Petrological characteristics of the Damiao anorthosite complex in Hebei Province,China

The Damiao anorthosite complex occurs in the high-grade metamorphic Precambrian rocks in the axial part of the Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) Anticline. It is a monoclinal, layered intrusion, with distinguishable layers of anorthosite, monzonite and quartz-monzonite from bottom to top. Gradation evidence can be noticed between these layers. Accumulation structure is obvious in anorthositic rocks. In the anorthositic rocks feldspars, mainly antiperthite and plagioclase, are hosted with An 44–49, while in the acid rock facies, perthite and plagioclase are present. The complex investigated can be assigned to andesine-type rocks. Both the Damiao anorthosites and the Miyun rapakivi granites are calc-alkaline in terms of petrochemical characteristics, and the latter exhibits a very close petrochemical similarity, i.e., high in Al and K, with the acid members in the upper layers of the complex at Damiao. In view of the close temporal-spatial relationship and the resemblance of rock structure, it is thought that the two suites are resulted from a single parent magma under approximate tectonic environments, and that gravitative fractionation may have played an important role in their evolution. Calculations show that the parent magma responsible for the suites bears obvious resemblance to quartz diorite and quartz monzonite in composition, which is in agreement with the experiments by T. H. Green. The Damiao anorthosite complex is characterized by deep source and shallow emplacement as evidenced by high-pressure and high-temperature experiments, geothermometry and petrochemical features as well as the occurrence of both pigeonite and primary “Al-pyroxene”.     

Geochemistry of granitic migmatites in the northeastern and southwestern Belomorian belt: An example of Karelia

Comparative petrological and geochemical characteristics are presented for the rocks from two areas in northern Karelia in the northeastern and southwestern parts of the Belomorian Mobile Belt. Both of the areas were determined to consist of plagioclase and plagioclase-microcline migmatites, plagiogranites, and granites, but the northeastern part is volumetrically dominated by plagioclase migmatites and plagiogranites corresponding to tonalites and trondhjemites in composition. The rocks of the southwestern part of the belt are rich in plagioclase and microcline. Based on the geological relations between the rocks and their petrography and geochemistry, it is demonstrated that the plagioclase migmatites of tonalite and trondhjemite composition were produced by the migmatization of amphibolites and differ from intrusive tonalites and trondhjemites. The rocks examined in both parts of the belt reveal a similar petrochemical and geochemical evolution with similar behaviors of major and some trace elements (except Ba and Sr), which were controlled by migmatization processes. Compared with the rocks of the northeastern part of the belt, those in its southwestern portion are enriched in Ba and Sr, with the differences in the behavior of these elements possibly controlled by variations in the depths at which the rocks were formed in different geodynamic environments.     

西藏阿里西部地区超镁铁岩的岩石化学及其上地幔化学模式的探讨

本文探讨了该区超镁铁岩化学成分的分带性;本区方辉橄榄岩与其它地区的化学成分的对比;以及与其密切共生的岩浆岩化学成分的互补关系;及本区上地幔可能的化学分带模式。得出结论:(1)从地质和岩石化学证据表明本区的方辉橄榄岩是地幔物质呈固态侵位的。(2)方辉橄榄岩与共生的岩浆岩有成因联系。(3)本区可能存在上地幔双层化学模式。     

Late Cretaceous-Paleocene magmatic complexes of central Kamchatka: Geological settings and compositional features

