The Port Mouton Shear Zone: intersection of a regional fault with a crystallizing granitoid pluton

The peraluminous tonalite–monzogranite Port Mouton Pluton is a petrological, geochemical, structural, and geochronological anomaly among the many Late Devonian granitoid intrusions of the Meguma Lithotectonic Zone of southern Nova Scotia. The most remarkable structural feature of this pluton is a 4-km-wide zone of strongly foliated (040/subvertical) monzogranites culminating in a narrow (10–30 m), straight, zone of compositionally banded rocks that extends for at least 3 km along strike. The banded monzogranites consist of alternating melanocratic and leucocratic compositions that are complementary to the overall composition of that part of the pluton, suggesting an origin by mineral–melt and mineral–mineral sorting. Biotite and feldspar are strongly foliated in the plane of the compositional bands. These compositional variations and foliations originated by a process of segregation flow during shearing of the main magma with a crystallinity of 55–75%. Subsequent minor brittle fracturing of feldspars, twinning of microcline, development of blocky sub-grains in quartz, and kinking of micas demonstrate overprinting by a high-temperature deformation straddling the monzogranite solidus. Small folds and late sigmoidal dykes indicate dextral movement on the shear zone. This Port Mouton Shear Zone (PMSZ) is approximately co-linear with the only outcrops of Late Devonian mafic intrusions in the area, two of which are syn-plutonic with well-developed mingling textures in the marginal tonalite of the Port Mouton Pluton. Also closely co-linear with the mafic intrusions are a granitoid dyke that extends well beyond the outer contact of the Port Mouton Pluton, a swarm of large aligned angular xenolithic slabs, a zone of thin wispy schlieren banding, a large Be-bearing pegmatite, and a breccia pipe with abundant garnetiferous metapelitic xenoliths. In various ways, the shear zone may control all of these features. The Port Mouton Shear Zone is parallel to many other NE-trending faults and shear zones in the northern Appalachians, probably related to the docking of the Meguma Zone along the Cobequid–Chedabucto Fault system.     

Igneous banding, schlieren and mafic enclaves in calc-alkaline granites: The Budduso pluton (Sardinia)

This study deals with the origin of igneous layering in plutons, and, especially, the extent layering is related to mafic–silicic magma interactions. The Budduso pluton (Sardinia) shows three main scales of organization.(i) Large scale lithological variations correspond to three main magmatic units, with differentiation increasing from the Outer (hornblende-bearing biotite granodiorite/monzogranite) to the Middle (biotite monzogranite) and the Inner (leucomonzogranite) units. The striking homogeneity of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr initial ratios (0.7090 ± 4) and ε_Nd(t) values (− 5.6 ± 0.1) strongly suggests that magma isotopic equilibration was achieved prior to emplacement, whereas mixing/mingling structures observed within the pluton reflect second-stage processes involving broadly cogenetic components.(ii) Metre to decametre-scale igneous layering may be isomodal or modally-graded, locally with cross-layering. Biotite and plagioclase compositions are similar in both biotite-rich and quartzofeldspathic layers, as are the trace-element patterns which differ only by relative abundances. This precludes an origin by fractional crystallization. A penetrative submagmatic fabric superimposed on the layering and corresponding mainly to flattening can be ascribed to interference between pluton growth and regional deformation.(iii) Composite layering and schlieren are commonly associated to mafic microgranular enclaves, locally within synmagmatic shear zones or disrupted synplutonic dykes. In that case, there is a progressive shift in biotite X_Fe values from the core of enclave ( 0.65) to the host monzogranite ( 0.72): schlieren in the monzogranite show biotite X_Fe values similar to that of the host rock, whereas schlieren close to mafic enclaves show lower X_Fe values ( 0.69) towards those of enclave rims.These features can be ascribed to three main processes: (i) assembly of differentiated (± mixed/mingled) magmatic pulses; (ii) local hydrodynamic sorting related to density currents in a mush, and segregation of residual melt; (iii) mechanical disruption and chemical hybridization of mafic magmas during ascent or within the pluton related to magma dynamics. None of these processes affect the whole pluton but they are limited to specific magmatic units. Therefore, pluton growth by incremental assembly of magma batches is not incompatible with magma chamber processes.     

A method for visualizing sound propagation in solids and liquids

Introduction When seismic waves propagate in a medium of complex geometry,such as a dam,it pro-duces stress concentration area at some spots of the dam because of the interface reflection and refraction of the waves,resulting in serious safety risk.Understanding seismic wave propagation in complex mediums becomes very important.In order to reduce the damage from natural earth-quakes,precaution measures should be designed on the basis of the seismic propagation charac-teristics.Experimental geo…     

一种声波在固体和液体中传播的显示方法

给出了一种声波在固体和液体中传播过程的显示方法.该方法能够显示声波在二维平面内的动态传播过程.与动态光弹法、施利仑(Schlieren)法等声传播显示方法相比,该方法不仅能够同时显示不同时刻固体、液体中的声场,而且还适应于非透明固体;另外,对样品的残余应力没有要求,制作比较容易;但是,测量的声场是间接的,受接收换能器余震和液体直达波影响.将铝板放在液体里,记录到了在铝板中传播的纵波、横波和面波,在液体中传播的直达波以及3种首波,它们分别与铝板中传播的纵波、横波和面波相耦合,并且直观地显示了铝板与液体界面上所传播声波之间的耦合关系;将有机玻璃放在液体中,记录了有机玻璃中传播的声波及其与液体中所传播声波的耦合关系.      

鄂尔多斯盆地黄土覆盖区TM图象的地层解译

在基岩裸露区进行地层解译是比较方便的,但在黄土高原区,尤其是当其还受到林木覆盖时,地层的解译就有一定的难度,问题在于所有基岩的直接解译标志都会被掩盖或受到干扰。在这种情况下,建立间接解译标志就显得十分重要。这些标志包括河道的宽窄变化,曲流强度,色彩差异以及纹形图案等。它们是由岩石成分结构所决定的物理性质、化学组成以及由此派生的波谱特征的外在表现,因而其解译结果是可靠的。