Manifestation of Late Devonian Post-Accretionary Magmatism on the Eastern Slope of the Northern Urals: New Data on the Age and Geochemistry

Doklady Earth Sciences - A study of the geochemical features and isotopic (Sm‒Nd and U‒Pb) age of dolerites of the Ivdel complex on the eastern slope of the Northern Urals within the...     

The Final Stage of Silicic Island Arc Magmatism in the Northern Urals

Doklady Earth Sciences - The date of cessation of calc-alkaline volcanic complex accumulation within the Devonian (Frasnian) island arc in the Northern Urals was determined for the first time. It...     

Carboniferous Magmatism in the Polar Urals

Doklady Earth Sciences - Dikes and sills of dolerites, essexite–dolerites, diorites, monzodiorites, and lamprophyres belonging to the Musyur (Malyi Khanmey) hypabyssal complex (Polar Urals)...     

Vendian Suprasubduction Magmatism in the Southern Urals

New data on the Vendian age of the volcanogenic–sedimentary sequence of the Uraltau zone (Southern Urals) were obtained. The U/Pb (SHRIMP-II) isotope age obtained for zircons from rhyolite tuffs is 591.5 ± 3.5 Ma. The sequence under consideration is intruded by Vendian granites and overlain unconformably by Ordovician terrigenous and volcanogenic deposits. The composition of Vendian volcanics and granites testifies that they were formed in a suprasubduction setting at the continental margin, complexes of which are known in the Middle and Northern Urals.     

New Data on the Sezym Formation (Lower Permian,Polar Urals)

Doklady Earth Sciences - New data on the composition and structure of the Sezym Formation of the Lower Permian on the western slope of the Polar Urals are presented. This formation rests...     

Composition and Formation Conditions of Neoproterozoic Phosphorites in the Middle Urals

Lithology and Mineral Resources - Phosphorite breccias compose a 6-m-thick member in the Vendian terrigenous Kernos Formation in the basin of the Mezhevaya Utka and Sylvitsa rivers (Middle Urals)....     

胶东—苏北石榴石二辉橄榄岩形成条件及年代

在胶东—苏北地区,由石榴石二辉橄榄岩、尖晶石二辉橄榄岩、石榴石辉石岩、榴辉岩、斜辉辉橄岩和纯橄岩组成的杂岩成群和成带分布,延长590km。该岩带越过郯庐断裂带延伸至大别山,全长约1200km。岩带内石榴石二辉橄榄岩与尖晶石橄榄岩伴生,组成较大的岩块,并且与榴辉岩伴生,曾被作者确定为一种有层序的岩套。石榴石二辉橄榄岩的Sm-Nd同位素年龄为925±53Ma,矿物地质温度计和压力计表明其形成于115—160km深部,温度为800—1371℃。该石榴石二辉橄榄岩平衡温度和压力符合大陆地温线,而不同于中国东部沿海地区玄武岩中包体石榴石二辉橄榄岩,后者的平衡温度压力符合于大洋地温线。     

辽北地区中生代石英闪长岩的形成时代

辽北地区位于华北陆块和华北北缘古生代坳陷带2个Ⅱ级大地构造单元上,后期构造岩浆作用强烈,尤以侏罗纪岩浆活动最为强烈,广泛发育不同类型的花岗岩。关于研究区内中生代石英闪长岩的形成时代,一直缺乏深入的年代学研究。笔者在区内进行1：5万区域地质调查中,对石英闪长岩采样并作LA-ICP-MS测年,获得锆石U-Pb年龄为（173±0.88）Ma（MSWD=5.8）,在一定误差范围内,综合所测锆石的CL图像特征,准确约束了区内中生代石英闪长岩的形成时代。结合前人资料将区内中生代石英闪长岩的形成时代确定为中侏罗世。这一成果为研究辽北地区岩浆作用及其构造演化提供了新的年代学证据。     

New Data on Dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous Sediments of the Southern Urals

Doklady Earth Sciences - We describe a new find of a dinosaur in the Southern Urals, a fragment of long bone of a large dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Santonian–Lower Campanian)...     

Porphyry-Style Petropavlovskoe Gold Deposit,the Polar Urals: Geological Position,Mineralogy, and Formation Conditions