A comparative analysis of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene volcanism was conducted for four areas of Kamchatka: the Pravyi Tolbachik-Levaya Shchapina-Adrianovka interlfuve (the northern part of the Tumrok Range), the area south of the Ipuin River and Mt. Khrebtovaya (the northern Valaginsky Range), the area of Mt. Savul’ch (the upper reaches of the Kitil’gina River, northern Valaginsky Range), and the Kirganik-Levaya Kolpakova interfluve (the Sredinny Range). New petrochemical, geochemical, and isotopic data on the volcanic rocks from these areas are reported. The examination of this material, together with already published data on volcanic and plutonic rocks of similar composition and age, made it possible to establish the following: (1) the considered basaltoids are ascribed to the subalkali basalt-trachyandesite series with transition toward a meymechite-picrite rock association; (2) the alkali content in the rocks of the Valaginsky-Tumrok-Sredinny ranges increases simultaneously with the increase of the Rb content, while the contents of HFSE and radioactive elements decrease and then again increase. Two trends are identified in the Yb_n-Ce_n diagram: a positive trend spanning most of the volcanic and plutonic rocks and a negative trend defined by the data points of the meymechite-picrite association. The first trend reflects the rock evolution during crystallization differentiation, while the second trend was produced by different degrees of melting of initial protolith. The possible geodynamic reconstructions of this volcanism are discussed as well.     

江西冷水火山—侵入杂岩体岩石化学及地球化学特征

冷水银铅锌矿的火山—侵入杂岩体出露于信江中生代火山盆地南缘。岩石化学、微量元素、稀土元素和铷锶同位素分析表明冷水火山岩及次火山岩是同源产物,是同熔岩浆分异的结果。岩浆中成矿物质Cu、Fe、Pb、Zn、S、H_2O的数量与下地壳、上地慢或洋壳物质的部分熔融程度有关。冷水火山—侵入杂岩是钙碱性岩浆于不同演化阶段形成的岩石组合并具有化学成分上的相似性和继承性。岩浆房中具有良好的分带现象,上部为富钾的流纹质岩浆,向下逐渐变为基性岩浆。岩浆由钙碱性向偏碱性演化,促使成矿元素大量富集,在一定条件下形成矿床。     

福建沿海动力变质带南段变质侵入岩岩石成分迁移规律的研究

通过1：25万厦门市、东山县幅区域地质调查．在福建沿海动力变质带南段中同种原岩不同变形强度的动力变质岩进行了岩石化学分析,揭示了晚侏罗世侵入岩在动力变质过程中,从未变形岩石到糜棱岩化岩石、初糜棱岩、糜棱岩、超糜棱岩的变化过程中岩石化学成分的变化规律。该研究为动力变质岩的原岩恢复提供了依据,并为岩石韧性变形过程中岩石化学成分迁移这一理论研究提供了资料。     

Petrochemistry of Late Miocene to Quaternary Igneous Rocks and Metallogenesis in Southwest Hokkaido, Japan

Abstract: Southwest Hokkaido is largely covered by Late Miocene to Quaternary igneous rocks, and has a large number of gold veins and base-metal veins of the same age. Investigation of the silica-normalized concentration of elements has revealed regional petrochemical zoning; large ion lithophile elements (LILE) and K₂O/(Na₂O+K₂O) of the rocks increase toward Japan Sea, whereas total FeO, CaO, and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr decrease. Mapped concentration isoplethes of these elements are not ideally parallel to the volcanic front, but protrude to the west at Funka Bay, and to the northwest at Matsumae Peninsula. Isoplethes of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr show similar patterns and two more northwestward protrusions in the northeast (Jozankei block) of southwest Hokkaido. Contrary to the general petrochemical trend, both high– and low-LILE volcanic rocks occur in the Jozankei block. The ore deposits are distributed in four metallogenic zones; manganese–base–metal zone on the Japan Sea side, pyrite-limonite zone mainly along the volcanic front, gold zone in the middle, and two units of gold–base–metal zone. The northern unit of this zone is in the Jozankei block, and seems a part of the gold zone overlapped by the manganese–base–metal zone. Thus, as a rule, pyrite–limonite, gold, and base-metal deposits accompany low–, intermediate–, and high-LILE igneous rocks, respectively. Individual deposits and volcanic rocks make chains oblique to the zones and the volcanic front. The majority of the ore deposits are distributed along ridges of Bouguer anomalies overlapped by the volcanic chains, which apparently control the patterns of the petrochemical isoplethes. This is typical for two volcanic chains to the north and south of Funka Bay, where the petrochemical isoplethes protrude to the west. This indicates that both the igneous activity and the mineralization have been under the control of tectonic fractures at the roots of the volcanic chains. The geological, petrochemical and metallogenic data support the idea that the chemical characteristics of the deposits are correlated mainly with the chemistry of the associated magmas, and partly with that of the host rocks.     

