Southern Granulite Terrain, South of the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone: Implications for India-Madagascar Connection

The present paper correlates the southern Madgascar terrain, south of the Ranotsara shear with the granulite terrain of southern India, occurring south of the Palghat-Cauvery (P-C) shear zone. Both the terrains have witnessed high temperature to ultra high temperature granulite metamorphism at 550 Ma and are traversed by shear zones and deep crustal faults. The 550 Ma old granulite terrains of Madagascar and southern India have similar lithologies, in particular, sapphirine bearing pelitic assemblages. Graphite deposits and gem occurrences are common to both these terrains. The 550 Ma old southern granulite terrain of southern India comprises of different blocks, the Madurai and the Kerala Khondalite belt, but all the blocks have similar lithologies with pelite—calc silicate rocks inter-banded with two pyroxene granulite bodies. These lithologies occur amidst an essentially charnockitic terrain. The protolith ages of the southern granulite terrain, south of the P-C shear zone ranges between 2400–2100 Ma. The terrain as a whole has witnessed the 550 Ma old granulite event. The granulite metamorphism took place under temperatures of 800–1000°C and at pressures of 9.5 to 5 Kbar.The source of heat for the high temperature granulite event of the southern Madagascar terrain has been linked to advective heat transfer along mantle deep faults. The source for the high temperature granulite metamorphism for the southern granulite terrain may be attributed to high temperature carbonatite and alkaline intrusives in an extensional setting which followed an initial crustal thickening.Many workers have linked Madagascar to southern India by connecting the Ranotsara shear either to the P-C shear zone or to the Achankovil shear zone, further south. The important factor is the lithologies of the Madagascar terrain, south of Ranotsara shear zone and the 550 Ma. old southern Indian granulite terrain are similar in many aspects. It will be more appropriate to link the Ranotsara shear to the curvilinear lineament bounding the Anaimalai-Kodaikanal ranges and which merges with the southern margin of the P-C shear zone.However, north of the Ranotsara shear/fault, the northern Madagascar terrain comprises of a dominant Itremo sequence (< 1850 Ma) and 780 Ma old calc-alkaline intrusives. The latter have similarities with that of Aravallis and the Sirohi, Malani sequences occurring further north east. The Rajasthan terrain has witnessed igneous intrusive activity at 1000–800 Ma. If we can broaden the area of investigations and include the above areas, the Madagascar-India connection can be better understood.     

First Report of Sapphirine-bearing Rocks from the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone System, Southern India

Silica deficient Mg-Al granulites from Paramati within the Palghat-Cauvery Shear System contain sapphirine in association with corundum, spinel and sillimanite. Gedrite, which occurs commonly in this locality, coexists with cordierite, corundum and sillimanite. Mineral assemblages and reaction textures indicate peak metamorphism at ultrahigh- temperature conditions. This new locality provides evidence for extreme crustal metamorphism along the Archean-Proterozoic collision boundary in southern India.     

桂北地区剪切带型金矿成矿机理研究

桂北地区金矿划分为石英脉型、石英细脉带型和构造蚀变岩型金矿.不同级别剪切带构造控制矿化集中区、矿床、矿体分布以及矿脉形态、产状和矿化类型,具有上部石英脉型、中部石英细脉带型、下部构造蚀变岩型金矿的矿化分带模式.金质矿源主要来源于上地壳围岩,硫源主要来自深部,金矿成矿溶液主要来源于大气降水,热源来自变质和构造运动,成矿时代主要为燕山期.矿床成因属是产于前寒武纪浅变质碎屑岩系的与脆一韧性剪切带有关的中低温热液脉状金矿.     

