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U-Pb isotopic relations in zircon and titanite of granulite and amphibolite gneisses in the Lewisian complex and bordering Laxford Front reveal complex discordance patterns indicating multiple Late Archean and Early Proterozoic crystallization, overgrowth and Pb-loss events. The earliest stages in the evolution of the complex remain poorly resolved. Zircon ages of 2710 Ma date high-grade metamorphism and magmatism probably related to tectonic and magmatic accretion in a continental arc setting. A distinct event at 2490–2480 Ma, possibly initiated by metamorphism and deformation at high-grade conditions, caused amphibolitization of the granulites and emplacement of granitic pegmatites. This event can be correlated with development of Inverian shear zones and formation of granitoid layers along the Laxford Front. The emplacement of a younger generation of granitoid sheets during the Laxfordian event fromed hydrothermal titanite at 1754 Ma in gneisses south of the Laxford Bridge and partially reset older titanite at Scourie. Growth of secondary titanite and rutile also occurred during subsequent low-grade metamorphism at 1690–1670 Ma.  相似文献   

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The eclogite-facies metasedimentary rocks in the Münchberg gneiss complex (T=630±30° C/P17–24 kbar) locally contain CO2–N2-rich fluid inclusions of extremely low molar volumes (32 cm3/mol) in quartz. These fluid compositions are mainly found in rocks intercalated with calcsilicate bands. Densities were determined from low-temperature phase transitions like stable or metastable homogenization (L+VL), partial homogenization (S+L+VS+L) and the transition S+LL (L = liquid, V = vapour, S = solid). The high fluid densities are in agreement with eclogite-facies pressure and temperature and subsequent amphibolite facies. CO2–N2 inclusions were not observed in adjacent eclogites nor in non-calcareous metasediments. These rock types contain predominantly H2O-rich inclusions correlating with amphibolite-facies conditions. The variation of fluid composition with lithological differences indicates local fluid gradients and speaks against a pervasive fluid flow during eclogite-facies metamorphism.  相似文献   

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Within the Bergen Arcs of W Norway, Caledonian eclogite facies assemblages (T650°C, P15 kbar) have formed from Grenvillian granulites (T= 800–900°C, P10 kbar) along shear zones and fluid pathways. Garnets in the granulites (grtI: Pyr56–40 Alm45–25Gro19–14) are unzoned or display a weak (ca. 1 wt% FeO over 1000m) zoning. The eclogite facies rocks contain garnets inherited from their granulite facies protoliths. These relict garnets have certain areas with compositions identical to the garnets in their nearby granulite, but can be crosscut by bands of a more Almrich composition (grtII: Pyr31–41Alm40–47Gro17–21) formed during the eclogite facies event. These bands, orientated preferentially parallel or perpendicular to the eclogite foliation, may contain mineral filled veins or trails of eclogite-facies minerals (omphacite, amphibole, white mica, kyanite, quartz and dolomite). Steep compositional gradients (up to 9 wt% FeO over 40 m) separate the two generations of garnets, indicating limited volume diffusion. The bands are interpreted as fluid rich channels where element mobility must have been infinitely greater than it was for the temperature controlled volume diffusion at mineral interfaces in the granulites. The re-equilibration of granulite facies garnets during the eclogite facies event must, therefore, be a function of fracture density (deformation) and fluid availability. The results cast doubts on modern petrological and geochronological methods that assume pure temperature controlled chemical re-equilibration of garnets.  相似文献   

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Volcano-sedimentary rocks in an imbricate tectonic zone around a peridotite massif have been studied northeast of the town of Tavanli in Northwest Turkey. Basic volcanic rocks, which are the dominant rock type in this zone, show incipient blueschist metamorphism and associated metasomatism. While the igneous textures of the volcanic rocks are retained, augites are partially to completely replaced by sodic pyroxene, and plagioclase is albitised resulting in rocks with 6–8 wt.% Na2O. The volcanic rocks are cross-cut by numerous veins of calcite, aragonite, quartz, pumpellyite, albite, lawsonite and sodic pyroxene. Pelagic limestones, which are interbedded with the basic volcanic rocks, consist of coarse aragonite grains showing partial replacement by calcite. The occurrence of aragonite, lawsonite and albite indicates conditions of metamorphism for the whole zone in the range of 5–8 kb and 150–200° C. Metasomatism, probably related to high pressure serpentinization, has occurred contemporaneously with the incipient high pressure metamorphism.  相似文献   

