CCSD主孔超高压榴辉岩金红石中的矿物包裹体研究

金红石是榴辉岩中的主要含钛副矿物。中国大陆科学钻探工程（CCSD）主孔100～2000m岩心样品中，金红石榴辉岩、多硅白云母榴辉岩和蓝晶石榴辉岩中都程度不等地含有金红石。金红石既可以与其他矿物一起被石榴石、绿辉石等主要变质矿物包裹，也可以包裹其他矿物。本文利用电子探针技术，对CCSD所揭示的超高压榴辉岩的金红石中的矿物包裹体进行了鉴定和分析。结果显示，绿辉石、富铪锆石、高铝榍石、韭闪石和红闪石、斜黝帘石等矿物包裹体形成于榴辉岩相进变质至峰期变质阶段；随着超高压变质带快速折返，榴辉岩经受强烈的退变质作用，包括金红石、绿辉石在内的多种矿物都经受了退变质作用，与金红石共生的钛铁矿完全或者部分退变成含铁金红石和钛铁晶石。在退变的金红石中，还发现了透辉石＋斜长石后成合晶、低铝榍石、镁绿闪石等退变质矿物组合。     

中国大陆科学钻探主孔100～2000米超高压变质岩中的钛矿化

中国大陆科学钻探工程100～2000m的岩心、矿心的观察、编录揭示主要有经济价值的舍钛相是金红石．其次是钛磁铁矿。主要含矿岩石是普通金红石榴辉岩和石英金红石榴辉岩，其次有多硅白云母金红石榴辉岩，蓝晶石金红石榴辉岩，金红石黑云绿帘纤闪石岩(退变的石榴辉石岩)和金红石-含钒钛磁铁矿榴辉岩。划分了四个矿化层位。金红石在矿层中的含量一般为2％～5％(体积)，多高达8％～10％。金红石的TiO2含量在95％(重量)以上，多产于石英榴辉岩、多硅白云母榴辉岩中。钛磁铁矿的TiO2含量在49％～55％(重量)，钛磁铁矿多见于黄铁矿-金红石-钛磁铁矿榴辉岩(546～608m岩性段)中，含钛磁铁矿5％～25％，石榴单辉橄榄岩(608～683m岩性段)，含钛磁铁矿达5％～10％和第三含矿层中局部黑云绿帘角闪岩夹层内，舍钛磁铁矿可达6％。30个榴辉岩和超铁镁质岩中8种主要造岩矿物148个点的电子探针分析结果揭示：榴辉岩可分为壳源和幔源两大类，钛磁铁矿富含V、Ni、Cr说明来自幔源，大部分金红石则来自壳源榴辉岩，它们的原岩是曾经居留地表的基性火成岩，在深俯冲的过程中经超高压变质成为含柯石英的榴辉岩。岩石薄片中金红石和柯石英的假像共存于同一石榴石或绿辉石晶粒中，也见金红石粒内有“柯石英”假象，这清楚说明金红石结晶于超高压的峰期变质阶段，在后继的变质地体隆升过程中，钛磁铁矿和金红石都有退变质成为钛铁矿和榍石的种种岩石记录，因此，退变质作用势必导致钛矿品位的降低。     

中国大陆科学钻探工程主孔榴辉岩中金红石微量元素地球化学特征

本文利用电子探针分析了中国大陆科学钻探工程主孔各种类型榴辉岩中金红石的Nb、Cr和Zr含量。Zack等(2002)的金红石Nb-Cr图解表明榴辉岩的原岩均为镁铁质岩,但不同类型榴辉岩具有不同的地球化学特征,即:1金红石榴辉岩、石英榴辉岩、角闪岩和钛铁矿榴辉岩中金红石的Nb和Cr含量大致相同,主孔中上述榴辉岩中金红石的Nb、Cr含量与区域上小焦金红石矿区金红石榴辉岩中金红石的Nb、Cr含量基本相同。总体来讲,区域和主孔榴辉岩中金红石以低Nb为特征,反映它们的原岩为镁铁质岩石。2蓝晶石多硅白云母榴辉岩中金红石具最高的Nb和Cr含量,其Nb和Cr均值分别为720×10-6和712×10-6,多硅白云母榴辉岩中金红石比金红石榴辉岩、石英榴辉岩、角闪岩和钛铁矿榴辉岩中金红石富集Cr。利用Zack等(2004)提出的金红石地质温度计,计算得出金红石榴辉岩的金红石形成温度介于608~746℃,石英榴辉岩的金红石温度介于629~680℃,钛铁矿榴辉岩金红石的形成温度介于629~704℃,蓝晶石多硅白云母榴辉岩的金红石形成温度为600℃,角闪岩的金红石形成温度为629℃。一种可能的解释是,榴辉岩在折返过程中退变质作用明显,流体活动强烈,导致金红石中Zr扩散丢失,金红石中Zr含量不同程度地受到角闪岩相退变质过程中再平衡作用的影响,致使计算的温度偏低。     

