Paleomagnetism of Borneo

The paleomagnetism of Borneo remains controversial, although the preponderance of results, both from the island itself and from the surrounding regions, suggest that counterclockwise (CCW) rotation has taken place. CCW rotations are seen in minor intrusions in Sarawak, Sabah and Kalimantan, which increase systematically with the age of the intrusion to a maximum value of 51.8°±3.7°. The rotation can be no older than 25 Ma, which is the age of the intrusion showing the maximum rotation. The rotation appears to have neared completion by 10 Ma. Similar CCW rotations are seen in sites from Peninsular Malaysia through Borneo to Sulawesi, the Celebes Sea and Palawan in the Philippines, but the ages of these rotations are, for the most part, unknown. In Mesozoic rocks in Kalimantan and Sarawak, a stronger declination rotation of nearly 90° CCW is recorded at seven sites, including sites which pass fold and reversal tests. This strong rotation is no older than youngest Cretaceous, and although seen over a wide region in Borneo, it is not seen in Peninsular Malaysia, nor in the Celebes Sea or Palawan, where only the weaker CCW rotation is seen. The widespread occurrence of this strong rotation in Western Borneo suggests that it is essentially a rigid plate, or microplate rotation, and not a series of local rotations caused by distributed shear in limited deformation zones. The rotation of Borneo appears to be a consequence of convergence between the Australian and Eurasian plates, which is accommodated by subduction along the northwest margin of Borneo.     

Paleomagnetism of Mongolia

Most Lower Phanerozoic rocks of western Mongolia investigated were repeatedly remagnetized. They demonstrate a secondary magnetization component of normal and reversed polarity. The normal polarity components are related to Mesozoic rock remagnetization. The reversed polarity components were probably formed during the Carboniferous?Permian Superchron of reversed polarity. The analysis of the distribution of the reversed polarity component in the geological structure of Mongolia allows some zoning to be outlined with the defining regions of Mongolia characterized by insignificant rock defamations with intricate post-Permian dislocations and a region marked by rotation of large blocks around the horizontal axis (Khan Khukhei Range). It is assumed that Ordovician rock of western Mongolia contains a magnetization component close to the primary one. If the assumption is valid, the presumably northern paleolatitude derived from this direction corresponds to the interval of 14°?17°?20° (minimum?average?maximum, respectively).     

Paleomagnetism and the orocline hypothesis

Oroclines were originally defined by Carey as curved mountain belts which initially were straight, or at least straighter than they are today. In the last few years, the definition has been broadened to include any curved mountain belt, regardless of its original shape.Since the occurrence of oroclinal bending is best recorded in the change of declination as a function of tectonic setting, paleomagnetic and structural data from six potential oroclines have been compiled and analyzed to determine the amount of rotation displayed by the change of paleomagnetic declination relative to the change in strike of the fold belt.The arcuate belts investigated are: the Sicilian-Calabrian Arc and the Umbrian Arc of Italy, the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, the central portion of the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to Virginia, U.S.A.), the Wyoming-Idaho overthrust belt of western North America and the Hercynides of Western and Central Europe.The Jura Mountains and the Pennsylvania-Virginia portion of the Appalachians fail to show significant oroclinal bending. The Wyoming-Idaho belt shows a combination of rotated (possibly oroclinal) and unrotated thrust sheets.In the Sicilian-Calabrian Arc significant oroclinal bending caused by the impingement of the Calabria-Peloritani nappes in the Late Tertiary can be demonstrated, while the Umbrian Arc of similar age, in the Northern Apennines, also shows oroclinal bending on a smaller scale.Hercynian Europe (the only belt included in which deformation of basement rocks can be demonstrated) shows oroclinal bending (at least 80°) as well as a marked original curvature (70°) in its western part.Common to all the oroclines studied in this paper is the probable impingement of a rigid block or continental margin during the orogeny, causing subsequent deformation and bending of the fold belt.     

