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Jens Gutzmer 《Mineralium Deposita》2006,40(6-7):664-685
The Pering deposit on the Ghaap Plateau, Northwestern Province, South Africa, was the largest of several Zn–Pb occurrences hosted by Neoarchean platform dolostones of the Transvaal Supergroup. With a Paleoproterozoic mineralization age, these occurrences are widely regarded as the oldest representatives of Mississippi Valley-type Pb–Zn deposits. Hosting an initial resource of 18 Mt at an average grade of 3.6 wt% Zn and 0.6 wt% Pb, the Pering deposit was mined from 1984 until its final closure at the end of November 2002. In this study, available geological and grade distribution maps were evaluated and complemented by the examination of mining-related outcrops, drill core, and a large set of ore and host rock samples. Four different styles of brecciation can be distinguished at the Pering deposit: (1) pyritic rock matrix breccia; (2) chemical wear breccia; (3) mosaic breccia; and (4) crackle breccia. Geological and mineral paragenetic observations on these different breccia types suggest that the formation of the Pering deposit commenced with an initial stage of hydrothermal karstification. Large volumes of pyritic rock matrix breccia formed by wall rock collapsing into the open space attributed to carbonate dissolution. This stage of hydrothermal karstification acted as ground preparation for the subsequent mineralization event. By the upward advance of the hydrothermal karstification process, fluid reservoirs in the previously undisturbed dolostone host rock succession were tapped, ultimately leading to fluid mixing. Hydrothermal sulphides are the most abundant where fluid mixing was most effective, i.e. along the outer and upper margins of the breccia bodies, and in stratabound zones along permeable host rock units. Chemical wear brecciation and formation of large volumes of fine-grained replacive sphalerite mineralization mark the early stage of hydrothermal Zn–Pb mineralization associated with this fluid mixing. The fine-grained stage of sulphide mineralization was succeeded by very coarse-grained open-space-infill mineralization. The latter is very uniform across the entire deposit and typically cements mosaic and crackle breccia, but also fills remaining open space within chemical wear brecciated portions of the deposit. 相似文献
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A breccia vein sampled from a shear zone in greenschist facies metapelites at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, shows a systematic variation in vein geometry that is related to the geometry of folding and faulting within the sample. Calcite vein-fill is coarse grained and equigranular, suggesting precipitation in a fluid-filled space. Partially folded veins suggest that veining occurred during folding and faulting. The breccia vein contains a central zone in which dilation has occurred simultaneously in all directions in the plane of section, implying that this was a zone of high fluid pressure and nearly isostatic differential stress during folding and faulting. From these observations, it can be inferred that the breccia vein was a zone of high permeability and a likely fluid channel during deformation. This hypothesis was tested by stable isotope analysis of veins and host rocks. The calcite veins have δ13 C values of -11.1 ± 0.1% and δ18 O values of 6-10%o , whereas the host metapelite has δ13 C values of -10.62 and -10.11% and δ18 O values of 14-15%o . These values are consistent with an igneous-derived, H2 O-dominated fluid that exchanged little oxygen with the host rocks, but derived much of its carbon from the wall rock. The isotopic disequilibrium between the veins and the wall rock confirms that the fluid was externally derived, and that the breccia vein acted as a channel for large-volume fluid flow within the shear zone. 相似文献
