Cryogenian ophiolite tectonics and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt     

《International Geology Review》2012,54(16):1870-1884

The Central Eastern Desert (CED) is characterized by the widespread distribution of Neoproterozoic intra-oceanic island arc ophiolitic assemblages. The ophiolitic units have both back-arc and forearc geochemical signatures. The forearc ophiolitic units lie to the west of the back-arc related ones, indicating formation of an intra-oceanic island arc system above an east-dipping subducted slab (present coordinates). Following final accretion of the Neoproterozoic island arc into the western Saharan Metacraton, cordilleran margin magmatism started above a new W-dipping subduction zone due to a plate polarity reversal. We identify two belts in the CED representing ancient arc–forearc and arc–back-arc assemblages. The western arc–forearc belt is delineated by major serpentinite bodies running ～NNW–SSE, marking a suture zone. Ophiolitic units in the back-arc belt to the east show an increase in the subduction geochemical signature from north to south, culminating in the occurrence of bimodal volcanic rocks farther south. This progression in subduction magmatism resulted from diachronous opening of a back-arc basin from north to south, with a bimodal volcanic arc evolving farther to the south. The intra-oceanic island arc units in the CED include coeval Algoma-type banded iron formations (BIFs) and volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits. Formation of the BIFs was related to opening of an ocean basin to the north, whereas development of the VMS was related to rifting of the island arc in the south. Gold occurs as vein-type mineral deposits, concentrated along the NNW–SSE arc–forearc belt. The formation of these vein-type gold ore bodies was controlled by the circulation of hydrothermal fluids through serpentinites that resulted in Au mobilization, as constrained by the close spatial association of auriferous quartz veins with serpentinites along the western arc–forearc belt.  相似文献   

Trace element geochemistry of primary mantle minerals in spinel‐peridotites from polygenetic MOR–SSZ suites of SW Turkey: constraints from an LA‐ICP‐MS study and implications for mantle metasomatism     

E. Aldanmaz 《Geological Journal》2012,47(1):59-76

Ophiolites exposed across the western Tauride Belt in SW Turkey represent tectonically emplaced fragments of oceanic lithosphere incorporated into continental margin following the closure of the Neotethys Ocean during the Late Cretaceous. The mantle sections of the ophiolites contain peridotites with diverse suites of geochemical signatures indicative of residual origin by melt depletion in both mid‐ocean ridge (MOR) and supra‐subduction zone (SSZ) settings. This study uses a laser‐ablation inductively‐coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) for in situ measurements of trace elements in primary mantle phases in order to identify the upper mantle petrogenetic processes effective during variable stage of melt extraction in these discrete tectonic settings and to discriminate between the effects of reaction with chemically distinct mantle melts migrating through the solid residues. Trace element signatures in pyroxenes suggest small‐length scales of compositional variations which may be interpreted to be a result of post‐melting petrogenetic processes. Relative distribution of rare earth elements and Li between coexisting orthopyroxene‐clinopyroxene pairs in the peridotites suggests compositional disequilibrium in sub‐solidus conditions, which possibly reflects differential effects of diffusive exchange during melting and melt transport or interaction with subduction melts/fluids. On the basis of Ga abundances and Ga–Ti–Fe⁺³# [Fe⁺³/(Fe⁺³ + Cr + Al)] relationships of chrome‐spinels it is documented that the peridotites have experienced the combined effects of partial melting and variable extent of melt‐solid interaction. The MOR peridotites have spinels with geochemical signatures indicative of melt‐depleted residual origin with subsequent incompatible element enrichment through melt impregnation, while the Ga–Ti–Fe⁺³# relationships of chrome‐spinels in SSZ peridotites indicate that these highly depleted peridotites are not simple melt residues, but have been subject to significant compositional modification by interaction with subduction related melts/fluids. The observed compositional variations, which are related to long‐term tectonic reorganisation of oceanic lithosphere, provide evidence for a time integrated evolution from a mid‐ocean ridge to a supra‐subduction zone setting and may be a possible analogue to explain the coexistence of geochemically diverse MOR–SSZ suites in other Tethyan ophiolites. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

北祁连乌鞘岭蛇绿混杂岩地球化学特征及其构造环境     

汪双双  刘明强  柳益群  欧健 《地质与勘探》2012,48(5):1000-1008

乌鞘岭蛇绿混杂岩位于北祁连造山带东段,具有相对完整的蛇绿岩序列,包括：变质地幔橄榄岩单元（蛇纹岩＋辉橄岩）,镁铁质一超镁铁质堆晶岩单元（橄辉岩＋辉石岩）,镁铁质侵入岩单元（辉长岩）,及基性火山岩单元（玄武岩）。依照TiO,的含量,本文从乌鞘岭蛇绿混杂岩中分出两类玄武岩,即：低n玄武岩（Ti02=0．55％～0．76％）和高Ti玄武岩（Ti02=1．35％-1．99％）。低Ti玄武岩大离子亲石元素含量波动较大,具明显n负异常,LREE呈略富集的配分模式,整体上具有弧火山岩的特征;高Ti玄武岩大离子亲石元素含量在小范围内变化,未见Nb、Ti负异常,LPtEE呈略亏损的配分模式,具有典型N—MORB的性质。在构造环境判别图上,低n玄武岩和高Ti玄武岩分别落入陆缘弧和大洋中脊环境。高Ti玄武岩是鸟鞘岭蛇绿混杂岩的一部分,源于亏损地幔的部分熔融,与陆缘弧型低rri玄武岩构造混杂在一起。乌鞘岭蛇绿混杂岩大概于中一晚奥陶世形成于北祁连造山带老虎山一毛毛山弧后盆地。  相似文献   