Paleomagnetism of Peninsular Malaysia

Paleomagnetic results from Upper Jurassic to Paleocene rocks in Peninsular Malaysia show counter clockwise (CCW) rotations, while clockwise rotations (CW) are predominantly found in older rocks. Continental redbeds of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Tembeling Group have a post folding remagnetization, giving a VGP at N54°E29°, corresponding to approximately 40° of CCW rotation relative to Eurasia and 60° CCW relative to the Indochina block (Khorat Plateau). Samples from Cretaceous to Paleocene mafic volcanics of the Kuantan dike swarm and the Segamat basalts give VGPs at N59°E47° and N34°E36°, respectively. These Malayasian data are indistinguishable from the Late Eocene and Oligocene VGPs reported for Borneo and the Celebes Sea and are similar to the Eocene VGPs reported for southwest Sulawesi and southwest Palawan. The occurrence of CCW deflected data over this large region suggests that much of Malaysia, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Celebes Sea rotated approximately 30° to 40° CCW relative to the Geocentric Axial Dipole (GAD) between the Late Eocene and the Late Miocene, although not necessarily synchronously, nor as a single rigid plate. These regional CCW rotations are not consistent with simple extrusion based tectonic models. CW declinations have been measured in Late Triassic granites, Permian to Triassic volcanics, and remagnetized Paleozoic carbonates. The age of this magnetization is poorly understood and may be as old as Late Triassic, or as young as Middle or Late Cretaceous. The plate, or block rotations, giving rise to these directions are correspondingly weakly constrained.     

Paleomagnetism of Palawan,Philippines

Paleomagnetic studies have been carried out on Palawan and on the island of Busuanga to the north. Results from the Cretaceous Espina Basalts of the Calatuigas Ophiolite in the South Palawan Block (SPB) pass a fold test, yield normal and reversed directions with a magnetic intensity and AF demagnetization characteristics consistent with a primary TRM. The mean direction is 293.9° and an inclination of 5.8°, with a k of 37.7 and an α₉₅ of 12.6°. This suggests that these ophiolites have moved northward and rotated counterclockwise by 66°±+13° with respect to the geocentric axial dipole (GAD) field. It also suggests that they were obducted from the south.Paleomagnetic directions from the Jurassic Busuanga Cherts and the Cretaceous Guinlo Formation from the island of Busuanga in the North Palawan Block (NPB) and from the Guinlo on the main island of Palawan are similar, fail regional fold tests, and have AF demagnetization characteristics consistent with secondary magnetization. Their inclinations are statistically indistinguishable at a 95% significance level, but variation in declination suggests differential local rotation about a vertical axis. The paleolatitude is comparable to that of regions of pervasive Cretaceous remagnetization in the South China borderland and may reflect similar remagnetization, consistent with the NPB’s proposed South China origin.     

中国中央造山系原- 古特提斯多阶段复合造山过程

中国中央造山系是由亲劳亚的北方陆块群、亲冈瓦纳的南方陆块群及其间大量过渡性微陆块历经复杂拼合而成的复合型造山带，是中国大陆完成主体拼合的构造结合带。中央造山系自西而东包括昆仑造山带、祁连造山带和秦岭- 大别造山带，保存了古生代—早中生代时期华北、华南、柴达木、塔里木、羌塘等众多大小陆块造山过程的丰富信息，是研究东特提斯构造域原、古特提斯洋构造演化的重要窗口。本文综述了中央造山系地质、地球化学和高精度年代学等多学科研究成果，得到以下主要认识：① 550 Ma之前，众多大小陆块孤立散布于原特提斯洋；② 541~485 Ma，原特提斯洋各分支开始俯冲；③ 485~444 Ma，原特提斯洋持续俯冲，导致秦岭二郎坪弧后盆地、昆仑祁漫塔格弧后盆地打开；④ 444~420 Ma，原特提斯北祁连洋、南祁连洋和商丹洋闭合，昆仑祁漫塔格弧后盆地关闭；⑤ 420~300 Ma，昆仑地区古特提斯洋继承原特提斯洋，古特提斯勉略洋逐步扩张；⑥ 300~250 Ma，昆仑洋自阿其克库勒湖- 昆中缝合带向木孜塔格- 布青山- 阿尼玛卿缝合带发生俯冲后撤；⑦ 250~200 Ma，原- 古特提斯昆仑洋、古特提斯勉略洋关闭；⑧ 200 Ma以来，中央造山系转入陆内造山阶段。     

西藏的缝合带与特提斯演化

西藏的缝合带一直是西藏高原基础地质研究中最热门的科学问题之一.立足于西藏高原4条主要缝合带的物质组成、缝合结构以及形成时代等资料,根据时空结构分析认为古特提斯演化与转换构造有关,雅鲁藏布江洋盆扩张与羌塘-三江地区的印支运动具有耦合的时空变换关系;重点讨论了以班公湖-怒江带为中心的古-新特提斯转换扩张性质,构造体制上属左行走滑拉分,形成了西藏高原上颇具特色的与走滑拉分方向平行的伸展构造类型杂岩系,其重要意义不亚于高原周缘逆冲-拆离系构成的杂岩系和美国西部的盆-岭变质核杂岩;探讨了西藏东、西部地区不同地质结构的科学问题,提出了冈底斯岩浆弧拓展加宽受雅鲁藏布洋双重俯冲的制约.      

