The Bataan orogene: Eastward subduction, tectonic rotations, and volcanism in the western Pacific (Philippines)

The Philippine mobile belt represents a crustal fragment, wedged between two subduction systems exhibiting opposite polarity. The eastern (Philippine—Quezon) system probably originated in the Eocene during northwest—southeast spreading of the west Philippine basin. Westward subduction is continued, probably as a result of northward motion of the Philippine basin crust. The western (Manila—Bataan) system originated in the Oligocene by spreading and formation of the South China Sea basin. Eastward subduction dominates the tectonics in the northern part of the archipelago and resulted in the formation of the Bataan orogene, a sequence of three parallel volcanic arcs emplaced in obducted oceanic crust. Geochemical and radiometric data indicate that the arcs migrated eastward with time (Miocene to Present) while changing composition from tholeiitic via calc-alkaline to shoshonitic. Centers of the latter two types are presently active. Depocenters behind the arcs also migrated eastward with time, suggesting correction of the isostatic disequilibrium caused by geanticlinal uplift of the orogene. Paleomagnetic evidence suggests that central Luzon is rotating counterclockwise probably due to differential spreading in the South China Sea basin. The west Philippine basin rotates clockwise. This results in significant “Einengung” in the southern part of the archipelago.     

Pyrolysis-high resolution gas chromatography and pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of kerogens and kerogen precursors

A series of kerogens and kerogen precursors isolated from DSDP samples, oil shales and Recent algal mats have been examined by Curie point pyrolysis-high resolution gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This study has shown that the three main types of kerogens (marine, terrestrial and mixtures of both) can be characterized using these techniques. The marine (algal) kerogens yield principally aliphatic products and the terrestrial kerogens yield more aromatic and phenolic products with some n-alkanes and n-alkenes. The yields of n-alkanes and n-alkenes increase and phenols decrease with increasing geologic age, however, pyrolysis-GC cannot be used to characterize the influence of short term diagenesis on the kerogen structure.     

Sur la présence de nickel dans un gisement de bauxite près de Mégare

Résumé L'exploitation récente d'un gisement de bauxite près de Mégare (Grèce) a fait apparaître sur les calcaires de base une concentration verte d'oxyde de nickel relativement élevée. La présence dans le gisement d'argiles rouges, renfermant de fortes proportions d'oxyde de fer avec des teneurs relativement faibles en alumine et des traces d'oxyde de nickel, induit à penser qu'il s'agit d'un produit latéritique dérivé d'une roche ultrabasique et transporté ultérieurement sur la région calcaire karstifiée avec ses remplissages bauxitiques. L'étude se termine par une hypothèse sur la genèse de ce gîte singulier.

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The recent mining of a bauxite deposit near Megara (Greece) has shown on the footwall limestone a relatively high concentration of a green nickel oxide. The occurrence in the same deposit of red clays with a rather high percentage of iron oxide and a low content of alumina, together with some traces of nickel, induces to think that this material is composed of a lateritic soil derived from an ultrabasic rock and subsequently transported on karstified limestone with its bauxitic fillings. — The study ends with an hypothesis on the genesis of this unusual deposit.

     

Middle Pleistocene temperate deposits at Dingé, Ille-et-Vilaine,northwest France: pollen,plant and insect macrofossil analysis

Nine cores were taken from a damp depression at Dingé, Ille-et-Vilaine, northwest France. Analyses of the pollen, plant macrofossil and Coleoptera remains preserved in the same organic samples of two profiles suggest a temperate vegetation characterised by a mixed deciduous forest with mesophilous taxa (Carpinus, Fagus, Quercus) followed by a coniferous forest with Pinus and Picea. The determination of plant taxa to species was made either directly through the identification of plant macrofossil remains and pollen or indirectly through the identification of phytophagous Coleoptera specifically related to certain plants. Stratigraphical information derived from pollen, plant macrofossil and insect data indicates that this sequence may be correlated with a temperate episode older than the Eemian and younger than the Holsteinian, possibly the Bouchet 2 (Oxygen Isotope Stage 7c) or Bouchet 3 (Oxygen Isotope Stage 7a) temperate periods or the Landos Interglacial (Oxygen Isotope Stage 9 pro parte). © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The chemistry of orthophosphate uptake from seawater on to calcite and aragonite

