Mesozoic regolith and palaeolandscape features in southeastern Australia: Significance for interpretations of denudation and highland evolution

The long‐term survival of regolith and landscape features of Mesozoic origins in southeastern Australia is supported by the sedimentary record, pre‐volcanic remnants, oxygen‐isotope signatures of secondary minerals, and the associated geomorphological context. The recognition of these ancient landscape remnants reflects the establishment of a major paradigm in Australian landscape studies after early interpretations emphasised a predominantly Late Cenozoic landscape history. The Mesozoic regolith and landscape remnants constrain interpretations of the evolution of the highlands in this region, indicating that Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic denudation did not extend beyond the complete removal of Mesozoic landscape features. Apatite fission track thermochronology interpretations invoke kilometre‐scale denudation levels across the southeastern highlands during the mid‐Cretaceous, which at first may appear contradictory to the geomorphological evidence of restricted denudation. Rather than necessarily being mutually exclusive interpretations, possible scenarios allowing for the preservation of Mesozoic palaeosurfaces along with kilometre‐scale denudation in the mid‐Cretaceous include: (i) exhumation of palaeosurfaces from beneath a thick sedimentary cover; (ii) truncation of formerly more extensive weathering profiles; and (iii) local‐scale variations in denudation. Local‐scale variations in denudation may not have been detected in previous studies due to dangers associated with overextending regional extrapolations and interpretations, as well as a tendency for the field basis of the different denudation models to emphasise different parts of the landscape. Field studies from areas where there has been localised deep incision into Mesozoic landscape remnants highlight the problem. Geomorphological studies have tended to emphasise areas of relative stability, featuring the preservation of regolith materials and the associated long‐term landscape record. In contrast, apatite fission track thermochronology interpretations may tend to emphasise a regional thermal history related to maximum denudation. Local variations in denudation leading to the preservation of Mesozoic palaeosurfaces have mainly been facilitated by localised lithological and structural controls on stream base‐levels and knickpoints, tectonic setting, and sedimentary and volcanic burial. When palaeolandscape interpretations are considered at the local scale, arguments proposing long‐term stability based on palaeolandscape remnants and apatite fission track thermochronology interpretations of large‐scale denudation may therefore not necessarily be contradictory.     

Uplift and denudation history at low-elevation passive margins: Insights from morphostratigraphic analysis in the SE Armorican Massif along the French Atlantic margin

Like other low-elevation passive margins, the French Atlantic margin is characterized by a gradual topographic transition from the coast to low-altitude interior plains or plateaus. Here we propose a morphostratigraphic analysis to constrain long-term landscape evolution and denudation rates, through the characterization of palaeotopographies and related palaeoweatherings in an area restricted to the southeast Armorican Massif. Two regional-scale palaeosurfaces are recognized: (i) the Infraliassic palaeosurface, the truncated weathering profiles of which are sealed by Liassic marine deposits; (ii) the Eocene palaeosurface, underlain by thick kaolinite- and iron-rich palaeosaprolites and by siliceous duricrusts (silcretes). Quantitative constraints on large-scale tectonic uplift and long-term denudation are obtained from these morphostratigraphic markers. Mean uplift and denudation rates calculated on post-Eocene times range between 0.5 and 2 m.Ma^-1. These low values imply high landscape stability of the inland margin over most of the Cenozoic.     

遵义川主庙漏斗状铝土矿床地质特征及形成机理

遵义川主庙铝土矿产于下石炭统九架炉组的中上部,以矿体形态呈漏斗状和“小而富”为其主要特征。研究表明,铝土矿的赋存富集受古岩溶漏斗和沉积环境的制约,基底页岩是形成铁铝质风化壳的母岩,矿床是在经过长期风化剥蚀的早古生代碳酸盐岩侵蚀面上发育起来的,即在有利的古构造、古地理和古气候条件下,首先经过红土化,后经搬运再沉积而形成的。矿床成因类型划为古风化壳型并地堆积铝土矿床,其成矿时代归属早石炭世大塘期旧司时。     