隐藏在苏鲁地体斜长角闪岩锆石中超高压变质作用的信息

运用激光拉曼和阴极发光技术，配备电子探针测试，发现苏鲁地体地表露头和中国大陆科学钻探工程预先导孔CCSD-PP1和CCSD-PP2斜长角闪岩锆石中均保存以柯石英为代表的典型超高压矿物组合：柯石英 石榴石 绿辉石 金红石；柯石英 石榴石 绿辉石；柯石英 石榴石 绿辉石 多硅白云母 金红石 磷灰石；柯石英 绿辉石 金红石；柯石英 菱镁矿。该类矿物包体组合与苏鲁地体超高压榴辉岩的峰期矿物组合十分相似，表明斜长角闪岩可能是由超高压变质的榴辉岩在构造抬升过程中退变质而成。     

中国大陆科学钻探主孔(CCSD-MH)石榴石橄榄岩:一个经历了深俯冲作用的古生代超镁铁质侵入体

中国大陆科学钻探主孔中的超镁铁岩主要产在603.20～683.53m深度之间。超镁铁岩的上部直接围岩为高Ti-Fe型榴辉岩;内部夹有薄层状含柯石英高镁榴辉岩和厚层状多硅白云母榴辉岩;下部直接围岩为石英榴辉岩和普通榴辉岩。超镁铁岩的主体岩性为石榴石单辉橄榄岩,主要由橄榄石(60%～70%),石榴石(10%～25%),单斜辉石(5%～15%),斜方辉石(1%～5%)和少量金云母和钛铁矿或钛斜硅镁石组成。橄榄石Fo 79～89,其中一些以包裹体形式出现的高MgO橄榄石可能形成较早,主体橄榄石属变质重结晶阶段形成;石榴石以低CaO、高MgO和Cr_2O_3含量高(达3%)为特征,保留较好的进变质成分环带;单斜辉石Na_2O含量达到4%～5%,分为绿辉石和普通辉石类,属变质成因,结合矿物对的温压估算,岩石已经经历超高压变质作用。岩石成分研究表明,石榴石单辉橄榄岩与其顶、底板榴辉岩及其中的榴辉岩夹层有一较大的成分间断,其中MgO含量约相差10%左右,认为超镁铁岩与榴辉岩的原岩不属同一岩浆演化产物。锆石SHRIMP定年表明石榴石单辉橄榄岩原岩时代为古生代346～461Ma,超高压变质作用时代为早中生代220～240Ma。认为CCSD主孔石榴石橄榄岩为古生代的超镁铁质侵入体,在印支期的中国南北板块俯冲折返过程中经历了超高压变质作用。     

西准噶尔克拉玛依蛇绿混杂岩中的石榴角闪岩

本文报道在准噶尔地区发现的石榴角闪岩,该岩石产在克拉玛依蛇绿混杂岩带的百口泉地区.石榴角闪岩主要由钙质角闪石、富钠斜长石和黝帘石组成,含少量钛铁矿、绿帘石、绿泥石、榍石、石榴石、普通辉石、金红石、磷灰石、钠长石、石英和锆石.石榴石中常包裹磷灰石、金红石、钛铁矿、石英和锆石.黝帘石 富钠斜长石组合中出现少量钙铝榴石残余.百口泉石榴角闪岩中石榴石的化学组成特征以及其中出现的金红石-钛铁矿-磷灰石-石英-锆石包体组合说明,该岩石不是异剥钙榴岩退变质的产物,而是榴辉岩退变的产物(辅助证据包括二辉橄榄岩中发育的辉石出溶结构和辉石塑性变形特征).百口泉石榴角闪岩至少记录了四个阶段:石榴石-单斜辉石-金红石-磷灰石-石英-锆石组成的阶段Ⅰ(可能为榴辉岩相),普通辉石-钛铁矿-磷灰石-角闪石组成的退变阶段Ⅱ,角闪石-斜长石-榍石-钛铁矿构成的阶段Ⅲ(角闪岩相),以及绿帘石-石英-绿泥石构成的绿片岩相变质阶段Ⅳ.尽管上述演化历史存在一些不确定性,石榴角闪岩的发现为深入研究西准噶尔地区古生代洋壳俯冲带的性质及其演化过程提供了新的物质基础.     

