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位于中亚造山带与塔里木克拉通结合部位的新疆库鲁克塔格是研究中亚造山带及塔里木克拉通关系的一个关键地区。野外观测、显微构造分析以及Ar–Ar测年结果揭示:(1)库鲁克塔格地区震旦纪—早古生代岩系地层变形样式为底部强烈褶皱,面理密集向北缓倾,顶部褶皱较宽缓、劈理稀疏向北陡倾,构成具有向南构造指向的铲式构造样式;(2)库鲁克塔格地区基底与盖层之间存在一条E–W走向、厚度约2 km的韧性滑脱带,带内普遍发育糜棱岩及A型剪切褶皱等,糜棱岩面理向N或S缓倾、拉伸线理向NW或SE倾伏,不对称旋转构造及糜棱岩中石英晶格优选方位图(EBSD测试)指示韧性滑脱带上盘滑脱方向为自NW向SE;(3)韧性滑脱带中糜棱岩内白云母的Ar–Ar测年结果表明滑脱时代早于383 Ma。滑脱–褶皱构造是塔里木地块与中天山岩浆弧带碰撞后发生陆内俯冲的产物,说明塔里木盆地东北缘库鲁克塔格存在早古生代造山事件。  相似文献   

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上地幔地震的各向异性主要归因于橄榄石的优选方位,不同的橄榄石优选方位模式可以作为上地幔不同动力学作用的指示剂。不同应力和含水量条件下的高温变形实验已经确定出五类橄榄石组构模式(“A”型、“B”型、“C”型、“D”型和“E”型)。本文运用电子背散射(EBSD)技术对来自苏鲁超高压变质带南部的芝麻房石榴石橄榄岩的橄榄石进行了优选方位测定,不同变形程度的橄榄石均显示了[100]轴近垂直于面理和[001]轴近平行于线理的特征,为“C”类组构模式,可见组构类型与变形程度没有关系,并且橄榄石组构所显示的NW向SE的剪切指向,与围岩-正、副片麻岩中形成于折返过程的石英优选方位所显示的SE向NW的剪切指向完全不同,说明芝麻房石榴石橄榄岩中橄榄石的“C”类组构是折返前形成的。结合橄榄石结构水的测量和已有的芝麻房石榴石橄榄岩形成的温压条件,推测该组构形成于含水俯冲带中,认为芝麻房石榴石橄榄岩的原岩来自于高含水的上部地幔楔碎块,与俯冲的陆壳物质一起经历了超高压变质作用并最终折返至地表。  相似文献   

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呼和浩特变质核杂岩伸展运动学特征及剪切作用类型   总被引：9，自引：1，他引：8  
王新社  G．ADavis 《地质通报》2002,21(4):238-245
叠加于大青山晚侏罗世大型推覆体之上的呼和浩特变质核杂岩具有与经典变质核杂岩相似的几何形态和构造组成。核杂岩表面为多重拆离,南翼主拆离断层系控制了山前坡地地貌,北翼拆离系发生褶皱并呈分叉状。糜棱状岩带中的线理、面理和拆离断层面及其擦痕等构造要素产状协调一致,宏观同向伸展褶劈理（C′）产状与拆离断层一致,少数已扩展为断层;显微C′具有与宏观C′相似的特点,为同向伸展褶劈理扩展为低角断层提供了显微尺度依据。运动学标志,如不对称褶皱、不对称布丁、不对称眼球、S－C组构、石英条带斜交面理以及C′等,指示核杂岩拆离系发生了褶皱并且具有相同的上盘向南东的剪切运动。  相似文献   