Tectono-metamorphic history of the ophiolitic Lento unit (northern Corsica): evidences for the complexity of accretion-exhumation processes in a fossil subduction system     

《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(1-2):99-118

The Alpine Corsica (Corsica Island, France) is characterized by a stack of continent- and ocean-derived tectonic units, known as Schistes Lustrés complex. This complex is affected by deformation and metamorphic imprint achieved during Late Cretaceous – Early Tertiary subduction- related processes connected with the closure of the Ligure-Piemontese oceanic basin and subsequent continental collision. In the Schistes Lustrés complex, the Lento oceanic unit is characterized by four deformation phases, from D1 to D4 phase. The D1 phase, characterized by blueschist metamorphism, is regarded as related to coherent underplating in a subduction zone at a depth of about 25-30 km. The subsequent deformation phases can be referred to exhumation history, as suggested by the continuous decrease of metamorphic conditions. The transition from accretion to exhumation is represented by the D2 phase, achieved during the development of a duplex structure of accreted units. The D3 phase is in turn achieved by a further horizontal shortening, whereas the D4 phase is developed during an extensional event representing the final exhumation of the Lento unit.

On the whole, the data collected for the Lento unit suggest an history that include an accretion by coherent underplating followed by exhumation, more complex than previous described.  相似文献   

Die Meta-Basalte der Iberger Klippen     

Volker J. Dietrich 《Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae》2006,99(1):123-129

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Initiation and evolution of intra-oceanic subduction in the Uralides: Geochemical and isotopic constraints from Devonian oceanic rocks of the Southern Urals, Russia     

Piera  Spadea  Massimo  D'Antonio 《Island Arc》2006,15(1):7-25

Abstract The Southern Uralides are a collisional orogen generated in the Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous by the collision of the Magnitogorsk island arc (MA) generated in the Early to Middle Devonian by intra‐oceanic convergence opposite to the continental margin, and the continental margin of the East European craton. A suture zone of the arc to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Fault (MUF), is marked by ophiolites and exhumed high‐pressure–low‐temperature metamorphic rocks of continental origin. The pre‐orogenic events of the Southern Urals and their geodynamic setting are traced by means of fluid‐immobile incompatible trace elements (rare earth elements and high field strength elements) and Sr–Nd–Pb isotope geochemistry of the MA suites, in particular the protoarc suite with boninites and probably ankaramites, and the mature arc comprised of island arc tholeiitic (IAT) suites, transitional IAT to calc‐alkaline (CA), and CA suites. The MA volcanics result in genetically distinct magmatic source components. In particular, depleted normal‐mid‐oceanic ridge basalt‐type mantle sources with various enrichments in a slab‐derived aqueous fluid component are evident. The enriched component is not involved in significant amounts, as testified by the rather radiogenic Nd isotopes and unradiogenic Pb isotopes. Further information on the pre‐orogenic events is provided by the Mindyak Massif metagabbros derived from diverse gabbroic protoliths that were affected by oceanic rodingitization, and subsequently by a high‐temperature (HT) metamorphism related to the development of a metamorphic sole. The HT metamorphism has the same age as the protoarc volcanism, and constrains the initiation of subduction at approximately 410 Ma. Consequently, the maximum timespan between initial intra‐oceanic convergence and final collision is approximately 31 my, a duration consistent with that of present‐day ongoing collisions in the western Pacific. The characteristics of early volcanism and the traces of a metamorphic sole provide useful criteria to attribute most MUF ophiolites to the Tethyan type with a complex pre‐orogenic evolution.  相似文献   

The mafic–ultramafic complex of Sikhoran (central Iran): a polygenetic ophiolite complexLe massif basique-ultrabasique de Sikhoran (Iran central) : un complexe ophiolitique polygénétique     

Habibollah Ghasemi  Thierry Juteau  Hervé Bellon  Mossaieb Sabzehei  Hubert Whitechurch  Luc-Emmanuel Ricou 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(6):431-438

The mafic–ultramafic complex of Sikhoran presents a long geological history, marked out by various magmatic, metamorphic and tectonic events. This history is much more complex than a simple ophiolite obduction over a continental margin. As early as the Upper Permian, following a mantle uprise in a Tethysian supra-subduction zone, the opening of a (back-arc?) basin in extensional/transtensional conditions provoked the intrusion of multiple gabbroic dykes, veins and plutons charged with fluids, through a mafic/ultramafic complex and its metamorphic cover. Several basins, characterised by abundant submarine basaltic volcanism developed during Jurassic, whose feeding dykes may be represented by the diabase dyke swarms intruding the whole Sikhoran complex and its metamorphic cover. To cite this article: H. Ghasemi et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 431–438.  相似文献   

