鲁西孟家屯岩组中发现红柱石和锌尖晶石

侯增谦、高永丰、黄卫于２００１年发表的《西藏高原雅鲁藏布江北岸蛇绿岩带的发现及其地质意义》一文中，把所发现的蛇绿岩带描述为“谢通门蛇绿岩带东起大竹卡区，西至谢通门以西，长数百千米，宽３～５km，由一系列自北而南逆冲推覆的构造岩片构成，其中，基性玄武熔岩岩片、巨厚辉长岩岩片、超镁铁质辉石岩－纯橄岩岩片，依次由雅江近岸至冈底斯弧内部呈叠瓦状排布。变质橄榄岩出露零星，少许孤立的岩体出露于雅江近岸，发育强烈碳酸盐化和蛇纹石化；大量散布的岩群出露于堆积岩岩片的北侧，多在冈底斯弧花岗岩基和弧火山－沉积岩系中呈…     

吉林省中部红帘石硅质岩的特征及意义

吉林省中部磐石县境内烟筒山地区的红帘石硅质岩存在于古生代地层之中。地球化学研究发现，该硅质岩具有较低的SiO2(80%左右)和较高的Al2O3(10％左右)。微量元素中V的含量也较低，稀土元素中不出现明显的Ce负异常，表明其形成于与陆源物质关系密切的大陆边缘环境。岩石的强烈变形和无层序特点暗示该区的古生代地层可能大多为构造混杂岩，不具备传统的地层划分和对比意义。矿物温压计算结果显示，该硅质岩经历了约430℃、大于6．OGPa的中压相系变质作用。不存在其他高压变质作用矿物，可能反映了本区为兴蒙造山带中古亚洲洋最后闭合的地点所在，并推测其最后闭合的时间应在古生代末一中生代初期。     

滇中妥甸组中首次发现昆虫化石

首次在云南滇中地区晚侏罗世妥甸组滥泥阱剖面和级山坡一带发现昆虫化石2新种：Mesobluttula tuodianensis sp.nov.和Neorthophlebia yunnanensis sp．nov．，未定种3种。其中长翅目新直脉蝎蛉新直脉蝎蛉属(Neorthophlebia)在国内为首次发现。     

湘中锑(金)矿床成矿物质来源——Ⅱ.同位素地球化学证据

文章从碳、氢、氧、硫、铅、锶等同位素地球化学方面探讨了湘中锑金矿床的成矿物质与成矿流体来源。研究表明：湘中盆地中锑矿床的碳、硫等矿化剂主要来源于基底地层，而盆地边缘锑（金）矿床的碳、硫等矿化剂来源于深部岩浆作用；Au,Sb等成矿物质都来源于基底碎屑岩；成矿流体主要为大气降水。     

Exhumation of the Main Central Thrust from Lower Crustal Depths, Eastern Bhutan Himalaya

Geothermometry and mineral assemblages show an increase of temperature structurally upwards across the Main Central Thrust (MCT); however, peak metamorphic pressures are similar across the boundary, and correspond to depths of 35–45 km. Garnet‐bearing samples from the uppermost Lesser Himalayan sequence (LHS) yield metamorphic conditions of 650–675 °C and 9–13 kbar. Staurolite‐kyanite schists, about 30 m above the MCT, yield P‐T conditions near 650 °C, 8–10 kbar. Kyanite‐bearing migmatites from the Greater Himalayan sequence (GHS) yield pressures of 10–14 kbar at 750–800 °C. Top‐to‐the‐south shearing is synchronous with, and postdates peak metamorphic mineral growth. Metamorphic monazite from a deformed and metamorphosed Proterozoic gneiss within the upper LHS yield U/Pb ages of 20–18 Ma. Staurolite‐kyanite schists within the GHS, a few metres above the MCT, yield monazite ages of c. 22 ± 1 Ma. We interpret these ages to reflect that prograde metamorphism and deformation within the Main Central Thrust Zone (MCTZ) was underway by c. 23 Ma. U/Pb crystallization ages of monazite and xenotime in a deformed kyanite‐bearing leucogranite and kyanite‐garnet migmatites about 2 km above the MCT suggest crystallization of partial melts at 18–16 Ma. Higher in the hanging wall, south‐verging shear bands filled with leucogranite and pegmatite yield U/Pb crystallization ages for monazite and xenotime of 14–15 Ma, and a 1–2 km thick leucogranite sill is 13.4 ± 0.2 Ma. Thus, metamorphism, plutonism and deformation within the GHS continued until at least 13 Ma. P‐T conditions at this time are estimated to be 500–600 °C and near 5 kbar. From these data we infer that the exhumation of the MCT zone from 35 to 45 km to around 18 km, occurred from 18 to 16 to c. 13 Ma, yielding an average exhumation rate of 3–9 mm year^?1. This process of exhumation may reflect the ductile extrusion (by channel flow) of the MCTZ from between the overlying Tibetan Plateau and the underthrusting Indian plate, coupled with rapid erosion.     

