Crystal plasticity and superplasticity in quartzite; A natural example

Plastically deformed quartzites from the Betic Movement Zone (Betic Cordilleras, Spain) exhibit microstructures indicative of crystal plasticity on a mineral grain scale. Quartzites with dynamically recrystallized grain sizes larger than 10 μm have strong crystallographic preferred orientations, narrow grain boundaries, little creep damage, and an inverse proportionality of dislocation density and grain size. Mylonites with grain sizes smaller than 10 μm have low crystallographic preferred orientations, wide grain boundaries (up to 1000 Å), abundant creep damage, and decreasing dislocation density with diminishing grain size. This is thought to reflect a clear-cut shift in deformational regimes from dislocation creep to superplastic flow at 10 μm grain size. Superplasticity can be acquired by quartzites which suffer dynamic recrystallization to grain sizes smaller than 10 μm during an initial dislocation creep stage. Dislocation motion is the major accomodating mechanism for strain incompatibilities that arise during grain-boundary sliding in the mylonites.It seems reasonable to estimate flow stresses from unbound dislocation densities and dynamically recrystallized grain sizes in the tectonite specimens. In the mylonites, dynamically recrystallized grain size probably reflects the stress magnitude before the shift in deformational mechanisms, and an estimate for late stage stresses is provided by unbound dislocation densities. In both deformational regimes the flow strength appears to depend on the extent of dynamic recrystallization.     

Metamorphic history of serpentinite mylonites from the Happo ultramafic complex, central Japan

Serpentinite mylonites from the Happo ultramafic complex show evidence of two stages of mylonitization at different temperature conditions. Peridotite mylonites exhibit two types of olivine – porphyroclasts and neoblasts – produced at the earlier stage. The olivine neoblasts have a stretching lineation with a fabric suggesting plastic deformation along (0 1 0) [0 0 1]. In addition to the olivine fabric, the stable association of olivine, orthopyroxene and tremolite in the peridotites that survived later serpentinization, and the Si and Na contents of tremolite, suggest that the earlier mylonitization took place at temperatures between 700 and 800 °C. Later mylonitization was associated with high‐temperature serpentinization to form serpentinite mylonites. In contrast to a common type of serpentinite in orogenic belts, the serpentinite mylonites are cohesively foliated, rich in olivine and diopside, and poor in antigorite. The diopside has low Al, Cr and Na contents typical of a retrograde origin, and the olivine has a homogeneous composition except in areas subjected to contact metamorphism at a later stage. Modal composition and mineral chemistry suggest that the serpentinite mylonites were formed by a hydration reaction of tremolite and olivine to produce diopside and antigorite under stable conditions of olivine, at temperatures between 400 and 600 °C. Later‐stage mylonitization has preferentially been superimposed on the earlier‐stage mylonite zone with a common direction of foliation. The difference in temperature between the two mylonitization stages suggests that the shear zone was episodically active during the emplacement of the Happo complex. Conditions of relatively high temperature for serpentinization at a convergent plate boundary and high permeability caused by the early mylonitization favoured the formation of the serpentinite mylonites.     

徐武家麻粒岩相糜棱岩

内蒙中部土贵乌拉南徐武家早前寒武纪麻粒岩地体中发育北东向韧性剪切带,其中发现有宽达5km 的麻粒岩相糜棱岩剖面,成分相当于紫苏辉长岩、钠质花岗岩和泥质岩的麻粒岩相糜棱岩出露齐全,保存完整。二辉斜长麻粒岩中紫苏辉石、斜长石、钾长石和透辉石斑晶普遍发育强烈的塑性形变;细粒重结晶相矿物组合 Hy+Di+Pl+Kf+Hb+Bi+Scap+Q 显示糜棱岩形成于麻粒岩相变质条件,二辉石矿物对给出温度 T=710℃。该糜棱岩带与麻粒岩相变辉长岩和地壳熔融型石榴子石花岗岩密切共生,这一事实既确证了韧性剪切带在麻粒岩变质过程中发育,为研究该区麻粒岩相岩带构造演化找到了一个构造标志,同时,也为深入探讨下地壳的实际构造过程,包括麻粒岩相条件下剪切形变发生的饥理以及克拉通化提供了地质实例。     

