Temporal and spatial variability of cation and silica export in an alpine watershed,Emerald Lake,California

A reaction set of possible mineral weathering reactions is proposed to explain observed cation and silica export for the Emerald Lake watershed, a small Sierra Nevada, California catchment. The reaction set was calculated through a stoichiometric mole‐balance method, using a multiyear record of stream flow and snowpack chemical analyses and site‐specific mineral compositions. Reaction‐set calculations were intended to explore how the processes controlling stream cation and silica export depend on differing bedrock mineralogy across the catchment as snowmelt and runoff patterns change over the year. Different regions within the watershed can be differentiated by lake inflow subdrainages, each exhibiting different stream‐flow chemistry and calculated weathering stoichiometry, indicating that different silica and cation generation processes are dominant in wet steep portions of the catchment. Short‐term differences in stream concentrations were assumed to reflect ion exchange equilibria and rapid biological processes, whereas long‐term persistent stream concentration differences in different areas of the catchment were assumed to reflect spatial variability in mineral weathering stoichiometry. Mineralogical analyses of rock samples from the watershed provided site‐specific chemical compositions of major mineral species for reaction calculations. Reaction sets were evaluated by linear regression of calculated versus observed differences between snowmelt and stream‐flow chemistry and by a combined measure. Initially, single weathering reactions were balanced and evaluated to determine the reactions that best explained observed stream chemical export. Next, reactions were combined, using mineral compositions from different rock types to estimate the dependence of ion fluxes on lithology. The seasonal variability of major solute calculated fluxes is low, approximately one order of magnitude, relative to the observed three orders of magnitude variability in basin discharge. Reaction sets using basin‐averaged lithology and Aplite lithologies gave superior explanations of stream chemical composition. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中川花岗岩构造岩浆活动特征与成矿作用

中川花岗岩在空间上呈同心圆环状分布，由三个单元组成，三个单元之间，岩石矿物学、地球化学成分作有规律性地变化，这种变化与圈层结构变化相适应。构造岩浆演化具有同源性，连续性、脉动性；岩体上升侵位方式为具有多次脉动性的复式气球膨胀体；在空间上与金、铀关系密切，但为成金仅提供热源，而为成铀既提供物源，又提供热源。     

中川岩体和柴家庄岩体周边金矿的显微特征及其找矿意义

本文将北秦岭西段金矿床（点）划分为断裂蚀变岩型和石英脉型。分别从矿石组构、矿物组合、金银矿物的赋存状态、载金矿物、成矿作用、矿物的生成顺序等方面论述它们的特征。并提出本区的斑点板岩、综合地球化学异常区的次级断裂及韧性剪切带、煌斑岩脉、矿石组构、矿物组合及围岩蚀变等为寻找金矿的重要标志。     

Strongly peraluminous granites of Mesozoic in Eastern Nanling Range,southern China: Petrogenesis and implications for tectonics

The strongly peraluminous granites (SPGs) of Eastern Nanling Range (ENR) are a characteristic of all bearing highly aluminous minerals, such as muscovite±AI-rich biotite±tourmaline±garnet, and lack of cordierite. In respect of petrography, geochemistry, Nd isotope, and single grain zircon U-Pb dating, the representative granite bodies of them are studied. The research shows that these granites were emplaced in two stages, namely 228-225 Ma BP and J2-3 159-156 Ma BP, belonging to Indosinian and early Yanshanian periods, respectively, and they have low εNd(t) values (-10.6--11.1), high A/CNK, Rb/Sr ratios and tDM values (1887-1817 Ma), and REE's tetrad effect (TE1,3=1.13-1.34). In comparison with related geology, petrology and chronology of granites in adjacent regions, it is suggested that Indosinian SPGs of ENR formed in the circumstance of post-collisional extension 20 Ma after the major collision of Indosinian Movement (258-243 Ma BP) in Indo-China Peninsula, and early Yanshanian SPGs formed in the     

Silurian A-type granitoids in the southern margin of the Tongbai-Dabieshan: Evidence from SHRIMP zircon geochronology and geochemistry

The Dabieshan Orogenic belt is well known for the exhumation of early Mesozoic ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks and Jurassic–Cretaceous emplacement of voluminous granitoids. However, the tectonic evolution in the orogen during the Paleozoic, especially its magmatic response to tectonism has not received much attention. As indicated by published data, the Dabieshan orogenic belt contains different records of Paleozoic magmatic-tectonic association in different tectonic units. Occ…     

Variation of chemical composition of alkaline granitic rocks in the central part of the Kola Peninsula

Chemical composition and origin of alkaline granitic rocks in the Keivy area on the Kola Peninsula were investigated. Linear correlation analysis and principal-component analysis were used to determine the interrelation of major petrogenetic elements in alkaline granite and surrounding alkaline metasomatites. Estimates of linear correlation coefficients turned out to be different, and principal-component analysis of the chemical data revealed that there were three main components influencing variation of chemical composition. These factors can be interpreted in terms of petrological processes, which are different for alkaline granite and for the surrounding metasomatites, indicating a different origin of the rocks.     

Retardation capacity of altered granitic rock distributed along fractured and faulted zones in the orogenic belt of Japan

There are wide areas of granitic rocks in the Japanese orogenic belt. These granitic bodies inevitably contain fracture and fault systems associated with alteration zones. However, relatively little attention has been given to the possible influence of such widely distributed alteration zones on the migration of radionuclides from any radioactive waste repository that might in future be sited within granitic rock. In particular, the influences of alteration products and micro-fractures, due to chemical sorption and/or physical retardation require further consideration. In order to understand the retardation capacity of the altered deep granitic rocks, detailed geometrical characterization of pores, geochemical analysis, and batch sorption and flow-through experiments have been carried out. Those results show that the altered granite has a large volume of accessible pores, particularly in potassium-feldspar grains, which would influence nuclide retardation more than the accessible porosity in other minerals present, such as biotite. The distribution coefficients, Kd estimated from batch sorption tests and flow-through experiments suggest that altered granite has a high capability to retard the migration of nuclides. The retardation would probably be due to sorption on altered minerals such as sericite and iron hydroxides formed along grain boundaries and in pores created by dissolution, in addition to sorption on primary sorptive minerals. These results provide confidence that even altered and fractured parts of any granitic rock that might be encountered in a site for the disposal of high level radioactive waste may still retard radionuclide migration and thereby help the geosphere to function as a barrier.     

