Travel time of accreted igneous assemblages in western Pacific orogenic belts and their associated sedimentary rocks

Accreted igneous assemblages in orogenic belts maybe divided into three types depending on whether they derive from seamounts, ocean ridges or subduction-related ophiolites. Seamount type basalts are associated with shallow water sediments—mostly reefoidal limestones. Ocean ridge type basalts are generally overlain by pelagic cherts. Subduction-related ophiolitic eruptives, often underlain by gabbroic and ultramafic rocks, are associated with hemipelagic mudstones. The age of such diverse eruptive lithologic assemblages reflects the time taken for them to have traveled from their locus of generation to their place of accretion at a continental margin. This relationship has been established for each type of accretionary complex, examples being taken mostly from Japan and the western Pacific rim in order to represent evolutionary processes at a typical active plate margin. In general, the seamount types are older, ridge types are of intermediate age, and the ophiolitic types are by far the youngest, usually close to zero age. Seamount type basalts are accreted by shallower scraping of the seamount's sediment apron together with fragments of seamount basalt, ridge type, by peeling due to permeability contrast, and the ophiolitic types by deeper scraping as a consequence of an inflected temperature gradient. Accordingly, it is concluded that the ophiolitic rocks are generated close to the trench and may be accreted as a result of ridge subduction.     

扬子陆块西缘中元古代菜子园蛇绿混杂岩的厘定及其地质意义

对扬子陆块西缘会理关河—通安地区菜子园蛇绿混杂岩进行了厘定。菜子园蛇绿混杂岩主要以强烈剪切变形的基质和洋板构造岩块混杂堆积为特征。基质主要有变质粉砂岩、板岩、硅质板岩、片岩、千枚岩等。洋板构造岩块由蛇纹岩、辉长岩、玄武岩、硅质岩、大理岩等组成,部分地区玄武岩保留枕状构造,各岩块之间为构造接触关系。菜子园蛇绿混杂岩中桃树湾辉长岩和玄武岩具有轻稀土元素亏损、类似N-MORB(正常洋中脊玄武岩)的稀土元素配分模式,相对于N-MORB富集大离子亲石元素,亏损Nb、Ta高场强元素,极低的Nb/U(9.74)、Nb/Th(3.02)和V/Ti(0.1)平均值,具典型MORB-like玄武岩(前弧玄武岩-FAB)地球化学特征,认为可能形成于洋内弧环境。桃树湾辉长岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素定年表明,辉长岩的年龄为1375±7Ma(MSWD=1.2,n=21),可能代表菜子园-通安洋洋壳初始俯冲的时间。菜子园蛇绿混杂岩的厘定,对重新认识通安群(通安组)的属性,研究扬子陆块西缘古—中元古代地层系统、地质演化、岩浆作用、构造定位,重新划分扬子陆块基底大地构造单元,以及探索全球Columbia超大陆裂解到Rodinia超大陆汇聚的演化过程等都具有重要意义。     

关于如年各组的新认识

分布于炉霍-道孚断裂带的如年各组为一套深海环境形成的构造变形强烈的含硅质岩复理石沉积,与大量的蛇绿岩残片和古生界灰岩等外来岩块共存,具有基质、原地岩块和外来岩块共存的沉积-构造混杂特征,时代可限制在中三叠世拉丁期-晚三叠世诺利期.为了与理塘蛇绿岩群及金沙江蛇绿岩群相对比,将其更名为如年各岩群.     

New ophiolite occurrences in Sudan and constraint on the western boundary of the Nubian Shield: Petrographical and geochemical evidence