永安盆地晚古生代—中—新生代沉积构造环境演化特征

永安盆地发育在前泥盆纪基底之上,位于华夏块体南缘,沿NE向政和—大埔断裂带展布。利用层序地层学方法,辅之以野外调查,研究了永安盆地的地层序列和岩石组合：① 对晚古生代至早三叠世地层格架及柱状剖面的分析表明,伴随海平面的升降,海相沉积序列具有阶段性,不同沉积相在盆地东、中、西区段分布不均,盆地沉积沉降中心大致位于龙岩和梅县地区;② 对横贯盆区的地质剖面及盆内辅助剖面的研究表明,中—新生代,盆内以断块作用为主,改造了晚古生代地层,代之以断褶复合地层;③ 有机碳质层为盆地的海陆变迁作了时域界定,并且其赋存部位和形态也在空间上表征了盆地构造演化的力学机制。通过分析构造事件、古地理及物源区、深部构造、边界构造等盆地要素,研究了盆地的沉积构造环境演化及其应力机制,结果表明：① 晚古生代,海进海退的快慢受控于不同时期构造事件的强弱变化,由此产生的沿岸隆起区的剥蚀以及拉张背景的山体风化剥蚀为盆地提供了物源,存在北、南两个物源区;中—新生代,盆地总体为火山活动背景下的山前及河湖相沉积环境。② 盆地具有隆起—伸展构造发育的特点,主要经历了华力西期海陆交互相巨厚沉积阶段,印支期稳定的台地向活动大陆边缘转变阶段并伴随挤压隆升,以及印支期后中—新生代由挤压向拉张机制转换的构造改造阶段。以上认识为中国东南部盆地的薄弱基础研究提供了新的基础参考信息。     

沁水盆地中北部沉降史分析

根据大量煤田钻孔和地质填图资料,应用回剥技术分析研究了沁水盆地中北部的沉降史。结果表明,石炭-二叠纪以来,研究区主要经历了3期沉降和2期抬升:晚石炭世-中二叠世的缓慢沉降;晚二叠世-三叠纪的快速大幅沉降;侏罗纪-白垩纪,燕山运动引起的隆升剥蚀;新生代以来,受喜山运动影响的隆升剥蚀;新近纪-第四纪的快速沉降。自晚古生代以来,沉降中心大体由南向北迁移,东部抬升剥蚀量较西部大,最大剥蚀厚度超过1 000 m。      

甘肃北山地区北部上石炭统火山岩LA-ICP-MS 锆石U-Pb年龄及其构造意义

北山地区处于华北板块、塔里木板块和哈萨克斯坦板块的交会带,其晚古生代洋陆转化备受关注,但久有争议。该区晚古生代地层学研究不足,制约了对构造演化的深入讨论。通过LA-ICP-MS 锆石U-Pb测年获得北山北部黑鹰山地区原定为下石炭统白山组火山岩的年龄分别为308.6Ma±1.0Ma和299.1Ma±2.4Ma,时代为晚石炭世。研究区内白山组时代的修订可以为该区构造演化提供一定的依据。     

甘肃北山地区北部上石炭统火山岩LA—ICP—MS锆石U—Pb年龄及其构造意义

北山地区处于华北板块、塔里木板块和哈萨克斯坦板块的交会带,其晚古生代洋陆转化备受关注,但久有争议。该区晚古生代地层学研究不足,制约了对构造演化的深入讨论。通过LA—ICP—MS锆石U—Pb测年获得北山北部黑鹰山地区原定为下石炭统白山组火山岩的年龄分别为308．6Ma±1．0Ma和299．1Ma±2．4Ma,时代为晚石炭世。研究区内白山组时代的修订可以为该区构造演化提供一定的依据。     

Evolution of Yizhou aulacogen in Guangxi during Late Paleozoic and distribution of manganese deposits in Early Carboniferous

The palaeogeographic configuration of the shallow water carbonate platform and deep water siliceous basin formed in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi region during the Late Paleozoic,which developed on the rifting of fold basement and differential subsidence during the Caledonian period. Yizhou-Liuzhou in Guangxi is an important sedimentary boundary in the southern Upper Yangtze carbonate platform. It is also the stratigraphic boundary of Late Paleozoic between middle and northern Guangxi,and it is the tectonic boundary between the southern Xuefengshan and central Guangxi depression during Paleozoic and Mesozoic. In this paper,the evolution of sedimentary basin located at Yishan-Liuzhou region during the Late Paleozoic is reconstructed through the regional stratigraphic correlation and genetic analysis.The elongate Yizhou rifting belt develops from the Nandan-Hechi fault from the west,and extends along Longtou,Beiya,Yizhou,and to Liuzhou. The rifting started at the eastern and western ends of the narrow rifting belt during the Middle Devonian and it developed into the rifting basin during the Early Carboniferous. Due to massive terrestrial siliciclastic filling derived from the Jiangnan Uplift to north,the rifting basin presented the asymmetrical feature and it was eventually filled up at late Early Carboniferous. Many magnesium deposits of Early Carboniferous are found in the rifting basin of Yizhou. The distribution of ore-bearing strata,the depositional succession and sedimentary environment are obviously related with the evolution of rifting basin. They are the evidences of basin evolution,implying the characteristics of rifting aulacogen in central Guangxi,which should be paid more attention in the manganese ore genesis study.     

