下地幔矿物研究及其进展

文中综述了20世纪90年代以来对下地幔矿物高温高压研究的进展,详细评论了下地幔温压下(Mg,Fe)SiO3钙钛矿的稳定性、(Mg, Fe)SiO3 钙钛矿和(Mg, Fe)O镁方铁矿的高压状态方程和热弹性及高压熔化、核幔边界温压下铁和硅酸盐的化学反应等几个热点问题;探讨了下地幔的矿物学组成,对下地幔的地震波速异常给出了可能的矿物学解释;介绍了国内同领域的研究工作;展望了下地幔矿物研究的发展方向。     

Tracing the emerald origin by oxygen isotope data: the case of Sandawana,Zimbabwe

Given the wide range of oxygen isotopic composition of emerald from all over the world (δ¹⁸O between +6.2 and +24.7‰), the δ¹⁸O_V-SMOW values of emeralds from the Sandawana mines in Zimbabwe (δ¹⁸O‰=+6.6 to +8.0), are relatively constant, among the lowest ever measured. These consistently low values can be explained by host-rock buffering in a very narrow emerald-bearing reaction zone between ultrabasic greenstones (metamorphosed komatiites) and albitised pegmatites. δ¹⁸O values of Sandawana emeralds overlap those of emeralds from Brazil, Austria, Australia and Madagascar, a fact indicating that, in these cases, oxygen isotope composition alone is not sufficient to determine the geographic origin of commercially available emeralds. However, stones with overlapping δ¹⁸O values may eventually be identified using a combination of physical properties, inclusion characteristics and chemical composition. To cite this article: J.C. Zwaan et al., C. R. Geoscience 336 (2004).     

乳腺纤维腺瘤病灶中钙化的矿物学研究

选取8例乳腺纤维腺瘤的钙化样品,利用光学显微镜（OM）、环境扫描电镜（ESEM）、高分辨透射电镜（HR-TEM）、显微红外光谱仪（FTIR）、微区X射线衍射等矿物学方法对样品进行了原位和分离后形貌、结构及成分的测试分析,探讨了病灶中钙化的矿物学特征,初步探讨了钙化的组成及形成机理。研究结果表明,乳腺纤维腺瘤中的钙化是由病变后期玻璃样变性胶原中的羟基和羧基为钙化提供了成核位点,伴随病情发展最后形成OM下可见的以羟磷灰石为主要成分的坏死钙化。     

长江中下游地区蝌蚪山早白垩世玄武岩中单斜辉石的矿物学研究及其地质意义

长江中下游地区繁昌火山盆地在早白垩世先后发育3个喷发旋回:中分村旋回、赤沙旋回和蝌蚪山旋回。其中蝌蚪山旋回下段以凝灰质粉砂岩为主,中段为玄武岩和流纹质凝灰岩互层,上段以流纹岩为主。蝌蚪山玄武岩中的辉石既存在斑晶中也存在于基质中,这两种辉石在成分上有明显的差异,从斑晶辉石的核部到边部再到基质的核部,化学成分由富镁向富铁演化,显示出拉斑玄武岩系列的特点,辉石成因的判别图解表明其寄主岩浆为板内拉斑玄武岩,但其化学成分的变化趋势又表明岩浆在结晶分异的过程中向着碱性系列演化。根据单斜辉石与熔体平衡原理计算出玄武岩形成时的温度约为1 100℃,压力约为400MPa,相应的深度约为15km,证明岩浆在地壳中有过短暂的停留,并在上地壳部位发生分离结晶作用后喷出地表快速冷凝形成蝌蚪山玄武岩。     

Compaction of diagenetically altered mudstones – Part 2: Implications for pore pressure estimation

Diagenetically altered mudstones compact mechanically and chemically. Consequently, their normal compaction trends depend upon their temperature history as well as on the maximum effective stress they have experienced. A further complication is that mudstones are commonly overpressured where clay diagenesis occurs, preventing direct observation of the hydrostatic normal compaction trend. A popular way to estimate pore pressure in these circumstances is to calculate the sonic normal compaction trend in a well with a known pressure–depth profile by applying Eaton's method in reverse, and then to estimate pore pressure in offset wells using Eaton's method conventionally. We tested this procedure for Cretaceous mudstones at Haltenbanken. The results were inconsistent because the sonic log responds differently to disequilibrium compaction overpressure and unloading overpressure, and their relative contributions vary across the basin. In theory, a two-step method using the density and sonic logs could estimate the contributions to overpressure from disequilibrium compaction and unloading. The normal compaction trend for density should be the normal compaction trend at the maximum effective stress the mudstones have experienced, not at hydrostatic effective stress. We advocate the Budge-Fudge approach as a starting point for pore pressure estimation in diagenetically altered mudstones, a two-step method that requires geological input to help estimate the overpressure contribution from disequilibrium compaction. In principle, the Budge-Fudge approach could be used to estimate the normal compaction trend for mudstones at the maximum effective stress they have experienced, and so form the basis of the full two-step method through the use of offset wells. Our initial efforts to implement the full two-step method in this way at Haltenbanken produced inconsistent results with fluctuations in estimated pore pressure reflecting some of the fluctuations in the density logs. We suspect that variations in the mineralogical composition of the mudstones are responsible.     