Timing of Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: sinking rate and subduction angle of the Indian continental crust beneath Asia

Coesite relics were discovered as inclusions in clinopyroxene in eclogite and as inclusions in zircon in felsic and pelitic gneisses from Higher Himalayan Crystalline rocks in the upper Kaghan Valley, north‐west Himalaya. The metamorphic peak conditions of the coesite‐bearing eclogites are estimated to be 27–32 kbar and 700–770 °C, using garnet–pyroxene–phengite geobarometry and garnet–pyroxene geothermometry, respectively. Cathodoluminescence (CL) and backscattered electron (BSE) imaging distinguished three different domains in zircon: inner detrital core, widely spaced euhedral oscillatory zones, and thin, broadly zoned outermost rims. Each zircon domain contains a characteristic suite of micrometre‐sized mineral inclusions which were identified by in situ laser Raman microspectroscopy. Core and mantle domains contain quartz, apatite, plagioclase, muscovite and rutile. In contrast, the rim domains contain coesite and minor muscovite. Quartz inclusions were identified in all coesite‐bearing zircon grains, but not coexisting with coesite in the same growth domain (rim domain). ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U zircon ages reveal that the quartz‐bearing mantle domains and the coesite‐bearing rim were formed at c. 50 Ma and 46.2 ± 0.7 Ma, respectively. These facts demonstrate that the continental materials were buried to 100 km within 7–9 Myr after initiation of the India–Asia collision (palaeomagnetic data from the Indian oceanic floor supports an initial India‐Asia contact at 55–53 Ma). Combination of the sinking rate of 1.1–1.4 cm year^?1 with Indian plate velocity of 4.5 cm year^?1 suggests that the Indian continent subducted to about 100 km depth at an average subduction angle of 14–19°.     

Record of deformation by secondary magnetic remanences and magnetic anisotropy in the Nar/Phu valley (central Himalaya)

Secondary magnetic remanences residing in pyrrhotite and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) were studied in low-grade metamorphic carbonates of the Tethyan Himalaya in Nar/Phu valley (central Nepal) and used for interpretation of tectonic deformations. The characteristic remanence (ChRM) is likely of thermomagnetic origin related to post-peak metamorphic cooling occurring after the Eohimalayan phase (35–32 Ma). The ChRM postdates small-scale folding (main Himalayan folding F1 and F2) as shown by a negative fold test of site mean directions at 99% confidence level, and has been probably acquired between 32 and 25 Ma. Late-orogenic long-wavelength folding associated with the Chako antiform (CA) is recorded by the spatial dispersion of ChRM directions and the distribution of the main axes of the AMS tensor. The mean tilting of the ChRM direction since remanence acquisition (≈20–30°) approximately coincides with the tilting of the CA (31°) at the study area indicating that the pyrrhotite remanence predates the CA (CA formed at <18 Ma according to preliminary U/Pb dating). However, comparison of tilt angles of remanence directions and AMS tensor axes suggests that remanence acquisition was not completed before the onset of the CA formation. This could imply a younger age (Early Miocene or even younger) of the ChRM. Using the distribution of remanence directions along a small-circle as well as the distribution of AMS tensor axes, a clockwise mean rotation of 16° is obtained for a remanence age of ≈30 Ma. An Early Miocene remanence age would not change this result substantially. Compilation of rotations in the Tethyan Himalaya deduced from secondary pyrrhotite remanences reveals an increasing clockwise rotation from the Hidden valley in the W to the Shiar valley in the E (≈150 km distance), incompatible with an oroclinal bending model.     

Evidence of growth fault and forebulge in the Late Paleocene (∼57.9-54.7 Ma), western Himalayan foreland basin, India

The evolution of the Himalayan foreland is the result of continent-continent collision and related large-scale tectonics in the region. The initial foredeep basin sequences are exposed in limited areas of the western Himalaya, which makes these areas very significant in unraveling the earliest evolution of the foreland system. The basal interval of the Himalayan foredeep is exposed in the Jammu area (India), which preserves silicified breccia formed by the erosion of hanging walls of shallow faults. Two Paleocene sections are analyzed that suggest the existence of growth faults which developed in response to the India-Asia collision in the Late Paleocene (∼57.9-54.7 Ma). The pebble-size clasts and their derivation entirely from the basement demonstrate rapid sedimentation in response to rapid subsidence at the onset of basin evolution. The angular unconformity showing effects of erosion associated with a thin soil horizon may be due to a forebulge at the site of the unconformity. The reworked bauxite above this soil horizon demonstrates erosion of another forebulge from the cratonward side.     

川中丘陵区农业生态系统的演替

利用调查与观测资料分析川中丘陵典型区土地利用变化与耕地演替及其对农业生态系统的影响。结果表明，川中丘陵区土地利用结构在近30a内发生了巨大变化，尤其林地与旱耕地的消长促发了农业生态系统结构的演替，导致农林复合生态系统的形成，同时农田生态系统结构趋于复杂，随着施肥、水土保持等农田管理技术的进步，以土壤侵蚀为主的土地退化得到有效控制，农作物产量大幅增长，水稻、玉米、小麦、油菜单产分别较建国初期增长约2－5倍，农业生态系统呈正向演替趋势。     

Le volcanisme cambrien du Maroc central : implications géodynamiques

In southeastern Central Morocco, the Bou-Acila volcanic complex is considered of Cambrian age. In spite of low-grade metamorphic effect, initial volcanic texture and mineralogy can be recognized and volcanic rocks are dominated by dolerites and porphyric dolerites. The initial mineralogy is composed of plagioclases, pyroxenes and dark minerals. A secondary mineral assemblage is composed of albite, epidote, chlorite and calcite. According to their immobile elements compositions, the southeastern central Morocco metavolcanites are of within-plate continental tholeiites. This volcanism and those recognized in many other areas in Morocco confirm a Cambrian extensive episode within the Gondwana supercontinent. To cite this article: H. Ouali et al., C. R. Geoscience 335 (2003).To cite this article: H. Ouali et al., C. R. Geoscience 335 (2003).