The chemistry of orthophosphate uptake from synthetic seawater onto the surfaces of synthetic calcite, aragonite and low-magnesium biogenic calcite has been studied, in order to elucidate the kinetics of the process (generally believed to be the major control of dissolved reactive phosphate in carbonate-rich marine sediments). Our results differ from those obtained by others, who have studied orthophosphate uptake in low ionic strength solutions and at much higher supersaturations relative to apatite.In both ‘free drift’ and chemostat experiments, Mg and F have only a minor effect on the reaction rate. Even at constant solution composition the rate of orthophosphate uptake was found to decrease by 10⁶ over a two week period. The data from the ‘free drift’ experiments can be fitted to the Elovich equation. This indicates that the kinetics observed for this reaction can be explained by an exponential decrease in available surface reaction sites and/or a linear increase in the activation energy associated with chemisorption as the reaction proceeds.     

Changes in interstitial water salinity of a Mississippi tidal marsh

The salinity of interstitial water (i.e., the salinity of the free soil water) was examined at 11 equidistant stations along a transect on a Mississippi tidal marsh dominated byJuncus roemerianus andSpartina cynosuroides. Changes in the nearby surface water (e.g., bay water) were reflected in the changes in interstitial water salinity. The salinity of interstitial water was usually higher, varying between 2.5 and 15.8‰ from February 1975 through January 1976, than the salinity of the nearby surface water which ranged from 0.0 to 11.5‰. Following a long period of high salinity in the bay and sound (exceeding 14‰), the salinity of the interstitial water increased to a maximum of 16.8‰ in October. The salinity increased as the distance of the sampling station from the source of the flood water increased. Mean interstitial wate salinity across the marsh studied was within 10‰ which did not seem to influence the marsh plant zonation occurring on the marsh.     

LA COMPOSITION MINERALOGIQUE ET CHIMIQUE DES ROCHES ERUPTIVES ET PARTICULIEREMENT DES LAVES MESOZOIQUES ET PLUS RECENTES DE LA CHINE ORIENTALE Par A. Lacroix.

Au cours d'un voyage en Chine, effectue en decembre 1927, j'al eu I'honneur et le plaisir d'etre recu a Peking par la Societe geologique de Chine et d'etre ainsi le temoin de sa grande activite scientifique. Aussi, je tiens a lui offrir le resultat de l'etude mineralogique et chimique des roches que j'ai     

地球重力模型及中国大陆重力场的计算

融多颗卫星数据、地面重力值和其它资料一起的地球重力模型EGM 96 ,为研究中国大陆的重力场及相关问题提供了一个高精度 36 0阶的球谐系数。在分析EGM 96的基础上 ,计算并简单解释了中国大陆的自由空气异常和布格重力异常。计算所得重力场的精度和分辨率大大高于常用的1∶140 0 0 0 0 0自由空气异常图及布格重力图     

Textures exhibited by feldspars in the Giant Mottled Anorthosite (GMA) of the bastard unit in the Upper Critical Zone,Western Bushveld Complex