Ruby Mineralization in Southwest Madagascar

Gem-variety of red corundum (i.e. ruby) is produced in the Ejeda-Fotadrevo area, in southwestern Madagascar. The primary ruby deposits are closely associated with basic/ultrabasic complexes within the high grade metamorphic terranes of the Precambrian Vohibory unit. Ruby is recovered from amphibolite and anorthosite veins within these complexes. Petrographic data and P-T estimates indicate that the ruby-bearing rocks crystallized under granulites facies conditions of 750–850°C and 9–11.5kbar, in accordance with the conditions recorded from the surrounding granulites. The Malagasy ruby deposits present numerous similarities with East African deposits, especially Tanzanian, indicating similar geological context of ruby mineralization and suggesting that ruby formation in both these areas resulted from a same mineralizing event when Madagascar was still adjacent to East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania) in the Gondwanaland assembly at the end of Proterozoic times.     

Crustal accretion and metamorphism of Mesoarchean granulites in Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone,Southern India

This work provides unequivocal evidence of the existence of Mesoarchean granulite facies metamorphic event in the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone (PCSZ) of South India. Charnockite samples from two prominent hills at Kollaimalai (KM) and Pachchaimalai (PM) as well as from two quarries within the Bhavani Shear Zone (BSZ) have been analyzed for their Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr ages to investigate the existence or otherwise of the Archean granulite facies events within the PCSZ. The Rb-Sr whole-rock isochron ages for massive charnockites from both the hills appear to be contemporaneous at 2.9 Ga with the initial Sr isotopic ratios of 0.7012 and 0.7014, respectively. However, the Rb-Sr data for whole-rock samples of basic granulites from one of the quarries within the BSZ indicate open system behavior, while the charnockites from the other quarry have insufficient spread in ⁸⁷Rb/⁸⁶Sr ratios and do not yield any isochron. The Sm-Nd data, on the other hand, do not distinguish between the massive charnockite and the lowland charnockite and yield Depleted Mantle model ages in the range 2.98±0.3 Ga for all of them. The ɛ^T _CHUR for all of these rocks are highly positive. Both the Sr isotopic ratios and positive ɛ^T _CHUR values for these rocks strongly suggest a mantle source for all of them. An upper age limit of ∼3.28 Ga may be assigned to the crustal accretion of the protolith of all these rocks on the basis of their Nd model ages. The Rb-Sr isochron ages of 2.9 Ga for the two massifs could be the age of granulite facies metamorphism. Thus, the metamorphism in the KM and PM Hills took place within ∼100 Ma of crustal accretion of these rocks and probably was part of the same geological event of crust formation and metamorphism. The open system behavior with respect to Rb-Sr isotopes in the basic granulite from Bhavani is possibly due to the migration of Sr isotopes, triggered during the later shearing of these rocks.     

Ductile Shearing in Attur Shear Zone and its Relation with Moyar Shear Zone, South India

In the eastern part of southern Peninsular India, the charnockitic hills of the Madras block are cut across by the E-W trending Attur shear zone (ASZ) which is characterised by a thick (1 to 1.5 km) phyllonite zone, showing intense mylonitisation due to ductile shearing. Steeply plunging (70°–80°) stretching lineation on steeply dipping mylonitic foliation within this zone indicates a relative vertical upliftment of the adjacent blocks. A dextral shearing event from west to east is envisaged from the kinematic analysis of shear sense indicators such as S-C fabric, asymmetric folds, asymmetric augens and asymmetric porphyroclasts. Simultaneous development of these features, related to vertical and horizontal movements may be explained by the mechanism of transpressional deformation. The Attur shear zone may be correlated with the Moyar shear zone based on distinct lithological and structural similarities.     

桐柏-大别造山带的剪切带阵列

桐柏－大别造山带在长期的韧性再造和脆性改造过程中，形成了有规律的剪切带阵列，包括韧性剪切带阵列和脆性剪切带阵列。它们是多期碰撞造山和造山期后伸展塌陷的产物，并在造山带的流变学和构造演化过程中起着重要的调整作用。造山带内的镁铁、超镁铁质及榴辉岩岩带则是涉及下地壳及上地幔流变的韧性剪切带阵列的代表。这些剪切带阵列经历了长期的演化历史，具正向的、反向的、螺旋形或旋回式的流变学演化轨迹。     

