Structural geometry and kinematics of the Ailao Shan shear zone: insights from integrated structural,microstructural, and fabric studies of the Yao Shan complex,Yunnan, Southwest China

ABSTRACT

The Yao Shan complex, a massif near the southern segment of the Ailao Shan–Red River (ASRR) shear zone, bears important information on the structural framework of the massif and the kinematics of ductile shearing along the ASRR shear zone. In this contribution, structural, microstructural, quartz c-axis fabric, magnetic fabric, and geochronologic data are used to determine the structural framework of the Yao Shan massif and its tectonic implications for the ASRR shear zone. The Yao Shan complex is characterized by an overall linear A-type antiform that contains a core of high-grade metamorphic rocks with Palaeoproterozoic to Mesozoic protoliths and a mantle of Permo-Triassic low-grade rocks. Both the high-grade metamorphic core and low-grade Permo-Triassic rocks have experienced progressive ductile shearing. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) results from 17 samples collected along the Xinjie–Pingbian section across the complex show that magnetic lineation (K_max) and foliation (K_max–K_int) are generally subparallel to the corresponding structural elements in the sheared rocks. The shape parameter E values of the magnetic ellipsoids are indicative of dominantly oblate and plane strain, but vary with protolith type and degree of strain among the various rock types. In agreement with the field and microstructural observations, the corrected degree of anisotropy (Pj) values reflect high shear strain in the core rocks and relatively low shear strain in the low-grade strata. A kinematic analysis based on structural and magnetic fabric data shows that both left- and right-lateral shear occurred during the deformation of the Yao Shan complex. Therefore, instead of being an element of the ASRR shear zone, the Yao Shan complex constitutes a crustal-scale inharmonic A-type fold with a fold axis parallel to the stretching lineation. Geochronologic data reveal that the folding occurred coevally with ductile shearing of the middle to lower crust between ca. 30 and 21 Ma.     

Initiation of left-lateral deformation along the Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone: new microstructural,textural, and geochronological constraints from the Diancang Shan metamorphic massif,SW Yunnan,China

The Diancang Shan metamorphic massif, the northwestern extension of the Ailao Shan Massif, is a typical metamorphic complex situated along the NW–SE-trending Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone. Diancang Shan granitic and amphibolitic mylonites collected from sheared high-grade metamorphic rocks were studied using petrographic and electron-backscatter diffraction techniques. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe U–Pb dating of zircon grains from the granitic mylonites constrains the timing of shearing. Macro- and microstructural and textural analysis reveals intense plastic deformation of feldspar, quartz, and amphibole under amphibolite-facies conditions, all consistently document left-lateral shearing. Porphyritic monzogranitic mylonite within the shear zone possesses evidence supporting a sequential, progressive process from crystallization during magma emplacement, through submagmatic flow to solid-state plastic deformation. We suggest that the early-kinematic pluton subsequently underwent strong left-lateral strike–slip shearing. The development of complex textures of quartz, feldspar, and amphibole from the granitic and amphibolitic mylonites apparently records successive variation of conditions attending coherent, solid-state high-temperature ductile deformation during regional left-lateral shearing. All magmatic zircons from the mylonitized porphyritic monzogranite give U–Pb ages of 30.95 ± 0.61 million years for the crystallization of the granite. This age provides the timing of onset of left-lateral shearing along the Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone in the Diancang Shan high-grade metamorphic massif.     

大坪金矿床主矿体控矿构造与矿化富集规律

大坪金矿床位于哀牢山金矿带南部,为研究其规模最大的V1-2-3号矿体的控矿构造和矿化富集规律,本文研究总结了矿体地质特征,对矿体的多级控矿构造及力学性质进行剖析,采用矿体垂直纵投影图对厚度、品位及其剩余值、趋势值等值线图进行分析。研究结果表明:金矿主要受三级断裂构造控制:红河-哀牢山深大断裂控制整个金矿成矿带;小新街断裂为导矿构造;小新街断裂的次级断裂带为容矿构造。在构造应力机制发生转换的大规模成矿时期,矿区受到由顺时针旋转变为逆时针旋转的构造应力场作用,控矿断裂性质由左行压扭性转变为张性。构造应力场严格控制了矿体的空间位置、规模、形态、矿体厚度与品位变化特征。成矿流体运移方向为北西-南东方向,在多期、多阶段成矿作用下,形成层状分布矿化富集带。研究厘定了V1-2-3号矿体共有3个矿化富集带,包括7个矿化富集中心,其侧伏方向为北西-南东方向。矿化富集中心大多形成于构造引张的部位,形成透镜状富厚矿体;在构造闭合的地方,矿脉变薄、品位降低,形成贫化带或无矿段。     

