Further evidence for 1.85 Ga metamorphism in the Central Zone of the North China Craton: SHRIMP U–Pb dating of zircon from metamorphic rocks in the Lushan area, Henan Province

This paper reports SHRIMP zircon U–Pb dating of Precambrian supracrustal and granitic rocks from the Lushan area, Henan Province, in the southern portion of the Central Zone (also referred to as the Trans-North China Orogen) of the North China Craton. A graphite–garnet–sillimanite gneiss (Sample TW0006/1) of the Shangtaihua ‘Group’ gives a range of inherited zircon ages from 2.73 to 2.26 Ga and a metamorphic zircon age of 1.84 ± 0.07 Ga. A garnet-bearing gneissic granitoid (Sample TWJ358/1), which is considered to intrude the Shangtaihua ‘Group’, gives a magmatic zircon age of 2.14 ± 0.02 Ga and a metamorphic zircon age of 1.87 Ga. The metamorphic zircon ages of 1.87–1.84 Ga obtained in this study indicate that an important tectonothermal event occurred at the end of the Paleoproterozoic in the Lushan area. This supports the southern continuation of a Central Zone in the North China Craton that workers have recently considered to result from continent–continent collision. It is also evident that the Shangtaihua ‘Group’ was formed during the Paleoproterozoic (between 2.26 and 2.14 Ga), and not during the Archean, as previously considered.     

博格达陆内碰撞造山带挤压—拉张构造转折期的侵入活动

博格达造山带位于准噶尔与吐鲁番-哈密前寒武纪地块之间,是一个早-中石炭世的陆内裂谷带,该裂谷带于中-晚石炭世闭合.岩相学、岩石化学、稀土元素、微量元素和同位素研究表明,该造山带侵入岩以辉绿岩岩床、岩株和岩墙为主,仅有少数中-酸性岩岩株.这些侵入岩的橄榄拉斑玄武质原始岩浆可能来自轻度亏损的地幔源区,并在地壳深部形成过分层岩浆房.辉绿岩和中-酸性岩分别是分层岩浆房的上部和下部层位岩浆先后上侵和演化产物.野外地质关系及上大河沿中-酸性侵入体的298.4±0.76 Ma Rb-Sr等时线年龄,不但表明博格达地区晚于海西期的侵入活动并不重要,还表明该造山带侵入岩的定位紧随博格达裂谷的陆内碰撞,并代表了地球动力学环境由挤压变为拉张这个重大转折时期.     

秦岭印支期构造背景、岩浆活动及成矿作用

秦岭造山带以其独特的大地构造位置、复杂的地质演化和丰富的矿产资源而成为地质科学研究的焦点,科学家已经基本清楚了其大地构造格局和地质演化轮廓,共识其在印支期(三叠纪:251～199.6Ma)彻底实现了由海盆向大陆造山带的转变。但是,盆山转变的过程细节、洋盆闭合的时间、三叠纪大地构造属性以及相关的岩浆作用和成矿作用研究薄弱,认识分歧较多。笔者通过综合分析地质、地球物理、地球化学、矿产资源等方面的研究成果,认为三叠纪的秦岭恰似现今地中海,并存着洋陆俯冲和陆陆碰撞,并逐渐由洋陆俯冲转变为陆陆碰撞体制;秦岭古特提斯洋于230～200Ma期间自东向西拉链式缝合,扬子陆块与华北-秦岭联合大陆之间的碰撞造山作用接踵而至;三叠纪的秦岭构造背景并非单一的陆陆碰撞,更非过去认为的造山后或碰撞后。秦岭印支期岩浆作用强烈,形成了埃达克岩、钙碱性花岗岩、高钾钙碱性花岗岩、碱性岩、疑似奥长环斑花岗岩、碳酸岩等多种岩浆岩;它们自勉略缝合带向北显示分带性,依次是:阳山—胭脂坝过铝质S型或改造型花岗岩带、南秦岭高镁埃达克质的钙碱性花岗岩带、北秦岭高钾钙碱性花岗岩带、华北克拉通南缘碱性岩-碳酸岩带;印支期岩浆作用的复杂性、多样性、空间分带性和成分极性等特点无法用陆陆碰撞或碰撞后构造体制来解释,而应是勉略洋板块向北俯冲的结果。秦岭印支期成矿作用长期被忽视,但最近已发现有重要经济价值的印支期矿床类型有碳酸岩脉型、造山型和斑岩型钼矿床,卡林型-类卡林型、造山型和斑岩-爆破角砾岩型金矿床,造山型银多金属矿床,表明在洋陆俯冲向陆陆碰撞转变体制的成矿作用强烈、成矿类型多样,印支期矿床的找矿潜力较大。     

The Central Granites-Gneiss-Migmatite Belt (CGGMB) of Madagascar: the Eastern Neoproterozoic Suture of the East African Orogen

The northeastern part of Madagascar is characterized by Archaean to early Proterozoic rocks composed principally of Archaean granite and greenstone/amphibolite as well as reworked migmatite with subordinate Proterozoic paragneisses. The southern part is mostly occupied by Proterozoic rocks, composed mostly of Meso to Neo-Proterozoic and less metamorphic metasediments (Itremo Group) in the northwest, para- and ortho-gneisses in most other areas, with minor granitic gneisses with some Archaean components in the southeast. The north-northwest trending Central Granite-Gneiss-Migmatite Belt (CGGMB) is situated at the western margin of the Archaean-early Proterozoic terrain. The CGGMB is composed of granite, gneiss and migmatite with distinct lithologies and structures. They are: i) many types of granites including alkaline to mildly alkaline granites, and calc-alkaline granites; ii) batholitic granites, migmatitic granites and granite dyke swarm, iii) eclogite, and iv) the Ankazobe-Antananarivo-Fianarantsoa Virgation.

