Hydrothermal alteration, fluid flow and volume change in shear zones: the layered mafic–ultramafic Kettara intrusion (Jebilet Massif, Variscan belt, Morocco)     

A. Essaifi  R. Capdevila  S. Fourcade  J. L. Lagarde  M. Ballèvre  CH. Marignac 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》2004,22(1):25-43

During emplacement and cooling, the layered mafic–ultramafic Kettara intrusion (Jebilet, Morocco) underwent coeval effects of deformation and pervasive fluid infiltration at the scale of the intrusion. In the zones not affected by deformation, primary minerals (olivine, plagioclase, clinopyroxene) were partially or totally altered into Ca‐amphibole, Mg‐chlorite and CaAl‐silicates. In the zones of active deformation (centimetre‐scale shear zones), focused fluid flow transformed the metacumulates (peridotites and leucogabbros) into ultramylonites where insoluble primary minerals (ilmenite, spinel and apatite) persist in a Ca‐amphibole‐rich matrix. Mass‐balance calculations indicate that shearing was accompanied by up to 200% volume gain; the ultramylonites being enriched in Si, Ca, Mg, and Fe, and depleted in Na and K. The gains in Ca and Mg and losses in Na and K are consistent with fluid flow in the direction of increasing temperature. When the intrusion had cooled to temperatures prevailing in the country rock (lower greenschist facies), deformation was still active along the shear zones. Intense intragranular fracturing in the shear zone walls and subsequent fluid infiltration allowed shear zones to thicken to metre‐scale shear zones with time. The inner parts of the shear zones were transformed into chlorite‐rich ultramylonites. In the shear zone walls, muscovite crystallized at the expense of Ca–Al silicates, while calcite and quartz were deposited in ‘en echelon’ veins. Mass‐balance calculations indicate that formation of the chlorite‐rich shear zones was accompanied by up to 60% volume loss near the centre of the shear zones; the ultramylonites being enriched in Fe and depleted in Si, Ca, Mg, Na and K while the shear zones walls are enriched in K and depleted in Ca and Si. The alteration observed in, and adjacent to the chlorite shear zones is consistent with an upward migrating regional fluid which flows laterally into the shear zone walls. Isotopic (Sr, O) signatures inferred for the fluid indicate it was deeply equilibrated with host lithologies.  相似文献   

Geochemical constraints on the Laurentide Ice Sheet contribution to Meltwater Pulse 1A     

Anders E. Carlson 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(17-18):1625-1630

Planktonic and benthic δ¹⁸O records adjacent to the runoff outlets of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) indicate that the LIS contributed to the abrupt ～20 m rise in sea level ～14.6 ka, Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP-1A). However, the magnitude of the LIS contribution still remains unresolved. Here, I use a freshwater runoff–ocean mixing model to calculate the LIS meltwater required to explain the decreases in planktonic and benthic δ¹⁸O observed during MWP-1A at the southern, eastern and northern runoff outlets of the LIS. Maximum LIS contributions in equivalent sea level rise for a 500-year long MWP-1A are 2.7 m discharged into the Gulf of Mexico as a combined hyperpycnal and hypopycnal flow, 2.1 m discharged into the North Atlantic, and 0.5 m into the Arctic Ocean, for a total LIS contribution of ≤5.3 m. A LIS contribution of <30% to MWP-1A supports the hypothesis that a significant component of this MWP was sourced from the Antarctic Ice Sheet.  相似文献   

Possible lower crustal rocks recovered on Leg 31 by deep-sea drilling in the Philippine Sea     

David M. Fountain  Richard L. Carlson  Matthew H. Salisbury  Nikolas I. Christensen 《Marine Geology》1975,19(5):M75-M80

Compressional wave velocities measured in gabbroic rocks and metabasites recovered from Site 293 of Leg 31 in the Philippine Sea (on the Central Basin Fault) are correlative with seismic velocities determined for Layer 3. The lower crustal origin for these rocks suggested by this data is further supported by the similarity between these samples, dredge haul samples from fracture zones in the main ocean basins and rocks found in ophiolite complexes. These plutonic rocks were possibly introduced to the sea floor by movements along the Central Basin Fault, a major tectonic feature in the Philippine Sea, or formed as part of new ocean crust within a leaky transform fault.  相似文献   

Landslides control the spatial and temporal variation of channel width in southern Taiwan: Implications for landscape evolution and cascading hazards in steep,tectonically active landscapes          下载免费PDF全文

