帕米尔东北缘穷阿木太克岩体年代学、地球化学特征及地质意义

分布于帕米尔东北缘羌塘地块上的穷阿木太克岩体,与班公湖怒江洋的闭合有着密切关系。岩体主要由英云闪长岩、花岗闪长岩和二长花岗岩组成。LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年结果显示,穷阿木太克岩体的形成年龄为(107.0±1.2) Ma(MSWD=0.55),属于早白垩世晚期。地球化学结果显示,主量元素具有富Ca、富K、富碱等特点,岩石Al含量较高,为弱过铝质花岗岩系列,具典型的钙碱性特征。稀土元素具有轻稀土富集、重稀土亏损的右倾型特征,并显示弱的负铕异常。微量元素表现出大离子亲石元素Rb、Th、U、K高度富集和高场强元素Nb、Ta、Ti、Hf强烈亏损。岩石在成因上可能是地壳下部基性岩石经熔融或部分熔融作用形成的。结合本区所处的构造环境,早白垩世晚期穷阿木太克岩体可能形成于羌塘地块与冈底斯地块之间同碰撞(挤压环境)向碰撞后(伸展环境)的转化阶段,为后造山花岗岩类,岩石系列从早到晚由中钾钙碱性系列向钾玄岩系列演化。     

内蒙古白云鄂博地区晚古生代闪长质-花岗质岩石年代学框架及其地质意义

华北克拉通北缘的内蒙古白云鄂博地区分布着由辉长岩、辉长闪长岩、花岗闪长岩、二长花岗岩、黑云母花岗岩及钾长花岗岩等基性-中酸性-碱性花岗岩组成的闪长质-花岗质杂岩体,它们曾被认为是泥盆纪至侏罗纪多期次侵位的产物,而新的年代学资料揭示这些侵入体都是在晚古生代形成的.白云鄂博地区15件不同岩性的锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb测年表明,其侵位年龄具有很好的一致性,仅发生在263～281Ma狭窄时间段内,峰期年龄269Ma.这表明白云鄂博矿床的形成与这些闪长质-花岗质岩石的侵入活动没有直接的成因联系,也为重新认识华北克拉通北缘晚古生代构造环境及演化史提供了新的年代学资料.     

东秦岭寨凹钼矿床辉钼矿Re-Os同位素年龄及熊耳期成矿事件

河南寨凹钼矿床位于东秦岭钼矿带,是近年来新发现的脉状钼矿床.9件辉钼矿样品Re-Os模式年龄介于1603.1±10.8～2031.9±10.2Ma,其中7件样品给出了精确的等时线年龄为1762±31Ma(1σ误差,MSWD=3.6),模式年龄的加权平均值为1753±26Ma(1σ误差,MSWD=3.2),表明寨凹钼矿形成于古元古代或熊耳期,代表着～1.76Ga左右的钼成矿事件.根据区域地质演化,认为寨凹钼矿形成于与熊耳群弧火山岩建造相当的活动大陆边缘岩浆弧背景.寨凹矿床的发现表明,熊耳期成矿事件虽遭受后期多次增生和碰撞造山作用的改造和破坏,但仍可在秦岭造山带最北部保留.     

地质年代学发展历史的简要回顾及前景

简要介绍了基于矿物封闭温度的地质热年代学, 并对多种地质年代学方法, 包括U-Pb 法、 Sm-Nd法、Rb-Sr法、Lu-Hf法、Re-Os法、40Ar /39Ar法、裂变径迹( FT) 测年、(U-Th) /He法、 TIMS铀系法、宇宙成因核素定年(包括14C法等) 和年轻地下水测年(如3H /3He法等) 进行了综合评述。探讨了国际地质年代学百年来和中国20世纪80年代中期以来的发展趋势。根据近期使用情况分析, 认为U - Pb法、40Ar /39Ar法和14C法是目前使用较多的可靠测年方法。应用于山脉隆升和地貌形成的低温热年代学方法及地下水等年轻地质体系的测年, 将是地质年代学发展的重要方向。     

