Composition and provenances of mesozoic sandstones in Sikhote Alin

The composition of sandstones constituting different structural stages of the Jurassic accretionary wedge in the Samarka (upper and middle? structural levels in the Lyamfana Creek and Katen River basins, respectively) and Nadan’khada-Bikin (lower level in the Ulitka River basin) terranes of the Sikhote Alin region reflects changes in provenances and tectonic settings of the near-continental sedimentation basin in different periods of the wedge formation. In the terminal Middle Jurassic (Lyamfana Creek), the region was dominated by the subduction regime with sedimentary material transported from the eroded part of the continental-margin magmatic arc. During the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian (Katen River), erosion of granitoid batholiths of the arc exposed blocks of the crystalline basement along strike-slip faults. In the Tithonian-Berriasian period (Ulitka River), the role of these blocks increased, suggesting intensification of oblique subduction or development of transform faults during the accretion.     

我国东部中生代斑岩型矿床的基本特征

我国东部斑岩型矿床主要分布在几条板内断裂岩浆带内。成矿岩浆系由不同比例的幔源物质和壳源物质重熔而成。形成Fe、cu和Mo矿床的岩浆以幔源物质为主,形成铀、锡和钨矿床的岩浆则以壳源物质为主。与各种矿床有关的岩浆岩的Dι和Sι有一定的变化范围。热液是由岩浆水和雨水混合而成。成矿溶液的盐度,一般较高(可达40—69wt.％Nacl当量),但钨矿和金矿有时甚低(2—3wt.％NaCl当量)。成矿流体的成分主要为H_2O、Na、K、Ca、Cl、F、SO_4~(2-)和CO_2。矿石是在近中性的弱还原环境中形成的。整个成矿过程的温度变化范围很大,但矿石的形成温度很窄,变化在150—400℃之间。由于成矿系统时而开放时而封闭,成矿压力变化很大,并引起多次矿液沸腾、围岩蚀变和金属矿物的沉淀。     

Paleozoic and mesozoic paleomagnetic results from Morocco

A new, Lower Carboniferous geomagnetic pole at 4.8S, 55.5E has been added for Morocco and the Permian (31.6S, 61.7E), Triassic (70.8S.67.4E), Jurassic (63.9S,39.5E) and Cretaceous (60.8S, 61.9E) for Africa modified by the incorporation of new data. The Lower Carboniferous pole requires a re-interpretation of the Carboniferous—Permian path. The Mesozoic geomagnetic poles while not significantly different line up to suggest a small loop.     

Geodynamic Background of the Mesozoic Intracontinental Magmatism in Southeast China

The authors have proposed a dynamic model in this paper based on the ages,rock series and associations,Sr-Nd isotopic signatures of the Mesozoic intracontinental magmatism overlying the Cathaysian and Yangtze blocks.The model describes the relation of intracontinental collision and subduction in the Tethyan tectonic regie with Paleo-Pacific oceanic plate sudbuction-strike slip-extension in the Pacific tectonic regime.During 220-150Ma,the horizontal collision between the North China block and the Yangtze block,as well as the intracontinental subduction of some divergent microcontinental terranes in the southwestern part of South China are ascribed to the influence of the Tethyan tectonic regime,giving rise to a volume of high-Isr and low-εNd(t) S-type granites only in the Cathaysian Block.During 145-90Ma,under the geodynamic backgound of subduction-strike slip-extension of the Paleo-Pacific oceanic plate on the basis of the deep tectonic process in the Tethyan tectonic regime,high-K,alkalirich calc-alkaline and shoshonitic volcano-plutonic complexes were generated in the Yangtze block,and high-K calc-alkalic and bimodal volcano-plutonic complexes were generated in the Cathaysian block.The occurrence of A-type peralkaline granites in the coastal areas of South east China indicates the end of Mesozoic intracontinental magmatism.     