中国大陆科学钻主孔超高压变质岩中钛的矿化作用

在对位于苏北榴辉岩分布区的中国大陆科学钻探工程5158m主孔岩芯进行编录、岩矿鉴定及测试的过程中,对主孔岩芯的钛矿化进行了研究。主要有经济价值的含钛相是金红石,其次是钛磁铁矿。主要含矿岩石是普通金红石榴辉岩,石英金红石榴辉岩,金红石/钛铁矿石榴辉石岩,其次有多硅白云母金红石榴辉岩,蓝晶石金红石榴辉岩,金红石黑云绿帘纤闪石岩(退变石榴辉石岩)。根据不同的矿化程度和岩性组合,将整个主孔大致分为三大岩性段： ① 0～2038m：为主孔各类榴辉岩主要产出、钛矿化最好、厚度最大的地段; ② 2038～3597m：为主孔钛矿化贫化、分布零散、厚度较薄的岩性段,含13层矿化视厚度4～37m不等的退变～强退变的榴辉岩,主要围岩是榍石钛铁矿钛磁铁矿黑云角闪长英质片麻岩以及含白钛矿钛磁铁矿二长片麻岩,构造糜棱岩化或碎裂～角砾岩带发育,其中常见大小不等、晶簇状生长的石英方解石脉体和晶洞; ③ 3597m～终孔：主要为糜棱岩化强弱不同的含钛磁铁矿黑云角闪长英质片麻岩和糜棱岩化角闪黑云二长片麻岩夹角闪黑云片岩,无榴辉岩。但在3577～5150m发现了大量富含稀土矿物的脉体。主孔岩石类型主要有6种： 榴辉岩类,榴辉岩质片麻岩,石榴单辉橄榄岩,二长片麻岩和长英质片麻岩,纤闪石化辉石岩,碎裂岩和糜棱岩类。含钛矿物有金红石,钛铁矿,榍石,钛斜硅镁石,白钛矿及少量锐钛矿,板钛矿。矿石类型可分为13类。文章阐述了含钛相矿物学、金红石化学成分及微量元素特征以及金红石的成矿地球化学特征;讨论了超高压变质成矿及钛物质来源于罗迪尼亚超大陆形成后的新元古代裂解事件中的地幔柱的成矿模式。     

东海地区片麻岩高压—超高压变质作用证据及其退变结构特征——以钻孔ZK2304片麻岩为例

在东海地区浅钻ZK2304的片麻岩中,保存了高压—超高压变质矿物组合和一系列复杂的退变结构及相应的变质反应。除石榴石、硬玉质辉石和金红石外,其它峰期高压—超高压阶段(M_2)变质矿物包括多硅白云母、文石和柯石英(假像),典型的峰期矿物组合为:石榴石(Gt)硬玉质辉石(Jd-Cpx)+金红石(Rt)+柯石英(Coe);石榴石(Gr)+硬玉质辉石(Jd-Cpx)+多硅白云母(Phe)+金红石((Rt)(柯石英(Coe);石榴石(Gt)+硬玉质辉石(Jd-Cpx)+文石(Arg)+金红石(Rt)(柯石英(Coe)。石榴石中的钙铝榴石(Gro)分子含量偏高,最高可达50.1 mol％,多硅白云母SiO_2含量明显偏高,为54.37％～54.84％之间,相应的化学单位(Pfu)硅原子数Si=3.54～3.57之间,柯石英假像主要以包体形式存在于石榴石晶体中。     

