Crystal-Mush Compaction and the Origin of Pegmatitic Segregation Sheets in a Thick Flood-Basalt Flow in the Mesozoic Hartford Basin, Connecticut

Where the Holyoke flood-basalt flow in the Mesozoic HartfordBasin in Connecticut is thick and contains coarse-grained, horizontalsegregation sheets in its central part, the lower part of theflow is strongly depleted in incompatible elements; where theflow is thin and contains no segregation sheets it is homogeneousthroughout. This chemical variation can be explained only throughcompaction of the partly crystallized basalt. The compositionof the segregation sheets shows that they separated from thebasalt following only 33% crystallization. The segregation sheets,however, are clearly intrusive into the basalt, which must thereforehave already formed a crystal mush with finite strength at thislow degree of crystallinity. The incompatible element concentrationsindicate that the partly crystallized basalt underwent as muchas 28% compaction in the lowest 60 m of the flow. Between 60and 130 m above the base of the flow, the crystal mush becamedilated, and eventually ruptured with formation of the segregationsheets. No segregation sheet has a composition indicating separationafter more than 33% crystallization of the basalt. This is interpretedto indicate that compaction ceased at this stage because ofthe increasing strength of the mush and the increasing densityof the fractionating interstitial liquid KEY WORDS: crystal-mush compaction; segregation shtets; flood basalt; tholeiitie; Connecticut ^*e-mail: philpotts{at}geol.uconn.edu     

土层锚固体应力传递机制

基于锚固体轴对称受力特征开发了一种土层锚固界面试验装置,结合二维数字散斑相关方法,获得随着荷载加大锚固体周边土体的位移场及应变场变化规律。试验结果表明,锚固体的位移带动周边土体变形主要出现在靠近锚固体的一小薄层范围内,其变形具有范围稳定、连续、线性和剪胀等特征。采用与Coulomb屈服条件相关联的流动法则建立锚固体界面层的本构关系,并推导出了锚固体在拉拔荷载条件下的轴力和剪应力分布的表达式。分析结果表明,锚固体上的剪应力分布的均匀程度与土层密实度密切相关,土层的密实度越低,其抗力系数、内摩擦角越小,则锚固体上的剪应力分布越均匀,而抗力系数和内摩擦角较大的土层,其剪应力分布特征与岩石锚固体的理论及实测成果相似。     

松散堆积体工程边坡变形机理分析及支护对策研究

合理选择开挖坡比、正确认识变形破坏机理是影响松散堆积体边坡稳定性和施工安全的前提, 本文研究了西南地区某松散堆积体工程边坡的结构特征, 根据地形条件确定了合理的开挖坡比, 采用二维有限元研究了开挖边坡的变形机理并根据模拟结果确定潜在滑动面, 在此基础上, 提出支护对策。研究结果表明, 边坡由厚度达70m 的坡洪积、泥石流块碎石堆积体组成, 斜坡下部缓中部稍陡, 开挖平台位于缓坡部位, 根据地形条件结合坡体结构特征确定边坡开挖坡比为1: 0. 75; 数值模拟结果表明, 边坡变形开挖面附近及坡顶拉应力和坡体下部最大剪应力控制, 坡顶部位将首先产生拉张裂隙, 开挖边坡内部产生从坡脚部位向上发展的剪切变形, 滑面一旦与坡顶拉裂缝贯通, 边坡将产生整体失稳; 边坡采用锚拉桩、锚索框架、锚杆框架、排水相结合的综合治理措施进行支护。     

Komatiites and nickel sulfide ores of the Black Swan area,Yilgarn Craton,Western Australia. 4. Platinum group element distribution in the ores,and genetic implications