Brian J. Yanites  Nate A. Mitchell  Joshua C. Bregy  Grace A. Carlson  Kirstyn Cataldo  Margaret Holahan  Graham H. Johnston  Amelia Nelson  Jeffery Valenza  Matthew Wanker 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2018,43(9):1782-1797

Intense precipitation or seismic events can generate clustered mass movement processes across a landscape. These rare events have significant impacts on the landscape, however, the rarity of such events leads to uncertainty in how they impact the entire geomorphic system over a range of timescales. Taiwan is steep, tectonically active, and prone to landslide and debris flows, especially when exposed to heavy rainfall events. Typhoon Morakot made landfall in Taiwan in August of 2009, causing widespread landslides in southern Taiwan. The south to north trend in valley relief in southern Taiwan leads to spatial variability in landslide susceptibility providing an opportunity to infer the long‐term impact of such landslide events on channel morphology. We use pre‐ and post‐typhoon imagery to quantify the propagating impact of this event on channel width as the debris is routed through the landscape. The results show the importance of cascading hazards from landslides on landscape evolution based on patterns of channel width (both pre‐ and post‐typhoon) and hillslope gradients in 20 basins along strike in southern Taiwan. Prior to Typhoon Morakot, the river channels in the central part of the study area were about 3–10 times wider than the channels in the south. Following the typhoon, aggradation and widening was also a maximum in these central to northern basins where hillslope gradients and channel steepness is high, accentuating the pre‐typhoon pattern. The results further show that the narrowest channels are located where channel steepness is the lowest, an observation inconsistent with a detachment‐limited model for river evolution. We infer this pattern is indicative of a strong role of sediment supply, and associated landslide events, on long‐term channel evolution. These findings have implications across a range of spatial and temporal scales including understanding the cascade of hazards in steep landscapes and geomorphic interpretation of channel morphology. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

嘉陵江水资源的开发与防灾工程   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

陈喜昌  刘宝  王洁民  王小龙  罗建宁 《沉积与特提斯地质》2000,20(2):27-32

笔者首先从地学角度阐明长江流域的特大洪水泛滥在人类出现之前即已有之。所以,单靠维原有自然状态尚不跳以防止咱中及长江中下游洪灾;在上游设置具有足够调洪能力的水利工程也是必要的和紧迫的措施。根据四川盆地及其周转的水资源状况、工程地质条件和对环境工程地质问题的预测,笔者认为,在盆地北部边缘山区的嘉陵江（主要是涪江和渠江）上游修建拦蓄工程,不但可消除川中旱洪灾害,同时将大大地减轻长江中下游的洪灾威胁。为此  相似文献   

High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography as a Tool for Visualization and Quantitative Analysis of Igneous Textures in Three Dimensions     

William D. Carlson  Cambria Denison  Richard A. Ketcham 《Visual Geosciences》2000,4(3):1-14

Current seismic tomographical models produce databases with increasing size and higher spatial resolution. Consequently, direct visual inspection and interrogation of the seismic database are becoming more and more an arduous and time-consuming task. Recently, it has been shown that feature extraction can be emphasized and simplified by the use local spectra extraction (LSE) obtained from Gaussian wavelet transform (Bergeron et al., 1999). For example, such a feature may be the subducting slab under Japan or a plume-like object beneath the transition zone under Iceland. A drawback of the LSE is that the physical space dimensionality is added by 1, thus increasing greatly the information content. Our approach is to assimilate and synthesize the set of local spectra by using two proxy quantities: the spatial distributions of the local maxima of the L2-norm, E-max, and the associated local wavenumber, k-max. We propose to test this new computer vision method with two types of noisy synthetic data in order to emphasize the basic strengths and features of this novel method. We show that even if the signal to noise ratio is very low (less than 1dB), the presence of a slab and a plume or columnar structure can be detected in the k-max spatial distribution. The E-max proxy detects background fluctuation modulated by the sharp peaks in the spatial patterns. Without any a-priori knowledge, we cannot perceive these subtleties by a direct visual inspection of the raw data set. With our numerical experiments, we have developed a database of synthetic patterns, as in a dictionary, which can prove to be useful for the geophysical community for comparing with new local tomographic models. Examples of this operation can be viewed on the web. The P1200 tomographical model from Zhou (1996) is also analyzed and zoomed “in” with wavelets. Most prominent of this geophysical example are the significant depth extent of the plate-tectonic boundaries around Asia and the signature of the megaplume under the East African rift.Electronic supplementary material Electronic supplementary material is available for this article at and accessible for authorised users.  相似文献   

Scale Dependency of Hydraulic Conductivity in Heterogeneous Media   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