榴辉岩组构运动学与大陆深俯冲——中国大陆科学钻探主孔榴辉岩的EBSD研究

中国大陆科学钻探主孔位于苏鲁超高压带南部的东海县毛北榴辉岩体之上。主孔0-600米深度的榴辉岩的塑性变形以具中等倾角的东倾面理,近南北向的水平拉伸线理、“A”型剪切褶皱和一系列平行面理的微型韧性剪切带为特征。使用电子背散射（EBSD）技术测量的主孔7个榴辉岩样品的石榴石和绿辉石的晶格优选定向（LPO）表明：石榴石基本上无序排列,而绿辉石表现出强烈的LPO。绿辉石的[001]轴近平行于拉伸线理方向,（010）面的法线和[100]轴垂直面理分布,{110}的法线形成垂直面理的环带,反映绿辉石的位错蠕变由[001]（100）和1／2〈^-110〉滑移系控制,其不对称的LPO指示了由北向南的剪切指向。根据单斜辉石的高温实验结果,毛北榴辉岩经历了800-900℃的超高压变质作用。通过构造重塑,揭示毛北榴辉岩体为剪切流变褶皱,形成于扬子板块深俯冲时的超高压变质过程。因此榴辉岩中保留的早期岩石组构特征可以为板块的深俯冲运动学和俯冲极性提供重要信息。     

榴辉岩韧性剪切变形中的流体作用及地球化学效应

韧性剪切带是在较高温条件下机械与化学作用高度耦合的系统。韧性剪切带普遍含有一种或多种流体,流体是韧性剪切变形高度局域化和剪切变形组构形成的主要影响因素。在强应变岩石中,可利用变形矿物的元素地球化学的变化特征来反演参与变形的流体的地球化学性质。苏鲁-大别超高压变质带中,多数榴辉岩经历了强烈的韧性剪切应变和流体作用,形成高度局域化、尺度不等的韧性剪切变形带,为研究在高压-超高压条件下,参与流体的性质,应变和流体相互作用提供了重要机会。样品DH-2G是一强烈剪切榴辉岩,由石榴石、绿辉石、金红石,及少量的多硅白云母、黝帘石、角闪石、斜长石、石英、锆石和磷灰石组成。在不同应变域,矿物的粒度变化明显。在类变斑晶域,石榴石粒度比剪切条带中的小2~4倍。在以下讨论中,与细粒石榴石(石榴石-I)共生的绿辉石称为绿辉石-I,与粗粒石榴石(石榴石-II)共生的绿辉石称为绿辉石-II。电子探针和原位LA-ICP-MS测试结果表明:(1)除Ni外,两类石榴石没有显著区别;(2)两类绿辉石在主量元素上也没有明显的差异,但微量元素特征,尤其是稀土元素上,存在明显的变化。与绿辉石-I相比,绿辉石-II具有以下特征:(1)轻稀土明显降低,达25~40倍左右;(2)重稀土明显富集,升高5~10倍;(3)Ni、Zn、Co、Sc、Ba、Zr、Y、Rb、Hf和HREE明显升高,而 V、Sr、U、Th、Pb和LREE明显降低;和(4)微弱的正Eu异常, Eu/Eu^*=1.04~1.45,绿辉石-I基本上没有Eu异常。并且,剪切带域金红石的Nb/Ta比值从核部(<19.0)到边部(>20.0)显著增加。岩相学、元素和温压估计研究表明:在剪切过程中不存在外来流体,流体是由无水矿物(绿辉石、石榴石、金红石等)在超高压榴辉岩折返减压过程中通过压力降低出溶结构羟基或分子水,释放出流体,流体富含V、Sr、U、Th、Pb、Zr、Nb和LREE等微量元素。这些流体显著影响深俯冲地壳的流变学性质,是迁移活动元素(LILE和LREE)及保守元素(HFSE等)的重要载体,对超高压岩片的快速折返发挥关键作用。     

Retrograded textures and associated mass transfer: evidence for aqueous fluid action during exhumation of the Qinglongshan eclogite, Southern Sulu ultrahigh pressure metamorphic terrane, eastern China