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陕西双王金矿床角砾岩动力学成因探讨 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
双王金矿可拼性含金角砾岩是流体致裂角砾岩,而不是构造角砾岩或隐爆角砾岩。该区的深源异常高压流体是角砾岩产生的必要条件。角砾岩的动力学成因主要是区域变质作用、地壳隆升剥蚀作用和地下岩浆活动等形成异常高压流体,在重力、浮力和地热梯度的驱动下,在能干性强的岩石中产生裂隙,并向浅部增殖,被碳酸盐矿物等充填胶结。周而复始的流体压裂—沉淀愈合作用,使金多次富集,形成矿体。 相似文献
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新疆叶城叉路口铅锌矿是喀喇昆仑北麓的叶尔羌河上游的一处中型铅锌矿床。铅锌矿体产于神仙湾二叠-三叠纪边缘裂陷带的中-下二叠统神仙湾组上段中,矿体的围岩有碎裂状的粉砂质板岩、白云质大理岩、泥晶灰岩,以及构造角砾岩等,铅锌矿体受断裂及碎裂化岩石的控制,矿体主要呈层状、似层状或大透镜状,但也有小型脉状含矿石英脉穿切层理,矿石构造有条纹-条带状、块状构造、团块状、斑点状、浸染状构造,矿物组合显示简单硫化物组合特点,围岩蚀变主要有硅化、绿泥石化和碳酸盐化,蚀变强度较弱。铅锌矿床特征既反映出沉积成矿的某些特点,也显示出后期热液成矿的许多特征,在综合对比区域铅锌矿成矿规律之后认为,叉路口铅锌矿的矿床成因为沉积-热液改造型铅锌矿床,属于复因-后成矿床范畴。 相似文献
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P. K. Seccombe 《Mineralium Deposita》1990,25(4):304-312
Fluid inclusion and sulphur isotope data for the discordant, metasediment-hosted massive sulphide deposit at Elura are consistent with a syntectonic origin of the orebodies. Thermometric and laser Raman microprobe analyses indicate that two-phase, primary fluid inclusions are low salinity and H2O-CO2-CH4 types. Inclusion fluids from quartz in ore yield homogenisation temperatures (Th) ranging from 298 ° to 354 °C (mean 320 °C). They are likely to have been trapped close to the solvus of the H2O-CO2-(CH4-NaCl) system and thus should give temperatures of the mineralising fluid. An additional, low Th population of later fluid inclusions is recognised in quartz from ore and syntectonic extension veins in the adjacent wallrock. Th's for these low CO2bearing inclusions range from 150 to 231 °C (mean 190 °C), and should be considerably lower than true trapping temperatures. Sulphur isotopic composition (34S) of pyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite and galena ranges from 4.7 to 12.6% and indicates a sulphur source from underlying Cobar Supergroup metasediments. An average temperature of 275 °C from the sphalerite-galena sulphur isotopic thermometer suggests isotopic re-equilibration below peak metamorphic temperatures. 相似文献
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The Lewis Ponds Zn–Pb–Cu–Ag–Au deposit, located in the eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, central western New South Wales, exhibits the characteristics of both volcanic-hosted massive sulphide and carbonate-hosted replacement deposits. Two stratabound massive to disseminated sulphide zones, Main and Toms, occur in a tightly folded Upper Silurian sequence of marine felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks. They have a combined indicated resource of 5.7 Mt grading 3.5% Zn, 2.0% Pb, 0.19% Cu, 97 g/t Ag and 1.9 g/t Au. Main Zone is hosted by a thick unit of poorly sorted mixed provenance breccia, limestone-clast breccia and quartz crystal-rich sandstone, whereas Toms Zone occurs in the overlying siltstone. Pretectonic carbonate–chalcopyrite–pyrite and quartz–pyrite stringer veins occur in the footwall porphyritic dacite, south of Toms Zone. Strongly sheared dolomite–chalcopyrite–pyrrhotite veins directly underlie the Toms massive sulphide lens. The mineralized zones consist predominantly of pyrite, sphalerite and galena. Paragenetically early framboidal, dendritic and botryoidal pyrite aggregates and tabular pyrrhotite pseudomorphs of sulphate occur throughout the breccia and sandstone beds that host Main Zone, but are rarely preserved in the annealed