Oxygen isotopic and chemical compositions of cosmic spherules collected from the Antarctic ice sheet: Implications for their precursor materials

Bulk chemical compositions and oxygen isotopic compositions were analyzed for 48 stony cosmic spherules (melted micrometeorites) collected from the Antarctic ice sheet using electron- and ion-microprobes. No clear correlation was found between their isotopic compositions and textures. The oxygen isotopic compositions showed an extremely wide range from −28‰ to +93‰ in δ¹⁸O and from −21‰ to +13‰ in Δ¹⁷O. In δ¹⁸O-δ¹⁷O space, most samples (38 out of 48) plot close to the terrestrial fractionation line, but 7 samples plot along the carbonaceous chondrite anhydrous mineral (CCAM) line. Three samples plot well above the terrestrial fractionation line. One of these has a Δ¹⁷O of +13‰, the largest value ever found in solar system materials. One possible precursor for this spherule could be ¹⁶O-poor planetary material that is still unknown as a meteorite. The majority of the remaining spherules are thought to be related to carbonaceous chondrites.     

金红石微量元素电子探针分析

金红石电子探针微量元素分析一般以人工合成的氧化物来作为监测标样,尚较缺乏对金红石标样进行系统地测试分析。本文运用CAMECA SXFive电子探针对金红石标样R10进行微量元素分析,根据金红石中主要微量元素在地质学中的应用,本次共分析了Al、Si、Ti、Fe、Cr、Zr、V、Nb、Ta等9个元素,Ti、Si元素作为本次分析的监测元素。本文通过调整加速电压和电流、背景和峰值测试时长以及干扰谱峰处理等来提高微量元素分析精度和准确度。分析结果显示,其中,Zr(780±29×10~(-6))(1SD,n=25)、Nb(2799±66×10~(-6))、V(1276±33×10~(-6))、Fe(4309±34×10~(-6))、Cr(718±31×10~(-6))的分析结果与二次离子质谱(SIMS)和激光剥蚀电感耦合等离子体质谱(LA-ICP-MS)的推荐值在误差范围内一致。大部分元素数据波动范围在10%以内,V、Fe元素的数据波动范围仅在5%以内。V、Nb和Fe测试精度比前人电子探针分析结果有较大提高。金红石Zr测试误差传递给金红石Zr温度计给出的温度误差一般22℃。本文还对金红石Zr温度计应用、提高Ta元素分析精度和准确度、金红石Fe~(3+)分析等问题进行了探讨。     

Electron microprobe study of a ‘mysterite’-bearing inclusion from the Krymka LL-chondrite

The black inclusion from the Krymka LL3 chondrite previously found to contain ‘mysterite’ by Lewiset al. (1979) belongs to a hitherto unknown class of carbonaceous chondrites. Its olivine and pyroxene compositions. Fo 97–99 and En 96, respectively, are characteristic of carbonaceous chondrites and its plagioclase composition. An 100, is characteristic of C3's. It contains a peculiar group of Co-, Cr-rich metal grains whose compositions are similar, but not identical, to those in C2 chondrites and which also bear some similarities to those in Renazzo. Its weight ratios of total $\text{Fe}\text{SiO}{}_2$ and $\text{solSiO}{}_2\text{MgO}$ are 0.74 and 1.43, respectively, and its atomic ratio of $\text{Si}\text{Al}$ is 10.7, exactly the same as in carbonaceous chondrites. Its bulk chemical composition is very close to that of the Murchison C2 chondrite. The association of mysterite with a special type of carbonaceous chondrite material suggests that mysterite formed by low-temperature condensation in a different region of the nebula from other carbonaceous chondrites.     

Electron microprobe analysis of some minor- and accessory components in mesosiderites

Summary Analyses of chromite, ilmenite, whitlockite, farringtonite, schreibersite, and tridymite from four mesosiderite specimen were made using electron microprobe techniques. These minerals are chemically homogeneous with the exception of chromite, which exhibits slight zoning and grain to grain compositional variation in the same specimen. It can be assumed that schreibersite, troilite, and phosphates formed by solid state nucleation from -NiFe or solid state reactions between mixed metal and silicate fragments at temperatures of approximately 600–700°C during a stage of thermal metamorphism. Chromite was associated with the silicate fraction before metal and silicate fragments have mixed. It is shown that the results of this work are consistent with the theory of mesosiderite genesis evolved byPowell (1969, 1971).

