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Folco Giacomini Vittorio Boerio Simona Polattini Massimo Tiepolo Riccardo Tribuzio Alberto Zanetti 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2010,61(8):1621-1639
This work is part of the project study for a road tunnel bypassing the town of Genova and was aimed at evaluating the amount of asbestos fibres in the metaophiolites belonging to the Voltri Group and the Sestri–Voltaggio Zone (Liguria, Northern Italy). The 85 studied rock samples (mainly mafic and ultramafic rocks) derive from exposed outcrops and prospecting boreholes. The study of field relations and petrographic/microtextural investigations under the optical microscope allowed for the identification and characterisation of asbestos-bearing settings and lithotypes. Mineralogy and concentration of asbestos fibres in powdered specimens were determined by means of a scanning electron microscope equipped with an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy device. These investigations were combined with petrography on thin-section, X-ray diffraction analysis and phase contrast optical microscopy on rock powders. Mafic and ultramafic rocks commonly contain asbestos in concentrations below 1,000 mg/kg (considered as the contamination threshold under Italian law). However, the fibre concentration rises abruptly within localised zones, where the metaophiolite sequences were involved into late ductile to brittle tectono-metamorphic events. Two groups of asbestos-bearing settings have been so far identified in the area: (a) fracture networks within serpentinites (dominated by fibrous chrysotile), and (b) boudins of chlorite-tremolite schists, likely deriving from dynamic recrystallisation of mafic rocks under greenschist facies conditions (dominated by fibrous amphibole). Even considering the low volumetric incidence of these settings (metres to few tens of metres), their high asbestos content locally controls the total fibre amount in the excavation products, thus requiring special prevention measures during excavation, management and final storage of the contaminated debris. 相似文献
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Bradley S. Van Gosen 《中国地质》2010,37(3):704-711
20世纪,越来越多的证据使人们意识到,吸入含石棉的灰尘会使从事与石棉有关的几种职业(如石棉采矿、造船和石棉产品组装)的工人患上几种严重的呼吸道疾病(石棉沉着病,肺癌和mesotheliuma)。为此已经制定了若干规定,以控制工人们在特殊的制造、采矿和其他工作地点与石棉尘埃的接触。比较间接的是控制和管理"天然产生的石棉"(NOA),这一问题近年来也引起了管理机构、健康机构和居民团体的注意。NOA包括在自然状态下原地找到的被描述为石棉的矿物,例如在基岩或土壤中的这种矿物。NOA之所以引起关注,是因为如果含石棉的岩石受到自然侵蚀或人类活动(例如修路、城市开挖、农业、采矿、压碎和碾磨)的影响,就有可能暴露并变成空中尘埃的微小纤维。天然石棉矿床的规模差异很大,从薄的四散的细脉一直到大的矿体。它们的地理分布与地质条件直接有关。石棉产出的地质背景是含镁丰富的主岩,这些岩石受到低压低温的变质作用蚀变而成。已知的容矿主岩包括变质的和已被交代的超基性岩(尤其是蛇纹岩)、一些基性火成岩、变质白云岩和变质的铁建造。石棉形状的角闪石在几种热液蚀变型的碱性火成侵入体中也能作为副矿物存在。石棉形成于可预见和可鉴别的地质环境。这种认识是一种信息,而这种信息使公众健康机构可以执行有情报根据的屏蔽和管理规划。第一步是在区域的或国家规模的尺度上确定和描述已知的(报道过的)石棉矿床。第二步是对容纳已知石棉矿的单位进行填图,以划定可能的其他石棉矿化的范围。这种地质研究使有关机构对遇到石棉的可能性做出规划,而尽量节省在不太可能遇到石棉矿的地区的管理费用。对石棉地质条件的认识可以事先应用于岩石和土壤的挖掘项目,而不管挖掘的规模有多大。这种对石棉管理的科学探索能有助于缓解对挖掘所发现的自然石棉矿床的连续不断地做出反应。因此,通过对很可能含有石棉矿床的地区做填图,规划者可开发出一些控制尘埃的程序,这些程序适用于工人和附近居民最容易暴露于空气携带的石棉的地区。 相似文献
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Asbestos has been identified at fifty-five locations in the bedrock of the northern New Jersey area. Most occurrences are
confined to (1) The Precambrian rocks of the New Jersey Highlands, particularly the marbles; (2) the Paleozoic serpentinites
of Staten Island, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey; and (3) the Mesozoic basaltic rocks of the Newark Basin. Chrysotile and
tremolite asbestos are present in local concentrations in the marbles. In the most extensive exposure of the marble, the Franklin
band, traces of tremolite-actinolite asbestos are commonly present. Crocidolite asbestos occurs in localized areas associated
with fracture systems in Precambrian pegmatites and associated rocks. The Paleozoic serpentinites contain chrysotile asbestos
as a major component in deformed zones. Megascopic chrysotile and anthophyllite asbestos veins occur locally in the serpentinites.
