阿尔泰递增变质带中夹层石英岩的LA-ICP-MS碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄:对沉积时限及物源的限定

阿尔泰造山带广泛分布各种变质沉积岩并发育典型递增变质带,变质沉积岩变质之前的沉积时代与物源特征对于限定成岩历史以及造山带演化具有重要意义。文章对采自阿勒泰组变质带中石英岩夹层样品进行了岩相学分析并采用LA-ICP-MS方法对其碎屑锆石进行了U-Pb年代学分析。共获得100个谐和或近于谐和的碎屑锆石年龄,表面年龄分布范围为(443±5)Ma至(2682±19)Ma。碎屑锆石年龄主要集中在寒武纪(486~540 Ma)并具有527~535 Ma的年龄峰值,可能源于区域内同时代的岩浆活动。新元古代年龄约占1/4,少量锆石具有古中元古代甚至太古宙年龄。结合年轻碎屑锆石年龄以及直接侵入该变质带中的英云闪长岩年龄可确定石英岩原岩的沉积时限为早志留世—早泥盆世,其后发生变质作用。古老碎屑锆石在该地区缺乏对应的岩石,可能源于区内隐伏的古老基底岩石或邻区古老陆块。     

阿拉善雅布赖山二叠纪中酸性岩浆岩年代学、地球化学、锆石Hf同位素特征及构造意义

雅布赖山位于内蒙古自治区阿拉善盟西部,该地区广泛出露中酸性岩浆岩。锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb测年显示,雅布赖山花岗质岩石形成于早中二叠世,其中花岗闪长岩年龄为280±1 Ma,正长花岗岩年龄为286±1 Ma,英安岩年龄为275±2 Ma,英云闪长岩年龄为272±1 Ma。正长花岗岩个别锆石的εHf(t)值为正值,大多数低于0[εHf(t)=-5.8~+1.8],暗示其可能起源于新生地壳物质或形成过程中有亏损地幔物质的加入,而花岗闪长岩[εHf(t)=-13.0~-8.1]、英云闪长岩[εHf(t)=-10.1~-3.3]和英安岩[εHf(t)=-15.2~-4.9]中锆石的εHf(t)值均低于0,表明这些岩浆岩的源区主要为古老的地壳物质,这与典型的古老陆块上发育的酸性岩浆岩一致。地球化学分析结果表明,该地区花岗闪长岩和正长花岗岩具有相似的微量和稀土元素组成,都显示出轻稀土元素相对富集和重稀土元素相对亏损的特征,并具有微弱-中等的Eu负异常;而英云闪长岩则具有一定程度的Eu正异常,且相比前两者具有较高的Sr/Y值(300)。排除岩浆在侵位过程中围岩同化混染作用的影响,中上地壳酸性侵入岩的结晶分异作用难以形成如此高的Sr/Y值,因而英云闪长岩高Sr/Y值特征可能是源区特征的反映。因斜长石、角闪石和黑云母均不能显著影响Sr/Y值,所以造成英云闪长岩与花岗闪长岩和正长花岗岩地球化学差异的原因可能是其源区较深而存在石榴子石残留。结合前人研究,雅布赖山地区及其以东的诺尔公-狼山一带以及华北克拉通北缘广泛分布的晚古生代岩浆岩形成了一条近东西向展布的岩浆岩带。其中,雅布赖山二叠纪岩浆岩可能形成于宗乃山-沙拉扎山构造带和雅布赖-诺尔公-红古尔玉林构造带拼合的碰撞或碰撞后环境。     

苏皖北部上元古界划分与对比的探讨

本文首次对苏皖北部地区上元古界中已有K-Ar同位素年龄出现的分散及“倒置”现象的原因作了探讨,指出大多数K-Ar年龄由多种因素造成Ar丢失,从而导致不同程度的偏新。因此,这些年龄数据不能代表本区晚元古代沉积岩的真实年龄。作者根据近几年新获得的一些Rb-Sr全岩等时线年龄数据及地壳波浪运动中表现出来的周期性特征,讨论了建立“徐淮系”的可能性及必要性。作者认为,“徐淮系”可以填补青白口系与震旦系之间至少150Ma的沉积缺失。     

Controls on Devonian–Carboniferous magmatism in Tasmania,based on inherited zircon age patterns,Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes,and major and trace element geochemistry

