方沸石胶结物,在粘土矿物组合上也表现出富伊利石贫高岭石的特征.通过层间泥岩硼元素含量的测定,对研究层段同沉积地层水体盐度进行恢复,...     

石英道芬双晶对晶格优选取向及变形机制的贡献和意义

矿物是岩石圈最基本的物质组成,其变形行为、特性和物理/化学过程直接影响着大陆岩石圈的力学强度和流变学性质。石英是地壳主要的组成矿物之一,对其变形机理及制约因素的研究,是理解地壳流变学性质的关键。石英中的道芬双晶在晶体形态上表现出沿c轴方向的6次对称,早期研究认为其只能形成于α-和β-石英的相变过程中,越来越多的研究发现,机械应力诱发的道芬双晶对温度和应力具有一定的依赖性。通过对高黎贡剪切带内变形石英的EBSD组构分析并结合前人的研究,发现石英道芬双晶对晶内塑性应变的分布及其不同滑移系的激活起着重要作用。α-石英晶体中菱面方向比方向具有更高柔度,即更适应变形。在外力作用下,石英道芬双晶通过菱面和上的弹性性质差异,即相比方向,在压缩方向(σ₁)上代表晶面方向的极点更多地聚集在方向,形成一种较为少见的菱面晶格优选取向。由此可见,道芬双晶是石英塑性变形过程中的一种特殊的流变弱化机制,其不仅使得晶体发生可恢复的结构弱化,还通过动态重结晶作用和颗粒边界...     

CCSD HP-UHP变质岩中石英脉和东海水晶流体包裹体惰性气体同位素组成及其成因指示意义

中国大陆科学钻探（CCSD）岩心中存在大量石英脉和长英质脉体，关于其成因目前存在板块折返过程中的减压和流体释放以及后期流体穿插等不同成因观点。本文利用高真空气相质谱系统分析了CCSD石英脉和东海水晶流体包裹体中惰性气体同位素组成，其He-Ar、Xe和Ne同位素体系均清楚显示它们主要由地壳变质流体和大气饱和水组成，而基本不含深源地幔流体。在CCSD900～1500m深度的石英脉流体包裹体出现^40Ar／^36Ar和δ^18O同步下降，且与前人对CCSD中HP-UHP岩石的矿物原位δ^18O测定结果变化趋势相似，说明该段原岩在板块俯冲前曾与大气降水发生较为充分的水／岩反应，石英脉继承了围岩的同位素组成特征。流体包裹体惰性气体同位素组成显示CCSD中石英脉和东海水晶可能具有相似的成因，它们均主要形成于HP-UHP岩石在板块折返到地壳中的压力降低和流体释放过程。CCSD HP-UHP岩石及其石英脉中基本不合地幔流体的原因在于本区印支期快速的俯冲和折返过程，被俯冲地壳物质无法与地幔进行充分的同位素交换。此外，退变质作用及其伴生的地壳流体也进一步减弱了HP-UHP岩石中的地幔流体信息。     

Fluid and melt inclusion evidence for the origin of idiomorphic quartz crystals in topaz-bearing granite from the Salmi batholith, Karelia, Russia

Idiomorphic quartz crystals in topaz-bearing granite from the Salmi batholith contain primary inclusions of silicate melt and abundant mostly secondary aqueous fluid inclusions. Microthermometric measurements on melt inclusions give estimates for the granite solidus and liquidus of 640–680°C and 770–830°C, respectively. Using published solubility models for H₂O in granitic melts and the obtained solidus/liquidus temperatures from melt inclusions, the initial water concentration of the magma is deduced to have been approximately 3 wt.% and the minimum pressure about 2 kbar. At this initial stage, volatile-undersaturation conditions of magma were assumed. These results indicate that the idiomorphic quartz crystals are magmatic in origin and thus real phenocrysts. During subsolidus cooling and fracturing of the granite, several generations of aqueous fluid inclusions were trapped into the quartz phenocrysts. The H₂O inclusions have salinities and densities of 1–41 wt.% NaCl eq. and 0.53–1.18 g/cm³, respectively.     

