Features of the Structures and Evolution of the Lower Part of the Continental Crust of the Yakutian Diamondiferous Province within the Upper Muna Kimberlite Field

Doklady Earth Sciences - Study of xenoliths of crustal rocks from the Novinka kimberlite pipe (Upper Muna kimberlite field) showed that the crust at different levels is composed of pyroxene and...     

中国南方新生代地幔柱活动的地球化学证据

中国南海海盆、海南岛、雷琼和龙海—明溪地区新生代玄武岩的总体相当于洋岛玄武岩（OIB）,富集高场强元素（HFSE）,尤其是富集Nb、Ta、U、Ti。南海海盆新生代玄武岩是玻利尼西亚型（Polynesian）、夏威夷型（Hawaii）和MORB型共存,可能是在扩张洋脊上面形成的OIB,下地幔成因的超地幔柱上升致使上地幔物质加入,海南岛和雷琼地区玄武岩具有与南海海盆玄武岩大致相似的成因。大陆板内同时代的龙海—明溪地区玄武岩具特别高的Nb/Zr和Nb/Y值,均表现为地幔柱成因的玻利尼西亚型玄武岩,其形成既可能有古老俯冲洋壳熔融后榴辉岩质残余下沉至下地幔成因,也可能有包括下地壳在内的岩石圈物质的贡献。     

Comparative characteristic of diamonds with olivine inclusions from the Ebelyakh placer and kimberlite pipes of the Yakutian Diamondiferous Province

The results of morphological examination and the character of the structural orientation and estimation of residual pressure calculated from spectra of combination dispersion in olivine inclusions within diamonds of the Ebelyakh placer and kimberlite pipes of the Yakutian Diamondiferous Province are presented. The data analysis aimed at revealing indications of similarity and/or differences between diamonds from the pipes and the placer. Differences in the structural orientation and spectra of combination dispersion of the inclusions of olivine in dodecahedroids of placers of the northeastern part of the Siberian Platform support the assumption of their non-kimberlite nature.     

熔体再富集作用对大陆岩石圈地幔的影响

         二辉橄榄岩通常被认为是低程度部分熔融的残留,但熔体再富集作用为其成因提供了一种新的解释。熔体再富集作 用通常是指软流圈来源的玄武质熔体加入到难熔的方辉橄榄岩或纯橄岩形成更为饱满的二辉橄榄岩的过程。除了使主量元 素富集之外,熔体再富集作用还可以使微量元素与Sr-Nd 同位素从方辉橄榄岩中的富集特征转变为二辉橄榄岩所呈现的亏 损特征。对于熔体再富集作用是否改变橄榄岩的Os 同位素组成还存在较大的争议,它主要取决于加入熔体的比例,熔体中 硫的饱和程度以及熔体再富集作用发生的时间等因素。对于以低熔/岩比例为主的大陆岩石圈地幔来说,熔体再富集作用对 橄榄岩的Os 同位素组成的影响可能较为有限。除了化学成分上的影响之外,熔体的加入也会改变大陆岩石圈地幔的物理特 征。这一过程使得岩石圈地幔的渗透率增大和黏滞度降低,从而会破坏大陆岩石圈地幔的稳定性。虽然熔体再富集作用可 以影响和改变岩石圈地幔的性质,但它是否导致克拉通地幔的减薄以及克拉通破坏尚有疑问。     

中生代华北岩石圈地幔高度化学不均一性与大陆岩石圈转型

对当前我国固体地球科学热点之一的中国东部中生代大陆岩石圈地幔巨厚减薄的机制及地球动力学背景研究中所涉及的主要问题进行了简要的回顾和综述.基于华北地区系统的中生代深源岩类岩石地球化学研究, 着重论述了该区晚中生代岩石圈地幔的高度化学不均一性的表现及其成因分析, 进而强调了其可能的大地构造含义.其中, 特别对华北南部晚中生代深源岩类地幔源区地球化学特征的空间规律变异给予了详尽的讨论, 指出扬子板片的深俯冲作用及其导致的流体熔体交代是其主要的成因机制.建议以岩石圈地幔转型一词来描述中国东部大陆岩石圈地幔发生在中新生代的这一组成结构的剧烈变化, 并指出这一过程是由2次独立的事件所组成, 它们是中生代全球深部事件在中国东部不同形式的响应.      

