蛇绿岩与蛇绿混杂带结构

蛇绿岩是刻画造山带洋—陆演化格局的标志性证据,由具有成因联系的超基性—基性岩和上覆远洋—深海沉积物组成,是一种理想剖面,非实际的野外露头表现。蛇绿岩分为MOR型和SSZ型两类,前者形成于洋中脊、洋盆宽度足够的弧前/弧后盆地扩张脊环境,后者形成于洋壳初始俯冲阶段的弧前环境。蛇绿岩的形成年龄可以通过古生物和同位素测年方法获得,同位素年龄与最老古生物化石（如放射虫、牙形刺等）年龄相近;洋壳运移过程中,有岩浆击穿洋壳而发育二元结构,由早期洋壳和叠覆的晚期岩浆岩构成;晚期岩浆岩比最老古生物年龄更为年轻。蛇绿岩通过俯冲铲刮、深部底垫和仰冲作用就位,发育褶皱和叠瓦状—双冲构造、及构造肢解为“基质夹岩块”结构成为蛇绿混杂带;蛇绿岩的形成年龄和就位年龄之间可从无年龄差到数十、甚至上百个百万年的时间跨度。蛇绿岩就位后继续经历俯冲带上盘和陆内活化等阶段的演化：蛇绿岩就位时的滑脱断层切穿俯冲带上盘,为后期岩浆提供通道,可侵入多期次的、非蛇绿岩套组份的中基性—酸性岩脉和岩体,包括SSZ型特征的岩浆岩,如新疆扎河坝—和布克赛尔蛇绿混杂带和美国Klamath山蛇绿混杂带。蛇绿混杂带在变质变形强烈的俯冲带上盘和活化的陆内环境中,受到构造改造,造成单一露头区不能够完整地出露有蛇绿岩套的岩石组份,而侵入在蛇绿混杂带中的岩浆岩被构造肢解、形成岩块并使得混杂带内岩石组份复杂化。现今露头的蛇绿混杂带是经历过多阶段演化的、一种现时状态的“四维时空”信息的综合体,即多个时期的物质叠置在同一个露头的三维空间内,一些岩石可能与蛇绿岩套并无成因联系。     

甘肃西秦岭阳山金矿控矿构造特征及对勉略构造混杂岩带金矿勘查的启示

阳山金矿大地构造位置位于秦祁昆造山系秦岭弧盆系南秦岭勉略构造混杂岩带,成矿区划属秦岭成矿省南秦岭成矿带新关-阳山成矿亚带。由于矿床位于构造混杂岩带中,控矿构造复杂,给勘查工作带来了很大的困难,一度无法提交勘查报告。为了详细理清构造控矿样式,利用矿区探矿工程资料,提取大量的构造要素,利用构造统计分析及应力分析方法,结合野外现场观察,提出了全新的构造控矿模式。通过研究认为,阳山金矿位于勉略构造混杂岩带文县安昌河－观音坝逆冲断裂推覆构造体系前锋断褶带的葛条湾-草坪梁复背斜东部转折端,矿体受褶皱两翼的韧脆性断裂破碎带及其核部楔入式断层控制,总体以北东东向展布为主,平面上呈"网结状"展布,剖面上倾向既有向北,也有向南,还有近水平的。从而解决了阳山金矿的控矿构造和矿体圈连问题,对勉略构造混杂岩带中金矿勘查具有很好的借鉴意义。     

内蒙古北山造山带时空结构与古亚洲洋演化

内蒙古北山造山带自北向南发育红石山－百合山、月牙山－洗肠井和帐房山－玉石山3条蛇绿构造混杂岩带。其中北部的2条蛇绿岩带揭示了北山造山带两阶段演化的历史：月牙山－洗肠井蛇绿混杂岩带洋壳形成于530~520 Ma,沿该带多处保存较完好的蛇绿岩洋壳残块（洋壳结构具向北变新特征）,与北侧的早古生代公婆泉岩浆弧（由南向北岛弧成熟度变高）共同指示了北山洋向北俯冲消减的过程,即490 Ma初始俯冲,450~440 Ma为俯冲峰期,430~420 Ma为同碰撞阶段,400 Ma的双峰式岩浆岩组合指示了北山洋的消亡和后造山伸展的过程;红石山－百合山蛇绿混杂岩带是发育在雀儿山－圆包山岛弧基础上的SSZ型蛇绿岩,弧后开裂洋壳的形成与南侧最早发育的岛弧岩浆作用年龄接近（340~320 Ma）,310~290 Ma俯冲峰期造成南侧白山岩浆弧大量的岩浆活动,早二叠世末期（275 Ma）的辉长岩和花岗岩侵位及早—中二叠世双堡塘组下部的角度不整合均反映了红石山洋盆的闭合。前人所划"石板井－小黄山蛇绿岩带"实为一条早古生代发育的深大断裂,沿带发育中基性侵入体及少量超基性岩,后期（志留纪末）叠加有较强的韧性剪切变形。中生代以来的走滑作用和逆冲推覆构造改造了古生代的构造格架,使红石山-百合山蛇绿混杂岩带向北左行切错了十余千米,北山南部的中—新元古界推覆至下古生界之上。对内蒙古北山造山带时空结构的厘定,有助于中亚造山带造山作用过程的理解及其对古生代地壳增生的深入研究,也对银额盆地晚古生代新层系油气资源勘查起到基础支撑。     

区域地质调查中对沉积混杂岩的识别与工作方法

介绍了沉积混杂岩的识别方法 , 提出了造山带沉积混杂岩区区调研究的技术路线 , 建议沉积混杂岩的制图单位采用三级划分体制 :一级为沉积混杂岩带、二级为沉积混杂岩层、三级为沉积混杂岩体。以中甸地区为例示范了这些制图单位在地质图上的表示方法。     