massive sulphide in Toms Zone. Main and Toms zones are associated with a semi-conformable hydrothermal alteration envelope, characterized by texturally destructive chlorite-, dolomite- and quartz-rich assemblages. Dolomite, chlorite, quartz, calcite and sulphides have selectively replaced breccia and sandstone beds in the Main Zone host sequence, whereas the underlying porphyritic dacite is weakly sericite altered. Vuggy and botryoidal textures resulted from partial dissolution of the dolomite-altered sedimentary rocks and unimpeded growth of base metal sulphides, carbonate and quartz into open cavities. The intense chlorite-rich alteration assemblage, underlying Toms Zone, grades outward into a weak pervasive sericite–quartz assemblage with distance from the massive sulphide lens. Limestone clasts and hydrothermal dolomite at Lewis Ponds are enriched in light carbon and oxygen isotopes. The dolomite yielded 13CVPDB values of –11 to +1 and 18OVSMOW values of 6 to 16. Liquid–vapour fluid inclusions in the dolomite have low salinities (1.4–7.7 equiv. wt% NaCl) and homogenization temperatures (166–232°C for 1,000 m water depth). Dolomitization probably involved fluid mixing or fluid–rock interactions between evolved heated seawater and the limestone-bearing facies, prior to and during mineralization. 34SVCDT values range from 2.0 to 5.0 in the massive sulphide and 3.9 to 7.4 in the footwall carbonate–chalcopyrite–pyrite stringer veins, indicating that the hydrothermal fluid may have contained mamgatic sulphur and a component of partially reduced seawater. The sulphide mineral assemblages at Lewis Ponds are consistent with moderate to strongly reduced conditions during diagenesis and mineralization. Low temperature dolomitization of limestone-bearing facies in the Main Zone host sequence created secondary porosity and provided a reactive host for fluid-rock interactions. Main Zone formed by lateral fluid flow and sub-seafloor replacement of the poorly sorted breccia and sandstone beds. Base metal sulphide deposition probably resulted from dissolution of dolomite, fluid mixing and increased fluid pH. Pyrite, sphalerite and galena precipitated from a relatively low temperature, 150–250°C hydrothermal fluid. In contrast, Toms Zone was emplaced into fine-grained sediment at or near the seafloor, above a zone of focused up-flowing hydrothermal fluids. Copper-rich assemblages were deposited in the Toms Zone footwall and massive sulphide lenses in Main and Toms zones as the hydrothermal system intensified. During the D1 deformation, fracture-controlled fluids within the Lewis Ponds fault zone and adjacent footwall volcanic succession remobilized sulphides into syntectonic quartz veins. Lewis Ponds is a rare example of a synvolcanic sub-seafloor hydrothermal system developed within fossiliferous limestone-bearing facies. The close spatial association between limestone, hydrothermal dolomite, massive sulphide and dacite provides a basis for new exploration targets elsewhere in New South Wales.Editorial handling: D. Lentz 相似文献
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山东七宝山角砾岩筒成矿流体构造动力学过程 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
山东七宝山角砾岩筒内外流体构造（岩）类型多样,具自身特有的时空结构。岩筒内角砾岩胶结胶体中的结晶矿物和矿体类型在空间分布上具规律性的结构特征,并与角砾岩体分布的结构相吻合。角砾岩筒结构,构造的构造动力学分析结果表明,角砾岩筒岩石的破裂形成于流体的双重致裂作用的脉动扩展,即：在流体的热应力和液压双重作用下形成性质不同的节理裂隙和上凸锥面状裂隙带,并脉动式往上扩展形成圆柱状压裂角砾岩体;锥面状裂隙带顶 相似文献
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为研究结构面性状对锦屏大奔流料场边坡岩体性质的影响,在对该边坡砂岩进行室内三轴压缩试验的基础上,开展含4组不同结构面性状岩体的力学模拟测试,最后对该边坡岩体的开挖进行数值模拟。试验结果表明,岩样破坏过程可以分为4个典型的阶段: 弹性变形阶段,屈服阶段,残余强度阶段及塑性流动阶段。随着围压的增大,岩石破坏所需偏应力逐渐增大,且岩石逐渐表现出延性特征。结构面性状模拟结果表明,含软弱充填结构面比不含者对岩体力学性质影响(弱化)大,有倾角结构面比无倾角结构面对岩体性质影响较大,大倾角结构面总体上比小倾角的影响大,软弱充填厚度对岩体内摩擦角影响较大。实例模拟结果表明,开挖卸荷使得边坡后缘岩体产生卸荷回弹变形,产生X向拉伸位移,煌斑岩脉的存在使得塑性区域沿此软弱带发展,开挖第8步时,塑性区贯通,边坡发生失稳。研究结果对陡高边坡岩体开挖的稳定性评价具有一定指导意义。 相似文献
