Episodic Mesozoic thickening and reworking of the North China Archean lower crust correlated to the fast-spreading Pacific plate

A central target in Earth sciences is to understand the processes controlling the stabilization and destruction of Archean continents. The North China craton (NCC) has in part lost its dense crustal root after the Mesozoic, and thus it is a key region to test models of crust–mantle differentiation and subsequent evolution of the continental crust. However, the timing and mechanisms responsible for its crustal thickening and reworking have been long debated. Here we report the Early Cretaceous Yinan (eastern NCC) adakitic granites, for which major/trace elemental models demonstrate that they are complementary to the analogy of the documented eclogitic relicts within the NCC. Based on their Late Archean inherited zircons, depleted mantle Nd model ages of ∼2.8 Ga, large negative ε_Nd(t) values (−36.7 to −25.3) and strongly radiogenic initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios (0.7178–0.7264), we suggest that the Yinan adakitic granites were potentially formed by the dehydration melting of a thickened Archean mica-bearing mafic lower crust during the Early Cretaceous (ca. 124 Ma), corresponding to a major period (117–132 Ma) of the NCC Mesozoic intrusive magmatism. Combined previous results, it is shown that the thickening and reworking of the North China Archean lower crust occurred largely as two short-lived episodes at 155–180 Ma and 117–132 Ma, rather than a gradual, secular event. These correlated temporally with the superfast-spreading Pacific plate during the Mesozoic. The synchroneity of these events suggests rapid plate motion of the Pacific plate driving the episodic NCC crustal thickening and reworking, resulting in dense eclogitic residues that became gravitationally unstable. The onset of lithospheric delamination occurred when upwelling asthenosphere heated the base of lower crust to form coeval felsic magmas with or without involvement of juvenile mantle material. Collectively, the circum-Pacific massive crustal production could be attributed to the unusually rapid motion of Pacific at 155–180 Ma and 117–132 Ma.     

Cenozoic paleo-environmental evolution of the Pamir–Tien Shan convergence zone

The retreat of the Tethys Sea and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau play the critical roles in driving Asian climatic changes during the Cenozoic. In the Pamir–Tien Shan convergence zone, over 3000 m of Cenozoic successions, consisting of marine deposits in the lower, continental clay and fine sand in the middle, and molasse in the upper part, record the evolution of the Tethys Sea, the Asian aridification, and the deformation of the Pamir. In this work, the existing biostratigraphic subdivisions and new electronic spinning resonance dating results were used to assign ages to formations within the Ulugqat section. Sedimentary facies analysis and multi-proxy indices were used to reconstruct the paleo-environmental evolution. The results show: (1) the Pamir–Tien Shan convergence zone has undergone progressive environmental changes from shallow marine before ∼34 Ma to arid land at ∼23 Ma and finally to inter-mountain basin by ∼5.3 Ma; (2) the overall increase in mean size of grains, decrease in redness, in magnetic susceptibility, and in proportion of the ultrafine component of the sediments studied revealed a long-term strengthening in potential energy to transporting medium, cooling, and enhanced continental aridity, respectively; (3) the easternmost edge of the Tethys Sea prevailed in the western Tarim Basin from late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, and finally retreated from this region around the Eocene–Oligocene transition, which in turn strengthened the Asian aridification; (4) accumulation of molasse with an upper age of ∼1 Ma suggests that the deformation front of the Pamir migrated to this area at or before that time.     

辽西花坤头营子地区旋卷构造特征浅析

辽宁西部花坤头营子地区旋卷构造是板块碰撞陆内造山作用结果.该构造由内环、外环及推覆体三部分组成.内环为一个完整的莲花状构造体系,由中心向外,岩石地层单位呈一圈一圈的,由老向新排列.外环为以雾迷山组为主体的北东向的瓦房子复背斜核部.内环与外环以塌陷断层、旋转挤压断层分隔.与该构造有关的矿产有铅锌、锰矿.     

Structural analysis of a newly emerged accretionary prism along the Jinlun-Taimali coast,southeastern Taiwan: From subduction to arc-continent collision

In southern Taiwan the initial collision of the Luzon volcanic arc with the passive continental margin of China results in the emergence of an accretionary prism of, predominantly, turbidites in composition, thus providing an appropriate place to study the temporal and spatial variation of deformation during the transition of subduction to arc-continent collision. Field surveys have recently been carried out in slightly metamorphosed rocks along the well-exposed Jinlun-Taimali coast in southeastern Taiwan. Three folding phases are identified in the area. The first phase is characterized by gently dipping but widely distributed phyllitic cleavage (S₁). The second phase is represented by sparsely distributed crenulation cleavage (S₂) that folded the phyllitic cleavage. The third phase is characterized by E–W trending antiforms (F₃) that involved both types of pre-existing cleavages. Restoration of such an antiform in the north using a method proposed in this paper reveals that phyllitic cleavage in the overturned beds dips gently towards the southeast or east-southeast before the antiform, in relation to the first-phase thrusting or folding under regional ESE-WNW compression. From the first to third phase, the maximum horizontal compression underwent an about 90° anticlockwise rotation from ESE-WNW to E–W or NE–SW to N–S, and the deformation depth seems to decrease drastically, in terms of the decreasing proportion of pervasive deformation. All these variations are attributed to the oblique arc-continent collision that exhumed the whole accretionary prism and induced a local stress perturbation in southeastern Taiwan.     