The Qinglongshan eclogites in the Southern Sulu ultrahigh pressure metamorphic (UHPM) terrane show very different retrograded textures from their counterparts in the Northern Sulu terrane, implying a different thermal history. Scanning electron and optical microscope observations indicate that the peak assemblage of the Qinglongshan eclogite is anhydrous, composed of Grt + OmpI + Rt + (Ky + coesite). These primary minerals were replaced by second and third stage minerals, resulting in symplectite pseudomorphs or coronas. The following relationships are inferred: OmpI → OmpII + Ab + Fe‐oxide symplectite (type I) and Rt → Rt + Ilm intergrowth; and, Ky → Pg, OmpII (+Pl) → Amp (+Pl) symplectite (type II), and Grt → Prg (+Fe‐oxide). Mineral chemistry and mass‐balance demonstrate that the pseudomorphed textures were developed by metasomatism involving dissolution and precipitation intensified by fluids along grain boundaries. The formation of symplectite type I produced Fe, Mg and Na but consumed Ca and Si. The Mg and Fe diffused to garnet where exchange of (Mg, Fe) with Ca of the garnet resulted in compositional zonation with decreased Ca towards the edge of garnet grains where Ca was consumed during symplectite formation. The replacement of kyanite by paragonite consumed the extra Na. In the later stage, fluid infiltration partially transformed symplectite type I to type II, and narrow rims of pargasite resorbed garnet from their boundaries. Mass balance suggests that the transformation and resorption would have been coupled during fluid infiltration. In the latest stage, epidote and quartz were precipitated at very late stage as a result of fluid activity along microfractures. Tentative P–T conditions based on mineral reactions and thermocalc software suggest that the retrograded eclogite did not record the granulite facies retrograde evolution characteristic of eclogites from the Northern Sulu terrane. The difference in retrograde evolution between the Southern and Northern Sulu eclogites suggests a different exhumation history.     

Retrogressive Microstructures of the Eclogites from the Northern Dabie Mountains, Central China： Evidence for Rapid Exhumation

The ultrahigh-pressure eclogites from the northern Dabie Mountains in central China occurred as tectonic lens or blocks within granitic gneisses or meta-peridotites. Petrologic studies suggest that the studied eclogites experienced strongly retrogressive metamorphism and produced a series of characteristic retrogressive microstructures. The retrograde structures mainly include: (1) oriented needle mineral exsolution, e. g. , quartz needles in Na-clinopyroxene and rotile, clinopyroxene and apatite exsolution in garnet formed under decreasing pressure conditions during exhumation; (2) symplectite, especially, two generations of symplectites developed outside the garnet grains, which are called ““double symplectite““ here; (3) compositional zoning of minerals such as garnet and clinopyroxene; (4) minerals with a reaction rim or retrograde rim, e.g. , omphacite with a diopside rim, diopside with an amphibole rim and rutile with a rim of ilmenite. These retrograde textures, especially mineral zoning and symplectite, provide important petrologic evidence for the exhumation process and uplift of high-grade metamorphic rocks such as eclogite in the northern Dabie Mountains, indicating a rapid exhumation process.     

Subduction channel fluid-rock interaction:Indications from rutile-quartz veins within eclogite from the Yuka terrane,North Qaidam orogen

High-pressure(HP)or ultrahigh-pressure(UHP)rutile-quartz veins that form at mantle depths due to fluid-rock interaction can be used to trace the properties and behavior of natural fluids in subduction zones.To explore the fluid flow and the associated element mobility during deep subduction and exhumation of the continental crust,we investigated the major and trace elements of Ti-rich minerals.Additionally,U–Pb dating,trace element contents,and Lu–Hf isotopic composition of zircon grains in the UHP eclogite and associated rutile-quartz veins were examined in the North Qaidam UHP metamorphic belt,Yuka terrane.The zircon grains in the rutile-quartz veins have unzoned or weak oscillatory zonings,and show low Th/U ratios,steep chondrite-normalized patterns of heavy rare earth elements(HREEs),and insignificant negative Eu anomalies,indicating their growth in metamorphic fluids.These zircon grains formed in 431
3 Ma,which is consistent with the 432
2 Ma age of the host eclogite.As for the zircons in the rutile-quartz veins,they showed steep HREE patterns on one hand,and were different from the zircons present in the host eclogite on the other.This demonstrates that their formation might have been related to the breakdown of the early stage of garnet,which corresponds to the abundance of fluids during the early exhumation stage.The core-rim profile analyses of rutile recorded a two-stage rutile growth across a large rutile grain;the rutile core has higher Nb,Ta,W,and Zr contents and lower Nb/Ta ratios than the rim,indicating that the rutile domains grew in different metamorphic fluids from the core towards the rim.The significant enrichment of high field strength elements(HFSEs)in the rutile core suggests that the peak fluids have high solubility and transportation capacity of these HFSEs.Furthermore,variations in the Nb vs.Cr trends in rutile indicate a connection of rutile to mafic protolith.The zircon grains from both the rutile-quartz veins and the host eclogite have similar Hf isotopic compositions,indicating that the vein-forming fluids are internally derived from the host eclogite.These fluids accumulated in the subduction channel and were triggered by local dehydration of the deeply subducted eclogite during the early exhumation conditions.     

