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Aiming Lin Tadashi Maruyama Stallard Aaron Katsuyoshi Michibayashi Alfredo Camacho Ken-ichi Kano 《Tectonophysics》2005,402(1-4):21
The Woodroffe thrust, central Australia, is a > 1.5-km-wide mylonitized shear zone marked by large volumes of mm- to cm-scale pseudotachylyte veins. The pseudotachylytes display typical melt-origin features, including rounded and embayed clasts, spherulitic and dentritic microlites, and flow structures within a fine-grained matrix. Three types of pseudotachylyte are identified on the basis of deformation texture, vein morphology, and host-rock lithology: cataclasite-related (C-Pt), mylonite-related (M-Pt), and ultramylonite-related (Um-Pt). The M-Pt and Um-Pt veins intrude into mylonite and ultramylonite and are themselves overprinted by subsequent mylonitization. These pseudotachylytes contain an internal foliation defined by flattened porphyroclasts and layering of the fine-grained vein matrix, and the foliation is generally oriented parallel to foliation in the surrounding mylonite and ultramylonite. These observations constrain the timing and environment of M-Pt and Um-Pt pseudotachylyte formation to a protracted period of deformation and mylonitization within the ductile regime of the crust. The M-Pt and Um-Pt veins, as well as the host mylonite, are overprinted by cataclasis and multiple generations of late-stage C-Pt veins that were generated in the brittle-dominated regime of the upper crust during uplift and exhumation of the shear zone.The coexistence of multiple generations of voluminous C-Pt, M-Pt, and Um-Pt veins indicates that the pseudotachylyte veins represent a large number of large earthquakes and accompanying seismic slip over an extended period of seismicity on the Woodroffe thrust. The timing and distribution of pseudotachylyte indicate that the earthquakes nucleated at the base of the brittle-dominated seismogenic zone and propagated down through the brittle–ductile transition into the ductile-dominated regime of the crust. 相似文献
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U. Altenberger G. Prosser A. Grande C. Günter A. Langone 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2013,166(4):975-994
Pseudotachylyte veins frequently associated with mylonites and ultramylonites occur within migmatitic paragneisses, metamonzodiorites, as well as felsic and mafic granulites at the base of the section of the Hercynian lower crust exposed in Calabria (Southern Italy). The crustal section is tectonically superposed on lower grade units. Ultramylonites and pseudotachylytes are particularly well developed in migmatitic paragneisses, whereas sparse fault-related pseudotachylytes and thin mylonite/ultramylonite bands occur in granulite-facies rocks. The presence of sillimanite and clinopyroxene in ultramylonites and mylonites indicates that relatively high-temperature conditions preceded the formation of pseudotachylytes. We have analysed pseudotachylytes from different rock types to ascertain their deep crustal origin and to better understand the relationships between brittle and ductile processes during deformation of the deeper crust. Different protoliths were selected to test how lithology controls pseudotachylyte composition and textures. In migmatites and felsic granulites, euhedral or cauliflower-shaped garnets directly crystallized from pseudotachylyte melts of near andesitic composition. This indicates that pseudotachylytes originated at deep crustal conditions (>0.75 GPa). In mafic protoliths, quenched needle-to-feather-shaped high-alumina orthopyroxene occurs in contact with newly