阿尔金断裂带年代学和阿尔金山隆升

对阿尔金山断裂带内变形的中生代剪切带中眼球状片麻岩、糜棱岩化花岗片麻岩和新生代剪切带中强变形绿片岩系列样品中同构造新生云母矿物的⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar法定年,获得了164.3~178.4Ma和26.3~36.4Ma两组年龄。结合阿尔金走滑断裂水平错距的研究,认为164.3~178.4Ma的年龄代表阿尔金走滑断裂带的起始活动时间(早侏罗世末—中侏罗世),尔后分别在距今100~85Ma,40~25Ma和10~8Ma发生多次脉冲式走滑活动。新生代沉积物研究表明上干柴沟组和下干柴沟组砂岩骨架矿物成份含量明显不同,随时间变化,石英含量减少,岩屑组份和不稳定矿物含量增加,分选性逐渐变差。这表明阿尔金山在渐新世(下干柴沟组时期)开始发生明显的隆升。地震和柴达木—塔里木盆地沉积速率资料显示在晚中新世山体也发生了一次强烈的隆升。七个泉组(上新世末—早更新世初)和下伏沉积物(上新世中期)之间的角度不整合反映了最后一次强烈隆升事件发生在晚上新世。多数隆升事件和阿尔金断裂带新生代脉冲式活动的同位素年龄完全一致,表明阿尔金山的隆升和断裂带的活动具有密切的成因联系。     

First results on the LPO-derived seismic properties of iron ores from the Quadrilátero Ferrífero region, southeastern Brazil

The role of hydrothermal fluids in assisting the activity of strike-slip faults is investigated using a range of new geological, geophysical, and geochemical data obtained on the Argentat fault, Massif Central, France. This fault zone, 180-km-long and 6 to 8 km-width, has experienced coeval intense channeling of hydrothermal fluids and brittle deformation during a short time span (300–295 Ma). According to seismic data, the fault core is a 4-km-wide, vertical zone of high fracture density that rooted in the middle crust (~ 13 km) and that involved fluids in its deeper parts (9–13 km depth). If stress analyses in the fault core and strain analyses in the damage zone both support a left-lateral movement along the fault zone, it is inferred that hydrothermal fluids have strongly influenced fault development, and the resulting fault has influenced fluid flow. Fluid pressure made easier fracturing and faulting in zones of competent rocks units and along rheological boundaries. Repeated cycles of increase of fault-fracture permeability then overpressure of hydrothermal fluids at fault extremity favored strong and fast development of the crustal-scale strike-slip fault. The high permeability obtained along the fault zone permitted a decrease of coupling across the weak fault core. Connections between shallower and lower crustal fluids reservoirs precipitate the decrease of fault activity by quartz precipitation and sulfides deposition. The zones of intense hydrothermal alteration at shallows crustal levels and the zones of fluid overpressure at the base of the upper crust both controlled the final geometry of the crustal-scale fault zone.     

Relationships between magmatism and extension along the Autun–La Serre fault system in the Variscan Belt of the eastern French Massif Central

The ENE–WSW Autun Shear Zone in the northeastern part of the French Massif Central has been interpreted previously as a dextral wrench fault. New field observations and microstructural analyses document a NE–SW stretching lineation that indicates normal dextral motions along this shear zone. Further east, similar structures are observed along the La Serre Shear Zone. In both areas, a strain gradient from leucogranites with a weak preferred orientation to highly sheared mylonites supports a continuous Autun–La Serre fault system. Microstructural observations, and shape and lattice-preferred orientation document high-temperature deformation and magmatic fabrics in the Autun and La Serre granites, whereas low- to intermediate-temperature fabrics characterize the mylonitic granite. Electron microprobe monazite geochronology of the Autun and La Serre granites yields a ca. 320 Ma age for pluton emplacement, while mica ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar datings of the Autun granite yield plateau ages from 305 to 300 Ma. The ca. 300 Ma ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar ages, obtained on micas from Autun and La Serre mylonites, indicate the time of the mylonitization. The ca. 15-Ma time gap between pluton emplacement and deformation along the Autun–La Serre fault system argue against a synkinematic pluton emplacement during late orogenic to postorogenic extension of the Variscan Belt. A ductile to brittle continuum of deformation is observed along the shear zone, with Lower Permian brittle faults controlling the development of sedimentary basins. These results suggest a two-stage Late Carboniferous extension in the northeastern French Massif Central, with regional crustal melting and emplacement of the Autun and La Serre leucogranites around 320 Ma, followed, at 305–295 Ma, by ductile shearing, normal brittle faulting, and subsequent exhumation along the Autun–La Serre transtensional fault system.     

