Archaean stromatolites of the Belingwe Greenstone Belt,Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

The stromatolites of the Belingwe Greenstone Belt (approximately 2700 Ma old) are perhaps the best-developed Archaean stromatolites yet found. Exposures occur on two stratigraphic levels, both part of the “Bulawayan” in Rhodesian stratigraphic terminology (Wilson et al., 1978). The extensive outcrops show a wide variety of stromatolites, including forms similar to Baicalia, Conophyton, Irregularia and Stratifera. Many stromatolites occur in cyclic units, possibly reflecting periodic changes in lagoonal conditions. Associated sedimentary rocks were deposited in a very shallow-water environment and some display well-developed desiccation features. Currently held concepts concerning the evolution of stromatolites and their usefulness in biostratigraphy do not appear to be supported by the evidence from Belingwe.     

The Geochemistry of Ultramafic to Mafic Volcanics from the Belingwe Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: Magmatism in an Archean Continental Large Igneous Province

The evolution of the late Archean Belingwe greenstone belt,Zimbabwe, is discussed in relation to the geochemistry of theultramafic to mafic volcanic rocks. Four volcanic types (komatiite,komatiitic basalt, D-basalt and E-basalt) are distinguishedin the 2·7 Ga Ngezi volcanic sequence using a combinationof petrography and geochemistry. The komatiites and D-basaltsare rocks in which isotopic systems and trace elements are depleted.Chemical variations in komatiites and D-basalts can be explainedby fractional crystallization from the parental komatiite. Incontrast, komatiitic basalts and E-basalts are siliceous anddisplay enriched isotopic and trace element compositions. Theirchemical trends are best explained by assimilation with fractionalcrystallization (AFC) from the primary komatiite. AFC calculationsindicate that the komatiitic basalts and E-basalts are derivedfrom komatiites contaminated with 20% and 30% crustal material,respectively. The volcanic stratigraphy of the Ngezi sequence,which is based on field relationships and the trace elementcompositions of relict clinopyroxenes, shows that the leastcontaminated komatiite lies between highly contaminated komatiiticbasalt flows, and has limited exposure near the base of thesuccession. Above these flows, D- and E-basalts alternate. Thekomatiite appears to have erupted on the surface only in theearly stages, when plume activity was high. As activity decreasedwith time, komatiite magmas may have stagnated to form magmachambers within the continental crust. Subsequent komatiiticmagmas underwent fractional crystallization and were contaminatedwith crust to form D-basalts or E-basalts. KEY WORDS: komatiite; crustal assimilation; Belingwe greenstone belt; continental flood basalt; plume magmatism     

The Range of Spinel Compositions in Terrestrial Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks

Compositional fields for spinels from a wide variety of mafic–ultramaficigneous rock types and tectonic environments have been determinedfrom a global database of over 26 000 analyses. These fieldsare defined using contoured data density plots based on thespinel prism, and plots of T iO₂ vs ferric iron, for mantlexenoliths, ophiolitic rocks, continental layered intrusions,alkalic and lamprophyric rocks, tholeiitic basalts, Alaskanultramafic complexes and komatiites. Several trends appear regularlyin the various environments: a trend of widely variable Cr/(Cr+ Al) at low Fe²⁺/(Mg + Fe²⁺) (the Cr–Al trend); increasingFe³⁺, Fe²⁺/(Mg + Fe²⁺) and T iO₂ at constant Cr/(Cr + Al) (Fe–Ti trend); a trend found primarily in kimberlites, similar toFe–T i but at constant Fe²⁺/(Mg + Fe²⁺); and an unusualtrend of increasing Al found only in layered intrusions. TheCr–Al and Fe–T i trends are both found to varyingdegrees in tholeiitic basalts. The Cr–Al trend is prevalentin rocks that have equilibrated over a range of pressures, whereasthe Fe–T i trend is dominantly due to low-pressure fractionation.The most Cr-rich chromites found in nature occur in boninites,diamond-bearing kimberlites, some komatiites and ophioliticchromitites. Exceptionally reduced chromites are found in somekomatiites and in ophiolitic chromitites. Detrital chromitesfrom the Witwatersrand conglomerates are of komatiitic provenance. KEY WORDS: basalt; chromite; kimberlite; ophiolite; spinel     

Potassic Mafic Lavas of the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana: Mineralogy, Chemistry, and Origin

