Hydrogeochemical models locating sulfate-methane transition zone in marine sediments overlying black shales: A new tool to locate biogenic methane?     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2015

Precise hydrogeochemical modeling of early diagenesis is a key in the reconstruction of sedimentary basin models. This determines the mineralogical evolution of the sediment and consequently the porosity of the rock. During early diagenesis also part of the initial organic matter is converted into biogenic gas: CH₄ CO₂, and H₂S. These processes are part of complex reaction chains during sedimentation, and biogeochemical reactions leave different signals that can be observed today. In this work, we reproduce the early diagenetic processes as integrated signals over geological times in sediments of the Demerara Rise by applying chemical thermodynamics using the PHREEQC (version 2) computer code. The investigated sediments are characterized by the presence of black shales in 410–490 mbsf and by a diagenetic barite layer above in 300–350 mbsf at depth of sulfate-methane transition (SMT). We determine the parameters that influence the location of diagenetic barite peaks in sediments overlying black shales by means of a novel modeling approach. Crucial parameters are the amount of bacterial organic matter mineralization, sedimentation rates and bottom water sulfate concentrations. All parameters are intertwining and influence the sulfate-methane cycle. They affect the location of the SMT visualized by diagenetic barite peaks. However, our model approach opens a wide field in exploring early diagenetic reactions, processes and products (such as biogenic methane) over geological times mirrored by diagenetic minerals and pore water concentration profiles that can be detected in present-day sediments.  相似文献   

Megaplume bubble process visualization by 3D multibeam sonar mapping     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2015

MultiBeam echosounder data were collected during a surface-ship survey of the 22/4b well site in the North Sea in September 2011 using a Teledyne-Reson 7125. Modern multibeam echosounders are instrumental in providing detection and accurate localization of weak to strong bubble plumes. Two survey profiles effectively insonified the bubble plumes rising from the main crater at the well site, providing snapshot data of bubble plume processes. Additionally, three profiles insonified bubble plumes rising from, in, and to the south of a secondary crater, 1.2 km southeast of the main crater. Data processing included a simple algorithm that muted mislocated echoes from incomplete sidelobe suppression. The data processing produced a Cartesian volume of echo intensity from the water column and seabed.Plume geometry was analyzed to investigate a number of important large-scale plume processes, including plume bubble detrainment due to currents and stratification, downwelling flows, sea surface interaction, plume heterogeneity, and other fluid transport processes. The data showed strong upwelling flows, with bubble vertical motions generally much faster than currents. One important finding was that megaplumes create intrusions above the general thermocline, in part because their extensive upwelling flow lifts the thermocline locally. As a result, the intrusion layer deposits dissolved gases in the upper wave-mixed layer of the water column where it is not isolated from the atmosphere, unlike dissolved gases in the lower water column.The analysis shows that high fidelity multibeam echosounder data can provide a wealth of remote sensing information on bubble plume characteristics and processes, with important applications, including blowout monitoring and response, better understanding of megaplumes such as used in lake destratification, and improved characterization of natural seep emission processes.  相似文献   

Multiple controls on the paleoenvironment of the Early Cambrian marine black shales in the Sichuan Basin,SW China: Geochemical and organic carbon isotopic evidence     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2015

In order to understand the paleoenvironment of the Early Cambrian black shale deposition in the western part of the Yangtze Block, geochemical and organic carbon isotopic studies have been performed on two wells that have drilled through the Qiongzhusi Formation in the central and southeastern parts of Sichuan Basin. It shows that the lowest part of the Qiongzhusi Formation has high TOC abundance, while the middle and upper parts display relative low TOC content. Redox-sensitive element (Mo) and trace elemental redox indices (e.g., Ni/Co, V/Cr, U/Th and V/(V + Ni)) suggest that the high-TOC layers were deposited under anoxic conditions, whereas the low-TOC layers under relatively dysoxic/oxic conditions. The relationship of the enrichment factors of Mo and U further shows a transition from suboxic low-TOC layers to euxinic high-TOC layers. On the basis of the Mo-TOC relationship, the Qiongzhusi Formation black shales were deposited in a basin under moderately restricted conditions. Organic carbon isotopes display temporal variations in the Qiongzhusi Formation, with a positive excursion of δ¹³C_org values in the lower part and a continuous positive shift in the middle and upper parts. All these geochemical and isotopic criteria indicate a paleoenvironmental change from bottom anoxic to middle and upper dysoxic/oxic conditions for the Qiongzhusi Formation black shales. The correlation of organic carbon isotopic data for the Lower Cambrian black shales in different regions of the Yangtze Block shows consistent positive excursion of δ¹³C_org values in the lower part for each section. This excursion can be ascribed to the widespread Early Cambrian transgression in the Yangtze Block, under which black shales were deposited.  相似文献   