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Elektronenstrahlmikroanalyse einiger Nebenbestandteile und Akzessorien in Mesosideriten

Zusammenfassung In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird über Mikrosondenanalysen von Chromit, Ilmenit, Whitlockit, Farringtonit sowie Schreibersit und Troilit in vier Mesosideriten berichtet. Mit Ausnahme von Chromit, der leichten Zonarbau und geringe Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung in derselben Probe zeigt, sind alle Minerale homogen. Für die Bildung von Schreibersit, Troilit und den Phosphaten können Ausscheidungsreaktionen im festen Zustand aus -NiFe oder Reaktionen — ebenfalls im festen Zustand — zwischen metallischen und silikatischen Fragmenten in einem Gemenge bei Temperaturen von etwa 600–700°C während einer thermischen Metamorphose angenommen werden. Chromit war schon vor der Mischung der silikatischen und metallischen Anteile mit dem Silikat assoziiert. Die Ergebnisse stehen mit einer bereits vorliegenden Theorie über die Entwicklung der Mesosiderite vonPowell (1969, 1971) in gutem Einklang.

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Dedicated to Professor Dr.F. Hecht on the occasion of his 70th birthday.     

Laser microprobe for the study of noble gases and nitrogen in single grains: A case study of individual chondrules from the Dhajala meteorite

A laser microprobe capable of analysing nitrogen and noble gases in individual grains with masses less than a milligram is described. It can be used in both continuous wave (CW) mode, useful for stepwise heating of an individual grain, as well as in pulsed mode, useful for ablating material from a small selected area of a sample, for gas extraction. We could achieve low blanks (in ccSTP units) for 4He(4.8 x 10{-12}),²²Ne(1.0 x 10{-12}),³⁶Ar(1.0 x10 ^-13),⁸⁴Kr(2.9 x 10{-14}),¹³² Xe(2.6 x 10{-14}), and N (87 pg), using this system. Preliminary data for individual chondrules from the Dhajala meteorite show that noble gases and nitrogen from grains as small as 170 microgram can be analysed using the present laser microprobe setup. The amount of trapped neon in Dhajala chondrules is very small, and nitrogen in the chondrules is isotopically heavier as compared to the bulk meteorite.     

10Be ages from central east Greenland constrain the extent of the Greenland ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum

Traditional ice sheet reconstructions have suggested two distinctly different ice sheet regimes along the East Greenland continental margin during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM): ice to the shelf break south of Scoresby Sund and ice extending no further than to the inner shelf at and north of Scoresby Sund. We report new ¹⁰Be ages from erratic boulders perched at 250 m a.s.l. on the Kap Brewster peninsula at the mouth of Scoresby Sund. The average ¹⁰Be ages, calculated with an assumed maximum erosion rate of 1 cm/ka and no erosion (respectively, 17.3±2.3 ka and 15.1±1.7 ka) overlap with a period of increased sediment input to the Scoresby Sund fan (19–15 ka). The results presented here suggest that ice reached at least 250 m a.s.l. at the mouth of Scoresby Sund during the LGM and add to a growing body of evidence indicating that LGM ice extended onto the outer shelf in northeast Greenland.     

Chemical microprobe Th-U-Pb age dating of monazite and uraninite grains from granites of the Yamal crystalline basement

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宁芜地区梅山铁矿床矿物的电子探针分析和稀土元素地球化学特征

梅山铁矿床位于长江中下游成矿带宁芜盆地北段,矿体赋存于辉长闪长玢岩和下白垩统大王山组辉石安山岩的接触带。研究表明,梅山铁矿的石榴石以钙铁榴石为主,为钙铁-钙铝榴石系列,与传统意义矽卡岩矿床的石榴石组成相似;磁铁矿和赤铁矿具有斑岩铜矿和Kiruna型矿床的双重特征;赤铁矿和菱铁矿显示热液交代成因特征,但赤铁矿至少有2个成矿世代。成矿母岩辉长闪长玢岩、磁铁矿及磷灰石具有相似的稀土配分模式,暗示三者具有同源性。辉长闪长玢岩无Eu异常,代表了高氧逸度下岩浆的分离结晶作用;磁铁矿和磷灰石均具有中度负Eu异常,可能是在辉长闪长玢岩发生钠长石化的过程中,Eu以Eu2+形式在钠长石内富集,造成流体Eu亏损,后来生成的磷灰石和磁铁矿继承了流体的Eu含量特征,辉长闪长玢岩的钠长石化导致富Fe2+硅酸盐矿物淋滤铁元素进入流体,为矿床提供了铁物质。     

Debris structures in basal ice exposed at the margin of the Greenland ice sheet

The basal ice of many glaciers contains debris structures that reflect subglacial processes. Presented here is an unusually clear photograph of ice and debris in the lowest 2 m of the basal layer at the margin of the Greenland ice sheet. The photograph shows ice-debris relationships and deformation structures that reflect entrainment processes and flow history.     