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CCSD主孔1113~1600 m花岗质片麻岩单元的变形构造特征   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文
中国大陆科学钻探(CCSD)主孔2000m岩性剖面揭示了1113～1600m花岗质片麻岩段为地表北苏鲁超高压花岗质变质岩剪切构造叠覆岩片中的石湖镇构造岩片的花岗质片麻岩的下延部分。本单元之上下界线为韧性剪切带,内部发育小型韧性剪切变形,仅局部可见旋转碎斑体系等剪切指向标志,以SE向NW的逆冲剪切指向为主,其次为NW向SE的正滑剪切指向,并主要发育于较软弱夹层内,后者成为苏鲁地区存在伸展型穹隆构造的新证据;在1140～1280m岩性段内发育断续、较弱的拉伸线理,拉伸线理总体向SE倾伏,倾伏角为10～36°;花岗质片麻岩单元内部分石英以多晶石英条带的形式存在,花岗质片麻岩主要矿物长石基本没有动态重结晶现象,仅具较弱的形态拉长特征(X∶Z=2左右),总体面理倾向170°E,倾角平均20°,明显不同于其他岩性单元内的面理产状,可能主要代表折返变形之前的近东西向构造,而其他岩性单元受折返变形影响较大,其面理产状主要代表折返阶段形成的NE-NNE向构造;运用电子背散射(EBSD)技术进行石英组构分析并与费氏台测定对比,表明1113～1600m花岗质片麻岩单元经历了中—低温变形,局部残留有高温组构,剪切指向主要为SE向NW的逆冲,其中高温组构与中温组构均显示为SE向NW的逆冲剪切指向,反映折返早期与折返主期岩片的相对剪切方向一  相似文献   

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叠加于大青山晚侏罗世大型推覆体之上的呼和浩特变质核杂岩具有与经典变质核杂岩相似的几何形态和构造组成.核杂岩表现为多重拆离,南翼主拆离断层系控制了山前坡地地貌,北翼拆离系发生褶皱并呈分叉状.糜棱状岩带中的线理、面理和拆离断层面及其擦痕等构造要素产状协调一致,宏观同向伸展褶劈理(C‘)产状与拆离断层一致,少数已扩展为断层;显微C‘具有与宏观C‘相似的特点,为同向伸展褶劈理扩展为低角断层提供了显微尺度依据.运动学标志,如不对称褶皱、不对称布丁、不对称眼球、S-C组构、石英条带斜交面理以及C‘等,指示核杂岩拆离系发生了褶皱并且具有相同的上盘向南东的剪切运动.  相似文献   

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结合地质剖面对南苏鲁高压变质带中的南岗-高公岛韧性剪切带特征进行了研究，结果表明，剪切带上部变形较弱，主要发育S—C组构及拉伸线理；剪切带中部变形较强，发育不对称褶皱、S—C组构、σ型及δ型旋转碎斑以及多米诺骨牌等；剪切带下部变形最强，糜棱质颗粒达80％-90％，并见有同斜褶皱等。EBSD组构分析结果表明，剪切带上部糜棱质石英以中温柱面组构和中低温菱面组构为特征，中、下部以低温底面组构和中低温菱面组构为主，剪切带中石英条带以中温柱面组构为主，石英组构的剪切指向以SE→NW为主，其次为NW→SE，反映本区经历了中温→中低温→低温、以逆冲韧性剪切为主并曾发生韧性滑脱的复杂变形过程。各构造层化学成分及稀土元素变化趋势不明显，可能与原岩成分有关。剪切带中黑云母、白云母的^39Ar-^40Ar同位素年龄分析表明在253．8-214．2Ma期间本区曾发生强烈的变形变质作用。  相似文献   

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变质岩中变斑晶成核生长及旋转问题的述评   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  
发生递进变形的变质岩中,斑晶成核生长于变形分解作用的递进缩短带内,斑晶的大小受两侧递进剪切变形带的限制。除少数螺旋状石榴石外,产于共轴或非共轴递进不均匀缩短变形过程中的斑晶不发生旋转,斑晶内部包体形迹(Si)反映外部面理(Se)的再活化。利用未旋转斑晶中的包体形迹可以确定早期面理的取向,寻找构造演化的时间标志,确定褶皱轴迹等,本文给出了斑晶中包体形迹弯曲的成因模式图。  相似文献   

