Fine structure in the infrared OH-stretching bands of holmquistite and anthophyllite

The principal infrared OH-stretching bands in the orthorhombic (Mg, Fe, Mn, Li) amphiboles holmquistite and anthophyllite show fine structure due to the occurrence of two symmetrically distinct OH groups in the crystal structure. There are two distinct tetrahedral double chains in the orthorhombic amphibole structure, the A chain and the B chain. The B chain is more rotated than the A chain, and the stereochemistry around each of the OH sites suggests that the hydrogen bond to the bridging anion(s) of the B chain is stronger than the hydrogen bond to the bridging anion(s) of the A chain. This difference is sufficient to shift the frequency of the principal OH2-stretching band(s) ~5 cm ^-1 to lower frequency, and allows resolution of the two bands in the infrared spectrum. This distinction could allow detection of possible OH, F ordering between the two distinct monovalent-anion sites in the orthorhombic amphibole structure.     

Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the forbidden zone: the Xugou garnet peridotite, Sulu terrane, eastern China

The Xugou garnet peridotite body of the southern Sulu ultrahigh‐pressure (UHP) terrane is enclosed in felsic gneiss, bounded by faults, and consists of harzburgite and lenses of garnet clinopyroxenite and eclogite. The peridotite is composed of variable amounts of olivine (Fo₉₁), enstatite (En_92?93), garnet (Alm_20?23Prp_53?58Knr_6?9Grs_12?18), diopside and rare chromite. The ultramafic protolith has a depleted residual mantle composition, indicated by a high‐Mg number, very low CaO, Al₂O₃ and total REE contents compared to primary mantle and other Sulu peridotites. Most garnet (Prp_44?58) clinopyroxenites are foliated. Except for rare kyanite‐bearing eclogitic bands, most eclogites contain a simple assemblage of garnet (Alm_29?34Prp_32?50Grs_15?39) + omphacite (Jd_24?36) + minor rutile. Clinopyroxenite and eclogite exhibit LREE‐depleted and LREE‐enriched patterns, respectively, but both have flat HREE patterns. Normalized La, Sm and Yb contents indicate that both eclogite and garnet clinopyroxenite formed by high‐pressure crystal accumulation (+ variable trapped melt) from melts resulting from two‐stage partial melting of a mantle source. Recrystallized textures and P–T estimates of 780–870 °C, 5–7 GPa and a metamorphic age of 231 ± 11 Ma indicate that both mafic and ultramafic protoliths experienced Triassic UHP metamorphism in the P–T forbidden zone with an extremely low thermal gradient (< 5 °C km^?1), and multistage retrograde recrystallization during exhumation. Develop of prehnite veins in clinopyroxenite, eclogite, felsic blocks and country rock gneiss, and replacements of eclogitic minerals by prehnite, albite, white mica, and K‐feldspar indicate low‐temperature metasomatism.     

冀北坝上地区深部地质构造特征及其对火山活动和铀成矿的控制作用

冀北坝上地区位于华北地台北缘。其深部地质构造有两个显著特征：一是全区性的莫霍面下拗，地壳增厚；二是软流圈部分伸入到下岩石图上部，造成局部地区地幔上隆，地壳减薄。火山喷发形成的沽源火山盆地和大滩火山盆地与两个地幔上隆，地壳减薄区，上下相互对应。铀矿床（点）沿地幔隆起周边构造活动带规律性分布。上述两事实有力地证明了深部地质构造对中新生代火山活动和铀成矿的控制作用。沿地幔隆起周边构造活动带是今后寻找铀及多金属矿产的有利地段。     

Frequency Effects of Fine Thin Layer

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Multiple stages of phengite formation in Sanbagawa schists

Summary Basic and pelitic schists of the garnet and biotite zones in the Sanbagawa belt in Shikoku, Japan, commonly contain phengite developed at different stages of metamorphism. Textures of the phengite and associated minerals show that Al-rich phengite is a prograde product and Al-poor phengite is a retrograde product.

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Mehrfache Stadien der Phengit-Bildung in den Sanbagawa-Schiefern

Zusammenfassung Basische und pelitische Schiefer der Granat- und Biotitzonen im Sanbagawa Gürtel in Shikoku, Japan, führen Phengite, die während verschiedener Stadien der Metamorphose entstanden sind. Texturen der Phengite und assoziierter Minerale zeigen, daß Al-reicher Phengit das Produkt prograder Metamorphose ist, während Al-armer Phengit auf retrograde Metamorphose zurückgeht.

