The late Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective

This paper presents a review of available petrological, geochonological and geochemical data for late Mesozoic to Recent igneous rocks in the South China Sea (SCS) and adjacent regions and a discussion of their petrogeneses and tectonic implications. The integration of these data with available geophysical and other geologic information led to the following tectono-magmatic model for the evolution of the SCS region. The geochemical characteristics of late Mesozoic granitic rocks in the Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB), micro-blocks in the SCS, the offshore continental shelf and Dalat zone in southern Vietnam, and the Schwaner Mountains in West Kalimantan, Borneo indicate that these are mainly I-type granites plus a small amount of S-type granites in the PRMB. These granitoids were formed in a continental arc tectonic setting, consistent with the ideas proposed by Holloway (1982) and Taylor and Hayes, 1980, Taylor and Hayes, 1983, that there existed an Andean-type volcanic arc during later Mesozoic era in the SCS region. The geochonological and geochemical characteristics of the volcanics indicate an early period of bimodal volcanism (60–43 Ma or 32 Ma) at the northern margin of the SCS, followed by a period of relatively passive style volcanism during Cenozoic seafloor spreading (37 or 30–16 Ma) within the SCS, and post-spreading volcanism (tholeiitic series at 17–8 Ma, followed by alkali series from 8 Ma to present) in the entire SCS region. The geodynamic setting of the earlier volcanics was an extensional regime, which resulted from the collision between India and Eurasian plates since the earliest Cenozoic, and that of the post-spreading volcanics may be related to mantle plume magmatism in Hainan Island. In addition, the nascent Hainan plume may have played a significant role in the extension along the northern margin and seafloor spreading in the SCS.     

Thermal and compositional stratification of the inner core

The improvements of the knowledge of the seismic structure of the inner core and the complexities thereby revealed ask for a dynamical origin. Sub-solidus convection was one of the early suggestions to explain the seismic anisotropy, but it requires an unstable density gradient either from thermal or compositional origin, or from both. Temperature and composition profiles in the inner core are computed using a unidimensional model of core evolution including diffusion in the inner core and fractional crystallisation at the inner core boundary (ICB). The thermal conductivity of the core has been recently revised upwardly and, moreover, found to increase with depth. Values of the heat flow across the core mantle boundary (CMB) sufficient to maintain convection in the whole outer core are not sufficient to make the temperature in the inner core super-isentropic and therefore prone to thermal instability. An unreasonably high CMB heat flow is necessary to this end. The compositional stratification results from a competition of the increase of the concentration of light elements in the outer core with inner core growth, which makes the inner core concentration also increase, and of the decrease of the liquidus, which makes the partition coefficient decrease as well as the concentration of light elements in the solid. While the latter (destabilizing) effect dominates at small inner core sizes, the former takes over for a large inner core. The turnover point is encountered for an inner core about half its current size in the case of S, but much larger for the case of O. The combined thermal and compositional buoyancy is stabilizing and solid-state convection in the inner core appears unlikely, unless an early double-diffusive instability can set in.     

川南地区龙马溪组页岩有机质特征及其对页岩含气量的影响

四川盆地南部地区广泛发育下古生界寒武系、志留系等多套海相页岩层,其中龙马溪组是该区页岩气勘探开发的重点目标层。根据钻井岩心资料,通过有机碳、热解、碳同位素、等温吸附等地球化学实验分析,对川南地区下志留统龙马溪组页岩的有机质特征及其对页岩含气量的影响进行了研究。结果表明,川南地区龙马溪组页岩有机碳含量较高(平均1.53%),有机质类型较好(Ⅰ型和Ⅱ1型),热演化程度高(Ro为1.94%~2.42%),且页岩含气量较高(平均1.85m3/t)。页岩有机质特征是影响页岩含气量的主要因素,有机质丰度、有机质类型和热演化程度三者共同决定了川南地区龙马溪组页岩的含气量。     

Sedimentary stylolite networks and connectivity in limestone: Large-scale field observations and implications for structure evolution