The Black Swan komatiite sequence, in the Eastern Goldfields province of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia, is a body of dominantly olivine-rich cumulates with lesser volumes of spinifex textured rocks, interpreted as a section through an extensive komatiite lava flow field. The sequence hosts a number of nickel sulfide orebodies, including the Silver Swan massive shoot and the Cygnet and Black Swan disseminated orebodies. The massive sulfide orebodies of the Black Swan Succession are pervasively depleted in all platinum group elements (PGEs), particularly Pt and Pd, despite very high Ni contents. This depletion cannot be explained by R-factor variations, which would also require relatively low Ni tenors. The PGE depletion could be explained in part if the ores are enriched in a monosulfide solid solution (MSS) cumulate component, but requires some additional fractional segregation of sulfide melt upstream from the site of deposition. The Silver Swan orebody shows a remarkably consistent vertical zonation in PGE contents, particularly in Ir, Ru, Rh, Os, which increase systematically from very low levels at the stratigraphic base of the sulfide body to maxima corresponding roughly with the top of a lower layer of the orebody rich in silicate inclusions. Platinum shows the opposite trend, but is somewhat modified by remobilisation during talc carbonate alteration. A similar pattern is also observed in the adjacent White Swan orebody. This zonation is interpreted and modelled as the result of fractional crystallisation of MSS from the molten sulfide pool. The strong IPGE depletion towards the base of the orebody may be a consequence of sulfide liquid crystallisation in an inverted thermal gradient, between a thin rapidly cooling upper rind of komatiite lava and a hot substrate.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at Editorial handling: Peter Lightfoot     

工程荷载诱发填方边坡变形破坏机制试验研究

填方路堤在堆填碾压夯实后自然状态下具有较好的稳定性,但在先期施工与后期公路运营期间,受工程荷载、动荷载等多因素作用将会出现大量变形破坏现象。针对这一问题,本文以某填方路堤边坡为例,运用室内物理模拟技术探讨研究工程荷载诱发填方边坡变形破坏机制。研究结果表明:填方体在上部不断施加堆载后,坡体内部应力条件改变,产生不均匀沉降现象。填方体边坡变形破坏主要受控于填方体在加载过程中坡顶堆载处拉应力的集中与坡体内剪应力的集中程度,潜在滑动面沿张拉裂缝延伸方向扩展,同时在堆载体下部逐步过渡为压剪塑形带,两者逐步贯通并向下部扩展延伸,最终产生边坡整体变形破坏。其变形演化机制为:堆载作用下坡体内部应力重分布→堆载区边缘张拉裂缝形成并扩展、堆载体下部产生压剪塑形带→张拉裂缝、压剪塑形带贯通形成滑动面→推力作用下整体滑动,此变形为典型的蠕滑-拉裂式滑坡。此研究可以为相似工程提供借鉴。     

Petrology of Felsic Granulites, Metapelites, Metabasics, Ultramafics, and Metacarbonates from Southern Calabria (Italy): Prograde Metamorphism, Uplift and Cooling of a Former Lower Crust

A high-grade metamorphic terrane in the southern part of theCalabrian massif (South Italy) has been petrographically mappedand the dominant rock types petrologically investigated. Bothmethods of investigation have led to the recognition of a continuoussection through a former lower crust which is 7 km thick. Itslower part consists predominantly of metabasic rocks togetherwith minor felsic granulites, its upper part of metapeliteswith minor metabasic and metacarbonate rocks. The rocks experienced a common two-stage prograde metamorphicevolution in which the second stage occurred after the lastpenetrative deformation. The prograde metamorphism which, accordingto radiometric dates, ended in late Hercynian time, was of themedium-pressure type of Miyashiro (1961), and equilibrationoccurred in the ‘medium-pressure granulite field’(characterized by the instability of olivine-plagioclase aswell as garnet-clinopyroxene-quartz). Estimates of the highest_P—_T conditions of prograde metamorphism give 7–8kb and approximately 800°C at the base, but 5–6 kband 650–700°C at the top of the section, at whichthe paragenesis staurolite-quartz indicates the transition tothe amphibolite facies. The existence of a metamorphic gradientin the lower crust section is demonstrated by the systematicchange in the compositions of ferro-magnesian minerals in divariantmetapelitic assemblages. The metamorphic evolution during the excavation history of theformer lower crust has been reconstructed using the numerousdisequilibrium reaction textures preserved in most rock types.The highest metamorphic conditions ended with a pressure decreaseof approximately 1.5 to 2 kb, which was followed by a periodof quasi-isobaric cooling in the middle crust. During this cooling,the stability field of the ‘high-pressure granulites’(garnet-clinopyroxene-quartz) was reached. The pressure decrease, which induced the end of the high-temperaturehistory of the lower crust, is interpreted as reflecting theerosion of the uppermost crustal levels as a response to overlappingof large crustal segments during the Hercynian orogeny. Consequently,the deduced P—T path of the upper, i.e. overthrust crustalsegment is thought to have been tectonically controlled.     

