Presumed magnetic biosignatures observed in magnetite derived from abiotic reductive alteration of nanogoethite

The oriented chains of nanoscale Fe-oxide particles produced by magnetotactic bacteria are a striking example of biomineralization. Several distinguishing features of magnetite particles that comprise bacterial magnetosomes have been proposed to collectively constitute a biosignature of magnetotactic bacteria (Thomas-Keprta et al., 2001). These features include high crystallinity, chemical purity, a single-domain magnetic structure, well-defined crystal morphology, and arrangement of particles in chain structures. Here, we show that magnetite derived from the inorganic breakdown of nanocrystalline goethite exhibits magnetic properties and morphologies remarkably similar to those of biogenic magnetite from magnetosomes. During heating in reducing conditions, oriented nanogoethite aggregates undergo dehydroxylation and transform into stoichiometric magnetite. We demonstrate that highly crystalline single-domain magnetite with euhedral grain morphologies produced abiogenically from goethite meets several of the biogenicity criteria commonly used for the identi?cation of magnetofossils. Furthermore, the suboxic conditions necessary for magnetofossil preservation in sediments are conducive to the reductive alteration of nanogoethite, as well as the preservation of detrital magnetite originally formed from goethite. The findings of this study have potential implications for the identification of biogenic magnetite, particularly in older sediments where diagenesis commonly disrupts the chain structure of magnetosomes. Our results indicate that isolated magnetofossils cannot be positively distinguished from inorganic magnetite on the basis of their magnetic properties and morphology, and that intact chain structures remain the only reliable distinguishing feature of fossil magnetosomes.     

新疆阿尔金盘龙沟金矿高光谱蚀变矿物找矿标志研究

高光谱遥感技术是近年来兴起并逐渐成熟的蚀变矿物研究方法。盘龙沟金矿床围岩蚀变发育,主要蚀变类型包括硅化、绿泥石化、绢云母化、碳酸盐化、钠长石化、褐铁矿化等,蚀变与金矿化关系密切。文章通过航空高光谱遥感数据和地面光谱数据,提取和诊断盘龙沟金矿床的不同地段、不同地质体的蚀变矿物信息,研究分析金矿区的航空和地面高光谱蚀变矿物、蚀变矿物组合特征,以及矿区围岩蚀变特征,总结航空和地面光谱蚀变矿物分带找矿标志规律,结合金矿床地质矿产特征,系统剖析金矿床的综合找矿标志特征,构建盘龙沟金矿床高光谱蚀变矿物找矿标志;同时依据绢云母、绿泥石的诊断光谱,研究两种蚀变矿物的光谱变化特征,分析了金矿床围岩蚀变的形成条件和蚀变矿物的温压条件,进而初步推测盘龙沟金矿床为中低温热液型金矿,其矿体与围岩形成的环境条件不同。     

胶东大尹格庄金矿床热液蚀变作用

胶东是我国最重要的金矿集区。其中,破碎带蚀变岩型———"焦家式"金矿床是区内最重要的金矿床类型,占胶东已探明金矿资源量的90%以上。大尹格庄金矿床位于胶西北招平断裂带中段,是典型的破碎带蚀变岩型金矿床,区内发育有大规模的绢英岩化蚀变带(宽20~200m)和钾化/红化蚀变带(宽50~300m),蚀变岩型金矿体主要发育在招-平断裂带下盘的绢英岩化蚀变带中。本文在详细的野外地质观测基础上,查清了大尹格庄金矿床蚀变类型及矿物组合特征,针对大尹格庄金矿床Ⅱ号矿体系统采集了不同蚀变类型的岩石样品,进行了岩石元素地球化学分析,运用质量平衡方法讨论了热液蚀变过程中元素迁移规律,初步探讨了大尹格庄金矿床热液蚀变作用过程和金沉淀机制。通过本研究得出:大尹格庄金矿床内主要矿石类型为黄铁绢英岩,以浸染状、细脉状为主要矿化形式。大尹格庄金矿床热液蚀变期在时间上可以划分为:钾化/红化→绢英岩化→黄铁绢英岩化→碳酸盐化。钾化/红化蚀变为成矿前蚀变,在此过程中有少量热液钾长石的形成。在地球化学方面表现为Fe、Cu、Pb和Rb元素带入,Si、Al、Na、Ca、Ba、Sr、Cr等元素带出。同时流体-围岩通过交代反应使金从围岩中释放出来成为高价态离子活化进入成矿流体。绢英岩化和黄铁绢英岩化蚀变为成矿期蚀变,蚀变过程中与矿化有关的Fe、Cu、Pb元素表现为迁入状态,流体运移过程中,热液中的HS~-等组分损失,导致Au(HS)~(2-)络合物失稳分解,Fe~(2+)、Fe~(3+)被消耗形成黄铁矿,同时金大量聚集沉淀,此时完成了金由活化→迁移→沉淀富集成矿过程。     

巴音戈壁盆地塔木素地区流体改造与铀成矿

内蒙古巴音戈壁盆地塔木素地区的铀矿化与中国北方其他盆地的层间氧化带砂岩型和泥岩型铀矿化明显不同。在该地区的铀矿化岩石中,砂岩和泥岩几乎各占一半,并且出现不同类型的后期改造。笔者通过野外露头、岩心观察和室内微观分析,发现该地区的矿化岩石发育赤铁矿化、褐铁矿化、黄钾铁矾化、碳酸盐化、石膏化和绿泥石化等多种蚀变。在查明各蚀变带特征的基础上,讨论了巴音戈壁组上段蚀变带的期次及与铀矿化的关系。研究认为,以赤铁矿化、褐铁矿化、黄钾铁矾化为标志的红色、黄色岩石氧化作用发育时间较早,而碳酸盐化、石膏化和绿泥石化较晚;铀矿化分布受氧化作用控制,而灰绿色蚀变所代表的后期热流体叠加作用,使铀矿化进一步富集。     

