辽宁营口后仙峪硼矿区超镁橄榄岩的控矿作用

为了研究辽宁营口后仙峪硼矿区超镁橄榄岩与硼矿的关系,作者通过硼矿与超镁橄榄岩两者在产出空间关系、岩石学和地球化学方面的比较,发现:①硼矿体与超镁橄榄岩空间关系上具一致性;②硼矿体与超镁橄榄岩在岩石学上具继承性;③硼矿石、超镁橄榄岩的地球化学特征具相似性,从而得出超镁橄榄岩不仅是该区硼矿的容矿岩石,而且对硼矿的形成有决定性的岩控作用,进一步认为辽东硼矿的容矿岩石不全是镁质大理岩,其他富镁岩石在一定条件下也可成为硼矿的容矿岩石。     

辽宁营口后仙峪镁橄榄岩的地球化学特征

辽东、吉南地区的古元古代硼矿是中国硼资源的重要产地，该区硼矿脉石矿物中有大量的镁橄榄石分布，本文以辽宁营口后仙峪硼矿区的镁橄榄岩作为研究对象，得到以下认识：① 通过对其主量元素分析，发现镁橄榄岩具有富镁、富铁、富硼的特点，并将镁橄榄岩定名为橄榄质科马提岩；② 通过对其微量元素分析，发现镁橄榄岩富集B、F、Rb、Cs、Th和U等，而相对亏损V、Cr、Ni等，为地幔橄榄岩经过深部熔融的残余相再次重熔成的超基性岩浆岩。     

辽东后仙峪地区元古界超镁橄榄岩岩石学及其成因

超镁橄榄岩是作者在辽东大石桥后仙峪地区发现并命名的一种新类型岩石,是以镁橄榄石分子组成为标准而定义、阳离子过剩的一种岩石。由于阳离子过剩而形成独立的铁镁氧化物矿物,因此岩石的主要矿物为镁橄榄石、硅镁石、水镁石及磁铁矿。该超镁橄榄岩中矿物呈粒状、板状结构,具有角砾状火山喷发构造、类鬣刺状熔岩冷凝构造及团块状熔离构造。岩石具有分层现象,下部为镁橄榄岩,上部为磁铁矿硅镁石岩,其中含有镍黄铁矿,并构成海绵陨铁结构。岩石学研究表明这是一套富镁质超基性火山岩,相当于科马提岩,作为辽东硼矿的容矿岩石,它为镁硼酸盐矿床的形成提供了丰富的镁质来源。     

辽宁营口后仙峪超镁橄榄岩的地质地球化学特征及其对源区的约束

辽宁营口后仙峪硼矿区的超镁橄榄岩是该区硼镁石型硼矿的主要赋存岩石,其地质地球化学特征是①超镁橄榄岩呈带状、透镜体状分布,它整合于古元古代的火山-沉积岩系中的含硼岩系富镁硼酸盐岩组中.岩石几乎由镁橄榄石组成,具有变余的火山沉积的组构.②主量元素说明岩石化学成分具富镁、富铁的特点.③非活动性微量元素较高,如Zr、Hf、Ta等,与一般超基性岩相似;Cr、Ni含量低,显示岩浆为非原始岩浆;Nb*大于1以及(La/Yb)N-(Yb)N图解均说明岩石的幔源性.④稀土元素总量为7.41×10-6～46.82×10-6,与上地幔相当,轻、重稀土分馏不太明显,负Eu异常明显,具有与纯橄榄岩一致的"V"型稀土元素分布模式.⑤ε Nd为-7.51961～9.0654,亦反映出壳幔混染的特点.由地质地球化学特征可以推测岩石为经过地壳混染的地幔橄榄岩较大程度部分熔融后而残留的富镁岩石.     

