Delineation of structures favourable to groundwater occurrence employing seismic refraction method—A case study from Tiruvuru,Krishna district,Andhra Pradesh

The contacts associated with an outlier in biotite gneiss and sandstones near Tiruvuru, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh which are generally favourable for groundwater occurrence were investigated employing refraction seismic method. Results were examined by correlating the signals with local geology, bore well data and other available information in order to improve the reliability of interpretation     

Early exhumation of the collisional orogen and concurrent infill of foredeep basins in the Miocene Eurasian–Okhotsk Plate boundary, central Hokkaido, Japan: Inferences from K–Ar dating of granitoid clasts

Abstract   Thick Middle (–Upper) Miocene turbiditic deposits filled very deep and narrow foredeep basins formed in the western margin of the Hidaka collision zone in central Hokkaido. Cobble- to boulder-sized clasts of eight monzogranites and a single granodiorite in the Kawabata Formation in the Yubari Mountains area yielded biotite K–Ar ages of 44.4 ± 1.0 to 45.4 ± 1.0 Ma and 42.8 ± 1.1 Ma, respectively. Major elemental compositions of the clasts all fall in the field of S-type granite on an NK/A (Na₂O + K₂O/Al₂O₃ in molecule) versus A/CNK (Al₂O₃/CaO + Na₂O + K₂O in molecule) diagram, verifying their peraluminous granite character (aluminium saturation index (ASI): 1.12–1.19). These geochronological and petrographical features indicate that the granitoid clasts in the Kawabata Formation correlate with Eocene granitic plutons in the northeastern Hidaka Belt, specifically the Uttsudake (43 Ma) and Monbetsu (42 Ma) plutons. Foredeep basins are flexural depressions developed at the frontal side of thickened thrust wedges. The results presented here suggest that deposition of the Middle Miocene turbidites was coeval with rapid westward up-thrusting and exhumation of the Hidaka Belt. This early mountain building may have occurred in response to thrusting in the Tertiary fold-and-thrust system of central Hokkaido.     

安徽繁昌-铜陵中生代侵入岩的黑云母特征和成因探讨

安徽繁昌—铜陵地区属于长江中下游铁、铜、钼、金成矿带的一部分,中生代侵入岩中广泛发育黑云母。选取该区有代表性的3个岩体———板石岭黑云母石英二长岩、凤凰山花岗闪长岩、沙滩脚花岗闪长岩的黑云母单矿物样品,对其进行了电子探针成分分析I、-CP稀土元素成分分析、穆斯鲍尔谱特征分析研究。本区黑云母以三八面体类型为主,属镁质黑云母,黑云母的镁质率为0.62~0.71,表明岩体属于深源系列;铜陵2个岩体黑云母的SiO2、TiO2、Na2O含量较繁昌板石岭黑云母石英二长岩的要低,而TFeO较高。穆斯鲍尔谱表明黑云母的Fe3 /(Fe2 Fe3 )值为0.346~0.385,计算得到凤凰山花岗闪长岩的氧逸度f(O2)值为10-5.5Pa;黑云母的氧化物成分和稀土元素成分表明3个侵入体均属壳-幔混源型,但铜陵两个形成时代较早的花岗闪长岩体的幔源岩浆成分要明显多于形成时代较晚的繁昌岩体的。     

When epitaxy controls garnet growth

Within a mica schist from the coesite-bearing Brossasco-Isasca Unit (Western Alps), microstructural analysis shows that Alpine garnet grains are aligned with the crenulated foliation. Garnet crystallographic orientation was analysed with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD): the obtained crystallographic dispersion patterns and distribution patterns of misorientation axes suggest a strong parallelism of {110} garnet planes with a 56°W-dipping foliation. The data are interpreted as evidence for an epitaxial growth of garnet upon (001) biotite planes, sometime during and/or after dispersion of the biotite/garnet crystals from their initially foliation-parallel orientation by rotation about the Alpine crenulation axis. This interpretation is based on the comparison of the measured EBSD data with: (i) theoretical dispersion trajectories of garnet crystallographic data, (ii) numerically modelled pole figures, and (iii) numerically modelled misorientation axis distribution patterns. Our data suggest that epitaxial growth of garnet upon biotite is allowed by distortion of the pseudohexagonal basal oxygen ring structure on (001) biotite surfaces, and that distortion is driven by introduction of missing ions. Our data further suggest that the spatial distribution of precursor phases influences the distribution patterns of garnet within mica schists.     