Actinolite asbestos occurs in the Mesozoic basaltic rocks of the Newark Basin.
Potential environmental problems associated with asbestosbearing bedrock include production and use of rock products containing
asbestos, introduction of asbestos into environments surrounding excavations, and asbestos contamination of soils and water
supplies. 相似文献
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本区蛇纹石石棉矿床,前人多认为属岩浆期后中一低温热液交代矿床。笔者通过实地考察,室内分析、鉴定,认为本区蛇纹石石棉矿床属改造型层控矿床。一、成矿地质条件及矿(化)带基本特征本区位于朝阳市西南部,北起灵山庙—谢家杖子,南至上柳树杖子,东起吴大成沟一大柏山,西至波针沟,面积约45km~2。其大地构造位置处于华北地台燕山台褶带北段,朝阳—建昌复背斜中段西翼。区域构造由苏家店—柳树杖子背斜及长茂河子—马家店向斜组成,总体方向北东;主要断层方向与褶皱构造线方向一致。 相似文献
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通过FT-IR和XRD对四川新康、陕西陕南、甘肃阿克塞和青海茫崖四大矿区温石棉的物相成分、谱学特征进行测试分析,利用MTT法、流式细胞术检测了4种温石棉纤维粉尘染毒A549细胞后的细胞存活率、凋亡率和细胞周期分布,比较和探讨了四大矿区温石棉纤维粉尘抑制细胞增殖能力的大小及其对细胞凋亡和周期阻滞的影响。研究结果显示,四大矿区温石棉的主要物相是斜纤蛇纹石,新康温石棉成分比其他3种温石棉的复杂,阿克塞和茫崖温石棉的成分相似;四大矿区的温石棉化学基团基本相同,阿克塞和茫崖温石棉纤维的表面结构较陕南和新康温石棉的完善。4种温石棉均能不同程度地抑制A549细胞增殖,诱导细胞凋亡和周期阻滞:茫崖组凋亡率最大(22. 56±2. 56)%,陕南组凋亡率最小(19. 57±3. 07)%;细胞周期阻滞均以G2/M期阻滞为主,新康、陕南、阿克塞和茫崖组处于G2/M期细胞比例分别增加8. 90%、8. 58%、9. 13%和10. 44%。4种温石棉导致细胞凋亡和周期阻滞的能力:茫崖新康阿克塞陕南。 相似文献
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Wan Pu 《《地质学报》英文版》1990,64(1):31-39
Most chrysotile deposits occur in ultramafic rocks of the ophiolite suite. The chrysotile deposits dis-cussed in the present paper were formed through metasomatism and infilling-crystallization in a continentalserpentinization environment after plate convergence, where ultramafic rocks were replaced byhydrothermal solutions consisting mainly of deep-circulating heated water derived from atmospheric precip-itation. The critical state for the formation of asbestos in ultramafic rock bodies might be reached bysuperposition of multiple stages of serpentinization. Favourable fracture systems and relatively stable geo-logical environment are important conditions for forming chrysotile deposits. Three subtypes of chrysotiledeposits could be formed in different tectonic settings and under different minerogenic geochemical condi-tions. 相似文献
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Different specimens of the asbestos mineral chrysotile show widely different zeta-potentials. Strongly positive values are found with samples containing an excess of magnesia in the form of brucite, Mg(OH)2. Synthetic chrysotile and natural samples containing little or no brucite give moderately positive ζ-values over the pH range 3–11. Feebly positive or weakly negative natural chrysotiles are materials which have suffered weathering; and deliberate acid-leaching of any chrysotile ultimately leaves a strongly negative pseudomorph of silica gel.Since the pH and the ambient concentration of Mg2+ ions near the surface are the main factors controlling ζ, and since chrysotile is readily susceptible to leaching in practically all aqueous media and does not come to a true ionic equilibrium in any practical time, the zeta-potential of an ideal chrysotile surface is a hypothetical concept.The results also explain the temporary colloidal stability of very dilute suspensions of chrysotile in weakly acidic media and the mutual coagulation of chrysotile and amosite slurries. 相似文献
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Yunus Önal Tolga Depci Ayten Önal Ali Önal Tijen Üner 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2016,87(2):205-212
