Re-evaluation of the Cablac Limestone at its type area, East Timor: Revision of the Miocene stratigraphy of Timor

The Cablac Limestone, widely recorded in Timor, has its type area on Cablac Mountain where it was regarded as a Lower Miocene shallow-marine carbonate-platform succession. The Bahaman-like facies placed in the Cablac Limestone are now known to belong to the Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic rather than the Lower Miocene. On the northern slopes of Cablac Mountain, a crush breccia, formerly regarded as the basal conglomerate of the formation, is now considered to have developed along a high-angle fault separating Banda Terrane units of Asian affinity from an overthrust limestone stack containing units belonging to the Gondwana and Australian-Margin Megasequences. The Cablac breccia includes rock fragments that were probably derived locally from these tectonostratigraphic units after terrane emplacement and overthrusting. Clasts include peloid and oolitic limestones of the Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic derived from the Gondwana Megasequence, deep-water carbonate pelagites of the Cretaceous and Paleogene derived from the Australian-Margin Megasequence, Upper Oligocene–Lower Miocene (Te Letter Stage) shallow-water limestone derived from the Banda Terrane, and a younger Neogene calcarenite containing clasts of mixed tectonostratigraphic affinity. There is no evidence for significant sedimentary or tectonic transport of clasts that form the breccia. The clast types and the present understanding of the geological history of Timor suggest that the crush breccia formed late in the Plio-Pleistocene uplift history of Timor. It is not the basal conglomerate of the Cablac Limestone. However, the clasts of an Upper Oligocene–Lower Miocene limestone found in the breccia suggest that a shallow-marine limestone unit of this age either outcrops in the region and has not been detected in the field, or has been eroded completely during late Neogene uplift. The clasts are similar in age and lithology to an Upper Oligocene–Lower Miocene formation that unconformably overlies a metamorphic complex in the Booi region of West Timor, similar to the Lolotoi Metamorphic Complex (Banda Terrane) that is juxtaposed against the crush breccia of Cablac Mountain. The Cablac Limestone at its type area includes a mixed assemblage of carbonate rock units ranging in age from Triassic to Plio-Pleistocene and representing diverse facies. As a formation, the name “Cablac Limestone” should be discarded for a Cenozoic unit. The Upper Oligocene–Lower Miocene shallow-water limestone unit that is typified by outcrops in the Booi region of West Timor, and that has contributed to clasts in the Cablac breccia, is informally named the Booi limestone. It is considered part of the allochthonous Banda Terrane of Asian affinity and represents the only shallow-marine Lower Miocene unit known from Timor. The only other Miocene sedimentary unit known from Timor includes carbonate pelagites – designated the Kolbano beds – probably deposited on an Australian continental terrace at water depths between 1000 and 3000 m. On the northeastern edge of Cablac Mountain, oolitic limestone and associated units of the Gondwana Megasequence, the Kolbano beds of the Australian-Margin Megasequence, and the Booi limestone and associated metasediments of the Banda Terrane were juxtaposed by a Plio-Pleistocene high-angle fault along which the Cablac crush breccia formed.     

Geochemistry, U-Pb Geochronology and Sr-Nd-Hf Isotopes of the Early Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks in the Northern Da Hinggan Mountains

Whole-rock geochemical, zircon U-Pb geochronological and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic data are presented for the Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks from the northern Da Hinggan Mountains. The volcanic rocks generally display high SiO2(73.19–77.68 wt%) and Na2O+K2O(6.53–8.98 wt%) contents, with enrichment in Rb, Th, U, Pb and LREE, and depletion in Nb, Ta, P and Ti. Three rhyolite samples, one rhyolite porphyry sample, and one volcanic breccia sample yield weighted mean 206Pb/238 U ages of 135.1±1.2 Ma, 116.5±1.1 Ma, 121.9±1.0 Ma, 118.1±0.9 Ma and 116.9±1.4 Ma, respectively. All these rocks have moderate(87Sr/86Sr)i values of 0.704912 to 0.705896, slightly negative εNd(t) values of –1.4 to –0.1, and positive εHf(t) values of 3.7 to 8. Their zircon Hf and whole-rock Nd isotopic model ages range from 594 to 1024 Ma. These results suggest that the Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks were originated from melting of subducted oceanic crust and associated sediments during the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean.     

青藏米巴勒地区中新世钠质方沸石(霞石)响岩中单斜辉石环带研究:对岩浆-构造演化的启示

在拉萨地块中部米巴勒地区产出的中新世钠质方沸石(霞石)响岩中的单斜辉石发育大量环带结构,环带结构包括正环带、反环带和韵律环带。其中正环带结构从核部到边部Mg^#、MgO、Cr₂O₃呈逐渐降低趋势,而FeO、Na₂O、Al₂O₃、TiO₂呈逐渐升高的趋势,它反映了岩浆正常结晶的历史。反环带结构中Mg^#、MgO、Cr₂O₃从核部到边部呈升高的趋势,FeO、Na₂O、Al₂O₃的含量总体上呈降低趋势,本文认为响岩中单斜辉石的这种环带结构是受到了和它共存的钾质-超钾质火山岩岩浆混合或混染所致,两种岩石应是各自独立的母岩浆的结晶产物。具韵律环带结构的单斜辉石从核部到边部出现成分规律性波动,Na₂O、Al₂O₃、TiO₂、Cr₂O₃含量的变化在正反环带的范围内,Mg^#值的变化范围较小,在正环带斑晶和基质的范围内,它是岩浆多次混合作用的结果。该地区钠质过碱性岩的出现可能指示青藏高原在这套火山岩喷发时(13~12Ma),构造体制发生了显著的改变,进入到一个典型的陆内伸展阶段。     