Whole-rock, Phosphate, and Silicate Compositional Trends across an Amphibolite- to Granulite-facies Transition, Tamil Nadu, India

Chemical trends from north (amphibolite facies) to south (granulitefacies) along a 95 km traverse in Tamil Nadu, Southern India,include: whole-rock depletion of Rb, Cs, Th and U, enrichmentin Ti and F, and depletion in Fe and Mn in biotite and amphibole;increases in Al and decreases in Mn in orthopyroxene; enrichmentof fluorapatite in F. K-feldspar blebs are widespread alongquartz–plagioclase grain boundaries, and could indicateeither partial melting or metasomatism. In the northernmostportion of the traverse the principal rare earth element (REE)-bearingminerals are allanite and titanite. South of a clinopyroxeneisograd, monazite grains independent of fluorapatite are themajor REE- and Th-bearing phase. Further south independent monaziteis rare but Th-free monazite inclusions are common in fluorapatite.During prograde metamorphism, independent monazite was replacedby REE-rich fluorapatite in which the monazite inclusions laterformed. The loss of independent monazite was accompanied bya loss of whole-rock Th and possibly a small depletion in lightREE. Most mineralogical features along the traverse can be accountedfor by progressive dehydration and oxidation reactions. Trace-elementdepletion is best explained by the action of an externally derivedlow H₂O activity brine migrating from a source at greater depth,possibly preceded or accompanied by partial melting. KEY WORDS: granulite facies; charnockite; metasomatism; Archean; Tamil Nadu, India; fluorapatite; monazite; allanite; titanite; biotite     

浙江嵊州地区陈蔡岩群变质岩的锆石年代学研究:江绍结合带对华南印支期造山运动的响应

陈蔡岩群是华夏地块西北缘的主要前寒武纪变质基底,蕴含着有关江绍结合带构造演化的丰富信息,长期为众多学者所关注。作者最近通过路线调查和地质剖面测制,将研究区"陈蔡岩群"解体为条带状黑云斜长片麻岩、侵入其中的二长花岗岩及后期基性岩脉等。黑云斜长片麻岩的锆石年龄数据可分为多组,其中以约1800 Ma、约700Ma、220 Ma三组最为集中,前者给出了片麻岩继承锆石年龄的峰值,中者给出了片麻岩原岩时代的上限,后者为变质年龄;二长花岗岩年龄为220 Ma,与前述变质年龄对应,均为印支期构造热事件,显示了江绍结合带对华南印支期造山运动的响应。     

内蒙古哈达门沟地区黑云母击象及其构造意义

黑云母击象构造是一种快速受力、脆性变形的产物。文章阐述了内蒙古哈达门沟地区新太古界乌拉山群变质岩中的黑云母发育的击象构造特征,认为黑云母击象明显受到退变质作用和混合岩化作用及韧性剪切作用,很可能是形成于新太古代末—古元古代初呼和浩特—包头断裂和临河—集宁断裂产生的地震作用中;新太古代岩石中黑云母击象的存在也证明了华北地块在新太古代末—古元古代初已经具备了较强的刚度,板块构造理论适用范围的最早时限很可能向前推移到新太古代。     

华南印支期产铀和非产铀花岗岩黑云母矿物化学成分差异

华南印支期花岗岩与铀成矿关系密切.根据花岗岩赋存铀矿的能力,将华南印支期花岗岩分为产铀花岗岩和非产铀花岗岩.前者以诸广山岩体和大富足岩体为代表,后者以白马山岩体和瓦屋堂岩体为代表.利用黑云母电子探针矿物化学成分来研究产铀与非产铀花岗岩的特征和差异,进一步指导华南印支期花岗岩的铀矿找矿勘探工作.与非产铀花岗岩相比,产铀花...     

