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Calibration of the anchizone: a critical comparison of illite 'crystallinity'scales used for definition 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
H. J. KISCH 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》1990,8(1):31-46
Instrumental settings for determination of illite/muscovite 'crystallinity'(half-height width of the 10-Å X-ray diffraction peak) and the limits of the anchimetamorphic zone adopted by various authors fall into several groups.
The variation in the limiting peak widths between the authors that have adopted Kubler's Neuchâtel boundary values of 0.42° and 0.25°Δ2θ can be interpreted in terms of variation in the instrumental settings. The choice of time constants higher than those given by the formula causes peak broadening; this effect is particularly marked at high scan rates. The peak broadening is by constant increments that are virtually independent of the absolute peak width.
The differences between the Kubler (Neuchâtel)-derived limiting values and some other scales are appreciably greater than can be accounted for by these differences in instrumental settings: many of these scales are not equivalent. In particular, the limits adopted by Dunoyer de Segonzac (1969) and subsequent workers at Strasbourg are too broad; their anchizone represents a range of grades of metamorphism lower than that of Kubler, widely overlapping the latter's 'diagenetic'zone. Those adopted by some other, mainly French, authors are too narrow.
The limits of the anchizone should be calibrated by inter-laboratory standards, and the instrumental settings should be specified in full. 相似文献
The variation in the limiting peak widths between the authors that have adopted Kubler's Neuchâtel boundary values of 0.42° and 0.25°Δ2θ can be interpreted in terms of variation in the instrumental settings. The choice of time constants higher than those given by the formula causes peak broadening; this effect is particularly marked at high scan rates. The peak broadening is by constant increments that are virtually independent of the absolute peak width.
The differences between the Kubler (Neuchâtel)-derived limiting values and some other scales are appreciably greater than can be accounted for by these differences in instrumental settings: many of these scales are not equivalent. In particular, the limits adopted by Dunoyer de Segonzac (1969) and subsequent workers at Strasbourg are too broad; their anchizone represents a range of grades of metamorphism lower than that of Kubler, widely overlapping the latter's 'diagenetic'zone. Those adopted by some other, mainly French, authors are too narrow.
The limits of the anchizone should be calibrated by inter-laboratory standards, and the instrumental settings should be specified in full. 相似文献
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伊利石结晶度及其在低温变质研究中若干问题的讨论 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
文中介绍与伊利石结晶度相关的伊利石矿物新的定名方案;讨论了伊利石结晶度的结晶学基础与Scherrer方程式的关系;讨论了三个重要的伊利石结晶度指数Weaver、K櫣bler和Weber指数的关系,并介绍推导的Weaver、K櫣bler和Weber指数的理论关系式;评价了衍射仪测量条件对结晶度数值的影响和三套伊利石结晶度标样的作用以及成岩带、变质带与葡萄石-绿纤石相、沸石相、绿纤石-阳起石亚相对比的依据。建议(1)停用绢云母一词;(2)建立可供各实验室使用的具有晶体结构和晶体化学参数和多型参数的伊利石结晶度标样;(3)建议多开展规范的可进行国际对比的低温变质研究,划分出与国际上一致的成岩带和近变质带,不仅利于低温变质作用理论的研究,而且由于成岩带到近变质转变带是重要的煤气油的生成带,也利于中国煤气油资源的勘探与开发,利于国民经济的长远持续发展。 相似文献
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运用X射线衍射分析技术，计算了成岩带、近变质带粘土矿物C^*方向的粒度。根据阿尔卑斯造山带前陆碎屑岩粘土矿物粒度与伊利石结晶指数的关系，推导出了伊利石、绿泥石、蒙脱石、伊蒙混层、高岭石和叶蜡石的c^*方向粒度变化趋势曲线。结果表明，大多数产于成岩带和近变质带的粘矿物其c6*方向粒工为几至几十纳米。成岩带和近为质带是一维天然纳为级土帮物的产地。 相似文献
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High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) measurements of the thickness of white mica crystallites were made on three pelite samples that represented a prograde transition from diagenetic mudstone though anchizonal slate to epizonal slate. Crystallite thickness, measured normal to (001), increases as grade increases, whereas the XRD measured 10 Å peak-profile, the Kubler index, decreases. The mode of the TEM-measured size population can be correlated with the effective crystallite size N(001) determined by XRD. The results indicate that the Kubler index of white mica crystallinity measures changes in the crystallite size population that result from prograde increases in the size of coherent X-ray scattering domains. These changes conform to the Scherrer relationship between XRD peak broadening and small crystallite size. Lattice strain broadening is relatively unimportant, and is confined to white mica populations in the diagenetic mudstone. Rapid increases in crystallite size occur in the anchizone, coincident with cleavage development. Changes in the distribution of crystallite thickness with advancing grade and cleavage development are characteristic of grain-growth by Ostwald ripening. The Kubler index rapidly loses sensitivity as an indicator of metapelitic grade within the epizone. 相似文献