俯冲的大陆岛弧--柴北缘片麻岩的地球化学和同位素证据

柴北缘早古生代高压—超高压变质带的片麻岩分为花岗质片麻岩和副片麻岩 ,花岗质片麻岩的原岩形成于新元古代 (90 0～ 10 0 0 Ma) ,岩石类型为英云闪长岩 -奥长花岗岩 -石英二长岩 -花岗岩 ,非活动性元素的特征类似于岛弧环境形成的花岗岩。副片麻岩的原岩可能为富铝的沉积岩 ,其稀土元素特征类似于 PAAS(后太古宙澳大利亚的平均页岩 )的稀土元素分布 ,非活动性元素的特征与大陆岛弧沉积岩的特征类似。根据花岗质片麻岩与副片麻岩的共生关系结合其地球化学特征推测它们的原岩形成于岛弧环境。鱼卡河花岗质片麻岩的εNd(t) =3.2 (t=1.0 Ga) ,TDM=1.3Ga,表明岩浆源区有大量起源于亏损地幔的初始地壳物质。而落凤坡、锡铁山、沙柳河的花岗质片麻岩与副片麻岩的 Sm - Nd同位素组成类似 ,εNd(t) =- 3.4～ - 7.3(t=1.0 Ga) ,TDM=1.8～ 2 .2 Ga,表明岩浆源区为先存的大陆地壳 ,两类片麻岩地球化学特征的相似性说明岩浆源区的成分类似于变质沉积岩的组成。这项研究说明柴北缘早古生代的深俯冲卷入了大量的大陆岛弧岩石。     

The Recrystallization Front of the Ronda Peridotite: Evidence for Melting and Thermal Erosion of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle beneath the Alboran Basin

Evidence for a major heating event accompanied by decompressionwas recently reported from crustal rocks drilled in the Alboranbasin. The metamorphic evolution recorded by these rocks impliescomplete removal of lithospheric mantle during the Cenozoic,a process that is confirmed by geophysical modelling indicatingthin lithosphere beneath the Alboran domain. In this region,the Ronda lherzolite massif (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)provides a unique opportunity for the observation of mantleprocesses associated with lithospheric thinning. A strikingfeature of the Ronda peridotite is a narrow recrystallizationfront, which has been ascribed to kilometre-scale porous meltflow through the massif. The front separates the spinel tectonitedomain, interpreted as old, veined lithospheric mantle, fromthe granular domain where the lithospheric microstructures,mineralogical assemblages and geochemical signatures were obliteratedby grain growth coeval with pervasive infiltration of basalticmelts. On the basis of trace-element abundances in peridotitescollected over a distance of 12 km along the recrystallizationfront, our study confirms that the front is a relatively sharp(     

Mechanisms of Mantle Metasomatism: Geochemical Evidence from the Lherz Orogenic Peridotite

Detailed study of a 65 cm harzburgite section perpendicularto an amphibole pyroxenite vein from the Lherz massif revealsa strong mineralogical and chemical zonation with distance fromthe vein-host boundary. At less than 20 cm, the host peridotiteis modally metasomatized and displays patterns of increasingFe, Ti, Mn, Al, Ca, Na, and HREE, and decreasing Mg and Ni towardthe vein contact This zone is also relatively impoverished inCr but is enriched in K and Sr. It is characterized by relativelyunfractionated, mainly convex-upward, chondrite-normalized REEpatterns. At a distance over 20 cm, the host peridotite displaysthe typical feature of cryptic metasomatism, i.e., selectiveLREE enrichment in otherwise anhydrous mineralogy. The chondrite-normalizedREE patterns vary from U-shaped in the range 15–25 cmto strongly fractionated in the range 25–65 cm. Thesevariations encompass the whole range reported from metasomatizedperidotite nodules in alkali basalts. They may be accountedfor by a single, silicate-melt, metasomatic event associatedwith infiltration of the Pyrenean alkali basalts into the mostrefractory peridotites, during their ascent through the subcontinentallithosphere, 100 Ma ago. The proposed model involves a chemicalevolution of the infiltrated melt with increasing distance inthe host. At < 15–20 cm, the melt composition wouldbe strongly influenced by the proximity of the vein conduit,because of the existence of advective chemical fluxes throughgrain boundaries (short-range porous flow; distance of percolation< 1 m) and into small branching cracks, and a possibly dominantdiffusive flux within the infiltrated melt. This may explainthe reactivity of the melt towards the anhydrous peridotitemineralogy, the existence of chemical gradients for most elements,and the lack of REE chromato-graphic fractionation. At a distanceof > 20–25 cm, chemical exchange with the conduit wouldbe negligible and the melt composition would be mainly controlledby re-equilibration of the peridotite matrix during long-range(> 1 m) porous flow percolation. Thus the melt would be bufferedby the amphibole peridotite mineralogy, except for LREE. Thismay explain the lack of mineralogical reaction and chemicalenrichments (except for REE) in this zone, and the chromatographicfractionation of REE. We propose a quantitative model of diffusionand percolation-controlled metasomatism associated with infiltrationof alkali basalts into peridotites hosting vein-conduits. Wealso suggest that silicate-melt percolation may explain mineraldisequilibrium features observed in mantle xenoliths.     