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Metasomatic amphibole-eclogite sequences grew in selvages of quartz veins from the Marun-Keu complex (Polar Urals, Russia) during high-pressure metamorphism. Relicts of a pre-metasomatic eclogite-facies assemblage are present in the wallrock layers as irregular patches. Wallrock interstitial quartz trails lying at a high angle to reaction fronts provide evidence for grain-scale pore channelisation which may be produced by intergranular-fluid compositional gradients parallel to the quartz trails. Disequilibrium at vein-wallrock scale is inferred from wallrock mineral heterogeneity and from variable initial Sr isotope ratios in mineral separates. Mass-balance calculations between relicts and wallrock assemblages reveal chemical imbalances caused by open system-behaviour with two way mass-transfer. The vein-wallrock system registers a prograde history from 408–434 °C (relicts) to 526–668 °C (vein precipitates). Vein and metasomatic assemblages formed during a single fluid-rock interaction process, implying high heating rates (100 °C/Ma), which could result from heat advection by large-scale fluid circulation.Editorial responsibility: W. Schreyer  相似文献   

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 The palaeotemperature distribution in the transition from diagenesis to metamorphism in the western nappes of the Cantabrian Zone (Somiedo, La Sobia and Aramo Units) are analysed by conodont colour alteration index (CAI) and illite crystallinity (IC). Structural and stratigraphic control in distribution of CAI and IC values is observed. Both CAI and IC value distributions show that anchizonal conditions are reached in the lower part of the Somiedo Unit. A disruption of the thermal trend by basal thrusts is evidenced by CAI and IC values. There is an apparent discrepancy between the IC and CAI values in Carboniferous rocks of the Aramo Unit; the IC has mainly anchizonal values, whereas the CAI has diagenetic values. Discrepant IC values are explained as a feature inherited from the source area. In the Carboniferous rocks of the La Sobia Unit, both IC and CAI indicate diagenetic conditions. The anchimetamorphism predated completion of emplacement of the major nappes; it probably developed previously and/or during the early stages of motion of the units. Temperature probably decreased when the metamorphosed zones of the sheets rose along ramps and were intensely eroded. In the context of the Iberian Variscan belt, influence of tectonic factors on the metamorphism is greater in the internal parts, where the strain and cleavage are always present, than in the external parts (Cantabrian Zone), where brittle deformation and rock translation are dominant, with an increasing role of the burial on the metamorphism. Received: 11 May 1998 / Accepted: 19 January 1999  相似文献   

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Summary Two main numerical approaches have been previously used to model the behavior of replenished and tapped magma chambers from geochemical data: 1) iterative computations, in which the magma evolution within steady-state reservoirs is modeled cyclically (P-RTF models); each cycle involves adding recharge magma, mixing the remaining liquid together, crystallizing the mixed product, then expelling part of the residual liquid (Model A); the expulsion can also take place after the mixing event but before crystallization (Model B); 2) continuous models (C-RTF models): in the corresponding time-dependent equations, the magma undergoes fractional crystallization with simultaneous replenishment of fresh liquid (Models C and D). A pertinent test of these models requires a cogenetic magmatic series having geochemical data that are not consistent with closed-system fractional crystallization. The northern tip of the north–south propagating spreading center, located in the North Fiji Basin between 18° and 19°S (NS-PSC 18–19°S), responds to this requirement. The lava ages range from 0 to 1Ma. The dredged volcanic rocks studied are cogenetic in a broad sense (constant isotopic and incompatible trace elements ratios). While no petrographic indications of wall-rock assimilation have been found, evidence of magma mixing has been observed in one basaltic sample (ribbon structures). The lavas, which are normal mid-ocean ridge basalts (N-MORBs), are distributed between three homogeneous compositional groups spatially ordered. The most differentiated lavas have a Fe-Ti basalt composition. We find that one version of open-system fractionation in a periodically replenished reservoir (Model B) is consistent with both the petrologic and geochemical data in explaining the formation of the two most mafic lava groups (Group 1, 64mg#61; Group 2, 59mg#52). In our model, the liquids expelled from a first magma chamber at the end of each cycle (Group 1 magmas) feed a second reservoir, which in its turn expels cyclically Group 2 liquids. A part of these expelled liquids are then stocked in a third closed-system magma chamber, where the Fe-Ti basalts (Group 3 lavas: 50mg#46) are generated through additional crystallization. Thus, the NS-PSC 18–19°S lavas seem to have been produced by three magma chambers interconnected by a sill (and/or pipe) network, ending in the last 18km of the northern tip. Consequently, only a small fraction of magma expelled from each open-system magma chamber reaches the surface as lava flows, because a fraction of it migrates from one reservoir to another. The off-axis sampling provides evidence for the persistence of open-system fractionation over time.Received January 23, 2002; revised version accepted May 31, 2003  相似文献   

