⁴⁰Ar/³⁹ mineral ages from the Scituate Granite, Rhode Island: implications for Late Palaeozoic tectonothermal activity in New England     

R. D. DALLMEYER  O. D. HERMES  J. I. GIL-IBARGUCHI 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》1990,8(2):145-157

The alkalic Scituate Granite was emplaced into crystalline sequences within the New England Esmond–Dedham terrane in the Late Devonian ( c. 370 Ma). Variably recrystallized amphibole (iron-rich, hastingsite–hastingsitic hornblende) from four variably deformed samples of the pluton record south-westerly younging ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar plateau ages ranging between 276 and 263 Ma. These are interpreted to date diachronous cooling through temperatures appropriate for intracrystalline retention of argon following late Palaeozoic orogenic activity. Iron-rich biotite concentrates from the samples record only slightly younger ages, and therefore suggest relatively rapid post-metamorphic cooling. The ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages indicate that the late Palaeozoic tectonothermal overprint was much more regionally pervasive than was previously considered. The apparent timing of this activity is similar to previous estimates for the chronology of high-grade metamorphism throughout the adjacent Hope Valley terrane and for phases of ductile movement on the intervening Lake Char–Honey Hill fault system.  相似文献   

中亚造山带中的燃烧变质事件及其年代学研究   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

Igor S. Novikov Ellina V. Sokol 《岩石学报》2007,23(7):1561-1572

Combustion metamorphic(pyrometamorphic)complexes produced by prehistoric natural coal fires are widespread inCentral Asia,namely at the interfaces between mountain systems and the flanking sedimentary basins.Large-scale and prolonged firesaccompanied the initial orogenic stages as unweathered coal-bearing formations became exposed into the aeration zone.Pyrometamorphic rocks are comparable to sanidinite facies rocks in formation conditions and in alteration of sedimentary material but,unlike these,their protolith underwent different melting degrees to produce either ferrous basic paralavas or glazed clinkers.The phasecomposition of the newly-formed melted rocks are favorable for~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar dating of combustion metamorphic events which are coeval tothe onset of the main stage of recent orogenic events.We suggest a new algorithm providing correct ~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar dating ofpyrometamorphic rocks followed by well-grounded geological interpretation.We studied pyrometamorphic rocks in the western Salairzone of the Kuznetsk coal basin where combustion metamorphism under temperatures above 1000℃acted upon large volumes of coal-bearing sediments.Samples of paralavas were dated by the step heating ~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar method checked against internal(plateau andisochrone ages)and external("criterions of couple")mineralogical criterions,and against preliminary dating from geological andstratigraphic evidence.As a result,we distinguished two groups of dates for combustion metamorphic events.The first one(1.2±0.4Ma)is drawn towards the west boundary of Prokopyevsk-Kiselevsk block of Salair zone,while the second one(0.2±0.3Ma)isconfined to its east boundary.The former ages represent rocks in the western edge of the Prokopievsk-Kiselevsk block of the Salair zoneand the latter ages correspond to those in its eastern edge.The dates record the time when the fault boundaries of the blocks wererejuvenated during recent activity and the block accreted to the Salair orogenic area as a piedmont step.These are the first absolute agesobtained for the onset of uplift of the northern edge of the Ahai-Sayan area,the key event of its neotectonic history.The suggestedapproach to the choice of objects,classification of rocks,and interpretation of~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar data is universal and can be practiced in anyarea subjected to combustion metamorphism.  相似文献   

Initial Characterisation of SK01 Sanidine: A Candidate 40Ar/39Ar Reference Material     

Youjuan Li  Brian R. Jicha  Wanfeng Zhang  Wen Chen  Brad S. Singer  Dewen Zheng  Huaiyu He 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2023,47(3):657-668

The precision and accuracy of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates are ultimately linked to co-irradiated reference materials of known age. Here we provide new data from the SK01 sanidine, which was analysed in three different laboratories to evaluate it as a ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar reference material. Aliquots of 5 mg, incrementally heated in two laboratories, yielded indistinguishable results with a weighted mean age of 27.58 ± 0.06 Ma (95% confidence level). Single-crystal step heating and single-crystal total fusion analyses of SK01 sanidine were undertaken in the third laboratory to further test the intracrystalline homogeneity. For the seven step-heating analyses, six crystals yielded nearly concordant age spectra with ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages ranging from 26.853 ± 0.094 Ma to 26.963 ± 0.067 Ma, whereas one crystal gave an older age of 27.774 ± 0.071 Ma with a slightly discordant age spectrum. Twenty-three single-crystal total fusion analyses yielded ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages ranging from 27.070 ± 0.108 Ma to 27.736 ± 0.062 Ma with a dispersion of ~ 3.8%. The older ages from single-crystal total fusion dates are interpreted to reflect an inherited or excess argon component in some crystals. This is an initial characterisation of the SK01 sanidine, and additional work needs to be conducted to further evaluate the age dispersion so that it can be utilised as a ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar reference material.  相似文献   