Variations in rates of nucleation and growth of biotite porphyroblasts

Differences in rates of nucleation and diffusion‐limited growth for biotite porphyroblasts in adjacent centimetre‐scale layers of a garnet‐biotite schist from the Picuris Mountains of New Mexico are revealed by variations in crystal size and abundance between two layers with strong compositional similarity. Relationships between fabrics recorded by inclusion patterns in biotite and garnet porphyroblasts are interpreted to reflect garnet growth following biotite growth, without substantial alteration of the biotite sizes. Sizes and locations of biotite crystals, obtained via high‐resolution X‐ray computed tomography, document that of the two adjacent layers, one has a larger mean crystal volume (9.5 × 10^?4v. 2.4 × 10^?4 cm³), fewer biotite crystals per unit volume (232 v. 576 crystals cm^?3), and a higher volume fraction of biotite (23%v. 14%). The two layers have similar mineral assemblages and mineral chemistry. Both layers show evidence for diffusional control of nucleation and growth. Pseudosection analysis suggests that the large‐biotite layer began to crystallize biotite at a temperature ～67 °C greater than the small‐biotite layer. Diffusion rates differed between layers, because of their different temperature ranges of crystallization, but this effect can be quantified. The bulk compositional difference between the layers, manifested in different modal amounts of biotite, has an effect on the biotite sizes that is also quantifiable and insufficient to account for the difference in biotite size. After these other possible causes of variation in crystal sizes have been eliminated, variability in nucleation and diffusion rates remain as the dominant factors responsible for the difference in porphyroblastic textures. Numerical simulations suggest that relative to the small‐biotite layer, the large‐biotite layer experienced elevated diffusion rates because of the higher crystallization temperature, as well as increased nucleation rates in order to achieve the observed size and number density of crystals. The simulations can replicate the observed textures only by invoking unreasonably large values for the thermal dependence of nucleation rates (activation energies), strongly suggesting that the observed textural differences arise from variations between layers in the abundance and energetics of potential nucleation sites.     

Biotite and garnet compositional variation and mineral equilibria in Grenville gneisses of the Otter Lake area, Quebec

Garnet-biotite gneisses, some of which contain sillimanite or hornblende, are widespread within the Otter Lake terrain, a portion of the Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield. The metamorphic grade is upper amphibolite to, locally, lower granulite facies. The atomic ratio Fe²⁺/(Fe²⁺+ Fe³⁺) in biotite ranges from 0.79 to 0.89 (ferrous iron determinations in 10 highly pure separates), with a mean of 0.86. Mg and Fe²⁺ atoms occupy 67–78% of the octahedral sites, the remainder are occupied by Fe³⁺, Ti, and Al, and some are vacant. Mg/(Mg + Fe²⁺), denoted X, in the analysed samples ranges from 0.32 to 0.65. Garnet contains 1–24% grossular, 1–12% spessartine and X ranges from 0.07 to 0.34. Compositional variation in biotite and garnet is examined in relation to three mineral equilibria: (I) biotite + sillimanite + quartz = garnet + K-feldspar + H₂O; (II) pyrope + annite = almandine + phlogopite; (III) anorthite = grossular + sillimanite + quartz. Measurements of X (biotite) and X (garnet) are used to construct an illustrative model for equilibrium (I) which relates the observed variation in X to a temperature range of 70°C or a range in H₂O activity of 0.6; the latter interpretation is preferred. In sillimanite-free gneisses, the distribution of Mg and Fe²⁺ between garnet (low in Ca and Mn) and biotite is adequately described by a distribution coefficient (KD) of 4.1 (equilibrium II). The observed increase in the distribution coefficient with increasing Ca in garnet is ln K_D= 1.3 + 2.5 × 10^?2 [Ca] where [Ca] = 100 Ca/(Mg + Fe²⁺+ Mn + Ca). The distribution coefficient is apparently unaffected by the presence of up to 12% spessartine in garnet. In several specimens of garnet-sillimanite-plagioclase gneiss, the Ca contents of garnet and of plagioclase increase in unison, as required by equilibrium (III). The mean pressure calculated from these data (n= 17) is 5.9 kbar, and the 95% confidence limits are ±0.5 kbar.