Dirk Schulze-Makuch  Douglas A. Carlson  Douglas S. Cherkauer  Peter Malik 《Ground water》1999,37(6):904-919

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Isotopic constraints on time scales and mechanisms of slab material transport in the mantle wedge: evidence from the Simcoe mantle xenoliths, Washington, USA     

Alan D. Brandon  Harry Becker  Richard W. Carlson  Steven B. Shirey 《Chemical Geology》1999,160(4):239-407

Spinel harzburgite and websterite mantle xenoliths from Simcoe volcano in southern Washington represent fragments of mantle lithosphere from the back-arc side of the Cascade arc front. Previous studies have shown that metasomatism by either silica-rich fluids or hydrous melts crystallized phlogopite, imparted high oxygen fugacities (0.3 to 1.4 log units above QFM), and more radiogenic Os isotopic compositions on these peridotites. These features are consistent with part or all of the metasomatic agent being derived from the Juan de Fuca slab. New Re–Os, Sm–Nd, Sr, and U–Th–Pb isotopic data shed further light on the origin and composition of the metasomatic agent. The clinopyroxenes from the xenoliths have correlated Pb isotopic compositions (²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=18.63–19.55, ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.56–15.63, ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=38.22–38.87). The most radiogenic Pb isotopic compositions extend beyond the most radiogenic Pb isotopic compositions for the Cascade arc lavas and display a shallower trend. Mixtures between Juan de Fuca basalts and pelagic or terrigenous sediments would result in Pb isotopic compositions that are not radiogenic enough in ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb and ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb at the high ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb end of this array. Therefore, models for rapid transfer of components from the slab to the mantle lithosphere are not viable in this case. Instead, a multi-stage model is preferred. In the first stage, the slab component is transferred via fluid or melt into, and reacts with the hanging wall mantle. This results in a residual slab depleted in Pb relative to U and Th, and consequent high U/Pb and Th/Pb. Additional dehydration or melting of the slab imparts this chemical signature to the peridotite in the hanging wall. In the second stage, the hybridized hanging wall peridotite evolves for tens of million years until corner flow drags it down to deeper levels in the mantle wedge where melting occurs in response to higher temperatures. In the third stage, this melt migrates upward where it metasomatizes the mantle lithosphere represented by the Simcoe xenoliths. Trace element compositions of the clinopyroxenes, and the presence of high alkali glasses in the xenoliths, are consistent with the metasomatic agent derived from the hybridized hanging wall being alkali-rich, and possibly similar to potassic-rich lavas found in arc and back-arc settings. These data therefore demonstrate the importance of the hybridized hanging wall mantle above slabs as a source for melts which can be metasomatic agents in the upper mantle, and as a site for storage of material derived from the slab for periods of at least tens of million years.  相似文献   

Latitudinal variations in Jovian stratospheric temperature     

R.D. Cess  Barbara E. Carlson  John Caldwell  I.G. Nolt  F.C. Gillett  A.T. Tokunaga 《Icarus》1981,46(2):249-255

Ground-based observations of Jupiter show that the planet's stratospheric and tropospheric thermal emission are anticorrelated. The observations can possibly be explained by latitudinal variations in cloud altitude. These variations cause differential stratospheric heating by sunlight which is reflected off the clouds and then absorbed within the stratosphere by visible and near-infrared bands of methane.  相似文献   

A sediment budget for the Choptank River estuary in Maryland,U.S.A.     

L.A. Yarbro  P.R. Carlson  T.R. Fisher  J.P. Chanton  W.M. Kemp 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1983,17(5):555-570

A sediment budget for the Choptank River, one of the three largest estuaries on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, was developed from measurements of sediment carried in upland runoff, shore erosion, sedimentation, and levels of suspended sediments in estuarine waters. Shore erosion was the major source of sediment (340 × 10⁶ kg y^?1), contributing seven times more sediment than upland runoff. Low relief, the rural character of the Coastal Plain drainage basin, and the susceptibility of poorly consolidated shoreline materials to erosion contributed to the dominance of shore erosion over runoff as a sediment source. Box modelling indicated a net annual flux (14–44 × 10⁶ kg y^?1) of sediment from the Choptank River to Chesapeake Bay. A mass balance estimate of sedimentation, calculated as the difference between total inputs and loss at the mouth of the estuary, (350 × 10⁶ kg y^?1) agreed well with an estimate based on ²¹⁰Pb profiles (340 × 10⁶ kg y^?1) measured along the longitudinal axis of the estuary. Lead-210 sedimentation rates correspond to accumulation rates of 1·5–7·9 mm y^?1.  相似文献