Epifanovite,NaCaCu5(PO4)4[AsO2(OH)2] · 7H2O: a New Mineral from the Kester Deposit,Sakha (Yakutia) Republic,Russia

Geology of Ore Deposits - Epifanovite, NaCaCu5(PO4)4[AsO2(OH)2] · 7H2O, a new natural copper, sodium and calcium arsenate–phosphate, has been found in a quartz–phosphate pocket...     

孟加拉扇上扇某区块深水沉积体的特征及演化模式

利用高分辨率三维地震资料分析了孟加拉扇上扇某区块的深水沉积体特征。发现了六种典型地震相:下切充填相、海鸥翼状相、楔形发散相、透明相、强振幅平行相和弱振幅平行相。下切充填相代表粗粒的水道充填沉积;海鸥翼状相代表水道-天然堤复合体;楔形发散相代表细粒的天然堤沉积;透明相代表块体搬运沉积;强振幅平行相代表朵叶体沉积;弱振幅平行相代表深海披覆沉积。通过对典型地震剖面特征和平面属性分布分析可知:上扇垂向上依次沉积了朵叶体、水道和堤岸、朵叶体、水道-天然堤复合体。     

Geochemistry of radioactive elements in the rocks of the Guli Massif,Polar Siberia

The study of radioactive element distribution in the rocks of the Guli Complex revealed an increase of uranium and thorium contents in the final products of magmatic differentiation. In the carbonatite complex, the radioactive elements are mainly accumulated in the early rocks—phoscorites, while their contents in the late phases, dolomitic carbonatites, decrease. The Th/U ratio increases from near-chondritic values in the weakly differentiated highly-magnesian primary magmas to the late rocks—phoscorites, calcitic carbonatites, and dolomitic carbonatites. The majority of radioactive elements are hosted in rare-metal accessory minerals: perovskite, pyrochlore, calzirtite, and apatite. Rock-forming minerals are characterized by extremely low contents of radioactive elements.     

Irrigation-induced loess flow failure in Heifangtai Platform,North-West China

Because the construction of dams and hydro-electric power stations of Liujiaxia and Yanguoxia across the Yellow River in West Gansu Province, North-West China, inhabitants in the reservoir areas were resettled in Heifangtai Loess Platform. Irrigation thus started in 1968. Perched water table was significantly raised and resulted in many loess flow failures in the past 30 years. This type of landslide was often featured by long runout distance, high speed and recurrence. Laboratory tests along ICU and CSD stress paths were performed. It is shown that the loess has a strong strain-softening behavior and instability can occur in drained condition before undrained liquefaction. The failure mechanism of loess flow can be interpreted as the following process: with increasing perched water table, collapse in loess was first triggered in drained condition and led to undrained loading to adjacent soil in the lower saturated part of the loess platform. Under gravity loading applied by upper dry loess, undrained flow failure mobilized, eventually.     

Clay mineralogical studies on Bijawars of the Sonrai basin: Palaeoenvironmental implications and inferences on the uranium mineralization

Clays associated with the Precambrian unconformity-related (sensu lato) uranium mineralization that occur along fractures of Rohini carbonate, Bandai sandstone and clay-organic rich black carbonaceous Gorakalan shale of the Sonrai Formation from Bijawar Group is significant. Nature and structural complexity of these clays have been studied to understand depositional mechanism and palaeoenvironmental conditions responsible for the restricted enrichment of uranium in the Sonrai basin. Clays (<2 μm fraction) separated from indurate sedimentary rocks by disaggregation, chemical treatment and centrifugation were examined using X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Presence of tv-1M type illite is inferred from the Rohini and Bandai Members of the Sonrai Formation, indicative of high fluid/rock interaction and super-saturation state of the fluids available in proximity with the uranium mineralization. It is observed that the Sonrai Formation is characterized by kaolinite > chlorite > illite > smectite mineral assemblages, whereas, Solda Formation contains kaolinite > illite > chlorite clays. It has been found that the former mineral assemblage resulted from the alteration process is associated with the uranium mineralization and follow progressive reaction series, indicating palaeoenvironmental (cycles of tropical humid to semi-arid/arid) changes prevailed during maturation of the Sonrai basin. The hydrothermal activity possibly associated with Kurrat volcanics is accountable for the clay mineral alterations.     