广西宜州裂陷槽晚古生代演化与早石炭世沉积锰矿分布*

滇黔桂地区晚古生代浅水碳酸盐岩台地与深水硅泥质盆地共存的古地理格局,是在加里东期褶皱基底上发生裂陷及差异沉降而发展起来的。广西宜州—柳州一带既是晚古生代上扬子碳酸盐岩地台南缘1条重要的沉积相分界线,也是晚古生代桂中和桂北地层分区、古生代—中生代雪峰山南段构造体系和桂中坳陷构造体系的分界线。文中通过对宜山—柳州一带晚古生代地层的区域对比和成因分析,恢复了桂中宜山—柳州地区晚古生代沉积盆地的演化历史。狭长型宜州裂陷槽盆地西起丹池断裂,向东经龙头、北牙、宜州延伸至柳州。自中泥盆世开始,首先在东西两端开始裂陷下沉,至早石炭世发展成型。受北侧来自江南隆起带陆源碎屑物质充填影响,其表现为南北不对称并在早石炭世晚期被填平。在宜州裂陷槽内发育多处早石炭世沉积型碳酸锰矿,含矿地层分布、地层序列及其沉积背景明显与裂陷槽演化有关。它们既是盆地演化历史的见证,也体现了桂中地区裂陷海槽的特色,值得在后续锰矿成因研究中予以重视。     

新疆阿尔泰—准噶尔北缘晚古生代构造演化和内生金属矿床成矿系列

阿尔泰是中亚成矿域重要的内生金属矿产集中区,该矿集区晚古生代发育有 5类内生摘金属要矿床：1）块状硫化物Cu-Pb-Zn矿床,2）斑岩型Cu-Au矿床,3）岩浆 Cu-Ni硫化物矿床,4）矽卡岩型Cu-Mo-Fe矿床,5）造山型金矿床和伟晶岩型稀有金属矿床。在构造上,这些矿床的形成与阿尔泰造山带俯冲—增生作用密切相关。阿尔泰晚古生代矿床的形成可以划分为3个主要阶段：Ⅰ）早-中泥盆世,沿阿尔泰南缘古生代活动大陆边缘弧后伸展,导致在阿尔泰西部琼库尔—塔拉特地质体中形成的多金属火山成因块状硫化物矿床,以及阿尔泰东段铁—铜矽卡岩矿床;Ⅱ）石炭纪—二叠纪的地体增生和弧岩浆作用,在布尔津—二台和额尔齐斯地体中形成了广泛分布的斑岩型矿床、岩浆铜镍硫化物矿床,在额尔齐斯地体中形成的铜铁矽卡岩矿床;Ⅲ）早二叠世的持续增生导致阿尔泰南部的杜拉特岛弧形成,并伴随有矽卡岩铜钼矿床和造山型金矿的形成;晚二叠世阿尔泰地区进入造山带演化阶段,并发生区域动力热流变质作用和片麻岩穹隆,伴随有花岗岩化和重熔岩浆活动和大量伟晶岩矿床的形成。晚古生代阿尔泰南缘的俯冲—增生构造演化过程,导致了不同类型内生金属矿床的形成,构成了我国重要的内生金属矿集区和矿山后备基地。     

南盘江坳陷晚古生代隆林孤立台地沉积特征与演化阶段

南盘江坳陷隆林孤立碳酸盐台地在中泥盆世至晚二叠世的大部分时间内属于四周被深水海槽围绕的、受南盘江海演化拉张断裂而形成的一个孤立碳酸盐台地环境(其中早石炭世晚期-晚石炭世为连陆台地阶段)。通过对隆林地区晚古生代野外地层踏勘成果表明,孤台-台间海槽相区共识别出碳酸盐潮坪、台地边缘浅滩、台地边缘礁、台缘斜坡、台棚及台盆相等6种沉积相类型,并建立了其独具特色的孤立台地沉积模式。研究表明,它的演化经历了边缘碳酸盐台地(D1-D2)、孤立碳酸盐台地(D3-C11)、连陆台地(C12-C2)、孤立-淹没碳酸盐台地(P)4个发展阶段,反映了南盘江盆地在晚古生代强烈扩张、沉降,扬子地台边缘拉伸、破裂,微地块向盆地滑移的构造背景。     