西天山卡特巴阿苏金矿床成矿年代学及其地质意义-来自绢云母~(40)Ar-~(39)Ar同位素年龄证据     

高永伟 《地质与勘探》2015,51(5):805-815

新疆卡特巴阿苏金矿床是近年来在西天山地区新发现的一个大型金矿床。该矿床大地构造位置处于塔里木板块和哈萨克斯坦-准噶尔板块结合部位的那拉提构造-岩浆岩带,其金矿体主要赋存于蚀变二长花岗岩内。为了确定金矿化的形成时代,对该矿床主成矿阶段与金矿化密切相关的蚀变绢云母开展了40Ar-39Ar同位素定年测试。绢云母40Ar-39Ar坪年龄为(268.56±1.8)Ma,正等时线年龄为(268.38±2.2)Ma,反等时线年龄为(268.52±2.2 Ma),三者在误差范围内一致,测试结果可信,可代表卡特巴阿苏金矿化的形成年龄,这也是首次对该矿床成矿年龄的精确限定。对比中亚造山带典型金矿床,卡特巴阿苏金矿床是西天山二叠纪后碰撞构造环境下岩浆流体活动的产物,矿床成因属与中温岩浆热液有关的构造蚀变岩型矿床。  相似文献   

青海祁漫塔格虎头崖多金属矿区岩体热年代学研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

瞿泓滢  丰成友  裴荣富  何书跃  李大新  刘建楠  王辉  周建厚 《地质学报》2015,89(3):498-509

虎头崖铜铅锌多金属矿床是青海祁漫塔格地区典型的与印支期岩浆侵入活动有关的接触交代矿床,矿区内出露多个不同时代的含碳酸盐地层,金属成矿元素组合复杂,中酸性侵入岩产状多变、岩性多样,成矿岩体及其成矿能力的判别一直制约着该矿区及区域的找矿勘查工作。本文基于详细的野外地质调查,开展了岩体热年代学和岩石地球化学研究。利用LA-MC-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb法,获得二长花岗岩体的年龄为230.3±3.7 Ma(n=13,MSWD=1.4);利用40 Ar-39 Ar法,获得二长花岗岩中黑云母和斜长石矿物的坪年龄分别为229.6±2.3 Ma和219.3±1.8Ma,厘定成岩时代为印支期。对二长花岗岩中不同矿物的岩体冷速率计算结果表明,虎头崖矿区二长花岗岩冷速率相对较快,其热效应较大,具有较大的成矿潜力。二长花岗岩为高钾钙碱性系列岩石,源于古老地壳物质的深熔或重熔,并可能有幔源物质的加入。  相似文献   

40m天线面板调试与精度分析     

金旺  汪敏  张巨勇  赵辉  张萍  宋俊峰  许春 《天文研究与技术》2006,3(4):401-407

总结了40m天线面板安装调试及检测的过程，分析了反映望远镜面板指标的吨性能检测结果。结果表明天线面板精度优于原设计要求。  相似文献   

Reconsideration of the age of blueschist facies metamorphism on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, based on phengite ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar results     

K. A. HANNULA  M. O. McWILLIAMS 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》1995,13(1):125-139

Abstract ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar step-heating and single-grain laser fusion ages from phengites from the polydeformed and polymetamorphosed blueschist-greenschist facies Nome Group fall into two groups. Samples from the upper part of the structural section that have experienced a relatively weak metamorphic and deformational post-blueschist facies overprint and one sample from the Cape Nome orthogneiss yield plateau ages of 116-125 Ma. More intensely overprinted samples yield hump-shaped spectra with minimum ages of 123 Ma and maximum ages of 334 Ma. Samples with hump-shaped spectra are derived from a greater structural depth than most samples with plateau ages. Unreasonably old maximum ages from some of the disturbed spectra suggest that the hump-shaped spectra result from the incorporation of excess ⁴⁰Ar. This interpretation conflicts with previous interpretations of similarly disturbed spectra from the Brooks Range, which have been argued to provide minimum ages for blueschist facies metamorphism. Since the maximum temperatures achieved by all samples were probably above the blocking temperature of Ar in phengite, the 116-125 Ma plateau ages are a minimum age for blueschist facies metamorphism on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.  相似文献   

The 2005 outburst of GRO J1655−40: spectral evolution of the rise, as observed by Swift     

C. Brocksopp  K. E. McGowan  H. Krimm  O. Godet  P. Roming  K. O. Mason  N. Gehrels  M. Still  K. Page  A. Moretti  C. R. Shrader  S. Campana  J. Kennea 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,365(4):1203-1214