新疆东准噶尔卡拉麦里造山型金成矿系统与区域构造演化

新疆东准噶尔卡拉麦里地区以金水泉、双泉、南明水、苏吉泉东等为代表的金矿床,构成了一套与晚古生代碰撞造山有关的金成矿系统。矿床夹持于区域性的卡拉麦里深大断裂和清水—苏吉泉大断裂之间,矿化受次级脆-韧性断层控制,以中等至陡倾斜的含金石英脉和破碎蚀变岩的形式产于晚古生代浅变质火山沉积岩中。流体包裹体、H-O-S-Pb同位素和热液锆石U-Pb年代学研究表明,成矿流体具中高温(集中于240~330 ℃)、低盐度(<6% NaCl_eq)、富CO₂的变质流体特征,成矿物质来自赋矿的火山沉积岩系,流体不混溶(相分离)和水-岩反应(围岩硫化作用)是导致金沉淀的主要机制,成矿深度变化于7~15 km之间,成矿时代约为314 Ma。晚石炭世至早二叠世,研究区的构造体制由挤压向走滑或走滑伸展转换,构造应力的释放导致深部变质脱水形成的低盐度CO₂-H₂O-NaCl±CH₄含金流体,沿走向NW至近EW向的走滑剪切断裂向地壳浅部流动,并在脆-韧性过渡带或脆性变形带的次级断裂中形成含金石英脉及蚀变岩型金矿石。     

华北克拉通北缘及邻区印支期岩浆活动与钼和金成矿作用

对华北克拉通北缘及邻区19处钼矿床和5处金矿床的产出环境、形成时代和成矿机理及其与印支期侵入岩的关系进行了讨论。尽管各个矿床所处的地理位置不同,但是它们大都在前寒武纪或早古生代地层中产出,并且与印支期侵入岩具有密切的时空分布关系。印支期钼矿床的形成作用可以从早三叠世一直持续到晚三叠世,大规模成矿作用高峰期为230~220 Ma。相比之下,金矿床的形成时间明显早于钼矿床,同位素年龄数据集中分布在245~239 Ma。研究结果表明,自早三叠世开始,华北克拉通北缘及邻区曾发生过多期大规模伸展构造作用,并且形成若干条近东西向展布的裂陷带。张裂构造作用所诱发的富碱性岩浆作用及相关流体活动为钼或金矿床的形成提供了动力和物质来源,因此,印支期侵入岩发育区是寻找隐伏钼或金矿床的有利地区。     

The denudation history of the Argentera Alpine External Crystalline Massif (Western Alps,France-Italy): an overview from the analysis of fission tracks in apatites and zircons

Apatite/zircon fission track (FT) records of the Argentera external crystalline massif (Western Alps) show three tectonic pulses, respectively at 22 Ma (zircons), 6 and 3.5 Ma (apatites). The first pulse is consistent with the basement exhumation and initiation of the major deformation recorded in the foreland of the belt from Middle to early Upper Miocene. The two others might be respectively local expressions of the syncollisional extension mainly controlled by a westward sedimentary cover detachment and a Plio-Quaternary uplift acceleration. Zircon ages of 50-80 Ma in a limited NW area and evidence of an uplift elsewhere show that in a large fraction of the massif, temperatures in post-Variscan times never reached 320°C. Finally, FT data show that the Argentera massif did not behave as a single block during its denudation. First, in the NW of the massif, a small fault-limited block was already separated since the Cretaceous and later on recorded the 6 Ma denudation event, the 22 Ma pulse being recorded only in the remaining part of the massif. Second, less than 3.5 Ma ago, the northeastern part of the massif overthrust the southwestern block along the Bersézio-Veillos fault zone.     

