The tectonic history of Adelaide’s scarp-forming faults

A series of linear to arcuate fault scarps separate the Mount Lofty Ranges from the Cenozoic St Vincent and Murray basins of South Australia. Their tectonic, sedimentary and geomorphic evolution is traced from the oldest rock record through to present-day seismicity. The scarps are the latest manifestation of repeated compressive reactivation of ancient, deep-seated crustal faults and fractures whenever the stress field was of appropriate orientation. Formation of the basins and uplift of the ranges resulted from the same processes of repeated compressive reactivation. Continental crust was intensely fractured during three episodes of Neoproterozoic–Cambrian rifting that led to the formation of the Adelaide Geosyncline and break-up of Rodinia. Neoproterozoic eastward-dipping, listric extensional faults provided accommodation space for deposition of the Burra Group. Sediments of the Umberatana and Wilpena groups were deposited under mainly sag-phase conditions. In the early Cambrian, new extensional faults formed the deeply subsident Kanmantoo Trough. Cambrian rift faults swung from east–west on Kangaroo Island through northeasterly on Fleurieu Peninsula to north–south in the easten Mount Lofty Ranges, cutting across the older meridional rifts. These two sets of extensional faults were reactivated as basement-rooted thrusts in the ensuing Delamerian Orogeny. The Willunga Fault originated as a Cambrian rift fault and was reactivated in the Delamerian Orogeny as a thrust dipping southeast under a regional basement-cored antiform on southern Fleurieu Peninsula. Much of southern Australia, including the eroded remnants of the Delamerian highlands, was covered by a continental ice sheet in the Carboniferous–Permian. The preferential preservation of glacial sediments on Fleurieu Peninsula may have resulted from extensional reactivation of the Willunga Fault, possibly in the early Mesozoic. Fleurieu Peninsula was then warped into an open, southwest-plunging antiform, spatially coincident with the much higher amplitude Delamerian antiform. Glacial sediments were eroded from uplifted (up-plunge) areas before formation of a ‘summit surface’ across deeply weathered bedrock and preserved glacial sediments in the later Mesozoic. This surface was covered with fluvial to lacustrine sediments in the middle Eocene. Neotectonic movements under a renewed compressive regime commenced with reactivation of the Willunga Fault, restricting subsequent Eocene to Miocene sedimentation to the St Vincent Basin. The Willunga scarp was onlapped in the Oligocene–Miocene concomitant with continuing uplift and formation of a hanging-wall antiform. In the late Cenozoic, repeated faulting and mild folding, angular unconformities, ferruginisation and proximal coarse sedimentation took place on various faults at different times until the late Pleistocene.     

Whole-rock geochemical,U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotope characteristics of the Dongueni Mont nepheline syenite intrusion,Mozambique

The Dongueni Mont nepheline syenite intrudes migmatitic paragneisses and siliciclastic metasediments of the Barue Complex, Mozambique. This study reports the whole-rock geochemical, U-Pb and Nd isotopic data of the nepheline syenite. The ferroan and alkalic geochemical characteristics are typical of alkaline rocks formed in a within-plate setting. The strong depletion in high field strength elements(HFSEs)(e.g. Ba, Nb, P,and Ti) and enrichment in large ion lithophile elements(LILEs)(e.g. Rb, Th, K, and Pb) are consistent with magmatism in a continental alkaline magmatic province associated with intracontinental rifting. Zircon U-Pb data yielded crystallization ages from 498 ± 19 to 562± 14 Ma,consistent with the Pan-African Orogeny and the inherited zircons yield an age of 1040 Ma, which supports the presence of a Mesoproterozoic crust. Theε_(Nd)(t) values from the nepheline syenite samples range from-15.1 to-16.1 and the T_(DM)values from 1.77 to 1.67 Ga, which indicate that the initial nepheline syenite magma formed from a tholeiitic or mantle source in a within-plate setting with crustal assimilation.     

