In this study, we have investigated the formation of quartz–kyanite veins of the Alpe Sponda, Central Alps, Switzerland. We
have integrated field observations, fluid inclusion and stable isotope data and combined this with numerical geochemical modeling
to constrain the chemical processes of aluminum transport and deposition. The estimated P–T conditions of the quartz–kyanite
veins, based on conventional geothermometry (garnet–biotite, white mica solvus and quartz–kyanite oxygen isotope thermometry)
and fluid inclusion data, are 550 ± 30°C at 5.0 ± 0.5 kbar. Geochemical modeling involved construction of aqueous species
predominance diagrams, calculation of kyanite and quartz solubility, and reaction–path simulations. The results of the modeling
demonstrate that (1) for the given chemical composition of the vein-forming fluids mixed Al–Si aqueous species are dominant
in transporting Al, and that (2) fluid cooling along a small temperature gradient coupled with a pH decrease is able to explain
the precipitation of the quartz–kyanite assemblages in the proportions that are observed in the Alpe Sponda veins. We conclude
that sufficient amounts of Al can be transported in typical medium- to high-grade regional metamorphic fluids and that immobile
behavior of Al is not very likely in advection–dominanted fluid–rock systems in the upper and middle crust. 相似文献
Summary The efficiency of hail suppression is studied for the operative, non-randomized system established in 1971 on a territory of a 256.000 ha and enlarged in the eighties to almost 970.000 ha (Fig. 1). The system was built with thea priori assumption that it is successful and so no special effort was made to collect the data necessary for the testing of its efficiency. However, some data are still at disposal for this purpose: the daily and five minutes interval precipitation data, the radar cloud variables data used as seeding criteria, the data on days with thunderstorms and with hail, and (not abundant) set of data on the damages in agriculture as collected by an insurance company. A statistical evaluation of these data on the significance of the eventual differences between target and control area and/or before and during the project period do not confirm the hypothesis that the system is successful at some acceptable significance level (90 or 95%). The conclusion that the efficiency of the hail suppression system could not be proved holds for the system as a whole: for the theoretical part and the operational one, with all the accompanying advantages and malfunctions.With 7 Figures 相似文献
The mid-Proterozoic Isortoq dike swarm in the Gardar Province, South Greenland, comprises a variety of alkaline rocks ranging from gabbroic to syenitic in composition. Major magmatic mineral phases are olivine, clinopyroxene, Fe–Ti oxides, amphibole, plagioclase and alkali feldspar. Quartz occurs in some samples as a late magmatic phase. Liquidus temperatures of olivine-bearing samples range between 1120 and 1145 °C and solidus temperatures are 850–930 °C. Calculated silica activities are highly variable between 0.53 and unity. Oxygen fugacities vary from −3 to +1 log units relative to the fayalite–magnetite–quartz buffer.
The rocks have MgO contents <6 wt.% with Mg# between 53 and 17. Primitive mantle-normalized trace element patterns show a relative enrichment of LIL elements with Ba peaks and Nb troughs. Clinopyroxenes show a general enrichment in REE relative to chondritic values with variable slightly positive to prominent negative Eu anomalies. Two of the dikes were dated with Sm–Nd three-point isochrons at 1190±44 and 1187±87 Ma, respectively. Initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios of mafic mineral separates range from 0.70289 to 0.70432 and initial Nd values vary from +0.3 to −10.7. Whole-rock initial 187Os/188Os ratios are highly variable including very radiogenic values of up to 7.967. δ18Ov-smow values of separated clinopyroxene and amphibole range from +5.2‰ to +6.2‰ and fall within the range of typical mantle-derived rocks, although mixing with a lower crustal component is permitted by the data. Using energy-constrained assimilation-fractional crystallization (EC-AFC) modeling equations, the Sr–Nd isotope data of the more radiogenic samples can successfully be modeled by addition of up to 10% lower crustal granulite-facies Archean gneisses as contaminants. The Os isotopic data also suggest the involvement of old radiogenic crust. In accordance with seismic data, we conclude that a wedge of Archean crust extends from West Greenland further to the south below the present erosion level. 相似文献