Evidence for a shock-metamorphic breccia within a buried impact crater,Lake Raeside,Yilgarn Craton,Western Australia

Mineral exploration drilling 60 km west of Leonora in 2008 intersected >95 m of poorly consolidated granitoid-dominated breccia at the base of a Cenozoic paleochannel beneath Lake Raeside. The breccia, initially interpreted as a kimberlite, is composed of poorly consolidated fragments of granitic gneiss, felsite and metamorphosed mafic rock within a matrix of fine to medium-grained breccia. Microscopic examination revealed quartz grains displaying well-developed planar deformation features (PDFs) dominated by the ω? {1013} planar set, diaplectic silica glass and diaplectic plagioclase glass. These features constitute the diagnostic hallmarks of shock metamorphism owing to high-velocity impact of a large meteorite or asteroid. The PDFs in quartz grains of the breccia are distinctly different from metamorphic deformation lamellae produced tectonically or in diatremes. Airborne total magnetic intensity data suggest an outline of an 11 km-diameter crater, consistent with the significant thickness of the shock-metamorphosed breccia at >95 m, suggestive of the existence of a large impact structure.     

安徽省歙县石屋岩体和岑山岩体岩石学特征及定名

安徽省石屋岩体和岑山岩体在地质产状、形成时代及岩石学特征上十分相似 ,前人将其划为同一单元 ,并一直将其定名为黑云母斜长花岗斑岩。通过岩石化学、岩相学及矿物学研究认为石屋岩体及岑山岩体应定名为花岗闪长斑岩。它对研究岩石成岩的构造环境具有重大意义     

On the significance of CO2 inclusions in plagioclase microphenocrysts in tholeiite from Moeraki,New Zealand

Liquid plus vapour inclusions of CO₂ are widespread in plagioclase microphenocrysts in small tholeiitic intrusions and tephra of the Moeraki and adjacent areas of northeast Otago, New Zealand. They imply the presence of immiscible CO₂ droplets in the magma at depths of about 7–14 km. Their presence within 5 μm of the edges of microphenocrysts as little as 35 μm thick and 118 μm long indicates minimal feldspar crystal growth during the final ascent and quenching of the magma. Delicate branching clusters of lath-like microphenocrysts escaped disruption during this ascent. Such CO₂ inclusions are a potential source of ‘excess argon’ perturbing K-Ar age determinations. Received March 24, 1993/Accepted September 10, 1993     

浙江雁荡山火山-侵入杂岩的岩浆混合作用——暗色包体中长石环带的证据

浙江雁荡山是中国东南部燕山晚期巨型火山-侵入杂岩带的重要组成部分。对其中央侵入相石英正长斑岩的暗色微粒包体中的斑晶和基质斜长石进行了详细的内部结构和成分分析,揭示了斜长石复杂环带的成因和相关的岩浆作用过程。斑晶斜长石由熔蚀的核部和表面干净的幔部组成,边部包裹有钾长石膜。核部斜长石呈浑圆状或港湾状,内部发育筛状结构,An成分显著低于幔部斜长石,代表来自酸性岩浆房中早期结晶的斜长石捕掳晶。同时,幔部斜长石与自形、表面干净的基质斜长石具有类似的An含量,且两者均含有针状磷灰石的包裹体,应结晶自与暗色微粒包体相应的基性岩浆。长石的复杂结构记录了雁荡山火山-侵入杂岩形成过程中的岩浆混合作用和岩浆演化过程。岩浆混合之后的火山喷发活动,造成岩浆房的压力突然减小,温压条件达到钾长石结晶的区域,在石英正长斑岩的斑晶斜长石和暗色包体中的斑晶与基质斜长石外均形成钾长石膜,构成反环斑结构。     

鲁西新泰孟家屯2.7Ga变质沉积岩与黑云斜长片麻岩锆石Hf同位素特征

对出露于山东新泰孟家屯2.7Ga的孟家屯岩组中石榴石石英岩(M08)、含十字石石榴石黑云母石英片岩(D242-Y2)和黑云斜长片麻岩(M03)(TTG质片麻岩)进行锆石Lu-Hf同位素分析。石榴石石英岩锆石核部176Lu/177Hf、176Hf/177Hf变化范围为0.001730～0.002546、0.281249～0.281360,锆石变质边部176Lu/177Hf、176Hf/177Hf变化范围为0.000123～0.002070、0.281241～0.281318;含十字石石榴石黑云母石英片岩锆石核部176Lu/177Hf、176Hf/177Hf变化范围为0.001334～0.002169、0.281226～0.281324,锆石变质边部176Lu/177Hf、176Hf/177Hf变化范围为0.000445～0.001375、0.281227～0.281309;黑云斜长片麻岩锆石176Lu/177Hf、176Hf/177Hf变化范围为0.000315～0.000847、0.281186～0.281265。孟家屯岩组石榴石英岩、含十字石石榴石黑去母石英片岩中碎屑(岩浆)锆石和黑云斜长片麻岩中岩浆锆石的εHf(t)分别为3.75～7.26、2.31～7.26和3.21～6.27,同时TDM1与其U-Pb年龄非常接近,表明它们起源于新生地壳的部分熔融。结合区域研究资料认为,2.7Ga是鲁西重要的一期构造岩浆热事件,也可能是华北克拉通重要的构造岩浆活动时期。变质沉积岩中许多变质增生锆石相对于核部岩浆锆石低176Lu/177Hf、高176Hf/177Hf,显示变质作用过程中石榴石的存在对锆石的Lu-Hf同位素体系有很大影响。     

