藏南古堆地区的新生代构造样式

藏南古堆地区具南北分带特征。北部地区靠达拉岩体,受也拉香波穹窿影响,断层以倾向南的正断层为主,地层呈多期次挤压褶皱形态,且出现呈楔形构造夹片出露的红柱石板岩、石榴石片岩等变质核杂岩地层;中部地区断层、褶皱较发育,褶皱呈紧闭的层间同斜褶皱,断层以倾向北的叠瓦状脆-韧性逆冲断层为主;南部地区为相对稳定区,该区地层相对较完整,褶皱以宽缓向斜形式出现,且越往南越宽缓。这一构造样式是印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞之后,在喜马拉雅造山运动影响及后期伸展作用的背景之下,由北向南的挤压推覆的结果,总体上它是一套挤压褶皱～推覆逆冲断层的组合,呈叠瓦状展布的隆子断裂是主推覆断层。     

青藏高原东南缘碰撞造山结构与物质组成:来自岩石地球化学和地球物理的联合约束

青藏高原东南缘位于印度板块与欧亚板块侧向汇聚部位,是检验碰撞造山动力学模型的理想场所。尽可能全面收集该区已有地球物理和新生代岩浆岩数据,探讨这些资料对碰撞造山带结构和物质组成的指示。结果表明:青藏高原东南缘不同部位的壳幔结构和组成存在较大差异。兰坪—思茅地块、保山地块和腾冲地块等的中地壳(15~30 km深度)普遍发育低速层,表明富水层或者部分熔融物质的存在,为青藏高原物质向东南流动提供了可能。部分熔融产物以大型剪切带内具有高Sr、低Nd同位素特征的淡色花岗岩脉为代表。但是,扬子板块同等深度下却发育高速层,其组成很可能是峨眉山玄武岩,它的存在阻隔了碰撞带物质向东流动。扬子板块和兰坪—思茅地块下地壳底部均出现呈条带状展布的高速体。根据新生代具有高Sr、低Y的岩石显示的下地壳源区特征,结合该区地质演化历史,将上述两套呈条带状展布的高速体分别解释为新元古代铁镁质弧岩浆岩和二叠纪—三叠纪铁镁质弧岩浆岩。青藏高原东南缘地幔各向异性存在明显南、北分区特征,在26°N以北表现为SN向,在26°N以南表现为近EW向。这一差异跟俯冲的印度板片撕裂有密切关系。该撕裂在综合地球物理剖面上显示为突变的印度板片俯冲角度,在地表表现为苦橄岩、煌斑岩、埃达克岩以及淡色花岗岩等的集中出露。这一新模型明显区别于前人的岩石圈拆沉和对流减薄等作用。     

大陆碰撞造山与成矿过程:扎格罗斯和喜马拉雅造山带对比

大陆碰撞造山过程对理解板块构造登陆具有重要启示意义,但相关研究还存在较多问题。例如,几乎每个造山带都存在初始碰撞时限的争议,碰撞造山阶段存在多种划分方案,碰撞成矿作用的地球动力学机制不清楚等。通过综合对比研究扎格罗斯和喜马拉雅造山带构造-岩浆-成矿作用,发现碰撞造成的强烈挤压变形明显滞后于大陆初始碰撞时间。同时,碰撞过程还会出现滞后型弧岩浆作用。将这些碰撞初期出现的滞后型构造岩浆事件单独划分成一个碰撞造山阶段,称之为软碰撞阶段。由此,碰撞造山过程由软碰撞、硬碰撞和后碰撞3个阶段组成。其中,软碰撞阶段主要发育与低速率应变有关的变形构造和与俯冲大洋板片有关的岩浆事件;硬碰撞阶段主要为高速率应变的变形构造和大陆岩石圈俯冲诱发的岩浆事件;后碰撞阶段则会出现大量伸展构造来调节挤压应变,同时发育与大陆岩石圈拆沉、断离和撕裂有关的岩浆作用。软碰撞和硬碰撞阶段的挤压作用会造成铅锌矿床就位在褶皱逆冲带内,硬碰撞和后碰撞阶段发育的大型走滑断层控制斑岩型铜矿床的产出,后碰撞阶段出现的伸展构造赋存有金锑多金属热液矿床。碰撞造山带内保存有早期俯冲和后期碰撞阶段的新生地壳,为碰撞造山带金属成矿提供了物质来源。     

