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Calcite veins are invariably associated with en-echelon kimberlite dyke–fracture arrays. A detailed microstructural study of veining indicates four vein types. Type I stretched or ataxial veins are defined by high aspect ratio calcite fibers that are crystallographically continuous with calcite of the kimberlite matrix wall rock, by elongated phenocrystic phlogopite with sharp crystal terminations centered on contacts between adjacent calcite fibers and by phenocrystic phlogopite that grows or extends across these veins. Type I vein mineralogy indicates syn-dilational crystallization of vein minerals in local tensional areas within the kimberlite. Vein Types II (stretched to syntaxial elongate-blocky) and III (antitaxial) indicate late crystallization vein mineral growth during subsequent or repeated dilation. Calcite fibers in Type I to Type III veins are orthogonal to the contacts of their host dykes regardless of the orientation of vein margins. Type IV calcite veins, with blocky or mosaic/polycrystalline textures, are attributed to minor post-intrusion extension, which was potentially accompanied by repeated kimberlite intrusion within a given dyke array. Syn-crystallization/syn-intrusion Type I veins and an ubiquitous dyke-parallel fracture cleavage, in a zone up to 4 m on either side of dyke contacts, suggest that en-echelon kimberlite dyke–fracture arrays occupied the approximate center of zones of active dilation within the brittle carapace of the upper crust. Type II and III veins indicate that extension or dilation continued, independently of an occupying kimberlite fluid phase, after initial intrusion. Arrested mobile hydrofracturing, under low differential stress within the upper brittle or seismic carapace of the continental crust, followed by repeated dilation of the dyke–fracture system, is proposed as a mechanism for producing the features observed in this study. The conditions constrained in this study indicate passive dyke intrusion into dilating fracture arrays during crustal extension. 相似文献
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Arrays of quartz gash-veins in small angle (40°), conjugate shear zones (type 1 arrays of Beach) are well-developed in the Upper Devonian Merrimbula sandstone of the south coast region of New South Wales, Australia. We argue that vein and cleavage geometry support an origin of the veins as tension fractures in a rotated secondary stress field rather than a primary shear origin as advocated by Beach. We also conclude that the veins develop in dilational shear zones under high fluid pressure. 相似文献
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Two novel techniques, photo based reconstruction (photogrammetry) and computed tomography (CT), are used to investigate the formation of an exceptional array of sigmoidal veins in a hand sample from Cape Liptrap, Southern Victoria, and to provide constraint on models for their development. The accuracies of the photogrammetric models were tested by comparison with a laser scan generated three dimensional (3D) model. The photogrammetric model was found to be accurate to at least 0.25 mm and substantially more detailed than the laser scan. A methodology was developed by which 3D structural measurements could be extracted from the photogrammetric model. This was augmented with the CT model which, through its capacity to elucidate internal structure, was used to constrain the geometry and linkage of structures within the rock volume. The photogrammetric and CT data were then combined with detailed photomicrographs to evaluate the evolution of the sigmoidal veins in the sample.The angle between the sigmoidal vein margins and an inferred shear zone, as well as the orientations of the crystal fibres, were found to imply a rotation of >27°. However coeval pressure solution seams and older veinlets in the rock bridges between the veins were only found to have rotated by ∼10°, an observation not easily explained using existing models for sigmoidal vein formation.A new model is proposed in which a significant component of sigmoidal vein geometry is due to localised dilation caused by slip on the pressure solution seams. The process involves strain partitioning onto pressure solution seams, which leads to exaggeration of sigmoidal vein geometries. If not accounted for, the apparent vein rotation due to slip partitioning introduces errors into calculations of simple shear and volume strain based on sigmoidal arrays of this type. Furthermore, the CT data demonstrated that in 3D the veins are continuous and channel-like, implying a far higher degree of connectivity and fluid transport than is suggested by their 2D form. 相似文献
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Vein arrays, hydraulic fractures and pressure-solution structures in a deformed flysch sequence S.W. England 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Alastair Beach 《Tectonophysics》1977,40(3-4):201-225
Vein arrays and pressure-solution cleavages are common in the sandstone units of the deformed flysch. Both structures were established prior to the folding of the sediments, and they continued to evolve during this folding. Tensile fractures and conjugate sets of shear fractures (of wrench fault type) were formed. En-echelon arrays of veins are closely associated with the formation of these principal veins. The geometry and relations of the veins are described in detail and their relation to the principal stresses at the time of formation is discussed.
Forking at vein terminations, branch fractures and offset structures in veins are described. The analogies between these and structures produced in rock deformation experiments and found in magmatic dykes are discussed. The branch fracture provides a record of the orientation of the maximum principal stress at the time of its formation.