滇西盈江地区上新世双峰式火山岩的地球化学特征及其构造意义

盈江地区上新世火山岩是腾冲火山岩的重要组成部分,但以往研究极少涉及。通过对该火山岩进行岩石地球化学和KAr年代学研究,同时与腾冲火山岩东侧的龙江河谷地区的上新世火山岩对比,认为盈江和腾冲地区上新世火山岩是大陆构造背景下造山带造山后伸展作用下形成的火山岩,具有高Al_2O_3(15.54%~17.44%)、高K_2O(0.94%~3.50%)的岩石化学特点,为高钾钙碱性系列火山岩,形成于拉张环境,为双峰式火山岩(玄武岩DI=33~50,英安岩DI=62~76)。造山带裂谷火山岩常具弧火山岩的岩石化学特点,但其形成于造山带造山后的拉张环境,与板块俯冲作用没有直接关系。造山带裂谷火山岩发育在早期造山带,是造山带发展过程中一定阶段的岩浆作用的产物。     

Petrogeochemical characteristics of the kimberlites from the Middle Markha region with application to the problem of the geochemical heterogeneity of kimberlites

A comparative geochemical investigation of kimberlites from the Middle Markha region and traditional diamond-bearing areas of Yakutia supported the division of kimberlites into two geochemical types. One of them includes kimberlites from the traditional diamond-bearing areas of Yakutia, and the other is represented by the kimberlites of the Middle Markha region and the rocks of the Zolotitsa field and V. Grib pipe of the Arkhangelsk province. The obtained representative parameters of the two kimberlite types indicate a sharp geochemical contrast between them, and the individual features of correlation relationships between the elements in the rocks of the two types suggest that these differences are related to fundamental genetic factors, which concern primarily the group of highly charged incompatible trace and radioactive elements. The presence of geochemically contrasting rocks within a rather uniform petrochemical association and the geochemically specialized occurrences of kimberlites and related rocks are consequences of repeated metasomatic transformations of mantle rocks under the influence of deep-derived fluids or volatiles released during the recycling of subneous source and subsequent derivation of geochemically specialized types of deep magmas showing signatures of individual mantle sources.     

Geology of the Gorny Altai subduction–accretion complex, southern Siberia: Tectonic evolution of an Ediacaran–Cambrian intra-oceanic arc-trench system

The Gorny Altai region in southern Siberia is one of the key areas in reconstructing the tectonic evolution of the western segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). This region features various orogenic elements of Late Neoproterozoic–Early Paleozoic age, such as an accretionary complex (AC), high-P/T metamorphic (HP) rocks, and ophiolite (OP), all formed by ancient subduction–accretion processes. This study investigated the detailed geology of the Upper Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic rocks in a traverse between Gorno-Altaisk city and Lake Teletskoy in the northern part of the region, and in the Kurai to Chagan-Uzun area in the southern part. The tectonic units of the studied areas consist of (1) the Ediacaran (=Vendian)–Early Cambrian AC, (2) ca. 630 Ma HP complex, (3) the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian OP complex, (4) the Cryogenian–Cambrian island arc complex, and (5) the Middle Paleozoic fore-arc sedimentary rocks. The AC consists mostly of paleo-atoll limestone and underlying oceanic island basalt with minor amount of chert and serpentinite. The basaltic lavas show petrochemistry similar to modern oceanic plateau basalt. The 630 Ma HP complex records a maximum peak metamorphism at 660 °C and 2.0 GPa that corresponds to 60 km-deep burial in a subduction zone, and exhumation at ca. 570 Ma. The Cryogenian island arc complex includes boninitic rocks that suggest an incipient stage of arc development. The Upper Neoproterozoic–Lower Paleozoic complexes in the Gorno-Altaisk city to Lake Teletskoy and the Kurai to Chagan-Uzun areas are totally involved in a subhorizontal piled-nappe structure, and overprinted by Late Paleozoic strike-slip faulting. The HP complex occurs as a nappe tectonically sandwiched between the non- to weakly metamorphosed AC and the OP complex. These lithologic assemblages and geologic structure newly documented in the Gorny Altai region are essentially similar to those of the circum-Pacific (Miyashiro-type) orogenic belts, such as the Japan Islands in East Asia and the Cordillera in western North America. The Cryogenian boninite-bearing arc volcanism indicates that the initial stage of arc development occurred in a transient setting from a transform zone to an incipient subduction zone. The less abundant of terrigenous clastics from mature continental crust and thick deep-sea chert in the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian AC may suggest that the southern Gorny Altai region evolved in an intra-oceanic arc-trench setting like the modern Mariana arc, rather than along the continental arc of a major continental margin. Based on geological, petrochemical, and geochronological data, we synthesize the Late Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic tectonic history of the Gorny Altai region in the western CAOB.     

