Paleomagnetic and plate tectonic constraints on the movement of Tibet   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Michel Westphal  Jean-Pierre Pozzi   《Tectonophysics》1983,98(1-2)

The paleomagnetic results from Tibet, north of the Yarlung-Zang bo suture zone, show that Tibet was at about 15°–20°N in Middle Cretaceous time. It then moved south down to 7°–10°N in the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene. The oceanic crust of the Xigaze ophiolites was magnetized at 13°N but thereafter migrated further south. This movement is compared with the relative movement of India and Asia as deduced from magnetic anomalies and paleomagnetism. Experimental models on deformation help us to explain how Tibet moved during the Late Cretaceous under the constraint of the Africa-Arabia indenter and during the Upper Tertiary under the constraint of the Indian indenter.  相似文献   

The Precambrian metamorphic rocks of Ceylon: A critique of a radical interpretation     

Dr. A. R. Berger 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1973,62(2):342-347

Zusammenfassung Die neue Hypothese von M. B.Katz (1971), da\ die Vijaya-Gneise und -Migmatite das ursprüngliche Grundgebirge unter den metamorphen Sedimenten der Highland-Serie sind, hÄlt einer kritischen Prüfung nicht stand. Die Ältere Auffassung, die Vijaya-Gesteine seien durch retrograd-metamorphe Amphibolit-Fazies-überprÄgung aus der vorher in Granulit-Fazies entwickelten Highland-Serie hervorgegangen, ist aufrechtzuerhalten und kann durch neue Explorationskartierung und strukturelle und isotopische Analysen wesentlich gestützt werden.

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A critical review leads to the rejection of the recent hypothesis of M. B.Katz (1971) according to which the Vijayan gneisses and migmatites formed an original basement to the Highland Series metasediments. An earlier synthesis which interpreted the Vijayan rocks as the result of a retrograde amphibolite facies metamorphism superimposed upon pre-existing granulite facies Highland Series is upheld and is strongly supported by new reconnaissance mapping and structural and isotopic analyses.

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Résumé Un examen critique montre qu'il faut rejeter la nouvelle hypothèse de M. B.Katz (1971) selon laquelle les gneiss et migmatites du Vijáya constituent le socle original sous les sédiments métamorphisés de la série du Highland. De nouveaux levés de reconnaissance et des analyses structurelles et isotopiques soutiennent au contraire la vue antérieure selon laquelle les roches vijayiennes seraient issues de roches de la série du Highland antérieurement à faciès granulitique, et ce, à la suite d'un rétrométamorphisme qui leur aurait surimposé le faciès amphibolitique.

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A note on the geochronology of the Iberian Alkaline Province     

R.M. Macintyre  G.W. Berger 《Lithos》1982,15(2):133-136

A critical assessment of previously published ages and new KAr results for two complexes in the Iberian Alkaline Province (Monchique and Sintra) lead to the conclusion that two separate magmatic episodes occurred around 72 and 82 Ma. Since emplacement of these alkaline rocks is undoubtedly related to rifting and subsequent changes in the Atlantic Ocean-floor spreading geometry, accurate timing of magmatic events within the Iberian Alkaline Province is of fundamental significance.  相似文献   

Combined thrusting and wrenching in the Ibero-Armorican arc: A corner effect during continental collision   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jean-Pierre Brun  Jean-Pierre Burg 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1982,61(2):319-332

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Les xénolites ultramafiques du volcanisme alcalin quaternaire d'Oranie (Tell,Algérie occidentale), témoins d'une lithosphère cisaillée et enrichieUltramafic xenoliths from Quaternary alkali volcanism from Oranie (Tell,western Algeria): witnesses of a sheared and enriched lithosphere     

Mohamed Zerka  Jean-Yves Cottin  Michel Grégoire  Jean-Pierre Lorand  M&#x;Hamed Megartsi  Mohamed Midoun 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(6):387-394

Numerous ultramafic xenoliths occur within the A??n–Temouchent volcanic complex (Northwestern Oranie, Algeria). Most of them are type I mantle tectonites (lherzolites and harzburgites) and composite xenoliths (harzburgite/clinopyroxenite) are rare. Only a few samples of spinel lherzolites display relatively fertile compositions when the major part of type I xenoliths have refractory major element compositions but enriched LREE contents showing that they have been affected by mantle metasomatism. The composite xenoliths are witnesses of reactions of alkaline magmas with the upper mantle. An asthenospheric rising, in relation with the large strike slip fault affecting the North African plate margin at Trias time is proposed as a possible geodynamical setting. To cite this article: M. Zerka et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 387–394.  相似文献   