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Interlaboratory standardization and calibration of day mineral crystallinity and crystallite size data 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Clay mineral crystallinity and crystallite (domain) size data determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) are methods extensively used in the characterization of very low-grade metamorphic conditions. However, the lack of sufficient interlaboratory standardization has made comparisons between different research groups unreliable due to significant variations in numerical results obtained, a consequence of the different machine conditions, measurement methods and sample preparations used during analysis. A calibration approach to the standardization of data using rock chip standards is presented, which allows data sets produced by different research groups to be directly and quantitatively compared. A standardized scale, the crystallinity index standard (CIS), is proposed, with illite crystallinity anchizonal boundary limits of 0.25Δ2θ and 0.42Δ2θ, and equivalent illite crystallite sizes of 52 and 23 nm, respectively, determined by the Warren-Averbach method. Calibrating both old and new data will enable more reliable comparisons between similar and contrasting geological environments, and should improve the accuracy and reliability of correlations made between XRD data and other indicators of very low-grade metamorphism, hence increasing the value of such clay mineral studies. 相似文献
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由伊利石结晶度研究桂西右江地区区域极低级变质作用 总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10
运用伊利石结晶度Kübler指数将桂西右江地区下三叠统罗楼群和中三叠统百逢组下段划归为浅层变质带(K.I△2θ°为0.22～0.25);将中三叠统百逢组上段和河口组划归为近变质带,中三叠统百逢组上段为高级近变质带(K.I△2θ°为0.26～0.33);中三叠统上部河口组为低级近变质带(K.I△2θ°为0.38～0.40),不排除局部为成岩带的可能.地层柱自下向上,伊利石结晶度Kübler指数由小变大,变质程度由高变低,而且,变质作用级别与岩层在地层柱中位置协调以及变质带边界与地层界线趋于一致,证明为区域埋藏极低级变质作用.凌云明山金矿区剖面矿体和百逢组各层段伊利石结晶度Kübler指数为0.42～0.50,属成岩带,且没有明显时空变化规律. 相似文献
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Abstract White mica crystallinity studies have been carried out on 90 samples of mudrocks, six of spotted slate, and five of accretionary lapilli tuff from the area around the Berwyn Hills, North Wales. Strain was measured for some of the spotted slate and tuff samples. The metamorphic grade increases from southeast to northwest, with values of the Kübler index varying from 0.64 to 0.20Δ2θ. Metamorphic zonal boundaries follow the strike of bedding and cleavage, but crystallinity values increase into stratigraphically younger rocks on the northwest side of the Berwyn Dome. This effect is attributed mainly to a rapid increase in the thickness of synmetamorphic overburden to the northwest, comprising exposed Silurian turbidites and inferred Lower Devonian non-marine sediments. Strain variations have a more local influence on crystallinity, and lateral variations in the contemporary geothermal gradient cannot be ruled out. However, only with unrealistically high gradients would the need for a thick Lower Devonian component to the overburden be removed. This reasoning implies that the metamorphic peak was coeval with the Acadian (late Caledonian) event, rather than with an early diastathermal event. 相似文献
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右江盆地三叠纪槽盆相浊流沉积岩系遭受过区域极低级变质作用。依据地质观察和伊利石结晶度、绿泥石-云母堆垛集合体、标志性粘土矿物及白云母(伊利石)b0参数测定资料,阐述了泥质岩石的成岩变质作用经浅层(近)变质作用到浅变质作用的转换特征。变质温度区间为150-350℃,低压类型,具高地温梯度(40-43℃/km).变质级及亚带总体与地层时代及岩层在地层柱中的位置有耦合关系,而与区域变形强度无关。最后指出区域极低级变质作用是印支-燕山构造旋回早期及区域变形前的地质事件,属于地壳伸展构造背景下右江边缘型盆地内部的埋藏型变质作用。 相似文献
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P. ÁRKAI 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》1991,9(6):723-734