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Geological investigation of the deformation structures and sedimentary setting of the Emi Group, a Miocene sand-rich accretionary complex, central Japan, revealed a six stage-structural evolution during shallow level accretion in a subduction zone. The early deformation (stage 1) is characterized by independent particulate flow in layer parallel faults, scaly cleavages and web structures, and upward dewatering in dish-and-pillar structures and breccia injections, while later deformation (stages 2–6) involve mappable scale folding, meso- to macro-scopic thrusts and web structures with cataclastic flow. Based on microscopic analyses of these structures, the early faulting with independent particulate flow (stage 1 deformation) is associated with dilatancy and preferred orientation of void space, whereas the later faulting with cataclastic flow (stage 2 deformation) occurs with compaction and crude preferred orientation. The former features imply more permeable fluid migration pathways, supported by the permeability measurements and direct imaging of fluid flow by X-ray CT. On the other hand, the later fault zone has lower permeability and porosity than intact rock, and plays as fluid sealing. Thus, in the early stage (stages 1), fluid flow occurs as focused flow through dilatant fault zones with independent particulate flow or fluid migration by upward dewatering forming dish-and-pillar structures and breccia injections, whereas no evidence of fluid flow is recognized at the later stages (stages 2–6). Namely the fault zones focus fluid flow during primary accretion in shallow levels, and the fluid flow is strongly controlled by the deformation mechanism. Furthermore, the change of the deformation mechanism could be effected by progressive increment of the confining pressure, accompanied with accretion and lithification in the accretionary prism. In the shallow, dilatant-faulting regime where the deformation mechanism is independent particulate flow, focused flow dominates, whereas in the deep, cataclastic regime distributed flow may play a main conduit rather than the focused flow. 相似文献
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文章阐述隐爆角砾岩型金矿床的定义、成矿构造背景、隐爆角砾岩及其矿床特征、成矿流体特征以及隐爆角砾岩成岩-成矿模式等方面研究进展。隐爆角砾岩型金矿床多产于古老地块活化区、中生代断陷盆地边缘、滨太平洋岛弧火山岩带内。矿体与浅成-超浅成中-酸性斑岩具有密切的时空关系,多赋存于斑岩体的顶部。侵入岩具有富碱、富硅特征,属Ⅰ型花岗岩类。当侵入体顶部高热能流体压力大于围岩抗拉强度和最小主应力之和时发生隐爆作用而形成隐爆角砾岩。隐爆角砾岩筒垂向可分为裂隙相、震碎相、爆破相和通道相;角砾粒径从中心到边缘水平分带一般呈由小到大的趋势。成矿流体由于爆发作用瞬间由封闭体系进入半开放或开放体系,产生较大的压力梯度,流体减压沸腾、混合、不混溶和水岩反应等引起成矿元素稳定的物理化学条件变化,导致金络合物的溶解度降低而产生金矿化。隐爆角砾岩筒的形成及流体演化分别具有"自下而上-顺次推进-序次叠加"和"升温-(爆破)沸腾-降温-升温-(爆破)沸腾-降温"的演化过程,其中"沸腾-降温"阶段为矿质主要沉淀阶段。隐爆角砾岩型金矿的成矿具有"一体多型""一筒多型"的特点,运用矿床系列-成矿系统理论指导勘探找矿具有十分重要的意义。 相似文献
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Kevin L. Shelton Justin M. Beasley Jay M. Gregg Martin S. Appold Stephen F. Crowley James P. Hendry Ian D. Somerville 《Mineralium Deposita》2011,46(8):859-880
A newly discovered, extensive sphalerite-bearing breccia (~7.5 wt.% Zn) is hosted in dolomitised Carboniferous limestones
overlying Ordovician–Silurian metasedimentary rocks on the Isle of Man. Although base metal sulphide deposits have been mined
historically on the island, they are nearly all quartz vein deposits in the metamorphic basement. This study investigates
the origin of the unusual sphalerite breccia and its relationship to basement-hosted deposits, through a combination of petrographic,