The crystallographic fabric and texture of siderite in concretions: implications for siderite nucleation and growth processes

The crystallographic fabric of siderite in siderite concretions has been determined for upper Carboniferous (Westphalian‐A) non‐marine concretions and lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) marine concretions. Compositional zoning indicates that individual siderite crystals grew over a period of changing pore water chemistry, consistent with the concretions being initially a diffuse patch of cement, which grew progressively. The siderite crystallographic fabric was analysed using the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, which is carried by paramagnetic siderite. The siderite concretions from marine and non‐marine formations exhibit differences in fabric style, although both display increases in the degree of preferred siderite c‐axis orientation towards the concretion margins. The Westphalian non‐marine siderites show a preferred orientation of siderite c‐axes in the bedding plane, whereas the Pliensbachian marine siderites have a preferred orientation of c‐axes perpendicular to the bedding. In addition, a single marine concretion shows evidence of earlier formed, inclined girdle‐type fabrics, which are intergrown with later formed vertical c‐axis siderite fabrics. The marine and non‐marine fabrics are both apparently controlled by substrate processes at the site of nucleation, which was probably clay mineral surfaces. Siderite nucleation processes on the substrate were most probably controlled by the (bio?) chemistry of the pore waters, which altered the morphology and crystallographic orientation of the forming carbonate. The preferred crystallographic orientation of siderite results from the orientation of the nucleation substrate. Fabric changes across the concretions partially mimic the progressive compaction‐induced alignment of the clay substrates, while the concretion grew during burial.     

Sand and silt grains: Predetermination of their formation and properties by microfractures in quartz

Examination of quartz from plutonic source rocks, sediments and soils, using both optical and scanning electron microscopes, reveals that the mineral is, almost always, cut by sets of partially healed, subplanar, subparallel microfractures dividing it into sheets typically one to a few micrometres thick. The structure, which originates in source rocks, is not due to crystal cleavage although it does show weak crystallo‐graphic influence in its directions. One to several sets of microfractures, intersecting at varying angles, can be present in any one quartz crystal. The microfractures vary in quality like cleavages; separation takes place readily along some, less so along others.

In superficial environments, the ease with which microfractures can be reopened largely controls the durability of quartz and the degree to which comminution can proceed. However, this type of breakage must cease when grains are one sheet thick (about 2–20 Mm in diameter). Hence quartz suddenly changes from being the dominant mineral in silt fractions to a normally minor constituent of clay fractions. The shape of grains depends largely on the number of (and angles between) microfrac‐ture sets present in the parent quartz. Most quartz grain surfaces represent fractures whose details characterize the pre‐emergent history of the quartz rather than sedimentary environments.     

山东七宝山隐爆角砾岩型金铜矿床含矿蚀变斑岩石英颗粒中高温高盐度沸腾包裹体的发现及其意义

山东七宝山隐爆角砾岩型金铜矿床一直以来被认为是浅成低温、低盐度热液型矿床。本研究通过对该矿床含矿蚀变斑岩石英颗粒中流体包裹体的研究,发现存在大量多相包裹体与气体包裹体、气液两相包裹体共生。显微测温显示这些包裹体具有相似的均一温度(374～404℃),盐度高达48%NaCleqv。激光拉曼光谱和扫描电镜能谱分析显示,多相包裹体中的子矿物除了石盐外,还有赤铁矿、重晶石、黄铜矿与黄铁矿等。这些捕获有高温高盐度沸腾包裹体的石英颗粒可能是早期成矿流体在硅化交代蚀变的过程中重结晶形成的,而不是斑岩体的斑晶。这一结果表明该矿床深部存在高温、高盐度的沸腾包裹体。这种高温高盐度的沸腾流体包裹体及多相包裹体中黄铜矿、黄铁矿等子矿物是斑岩型矿床的典型特征,因此该发现表明山东七宝山隐爆角砾岩型金铜矿在深部可能转变为斑岩型矿床。     

岩石动力学研究成就与趋势

在岩石动力学研究范畴,岩石承受的典型荷载是冲击荷载,加载应变速率在1×10-1～1×104 s-1之间,通过如动载机、霍布金逊压杆、常规爆炸荷载等试验装置来研究岩石的动态力学性质与本构关系。由于岩石的动载作用必须考虑惯性效应,即波效应,因此,岩石动力学是以应力波理论为基础,研究应力波在岩体（石）中的传播与衰减规律、应力波与岩体节理裂隙的相互作用、应力波通过层状介质结构面折、反、透射关系及边界效应。我国岩石动力学研究最早可以追溯到20世纪60年代初大冶铁矿边坡稳定性研究中的爆破动力效应试验。比较全面地开展岩石动力学研究应该始于1965年由国家科委与国防科委同意成立防护工程组,并将“防护工程建设与研究”增列为10年规划中的国家重点项目,从而奠定了我国岩石动力学研究的基础。1987年,中国岩石力学与工程学会岩石动力学专业委员会的成立,标志着我国岩石动力学学科发展走向新的里程,成员单位涵盖水利水电、能源矿山、煤炭石油、铁路交通、建筑国防、大专院校与科研院所等。岩石动力学专委会每两年组织召开的“全国岩石动力学学术会议”,至今已举办十一届,对我国岩石动力学发展起到了促进与推动作用。文中介绍了我国岩石动力学近10年来具代表性的研究成果,分岩石动力学研究主要成就、岩石动力学研究发展趋势两部分来介绍,供同行们参考。     

