黑龙江省五大连池、科洛、二克山火山群富钾火山岩中的浅色矿物

本区富钾火山岩中浅色矿物有碱性长石、白榴石和霞石。碱性长石主要为钠透长石、钙歪长石,少数为钙钠透长石和歪长石,其光性变化与长石的地质时代和长石内部的隐条纹结构有关。白榴石的成分及产出方式主要与岩石中的SiO_2含量有关,SiO_2不饱和程度大的白榴苦橄岩的白榴石贫SiO_2;而SiO_2不饱和程度低的白榴碧玄岩和白榴玄武岩中,白榴石富SiO_2而稍贫K_2O+Na_2O,仅见于过渡相,而中心相由于水压较高和近于平衡的结晶条件,白榴石不能晶出,或先晶出后又与熔体反应形成碱性长石。     

北京西山东狼沟组钾质火山岩成因及其动力学机制

北京西山东狼沟组火山岩为钾质系列岩石(K2O=3.40%～4.70%,K20/Na20＞1),由玄武质粗安岩和粗安岩组成.它们表现出LREE富集[(La/Yb)N=31.4～44.6]和HREE弱分馏[(Dy/Yb)N=1.64～2.01]的REE分布模式,Eu表现出弱的负异常(Eu/Eu*=0.81～0.86),富集Ba、K、LREE和相对亏损Nb-Ta、Th-U.较高的Sr[(87Sr/86Sr)i=0.705 7～0.705 9]和低Nd[δNd(t)=-14.7～-12.4],类似于辽西义县组和华北陆内同时代的EM I型基性火成岩.其Th-U相对Ba、La的强烈亏损,暗示早期可能有华北古老的下地壳再循环进入源区.结合区域构造研究,东狼沟组火山岩可能为陆内伸展拉张环境下早期交代富集的岩石圈地幔部分熔融作用的产物,并在岩浆演化过程中经历了橄榄石 辉石 斜长石的分离结晶作用.     

Highly heterogeneous Precambrian basement under the central Deccan Traps, India: Direct evidence from xenoliths in dykes

Crustal or mantle xenoliths are not common in evolved, tholeiitic flood basalts that cover huge areas of the Precambrian shields. Yet, the occasional occurrences provide the most direct and unequivocal evidence on basement composition. Few xenolith occurrences are known from the Deccan Traps, India, and inferences about the Deccan basement have necessarily depended on geophysical studies and geochemistry of Deccan lavas and intrusions. Here, we report two basalt dykes (Rajmane and Talwade dykes) from the central Deccan Traps that are extremely rich in crustal xenoliths of great lithological variety (gneisses, quartzites, granite mylonite, felsic granulite, carbonate rock, tuff). Because the dykes are parallel and only 4 km apart, and only a few kilometres long, the xenoliths provide clear evidence for high small-scale lithological heterogeneity and strong tectonic deformation in the Precambrian Indian crust beneath. Measured ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios in the xenoliths range from 0.70935 (carbonate) to 0.78479 (granite mylonite). The Rajmane dyke sampled away from any of the xenoliths shows a present-day ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio of 0.70465 and initial (at 66 Ma) ratio of 0.70445. The dyke is subalkalic and fairly evolved (Mg No. = 44.1) and broadly similar in its Sr-isotopic and elemental composition to some of the lavas of the Mahabaleshwar Formation. The xenoliths are comparable lithologically and geochemically to basement rocks from the Archaean Dharwar craton forming much of southern India. As several lines of evidence suggest, the Dharwar craton may extend at least 350–400 km north under the Deccan lava cover. This is significant for Precambrian crustal evolution of India besides continental reconstructions.     