Stylolites are rough surfaces, formed by localized rock dissolution, and prevalent in carbonates and other sedimentary rocks. Their impact on porosity and permeability, and capacity to accommodate compactive strain, are well documented. This paper presents a meso-scale field study on sedimentary stylolites in carbonates, characterizing large-scale distributions of stylolites, including measurements conducted on longer than kilometer-long stylolites. Our field study suggests that on large scales connections between stylolites become important. Since connectivity, and also lack of connectivity, are expected to play a significant role in strain accommodation and hydraulic rock properties, we suggest that large-scale analysis may require a new characterization scheme for “stylolite populations”, based on their connectivity. We therefore divide sedimentary stylolite populations into three end-member types, which are correlated with the three possibilities for percolation of such systems: isolated stylolites (with zero percolation/connectivity), long-parallel stylolites (with 2-dimensional percolation/connectivity), and interconnected stylolite networks (with 3-dimensional percolation/connectivity). New statistical parameters and measures are devised and used to quantitatively characterize the different population types. Schematic mechanistic models are then offered to explain the evolution of the three end-member connectivity-classes. In addition we discuss the effect on fluid flow of the different population types.     

塔里木盆地西南部麦盖提斜坡构造演化过程的 记录——生长地层及生长不整合

根据塔里木盆地西南部麦盖提斜坡生长地层的发育模式,并结合不整合类型及发育特征的变化规律,探讨了麦盖提斜坡的构造演化过程。认为在早古生代时期,麦盖提斜坡为一北倾的斜坡,构造高点位于斜坡南部;晚古生代,麦盖提斜坡的构造演化过程具有明显的分段性,斜坡西段主要的构造演化时期始于早石炭世,并持续至早二叠世,构造高点迁移至斜坡中部,呈现出"中间高、两头低"的古构造特征;而斜坡东段的主要构造演化时期推迟至晚二叠世。新生代,麦盖提斜坡已反转为南倾的斜坡,构造高点已迁移至斜坡北部,斜坡东段从前中新世开始进入构造演化时期,而西段则推迟至中新世,且东段的构造活动强度要大于西段。     

斑岩-浅成低温热液型Cu-Au矿H2O-Cl-S流体性质和演化方式对成矿的制约

斑岩—浅成低温热液型Cu—Au成矿流体最具代表性的是H2O—Cl—S流体。流体的性质强烈控制着Cu、Au的成矿行为,包括溶解性、迁移形式和气—液分配。流体的氧逸度和流体中Cl、S物种相对含量决定金属在流体中的溶解形式,高氧逸度的高温高盐度流体中Cu、Au主要和Cl络合,S-3也可能是促进Au溶解的重要S物种形式。而过量的S有利于Cu、Au等元素以含S离子络合物进入液相流体,与含S中性络合物配分进入气相流体并迁移Au至浅成低温热液环境形成矿床。岩浆需要经历充分的分异,出溶成分和性质有利于金属迁移的流体,形成高品位的斑岩型Cu、Au矿体;上覆叠加浅成低温热液型Au矿体可能需要初始的成矿流体状态进入NaCl—H2O的超临界区、有效的演化方式、良好的流体缓冲环境和有利的Au沉淀场所。相分离和流体—流体反应是沉淀斑岩—浅成低温热液型Cu—Au矿体最重要的流体演化方式。气相流体具有独特的流体性质和演化方式,可能成为十分重要的成矿流体。     

柴达木盆地北缘东段石炭纪至白垩纪构造演化 模式及地层缺失原因探讨

为了明确柴达木盆地北缘东段石炭纪至白垩纪盆地演化历史,分析石炭系—侏罗系缺失的原因,本文重新确定了石炭系和侏罗系残余地层分布范围,并根据平衡剖面恢复和断裂落差计算,分析了主要断裂的活动特征,提出了柴北缘东段石炭纪至白垩纪的构造演化模式。应用有限单元法模拟了柴北缘东段印支期(三叠纪)、燕山早期(早—中侏罗世)、燕山晚期(晚侏罗世—白垩纪)的应力场,对构造演化模式加以验证。研究结果表明:柴北缘东段自石炭纪至白垩纪经历了石炭纪—二叠纪伸展、三叠纪挤压褶皱、早—中侏罗世断陷、晚侏罗世—白垩纪早期挤压坳陷和白垩纪末挤压反转五个构造演化阶段。三叠纪,柴北缘东段在印支期发育两排近东西走向的背斜凸起,造成石炭系—二叠系在各地区遭受不同程度的剥蚀;侏罗纪—白垩纪早期,欧南地区为继承性隆起区,未完全接受沉积;白垩纪末,受燕山晚期旋回影响,构造反转,逆冲断裂复活,绿梁山、锡铁山、埃姆尼克山、欧隆布鲁克山等主要山体隆升,遭受剥蚀。     

