U-Pb dating of zircons from quartz diorite and its enclaves at Tongguanshan in Anhui and its petrogenetic implication

The Tongling area, Anhui Province lies in the centralpart of the Cu-Fe-Au mineralization belt of the Mid-dle-Lower Yangtze River region, and hosts the highestincidence of this mineralization belt. Geotectonically, theTongling area is located at the middle of the Lower Yang-tze fold belt in the Yangtze block. Silurian to Triassicshallow marine carbonatite and a few semi-abyssal sili-ceous rocks, continental-ocean arenites are the dominantoutcropping strata. A series of NE trending fold s…     

Survival times of anomalous melt inclusions from element diffusion in olivine and chromite

The chemical composition of basaltic magma erupted at the Earth's surface is the end product of a complex series of processes, beginning with partial melting and melt extraction from a mantle source and ending with fractional crystallization and crustal assimilation at lower pressures. It has been proposed that studying inclusions of melt trapped in early crystallizing phenocrysts such as Mg-rich olivine and chromite may help petrologists to see beyond the later-stage processes and back to the origin of the partial melts in the mantle. Melt inclusion suites often span a much greater compositional range than associated erupted lavas, and a significant minority of inclusions carry distinct compositions that have been claimed to sample melts from earlier stages of melt production, preserving separate contributions from mantle heterogeneities. This hypothesis is underpinned by the assumption that melt inclusions, once trapped, remain chemically isolated from the external magma for all elements except those that are compatible in the host minerals. Here we show that the fluxes of rare-earth elements through olivine and chromite by lattice diffusion are sufficiently rapid at magmatic temperatures to re-equilibrate completely the rare-earth-element patterns of trapped melt inclusions in times that are short compared to those estimated for the production and ascent of mantle-derived magma or for magma residence in the crust. Phenocryst-hosted melt inclusions with anomalous trace-element signatures must therefore form shortly before magma eruption and cooling. We conclude that the assumption of chemical isolation of incompatible elements in olivine- and chromite-hosted melt inclusions is not valid, and we call for re-evaluation of the popular interpretation that anomalous melt inclusions represent preserved samples of unmodified mantle melts.     

Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes

Explosive volcanic eruptions are driven by exsolution of H2O-rich vapour from silicic magma. Eruption dynamics involve a complex interplay between nucleation and growth of vapour bubbles and crystallization, generating highly nonlinear variation in the physical properties of magma as it ascends beneath a volcano. This makes explosive volcanism difficult to model and, ultimately, to predict. A key unknown is the temperature variation in magma rising through the sub-volcanic system, as it loses gas and crystallizes en route. Thermodynamic modelling of magma that degasses, but does not crystallize, indicates that both cooling and heating are possible. Hitherto it has not been possible to evaluate such alternatives because of the difficulty of tracking temperature variations in moving magma several kilometres below the surface. Here we extend recent work on glassy melt inclusions trapped in plagioclase crystals to develop a method for tracking pressure-temperature-crystallinity paths in magma beneath two active andesite volcanoes. We use dissolved H2O in melt inclusions to constrain the pressure of H2O at the time an inclusion became sealed, incompatible trace element concentrations to calculate the corresponding magma crystallinity and plagioclase-melt geothermometry to determine the temperature. These data are allied to ilmenite-magnetite geothermometry to show that the temperature of ascending magma increases by up to 100 degrees C, owing to the release of latent heat of crystallization. This heating can account for several common textural features of andesitic magmas, which might otherwise be erroneously attributed to pre-eruptive magma mixing.     

Spectroscopic evidence for a lava fountain driven by previously accumulated magmatic gas

Lava fountains are spectacular continuous gas jets, propelling lava fragments to heights of several hundred metres, which occasionally occur during eruptions of low-viscosity magmas. Whether they are generated by the effervescent disruption of fast-rising bubbly melt or by the separate ascent of a bubble foam layer accumulated at depth still remains a matter of debate. No field measurement has yet allowed firm discrimination between these two models. A key insight into the origin of lava fountains may be gained by measuring the chemical composition of the driving gas phase. This composition should differ markedly depending on whether the magma degassing occurs before or during eruption. Here we report the analysis of magmatic gas during a powerful (250-600 m high) lava fountain, measured with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy on Mount Etna, Sicily. The abundances of volcanic gas species, determined from absorption spectra of lava radiation, reveal a fountain gas having higher CO2/S and S/Cl ratios than other etnean emissions, and which cannot derive from syn-eruptive bulk degassing of Etna basalt. Instead, its composition suggests violent emptying of a gas bubble layer previously accumulated at about 1.5 km depth below the erupting crater.     

