Transport properties of olivine grain boundaries from electrical conductivity experiments

Grain boundary processes contribute significantly to electronic and ionic transports in materials within Earth’s interior. We report a novel experimental study of grain boundary conductivity in highly strained olivine aggregates that demonstrates the importance of misorientation angle between adjacent grains on aggregate transport properties. We performed electrical conductivity measurements of melt-free polycrystalline olivine (Fo₉₀) samples that had been previously deformed at 1200 °C and 0.3 GPa to shear strains up to γ?=?7.3. The electrical conductivity and anisotropy were measured at 2.8 GPa over the temperature range 700–1400 °C. We observed that (1) the electrical conductivity of samples with a small grain size (3–6 µm) and strong crystallographic preferred orientation produced by dynamic recrystallization during large-strain shear deformation is a factor of 10 or more larger than that measured on coarse-grained samples, (2) the sample deformed to the highest strain is the most conductive even though it does not have the smallest grain size, and (3) conductivity is up to a factor of ~?4 larger in the direction of shear than normal to the shear plane. Based on these results combined with electrical conductivity data for coarse-grained, polycrystalline olivine and for single crystals, we propose that the electrical conductivity of our fine-grained samples is dominated by grain boundary paths. In addition, the electrical anisotropy results from preferential alignment of higher-conductivity grain boundaries associated with the development of a strong crystallographic preferred orientation of the grains.     

Olivines and olivine coronas in mesosiderites

Olivines and their surrounding coronas in mesosiderites have been studied texturally and compositionally by optical and microprobe methods. Most olivine is compositionally homogeneous but some is irregularly zoned. It ranges from Fo_58–92 and shows no consistent pattern of distribution within and between mesosiderites. Olivine occurs as large single crystals or as partially recrystallized mineral clasts, except for two lithic clasts. One is in Emery, the other in Vaca Muerta, and they are both shock-modified olivine orthopyroxenites. $\text{FeO}\text{MnO}$ ratios in olivine exhibit a variety of differing trends and range from 22–46, most commonly 35–40. These values are lower than those in olivine from diogenites sensu stricto (45–50) and have therefore experienced a different history. Some of the olivine clasts could have coexisted with some of the large orthopyroxene clasts as equilibrium assemblages, but some could not. Much of the olivine may be derived from mesosiderite olivine orthopyroxenites, which differ from diogenites sensu stricto. More magnesian olivine may be a residue from one or more source rocks, with varying degrees of melting. These events probably occurred in a highly evolved and differentiated parent body.Fine-grained coronas surround olivine, except for those in impact-melt group mesosiderites (Simondium, Hainholz, Pinnaroo) and those without tridymite in their matrices (Bondoc, Veramin). Coronas consist largely of orthopyroxene, plagioclase, clinopyroxene, chromite, merrillite and ilmenite and are similar to the matrix, but lack metal and tridymite. Coronas contain abundant orthopyroxene but are unusually rich in chromite (up to 7%) and merrillite (up to 20%). The outer parts of the corona grade into the matrix, but have little or no metal and tridymite. Texturally the innermost part of the corona can be divided into three stages of development: I Radiating acicular; II Intermediate; III Granular. Stage I is the result of the greatest disequilibrium between olivine and matrix orthopyroxene and Stage III has the least disequilibrium. Coronas are the result of the reaction olivine + tridymite = orthopyroxene, probably because FeO (and MgO) diffuse from olivine to tridymite in the matrix. Absence of metal and concentration of chromite in the corona are probably the result of an FeO potential gradient away from the olivine. Merrillite concentrations are a result of P₂O₅ migration into the corona but are controlled by the availability of calcic pyroxene, or possibly plagioclase. Although the coronas are texturally similar to terrestrial and lunar counterparts, they are unique and represent different kinds of reactions marked by a large degree of intra-corona diffusion under dry conditions. Opaque oxide-silicate-metal buffer assemblages yield apparent equilibration conditions of about 840°C and fO₂ near 10^?20. Poikiloblastic pyroxene textures in some coronas suggest a closing of reaction systems between 900 and 1000°C and such systems may record a higher temperature stage of development.     