Geochemistry and Evolution of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in Central Europe: Evidence from Peridotite Xenoliths of the Kozakov Volcano, Czech Republic

Neogene basanite lavas of Kozákov volcano, located alongthe Lusatian fault in the northeastern Czech Republic, containabundant anhydrous spinel lherzolite xenoliths that providean exceptionally continuous sampling of the upper two-thirdsof central European lithospheric mantle. The xenoliths yielda range of two-pyroxene equilibration temperatures from 680°Cto 1070°C, and are estimated to originate from depths of32–70 km, based on a tectonothermal model for basalticunderplating associated with Neogene rifting. The sub-Kozákovmantle is layered, consisting of an equigranular upper layer(32–43 km), a protogranular intermediate layer that containsspinel–pyroxene symplectites after garnet (43–67km), and an equigranular lower layer (67–70 km). Negativecorrelations of wt % TiO₂, Al₂O₃, and CaO with MgO and clinopyroxenemode with Cr-number in the lherzolites record the effects ofpartial fusion and melt extraction; Y and Yb contents of clinopyroxeneand the Cr-number in spinel indicate 5 to 15% partial melting.Subsequent metasomatism of a depleted lherzolite protolith,probably by a silicate melt, produced enrichments in the largeion lithophile elements, light rare earth elements and highfield strength elements, and positive anomalies in primitivemantle normalized trace element patterns for P, Zr, and Hf.Although there are slight geochemical discontinuities at theboundaries between the three textural layers of mantle, theretends to be an overall decrease in the degree of depletion withdepth, accompanied by a decrease in the magnitude of metasomatism.Clinopyroxene separates from the intermediate protogranularlayer and the lower equigranular layer yield ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd valuesof 0·51287–0·51307 (_Nd = +4·6 to+8·4) and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values of 0·70328–0·70339.Such values are intermediate with respect to the Nd–Srisotopic array defined by anhydrous spinel peridotite xenolithsfrom central Europe and are similar to those associated withthe present-day low-velocity anomaly in the upper mantle beneathEurope. The geochemical characteristics of the central Europeanlithospheric mantle reflect a complex evolution related to Devonianto Early Carboniferous plate convergence, accretion, and crustalthickening, Late Carboniferous to Permian extension and gravitationalcollapse, and Neogene rifting, lithospheric thinning, and magmatism. KEY WORDS: xenoliths; lithospheric mantle; REE–LILE–HFSE; Sr–Nd isotopes; Bohemian Massif     

Lamproitic Rocks from a Continental Collision Zone: Evidence for Recycling of Subducted Tethyan Oceanic Sediments in the Mantle Beneath Southern Tibet

Major and trace element, Sr–Nd–Pb isotope and mineralchemical data are presented for newly discovered ultrapotassiclavas in the Tangra Yumco–Xuruco graben in southern Tibet.The ultrapotassic lavas are characterized by high MgO, K₂O andTiO₂, low Al₂O₃ and Na₂O contents, and also have high molarK₂O/Al₂O₃, molar (K₂O + Na₂O)/Al₂O₃ and K₂O/Na₂O ratios. Theirhigh abundances of incompatible trace elements such as largeion lithophile elements (LILE) and light rare earth elements(LREE) reach the extreme levels typical of lamproites. The lamproitesshow highly radiogenic ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr (0· 7166–0·7363) and unradiogenic ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd (0· 511796–0·511962), low ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb (18· 459–18· 931),and elevated radiogenic ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb (15· 6732–15·841) and ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb (39· 557–40· 058) ratios.On the basis of their geochemical and isotopic systematics,the lamproites in south Tibet have a distinct magma source thatcan be differentiated from the sources of potassic lavas inthe east Lhasa and Qiangtang blocks. Their high Nb/Ta ratios(17· 10–19· 84), extremely high Th/U ratios(5· 70–13· 74) and distinctive isotope compositionsare compatible with a veined mantle source consisting of partialmelts of subducted Tethyan oceanic sediments and sub-continentallithospheric depleted mantle. Identification of the lamproitesand the delineation of their mantle source provide new evidencerelevant for models of the uplift and extension of the Tibetanplateau following the Indo-Asia collision. Metasomatism by partialmelts from isotopically evolved, old sediment subducted on theyoung Tethyan slab is an alternative explanation for PrecambrianNd and Pb model ages. In this model, differences in isotopiccomposition along-strike are attributed to differences in thetype of sediment being subducted, thus obviating the need formultiple metasomatic events over hundreds of million years.The distribution of lamproites, restricted within a north–south-trendinggraben, indicates that the initiation of east–west extensionin south Tibet started at 25 Ma. KEY WORDS: lamproites; subducted oceanic sediment; Tibetan active continental collision belt     

