An overview of the relationship between granitoid intrusions and gold mineralisation in the Archaean Murchison Province,Western Australia     

L.G. Wang  N. J. McNaughton  D. I. Groves 《Mineralium Deposita》1993,28(6):482-494

In the Archaean Murchison Province of Western Australia, granitoid batholiths and plutons that intruded into the ca. 2.7–2.8 Ga and ca. 3.0 Ga greenstone belts can be divided into three major suites. Suite I is a ca. 2.69 Ga monzogranite-granodiorite suite, which was derived from anatexis of old continental crust and occurs as syn-tectonic composite batholiths over the entire province. Suite II is a trondhjemite-tonalite suite (termed I-type) derived from partial melting of subducted basaltic crust, which intruded as syn- to late-tectonic plutons into the greenstone belts in the northeastern part of the province where most of the major gold deposits are situated. One of the Suite II trondhjemite plutons has a Pb−Pb isochron age of 2641±36 Ma, and one of the structurally youngest tonalite plutons has a minimum Pb−Pb isochron age of 2630.1±4.3 Ma. Suite III is a ca. 2.65–2.62 Ga A-type monzogranite-syenogranite suite which is most abundant in the largely unmineralised southwestern part of the province. Gold deposits in the province are mostly hosted in brittle-ductile shear zones, and were formed at a late stage in the history of metamorphism, deformation and granitoid emplacement. At one locality, mineralisation has been dated at 2636.8±4.2 Ma through a pyritetitanite Pb−Pb isochron. Lead and Sr isotope studies of granitoids and gold deposits indicate that, although most gold deposits have initial Pb isotope compositions most closely similar to those of Suite II intrusions, both Suite I and Suite II intrusions or their source regions could have contributed solutes to the ore fluids. These preliminary data suggest that gold mineralisation in the Murchison Province was temporally and spatially associated with Suite II I-type granitoids in the northeastern part of the province. This association is consistent with the concept that Archaean gold mineralisation was related to convergent-style tectonic settings, as generation of both Suite II I-type granitoids and hydrothermal ore fluids could have been linked to the dehydration and partial fusion of subducted oceanic crust, and old sialic crust or its anatectic products may also contribute solutes to the ore fluids. Integration of data from this study with other geological and radiogenic isotope constraints in the Yilgarn Block argue against direct derivation of gold ore fluids from specific I-type granitoid plutons, but favour a broad association with convergent tectonics and granitoid magmatism in the late Archaean.  相似文献   

Evolution of the Lewisian and comparable Precambrian high-grade terrains: R.G. Park and J. Tarney (Eds.). Blackwell, Oxford, 1987, £39.50     

D.I. Groves 《Ore Geology Reviews》1988,3(4)

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Metallogeny of accretionary orogens — The connection between lithospheric processes and metal endowment     

Frank P. Bierlein  David I. Groves  Peter A. Cawood 《Ore Geology Reviews》2009,36(4):282-292

Accretionary orogens throughout space and time represent extremely fertile settings for the formation and preservation of a wide variety of mineral deposit types. These range from those within active magmatic arcs, either in continental margin or intra-oceanic settings, to those that develop in a variety of arc-flanking environments, such as fore-arcs and back-arcs during deformation and exhumation of the continental margin. Deposit types also include those that form in more distal, far back-arc and foreland basin settings. The metallogenic signature and endowment of individual accretionary orogens are, at a fundamental level, controlled by the nature, composition and age of the sub-continental lithosphere, and a complex interplay between formational processes and preservational forces in an evolving Earth. Some deposit types, such as orogenic gold and volcanic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits, have temporal patterns that mimic the major accretionary and crustal growth events in Earth history, whereas others, such as porphyry Cu–Au–Mo and epithermal Au–Ag deposits, have largely preservational patterns. The presence at c. 3.4 Ga of (rare) orogenic gold deposits, whose formation necessitates some form of subduction–accretion, provides strong evidence that accretionary processes operated then at the margins of continental nuclei, while the widespread distribution of orogenic gold and VMS deposits at c. 2.7–2.6 Ga reflects the global distribution of accretionary orogens by this time.  相似文献   

Geochemical and Kinetic Evolution of a Karst Flow System: Laurel Creek, West Virginia   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Christopher G. Groves 《Ground water》1992,30(2):186-191

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Methods of calculating atmospheric densities from satellite orbit data     

