水对名义无水矿物变形的影响

在固体地球中,水虽微量,但对众多地质过程(例如,岩石部分熔融与火山喷发、地震活动等)和岩石的物理化学性质(例如,电导率、滞弹性、地震波性质、相变动力学等)影响重大。更为重要的是,水能通过影响矿物的变形机制来控制岩石的流变强度,进而制约着地球动力学的过程。名义无水矿物(NAMs:Nominal anhydrous minerals)即为分子式中不含氢的矿物,其晶格的容水量远小于正常含水矿物(如,角闪石,蛇纹石等)的容水量,但由于NAMs在固体地球中体积比例甚大,仅上地幔的橄榄石中所能溶解的水可能比全部地表水还多。因此了解水对NAMs(尤其是分别作为地壳和上地幔主要组成矿物的石英和橄榄石)变形的影响对于精确地构建岩石圈强度剖面和深刻理解构造地质学与地球动力学过程至关重要。本文将系统地回顾水对NAMs变形的影响,首先通过回顾水在固体地球内部的存在形式提出了NAMs是固体地球中的重要水库,接着阐述了NAMs中水的存在形式、溶解机制、溶解度影响因素及扩散动力学,最后着重论证了水致弱化在石英和富镁石榴石中最强,然后依次是单斜辉石、长石、橄榄石,瓦德利石和林伍徳石。     

华北地块中部活动构造特征及汾渭地堑成因探讨

研究区位处华北克拉通中部,受太平洋构造域和特提斯构造域的影响,新生代开始裂解,先后形成了渤海湾盆地和汾渭地堑。第四纪以来,华北地块中部活动日趋活跃,不同走向的断裂和盆地也表现出不同的活动性。NW向和近EW向断裂主要表现为左旋走滑性质,而NE向断裂则主要表现为正断性质。NNE向断裂虽也表现出正断性质,但右旋走滑性质正逐渐占主导地位。汾渭地堑中,NE向盆地与NNE向的盆地也因此表现出一定的活动差异。盆地形成初期,两种走向的盆地沉降速率差别不大,但第四纪以来,NE向盆地的沉降速率已大大超过NNE盆地。对于第四纪以来这种构造运动的表现,同时结合GPS观测数据及青藏高原的大规模隆升与华北地块中部山地相对隆升和盆地沉降事件在时间上的高度一致性,推测华北地块中部中新世以来的构造活动主要受印度与欧亚板块碰撞的挤出作用影响,在NWW和NE向剪切应力的作用下,华北地块中部自南北两端受NWWSEE向拉张的合力作用下开始裂解。随着青藏高原隆升速度的加快,两种剪切应力也随之增强,其合力的影响范围逐渐向中心向东不断扩展,形成了一系列的NNE和NEE向盆地。同时,NE向剪切应力增幅明显强于NWW向剪切,导致其合力由NW向拉张逐渐转变为NNW向拉张,引起不同走向断层活动性的差异与不同走向盆地沉降速率的相应改变。     

U–Pb ages of detrital zircons within the Inthanon Zone of the Paleo-Tethyan subduction zone,northern Thailand: New constraints on accretionary age and arc activity

U–Pb dating of detrital zircons was performed on mélange-hosted lithic and basaltic sandstones from the Inthanon Zone in northern Thailand to determine the timing of accretion and arc activity associated with Paleo-Tethys subduction. The detrital zircons have peak ages at 3400–3200, 2600–2400, 1000–700, 600–400, and 300–250 Ma, similar to the peaks ages of detrital zircons associated with other circum-Paleo-Tethys subduction zones. We identified two types of sandstone in the study area based on the youngest detrital zircon ages: Type 1 sandstones have Late Carboniferous youngest zircon U–Pb ages of 308 ± 14 and 300 ± 16 Ma, older than associated radiolarian chert blocks within the same outcrop. In contrast, Type 2 sandstones have youngest zircon U–Pb ages of 238 ± 10 and 236 ± 15 Ma, suggesting a Middle Triassic maximum depositional age. The youngest detrital zircons in Type 1 sandstones were derived from a Late Carboniferous–Early Permian ‘missing’ arc, suggesting that the Sukhothai Arc was active during sedimentation. The data presented within this study provide information on the development of the Sukhothai Arc, and further suggest that subduction of the Paleo-Tethyan oceanic plate beneath the Indochina Block had already commenced by the Late Carboniferous. Significant Middle Triassic arc magmatism, following the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian arc activity, is inferred from the presence of conspicuous detrital zircon U–Pb age peaks in Type 2 sandstones and the igneous rock record of the Sukhothai Arc. In contrast, only minimal arc activity occurred during the Middle Permian–earliest Triassic. Type 1 sandstones were deposited between the Late Permian and the earliest Triassic, after the deposition of associated Middle–Late Permian cherts that occur in the same mélanges and during a hiatus in Sukhothai Arc magmatism. In contrast, Type 2 sandstones were deposited during the Middle Triassic, coincident with the timing of maximum magmatism in the Sukhothai Arc, as evidenced by the presence of abundant Middle Triassic detrital zircons. These two types of sandstone were probably derived from discrete accretionary units in an original accretionary prism that was located along the western margin of the Sukhothai Arc.     