华北板块早古生代构造-沉积演化

 任一特定时期的地质演化都必定源自前期背景,并影响后继地质作用。元古宙的构造特征及晚古生代的地质记录可帮助我们更好地认识早古生代华北板块的构造-沉积演化,这一演化包括4 个阶段。第1 阶段(∈₁-∈₃)以被动陆缘的发育和全球海平面上升为特点,二者叠加形成强烈的相对海平面上升,并在南、北边缘形成早期沉积。第2 阶段(O_1y-O₁l)表现为因洋壳俯冲导致的西南部构造抬升及全球海平面下降,二者结合形成的相对海平面下降在华北中部及西南部形成分布广泛的不整合面及白云岩。第3 阶段(O_1m-O₂)期间,来自南、北的挤压导致以边缘上凸为特点的板块变形,在伴以全球海平面上升的情况下导致轻度的相对海平面上升并形成板块中部局限陆表海的膏岩沉积。第4 阶段(O₃-C₁)则是强烈的南北挤压和全球海平面下降导致华北大陆板块整体鞍状抬升和长期不整合的发育,该不整合在北部及南部的侵蚀作用明显强于中部。     

2022年9月5日四川泸定6.8级地震初步研究结果

北京时间2022年9月5日12时52分四川甘孜州泸定县(29.59°N,102.08°E)发生6.8级地震,中国地震预警网于震后6.1s产出首报预警结果;中国地震台网中心于震后3min发布自动速报结果,震后11min发布正式速报结果,同时联合中国地震局地球物理研究所、地质研究所、地震预测研究所和应急管理部国家自然灾害防治研究院启动地震应急产品产出工作,共产出震源基本参数、历史地震、地震构造、地震矩张量、余震精定位、地震烈度和震源破裂过程等9类应急产品。结合上述应急产品,对本次地震进行了研究,初步刻画了地震的构造环境、震源特征、断层形态和受灾区域,并分析了地震成因。结果表明,本次地震是发生在鲜水河断裂带南东段雪门坎—磨西断裂上的一次倾角近直立的走滑型事件,自起始破裂点向南东破裂,破裂长度约20km,最大滑移点深度约6km。余震精定位结果显示余震呈NW—SE向展布,长度约50km,深度主要集中在3～14km,展布方向与震中区域断裂走向基本一致,主震震中处断层倾角近乎垂直,与震源机制揭示的特征一致。烈度速报推测与地震烈度图显示极震区烈度达Ⅸ度,区域面积约280km²,Ⅷ度及以上区域总面积约505km²,涉及17个乡镇。认为本次地震是青藏高原隆升和高原上地壳物质向南东挤出,导致鲜水河断裂南东段雪门坎—磨西断裂上积累的应力的一次快速释放过程。     

北祁连西段双龙镁铁质-超镁铁质岩地球化学特征及构造意义

北祁连西段双龙一带出露的镁铁质-超镁铁质岩主要由蛇纹石化二辉橄榄岩、辉长岩、辉绿岩及玄武岩组成,这些岩石单元与构造卷入的前寒武纪变质岩系和深海沉积的硅质岩一起构成蛇绿混杂岩带。辉长岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄为464±2 Ma(MSWD=1.3)。Zr/TiO_2-Nb/Y图解显示辉绿岩为拉斑玄武岩系列,玄武岩为碱性系列,两者均具有低的MgO和相容元素Cr、Ni含量,指示在岩浆作用过程中发生过橄榄石、辉石的分离结晶作用。球粒陨石标准化稀土元素配分模式图显示,辉绿岩呈平坦型,(La/Yb)_N=1.35~1.45,无Eu异常(δEu=1.0~1.1),以及Lu/Yb(~0.15)、Zr/Y(~2.5)、Y/Tb(~39)比值等均类似于N-MORB;但它们又相对富集Ba、Sr,亏损Nb、Ta、Pb,以及Nb/U(~21)、Zr/Nb(~16)、Th/Ta(~5.7)比值则显示了岛弧玄武岩或弧后盆地玄武岩的特征,推测辉绿岩应源于受俯冲流体交代的尖晶石二辉橄榄岩部分熔融的产物。玄武岩地球化学特征明显不同于辉绿岩,表现为相对富集LREE,~8.48,轻微负Eu异常(δEu=0.91),以及Zr/Y(~8)、Y/Tb(~30)、Ta/Yb(~0.6)、Th/Yb(~2.5)比值等类似于OIB,指示玄武岩应源于富集地幔部分熔融的产物,但岩石又表现出富集Rb、Ba、Th、U、Pb、Sr、Zr、Hf,亏损Nb、Ta、Ti、P,以及Th/Ta(~4.8)、Zr/Nb(~14)、Nb/Yb(~10)、Nb/U(~11)比值又具有岛弧或弧后盆地玄武岩的亲缘性,显示了玄武岩应源于地幔深部流体交代的石榴石二辉橄榄岩或尖晶石+石榴石二辉橄榄岩部分熔融的产物,表明早古生代北祁连古大洋在俯冲闭合过程中具有洋岛或海底高原的增生作用。结合区域地质背景,利用全球大数据建立的构造判别图解综合研究认为,北祁连西段熬油沟-玉石沟-双龙-小龙孔-卡瓦-东沟等镁铁质-超镁铁质岩共同构成一条重要的SSZ型蛇绿岩带,为北祁连古大洋向南俯冲形成的弧后盆地的残留体。     

