Evolution of the Western Margin of Australia during the Rodinian and Gondwanan Supercontinent Cycles     

S.A. Wilde 《Gondwana Research》1999,2(3):481

The proto-Darling Fault zone and its successor, the Darling Fault, extend for 1, 000 km along the western continental margin of Australia and appear to have been active at several periods during the geological past. Deformation commenced at 2,570 Ma and affected Late Archaean granitoids along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton. Much of the later activity reflects events related to the accretion and breakup associated with the Rodinia and Gondwanaland supercontinent cycles.In the north, rocks of the Northampton and Mullingarra Complexes form part of a high-grade Grenvillian orogenic belt lying to the west of the Darling Fault, referred to as the Pinjarra Orogen. They underwent granulite facies metamorphism 1080 Ma ago and form part of the global collisional event that resulted in the amalgamation of Rodinia. These rocks extend southward beneath Phanerozoic sedimentary cover (the Perth Basin), where they are constrained to the east by the Darling Fault and to the west by the Dunsborough Fault, the latter marking the eastern boundary of the Leeuwin Complex.The Leeuwin Complex is a fragment of Pan-African crust that has traditionally been considered part of the Pinjarra Orogen. It is composed predominantly of upper amphibolite to granulite facies felsic orthogneisses derived from A-type, anorogenic granitoids. Conventional and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology has established that the granitoids evolved between 780 Ma and 520 Ma and were metamorphosed at 615 Ma. These events are equated with rifting associated with the breakup of Rodinia. Sm-Nd whole rock data support the juvenile nature of the crust and provide no evidence for the involvement of pre-existing Archaean continental material.During the Phanerozoic, the Dunsborough and Darling Faults were reactivated, as normal faults defining the inner arm of a major rift system within Eastern Gondwanaland and controlling sedimentation in the Perth Basin that now overlies the Grenvillian terrane. Major normal movement on the Darling Fault ceased by the Late Jurassic and it appears that continental breakup in the Early Cretaceous occurred along fractures closely related to the western boundary of the Leeuwin Complex that defined the eastern margin of the outer arm of the rift system. Breakup between Australia and Greater India commenced at 132 Ma and was followed by eruption of the Bunbury Basalt at 130 Ma and 123 Ma. This possibly resulted from hot spot activity beneath Eastern Gondwanaland and may have been a reflection of the Kerguelen plume, though the evidence is equivocal.It is argued from the petrographic, geochemical and isotopic characteristics, together with the likely contiguity of the Eastern Gondwanaland continents since the assembly of Rodinia, that the Leeuwin Complex evolved within an intracrustal rift and is not an exotic terrane. It is distinct from adjacent portions of the Pinjarra Orogen and should be considered a separate terrane. It is recommended that use of the term ‘Pinjarra Orogen’ be confined to rocks recording the Grenvillian events, thereby excluding those rocks (the Leeuwin Complex) that evolved during the later Pan-African orogeny.  相似文献   

准噶尔盆地西北缘冲断构造新解          下载免费PDF全文

孟家峰郭召杰  方世虎 《地学前缘》2009,16(3):171-180

摘要：准噶尔盆地西北缘最重要的构造特征是发育一组冲断构造。对这组冲断构造的冲断时限和冲断性质的认识不同,导致对准噶尔盆地的属性存在断陷盆地与前陆盆地之争。西北缘花岗岩及其中发育的岩墙群的精确年龄限定了研究区在314～255 Ma中处于伸展状态。西北缘侏罗系沉积范围较三叠系广,早侏罗世发育碱性玄武岩,这些都表明准噶尔盆地在侏罗纪处于伸展阶段,盆地范围不断扩大。西北缘晚三叠世地层不整合覆盖于花岗岩之上,这种现象将本区冲断构造发生的时间限定为晚二叠世至早三叠世,最晚不超过晚三叠世。在地震资料解释的西北缘剖面上,冲断构造的前缘二叠纪地层平缓且厚度稳定。西北缘二叠系发育火山岩,沉积层序具从下到上粒度由粗变细的正旋回沉积特征,沉积速率稳定,沉降曲线由陡变缓,且古地温梯度和大地热流值均较高。西北缘的圈闭类型以岩性地层等非构造圈闭为主,以构造 岩性圈闭为辅。笔者认为西北缘冲断构造的性质是在314～255 Ma伸展阶段与侏罗纪伸展阶段之间发育的一次短期反转构造,发育基底卷入的高角度冲断带,并非大规模与造山作用相关的前陆冲断带。  相似文献   

Late Holocene dune activity in the Eastern Platte River Valley, Nebraska     

P.R. Hanson  R.M. Joeckel  A.R. Young  J. Horn 《Geomorphology》2009,103(4):555-561

