Supra-subduction Zone Pyroxenites from San Jorge and Santa Isabel (Solomon Islands)

Peridotites associated with pyroxenites (with rare olivine andspinel) are exposed on the islands of San Jorge and Santa Isabelin the Solomon Islands. Orthopyroxenite occurs in large outcrops(100 m²) whereas websterite and clinopyroxenite occur as layersand veins/dykes in peridotites. The bulk compositions of thepyroxenites are characterized by high Mg²⁺/(Mg²⁺ + Fe²⁺) (0·78–0·91)and low Al₂O₃ (<2·7 wt %). Low rare earth elementabundances are coupled with large ion lithophile element enrichmentsand positive Sr and Pb anomalies (primitive mantle-normalized)relative to adjacent rare earths. Temperatures of equilibrationfor the pyroxenites are between 950 and 1050°C. These relativelylow temperatures, combined with the occurrence of primary fluidinclusions, suggest that the pyroxenites formed by interactionof peridotite protoliths with an aqueous fluid. Bulk-rock andmineral compositions of the orthopyroxenites are similar tothose of mantle-derived pyroxenites, whereas the websteriteshave closer chemical affinity with crustal arc cumulates. Nevertheless,field relationships plus petrological, textural and geochemicalevidence are consistent with formation of all pyroxenite typesin supra-subduction zone mantle, resulting from metasomatismof peridotite by subducted Pacific Plate-derived fluid. Sucha setting for pyroxenite has not previously been reported indetail. We propose that these processes produce mantle pyroxenitewith compositions similar to crustal pyroxenite. KEY WORDS: mantle metasomatism; pyroxenite; supra-subduction zone     

Metasomatism of gabbro – mineral replacement and element mobilization during the Sveconorwegian metamorphic event

Widespread metasomatism affected the 100 km long and 25 km wide Proterozoic Bamble and Modum‐Kongsberg sectors, South Norway, resulting in the chemical and mineralogical transformation of wide segments of continental crust. Scapolitization was associated with veining, and was followed by albitization, transforming metagabbros pervasively over large areas. Fluids played an active role in these reactions, forming H₂O‐, CO₂‐ and Cl‐bearing phases at the expense of the primary volatile‐free minerals, causing depletion in Fe and infiltration of K, Mg, Na, B and P. The transformation of gabbro to scapolite metagabbro is observed as a fluid front replacing the primary magmatic mineral assemblage in three stages: during an incipient amphibolitization stage, the primary mafic minerals were replaced by anthophyllite or hastingsite, followed by pargasitic and edenitic Ca‐amphibole. Magnetite was dissolved, while rutile formed by the breakdown of ilmenite. Plagioclase was replaced by Cl‐rich scapolite (Me_19‐42) reflecting Cl‐saturation, while K‐ and Mg‐saturation produced phlogopite, enstatite, sapphirine and rare corundum. The high modal contents of chlorapatite and tourmaline in the scapolite metagabbro imply infiltration of B and P. The albitites consist dominantly of albite (Ab_95‐98) with varying, generally small, amounts of chlorite, calcite, rutile, epidote and pumpellyite. They formed from a H₂O–CO₂‐fluid rich in Na. The gabbro yields a zircon U–Pb age of 1149 ± 7 Ma and tonalite 1294 ± 38 Ma, whereas rutile from scapolite metagabbro and albitite has U–Pb ages of 1090–1084 Ma, and phlogopite produced during scapolitization Rb–Sr ages of 1070–1040 Ma. Temperature conditions for the scapolitization are inferred to have been 600–700 °C. The reported ages, combined with mineralogical and petrographic observations and inferred P–T conditions, indicate that the metasomatism was a part of the regional Sveconorwegian amphibolite facies metamorphic phase. Initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr of the scapolite ranges from 0.704 to 0.709. The Sr‐signature, the Cl‐ and B‐rich environment and regional distribution of lithologies suggest that the fluid may have originated from evaporites that were mobilized during the regional metamorphism.     