Partitioning of oxygen during core formation on the Earth and Mars

Core formation on the Earth and Mars involved the physical separation of metal and silicate, most probably in deep magma oceans. Although core-formation models explain many aspects of mantle geochemistry, they have not accounted for the large differences observed between the compositions of the mantles of the Earth (approximately 8 wt% FeO) and Mars (approximately 18 wt% FeO) or the smaller mass fraction of the martian core. Here we explain these differences as a consequence of the solubility of oxygen in liquid iron-alloy increasing with increasing temperature. We assume that the Earth and Mars both accreted from oxidized chondritic material. In a terrestrial magma ocean, 1,200-2,000 km deep, high temperatures resulted in the extraction of FeO from the silicate magma ocean owing to high solubility of oxygen in the metal. Lower temperatures of a martian magma ocean resulted in little or no extraction of FeO from the mantle, which thus remains FeO-rich. The FeO extracted from the Earth's magma ocean may have contributed to chemical heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle, a FeO-rich D" layer and the light element budget of the core.     

Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma

It has long been assumed that seismogenic faulting is confined to cool, brittle rocks, with a temperature upper limit of approximately 600 degrees C (ref. 1). This thinking underpins our understanding of volcanic earthquakes, which are assumed to occur in cold rocks surrounding moving magma. However, the recent discovery of abundant brittle-ductile fault textures in silicic lavas has led to the counter-intuitive hypothesis that seismic events may be triggered by fracture and faulting within the erupting magma itself. This hypothesis is supported by recent observations of growing lava domes, where microearthquake swarms have coincided with the emplacement of gouge-covered lava spines, leading to models of seismogenic stick-slip along shallow shear zones in the magma. But can fracturing or faulting in high-temperature, eruptible magma really generate measurable seismic events? Here we deform high-temperature silica-rich magmas under simulated volcanic conditions in order to test the hypothesis that high-temperature magma fracture is seismogenic. The acoustic emissions recorded during experiments show that seismogenic rupture may occur in both crystal-rich and crystal-free silicic magmas at eruptive temperatures, extending the range of known conditions for seismogenic faulting.     

Spectral evidence for weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite in the northern lowlands of Mars

Mineral abundances derived from the analysis of remotely sensed thermal emission data from Mars have been interpreted to indicate that the surface is composed of basalt (Surface Type 1) and andesite (Surface Type 2). The global distribution of these rock types is divided roughly along the planetary dichotomy which separates ancient, heavily cratered crust in the southern hemisphere (basalt) from younger lowland plains in the north (andesite). But the existence of such a large volume of andesite is difficult to reconcile with our present understanding of the geological evolution of Mars. Here we reinterpret martian surface rock lithologies using mineral abundances from previous work and new mineralogies derived from a spectral end-member set representing minerals common in unaltered and low-temperature aqueously altered basalts. Our results continue to indicate the dominance of unaltered basalt in the southern highlands, but reveal that the northern lowlands can be interpreted as weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite. The coincidence between locations of such altered basalt and a suggested northern ocean basin implies that lowland plains material may be composed of basalts weathered under submarine conditions or weathered basaltic sediments transported into this depocentre.     