The volcanic rocks of the Bearpaw Mountains are part of theMontana high-potassium province, emplaced through Archaean rocksof the Wyoming Craton between 54 and 50 Ma ago. Extrusive rocks,dominated by minettes and latites, have a volume of 825 km³.The minettes range in composition from 20 to 6% MgO. The moremagnesian varieties contain the phenocryst assemblage forsterite+ Cr-spinel + diopside phlogopite. More evolved rocks areolivine-free, with an assemblage of either salite + phlogopite+ pseudoleucite or salite + phlogopite + analcime. The analcimeis thought to be secondary after leucite, produced by loss ofpotassium from the minettes. Mineral chemistry and textures,especially of clinopyroxenes, indicate that mixing between minettemagmas of varying degrees of evolution was commonplace. Compositionalvariation was further extended by accumulation of olivine +spinel + clinopyroxene phenocrysts, and by the preservationof mantle xenocrysts in the minettes. The primary minette magmasare inferred to have had 12–14% MgO and to have been generatedat 30 kb from an olivine + diopside + phlogopite-bearing source.The primary magmas evolved dominantly by fractionation of olivine+ diopside. The minettes have high contents of large ion lithophile elements(LILE) and light rare earth elements (LREE), with K₂O up to6.18%, Ba 5491 ppm, Sr 2291 ppm, and Ce 99 ppm. (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)⁰ranges from 0.707 to 0.710 and Nd varies from –10 to–16. These data, plus high LILE/HFSE (high field strengthelements) values, are interpreted to show that the minettescontain at least three different mantle components. The lithospherewas initially depleted in Archaean times, but was metasomaticallyenriched in the Proterozoic and in the late Cretaceous and earlyTertiary. The latites have many chemical features in common with the minettes,such as potassic character and high LILE/HFSE values. They formedby fractional crystallization of minette magma in combinationwith assimilation of crustal rocks; this process enriched themagmas in SiO₂ and raised Na₂O/K₂O and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values. Chemicaldata for phenocrysts and bulk rocks in minettes suggest mixingbetween minette and latite magmas.     

新疆东天山铜镍成矿带西段镁铁—超镁铁质岩体成因及成矿潜力研究

新疆东天山铜镍成矿带铜镍总储量达百万吨,是我国重要的铜镍矿集区。以往的研究多集中在成矿带的东段和中段,而本文选择成矿带西段的典型岩体进行详细的地质年代学、矿物学和岩石地球化学研究。东天山铜镍成矿带西段镁铁—超镁铁质岩体以大草滩和白鑫滩岩体为代表,可分为四种岩相:闪长岩相、辉长岩相、橄榄辉长岩相和橄榄岩相,其中橄榄岩相为主要含矿岩相。白鑫滩岩体橄榄辉长岩锆石U-Pb年龄为286.4±1.6Ma,与岩体含长辉石橄榄岩(~278 Ma)相差~7 Ma。大草滩和白鑫滩岩体样品主量元素投影点都处于主要造岩矿物化学成分之间,表明岩体的主量元素主要受堆晶矿物控制。大草滩和白鑫滩岩体的微量元素标准化图解与东天山典型成矿岩体相似,均具有明显的Nb,Ta亏损,且具有较高的ε_(Nd)(t)值(+6.01~+8.9,t=286 Ma)和ε_(Hf)(t)值(+11.62~+16,t=286 Ma)。大草滩和白鑫滩岩体岩浆源区是软流圈上涌导致被俯冲事件改造的交代地幔发生部分熔融的产物。岩体橄榄石Fo值与Ni的关系表明岩浆在橄榄石结晶过程中存在硫化物熔离。模拟计算表明上述岩体母岩浆在上侵过程中在深部与新生的岛弧地壳发生5%~15%的混染后达到了硫饱和,造成了硅酸盐岩浆PGE的亏损。分离结晶和地壳硫的加入是导致岩浆在地壳层位发生二次熔离的主要因素。不同岩相的年龄数据表明大草滩和白鑫滩岩体形成于多期次岩浆作用,有助于形成具有经济价值的铜镍矿体。对比可得新疆东天山铜镍成矿带西段的镁铁—超镁铁质岩体的年龄和硫化物饱和过程与东段和中段的成矿岩体相似,故成矿带西段有寻找大中型铜镍硫化物矿床的潜力。     