东波超镁铁岩体:西藏雅鲁藏布江缝合带西段一个甚具铬铁矿前景的地幔橄榄岩体

东波超镁铁岩体产在雅鲁藏布江缝合带的西段,与周边白垩纪沉积岩地层和火山岩以断层接触.航磁资料显示该岩体约400km2规模,地表出露连续,地下有一定延深.超镁铁岩体由亏损的地幔橄榄岩组成,主要有高镁的方辉橄榄岩、纯橄岩和少量二辉橄榄岩.方辉橄榄岩和二辉橄榄岩中橄榄石和斜方辉石属高镁型,分别为Fo=89.5～91.5和Mg#=90～91.5.但二辉橄榄岩中的Al2O3和CaO含量明显高于方辉橄榄岩.方辉橄榄岩中单斜辉石Mg#=92～95,二辉橄榄岩的Mg#=92～93,两者的值也重叠.二辉橄榄岩中的Al2O3和CaO含量要明显高于方辉橄榄岩.这些均为阿尔卑斯型地幔橄榄岩的典型特征.纯橄岩中的橄榄石Fo=92～93.2,其斜方辉石和单斜辉石的Mg#=～93,但Al2O3和CaO的含量比方辉橄榄岩和二辉橄榄岩的低.三种岩石的成分变化规律,反映了地幔部分熔融程度的差异.二辉橄榄岩铬尖晶石的Cr#值20～30,反映为典型深海橄榄岩特征,指示MOR环境.与其不同的是,方辉橄榄岩的铬尖晶石的Cr#=20～75,指示MOR和SSZ两者兼有环境.岩石的原始地幔标准化的REE和微量元素蛛网图模式支持了上述的认识.东波地幔橄榄岩中的岩石学特征与产有大型铬铁矿床的罗布莎地幔橄榄岩可对比,岩体中已多处发现块状铬铁矿石,其铬铁矿的Cr2O3含量56％～59％,表明东波是寻找铬铁矿大矿和富矿甚具前景的一个超镁铁岩体.     

高台沟硼矿地质地球化学及成因分析

高台沟硼矿位于吉南集安地区,含硼岩系普遍经受中-高级区域变质作用,区域上含矿镁质岩石类型划分为镁橄榄岩大理岩混合型和大理岩型两种矿化类型,高台沟硼矿属于镁橄榄岩大理岩混合型硼矿。含矿层岩石为灰绿色和黄绿色蛇纹岩,顶部岩石为金云母、透辉、滑石岩或金云透辉大理岩,向下为金云蛇纹岩或金云白云石大理岩,与蛇纹岩成渐变关系。蛇纹岩原岩为菱镁矿大理岩和镁橄榄岩,蛇纹石化镁橄榄岩中以产出硼镁铁矿为主,蛇纹石化大理岩中主要产出硼镁石。矿石化学成分反映,B_2O_3品位变化与MgO含量正相关,高品位硼矿石MgO含量均在40%以上。硼矿石稀土总量较低,小于22.03×10~(-6),轻重稀土略有分异,不同的负铕异常,明显的铈正异常。矿石中除B外,F也明显富集,其次是Cl、Rb、Sn、Th、U高于地幔岩石,而Ti、V、Cr、Co、Ni、Ga、Ba等则亏损,而硼镁铁矿的Co、Sn、U热液元素明显高于硼镁石矿石。矿床成因属于变质热液交代富镁质岩石形成的矿床,硼酸热液交代富镁岩石及磁铁矿形成硼镁石和硼镁铁矿,也可以是硼酸热液与铁镁溶液混合形成硼镁石和硼镁铁矿。     

有关上地幔二辉橄榄岩问题的讨论

(一)上地幔中为啥是二辉橄榄岩? 前人资料中指出:二辉橄榄岩代表了上地幔超镁铁质岩石的总成分。笔者认为言之有理,因为二辉橄榄岩在超镁铁质岩石中属于中间类型,它既有多量的辉石(5—90％或25—70％),又有多量的橄榄石(95—10％或75—30％),而且辉石中既有斜方辉石又有单斜辉石。它的形成环境为高温、高压、极低的应变速率。而且主要为比较均匀的静压环境。它的形成历史漫长,先为岩浆熔融体,后来逐渐变为固态或塑性体。这样的岩石在超镁铁岩的初期分异最差,矿物的分布也比较均匀,就其矿物的含量比例而言,相当于二辉橄榄岩类型,所以上地幔中超镁铁质岩石的总成分可以由二辉橄榄岩作为它的代表。     