东亚季风区近地面大气气溶胶中OCPs和PCBs纬度分布：以7Be为参照系

连续一年在北京、青岛、广州以每周3d的时间尺度同步采集近地面大气中气溶胶中7Be的测定数据以及在春、秋季节变换时期我国5个不同纬度城市大气气溶胶中7Be和典型持久性有机污染物（有机氯农药和多氯联苯1的同步观测数据,并对文献上发表的我国其他城市近地面大气中气溶胶中’Be年平均值数据进行了分析。通过对以上数据资料的总结和分析,观察到在东亚季风区近地表大气气溶胶中7Be浓度的年平均值呈现正态分布模式,并且在中纬度北纬40°N附近达到极大值。大气气溶胶中7Be在春、秋季节变换时期我国不同纬度城市的瞬时纬度分布仍呈现正态分布模式,但以30°N为最大值。在秋季大气颗粒相中HCHs和PCBs浓度最大值出现在30°N。气相中PCB-28所占百分比随纬度增高而增大,而颗粒相中PCB-28的纬度变化不大。蒸汽压较低的PCB-180在气相中的浓度基本上不随纬度变化,而颗粒相中PCB-180则基本上集中在纬度36。N左右,表明在东亚季风区大气中挥发性较低的POPs化合物具有某种纬度聚焦作用。以宇宙射线成因核素7Be作为大气环流的参照系,可以得出东亚季风区大气环流可影响持久性有机污染物纬度分布的结论。     

柴达木盆地西部油族划分及成因研究

对柴达木盆地西部各油田的151个原油进行了分子地球化学分析,并选取伽马蜡烷/C30藿烷、升藿烷指数、甾烷C27/C29和三环萜烷/C30Hop四个参数作为变量进行SAS聚类分析。结合常规二维散点图法,柴西原油可以分为3个油族7个亚族：油族Ⅰ以强水体分层、强还原环境为特征,主要分布于西端的七个泉、红柳泉地区,该油族可以分为两个亚族,油亚族②相比于油亚族①具有更高的甾烷 C27/C29比值;油族Ⅱ主要分布于狮子沟、花土沟、跃进和南翼山油泉子地区,在七个泉、红柳泉等地区也有分布,以相对较强的水体分层、还原环境为特征;油族Ⅲ主要分布于东（南）部的切克里克、乌南、绿草滩、咸水泉、跃西和跃进Ⅱ号等地区,以水体分层变差、较还原环境为特征,该油族可以分为3个亚族,其中油亚族⑤则具有异常低的三环萜烷/C30Hop 比值,油亚族⑥具有异常高的甾烷 C27/C29比值,油亚族⑦则具有异常高的三环萜烷/C30Hop 比值。油族空间分布特征受下干柴沟组源岩有机相在空间上的变化制约,下干柴沟组源岩发育时期,自西向东地层沉积速率增大,水体的分层变差、还原性降低,导致陆源输入的增加以及有机质保存条件变差。     

青海省柴北缘东段太子沟钨锡多金属矿床地质特征及成因探讨

太子沟钨锡多金属矿床地处青海都兰县柴北缘阿尔茨托山多金属成矿带,产于上奥陶统滩涧山群的沉积岩系,为一矽卡岩型矿床,矿体呈层状,受地层控制明显。矽卡岩的稀土元素和微量元素分析结果表明,形成矽卡岩的岩浆热液源自加里东晚期侵入岩。该矿床的形成主要经过"滩涧山群沉积岩系形成"、"俯冲及HP/UHP变质带的形成"、"HP/UHP变质带的折返及加里东晚期岩体侵位"和"矽卡岩型等矿床形成"四个地质构造演化阶段和"热水喷流沉积"和"热液交代"两个成矿期。滩涧山群的岩石特性、HP/UHP变质带的形成与折返和加里东晚期侵入岩对该矿床的形成起着重要作用。HP/UHP变质带两侧的滩涧山群围岩接触带及构造破碎带和深部岩体接触带是重要的找矿部位,该区具有找寻钨锡铜铅锌等多金属矿床的巨大潜力。