Wet or dry? The difficulty of identifying the presence of water during crustal melting

Partial melting of continental crust and evolution of granitic magmas are inseparably linked to the availability of H₂O. In the absence of a free aqueous fluid, melting takes place at relatively high temperatures by dehydration of hydrous minerals, whereas in its presence, melting temperatures are lowered, and melting need not involve hydrous minerals. With the exception of anatexis in water‐saturated environments where anhydrous peritectic minerals are absent, there is no reliable indicator that clearly identifies the presence of a free aqueous fluid during anatexis. Production of Ab‐rich magmas or changes in LILE ratios, such as an increase in Sr and decrease in Rb indicating increased involvement of plagioclase, are rough guidelines to the presence of aqueous fluids. Nevertheless, all indicators have caveats and cannot be unequivocally applied, allowing for the persistence of a bias in the literature towards dehydration melting. Investigation of mineral equilibria modelling of three metasedimentary protoliths of the Kangaroo Island migmatites in South Australia, shows that the main indicator for the presence of small volumes of excess water under upper amphibolite to lower granulite facies conditions (660–750°C) is the melt volume produced. Melt composition, modal content or chemical composition of peritectic minerals such as cordierite, sillimanite or garnet are relatively insensitive to the presence of free water. However, the mobility of melt during open system behaviour makes it difficult to determine the melt volume produced. We therefore argue that the presence of small volumes of excess water might be much more common than so far inferred, with large impact on the buffering of crustal temperatures and fertility, and therefore rheology of the continental crust.     

东南极拉斯曼丘陵长英质片麻岩的深熔作用与铁钛氧化物的聚集机制

东南极拉斯曼丘陵高级变质长英质岩石中铁钛氧化物的局部聚集与高级变质作用过程中的深熔作用有关,并非原岩富集这些组分。深熔作用造成惰性组分如铁钛氧化物滞留原地或略有聚集及活动性组分的迁移,而流体挥发组分优先聚集于熔体之中。当体系中水含量较低、处于不饱和状态时,深熔作用过程中形成局部"熔体",其结晶所成的浅色体不具低共结组分,没有熔体结晶结构,不是真正的熔体,可能是(准)熔体。较粗粒的浅色体或伟晶岩也是与深熔作用有关的产物,其形成早于花岗岩脉或岩体,而与花岗质岩浆分异无关。伴随(准)熔体的出现,体系中组分的萃取、分异效果较为明显,即可造成组分分异,形成截然不同的异地、二相分异结构,分别形成固相残留物(组成可以不固定)和(准)熔体相。固相残留体中富铝、铁组分,形成矽线石和铁钛氧化物团块,其中少或无挥发分;与此对应,短距离迁移浅色体中往往贫铁钛组分,可见石榴子石、偶见铁钛氧化物矿物。这种挥发分不饱和状态下的深熔作用基本属于封闭体系,整体失水不显著,高级变质岩中的一些特征矿物如矽线石、石榴子石、堇青石、尖晶石的形成也与这种分异作用有关,但组分迁移范围有限,并可保存组分分异各阶段的产物。拉斯曼丘陵长英质岩系中大量铁钛氧化物和矽线石类矿物组合的形成,反映了临界状态下的局部或差异抬升,变形作用的非均匀性及相伴随的组分分异作用,很可能相当于早期格林维尔期构造的泛非期再活动。      

Impact-induced melting of Archean granulites in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. I: anatexis of metapelitic granulites