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浙西南遂昌-大柘地区八都岩群在印支期变质事件影响下发生变质变形,通过详细野外调查和岩相学研究,可将其划分为3期变质变形序列：S1变形期,NW向片麻理记录的残留紧闭褶皱,共生矿物组合为石榴子石变斑晶及其内部定向分布的包裹体矿物,石榴子石+黑云母+石英（泥质）和石榴子石+角闪石+斜长石+石英（长英质）;S2变形期,区域性宽缓褶皱及NE向缓倾透入性片麻理,共生矿物组合为石榴子石变斑晶及定向分布的基质矿物,矽线石+石榴子石+黑云母+石英+斜长石±钾长石（泥质）和石榴子石+钾长石+斜长石+黑云母+石英（长英质）;S3变形期,NE向陡倾透入性片麻理及韧脆性断裂大部分被花岗斑岩脉填充,共生矿物组合为石榴子石变斑晶及其周围退变矿物,石榴子石+矽线石+堇青石+斜长石+黑云母+石英±钾长石（泥质）和角闪石+斜长石+黑云母+钛铁矿（长英质）。结合前人研究成果,八都岩群印支期变质事件峰期变质程度达到麻粒岩相,显示顺时针近等温降压（ITD）型的p-T演化轨迹,S1-S3变质变形反映出从俯冲碰撞到快速折返冷却的演化过程,伴随S3同期侵位的花岗斑岩锆石U-Pb定年结果,将该演化过程完成时间约束在229.7 Ma,可能是浙西南地区对印支期古特提斯洋域内印支-华南-华北板块之间俯冲-碰撞过程的响应。  相似文献   

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石榴子石变斑晶微结构和成分特征对构造和变质作用研究有重要作用。本文以华北克拉通北缘西段宝音图群石榴子石云母片岩中的石榴子石变斑晶为研究对象,通过扫描电子显微镜搭载的二次电子(SE)显微结构形貌观测,背散射电子(BSE)成分分析、能谱仪(EDS)和电子探针(EPMA)分析,得到石榴子石变斑晶组构和化学成分信息,揭示出石榴子石晶界具有化学非均质性。在MnNCFMASHO体系下采用石榴子石云母石英片岩的全岩成分计算的锰铝榴石、钙铝榴石等值线图基础上,建立了石榴子石变斑晶的p-t轨迹,反映出石榴子石变斑晶在变质峰期后经历了一个近等温降压的地质动力学过程。  相似文献   

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2008年MW7.9汶川地震在青藏高原东缘龙门山构造带内毫无征兆的情况下发生,并沿灌县—安县断裂和映秀—北川断裂分别产生了约80 km和275 km的不同性质的地表破裂带,在世界地震史上实属罕见,表明龙门山构造带在以往经历了极为复杂的构造演化和运动变形。地震后迅速启动的汶川地震断裂带科学钻探项目,为我们认识龙门山构造带以往运动和变形本质提供了全新的素材和视角。本文以位于龙门山构造带北段的汶川地震断裂带科学钻探四号孔(WFSD-4)岩心作为主要研究对象,并结合地表构造变形研究,对WFSD-4的岩心变形特征和龙门山构造带北段的构造变形序列进行了分析与探讨,认为:D1变形期以岩心和地表早期面理S1顺成份层发育为特征,多被同时期长英质脉体填充,显示伸展机制下的韧性变形,推测为轿子顶穹隆构造的形成时期; D2变形期为区域主导性面理S2的形成时期,岩心中劈理面上可见绢云母等矿物,石香肠构造指示NW–SE的韧性挤压变形特征。岩心和地表均可见S2切割早期面理S1,错断早期顺S1贯入的长英质脉体; D3变形期以NW–SE向挤压冲断为主,岩心中面理S2发生褶皱变形,局部生成间隔劈理S3。地表可见区域主导面理S2变形,形成平行褶皱,轴面走向北东,发育同时期的NW向陡倾的活动断裂,部分成为汶川地震的发震断裂,该期对应于龙门山构造带北段的喜山期构造运动,褶皱强化,推覆强烈,也是唐王寨向斜的最终成型时期;岩心和地表均可见面理S2膝折的构造现象,为局部地表抬升过程中的重力成因,构成D4期变形。  相似文献   

