Phengite geochronology of crystalline schists in the Sakuma–Tenryu district,central Japan

The Sakuma–Tenryu district consists mainly of pelitic and basic schists. Its metamorphic sequence has been divided into two units, the Shirakura and the Sejiri units. We carried out K–Ar analyses of phengite separates and X‐ray diffraction analyses of carbonaceous materials from the pelitic schists of both units. The age–d₀₀₂ relationships show that the ages become older (66–73 Ma) in the Shirakura unit and younger (57–48 Ma) in the latter with increasing metamorphic temperature. The former has a positive relationship observed in the Sanbagawa meta‐Accretionary Complex (meta‐AC) (Sanbagawa metamorphic belt sensu stricto) in central Shikoku and the latter, a negative one in the Shimanto meta‐AC (a subunit of traditional Sanbagawa belt) of the Kanto Mountains. These contrasting age–temperature relationships are due to different tectonic styles relating to the exhumation of the metamorphic sequences. The duration from the peak metamorphism to the closure of the phengite K–Ar system was significantly different between the two metamorphic sequences: longer than 31 my in the Sanbagawa meta‐AC and shorter than 13 my in the Shimanto meta‐AC. The different natures of subducted plate boundaries may cause the different exhumation processes of metamorphic belts.     

The muscovite-melt bathograd and low-P isograd suites in north-central Wopmay Orogen, Northwest Territories, Canada

In north-central Wopmay Orogen, syntectonic low-P(Buchan-type) suites of mineral isograds outline regional metamorphic temperature culminations that are associated, at the higher structural levels, with emplacement of early Proterozoic plutons in the west part of a deformed and eastward transported continental margin prism. The mapped isograds mark the first occurrence of biotite, staurolite, andalusite, sillimanite, sillimanite-K feldspar and K feldspar-plagioclase-quartz ± muscovite (granitic) pods in metapelites, with increasing proximity to the plutons.
Microprobe analyses and field observations have resulted in the formulation of reactions for the 'ideal'pelitic system K₂O-Na₂O-FeO-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O, to account for the various mineral assemblages of each metamorphic zone. A P-T petrogenetic grid showing erosion surface P-T curves for the northern Wopmay Orogen pelites, compiled on the basis of the mapped isograds and the inferred reaction(s) for each metamorphic zone, documents a variation in exposed metamorphic pressure ranging between 2 and 4 kbar.
The configuration of a new bathograd, based on the invariant model reaction sillimanite + K feldspar + plagioclase + biotite + quartz + vapor ± muscovite + liquid and interpolated across three metamorphic suites, is consistent with a major regional structure culmination and with independently determined pressures obtained from anorthite-grossular-quartz-Al₂SiO₅ geobarometry. The positive correlation between the configuration of the bathograd and the structural and pressure culmination points to the pressure-dependence of anatectic-granitic-pod mineral associations.     

南阿尔金木纳布拉克地区高压泥质麻粒岩的确定及其地质意义

南阿尔金木纳布拉克地区出露一套典型的高压泥质麻粒岩,其峰期特征矿物组合为Grt+ Ky+ Kfs+Qz+Ilm.根据矿物内部一致性热力学数据和Thermocalc3.33程序计算,确定其峰期变质温压条件为T＞850℃和P＞11kbar.结合岩相学研究和P-T视剖面图计算,可识别出该岩石经历了3个阶段的变质演化,构成了一个早期降温降压,后期近等压降温的顺时针型的退变质P-T演化轨迹.该岩石锆石阴极发光图像显示其内部具有明显的核-边结构,核部为残留的原岩碎屑锆石,边部则表现为面状生长的变质锆石的特征.微区原位LA-ICP-MS微量元素分析和锆石U-Pb定年表明,该岩石原岩的形成时代上限值约为579Ma,变质年龄为486±5Ma.该麻粒岩与南阿尔金淡水泉地区的高压麻粒岩具有相似变质演化轨迹和一致的峰期变质年龄,亦与南阿尔金其它超高压岩石的峰期变质年龄一致,表明它们都是南阿尔金陆壳深俯冲作用引发的高压-超高压变质事件的产物,它们共同构成南阿尔金高压-超高压变质带.同时代的UHP榴辉岩和高压麻粒岩共存的现象,可以很好地利用“俯冲隧道模型”来解释,即可能是由于陆壳在深俯冲过程中不同深度不同热状态下发生拆离作用后折返引起的.另外,该麻粒岩的原岩形成时代(约为579Ma),可能为新元古代晚期,与南阿尔金高压-超高压岩石的原岩形成时代基本一致或稍晚,因此不应再作为岩石地层单元划归为“长城系”,而应归属为南阿尔金高压-超高压变质岩带的一部分.     