Adria,the African promontory,in mesozoic Mediterranean palaeogeography

The orogenic belts encircling the present-day Adriatic Sea are the deformed Mesozoic continental margin of an area known as Adria, the outline of which began to take shape during Middle Triassic continental rifting. Early Jurassic oceanic rifting was usually close to, but not coincident with, sites of earlier continental rifting. The Triassic rifted zones were usually incorporated into the continental margin of Adria, profoundly influencing its subsequent development. The Mesozoic platform/basin morphology of this margin can be correlated along the length of the belt.Palaeomagnetic data from autochthonous outcrops of the foreland of Adria do not indicate relative rotation and moreover suggest that this foreland has moved in coordination with Africa since the Early Mesozoic. Seismic soundings indicate that thick Mesozoic sedimentary sequences which can be correlated with sections on the African platform are continuous beneath the eastern Mediterranean seas. The concept of Adria as having behaved as a promontory of the African plate is tested by correlation of the main tectonic events in the belt with the spreading history of the Atlantic. The simplest model which adequately accounts for available data comprises a continuous Mesozoic continental margin from the Magrebids of Tunisia, through the Apennines, Alps, Dinarides and Hellenides to the alpine belt of Turkey. This margin was the southern margin of the Mesozoic Tethys and its foreland was more or less continuous with the African platform. Some structural and geochemical features of the double ophiolitic belt on the eastern side of Adria may be explained in terms of more external oceanic branches giving a more diversified continental margin of Adria. The present undulations of the Periadriatic belt are mainly a product of Late Cretaceous to recent deformation, which severely modified the shape of this margin by continental collision and by subsequent development of back-arc features.     

中国近东西向中生代火山岩带及其铀成矿作用

燕辽火山岩带、赣杭火山岩带及南岭火山岩带，它们不仅是横亘于中国东部的3条重要的近东西向中生代火山岩带，而且也是我国3条重要的铀多金属成矿带。对比研究表明，虽然它们各具特色，就脉型富大铀矿床成矿作用而言，它们又具有较多的共性；重要成矿区的火山喷发皆奠基在古老的结晶基底上；古裂谷（或裂陷）既控制了火山岩带的发育，又是有利的成矿构造背景；铀矿赋存对火山岩的岩性没有明显的选择性；铀成矿的深部控制作用明显；联通的构造网络系统是形成富大铀矿的必要条件。     

Isotopic geochronology of mesozoic acid volcanic rocks in Zhejiang Province,China

Volcano-sedimentary series of the Upper Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous are extensively developed in Zhejiang Province. But ages and stratigraphic correlation concerning these rocks have long been a controversial problem. Systematic sampling was made of volcanic rocks of the Laocun, Huangjian, Shouchang and Moshishan Formations in western Zhejiang considered thus far as the Late Jurassic. Isotopic age determinations show that U-Th-Pb zircon ages are approximately concordant with Rb-Sr isochron ages, whereas K-Ar biotite ages and K-Ar isochron ages are all slightly lower. It can therefore be established that the ages of volcanic rocks mentioned above range from 134±6 to 122±2 m.y., corresponding to the “transitional period” from Jurassic to Cretaceous. It can also be concluded that the rocks have not undergone apparent epigenetic metamorphism. The initial⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio is about 0.7089–0.7121, on the basis of which it may be postulated that the volcanic magma seems to have originated from the upper mantle with contamination by sialic materials subsequent to differentiation. For age determinations of such acid volcanic rocks Rb-Sr isochron method is considered more suitable in view of its following advantages: the high reliability of results; wide applicability to different samples; smaller sample requirement and the possibility for further studies involving petrogenesis by use of initial⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio.     

