Experimental Study of Fe-Mg Exchange Reaction Between Orthopyroxene and Sapphirine and its Calibration as a Geothermometer

The exchange of Fe²⁺ and Mg²⁺ between orthopyroxene and sapphirine has been investigated at pressures 7-16 kbar and temperatures 850-1300°C using a piston cylinder apparatus for the synthetic and natural systems. This reaction is temperature-dependent and would be a good geothermometer. The equilibration temperature T is approximately expressed by the distribution coefficient as follows: T(°C)=1515/(ln K_D+0.943)-273.

This empirical equation was applied to some Antarctic granulites and associated rocks. The new orthopyroxene-sapphirine geothermometer gives consistent results with those estimated from the Fe-Mg orthopyroxene-garnet geothermometer.     

熵理论视角下的生态安全研究

生态危机产生的深层原因是人类经济活动产生的过量熵增,导致自然界产生了过多的熵,复合生态系统进入高熵状态.以熵理论为指导,首先通过建立复合生态系统的熵变模型,判断系统是处在安全、临界还是危机状态,然后对人类社会生态安全的演变进行了熵分析.最后提出克服熵增、实现负熵的途径,即构建低熵发展模式,遵循自然生态规律,发展生态产业,加强生态教育,建立生态安全风险防范体系等,由此来规避生态风险,化解生态危机,维护我国的生态安全.     

印度大陆俯冲过程中的高压变质与深熔作用：东喜马拉雅构造结南迦巴瓦杂岩的相平衡模拟研究

位于东喜马拉雅构造结的南迦巴瓦杂岩是高喜马拉雅结晶岩系的一部分,是印度大陆深俯冲到欧亚板块之下经历了高压变质作用的产物。基于岩相学和矿物化学研究,本文对南迦巴瓦杂岩中的泥质变质岩进行了相平衡模拟研究。结果表明,泥质岩石经历了高压麻粒岩相变质作用,峰期矿物组成是石榴石+蓝晶石+黑云母+斜长石+钾长石+石英+金红石,峰期变质条件是~820℃,13.0~13.5kb,表明印度大陆至少俯冲到了约45km深度,构成了青藏高原的加厚下地壳。高压泥质变质岩在进变质和峰期变质过程中经历了白云母和黑云母脱水反应引起的部分深熔,熔融程度可达27vol%,形成了花岗质成分的熔体,构成了喜马拉雅造山带淡色花岗岩的源区。因此,青藏高原具有一个深熔融的中下地壳,为其侧向流动提供了有利的流变学环境。     

The Use of Field Dependence of Magnetic Susceptibility for Monitoring Variations in Titanomagnetite Composition - A Case Study on Basanites from the Vogelsberg 1996 Drillhole,Germany

In high Ti basanites from the Vogelsberg 1996 drillhole distinct variations in the field dependence of AC magnetic susceptibility correlate with compositional variations of titanomagnetite, as determined by temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility. Curie temperatures for the basanites are in the range of 240 to 525°C. The field dependence reaches up to 20% for measurements in 30 A/m and 300 A/m AC field amplitude. It is demonstrated that two-field magnetic susceptibility measurements can prevail information about compositional changes of titanomagnetite and therefore support the interpretation of magnetic susceptibility logs from drillcores of basaltic rock suites.     

Cooling and inferred exhumation history of the Ryoke metamorphic belt in the Yanai district, south-west Japan: Constraints from Rb–Sr and fission-track ages of gneissose granitoid and numerical modeling

Abstract The Ryoke metamorphic belt in south-west Japan consists mainly of I-type granitoids and associated low-pressure/high-temperature metamorphic rocks. In the Yanai district, it has been divided into three structural units: northern, central and southern units. In this study, we measured the Rb–Sr whole-rock–mineral isochron ages and fission-track ages of the gneissose granodiorite in the central structural unit. Four Rb–Sr ages fall in a range of ca 89–87 Ma. The fission-track ages of zircon and apatite are 68.9 ± 2.6 Ma and 57.4 ± 2.5 Ma (1σ error), respectively. Combining the newly obtained ages with previously reported (Th–)U–Pb ages from the same unit, thermochronologic study revealed two distinctive cooling stages; 1) a rapid cooling (> 40°C/Myr) for a period (~7 Myr) soon after the peak metamorphism (~ 95 Ma) and 2) the subsequent slow cooling stage (~ 5°C/Myr) after ca 88 Ma. The first rapid cooling stage corresponds to thermal relaxation of the intruded granodiorite magma and its associated metamorphic rocks, and to the uplift by a displacement along low-angle faults which initiated soon after the intrusion of the magma. Uplift by the later stage deformation having formed large-scale upright folds resulted in progress of the exhumation during the first stage. The average exhumation velocity of the stage is ≥ 2 mm/yr. During the second stage, the rocks were not accompanied by ductile deformation and were exhumed with the rate of 0.1–0.2 mm/yr. The difference in the exhumation velocity between the first and second cooling stages resulted from the difference in the thickness of the crust and in the activity of ductile deformation between the early and later stages of the orogenesis.