The olivine — clinopyroxene geobarometer: experimental results in the CaO-FeO-MgO-SiO2 system     

Gerald E. Adams  Finley C. Bishop 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1986,94(2):230-237

The exchange of Ca and Mg between olivine and clinopyroxene has been studied in the CFMS system. Experiments were conducted in a piston-cylinder apparatus in the temperature range of 1,100–1,300° C and the pressure range 10–30 kbar. Results confirm the previous suggestion (Adams and Bishop 1982) that this reaction has a sufficiently large V° to be used as a geobarometer in several basic and ultrabasic systems. Experimental results were corrected for compositional effects using recent activity-composition models for quadrilateral pyroxenes and olivines. The corrected results indicate that the exchange reaction has aH _{1 bar} of 34,900 J, a S° of -7.25J/deg, and a V° of -0.489 J/bar. Corrected results agree well with calculations based on the thermodynamic properties of the endmembers.Application of the olivine-clinopyroxene geobarometer to many systems will require additional calibration of non CFMS components. Preliminary pressure estimates based on simple assumptions about the activity relations of these components have been made for spinel lherzolites from southwestern United States and coarse and porphyroclastic garnet lherzolites from southern Africa. A geotherm calculated from spinel lherzolites near the Rio Grande rift is consistent with a geophysical geotherm based on near-surface heat-flow measurements of 100 mW/m² or greater. Results on garnet lherzolites yield a southern African geotherm with no inflection which falls at somewhat higher temperatures than pyroxene geotherms calculated for the same area.  相似文献   

Geothermal exploration using surface mercury geochemistry     

Gerald K. Van Kooten 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1987,31(3-4)

Shallow, soil-mercury surveys can be used effectively in exploration for geothermal resources. Soil-mercury data from six areas in Nevada, California and New Mexico are analyzed using contour maps, histogram and probability graphs. Plotting on probability graphs allows background and anomalous populations to be resolved even when considerable overlap between populations is present. As is shown in several examples, separate soil-mercury populations can be plausibly interpreted. Mercury data can significantly enhance the structural understanding of a prospect and can yield important information about the geothermal resource.  相似文献   

DISCUSSION OF "Statistical Methods for Characterizing Ground-Water Quality," by Jane Harris, Jim C. Loftis, and Robert H. Montgomery, March–April 1987 issue, v. 25, no. 2, pp. 185–193     

Gerald L. Sievers 《Ground water》1987,25(6):743-744

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A commentary on the recent CO2-climate controversy   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Robert D. Cess  Gerald L. Potter 《Climatic change》1984,6(4):365-376

Suggestions have persisted over the past few years that, contary to conventional estimates, increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will produce negligible warming of the earth's surface, or might even result in surface cooling. In the present paper we reexamine several aspects of these suggestions and illustrate that they are either founded in various violations of the first law of thermodynamics, or that they are based upon misinterpretations of historical data.  相似文献   

North sea oil: Benefits,costs and uncertainties     

Gerald Manners 《Geoforum》1984,15(1):57-64

The growing importance, and some of the benefits and costs, of North Sea oil production are reviewed, particularly the direct and indirect employment effects of the resource's development. Some of the issues surrounding the rate at which the remaining reserves of oil could be exploited are then delineated: the scale of the reserves, the future worth of oil, the macro-economic effects of oil production and the issue of private vs public perspectives are summarised in turn to develop a view on the most appropriate attitude towards depletion policy.  相似文献   

The collectorless flotation of chalcopyrite ores using sodium sulfide     

Gerald H. Luttrell  Roe-Hoan Yoon 《International Journal of Mineral Processing》1984,13(4):271-283

The collectorless flotation process has been tested on six different chalcopyrite ores while monitoring the potentials ($\text{E}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>h</mtext>}}$) of the pulp. The results show that collectorless flotation is effective only under oxidizing conditions. In addition, the flotation requires that the chalcopyrite surface be relatively free of hydrophilic oxidation products, which can be accomplished by treating the ore pulp with sodium sulfide (Na₂S). On the basis of these findings, methods of improving the collectorless flotation process are discussed.  相似文献   

Argon diffusion domains in K-feldspar I: microstructures in MH-10   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