Abstract Fairly strong (r= 0.75–0.85) positive linear correlations were found between crystallinity indices (peak widths) measured on the first two basal reflections of chlorite and those of illite–muscovite in <2-μm fractions of a representative shale–slate–phyllite series from Palaeozoic and Mesozoic formations of northeast Hungary. The metamorphic grade ranges from late or deep diagenesis through anchizone to epizone conditions. Chlorite crystallinity values measured on air-dried and ethylene-glycol-solvated samples suggest that the effects of expandable interlayers are negligable, especially in the higher grade (～temperature) part of the series. However, the greater scattering of crystallinity values for the chlorite 001 reflection compared to those of the 002 reflection may be related to the effects of minor amounts of interlayered and/or discrete smectite and/or vermiculite. With increasing metamorphic grade and advancing equilibrium recrystallization, the chlorite compositions in different samples become more homogenous. No correlation exists between crystallinity and changes in chlorite composition as estimated from the intensity ratios of basal reflections. Hence an increase of domain size and a decrease of lattice distortion with increasing grade (～temperature) may be decisive factors affecting chlorite crystallinity. Chlorite crystallinity can be applied as a reliable regional, statistical technique complementary with, or instead of, the illite crystallinity method. The illite and chlorite crystallinity scales used here are related to Kübler's epi-, anchi- and diagenetic zones and correlated with coal rank, conodont colour alteration and mineral facies data. As the effects of the detrital white mica can be observed even in the <2-μm fractions of anchizonal metapelites, the anchizone boundaries determined solely on the base of ‘fixed’illite crystallinity values may vary with amounts of detrital and newly formed muscovite–illite. Hence a complex approach utilizing more than one method for determination of grade is preferred for petrogenetic purposes, even if relationships between crystallinity scales, coal rank and mineral facies also vary strongly in different tectonic settings and lithologies. 相似文献
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伊利石结晶度Kübler，Weaver和Weber指数关系式常数的确定与应用 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
根据衍射峰具有的不同分布特点推导出了14个伊利石结晶度Kübler指数，Weaver指数和Weber指数关系式中常数项C1-C14的数值，提出了PearsonⅦ分布中形态参数μ与C5，C6，C11，C12的4个定量方程。由此，14个伊利石结晶度指数关系式可直接用于实际计算。根据阿尔卑斯复理石伊利石形态特征Sc=0.731，由这些关系式进行近变质带上下界线的转换得出与Kübler指数0.42～0.25。△2θ界线对应的Weaver指数和Weber指数的界线值分别为5.8～17.6和300～179。讨论了在自然干燥状态下直接进行伊蒙混层鉴定的基本原理。 相似文献
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右江盆地三叠纪槽盆相浊流沉积岩系遭受过区域极低级变质作用。依据地质观察和伊利石结晶度、绿泥石-云母堆垛集合体、标志性粘土矿物及白云母(伊利石)b0参数测定资料,阐述了泥质岩石的成岩变质作用经浅层(近)变质作用到浅变质作用的转换特征。变质温度区间为150-350℃,低压类型,具高地温梯度(40-43℃/km).变质级及亚带总体与地层时代及岩层在地层柱中的位置有耦合关系,而与区域变形强度无关。最后指出区域极低级变质作用是印支-燕山构造旋回早期及区域变形前的地质事件,属于地壳伸展构造背景下右江边缘型盆地内部的埋藏型变质作用。 相似文献
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应用国际标样对伊利石结晶度测定值的校正及其意义 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
伊利石的结晶度(IC),又称Kbler指数(K.I.),是指粘土矿物伊利石10×10-8cmXRD峰的半高宽。作为一个变质程度的指标,结晶度广泛用于研究高级成岩—极低级变质—低级变质作用的演变过程,随着变质程度的提高,伊利石结晶度逐渐增大。根据Kbler的建议,近变质带(极低级变质带)上、下边界的伊利石结晶度分别为0.42(°Δ2θ)和0.25(°Δ2θ)。然而,测定伊利石结晶度时,由于缺少国际标样,且各实验室间的样品制备、仪器条件、测试方法也不相同,因而导致获得的数据有较大差别,缺少可比性;因此,使用国际标样对数据进行校正,使各实验室获得的数据都能直接地进行对比,是非常必要的。利用X射线衍射方法测定了由L.N.Warr提供的5个伊利石结晶度的国际标样(其中,4个为岩石碎屑样品,采自英格兰西南部的极低级变质带;1个为单矿物样品,采自印度的花岗岩),获得了校正方程,ICCIS=0.977IC测定值+0.0336(°Δ2θ),R2=0.9835。在实验室内对213件采自国内的样品进行测定,测试条件与国际标样的测试条件相同,利用此方程对测得的伊利石结晶度数值进行校正,证实本实验室对伊利石结晶度的测定具有较高的可信度和国际可比性。 相似文献
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The conodont colour alteration index (CAI) is potentially valuable in thermal history investigations, but there are problems in its use. An approach is proposed herein to overcome the problem of establishing reliable geothermal palaeogradients in areas with burial metamorphism, based on knowledge of the stratigraphic succession thickness, the boundaries of chronostratigraphic units, and the age and duration of deformation episodes. Although also problematical that a correlation between CAI and Kübler index (KI) values does not exist, there are areas where CAI and KI values are notably consistent for the anchizone boundaries; however, anomalous correlations between CAI and KI values have also been found in some areas. A CAI anchizone (or ancaizone) is defined in order to enable CAI values to be used independently to establish a metamorphic zonation. 相似文献