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Reactions between hornblende-plagioclase amphibolite and acidic and alkaline B-bearing aqueous fluids have been investigated by experiments at 475°–600° C and 200 MPa. At 600° C, hornblende+calcic plagioclase react to form tourmaline+danburite+clinopyroxene+quartz in acidic fluids containing 0.5–1.0 wt% B2O3.Tourmaline is precipitated directly from acidic fluids, and the reaction is driven by neutralization of fluids by Na±Ca derived from the breakdown of reactant solids. The concentration of B2O3 in fluids needed to stabilize tourmaline increases as pH increases (above approximately 6.0), and tourmaline is unstable in alkaline fluids (pH > approximately 6.5–7.0) regardless of B concentration. In addition to acid-base relations, tourmaline stability is favored by comparatively higher activity coefficients for Al species in acidic fluids. The concentrations of Al and Si in fluid increase with alkalinity, with the eventual production of felsic borosilicate melts through partial melting of the plagioclase component of the amphibolite. In seeded experiments, tourmaline also contributes components to melt. Partial melting is evident in the range 500°–525° C at 200 MPa in experiments with 8wt% B2O3 in fluid as Na2B4O7. The experimental results are applied primarily to metasomatic reactions between mafic rocks and borate fluids derived from granitic magmas, but tourmaline stability and partial melting in mafic regional metamorphic systems are also discussed briefly.  相似文献   

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Three meta-acidic rocks from the western Italian Alps, a magnesiochloritoid-bearing metapelite from the Monte Rosa massif, a coesite-pyrope-quartzite from the Dora Maira massif and the Monte Mucrone granite in the Sesia Zone, have been studied by U-Pb zircon, Rb-Sr on whole-rock, apatite and phengite and Sm-Nd wholerock methods. The mineral parageneses of the investigated rocks indicate high- to very-high-pressure and medium-to-high-temperature metamorphism. This combined isotopic study has enabled us to constrain the ages of magmatic and metamorphic events and also to compare the behaviour of U-Pb zircon systems in three intensely metamorphosed areas of the Pennine domain. The U-Pb zircon data have yielded a magmatic age for the Monte Mucrone granite at 286±2 Ma. This result confirms the occurence of late-Hercynian magmatism in the Sesia Zone, as in other Austro-Alpine units and in other areas of the European crystalline basement. In the Monte Rosa massif, a geologically meaningless lower intercept age of 192±2 Ma has been interpreted as an artefact due to a complex evolution of the U-Pb zircon system. The magmatic shape of the zircons implies a magmatic or volcano-sedimentary protolith for this rock, originally considered as a metasediment. The very-high-pressure metamorphism in the Dora Maira quartzite has produced an opening of the U-Pb zircon system at 121+12–29 Ma. The Rb-Sr data support the occurence of high-grade metamorphism during Cretaceous times. Phengites model ages are slightly younger than the U-Pb zircon lower intercept ages due to cooling phenomena or possible response of the phengites to a later deformation. The Nd model ages from the whole-rock samples, as well as the U-Pb upper intercept ages from zircons of all three investigated rocks, indicate the presence of Proterozoic crustal components inherited from the precursors of these meta-acidic rocks. The studied zircon populations and their U-Pb systems apparently showed open-system behaviour only when affected by extreme metamorphic conditions (700–750° C, > 28 kbar), whereas eclogite-facies conditions of 500–550° C and 14–16 kbar were not enough to disturb significantly the U-Pb zircon evolution. It is also probable that the sedimentary or magmatic origin of the protoliths of these meta-acidic rocks, which involved different characteristics such as grain-size and fluid phase concentration and composition, could be another important factor controlling the U-Pb zircon system behaviour during metamorphic events.  相似文献   