南海东北陆缘的地壳速度结构及其构造意义: 来自广角地震剖面的约束     

赵俐红  刘欣悦  支鹏遥  刘晨光  李官保  郑彦鹏  贺恩远  王星月 《地质学报》2023,97(6):1766-1779

南海东北部深部地壳结构蕴含着南海陆缘伸展张裂过程的重要信息。在南海东北陆缘布设的一条广角地震测线(DP13)沿NW-SE方向依次穿过东沙隆起和台西南盆地。本文利用射线追踪和正演走时拟合软件RayInvr构建地壳纵波速度结构,模型表明：沉积层速度1.6～4.6 km/s,厚度0.5～3.8 km,横向分布不均匀,沉积基底起伏剧烈;莫霍面埋藏深度由陆架区的25.5 km急剧减小到陆坡下方的13 km,随后向下陆坡远端增深至16 km;陆架处东沙隆起下方地壳厚度从～25 km减薄到～21 km,下陆坡远端地壳厚约10～13 km,地壳拉张因子分别为1.3～1.5和2.6～3.1,表现为轻微和中等减薄;陆坡区台西南盆地内地壳厚度从17 km急剧减薄至7～8 km,地壳拉张因子高达4.6,呈超伸展减薄;地壳厚度由陆向海非单调减薄,地壳伸展具有明显的空间差异性;陆架-上陆坡和下陆坡下地壳底部发现两个相对孤立的不连续高速体,速度分别为7.0～7.5 km/s和7.0～7.3 km/s,厚度分别3～5 km和1～3 km,前者位于古太平洋俯冲带前缘,几乎与南海东北部高磁异常重叠,推测由中生代古太平洋板...  相似文献   

塔尔塔格铁矿床——新疆阿吾拉勒铁成矿带内首例IOA型铁矿床的厘定及意义     

宋雪龙  段士刚  蒋宗胜 《地质学报》2023,97(7):2241-2260

塔尔塔格铁矿是新疆西天山阿吾拉勒海相火山岩型铁成矿带内的一处中型铁矿床,其铁矿体呈透镜状产于粗安玢岩内顶部,在揭示海相火山岩中铁矿床与侵入岩关系方面具有重要意义。该铁矿床发育典型的磁铁矿 磷灰石组合,基本不含硫化物,矿石以似斑状、浸染状、球粒状和晶洞等构造类型为特色,磁铁矿内发育由条带状或叶片状钛铁矿和钛氧化物构成的出溶结构,并有少量的榍石、钍石、萤石等副矿物与之共生,矿床地质特征表明该矿床为典型的与富碱、中性侵入岩有关的IOA（iron oxide apatite）型铁矿床。该矿床围岩英安岩、赋矿粗安玢岩与成矿后正长花岗岩的锆石SHRIMP U Pb同位素加权平均年龄分别为311. 3±1. 4 Ma、304. 7±2. 9 Ma和301. 1±2. 8 Ma,铁矿石样品中与磁铁矿共生的榍石的LA ICP MS U Pb同位素加权平均年龄为302. 3±4. 0 Ma和303. 7±4. 2 Ma,成岩成矿年龄高度吻合,进一步确定其在晚石炭世晚期成矿。本文根据地质特征认为该矿床矿石是由粗安玢岩顶部富铁挥发分聚集而形成的,并初步提出“超浅成侵入岩顶部富挥发分囊体”成矿模型,即富碱、中性岩体超浅成侵位导致挥发分在岩体顶部迅速聚集形成多处富铁和挥发分的囊体,岩体冷凝固结的同时磁铁矿快速结晶成矿。塔尔塔格“IOA型”型铁矿的成因厘定,不仅表明海相火山岩型铁矿与IOA型铁矿可能存在成因联系,还暗示了海相火山岩型铁成矿带内具有寻找IOA型铁矿的潜力。  相似文献   