Late Palaeozoic Ultramafic Lavas in Yunnan, SW China, and their Geodynamic Significance

We report petrological and geochemical data on ultramafic pillowlavas from Late Palaeozoic marine sequences in Yunnan, SW China.These lavas have >26 wt % MgO, euhedral to subhedral olivinephenocrysts and acicular or quench clinopyroxene crystals withor without microlitic plagioclase in a devitrified and alteredglassy matrix. These ultramafic lavas are compositionally komatiitic(>18 wt % MgO), but we term them high-Mg picrites becausethey lack spinifex-textured olivine. Although olivines in thesepicrites are cumulate crystals, causing the high MgO contentsof the bulk rocks, the high forsterite content of these olivines,Fo = 0·902 ± 0·011, suggests that the primitivemagmas parental to the picrites would have had     

塞浦路斯的超镁铁质熔岩——太古代科马提质玄武岩的类似物

塞浦路斯特罗多斯蛇绿岩套上部枕状熔岩中见有超镁铁质枕状熔岩的小型孤立体。一般可分为细粒、无斑隐晶质到含少量橄榄石斑晶的和细粒,含大量橄榄石斑晶的两种。橄榄石斑晶为自形—半自形,或空心骸晶,粒径0.1—3毫米,最大可达5毫米左右,成分为Fo_(37-91)。分布于玻璃基质中的普通辉石呈针状、束状(扇形集合体)和骸状,晶体长0.3—1.5毫米,宽仅0.04—0.06毫米,具典型的鬣刺结构。超镁铁质熔岩的MgO含量为10—30%,Mg/Mg+Fe~(2+)均在0.8左右,CaO/A1_2O_3为0.8—1.5,多在0.8左右,TiO_2平均含量为0.32%。稀土元素配分模式属轻稀土亏损,重稀土平坦型。以上特征表明把它们称为科马提质玄武岩是合适的。     

The Signature of Amphibole in Mafic Alkaline Lavas, a Study in the Northern Canadian Cordillera

Despite evidence for its involvement, the importance of amphibolein controlling the compositions of mafic alkaline magmas remainsunder-appreciated. Relatively small variations in large ionlithophile elements (LILE) with respect to other incompatibleelements, such as light rare-earth elements (LREE) or Th, requirethat amphibole was an important residual phase during the productionof Late Tertiary to Recent olivine nephelinite (Ol-NEPH) magmasbeneath the northern Canadian Cordillera. The erupted maficmagma types define a continuous array from Ol-NEPH to hypersthene-normativeolivine basalt (Hy-NORM AOB). The overall compositional arrayhas a sense of curvature which is counter to binary mixing,but can be modeled by two distinct linear melting trends: onefrom Ol-NEPH to basanite (BASAN) compositions, during whichamphibole controlled the composition of the melt, and the ratiosof LILE/LREE change significantly, but the ratios of high fieldstrength elements (HFSE) remain relatively constant; the otherfrom BASAN to Hy-NORM AOB corresponding to the melting of alherzolite assemblage, following the exhaustion of amphibole,across which the ratios of LILE/LREE remain relatively constant,but the ratios of HFSE change significantly. Other intraplate alkaline suites, such as those of the HawaiianIslands, show similar evidence for the involvement of residualamphibole in the genesis of Ol-NEPH to BASAN magmas. The meltingof any amphibole-bearing mantle assemblage is likely to be atwo-step process, regardless of whether the amphibole is segregatedas veins or distributed interstitially. In a water-undersaturatedenvironment, the first stage of melting is controlled by thebreakdown of amphibole, which produces silica-saturated liquidsbelow 12 kbar and silica-undersaturated liquids at greater depths,with little contribution from other mineral phases. In the secondstage, following the exhaustion of amphibole, the major elementcompositions of subsequent melts change rapidly to equilibratewith a lherzolite mineralogy, but the incompatible trace-elementcharacteristics of the former amphibole persist. KEY WORDS: amphibole; mafic alkaline magmas; northern Canadian Cordillera; trace elements ^*Corresponding author     