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The Gibeon cluster of Namibian kimberlites is emplaced into the Orange River Belt which has accreted to the Kaapvaal Craton. These offcraton kimberlites lack diamonds and are younger than the diamondiferous on-craton kimberlites. The Hanaus-I and Louwrensia kimberlites each contain a bimodal suite of upper-mantle-derived garnet lherzolite xenoliths characterized by a coarse granular or mosaic porphyroclastic texture. The Louwrensia pipe in addition contains garnet harzburgites. Deformed lherzolites are not iron-enriched relative to the coarse types. Conditions of equilibration calculated by the Wells-Wood method are 841–1,013° C at 25.6–36.3 kbars, and 869–1,195° C at 23.9–39.4 kbars, for coarse lherzolites from Louwrensia and Hanaus respectively, and from 1,080–1,112° C at 31.6–34.5 kbars, and 983–1,228° C at 24.7–35.2 kbars, for mosaic porphyroclastic types from Louwrensia and Hanaus respectively. The coarse varieties from both localities have similar equilibration conditions to coarse lherzolites from on-craton kimberlites and define the lower limb of a perturbed geotherm. The upper high temperature limb of the Namibian geotherm is considered to be an apparent geotherm generated by the deformation and metasomatism of the upper mantle by a rising diapir. Such geotherms, being the result of kimberlite-xenolith interactions, provide no stratigraphic or thermal information concerning the site of kimberlite or diamond formation.  相似文献   

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Mineral assemblages in the Dinggyê area of southern Tibet (28°N; 88°E) provide new insights regarding the poorly understood Eohimalayan metamorphic event in the eastern Himalayan orogen. Major element partitioning thermobarometry of pelitic rocks indicates temperatures of 750–830 K at depths of 14±3 km, consistent with the presence of kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite schists in the area. Laser and resistance furnace40Ar/39Ar analyses of hornblendes from intercalated amphibolites yield closure ages of 25 Ma. Overlap between the probable range of Ar closure temperatures for these hornblendes and the metamorphic temperatures estimated through thermobarometry suggests that Eohimalayan metamorphism in the Dinggyê area occurred in Late Oligocene time, no more than about 10 million years before the main or Neohimalayan phase of metamorphism in Early to Middle Miocene time. Muscovite, biotite, and K-feldspar40Ar/39Ar ages indicate an important episode of rapid cooling between 16 and 13 Ma, which is interpreted as a signature of tectonic denudation related to movement on N-dipping extensional structures of the South Tibetan detachment system.  相似文献   

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Late Cretaceous, granitic pegmatite-aplite dikes in southern California have been known for gem-quality minerals and as a commercial source of lithium. Minerals, whole-rock samples, and inclusion fluids from nine of these dikes and from associated wall rocks have been analyzed for their oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon isotope compositions to ascertain the origins and thermal histories of the dikes. Oxygen isotope geothermometry used in combination with thermometric data from primary fluid inclusions enabled the determination of the pressure regime during crystallization.Two groups of dikes are evident from their oxygen isotope compositions (18Oqtz+10.5 in Group A, and +8.5 in Group B). Prior to the end of crystallization, Group A pegmatites had already extensively exchanged oxygen with their wall rocks, while Group B dikes may represent a closer approximation to the original isotopic composition of the pegmatite melts. Oxygen isotope fractionations between minerals are similar in all dikes and indicate that the pegmatites were emplaced at temperatures of about 730 ° to 700 ° C. Supersolidus crystallization began with the basal aplite zone and ended with formation of quench aplite in the pocket zone, nearly to 565 ° C. Subsolidus formation of gem-bearing pockets took place over a relatively narrow temperature range of about 40 ° C (approximately 565–525 ° C). Nearly closed-system crystallization is indicated.Hornblende in gabbroic and noritic wall rocks (Dw.r. = –90 to –130) in the Mesa Grande district crystallized in the presence of, or exchanged hydrogen with, meteoric water (D –90) prior to the emplacement of the pegmatite dikes. Magmatic water was subsequently added to the wall rocks adjacent to the pegmatites.Groups A and B pegmatites cannot be distinguished on the basis of their hydrogen isotope compositions. A decrease in D of muscovite inward from the walls of the dikes reflects a decrease in temperature. D values of H2O from fluid inclusions are: –50 to –73 (aplite and pegmatite zones); –62 to –75 (pocket quartz: Tourmaline Queen and Stewart dikes); and –50 ± 4 (pocket quartz from many dikes). The average 13C of juvenile CO2 in fluid inclusions in Group B pegmatites is –7.9. In Group A pegmatities, 13C of CO2 is more negative (–10 to –15.6), due to exchange of C with wall rocks and/or loss of 13C-enriched CO2 to an exsolving vapor phase.Pressures during crystallization of the pockets were on the order of 2,100 bars, and may have increased slightly during pocket growth. A depth of formation of at least 6.8 km (sp. gr. of over burden = 3.0, and P fiuid=P load) is indicated, and a rate of uplift of 0.07 cm/yr. follows from available geochronologic data.  相似文献   

