Flux monitoring at 327 MHz during SL9-Jupiter collision

Jupiter flux at 327 MHz was monitored using the Ooty radio telescope from July 12th to July 29th during the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levi 9 with Jupiter. Flux was found to increase steadily from July 17th to July 26th by ∼ 2–5 Jy, after which it declined to its pre-event value. The comparison of 327 MHz observations with those at 840 MHz and 2240 MHz indicates that the enhancement was mainly due to the increased synchrotron emission and the contribution of thermal emission was very small at metric-decimetric frequencies. The enhancement in radio emission was found to be more at 840 MHz than at 327 or 2240 MHz. The steepening of the spectrum between 327 and 840 MHz as well as between 2240 and 840 MHz was also noted.     

Second Species Periodic Orbits of the Elliptic 3 Body Problem

We consider the plane restricted elliptic 3 body problem with small mass ratio and small eccentricity and prove the existence of many periodic orbits shadowing chains of collision orbits of the Kepler problem. Such periodic orbits were first studied by Poincaré for the non-restricted 3 body problem. Poincaré called them second species solutions.     

电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定高纯铟中铁

建立了基于碰撞/反应池（CCT）技术的电感耦合等离子体质谱法（ICP-MS）测定高纯铟中铁元素的方法。在CCT模式下,有效地消除了如⁴⁰Ar¹⁶O等多原子离子对待测元素的干扰,不分离基体就可直接测定铁。方法检出限为0.06ng/mL,精密度（RSD,n=11）<8%,回收率为94.0%～102.1%。方法与现行的国家标准分析方法相比,操作简便、高效。     

Contribution of syncollisional felsic magmatism to continental crust growth: A case study of the Paleogene Linzizong volcanic Succession in southern Tibet

The Linzizong volcanic succession (~ 65–45 Ma) and the coeval batholiths (~ 60−40 Ma) of andesitic to rhyolitic composition represent a magmatic response to the India–Asia continental collision that began at ~ 70–65 Ma and ended at ~ 45–40 Ma with convergence continuing to present. These syncollisional felsic magmatic rocks are widely distributed along much of the > 1500 km long Gangdese Belt immediately north of the India–Asia suture (Yarlung–Zangbo) in southern Tibet. Our study of the Linzizong volcanic rocks from the Linzhou Basin (near Lhasa) suggests that syncollisional felsic magmatism may in fact account for much of the net contribution to continental crust growth. These volcanic rocks show a first-order temporal change from the andesitic lower Dianzhong Formation (64.4–60.6 Ma), to the dacitic middle Nianbo Formation (~ 54 Ma), and to the rhyolitic upper Pana Formation (48.7–43.9 Ma). The three formations show no systematic but overlapping Nd–Sr isotope variations. The isotopically depleted samples with ε_Nd(t) > 0 indicate that their primary sources are of mantle origin. The best source candidate in the broad context of Tethyan ocean closing and India–Asia collision is the remaining part of the Tethyan ocean crust. This ocean crust melts when reaching its hydrous solidus during and soon after the collision in the amphibolite facies, producing andesitic melts parental to the Linzizong volcanic succession (and the coeval batholiths) with inherited mantle isotopic signatures. Ilmenite as a residual phase (plus the effect of residual amphibole) of amphibolite melting accounts for the depletion of Nb, Ta and Ti in the melt. The effect of ocean crust alteration plus involvement of mature crustal materials (e.g., recycled terrigeneous sediments) enhances the abundances of Ba, Rb, Th, U, K and Pb in the melt, thus giving the rocks an “arc-like” geochemical signature. Residual amphibole that possesses super-chondritic Nb/Ta ratio explains the sub-chondritic Nb/Ta ratio in the melt; residual plagioclase explains the slightly depleted, not enriched, Sr (and Eu) in the melt, typical of continental crust. These observations and reasoning plus the remarkable compositional similarity between the andesitic lower Dianzhong Formation and the model bulk continental crust corroborates our proposal that continental collision zones may be sites of net crustal growth (juvenile crust) through process of syncollisional felsic magmatism. While these interpretations are reasonable in terms of straightforward petrology, geochemistry and tectonics, they require further testing.     

Yangshan Gold Deposit:The Largest Carlin and Carlin-like Type Gold Deposit in China

Gold Headquarter of the CAPF has discovered the Yangshan super large-scale gold deposit in Gansu Province, which is a great breakthrough of gold exploration and prospecting in Western Qinling Mountains of China. The gold resources of this deposit achieved 308 tons with increasing potentials. Preliminary geological investigations indicate that the Yangshan gold deposit is located in the intra-continental collision orogenic belt; and the deposit was formed during the continent-continent collision orogenic processes. The geological characteristics of the deposit are similar to that of the typical Carlin-type gold deposits, while differences still exist. The ore-forming background is notably different from the Carlin gold deposit province in the United States; and the ore-forming fluids are similar with that of the orogenic-type gold deposit. Accordingly, the Yangshan gold deposit is a transitional type between the Carlin-type and the orogenic type gold deposits. At present, the Yangshan gold deposit is the largest Carlin and Carlin-like type gold deposit that is ever discovered in China. Researches on metallogeny, metallogenic model and ore-enrichment regularities of the Yangshan gold deposit are crucial to meet the pressing needs of the current geological investigation and ore exploration of the deposit.     

