Continental subduction and exhumation of UHP rocks. Structural and geochronological insights from the Dabieshan (East China)

In the Dabieshan, the available models for exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) rocks are poorly constrained by structural data. A comprehensive structural and kinematic map and a general cross-section of the Dabieshan including its foreland fold belt and the Northern Dabieshan Domain (Foziling and Luzenguang groups) are presented here. South Dabieshan consists from bottom to top of stacked allochtons: (1) an amphibolite facies gneissic unit, devoid of UHP rocks, interpreted here as the relative autochton; (2) an UHP allochton; (3) a HP rock unit (Susong group) mostly retrogressed into greenschist facies micaschists; (4) a weakly metamorphosed Proterozoic slate and sandstone unit; and (5) an unmetamorphosed Cambrian to Early Triassic sedimentary sequence unconformably covered by Jurassic sandstone. All these units exhibit a polyphase ductile deformation characterized by (i) a NW–SE lineation with a top-to-the-NW shearing, and (ii) a southward refolding of early ductile fabrics.

The Central Dabieshan is a 100-km scale migmatitic dome. Newly discovered eclogite xenoliths in a Cretaceous granitoid dated at 102 Ma by the U–Pb method on titanite demonstrate that migmatization post-dates HP–UHP metamorphism. Ductile faults formed in the subsolidus state coeval to migmatization allow us to characterize the structural pattern of doming. Along the dome margins, migmatite is gneissified under post-solidus conditions and mylonitic–ultramylonitic fabrics commonly develop. The north and west boundaries of the Central Dabieshan metamorphics, i.e. the Xiaotian–Mozitan and Macheng faults, are ductile normal faults formed before Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous. A Cretaceous reworking is recorded by synkinematic plutons.

North of the Xiaotian–Mozitan fault, the North Dabieshan Domain consists of metasediments and orthogneiss (Foziling and Luzenguang groups) metamorphosed under greenschist to amphibolite facies which never experienced UHP metamorphism. A rare N–S-trending lineation with top-to-the-south shearing is dated at 260 Ma by the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method on muscovite. This early structure related to compressional tectonics is reworked by top-to-the-north extensional shear bands.

The main deformation of the Dabieshan consists of a NW–SE-stretching lineation which wraps around the migmatitic dome but exhibits a consistently top-to-the-NW sense of shear. The Central Dabieshan is interpreted as an extensional migmatitic dome bounded by an arched, top-to-the-NW, detachment fault. This structure may account for a part of the UHP rock exhumation. However, the abundance of amphibolite restites in the Central Dabieshan migmatites and the scarcity of eclogites (found only in a few places) argue for an early stage of exhumation and retrogression of UHP rocks before migmatization. This event is coeval to the N–S extensional structures described in the North Dabieshan Domain. Recent radiometric dates suggest that early exhumation and subsequent migmatization occurred in Triassic–Liassic times. The main foliation is deformed by north-verging recumbent folds coeval to the south-verging folds of the South Dabieshan Domain. An intense Cretaceous magmatism accounts for thermal resetting of most of the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates.

A lithosphere-scale exhumation model, involving continental subduction, synconvergence extension with inversion of southward thrusts into NW-ward normal faults and crustal melting is presented.     

中国单一银(-金)矿主要类型及其地质特征

对我国单一银（-金）矿床地质特征、成因类型和空间分布特点进行了总结.以成矿作用和成矿地质条件为基础,矿床成因为依据,我国单一银（-金）矿床可分为：（1）变质（混合岩化）热液型矿床;（2）火山（含次火山）热液型银（-金）矿床;（3）岩浆-热液型银（-金）矿床;（4）地热水溶滤型银（-金）矿床.     

蒙古国查干苏布尔加大型铜-钼矿床地质特征及成因

查干苏布尔加斑岩铜钼矿床位于西伯利亚板块南缘近东西向和北东向深大断裂所夹持的南蒙古构造岩浆带内,容矿围岩二长花岗斑岩与花岗闪长斑岩主量元素高SiO2(64.69×10-2~73.42×10-2),高Al2O3(15.33×10-2~18.35×10-2),贫MgO(0.13×10-2~0.56×10-2),微量元素Sr二长花岗斑岩略低(144×10-6~175×10-6).花岗闪长斑岩表现为高Sr(样品>300×10-6,476×10-6~720×10-6),二者均低Y(Y<18×10-6,2.21×10-6~10.20×10-6),低Yb(Yb<1.9×10-6,0.30×10-6~1.48×10-6),高Sr/Y(Sr/Y>20,21.8~63.52),稀土元素特征为亏损重稀土,无明显负铕异常,(87Sr/86Sr)i=0.70154~0.70397,(143Nd/144Nd)i=0.512290~0.512600,εNd(t)为+2.4~+8.5,二长花岗斑岩和花岗闪长斑岩均具有埃达克质岩特征,但二长花岗斑岩与花岗闪长斑岩主、微量和稀土元素又存在一定差别,它们可能是岩浆不同演化阶段的产物.通过年龄测定,获得辉钼矿Re-Os等时线年龄为(370.0±5.9)Ma,二长花岗斑岩锆石SHRIMP U-Pb加权平均年龄为(365.7±3.6)Ma,铜钼矿形成时代与二长花岗斑岩形成时代相近,均形成于晚泥盆世.铜钼矿床与二长花岗斑岩、花岗闪长斑岩紧密共生,矿区范围内二长花岗斑岩与花岗闪长斑岩多被蚀变并矿化,表明二长花岗斑岩、花岗闪长斑岩与铜钼矿化存在密切的时空关系,为铜钼成矿提供了主要成矿物质和流体来源.     