Discrimination Study on Fluid—Rock Interaction Between Metallogenic and Non—Metallogenic Sections in a Shear Zone

Discriminations in a local chemical,fluidal,mechanical and thermal processes in a shear zone will lead to metallogenic differentiation in a local section.This paper,based on the general geological setting of the Shibangou gold deposit in Xixia,Henan,deals with petrological and petrochemical samples of altered rocks in the metallogenic section and of mylonites in the non-metallogenic section of a selected shear zone.The discriminations in fluid-rock interaction and petrological mass balance between altered rocks near the orebody and mylonites in the shear zone are discussed as well.The results show that the petrological volume of altered rocks in the metallogenic section of the shear zone is almost always dilatant and the mylonite volume in the non-metallogenic section is almost always lost.Major elements in altered rocks from the metallogenic section and in mylonites from the non-metallogenic section always show a tendency of being enriched and depleted,respectively.Fluid-rock ratios in the mylonites(Nu=93.68-468.40)are larger than those of the altered rocks(NC(Ⅳ）^s=36.11-216.67).The gain and loss of major and trace elements from the altered rocks and mylonites in the shear zone are a composite process to be imported and exported by percolating fluids as well as of the loss and dilatancy of rock volume.     

Very high strains recorded in mylonites along the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: implications for the deep structure of plate boundary faults

Oblique displacement on the Alpine Fault, which forms the principal structure along the Australian–Pacific plate boundary in South Island, New Zealand, has resulted in exhumation of a kilometre-wide mylonite zone in the hanging wall adjacent to the current brittle fault trace. The mylonites formed under amphibolite facies conditions at depths of ca. 25 km and have been uplifted during the past 5 Ma. A suite of 65–70 Ma pegmatite veins in the hanging wall Alpine schists has been progressively deformed within the mylonite zone and sheared out over a strike length of ca. 100 km. Measurements of the thickness distribution of the pegmatite veins within the non-mylonitised schists and at three localities within the progressively strained mylonites have been used to estimate strain values within the mylonites. The thicknesses approximate a log-normal distribution, with a mean value that is progressively reduced through the protomylonites, mylonites and ultramylonites. By assuming that the thickness distribution currently observed in the schists was the same for the pegmatites within the mylonites before strain, a model of deformation incorporating simple shear and simultaneous pure shear is used to strain the undeformed veins until a fit is obtained with the strained distributions. Shear strains calculated range from 12 to 22 for the protomylonites, 120 to 200 for the mylonites and 180 to 300 for the ultramylonites, corresponding to pure shear values of 1–3 in each case. These values are compatible with the strains predicted if most of the surface displacement on the fault over the past 5 Ma were accommodated within a 1–2-km-wide mylonite zone through the middle and lower crusts. The results suggest that processes such as erosional focussing of deformation and thermal weakening may cause intense strain localisation within the lower crust, with plate boundary deformation restricted to narrow zones rather than becoming increasingly distributed over a widening shear zone with depth.     

The role of mylonites in the uplift of an oblique lower crustal section, East Antarctica

Abstract Three generations of mylonites discovered in the northern Prince Charles Mountains (nPCM) are associated with episodes of crustal thickening and thinning. First-generation mylonites (MY1) are shallow thrusts which pre-date both folding and peak metamorphic conditions, and formed during early crustal thickening. Second-generation mylonites (MY2) are significant subvertical normal faults that formed at conditions of c. 5 kbar and 700° C, and throughout the nPCM consistently display NW-block uplift. It is argued that MY2 uplift was rapid in the north-west, produced exhumation of approximately 6–7 km, and caused re-equilibration of most nPCM assemblages at lower pressures. It is suggested that features of this terrane may be reconciled with a tectonic model involving simultaneous crustal thickening and lithospheric thinning; MY2 uplift may reflect isostatically induced uplift. In contrast, the adjacent east Lambert Glacier Region (eLGR) was unaffected by MY2 uplift and remained at lower crustal levels. P-T trajectories across this oblique terrane thus reflect a gradual transition in uplift rates: nPCM paths preserve mostly cooling after partial MY2 exhumation, while those in the eLGR are dominated by slower uplift which facilitated the retrograde growth of coronas and symplectites at amphibolite facies conditions. Amphibolite facies third-generation mylonites, MY3, post-date the preserved P-T segments and are low-angle normal faults which indicate consistent easterly transport across the entire terrane. It is proposed that they are related to tectonic collapse.     

