西昆仑康西瓦北部冬巴克片麻状英云闪长岩锆石SHRIMP U—Pb测年

西昆仑冬巴克寒武纪片麻状英云闪长岩是1:25万康西瓦幅、岔路口幅等4幅区域地质调查项目,首次从原划古元古界埃连卡特岩群中解体出来的一套侵入岩。重点对该套侵入岩的岩石学和同位素年代学进行了研究,获得了高精度锆石SHRIMP U- Pb同位素年龄502Ma±9Ma,其形成时代为中寒武世。该同位素资料的获得,为进一步深入详细地研究塔里木陆块与西昆仑造山带的地质构造演化提供了新的实际资料。     

Chemical and physical weathering in a hot‐arid,tectonically active alluvial system of Anza Borrego Desert,California

Investigation of chemical and physical weathering of bedrock and alluvial sediment in the Anza Borrego Desert, California, sheds light on weathering processes in hot‐arid systems and clarifies interpretations of climate from alluvial sediment. All of the alluvial sediment in the study area emanates from Cretaceous tonalite of the Peninsular Range, enabling exploration of the effects of external variables – climate, transport distance and tectonics – on the physical and chemical properties of the sediment. Chemical weathering in this area is dominated by plagioclase alteration observed in both bedrock outcrops and sediment, evinced most clearly by changes in the Eu anomaly. Biotite chemical weathering, manifested by interlayer K⁺ loss, is not evident in bedrock, but clearly observed in the sediment. Despite the weak intensity of chemical weathering (Chemical Index of Alteration = 56 to 62), fine‐grained (<63 μm) sediment displays a clear weathering trend in A–CN–K space and contains up to 25% clay minerals. Physical abrasion and grain‐size reduction in biotite during transport predominates in the sediment, whereas physical (insolation) weathering affecting bedrock is inferred from estimates of differential thermal expansion of mineral phases in response to extreme temperature changes in the study area. Chemical alteration and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area both increase within the active Elsinore fault zone at the distal end of the depositional transect, reflecting tectonic‐induced fracturing and associated accelerated weathering. Extensive fracturing, together with a more humid Pleistocene climate, probably facilitated in situ bedrock weathering, preceding arid alluvial deposition in the Holocene. This study demonstrates that both climate and tectonic processes can affect chemical and physical weathering, resulting in alteration of plagioclase, leaching of K⁺ from biotite in the sediment and formation of clay minerals, even in hot, arid systems.     

Modern-style Subduction Processes in the Archean: Evidence from the Shangyi Complex in North China Craton

Abstract: Three fragments of the Archean oceanic crust have been found between the Archean granulite belt and the Paleo-Proterozoic Hongqiyingzi group in North China craton, which spread along the Shangyi-Chicheng ancient fault. This paper presents integrated field, petrology, geochemistry and geochronology evidence of the ancient oceanic fragments. The magma crystallizing age of the tonalite in the Shangyi complex is 2512±19?Ma and the geochemical characteristics suggest that the Nb-enriched basalts may be related to crustal contamination and formed in the intra-oceanic arc of the supra subduction zone setting.     

Metamorphism and deformation of mafic and felsic rocks in a magma transfer zone,Stewart Island,New Zealand

In the mingled mafic/felsic Halfmoon Pluton at The Neck, Stewart Island (part of the Median Batholith of New Zealand) some hornblende gabbros and diorites retain magmatic structures, whereas others show evidence of major changes in grain and inclusion shapes, and still others are amphibolite‐facies granofelses with few or no igneous relicts. These mafic to intermediate magmas crystallized in felsic magma relatively quickly, with the result that most deformation occurred at subsolidus conditions. It is suggested that mafic‐intermediate rocks with predominantly igneous microstructures spent less time in the magmatic system. The metamorphism of the mafic rocks appears to be ‘autometamorphic’, in the sense that elevated temperatures were maintained by magmatic heat during subsolidus cooling. Elevated temperatures were maintained because of repeated sheet injection and subconcordant dyke injection of hot basaltic and composite mafic‐felsic magmas, into a dominantly transtensional, km‐scale, outboard‐migrating, magmatic shear zone that operated semi‐continuously for between c. 140 and c. 130 Ma. Complete cooling occurred only when the system evolved to transpressional and the locus of magmatism migrated inboard (southward) between c. 130 and c. 120 Ma, associated with solid‐state mylonitic deformation. Intermingled granitic rocks escaped metamorphism, because they remained magmatic to lower temperatures, and experienced shorter and lower‐temperature subsolidus cooling intervals. However, the felsic rocks underwent relatively high‐temperature solid‐state deformation, as indicated by myrmekite replacing K‐feldspar and chess‐board subgrain patterns in quartz; locally they developed felsic mylonites. The felsic rocks were deformed in the solid state because of their high proportion of relatively weak minerals (quartz and biotite), whereas the mafic rocks mostly escaped subsolidus deformation, except in local high‐strain zones of hornblende‐plagioclase schist, because of their high proportion of relatively strong minerals (hornblende and plagioclase). We suggest that such contrasting microstructural features are diagnostic of long‐lived syntectonic magma transfer zones, and contrast with the more typical complex, batholith‐scale magma chambers of magmatic arcs.     

