Phlogopite-olivine rocks of the Taukha terrane in southeastern Sikhote Alin

The Paleocene ultraferrous Mn-rich phlogopite-olivine rocks of the Taukha terrane belong to the alkaline ultrabasic rocks of the potassic series. The olivine is represented by hortonolite, while the phlogopite is enriched in Cl. Other minerals are represented by Ti-magnetite, Mn-rich ilmenite, Zn-rich pleonaste, apatite, and zircon. There are also epigenetic serpentine, talc, carbonates, magnetite, breithauptite, nickeline, hedleyite, cobaltite, tsumoite, auricupride, cuproauride, and other minerals. The phlogopite-olivine rocks possibly represent a part of a magmatic complex previously unknown in Sikhote Alin, the rocks of which are associated with fluidolites of a large diatreme. There are grounds to suggest that they were formed by the injection of fluid-rich (mainly, H₂O, Cl, F, and S) deep magmas into the upper lithosphere. Based on these specific features, as well as the sharp K predominance over Na and the enrichment in some incompatible elements (Sn, Ta, Nb, and Zr), the phlogopite-olivine rocks are the most close to lamproites but differ in the high contents of Fe, Mn, Au, Pt, and Pd and in the olivine’s composition. The manifestation of such magmatism in the Taukha terrane records the transition from subduction to transform continental margin settings.     

Igneous Rocks,Fluidolites, and Rodingites of Paleocene Explosive Structures of the Taukha Terrane (Sikhote-Alin)

Geology of Ore Deposits - The Taukha terrane of the Sikhote-Alin hosts outcrops of rocks with unusual structural and textural features, the compositions of which vary from ultrabasic to...     

Paleomagnetic study of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks from the Mixteca terrane (Mexico)

Three sites from Cretaceous limestone and Jurassic sandstone in northern Oaxaca, Mexico, were studied paleomagnetically. Thermal demagnetization isolated site-mean remanence directions which differ significantly from the recent geomagnetic field. The paleopole for the Albian–Cenomanian Morelos formation is indistinguishable from the corresponding reference pole for stable North America, indicating tectonic stability of the Mixteca terrane since the Cretaceous. Rock magnetic properties and a positive reversal test for the Bajocian Tecomazuchil sandstone suggest that the remanence could be of primary origin, although no fold test could be applied. The Tecomazuchil paleopole is rotated 10°±5° clockwise and displaced 24°±5° towards the study area, with respect to the reference pole for stable North America. Similar values were found for the Toarcien–Aalenian Rosario Formation, with 35°±6° clockwise rotation and 33°±6° latitudinal translation. These data support a post-Bajocian southward translation of the Mixteca terrane by around 25°, which was completed in mid-Cretaceous time.     

松潘-甘孜地体下仓界地区晚三叠世基性岩的发现及其地质意义

笔者在松潘-甘孜地体下仓界地区发现了晚三叠世基性岩,对其开展了岩相学、地球化学、斜锆石U-Pb年代学等研究。该基性岩由玄武岩和辉绿岩组成,均为钙碱性系列,蚀变较强,形成时代为208.0±7.0 Ma。岩石La/Nb值为1.13～1.95,La/Ta值为7.96～25.79,TiO₂含量为1.51%～2.22%,Zr/Nb值为11.35～16.33,指示岩浆源自岩石圈地幔与软流圈地幔的混合源区。根据(Yb/Sm)_P-(Tb/Yb)_P模型计算结果,推测下仓界基性岩可能源于软流圈物质诱发岩石圈地幔尖晶石-石榴子石过渡相(石榴子石约占0～25%)发生约5%的部分熔融。岩石中发现捕获的古老斜锆石,轻稀土元素富集,重稀土元素亏损,Nb、Ta和Ti元素弱亏损。结合区域地质资料,认为松潘-甘孜地体应该具有陆壳基底,其晚三叠世(<211 Ma)的构造环境为碰撞后的板内伸展环境。     

保山地体新元古代——早古生代沉积岩碎屑锆石年代学及其构造意义

滇西潞西地区位于青藏高原东南缘,大地构造位置上属于保山地体。由于新生代强烈的陆内变形作用,保山地体与青藏高原腹地体的对应关系难以确定。野外观察及LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年结果表明,潞西新元古代—早古生代地层(震旦系—寒武系蒲满哨群及下奥陶统大矿山组)大部分碎屑锆石Th/U0.1,说明其大多为岩浆成因。U-Pb年龄跨度较大,太古宙—早古生代都有分布,且具有明显的562Ma、892Ma及2265Ma年龄峰,以及较弱的1680Ma和2550Ma年龄峰。保山地体潞西地区沉积岩碎屑锆石年龄分布特征与特提斯喜马拉雅、南羌塘沉积地层碎屑锆石年龄分布特征相似,说明其具有相同的物源——冈瓦纳大陆北部的印度大陆。在新元古代晚期—早古生代,保山地体位于印度大陆北缘,与南羌塘、喜马拉雅地体相邻。伴随着俯冲相关的增生造山过程,保山地体形成相应的新元古代末期—早古生代沉积地层。     

