Isotopic Geochronological Evidence for the Caledonian Xiongdian Eclogite in the Northwestern Dabie Mountains,China

A typical HP/MT (high pressure/medium temperature) eclogite from Xiongdian, northwestern Dabie Mountains, has been geochronologically studied using the single-zircon U-Pb, 40Ar-39Ar and Sm-Nd methods. Prismatic zircons occurring as inclusions within garnets define a minimum crystallization age of 399.5±1.6 Ma. 40Ar-39Ar dating on amphibole gives a plateau age.of 399.2 ± 4 Ma, which is interpreted as a retrogression age of amphibolite facies. This integrated study enables us to conclude that the age of high-pressure metamorphism is older than 399.5 ± 1.6 Ma, suggesting Caledonian collision between the North China and Yangtze plates. Round zircon within the aggregate of quartz and muscovite gives a concordant age of 301± 2 Ma, reflecting a later retrogression event. An age profile of post-eclogite metamorphism is documented, including amphibolite facies metamorphism at 399.2 Ma shortly after eclogitization and later retrogressive metamorphism at 301 Ma. Sm-Nd mineral isochron of garnet+omphacite gives     

Early Palaeozoic Evolution of the Zhen'' an- Xichuan Block and the Small Qinling Multi-Island Ocean Basin

Based on studies of palaeogeography, palaeobiogeography, palaeomagnetism, geochemistry and volcanism, this paper proposes that the Zhen'an-Xichuan area was a small Early Palaeozoic block rifted away from South Qinling and suturing onto North Qinling earlier than the other parts of South Qinling. In the Early Palaeozoic Qinling was a small archipelagic ocean basin with 5 rows of islands including the Zhen'an-Xichuan block. The drifting of the Yangtze and North China plates and the islands between them in the same direction at different speeds caused their suturing process to be different from the classic plate collision, which is the major feature of the suturing of the multi-island Tethys ocean basin. This also explains the problem that the Caledonian collision did not result in orogeny in eastern Qinling.     

江南皖浙赣区段混杂岩带及其区域构造意义

主要介绍了展布在皖浙赣区段的混杂岩带研究的新进展，其中包括：混杂岩带空间展布的重新划定，混杂岩带内浅变质岩中的化石及浅变质岩的时代归属，混杂岩带的形成时代及混杂岩带的构造变形特征等；进而讨论了其区域构造意义。     

区域成矿规律对华南大地构造属性的联系

关于华南大地构造属性,长期存在古陆或克拉通与地槽褶皱带或造山带两种观点。根据华南很少出露早前寒武纪地质体,广泛发育1．0Ga以后的巨厚地槽相沉积物,经历了1．0Ga以后的多旋回构造运动,发育多期次花岗岩类等事实,笔者认为华南是造山带,而非古陆。考虑到世界著名地台或古陆均不产钨矿,而华南是世界最重要的钨矿省,本文通过分析钨等元素成矿地球化学原理,结合介绍华南含钨花岗岩类的地球化学特点及其形成构造背景,从区域成矿规律角度论证了华南是造山带。     

陈蔡岩群下河图斜长角闪岩年代学、地球化学特征及其构造意义

浙江诸暨市下河图村的陈蔡岩群中出露一套斜长角闪岩,空间上与块状大理岩相伴产出。地球化学研究表明,下河图斜长角闪岩SiO_2含量为43.22%~46.56%,MgO为3.23%~7.87%,TiO_2为1.90%~2.98%,与碱性洋岛玄武岩特征类似。稀土元素总量为114.47×10~(-6)~192.39×10~(-6),(La/Yb)N为5.93~12.13,稀土元素球粒陨石标准化配分模式为轻稀土元素富集的右倾型;原始地幔标准化微量元素蛛网图表现出向上隆起的富集形态,微量元素特征表明其可能形成于洋岛构造环境,陆壳物质对其混染的可能性较小,岩石成分主要受熔融源区控制。推测下河图斜长角闪岩原岩很可能形成于靠近消减带的海山环境,来源于洋壳俯冲过程中增生的海山碎片,陈蔡岩群很可能为一套俯冲增生杂岩。LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb法获得斜长角闪岩变质年龄为420.6±1.8 Ma,可能代表了扬子和华夏两大地块碰撞拼合的时代。     

Caledonian terranes along the southwestern border of the East European platform — Evidence,speculation and open questions

