中国东部晚元古冰成岩的古地磁及地质意义

笔者重点研究了华北地块南缘罗圈组纹泥岩和扬子地块东南缘南沱组冰碛岩的古地磁特征。在四个剖面的 2 5个点采集 2 72块样品 ,用超导磁力仪测量了大部岩石样品的剩余磁性。通过详细的逐步热退磁清洗和数学分析 ,岩石等温剩磁实验 ,以及倒转、广义褶皱和一致性检验 ,从而获得新的较为可靠的古地磁数据。华北地块在最晚元古 ( 62 0～ 60 0Ma)处于 13.9°S ;而扬子地块在晚元古 ( 730～ 70 0Ma)处于 19.2°N。新的古地磁数据补充了中国东部华北、扬子地块晚元古震旦纪的古地磁数据库。地质观察事实和不同研究者获得的数据都表明 ,两地块在 80 0～ 60 0Ma期间处于低古纬度的热带、亚热带气候环境中。全球所有大陆该时期冰成岩及上、下层位非冰成岩—碳酸盐岩岩石学和古地磁研究认为 ,晚元古低纬度冰川形成与全球超大陆的裂离和引起的气候异常有关。晚元古冰川沉积可以分为两个构造 -地层类型。它们记录了晚元古超大陆拼合和分离时冰川作用的构造 -沉积位置 ,最普遍的是在超大陆分离的持续期间 ,在扩张构造域形成冰川沉积 ,因此冰川沉积都与活动边缘盆地和裂谷盆地有关。我国南沱冰成岩分布于扬子地块及其东南缘的浙西、皖南、赣北、湘西、桂北等地的NE -SW伸长的大陆边缘敞开的海盆内 ,具有强烈的火山和冰     

辽宁南华系的划分及其特征

南华系以冰川活动的广泛出现为其特征,始称“南华大冰期”,但辽宁南华系中迄今尚未发现冰成岩沉积.相反,辽宁南华系却发育大量的宏观藻类化石,反映出当时温暖潮湿的古气候条件.世界各地前寒武纪晚期冰川活动,均出现于低古纬度位置.根据古地磁资料,辽宁南华系分布于中、高古纬度位置.因此,辽宁南华系不会发育冰成岩.辽宁发育“温暖型南华系”,这将对全国的南华系划分对比提供新的研究思路.     

晚元古冰川成因机制的评述

本文综述了晚元古冰川成因的最新研究成果．晚元白冰成岩的古地磁研究有两个重大成果：（1）晚元古冰川赋存于低古纬度：（2）晚元古超大陆的存在。它们依据古地磁及其他地质证据，反过来利用超大陆的全球古地理重建，以及冰成岩与相伴生的碳酸盐岩沉积学研究、探讨新的成因机制。     

青藏高原北部柴达木块体晚二叠世古地磁结果及其构造意义

通过对柴达木地块天峻县组合玛地区晚二叠世13个采点的系统古地磁测定,揭示了一组高温特征剩磁分量.实验结果表明,采样剖面获得的晚二叠世古地磁结果具有正、反极性,其特征剩磁方向为:Dg=333.7°,Ig=37.3°,Kg=35.4,N=9,α95 =8.8;Ds=333.9°,Is=41.7°,Ks=69.9,α95 =6.2°,相对应的古地磁极位置为:64.0°N,342.4°E,A95=5.9°,古纬度为24.0°N.这一高温分量通过了倒转检验,我们认为这一高温特征剩磁分量很可能代表了研究区晚二叠世时期的原生特征剩磁.通过对比塔里木地块晚石炭-晚二叠世古地磁结果,发现两块体在晚石炭世存在明显的古纬度差(16.6±9.3°),而在晚二叠世其古纬度差(3.5±5.4°)在古地磁误差范围内并没有明显差别,从构造意义上说,说明柴达木地块在晚二叠世已是塔里木地块的一部分,结合地质资料,认为柴达木地块在晚二叠世时古地理位置处于塔里木地块的南缘或西南缘,这表明柴达木/塔里木地块间的古阿尔金断裂的形成时代不可能早于晚石炭世时,很可能形成于晚二叠世以后.     