East Asia plate tectonics since 15 Ma: constraints from the Taiwan region   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Jean-Claude Sibuet  Shu-Kun Hsu  Xavier Le Pichon  Jean-Pierre Le Formal  Donald Reed  Greg Moore  Char-Shine Liu   《Tectonophysics》2002,344(1-2)

15 Ma ago, a major plate reorganization occurred in East Asia. Seafloor spreading ceased in the South China Sea, Japan Sea, Taiwan Sea, Sulu Sea, and Shikoku and Parece Vela basins. Simultaneously, shear motions also ceased along the Taiwan–Sinzi zone, the Gagua ridge and the Luzon–Ryukyu transform plate boundary. The complex system of thirteen plates suddenly evolved in a simple three-plate system (EU, PH and PA). Beneath the Manila accretionary prism and in the Huatung basin, we have determined magnetic lineation patterns as well as spreading rates deduced from the identification of magnetic lineations. These two patterns are rotated by 15°. They were formed by seafloor spreading before 15 Ma and belonged to the same ocean named the Taiwan Sea. Half-spreading rate in the Taiwan Sea was 2 cm/year from chron 23 to 20 (51 to 43 Ma) and 1 cm/year from chron 20 (43 Ma) to 5b (15 Ma). Five-plate kinematic reconstructions spanning from 15 Ma to Present show implications concerning the geodynamic evolution of East Asia. Amongst them, the 1000-km-long linear Gagua ridge was a major plate boundary which accommodated the northwestward shear motion of the PH Sea plate; the formation of Taiwan was driven by two simple lithospheric motions: (i) the subduction of the PH Sea plate beneath Eurasia with a relative westward motion of the western end (A) of the Ryukyu subduction zone; (ii) the subduction of Eurasia beneath the Philippine Sea plate with a relative southwestward motion of the northern end (B) of the Manila subduction zone. The Luzon arc only formed south of B. The collision of the Luzon arc with Eurasia occurred between A and B. East of A, the Luzon arc probably accreted against the Ryukyu forearc.  相似文献   

Water Geochemistry of Three Mountain Streams from Carbonate Watersheds in the Southern French Alps     

Gérard Sarazin  Jean-Pierre Ciabrini 《Aquatic Geochemistry》1997,3(3):233-265

The chemical composition of water from three streamsflowing through a carbonate watershed wasinvestigated. Although the study area is not spatiallyvery large (a few km²), local inhomogeneitieswithin the lithology appreciably affect the chemicalcomposition of the water and the geochemical gradientas a function of elevation. The main chemical processwhich leads to the observed water chemistry is thedissolution of calcium carbonate by atmospheric andmetabolic CO₂. In the stream La Sigouste, thewater dissolves nearly pure calcite and this reactionproceeds until an equilibrium with respect to calciteis reached. In Le Lauzon stream, local inhomogeneitiesin the lithologic composition prevent theestablishment of an unambiguous weathering budgetwhile, for Le Rif de l'Arc a stoichiometric modelshows that the weathering process is adequatelyrepresented by the dissolution of calcite associatedwith a minor incongruent dissolution of chloritepresent in marls. For the two last streamssupersaturation with respect to calcite is observed.For both streams, supersaturation with respect toatmospheric CO₂ is nearly permanent. The observedaltitudinal gradients of sulfate are interpretedthrough a set of biogeochemical redox reactions.  相似文献   

Empirical and Numerical Modeling of T-phase Propagation from Ocean to Land     

J.L. Stevens  G.E. Baker  R.W. Cook  G.L. D'Spain  L.P. Berger  S.M. Day 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2001,158(3):531-565

—?T-phase propagation from ocean onto land is investigated by comparing data from hydrophones in the water column with data from the same events recorded on island and coastal seismometers. Several events located on Hawaii and the emerging seamount Loihi generated very large amplitude T phases that were recorded at both the preliminary IMS hydrophone station at Point Sur and land-based stations along the northern California coast. We use data from seismic stations operated by U. C. Berkeley along the coast of California, and from the PG&;E coastal California seismic network, to estimate the T-phase transfer functions. The transfer function and predicted signal from the Loihi events are modeled with a composite technique, using normal mode-based numerical propagation codes to calculate the hydroacoustic pressure field and an elastic finite difference code to calculate the seismic propagation to la nd-based stations. The modal code is used to calculate the acoustic pressure and particle velocity fields in the ocean off the California coast, which is used as input to the finite difference code TRES to model propagation onto land. We find both empirically and in the calculations that T phases observed near the conversion point consist primarily of surface waves, although the T phases propagate as P waves after the surface waves attenuate. Surface wave conversion occurs farther offshore and over a longer region than body wave conversion, which has the effect that surface waves may arrive at coastal stations before body waves. We also look at the nature of T phases after conversion from ocean to land by examining far inland T phases. We find that T phases propagate primarily as P waves once they are well inland from the coast, and can be observed in some cases hundreds of kilometers inland. T-phase conversion at tenuates higher frequencies, however we find that high frequency energy from underwater explosion sources can still be observed at T-phase stations.  相似文献   

