Book reviews     

Yu. N. Korenkov  Carl W. Cable  Vernon F. Cormier  Vassily Levin  Jacek A. Majorowicz  Yehuda Bock  Waclaw M. Zuberek  Teng-fong Wong  William L. Power  Gary A. Robbins  Piotr Raczka  Krzysztof E. Haman  Katarzyna Chałasinska-Macukow  Ryszard Balcer  Henryk Piwkowski 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1991,137(3):309-336

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Sources of Phanerozoic granitoids in the transect Bayanhongor–Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia: geochemical and Nd isotopic evidence, and implications for Phanerozoic crustal growth     

Bor-ming Jahn  Ramon Capdevila  Dunyi Liu  Antoine Vernon  G. Badarch 《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》2004,23(5):629

The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is renowned for massive generation of juvenile crust in the Phanerozoic. Mongolia is the heartland of the CAOB and it has been subject to numerous investigations, particularly in metallogenesis and tectonic evolution. We present new petrographic, geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic analyses on Phanerozoic granitoids emplaced in west-central Mongolia. The data are used to delineate their source characteristics and to discuss implications for the Phanerozoic crustal growth in Central Asia. Our samples come from a transect from Bayanhongor to Ulaan Baatar, including three tectonic units: the Baydrag cratonic block (late Archean to middle Proterozoic), the Eo-Cambrian Bayanhongor ophiolite complex and the Hangay–Hentey Basin of controversial origin. The intrusive granitoids have ages ranging from ca. 540 to 120 Ma. The majority of the samples are slightly peraluminous and can be classified as granite (s.s.), including monzogranite, syenogranite and alkali feldspar granite. Most of the rocks have initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios between 0.705 and 0.707. Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoids (≤250 Ma) are characterized by near-zero _Nd(T) values (0 to −2), whereas older granitoids show lower _Nd(T) values (−1.5 to −7). The data confirm the earlier observation of Kovalenko et al. [Geochemistry International 34 (1996) 628] who showed that granitoids emplaced outside of the Pre-Riphean basement rocks are characterized by juvenile positive _Nd(T) values, whereas those within the Pre-Riphean domain and the Baydrag cratonic block, as for the present case, show a significant effect of ‘contamination’ by Precambrian basement rocks. Nevertheless, mass balance calculation suggests that the granitoids were derived from sources composed of at least 80% juvenile mantle-derived component. Despite our small set of new data, the present study reinforces the general scenario of massive juvenile crust production in the CAOB with limited influence of old microcontinents in the genesis of Phanerozoic granitoids.  相似文献   

Igneous origin of K-feldspar megacrysts in deformed granite of the Papoose Flat Pluton, California, USA     

R. H. Vernon  S. R. Paterson 《Visual Geosciences》2002,7(1):1-28

Many points of evidence, especially igneous microstructures and structures resulting from solid-state deformation, indicate that K-feldspar megacrysts in deformed granites of the Papoose Flat pluton are residual phenocrysts, not porphyroblasts. Evidence of an igneous origin includes features such as crystal shapes, simple twinning, zonally arranged euhedral plagioclase inclusions, oscillatory compositional zoning, and local occurrence in microgranitoid enclaves. Evidence of solid-state deformation of the megacrysts (which is consistent with their existence prior to the mylonitic deformation) includes marginal recrystallization and neocrystallization, microcline twinning, marginal replacement by myrmekite, and recrystallized/neocrystallized “tails”. Evidence of porphyroblastic growth, such as overgrown inclusion trails, is absent. This appears to be the situation in most felsic augen gneisses and mylonites.  相似文献   

Formation of late sillimanite by hydrogen metasomatism (base-leaching) in some high-grade gneisses     

R.H. Vernon 《Lithos》1979,12(2):143-152

Microstructural evidence indicates that fibrolitic sillimanite partly replaced of the highest-grade metamorphic assemblage in the high-grade metapelitic gneisses, migmatites and granodiorite of the Cooma Complex, southeastern Australia. The sillimanite is interpreted as having formed by the action of mobile hydrogen ions on pre-existing minerals, base cations being released and removed from the sites of reaction. The hydrogen ions may have been liberated during widespread hydration of cordierite. The general base-leaching process may be applicable to the formation of late sillimanite in high-grade, migmatitic gneisses in other areas.  相似文献   

Porphyroblast-matrix microstructural relationships in deformed metamorphic rocks     

R. H. Vernon 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1978,67(1):288-305

Most porphyroblast-matrix microstructural criteria used for inferring relative time relationships between metamorphism and deformation are equivocal. Therefore, all reasonable alternative explanations should be considered, and as many criteria as possible should be applied to a particular microstructure before an interpretation is made. Such microstructures should not be interpreted without adequate consideration of metamorphic implications, with emphasis on assemblages, rather than individual minerals.

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Zusammenfassung Die meisten Gefügekriterien der Beziehung von Porphyroblasten und Matrix, die zur relativen Zeitbestimmung von Metamorphose und Deformation herangezogen werden, sind nicht eindeutig. Es sollten daher alle zusätzlichen Informationen berücksichtigt und alternative Abfolgen geprüft werden, ehe man aus einer Gefügeanalyse eine Altersabfolge aufstellt. Eine Deutung der Gefüge sollte nicht ohne Kenntnis der Metamorphosebedingungen gegeben werden, wobei weniger die Einzelminerale als mehr die Mineralvergesellschaftung die entscheidenden Kriterien liefern können.

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Résumé La plupart des critères microstructuraux matrice-porphyroblastes employés pour établir l'âge relatif entre le métamorphisme et la déformation sont ambigus. C'est pourquoi il faut considérer toutes les explications possibles, et appliquer autant de critères que possible sur une microstructure particulière avant de l'interpréter. L'interprétation de ces microstructures doit tenir compte des événements métamorphiques, et, plus particulièrement, des assemblages plutôt que des minéraux individuels.