Summary The Bastard Unit, overlying the Merensky Unit, is the uppermost and most complete of the cyclic units in the Upper Critical Zone and its upper contact is taken as the boundary between the Critical and Main Zones (as recommended by SACS, 1980). The Unit is different from underlying units for three reasons: it does not have a well-defined top contact (with an overlying unit); it is much thicker than the Merensky and Footwall Units; and it has an unusually thick sequence of mottled anorthosite at its top. This distinctive composite anorthositic sequence is termed the Giant Mottled Anorthosite (GMA) which is predominantly made up of poikilitic anorthosite. The GMA can broadly be subdivided into three distinct parts; the Lower Giant Mottled Anorthosite (LGMA), Giant Mottled Middling (GMM) and the Upper Giant Mottled Anorthosite (UGMA).Petrographic examination of 82 samples taken in the GMA from 11 borehole profiles around the western limb of the Complex revealed that the LGMA and GMM are essentially adcumulates while the UGMA is orthocumulate in character. By its very nature the dominant phase throughout the GMA is cumulus plagioclase feldspar ( 85%) with the balance being made up of intercumulus orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene and minor biofite — all of which constitute the darker mottles. Intercumulus inverted pigeonite occurs in the upper part of the GMM, throughout the UGMA and for c. 30 m into the Main Zone. K-feldspar also joins the paragenesis within the UGMA and occurs both as intercumulus orthoclase and antiperthite. Cumulus plagioclase grains, showing varying degrees of complex oscillatory-zonal growth are common in the upper part of the GMA. These grains are interpreted as records of growth episodes during earlier influxes of magma which were responsible for the development of the underlying cyclic units, but escaped incorporation into the cumulate pile.

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Feldspat-Texturen im Giant Mottled Anorthosite der Bastard-Einheit in der oberen kritischen Zone des westlichen Bushveld-Komplexes

Zusammenfassung Die Bastard-Einheit, die die Merensky-Einheit überlagert, ist die oberste und am besten entwickelte der zyklischen Einheiten in der oberen kritischen Zone; ihr oberer Kontakt gilt als die Grenze zwischen der Kritischen und der Main-Zone (entsprechend den Empfehlungen von SACS, 1980). Die Einheit unterscheidet sich aus drei Gründen von den Einheiten im liegenden: sie hat keinen gut definierten oberen Kontakt (mit einer darüberliegenden Einheit), sie ist wesentlich mächtiger als die Merensky und die Footwall-Einheiten, und sie hat eine ungewöhnliche mächtige Abfolge von Mottled Anorthosite als obersten Teil der Abfolge. Diese wohldefinierte anorthositische Abfolge wird als Giant Mottled Anorthosite (GMA) bezeichnet, und besteht hauptsächlich aus poikilitischem Anorthosit. Die GMA kann in 3 Teile, den unteren (LGMA), den mittleren (GMM) un den oberen (UGMA) unterteilt werden.Die petrographische Untersuchung von 82 Proben in der GMA aus 11 Bohrlöchern im Westteil des Bushveld-Komplexes zeigt, daß LGMA und GMM im wesentlichen Adkumulate sind, während die UGMA ein Orthokumulat darstellt. Die Hauptphase in der gesamten GMA ist Kumulus-Plagioklas ( 85 %); der Rest besteht aus Intercumulus-Orthopyroxen, Klinopyroxen, und geringen Mengen von Biotit. Diese sind die Komponenten der dunkleren mottles. Intercumulus invertierter Pigeonit kommt im oberen Teil der GMM, in der gesamten UGMA und in den unteren 30 Metern der Main-Zone vor. Innerhalb der UGMA tritt K-Feldspat hinzu, dieser kommt als Intercumulus Orthoklas und Antiperthit vor. Körner von Cumulusplagioklas mit verschiedenen Intensitäten komplexer Zonierung sind im oberen Teil der GMA verbreitet. Diese Körner werden als Hinweise auf Wachstumsepisoden während früherer Magmenzufuhr-Phasen interpretiert, die für die Entwicklung der zyklischen Einheiten im Liegenden verantwortlich waren, aber selbst nicht Teil der Cumulatabfolge wurden.

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On the cause of the preferential distribution of certain metamorphic minerals in orogenic belts of different age