电子探针分析技术在古地磁重磁化问题研究中的应用

采用电子探针能谱分析、波谱定量分析和背散射（或二次）电子像、元素特征X射线像与元素面分析等分析技术,研究了导致华北盆地南缘早古生代碳酸盐岩发生重磁化的磁铁矿交代（黄铁矿）作用。研究结果表明,电子探针非常适用于深入研究古地磁重磁化问题,其多种分析技术不但能够提供包括假像磁铁矿、磁铁矿反应边和黄铁矿交代残余在内的一系列可靠交代证据,而且还能根据磁铁矿中TiO2、Al2O3、MgO、CoO、NiO、ZnO、MoO3含量和黄铁矿中Co、Ni、Zn、Mo、Tl、Te、Ag等指示元素的定量数据,获得有关它们的成因信息     

三江特提斯复合造山与成矿作用

三江特提斯构造带作为全球特提斯构造在中国大陆最典型的发育地区,经历了复杂而完整的演化历史:从晚前寒武纪—早古生代泛大陆解体与原特提斯洋形成,经古特提斯多岛弧盆系发育与古生代—中生代增生造山/盆山转换,到新生代印度-亚洲大陆碰撞与叠加改造,完好地记录了超级大陆裂解→增生→碰撞的完整演化历史和大陆动力学过程,可谓是中国大陆构造演化的典型缩影。复合造山和叠加转换导致了三江特提斯域复杂的成矿演化,主要表现为:①在构造转换阶段,于元古代刚性基底基础上发育大量叠加改造型矿床,具有独特的金属组合(Sn-Cu,Sn-Pb-Zn,Fe-Cu等);②火山成因块状硫化物(VMS)矿床伴随特提斯岩石圈演化,连续发育于陆缘裂谷(Cu)→初始洋盆(Cu-Zn)→大洋岛弧(Cu-Zn-Pb)→弧间裂谷或弧后盆地(Pb-Zn-Ag)→弧-陆碰撞裂陷盆地(Cu-Pb-Zn)等阶段及诸环境;③特提斯阶段的岛弧型斑岩Cu矿被碰撞造山阶段的大陆型斑岩Cu矿所取代;④世界级规模的金属成矿带和巨型矿床,在新生代碰撞造山期爆发式产生。尽管已有的研究从整体上勾画出了三江特提斯域的基本构造特征和成矿面貌,但仍有许多重要问题尚未解决:①三江复合造山带构造叠加、...     

古地磁:从地球到火星

古地磁学是一门典型的交叉学科,通过综合地质学、地球物理学、环境科学等学科相关方法,分析天然样品中记录的磁学信息,深入研究地磁场演化、地球动力学过程、古环境与古气候演化等.自20世纪中叶以来,古地磁学在各研究领域得到快速发展,通过进一步与其他学科交叉,衍生出诸多新兴方向.首先回顾了古地磁学的发展历史与基础研究领域.在此基础上,重点介绍了高精度卫星磁测与相关研究新领域、月球与火星磁学研究的新进展.同时,对古地磁学与高精度磁测等方法集成在地磁场演化、板块构造、深部结构、月球磁场演化、火星磁场及环境演化等方面的综合应用进行了讨论.最后,对古地磁学未来的潜在研究方向进行了展望.      

Paleomagnetism of the Istria peninsula, Yugoslavia

280 core samples were collected from Upper Jurassic, Cretaceous and Eocene sediments outcropping in the Istria peninsula (Yugoslavia). Due to the very low intensities of the initial natural remanent magnetizations, more than 50% of the collection, consisting mainly of rock samples of Jurassic and Eocene sediments, was not suitable for paleomagnetic studies.The Cretaceous samples yield a mean paleomagnetic pole (lat. 53°, long. 275° and α₉₅ = 4.8°), which is significantly different from the African and European paleomagnetic poles of the same age. The position of the Istria peninsula on the autochthonous Adriatic platform allows the result to be interpreted as applicable to all the autochthonous Periadriatic region. This new paleomagnetic result indicates that the autochthonous Adriatic platform rotated counterclockwise over an angle of about 30° with respect to Africa in post-Mesozoic times.     