南阿尔金地区早古生代中酸性侵入岩的岩石成因及其对构造演化的指示意义     

徐楠  吴才来  刘畅 《地质学报》2023,97(12):4067-4084

南阿尔金造山带位于塔里木盆地和柴达木盆地之间,是中国西北地区重要的俯冲-碰撞杂岩带,其早古生代构造演化过程是近年来的研究热点之一,然而,洋壳俯冲的时限一直存在争议。本文对茫崖石英二长岩开展岩石学、地球化学、锆石U-Pb年代学和锆石Lu-Hf同位素地球化学研究,探讨其岩石成因及成岩时的构造环境。样品显示高碱、富钾、低钛、贫铁及Nd-Ta-Ti异常等与钾玄岩相似的地球化学特征,成岩年龄为511～495 Ma, ε_Hf(t)主要为-3.51～-0.08,少量介于0.04～1.69之间。我们认为俯冲洋壳到达角闪岩相边界时释放大量水并上升进入地幔楔,导致地幔楔橄榄岩发生角闪石化交代作用,由于地幔楔沿俯冲带向下拖曳而温度升高,角闪石化橄榄岩熔融形成的熔体在上升过程诱发上地壳物质部分熔融,壳源岩浆混合少量幔源岩浆形成了石英二长岩,该期花岗岩是对造山带从大洋岛弧环境向活动大陆边缘过渡的岩石学响应。因此,南阿尔金洋壳可能在约517 Ma前已经开始俯冲。  相似文献   

Petrogenesis of the Northwest Africa 4898 high‐Al mare basalt          下载免费PDF全文

Shaolin Li  Weibiao Hsu  Yunbin Guan  Linyan Wang  Ying Wang 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2016,51(7):1268-1288

Northwest Africa (NWA) 4898 is the only low‐Ti, high‐Al basaltic lunar meteorite yet recognized. It predominantly consists of pyroxene (53.8 vol%) and plagioclase (38.6 vol%). Pyroxene has a wide range of compositions (En_12–62Fs_25–62Wo_11–36), which display a continuous trend from Mg‐rich cores toward Ca‐rich mantles and then to Fe‐rich rims. Plagioclase has relatively restricted compositions (An_87–96Or_0–1Ab_4–13), and was transformed to maskelynite. The REE zoning of all silicate minerals was not significantly modified by shock metamorphism and weathering. Relatively large (up to 1 mm) olivine phenocrysts have homogenous inner parts with Fo ~74 and sharply decrease to 64 within the thin out rims (~30 μm in width). Four types of inclusions with a variety of textures and modal mineralogy were identified in olivine phenocrysts. The contrasting morphologies of these inclusions and the chemical zoning of olivine phenocrysts suggest NWA 4898 underwent at least two stages of crystallization. The aluminous chromite in NWA 4898 reveals that its high alumina character was inherited from the parental magma, rather than by fractional crystallization. The mineral chemistry and major element compositions of NWA 4898 are different from those of 12038 and Luna 16 basalts, but resemble those of Apollo 14 high‐Al basalts. However, the trace element compositions demonstrate that NWA 4898 and Apollo 14 high‐Al basalts could not have been derived from the same mantle source. REE compositions of its parental magma indicate that NWA 4898 probably originated from a unique depleted mantle source that has not been sampled yet. Unlike Apollo 14 high‐Al basalts, which assimilated KREEPy materials during their formation, NWA 4898 could have formed by closed‐system fractional crystallization.  相似文献   

Sulfur cycling at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: A multiple sulfur isotope approach     

Marc Peters  Harald Strauss  James Farquhar  Charlotte Ockert  Benjamin Eickmann  Cristiane L. Jost 《Chemical Geology》2010,269(3-4):180-196