crystallized plagioclase. The pyroxene crystallizes in garnet-free and garnet-bearing veins. The simultaneous growth of orthopyroxene and plagioclase as well as almandine, suggests lower crustal origin, with pressures in excess of 0.85 GPa. The existence of melts of different composition in the same vein indicates the stepwise, non-equilibrium conditions of frictional melting. Melt formed and intruded into pre-existing anisotropies. In mafic granulites, brittle faulting is localized in a previously formed thin high-temperature mylonite bands. migmatitic gneisses are deformed into ultramylonite domains characterized by s-c fabric. Small grain size and fluids lowered the effective stress on the c planes favouring a seismic event and the consequent melt generation. Microstructures and ductile deformation of pseudotachylytes suggest continuous ductile flow punctuated by episodes of high-strain rate, leading to seismic events and melting. 相似文献
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鲁西青邑韧性剪切带运动学涡度及剪切作用类型 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
青邑韧性剪切带是晚太古代末期发育在鲁西前寒武纪基底花岗岩中一条规模较大的韧性剪切带。剪切带NW走向,面理直立,线理水平,剪切标志反映右行剪切。石英光轴法求得运动学涡度在0．96～0．99之间变化,极摩尔圆法求得糜棱岩化岩石运动学涡度为0．91,初糜棱岩运动学涡度为0．87,糜棱岩运动学涡度为0．81,超糜棱岩运动学涡度为0．60。运动学涡度表明,剪切带剪切作用类型为一般剪切,变形初期以单剪为主,随应变的增大,运动学涡度值逐渐减小,变形的纯剪分量不断增加,最后以纯剪为主。剪切作用类型及三维参照变形分析表明,青邑韧性剪切带属加长一变宽类型的一般剪切带并且在Y轴方向上有所增长。韧性剪切在太古代末期克拉通化过程中具有加厚陆壳的作用。 相似文献
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辽南金州隆起区构造变形及流体作用 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
详细的野外和室内宏观及微观构造分析和有限应变测量结果表明,自中生代以来,本区至少经历了两期变形,即早期的收缩为及后期的伸展反应,收缩应变主要表现为滑脱－－逆冲推覆作用,具有显著的构造层次性,自中、下构造怪次至上支次依次表现为：基底与盖层之间以角闪石及长石碎斑为主的糜棱岩为特征的韧性滑脱剪切罗系之上的逆冲推覆构造;在该构造２剪切主上部盖层中的寒武系,石炭系等逆冲于侏罗系之上的逆冲推覆构造;在该构造变形过程中伴随有强烈的岩浆活动,表明当时的区域热流值较高。伸展应变及同时发生的基底隆升作用,主要表现为基底和盖层中的韧性正剪切带及大量的正断层,基底中大量的NNE向张性白垩纪花岗斑岩脉及区域性的NNE向白垩纪盆地的形成都和本期构造活动相关。辽南地壳基底中大量的沿糜棱面理发育的长英质岩脉表明剪切变形过程中具有局部熔融作用的发生。对长英质岩脉经流体包裹体成分测试表明主要成分为分子水。在野外对长英质脉体的研究表明至少有两期：形成与滑脱作用有关的长英质脉体为含钾长石少、斜长石多、白色;而和伸展应变有关的长英质脉体钾长石含量明显增大,呈红色。两种长英质脉的褶皱变形反映了各自的变形机制。剪切作用过程中发生的动态局部熔融作用,具有自反馈的自组织特征,从而使长英质脉体在糜棱岩中呈现出韵律分布特征。辽南地壳在较短的时间内发生从收缩应变向伸展应变的转化。原因可能为收缩应变导致地壳显著缩短和增厚,并且同期的花岗岩浆的活动表明滑脱作用过程中莫霍面的初始温度较高并且区域热流值亦较高。这种地壳及其热状态的不均衡,导致地壳在较短的时间内发生基底的隆升及相伴随的伸展作用。 相似文献
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MCT Zone of Alakhnanda valley is a major ductile shear zone in Garhwal Himalaya, which is characterised by different types
of mylonite rocks. On the basis of grain size and the percentage of matrix in the rock, zones comprising protomylonite, augen
mylonite, mylonite and ultramylonite have been identified. The study of microstructures, grain size and crystallographic preferred
orientation of quartz c-axis fabric reveals that the rocks of the MCT zone were deformed by a combination of intracrystalline creep (power law creep)
and grain boundary migration (sliding super plasticity). 相似文献
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Xiao-feng Li Ren-min Hua Jing-wen Mao Jun-feng Ji Chun-zeng Wang 《Resource Geology》2003,53(4):283-293
Abstract. This paper presents a measurement and study of Kübler Indexes (KI) of illite, "crystallinities" of chlorite (ChC), and apparent mean crystallite sizes and lattice strain of both illite and chlorite of the Jinshan ductile shear zone in the Jinshan gold deposit of East China. It is found that the KI values and apparent mean crystallite sizes of illite decrease and the lattice strain of chlorite apparently increase, whereas the apparent mean crystallite sizes of chlorite and the lattice strain of illite remain constant, from altered mylonite to altered and higher-strained ultramylonite in the shear zone. Only slight decrease of ChC is observed.
