石英c轴组构影响因素探讨:以郯庐断裂带糜棱岩为例

石英是自然界中最主要的造岩矿物之一,也是地壳流变过程的主要变形矿物,其c轴组构特征与变形温度、剪切指向具有密切的关系,因而常被用来获取剪切指向、估计变形温度、计算运动学涡度等。但由于受到变形分解、先存构造、流体等因素的影响,同一岩石中常会得到多个不同的石英c轴组构结果。如果天然变形岩石同时受到多种因素的影响,其石英c轴组构会表现为何种特征?与岩石变形温度、剪切旋向是否仍具有很好的对应性?基于以上问题,本次工作以大别山东缘郯庐断裂带内经历了多期变形、富含流体活动的超糜棱岩为研究对象,在同一岩石薄片中选择不同区域,利用EBSD开展石英c轴组构分析。分析结果表明,选择的超糜棱岩的石英c轴组构点极密分布形态指示岩石变形发生于非共轴变形条件下;剪切指向方面,6个分析区域中区域1表现为左旋剪切指向特征,与薄片中优势剪切指向一致,而除区域4外的其他4个区域显示出与优势剪切指向相反的右旋剪切指向特征;变形温度方面,区域4以柱面滑移为主,显示了高温变形特征,而其余5个区域均以底面滑移为主,指示了低温变形环境。根据本次石英c轴组构特征分析结果,可以得出一些认识:岩石中石英表现为完全的GBM动态重结晶,所指示的温度明显高于大量沿糜棱面理分布的绿泥石所指示的绿片岩相环境,显示流体活动促进了岩石变形;而石英c轴组构指示的变形温度为绿片岩相环境,与绿泥石存在的现象一致,表明糜棱岩化过程中流体活动对石英c轴组构的影响并不明显。在发生过多期变形事件的岩石中,岩石中早期高温变形信息有可能保留下来并记录在石英c轴组构特征中,因而通过石英c轴组构分析有可能获得早期事件的信息;虽然石英c轴组构影响因素众多,但首先开展详细的显微镜下观察,然后有选择地对剪切指向清晰区域开展石英c轴组构分析,仍然能够得到与岩石中优势剪切指向一致的石英c轴组构结果。     

迁安铁矿变形岩石的EBSD组构分析

迁安铁矿是我国大型沉积变质型铁矿之一,该矿区含矿变质岩系为前寒武纪老变质岩石,时代老,变质程度深,现存岩石的内部矿物发生过多次变形、变质和重结晶等变化,宏观上表现为该区岩石矿物组构的复杂性。为了更深入、清晰地了解该区变形岩石的组构,采用电子背散射衍射(EBSD)技术对该区岩石样品做了分析,通过EBSD系统的配套软件(HKL公司开发的Channel 5),对采集数据进行处理绘制成相应磁铁矿和石英的极图,经分析后重点总结出变形岩石内部石英的组构特点,由此进一步反映出本区构造变形时主要为中温-中高温的变形温度环境,少量组构图反映叠加了中低温变形。     

南苏鲁高压变质带南岗—高公岛韧性剪切带特征及EBSD石英组构分析

结合地质剖面对南苏鲁高压变质带中的南岗-高公岛韧性剪切带特征进行了研究，结果表明，剪切带上部变形较弱，主要发育S—C组构及拉伸线理；剪切带中部变形较强，发育不对称褶皱、S—C组构、σ型及δ型旋转碎斑以及多米诺骨牌等；剪切带下部变形最强，糜棱质颗粒达80％-90％，并见有同斜褶皱等。EBSD组构分析结果表明，剪切带上部糜棱质石英以中温柱面组构和中低温菱面组构为特征，中、下部以低温底面组构和中低温菱面组构为主，剪切带中石英条带以中温柱面组构为主，石英组构的剪切指向以SE→NW为主，其次为NW→SE，反映本区经历了中温→中低温→低温、以逆冲韧性剪切为主并曾发生韧性滑脱的复杂变形过程。各构造层化学成分及稀土元素变化趋势不明显，可能与原岩成分有关。剪切带中黑云母、白云母的^39Ar-^40Ar同位素年龄分析表明在253．8-214．2Ma期间本区曾发生强烈的变形变质作用。     