苏鲁造山带南缘虎山多期次韧性剪切变形特征研究

从变形机制、力学性质和变质变形矿物世代研究入手,对江苏东北部苏鲁造山带南缘东海虎山多期叠加剪切带进行的研究表明,该区存在三期韧性剪切变形,第一期为滑脱拆离变形,长英质糜棱岩中形成长石拉伸线理,榴辉岩中形成绿辉石、石榴石分异成分层;第二期变形为韧性逆冲,形成蓝晶石、多硅白云母、黝帘石拉伸线理,在榴辉岩中形成石榴石眼球体;第三期变形为韧脆性逆冲构造,形成长英质S—C糜棱岩,具S—C面理和丝带状石英条带,该结论为建立区域构造变形序列提供了依据。     

运动学涡度在藏南冈底斯岩浆带中段谢通门-曲水韧性剪切带中的应用

一般剪切带主要由纯剪切和简单剪切共同作用,不同的剪切带及不同的构造位置两者所占有的比例不同。利用运动学涡度(Wk)可以定量地分析两者间的比值大小。本文通过极莫尔圆法和有限应变轴率Rs/石英c轴组构法对冈底斯岩浆带中段谢通门-曲水滑覆型韧性剪切带的运动学涡度进行了计算,两种方法获得了较为一致的结果。通过极莫尔圆法,对剪切带中的9组糜棱岩样品进行了运动学涡度计算,获得了Wk=0.73~0.96,平均值Wk=0.83。运用有限应变轴率Rs/石英c轴组构法对4个样品进行了分析,得到Wk=0.85~0.93,均值为0.88,两种方法获得了较为一致的应变结果。还根据极莫尔圆图解,计算了该韧性剪切带的减薄量S=0.09~0.35,平均减薄量为0.20。研究表明该韧性剪切带为典型的以简单剪切为主伴有部分纯剪切的一般剪切,该剪切带的形成可能与拉萨地体在中新世时从挤压到侧向伸展的转换有关。该剪切带变形特征和运动学涡度的确定深化了对藏南冈底斯地区的构造演化过程的理解,并对青藏高原中南部的地质研究具有推进作用。     

郯庐断裂带南段晚期韧性剪切带涡度分析及其构造意义

天然剪切带通常都是简单剪切和纯剪切叠加的一般剪切的产物。通过测量韧性剪切带的运动学涡度，可以很好地解决剪切带变形过程中究竟是简单剪切占优势还是纯剪切占优势的问题。本次研究中利用石英C轴组构与主应变比值的方法以及石英C轴组构与斜列颗粒形态的方法，测量了郯庐断裂带南段晚期韧性剪切带的运动学涡度。获得的运动学涡度主要介于0．80～0．95之间，明显大于0．75且小于1，指示郯庐晚期左旋走滑韧性剪切带的变形以简单剪切为主的同时，还存在一个纯剪切分量。根据本次研究获得的涡度值、断层产状以及断裂带的运动学特征综合分析，可以认为郯庐晚期韧性剪切带是一个具有压扭性质的走滑构造。并且，本次工作中获得的运动学涡度支持伊佐奈崎板块与欧亚板块的边界为典型的汇聚型板块边界的现有成果。     

大别造山带的流体系统与成矿作用

大别山是大别造山带的主体部分，流体活动贯穿于俯冲－碰撞－折返整个造山过程。印支期俯冲－碰撞阶段的流体，以具高挥发份、高盐度为特点，流体中保留有原岩在地表时的天水－岩石以及超高压变质过程中的地幔流体－岩石同位素交换的信息。燕山期折返隆升阶段的流体是大量天水与深部流体发生混合的产物，流体中盐度降低，但水－岩相互作用增强。大别造山带的流体系统可称为“天水与深部流体混合系统”，并可分为流体富集区、流体贫乏区和流体排泄区三个部分。成矿作用主要发生在流体富集区。     