古地磁学在地层划分中的应用

本文介绍了地球磁场的成因、极性变化以及运用极性倒转划分对比地层和指示环境。在实际应用中,运用古地磁极性变化和古纬度方法对二连盆地某地区地层定年和地层界面进行识别。     

柴达木地块早奥陶世古地理位置的古地磁学约束

柴达木地块早古生代古地理位置和构造归属长期存在争议。前人根据沉积地层和古生物资料认为柴达木地块早奥陶世位于赤道附近的低纬度地区,但是这种定性认识还缺少古地磁学的定量证据。本次研究对柴达木地块欧龙布鲁克地区下奥陶统多泉山组灰岩开展了古地磁学研究,通过系统热退磁获得了8个采点的高温特征剩磁分量,其构造校正后的古地磁平均方向为Ds=345.3°,Is=-14.5°,κs=54.8,α₉₅=7.5°。这一高温特征剩磁分量远离现代地磁场方向,且所有样品的特征剩磁分量均为反极性,其单一反极性特点与全球奥陶纪磁性地层研究确定的早奥陶世反向极性期相吻合,本文认为这一高温特征剩磁分量很可能代表了研究剖面早奥陶世时期的原生剩磁。根据奥陶纪地磁极性特征,确定柴达木地块早奥陶世的古地磁极位置为-43.4°N/116.9°E(dp/dm=3.9°/7.7°),相应的古纬度为7.4°N±5.5°(参考点:37.2°N/96.6°E),表明柴达木地块在早奥陶世位于赤道附近的低纬度位置。综合古生物和沉积学资料,提出柴达木地块早奥陶世可能处于华南地块北部,冈瓦纳古大陆澳大利亚陆块西北的古地理位置。     

碰撞前印度大陆北缘古地理轮廓——藏南晚白垩世堆拉灰岩古地磁研究

堆拉灰岩的古地磁数据为重建碰撞前印度大陆北缘轮廓提供了重要制约,但也留下了一些疑点,为此,本文对该地区晚白垩世海相沉积开展了进一步的古地磁研究。通过对10个采点样品的系统退磁及统计分析,得到宗山组最下段经地层校正后的特征剩磁分量为D=168.2°,I=-7.3°,α95=7.5°。该分量与前人从该地区宗山组中、上段得到的古地磁结果无显著区别,并在95%的置信水平上通过褶皱检验,表明剩磁是褶皱前获得的。尽管如此,堆拉晚白垩世灰岩统一的负极性特征与其沉积期间(Turonian-Maastrichtian)对应的古地磁标准极性柱不符,表明该地区宗山组不同层位可能普遍遭遇了重磁化,不能用来约束喜马拉雅地体的古地理位置。基于以上考虑,本文仅用前人从岗巴宗山地区获得的古地磁结果对晚白垩世期间特提斯喜马拉雅地体的古地理位置进行了计算和修正,结果显示该地体在宗山组上段沉积期间(约71~65Ma)的古纬度约为9°S,计算得到当时大印度的北向延伸量为1500km,与前人从宗浦组得到的古地磁结果一致。     

柴达木地体震旦系全吉群的古地磁研究

柴达木地体大致为现在的柴达木盆地范围.大地构造上,它是一个微型大陆或中间地块.目前,柴达木地体内已知出露最老的地层为前震旦系达肯大坂群.不整合于达肯达坂群之上的是震旦系的全吉群和下寒武统含冰碛岩的小高炉群.1985年,我们对全吉群进行了古地磁研究,其目的:①求得柴达木地体震旦纪的古纬度;②初步了解全吉群的磁性地层特征,并与我国其他地区同时代地层进行磁性地层相对比.     

喜马拉雅山北坡奥陶纪—古近纪构造古地磁新数据

在喜马拉雅山北坡奥陶系-古近系近乎连续的沉积地层中系统采集古地磁样品3791件,其中测试统计样品数为2920件,基本获取了统级年代古地磁数据,绘制出喜马拉雅地块奥陶纪-古近纪古地磁极移曲线和古纬度变化曲线.喜马拉雅地块在向北漂移过程中曾发生了多次旋转,最后一次约28°的顺时针旋转发生在始新世,可能与西喜马拉雅构造结形成有关;晚三叠世和晚侏罗世曾发生了纬度为2°和3.8°的向南回返,可能与雅鲁藏布新特提斯洋弧后扩张有关.根据古纬度数据推算:中白垩世雅鲁藏布新特提斯洋盆的宽度至少为2200km;始新世以来的喜马拉雅陆-陆碰撞造山运动导致印度地块-喜马拉雅褶冲带-拉萨地块之间的地壳缩短量至少为1000km.     