电子背散射衍射（EBSD）技术在大陆动力学研究中的应用

电子背散射衍射（Electron backscatter diffraction,简称EBSD）技术可以快捷准确地进行物相鉴定,确定矿物晶体的晶格优选定向和多相岩石中各矿物的空间分布,使其成为定量研究岩石显微构造的理想工具。将岩石组构测量、野外地质观察与矿物的变形实验研究相结合,可以判别物质运动的剪切指向和变形的温压条件,从而进行运动学和动力学机制的分析。本文首先介绍了EBSD技术的原理和主要矿物组构的实验研究进展,然后以国土资源部大陆动力学重点实验室5年来的成果为例,总结了EBSD技术在研究大陆深俯冲和折返的动力学机制和大陆造山带动力学研究中的应用。结果表明：橄榄石和绿辉石的组构揭示了板块深俯冲阶段的组构运动学特征,而石英、斜长石和夕线石的组构可以用来研究地壳内大型韧性剪切带的变形历史,如与苏鲁超高压变质岩折返相关的韧性剪切带、龙门山逆冲剪切带、西昆仑康西瓦走滑剪切带和喜马拉雅造山带的康马拆离剪切带。因此,EBSD技术的应用有助于实现显微构造与宏观构造相结合,建立变质-变形-运动学相统一的地球动力学模型。     

辽西兴城—台里韧性剪切带北段变形特征

辽西兴城—台里地区发育系列花岗质岩石,强烈构造变形特征均显示其具有韧性剪切带的特点。对剪切带北段进行详细宏微观构造解析,结合岩石变形强度差异性分析、有限应变测量、石英C轴EBSD测试以及古差异应力值估算等研究,结果表明剪切带内花岗质片麻岩和眼球状花岗质片麻岩具有NEE向左行剪切变形特征,变形岩石为S-L构造岩,应变类型属于平面应变,古差异应力值介于30~40 MPa之间。长石-石英矿物温度计以及石英C轴EBSD组构指示剪切带以中低温变形为主,温度在400℃~500℃,属绿片岩相变质,具中-低温韧性剪切带特征。韧性剪切带内普遍存在变形分解现象,弱变形带内岩石残斑含量较高,眼球状构造和S-C组构较为发育;强变形带岩石残斑含量较低,剪切面理较为发育,糜棱面理发育较弱或者不发育。     

舒兰韧性剪切带应变分析及石英动态重结晶颗粒分形特征与流变参数估算

舒兰北东向韧性剪切带位于佳木斯-伊通断裂带(佳-伊断裂带)中南段, 剪切带内糜棱岩具有明显左行走滑特征, 片麻理产状近NNE向.糜棱岩中长石有限应变Flinn图解判别岩石类型为L-S型构造岩, 属拉长型应变.石英C轴EBSD组构分析表明, 石英组构以中低温菱面为主, 滑移系为{0001} < 110>.剪切带内糜棱岩的剪应变为0.44, 不同方法计算所得运动学涡度值均大于0.95, 指示剪切变形以简单剪切为主.综合矿物变形温度计、石英C轴EBSD组构、石英的粒度-频数图及Kruhl温度计综合估计该韧性剪切带变形机制以位错蠕变机制为主, 变质相为低绿片岩相, 发生韧性变形和糜棱岩化温度范围在400~500 ℃之间.糜棱岩内石英动态重结晶新晶粒边界普遍具有锯齿状或港湾状结构, 利用分形方法对其重结晶新晶边界研究表明, 这些晶粒边界具有自相似性, 表现出分形特征, 分形维数值为1.195~1.220.根据石英重结晶粒径估算差应力值为24.35~27.59 MPa, 代表了舒兰韧性剪切带糜棱岩化作用过程的差异应力下限.使用不同实验方法估算、比较和分析了该剪切带古应变速率, 认为该速率应为10-12.00~10-13.18 s-1, 与区域性应变速率10-13.00~10-15.00 s-1对比, 说明舒兰韧性剪切带的应变速率与世界上大多数韧性剪切带中的糜棱岩应变速率一致, 是缓慢变形的结果, 其形成可能与早白垩世伊泽纳崎板块向欧亚大陆俯冲发生转向有关.      