Relationship between shear zones and igneous activity: The Closepet Granite of Southern India

The late Archaean Closepet granite of southern India is bounded by N-S trending shear zone. At the southern end of the granite both charnockite and granite veins are spatially associated with ductile shears. These shears continue further north and are confined to the contact zones in the central part of the granite outcrop. The main component of the shear zone are highly deformed granite sheets, augen gneisses and mylonites. Field observations and microstructural fabric of mylonites indicate a dextral sense of shear movement. Field evidence suggests that shear deformation was active throughout the evolution of the Closepet granite     

Fluid flow,metasomatism and amphibole deformation in an imbricated ophiolite,North Cascades,Washington

Metasomatic tremolite-rich mylonites are widespread in imbricate thrust slices of ultramafic rocks of the ophiolitic Ingalls Complex in Washington State. Protoliths for these amphibolite-facies mylonites were peridotite and serpentinite. Abundant syntectonic tremolite veins in the ultramafites record narrowly channelized flow of infiltrating fluids, whereas metasomatic mylonite zones record more pervasive flow. Fluids were probably released mainly by prograde devolatization reactions within serpentinite and mafic ophiolitic rocks that experienced earlier hydrothermal metamorphism.Olivine apparently deformed by dislocation creep in the mylonites. In the tremolite-rich rocks, locally preserved amphibole porphyroclasts deformed mainly by microfracturing. Acicular tremolites, which dominate the mylonites, form syntectonic overgrowths on porphyroclasts and probably record diffusive mass transfer which may have accompanied cataclasis. Acicular tremolites subsequently were folded and define both post-crystalline crenulations and polygonal arcs.Fluid flow, deformation and metamorphism were apparently complexly interrelated in the imbricate zone. Thrusts juxtaposed contrasting rock types that were sources and sinks for fluids, and shear zones focused fluid flow. Metamorphism probably facilitated deformation through the release of fluids during dehydration reactions. High fluid pressure may have led to hydraulic fracturing and may have controlled strain softening in the tremolitic mylonite zones as it favored microcracking and diffusive mass transfer over dislocation creep. Infiltrating metasomatic fluids probably play an important role in the evolution of shear zones in many ultramafic bodies during medium-grade metamorphism.     

THE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF HORNBLENDE IN THE FLORENCE SHEAR ZONE,CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

角闪石在低温变形中通常显示脆性变形行为,通过对中澳洲Ｆｌｏｒｅｎｃｅ剪切带的铁镁质糜棱岩的观察研究表明,角闪石在这些高温变形环境形成的糜棱岩中显示出显著的塑性变形行为,表现在角闪石遭强应变后,无碎裂出现,而具明显的晶内塑性应变现象和强烈的晶体优选定向,角闪石的细粒化是由边界重结晶迁移所致。本文探讨了引起角闪石塑性变形的一些因素,认为岩石发生糜棱岩化时的高温环境增强了角闪石的韧性,几何软化对角闪的塑性变形行为也起到一定的作用。     

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。     

剪切带中矿化与非矿化地段流体——岩石相互作用差异性研究

以河南西峡石板沟金矿为例,选择了一条控矿剪切带,对其中成矿地段的近矿蚀变岩和非成矿地段糜棱岩进行了系统的采样,探讨了二者在流体-岩石反应及岩石质量平衡之间的差异性。研究表明,剪切带中矿化地段蚀变岩其岩石体积总是扩容的,非矿化地段糜棱岩在变形过程中体积是损失的。矿化地段蚀变岩活性元素(K、Na、Si)总体呈被带入趋势,非矿化地段糜棱岩活性元素总体呈迁出趋势,糜棱岩的流体岩石率(N_u为93.68—468.40)远大于蚀变岩的流体岩石率(Nc_(Ⅳ)^s为36.11-216.67),剪切带中常量元素与微量元素富集与损失是渗透性流体带入、带出,岩石的体积损失与扩容综合作用的结果。     