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Volatile production and transport in regional metamorphism   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  
Calculations show that H2O and CO2 produced during devolatilization of an average pelite will occupy 12 vol. % of the rock at 500°C and 5 kb. Because the tensional strength of well foliated rock at metamorphic conditions is vanishingly small, such a volume of fluid having any vertical extent will fracture the rock and escape upward owing to its lower density.In a simplified model of a sudden increase of heat flow from 0.8 to 2.5 H.F.U., the average pelitic rock will have a rate of fluid production averaging 9.4×10–10 g cm2 s–1 between 400°C and 600°C. The escape of this fluid can be accomodated by a single fracture 1 cm long and 0.2 wide per cm2 of rock. If the fracture is reduced to 0.02 then 1,000 cm of fracture per cm2 would be required. This width is the minimum original width as calculated from the volume of fluid observed in fluid inclusions trapped along annealed fractures within quartz in metamorphic terrains. Fluid flow will be laminar if the fracture is <0.025 cm wide. Additional calculations show that grain boundary diffusion is not an effective means of fluid transport in regional metamorphism.The commonly observed quartz segregations in pelitic terrains appear to mark the site of major channelways for fluid escape. In this case the bulk of escaping fluid is not able to react pervasively with rocks higher in the metamorphisc pile. Regionally metamorphosed rocks will have a discrete fluid phase only when devolatization reactions are actually taking place. At other times only an absorbed surface monolayer of volatiles on the minerals will be present.Died April 2, 1980  相似文献   

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Experimental melting relationships for a mafic minette (mica-lamprophyre) from Buell Park, Arizona were determined under fO2 conditions equivalent to the ironwüstite-graphite and quartz-fayalite-magnetite buffers, at pressures of 10–20 kbar. A comparison between experimental products and phenocrysts in the most primitive minettes indicates that those lavas preserve a near-liquidus assemblage of olivine, diopside and Ti-rich phlogopite crystallized in the upper mantle under fO2QFM and in the presence of an H2O-bearing fluid phase. It is suggested that micalamprophyric (minette) magmas may originate from a metasomatized, garnet-bearing peridotitic source at deeper levels in the mantle (P20 kbar) but can also be in equilibrium with a phlogopite-bearing wehrlite (±opx) source at pressures of 17–20 kbar, under reducing or oxidizing mantle conditions. Owing to their rapid crystallization rate and high liquidus temperatures, a series of potassic daughter melts (potassic latites and felsic minettes) can be formed by segregation from mafic minette parents during their ascent through the cooler continental crust. The preservation of olivine in equilibrium with phlogopite phenocrysts in primitive minettes precludes a petrogenetic process dominated by assimilation/fractional crystallization in a shallow magma chamber and supports a model by which some lamprophyric magmas are brought to near surface conditions at temperatures in the range of 1,000–1,200° C and chilled rapidly.  相似文献   

