Lithogeochemical exploration for shale-hosted lead-zinc deposits: Case studies from the McArthur River and Mt Isa Districts,northern Australia     

R. Beeson  R. C. Berg  N. J. Crase 《Mineralium Deposita》1989,24(4):299-307

The large lead-zinc deposits of Middle Proterozoic age in northern Australia occur in sediments interpreted as having been deposited under saline, shallow-emergent conditions. Significant alkaline diagenesis is evident from the presence of abundant K-feldspar and locally albite. Alkali element compositions clearly distinguish the sediments of the mineralised shallow-emergent locations both from those of more permanent water cover (lacustrine or lagoonal), and from those close to basin margins. The key variables for identifying the geochemical contrasts are the levels of K, Rb and Na, and the ratios of K : Al and K : Rb. These geochemical parameters can be used in conjunction with the levels of the target and indicator elements to detect whether mineralisation may be present in a favourable geological environment. Two case studies of the application of whole rock geochemistry in base metal exploration are given for the Glyde River Sub-basin (McArthur Basin) and the Western Succession, Mt Isa Block.  相似文献   

Petrology of a xenolith of ferro-aluminous gneiss from the Nain complex     

Jonathan H. Berg  Robert A. Wiebe 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1985,90(2-3):226-235

Several gneissic xenoliths occur in granite which has been intruded along the contact between an anorthosite body and gneisses in the Nain complex, Labrador. One of these xenoliths is a ferro-aluminous gneiss with ovoids, 1–3 cm in diameter, consisting of an intimate mixture of fine, granular cordierite-olivine-spinel-orthopyroxene-plagioclase-ilmenite-pyrrhotite enclosed by poikilitic grains of garnet and orthoamphibole. Biotite occurs as both granular and poikilitic grains. The textures indicate a two-stage contact metamorphic history characterized by the simplified reaction: cordierite+olivine+spinel+plagioclase +orthopyroxene→garnet+orthoamphibole Although, on the basis of texture, the reactants represent the early stage assemblage and the products represent the final stage, the distribution coefficient data for Fe-Mg indicate that, except for orthopyroxene, all of the minerals were stable and in equilibrium during the final stage. The coexistence of cordierite and olivine indicates that pressure was less than 3 kbar. The phase relationships agree well with the experimental work of Hsu and Burnham (1969) on the almandine-pyrope join at 2 kbar and indicate a temperature of 800° C for the first stage and 615° C for the second stage of contact metamorphism. This close agreement also suggests that the ovoids at one time may have been garnet porphyroblasts that were decomposed during the first stage. These data correlate well with the field relations: the first-stage, high-temperature effects were likely caused by the intrusion of the anhydrous anorthositic body and the second-stage, low-temperature effects by the invasion of the volatile-rich granite.  相似文献   

Speciation of boron with Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+ and Pb2+ in 0.7 M KNO3 and in sea-water     

Constant M.G. van den Berg 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1984,48(12):2613-2617

The stability constants, $\text{K}{}^1{}_{\mathrm{MB}}$, for borate complexes with the ions of Cu, Pb, Cd and Zn are determined in this work by DPASV in 0.7 M KNO₃ at metal concentrations of 10^?7 M. The acidity constants of the Cu²⁺ ion are determined by DPASV in the same conditions. The following values for log $\text{K}{}^1{}_{\mathrm{MB}}$ () have been obtained: CuB: 3.48, CuB₂: 6.13, PbB: 2.20, PbB₂: 4.41, ZnB: 0.9, ZnB₂: 3.32, CdB: 1.42, and CdB₂: 2.7, while the values for the acidity constants of Cu are $\text{pK}{}^1{}_{\mathrm{CuOH}}\text{= 7.66}$ and . At the low concentration of boron in 35%. S sea-water complexes with borate represent only about 0.2% Cu, 0.03% Pb, 0.02% Zn and 0.003% Cd.  相似文献   

Abstracts     

A. Campo Bagatin  P. Farinella  P. Paolicchi  Yu. V. Barkin  P. Bonnefond  P. Exertier  Eric Bois  Sławomir Breiter  Adrian Brunini  J. Klačka  J. Kaufmannová  Marianne Lefftz  Hilaire Legros  Nina A. Solovaya  Eduard M. Pittich 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1993,57(1-2):403-404

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Comment on Lewin and Brewer (2001): “Predicting channel patterns”, Geomorphology 40, 329–339     

Jan H. Van den Berg  Brian P. Bledsoe 《Geomorphology》2003,53(3-4):333-337

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On the role of subducting oceanic plateaus in the development of shallow flat subduction   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jeroen van Hunen  Arie P. van den Berg  Nico J. Vlaar 《Tectonophysics》2002,352(3-4)

