Seawater is constantly circulating through oceanic basement as a low-temperature hydrothermal fluid (<150°C). In cases when
ultramafic rocks are exposed to the fluids, for instance during the initial phase of subduction, ferromagnesian minerals are
altered in contact with the water, leading to high pH and formation of secondary magnesium hydroxide, among other – brucite,
that may scavenge borate and phosphate from seawater. The high pH may promote abiotic formation of pentoses, particularly
ribose. Pentoses are stabilized by borate, since cyclic pentoses form a less reactive complex with borate. Analyses have shown
that borate occupies the 2' and 3' positions of ribose, thus leaving the 5' position available for reactions like phosphorylation.
The purine coding elements (adenine, in particular) of RNA may be formed in the same general hydrothermal environments of
the seafloor. 相似文献
The waning stage(s) of the Tethyan ocean(s) in the Balkans are not well understood. Controversy centres on the origin and life‐span of the Cretaceous Sava Zone, which is allegedly a remnant of the last oceanic domain in the Balkan Peninsula, defining the youngest suture between Eurasia‐ and Adria‐derived plates. In order to investigate to what extent Late‐Cretaceous volcanism within the Sava Zone is consistent with this model we present new age data together with trace‐element and Sr–Nd–Pb isotope data for the Klepa basaltic lavas from the central Balkan Peninsula. Our new geochemical data show marked differences between the Cretaceous Klepa basalts (Sava Zone) and the rocks of other volcanic sequences from the Jurassic ophiolites of the Balkans. The Klepa basalts mostly have Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic and trace‐element signatures that resemble enriched within‐plate basalts substantially different from Jurassic ophiolite basalts with MORB, BAB and IAV affinities. Trace‐element modelling of the Klepa rocks indicates 2%–20% polybaric melting of a relatively homogeneously metasomatised mantle source that ranges in composition from garnet lherzolite to ilmenite+apatite bearing spinel–amphibole lherzolite. Thus, the residual mineralogy is characteristic of a continental rather than oceanic lithospheric mantle source, suggesting an intracontinental within‐plate origin for the Klepa basalts. Two alternative geodynamic models are internally consistent with our new findings: (1) if the Sava Zone represents remnants of the youngest Neotethyan Ocean, magmatism along this zone would be situated within the forearc region and triggered by ridge subduction; (2) if the Sava Zone delimits a diffuse tectonic boundary between Adria and Europe which had already collided in the Late Jurassic, the Klepa basalts together with a number of other magmatic centres represent volcanism related to transtensional tectonics. 相似文献
The Proterozoic rhyolitic volcanics constituting the foot-wall rocks in the Stollberg ore-field, Bergslagen, south-central Sweden, locally contain gedrite altered to chlorite and serpentine, biotite altered to chlorite and plagioclase altered to epidote.
The intergrowths between the host gedrite and the chlorite/serpentine inclusions are oriented with the a* of gedrite parallel to the c* of serpentine and chlorite. The biotite has been altered to chlorite by brucitization of both the K-interlayer and talc-like layer. In both cases the net change in volume during chloritization is small.
The assumption that Al is conserved during alteration of gedrite and biotite agrees very well with the micro-structures and orientation relations observed by transmission electron microscopy. Normalizing the chlorite to 1.00 mole, the overall chemical change that took place during the retrograde metamorphism of the Stollberg rocks can be written as: 0.84Ged+0.14Bio+0.65Mg+4.76H2O+0.42H=1.00Chl+0.57Alb+0.72Fe+0.01Na+0.12K+0.01Ti+0.05Mn+0.95H4SiO4 The reaction results in ca 9% increase in volume for the solid phases. Thus, a slightly acidic Mg-rich fluid started the reaction and, upon leaving the system, the metasomatic fluid was enriched in Na, Fe, K, and Si. 相似文献
The rocks of the Northern Apennines predominantly consist of non-metamorphic terrigeneous deposits (flysches and molasses) some of which are preorogenic, some synorogenic and others postorogenic with respect to the nappe tectonics (Miocene). As plant fragments frequently occur in these sediments, a study of coal rank based on reflectance measurements on vitrinites (% Rm = mean value of the random reflectance in non polarized light) contributes to the clarification of the relation between the orogenic and the palaeogeothermal development. The determination of the Rm values of more than 180 samples from outcrops and three deep drillings revealed some important features. Within the pile of Liguride and Tuscanide nappes, the coal rank increases from