A Preliminary Study on the Rocks of the Kaolan Complex,Kaolan,Kansu

正 As early as 1878,while carrying on his geological work in Kansu,Ludwigvon Loczy [12] visited the region under study and for the first time notedthe existence of a moderately metamorphosed rock series of mica-schist andamphibolite-schist with granite and pegmatite intrusions.The district was     

On a Layer of Grossularite,Epidote and Calcite,Occurring at Kumush,Hoso,Sinkiang

正 In March,1944,while carrying on the geological reconnaissance in theHoso~1-Tokson~2 area,the writers had an opportunity of spending a fewdays in the vicinity of a small village named Kumush~3 (Fig.1) to study amoderately metamorphosed rock series.This region is characterized by     

我国境内瑞利波的相速度

本文利用新不列颠岛两个地震在十二个基本台站所记录到的瑞利波,计算了我国不同地区的相速度.着重讨论鉴别和对比不同台站记录中同一震相的方法.在大部分台站的记录中,见到有周期约为35秒的相位,和后面的位相比较,它的周期较大,振幅较小.波形的对比对初步鉴别震相有很大的帮助.详细的震相对比是根据周期随距离变化的规律和各震相到时的规律.两个地震所得的相速度很符合.计算的结果表明:利用三台计算相速度时,如果射线的路程差别较大,海洋路程的校正是不能忽略的.因为有关我国地壳构造的资料还很少,我们所得的瑞利波相速度只能与普瑞司修正后非洲大陆的相速度理论相比较,由此得到我国不同地区的地壳厚度.这样所得的厚度,虽然不能视为最后的结果,但是它们仍然表现与主要地质单元之间有密切的联系.     

The Udo tuff cone, Cheju Island, South Korea: transformation of pyroclastic fall into debris fall and grain flow on a steep volcanic cone slope

The Udo tuff cone of Cheju Island, South Korea, is a middle Pleistocene basalt tuff cone that has formed by early Surtseyan-type eruptions and later drier hydroclastic eruptions. The tuff cone comprises steep (20–30°) and planar beds of lapillistone, lapilli tuff and tuff that can be grouped into seven sedimentary facies (A-G). Facies A and B comprise continuous to lenticular layers of grain-supported and openwork lapillistone that are inversely graded and coarsen downslope. They suggest emplacement by grain flows that are maintained by gravity-induced stress and grain collisions. Facies C includes poorly sorted, crudely bedded and locally inversely graded lapilli tuff, also suggestive of rapid deposition from highly concentrated grain flows. Facies D includes thinly stratified and mantle-bedded tuff that was probably deposited by fallout of wind-borne ash. Other facies include massive lapilli tuff (Facies E), chaotic lapilli tuff (Facies F) and cross-bedded tuffaceous sandstone (Facies G) that were deposited by resedimentation processes such as debris flow, slide/slump and stream flow, respectively. The grain flows that produced Facies A, B and C are interpreted to have originated from falling pyroclasts, which initially generated highly dispersed, saltating avalanches, in which momentum was transferred by the particles themselves. This transport mechanism is similar to that of debris fall. As the slope gradient was too low to maintain a highly dispersed flow, the debris fall decelerated and contracted due to a decrease in dispersive pressure. The mode of momentum transfer changed to one of collision because contraction of the debris fall resulted in an increase in particle concentration. This transport mechanism is similar to that of common grain flows. Grain segregation occurred in several ways. Initial segregation of ash from lapilli occurred due to their differing terminal fall velocities, and their contrasting degrees of sliding friction with the bed. Percolation of ash into interstices of lapilli during flow (kinematic sieving) augmented further segregation of ash from lapilli. The latter process, along with a dispersive pressure effect, gave rise to vertical inverse size grading. Downdip inverse grading was produced by particle overpassing.     

On the Rocks and Metamorphism of Peyinchang Volcanic Series, Kaolan, Kansu

I. INTRODUCTIONIn July, 1946, while investigating the pyrite deposit ot Peyinchang, Kaolan,. Kansu [7], the writer noticed that the country rocks of the deposit, formerly recognized as a series of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks consisting mainly of phyllite, quartzite and schist by Mr. P. Chen [2], and Messrs. N. L. Liu, W. Y. Liang and T. C. Liu [4] who visited there in the years of 1940 and 1944 respectively, are far different in rock character as compared with the doubtless metamorphosed sedimentogenous rocks over-     

Petrogenesis of anhydrous clinopyroxenite xenoliths and clinopyroxene megacrysts in alkali basalts from the Ganseong area of South Korea

Late Cenozoic alkali basalts in the Ganseong area of South Korea contain abundant ultramafic xenoliths and clinopyroxene megacrysts. Anhydrous clinopyroxene‐rich wehrlite–clinopyroxenites make up the majority of the xenolith population and range from wehrlite through olivine clinopyroxenite to clinopyroxenite. This study investigates the petrogenesis of wehrlite–clinopyroxenite xenoliths and clinopyroxene megacrysts on the basis of petrography and mineral and whole‐rock chemistry. Observations such as an absence of carbonate or apatite, high Ti/Eu ratio, and clinopyroxene‐dominated mineralogy lead us to rule out peridotite–melt reactions as the origin of the Ganseong wehrlites– olivine clinopyroxenites. The whole‐rock compositions (e.g. high abundance of CaO at a given MgO content and low abundance of incompatible elements, such as U, K, P, and Ti compared with mafic melts) indicate that the pyroxenites do not represent crystallized magma itself, but are rather cumulates with a small amount of residual liquid. Anhydrous and orthopyroxene‐free mineral assemblages, crystallization sequence of olivine→clinopyroxene→plagioclase, and mineral chemistries (e.g. low Cr# and high TiO₂ abundances in spinels and high TiO₂ and Na₂O abundances in clinopyroxenes at a given Mg#) suggest that relatively anhydrous intraplate alkaline basalt is the most likely candidate for the parent magma. Texture and compositions of the clinopyroxene megacrysts preclude a cognate origin via high‐pressure crystallization of the host magma. The clinopyroxene megacrysts occupy the Fe‐rich end of the compositional trends defined by wehrlite–pyroxenite clinopyroxenes. Progressive decreases in Mg# and an absence of significant compositional gaps between pyroxenite xenoliths and clinopyroxene megacrysts indicate fractionation and differentiation of a similar parental magma. We suggest that the clinopyroxene megacrysts represent fragments of pegmatitic clinopyroxenites crystallized from more advanced fractionation stages of the evolution of a series of magmatic liquids formed Ganseong wehrlite–clinopyroxenites.