柴北缘鱼卡榴辉岩型金红石矿床成矿物理条件

鱼卡榴辉岩型金红石矿床位于柴北缘超高压变质带西侧,是青藏高原发现的第一个超大型金红石矿床。为研究该矿床的控矿因素和成矿机制,在详细的野外地质调查和岩相学研究的基础上,利用电子探针对该矿床榴辉岩中的各特征矿物进行分析。研究表明,粗粒块状高钛榴辉岩的石榴子石保存了较完整的成分环带,从核部到边部,石榴子石的化学成分、矿物包裹体的种类和粒度都具有明显的分带性;细粒片麻状低钛榴辉岩的矿物颗粒较小,石榴子石的成分环带较差。鱼卡榴辉岩的p-T演化特征反映,它们经历了深俯冲阶段的升温升压到早期折返阶段的升温降压,再到之后的降温降压的顺时针演化轨迹。榴辉岩中进变质矿物组合和生长环带的保存说明,榴辉岩的形成经历了相对快速俯冲和折返的动力学过程,钛成矿作用时金红石很少发生转变。超高压变质前后为金红石最主要的成矿期。     

Variation of mineral composition,fabric and oxygen fugacity from massive to foliated eclogites during exhumation of subducted ocean crust in the North Qilian suture zone,NW China

Eclogites from the North Qilian suture zone are high‐pressure low‐temperature metamorphic rocks of ocean crust protolith, and occur in both massive and foliated varieties as individual blocks of tens to hundreds of metres in size. The massive type is weakly deformed and shows granoblastic texture characterized by a coarse‐grained peak mineral assemblage of Grt¹ + Omp¹ + Ph + Rt ± Lws (or retrograde Cz). In contrast, the foliated type is strongly deformed and shows a fine‐grained retrograde mineral assemblage of Grt² + Omp² + Cz + Gln + Ph. Both total FeO and aegirine contents in omphacite, as well as X_Fe[=Fe³⁺/(Fe³⁺ + Al^VI)] in clinozoisite/epidote, increase significantly from massive to foliated eclogites. Lattice preferred orientation (LPO) of omphacite, determined by electron back‐scatter diffraction analysis, is characterized by weak and strong SL‐type fabrics for massive and foliated eclogites, respectively. Clinozoisite/epidote also developed SL‐type fabric, but different from the LPOs of omphacite in <010> and <001> axes, owing to their opposite crystallographic long and short axis definitions. The transition of deformation mechanism from dislocation creep to diffusive mass transfer (DMT) creep in omphacite and the concomitant retrograde metamorphism both are efficiently facilitated when the original coarse‐grained Omp¹ + Grt¹ + Lws assemblage is dynamically recrystallized and retrogressed into the fine‐grained Fe³⁺‐rich assemblage of Omp² + Grt² + Cz + Gln. The DMT process with concomitant anisotropic growth assisted by fluids is considered to be an important deformation mechanism for most minerals in the foliated eclogite. P–T estimates yielded 2.3–2.6 GPa and 485?510 °C for the massive eclogite and 1.8–2.2 GPa and 450?480 °C for the foliated eclogite. The significant increase in total Fe and Fe³⁺ contents in omphacite and clinozoisite/epidote from massive to foliated eclogite suggests changes in mineral compositions accompanied by an increase in oxygen fugacity during ductile deformation associated with exhumation. The LPO transition of omphacite, clinozoisite and rutile from weak SL‐type in massive eclogites to strong SL‐type in foliated eclogites is interpreted to represent the increment of shear strain during exhumation along the ‘subduction channel’.     