Jurassic radiolarians and age of cherty rocks in the Povorotnyi Cape,the Taigonos Peninsula (northeast Russia)

Radiolaria-based dating of chert intercalations in basaltic sequences of ophiolitic associations, which are widespread in the west of circum-Pacific foldbelt being barren of macrofossils, is an important source of information about tectonic events and factors responsible for opening and destruction of basins floored by oceanic crust and for emplacement of relevant tectonic sheets into accretionary prisms and orogenic structures. Described in the work are the Middle (Bajocian-Callovian), Middle-Late (Callovian-Oxfordian) and Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) radiolarian assemblages. According to taxonomic composition and morphology of radiolarian tests, the first assemblage is of the North Tethyan type, while the other two are of the Boreal affinity.     

Perylene and its geochemical significance

Perylene was found in a variety of marine sediments, in a shale and in peat. It is suggested that its precursors arise predominantly from land organisms and are carried into oceanic traps along with detrital minerals. When rates of deposition are fast, and reducing conditions are established within the sediment, biogenic pigment precursors of perylene are converted to the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, which is then stabilized by π-bonding with metals and protected from degradation.     

Carbonization and geochemical characteristics of graphite-bearing rocks in the northern Khanka terrane,primorie, Russian Far East

Regional carbonization was examined in Riphean metamorphic complexes in the northern part of the Khanka terrane. The results obtained by various techniques of physicochemical analysis indicate that all petrographic rock varieties of this complex bear elevated concentrations (from 10⁻⁴ to 10⁻⁶ wt %) of Au and PGE. XRF data were used to describe a wide spectrum of trace elements: Ti, V, Ni, Cr, Pt, Pd, Re, Rh, Os, Ir, Cu, Hg, Au, Ag, Ta, Nb, Sr, Rb, Zr, La, W, Sn, Pb, and Zn. The Rb/Sr-Ba diagram shows the fields of anatectic granite-gneisses, biotite granites, lamprophyres, graphitized crystalline schists, black shales, skarns, and quartz-graphite metasomatic rocks. The C isotopic composition in graphite from the metaigneous rocks (lamprophyres and crystalline schists of the amphibolite facies) corresponds to δ¹³C from −8.5 to −8.7‰, which suggests that the carbon could be of endogenic provenance. The carbon isotopic composition of the greenschist-facies black shales corresponds to δ¹³C from −19.9 to −26.6‰, as is typical of organogenic carbon. The concentrations of precious metals in the rocks are, on average, one order of magnitude lower than in the graphitized crystalline schists. The origin of the precious-metal ore mineralization was likely genetically related to the regional carbonization process.     

拉萨地体南部早侏罗世岩浆岩的成因和构造意义

本文从拉萨地体南部原来被认为是前寒武纪变质基底的冈底斯岩群中厘定出了一套早侏罗世的岩浆岩.锆石U-Pb年代学研究表明,这些岩浆岩侵位于202～ 180Ma.岩石类型包括辉长闪长岩、二长岩和花岗闪长岩,是一套中酸性、偏铝质钙碱性、Ⅰ型花岗岩类.微量元素表现出消减带富集大离子亲石元素、亏损高场强元素的特征,并具有岛弧花岗岩的亲缘性.锆石Hf同位素研究表明,加查地区中酸性岩石来自新生地壳物质的熔融,偏基性岩石来自于亏损地幔.而桑日地区的酸性岩石来自于古老地壳物质的重熔.本文认为包括研究区在内的南拉萨地体中的晚三叠世-早侏罗世岩浆岩为俯冲到南拉萨地体之下的松多洋壳断离或回卷,软流圈地幔上涌,地幔楔熔融并加热上覆地壳的产物.     

