新疆东准噶尔阿尔曼泰蛇绿构造混杂岩带中辉长岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

阿尔曼泰蛇绿构造混杂岩带位于新疆东准噶尔,记录了古亚洲洋演化。对蛇绿构造混杂岩带中的辉长岩进行主量、微量、稀土元素及LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年分析,发现辉长岩的原始岩浆来源于亏损地幔与大陆地壳之间,同时受到后期地壳物质的混染作用或来自消减残片的流体交代。锆石年龄为514.3±3.7Ma,推测阿尔曼泰蛇绿构造混杂岩带形成时代为中寒武世—早奥陶世。     

江西宜丰-德兴叠覆造山带的基本特征及其意义

宜丰—德兴一带存在新的一种造山带类型,称之为晋宁期—加里东期宜丰-德兴叠覆型造山带,总体呈半月形舌状展布,是经北南双向多期碰撞叠覆的隐伏-半隐伏型造山带。经对多个出露于造山带内的构造岩片进行时态、位态、相态的研究与恢复,建立了该造山带的结构样式和构造演化序列,具有3层结构模式。分别由代表中新元古代华南洋的残迹蛇绿混杂岩、扬子陆缘弧前盆地火山-沉积变质岩系、下南华统次深海相沉积的浅变质岩片与怀玉—广丰地区青白口纪晚期—早古生代沉积的下南华统浅变质岩片组成。造山带两侧的宜丰-景德镇与德兴-弋阳推覆带是中国重要的铜、金多金属矿集区,伏于变质岩之下的晚古生代煤系地层有巨大的找煤潜力。     

第32届国际地质大会造山带和蛇绿岩研究进展

第32届国际地质大会反映了近年来造山带和蛇绿岩研究的最新成果。太古代与年轻造山带对比研究表明决定造山带几何特征的主要因素是它们与同造山及造山期后的伸展构造体制的响应方式。进一步分析了中新元古代罗得利亚超大陆的形成与裂解机理。分析了晚前寒武纪-古生代造山作用过程及可能模式。造山带形成后其深部表露、抬升和剥蚀过程与气候及环境演变有紧密的关系,是当前及今后地球科学的重要研究领域。蛇绿岩的岩浆成因并不能用一种简单的模式来解释,研究表明蛇绿岩岩浆具多成因。提出了蛇绿岩套的双离散侵位模式、多米诺旋转侵位模式、俯冲快速折返就位模式。对比表明特提斯及环太平洋蛇绿岩的来源、演化及就位特征具明显的多样性。     

雅鲁藏布江缝合带开合演化模式的探讨

通过对雅鲁藏布江缝合带的蛇绿岩、构造混杂岩的地质调查及其岩石化学、地球化学特征的分析,进一步证实了雅鲁藏布江缝合带萨嘎分岔的存在,探讨了雅鲁藏布江缝合带的演化模式。将雅鲁藏布江缝合带分为南、北两带,南带起始于二叠纪末期印度板块向北漂移过程中的伸展作用,到三叠纪末-早侏罗世,雅鲁藏布江缝合带南带伸展作用加剧,并伴有洋壳的裂陷和蛇绿岩的侵位,在较短暂的双向俯冲、碰撞后焊接了仲巴陆块。晚侏罗世到早白垩世之后,雅鲁藏布江缝合带北带再次扩张、俯冲,直到始新世晚期整个缝合带开始剧烈碰撞、造山、隆起,形成了雄伟的青藏高原。     

Zircon ages and geochemical compositions of the Manlay ophiolite and coeval island arc: Implications for the tectonic evolution of South Mongolia

Numerous small dismembered ophiolite fragments occur in South Mongolia, but they are very poorly studied. The lack of age data and geochemical analysis hampers our understanding of the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the region. We conducted detailed studies on the Manlay ophiolitic complex and Huree volcanic rocks south of the Main Mongolian Lineament (MML) to provide some constraints on these rocks. The Manlay ophiolite consists of dunite, harzburgite, pyroxenite, gabbro, plagiogranite, basalt and chert, locally with chromite mineralization in dunite. The gabbro and plagiogranite yielded SHRIMP zircon weighted mean ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U ages of 509 ± 5 Ma and 482 ± 4 Ma, respectively. The basalt and dolerite samples of this complex show enrichment in LREE and LILE and negative Nb, Ta and Ti anomalies, and the chrome spinel from the chromitite lens in the dunite is characterized by high Cr^# and low TiO₂ contents. These features suggest a supra-subduction zone (SSZ) origin for the ophiolitic complex. The Huree volcanic rocks, ranging from basalt to dacite, display enrichment in LREE and LILE, weak Eu anomalies and distinctly negative Nb, Ta and Ti anomalies, consistent with those of typical magmas in a subduction environment. An andesite sample from this arc yielded a SHRIMP ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U zircon age of 487 ± 5 Ma, which is the oldest reliable age for an island arc in South Mongolia. Recognition of an Early Paleozoic ophiolitic complex and a coeval island arc indicates that South Mongolia underwent a period of active volcanism during Late Cambrian to Ordovician. Additionally, the tuff overlying the ophiolitic complex and a granite intruding the ophiolite have SHRIMP zircon U–Pb ages of 391 ± 5 Ma and 304 ± 4 Ma, respectively. Combining the available data, we propose that the Early Paleozoic subduction–accretionary complexes likely constitute the basement of the Late-Paleozoic arc formations and correlate with the Lake Zone in western Mongolia.     