Asbestos is dangerous for health and is forbidden to use in Turkey, but villagers who live in rural eastern part still use it especially for their home for insulation purposes and even as a substitute for baby powder. Therefore, geological and chemical properties of this type of soil, which is near the settlement, should be characterized and identified from the point of view of health. Beypinari asbestos deposits are located at Beypinari village, about 90 km southeast of Sivas, Turkey within Central Anatolian Ophiolites. Therefore, in the present study, the existence of chrysotile in Beypinari asbestos deposit were characterized and identified by mineralogical analysis and by major, trace, REE analysis. The results show that the samples contain different amount of calcite mineral, the main mineral being chrysotile. 相似文献
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M. Ross 《Environmental Geology》1995,26(3):182-188
It is estimated that nearly $100 billion has been spent on removal of asbestos-bearing materials from schoolrooms, public and commercial buildings, and homes. This removal continues to this day despite the publication of an advisory document in 1990 by the US Environmental Protection Agency that states most removal is unnecessary and is even counterproductive both in terms health protection and costs. Concern over low exposure to substances that are designated as carcinogens is based on the false concept that even the smallest exposure to such substances can increase cancer risk. The expression one molecule of a chemical or one asbestos fiber can possibly produce a tumor is repeated over and over until it is accepted as a truth. Over 1400 air samples taken in 219 North American school buildings show the average fiber level to be 0.00022 fibers per milliliter of air. Using the most pessimistic models and attendance in the school for 6 h a day, five days a week, for 14 years, the calculated risk is one excess cancer death per million lifetimes. In contrast, the risk of dying from a lightning strike is 35 deaths per million lifetimes. Ambient air asbestos concentrations measured in the chrysotile asbestos mining towns of Quebec are 220 to 2200 times greater than that measured in the average schoolroom, yet the women living their entire lives in these towns show no increased cancer risk. The asbestos abatement program in the United States is a public policy debacle. 相似文献
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镁质碳酸盐岩型温石棉矿床是成矿热液交代镁质碳酸盐岩生成的,一般均产于地台环境。按地台稳定性不同,成矿环境分为地台隆起区的基底建造类型和地台拗陷区的盖层建造类型。产于地台隆起区的矿床,以前震旦纪镁质碳酸盐岩为控矿层位。产于太古代及早、中元古代深变质结晶基底中的矿床,由区域变质及混合岩化过程中的变质热液交代碳酸盐岩成矿。产于晚元古代浅变质褶皱基底(扬子准地台)中的矿床,以岩浆期后热液或接触交代(湿矽卡岩)热液为成矿热液来源。产于地台拗陷区的矿床,均以震旦纪镁质碳酸盐岩为控矿层位。其成矿时期较晚,一般与拗陷区内岩浆活动同期,由岩浆期后热液或接触交代(湿矽卡岩)热液对镁质碳酸盐岩进行交代成矿。 相似文献
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《Chemie der Erde / Geochemistry》2023,83(2):125950
The Zvishavane Ultramafic Complex (ZUC) in the south central part of the Zimbabwe craton is comprised of coarse-grained serpentinites, metadunites and metagabbros and hosts Africa's largest reserves, and largest mine, of high-grade chrysotile asbestos. Magnesiohornblende, actinolite, plagioclase (An0.6–41.9), augite, diopside and clinozoisite constitute the mineralogy of the ZUC. Forsteritic olivine (>Fo90) was altered to form chrysotile and antigorite minerals, although some primary olivines are preserved. Contents of Al2O3 range from <1 to >2.5 wt% at TiO2 values of <0.7 wt% consistent with an island arc setting for the ZUC that originated from tholeiitic magmas. The Zvishavane Ultramafic Complex was metamorphosed at relatively high temperatures (542-779 °C) and low pressures (1.2-2kbars), consistent with contact metamorphism. Intrusion of several granitic batholiths relatively close to the ZUC likely triggered hydrothermal fluid migration which metamorphosed the ZUC. The associated asbestos deposits likely formed during hydrothermal circulation events. Zoned amphiboles, the occurrence of magnesiohornblende and actinolite, as well as cross-cutting