塔里木-中朝板块北缘的志留纪岛弧公婆泉群火山岩地质地球化学及构造意义

公婆泉群位于北山中部，可分为：北、南两带。南带为弧后盆地玄武岩-安山岩组合，北带为岛弧火山岩组合，西段窑洞努如为火山角砾岩和熔火山角砾岩组合，中段公婆泉一带为玄武岩-安山岩-流纹岩-粗面岩组合，东段东七一山地区为玄武岩-安山岩-流纹岩组合。岩石组合，地球化学综合分析认为，公婆泉群是中-晚志留世哈萨克斯坦板块俯冲与塔里木-中朝板块的产物。岛弧西段窑洞努如位于近大陆或者在水下陆壳。公婆泉位于近海沟陆壳，而东七一山则远离海沟，是在洋壳的基础上发育的。说明塔里木-中朝板块是一个统一的板块，同时在早古生代存在哈萨克斯坦板块向塔里木-中朝板块的俯冲。     

四川丹巴杨柳坪铜镍铂族元素硫化物矿床成因初探

四川丹巴杨柳坪铜镍铂族元素硫化物矿床的含矿岩体围绕杨柳坪穹状构造分布,侵位于泥盆系大理岩、炭质板岩中.自下至上岩体由蛇纹岩相、滑石岩相、次闪石岩相和蚀变辉长岩相组成.似层状浸染状矿体分布于岩体底部蛇纹岩相内,透镜状块状矿体则分布于底部及底板围岩中,后者与前者在空间上有密切的依存关系.矿石中主要硫化物矿物为磁黄铁矿、镍黄铁矿和黄铜矿;块状矿石中还发现辉砷钴矿,以及砷铂矿、碲锑钯矿等铂族元素矿物.野外关系表明杨柳坪含矿镁铁-超镁铁岩体为火山通道相浅成岩体.含矿岩体和大石包玄武岩的地球化学特征表明两者为同源岩浆产物,与其它地区峨眉山玄武岩地球化学特点的相似性,表明它们也是峨眉地幔柱活动的产物.当玄武岩浆上升到浅成岩浆房中时,随着岩浆分离结晶作用的进行,硫化物从玄武岩浆中熔离出来并向下聚集是主要成矿作用.     

The formation of plagioclase chains during convective transfer in basaltic magma

The basaltic rock in the lower part of the thick Holyoke lava flow in Connecticut and Massachusetts has been shown to have a remarkable texture, with crystals of feldspar linked together in a continuous three-dimensional network of chains. Heating experiments have revealed that this network persists to temperatures where the rock is 75% liquid, and therefore the network was interpreted to have formed at an early stage of crystallization and to have played an important role in the compaction of crystal mush in the lower part of the flow. Despite the texture's importance to our understanding of how such basalt flows form, the origin of the texture has remained uncertain. Here we show that, although the network is present in the lower third of the flow, it was actually formed in the upper solidification front and was transported down in plumes of dense crystal mush. Convection of this type has been postulated for intrusive magma chambers, but corroborative field evidence has been equivocal, especially in lava lakes and flows. Preservation of the roof-generated texture in the lower part of a thick flood-basalt flow therefore constitutes important evidence for the role of convection in the solidification and differentiation of a simple magma sheet.     

Anomalously high δ D and micro-scale hydrogen isotope heterogeneities in the mantle: Ion microprobe analysis of am-iboles from peridotite xenoliths at Nushan, eastern China

Hydrogen isotopic compositions of four amphibole grains from three pieces of lherzolite xenoliths in Cenozoic basanites of Nushan, eastern China have been analyzed by ion microprobe. δ D values of all analyzed points range from ?94‰ to +46‰, some of which are much higher than the highest δ D (+8‰) reported previously for mantle materials. The heterogeneities of D/H ratios within single grains have been observed, the variation of δ D is up to 80‰ on the scale of less than 400 ?m. No correlation between hydrogen isotopic ratios and hydrogen contents can be found, implying that the scatter of δ D values could not result from a late shallow process such as hydrogen loss or hydrothermal alterations and should be considered as inherited from the source at depth. Chemical compositions of Nushan amphiboles are very homogeneous, excluding the fact that the scatter of δ D values could arise from variable fractionation factors between a single fluid source and minerals. Therefore, metasomatic fluids responsible for the formation of Nushan amphiboles should be heterogeneous and result in the observed large variable and anomalously high δ D values of amphiboles. We suggested that such metasomatic fluids could be related to magma degassing in the mantle source. Based on the D-H diffusion data and the scale of hydrogen isotope heterogeneities, it was inferred that the mantle metasomatism took place soon before the eruption of host magma.     

Epitaxy of rare earth element fluorcarbonate minerals from carbonatite dyke at Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China

Rare earth element fluorocarbonate minerals such as bastnaesite and parisite are firstly discovered in carbonatite dykes from Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China. Bastnaesite rarely occurs as homogeneously single crystal, but contains microfine phase of parisite. They form regular intergrowth along (0001) plane net, which is identified as epitaxy. This eptactic texture results from the variation of chemical composition of crystallizing agents of those minerals that crystallize directly from carbonatite magma.     

Widespread magma oceans on asteroidal bodies in the early Solar System

Immediately following the formation of the Solar System, small planetary bodies accreted, some of which melted to produce igneous rocks. Over a longer timescale (15-33 Myr), the inner planets grew by incorporation of these smaller objects through collisions. Processes operating on such asteroids strongly influenced the final composition of these planets, including Earth. Currently there is little agreement about the nature of asteroidal igneous activity: proposals range from small-scale melting, to near total fusion and the formation of deep magma oceans. Here we report a study of oxygen isotopes in two basaltic meteorite suites, the HEDs (howardites, eucrites and diogenites, which are thought to sample the asteroid 4 Vesta) and the angrites (from an unidentified asteroidal source). Our results demonstrate that these meteorite suites formed during early, global-scale melting (> or = 50 per cent) events. We show that magma oceans were present on all the differentiated Solar System bodies so far sampled. Magma oceans produced compositionally layered planetesimals; the modification of such bodies before incorporation into larger objects can explain some anomalous planetary features, such as Earth's high Mg/Si ratio.     

合成气直接合成二甲醚与甲醇的热力学分析

确定了合成气直接合成二甲醚与甲醇的复合反应体系独立方程数,并进行了热力学计算与分析,计算了不同初始组成、温度、压力下复合反应体系的平衡组成及平衡条件下二甲醚与甲醇的选择率。     

阿尔泰诺尔特地区花岗岩岩浆的分凝作用

诺尔特地区位于阿尔泰北部山区 ,西伯利亚板块西南缘。花岗岩广泛分布 ,主要为加里东晚期、华力西中晚期及燕山期花岗岩。文章选取诺尔特地区各时期代表性岩体进行岩浆分凝作用的研究 ,确定的动力学参数包括岩浆的含水量、粘度及密度。分凝速度的计算表明 ,区内各岩体花岗质岩浆中分凝作用是存在的 ,但是分凝速度较小 ,分凝作用对于大颗粒的残余体的分离作用是明显的 ,而对于小颗粒的残余体的分离作用很小。经过分凝作用之后 ,岩浆的成分发生了变化 ,岩浆中依然存在小颗粒的耐熔残晶     

中国东南部晚中生代伸展应力体制的岩石学标志

在中国东南部晚中生代时期（J2－K2），发育着大规模岩墙群、广泛的岩浆混合作用（包括侵入杂岩中的岩浆混合和火山岩中的复合岩流／双峰式火山岩）、大范围玄武岩浆的底侵、巨型链状火山岩带、晶洞花岗岩－A型花岗岩带、变质核杂岩，以及玄武岩的无斑隐晶－细粒结构和花岗岩的均匀块状结构。对它们的研究表明，它们形成于伸展应力体制，是伸展构造的岩石学标志，发生在晚中生代整个地质时期，并认为这一伸展构造由古太平洋库拉板块对欧亚板块的消减作用诱发。     

Hf isotope composition of zircons and implication for the petrogenesis of Yajiangqiao granite,Hunan Province,China

In the peralumineous granite of Yajiangqiao zircon population can be divided into two groups (i.e. Zircon Ⅰ and Zircon Ⅱ), which were formed in magmatic chamber and in emplacement place, respectively. The Hf isotope compositions of two stages of zircon show that the host magma was essentially derived from crustal material by melting. However, some higher 176Hf/177Hf ratios indicate that the granitic zircons should contain fine crystal of zircon formed in mantle-derived magma. In fact, the backscattered electron imaging and the electron microprobe analysis reveal that there is another type of zircon included within Zircon Ⅰ, which is quite different from Zircon Ⅰ and Zircon Ⅱ in morphology and chemistry. They are considered to be the product of the mantle-derived magma intruded into the granitic magma chamber at the beginning of anatexis. Thus,it is suggested that the formation of Yajiangqiao granite is related to the underplating of mantle magma.     