CCSD主孔1113~1600 m花岗质片麻岩单元的变形构造特征

中国大陆科学钻探(CCSD)主孔2000m岩性剖面揭示了1113～1600m花岗质片麻岩段为地表北苏鲁超高压花岗质变质岩剪切构造叠覆岩片中的石湖镇构造岩片的花岗质片麻岩的下延部分。本单元之上下界线为韧性剪切带,内部发育小型韧性剪切变形,仅局部可见旋转碎斑体系等剪切指向标志,以SE向NW的逆冲剪切指向为主,其次为NW向SE的正滑剪切指向,并主要发育于较软弱夹层内,后者成为苏鲁地区存在伸展型穹隆构造的新证据;在1140～1280m岩性段内发育断续、较弱的拉伸线理,拉伸线理总体向SE倾伏,倾伏角为10～36°;花岗质片麻岩单元内部分石英以多晶石英条带的形式存在,花岗质片麻岩主要矿物长石基本没有动态重结晶现象,仅具较弱的形态拉长特征(X∶Z=2左右),总体面理倾向170°E,倾角平均20°,明显不同于其他岩性单元内的面理产状,可能主要代表折返变形之前的近东西向构造,而其他岩性单元受折返变形影响较大,其面理产状主要代表折返阶段形成的NE-NNE向构造;运用电子背散射(EBSD)技术进行石英组构分析并与费氏台测定对比,表明1113～1600m花岗质片麻岩单元经历了中—低温变形,局部残留有高温组构,剪切指向主要为SE向NW的逆冲,其中高温组构与中温组构均显示为SE向NW的逆冲剪切指向,反映折返早期与折返主期岩片的相对剪切方向一     

变形石墨对构造- 热过程的定量约束及流变弱化意义

岩石变形过程的精细厘定是构造地质学研究中的难点和重点。石墨是碳的同素异形体，摩擦实验研究表明，增加少量石墨化碳质物能够显著降低岩石的摩擦系数和力学强度，具有固体润滑剂的流变学意义。本研究针对红河- 哀牢山剪切带新生代变形，开展了详细的野外观测和构造解析，针对不同变形- 变质程度的天然含石墨岩石样品，利用光学显微镜、场发射扫描电子显微镜、电子背散射衍射(EBSD)、拉曼光谱方法，开展了详细的显微及亚显微变质与变形构造、矿物晶格优选定向、石墨拉曼地质温度计应用等深入分析。发现深变质岩中，石墨晶体常常与黑云母共生且定向拉伸或生长，呈现出晶质片状、条带状、膝折等变形构造特征；在强烈塑性变形的岩石中，石墨表现出塑性到超塑性流动构造特征；细粒化石墨富集形成微型滑移带/面，承载流变弱化的“干”润滑作用；在低级变质- 弱变形岩石中，石墨有序度低，呈弥散状分布。EBSD组构显示石墨发育柱面、菱面到低温底面晶格滑移系，对应的石墨拉曼地质温度范围为600~500℃、530~460℃、450~400℃。变形石墨的位错滑移系具有与石英位错滑移系类似的演化特征，具有成为变形温度计的潜力。     