Summary According to the terrane model used for the interpretation of the heterogeneities in the Lower Palaeozoic development along the southwestern border of the East European platform (Baltica) several suspect terranes have been accreted to the passive platform margin during the closure of the postulated Tornquist Sea in Ordovician and Silurian times. Their final docking and partly overthrusting onto the platform are of Scandian (Early Devonian) age. A matter of dispute is the provenance of the various terranes. There are lithofacies, structural, palaeobiogeographical and palaeomagnetic constraints for relations both to Baltica and East Avalonia. Specific similarities can be observed between the Southern Jylland, Pomerania, ysogóry (including Radom-Krasik), and Rawa Russkaja terranes. After their accretion and amalgamation they may form a more or less continuous Caledonian marginal thrust belt along the platform border. On the other hand, more significant differences exist between the latter and the so far recognized Southern North Sea, Maopolska, Cracovides, Upper Silesian, Sudeten, Kochanowka, and Dobrogean terranes. The position of any Tornquist Sea suture zone(s) is still completely enigmatic.     

江南造山带西南缘石英脉型金矿中毒砂Re-Os同位素定年研究

江南造山带西南缘的贵州东南部地区石英脉型金矿产于低绿片岩相的板溪群浅变质岩中,具有典型的造山型金矿特征。与江南造山带其他造山型金矿一样,其成矿时代具有较大的争议,金矿的形成与造山运动的关系还不清楚,制约了对本区金矿成矿作用的深入研究。本文采集了平秋和八克两个石英脉型金矿中与金成矿作用密切相关的含金石英脉中毒砂样品进行高精度的Re-Os同位素分析,分别得到235±3.4 Ma和410±52 Ma两个Re-Os同位素等时线年龄,八克金矿毒砂样品的年龄误差较大的原因是毒砂中Re含量较低所致,但其中低含量高射性样品计算得到的Re-Os同位素模式年龄仍然与其等时线年龄一致。两个矿床的毒砂Re-Os同位素年龄揭示了江南造山带石英脉型金矿与加里东期和印支期两次陆内造山运动有关,是华南显生宙陆内造山运动的产物。     

Petrochemistry, Chronology and Tectonic Setting of Strong Peraluminous Anatectic Granitoids in Yunkai Orogenic Belt, Western Guangdong Province, China

INTRODUCTIONA suite of strongly deformed and metamor-phosed banded-augen (rapakivi) anatectic granitoids(charnockite) can be found at Dongzhen, Sihe ,Heshui and Baishi in Xinyi County , Changpo ,Gaozhou, Yunlu and Huanglingin Gaozhou County ,western Guangdong Province and Liuma , Tiantang-shan mountain in Luchuan County , and easternGuangxi in the Yunkai orogenic belt . Research onthe genesis and chronology of the granitoids has beenconducted by Mo et al . (1980) and Lin et al .(1…     

Zircon U–Pb geochronology of gneissic rocks in the Yunkai massif and its implications on the Caledonian event in the South China Block

This paper presents new zircon U–Pb data and interpretations for the gneissic rocks in the Yunkai massif in order to constrain the timing and evolution of the Caledonian tectonothermal event in the South China Block (SCB). Magmatic and inherited zircons from the orthogneiss in the region, previously thought to be of Precambrian origin, yielded ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U apparent ages of 421–441 Ma and 513–1343 Ma, respectively. Also a weighted mean ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U age of 236.0 ± 3.1 Ma was obtained, interpreted as the metamorphic resetting age during the Indosinian tectonic event. Our analyses show that the paragneiss in the region, previously regarded as Proterozoic sedimentary rocks, contains detrital zircons of the Archaean to Paleozoic origin, of which the youngest zircons yielded the U–Pb age of  423 Ma. These data indicate that (1) the Proterozoic and Archaean components may exist beneath the Yunkai massif; (2) most of the metaigneous rocks are actually the Caledonian anatectic granites possibly overprinted by Indosinian ( 236 Ma) reactivation; (3) some paragneiss might have originally deposited during the Devonian time; and (4) a subsequently rapid uplifting took place after the emplacement of the Caledonian granites, revealed by the observation that the Devonian clastic strata uncomfortably overlie the Caledonian granites. In combination with other geochronological data and geological observations throughout the SCB, we propose that the Caledonian tectonothermal event around Silurian ( 450–400 Ma) might be a result from an intracontinental collision between the Yangtze and Cathaysian blocks in response to the subduction/collision between the North China block and SCB.     

内蒙古达茂旗北瓦窑西别河组、查干哈布组及二者间的不整合

内蒙古达茂旗北瓦窑一带的西别河组和查干哈布组是1:20万区调建立的岩石地层单位,当时归于上志留统。1:25万区调中通过区域对比,将分布于巴特敖包一带的志留系、泥盆系进行了归并,不整合面之下的为上志留统西别河组,不整合面之上的为下泥盆统查干哈布组。该不整合的确立,标志着晚加里东运动在华北地块北部增生带有明显的响应,具有全球对比意义。