cathodoluminescence, fluid inclusion, stable isotope and hydrogeologic modelling techniques. Breccia mineralisation comprises
four stages, marked by episodes of structural deformation and abrupt changes in fluid temperature and chemistry. In stage
I, high-temperature (T
h > 300°C), high-salinity (20–45 wt.% equiv. NaCl) fluid of likely basement origin deposited a discontinuous quartz vein. This
vein was subsequently dismembered during a major brecciation event. Stages II–IV are dominated by open-space filling sphalerite,
quartz and dolomite, respectively. Fluid inclusions in these minerals record temperatures of ~105–180°C and salinities of
~15–20 wt.% equiv. NaCl. The δ34S values of sphalerite (6.5–6.9‰ Vienna-Canyon Diablo troilite) are nearly identical to those of ore sulphides from mines
in the Lower Palaeozoic metamorphic rocks. The δ18O values for quartz and dolomite indicate two main fluid sources in the breccia’s hydrothermal system, local Carboniferous-hosted
brines (~0.5–6.0‰ Vienna standard mean ocean water) and basement-involved fluids (~5.5–11.5‰). Ore sulphide deposition in
the breccia is compatible with the introduction and cooling of a hot, basement-derived fluid that interacted with local sedimentary
brines. 相似文献
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云南兰坪金满中生代沉积岩中的铜矿成矿作用 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
兰坪－思茅中新生代盆地沉积岩中产出一系列热液型铜矿床（矿点），以石英、铁白云石与含铜硫化物（包括黄铜矿、斑铜矿、黝铜矿和辉铜矿）为主，呈脉状产于砂岩、页岩中，而单独的黝铜矿、方解石和重晶石脉则产于底部碳酸盐岩中．红色碎屑岩中的浅色还原层内的细脉和裂隙中也具有铜矿化。矿石构造以角砾状、脉状最为发育，矿脉多位于褶皱与走向断裂破碎带的叠加部位。金满铜矿的Ｓｒ、Ｓ、Ｐｈ同位素证据、稀土元素地球化学及液体包裹体资料表明，成矿元素主要来自沉积岩层，合矿卤水属于盆地卤水，流来自于硫酸盐的还原作用及沉积硫化物的淋滤溶解作用。含矿流体是Ｈ。Ｏ－ＮａＣＩ～ＣＯ。体系卤水，成矿温度为１５０～３００Ｃ，流体盐度为５％～２０％ＮａＣＩ。据含ＣＯ２包裹体的测温资料估算成矿压力大于６Ｘ１０＇Ｐａ，相当于３ｋｍ深的静岩压力。根据铜矿床成因研究，笔者提出了含矿热卤水储备与突发成矿作用的成矿模式。成矿前，矿化卤水象石油天然气一样，首先集中到一定的构造部位，在构造活动期突然爆炸成矿。成矿期由３个阶段组成，即爆炸充填、渗透充填与改造阶段，热液活动主要在前两个阶段。 相似文献
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Ajit Kumar Sahoo R. Krishnamurthi Prabhakar Sangurmath 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2016,88(6):675-684
The auriferous lode in the Hira-Buddini deposit is confined to the sheared contact of amphibolite and felsic metavolcanic rock. Gold mineralization in the deposit is associated with sub-horizontal, sub–vertical, irregular and with few conjugate veins. These veins were emplaced during deformation in a ductile-brittle regime as inferred from the megascopic features and microstructures of the vein minerals. Fluid pressure was higher than the sum of the minimum principal stress and lithostatic load as well as the tensile strength of the shear zone. Crack-seal process appears to be the mechanism of vein formation. The microstructures of the vein minerals indicate a temperature of ~500ºC during the vein emplacement. In the auriferous lode, amphibolite and felsic metavolcanic rock have been subjected to intense alteration by the ore fluid with development of biotite-chlorite-tourmaline-calcite and muscovite (sericite)-chlorite-calcite-feldspar-biotite assemblages, respectively. Both the altered rocks contain significant amount of pyrite and chalcopyrite with native grains of gold and silver. Post-dating the fluid activity associated with gold mineralization, there is another stage of fluid activity manifested by the calcite veins and micro-veinlets. 相似文献
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老鸭巢铅锌金多金属矿床中的岩体超覆侵入时形成了一系列角砾岩,其中岩浆隐蔽爆破角砾岩就是矿床铅锌金矿体主要赋矿构造.隐蔽爆破角砾岩可分为隐爆角砾、震碎角砾、流化角砾.老鸭巢矿区广泛分布着晚三叠世-中侏罗世的古岩溶沉积体,这些沉积的孔隙度高且富含地下水.当岩浆超覆侵入此处时,由于外部环境发生急剧变化,岩浆减压、降温、二次沸腾,并不断析出流体,在局部圈闭环境下流体压力将逐渐增大;加之岩溶中地下水丰富,地下水不断的气化,使气体的压力骤然增大.在屏蔽作用良好的超覆部发生了爆破作用形成了隐爆角砾;在爆破的外部震碎带形成了震碎角砾;而爆破之后的流化作用则形成了流化角砾.通过对老鸭巢爆破角砾岩的特征的研究,结合爆破角砾岩形成的地层、构造、岩体等条件的分析来探讨隐蔽爆破角砾岩的形成过程.分析了老鸭巢铅锌金矿体与隐蔽爆破角砾岩的关系,为今后矿山找矿提供服务. 相似文献