The geology of the giant Nyankanga gold deposit,Geita Greenstone Belt,Tanzania

Nyankanga is the largest gold deposit in the Geita Greenstone Belt of the northern Tanzania Craton. The deposit is hosted within an Archean volcano-sedimentary package dominated by ironstones and intruded by a large diorite complex, the Nyankanga Intrusive Complex. The supracrustal package is now included within the intrusive complex as roof pendants. The ironstone fragments contain evidence of multiple folding events that occurred prior to intrusion. The supracrustal package and Nyankanga Intrusive Complex are cut by a series of NE–SW trending, moderately NW dipping fault zones with a dominant reverse component of movement but showing multiple reactivation events with both oblique and normal movement components. The deposit is cut by a series of NW trending strike slip faults and ~ E–W trending late normal faults. The Nyankanga Fault Zone is a major NW dipping deformation zone developed mainly along the ironstone–diorite contacts that is mineralised over its entire length. The gold mineralization is hosted within the damage zone associated with Nyankanga Fault Zone by both diorite and ironstone with higher grades typically occurring in ironstone. Ore shoots dip more steeply than the Nyankanga Fault Zone. The mineralization is associated with sulfidation fronts and replacement textures in ironstones and is mostly contained as disseminated sulphides in diorite. The close spatial relationship between gold mineralization and the ironstone/diorite contact suggests that the reaction between the mineralising fluid and iron rich lithotypes played an important role in precipitating gold. Intense brecciation and veining, mainly in the footwall of Nyankanga Fault Zone, indicates that the fault zone increased permeability and allowed the access of mineralising fluids. The steeper dip of the ore shoots is consistent with mineralization during normal reactivation of the Nyankanga Fault Zone.     

Petrogenesis of Mafic Inclusions in Rhyolitic Lavas from Narugo Volcano, Northeastern Japan

Mafic inclusions present in the rhyolitic lavas of Narugo volcano,Japan, are vesiculated andesites with diktytaxitic texturesmainly composed of quenched acicular plagioclase, pyroxenes,and interstitial glass. When the mafic magma was incorporatedinto the silica-rich host magma, the cores of pyroxenes andplagioclase began to crystallize (>1000°C) in a boundarylayer between the mafic and felsic magmas. Phenocryst rim compositionsand interstitial glass compositions (average 78 wt % SiO₂) inthe mafic inclusions are the same as those of the phenocrystsand groundmass glass in the host rhyolite. This suggests thatthe host felsic melt infiltrated into the incompletely solidifiedmafic inclusion, and that the interstitial melt compositionin the inclusions became close to that of the host melt (c.850°C). Infiltration was enhanced by the vesiculation ofthe mafic magma. Finally, hybridized and density-reduced portionsof the mafic magma floated up from the boundary layer into thehost rhyolite. We conclude that the ascent of mafic magma triggeredthe eruption of the host rhyolitic magma. KEY WORDS: mafic inclusion; stratified magma chamber; magma mixing; mingling; Narugo volcano; Japan     

A Giant Gold System, Geita Greenstone Belt, Tanzania

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The geology and mineralisation at the Golden Pride gold deposit,Nzega Greenstone Belt,Tanzania

The Golden Pride gold deposit (∼3 Moz) is located in the central part of the Nzega Greenstone Belt at the southern margin of the Lake Victoria Goldfields in Tanzania. It represents an inferred Late Archaean, orogenic gold deposit and is hosted in intensely deformed meta-sedimentary rocks in the hanging wall of the approximately E–W striking Golden Pride Shear Zone. The hanging-wall sequence also includes felsic (quartz porphyritic) to mafic (lamprophyric) intrusions, as well as banded iron formations. Hydrothermal alteration phases associated with mineralisation are dominated by sericite and chlorite. Two main ore types can be distinguished, chlorite and silica ore, both occupying dilational sites and structural intersections in the hanging wall of the main shear zone. Sulphide minerals in both ore types include pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, pyrite and accessory sphalerite, galena, sulphosalts and Ni–Co–Bi sulphides. Gold and tellurides are late in the paragenetic sequence and associated with a secondary phase of pyrrhotite deposition. Sulphur isotope compositions range from −6 to 7 per mil and are interpreted to reflect contributions from two distinct sources to the mineralising fluids in the Golden Pride gold deposit. A redox change, potentially induced by the intrusion of mafic melts, together with structural elements in the hanging wall of the Golden Pride Shear Zone, are interpreted to be the main controls on gold mineralisation in this deposit.     