从地壳上地幔构造看大陆碰撞带岩石圈的克拉通化

本篇讨论超级大陆汇聚后逐渐变为克拉通或扩大克拉通的作用过程,即指经及大陆碰撞地体汇聚后新形成的大陆块逐渐转变为刚性克拉通的作用过程。增生大陆岩石圈的克拉通化的作用后果,包括大陆地壳密度的增加,岩石圈地幔的增厚和大地热流值的下降,使大陆岩石圈逐渐刚性强化。大陆碰撞后形成的大陆块必须经过克拉通化的过程,才能逐渐成为刚性克拉通。作用过程主要包括:①上地壳沉积碎屑岩石结晶岩化和中地壳岩石角闪岩化;②下地壳岩石基性化;③大陆碰撞带下凹莫霍面的磨平;④岩石圈地幔底侵加厚形成陆根。从大陆碰撞带转变为克拉通的过程也是岩石圈地幔不断增厚而地壳缓慢变硬变冷的过程。这个过程包含以下作用:区域变质作用,交代作用和岩石圈幔源岩浆的底侵。这个过程时间尺度比碰撞造山作用大一个级次。长期的底侵作用使地壳岩石密度和强度不断加大,改变岩层的矿物成分和局部结构。当大陆岩石圈克拉通化到一定程度之后,由于下方软流圈的热能供应逐渐减缓,使岩石圈地温梯度缓慢下降,最终结果会形成大陆根。由于显生宙大陆碰撞带岩石圈强度弱,大陆碰撞时更容易造成岩石圈变形,因此大陆碰撞的板内效应主要发生在大陆内的显生宙碰撞带。显生宙大陆碰撞带如果再次受到大陆碰撞板内效应的作用,其克拉通化的过程必然会推迟。     

TTG岩套的成因及其形成环境

TTG岩套是一类包含了三种岩性的岩石组合,即英云闪长岩(tonalite)—奥长花岗岩(trondhjemite)—花岗闪长岩(granodiorite)。TTG岩套的规模在太古宙最大,是早期陆壳的主体且在各地质历史时期均有发育。该岩石组合是岩石学定名,多数样品的地球化学特征相似:富Na,高Al2O3(平均15%),低Mg、Ni、Cr,富集LREE、亏损HREE、高Sr、低Y、低Yb且无明显的负Eu异常。其微量元素特征与Adakite(高锶低钇中酸性岩,"埃达克岩")类似。目前多数学者认同其为变玄武质岩石部分熔融后的熔体,主要争论在于其源岩的变质程度。笔者认为TTG岩套的源区不应局限于某个变质相,而是涵盖了较大的P—T范围。对于其形成环境的探讨,笔者认为应该以地球演化不同时期的地球动力学背景为前提,盲目地"将今论古"是不合理的。本文在总结前人研究成果的基础上提出3.8Ga之前的TTG岩套可能是在板块构造未启动的非俯冲条件下形成的;3.8~1.9Ga的TTG岩套产生在发育俯冲式板块构造且板块构造具有间歇式特点的背景下,此时可能既存在非俯冲环境下产出的TTG岩套也存在俯冲环境下产出的TTG岩套,而且其产出应该具有幕式特征;古元古代之后的TTG岩套可能无一例外均是俯冲板片熔融的产物。     

内蒙古苏布格塔蓝闪石片岩基本特征及成因分析

苏布格塔蓝闪石片岩赋存于奥陶纪哈拉哈河组地层中,岩石组合类型多样,据蓝闪石光学特征及电子探针分析结果,认为本区的蓝闪石属铁蓝闪石。蓝闪石片岩的标型矿物组合以蓝闪石+绿帘石+阳起石+多硅白云母+榍石为特点,由泥质碎屑岩变质重结晶形成,原岩形成环境为大陆边缘海盆地。其变质成因,属于与板块运动有关的区域低温中高压动力变质作用形成。     

椭球体的视电阻率特征

椭球体是最具代表性的典型三维地电体之一,它三个轴的长短经过变化后可以和多种形状的地电体相似。因此,实现了椭球体电阻率的求解,就可以模拟绝大多数三维地电体的电阻率曲线。从拉普拉斯方程的求解出发,得到了均匀空间中存在的水平椭球体异常表达式,并用简单加倍的方法得到了均匀半空间中水平椭球体的视电阻率公式,结合倾斜旋转椭球体的视电阻率公式的规律,得到了倾斜椭球体的视电阻率公式,再进行一系列简化得到板状体。最后分析对比了均匀电场中旋转椭球体和板状体的视电阻率曲线的形态和规律。结论表明:旋转椭球体与板状体的视电阻率曲线的走向大体相似,且板状体的曲线相比旋转椭球体较缓和。对于低阻情况,在异常体顶部附近的视电阻率异常为零,异常体的倾向一侧有极小值,反倾向一侧有极大值,曲线随倾角α的增大而逐渐变陡。对于高阻情况,视电阻率的极大值出现在异常体顶部附近,两侧有极小值,倾向一侧的曲线较缓和而反倾向一侧的曲线较陡峭,随着倾角α的增大,视电阻率异常变大。     

地-井瞬变电磁井旁板状导体异常响应特征分析

在实际工作中,地-井瞬变电磁井旁盲矿的异常响应受多种因素影响,曲线特征复杂。为了研究井旁板状导体位置、埋深、产状等参数对地-井瞬变电磁异常响应的影响,这里通过数值模拟计算了四类39个理论模型,分析了板状导体倾角、埋深变化及其与钻孔距离、相对位置变化的异常响应,总结了响应特征与板体几何参数之间的内在联系规律,为定性或半定量解释井旁盲矿异常提供了依据。     

基于全景真三维斜射影像的数字城管应用研究

随着国家智慧城市试点工作如火如荼的开展,数字城管作为智慧城市业务应用体系的重要组成部分,正成为各地探索创新应用的重要领域。洛阳市数字城管率先采用先进的全景真三维斜射影像技术,实现了快速的城市部件数据普查,创造了全新的用户体验,满足了专业化的城市管理应用需求,创新了＂全景化＂的数字城管应用新模式。