相山邹家山铀矿区某钻孔岩心高光谱蚀变矿物特征及地质意义

文章基于高光谱蚀变矿物提取方法,利用邹家山地区某钻孔岩心的高光谱数据进行蚀变矿物提取和编录,提取的蚀变矿物主要有富铝水云母、贫铝水云母、绿泥石、蒙脱石、碳酸盐、地开石、高岭石。其中水云母化、绿泥石化、赤铁矿化与铀矿化密切相关;富铝水云母在钻孔上部含量多而下部含量减少;贫铝水云母在钻孔上部含量少,而在下部尤其是矿化段含量明显增多,不同蚀变矿物分布形态不同且不同部位蚀变矿物组合不同,反映了矿区经历了不同期次和性质的热液活动。     

碳酸盐沉积物的成岩作用

化学沉淀碳酸盐矿物在沉积后很容易受到各种作用的影响,其中最重要的是其在成岩阶段所经历的成岩作用.碳酸盐沉积物在成岩过程中主要受大气降水、海水和埋藏过程中孔隙流体的控制,经历一系列压实、溶解、矿物的多相转变、重结晶、胶结等成岩作用,逐渐转变为固结的岩石.在成岩过程中,由于孔隙流体与沉积流体之间的异同以及温度的变化,碳酸盐沉积物的原始矿物成分、地球化学特征可能会很好的保存下来,但在许多情况下,也可能会改变,从而使我们无法准确反演碳酸盐沉积物在沉积时水体的特征.因此,我们在应用碳酸盐岩重建相关古环境和古气候变化的时候,必须要通过有效的方法来对碳酸盐岩是否受到成岩作用的影响进行鉴定.     

Internal morphology, habit and U-Th-Pb microanalysis of amphibolite-to-granulite facies zircons: geochronology of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps)

Several types of growth morphologies and alteration mechanisms of zircon crystals in the high-grade metamorphic Ivrea Zone (IZ) are distinguished and attributed to magmatic, metamorphic and fluid-related events. Anatexis of pelitic metasediments in the IZ produced prograde zircon overgrowths on detrital cores in the restites and new crystallization of magmatic zircons in the associated leucosomes. The primary morphology and Th-U chemistry of the zircon overgrowth in the restites show a systematic variation apparently corresponding to the metamorphic grade: prismatic (prism-blocked) low-Th/U types in the upper amphibolite facies, stubby (fir-tree zoned) medium-Th/U types in the transitional facies and isometric (roundly zoned) high-Th/U types in the granulite facies. The primary crystallization ages of prograde zircons in the restites and magmatic zircons in the leucosomes cannot be resolved from each other, indicating that anatexis in large parts of the IZ was a single and short lived event at 299 ± 5 Ma (95% c. l.). Identical U/Pb ages of magmatic zircons from a metagabbro (293 ± 6 Ma) and a metaperidotite (300 ± 6 Ma) from the Mafic Formation confirm the genetic context of magmatic underplating and granulite facies anatexis in the IZ. The U-Pb age of 299 ± 5 Ma from prograde zircon overgrowths in the metasediments also shows that high-grade metamorphic (anatectic) conditions in the IZ did not start earlier than 20 Ma after the Variscan amphibolite facies metamorphism in the adjacent Strona–Ceneri Zone (SCZ). This makes it clear that the SCZ cannot represent the middle to upper crustal continuation of the IZ. Most parts of zircon crystals that have grown during the granulite facies metamorphism became affected by alteration and Pb-loss. Two types of alteration and Pb-loss mechanisms can be distinguished by cathodoluminescence imaging: zoning-controlled alteration (ZCA) and surface-controlled alteration (SCA). The ZCA is attributed to thermal and/or decompression pulses during extensional unroofing in the Permian, at or earlier than 249 ± 7 Ma. The SCA is attributed to the ingression of fluids at 210 ± 12 Ma, related to hydrothermal activity during the breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent in the Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic. Received: 7 July 1998 / Accepted: 4 November 1998     

石英脉型金矿床的成矿流体研究及思考

石英脉型金矿是常见的金矿床类型.金主要以粒间金、裂隙金和包裹金3种形式赋存于石英、黄铁矿等金属硫化物中.目前了解此类金矿的成矿流体组成主要是通过石英中的流体包裹体成分的定量和定性分析结果,揭示矿床成因.但是野外和室内镜下的综合研究已证实,金矿的形成经历了若干个成矿阶段.每个阶段都有石英和金属硫化物形成,而石英要明显早于金属硫化物的结晶,同时金在硫化物中的存在形式多为包裹金和裂隙金,这至少说明金和硫化物同时结晶沉淀或金比硫化物更晚沉淀.因此,金运移沉淀结晶时的流体和石英结晶时的流体存在着明显的时间差,金矿化与黄铁矿等金属硫化物有着密切的联系.研究金属硫化物中的流体包裹体来反映主成矿阶段的成矿流体物质来源,比研究石英中的流体包裹体更具有实际的意义.     

西藏谢通门县雄村斑岩型铜金矿集区Ⅰ号矿体的蚀变与矿化特征

雄村斑岩型铜金矿集区位于西藏冈底斯成矿带,是目前该带上发现的唯一一个与新特提斯洋壳早期俯冲作用有关的斑岩型铜金矿区,由Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ号铜金矿体组成.雄村Ⅰ号铜金矿体具有规模大、蚀变强烈、富金银而贫钼的特点,其蚀变-矿化系统受中-晚侏罗世侵入于雄村组凝灰岩中的多个含眼球状石英斑晶的角闪石英闪长玢岩岩枝的控制,矿体即赋存于玢岩...