Important mafic–ultramafic masses have been located for the first time in the intersection area between the Keraf Shear Zone and the Nakasib Suture Zone of the Nubian Shield. The masses, comprising most of the members of the ophiolite suite, are Sotrebab and Qurun complexes east of the Nile, and Fadllab complex west of the Nile. The new mafic–ultramafic masses are located on the same trend of the ophiolitic masses decorating the Nakasib Suture. A typical complete ophiolite sequence has not been observed in these complexes, nevertheless, the mafic–ultramafic rocks comprise basal unit of serpentinite and talc chlorite schists overlain by a thick cumulate facies of peridotites, pyroxenites and layered gabbros overlain by basaltic pillow lavas with dolerite dykes and screens of massive gabbros. Associated with pillow lavas are thin layers of carbonates and chert. The best section of cumulate mafic–ultramafic units has been observed in Jebel Qurun and El Fadlab complexes, comprising peridotites, pyroxenites and layered gabbros. Dolerite dykes and screens of massive gabbros have been observed with basaltic pillow lava sections in Wadi Dar Tawaiy. The basal ultramafic units of the complexes have been fully or partly retrograded to chlorite magnetite schist and talc to talc-carbonate rocks (listowenites), especially in the Jebel Qurun and Sotrebab complexes. Petrographically, the gabbros (layered and massive) and the basaltic pillow lavas show mineral assemblages of epidote amphibolite facies. The mafic members from the three complexes show a clear tholeiitic trend and oceanic floor affinity. The pillow lavas plot in the field of oceanic floor basalt, namely in the back arc field. Primitive mantle normalized spider diagram of the pillow lavas reveals a closer correspondence to Enrich-Mid-Oceanic Ridge Basalt (E-MORB) type, which is confirmed by the flat chondrite normalized Rare Earth Elements (REE) pattern. Field, petrographical and geochemical evidence supports ophiolitic origin of the three complexes. The newly discovered ophiolitic complexes mark the western continuation of the Nakasib Suture Zone.     

班公湖-怒江结合带西段中特提斯多岛弧构造演化

本文根据1∶25万地质填图成果,将班公湖-怒江结合带西段弧-盆系时空结构自北向南划分为五峰尖-拉热拉新晚侏罗世—早白垩世陆缘火山-岩浆弧带、班公湖蛇绿混杂岩北、南亚带和昂龙岗日-班戈白垩纪—始新世岩浆弧带等,初步认为中特提斯洋经历了三叠纪—早侏罗世扩张,中—晚侏罗世往北、南双向俯冲,晚三叠世—早白垩世残余洋(海)盆和早—晚白垩世陆-弧(陆)碰撞等演化阶段。     

西藏雅鲁藏布江缝合带西段南北亚带蛇绿岩的成因探讨

雅鲁藏布江蛇绿岩带自萨嘎以西分为达巴-休古嘎布(南亚带)和萨嘎-达机翁(北亚带)两个亚带,但两者的关系和构造环境还存在争论。本文在实测剖面的基础上,对比南北亚带蛇绿岩产出和岩石组成,以及对比基性岩脉和围岩方辉橄榄岩的地球化学和年代学特征,探讨两个带的关系和构造环境。北带错不扎、加纳崩和巴尔基性岩脉具有高Si、Al,低K、Ti、P特征,属钙碱性玄武质成分,锆石U-Pb年龄为125~128Ma;南亚带东波、普兰、休古嘎布基性岩具有高Mg、Ti,低Si、K特征,为低钾拉斑玄武质成分,锆石U-Pb年龄为120~130Ma。南北带基性岩具有类似产状和年代学,球粒陨石标准化曲线与NMORB一致;N-MORB标准化蛛网图中显示Nb、Ta、Ti负异常,指示洋内俯冲带弧前或弧后环境。此外,两带基性岩围岩方辉橄榄岩中橄榄石、辉石、尖晶石具有类似的矿物成分特征,地球化学成分兼有弧前和深海地幔橄榄岩的特点,指示南北亚带蛇绿岩形成于俯冲带弧前环境。结合区域对比,南亚带蛇绿岩不发育沟-弧-盆体系,具有从北到南的构造侵位特征,南北亚带之间的仲巴微地体具有特提斯喜马拉雅的亲缘性,指示南北蛇绿岩亚带可能为相同大洋岩石圈的不同残余。     

Tertiary age and paleostructural inferences of the eclogitic imprint in the Austroalpine outliers and Zermatt–Saas ophiolite, western Alps