Amphibole composition as an indicator of subtle grade variation in epidote-glaucophane schists

Abstract The paragenetic relations of epidote-glaucophane schists are described in terms of the system Al₂O₃-Fe₂O₃-Fe₂O₃-MgO-CaO with excess of quartz, albite and epidote. If alkali-amphibole is free from Ca and Al^IV, its composition when associated with epidote is invariant, univariant or divariant at a given pressure and temperature on Miyashiro's (1957) diagram of alkali-amphibole solid solution if it is also associated, respectively, with three, two or one additional minerals in the system.
Using a group of epidote-glaucophane schists from the Kotu area of the Sanbagawa metamor-phic belt in Shlkoku, Japan (isophysical compositional),univariant boundary lines were determined for the assemblages that, in addition to the ubiquitous quartz + albite + phengitic mica, contain hematite + chlorite, garnet + chlorite and actinolite + chlorite, respectively. The slopes of the univariant boundary lines obtained from petrographical data are in good agreement with those calculated in a model system.
The positions of isophysical univariant boundary lines on the amphibole compositional diagram serve to distinguish the grade of metamorphism among the rocks of the same mineral facies. The hematite-chlorite univariant boundary line can be used to divide the zone of epidote-glaucophane schists of the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt into three, and the garnet-chlorite-paragonite invariant equilibrium can be used to divide the epidote zone of New Caledonia into three.     

节理泥质粉砂岩卸荷流变试验及流变规律研究

为了解节理对泥质粉砂岩卸荷流变规律的影响,进行了同起始围压,不同应力水平下的节理泥质粉砂岩分级卸荷流变试验。首先,详细介绍了节理试样的预制方法及卸荷流变试验的过程,然后,研究了节理试样在不同应力水平作用下的轴向及侧向流变应变变化规律,得出节理倾角为0°的试样轴向及侧向流变应变随围压降低的增大趋势最陡,节理倾角为60°的试样其次,节理倾角为40°的试样最缓。同时,分析了节理对轴向及侧向流变速率变化趋势的影响,探讨了不同倾角节理试样的卸荷流变破裂机制。研究结果较为全面地掌握了节理泥质粉砂岩的卸荷流变基本规律,为进一步建立节理岩体的流变本构模型及参数辨识提供了可靠依据。     

Graphite‐schist blocks in the Franciscan Mélange,San Simeon,California: Evidence of high‐P metamorphism

The seacliff exposure at San Simeon, California, contains graphite‐schist blocks in a shale‐matrix, an undocumented lithology within the Franciscan mélange. Thirty graphite‐schist blocks were studied to discover all the varieties in this classic locality of mélange. Based on their mineralogical assemblage and composition, and textural characteristics the graphite‐schists in San Simeon are subdivided into two main types (Type I and II) with two subdivisions each (A and B). Type IA and IIA blocks are the most abundant. Type IA graphite‐schists are siltstone/fine greywacke‐like, preserve sedimentary textures, and lack lawsonite. Type IB graphite‐schists are mineralogical and texturally similar to Type IA schists, but are finer grained siltstone and shale. Type IIA graphite‐schists are compositionally layered and contain quartz‐ and albite‐rich layers and dark graphite‐ and intergrown mica/chlorite‐rich layers. Nine out of the 15 Type IIA blocks contain lawsonite. Two Type IIA blocks also contain aragonite (+calcite) in veins. Type IIB graphite‐schists are mostly composed of quartz and minor graphite, intergrown chlorite and white mica, and white mica pseudomorphs after lawsonite. The phengite content of mica in Type IIA blocks is higher than that of mica in Type IA graphite‐schists, confirming they were metamorphosed under high‐P/low‐T conditions. Type IA blocks were recrystallized between 200 and 250 °C at <~3 kbar; whereas, Type IIA blocks were metamorphosed under higher pressure conditions, probably at 250–300 °C and 3–5 kbar. Most likely both types of graphite‐schists were derived from a similar layered siltstone/fine greywacke/shale protolith. Organic matter‐rich sediments deposited in the trench axis were subducted along with oceanic crust during Franciscan subduction. Type I graphite‐schists were subducted to depths <10 km, whereas Type II graphite‐schists were subducted to depths ~15 km where they were underplated under high‐P conditions. The graphitic metasedimentary rocks were juxtaposed with mafic lithologies from the subducted oceanic crust that were metamorphosed to blueschist facies and retrograded to greenstone as they returned to the surface in the subduction channel shear zone.     