Zircon U‐Pb/Lu‐Hf and monazite chemical dating of the Tirodi biotite gneiss: implication for latest Palaeoproterozoic to Early Mesoproterozoic orogenesis in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone

In this investigation, we reconstruct the latest Palaeoproterozoic to Early Mesoproterozoic orogenic events along the southern margin of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ), using sensitive high resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U‐Pb zircon dating and Lu‐Hf isotope analyses of zircon and Th‐U‐Pb chemical dating of monazite from samples of the Tirodi biotite gneiss (TBG) unit in the Sausar Mobile Belt (SMB), the latter constituting the southernmost litho‐tectonic component of the CITZ. U‐Pb zircon dating of one migmatitic gneiss sample from the type locality of the Tirodi biotite gneiss in the northern domain of the SMB has yielded an age of 1618 ± 8 Ma, which is considered to be the time of magmatic crystallization of its protolith. Combined U‐Pb zircon and monazite chemical dating of two granite gneiss samples from the southern domain of the SMB broadly constrain magmatic crystallization between 1603 ± 23 Ma and 1584 ± 17 Ma and an overprinting metamorphic recrystallization event at 1572 ± 7 Ma. Monazites from the granite gneiss samples also record a terminal metamorphic event at 1415 ± 23 Ma. Lu‐Hf isotopic analyses of zircons reveal fundamentally different source rock reservoirs for the protoliths of these magmatic rocks across the SMB. While the type TBG from the northern domain was derived from an Early Palaeoproterozoic source T(Hf) from 2093 to 2523 Ma, with a mean value at 2379 Ma) of essentially juvenile material with minor crustal components (εHf(t) from −3.3 to + 3.7), the granite from the southern domain had a mature crustal source (εHf(t) from −12.5 to −21.9) of Palaeoarchaean age T(Hf) from 3051 to 3630 Ma, with a mean value at 3218 Ma). When integrated with metamorphic information previously obtained from the 1.6 Ga ultra‐high temperature granulite facies metamorphic event in the SMB, the discrete magmatic and metamorphic events between 1.62/1.60 Ga and 1.42 Ga can be correlated with the formation of an Early Mesoproterozoic accretionary orogen in the CITZ. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asteroid families: open problems

Asteroid families are products of catastrophic collisions, and their properties are a very important input for modelling the physics which governs these phenomena. A deep change in the interpretation of the available data on families, after a first extensive set of analyses carried out after 1990, is currently proposed by several authors. This is mainly due to the recognition of the importance of the Yarkovsky effect as a powerful mechanism of evolution of asteroids' orbits. Moreover, also the most recent results of hydrocode simulations of catastrophic collision phenomena can hardly be reconciled with family data in the absence of mechanisms of evolution of the orbits. A new general scheme of interpretation, which is in several respects opposite with respect to earlier ideas developed without consideration of a Yarkovsky-driven evolution, is emerging. However, it is not yet fully clear to what extent earlier interpretations of family properties are really wrong, and a synthesis of pre-Yarkovsky and post-Yarkovsky interpretations is probably needed. The current situation is briefly reviewed.     

Metamorphic consequences of Neogene thermal anomaly in the northern Apennines (Radicondoli-Travale area,Larderello geothermal field – Italy)

Abstract

In the Radicondoli–Travale area of the Larderello geothermal field (Italy) new structural and petrologic data on some metamorphic units, cored from geothermal wells, reveal the existence of a wide complex of hornfels rocks. The development of the complex is related to the emplacement of Neogene magmatic rocks at a shallow depth within a Permo–Triassic terrigenous metasedimentary sequence of a low metamorphic grade. The sequence was subjected to alpine tectonic-metamorphic events. This reconstruction gives new insights in the tectonic setting of metamorphic units below the Tuscan Nappe, in southern Tuscany. Particularly, the medium and high grade metamorphic rocks seem strictly related to the development of Neogene thermal aureoles and do not represent remnants of a Paleozoic basement. Furthermore, in this sector of the Larderello geothermal system, the presence of deep geothermal reservoir at a depth of 3 000 m is mainly linked to the enhanced permeability caused by fracturing in these hornfels rocks. This fracturing is a consequence of the dehydration reaction occurring in the metapelites due to Neogene thermal metamorphism. This mechanism allowed the development of a long-lived hydrothermal system, shown by the secondary mineralogical assemblages. These testify the presence of at least two hydrothermal stages which are well preserved in the less permeable units. © 2000 Editions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS     