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Microfabric of mica aggregates in partly recrystallized biotite     

R. H. Vernon 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1977,61(2):175-185

Large biotite grains, up to 1 metre across, in a pegmatite near Broken Hill, Australia, have been heterogeneously deformed and partly recrystallized in zones of relatively high strain, probably under conditions of the lower amphibolite facies. Many of the new aggregates (which consist mainly of more magnesian biotite, with muscovite, and less abundant ilmenite and albite) have a mica preferred orientation. Some of the oriented mica aggregates have grown in kink-like deformation zones (some of which appear to have involved fracturing) and others have grown in dilatation zones (growth of mica probably keeping pace with the opening of the zones). The shapes and preferred orientation of new mica grains appear to be due to varying contributions by (a) mechanical rotation of slices cleaved parallel to (001), (b) coaxial nucleation and/or growth of new mica on rotated portions of deformed biotite, and (c) preferred nucleation and/or growth of new grains in directions of minimum mechanical constraint and maximum transport of chemical components. This preferred growth can also explain the observed high degree of elongation of the oriented mica grains.  相似文献   

World patterns and amounts of detrital soil carbon     

Vernon Meentemeyer  John Gardner  Elgene O. Box 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1985,10(6):557-567

Soil carbon data were collected from published sources for 50 measurement sites spanning the globe's major climate and vegetation types. For each site, climate, vegetation, and land-use variables were determined and entered into a multiple curvilinear regression program to predict soil carbon. The best model incorporates an estimate of site disturbance, annual actual evapotranspiration, and annual soil moisture deficit, and yields an R = 0-803. The curvilinear regression equation was coupled with a large climatic database and computer cartography programs to produce first-generation maps of estimated soil carbon. These maps correctly portray soil carbon as high in boreal and cool temperate zones and low in deserts and tropical zones. Computer planimetry of maps of soil carbon for an ‘undisturbed’ world and for a ‘disturbed’ world resulted in estimates of 1457 × 10⁹ mtC and 504 × 10⁹ mtC respectively. These estimates compare favourably with recent estimates using other approaches. Clearly, the disturbance factor is critical to future refinements in estimates, suggesting the need for detailed studies of the relationship between land-use history and the creation and destruction of this important carbon pool.  相似文献   

Climatic control of the assemblages of secondary clay minerals in the A-horizon of United States soils     

Michael E. Folkoff  Vernon Meentemeyer 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1985,10(6):621-633

The concentrations (per cent) of secondary clay minerals (mica, vermiculite, montmorillonite, chlorite and kaolinite) in the A-horizon of 99 soil sample sites were entered into a cluster program to determine the common clay mineral assemblages found in U.S. soils. Five major assemblages were identified with the most common assemblage consisting of mica, montmorillonite and kaolinite. A suite of climatic variables was determined for each of the 99 sites, including the water balance variables and Arkley's leaching index. A discriminant analysis was then used to predict the occurrence of a clay assemblage from the climate data. Sixty per cent of the sites could be correctly predicted, although not all assemblages could be predicted equally well; two assemblages could be predicted with 88 and 82 per cent accuracy. The precipitation of the wettest month and Arkley's leaching index accounted for most of the predictive power. Thus this study supports theoretical models which suggest that seasonal moisture supply is an important control of clay genesis and persistence. A residuals analysis indicated that many of the palaeosols in the data set and many of the soils from glacial parent materials possessed clay mineral assemblages not expected on the basis of modern climate.  相似文献   

The formation of fragments at corotation in isothermal protoplanetary disks     

Richard H. Durisen  Thomas W. Hartquist  Megan K. Pickett 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2008,317(1-2):3-8

Numerical hydrodynamics simulations have established that disks which are evolved under the condition of local isothermality will fragment into small dense clumps due to gravitational instabilities when the Toomre stability parameter Q is sufficiently low. Because fragmentation through disk instability has been suggested as a gas giant planet formation mechanism, it is important to understand the physics underlying this process as thoroughly as possible. In this paper, we offer analytic arguments for why, at low Q, fragments are most likely to form first at the corotation radii of growing spiral modes, and we support these arguments with results from 3D hydrodynamics simulations.  相似文献   

Inclusion trail patterns in porphyroblasts from the Foothills Terrane,California: a record of orogenesis or local strain heterogeneity?     

S. R. Paterson  R. H. Vernon 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》2001,19(4):351-372

A major problem with the current use of porphyroblast–matrix microstructural relationships to infer orogenic histories, such as multiple orthogonal orogenic events, is that other evidence for these events is typically lacking. For example, a comparison of regional relationships and local structures formed in and adjacent to porphyroblasts present in contact aureoles in the Foothills Terrane, Sierra Nevada, California, shows that: (1) except in shear zones, contact aureoles and local zones along lithological contacts, the Foothills Terrane has a single regional cleavage, although locally formed by multiple processes; (2) the regional cleavage and locally developed porphyroblast inclusion trails have variable orientations, and neither dataset supports the formation of dominantly subhorizontal and subvertical cleavages in this orogen; (3) structural and metamorphic heterogeneities occur at all scales and can markedly affect inclusion trail patterns in porphyroblasts; (4) complex porphyroblast growth features and internal inclusion trail patterns can form in porphyroblasts that grow during short time intervals in contact aureoles, indicating that local complexity in porphyroblasts does not imply regional complexity. Because of these conclusions, multiple datasets, rather than data acquired only from porphyroblasts, should be considered when attempting to understand the evolution of orogens. Furthermore, using microstructural information preserved only in porphyroblasts to infer orogenic processes and plate motions is generally unjustified.  相似文献