John D. Fitz Gerald  T. Mark Harrison 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1993,113(3):367-380

Samples of MH-10, a K-feldspar thought to contain discrete diffusion domains for argon, have been examined by light and TEM microsopy to search for domain boudaries. We examined both unheated K-feldspar separates and samples heated in vacuum between 750 and 1150°C in order to characterize the initial microstructure as well as any changes resulting from laboratory heating. The MH-10 rock shows almost no evidence of plastic deformation, and the K-feldspar does not possess networks of dislocations which might define a subgrain structure derived from external stresses. Three classes of substructure are present in the K-feldspar, but only the third appears to have been affected by laboratory heating: (1) Cross-hatched extinction in light microscope is common but variably developed. TEM reveals almost no albite/pericline twinning but tweed microstructure is ubiquitous. (2) Turbid zones occur with about 5 volume % abundance. Micropores, <1 to 2m in diameter, characterize these regions, which often also contain bleds of albite, up to 40 m indiameter, TEM shows these turbid zones to be very complex with intricate twin and tweed structures at the sub-micron scale and numerous dislocation and strain features. (3) Albitic exsolution lamellae (<1 m thick, 20 m long and separated by 1 m) are rarely seen in the light microscope but TEM shows that 0.01 m thick by 0.2–1 m long lamellae, separated by 0.1 to 0.5 m, occur in about 20% of the sample. These lamellae are disk-shaped, have a semi-coherent or coherent relationship to the host K-feldspar, and seem to disappear upon heating to 750°C. Extensive diffusion studies have been conducted on HM-10, and the results analyzed in terms of distribution of sizes of diffusion domains. The preferred result of the analyses was a distribution consisting of three distinct sizes. The largest domain size identified in this way is approximately 50 to 100 m, and this corresponds to blocks of K-feldspar defined by the network of fractured/turbid zones. The smallest domain size inferred from diffusion analysis is 0.1 m which corresponds to the spacing between albite exsolution lamellae that may represent fast diffusion pathways. Alternatively, the modulated argon distribution accompanying the lamellar variation in feldspar composition may result in an overestimation of the initial diffusion coefficients. Even though a promising agreement exists between domain analyses based upon diffusional and microstructural analyses, at least two questions remain unanswered. Firstly, no clear candidate has been identified for a domain of intermediate size. Secondly, the diffusion analysis has been formulated with independent gas release from all domains, whereas the observed structures are likely to be nested (i.e., small domains exist inside bigger domains) with the network of semi-coherent lamellar boundaries having connectivity and permeability which can provide only a modest increase in argon diffusivity over bulk values.  相似文献   

Carbonate alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale beneath the martite-microplaty hematite ore deposit at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia     

Adam D. Webb  Gerald R. Dickens  Nicholas H. S. Oliver 《Mineralium Deposita》2004,39(5-6):632-645

The formation of large martite-microplaty hematite ore deposits in northwest Australia remains a contentious topic in part because important evidence supporting a unifying genetic model has not been observed at all deposits. Carbonate replacement of silica has been found along normal faults below ore at the Mount Tom Price and Giles Mini deposits, which suggests an early hypogene process during ore formation. However, such rocks have not been identified at the largest martite-microplaty hematite deposit, Mount Whaleback. In this study, samples of the Mount McRae Shale are examined for their chemistry, mineralogy and petrography. These samples were collected from several key locations, including an area that immediately underlies ore along the Mount Whaleback fault at Mount Whaleback. Compared to unaltered black Mount McRae Shale from Wittenoom Gorge in the north and altered black and red Mount McRae Shale at Mount Whaleback, reddish-green Mount McRae Shale along the Mount Whaleback fault is greatly enriched in MgO and CaO and depleted in SiO₂. This chemistry arises from significant amounts of fine- to medium-grained ferroan-dolomite and ankerite and cross-cutting chlorite and carbonate veins. The composition is distinct from that produced during regional metamorphism, and most likely represents hydrothermal alteration after metamorphism. The lack of carbonate-rich, silica-poor rocks in the overlying Dales Gorge Member at Mount Whaleback is consistent with pervasive oxidation of most rocks in the region during or after ore genesis, a process that removed carbonates. Although several questions remain unanswered, these results support models that invoke an early hypogene stage during the formation of the martite-microplaty hematite deposits in the Hamersley Province.Editorial Handling: B. Lehmann  相似文献   