新疆博格达山晚古生代地层的形成时代、物源及其演化:碎屑锆石U-Pb年代学证据

新疆博格达山主体由石炭系海相火山一沉积岩系组成,以发育两期双峰式火山岩,但不发育花岗岩为特征,对其晚古生代地层时代的划分和演化争议较大。本文重点对博格达山北部两个晚古生代砂岩进行了碎屑锆石U-Pb年代学分析,重新标定博格达山地区晚古生代地层的形成时代;利用物源区的演化,约束晚古生代构造演化。测年结果显示博格达上亚群砂岩的碎屑锆石表面年龄值分布范围较宽,主峰年龄为343~284 Ma(80%),次峰年龄为386~375 Ma(3%)、503~441Ma(7%)和871~735 Ma(10%);芦草沟组砂岩的碎屑锆石表面年龄值非常集中,主峰年龄为358~279 Ma(97%),次峰年龄为257~251 Ma(约3%)。博格达山中部原石炭纪博格达群上亚群与西部和南部下芨芨槽群相当,应属于早二叠世,中部一东部的石炭一二叠纪界线应在博格达下亚群一上亚群或居里得能组一沙雷塞尔克组之间的不整合面之中。博格达北部地区晚二叠世以南侧天山物源区供给为主,反映出晚古生代期间博格达山地区至少存在晚石炭世末和中二叠世两期构造隆升。结合区域火山岩与火山碎屑岩的研究,认为博格达山地区晚古生代主要经历4个演化阶段:早石炭世弧后盆地裂解阶段、晚石炭世碰撞拼贴阶段、早二叠世碰撞后伸展阶段、中-晚二叠世再次隆升到稳定阶段。     

Hornblende thermobarometry of the Carboniferous granitoids from the Inner Mongolia Paleo-uplift: implications for the tectonic evolution of the northern margin of North China block

Summary Hornblende thermobarometry has been widely used to estimate the emplacement pressure (P) and temperature (T) of calc-alkaline igneous rocks. Application of hornblende thermobarometry to the newly discovered Carboniferous granitic plutons from the Inner Mongolia Paleo-uplift (IMPU) provides useful information on the exhumation and geotectonic evolution of the northern margin of the North China block (NCB) during the Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic. Emplacement depths estimated from aluminum-in-hornblende geobarometry indicate that the Longhua, Daguangding and Boluonuo plutons were emplaced at depths of 15.7–18.7 km. Temperatures of emplacement calculated with the hornblende-plagioclase thermometer range from 676 °C to 780 °C. Because most of these plutons are unconformably overlain by Jurassic-Cretaceous volcanic or sedimentary rocks and, regionally, the oldest strata overlying them are the Nandaling and Xiahuayuan Formations of Early Jurassic age, most of these plutons must have been exposed at the surface prior to the Early Jurassic. Therefore, the large-scale uplift and exhumation of the IMPU occurred from the Late Carboniferous to Early Jurassic; at least 15 km thick crustal rocks in the IMPU must have been eroded during this period. It is also inferred that the IMPU was not always an uplifted domain from the Neoproterozoic to Early Triassic. Some Meso-Neoproterozoic and, possibly Paleozoic sedimentary rocks or Early-Middle Triassic volcanic rocks were present in the IMPU until the Late Triassic, but were almost entirely eroded before the end of Triassic. The exhumation of the crystalline rocks and formation of the IMPU is a result of this strong erosion during the Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic. Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at Tables 1-2 available as electronic supplementary material     

东天山大南湖岛弧带石炭纪岩石地层与构造演化

详细的地质解剖工作表明,东天山地区大南湖岛弧带石炭纪出露4套岩石地层组合,即早石炭世小热泉子组火山岩、晚石炭世底坎儿组碎屑岩和碳酸盐岩、晚石炭世企鹅山组火山岩、晚石炭世脐山组碎屑岩夹碳酸盐岩。根据其岩石组合、岩石地球化学、生物化石、同位素资料以及彼此的产出关系,认为这4套岩石地层组合的沉积环境分别为岛弧、残余海盆、岛弧和弧后盆地。结合区域资料重塑了大南湖岛弧带晚古生代的构造格架及演化模式。早、晚石炭世的4套岩石地层组合并置体现了东天山的复杂增生过程。     