晚古生代—中三叠世右江盆地的格局和转换

晚古生代—中三叠世右江盆地是在夷平的南华加里东造山带基础上再生裂陷的大陆边缘盆地,该盆地的形成与金沙江—哀牢山古特提斯洋盆关系密切,是一个具有台地与台间海槽相间结构的大陆边缘裂谷盆地。右江盆地自早泥盆世埃姆斯晚期开始裂陷,到石炭纪盆地与越北地块之间出现一个与古特提斯洋相关的局限小洋盆或深海盆。至二叠纪,该洋盆开始向西南俯冲于越北地块之下,形成活动大陆边缘。早三叠世晚期以后,随着该洋盆的闭合和碰撞造山,在凭祥、那坡等地出现同碰撞型的火山活动,右江盆地也于中三叠世转变为以复理石为特征的前陆盆地。因此右江盆地经历了裂谷盆地(早泥盆世晚期—晚泥盆世)、被动大陆边缘(早石炭世—早三叠世)、前陆盆地(中三叠世)的构造演化阶段。     

古地理与大地构造研究——简评目前的学术乱象*

野外调查是大地构造研究的重要基础。古地理及与之相关的沉积岩石学、古生物地层学、构造地质学等在大地构造研究中一直发挥着非常重要的作用,这在著名学者葛利普、黄汲清、王鸿祯等的著作中均有充分的体现。然而,自20世纪90年代以来,在以SCI为导向的评价体系指挥下,这些比较费时、费力的工作往往受到忽视。粉末化、简单化、模式化,新八股式的所谓研究,大行其道,成为一种时尚,形成一股十分有害的逆流。为扭转这种局面,科技界领导必须转变思想,改变政策,创造良好的科研环境,使中国的学术研究走上健康发展的道路。     

塔里木地块-柴达木地块碰撞相关的同碰撞和碰撞后构造——塔里木盆地地震资料解释成果

位于塔里木盆地南侧的阿尔金山和西昆仑山是特提斯超级造山带最北部的两条缝合带。该处的早古生代造山作用是原特提斯构造演化的重要组成部分。根据地震资料解释在塔里木盆地发现的碰撞相关构造指示, 早古生代的碰撞事件发生于塔里木地块的东南侧, 是塔里木地块与柴达木地块之间的碰撞造山作用。这次碰撞形成了阿尔金早古生代碰撞造山带。其同碰撞构造主要包括前陆褶皱冲断带(塘沽孜巴斯前陆褶皱冲断带)和大型基底卷入型背斜构造(轮南、塔东和塔中背斜), 形成于晚奥陶世-早志留世。碰撞后构造为一系列正断层及其组合成的雁列状张扭性断层带, 形成时间是中志留世-中泥盆世。根据塔里木盆地内发现的碰撞相关构造分析, 结合造山带内的蛇绿岩和俯冲-碰撞相关岩浆岩、变质岩研究成果推论, 作为原特提斯洋分支的古阿尔金洋, 其洋壳自晚寒武开始向柴达木地块之下俯冲。至中奥陶世末-晚奥陶世初, 洋壳俯冲完毕, 古阿尔金洋闭合, 塔里木地块-柴达木地块碰撞开始。该碰撞造山作用持续至早志留世末结束, 然后进入中志留世-中泥盆世碰撞后应力伸展构造演化阶段。迄今, 尚无碰撞相关构造指示塔里木克拉通西南缘曾经发生早古生代碰撞造山事件。早古生代, 阿尔金山发生的是增生-碰撞型造山, 西昆仑山发生的是增生型造山作用。

     