青藏特提斯沉积地质演化

组成青藏高原的主要微板块在不同的阶段经历了各具特色的地质演化历程和发展特点，形成了不同的地壳结构。青藏高原的沉积地质历史演化 经历了区内各主要微板块的基底形成与盖层沉积演化 的前特提斯阶段；以板块汇聚边缘与碰撞时期的构造背景为基础，划出古特提斯、中特提斯和新特提斯三个沉积叶质历史发展及其所形成的弧盆体系格架的特提斯形成演化阶段；随着始新世末期残留海的消失，青藏地区形成统一大陆，并进入统一应力场的青藏统－陆壳形成阶段；从中上新世开始的青藏高原隆升阶段，青藏高原上发育了一些大中型中新生代沉积盆地，如羌塘盆地、措勤盆地、昌都盆地等都经历过从弧后向盆地向前陆盆地转化的演化阶段，并具有受喜马拉雅运动统一改造的特征，这些沉积盆地中油气藏前景良好。     

Palaeogeography of radiolarite and organic-rich deposits in Mesozoic Tethys

Siliceous and marine organic-rich deposits are sometimes associated, sometimes separate in space and time; however, both are generally accepted to be the result of high planktonic productivity. Among the siliceous marine deposits, the phtanite family facies is distinguished from the radiolarite family facies by several characteristics: They contain organic material and as a result are blackish (vs red/green for radiolarite facies), their time of deposition corresponds with strong faunal modifications and they are deposited generally in shallower environments. A palaeogeographic analysis of locations of Tethyan biosiliceous and marine organic-rich rocks, both resulting from a high planktonic palaeoproductivity, for three Mesozoic high sea-level intervals, Toarcian, Kimmeridgian and Cenomanian, show: (a) during Jurassic times these Tethyan deposits were dissociated, the siliceous deposits being closer to open ocean waters than the organic-rich ones. This is a common disposition in modern upwelling systems and suggests a common process; (b) during Cretaceous times these Tethyan deposits were often associated, i.e. both occur at the same site, and are probably the result of a different process from that in the Jurassic.     

Paleomagnetism of the Cretaceous Morelos and Mezcala Formations, southern Mexico

A paleomagnetic study of platform-facies carbonate rocks of the mid-Cretaceous Morelos Formation and deep-water carbonate rocks of the overlying Upper Cretaceous Mezcala Formation, sampled at Zopilote canyon, in Guerrero State, southern Mexico, indicates that their characteristic magnetization was acquired contemporaneously with folding of these rocks during the Late Cretaceous Laramide orogeny. The remanence carrier is interpreted to be magnetite, although other mineral phases of high coercivity carry recent secondary overprints. The overall mean is of Dec=323.1° and Inc=36.5° (k=162.7; α₉₅=2.7°; N=18 sites; 64% unfolding). Comparison with the North America reference direction indicates that this area has experienced a small, yet statistically significant, counterclockwise direction of 19.2±4.0°. Similar rotations are documented in other localities from southern Mexico; rotations are linked to mid-Tertiary deformation associated with the left-lateral strike-slip fault system that accommodated motion of the Chortis and Xolapa blocks.     

Paleomagnetism of the Ordovician and Early Carboniferous Geological Complexes of Tuva

Doklady Earth Sciences - Paleomagnetic studies of the Early, Middle Ordovician and Early Carboniferous strata of Tuva have been carried out. It has been established that the Ordovician strata of...     

Paleomagnetism of ultramafics from the Konder Massif and its age assessment

The petro- and paleomagnetic studies of ultramafic rocks (dunites, clinopyroxenites, kosvites) from the Konder Massif revealed the primary thermal remanance nature of the defined characteristic magnetization components. The calculated coordinates of the paleomagnetic poles are as follows: Plat = −4°, Plong = 178°, d_p = 5°, and d_m = 8° for the dunites; Plat = −2°, Plong = 181°, d_p= 6°, and d_m = 10° for the clinopyroxenites; and Plat = 71°, Plong = 206°, d_p = 5°, and d_m = 6° for the kosvites. Based on paleomagnetic and petromagnetic data, the age is estimated to be the Early Neoproterozoic for the dunites and clinopyroxenites and the Early Cretaceous for the kosvites. The massif as a whole is dated back to the Early Neoproterozoic (1000–950 Ma).