Geologic structure of the Mukodek gold field (northern Transbaikalia) and sources of matter (Pb-Pb and Sm-Nd data)

The Mukodek gold field is located in the Yana zone of the Baikal-Muya fold belt (northern Transbaikalia). Its orebodies are gold-bearing metasomatites confined to the fault of NE strike. It is shown that pre-ore faults played a crucial role in the spatial localization of the orebodies, as they favored the concentration of ore-bearing fluids. Results of geological and structural studies, along with available geochronological data (⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar dates for micas in gold-bearing pyrite), testify to ore-forming processes in the ore field during two Late Paleozoic stages. Early gold-bearing metasomatites of sericite-chlorite-albite-ankerite-quartz composition formed at 320 Ma, and late gold-bearing vein metasomatites of ankerite(calcite)-quartz composition originated at 285 Ma. A Pb-Pb isotope study of gold mineralization has shown that ore lead was supplied into the mineral-forming system mainly from a mantle source, most likely, regional Neoproterozoic igneous rocks. According to Sm-Nd isotope data, these rocks formed with the participation of a material of mantle genesis.     

The Late Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the central segment of the Andean subduction zone

The presented model of the Late Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the central Andes and the complex tectonic, geological, and geophysical model of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle along the Central Andean Transect, which crosses the Andean subduction zone along 21°S, are based on the integration of voluminous and diverse data. The onset of the recent evolution of the central Andes is dated at the late Oligocene (27 Ma ago), when the local fluid-induced rheological attenuation of the continental lithosphere occurred far back of the subduction zone. Tectonic deformation started to develop in thick-skinned style above the attenuated domain in the upper mantle and then in the Earth’s crust, creating the bivergent system of the present-day Eastern Cordillera. The destruction of the continental lithosphere is correlated with ore mineralization in the Bolivian tin belt, which presumably started at 16° S and spread to the north and to the south. Approximately 19 Ma ago, the gently dipping Subandean Thrust Fault was formed beneath the Eastern Cordillera, along which the South American Platform began to thrust under the Andes with rapid thickening of the crust in the eastern Andean Orogen owing to its doubling. The style of deformation in the upper crust above the Subandean Thrust Fault changed from thick- to thin-skinned, and the deformation front migrated to the east inland, forming the Subandean system of folds and thrust faults verging largely eastward. The thickening of the crust was accompanied by flows at the lower and/or middle crustal levels, delamination, and collapse of fragments of the lower crust and lithospheric mantle beneath the Eastern Cordillera and Altiplano-Puna Plateau. As the thickness of the middle and lower crustal layers reached a critical thickness about 10 Ma ago, the viscoplastic flow in the meridional direction became more intense. Extension of the upper brittle crust was realized mainly in gliding and rotation of blocks along a rhombic fault system. Some blocks sank, creating sedimentary basins. The rate of southward migration estimated from the age of these basins is 26 km/Ma. Tectonic deformation was accompanied by diverse magmatic activity (ignimbrite complexes, basaltic flows, shoshonitic volcanism, etc.) within the tract from the Western Cordillera to the western edge of the Eastern Cordillera 27–5 Ma ago with a peak at 7 Ma; after this, it began to recede westward; by 5 Ma ago, the magmatic activity reached only the western part of the Altiplano-Puna Plateau, and it has been concentrated in the volcanic arc of the Western Cordillera during the last 2 Ma.     

郯庐断裂带巢湖—庐江段晚中生代火山岩的锆石U-Pb年代学

采用LA-ICP-MS方法对郯庐断裂带巢湖—庐江段的晚中生代火山岩进行了锆石U-Pb年代学研究。由6个样品获得的该处火山喷发时间在距今125~93Ma,为早白垩世晚期至晚白垩世初期,经历了32Ma的喷发历史。与附近的庐枞盆地、北大别造山带及北淮阳地区相比,该地火山喷发具有较晚的结束时间,说明岩石圈减薄具有相对强烈的程度和较长的持续时间。93Ma是已知的华北克拉通残留富集岩石圈地幔最晚的岩浆岩年代学记录。锆石的饱和温度计算、岩浆中较低的MgO含量和Mg^#值均不支持岩浆由拆沉的下地壳部分熔融形成,岩浆活动的可能成因是壳幔相互作用,岩浆源区具有由幔源向壳源再过渡到幔源的时间演化顺序。这暗示断裂带下强烈的软流圈上涌引起岩石圈地幔的熔融(距今125Ma),随后岩石圈持续的减薄作用导致其内部热流升高,出现了以流纹岩为代表的地热异常背景下地壳源区的部分熔融(距今120Ma),而最终岩石圈强烈减薄背景下的软流圈物质参与岩浆过程可能是晚期幔源岩浆(距今93Ma)的成因。     