An obvious negative correlation exists between KI and apparent mean crystallite sizes in altered mylonite with lower strain, whereas a positive correlation is found between ChC and apparent mean crystallite sizes in altered ultramylonite with higher strain. No any correlations between KI and lattice strain exist, whereas a negative correlation and a positive correlation between ChC and lattice strain occur separately in the altered mylonite and ultramylonite. It is suggested that illite Kiibler Indexes and chlorite "crystallinities" most likely reflect deformation behaviors and mechanisms of altered rocks although other factors involving water/rock ratio may apply as well. 相似文献
An obvious negative correlation exists between KI and apparent mean crystallite sizes in altered mylonite with lower strain, whereas a positive correlation is found between ChC and apparent mean crystallite sizes in altered ultramylonite with higher strain. No any correlations between KI and lattice strain exist, whereas a negative correlation and a positive correlation between ChC and lattice strain occur separately in the altered mylonite and ultramylonite. It is suggested that illite Kiibler Indexes and chlorite "crystallinities" most likely reflect deformation behaviors and mechanisms of altered rocks although other factors involving water/rock ratio may apply as well. 相似文献
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藏南曲水地区鸡公-色甫韧性剪切带系统的运动学和动力学研究,不仅对造山带构造研究具有重要理论意义,而且对青藏高原中-南部区域地质研究具有推进作用.作为藏南冈底斯岩浆带曲水岩基中的重要断裂构造,曲水韧性剪切带经历了新生代以来的大规模构造变形,其中走滑剪切作用最为显著,整体表现为右行走滑为主.通过对曲水剪切带中的构造片岩、初糜棱岩、糜棱岩以及长英质脉体等野外观测并结合室内镜下薄片以及石英EBSD(electron backscatter diffraction)组构分析,认为曲水剪切带主要经历了一期韧性变形事件.根据石英-长石变形矿物对并结合石英EBSD组构分析得出,构造变形发生的温度大约为500~550 ℃,高绿片岩相到角闪岩相.剪切带内普遍发育有不对称的褶皱、构造透镜体、σ碎斑、S-C组构和石香肠等变形组构,显示出右行走滑的特征.对研究区34组糜棱面理和9组拉伸线理进行极射赤平投影,糜棱面理的优选方位约为355°∠70°,拉伸线理产状约为95°∠8°.此外,在糜棱岩中发育两类长英质脉体,根据野外分布特征、显微组构、锆石成因学以及岩石地球化学特征综合研究认为,两类长英质脉体为同构造剪切脉体,其年代学可以对剪切带的形成时限起到很好的制约.通过对两套长英质脉体分别进行LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年,得到了38.67±0.88 Ma和35.05±0.29 Ma两组加权平均年龄,表明了曲水剪切带韧性变形发生于35~38 Ma的始新世末期(普利亚本期).这一年龄值处于印度-亚洲大陆晚碰撞期,因此曲水韧性剪切带右行走滑事件可能是印度板块持续向北俯冲,构造应力在欧亚板块边缘释放引起的陆内构造响应. 相似文献