The Austroalpine Sesia-Lanzo inlier and upper Austroalpine Dent Blanche, Mt. Mary and Pillonet outliers occur on top of the western-Alpine orogenic wedge and, as a whole, override the structurally composite ophiolitic Piemonte zone. Instead, the Mt. Emilius, Glacier-Rafray, Etirol-Levaz and other lower Austroalpine eclogitic outliers are inserted within the Piemonte zone, between its upper (Combin) and lower (Zermatt-Saas) tectonic elements, or within the latter. Rb-Sr dating on phengitic micas show that the eclogitic imprint in the lower Austroalpine outliers, conventionally regarded as Late Cretaceous by comparison with the Sesia-Lanzo inlier, is of Eocene age (49-40 Ma), like the underlying Zermatt-Saas ophiolite (45-42 Ma) between the Aosta valley and Gran Paradiso massif. ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar plateau ages on the same mica concentrates of the ophiolitic Zermatt-Saas nappe (46-43 Ma) are consistent with Rb-Sr dating, whereas that on the Austroalpine Glacier-Rafray klippe (92 Ma) is influenced by argon excess. The lower Austroalpine outliers underwent the subduction metamorphism concurrently with the Zermatt-Saas nappe, 20-25 Ma later than the eclogitic Sesia-Lanzo inlier and blueschist Pillonet klippe. The temporal gap and present intra-ophiolitic position mean that the lower Austroalpine outliers were probably derived from an intraoceanic extensional allochthon (Mt. Emilius domain) stranded inside the Piemonte-Ligurian ocean far from the Dent Blanche-Sesia domain and Adriatic margin.     

Upper miocene shallow-water turbidites from western Tuscany

A sequence of graded ophiolitic sandstones, 120 m thick (Sanguigna Formation), outcrops within the Messinian Evaporite Group in a limited area near Gabbro, Fine Basin, western Tuscany.The formation lies between fine-grained sediments laid down under a thin water-cover. The graded beds show, on the other hand, many features typical of proximal turbidites, such as amalgamated layers, scour-and-fill structures, clay flakes and lumps, top-truncated Bouma sequences. Grain-size analyses suggest that they were deposited from high-density turbidity flows.The petrographic composition and the grain fabric indicate that the feeding was from the northeast across the Fine Basin. From the inferred dimensions and depth of the basin, the mean slope should have been less than 1°. The turbidity currents probably originated at a river mouth during flood stages.The Sanguigna graded beds are compared with occurrences of shallow-water turbidites.     

阿勒吞昆多蛇绿混杂岩斜长花岗岩锆石SHRIMP测年及时限

在大量查阅分析和研究前人资料基础上,提出阿勒吞昆多蛇绿混杂岩是卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带的向东延伸部分。卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带西起卡拉麦里—塔克扎勒—大黑山至伊吾县阿勒吞昆多一带,向东可能延伸至蒙古境内。该蛇绿混杂岩中斜长花岗岩产于辉长岩顶部,二者呈突变或渐变接触关系。应用SHRIMP方法对斜长花岗岩进行了锆石U-Pb定年,获得了(351±6Ma)的年龄,这一年龄反映阿勒吞昆多蛇绿岩形成于早石炭世。同时,该蛇绿混杂岩上覆岩系的时代为晚石炭世,表明阿勒吞昆多蛇绿混杂岩侵位时代不晚于晚石炭世。     

东昆仑造山带不同蛇绿岩带的厘定及其构造意义

在野外填图和室内地球化学研究的基础上,对东昆仑造山带蛇绿岩重新进行了厘定,并对本区构造演化进行了探讨,把东昆仑造山带蛇绿岩划分为４个带,从南到北分别为：阿尼玛卿蛇绿岩带、塔妥蛇绿岩带、清水泉蛇绿岩带、乌妥蛇绿岩带,它们在围岩的时代、构造样式及围岩变质程度,地球化学等方面明显差异。     

