Eclogites from the Chinese continental scientific drilling borehole, their petrology and different P-T evolutions

Abstract Four phengite‐bearing eclogites, taken from different depths of the Chinese continental scientific drilling (CCSD) borehole in the Sulu ultrahigh pressure terrane, eastern China, were studied with the electron microprobe. The compositional zonations of garnet and omphacite are moderate, whereas phengite compositions generally vary significantly in a single sample from core to rim by decrease of the Si content. Various geothermobarometric methods were applied to constrain the P‐T conditions of these eclogites on the basis of the compositional variability of the above minerals. The constrained P‐T path for sample B218 is characterized by pressure decrease from ca 3.0 GPa (ca 600°C) to 1.3 GPa (ca 550°C). Eclogite B310 yielded P‐T conditions of 3.0 GPa and 750°C. The path for eclogite B1008 starts at about 650°C and 3.6–3.9 GPa (stage I) followed by a pressure decrease to 2.8–3.0 GPa and a significant temperature rise (stages II and IIIa, 750–810°C). Afterwards, this rock cooled down to 620–660°C at still high pressures (2.5–2.7 GPa, stage IIIb). Retrograde conditions were about 670°C and 1.3 GPa (stage IV). Eclogite B1039 yielded a P‐T path starting at ca 600°C and 3.3–3.9 GPa (stage I). A pressure decrease to about 3.0 GPa (stage II, 590–610°C) and then a moderate isobaric temperature increase to ca 630°C (stage III) followed. Stage IV is characterized by temperatures of 650°C at pressures close to 1.3 GPa. During and after this stage (hydrous) fluids partially rich in potassium penetrated the rocks causing minor changes. Relatively high oxygen fugacities led to andradite and magnetite among the newly formed minerals. We think that the above findings can be best explained by mass flow in a subduction channel. Thus, we conclude that the assembly of UHP rocks of the CCSD site, eclogites, quartzofeldspathic rocks, and peridotites, cannot represent a crustal section that was already coherent at UHP conditions as it is the common belief currently. The coherency was attained after significant exhumation of these UHP rocks.     

矿物微粉制备的硅酸铝质高强陶瓷

介绍了一种以蓝晶石微粉和αAl2 O3 微粉为主要原料 ,一步煅烧法制备硅酸铝质高强陶瓷的工艺方法 ,并对制品的烧结性能、显微结构进行了分析。 (1)由该方法制得的硅酸铝质陶瓷 ,体积密度为 2 0 9～ 2 12 g/cm3 ,气孔率为 2 5 58%～ 2 8 54% ,常温耐压强度高达 180 87～ 315 30MPa ,在烧结过程中体积收缩率为 0 4 9%～ 2 73%。与传统烧结方法生产的同类产品相比 ,工艺流程简化 ,烧结温度降低 2 0 0～ 2 50℃以上 ,材料的耐压强度仍得到较大幅度的提高 ,是一种值得向生产领域推广应用的方法。 (2 )制品强度的提高 ,主要得益于纤维状莫来石的交错排列。 (3)陶瓷的烧结温度以 1350℃为宜。     

X射线衍射全谱拟合法分析蓝晶石的矿物含量

蓝晶石矿物定量分析通常采用的化学物相法分析流程繁琐,易受同质异象矿物和难熔矿物的干扰;采用X射线衍射内标法需要提纯矿物绘制标准曲线,但矿物包体的存在使得获取纯净单矿物成为难题;由于不同矿区蓝晶石矿物成分之间存在着差异性,以上两种方法都仅仅适用于同一矿区样品的矿物定量分析。为简化分析流程,提高测试效率,本文采用X射线衍射(XRD)全谱拟合法对蓝晶石国家二级标准物质和野外样品进行分析,并与RIR法、绝热法和K值法等衍射定量方法及化学分析结果进行了比较验证方法的可靠性。结果表明:全谱拟合法无需采用标准物质,也不用引入内标物,一次扫谱分析能获得样品中所有成分的信息,操作简单,能有效降低择优取向对衍射定量结果的影响;对于含量大于5%的矿物,组分分析结果的绝对误差小于1%,显著低于绝对误差允许限;采用Highscore和Jade两种衍射数据处理软件获得的定量结果吻合度高,目标矿物蓝晶石分析结果的双差均小于0.8%,相对偏差小于2.5%;蓝晶石的加标回收率在95.3%～101.0%之间,能实现不同矿区蓝晶石矿的快速定量分析。     

Very high-pressure (>4 GPa) eclogite associated with the Moldanubian Zone garnet peridotite (Nové Dvory, Czech Republic)