红旗岭镁铁-超镁铁岩侵入体及铜镍硫化物矿床的成岩成矿机制

红旗岭铜镍矿床地处华北地台与吉黑地槽系接触带--辉发河断裂北侧.区内出露30多个镁铁-超镁铁质岩体,其中1、7号超镁铁岩体中赋存铜镍硫化物矿(床)体.含矿岩体分相明显,各类岩石均具堆积结构.铜镍矿体呈似板状、脉状、透镜状及囊状赋存于超镁铁岩体底部橄榄辉岩相中.岩石学和地球化学研究表明,7号岩体形成以流动分异为主,1号岩体为重力分异;原始岩浆属拉斑玄武质,块状矿石系压滤作用产物,后续岩浆的补给和混合补充了成矿物质,硫化物不混溶程度受挥发分制约,矿床属岩浆深部熔离分异成因,成矿时代为印支期.     

Komatiite Flows from the Reliance Formation, Belingwe Belt, Zimbabwe: I. Petrography and Mineralogy

The 2.7-Ga Reliance Formation of the Ngezi Group, Belingwe GreenstoneBelt, Zimbabwe, contains extremely fresh komatiite lavas. Detailedfield mapping and a 200-m deep drill-hole, with excellent corerecovery, demonstrated the existence of a suite of lava flows.Each major flow is 10 m thick and characteristically exhibitschilled top and bottom margins, a spinifex zone dominated byrandom spinifex, a B1 zone, and a thick cumulate zone that typicallycomposes two-thirds of the flow thickness. Preservation of olivineand pyroxene mineralogy is superb by Archaean standards, tothe extent that even the tips of skeletal crystals survive.The matrix, although devitrified, is well preserved. Detailedstudy of two flows shows that skeletal grains from the spinifexzone have maximum Fo contents of 91.4. The Fo contents of microphenocrystsfrom the cumulate zone range from Fo_91.2 to Fo_91.6, but rarelarge phenocrysts ( 5 vol.%) have maximum Fo contents of 93.6.The Fo contents of the cumulate olivines do not vary with stratigraphicheight, implying that the cumulate zone formed rapidly, by accumulationof transported crystals. The cumulate zones contain 42–57%modal olivine and display reverse size grading of the olivinemicrophenocrysts. This grain-size variation is believed to resultfrom adcumulus growth within a cumulate pile formed by the formedby the gravitational settling of clusters of olivine crystals.Textural relationships indicate that the final part of the flowto start to crystallize was the lowermost part of the spinifexzone. Reprint requests.     

Petrogenesis of Pre-caldera Mafic Lavas, Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field (New Mexico, USA)

The Miocene–Quaternary Jemez Mountains volcanic field(JMVF), the site of the Valles caldera, lies at the intersectionof the Jemez lineament, a Proterozoic suture, and the CenozoicRio Grande rift. Parental magmas are of two types: K-depletedsilica-undersaturated, derived from the partial melting of lithosphericmantle with residual amphibole, and tholeiitic, derived fromeither asthenospheric or lithospheric mantle. Variability insilica-undersaturated basalts reflects contributions of meltsderived from lherzolitic and pyroxenitic mantle, representingheterogeneous lithosphere associated with the suture. The Kdepletion is inherited by fractionated, crustally contaminatedderivatives (hawaiites and mugearites), leading to distinctiveincompatible trace element signatures, with Th/(Nb,Ta) and La/(Nb,Ta)greater than, but K/(Nb,Ta) similar to, Bulk Silicate Earth.These compositions dominate the mafic and intermediate lavas,and the JMVF is therefore derived largely, and perhaps entirely,from melting of fertile continental Jemez lineament lithosphereduring rift-related extension. Significant variations in Pband Nd isotope ratios (²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 17·20–18·93;¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd = 0·51244–0·51272) result fromcrustal contamination, whereas ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr is low and relativelyuniform (0·7040–0·7048). We compare theeffects of contamination by low-⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr crust with assimilationof high-⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr granitoid by partial melting, with Sr retainedin a feldspathic residue. Both models satisfactorily reproducethe isotopic features of the rocks, but the lack of a measurableEu anomaly in most JMVF mafic lavas is difficult to reconcilewith a major role for residual plagioclase during petrogenesis. KEY WORDS: Jemez Mountains volcanic field; Rio Grande rift; lithospheric mantle; crustal contamination; trace elements; radiogenic isotopes     