serpentine veins are consistent with at least two stages of alteration and/or metamorphism of the ZUC. The lack of a thrust contact between the ZUC and its country rocks is consistent with the ZUC having intruded into the host Zvishavane Gneiss Complex and possibly acted as a feeder to the nearby Mberengwa greenstone belt (MGB). However, the occurrence of near end-member forsteritic olivine, the presence of zoned amphiboles, and faulting within the ZUC are all suggestive of an ophiolitic origin although forsteritic olivines also occur in intrusive layered complexes. Metamorphism of the ZUC, ascribed to intrusion of multiple batholiths and possibly the MGB, likely led to the formation of ZUC chrysotile asbestos deposits. 相似文献
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探讨了我国四大矿区天然温石棉致大鼠肺部损伤作用及肺组织中HO-1和HSP-70的表达差异。从我国四大天然矿区采集4种天然温石棉,用扫描电镜、红外光谱和X射线荧光光谱分析其粉尘形貌、表面活性基团和化学组分。将90只初断乳SPF级Wistar大鼠,随机分为5组(甘肃阿克塞、青海茫崖、四川新康、陕西陕南温石棉组和生理氯化钠溶液阴性对照组),用2. 0 mg/m L温石棉粉尘悬液0. 5 m L(1次/月)对大鼠非暴露式气管内滴注染毒。于1、6、12个月分批处死大鼠6只,测定支气管肺泡灌洗液(BALF)中的乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)、碱性磷酸酶(AKP)和总蛋白(TP)含量,采用qRT-PCR检测肺组织中血红素氧化合酶1(HO-1)和热休克蛋白70(HSP-70) mRNA表达水平,采用western blot检测肺组织中HO-1和HSP-70蛋白表达水平。结果显示,阿克塞、茫崖和新康温石棉组LDH及各温石棉组AKP和TP在各时间点均比阴性对照组高(P 0. 05),且随染毒时间延长呈上升趋势(P 0. 05)。染毒1月时,各染毒组HO-1、HSP-70 mRNA和HO-1、HSP-70蛋白表达量比阴性对照组高(P 0. 05);染毒6月时,各染毒组比阴性对照组高,阿克塞和陕南温石棉组低于茫崖和新康温石棉组(P 0. 05);染毒12月时,阿克塞和陕南温石棉组高于茫崖和新康温石棉组(P 0. 05),茫崖和新康温石棉组低于阴性对照组。 相似文献
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《Russian Geology and Geophysics》2007,48(10):857-862
The paper reports physical, physicochemical, and mineralogical-petrographic studies of serpentinite samples from the Bazhenovo deposit of chrysotile asbestos. The samples differ in mineralogy, physical and physicochemical parameters, and in quality (fiber tenacity) of the hosted chrysotile asbestos. The experiments allowed estimating the temperature dependence of electrical resistance of serpentinites in a range of 20 to 800 °C, the parameters of their high-temperature resistance (the activation energy E0 and the resistance coefficient lg R0), and the relationship between fiber tenacity of asbestos and high-temperature conductance of the host serpentinites. The serpentinite samples that host brittle and tenacious chrysotile asbestos plot different fields in the coordinates E0–lg R0 without any overlap. Thus, the quality of chrysotile asbestos can be inferred from the parameters of high-temperature conductance of the host serpentinites. 相似文献
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Interpretation of the Thomson Orogen and its context within the Tasmanides of eastern Australia is hampered by vast areas of deep sedimentary cover which also mask potential relationships between central and eastern Australia. Within covered areas, basement drill cores offer the only direct geological information. This study presents new detrital zircon isotopic data from these drill cores and poorly understood outcropping units to provide new age and provenance information for sedimentary rocks from the Thomson Orogen. Two distinct detrital zircon signatures are revealed. One is dominated by Grenvillian-aged (1300–900 Ma) zircons with a significant peak at ~ 1180 Ma and lesser peak at ~ 1070 Ma. These age peaks, along with Lu–Hf isotopic compositions (median εHf(t) = + 1.5), dominantly mantle-like δ18O values (median = 5.53‰) and model ages of ~ 1.89 Ga, support a Musgrave Province (central Australia) source. The dominance of Grenvillian-aged material additionally points to deposition during the Petermann Orogeny (570–530 Ma) when the Musgrave Province was uplifted, shedding abundant material to the Centralian Superbasin. Comparable