川西松潘-甘孜弧前盆地的形成及演化

地处柴南缘昆中蛇绿杂岩带与羌塘地块北缘可可西里—金沙江古缝合线之间的松潘—甘孜褶皱带(包括东昆仑构造带)，其主体应属古特提斯洋晚石炭世一晚三叠世时期向其北侧的柴达木古陆南缘俯冲过程中在活动陆缘弧—沟间隙之间增生形成的一个大型弧前构造带。具有由弧前盆地沉积楔和基底增生杂岩构成的双重结构特点，其形成与冈瓦纳大陆北缘若尔盖“三角”地块的楔入及俯冲带向南迁移有关。大致经历了晚石炭世一早三叠世狭窄弧前盆地和中晚三叠世宽阔弧前盆地两个主要演化阶段。     

Geology,Geochemistry, and Evolution of the Divrigi and Kuluncak Ophiolitic Melanges,with Reference to Serpentinites in East-Central Turkey

The Divrigi and Kuluncak ophiolitic mélanges are located in central Anatolia in the Tauride ophiolite belt. The stratigraphic sequence in the Divrigi ophiolitic mélange includes, from bottom to top, the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Akdag limestone, Upper Cretaceous Çalti ultramafic rocks, and the Curek listwaenite. The Divrigi ophiolitic mélange is intruded by the Late Cretaceous-Eocene Murmano pluton. The above stratigraphic sequence is followed by the Eocene-Paleocene Ekinbasi metasomatite and the Quaternary Kilise Formation.

The oldest sequence of rocks in Kuluncak ophiolitic mélange in the GuvenÇ area is the Karadere serpentine/ultramafic body overlain successively by the Kurtali gabbro, Gundegcikdere radiolarite, the GuvenÇ listwaenites, and the Buldudere Formation. All of these units are Late Cretaceous in age. The Karamagra siderite deposit in the Hekimhan area probably was formed in the Lower Cretaceous at the contact between Çalti ultramafic rocks and the Buldudere Formation. The Kuluncak ophiolitic mélange was intruded by a subvolcanic trachyte in the Late Cretaceous. The Eocene-Paleocene Konukdere metasomatite, the Miocene Yamadag volcanic rocks, and Quaternary slope deposits are late in the stratigraphic sequence in the GuvenÇ area.

The Kuluncak ophiolitic mélange in the Karakuz area is similar to that at GuvenÇ; however, gabbro, radiolarite, and Miocene volcanic rocks are not present. The Miocene is represented by the Ciritbelen Formation at Karakuz and the Karakuz iron deposit is hosted by a Late Cretaceous subvolcanic trachyte.

The rareearth and trace-element concentration of serpentinite in the Divrigi and Kuluncak ophiolitic mélanges indicate that all of the ultramafics and their alteration products were derived from a MORB, which was depleted in certain elements and oxides. The results expressed in this study support the idea that the Divrigi and Kuluncak ophiolitic mélanges within the Tauride ophiolite belt originated from Northern Tauride oceanic lithosphere (Poisson, 1986), instead of a northern branch of Neo-Tethys (Sengor and Yilmaz, 1981).     

西阿尔卑斯Zermatt-Saas洋壳深俯冲超高压变质带与我国新疆西南天山超高压变质带的比较

根据对西阿尔卑斯Zernatt-Saas带的野外地质考察及有关资料的总结,详细地介绍了西阿尔卑斯Zermatt-Saas洋壳深俯冲超高压变质带的地质概括、岩石组成和变质作用演化过程,并着重与我国新疆西南天山洋壳深俯冲超高压变质带进行了比较,探讨了这两个洋壳深俯冲超高压变质带在变质作用和地质演化方面的异同。在此基础上,总结了这两个目前世界上已知最典型的洋壳深俯冲超高压变质带的基本地质特征是都具有保存完好的洋壳岩石组合特征和较低的地热梯度。     

