The “Donauplatin”: source rock analysis and origin of a distal fluvial Au-PGE placer in Central Europe     

Harald G. Dill  Detlev Klosa  Gustav Steyer 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2009,96(3-4):141-161

The mineral assemblage and the sedimentological characteristics of the “Donauplatin” (Danubian fluvial placer containing platinum-group elements (PGE) and gold (Au)) are described for the first time in connection with upstream reference placer deposits near the potential source area in tributaries of the River Danube/Donau. Granulometric and morphometric data have been obtained using the CCD-based CAMSIZER technique. The platinum-group minerals (PGM; iridium, osmium, unknown iridium-osmium-sulfide, ruthenium-osmium-iridium alloys, platinum-iron alloys, iridium-bearing platinum, sperrylite) have been derived from ultramafic magmatic rocks, probably belonging to the ophiolitic series in the Tepla Barrandian unit of the Bohemian Massif. The Au-Pd-Cu compounds in the placer originated from dynamo-metamorphogenic processes in a sulfur-deficient environment at the SW edge of the Bavarian Basement. Gold in the “Donauplatin” has been reworked from a “secondary” or intermediate repository of lateritic gold (Boddington-type). Its primary source is supposed to be of orogenic origin. Provenance analyses of the associated non-heavy minerals point to high-pressure metamorphic rocks, igneous rocks (monazite) and high-temperature metamorphic rocks (750° to 850°C, zircon morphology). Garnet compositions indicate that meta(ultra)basic igneous rocks, calc-silicate rocks and skarns prevailed over paragneisses in the provenance area. Extraterrestrial processes creating the well-known Ries impact crater in the environs of Nördlingen during the Miocene have a minor share in the PGE budget by delivering molybdenum-ruthenium-osmium-iridium alloys and iridium solid-solution series (s.s.s.) minerals. Judging by the heavy mineral suites, Saxothuringian source rocks of the NE Bavarian Basement connected with the Donau River via the Naab River drainage system have not contributed to the element budget of the “Donauplatin” under study. Stream sediments which have been derived from this provenance area are characterized by low-temperature (LT) crystalline rocks and a considerable proportion of pegmatitic and metabauxitic material lacking in the Holocene sediments of the “Donauplatin”.  相似文献   

Heavy mineral-based provenance analysis of Mesozoic continental-marine sediments at the western edge of the Bohemian Massif,SE Germany: with special reference to Fe–Ti minerals and the crystal morphology of heavy minerals     

Harald G. Dill  Detlev Klosa 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2011,100(7):1497-1513

During the Mesozoic, the epicontinental Germanic Basin and the Regensburg Strait the latter being an embayment of the Tethys Ocean that had subsided into the Moldanubian Zone of the Central European Variscides were filled with terrigenous continental-marine sediments. Both sediments’ heavy mineral (HM) grains and aggregates have been studied in a drill section in the Wackersdorf area, SE Germany. The majority of them belong to the (semi)opaque group of Fe–Ti minerals. In Wackersdorf, the entire stratigraphy of the basin fill, which occurred between the Triassic and the Late Cretaceous, is well exposed. In addition to the chemical composition of HM, the morphology and texture of zircon, apatite and Fe–Ti compounds have been studied in a provenance-related mineral classification. Provenance analysis has yielded five discrete source rock lithologies: (1) Moldanubian H-T-metamorphics, (2) late Paleozoic (sub)volcanic rocks, (3) gneisses of the Tepla-Barrandian unit, (4) ophiolites of the Tepla-Barrandian unit, (5) silicified shear zones and quartz cores of pegmatites. The detrital minerals include zircon, tourmaline (dravite-schoerl), apatite, monazite (Ce–Th–La–Nd), xenotime, biotite, rutile, ilmenite, “nigrine” (ilmenite-rutile intergrowth), sphene, amphibole, staurolite, garnet and spinel (Cr–Mg–Al). Based on the allogenic Ti and Fe minerals, a magnetite-type source area (Eh > 0, near-surface felsic to intermediate (sub)volcanic rocks) was distinguished from an ilmenite-type source area (Eh < 0), deeply eroded crystalline basement rocks (gneiss, granite, shear zones). The latter may be subdivided into “nigrine –I” (deep) and “nigrine-II” (intermediate) subtypes, according to the level of erosion in the source area. At the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition, extrabasinal erosion provoked a noticeable variation of allogenic heavy minerals with the incisions of rivers into source rock lithologies (4) and (5). Uplift and erosion along the western edge of the Bohemian Massif took place contemporaneously with spreading and closure in the central parts of the adjacent Tethys Ocean.  相似文献   

EXPLORING THE AMERICAS IN A HUMBOLDT DIGITAL LIBRARY     

Frank Baron  Detlev Doherr 《Geographical review》2006,96(3):439-451

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Relations between submarine fissures,internal breccias and mass flows during Triassic and earlier rifting periods     

Prof. Dr. Hans Füchtbauer  Dr. Detlev K. Richter 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1983,72(1):53-66