Equilibrium pressure–temperature (P–T) conditions were estimated for kyanite‐bearing eclogite from Nové Dvory, Czech Republic, by using garnet–clinopyroxene thermometry and garnet–clinopyroxene–kyanite–coesite (or quartz) barometry. The estimated P–T conditions are 1050–1150 °C, 4.5–4.9 GPa, which are mostly the same as previously estimated values for garnet peridotite from Nové Dvory (～1100–1250 °C, 5–6 GPa). Such very high‐P conditions, which correspond to about 150‐km depth, have been obtained for some garnet peridotites in the Gföhl Unit of the Bohemian Massif, but pressure conditions of eclogites associated with the garnet peridotites have not been so well constrained. This is the first substantial finding of eclogite that gives such very high‐P conditions in the Gföhl Unit of the Bohemian Massif. The Gföhl Unit mainly consists of felsic granulite or migmatitic gneiss, but these rock types do not display high‐P (>2.5 GPa) evidence. It is unclear whether both the peridotite body and surrounding felsic rocks in the Gföhl Unit were buried to very deep levels, but at least some garnet peridotites and associated eclogites in the Gföhl Unit have ascended from about 150‐km depth.     

Formation of eclogite, and reaction during exhumation to mid-crustal levels, Snowbird tectonic zone, western Canadian Shield

A re‐evaluation of the P–T history of eclogite within the East Athabasca granulite terrane of the Snowbird tectonic zone, northern Saskatchewan, Canada was undertaken. Using calculated pseudosections in combination with new garnet–clinopyroxene and zircon and rutile trace element thermometry, peak metamorphic conditions are constrained to ～16 kbar and 750 °C, followed by near‐isothermal decompression to ～10 kbar. Associated with the eclogite are two types of occurrences of sapphirine‐bearing rocks preserving a rich variety of reaction textures that allow examination of the retrograde history below 10 kbar. The first occurs as a 1–2 m zone adjacent to the eclogite body with a peak assemblage of garnet–kyanite–quartz interpreted to have formed during the eclogite facies metamorphism. Rims of orthopyroxene and plagioclase developed around garnet, and sapphirine–plagioclase and spinel–plagioclase symplectites developed around kyanite. The second variety of sapphirine‐bearing rocks occurs in kyanite veins within the eclogite. The veins involve orthopyroxene, garnet and plagioclase layers spatially organized around a central kyanite layer that are interpreted to have formed following the eclogite facies metamorphism. The layering has itself been modified, with, in particular, kyanite being replaced by sapphirine–plagioclase, spinel–plagioclase and corundum–plagioclase symplectites, as well as the kyanite being replaced by sillimanite. Petrological modelling in the CFMAS system examining chemical potential gradients between kyanite and surrounding quartz indicates that these vein textures probably formed during further essentially isothermal decompression, ultimately reaching ～7 kbar and 750 °C. These results indicate that the final reaction in these rocks occurred at mid‐crustal levels at upper amphibolite facies conditions. Previous geochronological and thermochronological constraints bracket the time interval of decompression to <5–10 Myr, indicating that ～25 km of exhumation took place during this interval. This corresponds to minimum unroofing rates of ～2–5 mm year^?1 following eclogite facies metamorphism, after which the rocks resided at mid‐crustal levels for 80–100 Myr.     

Chromium and manganese zoning in pelitic garnet and kyanite: Spiral,overprint, and oscillatory (?) zoning patterns and the role of growth rate

X‐ray composition maps and quantitative analyses for Mn, Ca and Cr have been made for six pelitic and calc‐pelitic garnet crystals and Al, Fe and Cr analyses maps have been made for two kyanite crystals, from lower and mid/upper amphibolite facies rocks from the Grenville Province of western Labrador, using an electron microprobe analyser and a laser ablation ICP‐MS. Garnet with spiral (‘snowball’) internal fabrics (S_i) has spiral zoning in major elements, implying that growth was concentrated in discrete regions of the crystal at any one time (spiral zoning). Cr zoning is parallel to S_i in low amphibolite facies garnet with both straight and spiral internal fabrics, indicating that the garnet overprinted a fabric defined by Cr‐rich (mica±chlorite±epidote) and Cr‐poor (quartz±plagioclase) layers during growth (overprint zoning) and that Cr was effectively immobile. In contrast, in mid/upper amphibolite facies garnet porphyroblasts lacking S_i, Cr zoning is concentric, implying that Cr diffusion occurred. Cr zoning in kyanite porphyroblasts appears superficially similar to oscillatory zoning, with up to three or four annuli of Cr enrichment and/or depletion present in a single grain. However, the variable width, continuity, Cr concentration and local bifurcation of individual annuli suggest that an origin by overprint zoning may be more likely. The results of this study explain previously observed nonsystematic Cr zoning in garnet and irregular partitioning of Cr between coexisting metamorphic mineral pairs. In addition, this study points to the important role of crystal growth rate in determining the presence or absence of inclusions and the type of zoning exhibited by both major and trace elements. During fast growth, inclusions are preferentially incorporated into the growing porphyroblast and slow diffusing elements such as Cr are effectively immobile, whereas during slow growth, inclusions are not generally included in the porphyroblast and Cr zoning is concentric.     