The veins are infilled with quartz and siderite displaying drusy growth fabrics, indicating that crystal growth occurred into a fluid-filled cavity. It is suggested that the veins originated as hydraulic fractures in a flysch sequence that had developed high pore-fluid pressures during sedimentation. The material in the veins was derived by pressure-solution activity in the sandstone units, which produced a spaced pressure-solution cleavage throughout the region. The relations between veins and pressure-solution cleavages are described. Both small- and large-scale solution transfer of material was involved. 相似文献
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Vein structures are typically the earliest expression of brittle deformation within sediments. These mud-filled veins, which characteristically occur regularly spaced within bed-parallel arrays, form in sediments that possess a strong interlocking particle framework. Downslope creep has been proposed to explain the origins of vein structures, however, a recent suggestion that they are generated by the passage of earthquake shear waves through sediments explains aspects of their morphology, and their dominant occurrence at active convergent margins. Their coexistence with less disruptive “ghost veins” in Peru margin sediments, and their almost normal attitude to bedding, however, suggests that vein structures were formed by processes more complex than downslope creep, or seismically induced shearing alone.
Experimental earthquake simulation was undertaken by laterally shaking a box containing crushed diatomite. Fractures were induced almost normal to the horizontal shaking direction, and to a lesser extent as antithetic Riedel shears, both of which closely resembled vein structures. The fracturing process during shaking may be viewed as a progressive fragmentation of the diatomite, in which new fractures form half-way between pre-existing ones. Thus fracture spacings are progressively halved. Shear zones oriented at a low angle to the shaking direction were also generated, combining with the high-angle fractures to form structures very similar to those observed in Peru margin sediments. When shaken, fines added to the diatomite segregated into planar zones that resembled ghost veins, half-way between fractures. The alternating pattern of fractures and fines indicated that a standing pressure wave had been created within the box during shaking. The fractures were created by alternating compression and extension at the antinodes, while the fines concentrated in zones of minimum grain movement around the nodal planes. This suggests that vein structures are initiated by the combined action of shear and pressure waves within a sediment. The strain waves may be seismic in origin, or may also form in downslope movement system. 相似文献
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We investigate arrays of echelon cracks in rock (veins, joints, and dikes) formed by dilation. Individual cracks are interpreted as cross-sections of blade-like cracks at the leading edges of a parent fracture. Two morphological end members are distinguished as having straight or highly curved propagation paths as seen in such cross-sections. Bridges of rock between overlapping straight crack paths bend to accommodate crack dilation. Sigmoidal curvature of the bridges is achieved in a phase of increased dilation as the aspect ratio of bridges increases and their resistance to bending drops. Large bending strains within bridges may lead to cross fractures that link adjacent cracks. Good estimates of the dilation and shear displacement over arrays may be obtained directly from measurements of bridges. In contrast, the sigmoidal form of cracks of the other end member is caused by their curving propagation paths. These cracks may link as one crack tip intersects the adjacent crack wall. Some arrays of sigmoidal echelon cracks are associated with shear zones, but those analyzed here are not. 相似文献
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Alastair Beach 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1974,46(1):61-68
Pressure solution and vein formation often occur simultaneously in shear zones during the deformation of sedimentary rocks. The mineralogical and chemical variations around a typical example of an en echelon zone of quartz veins from north Cornwall are discussed in detail. Solution of quartz is confined to the shear zone and occurs along discrete surfaces. Accumulation of insoluble minerals along these surfaces gives rise to spaced pressure solution cleavage. Petrographic data show that during pressure solution the breakdown of felspar and epidote results in the crystallisation of clay mineral, quartz and siderite. Redistribution of silica within the shear zone by pressure solution does not account for all the quartz in the veins, or for the observed increased concentration of iron and calcium. It is concluded that material was introduced from an external source into the shear zone. 相似文献