Large-scale dune activity in the Nebraska Sand Hills and elsewhere on the western Great Plains has been linked to prehistoric “megadroughts” that triggered the activation of regional dune fields. The effect of megadroughts on the smaller dune fields east of the Nebraska Sand Hills has never been assessed, however. This study focuses on the Duncan dune field near the confluence of the Loup and Platte rivers in eastern Nebraska. Seventeen optically stimulated luminescence age estimates were obtained and reveal two periods of dune activation that occurred between 4.4 to 3.4 ka and 0.8 to 0.5 ka. Significantly, both periods chronologically overlap large-scale dune activity identified in the Nebraska Sand Hills. Geochemical evidence indicates that the Duncan dunes received sand not only from the terrace underlying them, but also from the Loup River. These data link dune activity in the Duncan area, at least indirectly, to increased sediment supply from streams that drain the Sand Hills during megadroughts, implying the activation of the dunes occurred as an indirect response to regional megadroughts. Calculations of dune migration rates, however, argue in favor of local, drought-driven hydrologic changes as a causative factor in dune activation, in other words, a direct effect of megadroughts. Whether the impact was direct or indirect, it is highly likely that the repeated reactivation of the Duncan dunes resulted in some way from regional, large-magnitude droughts. Other paleoclimate proxies from the Great Plains tend to support this conclusion. We conclude that the megadroughts that have been identified in the Sand Hills and other Great Plains dune fields were indeed regional events with far-reaching effects.  相似文献   

A soil chronosequence in Late Glacial and Neoglacial moraines, Humboldt Glacier, northwestern Venezuelan Andes     

W.C. Mahaney  V. Kalm  B. Kapran  M.W. Milner  R.G.V. Hancock   《Geomorphology》2009,109(3-4):236-245

Late Glacial and Neoglacial (Little Ice Age) deposits on the Humboldt Massif were analyzed for relative-age dating parameters, including geomorphic and weathering characteristics, geochemical and soil properties. The soil chronosequence, formed in chemically uniform parent materials, provides an important database to study soil evolution in a tropical alpine environment. Extractable and total Fe and Al concentrations, examined to assess their use in relative-age determination, and as paleoenvironmental indicators, provide an important measure of the accumulation and downward profile movement over time of organically-bound Al, ferrihydrite and other crystalline forms (hematite and goethite) of extractable Fe. Ferrihydrite is particularly useful in determining former perched water levels in soils with relation to paleoclimate. The ratios of most Fe extracts are time dependent. The Fe_d/Fe_t ratio, within statistical limits, shows a slow increase from LIA (Little Ice Age) to Late Glacial soils, which closely correlates with other alpine soil studies in the middle latitudes and other tropical alpine locales. Values of Al_d (dithionite) and Al_o (oxalate extractable) generally do not correlate with time; however, Al_p (pyrophosphate extractable) measured against Al_t (total) provides insight on the downward translocation over time of organically-bound Al. Low leaching rates in this chronosequence are further supported by clay mineralogy trends and the geochemical data.  相似文献   

延边地区青龙村群斜长角闪岩中锆石U-Pb同位素年龄及地质意义   总被引：9，自引：1，他引：8  

张春艳  张兴洲  邱殿明 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》2007,37(4):672-677

青龙村群岩石类型主要为片岩类、斜长角闪岩类、粗细粒片麻岩类和大理岩夹层。岩石地球化学特征表明,青龙村群的原岩属于钙碱性安山岩-流纹岩组合,这套组合是岛弧区玄武质岩浆分异的产物,推测它是一个较宽阔的大陆边缘拼贴缝合带中的一个岛弧地体。LA-ICP-MS颗粒锆石U-Pb法同位素年龄测定表明,青龙村群斜长角闪岩中锆石年龄为(274±6) Ma,梨树沟花岗岩体中的锆石年龄为(187±3) Ma,这一事实说明青龙村群的变质作用时代为二叠纪末期,代表华北板块北缘的碰撞造山事件。而周边大面积花岗岩的侵位时间为燕山早期,属青龙村群碰撞造山后伸展事件产物。  相似文献   

辽西晚古生代长茂河子辉绿岩墙群的地球化学特征     

李伍平  李献华 《地球科学》2005,30(6):761-770

根据全岩K-Ar年龄(287.5~243.6Ma), 辽西朝阳长茂河子辉绿岩墙群形成于晚古生代.这些辉绿岩分为低铁钛辉绿岩和高铁钛辉绿岩2种, 以低铁钛辉绿岩为主.低铁钛辉绿岩以低TiO₂(< 2%)、FeO_t(12.39%~15.33%)、V(227~335μg/g)、Sc(24~36μg/g) 含量和高的SiO₂ (45.61%~47.72%)、Al₂O₃(12.51%~16.71%)、MgO(6.66%~9.31%)、K₂O(0.57%~2.39%)、Cr(107~177μg/g)和Ni(96~235μg/g) 含量, 以及低Ti/Y(327~496)和Ti/Zr (69~114) 比值为特征, 类似于大陆拉斑玄武质岩石; 高铁钛辉绿岩以高的TiO₂ (5%~6%)、FeO_t(22.13%~22.16%)、V(850~859μg/g)、Sc(51~52μg/g) 含量和低的SiO₂ (42.88%~44.90%)、Al₂O₃(11.53%~11.57%)、MgO (5.15%~5.29%, Mg#=0.32)、K₂O (0.48%~0.51%)、Cr(< 2μg/g)和Ni(< 30μg/g) 含量及高的Ti/Y(1046~1106)、Ti/Zr(250~263) 比值为特征, 类似于Skaergaard侵入体.这些辉绿岩相对富集Rb、Th、U、Pb、Ti和轻稀土元素, 而相对亏损Ba、Sr、P和Nb、Ta.ε_Nd(t) (-6.43~-4.12)、ε_Sr(t) (42.94~64.19) 显示Sr-Nd同位素组成较为均匀, 并反映它们源于富集岩石圈地幔.认为长茂河子辉绿岩形成于富集岩石圈地幔的部分熔融, 经历了岩浆结晶分异与地壳混染作用.高铁钛辉绿岩和低高铁钛辉绿岩形成环境不同, 前者形成于相对低氧逸度或相对封闭的结晶环境中.   相似文献   