Normal Mode Composition of Earthquake T Phases     

G.L. D'Spain  L.P. Berger  W.A. Kuperman  J.L. Stevens  G.E. Baker 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2001,158(3):475-512

— Understanding the nature of the coupling between the underwater acoustic field and the land seismic field is important for evaluating the performance of the T-phase stations in the International Monitoring System for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. For upslope propagation in an ocean environment, the places where underwater acoustic field energy couples into the land seismic field are determined to first approximation by the local water depth and the normal mode composition of the acoustic energy. Therefore, the use of earthquake-generated T phases as natural probes of water-to-land coupling characteristics is aided by knowledge of their modal composition. Data collected by a 200-element, 3000-m-aperture vertical hydrophone array during a 1989 experiment in the deep northeast Pacific Ocean are used to determine the mode composition of T-phase arrivals from two m_b 4.1 earthquakes near the w est coast of the U.S., one occurring offshore and the other on land. Results from an eigenanalysis approach and conventional mode decomposition for the two events are consistent and show that at 5?Hz, the offshore event's arrivals have higher-order mode content compared to those from the event on land. Single hydrophone recordings at Pt. Sur of two m_b 4.4 Hawaiian events in 1996 and 1997, one occurring offshore and the second on land, display time-frequency arrival structures that are explainable by the dispersion characteristics over the oceanic path. Although other effects due to complex source time functions and shear wave and dispersive propagation effects along the initial land path cannot be separated with these single element data, differences in these two events' arrival structures suggest differences in normal mode content consistent with those seen in the pair of 1989 events. Ocean-path dispersion also appears to play a significant role in determining the i n-water arrival structure from a 1995 French nuclear test at Mururoa. Recordings of two Hawaiian events in 1997 by the T-phase station VIB and the seismic station at Berkeley illustrate that the water-land coupling confuses the relative timing between normal modes, resulting in apparent loss of information about the source.  相似文献   

Oxygen isotope study of Cayenne duricrust paleosurfaces: implications for past climate and laterization processes over French Guiana     

Jean-Pierre Girard 《Chemical Geology》2002,191(4):329-343

Oxygen isotopic compositions of weathering goethite, hematite, kaolinite and gibbsite in duricrust paleosurfaces of the Cayenne region, northeastern French Guiana, were investigated. Samples were microdrilled from different horizons and different pedogenetic microfacies of three well-characterized duricrust units of Eocene (unit 1) and Miocene (units 2 and 3) age. The results provided valuable information on duricrust formation processes and on climate change over French Guiana.The pristine original isotopic signal, suited for reconstruction of past climates, appears to be best preserved in the massive duricrust facies (middle part of the duricrust). In the overlying pisolotic duricrust and in the underlying mottled zone, the isotopic signal is affected by subsequent re-activation of weathering processes. Oxygen isotope data from massive duricrust indicate that Cayenne duricrusts formed from meteoric waters increasingly depleted in ¹⁸O with age. The youngest duricrust paleosurface (unit 3) formed under humid climate similar to present-day, while the two older paleosurfaces formed from meteoric paleo-water distinctly depleted in ¹⁸O, reflecting a “moonsonal” contrasted ancient climate for unit 2 added to the ¹⁸O-depleted nature of the pre-Miocene ocean for unit 1. The results further suggest that the major climatic change, from tropical wet-and-dry to present-day humid regime, recorded in Amazonia most likely occurred in the Late Miocene, and that Miocene laterization events may be responsible for the secondary bauxitization of the Eocene duricrust paleosurface.The oxygen isotopic composition of weathering minerals occurring in massive duricrust horizons, and in particular in hematite nodules and matrix, may be used as a tool to discriminate among the different duricrust paleosurfaces encountered in Amazonia and constrain the evolution of past climates.  相似文献