岩石圈流变实验研究的进展

岩石高温高压变形实验是了解地球内部物质流动特性的最直接的手段 .本文概述了近年来岩石流变实验研究的一些成果 ,重点总结了水和部分熔融对上地幔顶部橄榄石流变行为的影响 ,以及地壳多相岩石流变实验研究的一些成果 .     

High-temperature creep in a Ni2GeO4: a contribution to creep systematics in spinel

 High-temperature creep behavior in Ni₂GeO₄ spinel was investigated using synthetic polycrystalline aggregates with average grain sizes ranging from submicron to 7.4 microns. Cylindrical samples were deformed at constant load in a gas-medium apparatus at temperatures ranging from 1223 to 1523 K and stresses ranging from 40 to 320 MPa. Two deformation mechanisms were identified, characterized by the following flow laws: where σ is in MPa, d is in μm and T is in Kelvin. These flow laws suggest that deformation was accommodated by dislocation creep and grain-boundary diffusion (Coble) creep, respectively. A comparison with other spinels shows that an isomechanical group can be defined for spinels although some differences between normal and inverse spinels can be identified. When creep data for olivine and spinel are normalized and extrapolated to Earth-like conditions, spinel (ringwoodite) has a strength similar to olivine in the dislocation creep regime and is considerably stronger than olivine in the diffusion creep regime at coarse grain size. However, when grain-size reduction occurs, spinel can become weaker than olivine due to its high grain-size sensitivity (Coble creep behavior). Analysis of normalized diffusion creep data for olivine and spinel indicate that spinel is weaker than olivine at grain sizes less than 2 μm. Received: 18 June 2000 / Accepted: 3 April 2001     

关于胶莱盆地东南缘基性火山熔岩喷发时代上限的讨论

首次对采自青岛即墨WN部两个深钻孔中新鲜玄武岩样品进行Rb-Sr同位素测年,测定年龄值为65.77±13.6Ma。认为该年龄值代表了胶莱盆地东南缘基性火山熔岩喷发的时代上限,对于整个胶莱盆地中基性火山岩的划分和对比具重要的年代学意义。     

鲁北新生代隐伏火山岩及其石油地质意义

鲁北新生代隐伏火山岩可划分为3个喷发期6个亚期,9种火山岩岩石类型和同期侵入的辉绿岩。它们形成在近大陆边缘的板内裂谷型盆地,对于富有机质生油岩的沉积、各种储集体的形成、多种含油圈闭类型的形成以及有机质成熟向烃类转化都是非常有利的。作为储集岩主要有玄武安山岩、辉绿岩和湖底玄武质凝灰岩。储油空间主要为次生孔隙和裂缝。火山岩及其有关岩石在本区不仅形成了特殊的油气藏,而且还可作为盖层、封堵层、披复构造的基岩,因此对石油地质勘探有重要意义。     

Geology of the Victor Kimberlite, Attawapiskat, Northern Ontario, Canada: cross-cutting and nested craters

The pipe shapes, infill and emplacement processes of the Attawapiskat kimberlites, including Victor, contrast with most of the southern African kimberlite pipes. The Attawapiskat kimberlite pipes are formed by an overall two-stage process of (1) pipe excavation without the development of a diatreme (sensu stricto) and (2) subsequent pipe infilling. The Victor kimberlite comprises two adjacent but separate pipes, Victor South and Victor North. The pipes are infilled with two contrasting textural types of kimberlite: pyroclastic and hypabyssal-like kimberlite. Victor South and much of Victor North are composed of pyroclastic spinel carbonate kimberlites, the main features of which are similar: clast-supported, discrete macrocrystal and phenocrystal olivine grains, pyroclastic juvenile lapilli, mantle-derived xenocrysts and minor country rock xenoliths are set in serpentine and carbonate matrices. These partly bedded, juvenile lapilli-bearing olivine tuffs appear to have been formed by subaerial fire-fountaining airfall processes.

