中太平洋YJC海山富钴结壳矿物组成与元素地球化学

运用等离子光谱、等离子质谱、X射线衍射、红外光谱和场发射电镜等分析测试方法,对太平洋威克(Wake)海岭YJC海山中的富钴结壳中不同构造层的矿物组成和元素地球化学研究表明:矿石矿物是水羟锰矿和少量的钙锰矿,脉石矿物是磷灰石、石英和方解石等,微量矿物有蒙脱石、高岭石、钠沸石、斜发沸石、伊利石、水黑云母、磁铁矿和角闪石等。老结壳磷灰石的质量分数>10%,P>1%;新结壳磷灰石<10%,P<1%。老结壳相对富集Cu、Ca、P等元素,新结壳相对富集TMn、TFe、Co、Ni、Ba、Zn、Pb、Mo等元素。结壳内部纹层构造的不同位置及包体内的微区成分变化较大,TMn和TFe呈同消长关系,但TMn/TFe值相对稳定。结壳的稀土元素总量为1761.88×10-6,Ce具明显的正异常。老结壳相对富集稀土元素,新结壳略富Eu。     

四川盆地东部中二叠统茅口组顶部钙结壳的发现及其发育模式

对四川盆地东部涪陵地区角帮沟剖面中二叠统茅口组顶部钙结壳进行的岩石学和矿物学系统分析发现,该剖面中钙结壳的矿物组成和含量呈规律变化,可分为基岩带、过渡带及钙结带。岩石学分析表明,基岩带为灰白色中厚层泥晶生物灰岩,其内发育碳酸盐岩砂和岩溶角砾充填的岩溶系统;过渡带为黄白色、黄褐色、褐红色含燧石条带或团块状泥晶生物灰岩,其内发育钙质胶结的原地角砾充填的侵蚀漏斗;钙结带为局部钙结岩化的灰色亮晶生屑灰岩叠覆土黄色多孔块状钙结岩,其内发育多期裂缝、根模、肺泡结构和次生碳酸钙胶结物等典型钙结壳结构。矿物学分析表明,自过渡带至钙结带CaCO₃含量呈逐渐上升的趋势,推测内部次生碳酸钙逐步胶结富集是钙结岩形成的主要原因。结合四川盆地茅口组顶部以发育铝土质泥岩和铝土岩的岩石组合为特征,且其与中二叠世上扬子地区位于赤道附近的古地理背景相吻合,表明四川盆地东部地区茅口组顶部钙结壳形成于湿热气候条件下;并通过与经典钙结壳特征的比较,总结出湿热气候条件下的钙结壳发育模式。该研究成果不仅是对四川盆地中二叠统茅口组表生成岩作用产物的补充,而且还可为国内外同类型钙结壳研究提供详实的材料。     

大洋富钴结壳资源调查与研究进展

富钴结壳是继多金属结核资源之后被发现的又一深海沉积固体矿产资源,在太平洋、大西洋和印度洋的海底均有分布。据估算,全球三大洋海山富钴结壳干结壳资源量为(1081.1661~2162.3322)×108t。世界各国对富钴结壳的调查始于20世纪80年代初,截至目前,已有日本、中国、俄罗斯和巴西等4个国家与国际海底管理局签订了富钴结壳勘探合同,而韩国的矿区申请也于2016年获得核准。富钴结壳按形态可分为板状结壳,砾状结壳和钴结核3种类型。富钴结壳内部结构构造在宏观上通常表现为三层构造,即底部亮煤层、中部疏松层和顶部较致密层;在微观下主要表现为柱状构造、叠层构造、斑块状构造、纹层状构造等多种类型。富钴结壳的矿物成分主要为自生的铁锰矿物,包括水羟锰矿、钡镁锰矿、羟铁矿、四方纤铁矿、六方纤铁矿、针铁矿等。富钴结壳富含Mn、Fe、Co、Ni、Cu、Pb、Zn等金属元素以及稀土元素和铂族元素,其中Co含量尤为显著。三大洋中,以太平洋富钴结壳的Co平均含量最高。富钴结壳的生长过程极其缓慢,平均仅几毫米每百万年。研究表明,西太平洋富钴结壳最早于始新世-早中新世开始生长。目前通常认为富钴结壳为水成成因,即Co、Fe、Mn等金属元素来源于海水。此外,有研究表明微生物在富钴结壳的形成过程中也起着非常重要的作用。富钴结壳的分布及特征受地形、水深、基岩类型、海水水文化学特征、经纬度等多种因素的影响,其主要分布于碳酸盐补偿深度以上、最低含氧带以下、水深800~2500 m的海山、岛屿斜坡和海底高地上,西、中太平洋海山区被认为是全球富钴结壳的最主要产出区。     