新疆阿尔泰山西段乞格拉塔乌岩体LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素年龄及其地质意义

新疆阿尔泰山西段发育的花岗岩体缺乏精确地锆石U-Pb同位素年龄资料。本次在乞格拉塔乌岩体中获得了425.1±4.4Ma的LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素年龄数据,将其形成时代厘定为中志留世。岩石SiO_2含量在64.07%～73.77%之间,Al_2O_3含量为12.40%～15.71%, A/CNK值为1.02～1.10,全碱(ALK)含量为5.85%～7.93%,里特曼指数(σ)为1.62～2.24,具有弱过铝质、高钾钙碱性系列花岗岩特征;稀土总量介于166.3×10~(-6)～197.2×10~(-6)之间,轻、重稀土分馏明显,δEu值介于0.47～0.63之间,具明显负Eu异常。微量元素富集Rb、Th、U等大离子亲石元素及La、Ce、Sm等,亏损Nb、Zr等高场强元素及Sr、P、Ti等,具有低Sr高Yb的特征(Sr含量在93.7×10~(-6)～211×10~(-6),Yb含量在2.1×10~(-6)～3.9×10~(-6))。研究表明,古亚洲洋从奥陶纪开始向北俯冲,一直持续到晚古生代中晚期。早古生代末期形成的乞格拉塔乌岩体,既有俯冲环境特征,又显示了后碰撞花岗岩类特点,其复杂的成因可能与古亚洲洋存在洋中脊俯冲作用有关。     

Tectonic controls on gold deposits and their environmental impact, New Zealand

New Zealand is an active orogenic belt which varies along its length from continental collision to continent–ocean subduction tectonics. Mesothermal gold deposits, with rare mercury, have formed in collisional settings from late Mesozoic to Pleistocene, with youngest deposits along the axis of the actively rising Southern Alps mountain chain. Epithermal gold and mercury deposits have formed, and are still forming associated with calcalkaline volcanism above the subduction zone, and with basaltic volcanism associated with extensional faulting. The environmental impact of mineral deposits is related to tectonic setting, mineralogy, and climate, all of which are governed by the geometry of the orogen. Mesothermal mineralisation added carbonates to calcite-bearing host rocks in what is now cool semiarid or extreme Alpine settings, and oxidation of sulphides does not result in significant acidification of the environment. Arsenic is the principal metal of environmental significance, and is readily mobilised from these deposits at neutral to alkaline pH. Mercury may be leached from cinnabar and/or gold on geological time scales. In contrast, epithermal mineral deposits have hydrothermal clay alteration, locally further clay-altered by deep temperate to subtropical weathering, and calcite is generally subordinate to sulphides. Acidification accompanies oxidation of these deposits, and copper, cadmium, lead and zinc are readily mobilised into the environment. Mercury can be mobilised by these acid solutions as well, where mercury occurs in minerals other than cinnabar.     

Metallogenesis of the Ertix gold belt, Xinjiang and its relationship to Central Asia-type orogenesis

The Ertix gold belt is located on the boundary of the Kalatongke arc and the Kelan back-arc basin of D-C1. Most scholars used to interpret the formation and distribution of the gold deposits in the Ertix tectonic belt in terms of the petrogenic and metallogenic models for active continental margins. However, enormous data of isotopic dating and geologic research show that the mineralization was obviously later than the oceanic subduction, whereas exactly simultaneous with the collisional orogenesis during C₂-P, especially at the transition stage from collisional compression to extension. Based on study of metallogenic time, tectonic background, ore geology, ore fluid nature, ore material source, etc., we reveal that all the gold deposits possess the character of orogenic deposits formed in collisional orogenic system, and that their ore-forming materials mainly have derived from the stratigraphic terranes south to individual deposits. Accordingly, the theoretical tectonic model for collisional metallogenesis and petrogenesis is employed to explain the formation of the Ertix gold belt and to determine the gold exploration directions.