Devonian–Carboniferous granites are widespread in Tasmania. In eastern Tasmania, Devonian granites intrude Ordovician–Early Devonian quartz-rich turbidites of the Mathinna Supergroup. The earliest (～400 Ma) I-type granodiorites may be arc-related. Following the Tabberabberan Orogeny (～389 Ma), more felsic and, finally, strongly fractionated I- and S-type granites were emplaced until ～373 Ma. In contrast, western Tasmania granites intrude a more diverse terrane of predominantly marine shelf successions, with depositional ages as old as Late Mesoproterozoic. They are mostly felsic and fractionated I- and S-types emplaced from ～374–351 Ma, possibly in response to post-collisional crustal extension following juxtaposition of the eastern and western Tasmanian terranes. Granites from the two terranes are readily distinguishable by the age spectra of their inherited zircon, which are noticeably similar to those of the detrital zircon from sedimentary successions in their respective terranes. Furthermore, within each terrane, both I and S-types yield similar inheritance patterns. This suggests a pivotal role for the sedimentary successions in the petrogenesis of both types. Western Tasmanian granites are also enriched in ～1600 Ma zircon, which is essentially unrepresented in the exposed supracrustal succession. Subtle differences between the inheritance and detrital age spectra in eastern Tasmania probably relate to unrepresentative sampling of the supracrustal rocks. Nd, Sr and Pb isotopic characteristics of the granites are consistent with their derivation by mixing of magmas derived from the mantle, possibly the lower crust, and from supracrustal rocks. Systematic isotopic trends in some eastern Tasmanian I-types, particularly in the Scottsdale Batholith, correlate well with major and trace element geochemistry and age. The isotopes are inconsistent with simple restite unmixing or crystal fractionation in a closed magma chamber, and indicate progressive contamination by the Mathinna Supergroup, or similar rocks. The isotopic characteristics of late, strongly fractionated granites, although sometimes obscured by hydrothermal alteration, are also consistent with concurrent assimilation-fractional crystallisation processes. Together with the close association of some strongly fractionated I- and S-types, this suggests that such granites were generated directly in the lower crust, and were not derived from unfractionated parental granite magmas.     

Looking beneath the Stawell and Bendigo zones in Victoria,Australia: a view through the granite window

Abstract

Information, mainly from the granitic and silicic volcanic rocks in the Stawell, Bendigo and Melbourne structural zones in the state of Victoria, shows that the sources of both the S- and I-type rocks of the Stawell and Bendigo zones (SBZ) contrast in ages and chemistry with the sources of similar granitic rocks in the Melbourne Zone, consistent with the absence of the mainly Proterozoic Selwyn Block beneath most of the SBZ. Below a mid-crustal décollement in the SBZ, the crust is evidently highly variable and possibly includes thinned Proterozoic crust. There is geochronological evidence for ca 400 and ca 370?Ma granulite-grade metamorphic events here, and, after this double bout of metamorphism, and depletion in the silicic melt component, the constituents of the entire deep crust of the SBZ would have densities similar to those of overlying, much lower-grade Cambrian metabasaltic to boninitic rocks. Thus, granitic magmas may have formed here by partial melting of a variety of rock types, probably with back-arc affinities, with ages that may extend back to the Proterozoic. Therefore, the basement of the SBZ is unlikely to consist solely of thick ocean-floor rocks, as in some current interpretations.

1. KEY POINTS

2. The sources of the Devonian granitic rocks of the Stawell and Bendigo zones (SBZ) contrast in ages and chemistry with those of the Melbourne Zone granites.

3. Two Devonian granulite-facies events left the melt-depleted deep SBZ crust with densities similar to those of overlying Cambrian metabasaltic rocks.

4. The SBZ Devonian granitic magmas probably formed by partial melting of heterogeneous Proterozoic to Cambrian arc-related crust, below the mid-crustal décollement.

     

In situ cosmogenic exposure ages from the Isle of Skye,northwest Scotland: implications for the timing of deglaciation and readvance from 15 to 11 ka

We present 10 in situ cosmogenic exposure ages from two moraines on the Isle of Skye. The Strollamus medial moraine was deposited during deglaciation of the Devensian ice sheet and yields a mean exposure age from five samples of 14.3 ± 0.9 ka. The moraine age indicates that a significant ice mass existed on Skye at the time of a regional readvance recorded in Wester Ross, northwest Scotland. Taken at face value the ages suggest that deglaciation did not occur until well into Greenland Interstade 1. The Slapin moraine represents the local limit of the Loch Lomond Readvance (LLR) and yields a mean exposure age from five samples of 11.5 ± 0.7 ka, which is consistent with deposition relating to the LLR. These ages suggest that the maximum extent may have been reached late in the stadial and that some glaciers may have remained active until after the climatic amelioration that marks its end. This scenario is considered unlikely given the nature of the climate during this period, which leads us to call for a locally calibrated production rate. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