Tectonic environment of mesozoic volcanic rocks in the coastal areas of SE China

Mesozoic volcanic rocks in the coastal areas of SE China consist predominantly of rhyolites and pyroclastic rocks, obviously distinct from island-arc volcanic rocks which consist mainly of andesitic rocks. Volcanic rocks in these areas mostly belong to the cale-alkaline series, and their geochemical characteristics are dissimilar to those of island-arc rocks. For example, the SiO₂ content varies greatly from 47 to 81 percent, Fe₂O₃+FeO/MgO>2, K₂O/Na₂O>0.8, the contents of Rb, Sr, Ba, Th, U, and Zr are higher than those of island-arc calc-alkaline rocks, and K/Rb <400. Andesite in the coastal areas of SE China, for the most part, belongs to the alkali-calcic series (CaO<Na₂O+K₂O), typical of a continental tectonic environment. Geotectonic studies have shown that the ancient Eurasian continental margin in Mesozoic times was located to the east of the line linking Japan and Taiwan, and the present location of Mesozoic rocks is not an island-arc. area. In the light of their characteristically high alkalinity, the Mesozoic volcanic rocks are considered to have been formed in a continental environment rather in an island-arc environment. Their formation was controlled by a compresso-shear tranform fault system.     

Rupture, creep, lamellae and crocodiles: happenings in the continental crust

From the observation of certain seismic reflectivity patterns in Phanerozoic continental crusts a relationship is suggested between:
(1) rupture and seismicity, generally restricted to the upper crust;
(2) crocodile tectonics, a kind of vertical indentation, observed by diverging plane reflectors, preferably in the middle crust;
(3) creep and the formation of reflecting lamellae in the lower crust.
Based on these observations and on viscosity depth estimates a conceptual model for the above-mentioned structures is presented, which is also compatible with observations in older crusts. Boundary conditions are given for rupture as well as for lamellae-forming creep.     

Heat flow during the carboniferous and mesozoic of the Northwest German Basin

The temperature history of the Northwest German Basin has been reconstructed using a one-dimensional computer model that accounts for compaction-related changes of physical rock properties, depth, temperature and maturity of organic matter. Maturity has been modelled by empirically relating vitrinite reflectance to time-temperature history. Heat flow values for the Mesozoic and Carboniferous have been obtained by matching measured and computed vitrinite reflectance. For Mesozoic samples agreement between measured and computed maturity can be achieved with a heat flow between 37 and 50 mW/m² (0.9 and 1.2 hfu). There is no systematic areal variation. Carboniferous samples are matched best at heat flows between 70 and 96 mW/m² (1.7 and 2.3 hfu), corresponding to geothermal gradients between 50 and 80 °C/km depending on lithology and compaction. Areal variation follows patterns subparallel to the structural grain of the Variscan orogeny. Mesozoic heat flow is compatible with heat flow in stable platform areas. Carboniferous heat flow and its geotectonic setting are best in agreement with present-day back-arc areas underlain by continental crust.

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Zusammenfassung Die Temperaturgeschichte des Nordwestdeutschen Bekkens wurde mittels eines eindimensionalen Computermodells rekonstruiert, das auch kompaktionsbezogenen Änderungen der physikalischen Gesteinseigenschaften, der Tiefe und der Temperatur gerecht wird. Die Reife wurde simuliert, indem Vitrinitreflexion und Zeit-Temperatur Verlauf empirisch miteinander korelliert wurden. Die Wärmeflußwerte für das Karbon und das Mesozoikum wurden dadurch ermittelt, daß gemessene und berechnete Vitrinitreflexion in optimale Übereinstimmung gebracht wurden. Für das Mesozoikum kann eine Übereinstimmung bei Wärmeflußwerten zwischen 37 und 50 mW/m² (0.9 und 1,2 hfu), für das Karbon für Werte zwischen 70 und 96 mW/m² (1.7 und 2.3 hfu) erzielt werden, was je nach Lithologie und Kompaktionszustand einem Geothermalgradienten zwischen 50 und 80 °C/km entspricht. Nur für die karbonischen Daten ist eine systematische räumliche Änderung der Werte erkennbar. Der Wärmefluß im Mesozoikum entspricht dem in heutigen stabilen Plattformgebieten. Wärmefluß und geotektonische Position im Karbon sind vergleichbar mit solchen heutigen »back-arc« Gebieten, die von kontinentaler Kruste unterlagert sind.