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红山金矿区位于秋格明塔什—黄山韧性剪切带东段北缘,矿床成因研究表明,红山金矿的形成严格受该韧性剪切带控制,属于与韧性剪切带有关的糜棱岩型、超糜棱岩型矿床。花岗质糜棱岩中角闪石276.3Ma的Ar-Ar坪年龄给出了红山金矿床成矿事件的时代上限。金矿石样品中绢云母246.9Ma和246.5Ma的Ar-Ar坪年龄记录了金矿床主成矿期的时代。糜棱岩中新生白云母246.5Ma的Ar-Ar坪年龄,在误差范围内和金矿石样品中绢云母的Ar-Ar坪年龄完全一致,不仅为红山金矿床的剪切带型成因提供了进一步的佐证,也对金成矿时代给予了进一步的限定。 相似文献
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河南省崤山地区金银矿床控矿构造特征与成矿模式 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
崤山位于华北陆块南缘,是河南省重要的有色金属成矿区。为进一步明确崤山地区控矿构造特征,分析探讨成矿就位机制,指导崤山地区中深部地质找矿工作,本文对崤山地区矿床地质特征、构造性质等要素进行了分析研究,将崤山地区控矿构造分为拆离断层控矿构造、韧性剪切带控矿构造和张扭性断裂控矿构造三类。①拆离断层沿太古界太华岩群的结晶基底与中元古界熊耳群盖层间发育,带内发育糜棱岩,崤山北部主要含矿石英脉多发育在紧靠拆离断层带下盘的太华岩群中,矿体就位于拆离剪切形成的拆离断层及其次级断裂带中;②韧性剪切带主要位于崤山中西部和北部,早期呈压扭特性,发育绿泥片岩质初糜棱岩、糜棱岩、花岗质超糜棱岩等,申家窑韧性剪切带晚期表现为张性特征,在其下盘发育有多组与其走向一致的羽列状次级断裂构造,矿体就位于韧性剪切带及其下盘羽状次级断裂带中;③张扭性断裂多发育于崤山中东部,断裂内充填有含金石英脉条带,围岩中多具绿泥石化、绿帘石化、钾化、黄铁矿化等,矿体就位于张扭性断裂带中。按照岩体、构造对成矿的作用关系,建立了崤山地区以深源岩浆为流体、以构造侵位为空间的"双控"成矿模式,指出韧性剪切带、拆离断层带中深部及其次级断裂带是寻找脉型金银矿床的有利地段,燕山期中酸性侵入岩体周缘有斑岩型铜钼矿成矿潜力。 相似文献
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郯庐断裂带肥东段出露的桃源韧性剪切带内发育有长英质超糜棱岩、长英质伟晶岩脉体等。这两种构造岩与剪切带呈现不同的穿切关系, 分别代表着剪切活动不同时期的产物, 它们可以为郯庐断裂带的剪切年限提供重要的年代学制约。本次研究从长英质超糜棱岩的U-Pb锆石测年得出了133.3±4.1 Ma的变质锆石年龄。结合笔者先前得出的伟晶岩脉129±3.3 Ma年龄判断, 郯庐断裂带在133 Ma左右有一次剪切活动, 该次剪切活动在129 Ma左右仍有着较弱的持续, 指示肥东地区在137~126 Ma的时间段内, 有一次挤压活动叠加。此外, 长英质超糜棱岩样品中捕获的1.9 Ga和2.4 Ga的锆石, 很可能来自华南板块基底。 相似文献
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新疆萨尔托海石英菱镁岩中发育的韧性剪切带及其对金矿的控制 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
萨尔托海金矿产在达拉布特蛇绿混杂岩带中。本文首次在该金矿区厘定出韧性剪切带,糜棱岩或者糜棱岩化石英菱镁岩中构成糜棱面理的矿物(铬云母、石英)形成于韧性剪切变形过程中,而切割糜棱面理的方解石-石英-黄铜矿-白云母脉代表脆性变形阶段的流体活动。根据矿物组合相互切割关系,识别出三期构造变形:早期NE向韧性变形(形成铬云母-石英组合)之后,发生了应力方向显著不同的破裂,形成NNW向分布的方解石-石英-黄铜矿-白云母脉;再晚期,应力方向又恢复到NE向,发育了浅层次的脆性构造破坏,形成了白云母-石英细脉。韧性剪切变形向脆性变形转换期间形成了石英-碳酸盐脉,其中往往含硫化物和自然金,此阶段是萨尔托海金矿的主要成矿时期。韧性剪切带控制着萨尔托海地区的金矿分布,成矿作用主要受沿剪切带迁移流体的控制,穿切糜棱面理的方解石-石英-黄铜矿-白云母脉是主要的找矿标志。韧性剪切带对金矿的显著控制表明,韧脆性转换期间形成的含硫化物石英碳酸盐脉以及相伴生的热液蚀变使金富集成矿,矿体一般赋存在断裂构造复杂的膨胀部位。萨尔托海金矿的成因与蛇绿岩的形成和演化没有关系。对韧性剪切带的系统研究是在该地区取得找矿勘探突破的关键。 相似文献