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Porphyroblasts of garnet and plagioclase in the Otago schists have not rotated relative to geographic coordinates during non-coaxial deformation that post-dates their growth. Inclusion trails in most of the porphyroblasts are oriented near-vertical and near-horizontal, and the strike of near-vertical inclusion trails is consistent over 3000 km2. Microstructural relationships indicate that the porphyroblasts grew in zones of progressive shortening strain, and that the sense of shear affecting the geometry of porphyroblast inclusion trails on the long limbs of folds is the same as the bulk sense of displacement of fold closures. This is contrary to the sense of shear inferred when porphyroblasts are interpreted as having rotated during folding.
Several crenulation cleavage/fold models have previously been developed to accommodate the apparent sense of rotation of porphyroblasts that grew during folding. In the light of accumulating evidence that porphyroblasts do not generally rotate, the applicability of these models to deformed rocks is questionable.
Whether or not porphyroblasts rotate depends on how deformation is partitioned. Lack of rotation requires that progressive shearing strain (rotational deformation) be partitioned around rigid heterogeneities, such as porphyroblasts, which occupy zones of progressive shortening or no strain (non-rotational deformation). Therefore, processes operating at the porphyroblast/matrix boundary are important considerations. Five qualitative models are presented that accommodate stress and strain energy at the boundary without rotating the porphyroblast: (a) a thin layer of fluid at the porphyroblast boundary; (2) grain-boundary sliding; (3) a locked porphyroblast/matrix boundary; (4) dissolution at the porphyroblast/matrix boundary, and (5) an ellipsoidal porphyroblast/shadow unit.  相似文献   

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Rotating garnets     
The origin of snowball and sigmoidal inclusion patterns in porphyroblasts is discussed. Snowball garnets are peculiar to shear zones whereas sigmoidal patterns occur in porphyroblasts both in shear zones and on the limbs of folds. There are currently two models for the development of snowball garnets and these have been discussed extensively in the literature. We show that although the typical two-dimensional snowball pattern can be produced by either model, the three-dimensional inclusion patterns are model-specific thus providing a distinguishing criterion. We have applied this criterion to all the available data and find that the classical model, which is dependent on the rotation of garnet relative to a single foliation, is applicable in all cases. Syn-kinematic porphyroblasts on the limbs of horizontal normal folds generally show little rotation relative to geographical coordinates. What rotation they do show generally has the same sense as that of the host limb, but is less in magnitude. This has been used as evidence that the porphyroblasts have remained irrotational while the rocks deformed around them; the implication being that they were unaffected by vorticity associated with folding. This has been explained by claiming that the porphyroblasts are restricted in distribution to small domains of coaxial deformation path. We show that for reasonable deformation models of horizontal normal folds, porphyroblasts affected by vorticity will rotate little with respect to geographical coordinates and our results predict the commonly observed natural patterns. We conclude therefore that lack of rotation relative to geographical coordinates cannot be used to demonstrate that porphyroblasts have grown only in coaxially deforming domains; much less restrictive and more reasonable interpretations are possible. Consequently, the lack of rotation relative to geographical coordinates is more significant for fold modelling than it is for the garnet controversy.  相似文献   

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Abstract The formation of spiral-shaped inclusion trails (SSITs) is problematical, and the two viable models for their formation involve opposite shear senses along the foliation in which the porphyroblasts are growing. One model argues for porphyroblast rotation, with respect to a geographically fixed reference frame, whereas the other argues for no such porphyroblast rotation, but instead rotation of the matrix foliation around the porphyroblast. Thus, porphyroblasts with SSITs cannot be used as shear-sense indicators until it is conclusively determined which model best explains them.
Any successful model must explain features associated with SSITs, including: (1) foliation truncation zones, (2) smoothly curving SSITs, (3) millipede microstructure, (4) total inclusion-trail curvature in median sections, (5) porphyroblasts with SSITs that have grown together, (6) evidence for relative porphyroblast displacements, (7) shear-sense indicators inside and outside porphyroblasts; (8) crenulations associated with porphyroblasts and (9) geometries in sections subparallel to spiral axes (axes of rotation). A detailed study of these features suggests that most, if not all, can be explained by both the rotational and non-rotational models, in spite of these models involving diametrically opposed movement senses. Therefore, geometrical analysis of individual porphyroblast microstructures may not determine which model best explains SSITs until the kinematics required to form these microstructures are better understood, in particular the sense of shear along a developing crenulation cleavage. Specific tests for determining the shear sense along crenulation cleavages are proposed, and results of such tests may conclusively resolve the debate over how SSITs form.  相似文献   