江西雅山黄玉锂云母花岗岩中铯矿物的电子探针研究

江西宜春雅山花岗岩是典型的高度分异型稀有金属花岗岩。通过对其最晚期花岗岩———黄玉锂云母花岗岩的钻孔样品和近地表样品的研究,发现岩体中主要有两种铯矿物:铯沸石和富铯锂云母。铯沸石是第一次在花岗岩中发现,其产状主要有两类:一类包裹于石英中,颗粒小,只有2～10μm,单个颗粒成分均匀,Si/Al比值和Poll值(%)犤=100×Cs/(Na+K+Rb+Cs)犦分别为2.13～2.65和57～89;另一类赋存于钠长石晶隙间,颗粒大,多为几百μm,单个颗粒成分不均匀,Si/Al比值和Poll值分别为2.20～2.45和75.6～88.2。富铯的云母类矿物分布较普遍,主要呈四种产状,分别为钾长石雪球中的带状富铯锂云母、云母边部的环边富铯云母、叶脉纹理状富铯云母和主矿物中的富铯云母包裹体,并根据成分中Si/Al比值和Cs的摩尔分数(%)犤=100×Cs/(Cs+K)犦,将富铯的云母类矿物分为含铯锂云母、富铯锂云母和铯锂云母三类,其中Cs替代K,Cs完全替代K形成的铯锂云母可能是锂云母系列中的铯端员新矿物。钻孔样品中的富铯云母类矿物以带状结构和环边结构最为发育,且成分主要属于含铯锂云母和富铯锂云母这两个部分,而近地表样品中则以环边结构和叶脉纹理状结构为特征,成分多为铯锂云母。铯沸石和富铯云母的产状及地球化学特征均表明,雅山岩体原始岩浆中碱金属经     

A new ice sheet model validated by remote sensing of the Greenland ice sheet

Accurate prediction of future sea level rise requires models that accurately reproduce and explain the recent observed dramatic ice sheet behaviours. This study presents a new multi-phase, multiple-rheology, scalable and extensible geofluid model of the Greenland ice sheet that shows the credential of successfully reproducing the mass loss rate derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), and the microwave remote sensed surface melt area over the past decade. Model simulated early 21st century surface ice flow compares satisfactorily with InSAR measurements. Accurate simulation of the three metrics simultaneously cannot be explained by fortunate model tuning and give us confidence in using this modelling system for projection of the future fate of Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Based on this fully adaptable three dimensional, thermo-mechanically coupled prognostic ice model, we examined the flow sensitivity to granular basal sliding, and further identified that this leads to a positive feedback contributing to enhanced mass loss in a future warming climate. The rheological properties of ice depend sensitively on its temperature, thus we further verified modelâ?s temperature solver against in situ observations. Driven by the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis atmospheric parameters, the ice model simulated GrIS mass loss rate compares favourably with that derived from the GRACE measurements, or about ?147 km³/yr over the 2002–2008 period. Increase of the summer maximum melt area extent (SME) is indicative of expansion of the ablation zone. The modeled SME from year 1979 to 2006 compares well with the cross-polarized gradient ratio method (XPGR) observed melt area in terms of annual variabilities. A high correlation of 0.88 is found between the two time series. In the 30-year model simulation series, the surface melt exhibited large inter-annual and decadal variability, years 2002, 2005 and 2007 being three significant recent melt episodes.     

The nitrate content of Greenland ice and solar activity

Past solar activity is studied based on analysis of data on the nitrate content of Greenland ice in the period from 1576–1991. Hundred-year (over the entire period) and quasi-five-year (in the middle of the 18th century) variations in the nitrate content are detected. These reflect the secular solar-activity cycle and cyclicity in the flare activity of the Sun.     