佳木斯地块东缘晚古生代大陆边缘构造演化

佳木斯地块位于中国东北微陆块群的最东缘,其东缘地区晚古生代的岩浆和沉积演变进程为欧亚大陆东缘由被动陆缘向活动陆缘构造环境的转化提供了关键证据。年代学和地球化学研究表明,佳木斯地块东缘中泥盆世黑台组砂岩,形成于被动陆缘的构造环境,黑台组上覆的老秃顶子组流纹岩也形成于被动陆缘的构造环境;晚石炭世珍子山组砂岩,形成于活动陆缘的构造环境;早二叠世的二龙山组安山岩以及相邻地区早二叠世的其它火成岩形成于活动陆缘的构造环境。同时,佳木斯地块东缘泥盆-二叠纪的沉积地层也呈现出由浅海相到陆相地层转化的特征。因此,佳木斯地块东缘由被动陆缘向活动陆缘的转化应该发生在中泥盆世到晚石炭世,而该构造环境的转化也为晚古生代时期蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋向欧亚大陆之下俯冲过程的研究提供了关键信息。     

Convergence History of the Songliao and Jiamusi Blocks in the Eastern End of Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Detrital Zircons of Late Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks

Central Asian Orogenic Belt(CAOB) is one of the largest accretionary orogenic belts in the world. The eastern segment of CAOB is dominated by Paleozoic Paleo Asian Ocean tectonic regime, Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific tectonic regime and Mongolian-Okhotsk tectonic regime. The Songliao and Jiamusi blocks are located in the easternmost part of the CAOB and are the key region to solve the problem about overprinting processes of multiple tectonic regimes. It is generally believed that the Mudanjiang Ocean between the two blocks was finally closed in the Mesozoic, but the Paleozoic magmatism also developed along the Mudanjiang suture zone, while on both sides of the suture zone, there were comparable Paleozoic strata, indicating that the two blocks had converged during the Paleozoic, and the evolution history of the two blocks in the Late Paleozoic remains controversial. The Carboniferous-Permian terrestrial strata mainly developed in Binxian, Wuchang and Tieli on Songliao Block, Baoqing and Mishan on Jiamusi Block. Samples from the Songliao and Jiamusi blocks in the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian and Late Permian are collected for comparative analysis. The LAICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating results show that the maximum depositional age of Middle Permian Tumenling Formation and Late Permian Hongshan Formation in Songliao Block is ～260 Ma, while that of Tatouhe Formation and Carboniferous strata in Jiamusi Block are ～290 Ma and ～300 Ma, respectively, which supports the previous stratigraphic division scheme. The age peaks of ～290–300 Ma, ～400 Ma, ～500 Ma appeared in the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian strata of Jiamusi Block and the Middle Permian strata of Songliao Block. The age peak of ～500 Ma in the Middle Permian strata of Songliao Block may come from the Cambrian basement, Mashan Complex, of Jiamusi Block, while the age peaks of ～420–440 Ma in the Carboniferous strata of Jiamusi Block may come from the Silurian magmatic arc in Zhangguangcai Range in the eastern margin of Songliao Block, reflects the history that they had been potential sources of each other, indicating that they may have combined in the Paleozoic. The Hongshan Formation of Songliao Block in the Late Permian lacks the age peak of ～500 Ma, which indicate that Jiamusi Block was not the provenance of Songliao Block in the Late Permian, that is, there was a palaeogeographic isolation between the two blocks. Combined with the ～210 Ma bimodal volcanic rocks developed along the Mudanjiang suture zone reported previously, we believe that the oceanic basin between the Songliao and Jiamusi blocks should have been connected in Late Permian and reopened during Late Permian to Late Triassic.     