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In the metamorphic cores of many orogenic belts, large macroscopic folds in compositional layering also appear to fold one or more pervasive matrix foliations. The latter geometry suggests the folds formed relatively late in the tectonic history, after foliation development. However, microstructural analysis of four examples of such folds suggests this is not the case. The folds formed relatively early in the orogenic history and are the end product of multiple, near orthogonal, overprinting bulk shortening events. Once large macroscopic folds initiate, they may tighten further during successive periods of sub-parallel shortening, folding or reactivation of foliations that develop during intervening periods of near orthogonal shortening. Reactivation of the compositional layering defining the fold limbs causes foliation to be rotated into parallelism with the limbs.Multiple periods of porphyroblast growth accompanied the multiple phases of deformation that postdated the initial development of these folds. Some of these phases of deformation were attended by the development of large numbers of same asymmetry spiral-shaped inclusion trails in porphyroblasts on one limb of the fold and not the other, or larger numbers of opposite asymmetry spirals on the other limb, or similar numbers of the same asymmetry spirals on both limbs. Significantly, the largest disparity in numbers from limb to limb occurred for the first of these cases. For all four regional folds examined, the structural relationships that accompanied these large disparities were identical. In each case the shear sense operating on steeply dipping foliations was opposite to that required to originally develop the fold. Reactivation of the folded compositional layering was not possible for this shear sense. This favoured the development of sites of approximately coaxial shortening early during the deformation history, enhancing microfracture and promoting the growth of porphyroblasts on this limb in comparision to the other. These distributions of inclusion trail geometries from limb to limb cannot be explained by porphyroblast rotation, or folding of pre-existing rotated porphyroblasts within a shear zone, but can be explained by development of the inclusion trails synchronous with successive sub-vertical and sub-horizontal foliations.  相似文献   

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Three periods of mineral growth and three generations of spiral‐shaped inclusion trails have been distinguished within folded rocks of the Qinling‐Dabie Orogen, China, using the development of three successive and differently trending sets of foliation intersection axes preserved in porphyroblasts (FIAs). This progression is revealed by the consistent relative sequence of changes in FIA trends from the core to rim of garnet porphyroblasts in samples with multiple FIAs. The first and second formed sets of FIAs trend oblique to the axial planes of macroscopic folds that dominate the outcrop pattern in this region. The porphyroblasts containing these FIAs grew prior to the development of the macroscopic folds, yet the FIAs do not change orientation across the fold hinges. The youngest formed FIAs (set 3) lie subparallel to the axial planes of these folds and the porphyroblasts containing these FIAs formed in part as the folds developed. The deformation associated with all three generations of spiral‐shaped inclusion trails in garnet porphyroblasts involved the formation of subhorizontal and subvertical foliations against porphyroblast rims accompanied by periods of garnet growth; pervasive structures have not necessarily formed in the matrix away from the porphyroblasts. The macroscopic folds are heterogeneously strained from limb to limb, doubly plunging and have moderately dipping axial planes. The consistent orientation of Set 1 FIAs indicates that the development of spiral‐shaped inclusion trails in porphyroblasts with FIAs belonging to Set 2 did not involve rotation of the previously formed porphyroblasts. The consistent orientation of Sets 1 and 2 FIAs indicate that the development of spiral‐shaped inclusion trails in porphyroblasts with FIAs belonging to Set 3 did not involve rotation of the previously formed porphyroblasts during folding. This requires a fold mechanism of progressive bulk inhomogeneous shortening and demonstrates that spiral‐shaped inclusion trails can form outside of shear zones.  相似文献   