新疆库鲁克塔格兴地Ⅱ号存体铜镍含矿性评价

新疆库鲁克塔格兴地Ⅱ号岩体是一个深源岩浆经多次分异，多期侵入形成的基性－超基性杂岩体，岩体成矿背景条件，岩石化学及岩体矿化特征均显示，该杂岩体内可能赋存有大中型铜镍硫化物矿床，章通过对成矿背景条件，岩石特征及矿化特征的分析，对该杂岩体的铜镍含矿性做出初步评价。     

Compositional restraints on the sillimanite paragenesis in metapelites from Kuanthal,district Udaipur,India

The rocks exposed in the area around Kuanthal represent one of the oldest Precambrian formations of India and constitute the Banded Gneissic Complex (B.G.C.) of Heron (1953). The main rock types are staurolite-sillimanite schists/gneisses, sillimanite gneisses with or without K-feldspar, migmatites and amphibolites, often intimately and inextricably mixed up with one another. The petrochemical studies of the metapelitic rocks show that the formation of sillimanite is controlled by parent rock chemistry. The critical controlling parameters area: alumina, alkalies (Na₂O + K₂O) and oxidation ratio of rocks. These criteria are equally valid for other well-known areas of high-grade metamorphism. The validity of this proposition has been tested by statistical methods such as multivariate analysis and Mahalonbis's generalized distance D². The linear discriminant function controlling sillimanite paragenesis in metapelites has been worked out and an equation has been evolved to delineate the ‘SB’ (sillimanite-bearing) and ‘SF’ (sillimanite-free) rocks.     

The Khan-Taishir ophiolitic complex of Western Mongolia,its petrology,origin and comparison with other ophiolitic complexes

The Khan-Taishir ophiolitic complex is situated within Early Caledonian structures of Western Mongolia. It consists (from below upward) of strongly differentiated ultramafics (dunites and harzburgites), pyroxenites and gabbro, sheeted dikes, pillow lavas and sediments, including in their uppermost part archaeocyatic limestones of Lower Cambrian age. Geological, petrochemical and geochemical data indicate that the ultramafics are turn off from the overlying ophiolitic sequence. Igneous rocks of the ophiolitic complex, except the ultramafics, were formed by two-stage differentiation of mantle magma of quartz-tholeiitic composition exhausted in potassium and titanium. Pyroxenites and gabbro with an anorthositic trend of differentiation were generated during the first stage, and sheeted dikes and pillow lavas with a quartz trend of differentiation were formed during the second one. Ophiolites of the Khan-Taishir complex petrochemically and geochemically differ strongly from mafic and ultramafic rocks of midoceanic ridges. Together with ophiolites of the Troodos complex (Cyprus) and Macquarie Island (eastern Indian Ocean) they constitute the special type of ophiolite peculiar rather to slip boundaries of lithosphere plates. The other type of ophiolite, including complexes like the Dzolen complex of south Mongolia, contains poorly differentiated ultramafics and does not contain sheeted dikes; while the igneous rocks are very similar to mafic and ultramafic rocks dredged from midoceanic and formed probably in midoceanic ridge environments as well.     