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Many studies that describe the formation of echelon vein arrays relate the causative stresses implicitly to the deformation, reliant on simple shear kinematics, such that the vein-to-array angle and the array width are the primary physical quantities. In contrast, we identify twelve physical quantities to describe echelon veins in two dimensions, including coeval, vein-intersecting, pressure solution seams. A finite element method is used to reproduce vein shapes in linear elastic and elastic-perfectly plastic model limestone. Model vein geometries are designed using values within the range of geometries measured from echelon veins at Raplee Anticline and Comb Monocline, Utah.Four physical quantities are significant for describing echelon vein shapes: vein spacing, vein-array angle, limestone elastic stiffness, and closing of orthogonal pressure solution seams. Pressure solution seam closing influences the mechanical interaction between adjacent veins, and for a range of conditions, causes a nearly linear vein opening distribution (triangular shapes) and encourages straight vein propagation, both of which approximate field measurements. Model results show that small spacing of veins with seams and large vein-array angles promote straight vein traces in limestone with stiffness typical of laboratory measurements, given the physical geologic conditions inferred from the burial history of the limestone strata. 相似文献
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Huan-zhang LU Guy Archambault LI Yuansheng WEI Jiaxue 《中国地球化学学报》2007,26(3):215-234
The Linglong-Jiaojia district is one of the most important regions containing gold deposits in China. These gold deposits can be divided into: a) the pyrite-gold-quartz vein type (Linglong type), which is controlled by brittle-ductile to ductile deformation structures, and b) the alteration-zone type (Jiaojia type), characterized by small veinlets, or the disseminated type recognized in brittle shear zones. Lode gold deposits in the Jiaojia area occur in NE brittle fracture zones, formed in a dominantly simple shear deformation regime, mainly in thrust attitude with a minor sinistral strike slip component. In the Linglong area, the lode gold deposits are located at the intersection of three types of structures: NNE and NE brittle-ductile fault zones and the ENE ductile reverse shear zone in the south of the area. The structural characteristics of these brittle shear zones are consistent with a tectonic NNW-SSE principal stress field orientation. Similar stresses explain the ENE Qixia fold axes, the Potouqing and several other ENE reverse ductile shear zones elsewhere in the region, the Tancheng-Lujiang fault zone and its subsidiaries in the vicinity of the Linglong-Jiaojia district, as well as the southern ENE suture zone north of Qingdao. Therefore these structural systems occurred as part of different major tectonic events under NNW-SSE compression principal stress fields in the area. Gold deposits are hosted in smaller-scale structures within the brittle fault zones and brittle-ductile shear zones. Although ore bodies and, on a smaller scale, quartz ore veins often seem to be randomly oriented, it is possible to explain their distribution and orientation in terms of the simple shear deformation process under which they were developed. The progressive simple shear failure is characterized by various fracture modes (tension and shear) that intervene in sequence. The tension and shear fractures are influenced by the stress level (depth of burial beneath the paleosurface) in their structural behavior, show variable dilatancy (void openings) and extend on all scales. By making use of these characteristics, a progressive failure analysis can be applied to predicting the shape and extent of ore bodies as well as the styles of mineralization at any given location. 相似文献
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东准噶尔蒙西斑岩铜钼矿床脉体特征及其形成机制 总被引：5，自引：1，他引：4
蒙西斑岩铜钼矿床位于东准噶尔伊吾县琼河坝花岗岩北侧,以发育细脉、网脉状矿化为特征。脉体类型多样,包括石英脉、石英硫化物脉和硫化物脉等。根据脉体力学成因机制,其又可划分为水压破裂充填脉和构造破裂充填脉。构造破裂充填脉体按破裂形成的位错特征有正断与逆断两种。地表石英脉产状陡立,明显受断裂控制。脉体体积分数统计结果显示流体富集区呈向北缓倾的带状分布于深100～400m范围内,并与矿化富集带有较好的对应关系。脉体富集带内,脉体以共轭形式存在,一组为倾角较小的逆断破裂充填脉,另一组为倾角较大的正断破裂充填脉,他们可能为缓倾逆冲剪切带的次级破裂与充填脉,即富矿带内脉体是沿矿区低角度逆冲断裂次级破裂面充填的。矿区地表及深部(400m以下)脉体以陡立为主,矿化较弱。矿区流体的运移具先沿水压直立破裂往上运移,进入剪切带后沿剪切带次级破裂侧向和向上运移,并在剪切带中富集成矿。低温矿物组合脉体穿切高温矿物组合脉体的特征说明脉体形成过程矿区处于隆升构造环境,这对斑岩铜矿成矿有利。 相似文献
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刘俊来 《大地构造与成矿学》1993,17(2):135-145
在辽吉岩套发育区识别出韧性剪切带内以围岩为角砾、铅锌硫化物为胶结物的角砾状矿化类型。矿体宏观形态简单而微细特点复杂,分别说明成矿裂隙兼具有压扭及张性特点。综合分析表明,成矿流体是高盐度卤水,重要意义在于它对铅锌成矿物质具高溶解度,携有足够量的成矿物质,它使先成矿体(化)中的铅、锌物质被淬取、活化和迁移。同时,对含矿裂隙的形成与发展有着促进意义。 角砾状矿体的出现与韧性剪切带晚期变形阶段岩石由韧性向脆性的转化有密切关系,在此过程中沿着Riedal裂隙系统的D裂隙系有铅锌成矿物质充填就位。Secor模式对角砾状矿体成矿空间的力学属性给出了很好的解释。液压扩容破裂作用是这种成矿空间产生与扩展的主要机制。 相似文献
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John Grocott 《Journal of Structural Geology》1981,3(2):169-178