Sedimentological evaluation of Pb-Zn exploration potential of the Precambrian Griquatown Fault Zone in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa

The Griquatown Fault Zone (GFZ) is a major target for Pb-Zn exploration in South Africa. The sedimentary, structural and thermal history of the fault zone are evaluated. The fault zone experienced a synsedimentary period of activity between 2550 and 2500 Ma and a major post-Postmasburg Group (less than 2223 Ma) episode of mainly vertical movements. Possible source rocks for generation of metalliferous brines are abundant along the southwestern margin of the Kaapvaal craton and shales southwest of the GFZ are time correlative to a thick peritidal stromatolitic carbonate sequence in the northeast. Fluids driven by compaction and orogenic pressure migrated across the GFZ , via the carbonates, towards the east. Metamorphic overprint south of the GFZ, based on illite crystallinity, and fluid inclusions north of the fault zone are above the oil window. Metamorphic peaks south of the fault zone are at 1750 Ma and 1213 Ma and the intensity of metamorphic overprint decreases from west to east. Because of high temperatures of metamorphic and orogenic overprint and possible remobilisation of fluids, Mississippi-Valley-Type (MVT) ore deposits are unlikely to be found within the Griquatown Fault Zone, but are expected, rather, to the northeast of it. Higher temperature, remobilised vein-related deposits could, however, occur in the GFZ itself. Received: 11 June 1996 / Accepted: 7 January 1997     

Geological evolution of the Neoproterozoic Corumbágraben system (Brazil). Depositional context of the stratified Fe and Mn ores of the Jacadigo Group

The Corumbáregion is located near the junction of two young (545–480 Ma) Brasiliano provinces: the Chiquitos-Tucavaca aulacogen which cross cuts the Amazon craton-Rio Apa block, and the Paraguay fold belt. Formation of the aulacogen and the Paraguay basin, which is interpreted as a foreland basin, was roughly synchronous with the 590 Ma metamorphism in the neighbouring old Brasiliano Brasilia fold belt. Deformation and metamorphism in the Paraguay belt are bracketed between 545 and 500 Ma, whereas folding in the aulacogen occurred between 500 and 480 Ma ago.The NE–SW-trending, Corumbágraben system is located on the eastern part of the WNW–ESE-trending, Chiquitos-Tucavaca aulacogen. The extensional structures of the Corumbágraben system are attributed to flexure of the Amazon craton along the western border of the Paraguay basin.Stratigraphic successions in the Corumbágraben system resemble those of the adjacent cover rocks of the Amazon craton: a lower detrital unit (Jacadigo Group and Boqui, Puga, and Cadieus formations), partly of glacial origin, and an upper carbonate-rich unit, (CorumbáGroup and Pororó, Cerradinho, Bocaina, and Araras formations) with local preservation of an Ediacara-like fauna. The whole sequence is probably Vendian. In the cover sequence around Cuiabá, the carbonate unit is capped by siliciclastic sediments. In comparison to the cratonic cover rocks, the Jacadigo Group, which is filling the Corumbágraben system, differs on three points: it is thicker, contains chemical manganese and iron sedimentary intercalations and was affected by a diagenetic to epimetamorphic event during which temperatures reached 250–280°C. These features are in good agreement with sedimentation of the Jacadigo Group in an extensional environment where Fe and Mn, of probable hydrothermal origin, would be generated by leaching of hypothetical, hidden intrusive mafic plutons associated with graben formation.     