Oceanic plateaus, aseismic ridges or seamount chains all have a thickened crust and their subduction has been proposed as a possible mechanism to explain the occurrence of flat subduction and related absence of arc magmatism below Peru, Central Chile and at the Nankai Trough (Japan). Their extra compositional buoyancy could prohibit the slab from sinking into the mantle. With a numerical thermochemical convection model, we simulated the subduction of an oceanic lithosphere that contains an oceanic crustal plateau of 18-km thickness. With a systematic variation, we examined the required physical parameters to obtain shallow flat subduction. Metastability of the basaltic crust in the eclogite stability field is of crucial importance for the slab to remain buoyant throughout the subduction process. In a 44-Ma-old subducting plate, basalt must be able to survive a temperature of 600–700 °C to keep the plate buoyant sufficiently long to cause a flat-slab segment. We found that the maximum yield stress in the slab must be limited to about 600 MPa to allow for the necessary bending to the horizontal. Young slabs show flat subduction for larger parameter ranges than old slabs, since they are less gravitationally unstable and show less resistance against bending. Hydrous weakening of the mantle wedge area and lowermost continent are required to allow for the necessary deformation of a change in subduction style from steep to flat. The maximum flat slab extent is about 300 km, which is sufficient to explain the observed shallow flat subduction near the Nankai Trough (Japan). However, additional mechanisms, such as active overthrusting by an overriding continental plate, need to be invoked to explain the flat-slab segments up to 500 km long below Peru and Central Chile.  相似文献   

A map-view restoration of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic system for the Early Miocene     

Kamil Ustaszewski  Stefan M. Schmid  Bernhard Fügenschuh  Matthias Tischler  Eduard Kissling  Wim Spakman 《Swiss Journal of Geoscience》2008,101(1):273-294

A map-view palinspastic restoration of tectonic units in the Alps, Carpathians and Dinarides reveals the plate tectonic configuration before the onset of Miocene to recent deformations. Estimates of shortening and extension from the entire orogenic system allow for a semi-quantitative restoration of translations and rotations of tectonic units during the last 20 Ma. Our restoration yielded the following results: (1) The Balaton Fault and its eastern extension along the northern margin of the Mid-Hungarian Fault Zone align with the Periadriatic Fault, a geometry that allows for the eastward lateral extrusion of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian (ALCAPA) Mega-Unit. The Mid-Hungarian Fault Zone accommodated simultaneous strike-perpendicular shortening and strike-slip movements, concomitant with strike-parallel extension. (2) The Mid-Hungarian Fault Zone is also the locus of a former plate boundary transforming opposed subduction polarities between Alps (including Western Carpathians) and Dinarides. (3) The ALCAPA Mega-Unit was affected by 290 km extension and fits into an area W of present-day Budapest in its restored position, while the Tisza-Dacia Mega-Unit was affected by up to 180 km extension during its emplacement into the Carpathian embayment. (4) The external Dinarides experienced Neogene shortening of over 200 km in the south, contemporaneous with dextral wrench movements in the internal Dinarides and the easterly adjacent Carpatho-Balkan orogen. (5) N–S convergence between the European and Adriatic plates amounts to some 200 km at a longitude of 14° E, in line with post-20 Ma subduction of Adriatic lithosphere underneath the Eastern Alps, corroborating the discussion of results based on high-resolution teleseismic tomography.The displacement of the Adriatic Plate indenter led to a change in subduction polarity along a transect through the easternmost Alps and to substantial Neogene shortening in the eastern Southern Alps and external Dinarides. While we confirm that slab-pull and rollback of oceanic lithosphere subducted beneath the Carpathians triggered back-arc extension in the Pannonian Basin and much of the concomitant folding and thrusting in the Carpathians, we propose that the rotational displacement of this indenter provided a second important driving force for the severe Neogene modifications of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system.  相似文献   

Mesoscale and tidal oscillations in surface pressure data     

Drs. W. D. van den Berg 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》1983,32(4):375-388

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Low-Temperature Oxidation of Magnetite in Loess-Paleosol Sequences: A Correction Of Rock Magnetic Parameters     

Petrovský  Eduard 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2000,44(3):460-463

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A characteristics-based method for solving the transport equation and its application to the process of mantle differentiation and continental root growth     

Jeroen H. de Smet  Arie P. van den Berg  Nico J. Vlaar  & David A. Yuen 《Geophysical Journal International》2000,140(3):651-659

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