The orientation and movement sense of shear fractures in pseudotachylyte generation zones developed in the Ikertôq shear belt, West Greenland are described, and the fracturing sequence is inferred. The generation zones occur in strongly foliated gneisses, and consist of concordant, usually paired, principal displacement shear fractures (paired shears), on which most melt was generated, and a system of minor shear fractures. Minor shear fracturing was most intense between principal displacement shear fractures, and most melt intruded from these paired shears inwards with respect to the zone. Intrusion of injection veins of pseudotachylyte off the principal displacement shear fractures, is believed to be contemporaneous with minor shear fracturing in the generation zones.Generation zones affect intact rocks, and individual principal displacement shear fractures have a maximum displacement of 4.6 m. Paired principal displacement shear fractures are up to 3 m apart, and have a maximum observed length of 1 km. In all the zones described, the fracturing appears to be the result of a single episode of slip. Both dextral and sinistral generation zones occur within the study area, and have different geometries. In each case the displacement is strike-slip. 相似文献
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《Journal of Structural Geology》1986,8(2):101-109
In the Hercynian Fold Belt of South Ireland, near the town of Ardmore, County Waterford, units of openly folded Upper Palaeozoic sandstone and siltstone are traversed by closely spaced arrays of en échelon quartz veins. These arrays mark the sites of shear zones which are bounded by weakly deformed wall rocks. We used the attitude of cleavage and the sigmoidal shapes of veins to calculate the cumulative shear strain across each zone, and then determined the bulk deformation suffered by the outcrop by tensor analysis, with the aid of an off-axis Mohr circle construction. We conclude that, as a consequence of vein formation, the rocks at this outcrop suffered significant bulk deformation with an 8–14° clockwise rotation. 相似文献
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吉林夹皮沟金矿带中所发育的含金脉系,无一例外地赋存于规模不等、方向不同的剪切带之中。研究表明,由于区内NW向主剪切带的长时期右行走滑,诱发两侧岩块(尤其是东侧上盘的夹皮沟花岗-绿岩地体)中形成大量的次一级剪切褶皱群和剪切脉系,并产生强烈的渐进应变。区域右行走滑控制脉系的基本形态和构造方位,渐进应变则制约脉系内部的构造细节;据此可以对夹皮沟金矿带内次一级剪切脉系的几何方位和发育规律进行鉴别。属于R和D的含矿剪切裂隙在两维的延展上较为稳定;而T属于水平单剪体制下形成的张性裂隙,如果它生成后没有进一步叠加剪切应变的话,理论上其三维延展要比R和D差一些。研究不同力学性质的含矿裂隙的发育规律,在找矿勘探和成矿预测中具有重要的实际应用价值。 相似文献
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Gold mineralization in the West Hoggar shear zone,Algeria 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The Amesmessa gold prospect is located along a vertical N-S-trending crustal-scale ductile shear zone; stretching lineations are subhorizontal. This major shear zone is a Late Pan African dextral strike-slip fault of the Pharusian Belt of the Tuareg Shield (Algeria). The Amesmessa shear zone is asymmetric: strong thermal and deformational gradients are present along its western border where biotitic ultramylonites are in contact with a rigid Archean complex (In Ouzzal block), whereas there is a progressive gradation, through mylonite then protomylonite, to the Proterozoic gneiss of the Eastern block which displays co-axial Pan African structures. The Amesmessa shear zone is characterized by the presence of a felsic dike complex emplaced during shearing, and forming the most important parent material for ultramylonites. Basic magmas and carbonatites also intruded within the shear zone. The gold-rich quartz veins are located within the ultramylonitic western part of the shear zone. These N-S-trending laminated quartz veins formed during the late increments of shearing (plastic/brittle transition), by repeated syntectonic hydraulic fracturing along zones of rheological contrast parallel to foliation. The ore mineral association (pyrite, galena, native gold, sphalerite) crystallized in the deformed quartz matrix along late shear planes. Undeformed E-W trending banded quartz veins are present in the mylonitic eastern part of the shear zone; their gold content is low and no native gold has been observed. A strong hydrothermal alteration resulted in the development (along the walls of the N-S gold-bearing quartz veins) of a 5-m-wide carbonate-sericite-albite-pyrite secondary mineral association which implies an important CO2 supply and moderate temperature conditions. There is no alteration halo around the E-W quartz veins. Ultramylonites, hydrothermally altered rocks and quartz veins display similar REE patterns characterized by strong LREE enrichments. Shear-related fluids could be likely parental fluids for the Amesmessa gold mineralization and the associated hydrothermal alteration. Hydrothermal fluids were drawn into dilation zones and filled opening fractures along the main planar discontinuity of the most deformed rocks. The supply of CO2 may come from a deep-seated source as suggested by the presence of carbonatite dikes in the shear zones and the existence of CO2-H2O-rich fluid inclusions in quartz. The location of the gold-bearing quartz veins in the western part of the shear zone can be explained by the presence of strong thermal and rheological gradients. 相似文献