福建东山变质岩LA-ICP-MS同位素年龄及其地质意义

LA-ICPMS锆石U-Pb法测得东山地区变质岩的年龄为176.8 Ma、203 Ma、230 Ma、1320 Ma、1810 Ma等,其中176.8 Ma为火山-沉积岩中的岩浆锆石,代表着地层形成的年龄;203 Ma、230 Ma为继承岩浆碎屑锆石,代表了晚三叠世源区火成岩的物源年龄;1810 Ma、1320 Ma为变质岩继承锆石,代表了基底物源年龄。地球化学分析结果表明:岩石具贫硅、高铝、铁,富钾,Co、Ni、V含量低,Ba、Rb、Zr、Hf、U、Th及La含量高,具壳源特征;稀土元素总量较高,轻稀土略富集,轻、重稀土元素分异不明显,无明显的负铕异常,表明变质岩的部分物质与地幔有关。福建东山地区亲营山组可能属早侏罗世晚期华夏陆块边缘进入裂陷期海陆交互相火山-沉积的产物。     

Late Tremadoc and Early Floian Graptolites from Central Hunan, China

<正>Fourteen graptolite species of the Late Tremadoc and Early Floian are described from the Nanba section in the Yiyang area,Hunan Province.Among them,Paradelograptus onubensis, Kiaerograptus bulmani,K.kutchini and Paratemnograptus isolatus of the Late Tremadoc are first found in China.Based on the current graptolite materials,the correspondingly complete graptolite zones of Upper Tremadocian in China are recognized as follows(in ascending order):the Adelograptus tenellus Zone,the Aorograptus victoriae Zone,the Araneograptus murrayi Zone and the Hunnegraptus copiosus Zone.In the Nanba section,the Hunnegraptus copiosus Zone is overlain directly by the Tetragraptus approximatus Zone,there is no hiatus below the base of Floian.     

大兴安岭东北部塔河地区早白垩世高Sr低Yb型侵入岩的年代学、地球化学特征及地质意义

东北地区是中国显生宙花岗岩极其发育的地区,构造演化复杂。研究大兴安岭东北部塔河地区早白垩世侵入岩是解决大兴安岭地区中生代岩浆演化及构造背景的重要突破口。塔河地区早白垩世侵入岩的岩性主要有石英闪长岩、花岗闪长岩、二长花岗岩、正长花岗岩和花岗闪长斑岩。运用LA-ICP-MS测年方法对花岗闪长岩和石英闪长岩进行测年,锆石U-Pb年龄分别为131±1Ma (MSWD=0.73)和130±1Ma (MSWD=2.2)。早白垩世侵入岩SiO₂含量为61.32%~71.68%,为中酸性岩类。Al₂O₃含量为13.53%~15.62%,显示为准铝质或过铝质、高钾钙碱性花岗岩。∑REE为(152.28~253.85)×10^-6。地球化学特征可分为高Sr低Yb型和低Sr高Yb型两类侵入岩,起源于地壳的不同深度。研究区早白垩世侵入岩形成于蒙古-鄂霍次克洋洋盆自西向东的剪切式收缩闭合作用,可能与蒙古-鄂霍次克造山带陆-陆碰撞导致下地壳加厚作用有关。     

北淮阳东段张冲闪长玢岩地球化学特征、LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

张冲闪长玢岩呈不规则状侵入佛子岭岩群诸佛庵岩组和毛坦厂组中。岩体具较高的SiO_2和Al_2O_3含量,为偏碱性、准铝质、高钾钙碱性系列岩石。富集大离子亲石元素(LILE)和轻稀土元素(LREE),亏损高场强元素(HFSE)、重稀土(HREE)和Y,无明显Eu异常,Sr正异常。通过LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb法确定张冲闪长玢岩年龄为129±3 Ma,表明该岩体侵位于早白垩世。通过对岩石主、微量元素特征研究,认为岩浆可能来源于底侵玄武岩,并受到地壳物质的混染。岩体形成于中生代构造体制转换期,可能属于北淮阳东段中生代第一旋回侵入岩。