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Résumé L'histoire thermique du bassin allemand nord-occidental a été simulée sur ordinateur au moyen d'un modéle unidimensionnel; ce modèle tient compte des changements introduits par la compaction dans les propriétés physiques de roches, de la profondeur, de la température et de l'évolution de la matière organique. Pour modéliser cette évolution, on a établi une corrélation entre la réflectance de la vitrinite et l'histoire thermique. Les valeurs du flux de chaleur pour le Mésozoïque et le Carbonifère ont été obtenues par ajustement entre la réflectance de la vitrinite observée et calculée. Pour les échantillons mésozoïques, les valeurs calculées et mesurées s'accordent le mieux pour un flux compris entre 37 et 50 mW/m2 (0.9 et 1,2 HFU). Il n'y a pas de variation régionale systématique. Pour le Carbonifère, le meilleur accord donne un flux siuté entre 70 et 96 mW/m2 (1,7 et 2,3 HFU), ce qui correspond à des gradients géothermiques de 50 et 80 °C/Km, selon la lithologie et le degré de compaction. Il existe dans le Carbonifère, des variations régionales, qui parallélisent les lignes structurales de l'orogène varisque. Le flux de chaleur mésozoïque est compatible avec une situation de plate-forme stable. Le flux de chaleur carbonifère et sa répartition géotectonique fait plutôt penser, dans la nature actuelle, aux régions d'arrière-arc sur croûte continentale.

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Chronometric calibration of a comparative time scale for the mesozoic and paleozoic

The relationship between radiometric and biostratigraphic ages is analyzed by local empirical methods and illustrated in chronograms for the mesozoic and paleozoic stages. The chronograms allow estimates for stage boundaries and their errors. Consequently, the ages for epoch boundaries and their errors are discussed which, for several reasons, may not be identical with the age and error of the oldest stage of an epoch.The analysis results in a comparative time scale which could be a compromise between the time scales currently under discussion. A specific feature of the derived time scale is its rather strong cyclicity with periods around 74 (73±1) ma.

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Zusammenfassung Alter und Fehlergrenzen für mesozoische und paläozoische Stufengrenzen werden mittels einer lokalen empirischen Schätzmethode neu berechnet. Daraus ergeben sich Schätzungen für die Alter und Fehler der Epochengrenzen, die aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht mit denen derältesten Stufe einer Epoche zusammenfallen.Die Auswertung der Chronogramme führt zu einer vergleichenden Zeitskala, die im wesentlichen einen Kompromi\ zwischen den gegenwärtig gängigen Zeitskalen darstellt. Bemerkenswert ist, da\ die Zeitskala ein hohes Ma\ an Zyklizität aufweist, wobei sich Perioden von 74 (73±1) ma ergeben.

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Résumé Les relations entre les âges radiométriques et les âges biostratigraphiques sont analysées par des méthodes locales et empiriques. Elles sont présentées dans des chronogrammes se référant aux étages du MésozoÏque et du PaléozoÏque. Ces chronogrammes permettent d'estimer les limites d'étages et les erreurs de cette estimation. Les âges des limites de systèmes et leurs erreurs sont discutés en conséquence. Pour diverses raisons ils ne sont pas identiques à ceux de l'étage le plus ancien d'un système.L'analyse des chronogrammes aboutit à une échelle de temps comparative qui représente un compromis entre les échelles de temps couramment discutées. Une propriété remarquable de cette échelle est de faire apparaÎtre une cyclicité dont la période est de 74 (73±1) Ma.

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Stable isotope systematics in mesozoic granites of Central and Northern California and Southwestern Oregon