Rock Deformation, Component Migration and ^18O/^16O Variations during Mylonitization in the Southern Tan-Lu Fault Belt

This paper discusses the relationship between the volume loss, fluid flow and component variations in the ductile shear zone of the southern Tan-Lu fault belt. The results show that there is a large amount of fluids flowing through the shear zone during mylonitization, accompanied with the loss of volume of rocks and variations of elements and oxygen isotopes. The calculated temperature for mylonitization in different mylonites ranges from 446 to 484℃, corresponding to that of 475 to 500℃ for the wall rocks. The condition of differential stress during mylonization has been obtained between 99 and 210 MPa, whereas the differential stress in the wall rock gneiss is 70-78 MPa. The mylonites are enriched by factors of 1.32-1.87 in elements such as TiO2, P2O5, MnO, Y, Zr and V and depleted in SiO2, Na2O, K2O, Al203, Sr, Rb and light REEs compared to their protolith gneiss. The immobile element enrichments are attributed to enrichments in residual phases such as ilmentite, zircon, apatite and epidote in mylonites and are interpreted as due to volume losses from 15% to 60% in the ductile shear zone. The largest amount of SiO2 loss is 35.76 g/100 g in the ductile shear zone, which shows the fluid infiltration. Modeling calculated results of the fluid/rock ratio for the ductile shear zone range from 196 to 1192 by assuming different degrees of fluid saturation. Oxygen isotope changes of quartz and feldspar and the calculated fluid are corresponding to the variations of differential flow stress in the ductile shear zone. With increasing differential flow stress, the mylonites show a slight decrease of δ^18O in quartz, K-feldspar and fluid.     

长乐-南澳韧性剪切带中糜棱岩变形微构造研究

 长乐-南澳韧性剪切带糜棱岩的显微变形机制有粒间滑动、粒内滑动、位错及其滑移和蠕变、应变的局部恢复等。石英丰富的韧性变形和位错特征以及长石的脆一弹性变形说明糜棱岩形成于绿片岩相条件,变形时的温度约为300-350℃。石英塑性变形处于重结晶一软化阶段和热加工一恢复阶段。由位错密度和动态重结晶颗粒粒径计算了差异应力和应变速率,分别为56.8-99.7MPa,(0.35-1.61)×10^-13s^-1和175.8-406.9MPa,(0.7-7.2)×10^-12s^-1,二者较大的差值表明糜棱岩是缓慢上升至地表的,这一结论与应变局部恢复现象一致。该韧性剪切带是闽粤沿海早白垩世末碰撞造山的产物。     

构造岩研究的新进展

构造岩的研究已取得很大进展。有关构造岩的分类，无论是描述性的还是按成因的分类，都各具特点，但还是以二者兼顾为好。对构造岩，尤其是糜棱岩的识别，要注意在野外区分应变梯度带和在岩相学上利用显微构造判据。构造岩的变形机制包括碎裂作用和粘性流动，而以二者之间的转换尤为重要。变形机制的交替和转换使构造岩的显微构造具一定的演化规律。由构造岩的应变局部化和力学失稳可引起成分变异、体积亏损，而流体的流动在其中也起着重要的作用。     

S-C Mylonites

Two types of foliations are commonly developed in mylonites and mylonitic rocks: (a) S-surfaces related to the accumulation of finite strain and (b) C-surfaces related to displacement discontinuities or zones of relatively high shear strain. There are two types of S-C mylonites. Type I S-C mylonites, described by Berthé et al., typically occur in deformed granitoids. They involve narrow zones of intense shear strain which cut across (mylonitic) foliation.Type II S-C mylonites (described here) have widespread occurrence in quartz-mica rocks involved in zones of intense non-coaxial laminar flow. The C-surfaces are defined by trails of mica ‘fish’ formed as the result of microscopic displacement discontinuities or zones of very high shear strain. The S-surfaces are defined by oblique foliations in the adjacent quartz aggregates, formed as the result of dynamic recrystallization which periodically resets the ‘finite-strain clock’. These oblique foliations are characterized by grain elongations, alignments of segments of the grain boundary enveloping surfaces, and by trails of grains with similar c-axis orientations.Examples of this aspect of foliation development in mylonitic rocks are so widespread that we suggest the creation of a broad class of S-C tectonites, and a deviation from the general tradition of purely geometric analysis of foliation and time relationships. Kinematic indicators such as those discussed here allow the recognition of kilometre-scale zones of intense non-coaxial laminar flow in crustal rocks, and unambiguous determination of the sense of shear.     