汶川地震遗迹旅游资源分类及特色评价

汶川地震造就了大量地震遗迹景观,成为了地震科学研究及旅游开发活动的重要资源基础.对地震遗迹景观分类没有形成统一的认识,广义与狭义视角并存,两分法与一分法并现.充分考虑地震遗迹旅游资源成因及景观特征,强调地震活动对地震遗迹旅游资源成景过程的影响及响应,将其分为2个景观型,4个景观域、6个景观段、13个景观元及若干典型地震遗迹景观:重点介绍了北川县城地震遗址、都汶公路百花大桥、都江堰虹口深溪沟地表破裂、北川县唐家山堰塞湖、北川县城城西滑坡遗迹等典型地震遗迹旅游资源;提炼出"国际意义的地质科学研究对象、全球吸引力的典型地震遗迹、国际品质的地震遗迹旅游资源开发条件、世界级震撼力的地震灾难性事件"四大特色.研究结论有利于地震遗迹旅游资源的保护及震区旅游恢复重建,为高烈度山区地震专项旅游产品开发提供科学依据.     

New Urbanist developments in flood-prone areas: safe development,or safe development paradox?

Government policies intended to reduce flood losses can increase the potential for catastrophe by stimulating development inside the floodplain, a phenomenon referred to as the “safe development paradox.” New Urbanist design has the potential to both exacerbate and alleviate flood risks. Because they are built at relatively high densities, New Urbanist developments can exacerbate risk by placing more people and property in harm’s way. Conversely, New Urbanist design features theoretically better enable designers of New Urbanist developments to avoid floodplain portions of project sites than designers of conventional subdivisions. Using a sample of New Urbanist developments in the US that contain floodplain portions within their boundaries, this paper focuses on whether and why these developments locate built structures inside the floodplain. The authors find that roughly 30% of the developments locate structures inside the floodplain, and that the odds of locating structures inside the floodplain increase with the proportion of the project site located inside the floodplain and decrease with the presence of government policies that prohibit residential development in the floodplain. The authors also identify confusion among government planners regarding the distinction between pre and postconstruction floodplain boundaries. A subset of New Urbanist developments is found to have built structures located outside the postconstruction floodplain boundary, but inside the preconstruction floodplain boundary. This finding is cited as an example of the “safe development paradox” in action. The authors recommend changes in New Urbanist design codes and local government floodplain management to increasingly direct new development away from the floodplain.     

Features of ferric sulfate precipitates formed by different cultivations of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

This study focused on the ferric sulfate precipitates formed during the culture of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (A. ferrooxidans) in a modified 9K medium by applying a potential control on the electrode. X-ray diffraction (XRD), environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM), Raman spectroscopy (Raman) and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) were carried out to characterize and identify the precipitates which were formed, respectively, in the electrochemical cultivation with a fixed cathode potential (bias-experiment) and in the conventional batch cultivation without cathode potential control (no-bias-experiment). The results indicated that K-jarosite presented in both experiments while NH₄-jarosite and schwertmannite were only found in the no-bias-experiment. The formation of different precipitates could be attributed to the different growth statuses and rates of A. ferrooxidans and the different concentrations of Fe³⁺. In the bias-experiment, external electrons reproduced Fe²⁺ and promoted the growth of A. ferrooxidans, thus resulting in the low Fe³⁺ concentration and the rapid depletion of NH₄ ⁺ as the nitrogen source, in which K-jarosite was preferentially formed. In the no-bias-experiment, the lower concentration of A. ferrooxidans was observed, which was due to the continuous consumption of Fe²⁺ by bacteria, thus resulting in the relatively higher Fe³⁺ and the NH₄ ⁺ concentration in culture. The high concentration of Fe³⁺ favored the precipitation of the solid solution of K-NH₄-H₃O jarosite, and led to the formation of schwertmannite after K⁺ and NH₄ ⁺ were depleted.     

同步辐射软X射线吸收谱与发射谱测定天然针铁矿能带结构

天然半导体矿物由于成分、缺陷复杂,传统测试方法如紫外可见漫反射等难以准确测定其禁带宽度.本文以针铁矿为例,通过第一性原理计算得到纯针铁矿及掺Al针铁矿的电子结构.计算结果显示,纯针铁矿导带底与价带顶均由Fe3d与O2p轨道组成,而当含杂质Al时,Al2p与O2p发生杂化参与了价带组成.在此基础上,利用同步辐射X射线氧的K边吸收谱与发射谱对纯针铁矿及天然针铁矿的能带结构进行了测定.结果表明,天然含Al的针铁矿禁带宽度为2.30eV,小于纯针铁矿(2.57eV).本研究提供了一种测定天然氧化物矿物禁带宽度的新方法,为深入研究天然半导体可见光催化活性产生机制提供了理论依据.     