Kenn Plateau off northeast Australia: a continental fragment in the southwest Pacific jigsaw

The submarine Kenn Plateau, with an area of about 140 000 km², lies some 400 km east of central Queensland beyond the Marion Plateau. It is one of several thinned continental fragments east of Australia that were once part of Australia, and it originally fitted south of the Marion Plateau and as far south as Brisbane. It is cut into smaller blocks by east- and northeast-trending faults, with thinly sedimented basement highs separated by basins containing several kilometres of sediment. In the Cretaceous precursor of the Kenn Plateau, Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous basins probably rested unconformably on Palaeozoic to Triassic rocks of the New England Fold Belt. Rift volcanism was common on the northern plateau and was probably of Early Cretaceous age. Late Cretaceous extension and breakup were followed by Paleocene drifting, and the Kenn Plateau moved to the northeast, rotated 30° anticlockwise and left space that was filled by Tasman Basin oceanic basalts. During these events, siliciclastic sediments poured into the basins from the continental mainland and from locally eroding highs. After a regional Late Paleocene to Early Eocene unconformity, siliciclastic sedimentation resumed in proximal areas. In deep water, radiolarian chalks were widely deposited until biosiliceous sediment accumulation ended at the regional Late Eocene to Early Oligocene unconformity, and warming surface waters led to accumulation of pure biogenic carbonates. Calcarenite formed in shallow water on the margins of the subsiding plateau from the Middle Eocene onward. Some seismic profiles show Middle to Late Eocene compression related to New Caledonian obduction to the east. Hotspots formed parts of two volcanic chains on or near the plateau as it moved northward: Late Eocene and younger volcanics of the Tasmantid chain in the west, and Late Oligocene and younger volcanics of the Lord Howe chain in the east. As the volcanoes subsided, they were fringed by reefs, some of which have persisted until the present day. Other reefs have not kept up with subsidence, so guyots formed. The plateau has subsided 2000 m or more since breakup and is now subject solely to pelagic carbonate sedimentation.     

Geochemical and isotopic evidence for the age,orogenic setting and petrogenesis of the Nychum Volcanic association,North Queensland

Rb‐Sr and K‐Ar age determinations agree with palaeobotanical evidence in assigning an age of 270 Ma (Lower Permian) to the Nychum Volcanics, North Queensland. Geological and geochemical evidence (moderate ‐REE, La/Yb, Th, Zr/Y, Hf/Yb, Sc/Ni) indicate that the volcanics were erupted on a thin, active continental margin. Five magma groups are present: high‐alumina basalts, andesite‐dacites, acid rocks, tholeiitic andesites, and pitchstone with a high La/Yb ratio. The high‐alumina basalts and calc‐alkaline andesites have a parent‐daughter (source rock‐partial melt) relationship. The acid rocks share high HREE, Zr, Hf, Zn, Sc, Fe/Mg and low Al with, and may be fractionated from, the tholeiitic subduction‐zone andesites. Low‐pressure fractional crystallisation is evident in all five magma groups.     

Breccia-cored columnar rosettes in a rubbly pahoehoe lava flow,Elephanta Island,Deccan Traps,and a model for their origin

Rubbly pahoehoe lava flows are abundant in many continental flood basalts including the Deccan Traps. However, structures with radial joint columns surrounding cores of flow-top breccia (FTB), reported from some Deccan rubbly pahoehoe flows, are yet unknown from other basaltic provinces. A previous study of these Deccan “breccia-cored columnar rosettes” ruled out explanations such as volcanic vents and lava tubes, and showed that the radial joint columns had grown outwards from cold FTB inclusions incorporated into the hot molten interiors. How the highly vesicular (thus low-density) FTB blocks might have sunk into the flow interiors has remained a puzzle. Here we describe a new example of a Deccan rubbly pahoehoe flow with FTB-cored rosettes, from Elephanta Island in the Mumbai harbor. Noting that (1) thick rubbly pahoehoe flows probably form by rapid inflation (involving many lava injections into a largely molten advancing flow), and (2) such flows are transitional to ‘a’ā flows (which continuously shed their top clinker in front of them as they advance), we propose a model for the FTB-cored rosettes. We suggest that the Deccan flows under study were shedding some of their FTB in front of them as they advanced and, with high-eruption rate lava injection and inflation, frontal breakouts would incorporate this FTB rubble, with thickening of the flow carrying the rubble into the flow interior. This implies that, far from sinking into the molten interior, the FTB blocks may have been rising, until lava supply and inflation stopped, the flow began solidifying, and joint columns developed outward from each cold FTB inclusion as already inferred, forming the FTB-cored rosettes. Those rubbly pahoehoe flows which began recycling most of their FTB became the ‘a’ā flows of the Deccan.     