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糜棱岩型金矿金元素丰度与构造变形的关系 总被引：12，自引：0，他引：12
蚀变糜棱岩型金矿是一种成矿机制与放因素都与韧性剪切带及其糜棱岩密切相关的金矿床类型。研究表明：①深部韧性剪切变形是元素分异迁出区,未叠加蚀变矿化的糜棱岩变形越强,Ａｕ丰度就越低;②中浅层次变形域是Ａｕ元素聚集区,矿化发生于韧性剪切带糜棱岩抬升至较浅部位叠加了韧脆性变形阶段。构造变形超强的糜棱岩,越易叠加矿化,Ａｕ元素丰度越高;③强变形或者大构造并应力不仅是促使Ａｕ元素活化分异、形成含Ａｕ热液、使Ａ 相似文献
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桐柏-大别南缘变质流体变质-变形特征及构造意义 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
前人研究认为桐柏山主要是由桐柏核部杂岩单元组成,它是一个早白垩世花岗质片麻岩杂岩体,其中包含一定的三叠纪中高级变质岩石,后期一起经历相同的构造变形过程,在南北两侧形成剪切旋向完全相反的两条大型韧性剪切带,殷店-马垅剪切带就是南边的华南板块由SSE→NNW挤压作用下,在斜切大别造山带的方向上产生的右行平移断裂带。在野外进行地质考察的过程中,发现在该地区变质流体的分布具有一定的规律。因此,本文通过对殷店-马垅剪切带地质特征、走滑性质、糜棱岩及糜棱岩化岩石的变质变形,剪切带内长英质脉体物质组成、变形特征及物质来源等方面研究,探讨剪切带中变质流体的分布规律以及变质变形与变质流体之间的关系。 相似文献
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一条特殊的超浅成脆—韧性剪切带：湘西白沙镇含油瘤状灰岩带 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
湘西泸阳县白沙镇西发育了一条特殊的脆韧性剪切带。该剪切带中除了发育了许多脆性变形外，还发育了许多韧性剪切的标志：如Ｓ－Ｃ组构，方解石鱼、核幔构造、方解石ｅ双晶、方解石波状消光、钙质糜棱岩条带以及（光学）各向异性体。经研究发现该剪切带的形成深度不超过３．０ｋｍ，其中的大量石油也与脆韧性剪切作用有一定关系。 相似文献
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北干沟金矿床是韧性剪切带含金石英脉型金矿床。韧性剪切带以发育糜棱岩和片理化带为特征,应变强度和退化变质作用从边缘到中心逐渐增强,并形成鞘褶皱;韧性构造岩具有分带性;产于韧性剪切带中心部位的石英脉是主要的含金脉体;韧性剪切带的形态、活动阶段及韧性剪切变质岩的分带性对金矿具有明显的控制作用。 相似文献
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A Large Ductile Sinistral Strike-Slip Shear Zone and Its Movement Timing in the South Qilian Mountains, Western China 总被引：6，自引：1，他引：5
XU Zhiqin LI Haibing CHEN Wen WU Cailai YANG Jingsui JIN Xiaochi CHEN Fangyuan Institute of Geology Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Beijing Xie Guanglian 《《地质学报》英文版》2002,76(2):183-193
There is a large ductile shear zone, 2 km wide and more than 3SO km long, in the South Qilian Mountains, western China. It is composed of volcanic, granitic and calcareous mylonites. The microstructures of the ductile shear zone show nearly E-W extending subvertical foliation, horizontal and oblique stretching lineations, shearing sense from sinis-tral to oblique sinistral strike-slip from east to west, "A" type