四川青川、平武地区震旦纪冰成岩

出露于西秦岭南缘四川青川、平武地区的震旦纪冰成岩,主要为受冰山、冰筏影响的冰筏海洋相,以陆源碎屑、火山碎屑、浮冰坠石的混合沉积为特征。它在冰川作用中留下有大量冰川作用痕迹。该套地层假整合覆于前震旦系不同层位之上,假整合—微角度不整合伏于上震旦统之下。冰成岩中产Laminarites antiquissimus等微古植物化石组合,其时代属早震旦世。它属于南秦岭海洋冰川沉积相区的西延部分。     

龙门山南段二叠系—下三叠统的古地磁研究

为了约束龙门山南段的构造运动特征,文章对龙门山南段大川镇附近的下三叠统飞仙关组淡紫灰色泥岩、粉砂岩和宝兴地区的二叠系灰岩开展了古地磁研究。古地磁样品取自10个采样点,其中3个采点为二叠系灰岩;7个采点为飞仙关组淡紫灰色泥岩、粉砂岩。对样品开展了逐步热退磁、岩石磁学（等温剩磁获得曲线和三轴等温剩磁热退磁）及扫描电镜实验。80个样品进行的逐步热退磁实验结果显示,二叠系灰岩样品未分离出稳定的特征剩磁;飞仙关组样品分离出了稳定的特征剩磁,并通过了广义褶皱检验,其特征剩磁的平均方向为：Ds=36.9°,Is=16.5°,α95=5.9°,K=33.8,N=18,对应的古地磁极投在了华南视极移曲线的早三叠世段附近。岩石磁学实验结果表明飞仙关组样品的载磁矿物为磁铁矿,扫描电镜观察展示其为碎屑状的铁氧化物,且无明显成岩后自生特征。结合退磁曲线特征,扫描电镜微观特征,特征剩磁的古地磁极位置和岩石磁学结果,飞仙关组样品的特征剩磁很可能为原生剩磁。该结果表明龙门山褶皱冲断带与四川盆地的没有明显地相对构造旋转运动,自晚三叠世以来,其与龙门山北段以及四川盆地在动力学上是统一的构造单元。     

Differences in paleomagnetic interpretations due to the choice of statistical, demagnetization and correction techniques: Kapuskasing Structural Zone, northern Ontario, Canada

The Kapuskasing Structural Zone (KSZ) reveals a section through the Archean lower crustal granoblastic gneisses. Our new paleomagnetic data largely agree with previous work but we show that interpretations vary according to the choices of statistical, demagnetization and field-correction techniques. First, where the orientation distribution of characteristic remanence directions on the sphere is not symmetrically circular, the commonly used statistical model is invalid [Fisher, R.A., Proc. R. Soc. A217 (1953) 295]. Any tendency to form an elliptical distribution indicates that the sample is drawn from a Bingham-type population [Bingham, C., 1964. Distributions on the sphere and on the projective plane. PhD thesis, Yale University]. Fisher and Bingham statistics produce different confidence estimates from the same data and the traditionally defined mean vector may differ from the maximum eigenvector of an orthorhombic Bingham distribution. It seems prudent to apply both models wherever a non-Fisher population is suspected and that may be appropriate in any tectonized rocks. Non-Fisher populations require larger sample sizes so that focussing on individual sites may not be the most effective policy in tectonized rocks. More dispersed sampling across tectonic structures may be more productive. Second, from the same specimens, mean vectors isolated by thermal and alternating field (AF) demagnetization differ. Which treatment gives more meaningful results is difficult to decipher, especially in metamorphic rocks where the history of the magnetic minerals is not easily related to the ages of tectonic and petrological events. In this study, thermal demagnetization gave lower inclinations for paleomagnetic vectors and thus more distant paleopoles. Third, of more parochial significance, tilt corrections may be unnecessary in the KSZ because magnetic fabrics and thrust ramp are constant in orientation to the depth at which they level off, at approximately 15-km depth. With Archean geothermal gradients, primary remanences were blocked after the foliation was tilted to rise on the thrust ramp. Therefore, the rocks were probably magnetized in their present orientation; tilting largely or entirely predates magnetization.     