Remnants of Early Continental Crust in the Amgaon Gneisses, Central India: Geochemical Evidence

The Central Indian continental crust is postulated to have formed around the Archean nuclei of the Bastar Craton (Radhakrishna, 1993). Around 3.5 Ga. Old, high-Al 2 O 3 trondhjemite gneisses have been reported from the southern part of the Bastar Craton (Sarkar et al., 1993). However, neither isotopic nor geochemical evidence exists in the literature for the presence of rocks older than 2.5 Ga from the northern part of the Bastar Craton (Sarkar et al., 1990). The absence of tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) suites from the Amgaon Gneisses (Rao et al., 2000), were considered to indicate substantial geochemical differences between the Amgaon gneisses and the TTG basement gneisses of the Dharwar Craton (i.e., the peninsular gneisses). Accordingly the mode of the tectonomagmatic evolutionary patterns of the Bastar Craton was considered to be different, both in time in space from the bordering Dharwar and Bundelkhand Cratons, respectively. In this communication we report the presence of high-Al 2 O 3 trondhjemite from the Amgaon gneisses, along with calc-alkaline and peraluminous granites that are geochemically similar to the late granitoids (2.5 to 2.6 Ga old) of the Dharwar Craton, suggesting that the two cratons were nearest neighbours at least during the late Archean.     

福建地区地壳上地幔S波速度结构与泊松比

        利用在福建地区布置的 12 个宽频带数字地震流动台站和 8 个固定台站记录的远震 P 波波形数据进行接收函数计算,运用H-k 搜索叠加方法得到了研究区的平均地壳厚度H 与波速比k（=VP/VS）,并运用接收函数反演方法得到了 0~80 km 范围内的地壳和上地幔 S 波速度结构。H-k 叠加结果表明,福建地区地壳厚度在 28.4~32.8 km 范围内,从内陆到沿海变薄,从南到北变厚;沿着 NW-SE 方向,泊松比分布有分带特征,沿海地区泊松比高于内陆地区;同时表明,该地区地壳可分为上、中、下地壳,地壳结构横向差异较明显,多个台站下方可发现壳内低速层,沿海地区上地幔顶部平均速度相对低,可能暗示了深部存在热异常区域。     

大陆碰撞造山带镁铁质岩浆岩记录俯冲古洋壳物质再循环

在大陆碰撞造山带中寻找消失的古洋壳再循环及其壳幔相互作用的证据,对理解从洋壳俯冲到陆壳俯冲化学地球动力学过程的转变,以及板块构造理论的发展具有重要意义.通过对桐柏-红安造山带晚古生代和晚中生代镁铁质岩浆岩的岩石地球化学特征进行总结,可以识别出俯冲古洋壳再循环的岩石学和地球化学记录.晚古生代岛弧型镁铁质岩石具有弧型微量元素特征和相对亏损的放射成因同位素组成,记录了俯冲古洋壳在弧下深度（80~160 km）的流体交代作用;而晚中生代洋岛型镁铁质岩石OIB型微量元素特征和亏损-弱富集的放射成因同位素组成,记录了俯冲古洋壳在弧后深度（>200 km）的熔体交代作用.这一定性的解释也进一步得到了定量计算的证实,其结果表明镁铁质岩浆岩中的不相容元素的含量以及放射性成因同位素的富集程度,主要受控于地幔源区中所加入的地壳组分的性质和比例.因此,碰撞造山带中的岛弧型和洋岛型镁铁质岩浆岩,分别记录了弧下和弧后深度的俯冲古洋壳物质再循环.      