Nature of a flood-basalt-magma reservoir based on the compositional variation in a single flood-basalt flow and its feeder dike in the Mesozoic Hartford Basin, Connecticut

The erosional remains of the Mesozoic Holyoke basalt in the Hartford, Pomperaug, and Deerfield basins of Connecticut and Massachusetts indicate an original flow volume of >1200 km³. Its feeder dike, which is about 50 m wide and 160 km long, can be traced down through 2 km of Mesozoic sediments and, as a result of faulting associated with basin formation, through an additional 6 km of Paleozoic metamorphic rocks. Chemical profiles through the distal and proximal parts of the flow and through the dike at depths of 2, 4, and 8 km provide sequential samples of the magma that rose during this one eruptive event. The flow and dike have restricted compositions that indicate saturation with olivine, augite, and plagioclase at depth. The flow consisted largely of a liquid at the pigeonite reaction point. Dike compositions can be modeled as mixtures of this liquid with up to 24% crystals of plagioclase, augite, and olivine. The dike compositions indicate equilibration with these minerals at 3.8 kbar. This pressure corresponds to a depth of 12.2 km, which is believed to have been the depth of the brittle/ductile transition in the crust at the time. This transition appears to be the only reasonable barrier that could have caused ponding of the magma at the mid-crustal level. The Holyoke liquid is interpreted to have segregated from a compacting crystal mush following 30% crystallization of the magma in this mid-crustal reservoir. Eruption of the basalt exhausted the supply of segregated liquid, and when the remaining crystal mush began to rise in the dike, the average density of the magma column increased until it matched the average density of the intruded crust, and the eruption ended. By analogy with the differentiation that took place in the solidifying Holyoke flow on the surface, the mid-crustal magma reservoir is estimated to have had a volume of at least 12,000 km³. The magma in this chamber must have come from a still deeper chamber, because it was too fractionated to have come directly from a mantle source. Received: 3 October 1997 / Accepted: 5 May 1998     

北淮阳带东段变质构造地层早期构造变形及其区域地质意义

北淮阳构造带位于大别造山带北缘 ,其中东段安徽境内变质构造地层佛子岭岩群对北淮阳带区域构造研究至关重要。研究表明 ,以原黄龙岗岩组为界 ,佛子岭岩群上、下部早期构造变形明显不同。佛子岭岩群下部郑堂子岩组、仙人冲岩组、祥云寨岩组发育以固态流变为特征的褶叠层构造 ,形成于地壳伸展构造体制下 ,是横向构造置换作用的产物。佛子岭岩群上部诸佛庵岩组、八道尖岩组、潘家岭岩组表现为纵弯褶皱变形 ,构造置换不彻底 ,局部保留有原生沉积结构构造 ,形成于地壳收缩构造体制下 ,是纵向构造置换作用的产物。因此 ,文中将原佛子岭岩群解体为下部卢镇关构造混杂岩带和上部诸佛庵岩群 ,原黄龙岗岩组构造片岩为两者之间的近水平的韧性剪切拆离滑脱带     

Mineralogy,genesis and diagenesis of a brecciated shaly clay from the Zechstein evaporite series of Germany

20 core samples from the dolomite-anhydrite sequence overlying the Werra-anhydrites (Zechstein 1) were examined. The formation consists of brecciated shaly clay in a groundmass of dolomite and anhydrite with small amounts of rocksalt. The drillhole is located near the village Bruennighausen (N. Germany) on the south west flank of a saltdome.Chlorites and illite are the only clay minerals present. Chlorites: three different varieties could be distinguished, predominate in the upper portion whereas the content of illite increases in the lower part. A regeneration of illite in the upper part of the profile has been found by comparison of the K₂O-content of the illite (9–10%=upper part, 8%=lower part). Diagenetic formation of quartz and feldspars was also observed throughout the profile. The ratio of authigenic quartz/detrital quartz deoreasss in lower part. At least two generations of dolomite have been found and also pseudomorphs of dolomite after gypsum.The investigations have shown, that the shaly clay was deposited in a saline environment. Diagenetic changes after deposition were due to increasing salinity of the pore solution of the sediment. Brecciation took place long after compaction of the clay. It was accompanied and followed by further diagenetic changes.     