folds and abundant granitic veins. Measured lattice preferred orientations (LPOs) of the mylonitic and recrystallized quartz of the granitic mylonite in the west segment suggest a strong LPO characterized by the dominant slip systems {1010} formed at high temperature (>650℃). K-feldspar of the mylonite shows an 39Ar/40Ar high-temperature plateau age of 243.3±1.3 Ma, and biotite, 250.5±0.5 Ma, which represent the formation age of the ductile shear zone. The 39Ar/40Ar plateau ages of 169.7±0.3 Ma and 160.6±0.1 Ma and the 39Ar/40Ar isochron ages of 166.99±2.37 Ma and 160.6±0.1 Ma of biot 相似文献
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夹皮沟剪切带中金矿脉形成化学动力学 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
夹皮为剪切带中存在着两种类型金矿化：（１）片糜岩型金矿化，（２）黄铁矿石英脉型金矿化（脉）。在韧性剪切阶段，围压较大，△Ｖｒ＜０，不能产生流体压力，也不能形成金矿化；随着剪切带演化，围压降低，产生了流体压力大于围压，即面△Ｖｒ＞０，产生了流体压力裂隙，并有矿化作用形成。矿化早期形成片糜岩型金矿化主要由流体压力裂隙所控制，而黄铁矿石英脉型金矿化则是由流体压力及岩石应力性质所决定。由片糜岩型金矿化转化为黄铁矿石英脉型金矿化是一个漫长地质时期，但由流体产生的成矿裂隙时间较短，大约为４０～８０ａ。 相似文献
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新疆和静县大山口金矿床地质特征及其与穆龙套金矿床对比 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
大山口金矿区赋矿地层为上志留统-下泥盆统大山口组含碳细碎屑岩建造,赋矿构造为大山口韧性剪切带.矿区总体构造线走向NWW向,总体构造格架为大山口断裂和可肯达板断裂两个断裂所夹持的乌兰赛尔-大山口韧性剪切带,该剪切带宽度2~3 km,长度大于100 km;矿区内长度大于1.7 km,强剪切带宽度300~500m.韧性剪切带宏观上表现为强烈的片理化带、S-C组构、b型褶皱、构造透镜体发育,石英细脉表现为肠状褶曲.剪切带主要由糜棱岩和糜棱岩化岩石组成.大山口金矿床即产于该韧性剪切带内,由石英大脉-网脉及其边部的蚀变糜棱岩构成金矿石,金矿体几乎无一例外地均产于大山口韧性剪切带内.矿区内未见有大的侵入岩体出露,但是有较多的闪长岩、英安斑岩岩脉侵入于韧性剪切带内.将矿床与乌兹别克斯坦共和国境内的穆龙套金矿床进行了对比,并参考了穆龙套金矿区超深钻新资料.通过对比可以看出,两矿床的成矿地质条件基本相同,应属于同一个金矿类型,但也存在一定的差别.我们认为,在大山口金矿区,除应进一步加强区域上金矿成矿条件的勘查与研究外,应注意深部成矿的勘查与研究,以期解决大山口金矿床地表金矿化"只见星星、没有月亮"的困境. 相似文献
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台里地区位于华北克拉通北缘东段,隶属于燕山元古代沉降带东南缘—山海关古隆起,该区域内发育一条NNE向的韧性剪切带。通过野外观察和显微分析,韧性剪切带主要由初糜棱岩—糜棱岩组成,发育眼球状构造,主要有σ和δ两种类型,具有左行走滑的特征。研究发现台里地区的眼球状构造并不都是由单个长石斑晶组成,其主要成因有:一种是先期存在的长英质脉体在后期经受拉长剪切变形和石香肠化作用形成的;另一种是原岩中斑晶受拉长剪切作用形成的。对韧性剪切岩石进行有限应变测量(Fry法、剪应变、运动学涡度),明确了剪切应变类型为拉长型,以简单剪切变形为主,岩石类型为LS构造岩。结合前人研究成果,中生代以来,受到太平洋板块的俯冲影响,辽西台里地区经受了强烈的伸展变形,因此,韧性剪切带是在张扭性的构造格局中形成。 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