We present Swift observations of the black hole X-ray transient, GRO J1655−40, during the recent outburst. With its multiwavelength capabilities and flexible scheduling, Swift is extremely well suited for monitoring the spectral evolution of such an event. GRO J1655−40 was observed on 20 occasions and data were obtained by all instruments for the majority of epochs. X-ray spectroscopy revealed spectral shapes consistent with the 'canonical' low/hard, high/soft and very high states at various epochs. The soft X-ray source (0.3–10 keV) rose from quiescence and entered the low/hard state, when an iron emission line was detected. The soft X-ray source then softened and decayed, before beginning a slow rebrightening and then spending ∼3 weeks in the very high state. The hard X-rays (14–150 keV) behaved similarly but their peaks preceded those of the soft X-rays by up to a few days; in addition, the average hard X-ray flux remained approximately constant during the slow soft X-ray rebrightening, increasing suddenly as the source entered the very high state. These observations indicate (and confirm previous suggestions) that the low/hard state is key to improving our understanding of the outburst trigger and mechanism. The optical/ultraviolet light curve behaved very differently from that of the X-rays; this might suggest that the soft X-ray light curve is actually a composite of the two known spectral components, one gradually increasing with the optical/ultraviolet emission (accretion disc) and the other following the behaviour of the hard X-rays (jet and/or corona).  相似文献   

<Superscript>40</Superscript>Ar/<Superscript>39</Superscript>Ar chronology and geochemistry of high-K volcanic rocks in the Mangkang basin,Tibet     

Huihua?Zhang  Huaiyu?He  Jianghai?WangEmail author  Guanghong?Xie 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2005,48(1):1-12

Our two newly obtained high-quality ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages suggest that the high-K volcanic rocks of the Lawuxiang Formation in the Mangkang basin, Tibet were formed at 33.5 ± 0.2 Ma. The tracing of elemental and Pb-Sr-Nd isotopic geochemistry indicates that they were derived from an EM2 enriched mantle in continental subduction caused by transpression. Their evidently negative anomalies in HFSEs such as Nb and Ta make clear that there is an input of continental material into the mantle source. The high-K rocks at 33.5 ± 0.2 Ma in the Mangkang basin may temporally, spatially and compositionally compare with the early one of two-pulse high-K rocks in eastern Tibet distinguished by Wang J. H. et al., implying that they were formed in the same tectonic setting.  相似文献   

The eruptive history of the Tequila volcanic field, western Mexico: ages, volumes, and relative proportions of lava types     

Catherine B. Lewis-Kenedi  Rebecca A. Lange  Chris M. Hall  Hugo Delgado-Granados 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2005,67(5):391-414

The eruptive history of the Tequila volcanic field (1600 km²) in the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt is based on ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar chronology and volume estimates for eruptive units younger than 1 Ma. Ages are reported for 49 volcanic units, including Volcán Tequila (an andesitic stratovolcano) and peripheral domes, flows, and scoria cones. Volumes of volcanic units 1 Ma were obtained with the aid of field mapping, ortho aerial photographs, digital elevation models (DEMs), and ArcGIS software. Between 1120 and 200 kyrs ago, a bimodal distribution of rhyolite (~35 km³) and high-Ti basalt (~39 km³) dominated the volcanic field. Between 685 and 225 kyrs ago, less than 3 km³ of andesite and dacite erupted from more than 15 isolated vents; these lavas are crystal-poor and show little evidence of storage in an upper crustal chamber. Approximately 200 kyr ago, ~31 km³ of andesite erupted to form the stratocone of Volcán Tequila. The phenocryst assemblage of these lavas suggests storage within a chamber at ~2–3 km depth. After a hiatus of ~110 kyrs, ~15 km³ of andesite erupted along the W and SE flanks of Volcán Tequila at ~90 ka, most likely from a second, discrete magma chamber located at ~5–6 km depth. The youngest volcanic feature (~60 ka) is the small andesitic volcano Cerro Tomasillo (~2 km³). Over the last 1 Myr, a total of 128±22 km³ of lava erupted in the Tequila volcanic field, leading to an average eruption rate of ~0.13 km³/kyr. This volume erupted over ~1600 km², leading to an average lava accumulation rate of ~8 cm/kyr. The relative proportions of lava types are ~22–43% basalt, ~0.4–1% basaltic andesite, ~29–54% andesite, ~2–3% dacite, and ~18–40% rhyolite. On the basis of eruptive sequence, proportions of lava types, phenocryst assemblages, textures, and chemical composition, the lavas do not reflect the differentiation of a single (or only a few) parental liquids in a long-lived magma chamber. The rhyolites are geochemically diverse and were likely formed by episodic partial melting of upper crustal rocks in response to emplacement of basalts. There are no examples of mingled rhyolitic and basaltic magmas. Whatever mechanism is invoked to explain the generation of andesite at the Tequila volcanic field, it must be consistent with a dominantly bimodal distribution of high-Ti basalt and rhyolite for an 800 kyr interval beginning ~1 Ma, which abruptly switched to punctuated bursts of predominantly andesitic volcanism over the last 200 kyrs.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at Editorial responsility: J. Donnelly-NolanThis revised version was published online in January 2005 with corrections to Tables 1 and 3.An erratum to this article can be found at  相似文献