Colliding Blast Waves Driven by the Interaction of a Short-Pulse Laser with a Gas of Atomic Clusters

Collisions between shocks are commonly found in many astrophysical objects, however robust numerical models or laboratory analogues of these complex systems remain challenging to implement. We report on the development of scaled laboratory experiments which employ new techniques for launching and diagnosing colliding shocks and high Mach number blast waves, scalable to a limited subset of astrophysically-relevant regimes. Use of an extended medium of atomic clusters enables efficient (>80%) coupling of 700 fs, 1 J, 1054 nm laser pulses to a “cluster” gas with an average density of ≈10¹⁹ particles cm⁻³, producing an initial energy density >10⁵ J cm⁻³, equivalent to ≈5×10⁹ J/g. Multiple laser foci are used to tailor the spatial profile of energy deposition, or to launch pairs of counter-propagating cylindrical shocks which then collide. By probing the collision interferometrically at multiple view angles in 5^{^} increments and applying an inverse Radon transform to the resulting phase projections we have been able to tomographicall reconstruct the full three-dimensional, time-framed electron density profile of the system.     

印度与亚洲板块碰撞及碰撞时限的新证据——日喀则卡堆蓝片岩Ar-Ar定年

几十年来,关于印度板块与亚洲板块碰撞启动和完成碰撞的时间,科学家们从不同的角度给予解释并建立了多种模式。高压变质带是板块碰撞过程中重要的事件记录,高压矿物的变质年龄是确定板块碰撞时间最直接的方法之一。从雅鲁藏布江缝合带南侧卡堆蓝片岩的蓝闪石中获得59.29Ma±0.83Ma的Ar-Ar加权平均年龄,是目前雅鲁藏布江高压变质带唯一的蓝闪石年龄。该年龄与利用海相沉积、最高海相层位、地层古生物、古地磁等研究方法获得的结论相吻合,印度河-雅鲁藏布江缝合带的闭合时间应在59Ma左右,也是洋壳消亡和印度与亚洲板块碰撞的时间约束。     

风火山地区西金乌兰湖-金沙江蛇绿构造混杂带的物质组成及发展演化特征

笔者以构造地质调查为主线,以蛇绿构造混杂带建造为基础,通过路线地质调查,剖而测制工作,在全面收集岩石学、岩石化学、年代学、地球化学、运动学等资料的基础上,重点对西金乌兰湖-金沙江蛇绿构造混杂带的物质组成、规模、边界断裂特征等的研究,进而恢复和再造缝合带的发展演化历史。对缝合带的物质组成进行全方位解剖。在综合缝合带组成,结构、构造等方面的基础上对其形成、发展演化进行探讨和研究。为青藏高原及东特提斯超级造山系统的研究提供一定的依据。     

Fluid flow during exhumation of deeply subducted continental crust: zircon U-Pb age and O-isotope studies of a quartz vein within ultrahigh-pressure eclogite

Quartz veins in high‐pressure to ultrahigh‐pressure metamorphic rocks witness channelized fluid flow that transports both mass and heat during collisional orogenesis. This flow can occur in the direction of changing temperature/pressure during subduction or exhumation. SHRIMP U‐Pb dating of zircon from a kyanite‐quartz vein within ultrahigh‐pressure eclogite in the Dabie continental collision orogen yields two age groups at 212 ± 7 and 181 ± 13 Ma, which are similar to two groups of LA‐ICPMS age at 210 ± 4 and 180 ± 5 Ma for the same sample. These ages are significantly younger than zircon U‐Pb ages of 224 ± 2 Ma from the host eclogite. Thus the two age groups from the vein date two episodes of fluid flow involving zircon growth: the first due to decompression dehydration during exhumation, and the second due to heating dehydration in response to a cryptic thermal event after continental collision. Laser fluorination O‐isotope analyses gave similar δ¹⁸O values for minerals from both vein and eclogite, indicating that the vein‐forming fluid was internally derived. Synchronous cooling between the vein and eclogite is suggested by almost the same quartz–mineral fractionation values, with regularly decreasing temperatures that are in concordance with rates of O diffusion in the minerals. While the quartz veining was caused by decompression dehydration at 700–650 °C in a transition from ultrahigh‐pressure to high‐pressure eclogite‐facies retrogression, the postcollisional fluid flow was retriggered by heating dehydration at ～500 °C without corresponding metamorphism. In either case, the kyanite–quartz vein formed later than the peak ultrahigh‐pressure metamorphic event at the Middle Triassic, pointing to focused fluid flow during exhumation rather than subduction. The growth of metamorphic zircon in the eclogite appears to have depended on fluid availability, so that their occurrence is a type of geohygrometer besides geochronological applicability to dating of metamorphic events in orogenic cycles.     

