庐枞盆地浅表地壳速度成像与隐伏矿靶区预测

利用反射地震初至波可以精确反演地壳速度结构和构造信息.对庐枞盆地采集的高分辨地震数据,运用初至波层析成像方法,反演得到了该区1200 m以上的浅表地壳速度结构信息.找矿信息总是同地球化学异常联系紧密,对采集于炮孔深处的岩屑、泥砂样品进行了地球化学分析,发现了多处显著的金属元素异常.对五条测线的速度成像结果及其映射的地下岩性结构和炮孔地球化学分析结果进行了相关性对比分析.结果显示,庐枞盆地的沉积岩、火山岩和侵入岩具有不同的速度范围,侵入岩具有高波速特征,地球化学信息高异常往往出现在高速侵入岩体的上方;精细的速度信息蕴含着丰富的浅表地壳结构变化特征,与庐枞矿集区已知的地质、岩体、构造和矿体分布存在着良好的对应关系.速度成像结果可以准确刻画地下隐伏侵入岩体的空间分布形态,结合地球化学分析异常和重磁探测等信息,预测隐伏矿床,提供深部找矿靶区.     

贺根山镁铁-超镁铁岩与缝合带的关系——来自地球物理的证据

长期以来,对内蒙古贺根山缝合带中的镁铁-超镁铁岩,有着"蛇绿岩"、"岩浆岩"、"幔源熔-流体"等不同认识.近年来在铬铁矿中发现了金刚石等深部地幔矿物,如何认识携带这些物质的幔源熔-流体的上涌?缝合带在镁铁-超镁铁岩的形成过程中起到什么作用?解决问题的关键之一是弄清镁铁-超镁铁岩的深部产状,这需要来自地球物理观测数据的依据.本文基于航磁和重力数据的研究表明,贺根山地区的蛇绿岩块均呈现高磁异常特征,其中贺根山岩块埋深明显大于其他岩块,表现为高磁异常与低重力异常,与地表出露的蛇纹石化的镁铁-超镁铁岩带对应.对航磁化极异常与布格重力异常数据做了向上延拓处理,进行了磁源形态及底界深度的估算,并利用基于相异度算子的边缘增强方法辅助识别断裂.结果表明,贺根山岩块贯穿地壳,且附近存在超壳断裂.地表至中地壳主要由蛇纹石化的镁铁-超镁铁岩组成,下地壳主要为超镁铁质岩组成,它们充填在一组宽约30km的NEE向断裂带中,大地电磁测深剖面揭示的壳-幔电性结构进一步证实控制缝合带的是岩石圈断裂,贺根山缝合带具有明显的根部.由此推测,在地幔底辟上涌的背景下,幔源熔-流体沿着岩石圈断裂持续上升到达浅表,暗示该区板块的拼合可能是通过深部幔源物质的侵入而成的.     

闽西南多金属成矿带地质地球物理特征综合研究——以永定大排多金属矿区为例

闽西南地区位于福建武夷山成矿带西南部,自远古宙以来经历了多期次的构造演化.该区地处东南沿海构造-岩浆-成矿带上,为环太平洋大陆边缘多金属成矿带与南岭多金属成矿带复合部位,是我国重要的多金属矿产地.永定大排多金属矿区作为近年来武夷山成矿带新发现的大型多金属矿,区内叠加作用和控矿作用相对复杂,现有的地质地球物理工作程度不足以满足对该区域成矿规律的深入认识,一些基础地质问题亟待解决.因此,本文在深入收集永定大排矿区地质地球物理资料基础上,综合分析区域成矿背景与成矿构造,在重点区域布设综合地球物理勘探工作,包括1：1万高精度磁测、可控源音频大地电磁剖面及反射地震剖面.基于上述工作：1）开展了研究区航磁数据三维磁化率反演与分布特征分析与大地电磁二维电阻率反演与分布特征分析,开展了地震资料真地表深度偏移成像,获得了更加准确的地震剖面成像结果.2）结合推覆体控矿特征,地震剖面和电阻率剖面、航磁反演结果相互验证和约束,勾画了地下构造形态.地表地质剖面延伸和标定了构造形态的地质内涵,获得了从地表到3000 m深度的构造解释结果.解释结果清晰地显示了与推覆相关的构造、控矿层位以及岩体信息,为三位一体的找矿思路提供了地球物理依据.     