¹⁸O, D, and H₂O⁺ contents were measured for whole-rock specimens of granitoid rocks from 131 localitics in California and southwestern Oregon. With 41 new determinations in the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada, initial strontium isotope ratios are known for 104 of these samples. Large variations in ¹⁸O (5.5 to 12.4), D (–130 to –31), water contents (0.14 to 2.23 weight percent) and initial strontium isotope ratios (0.7028 to 0.7095) suggest a variety of source materials and identify rocks modified by secondary processes. Regular patterns of variation in each isotopic ratio exist over large geographical regions, but correlations between the ratios are generally absent except in restricted areas. For example, the regular decrease in D values from west to east in the Sierra Nevada batholith is not correlative with a quite complex pattern of ¹⁸O values, implying that different processes were responsible for the isotopic variations in these two elements. In marked contrast to a good correlation between (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)_o and ¹⁸O observed in the Peninsular Ranges batholith to the south, such correlations are lacking except in a few areas. D values, on the other hand, correlate well with rock types, chemistry, and (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)_o except in the Coast Ranges where few of the isotopic signatures are primary. The uniformly low D values of samples from the Mojave Desert indicate that meteoric water contributed much of the hydrogen to the rocks in that area. Even so, the ¹⁸O values and ¹⁸O fractionations between quartz and feldspar are normal in these same rocks.This reconnaissance study has identified regularities in geochemical parameters over enormous geographical regions. These patterns are not well understood but merit more detailed examination because they contain information critical to our understanding of the development of granitoid batholiths.     

Age and origin of the Nigerian mesozoic granites: A Rb-Sr isotopic study

Sixty-four Rb-Sr and two K-Ar isotopic measurements from seven ring complexes in central Nigeria provide evidence for a systematic age trend along a 200 km zone ranging from 174±5 m.y. in the north to 154±4 m.y. in the south. A peak of anorogenic magmatism occurred in the Jos Plateau region about 164±4 m.y. ago. Although a small syenitetrachyte complex at Zaranda, near Bauchi, gives an age of 190±15 m.y., unpublished ages of 290–330 m.y. for the southern Niger ring complexes confirm the existence of an overall southerly decreasing age trend in the Niger-Nigeria province of West Africa. Isotopic measurements on two small, oversaturated syenite intrusions at Zaranda and Pankshin suggest that syenitic liquids had initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios of 0.7048—not significantly different from the mantle range of values, but that related peralkaline silicic variants from the same complexes are depleted in total Sr and have higher ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr initial ratios characteristic of the earth's crust. This variation of initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios in syenite-related granitic liquids of the peralkaline spectrum has also been noted at the Shere Hills, near Jos, and at Liruei, near Kano, and may be representative for all syenite-granite occurrences in the Nigerian Younger Granite province. Such isotopic variations in the initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio may be attributed to “crustal enrichment” of syenitic liquids whose source lies in the mantle. Coarse-grained, peraluminous biotite granites have consistently low initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios in the range 0.706–0.709 (similar to the ca. 600 m.y. Pan-African granites of the basement), and may represent further modifications of originally syenitic liquids in the crust, or the granites may have originated from an independent source within a “dioritio” lower crust. Although the magmatic trends show small variations in the initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio, much higher initial ratios are recorded in granites which have been modified within their roof zone by deuteric (autometamorphic) and/or metasomatic processes.     

Preliminary mesozoic palaeomagnetic results from Israel and inferences for a microplate structure in the Lebanon

Preliminary results from a few Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks indicate that Israel has behaved as part of the African plate during this period. Earlier palaeomagnetic results from the Lebanon, previously explained in terms of a separate Levantine plate, can be better explained in terms of differential motion between fault blocks in response to motions along the Dead Sea Fault. The available evidence allows determination of the net motions of specific fault blocks and is consistent with independent palaeogeographic indicators of the pretectonic relationship between these blocks.     

Textural,chemical and isotopic variations induced by hydrothermal fluids on mesozoic limestones in northwestern Sicily

The results are given of textural and compositional investigations carried out on carbonate materials outcropping in various localities in northwestern Sicily where fluorite, barite and calcite mineralizations of hydrothermal origin occur. Observation of the textural features indicate variations in the degree of calcite recrystallization and silicification that appear to be more marked in rocks that show more evident effects of mineralization. The geochemical behaviour of the minor elements indicate variations in chemical composition (increase of Mn, Fe, and Sr and removal of Mg) as a result of interactions between mineralizing fluids and host-rocks. Comparison between the isotopic compositions of oxygen and carbon in mineralized and unmineralized limestones shows that isotopic exchange took place between CaCO₃ and hydrothermal fluids. The values obtained support relatively short limestone/water contact times and moderate temperature values. It is suggested that the ore-forming solutions were essentially heated meteoric waters. Precipitation of the fluorite was caused by temperature decrease, reaction with Ca-rich wall rock, and increase in pH of initially rather acid hydrothermal solutions.This work was supported by a grant from the Ente Minerario Siciliano.     