Composite detrital and thermal remanent magnetization in tuffs from Aeolian Islands (southern Tyrrhenian Sea) revealed by magnetic anisotropy

This paper reports on the complex relation between rock emplacement and remanence acquisition in tuffs deposited by pyroclastic density currents, disclosed by systematic measurements of the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and natural remanent magnetization (NRM). Thermal demagnetization shows that the NRM consists of two components with different blocking-temperature spectra. The direction of the low-temperature component is consistent with the geocentric axial dipole value, whereas the high-temperature component has dispersed directions. The magnetic fabric is oblate, the magnetic foliation is close to the bedding and the lineations are generally dispersed along a girdle within the foliation plane. The directions of the magnetic lineation and the high-temperature remanence component of individual specimens are close to each other. This correspondence suggests that the high blocking-temperature grains acquired a remanence aligned to their long dimension before deposition, while cooling within the explosive cloud and the moving pyroclastic current. Thereafter, during deposition, the traction processes at the base of the current oriented the grains along the flow direction and affected both fabric and high-temperature remanence. This NRM component results from mechanical orientation of previously magnetized grains and is thus detrital in origin. A second, thermal component was then acquired during the cooling of the low blocking-temperature grains after deposition. These results show that NRM in fine-grained pyroclastic rocks is affected by the Earth’s magnetic field as well as the emplacement processes and that magnetic fabric data are essential to unravel its complex nature.     

Paleomagnetism of the Esterel rocks: a revisit 22 years after the thesis of Hans Zijderveld

For his PhD. thesis, Zijderveld (1975) studied the paleomagnetism of the Permian Esterel rocks (southern France). High-quality thermal and alternating-field demagnetization diagrams were interpreted to determine the direction of the characteristic natural magnetization. For the Esterel volcanics, a mean direction of Dec = 206.5°, Inc = –23°, ₉₅ = 5.7°, k = 112 was found for this magnetization. The dispersion in this mean is remarkably low. Only the declination of the Reyran Rhyolite in the Reyran River quarry clearly deviated from this mean. This deviating direction is not found in our samples, taken at the same site. As many faults occur in this quarry, it is suggested that Zijderveld sampled this rhyolite on a small rotated block. To verify whether the small dispersion in the mean paleomagnetic direction of the Esterel rocks has a geomagnetic or a rock-magnetic origin, two conglomerate tests were carried out. One of these might be interpreted as positive. The results of the other conglomerate test (Agay Formation) are ambiguous: four of the six measured boulders show directions close to the mean paleomagnetic direction of the Esterel rocks. Rock-magnetic measurements show that the remanence is carried by a magnetite and a hematite fraction. The low dispersion in the paleomagnetic directions, the conglomerate tests, and hematite as remanence carrier suggest that the characteristic remanence in the Esterel volcanics was not instantaneously acquired during cooling, but might be affected by remagnetization due to weathering.     

Palaeomagnetic and rock-magnetic study of a Pliocene volcanic section in southern Georgia (Caucasus)

Twenty-six basaltic flows were sampled for a paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic study of the Tchuntchka section in the Akhalkalaki volcanic region in southern Georgia (Caucasus). Three to five samples from each flow were subjected to thermal or alternating-field demagnetization. The upper part of the section yields normal (D = 355.5°, I = 54.2°, N = 17, ₉₅ = 2.5°, k = 226), and the lower part reversed polarity directions (D = 180.3°, I = – 59.4,° N = 8, ₉₅ = 4.8°, k = 135). An anomalous direction was found in one flow in the upper part (D = 118.5°, I = – 77.3°). Rock-magnetic experiments show that the remanence is carried in most cases by magnetite or low-Ti titanomagnetite. The fraction of grains with a multidomain magnetic structure does not seem to be important. The remanence carried by such grains is removed only partly by low-temperature demagnetization. A tentative magnetostratigraphic correlation between the 3.8-Ma-old Thoki and Tchuntchka sites is proposed.     

A palaeomagnetic investigation of the Malvernian and Old Radnor Precambrian,Welsh Borderlands

Alternating field and thermal demagnetization of igneous rocks of the Malvern Hills identifies a number of magnetite-held components which are characterized by a high blocking temperature (M2) component D = 283°, I = 47°, and lower blocking temperature (M3) component D = 269°, I = −43° which is of complex origin or more than one age. Two subordinate components are (M1) D = 7°, I = 56° and (M4) D = 174°, I = 51° in later dolerites. A pervasive hematite-held remanence with a mean D = 186°, I = −5° is linked to Hercynian palaeofield directions and the uplift/folding of the Malvernian axis. The similarity of the magnetization directions in the Stanner–Hanter (702 Ma) and Malvernian (681 Ma) rocks suggests that folding of the Palaeozoic rocks in the Malvern Hills was achieved by upthrust of the basement and involved little folding of the latter. The Old Radnor sediments possess a post-folding remanence D = 117°, I = −13° of probable Cambrian age and a subordinate remanence which may be Hercynian in age. The late Precambrian–Cambrian palaeomagnetic record (ca. 700–500 Ma) of England and Wales is compared with data from the Armorican Massif. Although the apparent polar wander (a.p.w.) paths are widely dissimilar prior to 550 Ma, the two regions had similar latitudes and went through similar palaeolatitudinal movements throughout this interval. The palaeomagnetic data support models involving tectonic rotations but little closure across this part of the Hercynian Belt.     

