A Study on the Classification and Well-Logging Identification of Eclogite in the Main Hole of Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project

Eclogite, one of the important lithologies in the main hole of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) Project, exists above the depth of 3 245 m and has distinctive responses of gamma-ray, compensating density and neutron well-logging, and so on. In this study, according to the diversities of minerals and chemical components and well-logging responses, eclogites are classified from three aspects of origin, content of oxygen, and sub-mineral. We studied the logging identification method for eclogite sub-classes based on multi-element statistics and reconstructed 11 kinds of eclogite. As a result, eclogites can be divided into 6 types using well logs. In the light of this recognition, the eclogite in the main hole is divided into 20 sections, and the distribution characters of all sub-classes of eclogite are analyzed, which will provide important data for geological research of CCSD.     

CCSD超高压榴辉岩中的水:红外光谱分析

超高压变质岩中名义上无水矿物(NAMs) 在板块俯冲过程中可以携带一部分地表水进入上地幔, 这些水储存于地球深部并对地幔动力学有着重要的影响.对中国大陆科学钻探主孔榴辉岩中的绿辉石和石榴石进行了详细的显微傅立叶变换红外光谱(Micro-FTIR) 分析, 结果显示所有绿辉石和石榴石颗粒都含有结构水, 其水含量范围分别在68~29μg/g和20~75μg/g.榴辉岩全岩的水含量为150~300μg/g.绿辉石和石榴石结构水含量的分布出现2种情况: (1) 颗粒内部的均一分布; (2) 不均匀分布, 表现为水含量从核部到幔部到边部随之增加或水含量核部、边部低而幔部高.电子探针结果表明水含量分布不均与矿物化学成分无直接关系.位错分布不均匀可能导致了颗粒内部结构水分布的不均匀.      

Petrology and Geochemistry of West Philippine Basin Basalts and Early Palau-Kyushu Arc Volcanic Clasts from ODP Leg 195, Site 1201D: Implications for the Early History of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc

Site 1201D of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 195 recovered basalticand volcaniclastic units from the West Philippine Basin thatdocument the earliest history of the Izu–Bonin–Marianaconvergent margin. The stratigraphic section recovered at Site1201D includes 90 m of pillow basalts, representing the WestPhilippine Basin basement, overlain by 459 m of volcaniclasticturbidites that formed from detritus shed from the Eocene–Oligoceneproto-Izu–Bonin–Mariana island arc. Basement basaltsare normal mid-ocean ridge basalt (N-MORB), based on their abundancesof immobile trace elements, although fluid-mobile elements areenriched, similar to back-arc basin basalts (BABB). Sr, Nd,Pb and Hf isotopic compositions of the basement basalts aresimilar to those of basalts from other West Philippine Basinlocations, and show an overall Indian Ocean MORB signature,marked by high ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb for a given ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb and high¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf for a given ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd. Trace element and isotopicdifferences between the basement and overlying arc-derived volcaniclasticsare best explained by the addition of subducted sediment orsediment melt, together with hydrous fluids from subducted oceaniccrust, into the mantle source of the arc lavas. In contrastto tectonic models suggesting that a mantle hotspot was a sourceof heat for the early Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc magmatism,the geochemical data do not support an enriched, ocean islandbasalt (OIB)-like source for either the basement basalts orthe arc volcanic section. KEY WORDS: back-arc basalts; Izu–Bonin–Marianas; Philippine Sea; subduction initiation; Ocean Drilling Program Leg 195     

中国大陆科学钻探主孔100~2000 m测井磁化率和磁三分量分析

对比分析了中国大陆科学钻探(CCSD)主孔100~2 000 m测井磁化率与岩心样本磁化率的测量结果,二者具有较好的一致性。测井磁化率统计结果表明CCSD主孔100~2 000 m超高压变质岩的磁化率从高至低依次为:蛇纹岩、石英榴辉岩、金红石榴辉岩、正片麻岩、退变质榴辉岩、多硅白云母榴辉岩、副片麻岩、绿泥石角闪岩、角闪岩。由CCSD主孔100~2 000 m磁三分量测量数据得到磁异常的△BZ、△BH和△BT值,结合前人所做的岩石学研究分析发现:主孔530~575 m的磁异常主要由岩石的金红石矿化、钛磁铁矿化和磁铁矿化引起,604~643 m和652~678 m的磁异常主要由岩石的蛇纹石化引起;钻孔中岩层的磁化率对磁三分量异常起着主要的决定作用,高磁化率岩层都表现出较大的磁三分量异常。     

Petrological and geochronological constraints on the formation, subduction and exhumation of the continental crust in the southern Sulu orogen, eastern-central China

Detailed petrological, geochemical and geochronological studies were carried out for the core samples from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Main Hole (CCSD-MH) with a final depth of 5158 m. This borehole has penetrated into an ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic slice consisting mainly of eclogites, gneisses, garnet-pyroxenites and garnet-peridotites. Geochemical characteristics indicate that their protoliths are igneous rocks, and occur in a continental rifting tectonic setting. Quartz-, rutile- and ilmenite-rich eclogites from 0 to 710 m occur as alternating layers; the eclogites, together with interlayers of peridotites and gneisses form a layered ultramafic-mafic-acidic intrusion, which was formed by extensive fractional crystallization of basaltic magma in continental environments. The granitic gneisses from 1190 to 1505 m and 3460 to 5118 m show affinity to within-plate granite, whereas the granitic gneisses from 710 to 1190 m and 1505 to 3460 m exhibit characteristics of volcanic-arc granite. Zircon U-Pb dating demonstrates that the magmatic zircon cores, which have relatively high Th/U ratios (mostly > 0.4), from both eclogites and gneisses, yield the same age at c. 788.8 Ma, suggesting that the protoliths of UHP rocks were formed by bimodal magmatism in Neoproterozoic rifting tectonic zones along the northern margin of the Yangtze Plate, in response to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. U-Pb dating of metamorphic zircons with coesite and other eclogite-facies mineral inclusions and with relatively low Th/U ratios (mostly < 0.14) gives similar Triassic ages, which define two main zircon-forming events at 221.1 Ma and 216.7 Ma. We suggest that the older weighted mean age represents the peak-UHP metamorphic event at a pressure of 5.0 GPa (corresponds to ∼ 165 km depth), whereas the younger mean age reflects the UHP/HP retrograde event at a pressure 2.8 GPa (∼ 92 km depth). Therefore, a maximum rate of vertical movement during early exhumation of the UHP rocks from the Sulu orogen would be 17 mm/year, which is quite similar to initial exhumation rates (16 to 35 mm/year) of many UHP terranes in the world.