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Abstract Reactivation of early foliations accounts for much of the progressive strain at more advanced stages of deformation. Its role has generally been insufficiently emphasized because evidence is best preserved where porphyroblasts which contain inclusion trails are present. Reactivation occurs when progressive shearing, operating in a synthetic anastomosing fashion parallel to the axial planes of folds, changes to a combination of coarse- and finescale zones of progressive shearing, some of which operate antithetically relative to the bulk shear on a fold limb. Reactivation of earlier foliations occurs in these latter zones. Reactivation decrenulates pre-existing or just-formed crenulations, generating shearing along the decrenulated or rotated pre-existing foliation planes. Partitioning of deformation within these foliation planes, such that phyllosilicates and/or graphite take up progressive shearing strain and other minerals accommodate progressive shortening strain, causes dissolution of these other minerals. This results in concentration of the phyllosilicates in a similar, but more penetrative manner to the formation of a differentiated crenulation cleavage, except that the foliation can form or intensify on a fold limb at a considerable angle to the axial plane of synchronous macroscopic folds. Reactivation can generate bedding-parallel schistosity in multideformed and metamorphosed terrains without associated folds. Heterogeneous reactivation of bedding generates rootless intrafolial folds with sigmoidal axial planes from formerly through-going structures. Reactivation causes rotation or ‘refraction’of axial-plane foliations (forming in the same deformation event causing reactivation) in those beds or zones in which an earlier foliation has been reactivated, and results in destruction of the originally axial-plane foliation at high strains. Reactivation also provides a simple explanation for the apparently ‘wrong sense’, but normally observed ‘rotation’of garnet porphyroblasts, whereby the external foliation has undergone rotation due to antithetic shear on the reactivated foliation. Alternatively, the rotation of the external foliation can be due to its reactivation in a subsequent deformation event. Porphyroblasts with inclusion trails commonly preserve evidence of reactivation of earlier foliations and therefore can be used to identify the presence of a deformation that has not been recognized by normal geometric methods, because of penetrative reactivation. Reactivation often reverses the asymmetry between pre-existing foliations and bedding on one limb of a later fold, leading to problems in the geometric analysis of an area when the location of early fold hinges is essential. The stretching lineation in a reactivated foliation can be radically reoriented, potentially causing major errors in determining movement directions in mylonitic schistosities in folded thrusts. Geometric relationships which result from reactivation of foliations around porphyroblasts can be used to aid determination of the timing of the growth of porphyroblasts relative to deformation events. Other aspects of reactivation, however, can lead to complications in timing of porphyroblast growth if the presence of this phenomenon is not recognized; for example, D2-grown porphyroblasts may be dissolved against reactivated S1 and hence appear to have grown syn-D1.  相似文献   

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In this study, the chemistry and microstructure of garnet aggregates within a metamorphic vein are investigated. Garnet‐bearing veins in the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt, Japan, occur subparallel to the foliation of a host mafic schist, but some cut the foliation at low angle. Backscattered electron image and compositional mapping using EPMA and crystallographic orientation maps from electron‐backscattered diffraction (EBSD) reveal that numerous small garnet (10–100 μm diameter) coalesce to form large porphyroblasts within the vein. Individual small garnet commonly exhibits xenomorphic shape at garnet/garnet grain boundaries, whereas it is idiomorphic at garnet/quartz boundaries. EBSD microstructural analysis of the garnet porphyroblasts reveals that misorientation angles of neighbour‐pair garnet grains within the vein have a random distribution. This contrasts with previous studies that found coalescence of garnet in mica schist leads to an increased frequency of low angle misorientation boundaries by misorientation‐driven rotation. As garnet nucleated with random orientation, the difference in misorientation between the two studies is due to the difference in the extent of grain rotation. A simple kinetic model that assumes grain rotation of garnet is rate‐limited by grain boundary diffusion creep of matrix quartz, shows that (i) the substantial rotation of a fine garnet grain could occur for the conditions of the Sanbagawa metamorphism, but (ii) the rotation rate drastically decreased as garnet grains formed large clusters during growth. Therefore, the random misorientation distribution of garnet porphyroblasts in the Sanbagawa vein is interpreted as follows: (i) garnet within the vein grew so fast that substantial grain rotation did not occur through porphyroblast formation, and thus (ii) random orientations at the nucleation stage were preserved. The extent of misorientation‐driven rotation indicated by deviation from random orientation distribution may be useful to constrain the growth rate of constituent grains of porphyroblast that formed by multiple nucleation and coalescence.  相似文献   