波密地区帕隆藏布残留蛇绿混杂岩带的发现及其意义

在进行1：25万墨脱幅地质调查中，笔者首次在波密地区发现和填绘出了帕隆藏布残留蛇绿混杂岩带。帕窿藏布残留蛇绿混杂岩呈串珠状产出于花岗岩类侵入岩中，其岩石组合为橄揽辉石岩、辉石岩、辉长岩、辉长辉绿岩、辉绿岩、石英岩和大理岩，局部可见条带状硅质岩。上述组分之间的相互关系表明，蛇绿岩在花岗岩类岩石侵入之前发生过构造混杂和变形。根据沉积岩所记录的盆地演化过程、蛇绿岩的Rb-Sr年龄值以及残留蛇绿混杂岩带两刨花岗岩类岩石的特征和生成时代综合分析认为：帕隆藏布残留蛇绿混杂岩带形成于石炭-二叠纪的弧间盆地中，至少在晚三叠纪之前出现洋壳，在消减过程中向北俯冲并在中侏罗世之前闭合(弧-弧碰撞)。     

Tectonic history of the ophiolitic rocks of the highland border fracture zone, Scotland: Stable isotope evidence from rock-fluid interactions during obduction

The mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Highland Border Fracture Zone are ophiolitic remnants of a pre-Grampian marginal basin that opened either within, or to the north of, the Dalradian sedimentary pile. Closure of the basin was achieved through a combination of northerly-directed subduction, and obduction of ophiolitic thrust-slices onto the basin's southern margin. During the early stages of obduction, young hot peridotite slabs were thrust over the cold upper surfaces of lower thrust sheets, producing a dynamothermal metamorphic sole. Serpentinisation of these peridotites, whilst they were still cooling, occurred in a near-surface position through the interaction of meteoric waters. Subsequently, the ophiolitic thrust-sheets, which comprise lizardite serpentinites, spilitic pillow lavas, and aureole rocks, were thrust over the uppermost Dalradian nappes which were themselves being expelled southwards, thereby accommodating basement shortening. Grampian regional metamorphism of the nappe pile and overlying Highland Border Suite ophiolitic thrust sheets, produced greenschist metaspilites from the spilitic pillow lavas, induced minor retrogression in the aureole rocks, and caused the lizardite in the serpentinites to be recrystallised and replaced by antigorite. The Highland Border Suite greenschist facies metamorphic fluids were D-enriched compared with low-grade Dalradian metamorphic waters, and may have been mixtures of the latter and D-rich dehydration fluids released from the mafic rocks during dynamothermal metamorphism. Brittle fracturing and shearing in the serpentinites were responses to late deformation at different crustal levels during the final stages of emplacement, which involved gravity-sliding as well as downbending of the Dalradian nappes and ophiolitic thrust-sheets against the elevated Midland Valley block.     

南秦岭勉略构造混杂岩带非史密斯地层系统和地层格架

南秦岭西段勉略构造混杂岩带是由不同的构造岩片组成的非史密斯地层区。本文建立了勉略构造带太古宙—石炭纪的地层系统。勉略构造带及其邻区地层格架分析表明晚震旦世—寒武纪勉略构造带及中秦岭为扬子板块北缘的一部分。奥陶纪—志留纪大致沿勉略构造带形成南秦岭裂陷槽。泥盆纪—石炭纪该裂陷槽进一步开裂形成勉略洋。该洋盆从石炭纪开始俯冲萎缩并最终于三叠纪后期碰撞、闭合并造山。     

Ophiolitic melange and flyschoidal sediments of the Tithonian–Lower Cretaceous in Albania