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NEAR-SURFACE AND DEEP-SEATED STRUCTURES IN THE URALIAN-MONGOLIAN FOLDBELT

Mineralization in the Hualgayoc district of northern Peru occurs in altered Miocene felsic intrusions and in mid-Cretaceous platform sedimentary rocks of the Goyllarisquizga, Inca, and Chulec formations. The ores occur both as stratiform and stratabound pyritiferous base-metal deposits (mantos), and as steeply dipping, sedimentary and intrusive rock-hosted base-metal veins. Igneous rocks in the district are affected by propylytic, sericitic-argillic, sericitic, potassic, and acid-sulfate alteration. K-Ar and Rb-Sr dating and geological evidence indicate multiple stages of intrusive activity and hydrothermal alteration, including close spatial emplacement of two or more separate Miocene magmatic-hydrothermal systems. K-Ar dates on sericite, hydrothermal biotite, and alunite indicate that the most important hydrothermal episodes in the district took place ≈13.24 and 12.4 Ma. Other K-Ar dates on altered rocks in the district may reflect various amounts of resetting by the emplacement of the 9.05 ± 0.2 Ma Hualgayoc rhyodacite. A five-point Rb-Sr isochron for the San Miguel intrusion at Cerro Coymolache yields an age of 45 ± 3.4 Ma, which indicates much earlier magmatic activity in this area than recognized previously.

Fluid inclusion and paragenetic studies reveal a clear temporal evolution of fluid temperature and chemistry in the San Agustin area at Hualgayoc. Ten distinct paragenetic stages are identified. Early, hot, and relatively saline fluids (300-350° C, up to 16 wt% NaCl equivalent) migrated along brittle fractures (and perhaps directly from the associated plutons) and formed manto deposits by metasomatic replacement of permeable, reactive beds. Gradually, ore formation shifted to precipitation of vein minerals in the brittle fractures as the mantos became less permeable and were sealed off. Vein formation continued from progressively cooler and more diluted fluids (down to ≈150° C and 4.3 wt% NaCl equivalent) as the system waned. No evidence for phase separation is observed in the fluids until the very last paragenetic stage, which contributed no economic mineralization. The shift of δ³⁴S values of hydrothermal sulfide reported by Macfarlane and Shimizu (1991) is best explained by oxidation of the ore fluids as the system evolved.

δ¹⁸O and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values of igneous and sedimentary rocks and of gangue minerals in the district indicate that the hydrothermal fluids were dominantly meteoric throughout the ore-forming event, and were well-equilibrated with the wall rocks, especially toward the end of the paragenetic sequence. No magmatic fluid is required to explain either isotopic data set. In light of the determination by Macfarlane and Petersen (1990) that the hydrothermal metals at Hualgayoc are overwhelmingly magmatic, our results show that the sources of hydrothermal fluids may have no bearing on the sources of metals precipitated at the same time in the same system.     

胶东邓格庄金矿床成因:地质年代学和同位素体系制约

邓格庄金矿地处华北克拉通胶东半岛东部苏鲁超高压带内,黄金储量已超过50t,是胶东牟平-乳山成矿带第二大石英脉型金矿床。矿体产于昆嵛山岩体和荆山群变质岩接触带附近的昆嵛山岩体中,金矿体受控于金牛山断裂带西侧的次级断裂。矿石中的硫-铅-氢-氧同位素值表明成矿流体主要来源于岩浆,具有以地壳为主兼具地幔混合特征,通过深渊断裂发生迁移,在成矿晚期遭受天水混染。围岩昆嵛山二长花岗岩高精度的锆石U-Pb年龄为155. 8Ma,成矿前期蚀变岩中蚀变矿物钾长石和绢云母~(40)Ar-~(39)Ar精确测年结果分别为123Ma和104Ma。结合近年来前人的研究资料,我们建立了胶东金矿集区中生代岩浆岩演化序列,将其划分为160～150Ma、130～110Ma、110～100Ma三个阶段,并给出了大规模爆发式成矿的年龄峰值(120±10Ma)。认为邓格庄金矿既非以变质流体为特征的典型造山型金矿,也非浅成低温热液型金矿,而是伴随华北克拉通岩石圈减薄、软流圈物质上涌、地壳拉张而使壳幔混合流体在浅部以大纵深脉状集中成矿为基本特征的中温岩浆热液型金矿。     