巴布亚新几内亚新生代两类埃达克岩的构造环境意义

本文根据新几内亚安山岩的化学分析数据与典型埃达克岩进行对比,讨论了巴布亚新几内亚埃达克岩的地球化学特征及其大地构造环境意义。对比结果表明:巴布亚新几内亚埃达克岩微量元素特征为高锶(一般>于400×10-6),Sr/Y比值平均>41.7,重稀土元素Y和Yb含量很低(分别为≤20×10-6和1.9×10-6)。在微量元素蛛网图上有Sr,Ba正异常峰和明显的Nb,Th负异常。稀土元素表现为LREE富集模式,(La/Yb)N比值平均为2.19~18.69。巴布亚新几内亚埃达克岩的M g#值>0.45,87Sr/86Sr值一般<0.7045与典型埃达克岩一相致。巴布亚新几内亚埃达克岩分别位于弧-陆碰撞带大地构造环境中的大洋岛弧和大陆边缘造山带中。埃达克岩的分布区域与世界级斑岩铜-金矿和浅成热泉金矿的成矿带的分布相一致。     

India-Eurasian collision vs. ocean-continent collision＊

Introduction Major tectonic activities occur in collisions zones between plates or intra-plate continental blocks. Therefore, it is significant to investigate collision processes. We know that orogenic and seismic belts in plate margins are closely relate…     

Metamorphism of the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, Turkey: influence of orogen-normal collision vs. wrench-dominated tectonics on P–T–t paths

The Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex (CACC) is a microcontinent in the Alpine–Himalayan belt. It has previously been considered as a coherent structural entity, but, although the entire CACC is comprised of similar rocks (primarily metasedimentary rocks and granitoids), it consists of at least four tectonic blocks characterized by different P–T–t paths. These blocks are the K?r?ehir (north‐west), Akda? (north‐east), Ni?de (south) and Aksaray (west) massifs. The northern massifs experienced thrusting and folding during collision and were slowly exhumed by erosion; metamorphic rocks are characterized by clockwise P–T paths at moderate P–T and local low‐P–high‐T (LP–HT) overprinting in the highest grade rocks. Apatite fission track ages are Eocene to Oligocene (47–32 Ma). The Aksaray block represents the hot, shallow mid‐crust of a Late Cretaceous–early Tertiary arc. It is dominated by intrusions; rare metapelitic rocks record low‐P (< 4 kbar) regional metamorphism overprinted by LP–HT contact metamorphism. Apatite fission track ages are 50–45 Ma. The Ni?de massif is different from the other CACC blocks because it evolved as a core complex in a wrench‐dominated setting. It is characterized by clockwise P–T paths at moderate P–T followed by widespread LP–HT metamorphism. Apatite fission track ages are Miocene (12–9 Ma), significantly younger than those in the northern massifs. Ni?de rocks resided in the mid‐crust at a time when the rest of the CACC was at or near the Earth's surface. Variations in P–T–t and tectonic histories — especially timing of exhumation — between the northern and southern CACC reflect the difference between head‐on collision vs. mid‐crustal wrenching.     

The Higo metamorphic complex in Kyushu, Japan as the fragment of Permo–Triassic metamorphic complexes in East Asia

The Higo terrane in west-central Kyushu Island, southwest Japan consists from north to south of the Manotani, Higo and Ryuhozan metamorphic complexes, which are intruded by the Higo plutonic complex (Miyanohara tonalite and Shiraishino granodiorite).The Higo and Manotani metamorphic complexes indicate an imbricate crustal section in which a sequence of metamorphic rocks with increasing metamorphic grade from high (northern part) to low (southern part) structural levels is exposed. The metamorphic rocks in these complexes can be divided into five metamorphic zones (zone A to zone E) from top to base (i.e., from north to south) on the basis of mineral parageneses of pelitic rocks. Greenschist-facies mineral assemblages in zone A (the Manotani metamorphic complex) give way to amphibolite-facies assemblages in zones B, C and D, which in turn are replaced by granulite-facies assemblages in zone E of the Higo metamorphic complex. The highest-grade part of the complex (zone E) indicates peak P–T conditions of ca. 720 MPa and ca. 870 °C. In addition highly aluminous Spr-bearing granulites and related high-temperature metamorphic rocks occur as blocks in peridotite intrusions and show UHT-metamorphic conditions of ca. 900 MPa and ca. 950 °C. The prograde and retrograde P–T evolution paths of the Higo and Manotani metamorphic complexes are estimated using reaction textures, mineral inclusion analyses and mineral chemistries, especially in zones A and D, which show a clockwise P–T path from Lws-including Pmp–Act field to Act–Chl–Epi field in zone A and St–Ky field to And field through Sil field in zone D.The Higo metamorphic complex has been traditionally considered to be the western-end of the Ryoke metamorphic belt in the Japanese Islands or part of the Kurosegawa–Paleo Ryoke terrane in south-west Japan. However, recent detailed studies including Permo–Triassic age (ca. 250 Ma) determinations from this complex indicate a close relationship with the high-grade metamorphic terranes in eastern-most Asia (e.g., north Dabie terrane) with similar metamorphic and igneous characteristics, protolith assembly, and metamorphic and igneous ages. The north Dabie high-grade terrane as a collisional metamorphic zone between the North China and the South China cratons could be extended to the N-NE along the transcurrent fault (Tan-Lu Fault) as the Sulu belt in Shandong Peninsula and the Imjingang belt in Korean Peninsula. The Higo and Manotani metamorphic complexes as well as the Hida–Oki terrane in Japan would also have belonged to this type of collisional terrane and then experienced a top-to-the-south displacement with forming a regional nappe structure before the intrusion of younger Shiraishino granodiorite (ca. 120 Ma).