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Diagenesis and very low grade metamorphism in a 7,012?m-deep well Hongcan 1, eastern Tibetan plateau 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This study uses clay mineral assemblages, illite ??crystallinity?? (IC), chlorite ??crystallinity?? (CC), illite polytypes, the b cell-dimension of K-white mica, mineral geothermo-geobarometers and homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions to investigate the transition from diagenesis to metamorphism in a 7?km thick Triassic flysch sequence in the well Hongcan 1, eastern Tibetan plateau. The 7,012.8?m deep borehole penetrated flysch of Upper to the Middle Triassic age and represents a unique chance to characterize low temperature metamorphic processes in an unusually thick sedimentary sequence developed on thickened continental crust. Mineral assemblage analysis reveals a burial metamorphic pattern with kaolinite and chlorite/smectite mix-layer phases present in the upper 1,500?m, and illite/smectite mixed-layer phases extending to a depth of 3,000?m. The metamorphic index mineral, graphite, was detected in sedimentary rock below 5,000?m using Raman spectroscopy. There exists a good correlation between IC and CC within the prograde burial sequence; with CC anchizonal boundaries of 0.242 and 0.314°2?? (upper and lower boundaries, respectively) corresponding to Kübler??s IC limits at 0.25 and 0.42°2??. Illite polytypism also shows an increase in the 2M 1 polytype with increasing depth, with ca. 60?% 2M 1 abundance compared to the 1M type at the surface, to 100?% 2M 1 at the bottom of the borehole. Fluid inclusion analysis show HHC-rich bearing fluids correspond to the diagenetic zone, CH4-rich bearing fluids appear at transitional zone from diagenetic to low anchizone and H2O-rich bearing fluids mark the high anchizone to epizone. Based on chlorite chemical geothermometer, calcite?Cdolomite geothermo-barometers as well as homogenization temperature of fluid inclusions, a paleotemperature range of 118?C348?°C is estimated for the well with a pressure facies of low to intermediate type. 相似文献
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Dorra Mahdi Randa Ben Abdallah Nouri Hatira Ali Tlili Hédi Ridha Chaftar Fakher Jamoussi 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2013,6(11):4347-4355
The Oued Belif 48 and Koudiat El Halfa 5 borehole samples have been analysed in order to reveal the mineralogical composition of the Triassic successions and their burial history within the geological evolution of the Tethysian southern margin. Oued Belif 48 borehole belongs to Nefza district which is a part of the “Nappe zone” (Tellian unit, north-western Tunisia). Koudiat El Halfa 5 borehole crosses the Koudiat El Halfa diapir (north–west of the north–south axis, Central Atlas). In this paper, the burial degree of evaporitic Triassic samples was determined by the “illite crystallinity” index and by the evolution of the other phyllosilicates, essentially chlorite, talc and illite/chlorite and illite/smectite mixed layers. The studied samples of the two boreholes are characterized by the presence of abundant clay minerals. The <2-μm grain-size fraction of the samples is mostly composed of illite, chlorite and smectite and may contain a slight percentage of swelling layers (illite/smectite and illite/chlorite). The illite crystallinity value measured on ethylene glycol solvated oriented mounts of the Oued Belif 48 samples oscillates globally between 1 and 2.5 characterizing the epizonal zone with a range of 300–400 °C temperatures. The measures of Koudiat El Halfa 5 samples crystallinity index show a value ranging from 2 to 4, which indicates the anchizone and early epizone burial stage (temperatures around 200 °C). These data can be explained by Miocene magmatic activities characterizing the Triassic material of Nefza district and also by burial phenomena effects. 相似文献
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内蒙古东北地区上古生界伊利石研究 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2
内蒙古东北地区上古生界主要是一套泥质岩石,其详细深入的矿物学工作尚不多见.本文利用JSM-6700F场发射电镜及INCA能谱仪,探讨了伊利石在成岩.极低级变质作用过程中的行为.采用D/max-2500 X-射线衍射仪,研究了伊利石的结晶度、多型和b0值.伊利石结晶度变化于0.28～0.77,除去构造应力对伊利石结晶度指数值的影响,研究区伊利石结晶度指数应>0.34,反映晚古生代地层主体属于晚期成岩带和低级近变质带.伊利石(白云母)多型分三种类型,分别是1Md型、1Md+2M1混合型和2M1型,是晚期成岩带和低级近变质带的产物.伊利石(白云母)b0值变化于8.9892 ～9.0404 之间,b0平均值9.0196 ,属中压相. 相似文献