The Victor South pipe has a simple bowl-like shape that flares from just below the basal sandstone of the sediments that overlie the basement. The sandstone is a known aquifer, suggesting that the crater excavation process was possibly phreatomagmatic. In contrast, the pipe shape and internal geology of Victor North are more complex. The northwestern part of the pipe is dominated by dark competent rocks, which resemble fresh hypabyssal kimberlite, but have unusual textures and are closely associated with pyroclastic juvenile lapilli tuffs and country rock breccias±volcaniclastic kimberlite. Current evidence suggests that the hypabyssal-like kimberlite is, in fact, not intrusive and that the northwestern part of Victor North represents an early-formed crater infilled with contrasting extrusive kimberlites and associated breccias. The remaining, main part of Victor North consists of two macroscopically similar, but petrographically distinct, pyroclastic kimberlites that have contrasting macrodiamond sample grades. The juvenile lapilli of each pyroclastic kimberlite can be distinguished only microscopically. The nature and relative modal proportion of primary olivine phenocrysts in the juvenile lapilli are different, indicating that they derive from different magma pulses, or phases of kimberlite, and thus represent separate eruptions. The initial excavation of a crater cross-cutting the earlier northwestern crater was followed by emplacement of phase (i), a low-grade olivine phenocryst-rich pyroclastic kimberlite, and the subsequent eruption of phase (ii), a high-grade olivine phenocryst-poor pyroclastic kimberlite, as two separate vents nested within the original phase (i) crater. The second eruption was accompanied by the formation of an intermediate mixed zone with moderate grade. Thus, the final pyroclastic pipe infill of the main part of the Victor North pipe appears to consist of at least three geological/macrodiamond grade zones.

In conclusion, the Victor kimberlite was formed by several eruptive events resulting in adjacent and cross-cutting craters that were infilled with either pyroclastic kimberlite or hypabyssal-like kimberlite, which is now interpreted to be of probable extrusive origin. Within the pyroclastic kimberlites of Victor North, there are two nested vents, a feature seldom documented in kimberlites elsewhere. This study highlights the meaningful role of kimberlite petrography in the evaluation of diamond deposits and provides further insight into kimberlite emplacement and volcanism.     

Spatial correlation of deformation and mineral reaction in experimentally deformed plagioclase–olivine aggregates

Shear deformation of hot pressed plagioclase–olivine aggregates was studied in the presence and absence of mineral reaction. Experiments were performed at 900 °C, 1500 MPa, and a constant shear strain rate of 5×10⁻⁵ s⁻¹ in a solid medium apparatus. Whether the mineral reaction between plagioclase and olivine takes place or not is controlled by choosing the appropriate plagioclase composition; labradorite (An₆₀) does not react, anorthite (An₉₂) does. Labradorite–olivine aggregates deformed without reaction are very strong and show strain hardening throughout the experiment. Syndeformational reaction between olivine and anorthite causes a pronounced strain weakening. The reaction produces fine-grained opx–cpx–spinel aggregates, which accommodate a large fraction of the finite strain. Deformation and reaction are localised within a 0.5-mm-wide sample. Three representative samples were analysed for their fabric anisotropy R* and shape-preferred orientation α* (fabric angle with the shear plane) using the autocorrelation function (ACF). Fabric anisotropy can be calibrated to quantify strain variations across the sheared samples. In the deformed and reacted anorthite–olivine aggregate, there is a strong correlation between reaction progress and strain; regions of large shear strain correspond to regions of maximum reaction progress. Within the sample, the derived strain rate variations range up to almost one order of magnitude.     