Remnants of Early Continental Crust in the Amgaon Gneisses,Central India: Geochemical Evidence

The Central Indian continental crust is postulated to have formed around the Archean nuclei of the Bastar Craton (Radhakrishna, 1993). Around 3.5 Ga. Old, high-Al 2 O 3 trondhjemite gneisses have been reported from the southern part of the Bastar Craton (Sarkar et al., 1993). However, neither isotopic nor geochemical evidence exists in the literature for the presence of rocks older than ∼2.5 Ga from the northern part of the Bastar Craton (Sarkar et al., 1990). The absence of tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) suites from the Amgaon Gneisses (Rao et al., 2000), were considered to indicate substantial geochemical differences between the Amgaon gneisses and the TTG basement gneisses of the Dharwar Craton (i.e., the peninsular gneisses). Accordingly the mode of the tectonomagmatic evolutionary patterns of the Bastar Craton was considered to be different, both in time in space from the bordering Dharwar and Bundelkhand Cratons, respectively. In this communication we report the presence of high-Al 2 O 3 trondhjemite from the Amgaon gneisses, along with calc-alkaline and peraluminous granites that are geochemically similar to the late granitoids (∼2.5 to 2.6 Ga old) of the Dharwar Craton, suggesting that the two cratons were nearest neighbours at least during the late Archean.     

试论早子沟金矿成矿作用过程中地幔流体的参与

早子沟金矿地处夏河—合作—岷县区域性深大断裂带南侧,在时空上受断裂和壳幔混合岩浆双重控制。通过对矿床主要控矿因素、矿石稀土地球化学、流体包裹体及S、H、O、Pb同位素的系统研究,在探讨成矿流体来源的基础上,对地幔流体参与金矿成矿作用的可能性进行了探讨。研究表明：矿石稀土元素配分模式表现出轻稀土富集的特征;矿床流体包裹体气相成分主要为H₂O和CO₂,含少量CH₄、N₂等,液相成分阳离子以Na⁺、K⁺为主,含少量Ca²⁺ 、Mg²⁺,阴离子以SO₄^2-、Cl^-为主;黄铁矿、辉锑矿矿物的?啄³⁴ S_v-CDT介于-10. 30‰ ~ -4. 9‰之间,平均-8. 33‰,反映成矿作用过程有地层硫的加入;氢、氧同位素显示成矿流体既有岩浆水和地幔初生水的参与,亦有大气降水的加入;矿石铅同位素组成显示铅来源于壳幔的混合。以上说明成矿流体具多源性,暗示地幔流体参与了矿床成矿作用。     

Geochemical Features of the Diamondiferous Suevites of the Kara Astrobleme (Pay-Khoy)

Doklady Earth Sciences - The results of geochemical studies of the diamondiferous suevites of the Kara astrobleme (Pay-Khoy) using a new approach based on “area” microprobe analysis of...     

Sources and Fluids in the Mantle Wedge below Kamchatka, Evidence from Across-arc Geochemical Variation

Major and trace element and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic variationsin mafic volcanic rocks hve been studied in a 220 km transectacross the Kamchatka arc from the Eastern Volcanic Front, overthe Central Kamchatka Depression to the Sredinny Ridge in theback-arc. Thirteen volcanoes and lava fields, from 110 to 400km above the subducted slab, were sampled. This allows us tocharacterize spatial variations and the relative amount andcomposition of the slab fluid involved in magma genesis. TypicalKamchatka arc basalts, normalized for fractionation to 6% MgO,display a strong increase in large ion lithophile, light rareearth and high field strength elements from the arc front tothe back-arc. Ba/Zr and Ce/Pb ratios, however, are nearly constantacross the arc, which suggests a similar fluid input for Baand Pb. La/Yb and Nb/Zr increase from the arc front to the back-arc.Rocks from the Central Kamchatka Depression range in ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Srfrom 0·70334 to 0·70366, but have almost constantNd isotopic compositions (¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd 0·51307–0·51312).This correlates with the highest U/Th ratios in these rocks.Pb-isotopic ratios are mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB)-like butdecrease slightly from the volcanic front to the back-arc. Theinitial mantle source ranged from N-MORB-like in the volcanicfront and Central Kamchatka Depression to more enriched in theback-arc. This enriched component is similar to an ocean-islandbasalt (OIB) source. Variations in (CaO)_6·0–(Na₂O)_6·0show that degree of melting decreases from the arc front tothe Central Kamchatka Depression and remains constant from thereto the Sredinny Ridge. Calculated fluid compositions have asimilar trace element pattern across the arc, although minordifferences are implied. A model is presented that quantifiesthe various mantle components (variably depleted N-MORB-mantleand enriched OIB-mantle) and the fluid compositions added tothis mantle wedge. The amount of fluid added ranges from 0·7to 2·1%. The degree of melting changes from