Late Quaternary shedding of shallow-marine carbonate along a tropical mixed siliciclastic–carbonate shelf: Great Barrier Reef, Australia     

Gavin B. Dunbar†  Gerald R. Dickens†‡ 《Sedimentology》2003,50(6):1061-1077

Abstract The north-east Australian margin is the largest modern example of a tropical mixed siliciclastic/carbonate depositional system, with an outer shelf hosting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and an inner shelf dominated by fluvially sourced siliciclastic sediment wedges. The long-term interplay between these sediment components and sea level is recorded in the Queensland Trough, a 1–2 km deep N–S elongate basin situated between the GBR platform and the Queensland Plateau. In this paper, 154 samples from 45 surface grabs and six well-dated piston cores were analysed for total carbonate content, carbonate mineralogy and Sr concentration to establish spatial and temporal patterns of carbonate accumulation in the Queensland Trough over the last 300 kyr. Surface carbonate contents are lowest on the inner-shelf (<5%) and in the trough axis (<60%) because of siliciclastic dilution. Carbonate on the shelf is mostly Sr-rich aragonite and high-Mg calcite (HMC), whereas that in the basin is mostly low-Mg calcite. Once normalized to remove the effects of siliciclastic dilution, surface Sr-rich aragonite and HMC abundances decrease linearly to background levels ≈ 100 km seaward of the shelf edge. Core samples show that, over time, normalized aragonite and Sr abundances are greatest during periods of shelf flooding and lowest when sea level drops below the shelf edge. This is consistent with changes in the production of coral and calcareous algae, and the shedding of their debris from the shelf. Interestingly, normalized HMC concentrations on the slope peak during periods of major transgression, perhaps because of maximum off-shelf transport from inter-reef areas or intermediate water dissolution. After accounting for siliciclastic dilution, there are strong similarities in both spatial and temporal patterns of carbonate minerals between slopes and basins of the north-east Australian margin and those of pure carbonate margins such as the Bahamas. A limited set of basic processes, including the formation and breakdown of carbonate on the shelf, the transport of carbonate off the shelf and eustatic sea level, probably controls carbonate accumulation in slope and basin settings of tropical environments, irrespective of proximal siliciclastic sediment sources.  相似文献   

Dislocation generation, slip systems, and dynamic recrystallization in experimentally deformed plagioclase single crystals   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

H. Stünitz  J. D. Fitz Gerald  J. Tullis 《Tectonophysics》2003,372(3-4):215-233

Three samples of gem quality plagioclase crystals of An60 were experimentally deformed at 900 °C, 1 GPa confining pressure and strain rates of 7.5–8.7×10⁻⁷ s⁻¹. The starting material is effectively dislocation-free so that all observed defects were introduced during the experiments. Two samples were shortened normal to one of the principal slip planes (010), corresponding to a “hard” orientation, and one sample was deformed with a Schmid factor of 0.45 for the principal slip system [001](010), corresponding to a “soft” orientation. Several slip systems were activated in the “soft” sample: dislocations of the [001](010) and 110(001) system are about equally abundant, whereas 110{111} and [101] in ( 31) to ( 42) are less common. In the “soft” sample plastic deformation is pervasive and deformation bands are abundant. In the “hard” samples the plastic deformation is concentrated in rims along the sample boundaries. Deformation bands and shear fractures are common. Twinning occurs in close association with fracturing, and the processes are clearly interrelated. Glissile dislocations of all observed slip systems are associated with fractures and deformation bands indicating that deformation bands and fractures are important sites of dislocation generation. Grain boundaries of tiny, defect-free grains in healed fracture zones have migrated subsequent to fracturing. These grains represent former fragments of the fracture process and may act as nuclei for new grains during dynamic recrystallization. Nucleation via small fragments can explain a non-host-controlled orientation of recrystallized grains in plagioclase and possibly in other silicate materials which have been plastically deformed near the semi-brittle to plastic transition.  相似文献