Models for the tectonothermal evolution of the eastern Dalradian of Scotland

Abstract The preserved array of pressures in the eastern Dalradian indicates that considerable syn- to post-metamorphic differential uplift has occurred. This inferred differential uplift suggests that Buchan sillimanite zone rocks originally lay at higher structural levels than presently adjacent cooler kyanite zone rocks to the west. A number of features are believed to coincide with the western margin of the sillimanite zone. These are a maximum in temperature, sharp thermal features, a high strain zone, and a train of metabasites. These features are explained by invoking syn-metamorphic movement between the Buchan sillimanite zone and the kyanite zone to its west, involving some horizontal component of movement. It is suggested that the lateral, now eroded, equivalents of the Buchan area once provided part of the required tectonic thickening for other parts of the Dalradian. Areas surrounding the Buchan area suffered tectonic burial followed by metamorphism during uplift relative to the Buchan area.     

山东荣成高钙石榴辉石岩的地球化学特征及其成因

在苏鲁超高压变质带荣成蓝晶石榴辉岩中, 发现一具有特殊结构和地球化学特征的石榴辉石岩.该石榴辉石岩以包裹体的形式赋存于强烈退变的蓝晶石榴辉岩中.岩相学观测表明该岩石的主要结构为石榴石呈薄带、项链状相互连接的网状结构, 分割由辉石和石榴石、钛铁氧化物等出溶片晶组成的区域.全岩地球化学分析表明, 和邻近的蓝晶石榴辉岩相比, 该岩石具有(1) 相对低的SiO₂ (42.5%~43.1%), 异常高的CaO (21.4%~21.9%)和CaO/Al₂O₃比值(1.46~1.64); (2) 较高的TiO₂ (1.77%~1.89%)、V (359~419μg/g)、Nb (~8μg/g)、Y (17.7~23.1μg/g)和Zr (~150μg/g); (3) LREE富集和微弱的Eu负异常; (4) 较低的Cr、Ni和Co.上述地球化学特征表明荣成辉石岩的原岩形成于经过橄榄石分离结晶作用的超基性岩浆或经历了Na和K亏损过程的高钙基性岩浆.这2种过程都要求较高的温压条件, 压力 > 15×105kPa, 温度 > 1300 ℃, 这和荣成辉石岩的原岩的初始稳定条件的温压估算相一致.该研究结果表明在苏鲁超高压变质带中, 一些超高压变质岩的母岩形成于高温部分熔融或岩浆演化作用, 明显不同于大多数榴辉岩或片麻岩的原岩形成环境.      

隐山蓝晶石矿床地质特征及成因探讨

河南省南阳市宛城区隐山蓝晶石矿床是目前国内已发现的蓝晶石矿床中规模最大、矿石品位最高的矿床。该矿床由9个矿体组成。矿区的地层、构造、岩浆岩与矿床成因关系密切。总结认识其矿床特征和探讨其矿床成因,对于寻找隐伏矿体和矿区外围找矿,进而延长矿山寿命具有重要意义。     

Using calculated chemical potential relationships to account for coronas around kyanite: an example from the Bohemian Massif

Corona textures around kyanite, involving for example zoned plagioclase separating kyanite from the matrix, reflect the instability of kyanite with the matrix on changing P–T conditions, commonly related to decompression. The chemical potential gradients set up between the kyanite and the matrix as a consequence of slow Al diffusion drive corona development, with the zoning of the plagioclase reflecting the gradients. Calculated mineral equilibria are used to account for corona textures involving plagioclase ± garnet around kyanite, and replacement of kyanite by plagioclase + spinel symplectite, in quartz + plagioclase + K‐feldspar + garnet + kyanite granulite facies gneiss from the Blanský les massif in the Bohemian massif, Czech Republic. In the garnet‐bearing coronas, a commonly discontinuous garnet layer lies between the kyanite and the continuous plagioclase layer in the corona, with both the garnet and the plagioclase appearing mainly to replace matrix rather than kyanite. The garnet layer commonly extends around kyanite from original matrix garnet adjacent to the kyanite. Where garnet is missing in the corona, the kyanite itself may be replaced by a spinel–plagioclase corona. In a local equilibrium model, the mineral and mineral compositional spatial relationships are shown to correspond to paths in μ(Na₂O)–μ(CaO)–μ(K₂O)–μ(FeO)–μ(MgO)–μ(SiO₂) in the model chemical system, Na₂O–CaO–K₂O–FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂ (NCKFMAS). The discontinuous nature of the garnet layer in coronas is accounted for by the effect of the adjacent original garnet on the chemical potential relationships. The replacement of kyanite by spinel + plagioclase appears to be metastable with respect to replacement by corundum + plagioclase, possibly reflecting the difficulty of nucleating corundum.