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The aim of this work is to quantitatively set up a simple hypothesis for occurrence of earthquakes conditioned by prior events, on the basis of a previously existing model and the use of recent instrumental observations. A simple procedure is presented in order to determine the conditional probability of pairs of events (foreshock-mainshock, mainshock-aftershock) with short time and space separation. The first event of a pair should not be an aftershock, i.e., it must not be related to a stronger previous event. The Italian earthquake catalog of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING) (1975–1995, M 3.4), the earthquake catalog of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) (1983–1994, M 3.0) and that of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) (1982–1994, M 3.8) were analyzed. The number of observed pairs depends on several parameters: the size of the space-time quiescence volume defining nonaftershocks, the inter event time, the minimum magnitude of the two events, and the spatial dimension of the alarm volume after the first event. The Akaike information criterion has been adopted to assess the optimum set of space-time parameters used in the definition of the pairs, assuming that the occurrence rate of subsequent events may be modeled by two Poisson processes with different rates: the higher rate refers to the space-time volume defined by the alarms and the lower one simulates earthquakes that occur in the nonalarm space-time volume. On the basis of the tests carried out on the seismic catalog of Italy, the occurrence rate of M 3.8 earthquakes followed by a M 3.8 mainshock within 10 km and 10 days (validity) is 0.459. We have observed, for all three catalogs, that the occurrence rate density for the second event of a couple (mainshock or aftershock) of magnitude M2 subsequent to a nonaftershock of magnitude M1 in the time range T can be modeled by the following relationship: (T, M2) = 10a + b(M1 - M2) with b varying from 0.74 (Japan) to 1.09 (Greece). The decrease of the occurrence rate in time for a mainshock after a foreshock or for large aftershocks after a mainshock, for all three databases, obeys the Omori's law with p changing from 0.94 (Italy) to 2.0 (Greece).  相似文献   

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In order to test their chronometric potential, 40Ar/39Ar stepheating- (and 4He-) analyses have been carried out on five manganese ore minerals of the hollandite-cryptomelane series from three Precambrian manganese deposits (Ultevis/Sweden, Sitapar/India, Bachkoun/Morocco). Samples from the metamorphic occurrences Ultevis and Sitapar yielded Ar ages of 1.8 Ga and 0.95 Ga, interpreted as the age of postmetamorphic cooling (Hollandites/Ultevis) and of an early, K-introducing alteration process subsequent to amphibolite facies metamorphism (cryptomelanes/Sitapar). Both data are consistent with known chronologies of the Svecokarelian and Satpura orogenic cycles. A date of 670 Ma obtained for a hollandite from a volcanogenic vein deposit (Bachkoun), however, contrasts with published extrusion ages of 580–560 Ma for the volcanic host rocks (Ouarzazate Series), probably due to incorporation of excess argon. The use of the 40Ar/39Ar technique, together with multiple isotope systematics, made it nevertheless possible to establish a reasonable estimate of a mineralization age close to 580 Ma. Measurement of fractional Ar losses during vacuum step heating (500–1600 °C), although indicating good Ar retentivities, failed to define model diffusion parameters because of non-linear Arrhenius arrays. Helium diffusion results (200–1200 °C) indicated retention of radiogenic 4He by the samples, corroborated by U/He mineral dates between 0.96 and 0.31 Ga. Potassium-bearing manganese oxides are therefore able to retain argon (possibly also 4He) through geological times and may thus provide ages of ore-forming processes (and perhaps later cooling and alteration stages).  相似文献   

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Three small intrusions in Ketilidian gneisses near Julianehaab comprise sheets and veins of olivine-magnetite-grunerite or magnetite-amphibole rocks partly surrounded by garnetiferous hornblende-biotite granitoid rock. The latter skin locally widens out into diffuse bodies of fayalite-orthopyroxene-quartz syenite or monzonite and biotite granite, which show layering similar to that resulting from gravity settling of crystals. Near the intrusions the country rocks lose their foliation and have been partially melted. Intrusion probably occurred at the close of regional metamorphism 1,750–1,780 m.y. ago, just prior to emplacement of the rapakivi granite suite of South Greenland. The mafic minerals of the intrusions are markedly enriched in iron and, in the case of olivine, orthopyroxene, grunerite and garnet, in manganese as well: olivine Fa90Te5Fo5; orthopyroxene (inverted pigeonite) Ca2Fe77Mn6Mg15; calciferous amphiboles are typically hastingsitic; biotites generally have Fe/Fe+Mg ratios of 0.8; garnets are almandine-grossularite-spessartine mixtures; essentially pure magnetite is the dominant oxide mineral and ilmenite is only moderately manganiferous. Crystallization of the mafic rocks appears to have followed the trend of the quartz-fayalite-magnetite buffer curve from perhaps 800°C to <550°C at pressures, calculated from thermodynamic considerations, of 4 to 5 kb. However, the presence of Mn makes estimates of pressure and temperature uncertain. Comparison with other late- to post-orogenic intrusions—the South Greenland and Finnish rapakivi granite suites, the Labrador adamellite complex and the Pikes Peak batholith of Colorado—reveals both similarities and differences, particularly with respect to mineral parageneses, depth of emplacement and manganese enrichment.  相似文献   