内蒙古呼和浩特变质核杂岩韧性拆离带40Ar-39Ar定年及其构造含义

晚中生代,内蒙古大青山依次经历晚侏罗世盘羊山逆冲推覆、早白垩世呼和浩特变质核杂岩伸展、早白垩世大青山逆冲推覆断层及早白垩世以来高角度正断层复杂构造演化。其中,呼和浩特变质核杂岩韧性剪切带的冷却时间和抬升机制的制约尚不明确。本文在野外考察和显微构造分析基础上,采用逐步加热40Ar-39Ar定年法对韧性剪切带内不同单矿物的冷却年龄进行了测定。角闪石、白云母、黑云母和钾长石单矿物40Ar-39Ar冷却年龄处于120~116Ma之间。结合已有年龄数据及单矿物封闭温度,构建了韧性剪切带的冷却曲线。结果表明,韧性剪切带在122~115Ma期间存在一个明显的快速冷却过程。这一阶段快速冷却是与变质核杂岩拆离断层相关核部杂岩拆离折返作为大青山逆冲推覆断层上盘抬升的结果。     

Be exposure dating of river terraces at the southern mountain front of the Dzungarian Alatau (SE Kazakhstan) reveals rate of thrust faulting over the past ~ 400 ka

The mountain belts of the Dzungarian Alatau (SE Kazakhstan) and the Tien Shan are part of the actively deforming India–Asia collision zone but how the strain is partitioned on individual faults remains poorly known. Here we use terrace mapping, topographic profiling, and ¹⁰Be exposure dating to constrain the slip rate of the 160-km-long Usek thrust fault, which defines the southern front of the Dzungarian Alatau. In the eastern part of the fault, where the Usek River has formed five terraces (T₁–T₅), the Usek thrust fault has vertically displaced terrace T₄ by 132 ± 10 m. At two sites on T₄, exposure dating of boulders, amalgamated quartz pebbles, and sand from a depth profile yielded ¹⁰Be ages of 366 ± 60 ka and 360 ^+ 77/_− 48 ka (both calculated for an erosion rate of 0.5 mm/ka). Combined with the vertical offset and a 45–70° dip of the Usek fault, these age constraints result in vertical and horizontal slip rates of ~ 0.4 and ~ 0.25 mm/a, respectively. These rates are below the current resolution of GPS measurements and highlight the importance of determining slip rates for individual faults by dating deformed landforms to resolve the pattern of strain distribution across intracontinental mountain belts.     

宁夏贺兰山北段牛头沟金矿地质地球化学特征和矿床成因探讨

牛头沟金矿位于华北陆块鄂尔多斯地块西缘贺兰山裂陷北段之基底杂岩带,赋矿地层为一套下元古界宗别立群第二亚群(Pt1z2)中的中-深程度变质岩系。矿体受深大断裂(正义关断裂)的次级主断裂(F1)控制;该控矿断裂构造(F1)形成于海西-印支期,经历早期逆冲挤压,晚期局部引张破裂的多期活动阶段,矿化作用主要形成于主断裂(F1)张性破裂阶段,矿化早期主要表现为强烈硅化,矿化晚期硅化岩破裂被主成矿流体充填-交代形成蚀变岩型金矿,为矿区主要成矿类型。石英脉型金矿形成于与主断裂有联系的次级张裂隙中。二者反映矿床类型不同,但成矿作用是一致的。即在动力作用下产生的变质热液在构造的有利部位或裂隙中交代-充填成矿。硫化物硫同位素组成和矿物流体包裹体研究表明,该蚀变岩型金矿成矿物质和成矿流体来源具多源性。     

基于ASTER VNIR SWIR多光谱遥感数据识别与提取干旱地区岩性信息——以西南天山柯坪隆起东部为例

ASTER多光谱遥感数据目前可以用于岩石矿物资源信息的识别和提取。本研究尝试利用ASTER 可见光近红外（VNIR）和短波红外（SWIR）的多光谱遥感数据提取干旱地区的岩石与矿物信息。基于新疆天山西南缘柯坪隆起东部不同地层单元岩石的化学组成和矿物成份以及VNIR SWIR谱域光谱吸收特征的分析,我们采用相关吸收波段深度（RBD）和波段比值（BR）方法对研究区的多光谱遥感数据进行图像处理,有效区分和识别了白云岩、石灰岩、砂岩以及阿克苏群的蓝片岩—绿片岩和砂质片岩。白云岩的CO2-3吸收谱带中心波长位于232〖KG*3〗μm,与灰岩的CO2-3 吸收谱带中心波长位置235 μm相比,具有向短波长方向移动的特点,据此可以利用RBD7、RBD8分别有效的识别白云岩和灰岩; 长英质岩石显示Al OH和Fe3+ VNIR SWIR吸收特征,而基性 超基性岩石显示Fe2+ 和Fe、Mg OH特征,利用不同的铁价态和次要矿物可以区分它们：ASTER band2/band1代表了含Fe3+ 矿物分布信息、ASTER band5/band4代表了含Fe2+ 矿物分布信息、RBD6可以估计Al OH矿物的丰度; 砂质/泥质片岩含较多的多硅白云母、绿泥石、黑硬绿泥石以及风化后表面覆盖的其它粘土矿物,在221 μm（band 6）存在有特征的吸收谱带,并且在165 μm（band 4）具有较高的反射率,而蓝片/绿片岩在221 μm（band 6）反射率较高,不具有明显特征吸收谱带,同时其在165 μm（band 4）反射率较低,因此蓝片/绿片岩ASTER band4/band6 比值低。应用ASTER band4/band6波段比值可以有效的区分开砂质/泥质片岩与蓝片岩/绿片岩。     