西藏聂尔错镁硼矿地质特征及成矿机制

聂尔错镁硼矿为新近发现的一处镁硼矿床。本文通过对其区域地质资料、矿床地质特征研究,并与国内外矿床进行对比,分析了成矿物质来源和成矿机制,总结了成矿模式。聂尔错镁硼矿床赋存于中上全新统,有三个含矿层,中、上含矿层为主要可采矿层,下含矿层为次要含矿层;矿石类型包括粒状集合体库水硼镁石矿、含芒硝库水硼镁石矿、蜂窝状/块状柱硼镁石和混和类型矿石等4种,前两种为主要开采矿石,后两种为次要开采矿石。矿床对比研究表明,聂尔错镁硼矿床与其北部相邻的扎仓茶卡镁硼矿在有工业价值的硼矿物组合和形成矿床的地质环境等方面相同,属同类型矿床,但不同于国内外其它硼矿床。该矿床的成矿物质来源主要为新近纪火山岩。印度板块与亚洲版块碰撞,在靠近班公湖-怒江缝合带的聂尔错盐湖南部形成大面积富含B、Li、Mg、Na等成矿物质的新近纪火山岩,地热水及大气降水将大量成矿物质带入湖中,在干冷气候条件下,湖水浓缩成富含钠盐的饱和成矿溶液,并沉淀了库水硼镁石、柱硼镁石等,形成聂尔错镁硼矿床。     

新的矿物原料——橄榄岩

橄榄岩系镁橄榄石和铁橄榄石的混合物的一种岩石,橄榄石矿物早在21世纪30年代初期就已被开发利用,在欧洲早已利用橄榄石作为贮热炉的耐火砖。我国橄榄岩资源丰富,矿石质地良好,但由于种种原因,对于橄榄岩的开发利用能有多少,却未引起国人的重视和注目。     

西藏拉昂错剪切橄榄岩中橄榄石初步研究

本文报道作者在拉昂错湖的西部岸边发现的剪切橄榄岩及其所含橄榄石的镜下研究和矿物研究的初步结果。剪切橄榄岩由橄榄石、辉石和尖晶石组成,其主要类型是方辉橄榄岩、二辉橄榄岩和蛇纹石化橄榄岩。橄榄石是高镁的贵橄榄石,其牌号fo为89.54到90.34,说明是地幔橄榄岩,而不是堆晶橄榄岩。在偏光显微镜下,橄榄石呈现波状消光、鲍姆纹、膝折带和碎斑结构,反映了韧性变形的特点。运用氧化缀饰法、化学侵蚀法和透射电镜研究了橄榄石的微结构,表明有位错线、位错环和位错网络存在,进一步反映了剪切橄榄岩经受了塑性流动和韧性变形作用。     

镁同位素地球化学研究新进展及其应用

作为一种新兴的地质示踪剂,Mg同位素正受到国际地学界日益广泛的关注。Mg同位素地球化学研究已取得了巨大的进展,近期研究工作主要包括两个方面。首先,调查了地球各主要储库和陨石的Mg同位素组成特征,结果表明陨石和地球地幔具有均一并且相似的Mg同位素组成,平均δ²⁶Mg值分别为-0.28±0.06‰和-0.25±0.07‰;相反,上地壳和水圈的Mg同位素组成很不均一,δ²⁶Mg值变化范围分别为-4.84‰~+0.92‰和-2.93‰~+1.13‰。其次,对一些地质和物理化学过程中Mg同位素的分馏行为进行研究,结果表明:(1)地表风化作用可以造成大的Mg同位素分馏,导致重Mg同位素残留在风化产物中而轻Mg同位素进入水圈;(2)岩浆分异过程中Mg同位素平衡分馏很小;(3)高温化学扩散和热扩散过程中Mg同位素会发生显著的动力学分馏。基于这些研究成果,Mg同位素体系已经被初步应用于示踪早期地球形成和壳内物质再循环等过程,并有望在不久的将来应用于示踪大陆地壳的化学演化和地质温度计等研究领域。     

Omphacite paradox in mantle peridotites

Omphacite is a typomorphic mineral of eclogites, which is inappropriate to mineral assemblages of peridotites. Nevertheless, findings of this mineral in inclusions in peridotitic diamonds can be considered as indirect evidence for the existence of this paradoxical mineral assemblage.In this paper we present experimental results on the interaction between carbonate-bearing amphibolite and olivine that model processes operated at the crust–mantle boundary in subduction zones. The experiments demonstrate growth of omphacite at the interface between acid melt and peridotite media at 2.9 GPa and 850–900 °C; the omphacite coexists either with garnet and orthopyroxene or with phlogopite. The synthetic omphacite is exclusively of reactive-magmatic origin and does not form in metasomatic way. Findings of omphacite inclusions in peridotitic diamonds and in some pyroxenites from kimberlites are discussed in scope of the obtained experimental data.     