New Ar–Ar age constraints on the deformation along the Machaoying fault zone: Implications for Early Cambrian tectonism in the North China Craton

The Machaoying fault zone extends along the southern margin of the North China Craton (NCC) and controlled the regional structures and hydrothermal mineral systems in this area. The fault underwent at least two major deformational phases, as revealed by macro- and micro-structural observations from a well-developed segment of the fault in the Hongzhuang–Baitu area, located south of the Xiong'er Mountains. Early ductile deformation is characterized by thrusting from north to south, which was subsequently overprinted by late brittle faulting. Syntectonic strain shadows of biotite are preserved around rotated porphyroclasts of quartz amygdales in mylonite. The biotite yields a ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar plateau age of 524.9 ± 1.9 Ma, which is interpreted as the time of regional thrusting along the Machaoying fault zone. The thrusting may be temporally correlated with an Early Cambrian discontinuity in sedimentation observed in the rocks sequences of the NCC, suggesting a compressional regime in this area and a craton-wide tectonic event. Many 540–500 Ma tectonic events have been previously identified in the Qinling–Qilian–Kunlun Orogenic Belt of central China and in massifs in northeastern China, both of which surround the NCC, and some of these were interpreted to be associated with assembly of Gondwana. However, paleomagnetic data indicate that the NCC was unlikely to have been connected with Gondwana in the Early Cambrian and thus our new biotite date cannot record deformation along the Gondwanan margin. Dating of K-feldspar from a quartz–K-feldspar vein formed along one of the brittle faults of the Machaoying fault zone yields a much younger ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar plateau age of 119.5 ± 0.7 Ma. This is a minimum age for the brittle deformation along the southern margin of the NCC, which also overlaps the age of widespread gold and molybdenum mineralization in the region.     

Guandishan Granitoids of the Paleoproterozoic Lüliang Metamorphic Complex in the Trans-North China Orogen: SHRIMP Zircon Ages, Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications

Abstract: The Paleoproterozoic Lüliang Metamorphic Complex (PLMC) is situated in the middle segment of the western margin of the Trans-North China Orogen (TNCO), North China Craton (NCC). As the most important lithological assemblages in the southern part of the PLMC, Guandishan granitoids consist of early gneissic tonalities, granodiorites and gneissic monzogranites, and younger gneissic to massive monzogranites. Petrochemical features reveal that the early gneissic tonalities and granodiorites belong to the medium-K calc-alkaline series; the early gneissic monzogranites are transitional from high-K calc-alkaline to the shoshonite series; the younger gneissic to massive monzogranites belong to the high-k calc-alkaline series, and all rocks are characterized by right-declined REE patterns and negative Nb, Ta, Sr, P, and Ti anomalies in the primitive mantle normalized spidergrams. SHRIMP zircon U–Pb isotopic dating reveals that the early gneissic tonalities and granodiorites formed at ~2.17 Ga, the early gneissic monzogranites at ~2.06 Ga, and the younger gneissic to massive monzogranites at ~1.84 Ga. Sm–Nd isotopic data show that the early gneissic tonalities and granodiorites have εNd(t) values of +0.48 to ?3.19 with Nd-depleted mantle model ages (TDM) of 2.76–2.47 Ga, and early gneissic monzogranites have εNd(t) values of ?0.53 to ?2.51 with TDM of 2.61–2.43 Ga, and the younger gneissic monzogranites have εNd(t) values of ?6.41 to ?2.78 with a TDM of 2.69–2.52 Ga.These geochemical and isotopic data indicate that the early gneissic tonalities, granodiorites, and monzogranites were derived from the partial melting of metamorphosed basaltic and pelitic rocks, respectively, in a continental arc setting. The younger gneissic to massive monzogranites were derived by partial melting of metamorphosed greywackes within the continental crust. Combined with previously regional data, we suggest that the Paleoproterozoic granitoid magmatism in the Guandishan granitoids of the PLMC may provide the best geological signature for the complete spectrum of Paleoproterozoic geodynamic processes in the Trans-North China Orogen from oceanic subduction, through collisional orogenesis, to post-orogenic extension and uplift.     

Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Chinese South Tianshan Orogen: constraints from SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of basaltic and dioritic rocks from Xiate,NW China

Traditionally the Chinese South Tianshan has been regarded as a late Paleozoic orogenic belt. However, little is known about the early Paleozoic tectonic architecture of the region. This paper presents the first evidence of Cambrian–Ordovician MORB-type basalts and adakitic diorites on the southern margin of the Yili plate in China. Basalts from Xiate in southwestern Tianshan show a typical transitional (T-) MORB and ferrobasalt composition, which indicate a formation at a propagating spreading ridge. The basalts give a weighted mean ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U crystallization age of 516.3 ± 7.4 Ma by SHRIMP U–Pb zircon dating and have experienced contact metamorphism due to the intrusion of a dioritic pluton. The dioritic pluton has a weighted mean ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U crystallization age of 470 ± 12 Ma and geochemical characteristics resembling that of adakitic rocks. The pluton is considered to have been formed by partial melting of garnet amphibolites from thickened lower crust in arc or continental collision settings. The basalts and diorites are considered to outline the eastern extension of the early Paleozoic suture zone, the Nikolaev Line, which stretches east–west for hundreds of kilometers between the Northern Tianshan and Central Tianshan terranes of Kyrgyzstan. Our findings substantiate that the Yili and Central Tianshan plates were separated by the early Paleozoic Terskey ocean. The Terskey ocean probably closed during the early stage of the late Ordovician (Lomize et al. in Geotectonics 31(6):463–482, 1997), resulting in the final amalgamation of the Yili and Central Tianshan plates. Consequently, an early Paleozoic suture zone is documented in the Chinese Tianshan region, which is most likely represented by the North Nalati fault.     

青藏高原东缘休瓦促钨钼矿区复式岩体时空分布及演化意义

休瓦促钨钼矿区位于义敦地体南段,是该区域唯一存在晚三叠世、晚白垩世和新生代酸性侵入体直接接触形成复式岩体的矿区.目前尚未对该复式岩体的岩浆演化过程开展过系统深入研究,限制了对该矿区及区域构造事件和岩浆演化的认识.本文通过系统梳理前人研究成果,开展东矿段黑云母花岗岩,西矿段二长花岗岩、花岗斑岩地质年代学和地球化学分析,探...     

Identifying lichenometrically datable,glacierized terrains: a case study in the cascade range of western North America

Climatic interpretations of recent glacier fluctuations rely on ice-extent chronologies developed from lichenometric ages of Holocene landforms. However, lichenometry requires time- and resource-consuming field surveys, which limit our understanding of glacier chronologies, especially in remote locations. This study presents a rapid, coarse, a priori approach to predicting new field sites where lichenometry can be applied. Geologic, geographic, climatic, and landcover data were used in spatial and supervised classification analyses to identify areas in the Cascade Range of Washington and northern Oregon with similar environmental conditions to those where lichenometric dating techniques had previously been applied. These results focus the attention of researchers to only 1100 km², or 3%, of the broader Cascade Range study area. Though this study concentrates on the utility of lichenometry for dating recent glacier activity in the Cascade Range, the screening method presented is easily translatable to a variety of geomorphic and environmental applications.     

海南省保亭县新村钼矿地质特征及成因探讨

新村钼矿位于海南省保亭县境内,是在海南省发现的又一个达中型规模的钼矿床。矿体主要赋存在次火山岩带中,矿石类型主要有细脉浸染型和石英脉型两种。辉钼矿Re-Os测年研究获得95.6±0.89~97.8±0.5 Ma和112.3±4.2 Ma的模式年龄,表明矿区可能经历两期矿化,它们可能分别与保城岩体侵位和火山活动有关。硫同位素研究显示,主要的硫源为岩浆源。通过地质资料综合分析,表明新村钼矿为次火山岩容矿,为岩浆后期热液作用形成的热液脉型钼矿床。