Ophiolitic melange and flyschoidal sediments of the Tithonian-Lower Cretaceous age are widespread in the Eastern Albanides. They lie transgressively or normally on top of the ophiolitic sequence through radiolarian cherts of the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian age, or on top of the carbonate sequence of the periphery of the ophiolites through Middle Liassic-Dogger-Malm pelagic limestones with manganese nodules and radiolarian cherts. They are overlain by conglomerates or neritic limestones of the Lower Cretaceous age. Ophiolitic melange consists of ophiolitic conglobreccias, often of homogenous composition: serpentinite melange with a ‘sedimentary’serpentinite matrix, or basaltic ‘sedimentary’tuffagglomerate. Less commonly they have a heterogeneous composition with small amounts of fine-grained matrix and marls with calpionellids. In other examples, the ophiolitic melange contains heterogeneous exotic blocks including all the members of the ophiolite suite: serpentinite, ophicalcite, gabbro, plagiogranite, diabase, basalts, dacites, amphibolite, sulphide and chromite ores as well as blocks of radiolarites, limestones etc. in the argillic matrix. They are overlain by conglomerate-sandstone-marly flyschoidal deposits with abundant ophiolitic detritus and calpionellids. These deposits are linked with Tithonian-Lower Cretaceous tectogenesis, which led to the fragmentary uplift of ophiolites and partly of their sedimentary periphery, and to the formation of the faulted topography. The presence of the ophiolitic melange and flyschoidal sediments both over the ophiolites and the associated sedimentary rocks of their periphery indicate that the latter were not the basement of an ophiolite nappe during the Late Jurassic time.     

西秦岭太白地区岩湾－鹦鸽咀蛇绿混杂岩的 地质特征及形成时代

岩湾-鹦鸽咀蛇绿混杂岩是秦岭商丹蛇绿混杂岩带的重要组成部分,由变质基性火山岩(玄武岩)、蛇纹岩、变辉长岩、硅质岩、变复理石(云母石英片岩)等构造岩块组成.其中变基性火山岩具有N-MORB的地球化学特征,安山岩具有与俯冲作用密切相关的岛弧火山岩的性质.玄武岩的锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄为483 Ma±13Ma,与天水关子镇和丹风蛇绿混杂岩的时代相一致.对岩湾-鹦鸽咀蛇绿混杂岩的岩石组成和形成时代进行研究,可为进一步探讨商丹蛇绿混杂岩带和秦岭造山带的增生造山作用提供重要证据.     

Application of ASTER and Landsat TM Data for Geological Mapping of Esfandagheh Ophiolite Complex,Southern Iran

This research developed an approach to enable the discrimination of lithological units and detection of host rock of chromitite bodies within ophiolitic complexes using the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER) and Landsat thematic mapper (TM) satellite data. Three main ophiolite complexes located in southern Iran were selected for the study. A specialized band ratio (4/1, 4/5, 4/7) of ASTER, minimum noise fraction (MNF) components and spectral angle mapper (SAM) on ASTER and Landsat TM data were used to distinguish ophiolitic rock units. Results show that the specialized band ratio was able to identify different rock units and serpentinized dunite as host rock of chromitites within ophiolitic complexes. Minimum noise fraction components of ASTER and Landsat TM data are suitable for distinguishing ophiolitic rock complexes at a regional scale. The integration of SAM and feature level fusion used in this investigation discriminated the ophiolitic rock units and provided geological map for the study area, including identification of high potential areas (serpentinite dunite) for chromite exploration targets.     

Geochemical Features of the Two Early Paleozoic Ophiolitic Zones and Volcanic Rocks in the Central —Southern Tianshan Region ,Xinjiang

This paper deals with the geochemical features of the two Early Paleozoic ophiolite zones in the central-southem Tianshan region and the central Tianshan igneous rock belt between them.Study results suggest that the central Tianshan belt was an Ordovician volcanic arc with an affinity of continental crust, and the Kumux-Hongluhe ophiolitic zone that is located on the southern margin of central Tianshan has a crustal affinity to back-arc marginal sea.The Aqqikkudug-Weiya ophiolitic zone is an accretionary boundary between the Tuha continental block and the central Tianshan volcanic arc during Late Silurian to Devoniann;Ordovician ophi-olitic blocks,Silurian flysch sequence and HP metamorphic rock relics are distributed along the Aqqikkudug-Weiya zone.Geochemically,ophiolitic rocks in the Aqqikkudug-Weiya zone have an affinity to oceanic crust,reflecting a tectonic setting of paleo-trench or subduction zone .The Early Carboniferous red molasses were deposited unconformably on the pre-Carboniferous meta-mrophosed and ductile sheared volcanic and flysch rocks,providing an upper limit age of the central and southern Tianshan belts.