Almost all glaucophane and all lawsonite seem to have been formed by post-Palaeozoic regional metamorphism. Moreover, according toMiyashiro regional metamorphism of his kyanite-sillimanite type (= Dalradian or Barrovian type) was common in Palaeozoic time, whereas that of his andalusite-sillimanite type and low-pressure intermediate group (Buchan type) took place in orogenic belts of Precambrian as well as Palaeozoic and Mesozoic age.Augmentation of confining pressure by tectonic pressure played a similar role during all orogenic cycles. The differences between orogenic belts of different age seem to be confined to the earlier stages of metamorphism in each belt, with a tendency, progressive with decreasing age of the belt, toward development of high-pressure/low-temperature facies during an early stage of metamorphism in the younger belts. This tendency is ascribed to a secular decrease when comparing belts of different age — of the steepness of the geothermal gradients prevailing during similar early stages in the development of each belt, a decrease which itself may be mainly due to the secular decrease of the quantity of heat developed by radioactive processes. The occurrence ofMiyashiro's andalusite-sillimanite type and low-pressure intermediate group of regional metamorphism in orogenic belts of widely different age merely signifies that in all these belts granitic magma that was formed in depth, rose to higher levels.

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Zusammenfassung Die gesamte Weltmenge Lawsonit und beinahe aller Glaukophan scheinen durch postpaläozoische Regionalmetamorphose gebildet zu sein. Weiterhin war Regionalmetamorphose vonMiyashiro's Kyanit-Sillimanit-Typus (= des Dalradian Typus) nach diesem Forscher eine gewöhnliche Erscheinung im Paläozoikum, während Metamorphose des Andalusit-Sillimanit-Typus und der Niederdruck-Zwischengruppe (Buchan-Typus) in Orogengürteln präkambrischen, wie auch paläozoischen und mesozoischen Alters stattfand.Steigerung des allseitigen Druckes durch tektonische Kompression spielte eine ähnliche Rolle während aller orogener Zyklen. Die Unterschiede zwischen Orogengürteln verschiedenen Alters scheinen auf die älteren Stadien von Metamorphose in jedem einzelnen Gürtel beschränkt zu sein, und zwar mit einer Tendenz — progressiv bei abnehmendem Alter des Gürtels — zu der Entwicklung von Hochdruck/Niedertemperatur-Fazies während eines frühen Stadiums der Metamorphose in den jüngeren Gürteln. Diese Tendenz wird einer säkularen Abnahme — bei Vergleich von Gürteln verschiedenen Alters — der Steilheit der geothermischen Gradienten während ähnlicher früherer Entwicklungsstadien zugeschrieben, eine Abnahme, die selbst hauptsächlich als Folge der säkularen Verringerung der radioaktiv generierten Wärmemenge gedeutet wird. Das Vorkommen vonMiyashiro's Andalusit-Sillimanit-Typus und Niederdruck-Zwischengruppe der Regionalmetamorphose in Orogengürteln stark verschiedenen Alters bedeutet nur, daß in allen diesen Gürteln in der Tiefe gebildetes granitisches Magma zu höheren Niveaus emporgestiegen ist.

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Résumé La lawsonite et presque toujours le glaucophane semblent se former au cours d'un métamorphisme régional d'âge post-paléozoïque. En outre, d'aprèsMiyashiro, le métamorphisme régional du type dit à kyanite-sillimanite (= le type Dalradien ou Barrovien) était commun au Paléozoïque, tandis que celui du type dit à andalusite-sillimanite et du groupe dit intermédiaire à basse pression avait lieu dans des chaînes orogéniques d'âge tant précambrien que paléozoïque et mésozoïque.L'augmentation de la pression uniforme lors de la compression tectonique a joué le même rôle pendant chaque cycle orogénique. Les différences observées entre les chaînes orogéniques d'âges différents semblent être restreintes aux premiers stades de métamorphisme, avec une tendance, de plus en plus prononcée dans les chaînes de plus en plus récentes, vers le développement, au cours d'un premier stade, de facies à haute pression et basse température. Cette tendance est attribuée à la décroissance séculaire — en comparant des chaînes d'âge différent — du gradient géothermique au cours des premiers stades du développement de chaque chaîne, décroissance elle-même due à la diminution séculaire de la quantité de chaleur produite par les processus radioactifs. La présence du type de métamorphisme régional à andalusite-sillimanite, défini parMiyashiro et du groupe dit intermédiaire à basse pression dans des chaînes orogéniques d'âges très différents signifie simplement que, dans ces chaînes, le magma granitique formé en profondeur est monté à des niveaux plus élevés.

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Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c.Erich Bederke zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet.