Possible relation of resistance of rocks to granitization and to their equilibrium and thermodynamic anisotropism |
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| Abstract: | Resistance or susceptibility of different rocks to granitization and ultra metamorphism may be related to the degree of their equilibrium and to their energetic (thermodynamic) anisotropism. All rocks may be divided accordingly into active and passive ones, depending on their behavior in granitizing environments. The active group (sedimentary, elastic, clayey, mixed, noncrystalline effusives) consists of energetically anisotropic ones as well as of rocks that failed to attain their chemical equilibrium by the time of their stabilization. Such rocks are able to release a part of their energy in a certain stage of their granitization. The passive group includes sedimentary rocks (carbonate, ferruginous), fully crystalline magmatic rocks, energetically isotropic homogeneous sandstones, and quartzites). Granitization of such rocks, is, among other things, an endothermal phenomenon. Basic and ultrabasic magmatic rocks are susceptible to granitization, provided they are interbedded with water-bearing sediments (including the passive ones); the resistance of such combinations to granitization is lower than the resistance of their constituents separately. Exothermal phenomena in granitization, such as release of energy from thermodynamically anisotropic bodies or of the accumulated solar energy (by crystalline substance) in reactions involving an uptake of liquid and gaseous phases, insufficient as they may be to assure a continuity of the granitization, may have a decisive effect upon the granitization-resistance of the rocks. — V.P. Sokoloff |
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