Ice-wedge casts and relict polygonal patterns in Scandinavia

Ice-wedge casts in Scandinavia frequently occur in three regions: (a) southwestern Jutland (outside the limit of the Weichselian glaciation); (b) southwestern Sweden; and (c) northernmost Norway. The latter two areas are both early deglaciated regions. Characteristics of casts in vertical sections are discussed with reference to the host and infilling material. Aerial photographs provide an effective tool for detecting relict ice-wedge polygons (crop marks, micromorphology). Experience from present-day permafrost regions with active ice-wedge formation helps to explain the palaeoclimatic significance of the relict polygons. Attempts to establish the ages of formation are discussed from a methodological point of view.     

Sintering of olivine and olivine-basalt aggregates

The sintering behavior of olivine and olivine-basalt aggregates has been examined at temperatures near 1,300° C. Experimental factors contributing to rapid sintering kinetics and high-density, fine-grained specimens include: (i) the uniform dispersion of basalt throughout the specimen, (ii) a very fine, uniform particle size for the olivine powder, (iii) oxygen fugacities near the high P _O2 end of the olivine stability field, and (iv) rapid heating to the sintering temperature. Olivine-basalt specimens prepared from olivine particles coated with a synthetic basalt achieve chemical and microstructural equilibrium more rapidly, as well as produce higher density and finer grain-sized aggregates, than do specimens prepared by mechanical mixing of olivine and natural basalt powders. The grain boundary mobility for olivine, measured for olivine-basalt aggregates which have undergone secondary recrystallization, is on the order of 2×10^?15 (m/s)/(N/m²) in the temperature range 1,300–1,400° C. Solution-precipitation (pressure-solution) processes make an important contribution to the development of the microstructure in olivine-basalt aggregates.     

The behavior of Mg, Fe, and Ni during the replacement of olivine by orthopyroxene: experiments relevant to mantle metasomatism

Replacement of olivine by orthopyroxene is a frequently observed phenomenon in mantle metasomatism. In order to study element redistribution in SiO₂ metasomatism we synthesised orthopyroxene reaction rims at the contacts between forsterite-rich olivine and quartz. The orthopyroxene rims grew from the original quartz-olivine interface into both directions implying counterdiffusion of iron/magnesium and silicon. Following local equilibrium partitioning the X_Fe is lower in the orthopyroxene than in the reactant olivine at the olivine-orthopyroxene replacement front. The resulting local iron excess is compensated by formation of orthopyroxene with a higher X_Fe at the quartz-orthopyroxene interface, which is out of equilibrium with the reactant olivine. This is facilitated through short circuit diffusion along grain boundaries within the orthopyroxene rim. Due to the low capacity of orthopyroxene to accommodate Ni, this component is forced to diffuse back into the olivine producing a Ni enriched zone ahead of the replacement front. This leads to Ni contents in the orthopyroxene rim, which are higher than what is expected in equilibrium with the unaltered olivine. Taking quartz as a proxy for a silica rich fluid or liquid metasomatising agent, we conclude that the overall element fractionation between olivine and the silica rich phase may deviate from equilibrium partitioning so that the Fe and Ni concentrations in the orthopyroxene which is in contact with quartz are higher than in equilibrium with the reactant olivine. This indicates that kinetic fractionation is important for the chemical evolution of both the mantle rocks and the metasomatising agents.     

Partitioning coefficients between olivine and silicate melts

Variation of Nernst partition coefficients (D) between olivine and silicate melts cannot be neglected when modeling partial melting and fractional crystallization. Published natural and experimental ^{olivine/liquid}D data were examined for covariation with pressure, temperature, olivine forsterite content, and melt SiO₂, H₂O, MgO and MgO/MgO + FeO^total. Values of ^{olivine/liquid}D generally increase with decreasing temperature and melt MgO content, and with increasing melt SiO₂ content, but generally show poor correlations with other variables. Multi-element ^{olivine/liquid}D profiles calculated from regressions of D REE–Sc–Y vs. melt MgO content are compared to results of the Lattice Strain Model to link melt MgO and: D₀ (the strain compensated partition coefficient), E_M³⁺ (Young's Modulus), and r₀ (the size of the M site). Ln D₀ varies linearly with Ln MgO in the melt; E_M³⁺ varies linearly with melt MgO, with a dog-leg at ca. 1.5% MgO; and r₀ remains constant at 0.807 Å. These equations are then used to calculate ^{olivine/liquid}D for these elements using the Lattice Strain Model. These empirical parameterizations of ^{olivine/liquid}D variations yield results comparable to experimental or natural partitioning data, and can easily be integrated into existing trace element modeling algorithms. The ^{olivine/liquid}D data suggest that basaltic melts in equilibrium with pure olivine may acquire small negative Ta–Hf–Zr–Ti anomalies, but that negative Nb anomalies are unlikely to develop. Misfits between results of the Lattice Strain Model and most light rare earth and large ion lithophile partitioning data suggest that kinetic effects may limit the lower value of D for extremely incompatible elements in natural situations characterized by high cooling/crystallization rates.     