厚结壳的形成条件及控制因素分析

当前对于大洋厚结壳的研究较少,而厚结壳是未来开发利用的重点,同时它记录的地质历史长,控制和影响结壳生长发育的各种因素必然能在厚结壳上充分体现出来。因此,开展厚结壳的形成条件及控制因素的研究,具有重要的理论与现实意义。文章利用GIS空间分析技术与地质统计方法,对厚结壳的定义、结壳厚度与水深、结壳厚度与基岩、结壳生长与构造活动、结壳厚度与沉积速率、结壳厚度与经纬度、结壳厚度与主成矿元素之间的关系进行了分析,结果表明,结壳的厚度变化受控于水深、基岩、构造活动、沉积速率、经纬度等因素,同时结壳厚度与主成矿元素之间存在明显的相关性。     

美国西尔斯盐湖钙华研究综述

钙华具有重要的科研价值。美国加利福尼亚州西尔斯湖内北部、中部和西南部广泛发育钙华丘,丘状体的高度从几厘米至45 m不等,通常高度为5～12 m。钙华丘内存在4种沉积相,分别为多孔海绵状钙华沉积相、结壳状钙华沉积相、柱状钙华沉积相和薄层结壳状钙华沉积相。从时空分布来讲,钙华呈两种沉积层序,分别为多孔海绵状钙华沉积相-结壳状钙华沉积相-薄层结壳状钙华沉积相-多孔海绵状钙华沉积相和多孔海绵状钙华沉积相-柱状钙华沉积相-薄层结壳状钙华沉积相-多孔海绵状钙华沉积相。这些钙华主要由方解石和文石组成,从微观尺度来讲,主要由纳米球晶体和棒状晶体组成,被解释为是微生物作用活动的结果。钙华沉积相中δ~(13)C的测定结果均为正值,表明西尔斯湖钙华属于热成因钙华。对西尔斯湖钙华主要沉积类型及沉积成因的讨论,可以为我国钙华研究提供对比参考资料。     

贵州中三叠统上部垄头组的沉积性质——再论其钙结壳的成因

钙结壳是土壤层之下的岩石在出露地表渗流带环境内受大气雨水的溶解,并通过上覆土壤层的淋滤而成的产物。由于雨水的不断的溶解,使原始的岩石或沉积物发生破裂,从而形成各种大小的砾块或砾石。随着雨水不断的溶解,雨水逐渐增加 CaCO_3的含量。这些富含碳酸钙的雨水,当它流到位于潜水面之上的下渗流带时,就在土壤层之下、原来岩石之上沉积了特殊的、层纹状方解石胶结物。它们往往覆盖岩石表面或沿着砾石的外缘、呈包覆状沉积,从而形成典型的层纹状钙结壳。渗滤豆粒的外皮也属于层纹状钙结壳的性质,这些外皮有向下方加厚的趋势,这表明渗流带的含碳酸钙的雨水,受重力作用影响下,具有往下悬垂现象,类似于洞穴内的钟乳石。豆粒之间的相互衔接呈多边形构造,也表明它是受重力作用而形成的构造。     

中太平洋YJA海山富钴结壳矿物组成与元素地球化学

研究样品采自马尔库斯（MARCUS）海脊YJA海山。利用等离子光谱、等离子质谱、X-射线衍射、红外光谱、场发射电镜等分析测试方法,对富钴结壳中不同构造层的矿物组成和元素地球化学进行了研究。该结壳为一大型板状新结壳,矿石矿物是水羟锰矿,脉石矿物是石英、斜长石、磷灰石等,微量矿物有蒙脱石、高岭石、钠沸石、水黑云母、片沸石等。从结壳的底部构造层到顶部构造层,TMn,Ni,Cu, Ba,Zn等元素的质量分数逐渐减少,TFe逐渐增加,Co变化不大;在相对疏松的构造层中,Si,Al,K,Na,Ca,Mg,Ti,P,Li,Rb等元素相对富集;结壳的稀土元素总量是1 982.27×10^-6,Ce具明显的正异常。不同构造层稀土元素的演化趋势是：Ce与Mn等元素相同,其他稀土元素（Y除外）与Fe等相似。     