冀北太古代花岗质片麻岩的成因

冀北是华北克拉通早前寒武纪变质基底的主要出露地区之一。分布于承德-滦平和赤城-张家口地区的新太古代花岗质片麻岩主要由英云闪长岩、奥长花岗岩、花岗闪长岩和二长花岗岩(TTGM)组成,构成了低钾、中钾和高钾钙碱性三个岩石化学系列。二长花岗质片麻岩的LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb和Lu-Hf同位素特征揭示其岩浆结晶年龄为2509±10Ma。全岩岩石化学、Sm-Nd同位素和锆石Lu-Hf同位素研究表明:(1)低钾钙碱性系列的岩石形成于拉班玄武质岩石的低度部分熔融;(2)中钾钙碱性系列岩石主要形成于玄武质岩石和杂砂岩的部分熔融,局部存在英云闪长质片麻岩的部分熔融;(3)高钾钙碱性系列的岩石形成于以高钾中酸性火山岩为主要成分的杂砂岩的部分熔融。结合近年来冀北早前寒武纪地质研究成果,这些太古代花岗质片麻岩全岩Sm-Nd同位素和锆石Lu-Hf同位素特征揭示~2.7Ga是本区太古代地壳的主要生长期。在新太古代发生了大规模的火山喷发,火山物质形成后不久发生部分熔融形成花岗质岩浆,接着发生变质、变形作用。这些花岗质片麻岩的形成与南美洲西海岸的构造-岩浆活动特征有类似之处,可能反映了太古代末期冀北地区从活动大陆边缘地壳增生、加厚到弧后伸展转化的动力学背景。     

The first evidence of UHP metamorphism in the Polar Urals (Russia)

A new ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic terrane, the Marun-Keu eclogite–peridotite–gneiss complex was established in the Polar Urals (Russia). Owing to the P–T parameters of formation of garnet peridotites obtained for the first time, it was established that they experienced UHP metamorphism with a peak in the diamond stability field (39 kbar, 830oC) due to subduction of rocks of the Marun-Keu complex to the mantle (a depth of more than 100 km). Relics of plagioclase peridotites preserved in central parts of large peridotite bodies and petrochemical data are evidence that Marun-Key garnet peridotites cannot be of mantle origin. A basic-ultrabasic intrusion, which formed in the upper crust, can be considered as their protolith. Later, rocks of the massif plunged to the mantle along the subduction zone and metamorphosed under high-P to ultrahigh-P conditions.

     

Complex unmixed spinels in layered intrusions within an obducted ophiolite in the Natal-Namaqua mobile belt

Spinellids showing unmixed intergrowths of chromite or chromian spinel (sensu stricto) and magnetite or chromian magnetite are not known in mafic or ultramafic igneous rocks. They do occur within metamorphosed rocks that attained temperatures sufficiently high (upper amphibolite facies) for the formation of homogeneous Al-Cr-Fe³⁺-Ti spinel phases with compositions not matched in slowly cooled igneous rocks. In the Tugela Rand intrusion complex intergrowths of chromian spinel, chromian magnetite, ulvöspinel, ilmenite and a transparent aluminous spinel are observed and interpreted in terms of the thermal history of the rocks. Compositional differences between the separate areas of chromian spinel and chromian magnetite in complex intergrowths exhibited by the metamorphosed Tugela Rand and Mambulu Complexes confirm the extension of the magnetite-hercynite solvus (Turnock and Eugster 1962) towards magnesium- and chromium-rich compositions. The Tugela Rand spinellids are compared with those from the Carr Boyd Complex (Purvis et al. 1972) and the ultramafic rocks of the Giant Nickel Mine (Muir and Naldrett 1973) and the Red Lodge district (Loferski and Lipin 1983). Significant differences between the spinels from the Red Lodge district compared to the other three occurrences may reflect the different metamorphic histories of these areas.     