Petrology and trace element geochemistry of the Papuan Ultramafic Belt

New petrologic and geochemical data are presented for a suite of rocks from the Papuan Ultramafic Belt (PUB), Papua New Guinea. Tectonite harzburgites at the base of the ophiolite have extremely refractory, uniform mineralogy, and are exceptionally depleted in lithophile elements. These features are consistent with the proposed origin of these rocks as depleted upper mantle, residual after extraction of a basaltic melt. The tectonite peridotites are overlain by a thick sequence of layered ultramafic and mafic cumulates containing olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and plagioclase as the major cumulus phases. Early cumulates are characterized by magnesian olivine Mg₉₀, orthopyroxene Mg₉₀ and calcic plagioclase An₈₆, and exhibit cryptic variation towards more iron-rich and sodic compositions. Abundances of incompatible elements in the cumulates are extremely low which, together with the nature of the cumulus phases, points to a magnesian olivine-poor tholeiite or magnesian quartz tholeiite parent magma(s) strongly depleted in incompatible elements. Highly fractionated iron-rich products of this parent magma type are represented by the LREE-depleted lavas in the overlying basalt sequence which, although resembling the most depleted mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) in terms of their low abundances of incompatible elements, have higher abundances of transition metals and lower abundances of Ti, HREE and other high valence cations compared to common MORB of similar Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratio.Eocene tonalites intruding the PUB are genetically unrelated to the ophiolites, and appear to be related to the Ti-poor high-Mg andesites of Cape Vogel and similar andesites and dacites at the northern end of the PUB. These rocks are considered to represent the early stages of island-arc magmatism associated with a northeastward-dipping subduction zone in the early Eocene immediately prior to emplacement of the PUB.     

新疆北山地区漩涡岭镁铁质—超镁铁质层状岩体岩石学与矿物学研究

位于新疆北山地区的漩涡岭岩体是一堆晶层理发育的镁铁质-超镁铁质层状岩体。岩石类型主要有纯橄岩、橄长岩、橄榄辉长岩和辉长岩等。主要的造岩矿物有橄榄石、辉石、斜长石、铬尖晶石,岩相学特征表明岩浆在演化过程中经历了橄榄石、尖晶石、斜长石、斜方辉石和单斜辉石的分离结晶,结晶次序依次为橄榄石+尖晶石→斜长石→辉石,表明结晶时压力较低。漩涡岭岩体的纯橄岩中橄榄石的Fo高达90.1,这不同于新疆北部黄山岩带、喀拉通克岩体群以及甘肃金川岩体的橄榄石Fo组成,利用橄榄石最高Fo值估算得到漩涡岭岩体的母岩浆的Mg#为0.73~0.75,岩浆的液相线温度高达1330~1350℃,其岩浆为高温高Mg的苦橄质岩浆,这为塔里木东北部二叠纪地幔柱活动提供了新的证据。     

Gliding and overthrust nappe tectonics in the Barberton Greenstone Belt

Regional recumbent folds, inverted stratigraphy, nappes and olistostromes are described from the southern part of the 3.3–3.5 Ga Barberton Greenstone Belt. Overthrusting of thin rigid silicified slabs with minimum dimensions of 25 km² and up to 500 m in thickness, occurred over minimum distances of 86 km. More ductile and coherent units were overfolded up to at least 2 km during their emplacement. The glide planes on which these nappes travelled were zones of high fluid pressures related to hydrothermal fluid circulation patterns, driven by heat sources from igneous intrusions. The upwelling areas of the geothermal convection cells were sites of mud-pools and hydrothermal vents which may mark the trailing edges (pull aparts) of the overthrust units. Progressive silica and carbonate precipitation due to decreasing temperatures, within the zones of fluid migration distant from the areas of high heat flow, probably acted as built-in braking systems below the travelling slabs. Active sedimentation and metasomatism during this tectonism indicates a protracted history for the evolution of the greenstone belt. The recognition of nappe and overthrust tectonics in the Barberton Belt, processes which may have been commonplace in Archaean terrains, necessitates a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy of this belt.     

绿岩带型金矿研究的进展

本文介绍了近年来国外绿岩型带金矿在成矿模式，构造控制，成矿物化条件研究方向的某些进展，我国绿岩带与国外经典绿岩带有一定的差异，因而表现在成矿作用上也独树一帜，初步提出我国绿岩带型金矿研究中应注意的问题。