The evolution of the magmatism in the external zones of the Betic Cordilleras during the mesozoic

Abstract

The Mesozoic igneous rocks from the External Zones of the Betic Cordilleras extend for some 300 km along the Subbetic Zone. They are poorly differentiated basic rocks which, altogether, correspond to a transitional series containing tholeiitic and sodium-alkaline terms. They crop out as small ophite stocks and dykes intruded into middle- and upper-Triassic rocks, or as submarine flows and sills interlayered with Jurassic materials.

Geological and radiometric evidence points to an upper-Triassic-Liassic age for the ophite-generating magmatism, while the fissure volcanism began locally in the early-Liassic and extended throughout the Dogger. It reached its climax in the Tithonian and ceased abruptly in the lowermost Cretaceous.

The magmas that generated the two groups of rocks originated within the mantle. During the ascent through a continental crust they were contaminated by deep-crust granitoid rocks and by the assimilation of pelites from the basement. The chemical composition and fractional-crystallization differentiation trends of the ophites belong to the tholeiitic series, while those of the middle-uppermost Jurassic magmas to the sodic-alkaline series. This magmatic evolution may be attributed to a geodynamic change from distensive in the Triassic to transtensive from the middle-Jurassic onwards.     

Isotopic Characteristics of Mesozoic Au-Ag Polymetallic Ore Deposits in Northern Hebei and Their Ore-Forming Materials Source

It has long been a controversy about the source of ore-forming materials of Au-Ag polymetallic deposits both in metallogenic theory and in ore-searching practice. In terms of a large wealth of the isotopic statistics data from Indosinian-Yanshanian endogenic ore deposits in northern Hebei (generally referring to the areas along the northern part of Taihang Mountains and northern Hebei, the same below) , it is considered that the ore-forming materials came from the deep interior of the Earth, which had migrated through plumes to the Earth surface while ex-perienced multi-stage evolution and then emplaced progressively in favorable structural loci to form ores. Their isotope data show that 559 sulfur isotopic data from 40 ore deposits are, for the most part, within the range of -5‰ -5‰, with a high degree of homogenization, indicating that the sulfur is derived mainly from magma; 200 lead isotope data from 37 ore deposits indi-cate that the ore-forming materials are principally of mantle source though some crust-source ma-terial was involved; 96 oxygen, hydrogen and carbon isotope data from 34 ore deposits illustrate that the ore-forming fluids are dominated by magmatic water while other sources of water would be involved. It may therefore be seen that the formation of endogenic deposits has nothing to do with the strata .     

Paleozoic and early mesozoic magmatism manifestations in the early Precambrian structure of the South Yenisei Ridge

This study characterizes some issues of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonomagmatic evolution of Precambrian structures from the southwestern margin of the Siberian craton. The relationship between the Devonian and Triassic magmatic events is demonstrated from the example of the Severnaya rift-related structure, South Yenisei Ridge. U-Pb SHRIMP dating yielded ages of 387 ± 5 Ma for leucogranites and 240 ± 3 Ma for the overlying alkaline trachytes. These ages show good agreement with Ar-Ar geochronological data (392–387 Ma) obtained for micas from paragneisses and leucogranite dykes of the Yenisei suture zone, the extension of which is superimposed by the studied rift-related structure. The previous geological evidence and the Devonian age estimate first obtained for magmatic rocks of the Yenisei Ridge allow us to interpret the studied leucogranites as products of Devonian continental rifting, similar to volcanic and intrusive rocks of the North Minusa depression and Agul graben. Like other localities within the western margin of Siberian craton, the formation of Triassic alkaline rocks may be related to the Siberian superplume activity.