Microfabric and rock properties of experimentally compressed silt-clay mixtures

Oedometric mechanical compaction tests were performed on brine-saturated synthetic samples consisting of silt-clay mixtures to study changes in microfabric and rock properties as a function of effective stress. The silt consisted of crushed quartz (∼100%) with grain size range between 4 and 40 μm, whereas the clay consisted of 81% kaolinite, 14% mica/illite and 5% microcline of grain size between 0.4 and 30 μm. Five sample pairs ranging in composition from pure silt to pure clay were compacted to 5 and 50 MPa effective stress respectively. SEM studies were carried out to investigate microfabric changes in the mechanically compacted silt-clay mixtures. The degree of alignment of the different minerals present (quartz, mica/illite and kaolinite) were computed by using an image analysis software. Experimental compaction have measured the changes in the rock properties such as porosity and velocity as a function of effective stress for different mixtures of clay and silt. Clay-rich samples showed a higher degree of mineral orientation and lower porosity compared to silt-dominated samples as a function of effective stress. Pure clay sample had 11% porosity at 50 MPa effective stress whereas the pure silt sample retained about 29% porosity at the same effective stress. The experiments showed that low porosity down to 11% is possible by mechanical compaction only. A systematic increase in strain was observed in the silt-clay mixtures with increasing clay content but the porosity values found for the 50:50 silt-clay mixture were lower than that of 25:75 silt-clay mixture. No preferential mineral orientation is expected before compaction owing to the high initial porosity suggesting that the final fabric is a direct result of the effective stress. Both P- and S-wave velocities increased in all silt-clay mixtures with increasing effective stress. The maximum P- and S-wave velocities were observed in the 25:75 silt-clay mixture whereas the minimum Vp and Vs were recorded in the pure silt mixture. At 50 MPa effective stress P- wave velocities as high as 3 km/s resulted from experimental mechanical compaction alone. The results show that fine-grained sediment porosity and velocity are dependent on microfabric, which in turn is a function of grain size distribution, particle shape, sediment composition and stress. At 5 MPa effective stress, quartz orientation increased as a function of the amount of clay indicating that clay facilitate rotation of angular quartz grains. Adding clay from 25% to 75% in the silt-clay mixtures at 50 MPa effective stress decreased the quartz alignment. The clay mineral orientation increased by increasing both the amount of clay and the effective stress, the mica/illite fabric alignment being systematically higher than that of kaolinite. Even small amount of silt (25%) added to pure clay reduced the degree of clay alignment significantly. This study demonstrates that experimental compaction of well characterized synthetic mudstones can be a useful tool to understand microfabric and rock properties of shallow natural mudstones where mechanical compaction is the dominant process.     

Distribution of clay minerals in surface sediments from the eastern Barents and south-western Kara seas

Surface samples from the eastern Barents and south-western Kara seas have been analysed for clay mineralogy. Transport paths, the role of regional sources and local bedrock outcrops and the influence of hydrodynamic and glacigenous processes for clay distribution on the shelves are discussed in relation to central Arctic Ocean deep sea and sea ice sediments. Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya show significantly different clay mineral associations. Although smectite concentrations are fairly high, Franz Josef Land can be excluded as a source for central Arctic sea ice sediments, which are relatively rich in smectite. In the Kara Sea, smectite concentrations in coastal sediments surpass even the Franz Josef Land concentrations. The large cyclonic gyre in the eastern Barents Sea between Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land, which serves as a mixing zone between Arctic and North Atlantic water, is apparently reflected within the smectite distribution pattern. With the exception of Franz Josef Land, the area of investigation is typically low in kaolinite. In particular, coastal areas and areas north of Novaya Zemlya, influenced by the inflow of Arctic waters, show the lowest kaolinite concentrations. A high kaolinite occurrence within the Nansen Basin is most probably related to Franz Josef Land and emphasizes the importance of long-range downslope transport of sediments across the continental slope. The surface water circulation pattern in close interaction with local outcrops onshore Novaya Zemlya and locally restricted occurrences within the eastern Barents Sea significantly alter the illite dispersal pattern. Illite concentrations are lowest around Franz Josef Land. Chlorite is generally low in the area of investigation. Submarine outcrops and important chlorite occurrences onshore Novaya Zemlya bias its distribution pattern.     