南帕米尔喀拉苏沟韧性剪切带构造变形特征及年代学分析

帕米尔西构造结经历了古生代—中生代多个地体的复杂拼合过程, 又遭受了新生代印度-亚洲碰撞的改造, 在整个青藏高原构造演化中扮演了重要的角色, 但该地区中生代构造演化的研究仍然相对较少。通过研究南帕米尔一条北西—南东走向宽约1.5 km的韧性剪切带中野外和显微变形特征, 判定剪切带为左行剪切, 剪切以走滑分量为主, 兼具部分逆冲分量, 韧性变形呈现中心强, 边缘弱的特点。根据剪切带中花岗岩岩株的形态、变形、岩石地球化学特征以及与区域其它岩体的对比, 判定其为同构造花岗岩。该同构造花岗岩中测得的两个锆石U-Pb同位素年龄为(233.2±1.8) Ma和(235.7±1.4) Ma, 代表韧性剪切带形成于晚三叠世初期, 指示南帕米尔地块内部在乳山洋闭合初期已经发生明显的构造变形。     

新疆冰达坂含金剪切带内组分分异及对金矿化的影响

糜棱岩及花岗质原岩组分特征,结果表明花岗质岩石容矿的金矿床剪切变形过程中组分发生分异,动力分异与流体分异对金矿化所起作用及相对程度不同,研究区金成矿主要与流体分异作用有关。流体分异作用过程中,相对于高应变带,低应变带内强分异形成的高Fe环境及扩容空间为金矿化、沉淀提供更有利条件,且碱(Na)交代排出的s1为浅层次硅化蚀变糜棱岩型及石英脉型矿化提供物源基础,K、Ca、Mg形成绢云母化、碳酸盐化、绿泥石化等蚀变,从而为区内金矿化定位及共生蚀变提供了合理解释。结合已有研究成果,认为钠长石化带下部应发育钾长石化带.且作为矿根相存在,矿带东、西段深部均有较好金矿化前景。     

胶东威海-文登成矿带成矿特征及找矿标志

胶东威海-文登成矿带是胶东东部地区一个重要成矿带,该成矿带内金及多金属矿床(点)分布众多,成矿条件优越。该带矿产以金为主,银、铅、铜、锌次之;矿点多,矿体规模小,主要赋存于南北向米山超壳断裂两侧的次级断裂中,以近南北走向为主,近东西向为次,产状陡直;矿体围岩多为荣成岩套,部分为玲珑超单元;矿石以多金属硫化物石英脉型居多,具硅化、绢英岩化、绿泥石化等蚀变特征。研究认为,中生代燕山晚期,受太平洋板块向欧亚板块俯冲碰撞的影响,胶东地区由南东-北西向压应力场向张性应力场转换,深源含矿流体伴随岩浆底侵活动上升,在温度、压力等达到适宜条件时,运移聚集于不同构造扩容带中富集成矿,米山断裂及其次级断裂分布区为主要找矿靶区。     

新疆东准双泉地区与韧-脆性剪切带有关的金矿成矿

[摘要]区域成矿背景分析表明,东准噶尔卡拉麦里地区韧-脆性剪切带形成于陆-陆碰撞体制, 在330 ~265Ma 期间,受挤压伸展体制转换影响,先后经历了韧、脆性构造变形。对与韧-脆性剪切带有 关的金矿石英流体包裹体研究发现,包裹体以气液相为主,均一温度集中在160 ~ 240益,成矿流体盐度 为3. 55 ~4. 5wt%NaCl。成矿流体的氢、氧同位素组成表明成矿流体的水为变质成因水。金属硫化物硫 同位素啄34 S 值为3. 54 ~10. 68译,显然属于混染硫。黄铁矿包裹体氦氩同位素3 He/ 4 He 值为0. 18 ~2. 18 Ra,属幔壳混源。成矿年代学研究表明,双泉金矿成矿时代及控矿构造脆性变形时间为(269依9) Ma ~ (260依4)Ma,金初始富集时间在310Ma 前后,并得到含矿花岗斑岩U-Pb 同位素年龄的支持,该事件在 东准地区均有同位素年龄记录,是区域性的构造岩浆成矿流体热事件。上述资料表明,金矿成矿过程、 成矿流体性质等在时间、空间上严格受韧-脆性剪切构造变形带控制。     