Late Cretaceous subduction initiation and Palaeocene–Eocene slab breakoff magmatism in South-Central Anatolia,Turkey

The Late Cretaceous Alihoca ophiolite in the Inner Tauride suture zone (ITSZ) of South-Central Turkey represents part of a single ophiolitic thrust sheet that originated from the Inner Tauride ocean. The ophiolite contains upper mantle peridotites, cumulate wehrlites, layered-to-isotropic gabbros, and microgabbroic-to-doleritic dikes. An ophiolitic mélange beneath the Alihoca ophiolite includes blocks of limestone, peridotite, dolerite, basalt, and deep-sea sedimentary rocks (radiolarite, chert) in a matrix comprising sheared serpentinite and mudstone. Isotropic gabbro and dolerite dike rocks show enrichment in Sr, K, Rb, Ba, and Th (LILE) and depletion of Ta, Nb, Zr, Ti, and Y (HFSE), indicating an island arc tholeiite (IAT) affinity. Relatively younger dolerite rocks display low TiO₂ (<0.5 wt.%) contents, concave REE profiles with low HREE concentrations, and high LREE values, typical of boninitic affinities. The Alihoca ophiolite, hence, displays an IAT to boninitic geochemical progression in its magmatic evolution, reminiscent of many other Tethyan ophiolites in the region. It represents the remnant of a forearc oceanic crust, which developed during the early stages of subduction within the Inner Tauride ocean. Volcanic, volcano-sedimentary, and sedimentary rocks of the Uluk??la–Çamard? basin north of the ITSZ disconformably overlie the mafic-ultramafic rocks of the Alihoca ophiolite. Pillowed and massive lavas of the latest Cretaceous–Palaeocene Uluk??la Formation have alkaline basalt-to-basaltic andesite compositions, displaying relatively enriched LILE and LREE patterns with negative Nb and Ta anomalies. These geochemical features suggest that magmas of the Uluk??la–Çamard? volcanic rocks formed from partial melting of a metasomatized lithospheric mantle. This melting event was triggered by the influx of asthenospheric heat through a slab breakoff-induced window in the downgoing Tethyan oceanic lithosphere.     

Metaultramafic schists and dismembered ophiolites of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina,USA

ABSTRACT

Metaultramafic rocks (MUR) in the Ashe Metamorphic Suite (AMS) of northwestern North Carolina include quartz ± feldspar-bearing QF-amphibolites and quartz-deficient, locally talc-, chlorite-, and/or Mg-amphibole-bearing TC-amphibolites. Some workers divide TC-amphibolites into Todd and Edmonds types, based on mineral and geochemical differences, and we provisionally add a third type – olivine ± pyroxene-rich, Rich Mountain-type rocks. Regionally, MUR bodies range from equant, Rich Mountain- to highly elongate, Todd-TC-amphibolite-type bodies. The MURs exhibit three to five mineral associations containing assemblages with olivine, anthophyllitic amphibole, Mg-hornblende, Mg-actinolite, cummingtonite, and serpentine representing decreasing eclogite to greenschist facies grades of metamorphism over time. MUR protoliths are difficult to determine. Southwestern MUR bodies have remnant olivine ± pyroxene-rich assemblages representing ultrabasic-basic, dunite-peridotite-pyroxenite protoliths. Northeastern TC-amphibolite MURs contain hornblende and actinolitic amphiboles plus chlorites – aluminous and calcic assemblages suggesting to some that metasomatism of basic, QF-amphibolites yields all TC-amphibolites. Yet MgO-CaO-Al₂O₃ and trace element chemistries of many TC-amphibolites resemble compositions of plagioclase peridotites. We show that a few AMS TC-amphibolites had basaltic/gabbroic protoliths, while presenting arguments opposing application of the metasomatic hypothesis to all TC-amphibolites. We establish that MUR bodies are petrologically heterolithic and that TC-amphibolites are in contact with many rock types; that those with high Cr, Ni, and Mg have olivine- or pyroxene-dominated protoliths; that most exhibit three or more metamorphic mineral associations; and that contacts thought to be metasomatic are structural. Clearly, different MUR bodies have different chemistries representing various protoliths, and have different mineral assemblages, reflecting both chemical composition and metamorphic history. Spot sampling of heterolithic MUR bodies does not reveal MUR body character or history or allow ‘type’ designations. We recommend that the subdivision of MUR bodies into ‘types’ be abandoned and that the metasomatic hypothesis be carefully applied. AMS MURs and associated metamafic rocks likely represent fragments of dismembered ophiolites from various ophiolite types.     

蛇绿岩研究的最新进展

关于蛇绿岩的形成、定义和分类争论了近200年。早期蛇绿岩被认为是有成因联系的几种岩石的组合,发育在优地槽的核部。在板块构造中它被看作形成于洋脊的古洋壳残片。经过几十年的研究,发现导致蛇绿岩多样性的因素很多,一个新的定义和分类方案被提出。新定义强调了蛇绿岩形成的构造环境,认为在威尔逊旋回的各个阶段都会形成性质不同的蛇绿岩,并根据生成环境将蛇绿岩分为两大类,即与俯冲作用无关和与俯冲作用相关的蛇绿岩,两大类型还可以划分出不同的亚类。这些类型的蛇绿岩有其特有的地球化学、岩石学指标和内部结构。最近的研究还发现蛇绿岩产生的主要时段与全球超大陆的形成、裂解,以及巨型地幔柱活动的时间吻合。根据新分类方案,一部分前寒武纪绿岩应属于蛇绿岩,表明在太古宙时期地球已进入板块构造体制。新的定义和分类为蛇绿岩研究指出了新的方向。