Glacial history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and a local ice cap in Qaanaaq,northwest Greenland

In this study, we present new information on the glacial history of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and a local ice cap in Qaanaaq, northwest Greenland. We use geomorphological mapping, ¹⁰Be exposure dating of boulders, analysis of lake cores, and ¹⁴C dating of reworked marine molluscs and subfossil plants to constrain the glacial history. Our ¹⁴C ages of reworked marine molluscs reveal that the ice extent in the area was at or behind its present‐day position from 42.2 ± 0.4 to 30.6 ± 0.3k cal a BP after which the GrIS expanded to its maximum position during the Last Glacial Maximum. We find evidence of early ice retreat in the deep fjord (Inglefield Bredning) at 11.9 ± 0.6 ka whereas the Taserssuit Valley was deglaciated ~4 ka later at 7.8 ± 0.1k cal a BP. A proglacial lake record suggests that the local ice cap survived the Holocene Thermal Maximum but moss kill‐dates reveal that it was smaller than present for a period of time before 3.3 ± 0.1k until 0.9 ± 0.1k cal a BP, following which the ice in the area expanded towards its Little Ice Age extent. Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

新疆北山小常山铁矿矿物电子探针分析及矿床成因探讨

小常山铁矿位于新疆北山裂谷带西段,矿体赋存于辉长岩、辉长岩和大理岩接触带中,部分赋存于花岗闪长岩和大理岩接触带。前人研究辉长岩年龄为276±1.2Ma,与坡北铜镍硫化物岩浆矿床形成年龄一致,同属早二叠世。小常山铁矿中可见有明显的岩浆贯入现象。矿体主要呈透镜状、块状、脉状、薄层状。金属矿物主要为磁铁矿,含极少量的褐铁矿和黄铁矿;近矿围岩蚀变较弱,主要有石榴子石化、绿帘石化、大理岩化。电子探针研究表明,磁铁矿FeOT含量范围较大,主要分布在85%范围以上,Al_2O_3含量相对较高,TiO_2-Al_2O_3-(MgO+MnO)图解、TiO_2-Al_2O_3-MgO图解均显示热液接触交代成因特点,表明小常山铁矿的形成和岩浆热液的交代作用有关。石榴子石属于钙铝榴石-钙铁榴石系列,与典型矽卡岩矿床的石榴子石端员组分组成有一定差别。结合小常山铁矿体地质特征以及电子探针分析测试等研究,认为小常山铁矿是多成因的复合型矿床,具有岩浆成因和热液成因特征,但后者是主要成因。     

Electron microprobe correlation of tephra layers from Eastern Mediterranean abyssal sediments and the Island of Santorini

Five widespread tephra layers are found in late Quaternary sediments (0–130,000 yr B.P.) of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. These layers have been correlated among abyssal cores and to their respective terrestrial sources by electron-probe microanalysis of glass and pumice shards. Major element variations are sufficient to discriminate unambiguously between the five major layers. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy in one of the cores studied was used to data four of the five layers. Two of the widespread layers are derived from explosive eruptions of the Santorini volcanic complex: the Minoan Ash (3370 yr B.P.) and the Acrotiri Ignimbrite (18,000 yr B.P.). An additional layer, found in one core only, is most likely correlated to the Middle Pumice Series of Santorini (approximately 100,000 yr B.P.). Two layers are correlated to deposits on the islands of Yali and Kos and date to 31,000 and 120,000 yr B.P., respectively. One layer originated from the Neapolitan area of Italy 38,000 yr B.P.     

河北康保地区花岗岩独居石电子探针定年

已有年代学研究表明,康保地区西阿公单元含石榴二长花岗岩形成于中元古代.我们采用近年来新发展的独居石电子探针Th-U-总Pb定年方法对康保地区西阿公单元十硼地区变质细粒含石榴二长花岗岩样品中的独居石开展了电子探针进行测年分析,计算方法为Suzuki和Adachi等提出的方法.独居石年龄峰值分别为252Ma,265Ma,281Ma和322Ma,表明西阿公单元含石榴二长花岗岩形成时代不是中元古代,其侵位时间应为二叠纪.这一新的年代学结果与Sengor和王荃推测的华北板块与西伯利亚板块＂晚二叠世碰撞＂的模式一致.康保地区西阿公单元含石榴二长花岗岩具过铝花岗岩特征,代表古蒙古洋消失,是华北板块与西伯利亚板块碰撞造山阶段多期岩浆作用的结果,为确定古亚洲洋的闭合时间提供了重要依据.     

Electron microprobe analysis of glass shards from tephra assigned to set W,Mount St. Helens,Washington

We have extended the fallout areas for each of two members of tephra-set W, erupted from Mount St. Helens about 1500 ad, by several hundred kilometers beyond the limits mapped in 1975. We traced one member (We) east into Idaho, and the other (Wn) northeast into British Columbia. After using stratigraphic and petrographic observations to assign more than 100 tephra samples to set W, we found 26 of these, selected for chemical analysis, to be closely similar in content of Ca, Fe, and K in glass shards. But improved homogeneity was evident when the 26 sampling localities for tephra W were segregated geographically, east vs. northeast of the volcano. When Ca:Fe:K proportions were plotted on a ternary diagram, there was no overlap of the plotting areas for these two groups of tephra W samples. Without such data, tephra layers We and Wn are currently separable only from stratigraphic and geographic information. Partial glass analysis is also an aid, along with stratigraphic position and petrographic characteristics, in distinguishing tephra W from associated tephra layers. These include tephra layers T and Yn from Mount St. Helens, as well as older tephra layers from Mount Mazama and Glacier Peak.     