麦哲伦海山区MA,MC海山富钴结壳元素间关系及成因意义

为探讨富钴结壳中元素的成因,采用了化学容量法、原子吸收、Ｘ－射线衍射分析、电子探针、等离子光谱等技术,对太平洋麦哲伦海山区曲ＭＡ海山、ＭＣ海山上的富钴结壳分老世代和年青世代层进行了矿物成分与元素万分分析。据分析结果,区内主要赋存水成富钴结壳,富钴结壳中的矿物组分以锰相矿物的水羟锰矿为主,其次为铁相矿物（针铁矿等）,还有磷灰石和少量次要矿物（钙十字石、石英等）。老世代富钴结壳,磷酸盐化明显,个别层内     

富钴结壳生长过程中铁锰氧化物矿物组合的变化

富钴结壳的矿物学研究是一个难点，本文运用电子探针微区分析结合X射线衍射和矿相显微镜观察的综合方法对富钴结壳中的铁锰氧化物矿物组合及其组分变化进行了研究，研究发现，富钴结壳是从与胶状粘土类混合共沉积开始生长的，结壳内部的韵律层和柱状构造也是始于粘土层终于粘土层的；铁锰团粒的核心一般是较纯的水羟凶国矿小核心，可能是在生物媒介作用下在水体中形成后沉降叠积的，FM、FPE海山结壳的中层存在一较纯水羟锰矿层，但该层中Co含量FM15比FPE06低得多，可能反映了FM15在该层形成时Co通量较低，而该层在FN12中不存在，反映了区域环境的较大差异，在FN12火焰状构造亚带存在Mn氧化物和Fe氧化物的极度分异现象，可能反映了结壳形成环境的重大变化。     

太平洋莱恩海山富钴结壳剖面的锶同位素地球化学

对中太平洋莱恩海山富钴结壳MP5D17的各壳层样品进行了系统的锶同位素组成测定.结果表明,结壳具有很低的Rb/Sr值,结壳中87Sr/86Sr值变化较大,范围在0.7084～0.7092.从底部到顶部,结壳不同壳层的锶同位素组成在剖面上具有明显的变化规律,并与其结构构造的变化相对应,但其演化曲线与海水的锶同位素演化曲线变化趋势差异较大,以斑杂状构造为主的疏松层的87Sr/86Sr值明显偏高.由于铁锰结壳中元素锶的扩散速率较高,以斑杂状构造为主的高孔隙率的疏松层难以保存其生长时海水的锶同位素组成,因此锶同位素地层学不适合作为结壳的定年工具.     

Origin of subaerial Holocene calcareous crusts: role of algae, fungi and sparmicritisation

The Pleistocene Miami Limestone that crops out on the lower Florida Keys is overlain by thin (16 cm or less), discontinuous, Holocene calcareous crusts (caliche) that are usually laminated, composed dominantly of calcite micrite and may or may not incorporate part of the underlying limestone. Both allochems and sparry calcite cement in the former unit contain endolithic algae and fungi, borings and unicellular algae. Biogenic structures identical to those in the Miami Limestone also occur in the calcareous crusts but are somewhat less abundant in the latter unit versus the former unit. The calcareous crusts were formed in the vadose diagenetic environment. Some of the CaCO₃ necessary for the micrite that comprises the bulk of the crusts was probably derived from solution of carbonate from a soil cover and some from wind blown salt spray. Most of the micrite, however, was formed by replacement of the uppermost portions of the Miami Limestone. Replacement involved micritisation of allochems and a previously unreported process, sparmicritisation, the degrading recrystallization of sparry calcite to micrite. Minor sparmicritisation was caused by micrite calcification of endolithic fungi or algae within sparry calcite cement or by micrite precipitation in empty borings within such cement. Most sparmicritisation took place by dissolution of sparry calcite and concomitant precipitation of micrite in the space occupied previously by the dissolved spar. Such sparmicritisation is interpreted to be caused by chemical reactions involving the crystals, pore water which is moving slowly but steadily and organic compounds released during bacterial decomposition of fungi, algae or both. It is recognized that sparmicritisation occurs in the marine diagenetic environment and is not, therefore, necessarily indicative of vadose diagenesis. Incomplete sparmicritisation is responsible for some of the clotted textures typically found within calcareous crusts and may explain such textures in many other carbonate rock types. A combination of sparmicritisation and micritisation has probably greatly influenced the porosity of many reefs and, in some cases, led to the formation of ‘micritic reefs’.     