阿尼玛卿蛇绿岩带花岗—英云闪长岩锆石U—Pb同位素定年及大地构造意义

对阿尼玛卿蛇绿岩带布青山段花岗—英云闪长岩进行的锆石U—Pb同位素定年及岩石化学研究表明,该岩体锆石U—Pb年龄为402±24Ma,归属加里东末期,并非二叠-三叠纪同造山岩浆活动的产物;岩石属钙碱系列,具岛弧花岗岩特征,暗示着本区在早古生代发生过洋壳俯冲及岛弧岩浆活动事件,并为本区早古生代蛇绿岩的存在提供了佐证。     

西昆仑康西瓦北侧早古生代角闪闪长岩、英云闪长岩的地质特征及其锆石SHRIMP U-pb测试

西昆仑康西瓦北侧蒙古包-普守一带的早古生代俯冲-碰撞型角闪闪长岩、英云闪长岩和黑云二长花岗岩,是开展125万康西瓦幅等4幅区域地质调查项目时发现的.重点对蒙古包早古生代俯冲型角闪闪长岩、英云闪长岩的岩石学、岩石地球化学特征及锆石同位素年代学进行了综合研究,获得了锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄440.5Ma±4.6Ma,其形成时代为晚奥陶世.该成果为进一步深入研究西昆仑造山带的地质构造演化提供了新的实际资料.     

Chemical Composition of Rock-Forming Minerals in Copper–Gold-Bearing Tonalite Porphyries at the Batu Hijau Deposit, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia: Implications for Crystallization Conditions and Fluorine–Chlorine Fugacity

Copper–gold mineralization at the world‐class Batu Hijau porphyry deposit, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, is closely related to the emplacement of multiple stages of tonalite porphyries. Petrographic examination indicates that at least two texturally distinct types of tonalite porphyries are currently recognized in the deposit, which are designated as “intermediate tonalite” and “young tonalite”. They are mineralogically identical, consisting of phenocrysts of plagioclase, hornblende, quartz, biotite and magnetite ± ilmenite, which are set in a medium‐coarse grained groundmass of plagioclase and quartz. The chemical composition of the rock‐forming minerals, including plagioclase, hornblende, biotite, magnetite and ilmenite in the tonalite porphyries was systematically analyzed by electron microprobe. The chemical data of these minerals were used to constrain the crystallization conditions and fluorine–chlorine fugacity of the corresponding tonalitic magma during its emplacement and crystallization. The crystallization conditions, including temperature (T), pressure (P) and oxygen fugacity (fO₂), were calculated by applying the hornblende–plagioclase and magnetite–ilmenite thermometers and the Al‐in‐hornblende barometer. The thermobarometric data indicate that the tonalite porphyries were emplaced at 764 ± 22°C and 1.5 ± 0.3 × 10⁵ kPa. If the pressure is assumed to be lithostatic, it is interpreted that the rim of hornblende and plagioclase phenocrysts crystallized at depths of approximately 5.5 km. As estimated from magnetite–ilmenite thermometry, the subsolidus conditions of the tonalite intrusion occurred at temperatures of 540–590°C and log fO₂ ranging from ?20 to ?15 (between Ni‐NiO and hematite–magnetite buffers). This occurred at relatively high fO₂ (oxidizing) condition. The fluorine–chlorine fugacity in the magma during crystallization was determined on the basis of the chemical composition of magmatic biotite. The calculation indicates that the fluorine–chlorine fugacity, represented by log (fH₂O)/(fHF) and (fH₂O)/(fHCl) in the corresponding tonalitic magma range from 4.31 to 4.63 and 3.62 to 3.79, respectively. The chlorine fugacity (HCl) to water (H₂O) is relatively higher than the fluorine fugacity (HF to water), reflecting a high activity of chlorine in the tonalitic magma during crystallization. The relatively higher activity of chlorine (rather than fluorine) may indicate the significant role of chloride complexes (CuCl₂^? and AuCl₂^?) in transporting and precipitating copper and gold at the Batu Hijau deposit.     