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Crystal size distributions (CSDs) measured in metamorphic rocks yield quantitative information about crystal nucleation and growth rates, growth times, and the degree of overstepping (T) of reactions during metamorphism. CSDs are described through use of a population density function n=dN/dL, where N is the cumulative number of crystals per unit volume and L is a linear crystal size. Plots of ln (n) vs. L for olivine+pyroxene and magnetite in high-temperature (1000° C) basalt hornfelses from the Isle of Skye define linear arrays, indicating continuous nucleation and growth of crystals during metamorphism. Using the slope and intercept of these linear plots in conjunction with growth rate estimates we infer minimum mineral growth times of less than 100 years at T<10° C, and nucleation rates between 10–4 and 10–1/cm3/s. Garnet and magnetite in regionally metamorphosed pelitic schists from south-central Maine have CSDs which are bell-shaped. We interpret this form to be the result of two processes: 1) initial continuous nucleation and growth of crystals, and 2) later loss of small crystals due to annealing. The large crystals in regional metamorphic rocks retain the original size frequency distribution and may be used to obtain quantitative information on the original conditions of crystal nucleation and growth. The extent of annealing increases with increasing metamorphic grade and could be used to estimate the duration of annealing conditions if the value of a rate constant were known. Finally, the different forms of crystal size distributions directly reflect differences in the thermal histories of regional vs. contact metamorphosed rocks: because contact metamorphism involves high temperatures for short durations, resulting CSDs are linear and unaffected by annealing, similar to those produced by crystallization from a melt; because regional metamorphism involves prolonged cooling from high temperatures, primary linear CSDs are later modified by annealing to bell shapes.  相似文献   

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Summary The crystalline basement rocks of the Sopron Mountains are the easternmost and most isolated outcrops of the Austroalpine basement of the Eastern Alps. Ar/Ar and K/Ar dating of phengitic mica indicates that the Eoalpine high-pressure metamorphism of the area occurred between 76 and 71Ma. Short-lived metamorphism is characterised by fluid-poor conditions. Fluid circulation was mostly restricted to shear zones, thus the degree of Alpine overprint has an extreme spatial variation. In several metamorphic slices Variscan mineral assemblages have been preserved and biotite yielded Variscan and Permo-Triassic Ar ages. Different mineral and isotope thermometers (literature data) yielded temperatures of 500–600°C for the peak of Alpine metamorphism in the Sopron Mountains, but muscovite and biotite do not show complete argon resetting. Thus, we consider this crystalline area as a well constrained natural test site, which either indicates considerably high closure temperatures (around 550°C) for Ar in muscovite and biotite in a dry metamorphic environment, or which is suitable for testing the widely applied methods of temperature estimations under disequilibrium conditions.Apatite fission track results and their thermal modeling, together with structural, mineralogical and sedimentological observations, allows the identification of a post-metamorphic, Eocene hydrothermal event and Late Miocene-Pliocene sediment burial of the crystalline rocks of the Sopron Mountains.  相似文献   

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A group of high grade metamorphic rocks from the Arendal area in Southern Norway has been analyzed for bulk geochemistry, and carbon and sulfur isotopic composition. A good correspondence between the composition of the Arendal rocks and common unmetamorphosed sedimentary and magmatic rocks suggests that except for some volatile compounds no mass transport took place during metamorphism. The high grade mafic rocks interlayered with the metasediments originate from basaltic tuffs and/or intrusives.Carbon occurs as graphite and also in small amounts in a still unidentified form. The carbon of the silicic metasedimentary rocks is isotopically light with an average 13C of –20.2, but significantly heavier than carbonaceous matter from unmetamorphosed Precambrian sediments. This is probably due to thermal pyrolysis of the original sedimentary organic matter and to the escape of a gas phase enriched in light carbon by reactions with the graphitic substance during metamorphism.Both the metasediments and the high grade mafic rocks have relatively high sulfur contents. The mean 34S values are 3.3 and 1.8, respectively. This can be explained by isotopically heavy sulfur in the original sediment. Some migration of sulfur probably has occurred from the metasediments into the metamafic rocks.No influence of the hypersthene isograd on the chemical and stable isotope composition could be detected.  相似文献   

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