Manganese thermometer for mantle peridotites

The temperature dependence of the Mn-Mg distribution between garnet and clinopyroxene, originally proposed by Carswell, was confirmed by Shimizu and Allègre (1978) using ion microprobe and electron microprobe data. High precision electron microprobe analyses of a larger set of 52 Iherzolites from S. Africa and Malaita, Solomon Islands show considerable scatter in the temperature dependence of this distribution, and correlation with the CaO content of the garnet is indicated. A new distribution coefficient is based on the reaction: $$\begin{gathered} \operatorname{Mn} _{\text{2}} \operatorname{Si} _2 \operatorname{O} _6 {\text{ + }}\operatorname{CaAl} _{2/3} \operatorname{SiO} _4 {\text{ + }}\operatorname{MgAl} _{2/3} \operatorname{SiO} _4 \hfill \\ {\text{Mn - pyroxene grossular pyrope}} \hfill \\ {\text{ }} \rightleftharpoons \operatorname{CaMgSi} _2 \operatorname{O} _6 {\text{ + }}2\operatorname{MnAl} _{2/3} \operatorname{SiO} _4 \hfill \\ {\text{ diopside spessartine}} \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ It was calibrated against temperature determined from two independent thermometers (Wells pyroxene and O'Neill-Wood garnet-olivine) for Iherzolitic assemblages, and shown to to be sensitive to within + 50 °C for most specimens in the range 900 °– 1,300 ° C. This distribution coefficient appears independent of pressure within the uncertainty of the available data, and has the potential to be a third independent thermometer for use in garnet Iherzolites and possibly eclogites.     

Evaluation of thermobarometers for garnet peridotites

The accuracy and precision of a large number of combinations of geothermometers and geo-barometers for garnet lherzolites have been evaluated with a suite of well-equilibrated xenoliths from kimberlites of northern Lesotho. Accuracy was tested by comparison of P-T estimates for a diamond-bearing and a graphite-bearing xenolith with the experimentally determined diamond-graphite univariant curve and by comparison of P-T estimates for phlogopite-bearing xenoliths to the high-temperature stability limit of phlogopite (Eggler and Wendlandt, 1979). Precision was evaluated by measuring the scatter of P-T estimates for each of four xenoliths from a wide range of P and T when many point analyses of the constituent minerals are used for P-T estimation. A thermobarometer composed of the uncorrected diopside-enstatite miscibility gap of Lindsley and Dixon (1976), combined with the uncorrected isopleths for aluminum in enstatite coexisting with pyrope of MacGregor (1974), is most satisfactory. Correction schemes such as those of Wells (1977) and Wood (1974) will ultimately provide a better means of P-T estimation, but at the present stage of development they serve to decrease precision without a demonstrable increase in accuracy. Thermometers based on $\text{Fe}{}^{\mathrm{2+}}\text{Mg}$ exchange reactions are imprecise because of variable and unknown $\text{Fe}{}^{\mathrm{2+}}\text{Fe}{}^{\mathrm{3+}}$ in minerals and xenoliths. The inflection observed in the northern Lesotho paleogeotherm cannot be an artifact of the method of temperature estimation.     