新疆西准噶尔板块构造及演化   总被引：15，自引：1，他引：15  

朱宝清  冯益民 《新疆地质》1994,(2)

依据沉积建造、岩浆岩、蛇绿岩、变形、变质及其它板块构造特征，西准噶尔地区划分出２个一级构造单元，即西伯利亚板块、哈萨克斯坦板块；４个二级构造单元（板段）；５个三级构造单元；１４个四级构造单元。在此基础上，分６个阶段讨论了各地质时期的演化特征。西准噶尔地区的＂洋壳建造＂时限为中奥陶世－中泥盆世，东西准噶尔在晚古生代（Ｄ１－Ｄ）是相互沟通的海域。西伯利亚板块与哈萨克斯坦板块间的缝合线在达尔布特－克拉麦里。产生洋壳建造的所谓准噶尔古洋在其未闭合前尚包括了其间的一些小洋盆和岛屿。蛇绿混杂体中高压变质蓝片岩的存在，表明曾发生过古洋壳的俯冲，而蛇绿岩构造岩片间的相互叠覆，说明其侵位过程中发生过由北而南的推覆作用。残留海盆及其碰撞期后深成岩浆岩的存在，说明哈萨克斯坦板块和西伯利亚板块的最后焊接发生在残留海盆演化的晚期（闭合），据古地磁资料，两大板块在二叠纪固结并进入欧亚大陆的发展时期。  相似文献   

Trace element redistribution in high-temperature deformed gabbros from East Ligurian ophiolites (Northern Apennines, Italy): constraints on the origin of syndeformation fluids   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

R. TRIBUZIO  M. P. RICCARDI  L. OTTOLINI 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》1995,13(3):367-377

Abstract Mg-gabbros from East Ligurian ophiolites (Northern Apennines, Italy) display a high-temperature/low-pressure recrystallization localized along ductile shear zones. In deformed gabbros, the igneous diopside is recrystallized into granoblastic aggregates of neoblastic diopside and minor red-brown amphibole. The latter displays a pargasitic composition, with high amounts of Al^IV Na(A) and Ti (± 1.8, 0.7 and 0.4 atoms per formula unit, respectively). Major element composition of neoblastic minerals highlight equilibration temperature conditions in the range 800–950° C. Red-brown Ti-pargasite also occurs as a minor interstitial constituent, presumably growing from a residual trapped liquid, in the differentiated lithologies (Fe-Ti-diorites) of the plutonic ophiolitic complex. By means of ion microprobe (SIMS technique), rare earth (La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Er, Yb) and selected trace elements (Sr, Y, Cr, V, Sc, Zr, Ti) have been analysed in igneous and neoblastic diopside, as well as in Ti-pargasites. Ti-pargasites have also been analysed for F and Cl, and compared with the halogen composition of the amphiboles, mainly hornblendes to actinolites, which are related to the subsequent low-temperature brittle evolution. Neoblastic Ti-pargasite from deformed Mg-gabbros bears close compositional similarities with igneous Ti-pargasite from undeformed Fe-Ti-diorites, whereas it is geochemically distinct from the amphiboles post-dating the ductile event. In particular, Ti-pargasites have relatively high contents of F, REE, Y, Zr and Sr, which are not consistent with crystallization in the presence of seawater-derived hydrothermal fluids. High-grade recrystallization probably developed in the presence of volatile-rich igneous fluids, either trapped between the cumulus minerals or injected into the ductile shear zones from outside the local system. An alternative hypothesis comprises the absence of fluid phase and the development of ductile shear zones in Ti-pargasite-rich layers. The petrological features of deformed gabbros recovered from present-day slow-spreading ridges and fracture zones bear close similarities with the investigated ophiolitic metagabbros. In East Ligurian ophiolites, high-grade ductile shear zones have been related to the initial stages of the uplift of the gabbro-peridotite complex to the sea-floor.  相似文献   

北准噶尔洪古勒楞蛇绿岩研究的新进展   总被引：9，自引：6，他引：9  

黄建华  吕喜朝  朱星南  帕拉提·阿不都卡迪尔 《新疆地质》1995,(1)

通过对洪古勒楞东段蛇绿岩的研究，基本搞清了蛇绿者组合特征及其形成时代，首次指出该区在晚震旦世为广阔大洋环境，为研究准噶尔的大地构造演化提供了证据。依据蛇绿岩与围岩的接触关系，指出了其构造侵位时间为奥陶纪末，而与泥盆系则为断层接触。通过Ｓｍ－Ｎｄ等时线法测年结果确定蛇绿岩形成于６２６±２５Ｍａ。从稀土元素、岩石化学和εＮｄ（Ｔ）＝十８．４等综合分析，蛇绿岩来自亏损地幔岩浆，纯属洋中脊产物。  相似文献