北祁连黑石山花岗岩LA-ICP-MS锆石 U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

北祁连黑石山地区的基性—酸性火山岩中,从南向北依次产出郝泉沟、白马洼、黑石山沟、放符崖等花岗岩体,其中在郝泉沟斜长花岗岩体中发现了郝泉沟金矿床。采用LA-ICP-MS同位素测定技术,获得白马洼英云闪长岩和郝泉沟斜长花岗岩的锆石U-Pb年龄分别为（440.2±2.4）Ma和（431.8±2.4）Ma,表明岩体形成时代为晚奥陶世末—早志留世;同时测定白马洼花岗岩体的全岩Rb-Sr和Sm-Nd同位素组成,计算的(87Sr/86Sr)i值为0.70535,εNd(t)值为1.11,推断其源于增厚的下地壳。本次研究表明,在早古生代晚期,随着祁连洋盆闭合,中祁连地块与北祁连奥陶纪岛弧发生碰撞,导致地壳加厚,引起下地壳玄武质岩石部分重熔,黑石山地区的花岗岩体形成于这一背景下。     

Basalt and tonalite from the Amami Plateau, northern West Philippine Basin: New Early Cretaceous ages and geochemical results, and their petrologic and tectonic implications

Abstract Basalts and tonalites dredged from the Amami Plateau in the northern West Philippine Basin have the geochemical characteristics of intraoceanic island arc rocks: low ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr (0.70297–0.70310), intermediate ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd (0.51288–0.51292), moderate light rare earth element (LREE) enrichment (La/Yb = 4.1–6.6) and high La/Nb (1.4–4.3). The incremental heating of hornblende from tonalites yielded well‐defined plateaus and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar isochron ages of 115.8 ± 0.5 Ma and 117.0 ± 1.1 Ma, while plagioclase yielded disturbed Ar release patterns, with ages ranging from 70 to 112 Ma. Taken together, these results show that the Amami Plateau was formed by subduction‐related magmatism in the Early Cretaceous period, earlier than indicated by prior K/Ar results. The results support tectonic models in which the West Philippine Basin was opened within a complex of Jurassic–Paleocene island arc terranes, which are now scattered in the northern West Philippine Basin, the Philippine Islands and Halmahera. The Amami Plateau tonalites and basalts have higher Sr/Y and lower Y and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr compared with younger tonalitic rocks from the northern Kyushu–Palau Ridge and the Tanzawa complex, which were formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Philippine Sea Plate. Based on the geochemical characteristics of the basalts, the Early Cretaceous subduction zone that formed the Amami Plateau may have been the site of slab melting, which suggests that a younger and hotter plate was being subducted at that time. However, the Amami tonalites were probably formed from basaltic magma by fractional crystallization or by partial melting of basaltic arc crust, rather than by melting of the subducted slab.     

大兴安岭北部凤凰山地区英云闪长岩地球化学特征与锆石U-Pb定年

凤凰山地区位于大兴安岭北部额尔古纳地块和兴安地块过渡带,该区广泛分布着前寒武纪变质岩系组成的兴华渡口群古老块体。本次研究发现凤凰山地区内还有古老的侵入体--英云闪长岩,零星分布于前寒武纪结晶基底内。本文以凤凰山地区英云闪长岩为研究对象,进行了岩石的主、微量元素测试和LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素定年。岩石地球化学特征显示,英云闪长岩属于过铝质钙碱性岩石系列岩石,富集Rb、K等大离子亲石元素（LILE）,亏损Nb、P、Sr、Ta、Ti等高场强元素（HFSE）,呈中等负铕异常（δEu=0.64~0.69）,表现出火山弧花岗岩的特征。英云闪长岩的锆石呈长柱状,具有清晰的环带,显示出岩浆锆石的特征,其LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄为（807.7±2.2）Ma,表明其侵位时代为新元古代。结合区域构造演化史,认为该地区新元古代英云闪长岩的形成受Rodinia超大陆裂解-碰撞影响,是额尔古纳地块和兴安地块过渡带地壳增生的产物。