Calcretes of Olduvai Gorge and the Ndolanya Beds of northern Tanzania

Pedogenic calcretes are closely associated with Pliocene to Holocene wind-worked deposits of volcanic ash in the Olduvai and Ndolanya Beds of northern Tanzania. The typical profile with calcrete consists of an unconsolidated sediment layer, an underlying laminar calcrete, and a lowermost massive calcrete. The laminar calcrete is a relatively pure limestone, whereas massive calcrete is aeolian tuff cemented and replaced by calcite. An Olduvai calcrete profile can develop to a mature stage in only a few thousand years. Carbonatite ash was the dominant source for most of the calcite in the calcretes. Replacement was a major process in formation of the massive calcretes, and oolitic textures have resulted from micrite replacing pelletoid clay coatings around sand grains. Phillipsite and possible other zeolites were extensively replaced in the massive calcretes. Replacement of clay by micrite in the Olduvai calcretes is accompanied by dissolution or leaching of phengitic illite and the formation of clay approaching the composition of halloysite or kaolinite. In the upper calcrete of the Ndolanya Beds, montmorillonite was altered to a kaolinite-type mineral and to dioctahedral chlorite. Authigenic dolomite, zeolite, and dawsonite in the Olduvai calcretes probably received at least some of their components from replaced materials.     

Calcareous crust (caliche) profiles and early subaerial exposure of Carboniferous carbonates, northeastern Kentucky

Sequences of laminated limestones found within thin Carboniferous carbonate strata of northeastern Kentucky were studied to determine their origin and palaeo-environmental significance. These laminated zones are strikingly similar to Holocene and Pleistocene surficial calcareous crusts (caliche) profiles that occur in various parts of the world. Carboniferous laminated carbonates are associated with shallow marine carbonate units, palaeokarst, and overlying palaeosol zones. A typical laminated profile ranges in thickness from 1 to 2 m and contains brecciated, light olive-grey to brown micrite that lacks distinctive bedding. Structures and textures common in most profiles include: (1) calcareous and silicious laminae (laminae form diffuse, alternating light and dark bands that generally parallel bedding but often fill fractures and vugs within the rocks); (2) particles (allochems, and micrite and microspar fragments) coated by brown microcrystalline calcite; (3) brecciated texture; (4) circular to elliptical fossil moulds (occur in sinuous patterns and fill fractures within the rocks); (5) large and small scale fracture patterns. Subaerial weathering and vadose diagenesis of carbonate mud banks or islands is suggested as a mechanism for the formation of these Carboniferous calcareous crust profiles. These ‘crusts’ formed by a combination of solution (karsting), brecciation, and soil development that transformed an exposed marine biomicrite (‘host’ rock) into a porous subsoil rubble. Laminated ‘crusts’ and coated particles developed as the result of dissolution and reprecipitation of CaCO₃ and SiO₃ from the soil and carbonate bedrock. Carboniferous laminated carbonates in northeastern Kentucky are often referred to as ‘algal limestones’ because of their superficial similarity to some modern and ancient algal structures. This study, however, reveals numerous characteristics that can only be explained by diagenesis in a subaerial environment.     