the uppermost nappe to the lower nappes until lowgrade metamorphism is reached in the Lower Tuscanides. In the single nappes the rank decreases from the Tyrrhenian coast (internal zone) towards the Po Plain (external zone). This regional trend is disturbed only locally by young post-coalification tectonics. In the uppermost Liguride nappe (M. Antola Unit) a pre-Oligocene (i. e. pre-Apenninic) thermal event was detected. Postorogenic heating is connected with the magmatic activity of Late Miocene to Pleistocene age in Tuscany. Except for these preorogenic and postorogenic thermal events, the main coalification is generally younger than the emplacement of the nappes in the nappe pile during the Apenninic orogeny in the Miocene, but it is older than the last thrust movements and the final tensional tectonics in the internal zones of the chain. For these reasons, the main regional thermal event has to be considered as synorogenic or, more precisely, as late-synorogenic. 相似文献
Tephrochronological dating of postglacial volcanism in the Dyngjufjöll volcanic complex, a major spreading center in the Icelandic Rift Zone, indicates a high production rate in the millennia following deglaciation as compared to the present low productivity. The visible and implied evidence indicates that lava production in the period 10 000–4500 bp was at least 20 to 30 times higher than that in the period after 2900 bp but the results are biased towards lower values for lava volumes during the earlier age periods since multiple lava layers are buried beneath younger flows. The higher production rate during the earlier period coincides with the disappearance of glaciers of the last glaciation. Decreasing lithostatic pressure as the glacier melts and vigorous crustal movements caused by rapid isostatic rebound may trigger intense volcanism until a new pressure equilibrium has been established. 相似文献
Zusammenfassung Die Ophiolithe des Nordapennins werden nach ihrem Alter in verschiedene Gruppen eingeteilt. Nur im Gebiet nördlich von Genua und längs des Küstenstreifens zwischen Sestri Levante und Levanto läßt sich die alte Anschauung eines oberjurassischen bis tief unterkretazischen Alters der Ophiolithe rechtfertigen. In dem noch verbleibenden Gebiet konnte für einzelne Vorkommen ein wesentlich jüngeres Alter (O.-Alb bis U.-Turon) wahrscheinlich gemacht werden. Von Bedeutung für diese Alterseinstufungen waren die fast alle Ophiolithvorkommen begleitenden Brekzien, die in einzelnen Typen untergliedert und beschrieben werden.
Northern Apennitie Ophiolites are subdivided by their age. North of Genoa and along the coast between Sestri Levante and Levanto only, the rocks are Upper Jurassic or Lowest Cretaceous of age; the remaining area shows an Upper Albian to Lower Turonian age of ophiolithes.
Résumé Les ophiolites des Apennins septentrionaux sont, suivant leur âge, subdivisés en différents groupes. C'est seulement dans la région au Nord de Gênes et le long de la bande côtière entre Sestri Levante et Levanto que se vérifie pour les ophiolites l'ancienne conception d'un âge allant du Jurassique supérieur à la base du Crétacé inférieur. Dans le territoire restant on peut attribuer à certains affleurements un âge notablement plus récent (Albien supérieur jusqu'au Turonvien inférieur). Pour fixer cet âge, on s'est appuyé sur les brèches qui accompagnent la plupart des ophiolites; ces brèches ont été décrites et subdivisées en quelques types.
Riassunto Le ofioliti dell'Appennino Settentrionale si suddividono in due gruppi secondo la loro età. Solo per la zone Nord di Genova e la striscia costiera tra Sestri L. é Levanto vale la vecchia opinione sull'età supragiurassica-infracretacea delle ofioliti. Nelle altre parti dell'Appennino si può attribuire a certi affioramenti con molta probabilità un'età molto più recente (Albiano Sup. - Turoniano inf.). Di grande importanza per una tale datazione si dimostrarono le brecce, per lo più sedimentarie, che circondano quasi tutte le masse ofiolitiche e che si intercalano a sedimenti fossiliferi o ne contengono frammenti. Vengono descritti alcuni tipi litologici di queste brecce.
This article presents a method for estimating chemical thermodynamic constants from experimental data using the two computer programs UCODE_2005 and PHREEQC. As an example, the conditional stability constant for lead (Pb) complexation by a remediation agent (carboxymethyl-beta-cyclodextrin) is estimated, but the method can be applied to estimate other thermodynamic parameters such as sorption constants and degradation rate constants. Advantages of this technique include estimation of uncertainties associated with estimated parameters, evaluation of information content of observations, statistical evaluation of the appropriateness of the conceptual model, and statistical-based comparison of different models. 相似文献