济阳坳陷东部长堤走滑断裂带构造特征及演化过程

济阳坳陷东部长堤断裂是一条特征明显的走滑断裂带,以T₂地震反射层（沙河街组二段底面反射层）为界,发育深层次和浅层次两套断裂系统。深层次断裂系统为长堤走滑断裂带的主体,发育R-P断层组合,剖面上呈丝带状构造样式,平面上呈发辫状构造样式;浅层次断裂系统由一组近南北向左阶羽状雁列带组成,雁列带中的每条断层为近南北向走滑断裂的T断层。Es₃-Es₂^下期,长堤走滑断裂带开始活动,发育深层次断裂系统,系由济阳坳陷和渤中坳陷之间的构造调节作用所造成;Es^上₂-Ed期,发育浅层次断裂系统,与长堤深层次断裂持续活动以及沉积盖层的逐渐增厚有关,同时,郯庐断裂带开始对研究区的构造格局产生影响;Ng-Nm期,研究区处在巨大的北东向走滑递进应变带中,长堤近南北向走滑断裂带让位于郯庐断裂带控制的北东向走滑体系。     

南秦岭晚古生代海底喷气-沉积成矿系统

南秦岭显生宙喷气沉积成矿起始于晚志留世,泥盆纪是热水沉积成矿的主富集期,形成了以Ｐｂ,Ｚｎ为主的,伴生有Ｃｕ,Ａｇ,Ａｕ,Ｆｅ的矿床（体）和Ａｕ,Ｈｇ,Ｓｂ,Ａｓ等富集体,一般可划分出沉积和成岩两个阶段。之后发生了至少三个阶段的后生成矿作用,包括变质、改造、叠加成矿,以及局部的再造成矿。这一成矿系统有统一的物源和相似的金属组合,下伏沉积柱和基底提供了充足的Ｐｂ,Ｚｎ,Ａｕ,Ａｇ,Ｃｕ,Ｈｇ,Ｓｂ,Ａｓ以及Ｆｅ,Ｂａ等。成矿与该区地壳的构造盆地建造岩浆变质变形等演化相伴随,不同阶段与不同性质成矿流体的形成与贯穿造山前后的一系列热事件有密切成因联系,形成了这一金属硫化物成矿系统,并以主富集期和主要成矿形式给予命名     

湘西地区前寒武纪-寒武纪转折期碳酸盐-硅泥质沉积体系的截然转换:地层-沉积样式,形成机理及意义

前寒武纪一寒武纪转折期是地球历史演化的重要阶段之一,不仅纪录了后生动物的产生、灭绝以及加速分异的过程,同时也伴随着海洋地球化学明显的变化、长期全球性海洋缺氧等.为了更好地认识这一重要时期地球表层环境演变及动力机制,我们对湘西地区台地一盆地转换带不同沉积类型及空间变化进行了重点解剖,发现寒武纪最早期该地区在台一盆转换带上...     

汶川地震断裂带结构特征与龙门山隆升的关系

2008年汶川地震(MW7.9)发生在青藏高原东缘龙门山断裂带上,并沿映秀-北川断裂和灌县-安县断裂分别产生约270km和80km的不同性质的地表破裂带。断裂岩是断裂活动的产物,是断裂带的物质组成,其结构特征记录了断裂活动演化的历史。本文以汶川地震发震断裂映秀-北川断裂带中虹口八角庙地区地表露头和汶川地震科学钻探一号孔(WFSD-1)岩心为主要研究对象,通过详细的野外调研、显微结构及XRD分析等,识别出映秀-北川断裂带由五个次级单元组成,分别为:碎裂岩带、黑色断层泥和角砾岩带、灰色断层角砾岩带、深灰色断层角砾岩带以及断层泥和角砾岩带。断裂岩组合显示映秀-北川断裂带具有多核断裂结构特征。映秀-北川断裂带在地表出露的宽度约为240m,岩心中厚度约为105m,碎裂岩、断层角砾岩、断层泥在地表及岩心中均发育,而假玄武玻璃仅在地表碎裂岩部分出现。汶川地震主滑移带斜切了映秀-北川断裂带,不完全沿袭古地震滑移带,暗示汶川地震断裂带与映秀-北川断裂带可能不是同一个断裂体系。通过断裂岩的研究确定了映秀-北川断裂带存在着摩擦熔融、热增压、动态润滑和机械润滑等多种断裂滑移机制。低温热年代学的研究推断映秀-北川断裂带的形成时代为15～10Ma,自形成以来,映秀-北川断裂带的长期活动控制着龙门山的快速隆升。断裂带五个不同断裂岩组合的内部结构带,可能与龙门山不同的隆升速率期有着一定的联系。     