近表磁异常与油气关系研究进展

本文对近年来国内外科学界关于油气产区与近表磁异常关系的研究进行论述。认为国外一些科学家提出的磁亮点以方法以及钻探岩芯及岩屑中的ＭＳＲＩ参数法都是新颖有效的。它为我们提供了一个新的思路,即从油气藏的烃渗漏问题入手,寻找与其有关的相关标志,来自国外的一些报导证实了磁性变化与油气资源间较高的相关性。而我国科学院家们在塔里木等地的工作,则进一步证实了方法的有效性。     

DISCOVERY OF DIRECT-SHIPPING IRON ORE BY GEOPHYSICAL METHODS IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE LABRADOR TROUGH*

The deposits of the central sector of the Labrador Trough are magnetite-rich iron ores subjected to enrichment by the process of leaching. In spite of the fact that some ore types are porous and low in density, most of the ore zones have undergone a net increase in density brought about by enrichment. In the course of their formation, the magnetic characteristics of the rocks have changed and a great deal of the magnetite was altered to relatively non-magnetic iron oxides and hydrous iron oxides. Consequently, induced as well as remanent magnetization decreased, but the ratio of the latter with respect to the former increased substantially. All drift-covered areas underlain with iron-formation are potential ore producing areas. From measurements of the first two physical properties and determination of the thickness of overburden by means of a combined gravity-magnetic-seismic or resistivity survey, it is possible to detect and distinguish the iron formations and potential ore zones from the country rocks. In spite of the fact that the iron formations are a complex assemblage of rock types, each having different physical and chemical properties, a qualitative and semi-quantitative correlation between the results of the surveys and the geology as well as the structure of the area could be established. Consequently, in order to increase the chances of success, first a mathematical correlation of the amplitude of the gravity anomalies with the specific gravity, the iron content, the silica content, the porosity factors and the dimensions of the underlying orebodies, and secondly, a quantitative correlation of the ground magnetic intensity relative to the reference lithologie unit with the percentage of Fe₃ O₄ recovery and the volume magnetic susceptibility were done for many deposits. A few discoveries were made with this method. Finally, a fully quantitative interpretation of the geophysical data using a multimodeling analysis led to the discovery of additional direct-shipping iron ore deposits in the Schefferville mining district of Canada.     

大兴安岭地区的强磁性火山岩

在大小兴安岭进行航空磁测结果,得到了一副广泛分布着强度很大的杂乱磁场变化图景,经过对许多异常进行地面检查证实,它们都是由强磁性火山岩引起的,包括玄武岩、安山岩、流纹斑岩、粗面流纹岩等.在100米左右的飞行高度上磁异常强度最高可达5000γ,一般都有3000-4000γ,地面最大强度经常都在10000γ以上（丝悬式磁秤超格）.     

A NOTE ON MAGNETIZED SPHERES*

The interpretation of total field anomalies becomes somewhat complicated, especially when an arbitrarily magnetized spherical ore mass happens to be the causative body. Even though some attempts have been made to analyze total field anomaly maps, they are often too complicated and their underlying assumptions in respect of permanent and induced components of magnetism are far from realistic. In this note, an attempt has been made to show that vertical magnetic anomalies are capable of yielding interpretation with ease and precision as far as magnetized spheres are concerned. An empirical method has been outlined for computing the magnetization inclination in the plane of the profile using the measured distances between principal maximum, principal minimum, and zero anomaly positions on a magnetic anomaly profile.     

Interpretation of vertical magnetic anomalies due to inclined veins striking neither north nor east

Summary In the present paper an attempt has been made to interpret irregular vertical magnetic anomalies due to magnetite ore in the form of inclined thin veins, pods or lenses striking neither north nor east. A chart has been prepared for varying percentage of magnetite ore using arbitrary values of susceptibility contrast for Singhbhum and Palamau districts (Bihar), which would be helpful while interpreting magnetic anomalies to be found in these areas. Depth to width ratio against parameter c as well as two theoretical curves have also been presented. Further two field profiles are being matched with theoretical curves. The depths and widths of thin veins have been calculated using simple rules. An overall checking of these quantities is possible by curve-matching process.     

Interpretation of magnetic anomalies by horizontal and vertical derivatives of the analytic signal

Magnetic anomalies are often disturbed by the magnetization direction, so we can’t directly use the original magnetic anomaly to estimate the exact location and geometry of the source. The 2D analytic signal is insensitive to magnetization direction. In this paper, we present an automatic method based on the analytic signal horizontal and vertical derivatives to interpret the magnetic anomaly. We derive a linear equation using the analytic signal properties and we obtain the 2D magnetic body location parameters without giving a priori information. Then we compute the source structural index (expressing the geometry) by the estimated location parameters. The proposed method is demonstrated on synthetic magnetic anomalies with noise. For different models, the proposed technique can both successfully estimate the location parameters and the structural index of the sources and is insensitive to noise. Lastly, we apply it to real magnetic anomalies from China and obtain the distribution of unexploited iron ore. The inversion results are consistent with the parameters of known ore bodies.     