Late Caledonian Ductile Thrusting Deformation in the Central East Kunlun Belt, Qinghal, China and Its Significance： Evidence from Geochronology

Abstract A high‐angle ductile thrusting deformation with top‐to‐the‐north movement penetratively developed in the Proterozoic‐Early Paleozoic metamorphic rocks along the Central East Kunlun belt. The deformed rocks suffered epidote‐amphibolite facies metamorphism. On the basis of our previous study, we present more data in this paper to further support that the ductile thrust deformation occurred in the later Caledonian and more detailed information about the deformation. A zircon U‐Pb concordant age of 446±2.2 Ma of a deformed granodiorite in the ductile thrust zone was obtained and can be interpreted as the lower limit of the deformation. A syntectonically crystallized and also strongly deformed hornblende Ar/Ar dating gives an Ar/Ar plateau age of 426.5±3.8 Ma, which represents the deformation age. A strongly orientated muscovite gives an Ar/Ar plateau age of 408±1.6 Ma, representing the cooling age after the peak temperature, constraining the upper limit of the ductile thrust deformation. This ductile thrust deformation can be interpreted as the result of the closing of the Central East Kunlun archipelago ocean. To the north, Ar/Ar plateau ages of 382.9±0.2 Ma and 386.8±0.8 Ma of muscovite in the deformed Xiaomiao Group represent the uplift cooling ages of deeper rocks after the thrusting movement. The original thrusting foliation has a low angle. A rotation model was put forward to explain the development of the foliation from the original low‐angle to present high‐angle dipping.     

A fully implicit and consistent finite element framework for modeling reservoir compaction with large deformation and nonlinear flow model. Part I: theory and formulation

Reservoir depletion results in rock failure, wellbore instability, hydrocarbon production loss, oil sand production, and ground surface subsidence. Specifically, the compaction of carbonate reservoirs with soft rocks often induces large plastic deformation due to rock pore collapse. On the other hand, following the compaction of reservoirs and failure of rock formations, the porosity and permeability of formations will, in general, decrease. These bring a challenge for reservoir simulations because of high nonlinearity of coupled geomechanics and fluid flow fields. In this work, we present a fully implicit, fully coupled, and fully consistent finite element formulation for coupled geomechanics and fluid flow problems with finite deformation and nonlinear flow models. The Pelessone smooth cap plasticity model, an important material model to capture rock compaction behavior and a challenging material model for implicit numerical formulations, is incorporated in the proposed formulation. Furthermore, a stress-dependent permeability model is taken into account in the formulation. A co-rotational framework is adopted for finite deformation, and an implicit material integrator for cap plasticity models is consistently derived. Furthermore, the coupled field equations are consistently linearized including nonlinear flow models. The physical theories, nonlinear material and flow models, and numerical formulations are the focus of part I of this work. In part II, we verify the proposed numerical framework and demonstrate the performance of our numerical formulation using several numerical examples including a field reservoir with soft rocks undergoing serious compaction.     

Strain analysis in Jurassic argillites of the Monte Sirino area (Lagonegro Zone,southern Apennines,Italy) and implications for deformation paths in pelitic rocks