Creep of olivine during hot-pressing

The densification curves for the hot-pressing of pure olivine powders were obtained as a function of grain size (5 μ–2000 μ), temperature (1000–1600°C), and compacting stress (166–298 bars). This range of variables was found to straddle two fields of hot-pressing behavior, one dominated by power-law creep, one by Coble creep. The time required to density a powder to 99% of the single crystal density could be represented by the shorter of the two times: t₁ = 2.2 · 10³σ^−3.4exp(85,000/RT)t₂ = 1.3 · 10⁴σ^−1.5(G)⁺³exp(85,000/RT) where the compacting stress or pressure, σ, is given in bars and the grain size, G, in centimeters. It was also possible to estimate the parameters appropriate to Coble creep in a solid polycrystalline aggregate from the hot-pressing data; and these were:

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The strain rates computed from this formula are close to those predicted by Stocker and Ashby (1973) and those found by Twiss (1976).     

Growth and characterization of synthetic iron-bearing olivine

Single crystals of olivine were grown at 0.1 MPa total pressure in a floating-zone image furnace. Composition of crystals grown ranged from 67 mol% forsterite to 90 mol% forsterite. Improvements in the crystal growth technique allowed growth of large crystals (0.005 m diameter, 0.070 m length) with very low dislocation density, no visible bubbles, and no cracks. The most significant improvement was the addition of a platinum-wound resistance heater internal to the image furnace. This heater provided the dual improvements of better control over oxygen fugacity from a CO/CO₂ gas mix and alteration of the crystal growth interface resulting in a significant reduction in crystal defects. No subgrain boundaries have been observed in crystals growth here and dislocation densities on the order of 10⁸-10⁹ m^-2 have been achieved. Iron concentration is nearly uniform across the diameter (0.005 m) of crystals and varies approximately 5 mol% along the crystal length (0.040 to 0.050 m).     

Impact-induced phyllosilicate formation from olivine and water

Shock-recovery experiments on mixtures of olivine and water with gas (air) were performed in a previous study to demonstrate water-mineral interactions during impact events (Furukawa et al., 2007). The products of these former experiments were investigated in the present study using transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray powder diffraction with the aim of finding evidence of aqueous alteration. Serpentine formed on the surface of shocked olivine with well-developed mosaicism. The yield of serpentine depended on the water/olivine ratio in the starting material, indicating progressive serpentinization under water-rich conditions. Comminution and mosaicism were developed in shocked olivine grains. The temperature and pressure changes of the samples during the experiments were estimated by constructing Hugoniots for mixtures of olivine and water, combined with the results of an additional fracturing experiment on a shocked container. Pressures and temperatures reached 4.6-7.2 GPa and at least 230-390 °C, respectively, for 0.7 μs during in-shock compression. Post-shock temperatures reached a maximum of ∼1300 °C, when the shock wave reached the gas in the sample cavity. The serpentine formed after the post-shock temperature maximum, most likely when temperatures dropped to between 200 and 400 °C. This is the first experiment to demonstrate the formation of phyllosilicates using heat supplied by an impact. The present results and estimations suggest that phyllosilicates could form as a result of impacts into oceans as well as by impacts on terrestrial and Martian crustal rocks, and on some asteroidal surfaces, where liquid or solid H₂O is available. A significant amount of phyllosilicates would have formed during the late heavy bombardment of meteorites on the Hadean Earth, and such phyllosilicates might have affected the prebiotic carbon cycle.     