Rutile inclusions in garnet from a dissolution‐reprecipitation mechanism

Metamorphic garnet commonly contains needle‐like rutile inclusions as well as equant rutile inclusions that surround quartz inclusions and range in size from submicrometer to nanometer. Although the origin of these equant rutile inclusions, that is, exsolution or non‐exsolution, has important implications for petrological and tectonic processes, the crystallographic characteristics of these inclusions have rarely been studied because of the small sizes and analytical difficulties involved. Here, we report the crystallographic characteristics pertinent to the genetic origin of minute equant rutile inclusions in cloudy, nearly spherically shaped garnet domains with Ti‐depleted compositions surrounding quartz inclusions in ultrahigh‐pressure garnet from several diamondiferous Erzgebirge quartzofeldspathic gneissic rock samples. TEM analyses show that the equant rutile crystals in cloudy garnet domains are partially bounded by the low‐energy {100}_rt ± {110}_rt ± {101}_rt facets and have rather random crystallographic orientation relationships (CORs) with the garnet host, with preferential alignment of low‐energy lattice planes, for example, {100}_rt//{112}_grt, for some rutile crystals. Although the rather random CORs are unlikely to be attributed to solid‐state exsolution subjected to the stringent topotactic garnet lattice constraints, the characteristic subhedral {100}_rt ± {110}_rt ± {101}_rt crystal forms of rutile can be rationalized by a metasomatic dissolution‐reprecipitation mechanism via a fluid phase. In this scenario, the quartz+fluid inclusions in garnet were first subjected to decompression microcracking during rock exhumation, followed by dissolution of Ti‐bearing garnet matrix at the crack tips or along the crack surfaces and subsequent reprecipitation of rutile, apatite, gahnite, akdalaite, and Ti‐depleted garnet. The rapid coalescence between rutile and garnet crystals in fluid or direct attachment of rutile crystals onto the dissolving crack surfaces would then yield the rather random CORs as reported here. These results, along with previous work on rutile needles, indicate rather diverse genesis of rutile inclusions in various crystal forms, thus shedding light on the controversial exsolution origin for other inclusion suite/microstructure in minerals.     

大别山北部榴辉岩的退变质特征及其地质意义

研究了大别山北部榴辉岩的变质岩岩石学。结果表明，该区榴辉岩相变质作用可分为早期(超高压)和晚期(高压)两个阶段，并在折返过程中形成了一系列特征性的退变质显微构造。其中，退变质结构主要包括：(1)由于压力降低而出溶形成的一些定向针状或叶片状矿物包裹体，如钠质单斜辉石中石英及石榴子石中的金红石、单斜辉石和磷灰石等；(2)冠状体或后成合晶，特别是石榴子石外围发育两期(“双层”)后成合晶；(3)反应边或退变边，如绿辉石的透辉石退变边、透辉石的角闪石退变边和金红石的钛铁矿退变边等。这些退变质结构为本区榴辉岩高级变质岩的快速折返过程和抬升历史提供了强有力的岩石学依据；石榴子石中针状矿物出溶体进一步证明研究区榴辉岩早期经历了超高压变质作用，峰期变质压力应大干4．0GPa，甚至可能达到5～7GPa或更高。     

Microstructurally controlled trace element (Zr,U–Pb) concentrations in metamorphic rutile: An example from the amphibolites of the Bergen Arcs

As a common constituent of metamorphic assemblages, rutile provides constraints on the timing and conditions of rock transformation at high resolution. However, very little is known about the links between trace element mobility and rutile microstructures that result from synmetamorphic deformation. To address this issue, here we combine in situ LA-ICP-MS and sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe trace element data with electron back-scatter diffraction microstructural analyses to investigate the links between rutile lattice distortions and Zr and U–Pb systematics. Furthermore, we apply this integrated approach to constrain further the temperature and timing of amphibolite facies metamorphism and deformation in the Bergen Arcs of southwestern Norway. In outcrop, the formation of porphyroblastic rutile in dynamically hydrated leucocratic domains of otherwise rutile-poor statically hydrated amphibolite provides key contextual information on both the ambient conditions of hydration and deformation and the composition of the reactive fluid. Rutile in amphibolite recorded ambient metamorphic temperatures of ~590–730°C during static hydration of the granulitic precursor. By contrast, rutile from leucocratic domains in the directly adjacent shear zone indicates that deformation was accompanied by a localized increase in temperature. These higher temperatures are recorded in strain-free rutile (~600–860°C) and by Zr concentration measurements on low-angle boundaries and shear bands (620–820°C). In addition, we also observe slight depletions of Zr and U along rutile low-angle boundaries relative to strain-free areas in deformed grains from the shear zone. This indicates that crystal–plastic deformation facilitated the compositional re-equilibration of rutile upon cooling to slightly below the peak temperature of deformation. Cessation of deformation at mid-crustal conditions near ~600°C is recorded by late stage growth of small (<150 µm) rutile in the high-strain zones. U–Pb age data obtained from the strain-free and distorted rutile grains cluster in distinct populations of 437.4 ± 2.7 Ma and c. 405–410 Ma, respectively. These different ages are interpreted to reflect the difference in closure for thermally induced Pb diffusion between undeformed and deformed rutile during post-deformation exhumation and cooling. Thus, our results provide a reconstruction of the thermochronological history of the amphibolite facies rocks of the Lindås Nappe and highlight the importance of integration of microstructural data during application of thermometers and geochronometers.     