Analysis of strain in Jurassic argillites forming part of the folded and thrusted sedimentary succession of the Lagonegro basin (southern Italian Apennines) has been carried out using ellipsoid-shaped reduction spots as strain markers. Most of the determined finite strain ellipsoids are of oblate type and show a peculiar distribution of the maximum extension direction (X), with maxima either subparallel or subperpendicular to the local fold axes. Using the strain matrix method, two different deformation histories have been considered to assist the interpretation of the observed finite strain pattern. A first deformation history involved vertical compaction followed by horizontal shortening (occurring by a combination of true tectonic strain and volume loss), whereby all strain is coaxial and there is no change in the intermediate axis of the strain ellipsoid. By this type of deformation sequence, which produces a deformation path where total strain moves from the oblate to the prolate strain field and back to the oblate field, prolate strain ellipsoids can be generated and may be recorded where tectonic deformation has not been large enough to reverse pretectonic compaction. This type of deformation history may be of local importance within the study area (i.e. it may characterize some fold hinge regions) and, more generally, is probably of limited occurrence in deformed pelitic rocks. A second deformation sequence considered the superposition of pre-tectonic compaction and tectonic strain consisting of initial layer-parallel shortening followed by layer-parallel shear (related to flexural folding). Also in this instance, volume change during tectonic deformation and tectonic plane strain have been assumed. For geologically reasonable amounts of volume loss due to compaction and of initial layer-parallel shortening, this type of deformation history is capable of producing a deformation path entirely lying within the oblate strain field, but still characterized by a changeover, during deformation, of the maximum extension axis (X) from a position parallel to the fold axis to one perpendicular to it. This type of deformation sequence may explain the main strain features observed in the study area, where most of the measured finite strain ellipsoids, determined from the limb regions of flexural folds, display an oblate shape, irrespective of the orientation of their maximum extension direction (X) with respect to the local structural trends. More generally, this type of deformation history provides a mechanism to account for the predominance of oblate strains in deformed pelitic rocks.     

A constitutive model for mechanical and chemo‐mechanical compaction in sedimentary basins and finite element analysis

Compaction and associated fluid flow are fundamental processes in sedimentary basin deformation. Purely mechanical compaction originates mainly from pore fluid expulsion and rearrangement of solid particles during burial, while chemo‐mechanical compaction results from Intergranular Pressure‐Solution (IPS) and represents a major mechanism of deformation in sedimentary basins during diagenesis. The aim of the present contribution is to provide a comprehensive 3D framework for constitutive and numerical modeling of purely mechanical and chemo‐mechanical compaction in sedimentary basins. Extending the concepts that have been previously proposed for the modeling of purely mechanical compaction in finite poroplasticity, deformation by IPS is addressed herein by means of additional viscoplastic terms in the state equations of the porous material. The finite element model integrates the poroplastic and poroviscoplastic components of deformation at large strains. The corresponding implementation allows for numerical simulation of sediments accretion/erosion periods by progressive activation/deactivation of the gravity forces within a fictitious closed material system. Validation of the numerical approach is assessed by means of comparison with closed‐form solutions derived in the context of a simplified compaction model. The last part of the paper presents the results of numerical basin simulation performed in one dimensional setting, demonstrating the ability of the modeling to capture the main features in elastoplastic and viscoplastic compaction. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

丁青蛇绿岩新知

1982年7—8月间,我们在青藏高原东部横断山地区综合科学考察工作中,对丁青一带的蛇绿岩进行了初步调查,发现了席状岩墙群和一个比较连续的蛇绿岩剖面。 丁青蛇绿岩位于班公湖—东巧—怒江蛇绿岩带的中段。近几年来,不少人对这个带进行了研究。由于构造破坏,蛇绿岩强烈肢解,迄今为止,还未报道过有如丁青那样连续的蛇绿岩剖面。丁青蛇绿岩的新发现,对于青藏高原第二条缝合线内蛇绿岩的性质以及古特提斯海演化历史的研究提供了新的资料。 席状岩墙群出露于西藏丁青县沙贡区海拔5120米的日隆山的北坡。岩墙走向NE—NNE,倾角很陡,倾向sE或NW。岩墙宽约4米至20厘米,有的仅数厘米。主要由辉绿岩组成,中粒至细粒,有的为隐晶质的。     

Metamorphism and deformation of mafic and felsic rocks in a magma transfer zone,Stewart Island,New Zealand