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Analysis of the precision of the illite 'crystallinity'technique shows that machine errors are <5%, while intra- and inter-sample errors are variable but are up to 12% and 14%, respectively (1σ). Consideration of this error analysis shows that the isocryst approach, which involves close contouring (e.g. 0.03 Δ2°) of illite 'crystallinity'data, has a very low degree of confidence (<0.5) and thus is not regarded as statistically valid. If contouring is to be undertaken with a high degree of confidence (>0.8) it is necessary that contours should be at intervals of 0.1 ΔΘ2°, which is equivalent to subdivision of the anchizone into upper and lower units. Where previous interpretations have relied upon an isocryst method of contouring at less than 0.1 ΔΘ2° the conclusions must be regarded as unsubstantiated.
Centrifuge separation of clay fractions (based on a Stokes'law application) gives separations in which a significant, but variable, percentage of grains have long axes greater than the size calculated. For the typical <2-μm fraction utilized, some 20% of grains lie in the 2–4-μm range, although the proportion is not believed to have a significant effect upon 'crystallinity'values. The formula is applicable for grain-sizes down to 0.5 μm. Illite 'crystallinity'values on samples prepared by an ultrasonic disaggregation method show a small increase on those prepared by ball mill crushing. The differences are minimal at the epi/anchizone level but increase to some 10% at the anchizone/diagenetic level. The effect on grade determinations is again thought to be minimal and indicates that concern over unsuitability of the ultrasonic disaggregation method is unfounded. 相似文献
Centrifuge separation of clay fractions (based on a Stokes'law application) gives separations in which a significant, but variable, percentage of grains have long axes greater than the size calculated. For the typical <2-μm fraction utilized, some 20% of grains lie in the 2–4-μm range, although the proportion is not believed to have a significant effect upon 'crystallinity'values. The formula is applicable for grain-sizes down to 0.5 μm. Illite 'crystallinity'values on samples prepared by an ultrasonic disaggregation method show a small increase on those prepared by ball mill crushing. The differences are minimal at the epi/anchizone level but increase to some 10% at the anchizone/diagenetic level. The effect on grade determinations is again thought to be minimal and indicates that concern over unsuitability of the ultrasonic disaggregation method is unfounded. 相似文献
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TANG Yan SANG Longkang YUAN Yanming YU Jishun ZHANG Yunpeng QI Xianmao YANG Yunlong 《《地质学报》英文版》2012,86(1):96-105
X-ray diffraction methods for estimating the metamorphic grade of diagenetic, anchizone and epizone in metapelites are reviewed and applied to samples from a 7000?m+ borehole in western China and surface samples from the surrounding Zoigê area. Kübler’s illite crystallinity (IC) measurements provide more consistent results than calculated values of percentage of illite in the I/S mixed layers and percentage of I/S mixed layers. Down-borehole IC values display a typical burial metamorphic relationship between stratigraphic level and IC. A method for preparing very low grade metamorphic maps is described, and isograds plotted on a regional geological map at selected values of IC, delineating a high temperature diagenetic zone, an anchizone, and an epizone. The map shows that IC values are controlled by stratigraphic level in the north of the study area (i.e. burial metamorphism), and proximity to an igneous intrusive body in the south (i.e. contact metamorphism). 相似文献
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Metamorphism in the late Permian to early Cretaceous North Island basement greywackes has been investigated using petrography and clay mineral crystallinity. Several terranes are represented in the North Island greywackes and the study area includes Murihiku, Manaia Hill, Bay of Islands and Omahuta terranes and the Mélange Zone. Very low-grade metamorphic events in the greywackes have produced mineral assemblages of zeolite to pumpellyite-actinolite greywacke facies. Zeolite facies greywackes are characterized by the assemblage Zeo (Lmt, Anl, Hul)+Qtz±Ab±Cal± Chl±I±I/S* observed in the entire Murihiku terrane and in the eastern part of the Bay of Islands terrane and the Mélange Zone. The entire Manaia Hill, most of the Bay of Islands, the eastern area of the Omahuta terranes and the central part of the Mélange Zone are at prehnite-pumpellyite facies with mineral assemblages of Prh+Qtz+Chl+Pmp+Ab+± Ill±Cal±Lmt. Pumpellyite-actinolite facies with the mineral assemblage of Pmp±Act+Qtz+Ab+Chl±Ep±Ill±Cal±Chl occurs in the western part of the Mélange Zone and the Omahuta terrane.