西藏仲巴地块加达钾质火山岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄和地球化学特征

新生代青藏高原钾质火山岩发育,主要集中于藏北地区和拉萨地块内,仲巴地块中鲜见报道。对仲巴地块中发现的加达钾质火山岩进行研究,其岩石类型以粗面质为主,岩浆以溢流相-喷发相不间断喷发。样品普遍显示高钾高铝,低碱,偏酸性,富集轻稀土元素和大离子亲石元素,亏损高场强元素,具弱负Eu异常,贫Y和Yb,Sr含量较高,类似于典型的埃达克质岩的地球化学特征。粗面玄武安山岩样品LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄为17.03±0.32Ma,形成时代为中新世。加达钾质火山岩浆来源于挤压增厚的下地壳部分熔融,其产出的构造背景是后碰撞伸展环境。     

洋壳深俯冲超高压变质作用研究及其地质意义

洋壳深俯冲经历超高压变质作用的岩石比较稀少,是目前超高压变质作用研究的重要前沿领域,有关这方面的研究对于建立新的冷俯冲带变质作用类型、探讨地幔水流体的成因、建立更广泛的超高压变质岩石的抬升机制具有重要意义。另外,洋壳深俯冲高压变质带往往与低压高温变质带组成双变质带,对双变质带的深入研究对于完整地重塑俯冲碰撞造山带的形成演化过程具有重要意义。简要地介绍了新疆西天山洋壳深俯冲超高压变质带的研究现状和存在的问题。     

A Comparative geochemical study of pelitic schists and metamorphosed carbonate rocks from south-central Maine,USA

Whole-rock major element chemical analyses of progressively metamorphosed impure carbonate rocks and pelitic schists, collected from the same metamorphic terrain, reveal similarities and differences in the chemical response of these rock types to the metamorphic event. Relative to a constant aluminum reference frame, both schist and carbonate exhibit no detectable change in their contents of Fe, Mg, Ti, Si, and Ca with change in metamorphic grade. Carbonate rocks become progressively depleted in K and Na with increasing grade of metamorphism, while schists exhibit no statistically significant change in their contents of K and Na. Both rock types become depleted in volatiles (principally CO₂ and H₂O) with increasing grade.Whole-rock chemical data permit two mechanisms for migration of K and Na from the carbonate rocks during metamorphism: (a) diffusion of alkalis from carbonate to adjacent schist; (b) transport of alkalis by through-flowing metamorphic fluid (infiltration). Mineral equilibria in schist and metacarbonate rock from the same outcrops allow calculation of the affinity for cation exchange between the two rock types during metamorphism. Measured affinities indicate that if mass transport of K and Na occurred by diffusion, chemical potential gradients would have driven the alkalis from schist into carbonate rock. Because diffusion cannot produce the observed chemical trends in the metacarbonates, K and Na are believed to have been removed during metamorphism by infiltration.The disparity in chemical behavior between the pelitic schists and metacarbonate rocks may be a result of enhanced fluid flow through the carbonates. The carbonate rocks may have acted as metamorphic aquifers; the greater flow of fluid through them would then have had a correspondingly greater effect on their whole-rock chemistry.     

Estimation of the geochemical threshold and its statistical significance

A statistic is proposed for estimating the geochemical threshold and its statistical significance, or it may be used to identify a group of extreme values that can be tested for significance by other means. The statistic is the maximum gap between adjacent values in an ordered array after each gap has been adjusted for the expected frequency. The values in the ordered array are geochemical values transformed by either ln(χ - α) or ln(α - χ) and then standardized so that the mean is zero and the variance is unity. The expected frequency is taken from a fitted normal curve with unit area. The midpoint of an adjusted gap that exceeds the corresponding critical value may be taken as an estimate of the geochemical threshold, and the associated probability indicates the likelihood that the threshold separates two geochemical populations.The adjusted gap test may fail to identify threshold values if the variation tends to be continuous from background values to the higher values that reflect mineralized ground. However, the test will serve to identify other anomalies that may be too subtle to have been noted by other means.     

西藏羌塘地体南部多龙增生杂岩早三叠世辉长岩的发现及其地质意义

西藏多龙矿集区是班公湖-怒江缝合带北缘在增生楔基础上发育的超大型岛弧斑岩铜金矿床。对多龙增生杂岩中的辉长岩进行了LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年及主量、微量元素分析和Sr-Nd同位素组成研究,获得了多龙增生杂岩中辉长岩的成岩时代。由LA-ICP-MS测得的辉长岩锆石~(206)Pb/~(238)U年龄为246.0±1.4Ma,代表了岩浆的结晶年龄。辉长岩以低钛、富钠、富镁、贫钾、富集轻稀土元素和大离子亲石元素(Ba、U、La、Sr)、亏损高场强元素Nb和Ta为特征,具有与岛弧玄武岩相似的主量和微量元素组成,相对于原始地幔具高Sr、低Nd的同位素组成和古老的Nd同位素二阶段模式年龄(T_(DM2)=0.54~0.99Ga),属于增生楔基础上发育的板内岛弧辉长岩。由此认为,多龙矿集区早三叠世末岩浆活动很可能是班公湖-怒江洋向北俯冲诱发洋壳物质与岩石圈地幔物质相互作用的结果。该发现和认识为班公湖-怒江洋早三叠世向北俯冲,提供了重要的岩浆作用证据。     