大别山北缘西段双桥中生代火山岩地球化学及锆石U-Pb同位素年代学

首次对大别山北缘西段(河南省境内)中生代火山岩进行了锆石原位U-Pb同位素测年。结果表明,罗山县双桥火山岩集中区石英安山岩锆石LA-ICP-MS U/Pb年龄为133.1±1.5 Ma,与大别东段中生代火山岩主体毛坦厂组的时代一致,属早白垩世,稍早于或与大别山区大规模花岗岩岩基侵位时代相同;与长江中下游地区的宁芜和庐枞盆地火山岩喷发时间同步,可能同属中国东部中生代巨量岩浆活动的重要组成部分,与太平洋板块斜向俯冲引起的大陆岩石圈重力不稳而产生的拆沉导致岩石圈强烈减薄深部动力学过程相联系。大别山西段早白垩世火山岩属高钾钙碱性系列粗安岩-英安岩-流纹岩组合。中酸性火山岩显示轻稀土元素富集、重稀土元素强烈亏损、弱或基本无负Eu异常的稀土元素配分模式以及高Sr低Yb特征,反映岩浆部分熔融源区残余有石榴石,说明当时存在加厚的成熟陆壳。高(87Sr/86Sr)i(0.707 56)、极低的εNd(t)(-20.1)和大离子亲石元素富集、高场强元素Nb、Ta明显亏损,显示岩浆源区的壳源性质。以上特征反映大别山地区该时期岩石圈伸展程度和软流圈上涌规模远不如长江中下游同时期以幔源为主的中基性火山岩发育的宁芜和庐枞地区。     

赣东北-浙西北登山群和松木坞群中火山岩的地球化学

赣东北－浙西北新元古代登山群和松木坞群主要由板岩、砂岩、流纹岩、流纹质英安岩、玄武岩和玄武质安山岩组成，火山岩的Ｒｂ－Ｓｒ和Ｓｍ－Ｎｄ等时线年龄以及流纹岩中单颗粒锆石Ｕ－Ｐｂ年龄显示其成岩时代为８００－９００Ｍａ。登山群和松木坞群火山岩呈双峰式产出，其中镁铁质火山岩在化学成分上呈现出演化程度较高的特点（ｅｖｏｌｖｅｄｎａｔｕｒｅ），高强场元素（Ｔｉ、Ｎｂ、Ｔａ等）相对于碱土元素未发生明显亏损，反映其形成于大陆裂谷环境。镁铁质火山岩具低的Ｎｄ值，表明其来源于弱亏损的地幔源，也可能遭受一定程度的地壳混染作用改造。酸性火山岩在化学成分上表现出Ｓ型火山岩特点，但其变化于－１．９～＋２８，指示其为先存的长英质基底分熔作用的产物，但存在强烈的地慢物质添加作用。     

Palaeomagnetically defined rotations of fault-bounded continental blocks in the North Anatolian Shear Zone, North Central Anatolia

The 1200 km-long North Anatolian Transform Fault connects the East Anatolian post-collisional compressional regime in the east with the Aegean back-arc extensional regime to the west. This active dextral fault system lies within a shear zone reaching up to 100 km in width, and consists of southward splining branches. These branches, which have less frequent and smaller magnitude earthquake activity compare to the major transform, cut and divide the shear zone into fault delimited blocks. Comparison of palaeomagnetic data from 46 sites in the Eocene volcanics from different blocks indicate that each fault-bounded block has been affected by vertical block rotations. Although clockwise rotations are dominant as expected from dextral fault-bounded blocks, anticlockwise rotations have also been documented. These anticlockwise rotations are interpreted as due to anticlockwise rotation of the Anatolian Block, as indicated by GPS measurements, and the effects of unmapped faults or pre-North Anatolian Fault tectonic events.