桂东北地区鹰扬关韧性剪切带的厘定及其构造意义

论文通过宏-微观构造、磁组构、热液锆石和石英EBSD组构等,厘定鹰扬关韧性剪切带并讨论其构造意义。鹰扬关韧性剪切带具有宏-微观韧性变形组构,发育糜棱岩、拉伸线理、S-C组构、旋转碎斑系、书斜构造、压力影和石英的动态重结晶等。磁组构和宏-微观构造表明,鹰扬关韧性剪切带呈NNE向延伸超过40 km,宽2.5～8 km。糜棱C面理的极密点产状127°∠50°;磁面理的极密点产状107°∠83°。宏-微观构造研究表明,鹰扬关韧性剪切带具有早期左旋逆冲剪切,晚期右旋正滑剪切的运动学性质。石英EBSD组构表明,鹰扬关韧性剪切带具有晚期中低温变形(400～550℃)叠加于早期中高温变形(550～650℃)的特征。年代学研究表明,鹰扬关韧性剪切带早期左旋逆冲剪切的时代为(441.1±2.3)Ma,晚期右旋正滑剪切的时代应晚于420 Ma,区域构造应力由挤压转为伸展的时限为420 Ma。在磁组构、石英EBSD组构和热液锆石定年的基础上,结合区域地质资料,认为鹰扬关韧性剪切带形成于华夏陆块自SE向扬子陆块造山挤压的构造背景。早期造山挤压,产生压扁型应变和中高温左旋逆冲剪切;晚期造山后伸展,产生拉伸型应变和...     

西藏沃卡地区EW向韧性剪切带特征及地质意义

冈底斯构造带的研究对分析青藏高原构造演化特征具重要意义。沃卡地区EW向韧性剪切带位于冈底斯构造带南东段,南邻雅鲁藏布江结合带。通过最新技术方法,对沃卡EW向韧性剪切带进行研究,查明韧性剪切带展布特征、运动学特点、动力学特征、变形温压条件、变形时代等,对韧性剪切带及周边地区构造演化,丰富该地区构造地质学资料具重要意义。韧性剪切带的糜棱面理、矿物拉伸线理、S-C组构、旋转碎斑、云母鱼等运动学标志及EBSD石英C轴组构图指示韧性剪切带存在两期韧性变形,早期平面上为左行剪切,剖面上为上盘(北盘)下降的脆-韧性剪切带;晚期平面上为左行剪切,剖面上为上盘(北盘)上升的韧性剪切带。矿物变形温度计及EBSD石英C轴组构图指示,早期韧性剪切带温度为380℃~420℃,压力约300 MPa;晚期韧性剪切带温度500℃~580℃,压力约425 MPa。据Koch提出的计算方法,得到早期韧性剪切带差应力36~79 MPa,石英流变速率为10~(-12)s~(-1);晚期韧性剪切带差应力为140 MPa,石英流变速率为10~(-11)s~(-1)。通过围岩U-Pb锆石测年限定及穿插关系,可知早期韧性剪切带形成于(162.9±2.8)Ma,为燕山构造阶段中期至华北构造阶段中期缓慢的脆-韧性滑脱剪切活动;晚期带形成于(31.01±0.2)Ma之后,后期遭喜马拉雅期构造运动改造,于渐新世至中新世新特提斯洋完全闭合后,冈底斯陆块遭碰撞造山运动。     

北喜马拉雅穹隆带然巴韧性剪切带石英动态重结晶颗粒的分维几何分析与主要流变参数的估算

位于北喜马拉雅穹隆带东段的然巴构造穹隆外围发育环形韧性剪切带,带内岩石经韧性剪切形成各类糜棱状岩石。石英为带内变形岩中最为常见的造岩矿物,在不同的温度、应变速率下产生不同的显微构造,其中动态重结晶最为常见。重结晶新晶颗粒边界普遍具有锯齿状或港湾状结构,是应变和变形环境的天然记录。新晶粒分维几何统计分析表明:带内动态重结晶石英颗粒边界形态具有自相似性(1≤D≤2),表现出分形特征,分维数值为1.14～1.19,变形温度大约500℃。同构造变质环境属中——高绿片岩相;初步估算古应变速率可能低于10^-9.5S^-1;根据重结晶粒径估算变形古应力6.2～58.8MPa。     