Submarine origin for the Neoproterozoic Wonoka canyons,South Australia

An examination of the deeply incised Ediacaran Wonoka canyons in the Adelaide Geosyncline (most recently interpreted as subaerial valleys) demonstrates their submarine origin, and confirms them as some of the best examples of ancient outcropping submarine canyons in the world. The entire canyon-fill succession is interpreted to be of deep-water (below wave base) origin, consisting of calcareous shale and siltstone together with a variety of mass-flow deposits including turbidites, grain flows and debris flows. The canyon fill lacks definitive shallow-water structures (e.g. mud cracks, fenestral fabrics or wave ripples) at all stratigraphic levels. Canyon-lining carbonate crusts that have previously been interpreted as non-marine calcretes or tufas (and used to suggest a non-marine origin for the canyons) are argued to be of deep-water, marine, microbial origin. Extremely negative carbon isotope values from the canyon-fill and canyon-lining crusts have a primary marine origin. Previously interpreted deepening upward trends in the canyon fill (used as evidence of a subaerial erosion episode followed by drowning) are suggested to be fining upward trends, caused by the transition from canyon cutting to canyon filling, with the majority of the fill being of deep-water slope origin. The basal conglomeratic canyon-fill sediments represent the last vestiges of the high-energy, deep-water, canyon-erosion environment in which the incisions formed. A deep-water origin for the canyons is consistent with all previous stratigraphic observations of the Wonoka canyons, including the conspicuous lack of regional unconformities in the lower Wonoka Formation, and their emanation from the deep-water facies of the Wonoka Formation. A submarine canyon origin also removes the need for extreme (~ 1 km) relative sea level fluctuation and associated problems (i.e. an enclosed basin with Messinian-style evaporative drawdown or thermal uplift above a migrating mantle plume) required by the subaerial valley hypotheses.     

Calcretes in the Thar desert: Genesis,chronology and palaeoenvironment

The calcretes in the Thar desert occur in a variety of settings, including the piedmonts, sheetwash aggraded plains; and this study adds calcretes in regolith and colluvio-alluvial plains to the group of settings in which calcretes occur in the region. Field logs, morphological details and analytical data such as petrographic, cathodoluminescence and geochemical characteristics are described along with a discussion on their implications. Sand dunes and sandy plains dating to < 20 ka have weakly developed calcretes. The better-developed calcrete horizons occur in piedmonts, interdunes or in areas that have sufficient groundwater. Deep sections in the region show phases of calcrete development in aeolian sand aggradation at ∼ 150, ∼ 100, ∼ 60 and 27–14 ka. The extensive sheetwash plains have mature calcretes and date to mid-Pleistocene. Our studies indicate that these calcretes represent a hybrid process, where carbonate enrichment of the originally calcareous host occurred due to periodically raised groundwaters, and its differentiation into nodules occurred under subaerial environment i.e., after recession of groundwater. Deep sections also show a stack of discrete calcretes that developed in individual aggradation episodes with hiatuses as indicated by ESR dating results. Nodules display a multiplicity of carbonate precipi tation events and internal reorganization of calcitic groundmass. The process is accompanied by degradation and transformation of unstable minerals, particularly clays and with a neosynthesis of palygorskite. The ancient calcretes are dated from the beginning of the Quaternary to ∼ 600 ka and show more evolved morphologies marked by brecciation, dissolution, laminar growth on brecciated surfaces, pisolites and several generations of re-cementation. Mica/chlorite schists and such other rocks are particularly vulnerable to replacement by carbonate. In an extreme case, replacement of quartzose sandstone was observed also. The presence of stretches of alluvio-colluvial plains in an area presently devoid of drainage bespeaks of occasional high-energy fluvial regime, under a semi-arid climate. The mid-Pleistocene period saw a shift towards more arid climate and this facilitated sheetwash aggradation. Finally, during the late Pleistocene, aggradation of aeolian sands indicated a progressively drier climate. However, this does not find its reflection in stable isotope data. The amount of carbonate in the form of calcretes is substantial. The present studies indicate that aeolian dust or rainwater are minor contributors to the carbonate budget. A more important source was provided by the pre-existing calcretes in the sheetwash aggraded plains and detrital carbonate in the aeolian sediments. The original source of carbonate in the region, however, remains unresolved and will need further investigations. Electron spin resonance protocols for the dating of calcretes were developed as a part of this study and the results accorded well with geological reasoning     

贵州紫云二叠纪生物礁的胶结作用

应用岩石学和地球化学方法研究了中国西南地区发育最好的紫云二叠纪生物礁组合的胶结作用,识别出七种胶结物类型,详细描述了它们的岩石学及地球化学特征,探讨了礁组合的胶结作用史。     