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Detailed 3‐D analysis of inclusion trails in garnet porphyroblasts and matrix foliations preserved around a hand‐sample scale, tight, upright fold has revealed a complex deformation history. The fold, dominated by interlayered quartz–mica schist and quartz‐rich veins, preserves a crenulation cleavage that has a synthetic bulk shear sense to that of the macroscopic fold and transects the axis in mica‐rich layers. Garnet porphyroblasts with asymmetric inclusion trails occur on both limbs of the fold and display two stages of growth shown by textural discontinuities. Garnet porphyroblast cores and rims pre‐date the macroscopic fold and preserve successive foliation inflection/intersection axes (FIAs), which have the same trend but opposing plunges on each limb of the fold, and trend NNE–SSW and NE–SW, respectively. The FIAs are oblique to the main fold, which plunges gently to the WSW. Inclusion trail surfaces in the cores of idioblastic porphyroblasts within mica‐rich layers define an apparent fold with an axis oblique to the macroscopic fold axis by 32°, whereas equivalent surfaces in tabular garnet adjacent to quartz‐rich layers define a tighter apparent fold with an axis oblique to the main fold axis by 17°. This potentially could be explained by garnet porphyroblasts that grew over a pre‐existing gentle fold and did not rotate during fold formation, but is more easily explained by rotation of the porphyroblasts during folding. Tabular porphyroblasts adjacent to quartz‐rich layers rotated more relative to the fold axis than those within mica‐rich layers due to less effective deformation partitioning around the porphyroblasts and through quartz‐rich layers. This work highlights the importance of 3‐D geometry and relative timing relationships in studies of inclusion trails in porphyroblasts and microstructures in the matrix.  相似文献   

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Abstract Seventy-seven spatially orientated, serial thin sections cut from a single rock reveal changes in the geometry of spiral-shaped inclusion trails (SSITs) in garnet porphyroblasts. The observed SSITs are doubly curved, non-cylindrical surfaces, with total inclusion-trail curvature decreasing systematically from the cores to the rims of porphyroblasts. The three-dimensional geometry of the SSITs, reconstructed with the aid of computer graphics, shows that the orientations of spiral axes defined by the SSITs are not related in any expected nor predictable way to the main foliation in the matrix. This suggests continued deformation after or during the latest stages of porphyroblast growth, which has important implications for the use of SSITs as shear-sense indicators. Whether the formation of SSITs involves significant porphyroblast rotation with respect to a geographically fixed reference frame cannot be determined from the available data.  相似文献   

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In the Littleton Formation, garnet porphyroblasts preserve three generations of growth that occurred before formation of the Bolton Syncline. Inclusion trails of foliations overgrown by these porphyroblasts are always truncated by the matrix foliation suggesting that garnet growth predated the matrix foliation. In contrast, many staurolite porphyroblasts grew synchronously with formation of the Bolton Syncline. However, local rim overgrowths of the matrix foliation suggest that some staurolite porphyroblasts continued to grow after development of the fold during younger crenulation producing deformations. The axes of curvature or intersection of foliations defined by inclusion trails inside the garnet porphyroblasts lie oblique to the axial plane of the Bolton Syncline but do not change orientation across it. This suggests the garnets were not rotated during the subsequent deformation associated with fold development or during even younger crenulation events. Three samples also contain a different set of axes defined by curvature of inclusion trails in the cores of garnet porphyroblasts suggesting a protracted history of garnet growth. Foliation intersection axes in staurolite porphyroblasts are consistently orientated close to the trend of the axial plane of the Bolton Syncline on both limbs of the fold. In contrast, axes defined by curvature or intersection of foliations in the rims of staurolite porphyroblasts in two samples exhibit a different trend. This phase of staurolite growth is associated with a crenulation producing deformation that postdated formation of the Bolton Syncline. Measurement of foliation intersection axes defined by inclusion trails in both garnet and staurolite porphyroblasts has enabled the timing of growth relative to one another and to the development of the Bolton Syncline to be distinguished in rocks where other approaches have not been successful. Consistent orientation of foliation intersection axes across a range of younger structures suggests that the porphyroblasts did not rotate relative to geographical coordinates during subsequent ductile deformation. Foliation intersection axes in porphyroblasts are thus useful for correlating phases of porphyroblastic growth in this region.  相似文献   

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