Atypical textures in quartz veins from the Simplon Fault Zone

Samples of monomineralic quartz veins from the Simplon Fault Zone in southwest Switzerland and north Italy generally have asymmetric, single girdle c-axis patterns similar to textures measured from many other regions. Several samples have characteristically different textures, however, with a strong single c-axis maximum near the intermediate specimen axis Y (the direction within the foliation perpendicular to the lineation X) and a tendency for the other crystal directions to be weakly constrained in their orientation about this dominant c-axis maximum. This results in ‘streaked’ pole figure patterns, with an axis of rotation parallel to the c-axis maximum. These atypical samples also have a distinctive optical microstructure, with advanced recrystallization and grain growth resulting in a strong shape fabric (S_B) oblique to the dominant regional foliation (S_A), whereas typical samples have a strong S_A fabric outlined by very elongate, only partially recrystallized, ribbon grains. The recrystallized grains of the atypical samples are themselves deformed and show strong undulose extinction and a core-mantle recrystallization structure. The streaked texture is likely to be a direct consequence of lattice bending and kinking during heterogeneous slip on the favoured first-order prism (10 0) (a) system, the heterogeneity itself being due to problems in maintaining coherence across grain boundaries when insufficient independent easy-slip systems are available for homogeneous strain by dislocation glide. Such bending would be particularly prevalent in very elongate, thin ribbon grains, resulting in high internal strain energy and promoting recrystallization. Thus both the texture and the microstructure could be significantly modified by later strain increments affecting quartz grains with an already developed, nearly single-crystal texture.     

Fabric development during shear deformation in the Main Central Thrust Zone, NW-Himalaya, India

Quartz microfabrics and associated microstructures have been studied on a crustal shear zone—the Main Central Thrust (MCT) of the Himalaya. Sampling has been done along six traverses across the MCT zone in the Kumaun and Garhwal sectors of the Indian Himalaya. The MCT is a moderately north-dipping shear zone formed as a result of the southward emplacement of a part of the deeply rooted crust (that now constitutes the Central Crystalline Zone of the Higher Himalaya) over the less metamorphosed sedimentary belt of the Lesser Himalaya. On the basis of quartz c- and a-axis fabric patterns, supported by the relevant microstructures within the MCT zone, two major kinematic domains have been distinguished. A noncoaxial deformation domain is indicated by the intensely deformed rocks in the vicinity of the MCT plane. This domain includes ductilely deformed and fine-grained mylonitic rocks which contain a strong stretching lineation and are composed of low-grade mineral assemblages (muscovite, chlorite and quartz). These rocks are characterized by highly asymmetric structures/microstructures and quartz c- and a-axis fabrics that indicate a top-to-the-south sense that is compatible with south-directed thrusting for the MCT zone. An apparently coaxial deformation domain, on the other hand, is indicated by the rocks occurring in a rather narrow belt fringing, and structurally above, the noncoaxial deformation domain. The rocks are highly feldspathic and coarse-grained gneisses and do not possess any common lineation trend and the effects of simple shear deformation are weak. The quartz c-axis fabrics are symmetrical with respect to foliation and lineation. Moreover, these rocks contain conjugate and mutually interfering shear bands, feldspar/quartz porphyroclasts with long axes parallel to the macrosopic foliation and the related structures/microstructures, suggesting deformation under an approximate coaxial strain path.On moving towards the MCT, the quartz c- and a-axis fabrics become progressively stronger. The c-axis fabric gradually changes from random to orthorhombic and then to monoclinic. In addition, the coaxial strain path gradually changes to the noncoaxial strain path. All this progressive evolution of quartz fabrics suggests more activation of the basal, rhomb and a slip systems at all structural levels across the MCT.     

Coupled micro-faulting and pressure solution creep overprinted on quartz schist deformed by intracrystalline plasticity during exhumation of the Sambagawa metamorphic rocks,southwest Japan

In the Sambagawa schist, southwest Japan, while ductile deformation pervasively occurred at D₁ phase during exhumation, low-angle normal faulting was locally intensive at D₂ phase under the conditions of frictional–viscous transition of quartz (c. 300 °C) during further exhumation into the upper crustal level. Accordingly, the formation of D₂ shear bands was overprinted on type I crossed girdle quartz c-axis fabrics and microstructures formed by intracrystalline plasticity at D₁ phase in some quartz schists. The quartz c-axis fabrics became weak and finally random with increasing shear, accompanied by the decreasing degree of undulation of recrystallized quartz grain boundaries, which resulted from the increasing portion of straight grain boundaries coinciding with the interfaces between newly precipitated quartz and mica. We interpreted these facts as caused by increasing activity of pressure solution: the quartz grains were dissolved mostly at platy quartz–mica interface, and precipitated with random orientation and pinned by mica, thus having led to the obliteration of existing quartz c-axis fabrics. In the sheared quartz schist, the strength became reduced by the enhanced pressure solution creep not only due to the reduction of diffusion path length caused by increasing number of shear bands, but also to enhanced dissolution at the interphase boundaries.     