Thermochemistry of forsterite-fayalite olivine solutions

The enthalpies of solution of synthetic Mg₂SiO₄-Fe₂SiO₄ olivine solid solutions have been measured in Pb₂B₂O₅ melt at 970 K. The heat of solution of forsterite was found to be 15.62 ± 0.3 kcal mol^?1 and that of fayalite 9.39 ± 0.14 kcal mol^?1. Solid solutions between these end-members exhibit small positive deviations from mixing ideality, asymmetric towards the Fe end-member. In terms of the sub-regular solution model, excess enthalpies of intermediate olivine are adequately represented by the equation H^xs = 2(1000 + 1000X_Fe) X_FeX_MgThe enthalpies of solution at 970 K are consistent with high temperature phase equilibrium measurements of activity-composition relationships in the olivine series. Excess entropy terms are not needed to relate the phase equilibrium data to the calorimetric data presented here.The enthalpy of solution of FeSiO₃ ferrosilite at 970 K was found to be 4.36 ± 0.10 kcal mol^?1. This value, when taken together with calorimetric measurements on fayalite and quartz, is consistent with phase equilibrium investigations of the reaction: 2FeSiO₃ = Fe₂SiO₄ + SiO₂ Ferrosilite Fayalite QuartzThese provide a check on the internal consistency of the calorimetric data presented here.     

Non-coaxial experimental deformation of olivine

Dunite samples have been deformed non-coaxially at high temperatures and pressures. In samples which were deformed by translation glide on {Okl}[100], olivine [100] = Z-axes rotated toward the maximum extensile-strain axis. In samples which were partly or completely recrystallized syntectonically the new olivine grains attained preferred orientations with [010] = X and [100] = Z parallel to the maximum and least principal compressive stress axes, respectively. These results may be used for kinematic and dynamic analysis of naturally deformed dunites and peridotites.     

Experimental melting and crystallisation of glassy olivine melilitites

A remarkable variety of unusual melilite and feldspathoid-bearing lavas characterises the volcanism of Katwe-Kikorongo and Bunyaruguru, central South West Uganda. The magmas were silica undersaturated, mafic, highly potassic and volatile-rich. The most peralkaline compositions are found in rapidly quenched small bombs and lapilli, which are invariably glass enclosing olivine and melilite phenocrysts. Slowly cooled lava flows and ejected blocks are non-glassy, feldspathoid-bearing, clinopyroxene-rich assemblages with mol. Na₂O+K₂O∶Al₂O₃ close to unity or less. One atmosphere melting experiments were carried out between 1,330 and 1,050° C for two glassy olivine melilitites. Both have identical mineralogy and similar chemistry, except that one is more hydrated, carbonated and oxidised and has lost alkalis, principally sodium. The fresher material crystallised, in the following order, olivine-melilite-leucite-clinopyroxene-kalsilite. The other sample crystallised olivine-leucite-clinopyroxene-kalsilite and melilite was absent at all temperatures. The separate addition to this sample (BN20,A) of (i) Na₂CO₃ (ii) K₂CO₃ (iii) CaCO₃, in each case induced melilite to crystallise. Adition of ammonium carbonate, however, did not, showing that melilite appearance is not linked solely with the presence of CO₂. The separate and combined roles of Na, K and Ca, in the crystallisation of melilite, were examined by comparing the chemistry of melilite-bearing with related melilite-free, highly alkaline lavas, that had been melted and recrystallised at one atmosphere (this study and published material). The data indicate that high Na∶Si + Al favours melilite separation, while K and Ca, and by inference any element capable of reducing the influence of Si and Al, serve effectively to increase this ratio. Loss of Na and K from BN20,A led to direct and indirect reduction of the Na∶Si+Al ratio and consequent inhibition of melilite crystallisation. Thus loss of alkalis, in particular Na, can relate olivine melilitite to leucite clinopyroxenite and leucite kalsilite clinopyroxenite. This implies that mode of eruption, cooling history and extent of degassing, with concomitant loss of alkalis, is capable of explaining much of the diversity of mineralogy that typifies the volcanic products of the South West Ugandan fields.     