Mid‐crustal Archean pelitic granulites in the Vredefort Dome experienced a static, low‐P granulite facies overprint associated with the formation of the dome by meteorite impact at 2.02 Ga. Heating and exhumation were virtually instantaneous, with the main source of heat being provided by energy released from nonadiabatic decay of the impact shock wave. Maximum temperatures within a radius of a few kilometres of the centre of the structure exceeded 900 °C and locally even exceeded 1350 °C. This led to comprehensive melting of the precursor Archean granulite assemblages (Grt + Bt + Qtz + Pl + Ksp ± Crd ± Opx ± Sil) followed by peritectic crystallization of aluminous alkali feldspar+Crd + Spl ± Crn ± Sil parageneses and the segregation of small, evolved, biotite leucogranite bodies. However, at a distance of c. 6 km from the centre pre‐impact rock features are largely preserved, although partial replacement of garnet by symplectitic coronas of Crd + Opx ± Spl ± Pl and biotite by orthopyroxene indicate that peak temperatures approached 775 ± 50 °C. Thin interstitial moats of K‐feldspar are closely associated with the orthopyroxene coronas; they are interpreted as the remnants of low‐proportion partial melts generated by biotite breakdown. Both the textures and mineral compositional data support reduced equilibration volumes in these rocks, which reflect rapid isobaric cooling following shock heating and exhumation. The high temperatures and strong lateral thermal gradient are consistent with the modelled impact‐induced isotherm pattern for a 200–300 km diameter impact crater.     

韧性剪切带型金矿床矿物中熔融包裹体与矿床成因研究

在新疆乔尕山及广东河台韧性剪切带金矿床的含金石英脉及糜棱岩中首次发现熔融包裹体及流体一熔融包裹体，其均一化温度分别为780～960℃与600℃。用电子探针及扫描电镜能谱对熔融包裹体子矿物成分进行分析，通过56个熔融包裹体231个测点分析，鉴定出石英、白云母、黑云母、磁铁矿等十种子矿物，组成不同的矿物组合。子矿物常含Si、Al、Na、K、Au、Ag、Cu等元素。剪切带金矿床中熔融包裹体的发现为其成因研究提供了新依据，表明成矿与多阶段硅酸盐熔体及流体作用有关。     

Evolution of structurally contrasting anatectic migmatites in the 3-kbar Ballachulish aureole, Scotland

Abstract Anatectic migmatites of contrasting structural style are found adjacent to the contacts of the Ballachulish Igneous Complex, Argyllshire, Scotland. On the east flank, evidence for migmatization is largely restricted to the local development of millimetre-centimetre scale Kfs + Qtz-rich leucocratic segregations, which accompany fragmentation of brittle hornfels layers and ductile deformation of mm-cm scale semipelitic layers. Large volumes of semipelitic rock rich in feldspar and quartz on the east flank show no migmatitic features, and bedding is usually preserved undisturbed right up to the contact. On the west flank, in contrast, similar semipelitic rocks show widespread migmatitic features and disruption of layering is substantial and widespread over a 400 m wide zone. Within the west-flank migmatites, 1–100 cm scale rigid bedding fragments (schollen) may be suspended and disoriented in a semipelitic matrix that underwent ductile deformation. The P-T conditions on both flanks are in the same range: 3 kbar and 650–700°C. The contrast in gross structural style is believed to result from differences in the volumes of melt produced and differences in the proportion of rock in which the critical melt fraction of the rocks was exceeded. On the east flank, only on a mm-cm scale was enough melt locally accumulated to cause disruption of some layers and segregation of melt. On the west flank, melting proceeded substantially in a broad tract of semipelitic rocks, resulting in larger scale contrasts in rheology that led to the present chaotic structures in this zone. Because migmatization occurred at a pressure too low for muscovite dehydration melting, and at temperatures too low for substantial biotite dehydration melting, the different amounts of melting on the east and west flanks most probably resulted from the introduction of differing amounts of externally derived water. On the east flank, and throughout most of the aureole, the absence of melting even in quartzofeldspathic protoliths indicates that there was no substantial movement of fluid towards or away from the igneous complex during migmatization. The contrasting situation on the west flank may have resulted from devolatilization of underlying quartz diorite magma (? 690–710°C), which released heat and fluids into the overlying quartz- and feldspar-rich semipelites (solidus temperature ? 650–680°C).     