Phase relations and P–T conditions of the Ryoke pelitic and psammitic metamorphic rocks in the Ina district, Central Japan

The Ina district of the Ryoke Belt is divided into two mineral zones, based on the mineral parageneses of the pelitic and psammitic rocks at the peak metamorphism. A biotite–muscovite zone (quartz + plagioclase + biotite + muscovite with or without K-feldspar) constitutes the northwestern part, and a biotite–cordierite–K-feldspar zone (quartz + plagioclase + biotite + cordierite + K-feldspar) comprises the central to southern and eastern parts. The isograd reaction between two mineral zones is defined by a divariant reaction: Mg-rich biotite + muscovite + quartz = Fe-rich biotite + cordierite + K-feldspar + H₂O (1), which, in the K₂O–FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O (KFMASH) system, occurs at ∼ 590 °C at 0.2 GPa and 660 °C at 0.4 GPa. Fibrolite accompanied by andalusite porphyroblasts in aluminous pelitic rocks of the biotite–muscovite zone and the low-grade part of the biotite–cordierite–K-feldspar zone, suggests that sillimanite was the stable aluminosilicate at the peak metamorphic condition throughout the area. In the high-grade part of the biotite–cordierite–K-feldspar zone, fibrolite mostly occurs as inclusions in cordierite or in plagioclase. The phase relations and the compositional zoning of plagioclase in relation to fibrolite inclusions suggest that fibrolite was formed under relatively high-pressure conditions, and that partial melting took place.     

新疆西南天山含柯石英泥质片岩的岩石学特征及变质作用p-T轨迹

新疆西南天山高压-超高压变质带主要由泥质-长英质片岩组成,其中包裹榴辉岩、蓝片岩和超基性岩等透镜体。含柯石英泥质片岩具斑状/筛状变晶结构,片状构造,矿物组合为石榴石、多硅白云母、钠长石、钠云母、蓝闪石、冻蓝闪石、石英以及少量褐帘石、金红石和榍石,柯石英包裹在石榴石变斑晶内。根据岩石学特征和相平衡模拟的结果,识别出含柯石英泥质片岩经历了3期变质演化阶段:压力峰期之前的进变质阶段(Ⅰ),由石榴石核部到含柯石英区域的环带确定,特征为温度和压力同时升高,所限定的压力峰期条件为500℃、2.9 GPa,模拟的矿物组合为石榴石+蓝闪石+硬玉+纤柱石+硬柱石+金红石+多硅白云母+柯石英,与含柯石英的事实相符;压力峰期之后的升温降压至温度峰期阶段(Ⅱ),由石榴石含柯石英区域到边部的环带确定,特征为温度升高压力降低,所限定的温度峰期条件为560℃、2.35 GPa,模拟的矿物组合为石榴石+蓝闪石+硬玉+硬柱石+金红石+多硅白云母+石英,发生连续脱水反应蓝闪石+纤柱石+硬柱石=石榴石+硬玉+水,释放出岩石中约45%的水,导致柯石英转变为石英,纤柱石消失;温度峰期之后的近等温降压阶段(Ⅲ),由晚期矿物组合钠云母+钠长石+冻蓝闪石+榍石+石英的稳定温压条件确定(495~550℃、1.0~1.15 GPa),减压抬升过程中,在约2.1 GPa处,发生脱水反应硬玉+硬柱石=蓝闪石+钠云母+水,导致硬柱石消失,钠云母出现,在约1.1~1.25 GPa处,榍石取代金红石,绿辉石消失,钠长石和冻蓝闪石出现。阶段Ⅱ强烈的连续脱水过程十分利于矿物组合的再平衡,导致绝大多数压力峰期的柯石英转变为石英,仅有极少数因包裹在刚性石榴石中而得以保存。含柯石英泥质片岩及其榴辉岩透镜体经历了完全相同的俯冲折返过程。     