Deep fissures in shallow-water limestones filled with deep-water sediments are described from many places especially in the Triassic and Jurassic of the Tethys and in the Middle to Upper Devonian of the Variscian Mountains. Mass flows occur in the same formations and areas. On the island of Hydra (Greece) it was possible to show that both phenomena are linked by internal breccias of well-fitted limestone fragments. They are indicative of slope or near-slope positions and are very probably caused by flexure-like deformations of shallow-burial limestones. Seismic shocks producing overpressure may be instrumental in the disintegration of the semi-lithified limestones thus providing the material for mass flows. These events are associated with a tectonical subsidence as shown by deep-water matrix in the brecciated shallow-water limestones. They occur in areas and periods of submarine rifting, especially in late Devonian and Triassic time. At least four Triassic brecciation events can be traced from Greece to the Alps and correspond presumably to major transgressions in the cratonic basin of middle Europe.  相似文献   

Neuere Veröffentlichungen     

Detlev Machoczek 《Ocean Dynamics》1991,44(2):113-114

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Effects of weathering on organic matter in shales     

Detlev Leythaeuser 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(1):113-120

The most drastic changes of the organic geochemical parameters examined (organic carbon, soluble organic matter content and composition, δC¹³ insoluble organic matter) occur over the near-surface 3 m intervals of two shallow core holes drilled into outcrops of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale in Utah. This observation is believed to reflect the effects of weathering under the semi-arid climate of the study area. Therefore, organic geochemical data obtained from analysis of surface samples should be interpreted with caution.  相似文献   

Vertical hydraulic exchange and the contribution of hyporheic community respiration to whole ecosystem respiration in the River Lahn (Germany)     

Detlev Ingendahl  Dietrich Borchardt  Nicole Saenger  Peter Reichert 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2009,71(4):399-410

To quantify the contribution of hyporheic community respiration to whole running-water ecosystem respiration in a cultural landscape setting, we studied the vertical hydraulic exchange in riffle–pool sequences of the River Lahn (Germany). We used flow through curves from four tracer experiments to estimate flow velocities in the surface and subsurface water. Generally, vertical exchange velocities were higher in riffle sections and a high temporal variability was observed (range of values 0.11–1.08 m day⁻¹). We then used (1) the exchange velocities and (2) time series of dissolved oxygen concentration in surface and subsurface water to calculate hyporheic respiration. Hyporheic respiration was estimated in a range of 10–50 mg O₂ m⁻³ day⁻¹ for the upper sediment layer (first 20 cm). It was much lower in the deeper sediment layer (20–40 cm), ranging from 0 to 10 mg O₂ m⁻³ day⁻¹ (volumes are volumes of interstitial water; the average porosity was 20%). We determined primary production and respiration of the biofilm growing on the sediment by modelling dissolved oxygen concentration time series for a 2,450 m long stream reach (dissolved oxygen concentrations with diurnal variations from 8 to 16 mg L⁻¹). Modelled respiration rates ranged from 2 to 21 g O₂ m² day⁻¹. All information was integrated in a system analysis with numerical simulations of respiration with and without sediments. Results indicated that hyporheic respiration accounted for 6 to 14% of whole ecosystem respiration. These values are much lower than in other whole system respiration studies on more oligotrophic river systems.  相似文献   

The temperature variation across the boundary of dark spots on the solar surface     

Detlev Degenhardt 《Solar physics》1993,148(1):65-84

We suppose the transport of energy in a sunspot (or pore) is described by a diffusion process. The thermal conductivities in the spot and its surroundings are assumed to be constant and isotropic, but with a reduced conductivity in the spot. The sunspot and the ambient medium are represented by semi-infinite strips of variable depth, with one common boundary. This interface is a plane inclined at an arbitrary angle with respect to the vertical in order to simulate the inclined magnetic field at the umbral/penumbral, penumbral/photospheric or pore/photospheric boundary.We show that the region with high conductivity below the interface produces a thermal disturbance in the surface layers of the umbra which manifests itself as a temperature enhancement at the umbral surface in a region near the boundary, resulting in a decreased temperature contrast across the surface. The thermal disturbance in the neighboring medium is confined to a very small region.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  相似文献   

Entdeckungsfahrten in die Polarregionen - Antarktis     

Detlev Machoczek 《Ocean Dynamics》1996,48(2):207-207

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Aromatic components of coal: relation of distribution pattern to rank     

Matthias Radke  Helmut Willsch  Detlev Leythaeuser  Marlies Teichmüller 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1982,46(10):1831-1848

Aromatic distribution patterns have been evaluated for a series of twenty-four German high volatile bituminous B to low volatile bituminous coals of Upper Carboniferous Westphalian C-, B- and A-ages using high performance liquid chromatography and glass capillary gas chromatography. The study concentrates on dicyclic and tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons most of which have been identified by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The distribution patterns of the methylhomologs of naphthalene and phenanthrene are strongly controlled by rank. A sudden increase of individual isomer ratios at 0.9% Rm coincides with an abrupt shift of the sporinite fluorescence colour from yellow towards red. A recently developed aromatics-derived maturity parameter, the Methylphenanthrene Index (MPI), correlated well with the vitrinite reflectance data over the whole rank range. Deviations have been attributed to variations of maceral composition or migration phenomena. The influence of artificial thermal alteration (350 and 400dgC) on the aromatic distribution pattern of coal is described.  相似文献