Magnetic studies of basalt fragments recovered by deep drilling in Iceland,and the “magnetic layer” concept

The magnetic susceptibility of 1300 samples of igneous rock drill cuttings obtained from eight deep drill holes in Iceland has been measured, in order to directly provide limits on the thickness of the layer which is the source of the magnetic anomalies over Iceland. The remanent magnetism of some of the material has also been studied, and the variation of magnetic susceptibility in 740 lava flows from eastern Iceland has been analysed as a function of depth of burial.All the results indicate no systematic change of susceptibility with depth up to 2.0 km. The Curie point of all deeply buried basalts in Iceland appears to be close to that of magnetite, so that the magnetic layer may be 5 km or more in thickness when susceptibility contrasts are considered; lateral contrasts in primary remanence may reach to 3 km depth. Derivation of a magnetic layer thickness in Iceland from analyses of magnetic anomalies, using methods which have been conventionally applied to marine magnetic anomalies could, on the other hand, yield much lower apparent thickness values (less than 1 km).We therefore argue that estimates of the magnetic layer thickness in oceanic regions should be based on considerations of magnetite Curie point isotherm behaviour, rather than on anomaly analysis.     

Short note: Source geometry identification by simultaneous use of structural index and shape factor

A cross-plot of the shape factors and the structural indices, determined from gravity anomalies over various idealized sources, namely horizontal/vertical lines and vertical ribbons with various strike lengths and depth extents, forms a closed loop. Different segments of this loop, termed the source geometry identification loop (SGIL), correspond to different source geometries. Combined use of the structural index and the shape factor determined from an isolated gravity anomaly reduces the ambiguity in characterizing the source geometry. A simulated example and three field examples, namely a Cuban chromite anomaly, an Indian example over manganese ore and a sulphide ore from Quebec, have been analysed by the proposed method in order to identify their respective source geometries.     

新疆西天山东段航磁异常特征及找矿效果

介绍了高精度航磁调查在西天山东段的应用效果.在高精度航磁图上,展现出多个不同磁场背景及磁异常特征区,它们是不同构造、岩浆活动、地层及岩性分布的综合反映.该区不仅区域磁场特征明显,而且局部异常信息也极为丰富.在最新的高精度航磁图上,已知铁矿异常特征明显,为矿区外围勘探和同类地区寻找新的铁矿提供了依据.利用高精度航磁资料,新发现了五十余处铁矿异常,在2007年进行了地面查证的5处异常中,有4处见矿.这些新的铁矿异常的成功发现不仅带来了巨大的经济效益,也为今后利用高精度航磁测量在类似地区进行找矿积累了经验.     

Geophysical evidence for a pre-Late Jurassic fossil continental margin oriented east-west under central Israel

East-west-trending magnetic and gravity anomalies across central Israel have been interpreted as being related to lateral lithological changes in crustal rocks, from a low-magnetization and relatively lower-density rock type in the south, into a higher-magnetization, higher-density rock type in the north. The zone of the interpreted lithological discontinuity is associated with significant variations in stratigraphic thickness, which suggest that the magnetic and gravity anomalies mark a fossil edge of the Arabian-African continent in contact with the Tethyan crust. Seismic reflection profiles indicate that the minimum age of the formation of the Tethyan crust is probably pre-Late Jurassic.     

内蒙古双尖子山矿集区三维电性结构及成矿意义

双尖子山矿集区作为中国北方东部大型的银铅锌多金属矿集区,具有多期叠加成矿的特征.为了揭示双尖子山矿集区2000 m以浅成矿要素的空间展布,本文基于有限内存拟牛顿法(L-BFGS)对覆盖矿集区的6条可控源音频大地电磁测深数据进行含源三维反演,获得了双尖子山矿集区2000 m以浅三维精细电性结构.结合重磁、区域地质、钻井及地球化学资料,得到如下结论:(1)矿集区深部存在大面积的高阻区,可能为与成矿有关的早白垩纪侵入岩的反映,在兴隆山矿段西北侧及西南侧(A、B区)、双尖子山矿段西部(C区)表现为高侵位特征;(2)矿集区与成矿密切相关的断裂系统由1条北东向深断裂(F1)和北西向、北东向以及近南北向的浅层断裂组成;(3)赋矿地层大石寨组电性特征为中低阻,主要分布在1000 m以浅,在兴隆山矿段以及双尖子山矿段东部较厚,与矿集区断裂系统组成了良好的容矿空间和成矿流体上涌通道;(4)建立了矿集区2000 m以浅的成矿模式:在兴隆山矿段,早白垩世侵入岩高度侵位至上覆大石寨组下方,侵入岩就位后析出含矿热液,并在浅部北东、北西向断裂及断裂交汇处成岩成矿,而在双尖子山矿段,成矿流体主要受北东向深断裂F1的控制,在F1断裂以及其与北西向断裂的交汇处富集,导致矿体主要分布于矿段西部.     