MOR型蛇绿岩中地幔橄榄岩的地质特征

地幔橄榄岩是指来自陆下、弧下或洋脊下的岩石圈地幔岩,通常通过构造侵位(冷侵位)的方式存在于造山带中,如造山带橄榄岩、蛇绿岩中的橄榄岩以及火山岩中的地幔橄榄岩等。本文选取了4个具有MOR型属性的蛇绿岩中地幔橄榄岩体,对比研究了其与深海橄榄岩在岩石学、地球化学、同位素地球化学和岩石成因等方面的特征,认为与深海橄榄岩性质的综合对比是识别MOR型蛇绿岩中地幔橄榄岩的有效方法之一,同时在蛇绿岩的分类中具有较好的参考价值。     

Mantle peridotites from the Western Pacific

We review petrographical and petrological characteristics of mantle peridotite xenoliths from the Western Pacific to construct a petrologic model of the lithospheric mantle beneath the convergent plate boundary. The peridotite varies from highly depleted spinel harzburgite of low-pressure origin at the volcanic front of active arcs (Avacha of Kamchatka arc and Iraya of Luzon–Taiwan arc) to fertile spinel lherzolite of high-pressure origin at the Eurasian continental margin (from Sikhote-Alin through Korea to eastern China) through intermediate lherzolite–harzburgite at backarc side of Japan island arcs. Oxygen fugacity recorded by the peridotite xenoliths decreases from the frontal side of arc to the continental margin. The sub-arc type peridotite is expected to exist beneath the continental margin if accretion of island arc is one of the important processes for continental growth. Its absence suggests replacement by the continental lherzolite at the region of backarc to continental margin. Asthenospheric upwelling beneath the continental region, which has frequently occurred at the Western Pacific, has replaced depleted sub-cratonic peridotite with the fertile spinel lherzolite. Some of these mantle diapirs had opened backarc basins and strongly modified the lithospheric upper mantle by metasomatism and formation of Group II pyroxenites.     

Internally consistent geothermometers for garnet peridotites and pyroxenites

Mutual relationships among temperatures estimated with the most widely used geothermometers for garnet peridotites and pyroxenites demonstrate that the methods are not internally consistent and may diverge by over 200°C even in well-equilibrated mantle xenoliths. The Taylor (N Jb Min Abh 172:381–408, 1998) two-pyroxene (TA98) and the Nimis and Taylor (Contrib Mineral Petrol 139:541–554, 2000) single-clinopyroxene thermometers are shown to provide the most reliable estimates, as they reproduce the temperatures of experiments in a variety of simple and natural peridotitic systems. Discrepancies between these two thermometers are negligible in applications to a wide variety of natural samples (≤30°C). The Brey and Köhler (J Petrol 31:1353–1378, 1990) Ca-in-Opx thermometer shows good agreement with TA98 in the range 1,000–1,400°C and a positive bias at lower T (up to +90°C, on average, at T _TA98 = 700°C). The popular Brey and Köhler (J Petrol 31:1353–1378, 1990) two-pyroxene thermometer performs well on clinopyroxene with Na contents of ~0.05 atoms per 6-oxygen formula, but shows a systematic positive bias with increasing Na_Cpx (+150°C at Na_Cpx = 0.25). Among Fe–Mg exchange thermometers, the Harley (Contrib Mineral Petrol 86:359–373, 1984) orthopyroxene–garnet and the recent Wu and Zhao (J Metamorphic Geol 25:497–505, 2007) olivine–garnet formulations show the highest precision, but systematically diverge (up to ca. 150°C, on average) from TA98 estimates at T far from 1,100°C and at T < 1,200°C, respectively; these systematic errors are also evident by comparison with experimental data for natural peridotite systems. The older O’Neill and Wood (Contrib Mineral Petrol 70:59–70, 1979) version of the olivine–garnet Fe–Mg thermometer and all popular versions of the clinopyroxene–garnet Fe–Mg thermometer show unacceptably low precision, with discrepancies exceeding 200°C when compared to TA98 results for well-equilibrated xenoliths. Empirical correction to the Brey and Köhler (J Petrol 31:1353–1378, 1990) Ca-in-Opx thermometer and recalibration of the orthopyroxene–garnet thermometer, using well-equilibrated mantle xenoliths and TA98 temperatures as calibrants, are provided in this study to ensure consistency with TA98 estimates in the range 700–1,400°C. Observed discrepancies between the new orthopyroxene–garnet thermometer and TA98 for some localities can be interpreted in the light of orthopyroxene–garnet Fe³⁺ partitioning systematics and suggest localized and lateral variations in mantle redox conditions, in broad agreement with existing oxybarometric data. Kinetic decoupling of Ca–Mg and Fe–Mg exchange equilibria caused by transient heating appears to be common, but not ubiquitous, near the base of the lithosphere.     