In the mingled mafic/felsic Halfmoon Pluton at The Neck, Stewart Island (part of the Median Batholith of New Zealand) some hornblende gabbros and diorites retain magmatic structures, whereas others show evidence of major changes in grain and inclusion shapes, and still others are amphibolite‐facies granofelses with few or no igneous relicts. These mafic to intermediate magmas crystallized in felsic magma relatively quickly, with the result that most deformation occurred at subsolidus conditions. It is suggested that mafic‐intermediate rocks with predominantly igneous microstructures spent less time in the magmatic system. The metamorphism of the mafic rocks appears to be ‘autometamorphic’, in the sense that elevated temperatures were maintained by magmatic heat during subsolidus cooling. Elevated temperatures were maintained because of repeated sheet injection and subconcordant dyke injection of hot basaltic and composite mafic‐felsic magmas, into a dominantly transtensional, km‐scale, outboard‐migrating, magmatic shear zone that operated semi‐continuously for between c. 140 and c. 130 Ma. Complete cooling occurred only when the system evolved to transpressional and the locus of magmatism migrated inboard (southward) between c. 130 and c. 120 Ma, associated with solid‐state mylonitic deformation. Intermingled granitic rocks escaped metamorphism, because they remained magmatic to lower temperatures, and experienced shorter and lower‐temperature subsolidus cooling intervals. However, the felsic rocks underwent relatively high‐temperature solid‐state deformation, as indicated by myrmekite replacing K‐feldspar and chess‐board subgrain patterns in quartz; locally they developed felsic mylonites. The felsic rocks were deformed in the solid state because of their high proportion of relatively weak minerals (quartz and biotite), whereas the mafic rocks mostly escaped subsolidus deformation, except in local high‐strain zones of hornblende‐plagioclase schist, because of their high proportion of relatively strong minerals (hornblende and plagioclase). We suggest that such contrasting microstructural features are diagnostic of long‐lived syntectonic magma transfer zones, and contrast with the more typical complex, batholith‐scale magma chambers of magmatic arcs.     

江苏徐州赵圩剖面新元古界倪园组沉积环境演化与事件沉积

江苏徐州赵圩剖面新元古界倪园组出露完整连续,岩性组合极具代表性,沉积现象丰富,发育有大量典型的事件沉积,因其成因存在争议而长期受到关注。本研究以倪园组野外宏观岩性组合及镜下微观岩石特征为基础,依据宏观—微观对照的方法,分析了倪园组沉积环境及事件沉积特征,探讨了事件沉积频发及类型多样的成因。研究表明: (1)倪园组沉积环境自下而上依次为潟湖—缓坡中上部—缓坡中下部—缓坡中上部—潮坪+潟湖; (2)事件沉积在各段的发育情况均有所区别,其中砾屑灰岩与冲刷—充填构造在各段均有发育,但下段与中段规模较大,除此之外,中段局部见震裂角砾岩、液化底辟构造,顶部发育臼齿构造,而上段底部以臼齿构造为主,中上部见软沉积物变形构造以及交错层理,结合沉积环境分析,认为事件沉积主要发生于缓斜坡环境以及潮坪、潟湖环境; (3)综合以上研究结果,认为倪园组频发—多类型事件沉积与正常沉积构成的特殊旋回,其动力机制或与周期性的地震—风暴作用有关,即可能为Rodinia古大陆的汇聚—裂解导致的华北地台东缘伸展型区域构造运动与米兰科维奇旋回的叠加而引发的多因素耦合作用的结果。     

Deformation bands in chalk,examples from the Shetland Group of the Oseberg Field,North Sea,Norway

Deformation bands are described in detail for the first time in carbonate rock from the subsurface and in chalk from the North Sea. The samples are from 2200 to 2300 m below sea level, in upper Maastrichtian to Danian chalk in the Oseberg Field. The deformation bands were investigated using thin-section analysis, SEM and computed tomography (CT). There is a reduction in porosity from 30 to 40% in the matrix to ca. 10% or less inside the deformation bands. They have apparent thicknesses ranging from less than 0.05–0.5 mm and have previously often been referred to as hairline fractures. Their narrowness is probably the reason why these features have not previously been recognised as deformation bands. The deformation bands in chalk are very thin compared to deformation bands in sandstone and carbonate grainstones which have mm to cm widths. This is suggested to be due to the fine grain size of the chalk matrix (2–10 μm), and it appears to be a positive correlation between grain-size and width of deformation bands. The deformation bands are suggested to have been formed as compactional shear bands during mechanical compaction, and also related to faulting.     

中国大陆科学钻探主孔1200米构造柱及变形构造初步解析

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