论被动源磁电勘探理论

本文从麦氏方程出发,运用电流磁场的等效理论阐明了在磁电勘探中,当矿体的二次极化电流具有垂直对称轴分布时,在地表面及以上空间中任一点的磁异常场（H）均等于零。因而,具有任何垂直对称状电化学矿产模式（石油、天然气、地下水及金属矿床等）的磁电勘探法异常场线积分均不存在。此外,由于对各种形状和任何极化倾角的矿体情况,地表面上均无电流密度垂直分量（i_n）存在,故地表面上异常场线积分均为零（∮_L H·dL=0）。因此,磁电勘探法不具备在地面上寻找此种矿产的物理前提。 本文还对倾斜极化球体和柱体的磁电勘探异常进行了计算,给出了主剖面上理论曲线的异常分布规律,指出了磁电异常的数量级。同时,还对井中磁电异常的分布规律给出了计算资料。为了对比,也对相应条件下的自然电场异常做了计算,指出了电场异常与磁场异常之间的不同特点及其对实际找矿的意义。     

SCALE MODEL ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE TO INLINE AND BROADSIDE SYSTEMS AT SKEW TRAVERSES OF A DIPPING HALF PLANE EMBEDDED IN A CONDUCTING HOST ROCK*

Laboratory scale model experiments have been performed to obtain the electromagnetic response of a finitely conducting half plane embedded in resistive/conductive surrounding and excited by an oscillating magnetic dipole. Inphase and quadrature profiles are presented for two horizontal coplanar transmitter-receiver systems (inline and broadside) for normal and skew traverses and for different dips of the conductor. It is observed that the broadside system is more diagnostic in delineating the strike and dip of the conductor and is more sensitive to the conducting host rock. The broadside profile over a vertical or dipping half plane is characterized, when traversing perpendicular to strike, by two positive peaks flanking a zero response when the coils are over the top edge of the conductor. For skew traverses a negative peak replaces the zero response. An increasing asymmetry in the anomalies is caused by changing the dip of the conductor from the vertical in both the systems, but it is more pronounced for the broadside system. The quadrature response in the broadside system changes in a characteristic way when the target is surrounded by a conducting host rock. The comparative results of the two systems may, therefore, be useful in the induction prospecting for ore deposits approximated by a half plane, especially in delineating the strike, dip, and effect of conductive host rock.     

Lower Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic limestone sections

The magnetic stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous, pelagic Maiolica limestone has been investigated in three partially correlative sections at Gorgo a Cerbara, Presale and Frontale in the northern Umbrian Apennines of central Italy. The white, well-bedded limestone has a magnetic mineralogy dominated by magnetite. Stable magnetic directions isolated by thermal demagnetization define alternating polarity zones in each section. The magnetozone patterns are distinctive and can be correlated with the geomagnetic reversal history derived from the M-sequence marine magnetic anomalies. The three new sections confirm the polarity sequence for anomalies M0 to M10N. Although the Maiolica is inadequately dated, the correlated anomalies, together with the results of other investigations, allow tentative associations of anomalies M0–M19 with individual stages in the Lower Cretaceous and Upper Tithonian.The investigations also demonstrate the usefulness of magnetic stratigraphy in basin analysis. They yield mean sedimentation rates, confirm that there is a hiatus between the base of the Presale section and the underlying Jurassic formations, and show that a large part of the Frontale section has been cut out by faulting.     

MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY ANISOTROPY OF VARIOUS ROCK TYPES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR GEOPHYSICS AND GEOLOGY*

In the interpretation of magnetic anomalies and in paleomagnetism, the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility is commonly neglected. Nevertheless, this property has basic significance, because, owing to susceptibility anisotropy, the directions of the vectors of induced and remanent magnetization are deflected from the direction of the Earth's magnetic field. Almost all rock types investigated possess higher or lower degree of the susceptibility anisotropy. Effusive and sedimentary rocks have the lowest degree of anisotropy. For the latter, the “masking effect” of the paramagnetic mineral components has some influence on the anisotropy degree due to the low mean susceptibility of sedimentary rocks. Metamorphic and plutonic rocks usually exhibit a considerable degree of anisotropy. The highest degree of anisotropy has been found in the rocks containing ferromagnetic minerals with mimetic fabric. The dependence of the degree of the susceptibility anisotropy on the degree of metamorphism proved to be very complicated; of the rock sequence from slates to gneisses, the transient rocks (roofing slates and mica-schist-gneisses) showed the highest degree of anisotropy. This result can be used in geology for reliable determination of these rock types.     

The experience of using the rock magnetic methods for assessing the prospects of magnetic exploration in the territory of archaeological monuments of the Barabinsk forest steppe

The results of studying the magnetic properties of the components of the natural environment of the Barabinsk forest steppe accommodating the archaeological monuments dated to VI century B.C. to II century A.D. are presented. The rock magnetic model is constructed for a two-layer medium composed of modern soil and an underlying blanket substratum deposits (clay loam, sandy loam, sand). It is shown that the magnetism of the humic horizon of the soil depends on the topographic position and soil type, whereas the magnetic characteristics of the underlying substratum deposits are persistent throughout the studied territory. The ratio of the magnetic susceptibilities of the humus horizon to the substratum is K = 3–6 for the automorphic soil, K = 1–2.5 for semihydromorphic soil, and K = 0.8–1.0 for hydromorphic soil. Based on subdividing the studied territory in accordance with the values of K and the calculated amplitudes of the microanomalies of the magnetic field, the areas where application of the magnetic survey is highly promising, moderately efficient, and unpromising are outlined. The particular cases of the absence of magnetic anomalies above the archaeological objects, the false anomalies, and the chaotic patterns of the low-amplitude anomalies—all the situations when the magnetic survey is inefficient—are explained from the standpoint of the model.     

Review paper: Exploration geophysics for intrusion‐hosted rare metals

Igneous intrusions, notably carbonatitic–alkalic intrusions, peralkaline intrusions, and pegmatites, represent significant sources of rare‐earth metals. Geophysical exploration for and of such intrusions has met with considerable success. Examples of the application of the gravity, magnetic, and radiometric methods in the search for rare metals are presented and described. Ground gravity surveys defining small positive gravity anomalies helped outline the shape and depth of the Nechalacho (formerly Lake) deposit within the Blatchford Lake alkaline complex, Northwest Territories, and of spodumene‐rich mineralization associated with the Tanco deposit, Manitoba, within the hosting Tanco pegmatite. Based on density considerations, the bastnaesite‐bearing main ore body within the Mountain Pass carbonatite, California, should produce a gravity high similar in amplitude to those associated with the Nechalacho and Tanco deposits. Gravity also has utility in modelling hosting carbonatite intrusions, such as the Mount Weld intrusion, Western Australia, and Elk Creek intrusion, Nebraska. The magnetic method is probably the most successful geophysical technique for locating carbonatitic–alkalic host intrusions, which are typically characterized by intense positive, circular to sub‐circular, crescentic, or annular anomalies. Intrusions found by this technique include the Mount Weld carbonatite and the Misery Lake alkali complex, Quebec. Two potential carbonatitic–alkalic intrusions are proposed in the Grenville Province of Eastern Quebec, where application of an automatic technique to locate circular magnetic anomalies identified several examples. Two in particular displayed strong similarities in magnetic pattern to anomalies accompanying known carbonatitic or alkalic intrusions hosting rare‐metal mineralization and are proposed to have a similar origin. Discovery of carbonatitic–alkalic hosts of rare metals has also been achieved by the radiometric method. The Thor Lake group of rare‐earth metal deposits, which includes the Nechalacho deposit, were found by follow‐up investigations of strong equivalent thorium and uranium peaks defined by an airborne survey. Prominent linear radiometric anomalies associated with glacial till in the Canadian Shield have provided vectors based on ice flow directions to source intrusions. The Allan Lake carbonatite in the Grenville Province of Ontario is one such intrusion found by this method. Although not discovered by its radiometric characteristics, the Strange Lake alkali intrusion on the Quebec–Labrador border is associated with prominent linear thorium and uranium anomalies extending at least 50 km down ice from the intrusion. Radiometric exploration of rare metals hosted by pegmatites is evaluated through examination of radiometric signatures of peraluminous pegmatitic granites in the area of the Tanco pegmatite.