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从岩石宏观裂纹变化出发,研究孕镶金刚石钻头在钻进过程中由于岩体裂纹的影响而造成的断裂问题。运用岩石断裂力学理论,结合钻头实际工作条件,简化应力、水力及裂纹条件,建立了简化的岩石断裂等效模型,从理论上分析了一种新型栅格胎体孕镶金刚石钻头的破岩机理。研究结果表明:与常规的钻头相比,新型钻头的特殊栅格结构能有效提高钻压,比压由原来的68.03 kgf/cm2增加到了113.33 kgf/cm2,提高了将近67 %,使钻头能更有效地压入岩体,产生破碎穴及裂纹;特殊的栅格结构有利于冲洗液的储存,改善了金刚石颗粒的冷却效果,从而以更加有利的拉裂破坏方式破碎岩石。 相似文献
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On the pore‐scale mechanisms leading to brittle and ductile deformation behavior of crystalline rocks 
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下载免费PDF全文 Deformation mechanisms at the pore scale are responsible for producing large strains in porous rocks. They include cataclastic flow, dislocation creep, dynamic recrystallization, diffusive mass transfer, and grain boundary sliding, among others. In this paper, we focus on two dominant pore‐scale mechanisms resulting from purely mechanical, isothermal loading: crystal plasticity and crofracturing. We examine the contributions of each mechanism to the overall behavior at a scale larger than the grains but smaller than the specimen, which is commonly referred to as the mesoscale. Crystal plasticity is assumed to occur as dislocations along the many crystallographic slip planes, whereas microfracturing entails slip and frictional sliding on microcracks. It is observed that under combined shear and tensile loading, microfracturing generates a softer response compared with crystal plasticity alone, which is attributed to slip weakening where the shear stress drops to a residual level determined by the frictional strength. For compressive loading, however, microfracturing produces a stiffer response than crystal plasticity because of the presence of frictional resistance on the slip surface. Behaviors under tensile, compressive, and shear loading invariably show that porosity plays a critical role in the initiation of the deformation mechanisms. Both crystal plasticity and microfracturing are observed to initiate at the peripheries of the pores, consistent with results of experimental studies. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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The Twin Creek Limestone in the footwall of the Absaroka thrust sheet contains three sets of bed-normal syntectonic calcite veins. Vein formation occurred during Cretaceous motion along the Absaroka thrust fault as indicated by (1) crosscutting relationships among these vein sets, (2) a previously dated solution cleavage, and (3) calcite twin analysis. Fluid inclusions in the veins and overburden estimates constrain inclusion entrapment temperatures to be between 175 °C and 328 °C. Results from stable oxygen isotopes indicate that the host and vein fluid compositions were in near isotopic equilibrium. Applying both reasonable geothermal gradients and constraints on overburden temperature yields fluid pressures during vein precipitation that are near hydrostatic. All data taken together suggest both that vein formation within the Twin Creek Formation occurred in a relatively closed system, and that the veins filled near hydrostatic fluid pressure. Because the veins fill precursory cracks, vein filling might not reflect the maximum fluid pressure that existed during the complete vein forming process. 相似文献
