未来气候对南疆东部的影响

本文通过对未来气候的变化趋势的分析，对东昆仑山区和南疆东部的局部气候进行推测，并对由此而产生的影响进行了评述。     

中国东部新生代玄武岩及其他幔包体的氧逸度

地幔环境的氧逸度与温度和压力一样，是控制许多地幔过程的一个重要参数。本文计算了中国东部几个具有代表性地区的玄武岩和尖晶石二辉橄榄岩的氧逸度，尖晶石二辉橄榄岩的氧逸度变化不大，均位于１ｏｇ（ｆｏ２）＝ｌｏｇ（ｆｏ２ＦＭＱ）＋０．０左右，而各地区玄武岩的氧逸度却变化很大，其平均值从尚志地区的ｌｏｇ（ｆｏ２ＦＭＱ＋０．６到长白山地区的ｌｏｇ（ｆｏ２ＦＭＱ）＋３．３左右（其中东北地区钾质玄武岩的氧逸度比除尚志以外其它地区的低），并且总体具有比地幔橄榄岩高得多的氧逸度。推测钾质玄武岩和尚志地区破性玄武岩的氧逸度比中国东部其它地区玄武岩的氧逸度低的可能原因是，前二个地区的玄武岩来源于更深部的（金云母）石榴石二辉橄榄岩，而其它地区的玄武岩来源于略浅部的尖晶石二辉橄榄岩。     

Extension-related origin of magmas from a garnet-bearing source in the Los Tuxtlas volcanic field, Mexico

The Los Tuxtlas volcanic field (LTVF) of late Miocene to Recent age is a key area to understand the consequences of the current subduction of the Cocos plate beneath the North American plate, as well as the competing effects of the ongoing extension along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Geochemical and radiogenic (Sr, Nd, and Pb) isotope data are used to constrain the origin of these 7 Ma to Recent magmas in this area. The basanitic and alkaline basaltic rocks show highly steep light rare-earth element-enriched patterns implying residual garnet in their mantle source, whereas the evolved alkaline and sub-alkaline rocks have less steep rare-earth element patterns consistent with a contribution from the continental crust. Geochemical and isotope data from the LTVF are compared with those from continental rifts, extension-related areas, continental break-up regions, and island and continental arcs, including the Central American volcanic arc related to the subduction of the same oceanic plate (Cocos plate), as well as with those from the two nearby Mexican provinces [the Eastern Alkaline Province (EAP) and the eastern part of the Mexican Volcanic Belt (E-MVB)]. These data for the LTVF primitive rocks are similar to rifts, extension-related areas and continental break-up regions, including the two Mexican provinces, but different from island and continental arcs, including the northern part of the Central American Volcanic Arc (CAVA). The LTVF rocks show an unusual Th and U enrichment with respect to Ba and Rb, which also renders a distinct negative Nb anomaly (with respect to Th and K) in them. These rocks also show a negative Nb anomaly (with respect to Ba and La) that is similar to numerous rift, extension-related areas, and continental break-up regions, but distinct from all arcs around the world, indicating that the magma genesis processes in the LTVF are similar to those in rifts. The “Sr-shift”, shown to be a typical feature of most, if not all, island and continental arcs including the CAVA, is not present in the LTVF rocks. Numerous discrimination diagrams, including the new discriminant function diagrams, suggest a rift setting for the LTVF. An essentially extension-related origin of the LTVF is, therefore, inferred in this study. Furthermore, in the light of major and trace element data for LTVF primitive rocks and their modelling an incompatible element-enriched garnet-bearing source seems plausible. The LTVF source is likely to reside in the lithosphere rather than the asthenosphere although the asthenospheric contribution cannot be completely ruled out. The evolved alkaline and sub-alkaline rocks might have a lower crustal component. Finally, it appears that the LTVF shows more affinity to the EAP rather than to the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB), implying that the LTVF should probably be considered as a part of the EAP.     