Evolution of the Peak Hill high-sulfidation epithermal Au–Cu deposit,eastern Australia

The early Palaeozoic Macquarie Arc, southeastern Australia, hosts a variety of major late Ordovician to earliest Silurian subduction-related deposits (e.g., Cadia East, Ridgeway, Cadia Hill, Cowal and Northparkes). However, there is uncertainty about whether coeval high-sulfidation epithermal deposits, which occur in intra-oceanic metallogenic belts elsewhere in the West Pacific, (e.g., Lepanto and Chinkuashih), are also present in the Macquarie Arc. This has led to suggestions that their absence may be due to the poor preservation potential of deposits that form at relatively shallow crustal levels in ancient rocks. We present here an interpretation for evolution of the Peak Hill Au–Cu deposit based on the distribution of alteration facies, sulfur isotope data from several textural forms of pyrite and barite, and an assessment of the regional volcanic and sedimentary facies architecture. These data show that the Peak Hill deposit displays a distinct sub-vertical zoning with a pyrophyllite and vuggy-quartz core, that today extends about 350 m east–west and at least 550 m north–south, which grades out through paragonite+muscovite, kaolinite to a chlorite+epidote alteration zone at the margin. The alteration zoning reflects both lower temperatures and neutralisation of acid fluids with increasing distance from the core, which represents the conduit along which hot acidic hydrothermal fluids were channelled. Several temporally overlapping events of silicification, bladed-quartz-pyrite veining, brecciation and pyrite veining occurred during the last stages of hydrothermal alteration, although most appear to predate mineralisation. Au–Cu mineralisation was associated with late quartz-pyrite-barite veins, and the highest gold grades occur mainly in microcrystalline-quartz-altered rocks in the paragonite+muscovite alteration zone, generally within 50 m outward from the boundary of the pyrophyllite and vuggy-quartz core. Sulfur- and lead-isotope data, and the characteristic zoning of ore minerals and alteration assemblages support a magmatic source for the hydrothermal fluids. Similarities in many of the isotopic signatures between Peak Hill and deposits such as Northparkes support generation of the high-sulfidation mineralisation during the Late Ordovician to earliest Silurian (possibly ca. 440 Ma) metallogenic event. The Late Ordovician to Early Silurian volcanic and sedimentary facies associations at Peak Hill are consistent with alteration and mineralisation occurring in rocks deposited in a submarine setting.     

A crucial role for slab break-off in the generation of major mineral deposits: insights from central and eastern Australia

In the Lachlan Fold Belt of southeastern Australia, major orogenic gold and porphyry gold–copper deposits formed simultaneously within distinct tectonic settings during a very short time interval at ca. 440 Ma. The driving mechanism that controlled the temporal coincidence of these deposits remains largely unexplained. A review of contemporaneous metallogenic, tectonic, magmatic and sedimentological events in central and eastern Australia reveals that a change in subduction dynamics along the Australian sector of the Early Palaeozoic circum–Gondwana mega-subduction system could have influenced lithospheric stress conditions far inboard of the subduction margin. The magnitude of ore formation and the spatial extent of related events are proposed in this paper to have been controlled by the interplay of mantle processes and lithospheric changes that followed slab break-off along a portion of the mega-subduction system surrounding Gondwana at that time. Slab break-off after subduction lock-up caused mantle upwelling that, in turn, provided an instantaneous heat supply for magmatic and hydrothermal events. Coincident reorganisation of lithospheric stress conditions far inboard of the proto-Pacific margin of Australia controlled reactivation of deep-lithospheric fault structures. These fault systems provided a pathway for fluids and heat fuelled by mantle upwelling into the upper lithosphere and caused the deposition of ~440 Ma gold deposits in the Lachlan Fold Belt, as well as a range of metallogenic, tectonic and sedimentary changes elsewhere in central and eastern Australia.