Mechanism of calcrete formation in the Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) fluvial deposits,northeastern Iran based on petrographic,geochemical data

The Kopet-Dagh basin of northeastern Iran was formed during the Middle Triassic orogeny. From Jurassic through Miocene time, sedimentation was relatively continuous in this basin. The Shurijeh Formation (Neocomian), which consists of red bed siliciclastic sediments that were deposited in fluvial depositional settings, crops out in the southeastern part of the Kopet-Dagh basin. In addition to clastic lithofacies, non-clastic facies in the form of calcrete paleosols, were identified in this formation. The calcrete host rocks are mainly sandstone, pebbly sandstone. The calcrete in middle unit in the Shurijeh Formation consists of, from bottom to top: incipient calcrete, nodular calcrete, massive calcrete horizons. The maturity pattern of these calcrete gradationally increases from bottom to top in this unit. Lack of organo-sedimentary structure (mainly plant roots), diversity of calcite fabric, suggest that the studied calcretes have a multi-phase development: a short vadose phase followed by a long phreatic phase. These calcretes are neither pedogenic nor groundwater calcretes. Petrographic studies show that they are composed of micritic textures with a variety of calcite fabrics, microsparitic/sparitic veins, displacive, replacive fabrics, quartz, hematite grains. Cathodoluminescence images, trace elemental analysis (Fe, Mn increased, Na, Sr decreased) of calcrete samples show the effects of meteoric waters during the calcrete formation when water tables were variable. In this study, we conclude that evaporation, degassing of carbon dioxide are the two main factors in the formation of non-pedogenic or groundwater calcrete. The sources of carbonate were probably parent materials, surface waters, ground waters, eolian dusts, numerous outcrops of limestones that have been exposed in the source area during Neocomian time.     

塔里木盆地阿克1井二叠纪孢粉地层及其地质意义

阿克 1井是塔里木盆地西南坳陷喀什凹陷乌恰构造带阿克莫木背斜北高点的第一口预探井 ,该井中二叠统比尤列提群 (P2 by)钻厚 2 5 5 .5 0 m(395 4— 4 2 0 9.5 0 m,未钻穿 ) ,为灰褐、灰、深灰色泥岩、粉砂质泥岩与同色灰质泥岩近等厚互层 ,偶夹薄层浅灰、灰色泥灰岩、泥晶含泥灰岩及灰色泥质粉砂岩、粉砂岩 ,产大量孢粉化石 ,可建立Florinites- Protohaploxypinus- Vittatina组合 ,地质时代为中二叠世。该井二叠纪地层的钻揭 ,具有非常重要的地质意义 ,不但完善了该地层小区的地层层序 ,而且丰富了二叠纪的孢粉化石资料 ,填补了该区二叠纪古生物研究的空白 ,还改变了对该区生油条件的评价 ,提高了对该区的含油气远景评价等级。     

皖南二叠纪含煤岩系沉积环境与成煤模式

安徽南部广泛分布着扬子型二叠纪合媒岩系（龙潭煤系）,根据该区沉积特征可划分两种沉积亚型印象即巢县亚型和宿松亚型。本文着重从沉积环境、岩石类型及结构、沉积构造、古生物等方面叙述各沉积相特征,根据沉积相垂向序列组合及时空演化,建立了皖南地区二叠纪四种沉积模式和三种成煤模式。分析了不同环境下的聚煤特征,指出富煤中心对该区今后找煤和资源预测具有重要意义     

苏、浙、皖边界地区长兴组底部砾岩的时代问题及其意义

本区长兴组底部普遍发现一薄层砾岩,经酸解分析,内含丰富的牙形刺和鱼牙化石。根据化石确定,此层砾岩在不同地区为不同时代:浙江长兴煤山,砾岩时代为晚二叠世早期之末;安徽广德独山和江苏张渚园田,砾岩时代为晚二叠世晚期之初。此砾岩的出现说明本区龙潭组沉积之后有一短期侵蚀,并代表长兴组沉积的开始。因此长兴组沉积在各地不同,应是一穿时的地层单位。它始于晚二叠世早期之末至晚二叠世末。并根据岩相分析结果认为本区长兴组是一个由北东向南西展布的浅海台地到台前凹陷的低能海进沉积环境。