南京灵岩山中新世风尘沉积的粒度证据与环境意义

根据野外实地调查和室内粒度分析结果,认为在南京灵岩山剖面玄武岩下伏的松散沉积层上部有厚度超过4 m的风尘沉积,时代在12 Ma以前;粒度资料显示灵岩山玄武岩下伏的黄土状沉积物粒度多为粉砂、黏土,粗颗粒含量很少,63μm以下组分占85%~96%,剖面黄土直立性强,没有层理,质地均匀,为迄今中国东部发现的新生代最老的风尘沉积物。     

Stratiform and stratabound tungsten mineralisation in the Broken Hill Block,N.S.W.

The Early‐Middle Proterozoic Broken Hill Block contains three types of W occurrences, which show close stratigraphic control. All three types occur within a relatively narrow stratigraphic interval (the ‘Mine Sequence’ Suite of Stevens et al., 1980) comprising a highly variable group of metamorphosed silicic and mafic volcanics, clastic sediments, and exhalative and chemical sediments containing base metals. The first type includes occurrences of W and base metals in bedded calc‐silicate rocks. In the second type, W occurs in layered to non‐layered calcsilicate rocks associated with amphibolite; these are intimately associated in a narrow stratigraphic interval containing abundant, small, Broken Hill type deposits. The third type comprises stratabound, W‐bearing pegmatites, which have been remobilised from quartz‐feldspar‐biotite gneiss and bedded quartz‐tourmaline rocks. Tungsten has been mined only from the third type and only in small quantities. The three types of tungsten deposits show a close spatial relationship with stratiform and stratabound Pb‐Zn mineralisation, including the Broken Hill type. The Pb‐Zn and W deposits are inferred to be genetically related.     

The seismicity of the Gunning and surrounding areas, 1958–1961

Between October 1958 and August 1961, 98 tremors were located within 100 km. of Yass, New South Wales, of which 52 were in the vicinity of Gunning. Many of the epicentres appear to be closely associated with granite boundaries and with known faults in the area. The Gunning epicentres form two arms of a wedge, and activity oscillates between these arms. Temporary cessation of activity at Gunning is often accompanied by an increase in the frequency of events in the surrounding areas, which suggests that the wedge acts as a “safety valve” for the region.

Only one tremor was observed in the vicinity of Lake George. Fault plane analysis of the tremor gave a solution consistent with movement on a meridional high angle fault. It is inferred that recent movement on the Lake George Fault has been largely eliminated by the formation of the Gunning wedge.     

A structural metamorphic study of the Broken Hill Block, NSW, Australia

The prograde pressure–temperature (P–T) path for the complexly polydeformed Proterozoic Broken Hill Block (Australia) has been reconstructed through detailed structural analysis in conjunction with calculation of compositionally specific P–T pseudosections of pelitic rock units within a high‐temperature shear zone that formed early in the tectonic evolution of the terrane. Whilst the overall P–T path for the Broken Hill Block has been interpreted to be anticlockwise, the prograde portion of this path has been unresolved. Our results have constrained part of this prograde path, showing an early heating event (M1) at P–T conditions of at least c. 600 °C and c. 2.8–4.2 kbar, associated with an elevated geothermal gradient (c. 41–61 °C km^?1). This event is interpreted to be the result of rifting at c. 1.69–1.67 Ga, or at c. 1.64–1.61 in the Broken Hill Block. Early rifting was followed by an episode of lithospheric thermal relaxation and burial, during which time sag‐phase sediments of the upper Broken Hill stratigraphy (Paragon Group) were deposited. Following sedimentation, a second tectonothermal event (M2/D2) occurred. This event is associated with peak low‐pressure granulite facies metamorphism (c. 1.6 Ga) and attained conditions of at least 740 °C at c. 5 kbar. A regionally pervasive, high‐temperature fabric (S2) developed during the M2/D2 event, and deformation was accommodated along lithology‐parallel, high‐temperature shear zones. The larger‐scale deformation regime (extensional or shortening) of this event remains unresolved. The M2/D2 event was terminated by intense crustal shortening during the Olarian Orogeny, during which time the first mappable folds within the Broken Hill Block developed.     

Sundman surfaces and Hill stability in the three-body problem

Using the famous Sundman inequality, we have constructed for the first time the surfaces for the general three-body problem that we suggest calling Sundman surfaces. These surfaces are a generalization of the widely known Hill surfaces in the restricted circular three-body problem. The Sundman surfaces are constructed in a rectangular coordinate system that uses the mutual distances between the bodies as the Cartesian rectangular coordinates. The singular points of the family of these surfaces have been determined. The possible and impossible regions of motion of the bodies have been constructed in the space of mutual distances. We have shown the existence of Hill stable motions and established sufficient criteria for Hill stability of motions. Some of the astronomical applications are considered.     