An experimental investigation of olivine morphology

Olivine crystals can adopt ten types of shape. Experimental crystallization of eight rock melts shows that there is a systematic change from polyhedral or granular olivines hopper olivines branching olivines randomly oriented chain olivines parallel-growth chain olivines chain+lattice olivines plate or feather olivines, with increase in cooling rate and with increase in degree of supercooling. This sequence involves changes from complete to progressively less complete crystals and from equant habit to elongate bladed habit (c>ab) to tabular habit (ac b). The sequence is not affected by the phase relations of the melt. The larger the olivine content of a melt the slower the cooling rate at which a particular olivine shape grows, whereas the lower the melt viscosity, the greater the cooling rate. Irrespective of the melt composition, comparable crystal shapes grow at the same degrees of supercooling. By comparison of the shapes of olivine crystals in experiments with those in rocks of similar composition, it is possible to deduce the cooling rate through the olivine crystallization interval and the approximate degree of supercooling at which the olivine crystals nucleated and grew in the rocks. The various shapes of skeletal olivines in many picrites, olivine-rich basalts and the Archaean spinifex rocks are not due to rapid cooling, but to rapid olivine growth caused by the high normative olivine content of the magma.     

Cations in olivine,Part 2: Diffusion in olivine xenocrysts,with applications to petrology and mineral physics

Diffusivities for calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese and aluminum have been measured for St. John's olivine undergoing cation exchange with synthetic basaltic melts. The variety of temperature, pressure and fO₂ conditions under which the diffusivities were measured complement the equilibrium-partitioning study of calcium in olivine-bearing basalts by Jurewicz and Watson, 1988. Olivine was found to be anisotropic with respect to the diffusion of calcium, iron, magnesium and manganese. This anisotropy is a weak function of temperature, but strongly dependent upon oxygen fugacity.Because diffusion is independent of olivine composition over the small range of compositions used in this study, it could be shown that the absolute values of the diffusion coefficients were also functions of temperature and fO₂. At near-atmospheric total pressure and an oxygen fugacity of 10^–8atm, D _Fe>D _Mn>D _Ca and D _MgD _Mn for a range of geologically reasonable temperatures. These relative diffusivities were shown to change with oxygen fugacity. The power-law dependence of diffusion on oxygen partial-pressure was determined for each cation and the results are consistent with the range of values given by Stocker (1978) and by other workers.For Ca and Fe, the effect of hydrostatic pressure on diffusion appears to be weak, at least for transport parallel to the c crystallographic direction. Unfortunately, no true activation volumes (or other pressure-related parameters) could be computed because the oxygen fugacity was not held constant over changes in pressure, and because accurate post-experiment reconstruction of sample orientation was not possible. Al was found to enter high-pressure olivines at concentrations of up to 0.14 weight percent, thus allowing aluminum diffusion to be characterized. The diffusivity of aluminum is, within error, the same as iron at 20 kb at 1430° C at the ambient fO₂ of our piston-cylinder cells. This correspondence suggests that diffusion of Al may depend on transport of either Fe or of Fe ⁺³ defects. While the results of these experiments are generally consistent with results published elsewhere, there are important inconsistencies. Tracer diffusion and interdiffusion in pure, ordered, olivine endmembers (e.g., tephroite and forsterite) showed significantly higher activation energies. This discrepancy could reflect the role of Fe⁺³ defects in diffusion; however, it may also suggest that order-disorder phenomena may be significant factors influencing diffusion in analog systems.The results of this study are applied to four petrologic problems: (1) calculation of rates of equilibration for olivine xenocrysts; (2) calculation of closure temperatures for the CaO/MgO olivine/basalt geothermometer (Jurewicz and Watson 1988); (3) delineation of an intrinsic-/O₂ geobarometer; and (4) investigation of the dependence of olivine dissolution upon crystallographic orientation. In addition, it is demonstrated that diffusion-exchange experiments are useful for studying the dominant point-defect mechanisms for cation diffusion.Currently, a visiting scientist with Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories Materials Laboratory (MLLM), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433     

High-temperature viscoelasticity of fine-grained polycrystalline olivine

 Torsional forced-oscillation and microcreep methods have been employed in a study of the viscoelastic behaviour of fine-grained polycrystalline olivine at high temperatures (to 1300 °C), seismic frequencies and low strain amplitudes. The Fo₉₀ specimens are of low porosity and low dislocation density. They vary in mean grain size from 8 to 150 μm and contain only trace amounts (≪0.1 vol%) of quenched melt glass. For T ≤ 900 °C, their behaviour is essentially elastic and the shear modulus G closely approaches that expected for a dense polycrystal from single-crystal elasticity data – confirming the suppression of thermal microcracking in␣this study. At higher temperatures, pronounced absorption-band dissipation and associated dispersion␣of the shear modulus provide evidence of linear viscoelastic behaviour. Both recoverable (anelastic) and permanent (viscous) strains are involved and the proportion of the latter increases with increasing temperature and decreasing frequency. Comparison of the results for the three specimens provides a clear indication that the viscoelastic behaviour, attributed to diffusional processes, is grain-size-sensitive with the dissipation and associated dispersion increasing with decreasing grain size. Both elastically accommodated and diffusionally accommodated grain-boundary sliding appear to be implicated. Received: 29 September 2000 / Accepted: 7 May 2001     