利用洋中脊玄武岩中橄榄石斑晶制约南海打开的地幔动力学机制

地幔柱与板块构造是地球运行的两大基本动力学机制。南海及其周缘地区处于海南地幔柱与东南亚环形俯冲系统时空交汇的背景, 而新生代地幔柱在南海形成演化过程中所扮演的角色存在颇多争议。地幔源区富含辉石岩是南海及其周缘与地幔柱活动相关的玄武岩的共有特征, 基于此推测, 本文利用国际大洋发现计划(IODP)367航次在南海北缘U1500B站位钻遇的南海扩张初期洋中脊玄武岩(MORB)的橄榄石成分来制约南海扩张初期的地幔岩性, 以检验南海扩张初期是否存在地幔柱-洋脊叠加。U1500B MORB所含橄榄石斑晶的Fo=76.4~89.4, NiO=0.09%~0.26%, CaO=0.25%~0.34%, MnO=0.16%~0.33%。这些橄榄石斑晶具有与南海西南次海盆扩张末期U1433B钻孔的MORB以及全球其他开放大洋MORB相似的NiO、CaO、MnO含量和FeO/MnO比值, 代表其源区岩性主要为橄榄岩。U1500B钻孔MORB与该区存在地幔柱叠加的基性岩浆所含橄榄石斑晶成分的差异显著, 表明南海扩张初期不存在地幔柱叠加, 与前人估计的U1500B洋中脊玄武岩的正常地幔潜能温度(~1380℃)相符合。由于南海扩张初期洋中脊岩浆产率高, 但缺乏地幔热异常和易融组分如辉石岩等, 推测其地幔中可能有较多的早前俯冲板片贡献的再循环挥发分来维持高岩浆产率。所以, 俯冲板片后撤导致的岩石圈伸展可能是南海打开的主要动力学机制。

     

Synthetic MgGa2O4-Mg2GeO4 spinel solid solution and β-Mg3Ga2GeO8: chemistry, crystal structures, cation ordering, and comparison to Mg2GeO4 olivine

 Structural parameters and cation ordering are determined for four compositions in the synthetic MgGa₂O₄-Mg₂GeO₄ spinel solid solution (0, 8, 15 and 23 mol% Mg₂GeO₄; 1400 °C, 1 bar) and for spinelloid β-Mg₃Ga₂GeO₈ (1350 °C, 1 bar), by Rietveld refinement of room-temperature neutron diffraction data. Sample chemistry is determined by XRF and EPMA. Addition of Mg₂GeO₄ causes the cation distribution of the MgGa₂O₄ component to change from a disordered inverse distribution in end member MgGa₂O₄, ^[4]Ga = x = 0.88(3), through the random distribution, toward a normal cation distribution, x = 0.37(3), at 23 mol% Mg₂GeO₄. An increase in a_o with increasing Mg₂GeO₄ component is correlated with an increase in the amount of Mg on the tetrahedral site, through substitution of 2 Ga³⁺⇄ Mg²⁺+Ge⁴⁺. The spinel exhibits high configurational entropy, reaching 20.2 J mol⁻¹ (four oxygen basis) near the compositional upper limit of the solid solution. This stabilizes the spinel in spite of positive enthalpy of disordering over the solid solution, where ΔH _D  = αx + βx ², α = 22(3), β = −21(3) kJ mol⁻¹. This model for the cation distribution across the join suggests that the empirically determined limit of the spinel solid solution is correlated with the limit of tetrahedral ordering of Mg, after which local charge-balanced substitution is no longer maintained. Spinelloid β-Mg₃Ga₂GeO₈ has cation distribution ^M1[Mg_0.50(2)Ga_0.50(2)] ^M2[Mg_0.96(2)Ga_0.04(2)] ^M3[Mg_0.77(2) Ga_0.23(2)]₂ (Ge_0.5Ga_0.5)₂O₈ (tetrahedral site occupancies are assumed). Octahedral site size is correlated to Mg distribution, where site volume, site distortion, and Mg content follow the relation M1<M3<M2. The disordered cation distribution provides local electrical neutrality in the structure, and stabilization through increased configurational entropy (27.6 J mol⁻¹; eight oxygen basis). Comparison of the crystal structures of Mg_{1+ N} Ga_{2−2 N} Ge _N O₄ spinel, β-Mg₃Ga₂GeO₈, and Mg₂GeO₄ olivine reveals β-Mg₃Ga₂GeO₈ to be a true structural intermediate. Phase transitions across the pseudobinary are necessary to accommodate an increasing divergence of cation size and valence, with addition of Mg₂GeO₄ component. Octahedral volume increases while tetrahedral volume decreases from spinel to β-Mg₃Ga₂GeO₈ to olivine, with addition of Mg and Ge, respectively. Furthermore, M-M distances increase regularly across the join, suggesting that changes in topology reduce cation-cation repulsion. Received: 9 November 1998 / Revised, accepted: 3 August 1999