Geological and structural conditions of localization, hydrothermal metasomatic alteration, and mineralization of the Petropavlovskoe gold deposit (Novogodnenskoe ore field) situated in the northern part of the Lesser Ural volcanic–plutonic belt, which is a constituent of the Middle Paleozoic island-arc system of the Polar Urals, are discussed. The porphyritic diorite bodies pertaining to the late phase of the intrusive Sob Complex play an ore-controlling role. The large-volume orebodies are related to the upper parts of these intrusions. Two types of stringer–disseminated ores have been revealed: (1) predominant gold-sulfide and (2) superimposed low-sulfide–gold–quartz ore markedly enriched in Au. Taken together, they make up complicated flattened isometric orebodies transitory to linear stockworks. The gold potential of the deposit is controlled by pyrite–(chlorite)–albite metasomatic rock of the main productive stage, which mainly develops in a volcanic–sedimentary sequence especially close to the contacts with porphyritic diorite. The relationships between intrusive and subvolcanic bodies and dating of individual zircon crystals corroborate a multistage evolution of the ore field, which predetermines its complex hydrothermal history. Magmatic activity of mature island-arc plagiogranite of the Sob Complex and monzonite of the Kongor Complex initiated development of skarn and beresite alterations accompanied by crystallization of hydrothermal sulfides. In the Early Devonian, due to emplacement of the Sob Complex at a depth of approximately 2 km, skarn magnetite ore with subordinate sulfides was formed. At the onset of the Middle Devonian, the large-volume gold porphyry Au–Ag–Te–W ± Mo,Cu stockworks related to quartz diorite porphyry—the final phase of the Sob Complex— were formed. In the Late Devonian, a part of sulfide mineralization was redistributed with the formation of linear low-sulfide quartz vein zones. Isotopic geochemical study has shown that the ore is deposited from reduced, substantially magmatic fluid, which is characterized by close to mantle values δ³⁴S = 0 ± 1‰, δ¹³C =–6 to–7‰, and δ¹⁸O = +5‰ as the temperature decreases from 420–300°C (gold–sulfide ore) to 250–130°C (gold–(sulfide)–quartz ore) and pressure decreases from 0.8 to 0.3 kbar. According to the data of microanalysis (EPMA and LA-ICP-MS), the main trace elements in pyrite of gold orebodies are represented by Co (up to 2.52 wt %), As (up to 0.70 wt %), and Ni (up to 0.38 wt %); Te, Se, Ag, Au, Bi, Sb, and Sn also occur. Pyrite of the early assemblages is characterized by high Co, Te, Au, and Bi contents, whereas the late pyrite is distinguished by elevated concentrations of As (up to 0.7 wt %), Ni (up to 0.38 wt %), Se (223 ppm), Ag (up to 111 ppm), and Sn (4.4 ppm). The minimal Au content in pyrite of the late quartz–carbonate assemblage is up to 1.7 ppm and geometric average is 0.3 ppm. The significant correlation between Au and As (furthermore, negative–0.6) in pyrite from ore of the Petropavlovskoe deposit is recorded only for the gold–sulfide assemblage, whereas it is not established for other assemblages. Pyrite with higher As concentration (up to 0.7 wt %) is distinguished only for the Au–Te mineral assemblage. Taking into account structural–morphological and mineralogical–geochemical features, the ore–magmatic system of the Petropavlovskoe deposit is referred to as gold porphyry style. Among the main criteria of such typification are the spatial association of orebodies with bodies of subvolcanic porphyry-like intrusive phases at the roof of large multiphase pluton; the stockwork-like morphology of gold orebodies; 3D character of ore–alteration zoning and distribution of ore components; geochemical association of gold with Ag, W, Mo, Cu, As, Te, and Bi; and predominant finely dispersed submicroscopic gold in ore.     

苏北榴辉岩成因型及其形成条件

苏北榴辉岩至少存在高度压壳源型（Ｈ型）、超高压壳源型（Ｕ型）和幔源型（Ｍ型）三类。其中Ｈ型榴辉岩的石榴石为铁铝榴石,具正环带结构,单斜辉石属低硬玉绿辉石,主要形成于晋宁期低温度高压变质条件下的下地壳;Ｕ型榴辉岩含微粒金刚石（？）、柯石英及其假象等,发育放射状胀裂结构和正、反环带结构、石榴石为钙铝榴石、单斜辉石属高硬玉绿辉石,主要形成于印支期高温超高压变质条件下的上地幔;Ｍ型榴辉岩的石榴石属镁铝榴石     

苏北榴辉岩成因类型及其形成条件

苏北榴辉岩至少存在高压壳源型（Ｈ型）、超高压壳源型（Ｕ型）和幔源型（Ｍ型）三类。其中Ｈ型榴辉岩的石榴石为铁铝榴石,具正环带结构,单斜辉石属低硬玉绿辉石,主要形成于晋宁期低温高压变质条件下的下地壳;Ｕ型榴辉岩含微粒金刚石（？）、柯石英及其假象等,发育放射状胀裂结构和正、反环带结构,石榴石为钙铝榴石,单斜辉石属高硬玉绿辉石,主要形成于印支期高温超高压变质条件下的上地幔;Ｍ型榴辉岩的石榴石属镁铝榴石,形成于晋宁期高温超高压条件下的岩石圈与软流圈交界附近。     

First Data on the Age and Formation Conditions of Secondary Carbonate Accumulations in Upper Pleistocene and Holocene Soils of Upper Angara Region

Doklady Earth Sciences - The first data on the age of carbonate cutans in soils of the Upper Angara Region are given. Three groups of them were identified on the basis of the conditions of their...     