滇西高黎贡断裂带糜棱岩的显微变形特征及其构造意义

采用扫描电镜(SEM)、超高压透射电镜(HTEM)及电子探针等手段研究了主高黎贡断裂带糜棱岩的显微构造特征,提出长石经历了碎粒流动和部分固态塑性流变过程;而石英晶粒经历了动态重结晶和静态回复阶段。认为高黎贡剪切带是在相当于高绿片岩相—低角闪岩相的变质条件下形成的,是晚第三纪右旋走滑活动的产物。     

安徽省嘉山管店-全椒龙王尖断裂的厘定和构造岩透射电镜分析及地质意义

嘉山管店-全椒龙王尖断裂表现为多条蚀变剪切带,镜下碎斑旋转变形明显,为"б"型,发育石英布丁构造.构造岩透射电镜分析结果进一步证实了该断裂的存在并具深断裂的特征.糜棱岩形成的差应力和应变速率及运动指向与郯庐断裂带内的糜棱岩相近.分析表明这条断裂是郯庐断裂带派生断裂,其形成与郯庐断裂左行平移有关.它控制燕山期花岗岩产出空间,指示郯庐断裂带左行平移可能发生在印支晚期.深断裂的属性使其成为金矿重要的区域控矿构造.     

On the age of mylonites within the Mont Blanc massif

Abstract

Three generations of mylonites occur in the Mont Blanc Massif :

— the first one has produced mylonitic schists trending N20°E, of regional extension; the late Variscan Mont Blanc granite intruded these mylonites;

— the second one has affected large areas in the Mont Blanc granite, with the same N20°E direction;

— the third one is located along rather narrow bands N45°E, in the granite as well as in the older mylonitic schists.

All theses mylonites have been generated under (Bi) - greenschist facies conditions. They exhibit steeply plunging schistosity and lineation. They are all ante-Alpine; paradoxically, Alpine structures within the massif do not exhibit a striking appearence.     

茅店韧性剪切带中物质组分的迁移、集散初探

本文以武夷山隆起带中段茅店韧性剪切带为例，通过镜下观察和化学分析，对韧性剪切带中两个系列的糜棱岩与其相应的原岩在矿物成分和化学组分等方面进行了对比分析，以探讨构造形变过程中物质成分的迁移、集散规律。同时，对惰性组分的集散机制进行了初步探讨。     

The use of asymmetric pressure shadows in mylonites to determine the sense of shear

Asymmetric pressure shadows (APS) on both sides of a rigid porphyroclast are commonly observed in mylonites along the Median Tectonic Line (MTL) in Japan. It is one of the most noticeable asymmetric microstructures, showing that the porphyroclasts have rotated during non-coaxial laminar flow in a ductile shear zone. The shadow domains are filled with recrystallized quartz and K-feldspar. Excepting APS, various asymmetric microstructures in the mylonites indicate a sinistral sense of displacement throughout the ductile shear zone along the MTL.Based on the shape analysis of APS in XZ section (parallel to the mylonitic lineation and normal to the mylonitic foliation), the following results were obtained: (1) the relative position of the APS with respect to a porphyroclast is not a reliable criterion for deducing the sense of shear; and (2) the drag angle (β) of the shadow boundaries with respect to the mylonitic foliation in each quartered domain is diagnostic of the sense of shear; when the shearing is sinistral, β in upper right- and lower left-hand side of a porphyroclast is larger than β in upper left- and lower right-hand side, and vice versa for dextral shearing. These results demonstrate that the drag patterns of APS around porphyroclasts in mylonites are highly reliable indicators for the determination of the sense of shear.