冀西北水泉沟碱性杂岩体成岩时代研究

采用高分辨率离子探针 (SHRIMP)对水泉沟碱性杂岩体锆石U Pb的分析结果表明 ,东坪金矿区二长岩和后沟金矿区正长岩年龄分别为 ( 390± 6)和 ( 386± 7)Ma ,两者几乎同时形成 ,并构成了一个大的复式岩基 ,即水泉沟碱性杂岩基。结合有关矿床形成的年代学资料 ,认为水泉沟碱性杂岩仅仅作为金矿床的围岩 ,与东坪和后沟等金矿床之间不存在直接的成因联系。     

利用稀土分布分形结构因子对碱性花岗岩稀土组成分类——以东准噶尔花岗岩为例

尝试用稀土分布的分形结构因子（FSF）值对我国碱性花岗岩的稀土组成进行了分类。可将我国碱性花岗岩的稀土分布分形结构因子划分为4种类型：（1）弱变异型（0．98－0．95）；（2）中变异型（0．95－0．92）；（3）强变异型（0．92－0．89）；（4）超强变异型（0．89－0．86）。其中前两种类型可很好地对应重稀土富集型和中稀土亏损型花岗岩，而后两种类型可对应轻稀土相对富集型和轻稀土特富型花岗岩。利用FSF值对新疆东准噶尔地区三带富碱花岗岩按稀土组成进行了归类。     

热液成矿分带的溶解－沉淀波结构

热液成矿分带是一种输运－反应问题。热液成矿分带基本属于渗滤交代分带性质，它是溶解－沉淀波在可渗透介质中形成和传播的结果。本文应用物理化学流体动力学中的渗滤与溶解－沉淀反应耦合过程理论研究溶解－沉淀波的结构特征，并进一步应用多组分耦合系统动力学中的用于原理揭示其形成的动力学机制，最后提出了一种热流成矿分带理论，对热液成矿分带问题的性质、热液成矿分带的本质和热液成矿分带的结构特征与形成机制提出了新认识。     

皖东上第三系玄武岩的地球化学特征和成因

郯庐断裂带东侧的皖东地区上第三系花果山组和桂五组玄武岩，是我国东部大陆大陆新生代玄武岩带中，尚未作详细地球化学研究的少数岩区之一。本文报道了该岩区２２个样品的常量元素和稀土等２０多种微量元素的丰度，以及其中１１个样品的Ｎｄ，Ｓｒ，Ｐｂ同位素组成，比较系统地提示了该大陆玄武岩套的地球化学特征。依据同位素和元素地球化学的制约，讨论了该岩套的成因及其地幔源区的性质和过程。该岩套来源于具ＥＭＩ型大洋玄武岩     

新疆东准噶尔北部碱性花岗岩的特征、成因及构造意义

新疆东准噶尔北部的碱性花岗岩呈带状分布于乌伦古断裂及额尔齐斯─玛因鄂博断裂之间地区。碱性花岗岩以出现碱性暗色矿物及铁质黑云母为特征，高硅、高碱、低钙、低镁铁，富含高场强元素，属典型的Ａ型花岗岩，它们产出的特定构造环境，据化学成分的构造环境判别为板内非造山的裂谷环境；成因类型相当于Ｅｂｙ（１９９２）的Ａ１类Ａ型花岗岩，明显不同于东准噶尔中部及南部碱性花岗岩带产出的造山期后张性构造环境。     

山东金伯利岩蒙山矿(mathiasite)研究的新进展──上地幔含大阳离子Cr、Ti、Fe氧化物矿物研究之三

本文回顾了国内外金伯利岩及其它地幔岩中发现的K、Ba、Ca、REE的Ti-Cr－Fe－Mg氧化物矿物的研究现状，包括沂蒙矿系列、蒙山矿系列及柱红石系列。在此基础上概括性地总结了笔者近一、二年对山东蒙阴金伯利岩中蒙山矿矿物所进行的微区矿物学方向研究取得的最新进展，包括：①揭示了K、Ba、Ca、REE等半径较大的元素在蒙山矿中的不均匀分布特点；②首次在金伯利岩中发现了蒙山矿系列矿物的Ca端元——Ca蒙山矿及K－Ba－Ca三个端元蒙山矿在同一矿物颗粒中的共存现象；③进行了高分辨透射电镜工作，拍摄了晶格条纹象，从而完善了蒙山矿的晶体结构资料；④确定了蒙山矿后期熔融交代形成的多种矿物相。这些研究成果，证实了地幔交代作用的存在和复杂性，应引起矿物岩石学界的充分重视。     

The Evolution of the Upper Mantle beneath the Canary Islands: Information from Trace Elements and Sr isotope Ratios in Minerals in Mantle Xenoliths

Laser ablation microprobe data are presented for olivine, orthopyroxeneand clinopyroxene in spinel harzburgite and lherzolite xenolithsfrom La Palma, Hierro, and Lanzarote, and new whole-rock trace-elementdata for xenoliths from Hierro and Lanzarote. The xenolithsshow evidence of strong major, trace element and Sr isotopedepletion (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr 0·7027 in clinopyroxene in themost refractory harzburgites) overprinted by metasomatism. Thelow Sr isotope ratios are not compatible with the former suggestionof a mantle plume in the area during opening of the AtlanticOcean. Estimates suggest that the composition of the originaloceanic lithospheric mantle beneath the Canary Islands correspondsto the residues after 25–30% fractional melting of primordialmantle material; it is thus significantly more refractory than‘normal’ mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) mantle. Thetrace element compositions and Sr isotopic ratios of the mineralsleast affected by metasomatization indicate that the upper mantlebeneath the Canary Islands originally formed as highly refractoryoceanic lithosphere during the opening of the Atlantic Oceanin the area. During the Canarian intraplate event the uppermantle was metasomatized; the metasomatic processes includecryptic metasomatism, resetting of the Sr–Nd isotopicratios to values within the range of Canary Islands basalts,formation of minor amounts of phlogopite, and melt–wall-rockreactions. The upper mantle beneath Tenerife and La Palma isstrongly metasomatized by carbonatitic or carbonaceous meltshighly enriched in light rare earth elements (REE) relativeto heavy REE, and depleted in Zr–Hf and Ti relative toREE. In the lithospheric mantle beneath Hierro and Lanzarote,metasomatism has been relatively weak, and appears to be causedby high-Si melts producing concave-upwards trace element patternsin clinopyroxene with weak negative Zr and Ti anomalies. Ti–Al–Fe-richharzburgites/lherzolites, dunites, wehrlites and clinopyroxenitesformed from mildly alkaline basaltic melts (similar to thosethat dominate the exposed parts of the islands), and appearto be mainly restricted to magma conduits; the alkali basaltmelts have caused only local metasomatism in the mantle wall-rocksof such conduits. The various metasomatic fluids formed as theresults of immiscible separations, melt–wall-rock reactionsand chromatographic fractionation either from a CO₂-rich basalticprimary melt, or, alternatively, from a basaltic and a siliceouscarbonatite or carbonaceous silicate melt. KEY WORDS: mantle xenoliths; mantle minerals; trace elements; depletion; carbonatite metasomatism     

Oxygen Isotopic Characteristics of Granitic Intrusions Related to Haobugao Zn-Pb-Cu-Sn Skarn Deposit, East Inner Mongolia, China

Abstract. Granitic rocks related to the formation of Haobugao Zn-Pb-Cu-Sn skarn deposit, Inner Mongolia, China, show unusual low whole-rock δ¹⁸O values down to -8.8 % (V-SMOW), whereas separated quartz crystals from those rocks give positive δ¹⁸O values of+4.1 to +9.9 %. Chemical analyses and microscopic observation of those granitic rocks confirm that they suffered hydrothermal alteration. Some skarn specimens and quartz from the Haobugao deposit also show negative δ¹⁸O values. The isotopic evidence indicates that intensive meteoric water circulation occurred at the time of granitic intrusion, and caused the pervasive hydrothermal alteration of granitic rocks and the precipitation of skarn deposit in this area.