北大别的多阶段高温变质作用与部分熔融及其地球动力学过程和大地构造意义

北大别经历了三叠纪高温超高压变质作用和多阶段折返历史,因而榴辉岩中广泛发育多期减压结构,极少保留早期的超高压变质记录,这为它们不同变质阶段的温度条件估算带来了巨大困难。然而,目前流行的微量元素温度计为北大别榴辉岩的峰期及之后的退变质阶段温度的确定提供了可能性。根据锆石中Ti和金红石中Zr温度计,结合传统矿物对温度计的计算数据,获得了北大别榴辉岩中多阶段高温（>900 ℃）条件的数据,证明研究区经历了从超高压榴辉岩相→石英榴辉岩相→高压麻粒岩相阶段的高温变质过程。并且,北大别经历了折返初期（207±4 Ma）的减压熔融和碰撞后燕山期（约130 Ma）的加热熔融作用。长时间的高温变质作用与多期部分熔融也许正是北大别长期难以发现柯石英和有关超高压变质证据等的重要原因。因此,这些成果有助于甄别北大别的岩石成因和演化过程以及大别山多岩片差异折返模型的建立和完善。     

Dating the exhumation of UHP rocks and associated crustal melting in the Norwegian Caledonides

U–Pb and Rb–Sr dating was undertaken in combination with P–T estimates to (1) constrain the time of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) eclogite formation in the Stadlandet UHP province of Norway, (2) date later crustal melting–migmatization of the eclogite country gneisses, and (3) temporally trace post-migmatite cooling and retrogression under amphibolite facies metamorphic conditions. In contrast to earlier U–Pb studies which used accessory minerals from the gneisses, we focused on the direct dating of minerals defining the HP assemblage. For the eclogite, rutile and omphacite fractions were analyzed for U–Pb, and from an adjacent migmatite leucosome titanites and K-feldspar. For Rb–Sr dating, phengite was measured for the eclogite, and biotite for two leucosome layers of the migmatite–eclogite complex. A U–Pb age of 389±7 (2σ) Ma is obtained if the full set of 12 rutile and five omphacite analyses is regressed (MSWD: 16), and 389±2 Ma for those nine data which strictly satisfy isochron conditions (MSWD: 0.78). The 389-Ma age is interpreted to date equilibration and freezing of the eclogite paragenesis at maximum temperatures of 770 °C, reached during decompression to 1.8 GPa. Decompression from 2.8 to 1.8 GPa occurred in the partial melting domain of granitic crust, with the migmatites being dated at 375±6 Ma by titanite and K-feldspar from an eclogite-adjacent granitic leucosome. This titanite age also shows that the U–Pb chronometer in rutile is very robust to high temperatures—it remained a closed system for at least 14 million years, at temperatures in excess to 650 °C. After decompression and migmatization, exhumation is accompanied by rapid cooling to reach the 300 °C isograde by 357± 9 Ma, determined by a biotite isochron for a leucosome in a slightly shallower structural level. In considering that the time of maximum pressure is bracketed by early zircon crystallization during subduction and later omphacite–rutile equilibration in the eclogites, an exhumation rate of 5 mm/year is deduced for initial exhumation, occurring between 394 and 389 Ma. For subsequent cooling from 770 to 600 °C, we obtain a rate of 2.3±1.3 mm/year. First stages of exhumation most likely occurred under an overall compressional regime, whereas Devonian basin formation is associated to detachment movements during 389–375 Ma exhumation. This period of extension is followed by a much younger, decoupled thermal phase at 327±5 Ma, occurring under static conditions within very restricted zones, most likely in association with the circulation of fluid phases along old discontinuities. Initial isotopic signatures of Sr and Pb substantiate Paleo- to Meso-Proterozoic crust formation times of the Stadlandet UHP province precursor lithologies.