Deformation correlations,stress field switches and evolution of an orogenic intersection: The Pan-African Kaoko-Damara orogenic junction,Namibia

Age calibrated deformation histories established by detailed mapping and dating of key magmatic time markers are correlated across all tectono-metamorphic provinces in the Damara Orogenic System.Correlations across structural belts result in an internally consistent deformation framework with evidence of stress field rotations with similar timing,and switches between different deformation events.Horizontal principle compressive stress rotated clockwise ~180°in total during Kaoko Belt evolution,and~135° during Damara Belt evolution.At most stages,stress field variation is progressive and can be attributed to events within the Damara Orogenic System,caused by changes in relative trajectories of the interacting Rio De La Plata,Congo,and Kalahari Cratons.Kaokoan orogenesis occurred earliest and evolved from collision and obduction at ~590 Ma,involving E-W directed shortening,progressing through different transpressional states with ~45° rotation of the stress field to strike-slip shear under NW-SE shortening at ~550-530 Ma.Damaran orogenesis evolved from collision at ~555-550 Ma with NW-SE directed shortening in common with the Kaoko Belt,and subsequently evolved through ~90°rotation of the stress field to NE-SW shortening at ~512-508 Ma.Both Kaoko and Damara orogenic fronts were operating at the same time,with all three cratons being coaxially convergent during the 550-530 Ma period;Rio De La Plata directed SE against the Congo Craton margin,and both together over-riding the Kalahari Craton margin also towards the SE.Progressive stress field rotation was punctuated by rapid and significant switches at ~530-525 Ma,~508 Ma and ~505 Ma.These three events included:(1)Culmination of main phase orogenesis in the Damara Belt,coinciding with maximum burial and peak metamorphism at 530-525 Ma.This occurred at the same time as termination of transpression and initiation of transtensional reactivation of shear zones in the Kaoko Belt.Principle compressive stress switched from NW-SE to NNW-SSE shortening in both Kaoko and Damara Belts at this time.This marks the start of Congo-Kalahari stress field overwhelming the waning Rio De La Plata-Congo stress field,and from this time forward contraction across the Damara Belt generated the stress field governing subsequent low-strain events in the Kaoko Belt.(2)A sudden switch to E-W directed shortening at ~508 Ma is interpreted as a far-field effect imposed on the Damara Orogenic System,most plausibly from arc obduction along the orogenic margin of Gondwana(Ross-Delamerian Orogen).(3)This imposed stress field established a N-S extension direction exploited by decompression melts,switch to vertical shortening,and triggered gravitational collapse and extension of the thermally weakened hot orogen core at ~505 Ma,producing an extensional metamorphic core complex across the Central Zone.     

构造动力体制与复合造山作用——兼论三江复合造山带时空演化

构造动力体制是研究区域大地构造演化和成矿地质环境的基础,而造山带作为全球金属矿产资源集中产出的地带,同时保留了地球地质构造演化最为丰富的记录,因而是用来解剖不同构造动力体制及相关成矿环境和成矿作用的主要对象.板块构造源于大洋,描述和解释的是以水平运动为主导的板块构造导致的大陆边缘增生和大洋板块消失及与其相关的地质现象,其动力学体制称为大洋动力体制;大陆构造描述和解释的主要是大陆内部而不是边缘发生的以垂直运动(壳幔相互作用)为主导的的大陆物质增生和消失及其相关的地质现象,其动力学体制称为大陆动力体制;而洋陆转换则是水平和垂直运动相互耦合、共同作用的动力学体制,描述和解释的是洋陆转换及其相关的地质现象,可以将其称为转换动力体制.不同构造动力体制在全球范围内具有同区转承和异区并存特点.每一种构造动力体制都可以激发造山作用,因此,地球上同时存在着不同类型的造山作用和造山带,可以归结为俯冲造山(带)、碰撞造山(带)、伸展造山(带)和陆内造山(带)等完整反映造山带演化过程的4种类型.复合造山概念科学地描述了全球不同造山带的复杂性.它具有三种涵义,一是不同时期相同或不同类型造山带在空间上的复合(叠置);二是同一造山带在不同地质历史阶段、不同构造动力体制下造山作用的时间复合(叠加);三是同时具有时空复合特征的复合造山带.对三江造山带时空结构的解析表明,它是具有时空复合特征的巨型复合造山带的典型代表.     