Ion microprobe analysis of graphite from ca. 3.8 Ga metasediments, Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland: Relationship between metamorphism and carbon isotopic composition

In-situ ion microprobe measurements of carbon isotopic compositions of graphite were made in seven metasediments and two carbonate rocks from the ca. 3.8 Ga Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland. The δ¹³C values of micron-scale graphite globules in the metasediments and the carbonate rocks vary from -18 to +2‰ and from -7 to -3‰, respectively. The maximum δ¹³C value of graphite globules in the metasediment rises from -14 to -5‰, as the metamorphic grade increases from epidote-amphibolite to upper amphibolite facies. In a single hand specimen, the δ¹³C values of graphite inclusions in garnet are ∼7‰ lower on average than those outside garnet. Similarly, graphite armored by quartz apparently shows a few permil lower δ¹³C values than those on grain boundaries between noncarbonate minerals. The fact that early crystallized minerals include relatively ¹³C-depleted graphite indicates that the regional metamorphism increased the δ¹³C values of the Isua graphite. This is consistent with the regional trend of ¹³C-enrichment accompanied by the increase of metamorphic grade. The minimum fractionation between graphite and carbonate is consistent with the equilibrium fractionation at about 400 to 550 °C. These observations indicate that isotopic exchange with isotopically heavy carbonate caused ¹³C-enrichment of Isua graphite. The δ¹³C values of graphite reported here (δ¹³C > -18‰) were produced either as a metamorphic modification of organic carbon with initially much lower δ¹³C values, or as an abiological reaction such as decomposition of carbonate. If the isotopic exchange between carbonate and graphite during regional metamorphism controlled the ¹³C-enrichment of Isua graphite, previously reported large ¹³C-depletion of graphite, especially armored by apatite (Mojzsis et al., 1996) was probably premetamorphic in origin. This supports the existence of life at Isua time (ca. 3.8 Ga).     

Calibrating a glaciological model of the Greenland ice sheet from the Last Glacial Maximum to present-day using field observations of relative sea level and ice extent

We constrain a three-dimensional thermomechanical model of Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) evolution from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 21 ka BP) to the present-day using, primarily, observations of relative sea level (RSL) as well as field data on past ice extent. Our new model (Huy2) fits a majority of the observations and is characterised by a number of key features: (i) the ice sheet had an excess volume (relative to present) of 4.1 m ice-equivalent sea level at the LGM, which increased to reach a maximum value of 4.6 m at 16.5 ka BP; (ii) retreat from the continental shelf was not continuous around the entire margin, as there was a Younger Dryas readvance in some areas. The final episode of marine retreat was rapid and relatively late (c. 12 ka BP), leaving the ice sheet land based by 10 ka BP; (iii) in response to the Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) the ice margin retreated behind its present-day position by up to 80 km in the southwest, 20 km in the south and 80 km in a small area of the northeast. As a result of this retreat the modelled ice sheet reaches a minimum extent between 5 and 4 ka BP, which corresponds to a deficit volume (relative to present) of 0.17 m ice-equivalent sea level. Our results suggest that remaining discrepancies between the model and the observations are likely associated with non-Greenland ice load, differences between modelled and observed present-day ice elevation around the margin, lateral variations in Earth structure and/or the pattern of ice margin retreat.     

深埋铁矿磁测数据三维反演分析与找矿靶区预测

寻找深埋铁矿床是一件非常复杂的探索性研究,目前面临的困难是铁磁异常较小,且淹没于大片含磁性的侵入浆岩体中,采用以往定性解释磁异常的方法可能会造成较大偏差,使勘探风险陡增.随着计算机技术的快速发展,大规模三维反演已经成为现实,笔者采用磁法三维反演软件对山东齐河—禹城地区面积性磁测数据进行了自动反演,获得了该地区地下空间磁化率分布,结合已有钻孔地质资料,分析了有铁矿存在时磁化率等值线在空间上有高值圈闭的特点,且圈闭中心比实际矿体位置偏浅约500 m左右.比照这个特征,从勘探区反演的三维磁化率数据中搜索南北和东西方向具有高磁异常圈闭的区域,发现了两个较可靠的找矿靶区.