新世纪的科技和岩土工程发展

从科技的发展谈论了人才的需求;以三峡工程、青藏铁路、西气东输、南水北调典型工程为例,论述了现代岩土工程与发展;并就21世纪岩土工程研究热点发表了自己的看法。     

A TEM study of the oriented orthopyroxene and forsterite inclusions in garnet from Otrøy garnet peridotite,WGR, Norway: new insights on crystallographic characteristics and growth energetics of exsolved pyroxene in relict majoritic garnet

Regularly oriented orthopyroxene (opx) and forsterite (fo) inclusions occur as opx + rutile (rt) or fo + rt inclusion domains in garnet (grt) from Otrøy peridotite. Electron diffraction characterization shows that forsterite inclusions do not have any specific crystallographic orientation relationships (COR) with the garnet host. In contrast, orthopyroxene inclusions have two sets of COR, that is, COR‐I: <111>_grt//<001>_opx and {110}_grt～//～{100}_opx (～13° off) and COR‐II: <111>_grt//<011>_opx and {110}_grt～//～{100}_opx (～14° off), in four garnet grains analysed. Both variants of orthopyroxene have a blade‐like habit with one pair of broad crystal faces parallel/sub‐parallel to {110}_grt plane and the long axis of the crystal, <001>_opx for COR‐I and <011>_opx for COR‐II, along <111>_grt direction. Whereas the lack of specific COR between forsterite and garnet, along with the presence of abundant infiltrating trails/veinlets decorated by fo + rt at garnet edges, provide compelling evidence for the formation of forsterite inclusions in garnet through the sequential cleaving–infiltrating–precipitating–healing process at low temperatures, the origin of the epitaxial orthopyroxene inclusions in garnet is not so obvious. In this connection, the reported COR, the crystal habit and the crystal growth energetics of the exsolved orthopyroxene in relict majoritic garnet were reviewed/clarified. The exsolved orthopyroxene in a relict majoritic garnet follows COR‐III: {112}_grt//{100}_opx and <111>_grt//<001>_opx. Based on the detailed trace analysis on published SEM images, these exsolved orthopyroxene inclusions are shown to have the crystal habit with one pair of broad crystal faces parallel to {112}_grt//{100}_opx and the long crystal axis along <111>_grt//<001>_opx. Such a crystal habit can be rationalized by the differences in oxygen sub‐lattices of both structures and represents the energetically favoured crystal shape of orthopyroxene inclusions in garnet formed by solid‐state exsolution mechanism. Considering the very different COR, crystal habit, as well as crystal growth direction, the orthopyroxene inclusions in garnet of the present sample most likely had been formed by mechanism(s) other than solid‐state exsolution, regardless of their regularly oriented appearance in garnet and the COR specification between orthopyroxene and garnet. In fact, the crystallographic characteristics of orthopyroxene and the similar chemical compositions of garnet at opx + rt inclusion domains, fo + rt inclusion domains/trails and garnet rim suggest that the orthopyroxene inclusions in the garnet are most likely formed by similar cleaving‐infiltration process as forsterite inclusions, though probably at an earlier stage of metamorphism. This work demonstrates that the oriented inclusions in host minerals, with or without specific COR, can arise from mechanism(s) other than solid‐state exsolution. Caution is thus needed in the interpretation of such COR, so that an erroneous identification of exhumation from UHP depths would not be made.     

2006-2015年“寒区岩土力学与工程”领域国家自然科学基金资助情况统计及发展趋势浅析

随着我国"一带一路"国家新战略提出,"陆上丝绸之路新经济带"建设将面临诸多寒区岩土力学与工程问题,也正成为我国岩土工程领域研究热点.国家自然科学基金作为目前国内自然学科领域最高级别研究支持项目,受到各方广泛关注,所提出的研究课题可谓代表本领域的研究主流与前沿.以"寒区岩土力学与工程"为主题,对本领域近10 a(2006-2015年)获批国家自然科学基金展开资助规模、依托单位及学科门类统计,分析本领域NSFC基金整体发展态势,并对基金研究主题进行分类、整理,对目前本领域发展现状进行了较为系统的分析.基于统计、分析结果,浅析该领域未来应重点关注的研究方向及发展趋势,本综述研究以期为本领域研究人员基金申报及研究主题选择提供参考.