西藏纳木错盆地116ka以来沉积演化与青藏高原隆升   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

朱大岗  孟宪刚  赵希涛  邵兆刚  马志邦  杨朝斌  吴中海  王建平 《地质力学学报》2005,11(2):172-180

根据湖相或湖滨相沉积的铀系等时线年龄测定结果,116kaB.P.以来,在西藏纳木错沿岸,发育了拔湖48m以下的6级湖岸阶地和拔湖48m以上,最高至139.2m的高位湖相沉积.可划分出3个沉积相组合,其演化可划分为4个阶段:①116~72kaB.P.,为深湖环境,古湖面拔湖高于现今纳木错140~48m;②72~37kaB.P.,为半深湖环境,拔湖为48~26m;③37~30kaB.P.,为浅湖环境,拔湖26~19m;④30kaB.P.以来,湖水逐渐变浅,拔湖<19m.纳木错盆地沉积与青藏高原隆升响应关系,揭示出高原自116kaB.P.以来先后经历了稳定期、持续逐步较快隆升期(116~37kaB.P.)、急剧强烈阶段性隆升期(37~30kaB.P.)和较稳定期(30kaB.P.以来).青藏高原的隆升是一个多阶段、不等速和非均变的复杂过程.   相似文献   

辽西地区晚侏罗世张家口组及其地质意义   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

杨雅军  黄志安  单学东  董万德  王忠江  刘文海  潘玉启 《地质与资源》2005,14(4):245-250

辽宁省西部地区张家口组是在近几年来1:5万、1:25万区域地质调查的基础上发现和建立的,主要分布于金岭寺-羊山盆地的东缘、北票盆地西缘、四家子-铁营子盆地及凌源三十家子盆地东缘,呈北东向沿断裂带分布.岩性为一套偏酸、偏碱性的火山岩,以爆发相的火山角砾岩、集块岩及凝灰岩为主,呈角度不整合覆于晚侏罗世土城子组之上,其上被早白垩世义县组角度不整合覆盖.形成于挤压造山与伸展构造的过渡环境,是古亚洲构造域压性体制与滨太平洋活动带张性体制构造转换阶段的产物.地层时代为晚侏罗世.  相似文献   

The sedimentation rates in the Okinawa Trough during the Late Quaternary   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

XIONG Yingqian  LIU Zhenxi  LI Tiegang  LIU Yanguang  YU Hua 《海洋学报(英文版)》2005,24(4):146-154

On the basis of accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon （AMS ^14C） dating, sedimentation rates of 11 cores collected from the northern to southern Okinawa Trough are discussed. The sedimentation rates in the Okinawa Trough roughly range from 11 to 39cm/ka, and the average is 23.0cm/ka. China＇s continental matter is the main sediment source of the middle Okinawa Trough and has important contribution to the northern and southern Okinawa Trough. The sedimentation rates during the marine oxygen isotope （MIS） 2 are uniformly higher than those during MIS 1 in the northern and middle Okinawa Trough while they are on the contrary in the southern Okinawa Trough. Sedimentation rates in the Okinawa Trough can be one of the proxies of sediment source and an indicator of cooling events.  相似文献   

毛乌素沙漠边缘地区春末夏初沙尘暴天气的物理量场结构     

贺皓  刘宇  滕跃  黄宝霞 《中国沙漠》2007,27(6):1062-1066

沙尘暴天气是毛乌素沙漠边缘内蒙古、甘肃、宁夏、陕西等地区春末夏初特有的一种灾害性天气。应用欧洲中心再分析资料的气压场和各种物理量场,选取了5个沙尘暴个例,分析了沙尘暴时期各层气压场的特征和物理量的空间结构。结果表明：蒙古高压是影响沙尘暴的主要天气系统。在沙尘暴发生时,蒙古高压前部整层都为宽广而强劲的西北气流,从地面可伸展到200 hPa附近,其物理属性是干、冷,其前部近乎于东北—西南向的区域,是锋区的密集带,也是各种物理量表现最为敏感的区域,垂直速度场为上升运动区,涡度场为正涡度区,高—低层散度差值场为正值,这些物理量都为沙尘暴的发生起到了推动和加强作用。  相似文献