Copper mobility in the Eastern Creek Volcanics, Mount Isa, Australia: evidence from laser ablation ICP-MS of iron-titanium oxides

The Palaeoproterozoic Eastern Creek Volcanics are a series of copper-rich tholeiitic basalts which occur adjacent to the giant sediment-hosted Mount Isa copper deposit in Queensland, Australia. The volcanic rocks are often cited as the source of metals for the deposit. New laser ablation ICP-MS analyses of iron–titanium oxides from the basalts provide evidence for the local mobilisation of copper during regional greenschist facies metamorphism. This interpretation is based on the observation that copper-bearing magmatic titanomagnetite was destabilised during greenschist facies metamorphism, and the new magnetite which crystallised was copper poor. Petrological observations, regional geochemical signatures and geochemical modelling suggest that the mobilised copper was concentrated in syn-metamorphic epidote-rich alteration zones, creating a pre-concentration of copper before the main mineralisation event at Mount Isa. Geochemical modelling demonstrates this process is enhanced by the addition of CO₂ from adjacent carbonate-rich sediments during metamorphic devolatilisation. Regional geochemical data illustrate elevated copper concentrations in epidote-rich zones (high CaO), but where these zones are overprinted by potassic alteration (high K₂O), copper is depleted. A two-stage model is proposed whereby after metamorphic copper enrichment in epidote–titanite alteration zones, an oxidised potassium-rich fluid leached copper from the epidote-altered metabasalts and deposited it in the overlying sedimentary rocks to form the Mount Isa copper deposit. This ore-forming fluid is expressed regionally as potassium feldspar-rich veins and locally as biotite-rich alteration, which formed around major fluid conduits between the metabasalt metal source rocks and the overlying deposit host sequence. This model is consistent with the remobilisation of copper from mafic source rocks, as has been found at other world-class copper deposits.Electronic supplementary material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at and is accessible for authorized users.     

Paleomagnetic evidence for large en-bloc rotations in the Eastern Alps during Neogene orogeny

We present new paleomagnetic data from the Northern Calcareous Alps and the Central Alps of Austria. All new data are overprint magnetizations and can be subdivided into two groups: In rocks older than earliest Rupelian, two remagnetizations reflecting both clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation were detected. In rocks of late Rupelian and younger ages, only a counter-clockwise rotated remagnetization was found. Our results together with results from previous paleomagnetic studies from the Eastern and Southern Alps suggest two main phases of vertical axis rotation. The first, clockwise rotation affecting the Northern Calcareous Alps was active between earliest to Late Rupelian. We propose a model where the Northern Calcareous Alps are segmented into individual blocks. Within a dextral shear corridor these blocks rotated clockwise due to the counter-clockwise rotation of the Southern Alps and Central Alps. The second, counter-clockwise rotation occurred in the Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene, affecting Eastern and Southern Alps. In this stage of orogeny, the internal massifs of the Western Alps were already accreted to the upper plate and therefore included in counter-clockwise rotation. This rotation is contemporaneous with counter-clockwise rotation in the Apennines and opening of the Balearic basin, and a genetic relationship is suggested. A second step of counter-clockwise rotation, reconstructed from published data, is observed in the sedimentary basins at the southeastern margin of the Eastern Alps, where counter-clockwise rotated Miocene and Pliocene sedimentary rocks are present. This rotation is seen in connection to a young counter-clockwise rotation of the Adriatic plate.     

TRANSALP—Cross-line recording during the seismic reflection transect in the Eastern Alps

Cross-line recording formed a companion experiment of the TRANSALP seismic reflection transect through the Eastern Alps, conducted by partner institutions from Austria, Germany and Italy in three field campaigns in the period fall 1998 to fall 1999. Besides of the originally expected three-dimensional control for the north–south running main transect, additional information on seismic anisotropy and alternative images of crucial parts of the main transect could be gained.Conventionally processed sections along N–S running common-midpoint (CMP) binning lines confirm and strengthen the predominance of midcrustal reflective structures of the ‘Sub-Tauern-Ramp’ beneath and south of the Tauern Window. Velocity analysis of the first arrivals exhibit about 10% higher velocities in east–west propagating P-waves, compatible with texture-dominated rock anisotropy, recorded on cross-lines at the Tauern Window. Pre-stack depth migration of cross-line recordings shows dominant south dip of the Sub-Tauern-Ramp with easterly dip components and a sub-horizontal root zone of the Sub-Dolomites-Ramp.     