黑龙江258高地金矿区侵入岩锆石U-Pb年代学及地球化学特征

258高地金矿床地处黑龙江省完达山成矿带东部,矿化与岩浆侵入活动密切相关。文章利用锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年方法,对258高地金矿区的二长花岗岩、花岗闪长岩及闪长玢岩进行了年代学研究,获得258金矿区花岗闪长岩的成岩年龄为(118.3±1.1)Ma;3件二长花岗岩样品的成岩年龄分别为(130.5±0.8)Ma、(122.1±0.7)Ma、(118.0±0.9)Ma;2件闪长玢岩的成岩年龄分别为(119.5±1.3)Ma、(107.4±2.2)Ma,表明本区中酸性岩体侵位时代介于131~107 Ma,与西太平洋构造域的早白垩世演化有关。定年结果同时表明矿区存在3期岩浆活动,其中122~118 Ma的二长花岗岩与花岗闪长岩、闪长玢岩的年龄在误差范围内一致,且与金矿成矿关系密切。岩石地球化学显示区内的中酸性侵入岩均为高钾钙碱性过铝质岩石,花岗闪长岩和二长花岗岩具有重熔型岩浆岩的特征,可能是加厚地壳物质部分熔融的产物;闪长玢岩脉具有典型壳幔源岛弧岩浆岩的特点。综合研究认为258高地金矿床形成于与板块俯冲有关的活动大陆边缘环境。     

SEDEX型矿床中电气石岩的地质特征及找矿意义

电气石岩是一种富硼的硅质喷气岩,主要产于以沉积岩为容矿岩石的喷气矿床中及附近。研究广泛认为其与喷流-沉积型块状硫化物矿床(SEDEX矿床)有着密切的关系,并被视为该类矿床找矿勘探的标志岩性之一。综述了电气石岩的产出环境、形态、岩石学、地球化学等地质特征,分析了电气石岩的沉积环境及成因。以澳大利亚布罗肯希尔地区电气石岩与矿化的关系为例,对其地质找矿意义进行了总结与展望。     

Origin of megacrystic felsic gneisses at Broken Hill

Three sheet‐like bodies of felsic gneiss containing abundant K‐feldspar megacrysts (megacrystic felsic gneiss, augen gneiss or granite gneiss) surrounding the Broken Hill Line of Lode in western New South Wales, Australia, are inferred to be pre‐ to syn‐D₁ granitoids. We interpret the Feral gneiss to be a pre‐ to early syn‐D₁ intrusion, as it contains S₁ as its earliest foliation. However, it has no magmatic flow foliation. The Alma Gneiss, and the megacrystic portions of the Rasp Ridge Gneiss, northwest of the Line of Lode, both contain S₁ parallel to a magmatic flow foliation, and are interpreted as having been magmatic during D₁. Therefore, the Alma and Rasp Ridge Gneisses may have been intruded during D₁, probably just after the Feral gneiss, as the Alma Gneiss intrudes the Feral gneiss. S₁ in the augen gneisses and the wall rocks is defined by biotite, sillimanite, garnet and ribbon quartz, and indicates that high‐grade metamorphic conditions accompanied D₁. Evidence suggesting that these rocks were originally granitoids includes: (i) the Alma Gneiss transecting and intricately intruding the Feral gneiss, the contacts being transected by S₁; (ii) euhedral to subhedral K‐feldspar porphyroclasts (former phenocrysts), especially those with concentrically arranged inclusions; (iii) microgranitoid enclaves, particularly where megacrystic and relatively large; (iv) aplite dykes (most common in plutonic rocks and therefore reliable indicators); (v) metasedimentary xenoliths; (vi) magmatic flow foliations overprinted by parallel tectonic foliations; and (vii) chemical affinities with undoubted Australian Proterozoic granitoids. Therefore, felsic gneisses at Broken Hill should not be used for stratigraphic correlation, unless they can be definitely determined to be of volcanic flow or tuffaceous origin. The inferred intrusion of granitoids early in the tectonic history of the Broken Hill Block suggests that they may have contributed to the metamorphic and/or hydrothermal heat, and may have helped concentrate metals to form orebodies.     

Correlation between the Wonominta and the Broken Hill Blocks in western New South Wales: Evidence from Nd isotope studies of metasediments

Nd isotope studies of the oldest metasedimentary rocks from the Wonominta Block, western New South Wales reveal that these samples have a model age (T_DM) of 1780–2010 Ma, slightly younger than that of low‐grade Willyama Supergroup metasediments (1920–2160 Ma), and significantly younger than those ages previously reported from high‐grade rocks of the Broken Hill Block (2200–2300 Ma). These differences have important implications for tectonic reconstruction in this region and support a model of transitional tectonics from the Broken Hill to Wonominta Blocks, as suggested by earlier geochemical studies of mafic rocks. Those studies revealed that the mafic rocks from the basal sequence of the Wonominta Block may have formed in a back‐arc basin, developed from a propagating rifting, an environment contiguous to that in which Willyama Supergroup was deposited. These results also carry significant implications for tectonic reconstruction of eastern Australia.     

Large-eddy Simulations of Flow Over Forested Ridges

Large-eddy simulations (LES) of flow over a series of small forested ridges are performed, and compared with numerical simulations using a one-and-a-half order mixing length closure scheme. The qualitative and quantitative similarity between these results provides some confidence in the results of recent analytical and numerical studies of flow over forested hills using first-order mixing length schemes. Time series of model velocities at various locations within the canopy allow the application of various experimental techniques to study the turbulence in the LES. The application of conditional analysis shows that the structure of the turbulence over a forested hill is broadly similar to that over flat ground, with sweeps and ejections dominating. Differences are seen across the hill, particularly associated with regions of mean flow separation and recirculation near the summit and in the lee of the hill. Detailed comparison of derived mixing lengths from the LES with the assumed values used in mixing-length closure schemes show that the mixing length varies with location across the hill and with height in the canopy. This is consistent with previous wind-tunnel measurements, and demonstrates that a constant mixing-length assumption is not strictly valid within the canopy. Despite this, the first-order mixing-length schemes do give similar results both for the mean flow and the turbulence in such situations.