东秦岭虎豹河砾岩砾石的地球化学特征及其构造意义

东秦岭虎豹河砾岩为复成分砾岩层。砾岩中火成央砾石显示了ＬＩＬＥ中等富集，丰富变化不大，Ｂｂ（Ｔａ）有一定亏损，Ｔｈ－Ｔａ比值高，并具有来自岛弧演化不同阶段的两个岩浆源区的地球化学特征，反映它们主要受消减物质影响，且地壳物贡献不大的岛弧钙碱性岩浆的成因特征。     

Evolution of Moldanubian rocks in Austria: review and synthesis

The Moldanubian zone in Austria comprises three major lithological units. Despite general agreement that nappe tectonics contributed to its current structure, the number and position of tectonic boundaries, or continental pieces that were involved in its evolution, as well as the age, extent and position of oceanic sutures are disputed. Recent models ascribe the Moldanubian tectonostratigraphic structure to its oblique, N- to NE-directed collision with Moravia only. The rocks of the Moldanubian Bunte series and Gföhl unit experienced a common, intensive overprint in the range 700–800 °C and 8–11 kbar. Textural evidence suggests that this overprint was attained during nearly isothermal decompression, so the rocks experienced higher pressures prior to this overprint. These conditions constrain a continent–continent collision environment that contributed to the formation of the Moldanubian granulites. The estimated metamorphic temperatures are close to T_max. During this Hercynian, high-T overprint, the minerals underwent extensive diffusion-controlled homogenization of elements. The early stages of retrogression of these units were characterized by isobaric cooling at c. 6 kbar in the range 650–500 °C that is related to the oblique collision of the Moldanubian and Moravian zones. Cooling to c. 400 °C is demonstrated by unstrained, diasporized corundum inclusions in garnet of common Moldanubian granulites. The available age data (including cooling ages) from metamorphic rocks show a very wide variation between 490 and 280 Ma that depends on sample characteristics and the dating method used. They demonstrate clearly, however, that the metamorphic overprint is Hercynian. The possibility that the large variation in ages reflects homogenization, resetting and closure of the isotopic systems attained at different, sample- and method-specific times is discussed. Age data varying between c. 370 and c. 346 Ma tentatively date different stages during the Hercynian, high-T decompression. The majority of zircon and monazite U/Pb ages as well as the hornblende and muscovite Ar/Ar cooling ages cluster between c. 345 and c. 326 Ma and date the effective closure conditions and the onset of rapid, nearly isobaric cooling. The continent–continent collision that formed the granulites pre-dates c. 370 Ma. The intra-Moldanubian nappe-stacking pre-dates thrusting of the Moldanubian zone over the Moravian zone. The range c. 340–335 Ma is the lower limit for completion of tectonic activity in the Moldanubian zone. The Moldanubian series are post-tectonically intruded by granitoids of the Southern Bohemian Pluton. Recent age determinations and geochemical evidence suggest that the formation of the early granitoid types took place in the lower crust in connection with the Hercynian high-grade overprint. The Moldanubian Monotone series in Austria is separated from the other Moldanubian units by a conspicuous tectonic horizon. It also differs from them by its characteristic high-T , low-P overprint, which is best demonstrated by a widespread cordierite gneiss.     

全球超大型斑岩铜矿浅析

燕山-喜马拉雅期构造运动，引起印度板块与欧亚板块剧烈碰撞、太平洋板块向东俯冲与美洲大陆向西漂移，产生了"加厚旋涌"效应，即下地壳的加厚并深插上地幔软流圈，改变了软流圈运动方式而上涌，伴随强烈的岩浆活动和成矿物质上涌，完成了大规模成矿作用，在特提斯-喜马拉雅地区和太平洋东部边缘产出世界级超大型斑岩铜矿系列.初步提出太平洋东部边缘成矿作用明显超过特提斯-喜马拉雅地区原因.     

五台山早元古代碰撞造山带初步认识

五台山地区分布着复杂的变质杂岩。过去人们把这些变质岩作为地层分成群组段。龙泉关剪切构造岩的发现突破了这种传统观念。野外工作中发现所谓五台群主要包含了三个蛇绿混杂带;阜平群和恒山群的主要成分是灰片麻岩,它们构成两个太古代陆块的基底。五台地区的花岗岩类由代表弧环境的双花岗岩带的I型和S型花岗岩组成,它们与变质的钙碱性火山岩代表了古代的岩浆弧。滹沱群的豆村和东冶亚群以及过去划入阜平群和五台群的某些变沉积岩是阜平陆块被动大陆边缘的沉积。滹沱群的郭家寨亚群则是前陆盆地的磨拉石沉积。因此可以认为,这是一个由恒山仰冲陆块、北台-车厂弧和阜平俯冲陆块构成的碰撞造山带,碰撞时间大致是距今2050Ma。闭合的弧前大洋和弧后盆地形成了三条蛇绿混杂带。     

塔里木盆地西部的新生代断裂活动

研究区以塔里木盆地西部的巴楚隆起为核心,包括其南侧的麦盖提斜坡和北侧的北部坳陷(阿瓦提凹陷)。这里新生代断裂异常发育。以鸟山-古董山地区为重点,通过精细的地震剖面解释,在塔里木盆地西部识别出5期新生代断裂活动,分别发生于:白垩纪末-古近纪初(ca.65Ma)、中新世末-上新世初(ca.5Ma)、上新世末-更新世中期(ca.3~1.5Ma)、更新世中-晚期(ca.1~0.1Ma)和全新世(ca.0.01Ma)。中寒武统和古近系膏盐层构成了研究区的2个主滑脱面。ca.65Ma的冲断受控于基墨里中间大陆与亚洲大陆碰撞的远程效应;ca.5Ma、ca.3~1.5Ma、ca.1~0.1Ma和ca.0.01Ma的断裂活动(包括滑脱断层、冲断层、走滑断层和正断层)均受控于印度-亚洲碰撞的远程效应。晚新生代(中新世以来)的断裂活动以脉动式冲断为特征,两次相邻脉动式冲断之间为时间不等的短暂的构造间歇期;间歇期构造平静,甚至可以形成正断层。