Buruanga peninsula and Antique Range: Two contrasting terranes in Northwest Panay,Philippines featuring an arc–continent collision zone

Alternating chert–clastic sequences juxtaposed with limestone blocks, which are units typical of accretionary complexes, constitute the Buruanga peninsula. New lithostratigraphic units are proposed in this study: the Unidos Formation (Jurassic chert sequence), the Saboncogon Formation (Jurassic siliceous mudstone–terrigenous mudstone and quartz‐rich sandstone), the Gibon Formation (Jurassic(?) bedded pelagic limestone), the Libertad Metamorphics (Jurassic–Cretaceous slate, phyllite, and schist) and the Buruanga Formation (Pliocene–Pleistocene reefal limestone). The first three sedimentary sequences in the Buruanga peninsula show close affinity with the ocean plate stratigraphy of the North Palawan terrane in Busuanga Island: Lower–Middle Jurassic chert sequences overlain by Middle–Upper Jurassic clastics, juxtaposed with pelagic limestone. Moreover, the JR5–JR6 (Callovian to Oxfordian) siliceous mudstone of the Saboncogon Formation in the Buruanga peninsula correlates with the JR5–JR6 siliceous mudstone of the Guinlo Formation in the Middle Busuanga Belt. These findings suggest that the Buruanga peninsula may be part of the North Palawan terrane. The rocks of the Buruanga peninsula completely differ from the Middle Miocene basaltic to andesitic pyroclastic and lava flow deposits with reefal limestone and arkosic sandstone of the Antique Range. Thus, the previously suggested boundary between the Palawan microcontinental block and the Philippine Mobile Belt in the central Philippines, which is the suture zone between the Buruanga peninsula and the Antique Range, is confirmed. This boundary is similarly considered as the collision zone between them.     

新疆卡拉麦里地区晚古生代以来不同构造层特征及大地构造意义

摘要：卡拉麦里地区石炭纪以来的岩石地层系统由三大套构造岩石地层单位构成, 分别是以劈理、紧闭褶皱极为发育的卡拉麦里蛇绿混杂岩带为代表的造山带基底层系,以开阔褶皱为主要构造变形的石炭纪后碰撞构造层,和高角度正断层及平缓褶皱较发育的二叠-侏罗纪陆内湖盆构造层。它们分别记录了卡拉麦里地区前石炭纪碰撞造山阶段、石炭纪后碰撞阶段和二叠纪后板内断陷 坳陷阶段的沉积 变形特征。     

Permo–Triassic Barrovian-type metamorphism in the ultrahigh-temperature Kontum Massif, central Vietnam: Constraints on continental collision tectonics in Southeast Asia

The Kontum Massif in central Vietnam is composed of various metamorphic complexes including a high-temperature southern part (Kannak and Ngoc Linh complexes) and a low- to medium-temperature northern part (Kham Duc complex). The Kham Duc complex exhibits Barrovian-type medium-pressure metamorphism evidenced by kyanite- and/or staurolite-bearing metapelites. The garnet–gedrite–kyanite gneiss, which is the focus of the present study, preserves several mineral parageneses formed during a prograde and retrograde metamorphic history: staurolite + quartz in gedrite, garnet + gedrite + kyanite in the matrix, and spinel + cordierite symplectite between gedrite and sillimanite. The calculated semiquantitative petrogenetic grid reveals peak pressure conditions of 620–650°C at 1.1–1.2 GPa and peak temperature conditions of 730–750°C at 0.7–0.8 GPa. The monazite U–Th–Pb electron microprobe ages of the garnet–gedrite–kyanite gneiss and associated gneisses yield 246 ± 3 Ma for the Kham Duc complex, which is similar to the age of the high- to ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the adjacent Kannak and Ngoc Linh complexes of the southern Kontum Massif. The present results indicate that both the Barrovian-type and ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism occurred simultaneously in the Kontum Massif during an event strongly related to Permo–Triassic microcontinental collision tectonics in Asia.     

对胶南造山带基础地质问题的新认识

胶南造山带主体是由晚元古代同造山双花岗岩组成的造山带,有少量造山前幔源深成岩及造山后碱性花岗岩类。零星分布的地层残片可分为晚太古代胶东岩群,早元古代荆山群、粉子山群及震旦纪朋河石岩组。造山带经历了高压相系—中低压相系多期、多相变质作用,主要构造形迹为韧性剪切带,其次为穹隆构造、弧形构造。胶南造山带可分为北段、中段和南段3部分,北段、中段属于华北板块南部边缘带,南段属扬子板块北部边缘带。     

中国及其西南邻区新生代NW向扭动构造体系的成生发展和形成机制

NW向扭动构造体系广泛发育于中国西部并向中国东部延伸,且呈多字型特征,但在中国东部规模等级较小,断续相循,成生活动时期很新(晚白垩世末至早第三纪以来),由NW向褶皱、NWW向压扭性走滑、NNW向扭压性走滑和NEE向张扭性走滑组成。偏共轭剪切形成之NWW向扭动构造向中西部延伸并复合叠加在西域系(古河西系)之上。它是印度板块与欧亚板块会聚在中国大陆板内碰撞效应的产物,与中国东部和中国西部已经厘定的其他构造体系有着完全不同的应力活动方式。      

A DISCUSSION ON FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE LANCANGJIANG PLATE JUNCTION WITH ANALOGY: WHETHER OR NOT THE LANCANGJIANG OCEAN EXISTED IN LATE PALEOZOIC

A DISCUSSION ON FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE LANCANGJIANG PLATE JUNCTION WITH ANALOGY: WHETHER OR NOT THE LANCANGJIANG OCEAN EXISTED IN LATE PALEOZOIC     

INDIA/ASIA CONVERGENCE AND HIMALAYAN SHORTENING

INDIA/ASIA CONVERGENCE AND HIMALAYAN SHORTENING     

Binary and triple collisions causing instability in the free-fall three-body problem

Dominant factors for escape after the first triple-encounter are searched for in the three-body problem with zero initial velocities and equal masses. By a global numerical survey on the whole initial-value space, it is found that not only a triple-collision orbit but also a particular family of binary-collision orbits exist in the set of escape orbits. This observation is justified from various viewpoints. Binary-collision orbits experiencing close triple-encounter turn out to be close to isosceles orbits after the encounter and hence lead to escape. Except for a few cases, binary-collision orbits of near-isosceles slingshot also escape. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.