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On leave from the Geological Survey of Slovakia, Spissa, Spisska, Nova Ves, Slovakia     

Aggregate resources: Production and environmental constraints

Aggregates are produced from sand and gravel deposits or from bedrock sources. Production sites are numerous to minimize transport and are more and more in a competing land use position. Urbanization, while creating a market, also sterilizes deposits and pressures producers to relocate further from populated areas. Regulating and permitting quarries is an issue in regions with growing populations. This regulatory environment may cause exploitation schemes to evolve towards greater recycling, importing, and marine production, for example. These changes may be entirely attributable to increased environmental constraints on producing operations and not on conventional mining constraints such as overburden, ore grade, and costs of operation.     

Co2+ in trigonal fields of oxygen based structures: Electronic absorption spectra of buetschliite-type K2Co(SeO3)2, K2Co2(SeO3)3 and zemannite-type K2Co2(SeO3)3 · 2H2O

Polarized single crystal absorption spectra, in the spectral range 40 000–5 000 cm^-1, were obtained on Co²⁺ in trigonally distorted octahedral oxygen fields of buetschliite-type K₂Co(SeO₃)₂ (I), K₂Co₂(SeO₃)₃ (II) and zemannite-type K₂Co₂(SeO₃)₃ · 2H₂O (III). Site symmetries of Co²⁺ are m (D_3d) in I, 3m (C_3v) in II, and 3 (C₃) in III. The spectra can be interpreted on the basis of an electric dipole mechanism, wherein transitions of Co²⁺ in the centrosymmetric site in I gain intensity from dynamic removal of the inversion centre by vibronic coupling. In accordance with the elongation of the CoO₆ octahedra along the trigonal axis, the split component E_(g) of the ground state ⁴T_1g in octahedral fields is the ground state in all three compounds. Trigonal field parameters Dq_(trig), D, D and the Racah parameters B have been fitted to the energies of spin allowed transitions (293 K) as follows: I: 744, 94, -16, and 838 cm^-1, resp.; II: 647, 227, 42, and 798 cm^-1, resp.; III: 667, 181, 21, and 809 cm^-1, respectively. Racah parameters C were estimated from the energy of some observed spin-forbidden transitions to be 3770 (I), 3280 (II), and 3465 cm^-1 (III). Values of Dq and of the Racah parameters B and C indicate slight differences of Co²⁺-O bonding in I as compared to II and III, with somewhat higher covalency in compounds II and III which contain face-sharing CoO₆ octahedra with short Co-Co contacts. Also, in II and III the observed D values do not agree with theoretical D values, predicted from the magnitude of the mean octahedral distortions.     

Geologic features and durability of limestones at the sphinx

Geologic features considered to influence durability of the limestone at the sphinx are depositional history, evolution of porosity, and development of joints. These strata have two orthogonal groups of vertical joints. Where these joints intersect, wedge-shaped blocks are separating, causing loss of material from the core. Major reduction of the sphinx, however, is occurring due to salt crystallization aided by the ink-bottle pore systems prevailing in these rocks.The weathering profile exhibits alternating layers, less and more highly weathered. The less weathered rock is a biomicritic grainstone with smaller quantities of halite and gypsum and a larger large-pore-to-throat ratio than the indented, predominantly micritic, layers with larger concentration of salts and a smaller large-pore-to-throat ratio. Based upon poresize distributions, pressures generated in the pores have been calculated using thermodynamic principles, and an equation has been derived that provides a quantitative measure of durability of these rocks.     

区域化探资料在提高农作物产量上的应用成果

1991年,利用冀东地区已有1:20万区域化探资料,进行了在农业中的开发应用研究,在此基础上,选择区内微量营养元素和有益元素缺乏区,开展了增施微量元素Zn、Mn、Mo、B和Co肥料提高水稻、玉米、花生和苹果产量的应用研究。试验结果表明,增施微肥后,水稻、玉米、花生产量提高,平均增产10%以上,亩增收入平均40元以上,苹果增产30%以上,亩增收入大于1000元,增产效果和经济效益是明显的。这项成果如在整个冀东地区推广,其经济效益将是巨大的。     

N个薄层介质组合引起的视各向异性

作者详细推导了N个薄层介质组合时所引起的视各向异性介质的弹性参数,扩展了J.E.white先生在《Underground Sound》一书中关于双层介质组合的视各向异性介质的弹性参数应用范围,并计算了2个薄层各向同性的弹性介质组合时视各向异性介质中地震波速度随波动传播方向而变化的关系曲线,说明了薄层组合确实可以引起介质的视各向异性。