杂多地区喜山期花岗斑岩地球化学特征及地质意义

杂多地区花岗斑岩的麦多拉和纳日贡玛等岩体,测年结果显示年龄值分布为(40.8士0.4)Ma、(43.3士0.5)Ma,为喜山期的产物,杂多地区岩体是同一时代的产物.杂多地区多金属成矿带,包括纳日贡玛—麦多拉—乌葱察别—迪拉亿—哼赛青等斑岩型铜、铅、锌、钼、金、银等多金属矿床,微量元素(包括稀土元素),研究结果表明含矿斑岩和共生的钾质斑岩岩体在时空上具一致性,岩石化学成分均富碱(w(K2O)+w(Na2O)＞5％),高K和w (K2O)/w(Na2O)值远大于1, 微量元素富集Sr、Ba等大离子亲石元素和轻稀土元素等,均显示出钾玄岩和高钾系列岩石的特征,暗示杂多地区多金属成矿带的含矿斑岩属于典型的钾玄岩和高钾系列的斑岩.     

Petrology,geochemistry and genesis of Kuiqi granite batholith

The Kuiqi granite batholith outcrops in the vicinity of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province and constitutes one of the typical alkali granitic complexes in the “Belt of Miarolitic Granites” extending along the southeast coast of China. The complex is believed to have been emplaced at higher levels of the crust in a tensional fault environment. Petrographically it is composed mainly of aegirine-arfvedsonite granites with early biotite granites scattered. Miarolitic structure and granophyric texture are commonly observed. The Rb-Sr isochron age of the complex is 107.65 m.y. Both petrological and petrochemical studies show that the Kuiqi granite is of A-type. Data on chemical composition, REE pattern and transition elements reveal that there is a close genetic connection between granites and associated volcanic rocks. Thus, syntexistype (I-type) granite, A-type granite and volcanic rocks form a cogenetic “trinity”, in which the A-type granite is usually the latest member of the volcanic-intrusive series.     

Petrographic characteristics and several other related problems of the layered basic-ultrabasic intrusives in the Upper Yangtze Valley

Three iron, titanium-rich layered basic-ultrabasic intrusives have been described. They occur in an approximately south-north striking belt of tectonic-magmatic complex within an anteklise. Iron and titanium were concentrated in the lower or middle-lower parts of these intrusives at the early and the middle stages of differentiation, during which FeO may have played an important role. Intimate spacial and temporal association as well as common petrochemical features (i.e., high iron and titanium contents) have been found between these layered intrusives and the syenite and alkali-syenite plutons. All of these rocks are considered as hypogene products of the differentiation of the Omeishan basaltic magma. In other words, the hypogene differentiation of the iron (titanium)-rich, sub-alkali Omeishan basltic magma under the same structural-geological conditions resulted in the formation of the rock series of layered intrusives (peridotite → iron, titanium-rich ultramafic rocks → iron-, titanium-rich gabbro, plagioclasite) → syenite, alkali-syenite.     

Petrochemistry of Sandstones from the Siberian Hypostratotype of the Riphean in the Uchur–Maya Region

Based on 148 analyses, we report the petrochemical characteristics of Riphean and Vendian coarse-grained sedimentary rocks of the Uchur–Maya region in eastern Siberia, which is referred to the Proterozoic continental-margin domain. Various methods of petrochemical study applied to Precambrian sandstones are examined. Normative mineral compositions of specific groups of arenites, particularly basal potassic arkoses, are considered. Differences in sandstone compositions at certain stratigraphic levels are shown, and the evolution of chemical composition of rocks is traced through sections of sedimentary cover (Maya Plate) and margin region (Yudoma–Maya Trough). The work presents results of the application of data on mineralogical and chemical compositions of arenites for the restoration of paleodynamic environments in Late Proterozoic sedimentation basins at the southeastern margin of the Siberian Platform.