The geochemical patterns of rocks of the Bazhenov and Abalak formations (Western Siberia)

The composition of rocks of the Bazhenov and Abalak formations in Western Siberia is described. Correlations of the concentrations of the major and minor components in rocks with the concentrations of minor elements and organic material are shown. Study of the concentration of minor elements allows us to determine the conditions of sedimentation: redox potential, hydrogen sulfide contamination, and the source of sedimentary material. The results show that rocks of the Bazhenov Formation were formed under the conditions of low fluxes of clastic material, a reduced environment, and a periodically occurring hydrogen sulfide mode.     

Geochemistry,origin, and nature of metamorphic rocks of the Batomga granite-greenstone terrane (Aldan Shield)

Two series of volcanic rocks with different petrochemical affinities-calc-alkaline and komatiitetholeiitic series-were identified as protoliths for the Early Proterozoic metamorphic rocks of the Batomga granite-greenstone terrane. The metavolcanic rocks of the calc-alkaline series comprise metabasalts, metaandesites, metadacites, and metarhyolites. The distribution of the trace element abundances in the felsic metavolcanic rocks is similar to that of the Archean grey gneisses from the platform basements, thus suggesting a similar petrological mechanism for the formation of their protoliths. The protoliths for the komatiite-tholeiitic metavolcanic rocks include komatiite and tholeiite basalts. The chemical behavior of the tholeiites tends to support the fractionation of primary high-Mg basaltic magmas in a transient magma chamber at low pressures. The variations in the Nb, Y, and Zr contents of the metatoleiites indicate the derivation of their parental magmas from a plume-related source.     

长乐-南澳构造带燕山期(J-K)TTG岩石组合及其地质意义

长乐-南澳构造带火成岩类多年来备受国内外地学界关注和瞩目,但对其构造环境的认识却存在较大分歧.本文通过分析构造带燕山期(J-K)火成岩类的时空分布、岩石学特征及其TTG岩石组合等,讨论厘定构造带的构造性质与岩浆源区.据构造带花岗岩类岩石结构构造特征、锆石SHRIMP U-Pb与LA-ICP-MS U-Pb同位素定年,测年结果集中分布于200~191Ma、155~97Ma与84~69Ma三个区间,暗示构造带燕山期(J-K)岩浆活动可以划分为三个阶段:(1)早侏罗世(J₁),以片麻岩类与糜棱岩类为主;(2)晚侏罗世-早白垩世(J₃-K₁),片麻状花岗岩类占优势;(3)晚白垩世(K₂),出现大量的晶洞花岗岩类与脉岩类.采用O'Connor An-Ab-Or标准矿物分类方案识别TTG岩石组合获知,早侏罗世(J₁)与晚侏罗世-早白垩世(J₃-K₁)时,构造带存在TTG岩石组合;晚白垩世(K₂)时,构造带TTG岩石组合消失,发育典型的双峰式火成岩.TTG岩石组合以钙性(C)和中钾钙碱性(MKCA)为主,显示奥长花岗岩演化趋势(Tdj),具大陆边缘弧花岗岩(CAG)的特征,由此可推断长乐-南澳构造带燕山期(J-K)构造性质为主动大陆边缘弧.构造带发育两类成因机制的TTG岩石组合,分别来自不同的岩浆源区:具镁安山质(MA)性质的TTG岩浆来源于玄武质洋壳的脱水融熔,具正常安山质(A)性质的TTG岩浆来源于陆壳底部玄武质岩石的局部熔融.     

Age and source of terrigenous rocks of the turan group of the bureya terrane of the eastern part of the central Asian foldbelt: Results of geochemical (Sm-Nd) and geochronological (U-Pb LA-ICP-MS) studies

According to Sm-Nd isotopic-geochemical studies, the t _Nd(DM) of the terrigenous rocks of the Turan Group of the Bureya terrane is 1.4–1.5 Ga and their sources are Precambrian rocks and (or) younger effusive rocks, the formation of which is related to the reworking of the Late Precambrian continental crust. The U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronological studies indicate dominant Vendian-Cambrian (588–483 Ma) and Late Riphean (865–737 Ma) detrital zircons. Our data point to their accumulation at the beginning of the Paleozoic rather than in the Precambrian as is accepted in modern stratigraphic schemes.