Grain growth in porous olivine aggregates

Grain growth experiments have been performed at 1 atm on fine grain size (<10 μm) synthetic olivine (Fo₉₁) aggregates at various temperatures (1200° to 1400° C), oxygen fugacities (10^-4 to 10^-11 atm) and total anneal times (10, 30, 60, 100 and 200 h). The rate of grain growth increased with increasing temperature and with increasing oxygen fugacity. The presence of a second phase (residual porosity), introduced during sample fabrication, has a significant effect on grain growth, with evolution in grain size paralleled by changes in the size and frequency of the pores. When the grain growth data were fit to a growth law G ⁿ ?G _O ⁿ =κ₀ tf ₀ ^m ₂e^?Q/RT, the growth exponents fall in the range of n=4 to 5, suggesting that grain growth may be controlled by the coalescence of the second phase. The evolution in pore size and frequency may occur either by the transport of the ionic species constituting olivine between the pores or by the movement of the pores themselves along the grain boundaries and edges. Thus, the rate of growth of the pores and grains is probably limited by diffusion of the slowest ionic species constituting olivine (magnesium, iron, silicon, or oxygen) moving along the fastest path for that species (through the lattice, along the grain boundaries, around the surface of the moving pores, or through the vapor phase in the pores). Activation energies for grain growth of Q=290 ± 20 kJ/mol and 345 ± 25 kJ/mol were calculated from our results for n=4 and 5, respectively. These activation energies preclude vapor-phase transport and iron diffusion along grain boundaries but do not otherwise permit a discrimination between the rate limiting species or path. The oxygen fugacity exponent of m ≈0.12 suggests that lattice diffusion does not control the grain growth. However, the lack of data for magnesium, iron, silicon and oxygen surface and grain boundary diffusion in olivine makes definitive determination of the mechanism controlling grain growth difficult.     

On the nonstoichiometry and point defects of olivine

This paper presents the point-defect thermodynamics for fayalite and olivine solid solutions (Fe _x Mg_1?x )₂SiO₄. By means of thermogravimetry, the metal-to-oxygen ratio of these silicates has been determined as a function of oxygen potential, compositionx and temperature. Experiments were performed in the range of 1,000° C≦T≦1,280° C and 0.2≦x≦1.0. It is found that V _Me ^″ , Fe _Me ^· and the associate {Fe′ _Si ^′ Fe _Me ^· } are the majority defects. With this knowledge it is possible to calculate the nonstoichiometry at given temperature as a function of \(p_{O_2 } \) and \(a_{SiO_2 } \) . The cation vacancy concentration shows a \(p_{O_2 }^{1/5} \) -dependence (forx≧0.2) and increases at givenT and \(p_{O_2 } \) almost exponentially with compositionx. In the composition range studied here, the silicates show an oxygen excess, and FeO is more soluble in the olivine than SiO₂.     

Olivine phenocrysts of Hawaiian olivine tholeiite and oceanite

Olivine phenocrysts of Hawaiian tholeiites display a variety of textures and a variation in composition which is due to supercooled crystallization. The highest forsterite content measured is 91%, and the highest magnesia content estimated for a tholeiitic liquid is 17%, using the olivine geothermometer. The liquid of this composition may be either a primary magma or a primitive magma. It is not yet possible to specify any particular composition range for the primary Hawaiian tholeiites.     

陆相残余盆地的主要类型、特点及研究方法

根据我国中生代陆相盆地演化特征，认为陆相盆地不存在原始沉积盆地。陆相残余盆地的基本特征，具有空间上盆地面积大为缩小，地层遭受明显剥蚀，受后期改造而成。提出了两种基本类型和它们的沉积特点以及追踪物质来源、去改造层是恢复残余盆地的基本方法，并以古鄱阳湖中生代盆地为例。