Intergrowth texture in Au-Ag-Te minerals from Sandaowanzi gold deposit, Heilongjiang Province: Implications for ore-forming environment

Sandaowanzi gold deposit,Heilongjiang Province,is the only single telluride type gold deposit so far documented in the world,in which 90% of gold is hosted in gold-silver telluride minerals.Optical microscope observation,scanning electron microscope,electron probe and X-ray diffraction analysis identified abundant intergrowth textures in the Au-Ag-Te minerals,typified by sylvanite-hosting hessite crystals and hessite-hosting petzite crystals.The intergrown minerals and their chemistry are consistent,and the hosted minerals are mostly worm-like or as oriented stripes,evenly distributed in the hosting minerals,with clear and smooth interfaces.These suggest an exsolution origin for the intergrowth texture.With reference to the phase-transformation temperature derived from synthesis experiments of tellurides,the exsolution texture of Au-Ag-Te minerals implies that the veined tellurides formed at 150-220℃.The early stage disseminated tellurides formed at log f(Te 2) from 13.6 to 7.8,log f(S 2) from 11.7 to 7.6,whereas the late stage veined tellurides formed at log f(Te 2) ranging from 11.2 to 9.7 and log f(S 2) from 16.8 to 12.2.     

与碳酸岩-碱性杂岩体相关的内生稀土矿床成矿作用研究进展

综述与碳酸岩?碱性杂岩体相关的内生稀土矿床的基本特征和成矿作用研究进展。根据矿化特征, 该类矿床大体可以分为原生岩浆型和热液型, 前者稀土矿物是从碳酸岩岩浆中直接结晶出来, 矿化主要产于碳酸岩岩体中; 后者稀土矿物通常与方解石、萤石、重晶石、石英等矿物共生形成脉体, 穿插于碳酸岩杂岩体及围岩中, 或作为裂隙或空洞充填物, 或呈细粒多晶集合体叠加在碳酸岩中早期形成的矿物之上。以往的研究对于稀土富集成矿的主要机制是碳酸岩和硅酸岩岩浆的液态不混溶作用或碳酸岩岩浆中碳酸盐矿物的分离结晶作用, 还是岩浆期后热液蚀变或不混溶的碳酸岩质流体的萃取作用, 存在很大的争议; 同时,与稀土成矿相关的碳酸盐体系选择性地富集轻稀土, 该类矿床中很少见到重稀土矿物, 亦是有待解决的问题。因此, 加强稀土元素在富挥发份的碳酸岩熔体和碱性硅酸岩熔体或流体之间, 以及碳酸盐矿物及共沉淀相与碳酸岩熔体之间分配行为的高温高压实验研究, 将是揭示该类稀土矿床成因的关键。     

地下复杂火山岩岩性测井识别方法——以准噶尔盆地克拉美丽气田为例

以准噶尔盆地克拉美丽气田为例,利用常规测井响应和常规测井交会图识别地下复杂火山岩岩性,以微电阻率扫描成像测井识别火山岩结构构造.结果表明:熔岩和次火山岩以高电阻率、低声波时差和低中子的特征区别于火山碎屑岩.根据从基性到酸性熔岩自然伽马增大的特征可以区分各种熔岩.次火山岩以高自然伽马和低密度的特征区别于玄武岩和安山岩,二长玢岩以低自然伽马的特征区别于流纹岩和花岗斑岩,进一步以自然伽马-电阻率交会图区分花岗斑岩和流纹岩.火山角砾岩以较高的密度和电阻率以及锯齿状声波时差和中子曲线区别于凝灰岩.在FMI图像上,熔岩特有的气孔构造、杏仁构造、流纹构造、块状构造、熔结结构等特征区别于火山碎屑岩的凝灰结构和火山角砾结构以及火山沉积-碎屑岩的层理构造.可以根据气孔构造、杏仁构造区分熔岩与次火山岩.