The CGGMB was formed by the collision of the palaeo-Dharwar Craton to the east and the East African Orogen to the west at ca. 820-720 Ma and suffered indentation by a part of the western part of the East African Orogen at ca. 530 Ma that produced the Ankazobe-Antananarivo-Fianarantsoa Virgation at the centre of the CGGMB. Thus, the CGGMB is proposed to be the continuation of the eastern suture between the palaeo Dharwar Craton and the East African Orogen, and carries the main feature of the Pan-African collisional event in Madagascar.     

龙门山造山带晚三叠世构造隆升的分段性及层序充填响应

川西类前陆盆地与龙门山造山带为一个典型的盆—山系统。从川西地区的层序充填特征出发,分析了龙门山造山带晚三叠世隆升作用与川西类前陆盆地充填过程的耦合关系。认为盆内充填的由砂砾岩组成的类磨拉石建造和三个结构明显的构造层序,反映了龙门山晚三叠世隆升强度的幕次变化;同时盆地北部、中部和南部地区层序结构的差异性揭示了龙门山造山带...     

安徽桐城挂车河镇地区韧性剪切带元素质量平衡分析

韧性剪切变形对岩石地球化学行为的制约一直是地质学家们关注的问题。安徽桐城挂车河镇（挂镇）地区是大别造山带东缘和郯庐断裂带交汇位置,两个构造体系的韧性剪切带均发育,为开展对比分析研究提供了条件。不同构造体系及构造期次的长英质韧性剪切带在糜棱岩化过程中体积变化和元素迁移规律均相似,随着变形强度的增加。体积亏损和元素迁移越明显,体积亏损可达32．18％,元素迁移表现为SiO2、K2O、Na2O的迁出和Fe2O3、CaO、MgO的迁入;镁铁质脆一韧剪切带在糜棱岩化过程中体积变化和元素迁移规律与长英质剪切带的恰恰相反,体积增加21．63％～186．60％．元素迁移的显著特征是SiO2大量迁入及Fe2O3和CaO迁出。     

赞皇变基性岩中锆石的U-Pb定年及其地质意义

赞皇变质杂岩区位于阜平杂岩南部,地处华北克拉通中部造山带的中段,和中部带北段杂岩一样,是洞悉华北克拉通前寒武纪基底构造演化历史的一个重要窗口.研究区变基性岩可分为斜长角闪岩和角闪斜长片麻岩两种,二者均以似层状方式产于黑云斜长片麻岩或长英质片麻岩中,斜长角闪岩亦可呈透镜状,二者后期与围岩一起共同经历了高角闪岩相变质作用....     

Ordovician tectonic transition from passive margin into peripheral foreland in the southern Ordos: A diagnostic insight into the closure of Erlangping Ocean between the North Qinling Arc and North China Block

Achieving a reliable closure time of a back-arc ocean is an essential aspect in studies on detailed tectonic processes of an active continental margin and arc–continent collision. This is particularly the case for the northern Qinling Orogen, which records the accretion of the North Qinling Arc (NQA) onto the North China Block (NCB) after the Erlangping back-arc ocean closure. Sedimentological, petrological and geochronological signatures from the Ordovician successions in the southern Ordos reveal a tectonic transition from passive continental margin to peripheral foreland in the southern NCB at the beginning of Katian. Sedimentological and geochronological investigations reveal an abrupt shift of accelerating basin subsidence and deepening at the earliest Katian, separating ca. 300-m-thick shallow-marine carbonate shelf assemblages from overlying ca. 2000-m-thick deep-water carbonate slope and turbidite associations. Zircon age spectra of the Katian turbidites are characterized by early-Palaeozoic and Neoproterozoic age clusters, which are different from those of the Middle Ordovician quartz arenites sourced merely from the NCB basement. Instead, these age patterns match well with those of the coeval successions in the northern NQA, indicating a spatially linked abyssal deposystem. Stratigraphic architecture deciphers a typical foreland basin geometry, involving, from south to north, northward-propagating turbiditic wedge, northward-backstepping carbonate slope and progressively shoaling carbonate platform, embodying foredeep, forebulge and backbulge, respectively. These characteristics of basin-fill evolution reflect the northward migration of the flexural wave as a dynamic response to the northward expansion of the thickened NQA thrust wedge. Together with the other geological and geochronological data, our new insights indicate a southward subduction polarity of the Erlangping back-arc oceanic crust followed by its termination at ca. 450 Ma, which was earlier than that of the main Proto-Tethyan Shangdan Ocean between the NCB and South China Block. Our new data provide an updated view of the complex history of the Proto-Tethys closure during the Gondwana assembly.