The role of sulfur in two hydrothermal vent systems, the Logatchev hydrothermal field at 14°45′N/44°58′W and several different vent sites along the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (SMAR) between 4°48′S and 9°33′S and between 12°22′W and 13°12′W, is examined by utilizing multiple sulfur isotope and sulfur concentration data. Isotope compositions for sulfide minerals and vent H₂S from different SMAR sites range from + 1.5 to + 8.9‰ in δ³⁴S and from + 0.001 to + 0.051‰ in Δ³³S. These data indicate mixing of mantle sulfur with sulfur from seawater sulfate. Combined δ³⁴S and Δ³³S systematics reveal that vent sulfide from SMAR is characterized by a sulfur contribution from seawater sulfate between 25 and 33%. This higher contribution, compared with EPR sulfide, indicates increased seawater sulfate reduction at MAR, because of a deeper seated magma chamber and longer fluid upflow path length, and points to fundamental differences with respect to subsurface structures and fluid evolution at slow and fast spreading mid-ocean ridges.Additionally, isotope data uncover non-equilibrium isotopic exchange between dissolved sulfide and sulfate in an anhydrite bearing zone below the vent systems at fluid temperatures between 335 and 400 °C. δ³⁴S values between + 0.2 to + 8.8‰ for dissolved and precipitated sulfide from Logatchev point to the same mixing process between mantle sulfur and sulfur from seawater sulfate as at SMAR. δ³⁴S values between ? 24.5 and + 6.5‰ and Δ³³S values between + 0.001 and + 0.125‰ for sulfide-bearing sediments and mafic/ultramafic host rocks from drill cores taken in the region of Logatchev indicate a clear contribution of biogenic sulfides formed via bacterial sulfate reduction. Basalts and basaltic glass from SMAR sites with Δ³³S = ? 0.008‰ reveal lower Δ³³S lower values than suggested on the basis of previously published isotopic measurements of terrestrial materials.We conclude that the combined use of both δ³⁴S and Δ³³S provides a more detailed picture of the sulfur cycling in hydrothermal systems at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and uncovers systematic differences to hydrothermal sites at different mid-ocean ridge sites. Multiple sulfur isotope measurements allow identification of incomplete isotope exchange in addition to isotope mixing as a second important factor influencing the isotopic composition of dissolved sulfide during fluid upflow. Furthermore, based on Δ³³S we are able to clearly distinguish biogenic from hydrothermal sulfides in sediments even when δ³⁴S were identical.  相似文献   

Fabric transpositions in granite plutons — An insight from non-scaled analogue modelling     

Zuzana Kratinová  Matej Machek  Vladimír Kusbach 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2010,75(1):267-277

Investigations on a set of experimental models of highly viscous intrusions were carried out in order to study the internal strain pattern during vertical ascent and emplacement of granite intrusions. The strain pattern was determined by means of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) resulting from the orientation of magnetite particles in a liquid plaster medium. The modelled intrusions show distinct fabrics reflecting the flow of a rheologically complex, non-Newtonian material. During the vertical growth of the intrusion, constrictional vertical fabrics are transposed into flattening fabrics, and along with the development of low-intensity fabric domains are passively transported upwards. Vertical growth takes place along subvertical thrust shear zones that satisfactorily explain the discordant magmatic fabrics in granites along intrusion sides. The resulting complex fabric patterns suggest that the vertical movement of material in ascending intrusions is accommodated by various flow mechanisms operating simultaneously.  相似文献   

内蒙古镶黄旗哈达庙金矿杂岩体年代学、地球化学及其形成机制   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

郝百武  蒋杰 《岩石矿物学杂志》2010,29(6):750-762

在中亚造山带东段华北地台北缘,识别出一套原认为是燕山期的晚古生代哈达庙石英闪长岩,其LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄为272.9±2.4Ma(MSWD=2.0)。哈达庙石英闪长岩及其相伴出露的哈达庙含金花岗斑岩,都具有高钾钙碱性I型花岗岩的性质,∑REE较低,LREE富集明显,具有中等到弱的铕负异常,与原始地幔相比,都具有大离子亲石元素(LILE)K、Rb、Th、Zr、Hf,轻稀土元素(LREE)La、Ce,相对高场强元素(HFSE)Nb、Ta、Ti、P富集的消减带组分(SZC)特性,并且具有陆缘弧火山岩的特征。从石英闪长岩到含Au花岗斑岩,具有板块碰撞前到同碰撞的岩石特征;通过Sr、Nd、Pb同位素分析,认为哈达庙金矿杂岩主要来源于壳、幔混源,具有新生下地壳(古岛弧带)的特征;石英闪长岩的先期熔出为贫硫化物斑岩型金矿成矿元素在花岗斑岩体内的富集创造了条件;哈达庙含金花岗斑岩异常富集易熔流体相元素(Rb、Ba、Th、U、K)可能是成矿岩体与非成矿岩体的鉴别标志。本文为在中亚造山带东段华北地台北缘寻找与古亚洲洋俯冲增生碰撞有关金矿提供了线索。  相似文献