库鲁克塔格兴地塔格群变质石英岩复杂锆石特征及指示意义

造山带内造山作用时限的划分是识别超大陆的重要依据.为找寻库鲁克塔格古元古代晚期造山作用与锆石微区特征间的联系,运用LA-ICP-MS技术分析了石英岩中64个锆石U-Pb同位素点.结果显示:∑REE=47×10-6～490×10-6(40个点,下同),570×10-6～1384×10-6(24);Th/U＜0.4(33)...     

云南迪庆春都铜矿控矿地质条件

铜矿体赋存于印支期浅成-超浅成相的石英二长玢岩体内,具斑岩型矿床的蚀变特征,主要控矿因素为岩浆岩、岩浆侵位的地层、热液蚀变作用和构造裂隙等。是印支期甘孜-理塘洋向西俯冲造山晚期与超浅成斑（玢）岩密切有关的斑岩型铜矿床,矿区及外围具有较大的找矿潜力。     

燕山早期花岗岩基印支期侵位的岩浆动力学证据及构造 意义:基于南岭8个岩体侵位年龄计算结果

根据各花岗岩体地质构造特征、有关的热物理参数及主体花岗岩的放射性元素含量,采用简化的立方体数学模型计 算得出:南岭地区8个花岗岩基侵位后,其初始温度降低至结晶温度所需的时间(Δtcol)为3.9(金鸡岭)~5.5 Ma(九峰); 由于结晶潜热释放而使结晶过程延长的时间(ΔtL) 为2.6~3.5 Ma ;花岗岩浆侵位后产生的放射成因热使结晶过程延长的 时间(Δt A)为 5.2(陂头)~45.1 Ma(姑婆山) 。南岭地区 8 个燕山早期花岗岩基的侵位-结晶时差(△t ECTD)为 12.1(陂头) ~52.2 Ma(姑婆山), 结合锆石U-Pb年龄通过反演计算得出其侵位年龄 (tE ) 为194.4 (陂头)~219.3 Ma(九峰)。这为 南岭燕山早期花岗岩基属于印支期侵位提供了重要的岩浆动力学佐证, 揭示出近东西向展布的南岭晚中生代造山带具有印 支期构造格架(以侵位年龄为代表)和燕山早期花岗岩(以锆石 U-Pb 年龄为代表) 的双重特征。     

Basement massifs in the Appalachians: their role in deformation during the Appalachian Orogenies

Basement is constituted of rocks which belong to a previous orogenic cycle which have been reactivated and incorporated into a younger cycle. Basement massifs may be classified according to their relative position in an orogen as external or internal massifs. They may also be categorized according to their role in deformation, as thrust-related, fold-related and composite massifs. All Appalachian external massifs were transported following their removal from the overridden edge of the ancient North American continental margin. Most of the internal massifs are also probably transported, but several (Pine Mountain and Sauratown Mountains) may be present as windows exposing parautochthonous basement beneath the main thrust sheet. The latter reside immediately west of the low (west) to high (east) gravity gradient which probably outlines the old edge of Grenvillian crust. Reactivated crustal material generated during early Palaeozoic orogeny plays the same mechanical role in reactivation as basement from the previous Grenville cycle. The domes of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium cored with Ordovician or older gneisses illustrate this behaviour. Basement (Grenville) massifs are distributed throughout the Appalachians as a belt of external massifs (Blue Ridge, Reading Prong, Hudson and Berkshire Highlands, Green Mountains, and Long Range Mountains) along the western edge of the crystalline metamorphic core. Additionally, internal massifs are also present (Pine Mountain belt, Tallulah Falls and Toxaway domes, Sauratown Mountains anticlinorium, State Farm gneiss dome, Baltimore Gneiss domes, Mine Ridge anticline, and Chain Lakes massif). Basement internal massifs probably served to localize thrusts by causing them to ramp over and around the massifs. Their antiformal shape may in part be as much related to thrust mechanics as to folding.