age spectra suggest that parts of the Thomson Orogen were connected to the Centralian Superbasin during this period. We use the term ‘Syn-Petermann’ to describe this signature which is observed in two drill cores adjacent to the North Australian Craton and scattered units in the outcropping Thomson Orogen. The second signature marks a significant provenance shift and is remarkably consistent throughout the Thomson Orogen. Age spectra exhibit dominant peaks at 600–560 Ma, lesser 1300–900 Ma populations and maximum depositional ages of ~ 495 Ma. This pattern is termed the ‘Pacific Gondwana’ detrital zircon signature and is recognised throughout eastern Australia, Antarctica and central Australia. Lu–Hf isotope data for Thomson Orogen rocks with this signature are highly variable with εHf(t) values between ‐ 49 and + 10 and dominantly supracrustal δ18O values suggesting input from different and more diverse source regions relative to those exhibiting the Syn-Petermann signature. 相似文献
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Geochemical classification of 284 granitic rocks from the Tasman Geosyncline, eastern Australia, demonstrates the association of tin deposits with leucocratic granites of high tin content. The mean Sn content (26 ppm) in such rocks is about seven times higher than in “barren” granites.Factor analysis of geochemical data indicates differences in the geochemical evolution of various rock types and the relative importance of magmatic differentiation and postmagmatic alteration in determining the composition of rocks in various areas of the geosyncline. 相似文献
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Summary The quantitative XRD determination of the most common serpentinite minerals, e.g. lizardite and chrysotile, is hampered by strongly overlapping reflections. Reconnaissance investigations indicated that the reflections 204 of lizardite and 008 of chrysotile are best suited for quantitative XRD. These lines are not interferred by other minerals such as brucite, magnesite, chlorite or talc, which are common in serpentinites. A calibration curve for the determination of the chrysotile/lizardite ratios in natural serpentinites has been constructed by means of synthetically prepared chrysotile/lizardite standards. Using this method serpentinites of the Msauli Chrysotile Asbestos Mine, South Africa, were investigated for their relative chrysotile contents. It was found, that the total amount of chrysotile in the ore zone is considerably higher than the amount of extractable chrysotile asbestos fibre.
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Die röntgenographische Bestimmung der Chrysotil/Lizardit-Verhältnisse in asbesthaltigen Serpentiniten
Zusammenfassung Die quantitative röntgenographische Bestimmung der beiden häufigsten Serpentinminerale, Lizardit und Chrysotil, ist wegen der Überlagerung ihrer stärksten Reflexe erschwert. Aufgrund von Voruntersuchungen konnte jedoch festgestellt werden, daß die Reflexe 204 von Lizardit und 008 von Chrysotil für die quantitative Bestimmung geeignet sind. Diese Reflexe werden nicht überlagert von denen anderer häufig in Serpentiniten vorkommender Minerale, wie z.B. Brucit, Magnesit, Chlorit oder Talk. Eine Eichkurve zur Bestimmung der Chrysotil/Lizardit-Verhältnisse in natürlichen Serpentiniten wurde mit Hilfe synthetisch hergestellter Standardmischungen aufgestellt. Serpentinite der Msauli Chrysotilasbest Mine, Südafrika, wurden aufgrund der hier vorgestellten Methoden auf ihren relativen Chrysotilanteil untersucht. Es ergab sich, daß der totale Gehalt an Chrysotil in der erzführenden Zone deutlich größer ist als der Gehalt an ausbringbaren Chrysotilasbestfasern.