G. V. Groves 《Planetary and Space Science》1961,5(4):314-320

Formulae relating atmospheric density to the rate of change of period of a satellite have been obtained by various workers for two asymptotic cases: (i) eccentricity e small (< 0.3) and (ii) e large (> 0.012). These results arc reviewed, and in the overlapping region, 0.012 < e < 0.3, the formulae are shown to be in agreement to the various orders of magnitude considered.  相似文献   

Thermospheric energy flux of the semidiurnal tide     

G.V. Groves 《Planetary and Space Science》1983,31(10):1183-1186

The upward energy flux of the (2,2,2) mode of atmospheric oscillation generated by water vapour and ozone radiational heating is calculated at 125 km for mean January, April, July and October conditions. The values obtained for the global mean flux lie close to 0.05 mW m^?2 with a small reduction in July amounting to 13% of the average for the other 3 months. The effect of semidiurnal tidal heating on exospheric temperature is discussed with reference to the earlier work of Lindzen and Blake (1970) and it is concluded that the semidiurnal tide causes a relatively small increase in exospheric temperature of ～ 33 K.  相似文献   

The vertical structure of atmospheric oscillations formulated by classical tidal theory     

G.V. Groves 《Planetary and Space Science》1982,30(3):219-244

From the equations of classical tidal theory with Newtonian cooling (Chapman and Lindzen, Atmospheric Tides: thermal and gravitational, Reidel, 1970), formulae are obtained for wind, temperature and pressure oscillations generated by thermal, gravitational and lower-boundary excitations of given frequency. The analysis is an extension of that of Butler and Small (Proc. R. Soc. Lond.A274, 91, 1963) who formulated solutions of the vertical structure equation in terms of two independent solutions of the homogeneous equation and derived expressions for surface pressure oscillations. A comprehensive formulation is presented for wind, temperature and pressure oscillations as functions of height with the above-mentioned sources of excitation and an upper-boundary radiation condition. The formulae obtained are applied at the surface leading to evaluations of the surface oscillation weighting function W_p(z) which weights the thermal excitation at height z according to its differential contribution to the surface oscillation. The formulae are shown to simplify at heights above a region of excitation and evaluations are undertaken of the thermal response weighting function W_t(z) which weights the thermal excitation at height z according to its differential contribution to the oscillation at any height above the region of thermal excitation. Computational procedures are described for obtaining two independent solutions of the homogeneous equation and results are presented for an adopted profile of atmospheric scale height. The problem of deriving the surface pressure oscillation due to a tidal potential is briefly reviewed and results are presented as an example of the application of formulae that have been derived.  相似文献   

Lead ages,reset rubidium-strontium ages and implications for the Archaean crustal evolution of the Diemals area,Central Yilgarn Block,Western Australia     

M.J Bickle  H.J Chapman  L.F Bettenay  D.I Groves  J.R de Laeter 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1983,47(5):907-914

The Pb-Pb whole-rock geochronology of Archaean granitic and gneissic rocks from the Diemals area in the Central Yilgarn granite-greenstone terrain provides important constraints on crustal evolution. The regionally extensive banded gneisses, previously considered as candidates for basement to the greenstones give a Pb-Pb whole-rock age of 2700 ± 97 Ma (2σ errors). This is within error of previously published Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd gneiss ages and also within error of the Sm-Nd ages on the greenstones in the Eastern Goldfields Province. Two synkinematic plutons give Pb-Pb whole-rock ages (2737 ± 62 Ma and 2700 ± 100 Ma) and Pb isotopic compositions consistent with the hypothesis, based on field and geochemical relations, that these plutons were derived by partial melting of the precursors to the banded gneisses. Assuming this, the combined data date the melting event at 2723 ± 25 Ma with a model source μ value of 8.18 ± 0.02. This source μ value is close to the range postulated for mantle values and restricts the crustal history of the precursors to less than ~200 Ma. A post-kinematic pluton with a whole-rock Pb-Pb age of 2685 ± 26 Ma and μ value of 8.26 ± 0.02 puts a younger limit on this relatively short lived crustal accretion-differentiation event.Comparison of Pb-Pb and Rb-Sr whole-rock dates for the plutons suggests that the latter became closed systems up to 200 Ma after the Pb-Pb ages, and that the plutons gained or lost Rb or Sr at this time.  相似文献