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Gold mineralization in Southern Granulite Terrain (SGT) of India has close spatial relationship with the shear zones (Moyar–Bhavani) present in Cauvery Suture Zone. Gold is found to be associated with primary quartz veins, placers and laterites. The gold prospects in SGT can be broadly grouped into three provinces i) Wynad-Nilgiri, ii) Malappuram and iii) Attappadi. The auriferous quartz veins are within the deformed biotite/hornblende bearing gneisses and amphibolite. Wall rock alteration is conspicuous around the mineralized veins and gives an assemblage of muscovite–calcite–ankerite–chlorite–biotite–pyrite related to fluid–rock interaction at the time of vein formation. Fluid inclusion studies of vein quartz gives an idea of the nature of the ore forming fluids, the fluid involved in gold mineralization is of low saline and aqueous-carbonic in composition and quite similar to the orogenic lode gold deposits reported world-wide. Micro-thermometric data indicates fluid immiscibility (phase separation) during trapping of fluid inclusions and this must have played an important role in gold deposition. Geochronological studies of mineral separates from Wynad-Nilgiri province using Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd isochron methods of the auriferous quartz veins gave an age of approximately 450 Ma for the vein formation. The present studies on SGT gold mineralization indicate 1. During the Pan-African orogeny, extensive fluid influx from mantle and metamorphism extracted gold from a mafic source and were focused along major structural discontinuities of Moyar–Bhavani Shear Zone, 2. The aqueous–carbonic ore fluid interacted with rocks of the upper crust and triggered a set of metasomatic changes responsible for the dissolved components such as Ca, Si and Fe and finally precipitating in the veins and 3. The mineralizing fluid with dissolved gold in sulphide complex got destabilized due to fluid immiscibility and wall rock alteration leading to the deposition of gold with associated sulphide minerals in the vein system. 相似文献
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Shear and extensional veins formed during the reactivation of the Magdala shear system at Stawell in western Victoria, Australia,
contribute to the formation of the auriferous Central and Basalt Contact lodes. Within this shear system is a range of fault
rocks accompanied by steep-dipping (>65°) quartz-rich laminated shear veins and relatively flat-lying extensional veins. Both
vein sets appear to have been a primary source for the host rock permeability during fluid flow in a regime of significant
deviatoric stresses. The macro- and microstructures suggest that the dilatancy, that produced mineralized veins, formed under
conditions of overpressure generated by fluid infiltration late in a tectonic regime. A new microfabric analysis technique
is used to investigate the quartz-rich veins, which allows rapid integration of the microstructure with the crystallographic
preferred orientations (CPOs). Both the shear and extensional quartz veins have a random CPO with ∼120° dihedral angles between
the quartz–quartz grains, which is typical of a metamorphic equilibrium microfabric. The microstructures indicate that the
quartz has undergone extensive grain adjustment in the solid-state, with grain shape and size affected by interfacial solution
(pressure solution) effects. These features are consistent with inferences from experimental rock deformation studies, where
grain boundary migration is enhanced in a water-rich environment. The onset of solution-transfer processes (pressure solution)
developed as the quartz microfabric stabilized and continued to modify the CPO and microstructure significantly. It is concluded
that grain growth and pressure solution are coupled diffusive mass transfer processes, related to fluctuations in pore fluid
pressures in a region undergoing deformation at near lithostatic pressures. 相似文献