Review of Microstructural Evidence of Magmatic and Solid-State Flow

Evidence of magmatic flow includes: (a) parallel to sub-parallel alignment of elongate euhedral crystals (e.g., of feldspar or hornblende) that are not internally deformed, (b) imbrication (‘tiling’) of elongate euhedral crystals that are not internally deformed, (c) insufficient solid-state strain in regions between aligned or imbricated crystals to accommodate phenocryst rotation, (d) elongation of microgranitoid enclaves without plastic deformation of the minerals, (e) magmatic flow foliations and elongate microgranitoid enclaves deflected around xenoliths, and (f) schlieren layering (if due to flow sorting) in the absence of plastic deformation of the minerals involved. These features are consistent with rotation of crystals in a much weaker medium, namely a melt phase, at a stage when the magma has become viscous enough to preserve the alignment.Evidence of solid-state flow includes: (a) internal deformation and recrystallization of grains, (b) recrystallized “tails,” (c) elongation of recrystallized aggregates (e.g. of quartz and mica), (d) grainsize reduction, (e) fine-grained folia anastomosing around less deformed relics, (f) microcline twinning, (g) myrmekite, (h) flame perthite, (i) boudinage of strong minerals, typically with recrystallized aggregates of weaker minerals (e.g. quartz and mica) between the boudins, (j) foliation passing through, rather than around enclaves, and (k) heterogeneous strain with local mylonitic zones.Several criteria suggest “submagmatic flow,” including recrystallized feldspar, inferred transitions from magmatic imbrication to solid-state S/C arrangements, evidence of c-slip in quartz, and especially evidence of migration of residual melt into lower-pressure sites.Recent experimental studies indicate that a change from grain-supported flow to suspension flow typically occurs in deforming magmas at melt contents of between 20% to 40%, and that large amounts of strain may accumulate in magmas without being recorded by the final fabric. At lower melt percentages, perhaps as low as a few percent, depending on the minerals and their shapes, strain may be accommodated by: (a) melt-assisted grain-boundary sliding, (b) contact-melting assisted grain-boundary migration, (c) strain partitioning into melt-rich zones, (d) intracrystalline plastic deformation (c-slip in quartz indicating plastic deformation at temperatures near the granite solidus), and (f) transfer of melt to sites of low mean stress. The only indication of strain in the absence of crystal plasticity may be an alignment of crystals. Moreover, magmatic flow microstructures may be destroyed by fracturing, crystal plasticity and recrystallization before the magma reaches its solidus.Many rocks show evidence of solid-state flow superimposed on magmatic flow. Evidence of magmatic flow is commonly preserved in deformed felsic metamorphic rocks: for example the alignment of rectangular K-feldspar megacrysts and of microgranitoid enclaves. However, absence of alignment does not preclude a magmatic origin for K-feldspar megacrysts in felsic gneisses, as magmatic flow may cease before the magma becomes viscous enough to preserve an alignment.     

糜棱岩化过程中矿物变形温度计

对有效确定中—低温下糜棱岩变形温度一直以来都没有比较理想的方法，而在研究韧性剪切带过程中对其变形温度的确定又常是必不可少的。根据近年来国际上对天然石英、长石、方解石等矿物变形的研究成果，总结了利用矿物变形指示变形温度的方法。在不同的温度条件下，长石与石英的变形方式具有阶段性，其变形与动态重结晶型式与温度具有明显的对应关系。石英变形中的滑移系及其C 轴组构图主要受变形温度的控制。低温变形中的方解石e 双晶纹形态也与温度呈密切的相关性。观测这些矿物变形的显微构造，可以很好地估计韧性剪切带糜棱岩化过程中的变形温度。     

