Isotopic signatures of deposition and transformation of Lower Cambrian saliferous rocks in the Irkutsk Amphitheater: Communication 3. Carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions in carbonates     

V. I. Vinogradov  G. A. Belenitskaya  M. I. Bujakaite  V. N. Kuleshov  M. A. Minaeva  B. G. Pokrovskii 《Lithology and Mineral Resources》2006,41(3):271-279

In previous communications based on the study of sulfur and strontium, we showed that Lower Cambrian rocks of the Irkutsk Amphitheater underwent a significant epigenetic transformation. All postsedimentary alterations of rocks are related to the influence of water solutions that provoke the direct (physical) dissolution of material and its chemical transformation. In particular, an appreciable portion of anhydrites disappeared from the section due to reduction. Probably, these processes took place several times in the past and they are continuing at present. A similar conclusion was deduced from the strontium isotopic composition of carbonate rocks. Their strontium isotopic composition is usually shifted relative to the primary composition, although the prevalence of sulfate and carbonate rocks in the section promotes the stability of strontium isotopic composition with respect to secondary alterations. The carbon isotope system is even more stable due to the abundance of carbonate rocks in the section. This circumstance is probably responsible for the incapacity of isotope data to serve as obvious evidence of the epigenetic transformation of carbonates. The major elements of the evolution of carbon isotope signature could be retained since the sedimentation stage.  相似文献   

Isotopic signatures of deposition and transformation of Lower Cambrian saliferous rocks in the Irkutsk amphitheater: Communication 1. Sulfur isotopic composition     

V. I. Vinogradov  G. A. Belenitskaya  M. I. Bujakaite  V. N. Kuleshov  M. A. Minaeva  B. G. Pokrovskii 《Lithology and Mineral Resources》2006,41(1):85-97

New isotope data on Lower Cambrian rocks of the Irkutsk amphitheater are reported in three communications. The first communication is devoted to the sulfur isotopic composition, which is most sensitive to ostsedimentary geochemical transformations of sulfate rocks in saliferous formations. It is shown that δ³⁴S values in Bel’sk and Zhigalovo boreholes are within 22–35‰ The lowest values are close to the sulfur isotopic composition of a halogenic basin, while the highest values are related to epigenetic sulfate reduction. This process was responsible for the elimination of 100 m of anhydrites from the Lower Cambrian section.  相似文献   

Isotopic evidence for postsedimentary transformation of rocks of the Lower Cambrian Angara Formation in the Irkutsk Amphitheater     

V. I. Vinogradov  G. A. Belenitskaya  M. I. Bujakaite  D. I. Golovin  V. N. Kuleshov  M. A. Minaeva 《Lithology and Mineral Resources》2006,41(6):588-600

The section of the Angara Formation (upper portion of Lower Cambrian) is composed of a complex combination of dolomites, anhydrites, marlstones, and salinastones. The occurrence of solution breccia, various types of metasomatism, and other indications testify to the substantial postsedimentary reworking of these rocks. Sulfate reduction, one of the most important processes of reworking, is clearly expressed in the sulfur isotopic composition. The ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio in carbonate and sulfate materials is more stable owing to the relatively high Sr content in these rocks. Nevertheless, most sulfate and carbonate rocks are contaminated with the radiogenic Sr. The carbon isotope ratio in carbonates is close to the “normal” value despite the evaporitic character of sedimentation basins and the possible participation of organic carbon, which is a product of the oxidation of hydrocarbons by sulfates, in the transformation of carbonates. The Rb-Sr analysis of the clayey component of marlstones and the K-Ar analysis of mudstones from the lower portion of the Lower Cambrian-Vendian section indicate that the rocks were mainly transformed during a time span corresponding to the Caledonian folding dramatically manifested at the platform margin.  相似文献   

Mineralogy and petrography of a kimberlite-picrite dike in the northwestern Urik-Iya Graben,the eastern Sayan region     

Yu. A. Minaeva  K. N. Egorov 《Geology of Ore Deposits》2009,51(7):565-576

Mica kimberlite and alkali picrite were identified in the northwestern Urik-Iya Graben of the eastern Sayan region. Typomorphism of Cr-diopside and high-Cr (up to 55.22 wt % Cr₂O₃) spinel from kimberlite of the Bushkanai dike indicate that the melt was generated in the mantle, composed of spinel peridotite. The high content of Cr-spinel (45–55 wt % Cr₂O₃) microlites in the groundmass of kimberlite and small amounts of ulvospinel and titanomagnetite in the absence of perovskite testifies to the diamond potential of this kimberlite. Picroilmenite, manganoilmenite with an anomalously high MnO content (11.37–17.78 wt %), and barium titanate with (wt %) 62.21 TiO₂, 0.61 Cr₂O₃, 15.89 FeO, 4.05 MnO, 1.71 CaO, and 11.13 BaO close in composition to a new mineral species from the Murun pluton were identified in the groundmass for the first time. Kimberlite from the Bushkanai dike belongs to the Zolotitsa low-Ti geochemical type of kimberlites derived from the slightly enriched lithospheric mantle EM1. The distribution of trace elements, including REE, in picrite from the same dike corresponds to the slightly depleted asthenospheric mantle. Different mantle sources of kimberlite and picrite from the same dike indicate that these rocks are related to independent melts rather than to products of fractionation of a common parental alkaline ultramafic magma.  相似文献   

Isotopic signatures of deposition and transformation of Lower Cambrian saliferous rocks in the Irkutsk amphitheater: Communication 2. Strontium isotopic composition     

V. I. Vinogradov  G. A. Belenitskaya  M. I. Bujakaite  V. N. Kuleshov  M. A. Minaeva  B. G. Pokrovskii 《Lithology and Mineral Resources》2006,41(2):165-173

Rb-Sr data were obtained for different Lower Cambrian rocks from boreholes Bel’sk and Zhigalovo drilled in the Irkutsk amphitheater. Shales in the lower part and insoluble residue of marls throughout the entire (up to 2 km thick) sequence define the first transformation stage of silicate rocks dated at 580 Ma with a large uncertainty. Sulfate and carbonate rocks are the main Sr carriers in the Lower Cambrian rocks. Owing to a negligible amount of silicate impurities in them, the input of radiogenic Sr exerted no significant influence on the Rb-Sr isotope system. However, almost all carbonate and sulfate rocks studied are contaminated by radiogenic Sr relative to its initial isotopic composition in the sedimentation basin. Hence, the rocks experienced epigenetic (probably, repeated) recrystallization and one or several stages of dissolution.  相似文献   

Lamproite and kimberlite of the Sayany area: Composition,sources, and diamond potential     

Egorov  K. N.  Kiselev  A. I.  Men’shagin  Yu. V.  Minaeva  Yu. A. 《Doklady Earth Sciences》2010,435(2):1670-1675

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