武夷山新元古代蛇绿混杂岩岩石地球化学特征

岩石地球化学研究表明,华南造山带东段武夷山新元古代蛇绿混杂岩中的玄武岩和安山岩可以分为两种类型:一种为拉斑玄武岩类,TiO2含量为2.26%～2.59%(平均2.43%),轻稀土元素比重稀土元素富集,(La)N/(Yb)N=6.4～9.4(平均7.8),相对富集Nb、Ta和Ti,微量元素特征类似于洋岛玄武岩;另一种岩石属于钙碱系列,TiO2含量为0.69%～0.93%(平均0.83%),表现为轻稀土元素富集,(La)N/(Yb)N=4.2～12.6(平均8.4),略显Eu负异常,并以低Nb、Ta、Ti等元素为特征,富集Ba、Rb、Th、K等大离子亲石元素,具有岛弧玄武岩的特征,属于俯冲作用的产物。蛇绿混杂岩中这两类岩石共生,记录了扬子地块和华夏地块之间古大洋消减闭合和弧-弧碰撞拼贴的历史。     

普若岗日冰原西侧及念青唐古拉山西坡侧碛垄形态差异及气候构造成因

冰碛垄的几何学特征反应了它形成时的各种影响因素,包括构造状况、气候条件.而对冰碛垄进行高程测量,并应用数值模拟技术反演其形态,可以荻取高度、坡度、坡向等数据进行分析.文中应用该方法对青藏高原腹地普若岗日冰原一条侧碛垄以及东南部念青唐古拉山西端南坡的三条侧碛垄进行处理,结果表明普若岗日的侧碛垄规模比念青唐古拉山的侧碛垄规模小得多,普若岗日处侧碛垄的坡度也较缓,且坡向数据表明侧碛垄几何性质不对称.结合气候、构造等资料对它们的形态学参数进行对比分析表明,气候是造成两地侧碛垄规模差异的主要原因,坡度的差异受气候与构造双重作用影响.从两地坡度的差异可以推导出念青唐古拉山侧碛垄的形成年代比普若岗日地区的要晚.根据普若岗日侧碛垄几何性质的不对称,结合遥感资料解译,判断该区末次冰期以来有正断层活动,断层面倾向北,上盘在南边.     

Sedimentary record of Triassic intraplate extension in North China: evidence from the nonmarine NW Ordos Basin, Helan Shan and Zhuozi Shan

The Helan Shan and Zhuozi Shan of the NW Ordos basin, China, contain thick (up to 4 km) sequences of nonmarine Triassic strata. These rocks represent a major intraplate sedimentary basin, the paleogeography, tectonic setting and provenance of which are poorly understood and controversial. Studies of the sedimentary geology of the basin, supported by new palinspastic reconstruction of younger deformation, demonstrate that the basin filled from three sides by fluvial, lacustrine-deltaic and alluvial fan depositional systems. The basin forms a westward-thickening wedge that reaches its maximum thickness along the western margin of the Helan Shan and thins to a relatively constant 600–800 m east of the Zhuozi Shan. The stratigraphy of the basin is strongly asymmetric; alluvial fan strata are restricted to the extreme western margin of the basin and interfinger with axial fluvial deposits low in the section and deep lacustrine facies high in the section. Much of the eastern part of the basin is dominated by west-flowing meandering river and deltaic systems. Large structures of Triassic age have not been identified in the Helan Shan or Zhuozi Shan, but small Triassic normal faults have been documented in the western and central Helan Shan. These characteristics most strongly support an extensional origin for the Triassic basin in NW Ordos. The basin is interpreted to have been a north-trending half graben, bound along its western margin by an east-dipping normal fault, presently concealed beneath Quaternary cover west of the Helan Shan. The eastern margin, now found in the Zhuozi Shan, has simple ramp-margin geometry. Driving mechanisms for this extension are not obvious due to limited documentation of Triassic structure throughout the region, but probably relate to far-field stresses from the Qinling or Jinsha active margins interacting with the stable Ordos block.