Rate of growth of the preserved North American continental crust: Evidence from Hf and O isotopes in Mississippi detrital zircons

Detrital zircons from the Mississippi River have been analyzed for U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotopes to constrain the rate of growth of the preserved North American continental crust. One hundred and forty two concordant zircon U/Pb dates on grains mounted in epoxy, obtained by Excimer laser ablation ICP-MS method, resolved six major periods of zircon crystallization: 0-0.25, 0.3-0.6, 0.95-1.25, 1.3-1.5, 1.65-1.95 and 2.5-3.0 Ga. These age ranges match the ages of the recognized lithotectonic units of the North American continent in the hinterland of the Mississippi River. Ninety-six zircons mounted on tape, which show no age zonation and were within 7.5% of concordance, were selected to represent the six U/Pb age time intervals and analyzed for Lu-Hf and O isotope by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS and SHRIMP II, respectively. The δ¹⁸O values of the zircons show a small step increase in the maximum δ¹⁸O values at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary from 7.5‰ in the Archean to 9.5‰, and rarely 13‰, in the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic. However, the average value of δ¹⁸O in zircons changes little with time, showing that the increase in the maximum δ¹⁸O values between 2.5 and 2.0 Ga, which can be attributed to an increase in the sediment content of the source regions of younger granitoids, is largely balanced by an increase in zircons with anomalously low δ¹⁸O, which can be attributed to hydrothermally altered crust in the granitoid source region.εHf_i values for the zircons range from 13.1 to −26.9. Zircons derived from juvenile crust, which we define as having mantle δ¹⁸O (4.5-6.5‰) and lying within error of the Hf depleted mantle growth curve, are rare or absent in the Mississippi basin. The overwhelming majority of zircons crystallized from melted pre-existing continental crust, or mantle-derived magmas that were contaminated by continental crust. The average time difference between primitive crust formation and remelting for each of the recognized lithotectonic time intervals, which is defined as crustal incubation time in this study, is 890 ± 460 Myr. There is also a suggestion that the crustal incubation time increases with decreasing age in the Mississippi basin, which is consistent with the declining role of radioactive heat production in the lower crust with time.The average Hf model age (1.94 Ga), weighted by fraction of zircons in the river load is in reasonable agreement with the Nd model age (1.7 Ga) for the Mississippi River. However, if the zircons are weighted by the area of North America covered by the six recognized periods of zircon crystallization the average model age is 2.35 Ga, which compares favorably with an area weighted Nd model age of 2.36 Ga. Our preferred approach is to use the measured O isotope values to constrain variations in the ¹⁷⁶Lu/¹⁷⁷Hf ratio of the granitic source region from which the zircons crystallized, making the assumption that zircons with mantle-like O isotopic ratios have higher ¹⁷⁶Lu/¹⁷⁷Hf than zircons with higher O isotope values. This method gives an average Hf model age of 2.53 Ga, which is 180 Myr older than the constant ¹⁷⁶Lu/¹⁷⁷Hf calculation.The area weighted zircon Hf model ages show two distinct periods of crust formation for the North American continent, 1.6-2.2 and 2.9-3.4 Ga. At least 50% of the preserved North American continental crust was extracted from the mantle by 2.9 Ga and 90% by 1.6 Ga. Two similar periods of crustal growth are also recognized in Gondwana (Hawkesworth C. J. and Kemp A. I. S. (2006) Using hafnium and oxygen isotopes in zircons to unravel the record of crustal evolution. Chem. Geol.226, 144-162.), suggesting that these may be periods of global continental crustal growth. However, we stress that more data from other continents are required before the hypothesis of episodic global continental growth can be accepted with confidence.     

城镇雨污分流非开挖工程中的工程勘察内容和要求

论述在城镇雨污分流工程中采用非开挖技术需要工程勘察的内容和要求。针对非开挖技术特点,与常规市政工程勘察的对比分析,得出采用非开挖技术施工所需要的工程勘察特性。结合廊坊市雨污分流非开挖试验段工程,分析了前期工程勘察对后期非开挖工程施工的影响,具体分析工程地质勘察和施工区域地下管线探测特殊性对非开挖工程设计、施工的意义。最后从雨污分流非开挖试验段工程结论出发,总结采用非开挖技术施工进行工程勘察的常规性内容,为以后类似工程采用非开挖技术施工提供参考.     

岩石材料应变软化模型及有限元分析

本文应用弹塑性理论,根据岩石的应力应变关系、峰值强度、残余强度和岩石材料的脆性特性,建立了理想的应变软化模型,并提出了相应的加载准则。文中提出的模型计算方便,所用参数简单,物理意义明确,便于编制有限元程序。