LONG TERM HISTORY (DEXTRAL TO SINISTRAL AND DUCTILE TO BRITTLE) OF THE DAMXUNG—JIALI SHEAR ZONE IN SOUTHERN TIBET

LONG TERM HISTORY (DEXTRAL TO SINISTRAL AND DUCTILE TO BRITTLE) OF THE DAMXUNG—JIALI SHEAR ZONE IN SOUTHERN TIBET     

鲁西青邑韧性剪切带运动学涡度及剪切作用类型

青邑韧性剪切带是晚太古代末期发育在鲁西前寒武纪基底花岗岩中一条规模较大的韧性剪切带。剪切带NW走向,面理直立,线理水平,剪切标志反映右行剪切。石英光轴法求得运动学涡度在0．96～0．99之间变化,极摩尔圆法求得糜棱岩化岩石运动学涡度为0．91,初糜棱岩运动学涡度为0．87,糜棱岩运动学涡度为0．81,超糜棱岩运动学涡度为0．60。运动学涡度表明,剪切带剪切作用类型为一般剪切,变形初期以单剪为主,随应变的增大,运动学涡度值逐渐减小,变形的纯剪分量不断增加,最后以纯剪为主。剪切作用类型及三维参照变形分析表明,青邑韧性剪切带属加长一变宽类型的一般剪切带并且在Y轴方向上有所增长。韧性剪切在太古代末期克拉通化过程中具有加厚陆壳的作用。     

苏鲁地体南部南岗-高公岛韧性剪切带的变形记录、组分迁移和体积亏损

南岗-高公岛韧性剪切带是一条自南东向北西斜向逆冲的岩片边界性构造带,糜棱岩化作用强烈。韧性变形过程中,岩石中的主要矿物长石、黑云母等发生了不同程度的分解或蚀变并导致组分迁移。其中,活动组分的迁移是流体渗滤作用引起的,不活动组分的变异是体积亏损造成的。通过对韧性剪切带内不同变形程度岩石主要地球化学组分的对比分析,确立等比线斜率,计算出初糜棱岩的体积亏损率约为17%,糜棱岩的体积亏损率约为27%;质量平衡计算结果及等比线图表明韧性剪切作用导致SiO2流失量最大,其次为Al2O3,FeO、CaO、Na2O等都有不同程度的丢失,表明它们具有较强的活动性,MgO位于等比线上方,属于带入组分。糜棱岩中的石英或长英质条带和团块是长石的钠黝帘石化、绢云母化和黑云母的绿泥石化等导致SiO2、Al2O3、Na2O、CaO、FeO等活动组分从岩石中析出迁移形成的。这种岩石体积亏损和组分迁移是部分难溶组分富集的重要机制,对研究韧性剪切带中长英质条带和部分贵金属矿床的形成机制具有重要的指导作用。     

桐柏—大别造山带内与脆性—韧性剪切带共生的假玄武玻璃的发现及意义

在桐柏—大别造山带大河镇剪切带中首次发现与碎裂岩和糜棱岩共生的两种不同类型的假玄武玻璃。野外产状及显微结构的研究表明与碎裂岩共生的假玄武玻璃产出于以脆性破裂为主的断层浅部(<15km),而与糜棱岩共生的假玄武玻璃则产出于以韧性变形为主的断层深部(>15 km)。这两种类型的假玄武玻璃均含有熔解起源的自形微晶体,圆形或港湾状的碎片,流动结构和部分玻璃质基质。假玄武玻璃与碎裂岩和糜棱岩共生的现象说明在桐柏—大别造山带形成和隆起过程中同一断层剪切带内大地震重复发生。大河镇假玄武玻璃的研究可对大陆型大地震的发震机制及地壳浅部的脆性变形领域到深部的塑性变形领域的地震断层的破裂过程和力学性质的研究提供重要信息。