华北克拉通基底花岗质片麻岩变形和流变学研究——以辽西寺儿堡地区为例

辽西寺儿堡镇新太古代花岗质片麻岩内发育的宏观、微观构造变形特征表明该地区曾遭受了强烈的韧性变形改造。花岗质岩石变形程度在初糜棱岩–糜棱岩之间,岩石经历了SWW向左行剪切作用改造。岩石中石英有限应变测量判别结果表明,构造岩类型为L-S型,为平面应变。岩石的剪应变平均值为1.43,运动学涡度值为0.788~0.829,指示岩石形成于以简单剪切为主的一般剪切变形中。此外,石英颗粒以亚颗粒旋转重结晶和颗粒边界迁移重结晶作用为主,长石颗粒塑性拉长,部分发生膨凸式重结晶作用;石英组构特征(EBSD)揭示石英以中–高温柱面滑移为主;石英颗粒边界具有明显的分形特征,分形维数值为1.151~1.201,指示了中高温变形条件。综合石英、长石的变形行为、石英组构特征以及分形法Kruhl温度计的判别结果,推断辽西寺儿堡镇新太古代花岗质片麻岩经历过480~600℃的中高温变形,其同构造变质相为高绿片岩相-低角闪岩相。花岗质岩石的古差异应力为10.62~12.21 MPa,估算的应变速率为10~(–11.67)~10~(–13.34) s~(–1),即缓慢的变形,可能记录早期中高温、低应变速率的韧性变形过程,反映华北克拉通基底中下部地壳变形特征。     

Two-stage collision-related extrusion of the western Dabie HP–UHP metamorphic terranes, central China: Evidence from quartz c-axis fabrics and structures

The western Dabie orogen (also known as the Hong'an block) forms the western part of the Dabie–Sulu HP–UHP belt, central China. Rocks of this orogen have been subjected to pervasive ductile deformation, and include numerous quartz schists and felsic mylonites cropping out in ductile shear zones. Quartz textures in these mylonites contain important clues for understanding the movement sense of late-collisional extrusion and exhumation of high-pressure–ultrahigh-pressure (HP–UHP) rocks from the lower crustal level to the upper crustal level during Middle Triassic and Early Jurassic. The orientation and distribution of quartz crystallographic axes were used to confirm the regional shear sense across the orogen. The asymmetry of c-axis patterns consistently indicates top-to-the-southeast thrusting across the orogen in early structural stages. Later stages of deformation show different senses of movement in northern and southern parts of the orogen, with top-to-the-northwest sinistral shearing recorded in rocks north of the Xinxian HP–UHP eclogite-facies belt, and top-to-the-southeast dextral shearing south of the same unit.Based on our study on quartz c-axis fabrics and marco- to micro-scale structures, simultaneous southeastward shearing within a large part of the orogen and normal faulting north of the Xinxian HP–UHP unit is explained by upward extrusion in early stages of deformation. The extrusion process has been attributed to syn- and late-collisional processes, accounting for some earlier deformation in the western Dabie orogen such as metamorphic sequences around the core of the Xinxian HP–UHP eclogite-facies unit. Much higher pressure of deformation is also indicated in the aligned glaucophane and omphacite from blueschist and eclogite in the field. An orogen-parallel eastward extrusion of the Xinxian HP–UHP eclogite-facies unit, however, occurred diachronously in later stages of deformation. Therefore, a tectonic model combining an early upward extrusion with a later eastward extrusion is presented. Two different stages and types of extrusion for exhumation of HP–UHP rocks are suitable to all of east central China. Geochronological data shows that the first, upward extrusion occurred during Middle Triassic, the second, eastward extrusion occurred during Late Triassic to Early Jurassic. These two extrusions are correlative with two stages of rapid exhumation of the Dabie HP–UHP rocks, respectively. These two-stage late-collisional (Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic) extrusion events bridge the gap between syn-collisional (Early to Middle Triassic) vertical extrusion and post-collisional (Cretaceous) eastward-directed lateral escape and provide vital clues to understanding the more detailed processes of exhumation of HP–UHP rocks.