Granulite facies metamorphism and metasomatism in the gabbro-anorthosites of the Kolvitsa massif,Kola Peninsula

The investigation of the Kolvitsa gabbro-anorthosite massif showed that its melanocratic layers conformable with metamorphic banding are mafic differentiates transformed into eclogite-like rocks during prograde metamorphism. During the peak and retrograde stage of the Svecofennian metamorphism in the White Sea region at t = 910–750°C and P = 14-7 kbar, the infiltration of Fe-, CO₂-, Si-, and Na-bearing fluids with X_{H2 O} < 0.4X_{H_2 O} < 0.4 resulted in metasomatic alterations of the melanocratic gabbro-anorthosite interlayers, dissolution of a number of elements, and their reprecipitation with the formation of cross-cutting zoned metasomatic veins with abundant magnetite and ilmenite. The high content of hematite in the ilmenite suggests that the veins were formed at an increase in oxygen fugacity from logf_O2 = - 14.5\log f_{O_2 } = - 14.5 to logf_O2 = - 11\log f_{O_2 } = - 11, which caused the Fe²⁺ → Fe³⁺ transition and iron precipitation. The increase in at the conditions corresponding to the metamorphic peak was probably related to the neutralization of solutions during their infiltration through the gabbro-anorthosites. The reprecipitation of components and the formation of cross-cutting veins occurred owing to interaction between the melanocratic layers in the gabbro-anorthosites and a fluid phase and, contrary to previous models, did not involve the fluid transport of components from the zones of charnockite formation and granitization located far away from the sites of reprecipitation. This is demonstrated by the similarity of mineral compositions and major component contents in the melanocratic gabbro-anorthosite layers and cross-cutting metasomatic veins and regular distribution of trace elements.     

Clay minerals in the middle-upper Miocene sediments of the Taman trough: Composition and paleogeographic significance

The pioneer compositional analysis carried out for clayey sediments from most regional Miocene stages of the Taman trough made it possible to define the main types of clays and trace their variability through the section. It is established that the composition of these clays is largely controlled by the sedimentary rather than postsedimentary lithogenetic factors. The maximal hydromica (hereafter, illite) concentrations (up to 73%) are recorded in sediments deposited during orogenesis activation and major regressions (terminal Tarkhanian, Sarmatian, and early Pontian). The dominant role and elevated concentration of the smectite component are characteristic of sediments corresponding to transgressive phases of the basin development. The shallow-water sediments, which show a notable facies heterogeneity, differ from their deepwater counterparts by a higher diversity in the clay composition. These regularities in the distribution of clay minerals may be used for the lithostratigraphic subdivision of the sequences with a lower content of the fossil mollusc assemblages.     

Rare-element composition of pyropes and lamproites and ancient dispersion haloes of the southwestern Siberian platform