REE Geochemistry of Some Metamorphic Rock Types of the Late Archean Fuping Group and Their Anatectic Derivatives in Pingshan,Hebei Province,China—A Preliminary Study

The Late Archean Fuping Group of the Xiaojiao area in Pingshan Couty,Hebei Province consists mainly of three metamorphic rock types of supracrustal affinity,i.e.,Kfeldspar leucoleptite,biotite leptite-gneiss and hornblendic rocks.Their anatectic derivatives formed in the initial stage of anatexis are petrochemically of K-feldspar granitic trondhjemitic and granodioritic compositions respectively,and in general have inherted the main petrochemical featurews from their parent rock types,Probably due to the fact that they contain less REE rich accessory minerals as compared with their parent rocks,the anatectic derivatives are in general lower in EREE content,But both the derivatives and their parent rocks have similar REE patterns,which serves as an additional indication of the genetic relationship between them.     

流体与非线性现象的成因机制研究

本文以二个典型的非线性现象（大别杂岩中的热中心混合岩和云南腾冲热海钙华中的化学振荡分层）的成因机制研究为实例，阐明了流体在成岩和成矿过程中所起的重要作用：流体不仅影响着体系能量的传递，而且，还控制着物质成分的时空分布和输运过程。流体研究是把地质过程之间耦合起来加以整体考察的关键环节。     

Tertiary deep crustal ultrametamorphism in the Hidaka metamorphic belt, northern Japan

The Main Zone of the Hidaka metamorphic belt is an imbricate stack of crustal material derived from an island arc in which a sequence of units with increasing metamorphic grade from low to high structural levels is exposed. The basal part of the metamorphic sequence underwent granulite facies metamorphism with peak P–T conditions of 7kbar, 870°C. In this zone pelitic granulite includes leucosomes which consist mainly of orthopyroxene-plagioclase-quartz.
To test whether the leucosome was derived by partial melting of the surrounding pelite, melting experiments of the pelitic granulite were carried out for water-saturated and dry systems at 7 kbar and 850°C. The chemical composition of the leucosome produced during these runs shows a peraluminous S-type tonalitic affinity and is located very close to the tie-line between the average melts produced in water-saturated systems and the average composition of the residual orthopyroxene + plagioclase. This therefore suggests that the lecosome in pelitic granulite was formed by incipient anatexis at close to the highest P–T condition of the Main Zone.
The age of the crustal anatexis is determined by the Rb-Sr whole rock isochron method for garnet-cordierite-biotite gneiss (host rock), garnet-orthopyroxene-cordierite gneiss (restite) and S-type tonalite (melt). This gives an age of 56.0 Ma with an initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio of 0.705711. The S-type tonalite magmas that form large intrusive masses in the Main Zone were probably generated by crustal anatexis in deeper parts of the crust at the same time (late Palaeocene).     

粤西云炉地区混合岩的成因研究

在两广交界的云开大山加里东造山带中，从广东高州新垌向云炉方向依次发育部分混合岩化岩石、条带状混合岩、眼球条带状混合岩及片麻状混合岩等混合岩带。笔者通过对混合岩进行质量平衡计算，结构系统统计分析、矿物学、地球化学及云炉地区变质前景的研究，确定该区混合岩的主要形成机制为深溶作用。在深溶作用过程中，没有显著的钾、钠、硅等外来组分的带入和钙、铁、镁等组分的带出。     

河北平山阜平群夕线石钾长浅粒岩深熔作用的微区矿物学标志

河北省平山县阜平群是一套高角闪岩相岩石。根据宏观现象，某些地段曾经历过深熔作用过程。深熔效应以小觉地区的夕线石钾长浅粒岩最为典型。通过电子显微镜观测确认，所研究的夕线石钾长浅粒岩经受了深熔作用的改造，具有丰富而显著的微区矿物学标志。主要表现为前存矿物，如钾长石、条纹长石、石英、钠长石、黑云母和磁铁矿等，不同程度地被熔蚀，主要组成元素发生迁移和重组，沿矿物的解理、裂隙及粒间形成夕线石、石英、云母、长石、金红石等再结晶相。在深熔过程中，元素的迁移有两种可能形式：①选择性地从前存矿物晶格中移出；②通过前存矿物的熔融。Fe、Ti等元素从黑云母中移出，形成再结晶磁铁矿和金红石；Si、AI等元素则从黑云母和长石中移出，形成夕线石和再结晶石英。