东昆仑祁漫塔格地区花岗岩类时空变化的构造控制——来自钾钠含量变化的证据

系统收集东昆仑祁漫塔格地区花岗岩类岩石化学数据,统一采用Collins,et al.（1982）提出的K2ONa2O分类图解法,获得各个地史时期花岗岩的成因类型。结果表明,晋宁期以S型为主,优势方位不明显。加里东期优势方位为北东向,以A型为主,北西向处于次要地位,以I型为主。海西印支期,优势方位为北西向,岩石类型在海西早、中期以I型为主,海西晚期至印支期以A型为主。此时北东向处于次要地位,岩石类型以A型为主。燕山期,整个祁漫塔格地区昆中断裂以北均为A型,以南形成新的构造岩浆岩带,岩石类型主要为I型。并且,燕山期昆中断裂以北早期以北西向为主,晚期以北东向为主。上述情况说明,至少自加里东期以来,该区花岗岩的空间展布、发育规模、成因类型等诸方面都始终受到北东向和北西向两组构造带的活动强度、力学性质交替变化的控制,并且由老到新总体上存在着由北向南逐渐迁移的变化趋势。因此,祁漫塔格岩浆岩带并非同一构造机制下形成的岩浆弧,而是由北东向和北西向两组构造岩浆活动带交替作用控制的、成因类型不同的花岗岩类共同组成的复合构造岩浆岩带。     

山阳色河花岗岩地球化学特征和锆石SHRIMP U Pb年代学

山阳色河二长花岗岩出露于泥盆纪地层中,并与泥盆纪地层呈断层接触关系.花岗岩主要由钾长石、斜长石和石英组成,其SiO_2含量介于71%～77%之间、高碱(K_2O+Na_2O＝7.43%～8.50%),低CaO(0.25%～2.81%),为高钾钙碱性花岗岩,A/CNK的平均值为<1.05,属弱过铝质岩石;较强的轻、重稀土元素分馏程度[(La/Yb)_N=4.23],明显的Eu负异常(δEu＝0.511),富集Rb、Th、K、La和Cs等大离子亲石元素,亏损Ba、Nb、Sr、P和Ti元素为特征,属后碰撞花岗岩类.在泥盆纪地层中的花岗岩砾石的岩石地球化学与色河二长花岗岩具有形似性质,高精度的锆石SHRIMPⅡU-Pb定年获得花岗岩与花岗岩砾石形成时代相一致,分别为709±5Ma和700±11Ma.山阳后碰撞花岗岩的发现,标志着新元古代在东秦岭地区表现为造山后伸展拉张阶段,从而为东秦岭造山带从元古代到古生代的构造体制转换提供证据.     

Paleozoic tectonism on the East Gondwana margin: Evidence from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology of a migmatite–granite complex in West Antarctica

The Fosdick Mountains migmatite–granite complex in West Antarctica records episodes of crustal melting and plutonism in Devonian–Carboniferous time that acted to transform transitional crust, dominated by immature oceanic turbidites of the accretionary margin of East Gondwana, into stable continental crust. West Antarctica, New Zealand and Australia originated as contiguous parts of this margin, according to plate reconstructions, however, detailed correlations are uncertain due to a lack of isotopic and geochronological data. Our study of the mid-crustal exposures of the Fosdick range uses U–Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology to examine the tectonic environment and timing for Paleozoic magmatism in West Antarctica, and to assess a correlation with the better known Lachlan Orogen of eastern Australia and Western Province of New Zealand.NNE–SSW to NE–SW contraction occurred in West Antarctica in early Paleozoic time, and is expressed by km-scale folds developed both in lower crustal metasedimentary migmatite gneisses of the Fosdick Mountains and in low greenschist-grade turbidite successions of the upper crust, present in neighboring ranges. The metasedimentary rocks and structures were intruded by calc-alkaline, I-type plutons attributed to arc magmatism along the convergent East Gondwana margin. Within the Fosdick Mountains, the intrusions form a layered plutonic complex at lower structural levels and discrete plutons at upper levels. Dilational structures that host anatectic granite overprint plutonic layering and migmatitic foliation. They exhibit systematic geometries indicative of NNE–SSW stretching, parallel to a first-generation mineral lineation. New U–Pb SHRIMP zircon ages for granodiorite and porphyritic monzogranite plutons, and for leucogranites that occupy shear bands and other mesoscopic-scale structural sites, define an interval of 370 to 355 Ma for plutonism and migmatization.Paleozoic plutonism in West Antarctica postdates magmatism in the western Lachlan Orogen of Australia, but it coincides with that in the central part of the Lachlan Orogen and with the rapid main phase of emplacement of the Karamea Batholith of the Western Province, New Zealand. Emplaced within a 15 to 20 million year interval, the Paleozoic granitoids of the Fosdick Mountains are a product of subduction-related plutonism associated with high temperature metamorphism and crustal melting. The presence of anatectic granites within extensional structures is a possible indication of alternating strain states (‘tectonic switching’) in a supra-subduction zone setting characterized by thin crust and high heat flow along the Devonian–Carboniferous accretionary margin of East Gondwana.