Preliminary magnetostratigraphic dating of Paleogene lacustrine sediments from the Shandong Province, East China

A detailed magnetostratigraphic and rock magnetic study was conducted on Tertiary lacustrine/fluvial sediments from Jiyang, Shandong, East China. High temperature susceptibility variation and thermal demagnetization show that magnetite is the main magnetic remanence carrier. The characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) was isolated above 150 °C by thermal demagnetization, and a detailed magnetic polarity sequence was established. The lacustrine/fluvial sediments were dated from polarity chron C18n.1r to polarity chron C15n, i.e., within the interval 39.631–34.655 Ma. The results of this study indicate the likelihood that either no hydrocarbon-bearing fluids were present after 34.655 Ma or, if there was any such fluid flow, the fluids must have gone through the section very quickly, without having any significant influence on the magnetic signal.     

NEW MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND SEDIMENTOLOGIC RESULTS FROM TERTIARY SEDIMENTS OF THE HOH XIL BASIN, NORTHERN QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CENOZOIC TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE TIBET PLATEAU

NEW MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND SEDIMENTOLOGIC RESULTS FROM TERTIARY SEDIMENTS OF THE HOH XIL BASIN, NORTHERN QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CENOZOIC TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE TIBET PLATEAU     

Palaeomagnetic data for Permian and Triassic rocks from drill holes in the Southern Sydney Basin, New South Wales

A section 300 m thick across the Permian—Triassic boundary has been sampled in the Southern Coalfield of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales. 55 samples, mainly grey to drab sandstones, were collected from 9 diamond drill holes which penetrated the entire Narrabeen Group and the upper part of the conformably underlying Illawarra Coal Measures, as well as a sill emplaced into the coal measures. The samples included fully oriented cores. Additional reconnaissance samples from two further drill holes were also studied.Partial alternating field demagnetization and petrography indicate the magnetic remanence to be a stable DRM. Partial thermal demagnetization above 300°C or 400°C caused large increases in magnetic susceptibility. Partial chemical demagnetization did not cause significant changes in remanence directions.For the Coal Cliff Sandstone (basal Narrabeen Group, Triassic) the palaeomagnetic pole position (Normal) was calculated to be at 59°N 322°E (dp = 27°, dm = 29°), which agrees with previously published data. For the uppermost coal measures (Permian) the pole position was calculated as 58°N 340°E (dp = 09°, dm = 10°). Data for samples from the lower to middle coal measures yield a pole position which is between the new Permian—Triassic pole position and that for the underlying Middle Permian igneous rocks. The top of the Reversed “Kiaman Magnetic Interval” (Permian) may be near the Tongarra coal and Appin Formation boundary — (early) Late Permian.     

Palaeomagnetism of the Tan y Grisiau granite,North Wales: Evidence for a subvolcanic origin in Late Ordovician times

Progressive thermal demagnetization of samples from the Tan y Grisiau granite defines a coherent easterly positive characteristic remanence (D/I = 124.9/60.3°;, 42 samples, R = 40–51, a₉₅ = 4.8°;) residing in magnetite. An ancient reversal of magnetization is recovered in the highest blocking temperature spectrum of a few samples and suggests that a cooling-related dipolar axis is recorded by this pluton. Only facies of the granite which have been reddened, probably by submagmatic streaming, have recorded a stable remanence. Adjustment for tilt yields a very steep remanence (D/I = 193/88°;) incompatible with any known Early Palaeozoic and younger field direction from Britain. The in situ remanence has a similar declination to the primary magnetization in Late Ordovician dolerites from the Welsh Borderlands and yields a comparable palaeolatitude (41.5°;S). It is concluded that the Tan y Grisiau pluton was magnetized in Late Ordovician times after deformation. Folding in this region is therefore interpreted to be substantially of Taconic (Late Ordovician) origin and not Acadian in age. As both in situ and tilt-adjusted remanence directions are incompatible with Silurian and younger palaeofield directions from Britain, the pluton is interpreted as a subvolcanic component of the North Wales igneous province. Large anticlockwise rotation of Avalonia is identified between Late Ordovician and Late Silurian times.