古亚洲洋与古特提斯洋关系初探

从板块构造研究中国古生代洋陆关系和构造-岩浆-成矿作用,离不开对古亚洲洋和古特提斯洋的关系判断,特别是对于中国西北部的研究,两个古生代大洋形成演化和关系是理清重要地质构造和成矿事件的关键。本文认为早古生代的原特提斯洋与古亚洲洋应连为一体,合称古亚洲-原特提斯洋,简称古亚洲洋。古亚洲洋是发育于早古生代劳亚大陆与冈瓦纳大陆之间的大洋,金川超大型铜镍矿床的形成是元古宙罗迪尼亚超大陆裂解三叉裂谷开启大洋的开始,塔里木陆块作为古亚洲洋南岸的一个陆块,早古生代的昆仑洋、祁连洋和秦岭洋只是古亚洲洋的分支或次生洋盆,这些次生洋盆于志留纪末闭合,古亚洲洋主洋则直到晚古生代泥盆纪末才闭合。石炭纪天山及邻区是古亚洲洋闭合后板块构造后碰撞机制与地幔柱作用提供热动力的两种地球动力学机制并存的构造背景,为大规模壳幔混合(染)岩浆作用和成矿爆发提供了可能。古特提斯洋是古亚洲洋在晚古生代的发展和继承,东昆仑夏日哈木超大型铜镍矿床的产生是冈瓦纳大陆北侧志留纪末破裂三叉裂谷开启大洋的开始,塔里木和华北等泛华夏陆块群构成了古特提斯洋北岸陆缘,石炭纪大洋形成,西昆仑玛尔坎苏大型优质锰矿可能就形成于大洋北侧被动大陆边缘的浅海或陆表海,成矿物质则很可能来自于同时代的大洋中脊。德尔尼大型铜钴矿为晚石炭世大洋中脊塞浦路斯型块状硫化物矿床。而铜峪沟大型铜矿和大场大型金矿等则分别为古特提斯洋消减俯冲岛弧岩浆作用矽卡岩-斑岩矿床和浅成低温热液矿床。中三叠世末古特提斯洋闭合。     

Phanerozic bauxite epochs

The Early Cambrian, Middle and Late Devonian, Middle and Late Carboniferous, Permian, Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, Late Cretaceous, Paleocene-Eocene, and Miocene epochs of bauxite formation have been the most productive. They lasted for no less than 10 Ma. The scope of bauxite deposition of various epochs is shown in the diagram, and the present-day localization of Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic bauxites is depicted in separate maps. The Cenozoic bauxite deposits are located in tropical and subtropical zones of the Southern and Northern hemispheres. The Mesozoic deposits occur in the Northern Hemisphere as far north as 50°N, and the Paleozoic deposits, as far north as 70°N. Palinspastic reconstructions show that during all the aforementioned epochs, bauxites were deposited at paleotropical latitudes. The current localization of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic bauxites at high latitudes up to the Polar Circle is caused by continental drift to the north in the Phanerozoic.     

“黔中隆起”和贵州晚古生代古地理演化及其对铝土矿的控矿作用*

早古生代的区域隆升形成的古地貌和晚古生代海平面变化明显控制了贵州晚古生代古地理与古地貌的演化,“黔中隆起”表现尤为明显。然而对“黔中隆起”的形成时间及演化存在较大争议,限制了对贵州铝土矿的沉积古地理与古地理演化史的认识。通过野外踏勘、资料收集和整理,建立了贵州晚寒武世至二叠纪数个重要地质历史时期的古地理图,对“黔中”隆起的形成时间、演化等进行了再认识,揭示其与贵州铝土矿成矿的耦合关系。寒武纪至早志留世早—中期,“黔中隆起”北缘缺失与之相关的古陆边缘相沉积,黔中地区大规模的隆起时间应以下志留统韩家店组潮坪相沉积的出现作为开始。在“黔中隆起”的显著影响下,黔中和遵义地区经历长期而强烈的风化剥蚀,于早石炭世分别形成喀斯特洼地和漏斗、峡谷地貌,为九架炉组含铝岩系的形成提供了物质条件和成矿场所,并在晚古生代冰盖消长带来的海平面和气候变化的影响下,通过强烈的淋滤作用形成铝土矿。黔北务正道地区经历了长期的风化剥蚀后,在海平面高频变化下形成有利于下二叠统大竹园组铝土矿形成的滨岸湿地环境和洼地地貌。贵州早二叠世的铝土矿与晚古生代冰期具有更明显的耦合关系。     

河南大冶矿区晚石炭世岩相古地理特征及铝土矿找矿方向

河南大冶铝土矿区晚石炭世早期处于古岛高地之间的滨岸潟湖沉积环境。中奥陶统以后,经历了160Ma风化剥蚀,在碳酸盐岩的侵蚀面上发育了钙红土铁、铝、硅风化壳。晚石炭世本溪期,海侵作用使矿区所在区域变为滨岸潟湖沉积环境,沉积相出现滨湖相、浅滩相、浅湖相、浅海相、滨岸沼泽相等5种;晚石炭世晚期形成海陆交互相的复理石沉积建造,将早期形成的铝土矿完整保存下来。今后铝土矿的找矿工作应重点放在浅滩-浅湖岩相带、含铝岩系相序发育相对完全的地段、含铝岩系厚度大且稳定的区段,并注意含铝岩系的表生富集作用。