显生宙全球海水化学成分演化及其对蒸发岩沉积的约束

通过搜集显生宙以来不同地质时期内海相碳酸盐岩鲕粒及胶结物矿物成分、钾盐矿床矿物种类及组合特征、蒸发岩盆地中石盐流体包裹体成分,并利用这些资料与人工海水模拟实验得到的石盐中Br分配特征的对比,得出海水成分在5.5亿年以来的显生宙期间,经历了五个阶段:其中晚元古代至寒武纪早期、二叠纪早期至中生代早期、新生代早期至现今,这些时期的原始海水组成特征系数m(SO_4~(2-))+m(HCO_3~-)/2m(Ca~(2+)),为Na-Mg-K-SO_4-Cl型海水,此期间沉积的钾盐矿床的钾镁盐矿物主要为钾盐镁矾、无水钾镁矾、杂卤石、硫酸镁石等含MgSO_4矿物,海相鲕粒和碳酸盐胶结物矿物成分为文石;而寒武纪早期至石炭纪、中生代早期至新生代早期,原始海水组成特征系数m(Ca~(2+))m(SO_4~(2-))+m(HCO_3~-)/2,为Na-Mg-KCa-Cl型海水,此期间沉积的钾镁盐矿物主要为光卤石和钾石盐,甚至含有溢晶石,海相鲕粒和碳酸盐胶结物矿物成分为方解石。根据石盐流体包裹体成分计算得出:显生宙期间,海水K+含量大部分时间变化幅度较小,为9.3～11.5mmol/kg H_2O(除了石炭纪和晚元古代),平均为10.55mmol/kg H_2O。Mg~(2+)含量在早寒武世≥67mmol/kg H_2O、晚志留世至中泥盆世31～41mmol/kg H_2O、晚古生代≥48mmol/kg H22O、晚白垩世34mmol/kg H_2O和现代55.1mmol/kg H_2O。Ca~+含量在晚元古代至古生代早期≤11mmol/kg H_2O、古生代早期至石炭纪22～35mmol/kg H_2O、石炭纪至中生代早期≤17mmol/kg H_2O、中生代早期至新生代早期19～39mmol/kg H_2O及新生代早期至今7～21mmol/kg H_2O。SO_4~(2-)含量在晚元古代至古生代早期≥23mmol/kg H_2O、古生代早期至石炭纪5～17mmol/kg H_2O、石炭纪至中生代早期13～22mmol/kg H_2O、中生代早期至新生代早期5～19mmol/kg H_2O及新生代早期至今12～29.2mmol/kg H_2O。海水Ca~(2+)与SO_4~(2-)含量的相对变化是控制海相钾盐矿床钾镁盐矿物类型的基本因素。同时,利用以上数据计算得到的显生宙各时期海水[m(Mg~(2+))+m(SO_4~(2-))]/[m(K~+)+m(Ca~(2+))]的变化与各时期海相蒸发岩系石盐层底部的Br含量变化具有同步性,进一步验证了显生宙期间海水成分是不断变化的,是约束海相蒸发岩钾盐矿物类型的主要因素。海水成分变化的控制因素为洋中脊热液和陆地水,其中洋中脊热液起主要作用,而控制这些因素变化的根本原因为板块构造运动。     

Structural evolution of the Irtysh Shear Zone (northwestern China) and implications for the amalgamation of arc systems in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

The NW–SE Irtysh Shear Zone is a major tectonic boundary in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), which supposedly records the amalgamation history between the peri-Siberian orogenic system and the Kazakhstan/south Mongolia orogenic system. However, the tectonic evolution of the Irtysh Shear Zone is not fully understood. Here we present new structural and geochronological data, which together with other constraints on the timing of deformation suggests that the Irtysh Shear Zone was subjected to three phases of deformation in the late Paleozoic. D₁ is locally recognized as folded foliations in low strain areas and as an internal fabric within garnet porphyroblasts. D₂ is represented by a shallowly dipping fabric and related ∼ NW–SE stretching lineations oriented sub-parallel to the strike of the orogen. D₂ foliations are folded by ∼ NW–SE folds (F₃) that are bounded by a series of mylonite zones with evidence for sinistral/reverse kinematics. These fold and shear structures are kinematically compatible, and thus interpreted to result from a transpressional deformation phase (D₃). Two samples of mica schists yielded youngest detrital zircon peaks at ∼322 Ma, placing a maximum constraint on the timing of D₁–D₃ deformation. A ∼ NE–SW granitic dyke swarm (∼252 Ma) crosscuts D₃ fold structures and mylonitic fabrics in the central part of the shear zone, but is displaced by a mylonite zone that represents the southern boundary of the Irtysh Shear Zone. This observation indicates that the major phase of D₃ transpressional deformation took place prior to ∼252 Ma, although later phases of reactivation in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are likely. The late Paleozoic deformation (D₁–D₃ at ∼322–252 Ma) overlaps in time with the collision between the Chinese Altai and the intra-oceanic arc system of the East Junggar. We therefore interpret that three episodes of late Paleozoic deformation represent orogenic thickening (D₁), collapse (D₂), and transpressional deformation (D₃) during the convergence between the Chinese Altai and the East Junggar. On a larger scale, late Paleozoic sinistral shearing (D₃), together with dextral shearing farther south, accommodated the eastward migration of internal segments of the western CAOB, possibly associated with the amalgamation of multiple arc systems and continental blocks during the late Paleozoic.     

微地震台阵网天然地震层析成像技术在油田深层构造解析中的应用

天然地震层析成像相对于传统的反射地震方法而言是一种新的经济的勘探方法。这是由于天然地震层析成像所需的观测值直接来自于研究区下方发生的天然微地震,而反射地震却需要在研究区表面进行人工放炮。因此本工作是将天然地震层析成像方法应用于柴达木盆地西部某油田约100km2地区的深层构造的尝试性研究。626个地震事件的3289个P波到时的初步结果与研究区已知的大的构造吻合较好。该模型中非常显著的特征就是观测到一个北西向的背斜。此外,微地震的分布也与研究区中活动断裂带的位置基本一致。     

渭河断陷盆地地热资源赋存特征与热储分析

渭河盆地地处多个构造体系的交汇部位,呈现多条断裂带。这些断裂带控制着渭河盆地的基底构造以及地热资源的展布。在充分收集区域地质、水文地质、物化探及地热资料基础上,通过对断裂构造特征的研究,分析了渭河盆地地热资源的形成背景、赋存条件、分布规律及特征,为进一步研究、勘探及开发地热资源提供了依据。