西藏碧土地区怒江缝合带基本特征与演化

碧土地区怒江缝合带由二叠纪—早三叠世蛇绿混杂岩和志留纪─晚三叠世不同类型沉积岩构成的蛇绿─构造混杂带所组成。带中零星出现的蓝闪石、３Ｔ型多硅白云母等组合表明为中高压变质带,以逆冲断裂、褶皱构造构成的双向背冲叠瓦构造为变形特征。该带经历了６个阶段的演化,最终将冈底斯─念青唐古拉陆块和亲扬子的昌都陆块缝合在一起,形成了现今两弧夹一带之构造格局。     

天马和谢坊形变试验场地壳形变特征分析

本文对天马和谢坊试验场的三角和基线观测资料进行了应变分析,获得了该试验场的主应变值、主应变方向以及剪应变值。分析结果表明,该试验场的地壳形变特征基本上是由通过该场地的断层所制约,反映了该断层的性质。     

Demise of the northern Tethyan Urgonian carbonate platform and subsequent transition towards pelagic conditions: The sedimentary record of the Col de la Plaine Morte area, central Switzerland

The sedimentary succession of the Col de la Plaine Morte area (Helvetic Alps, central Switzerland) documents the disappearance of the northern Tethyan Urgonian platform in unprecedented detail and suggests stepwise platform demise, with each drowning phase documented by erosion and phosphogenesis. The first identified drowning phase terminated Urgonian carbonate production in a predominantly photozoan mode. Using a correlation of the whole-rock δ¹³C record with the well-dated record from SE France, its age is inferred to as Middle Early Aptian (near the boundary between the weissi and deshayesi zones). A subsequent drowning phase is dated by ammonites and by a correlation of the whole-rock δ¹³C record as Late Early Aptian (late deshayesi to early furcata zone). A third drowning phase provides an ammonite-based age of Early Late Aptian (subnodosocostatum and melchioris zones) and is part of a widely recognized phase of sediment condensation and phosphogenesis, which is dated as latest Early to Middle Late Aptian (late furcata zone to near the boundary of the melchioris and nolani zones). The fourth and final drowning phase started in the latest Aptian (jacobi zone) as is also indicated by ammonite findings at the Col de la Plaine Morte. The phases of renewed platform-carbonate production intervening between the drowning phases were all in a heterozoan mode.

During the ultimate drowning phase, phosphogenesis continued until the Early Middle Albian, whereas condensation processes lasted until the Middle Turonian. Coverage of the external margin of the drowned Urgonian platform by a drape of pelagic carbonates started only in the Late Turonian. During the Santonian, the external part of the drowned platform underwent normal faulting and saw the re-exposure of already lithified Urgonian carbonates at the seafloor.

Based on the here-inferred ages, the first drowning phase just precedes oceanic anoxic episode 1a (OAE 1a or “selli event”) in time, and the second drowning phase partly overlaps with OAE 1a. The onset of the third drowning event slightly predates two further periods of increased organic-matter accumulation in the Vocontian Basin (Noir and Fallot levels), and the onset of the fourth and final drowning phase may coincide with two further periods of increased organic-matter accumulation in the Vocontian Basin (Jacob and Kilian levels, part of OAE 1b). These correlations indicate a relationship between the so-called anoxic episodes and the stepwise demise of the Urgonian platform, even if the onset of environmental change is registered earlier on the platform than in basinal sediments.     

Francisco José de Caldas's Unaccomplished Life-Project – His Map Provincias Unidas de la Nueva Granada, 1811/ 1815

The first attempted republican map of present-day Colombia remained unachieved. Francisco José de Caldas worked on it since 1797 and, come the revolution and Nueva Granada's republican inception, he prepared two successive cartouches to introduce it: the first one in 1811, the latter in 1815. Finally entitled Provincias de la Nueva Granada, Caldas's map remains understudied. In this article, I establish its basic cartographic parameters, discuss the political context of its unfinished making and link it to its pertinent cartographic precedents.     

Cretaceous amber inclusions of Spain and Myanmar demonstrate early diversification and wide dispersal of Cephenniitae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

The taxonomic status of previously misplaced species of an ant-like stone beetle from Spanish amber (Albian) is clarified. Specimens of Kachinus magnificus (originally placed as incertae sedis within Scydmaenitae) were re-examined and their characters were found different from those of the type species of Kachinus from Myanmar amber. Consequently, Archeutheia gen. nov. is proposed to accommodate the Spanish species, resulting in Archeutheia magnifica comb. nov. Moreover, in a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis Archeutheia was placed as a sister group to extant Eutheia, within the tribe Eutheiini of Cephenniitae. A specimen of an undetermined genus from Myanmar amber clearly belonging in Cephenniini is also recorded. Both taxa represent the first definite Cretaceous Cephenniitae, a supertribe whose recent members are distributed on all continents but are especially diverse in the Oriental and East Palaearctic regions. This finding demonstrates a diversification of two presently most species-rich tribes of Cephenniitae already in Early Cretaceous. Archeutheia is strikingly similar to the extant species of Eutheia and Veraphis, showing male dimorphic characters (modified protrochanters) and antennal cavities characteristic of Palaearctic Eutheiini. This fact suggests a long morphological stability in the supertribe. A previously proposed hypothesis of an early presence of the Cephenniitae in the Northern Hemisphere is for the first time supported by the fossil record, and the palaeolocalities (western Europe and Southeast Asia) demonstrate a wide distribution of Cephenniitae in the Cretaceous and an early split of its ancestral lineage.