New age constraints for the maximum extent of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet (NW sector)

This paper presents the first terrestrial age constraints from the outer continental shelf for the maximum extent of the NW sector of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet. Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be ages from eight glacially transported boulders on the island of North Rona show that the Late Devensian (Late Weichselian) British–Irish Ice Sheet overrode the island at its maximal stage and retreated c. 25 ka BP. These new dates, supported by other geological evidence, indicate that the north‐western part of the ice sheet was most extensive between 27 and 25 ka BP, reaching the outer continental shelf during the global eustatic sea‐level minimum at the Last Glacial Maximum. Copyright © 2012 British Geological Survey/Natural Environment Research Council copyright 2012. Reproduced with the permission of BGS/NERC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Crustal architecture of the oblique collision belt: Insights of the spatial variation in U-Pb ages and Hf isotope of inherited zircons from the Eocene to Oligocene magmatic rocksSCIEI北大核心CSCD

在通过锆石U-Pb方法测定岩浆活动时代的过程中总会获取或多或少的继承锆石年龄数据,这些数据对于揭示岩浆岩所处构造单元的构造-岩浆事件序列具有独特优势。本文选择印度-欧亚大陆侧向碰撞带内NEE走向的始-渐新世岩浆岩带作为研究对象,详细收集、梳理该岩浆岩带内现有测年结果中的继承锆石U-Pb年代学和Hf同位素数据,采用统计分析方法,尝试探讨被该岩浆岩带穿越的扬子、印支、保山、腾冲地块的构造-岩浆事件及其序列,对比分析其大地构造亲缘性和地块拼贴历史。继承锆石U-Pb年龄频率分布和Hf同位素数据统计结果显示,扬子与印支地块记录了相同的晋宁期、加里东期、印支期构造-岩浆事件,而腾冲与保山地块则记录了相同的加里东期、印支期构造-岩浆事件。结合现有地层学、古生物和古地磁等方面数据,我们提出扬子-印支与腾冲-保山地块作为两个具有不同结晶基底的独立地块,分别就位于古生代-早中生代古大洋(原、古特提斯洋)的两侧,该大洋板块双向俯冲于这两个地块之下,在两个地块内留下了可高度对比的构造-岩浆事件。由此提出,正向碰撞带班公湖-怒江缝合带内完备的地质记录与侧向碰撞带之间的关联、哀牢山洋的构造属性等是值得深入探究的重大问题。     

江西永平Cu-W矿床成矿岩体的锆石U-Pb年龄、Hf同位素、微量元素特征及其意义

江西永平矿床位于钦杭成矿带东段,是该成矿带内矽卡岩型Cu-W共生成矿的典型代表.为查明永平似斑状黑云母花岗岩的源区特征及其与Cu-W矿化的关系,文章对该花岗岩进行了岩石学、锆石U-Pb年代学、微量元素地球化学及Hf同位素研究.结果表明,似斑状黑云母花岗岩的锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb年龄为160 Ma,与空间上密切相关的矽卡岩Cu-W矿床(辉钼矿Re-Os年龄为156 Ma)具有密切的时间联系,表明永平Cu-W矿床成岩成矿作用均发生于中晚侏罗世.锆石的Ce4+/Ce3+平均值为283,表明其具有高的氧逸度,指示出很好的Cu成矿潜力.锆石的εHf(t)值为-9.60～-2.27,并且有高w(MgO)(0.84％～1.33％)和Mg#(44～49)值,表明该区花岗质岩浆来源于古老地壳物质的部分熔融,并有地幔物质的加入.通过与区内同期Cu矿化和W-Sn矿化花岗岩对比,成Cu和成Cu-W矿花岗岩的氧逸度高于成W-Sn花岗岩,成Cu-W花岗岩εHf(t)值介于成Cu和成W-Sn花岗岩之间.因此,岩浆高氧逸度和一定比例的壳幔混合可能是形成Cu-W矿的重要条件.     

西昆仑库地蛇绿岩中基性火山岩的Sm-Nd等时线年龄

本文总结了前人有关库地蛇绿岩系各组成单元以及与其有成因联系的岩浆岩的年代学资料,同时利用Sm-Nd法测定了一些克沟基性火山岩的形成时代,获得了 2个晚元古代全岩等时线年龄:1023±51 Ma和834±29 Ma。在此基础上,对库地蛇绿岩系的形成和演化时代进行了讨论,认为库地蛇绿岩中基性火山岩的Sm-Nd等时线年龄可能代表了库地洋开始消减俯冲的年代。