个旧锡矿锡石的矿物学研究

对个旧锡矿床的块状硫化物型、电气石细脉带型、含锡白云岩型、层间氧化矿型矿床中的锡石晶体运用扫描电镜、阴极发光成像技术、X-射线粉晶衍射、电子探针等试验开展了矿物学的系统研究.结果表明从块状硫化物型→电气石细脉带型→含锡白云岩型→层间氧化矿型矿床中的锡石有如下特征或变化规律:①颗粒体积依次变小.②深色的锡石到浅色锡石晶胞参数变大,c:a值变小.③锡石晶体单型组合共有7种,单型从{111}锥面发育逐渐向{110}柱面发育.④锡石内部环带从均匀发育到不发育.以上特征均指示了4种矿床类型中锡石的形成温度依次降低.根据CL阴极发光下锡石亮度的差异,判断块状硫化物型、电气石细脉带型、含锡白云岩型矿床中锡石存在2个形成期次,认为此3类矿床在早阶段高温热液流体活动与早期锡石结晶作用有关,晚阶段低温热液流体活动与晚期锡石结晶作用有关.而层间氧化矿型矿床中的锡石具备悬浮在流体中生成的特征,可能为被流体搬运沉积形成,认为此矿床为重泥质沉积成因.     

Evidence for the silicate source of relict soils on the Edwards Plateau, central Texas

Relict soils provide insights into Quaternary soil formation and erosion on the Edwards Plateau of central Texas and into soil-forming processes in karst terranes. Late Quaternary climate-driven soil erosion produced a mosaic of thick and thin soils on the Edwards Plateau landscape. Thick soils on uplands of the Edwards Plateau are interpreted to be relicts of a formerly more extensive soil cover that was eroded during the late Pleistocene to middle Holocene. The relict, thick soils are silicate-rich and most commonly overlie the relatively silicate-poor Cretaceous Edwards Limestone, which supports the idea that the thick soils did not form from weathering of the underlying limestone. Other potential sources of silicates for the relict soils include dust, alluvial sediments, and the Del Rio Clay, a stratigraphically higher but locally eroded clay-rich unit. Here we investigate the geographic distribution, texture, clay-sized mineralogy, rare earth element geochemistry, and neodymium isotope composition of the relict soils. We have found that the relict, thick soils are deeply weathered soils that occur dominantly over the Edwards Limestone and have a high clay content and a neodymium isotope composition that is similar to that of the Del Rio Clay. Thus, we propose that in situ weathering of the Del Rio Clay, along with partial weathering of the upper portion of the underlying Edwards Limestone produced thick chert- and clay-rich soils over resistant limestone. In areas like the Edwards Plateau, where pure limestones are interbedded with clay-rich strata, the overlying clay-rich strata must be considered as a possible silicate source to soils on pure limestone bedrock.     

湘东北仁里-传梓源5号伟晶岩脉云母和长石成分的 演化与成矿作用的关系

5号稀有金属伟晶岩脉是仁里-传梓源矿区规模最大的伟晶岩脉,地表分带性良好。文章选取仁里5号脉深部钻孔开展矿物学研究,研究其深部的分带规律。根据对深部钻孔(ZK708)岩芯的矿物学特征研究认为,5号伟晶岩脉深部可划分为4个带:Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ带。Ⅰ带主要为微斜长石和石英,典型特征为文象结构;Ⅱ带主要为微斜长石和钠长石;Ⅲ带主要为钠长石和白云母;Ⅳ带主要为钠长石和石榴子石。云母和长石的成分特征显示,从外带(Ⅰ、Ⅱ带)至内带(Ⅲ、Ⅳ带)云母由白云母系列逐渐向锂云母系列转变;由Ⅰ带→Ⅱ带→Ⅳ带→Ⅲ带,云母中的Li、F、Cs、Ta、Sn、Nb含量升高,Sr、Ba含量下降;钾长石的中Li、Rb、Cs呈现类似的上升趋势,指示伟晶岩分异演化程度升高。碱性长石中P的含量呈现出由Ⅰ～Ⅱ带略微降低,Ⅲ带升高而Ⅳ带呈略微降低的趋势,Ⅲ带内发育铌钽铁矿,表明P元素的升高可能与铌钽的富集密切相关。