Li isotope fractionation in peridotites and mafic melts

We have measured the Li isotope ratios of a range of co-existing phases from peridotites and mafic magmas to investigate high-temperature fractionations of ⁷Li/⁶Li. The Li isotopic compositions of seven mantle peridotites, reconstructed from analyses of mineral separates, show little variation (δ⁷Li 3.2-4.9‰) despite a wide range in fertility and radiogenic isotopic compositions. The most fertile samples yield a best estimate of δ⁷Li ∼ 3.5‰ for the upper mantle. Bulk analyses of olivine separates from the xenoliths are typically ∼1.5‰ isotopically lighter than co-existing orthopyroxenes, suggestive of a small, high-temperature equilibrium isotope fractionation. On the other hand, bulk analyses of olivine phenocrysts and their host melts are isotopically indistinguishable. Given these observations, equilibrium mantle melting should generate melts with δ⁷Li little different from their sources (<0.5‰ lighter). In contrast to olivine and orthopyroxene, that dominate peridotite Li budgets, bulk clinopyroxene analyses are highly variable (δ⁷Li = 6.6‰ to −8.1‰). Phlogopite separated from a modally metasomatised xenolith yielded an extreme δ⁷Li of −18.9‰. Such large Li isotope variability is indicative of isotopic disequilibrium. This inference is strongly reinforced by in situ, secondary ion mass-spectrometry analyses which show Li isotope zonation in peridotite minerals. The simplest zoning patterns show isotopically light rims. This style of zoning is also observed in the phenocrysts of holocrystalline Hawaiian lavas. More dramatically, a single orthopyroxene crystal from a San Carlos xenolith shows a W-shaped Li isotope profile with a 40‰ range in δ⁷Li, close to the isotope variability seen in all terrestrial whole rock analyses. We attribute Li isotope zonation in mineral phases to diffusive fractionation of Li isotopes, within mineral phases and along melt pathways that pervade xenoliths. Given the high diffusivity of Li, the Li isotope profiles we observe can persist, at most, only a few years at magmatic temperatures. Our results thus highlight the potential of Li isotopes as a high-resolution geospeedometer of the final phases of magmatic activity and cooling.     

Kinematic interpretation of folds in alpine-type peridotites

From a general understanding of the flow mechanisms in alpine-type peridotites, it is possible to describe without ambiguity the general flow regime and its directions in a massif. This result provides the means for an investigation of the origin of the folding in pyroxenitic layers independent of any preconceived theory on folding.The folds are usually isoclinal and of the flexural-flow type as demonstrated by petrofabric studies in hinges. Their axes are always parallel or subparallel to a mineral lineation which in turn is parallel or close to the orientation of the fabric elements defining the flow line. Their axial plane, which usually coincides with the foliation, is parallel to or close to the flow plane. This conclusion, also supported by paragenetic observations, shows that the folds were formed or transposed during the plastic flow responsible for the development of structures (foliation and lineation), textures and preferred mineral orientations. In the case of the Lanzo Massif and a few other Iherzolite massifs, the flow occurred during the intrusion from the mantle. The mapping in Lanzo yields evidence of a large-scale U-shaped fold with a remarkable pattern of mesoscopic folds attached to it: the tight isoclinal folds are restricted to the limbs of the largescale structure, and the open folds locally refolding former isoclinal ones to the hinge area where the angle between the folded pyroxenitic layering and the axial-plane foliation is large. Stereograms of the field structures in this hinge area clearly illustrate the geometric relations mentioned above.This folding, characterized by its axis and axial plane respectively close to the flow line and flow plane, can be explained either by rotation towards the flow line of non-cylindrical-fold axes or by direct formation in a non-plane flow when the flow line is initially contained in the layering or close to it. In this respect, the folding may bring information on the minor flow component, complementary to that given on the major flow component by considering the textures and fabrics. Finally this folding is shown to be ubiquitous in plastically deformed peridotites. It is proposed that these conclusions be extended to other domains submitted to intense non-plane flow.