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湘东新元古代沉积岩的地球化学和碎屑锆石年代学特征及其构造意义 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
本文对湘东湘乡-醴陵地区和湘东南桂阳地区的新元古代浅变质沉积岩进行了岩石地球化学研究和锆石U-Pb定年及锆石Lu-Hf同位素分析。研究显示两个地区的碎屑沉积岩具有相似的中等的成分成熟度,但大的K2O/Na2O变化指示不同沉积岩经历了不同程度的风化淋滤作用。两个地区多数样品的稀土分配模式与澳大利亚后太古代页岩(PAAS)的稀土分配模式相似,但总体具有更高的含量,尤其是重稀土。湘东地区板溪群沉积岩含有更高的相容元素(如Sc, Cr, Ni),说明源区具有更多的中基性组分,而湘东南震旦纪沉积岩主要由再循环物质组成。碎屑锆石U-Pb定年结果表明湘东新元古代沉积岩中含有大量850~800Ma的碎屑锆石,而缺少1000Ma左右的碎屑锆石,显示了与扬子地块的亲缘性。而湘东南新元古代沉积岩中含有丰富的Grenville期和一定数量的~2.5Ga的碎屑锆石,相似于华夏地块物质组成。表明扬子地块和华夏地块在西南地区的分界线很可能就从湘东的湘乡-醴陵地区和湘东南的桂阳地区之间通过。前人对华南早古生代沉积岩中碎屑锆石的年代学研究显示湘东和湘东南地区的早古生代沉积岩的物质组成均相似于华夏地块,指示它们的源区是东南的华夏地块。因此,从新元古代到早古生代,湘东地区的沉积物源区发生了重大改变,暗示在新元古代晚期(震旦纪)与早古生代(中寒武世)之间发生过一次构造运动,使华夏地块逐渐隆起或使湘东-湘西盆地进一步沉陷,从而使湘乡-醴陵地区从早古生代开始接受了来自华夏地块的碎屑物质。这期构造运动可能与泛非构造事件相关。 相似文献
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四川石棉矿产出四种蛇纹石矿物:纤蛇纹石,Povlen型纤蛇纹石、利蛇纹石和叶蛇纹石。它们的形态、结构、化学成分和红外光谱各具特征,本文对此进行了描述和讨论。纤蛇纹石以纵纤维脉和横纤维脉形式产出,以斜纤蛇纹石为主,含少量正纤和副纤蛇纹石。纵纤维蛇纹石可能由地壳浅层中的大气热水形成。Povlen型纤蛇纹石是蛇纹石族矿物的一个新变种,其形态、结构和化学成分都不同于其他蛇纹石矿物。 相似文献
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《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》2011,40(6):516-526
The Satpura Mountain Belt (also referred as Central Indian Tectonic Zone in recent literature) forms an important morphotectonic unit in the central part of India. Some of the recent workers have reported an orogenic event at ∼1000–900 Ma (termed “Sausar orogeny”) which led to amalgamation of the North Indian Block and the South Indian Block and formation of the Satpura Mountain Belt. In this model the stratigraphic relations of two important lithostratigraphic units on either side of the Satpura Mountain Belt (the Sausar Group in the south and the Vindhyan Supergroup on the north) are suggested to be revised from previously held ideas. Critical analyses of available published work in the region to assess the status of the Sausar Group vis a vis the Vindhyan Supergroup was carried out. It is found that the ideas proposed by the recent workers stem from an earlier interpretation that the Sausar Group has monocyclic evolution and the earliest fabric in the Sausar Group is marked by a schistosity with EW strike. Re-mapping of the gneissic rocks and adjacent matasedimentary rocks of Khawasa, Deolapar, and Kandri–Mansar areas revealed presence of gneissic rocks and granulites of two generations, and of four phases of superposed deformations in the metasediments and gneisses. The older gneisses and granulites constitute the basement over which the rocks of the Sausar Group were deposited; and the younger gneisses developed by metamorphism and migmatisation of the rocks of the Sausar Group. The latter types are found in the Khawasa–Ramakona areas. Contrary to the belief of the recent workers that no volcanic activity is present in the Sausar Group, volcanic rocks marked by amygdular basic flows and tuffs have been mapped from different parts of the Sausar Group. Migmatisation and metamorphism of these volcanic rocks (of the Sausar Group) have given rise to amphibolites and granulites in Khawasa and Ramakona areas. Therefore, the use of fabric patterns in these areas to suggest that the granulite facies metamorphism in the Ramakona–Katangi granulite domain was pre-Sausar in age is debatable.Available geochronological data of the Satpura Mountain Belt and its eastward continuation into the Chhotanagpur Gneiss terrain indicate that the basement and cover rocks of these areas were subjected to multiple deformation and metamorphic episodes of similar style and nature. The earliest deformation and metamorphism of the rocks of the Sausar Group and its equivalent rocks to the east took place at ∼2100–1900 Ma. The regional EW trend of the belt developed during the second deformation at ∼1800–1700 Ma and again at ∼1600–1500 Ma. This deformation was accompanied by migmatisation and granulite facies metamorphism in the northern domain of the Sausar Belt and in the Chhotanagpur Gneiss region. Late phase low intensity deformations in the region were associated with thermal events at ∼1100–1000 Ma and ∼900–800 Ma.The ∼EW trending fabric, referred as “Satpura orogenic trend” in Indian literature marks a major compressional tectonic event, developed during the second deformation of the Sausar Group. This has its counter part in Western Australia as the Capricorn orogeny (∼1780–1830 Ma). The development of the Satpura Mountain Belt during the Grenvillian orogeny is ruled out from the synthesis of event stratigraphic data of the region and from its comparison with the Western Australian Craton. 相似文献