The problem of heterogeneity of the mantle lithosphere of the southwestern portion of the Siberian Platform has been considered, and the diamond content in potential mother lodes within this area has been estimated based on original geochemical data on the rare-element composition of pyropes from diamondiferous lamproites of the Ingashin field within the Prisayan region and ancient dispersion haloes of minerals accompanying diamonds in the area between the Angara and Uda rivers. Pyropes from lamproites are characterized by low concentrations of Zr (0.18–9.05 ppm), Hf (0.03–0.37 ppm), and rare earth elements (Sm 0.04–0.49, Eu 0.02–0.16, and Dy 0.05–0.96 ppm). Pyropes from the Lower Carboniferous Baeron Formation within the Tangui-Chuksha area are significantly different from pyropes of the Ingashin lamproites in high contents of Zr (30.36–139.23 ppm) and Hf (0.4–2.22 ppm). These pyropes are characterized by elevated concentrations of rare earth elements (Sm 1.34–3.68, Eu 0.53–1.17, and Dy 1.0–2.05 ppm). The distribution patterns of rare incompatible elements in pyropes of the Lower Carboniferous Mura massif within the Mura area manifest even stronger differences with pyropes of the Ingashin lamproites and in many respects with pyropes from Lower Carboniferous sediments of the Baeron Formation within the Tangui-Chuksha area. The results obtained indicate that there is no large-scale regional spreading of pyropes from Mid-Riphean lamproite bodies in the course of washout of these bodies and that the mantle lithosphere in the southwestern portion of the Siberian Platform is laterally heterogeneous in mineralogical-geochemical terms. The chemical composition and the peculiar distribution pattern of rare elements in pyropes from lamproites of the Prisayan region indicate a depleted, primarily lherzolite composition of the upper mantle that was transformed through low-temperature potassium metasomatosis. In terms of the chemical and rare-element compositions, pyropes from Lower Carboniferous sediments of the Tangui-Chuksha and Mura areas belong to a wider range of mantle rocks: depleted peridotites, metasomatic peridotites under low (900–1000°C) and high (>1000°C) temperature conditions, and megacrysts. This suggests that the composition of the lithospheric mantle in this area of the southern portion of the Siberian Platform is characterized by a considerably differentiated stratification of mantle rocks, some of which were credibly formed in the diamond stability field.     

中国海域区古近纪含煤盆地与煤系分布研究

新近纪和古近纪是全球重要的聚煤期。中国古近纪聚煤盆地分布在东部沿海省区,是全球性环太平洋聚煤带的组成部分。中国海域区含煤沉积盆地虽然也属于断陷盆地和坳陷盆地类型,且成群出现,但总体构造背景有利于含煤沉积的持续发展,盆地群连续性好,含煤沉积厚度大,如琼东南盆地、东海海域西湖凹陷,含煤沉积厚度达1 km以上,这是陆上区古近纪含煤盆地所不能相比的。研究表明,海域区的聚煤盆地内大多由若干凹陷组成,为聚煤凹陷,可分为两大类,即半地堑凹陷和地堑凹陷。根据成煤盆地的水体深浅又可分为深水半地堑凹陷和浅水半地堑凹陷,地堑凹陷均为深水凹陷。盆地内表现为明显的两个聚煤带：缓坡聚煤带和陡坡聚煤带,缓坡聚煤带占绝对优势。在潮坪体系的潮上带和潮间带沼泽,利于聚煤作用的广泛发生。泥炭的堆积可能存在两种形式：原地堆积和异地堆积。由于盆地构造的频繁活动异地堆积可能是海域区聚煤盆地成煤作用的重要形式。海域区巨厚的含煤沉积为海域区煤成气成藏提供了丰厚的物质基础。又由于含煤地层埋深大,煤的变质作用程度相对较高,成为良好的烃源岩。     

塔里木盆地巴楚—麦盖提地区石炭系混合沉积研究*

通过岩心、薄片观察,从岩石学特征入手,结合测井资料,对塔里木盆地巴楚—麦盖提地区石炭系的陆源碎屑—碳酸盐混积岩和混积层系进行了研究。根据混积强度将混积岩划分为混积型碎屑岩、混积型碳酸盐岩和高度混积岩。巴楚组下泥岩段和中泥岩段发育混积型碎屑岩,巴楚组生屑灰岩段、中泥岩段和小海子组发育混积型碳酸盐岩,卡拉沙依组上泥岩段、巴楚组下泥岩段及巴什托局部地区的中泥岩段发育高度混积岩。高度混积岩出现在海退期沉积的碎屑岩段,代表了陆源碎屑—碳酸盐强烈混合的过渡性沉积环境。研究区石炭系可识别出4个三级层序,混积层系主要发育在海侵体系域早期和高位体系域晚期,以间断混合和相缘混合为主。研究认为混积强度是评价混合沉积环境性质的主要参数,并将其划分为4级。下泥岩段存在混积强度达3级以上的混积界面,能用于地层对比。最后,结合混合沉积特征讨论了构造运动和海平面变化对研究区石炭系层序组以上的混合沉积的控制作用。