Stages of Trap Magmatism in the Norilsk Area: New Data on the Structure and Geochemistry of the Volcanic Rocks

A periodic character of the evolution of trap magmatism was inferred by many researchers from the fact that sequences of volcanic rocks consist of alternating units of lava flows and tuff. A new phase of studying magmatic rocks in the Siberian Platform was related to the possibility of apply high-precision geochemical techniques in studying trace elements and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic compositions. The use of these techniques made it possible not only to identify small individual cycles in the vertical sections of volcanic rocks but also to distinguish larger stages. The currently most widely acknowledged scenario of the origin of volcanic rocks involves three stages, during which oceanic-island basalts (OIB), transitional series (intermediate between OIB and WPB), and within-plate basalts (WPB) were formed. This scenario was inferred mostly from data on rocks in the western part of the Norilsk area (Kharaelakh Trough). This publication presents recently obtained data on the inner structure of the sequences of volcanic rocks and the geochemistry of basalts in the eastern part of the territory, where no rocks show transitional characteristics have ever been found. They can be classified into two types that have clearly different composition and occur in different areas. These types characterize two major stages of the origin of volcanic rocks: rift-related and trap magmatism itself. The rocks produced during these stages occur at neighboring territories.     

河北北部下寒武统馒头组沉积环境及找矿意义

冀北下寒武统馒头组底部有一套层位稳定的紫红色、灰黄色白云质砾岩和页岩。砾石具棱角状或次棱角状,粒度分选差,砾石成分与填隙物成分相同,主要为白云岩。根据对该层位岩石组成、沉积特征的分析,其成因与砾岩(碳酸盐岩)中盐类物质经次生变化形成溶塌角砾岩相关。由于该层位稳定,含盐类物质较高,因此在一定层位有可能找到石膏矿。     

Hercynian Acid Magmatism and Related Mineralizations in Northern Portugal

Cabeceiras de Basto (CB), Vieira do Minho (VM) and Vila Pouca de Aguiar (VPA) granite plutons are located in the so-called Central Iberian Zone, northern Portugal. U-Pb zircon and monazite geochronology yielded the minimum emplacement age of 311 Ma for CB and the crystallization ages of 311 Ma for VM and 299 Ma for VPA, constraining the time interval of the third Hercynian deformation phase, relative to which these massifs can be grouped as follows: syn- to late-tectonic (CB and VM) and post-tectonic (VPA) granites.CB is a composite peraluminous two-mica granite pluton, occupying the core of a N 130° E antiform. Geochemical and isotopic data suggest a heterogeneous crustal source of mid-Proterozoic age (1.2 Ga). The granites are specialized in Sn, Li and, to a lesser extent, W mineralizations. Fractional crystallization is the main concentrator mechanism for these elements. Late-magmatic hydrothermal alteration processes (feldspar albitization and plagioclase and biotite muscovitization) enhanced the concentration promoted by the magmatic differentiation.Both the VM and VPA plutons are controlled by deep regional fault zones and consist of composite biotite granites, generated in the lower crust and installed in higher structural crustal levels, resulting in thermal metamorphism (P:2 kb; T: 500–600°C) capable of generating crustal convecting fluids. They are spatially related to important Sn, W and Au mineralizations. Although they are not highly specialized, they have contributed significantly as heat sources for the ore concentrations.     

Fine-Grained Aluminosiliciclastic Rocks of the Middle Riphean Stratotype Section in the Southern Urals: Formation Conditions,Composition and Provenance Evolution

General trends of the formation of Middle Riphean fine-grained aluminosiliciclastic rocks in the Bashkir Meganticlinorium are considered. It is shown that Yurmatinian shales do not contain any significant pyroclastic admixture. Judging from the relatively constant Th/Cr ratio throughout the Yurmatinian section, the tectonic regime in the study territory during the early Middle Riphean is suggested to be rather stable. The main paleoclimatic indices and indicators of the pelitic material maturity (CIA, CIW, IVC, PIA, and Ce/Y) suggest that paleodrainage systems in the early Middle Riphean were dominated by humid climate that gave way to the arid or semiarid type in the middle Yurmatinian. The low Mo/Mn ratio and some other indicators of redox conditions in shales from all Yurmatinian lithostratigraphic units show that no explicit reducing conditions existed in the basin during the early Middle Riphean. The shales were characterized by the increase in K₂O/Al₂O₃ ratio, gradual enrichment in REE, and growth of LREE/HREE and La_N/Yb_N ratios toward the middle Yurmatinian, indicating the gain of an appreciable amount of slightly weathered arkosic aluminosiliciclastic material in the sedimentary basin about 1220–1200 Ma ago. The REE distribution and the UCC- and AUC-normalized shale compositions suggest that the eroded upper crust was compositionally close to the UCC. The occurrence of mafic and ultramafic rocks is also inferred. Data points of Yurmatinian shales plotted in the Cr–Ni, Eu/Eu*–Gd_N/Yb_N, and (La/YB)_N–Yb_N diagrams are localized between the fields of Upper Archean and post-Archean rocks or within the latter field. Hence, post-Archean igneous and metamorphic complexes prevailed in paleodrainage systems of the early Middle Riphean. This is also confirmed by the model Nd ages.