Palaeozoic suturing of eastern and western Tasmania in the west Tamar region: Implications for the tectonic evolution of southeast Australia

A new tectonic model for Tasmania incorporates subduction at the boundary between eastern and western Tasmania. This model integrates thin‐ and thick‐skinned tectonics, providing a mechanism for emplacement of allochthonous elements on to both eastern and western Tasmania as well as rapid burial, metamorphism and exhumation of high‐pressure metamorphic rocks. The west Tamar region in northern Tasmania lies at the boundary between eastern and western Tasmania. Here, rocks in the Port Sorell Formation were metamorphosed at high pressures (700–1400 MPa) and temperatures (400–500°C), indicating subduction to depths of up to 30 km. The eastern boundary of the Port Sorell Formation with mafic‐ultramafic rocks of the Andersons Creek Ultramafic Complex is hidden beneath allochthonous ?Mesoproterozoic turbidites of the Badger Head Group. At depth, this boundary coincides with the inferred boundary between eastern and western Tasmania, imaged in seismic data as a series of east‐dipping reflections. The Andersons Creek Ultramafic Complex was previously thought of as allochthonous, based mainly on associations with other mafic‐ultramafic complexes in western Tasmania. However, the base of the Andersons Creek Ultramafic Complex is not exposed and, given its position east of the boundary with western Tasmania, it is equally likely that it represents the exposed western edge of autochthonous eastern Tasmanian basement. A thin sliver of faulted and metamorphosed rock, including amphibolites, partially separates the Badger Head Group from the Andersons Creek Ultramafic Complex. Mafic rocks in this package match geochemically mafic rocks in the Port Sorell Formation. This match is consistent with two structural events in the Badger Head Group showing tectonic transport of the group from the west during Cambrian Delamerian orogenesis. Rather than being subducted, emplacement of the Badger Head Group onto the Andersons Creek Ultramafic Complex indicates accretion of the Badger Head Group onto eastern Tasmania. Subsequent folding and thrusting in the west Tamar region also accompanied Devonian Tabberabberan orogenesis. Reversal from northeast to southwest tectonic vergence saw imbricate thrusting of Proterozoic and Palaeozoic strata, possibly coinciding with reactivation of the suture separating eastern and western Tasmania.     

阿拉善地块北缘雅布赖地区基性岩墙地球化学、年代学和Sr-Nd同位素特征

雅布赖地区位于阿拉善地块北缘,雅布赖-诺日公-红谷尔玉林构造带西端,该地区晚古生代岩浆岩内广泛出露基性岩墙。锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年结果显示,雅布赖地区基性岩墙成岩年龄为268±1.6 Ma,时代归属为中二叠世早期,岩石地球化学分析表明,该地区基性岩墙∑REE=143.01×10~(-6)～278.8×10~(-6),LREE/HREE=7.43～10.16,(La/Yb)_N=7.27～12.31,轻、重稀土分馏明显,具不明显的负铕异常(δEu=0.84～1.05),在稀土元素球粒陨石标准化配分模式图上,配分曲线右倾,重稀土较平坦;在微量元素原始地幔标准化蛛网图中,表现出相对富集LREE、Rb、Ba、K、Sr等大离子亲石元素,亏损Nb、Ta、P、Ti等高场强元素。基性岩墙初始~(87)Sr/~(86)Sr比值变化于0.707403～0.707986之间,ε_(Nd)(t)值介于-2.9～-4.7之间。分析认为,雅布赖地区基性岩墙岩浆来源为板片俯冲作用改造的富集岩石圈地幔的部分熔融,形成于碰撞后伸展的构造背景。     

镁橄榄石多晶体的烧结－热压合成

采用可控热力学环境高温炉和活塞圆筒式等静压高温实验装置合成矿物多晶体的烧结－热压技术，以镁橄榄石多晶体的合成为例，讨论了技术细节和样品的成岩机制，此技术可以合成得到ｃｍ量级、化学和矿物组分可控的多晶体岩石样品。这些人工合成的多晶体结构均匀，密度能够达到其理论值的９８％以上     

垂直岩脉的大地电磁响应研究

对垂直岩脉的大地电磁响应进行解析推导,给出了TM极化和TE极化下高阻基底与低阻基底的垂直岩脉视电阻率解析公式,并通过对计算结果的分析,概括出垂直岩脉的大地电磁响应之视电阻率曲线特征。     

Palaeomagnetism of 935 Ma mafic dykes in southern Sweden and implications for the Sveconorwegian Loop