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Howard R. Williams 《Tectonophysics》1987,140(2-4):327-331
Differential shear stresses acting along or adjacent to a non-planar fault surface or shear zone may cause uneven acceleration during slip. Alternatively, at the initiating and closing stages of motion of parts of a stick-slip fault, localised shear stresses may be variable. Stress variation of this nature causes zones of relative compression and tension, especially close to the “stick” zones on the fault. In fissile rocks adjacent to the fault, kink bands form in zones of local relative compression, while stratal extension features such as veins, fractures and extensional crenulations might be expected in the corresponding zones of relative tension. Repetitive motion on the fault should therefore cause the development of a suite of kink bands superimposed on each other and on any complementary extensional structures. Field evidence indicates that the extensional structures are not developed to the same extent as the kinks, perhaps due to ductile flow during layer-parallel extension of phyllosilicate rocks.
The advantages of this model are that it does not require bulk shortening of the shear zone relative to the enclosing less strained rocks, nor does it depend on complex stress orientation changes. 相似文献
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《Journal of Structural Geology》1999,21(8-9):923-932
In analyzing deformation in rocks, it is important to ensure that the solutions obtained satisfy strain compatibility. This creates a challenge to understanding patterns of strain associated with shear zones, in which measured strain may appear incompatible with the strain in the shear zone walls. Flattening strains are common in natural shear zones with locally straight and parallel boundaries: to satisfy compatibility conditions such strains require volume loss across the shear zone or deviations from plane strain, with or without discontinuities between the shear zone and the wall rock. In the case of shear zones for which there is no evidence of volume loss or discontinuities along the shear zone walls, problems of strain compatibility may be resolved if individual shear zones are linked together in an appropriate fashion. Shear zones commonly occur in anastomosing arrays, and simple configurations of such arrays and the strains associated with them are examined. It is shown that local transpression with strain compatibility can be accounted for in this way. Quite complex local strain patterns can develop in simple arrays. 相似文献
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Fault-valve behaviour in optimally oriented shear zones: an example at the Revenge gold mine, Kambalda, Western Australia 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Phung T Nguyen Lyal B Harris Chris McA Powell Stephen F Cox 《Journal of Structural Geology》1998,20(12):1625-1640
Quartz vein systems developed in and adjacent to shear zones host major gold deposits in the Kambalda region of the Norseman–Wiluna greenstone belt. At the Revenge Mine, two groups of mineralised reverse shear zones formed as conjugate, near-optimally oriented sets during ESE subhorizontal shortening adjacent to a major transpressional shear system. The shear zones developed at temperatures of about 400°C in a transitional brittle–ductile regime. Deformation was associated with high fluid fluxes and involved fault-valve behaviour at transiently near-lithostatic fluid pressures. During progressive evolution of the shear system, early brittle and ductile deformation was overprinted by predominantly brittle deformation. Brittle shear failure was associated with fault dilation and the formation of fault-fill veins, particularly at fault bends and jogs. A transition from predominantly brittle shear failure to combined shear along faults and extension failure adjacent to faults occurred late during shear zone evolution and is interpreted as a response to a progressive decrease in maximum shear stress and a decrease in effective stresses. The formation of subhorizontal stylolites, locally subvertical extension veins and minor normal faults in association with thrust faulting, indicates episodic or transient reorientation of the near-field maximum principal stress from a subhorizontal to a near-vertical attitude during some fault-valve cycles. Local stress re-orientation is interpreted as resulting from near-total shear stress release and overshoot during some rupture events. Previously described fault-valve systems have formed predominantly in severely misoriented faults. The shear systems at Revenge Mine indicate that fault-valve action, and associated fluctuations in shear stress and fluid pressure, can influence the mechanical behaviour of optimally-oriented faults. 相似文献