Porphyroblastic manganaxinite metapelagites with incipient garnet in prehnite–pumpellyite facies, near Meyers Pass, Torlesse Terrane, New Zealand

Moderately manganiferous siliceous pelagites near Meyers Pass, Torlesse Terrane, South Canterbury, New Zealand, have been metamorphosed in the prehnite–pumpellyite facies. A conodont colour index measurement suggests T _max in the range 190–300 °C. Porphyroblastic manganaxinite, manganoan pumpellyite, manganoan chlorite and trace spessartine-rich garnet and sphalerite have formed in an extremely fine-grained quartz–albite–berthierine–phengite–titanite groundmass. Porphyroblastic manganaxinite semischists and schists are distinctive rocks in prehnite–pumpellyite to lower-grade greenschist and blueschist facies of New Zealand and Japan. Mn in the manganoan pumpellyites substitutes for Ca in W sites. Total Fe/(Fe+Mg) ratios in chlorite are dependent on oxidation state, being ≤0.22 in red hematitic hemipelagites, and ≥0.61 in low-f O₂ grey metapelagites. In the low-f O₂ metapelagites, manganoan berthierine with little or no chlorite is inferred in the groundmass and iron-rich chlorite occurs as porphyroblasts and veinlets, whereas in the red rocks, Mg-rich chlorite occurs both in groundmasses and veinlets. Variably high Si in the manganoan chlorites correlates with evidence for contaminant phases. The Mn content of chlorite contributing to garnet growth is dependent on metamorphic grade; incipient spessartine indicates a saturation value of 6–8% MnO in chlorite in low-f O₂ rocks at Meyers Pass. Lower MnO contents are recorded for otherwise analogous rocks with increasing metamorphic grade, but at a given grade coexisting chlorite and garnet are richer in Mn where f O₂ is high. Manganaxinite and manganoan pumpellyite also contributed to reactions forming grossular–spessartine solid solutions. Formation of garnet in siliceous pelagites is dependent on both Mn and Ca content. The spessartine component increases with grade into the greenschist facies. Partial recrystallization of berthierine to chlorite and the growth of porphyroblastic patches of other minerals was facilitated by brittle fracture and access of fluids to an otherwise impermeable matrix; to this extent the very low-grade metamorphism was episodic.     

新疆西南天山木扎尔特河一带低压泥质麻粒岩岩石学特征、独居石U-Th-Pb定年及其地质意义

古南天山洋闭合过程中,由于洋壳俯冲产生的岛弧岩浆作用加热大陆地壳,在新疆西南天山木扎尔特一带形成了一套低压高温泥质麻粒岩相变质岩石.本文用Theriak-Domino热力学软件对该套岩石中的堇青石榴夕线石黑云母片麻岩和含夕线石堇青石榴黑云母片麻岩进行了岩石学相平衡计算研究,得到它们峰期变质的温压条件分别是：T=630～674℃,P=5.2～5.5kbar和T=645～684℃,P=5.4～5.7kbar.并采用独居石Th-U-Pb电子探针定年方法,对样品WQ006中的3颗独居石进行了原位年龄测定(38个分析点),得到2组等时线年龄,分别是376±8Ma和280σ8Ma(2σ).结合独居石的岩相学特征,提出了新疆西南天山低压高温麻粒岩相峰期变质作用的时代为280±8Ma,而376±8Ma(2σ)可能为原沉积岩的原岩/成岩年龄.表明西南天山洋壳开始俯冲发生在晚古生代,进一步证明了西南天山造山带俯冲碰撞发生在晚二叠纪之后的观点.