New data on the palaeobiogeography of Loftusia genus (Foraminiferida). An in situ presence of the genus in eastern Greece (Boeotia)

An Upper Maastrichtian horizon rich in Loftusia is for the first time described in situ in Greece in the province of Boeotia. It is found in a continuous undisturbed carbonate sequence of the eastern Greece platform (Subpelagonian zone) of Maastrichtian–Paleocene age followed by flysch sedimentation. Loftusia is found in a facies reflecting an outer shelf environment, associated with debris of rudists, Orbitoides spp., Siderolites calcitrapoides, Omphalocyclus macroporus, Hellenocyclina beotica, Sulcoperculina sp., and echinoderms. Similar fauna, but without Loftusia, is found in the surrounding levels of Late Maastrichtian age as well. This recovery of the genus in the western part of its distribution area, where it is not as abundant as in the eastern part, is considered significant for the palaeobiogeography of the genus in Tethys Ocean during Late Cretaceous. To cite this article: A. Zambetakis-Lekkas, A. Kemeridou, C. R. Geoscience 338 (2006).     

U/Th age constraints on the absence of ice in the central Inn Valley (eastern Alps, Austria) during Marine Isotope Stages 5c to 5a

Calcitic flowstones are present in fractures of a Pleistocene breccia near Innsbruck, Austria, and record periods of carbonate precipitation in the unsaturated zone between 101,500 ± 1500 and 70,300 ± 1800 yr, constrained by U-series disequilibrium dates. The occurrence of these speleothems, their low carbon isotopic composition, and the lack of infiltrated siliciclastic material demonstrate that the central Inn valley - which harbored one of the most extensive valley glaciers during the last glacial maximum - was ice-free during Marine Isotope Stages 5c to 5a. Climatically warm periods are separated by distinct drops in the oxygen isotopic composition of the speleothem calcite, attributed to strong and possibly seasonally biased atmospheric cooling. During these intervening stadials, which mirror those identified in the Greenland ice cores and marine sea-surface temperature records, calcite deposition apparently came to a halt, but the Inn Valley remained ice-free. The youngest calcite layer formed between ∼74,000 and ∼70,000 yr and places a maximum age limit on the likely expansion of alpine glaciers during the Marine Isotope Stage 5/4 transition, consistent with other speleothem records.     

新疆吐哈盆地南缘铜矿带含矿斑岩的地球化学及形成环境

吐哈盆地南缘斑岩铜矿带位于中亚造山带东天山的中段。研究表明该铜矿带含矿斑岩的形成时代可分早石炭世和晚石炭世-早二叠世两期，前者以土屋-延东含矿斜长花岗斑岩为例，形成于与洋壳俯冲有关的岛弧环境，后者以赤湖和三岔口斜长花岗斑岩为例，形成于同碰撞造山的中-晚期。主量、微量元素和Sr—Nd同位素地球化学数据表明，吐哈盆地南缘铜矿带大多数斑岩具有钙碱性和岛弧花岗岩的特征，初始锶比值一般小于0．7046，εNd（t）值为5．3—7．6，反映成岩物质的深源性；进一步可将斑岩划分为埃达克岩和非埃达克岩，其中延东-土屋和三岔口含矿斑岩具有埃达克岩的特征，而赤湖、灵龙、卡拉塔格和垅西矿化斑岩和成矿后斑岩不具埃迭克岩特征。埃迭克岩成因有两种：土屋-延东埃迭克岩为洋壳板片熔融成因，三岔口埃达克岩为加厚下地壳的熔融成因。土屋-延东洋壳熔融埃达克岩的确定，进一步肯定了晚古生代石炭纪吐哈盆地南缘的岛弧环境。研究表明侵位于中亚造山带晚古生代岛弧环境和洋壳熔融成因的埃达克岩最有利于形成大型斑岩铜矿。     

新疆东准噶尔野马泉构造蚀变脉岩型金矿床

野马泉金矿位于新疆准噶尔野马泉断块内,区内出露地层主要为志留系的浅变质舍碳碎屑岩类。矿体产在破碎蚀变的闪长玢岩脉及其边侧的片理化围岩中,与成矿有关的蚀变主要为硅化、绢云母化和毒砂-黄铁矿化。稀土元素、流体包裹体和同位素等研究表明,野马泉金矿的形成与闪长质岩浆作用密切相关。闪长质岩浆同化吸收了含碳质和黄铁矿的围岩,使岩浆中的金大量进入流体相,而演化成含矿热液。金矿化的闪长玢岩中锆石 U-Pb 一致年龄为252.5±1.8Ma 和254.5±0.9Ma,代表了新疆北部后碰撞构造-岩浆-成矿活动末期的产物。与野马泉矿床类似的金矿床,在准噶尔及邻区点多面广,其成矿特征介于构造蚀变岩型金矿和与侵入岩有关的金矿床之间,应属一新的金矿(亚)类型-构造蚀变脉岩型。