New palaeomagnetic results for the 935 Ma Göteborg-Slussen mafic dykes in southern Sweden provide a well-dated high-quality palaeomagnetic pole for Early Neoproterozoic Baltica. New U-Pb geochronological data for several palaeomagnetically studied mafic intrusions yield three additional well-dated palaeopoles and one virtual geomagnetic pole. This set of dated poles suggests minimal drift of Baltica in moderate latitudes between ∼965 and 915 Ma. They also support the hypothesis of a post-900 Ma regional remagnetization event in SW Sweden and SW Norway. The positions of three distinct clusters of ∼1100 to 850 Ma palaeopoles suggest a clockwise time progression of the Baltica apparent polar wander path (the Sveconorwegian Loop) during this time interval. New well-dated palaeomagnetic poles for ∼970 to 900 Ma from Laurentia are required to verify the palaeogeographic reconstructions of Baltica and Laurentia.     

中国大陆科学深钻主孔岩屑中含钠和锌的尖晶石的发现

一种含钠和锌的尖晶石矿物产于中国大陆科学深钻主孔超镁铁岩中，以出溶的方式存在于钛铁矿和磁铁矿中，长5-60μm，宽2-3μm，化学组成（wB％）为MgO17．143％-22．337％，Al2O3 63．646％～66．492％，FeO9．784％～13．924％，ZnO 1．649％-6．386wt％．Na2O 0．029％～0．219wt％。Na2O与ZnO在尖晶石中的含量呈正相关关系。经同步辐射测得其为尖晶石单晶，空间群为Fm3m，晶胞参数为a=0．83781am。根据尖晶石与钛铁矿、石榴石（pyr=56-58mol％）共生和石榴石退变为顽火辉石和镁绿泥石的特点，表明该尖晶石来自超镁铁岩，它们一起经历了至少为角闪岩相的变质作用。广泛的混溶间断现象及其所造成的出溶结构出现在氧化物中，表现为Mt-Usp、Mt-Spl及Mt-Ilm之间的交生。根据前人有关Mt-Usp和Ilm-Gk-Hem固溶体系的实验。表明主孔岩石的氧逸度相对较低，形成温度应在720℃以上。这些早期在岩浆分离结晶过程中形成的铁钛氧化物出溶体，在后来的超高压变质作用下可能发生再次固溶和因降温减压造成的出溶。     

吉林省夹皮沟金矿成因研究

吉林省夹皮沟金矿区金矿赋存在夹皮沟北西向韧性带内,控矿构造为叠加在韧性剪切带之上的脆性构造。中生代中酸性脉岩为成矿期脉岩,且与黄泥河花岗岩岩基有着密切的成因联系。成矿物质主要来自岩浆分异,金丰度值高的暗色岩类提供部分矿质。     

Late Cretaceous mafic dykes in the Dharwar craton

Palaeomagnetic, geochemical and geochronological studies have been conducted on a set of dolerite dykes intruding the Peninsular gneisses near Huliyurdurga town, Karnataka, as a reconnaissance survey indicated a Cretaceous age for them. The dykes are mainly tholeiitic in composition with their 87Sr/86Sr ratios tightly clustered around 0·7045. Their palaeomagnetic data (D _m =329°,I _m =−55°) and the corresponding palaeopole coordinates (λ _p = 34°S,L _p =108°E) are strikingly close to those of the Deccan Traps to the north. Whole rock K-Ar ages of these dykes ranging between 69 and 84 Ma are also similar to the range of K-Ar ages of the Deccan basalts. The chemical, palaeomagnetic and temporal coherence between the dykes and the Deccan basalts indicate that they may indeed be tectonically related events.     

Petrology of the Renard igneous bodies: host rocks for diamond in the northern Otish Mountains region, Quebec

The Renard igneous bodies were discovered in late 2001 as part of a regional diamond exploration program launched by Ashton Mining of Canada and SOQUEM. Nine bodies have been discovered within a 2-km-diameter area, and are comprised of root zone to lower diatreme facies rocks including kimberlitic breccia, olivine macrocrystic hypabyssal material, and brecciated country rock with minor amounts of kimberlitic material. Many mineralogical and petrographic features are common to both kimberlite and melnoite, and strict assignment of the rocks as kimberlite is not possible with these criteria alone. Whole rock trace element compositions suggest a closer affinity to Group I kimberlite, with derivation from a garnet-bearing mantle. Exceptions to conventional classification of the rocks along petrographic or mineralogical lines may be due in part to assimilation of felsic country rock into the Renard magmas at the time of emplacement. The Renard magmas were emplaced into northeastern Laurentia at 630 Ma, when the supercontinent was undergoing a change from convergent margin magmatism to rifting, the latter being associated ultimately with the opening of the Iapetus ocean.