西昆仑康西瓦断裂西段斜长片麻岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年及其构造意义

在康西瓦断裂西段发育着一套含石榴子石二云斜长片麻岩。根据锆石的阴极发光图像和Th、U、REE等特征,锆石可分为岩浆成因和变质热液成因2类。利用LA-ICP-MS法进行锆石U-Pb定年,测得含石榴子石斜长片麻岩的源岩形成年龄为254.5Ma±4.2Ma(MSWD=0.16),变质年龄为242.7Ma±2.3Ma(MSWD=0.11)。结合区域地质资料,含石榴子石二云斜长片麻岩的变质作用与古特提斯碰撞造山有关,表明西昆仑造山带在中三叠世早期(243Ma)仍处于古特提斯碰撞造山期。     

赣中周潭群石榴石、斜长石和黑云母微区化学成分特征及其地球动力学意义

周潭群变质岩中石榴石、斜长石和黑云母微区化学成分变化明显，石榴石变斑晶具典型的生长环带，由晶体中心向两侧边缘XMg、XFe值以光滑曲线递增，XCu、XMn值以光滑曲线递减，反映其增温过程；晶体最边缘的化学成分反映变质峰期的温度条件。通过石榴石变斑晶生长环带剖面分析，应用Grt-Bi温度计和GASP压力计，确定本区变质作用PT轨迹为顺时针形式，发生于大陆碰撞造山带环境。     

Evolution of lithospheric mantle in the north of Nain‐Baft oceanic crust (Neo‐Tethyan ophiolite of Ashin,Central Iran)

This study is focused on a plagioclase‐bearing spinel lherzolite from Chah Loqeh area in the Neo‐Tethyan Ashin ophiolite. It is exposed along the west of left‐lateral strike‐slip Dorouneh Fault in the northwest of Central‐East Iranian Microcontinent. Mineral chemistry (Mg#^olivine < ~ 90, Cr#^{clinopyroxene} < ~ 0.2, Cr#^spinel < ~ 0.5, Al₂O₃^{orthopyroxene} > ~ 2.5 wt%, Al₂O₃^{clinopyroxene} > ~ 4.5 wt%, Al₂O₃^spinel > ~ 41.5 wt%, Na₂O^{clinopyroxene} > ~ 0.11 wt%, and TiO₂^{clinopyroxene} > ~ 0.04 wt%) confirms Ashin lherzolite was originally a mid‐oceanic ridge peridotite with low degrees of partial melting at spinel‐peridotite facies in a lithospheric mantle level. However, some Ashin lherzolites record mantle upwelling and tectonic exhumation at plagioclase‐peridotite facies during oceanic extension and diapiric motion of mantle along Nain‐Baft suture zone. This mantle upwelling is evidenced by some modifications in the modal composition (i.e. subsolidus recrystallization of plagioclase and olivine between pyroxene and spinel) and mineral chemistry (e.g. increase in TiO₂ and Na₂O of clinopyroxene, and TiO₂ and Cr# of spinel and decrease in Mg# of olivine), as a consequence of decompression during a progressive upwelling of mantle. Previous geochronological and geochemical data and increasing the depth of subsolidus plagioclase formation at plagioclase‐peridotite facies from Nain ophiolite (~ 16 km) to Ashin ophiolite (~ 35 km) suggest a south to north closure for the Nain‐Baft oceanic crust in the northwest of Central‐East Iranian Microcontinent.     

河南桐柏歇马岭金矿床地质特征及找矿标志

通过对歇马岭金矿地质特征和矿化富集规律的初步分析,提出了找矿标志和找矿模型,对矿区及外围进一步找矿提供了思路.     

Decompressional coronas and symplectites in granulites of the Musgrave Complex, central Australia

Abstract In granulite facies metapelitic rocks in the Musgrave Complex, central Australia, reaction between S1 garnet and sillimanite involves the development in S2 of both garnet + cordierite + hercynitic spinel + biotite and hercynitic spinel + cordierite + sillimanite + biotite. The S2 assemblages occur either in coronas and symplectites, mainly around garnet, or, in rocks in which S2 is more strongly developed, as recrystallized assemblages. Ignoring the presence of biotite and ilmenite, the mineral textures can be accounted for qualitatively by a consideration of the model system FeO-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂ (FMAS); the textural relationships accord with decompression accompanying the change from S1 to S2. However, since biotite and ilmenite are involved in the assemblages, the parageneses are better accounted for in terms of equilibria in the expanded model system K₂O-FeO-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂-TiO₂-Fe₂O₃ (KFMASHTO), i.e. AFM + TiO₂+ Fe₂O₃. The coronas reflect the tectonic unroofing of at least part of the Musgrave Complex from peak S1 conditions of about 8 kbar to S2 conditions of about 4 kbar.