Illite (IC) and chlorite (ChC) crystallinity values of greywackes are very similar and range from diagenetic zone to anchizone. Metamorphic conditions indicated by the IC and ChC and mineral facies are in excellent agreement and correlate as follows: crystallinity diagenetic-zone with the zeolite mineral facies, crystallinity lower anchizone with prehnite-pumpellyite mineral facies and crystallinity upper anchizone with pumpellyite-actinolite mineral facies. The general increase in the metamorphic grade from east to west, except in Murihiku terrane, is compatible with the sequence of accretion expected in a subduction environment. 相似文献
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The dispersed carbonaceous matter (kerogen), illite, and magnetic response of the Tindelpina Shale Member in the lower part of the thick, extensive Tapley Hill Formation provide three complementary methods for zoning the incipient metamorphic character of rocks comprising the late Precambrian Adelaide System where they crop out between Adelaide, Olary, and Marree in the Adelaide Geosyncline. The methods are based on the following parameters: kerogen structure (as determined by X-ray diffraction) and composition (percentage carbon, hydrogen to carbon atomic ratio, δ 13CPDB); illite crystallinity; and amplitude and type of aeromagnetic anomalies.Kerogen is the most definitive indicator of metamorphic change in the Tindelpina Shale. It has been used to delineate a western subgraphitic zone (85–91%C, H/C > 0.10) which is separated from an eastern graphitic zone (91–98%C, H/C < 0.10) by a north-trending line through Adelaide, Mintaro, Orroroo, and Baratta. A similar two-fold zonation appears to exist in the Mouth Painter—Copley—Marree area. Metamorphic adjustment of the stable carbon isotopic composition of the kerogen is also evident. Kerogen rank correlates well with illite crystallinity. Illites in the western zone have Weaver indices of less than six. Crystallinity increases to the east where 2M illite becomes the dominant illite polymorph. The eastern graphitic zone largely coincides in location and extent with a zone of linear aeromagnetic anomalies of amplitude exceeding 100 gammas. In the lower Tapley Hill Formation the anomaly is attributed to remanent magnetism, probably associted with metamorphic growth of magnetite.All three indicators suggest an increase in metamorphic grade from west to east across the geosyncline, in agreement with published observations based on conventional petrographic analysis of pelitic (and to a lesser extent, carbonate) rocks. Illite and chlorite, characteristic of the anchizone of burial diagenesis, are the dominant sheet silicates in the shales studied, although incipient metamorphic alteration of chlorite to biotite has occurred in some specimens from the graphitic zone. The subgraphitic and graphitic facies of the Tindelpina Shale correspond with the chlorite and biotite (and higher) zones, respectively, of low-pressure intermediate-type metamorphism previously established for the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges.Greater depth of burial of the lower Tapley Hill Formation in the eastern half of the geosyncline would account for the metamorphic trend observed in its organic matter and clay mineral content. Differential burial does not, however, adequately explain the magnetics, nor the absence of biotite-grade rocks in the central Flinders Ranges. Other magnetically anomalous beds are found throughout the Adelaide System and in overlying Cambrian strata. For the magnetism in these different stratigraphic intervals to be of metamorphic derivation, a regional thermal event, perhaps related to the Cambro-Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny, must be postulated. 相似文献