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The Hengshan complex forms part of the central zone of the North China Craton and consists predominantly of ductilely-deformed late Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic high-grade, partly migmatitic, granitoid orthogneisses, intruded by mafic dykes of gabbroic composition. Many highly strained rocks were previously misinterpreted as supracrustal sequences and represent mylonitized granitoids and sheared dykes. Our single zircon dating documents magmatic granitoid emplacement ages between 2.52 Ga and 2.48 Ga, with rare occurrences of 2.7 Ga gneisses, possibly reflecting an older basement. A few granitic gneisses have emplacement ages between 2.35 and 2.1 Ga and show the same structural features as the older rocks, indicating that the main deformation occurred after similar to 2.1 Ga. Intrusion of gabbroic dykes occurred at similar to 1920 Ma, and all Hengshan rocks underwent granulite-facies metamorphism at 1.88-1.85 Ga, followed by retrogression, shearing and uplift. We interpret the Hengshan and adjacent Fuping granitoid gneisses as the lower, plutonic, part of a late Archaean to early Palaeoproterozoic Japan-type magmatic arc, with the upper, volcanic part represented by the nearby Wutai complex. Components of this arc may have evolved at a continental margin as indicated by the 2.7 Ga zircons. Major deformation and HP metamorphism occurred in the late Palaeoproterozoic during the Luliang orogeny when the Eastern and Western blocks of the North China Craton collided to form the Trans-North China orogen. Shear zones in the Hengshan are interpreted as major lower crustal discontinuities post-dating the peak of HP metamorphism, and we suggest that they formed during orogenic collapse and uplift of the Hengshan complex in the late Palaeoproterozoic (< 1.85 Ga)
The petrology of two distinct granulite types in the Hengshan Mts, China, and tectonic implications
(2005)
The Archean to Proterozoic Hengshan Complex (North China Craton), comprises tonalitic and granodioritic gneisses with subordinate mafic lenses, pegmatites and granites. Amphibolite facies assemblages predominate, although granulite-facies relics are widespread, and greenschist-facies retrogression occurs in km-wide shear zones. Mafic lenses, locally abundant, occur as strongly deformed amphibolite (hornblende + plagioclase) boudins or sheets. In contrast to previously published models we find two series of mafic rocks with distinctly different granulite-facies evolutions. In the north of the complex, relict high-pressure mafic granulites are garnet + clinopyroxene-bearing rocks with a secondary development of orthopyroxene around both garnet (kelyphites) and clinopyroxene (coronas). South of the newly defined central, E-W-trending, Zhujiafang shear zone, numerous mafic boudins and less-deformed dykes exhibit a macroscopically visible magmatic texture with coronitic growth of metamorphic garnet (full of quartz inclusions) between the magmatic plagioclase and pyroxene domains. Additional orthopyroxene (after magmatic augite) and sodic rims to magmatic plagioclase clearly indicate medium-pressure granulite-facies metamorphism. These findings suggest tectonic juxtaposition in this area of three different structural levels of the same Proterozoic-imprinted crust: high-pressure granulite grade in the northern Hengshan, medium-pressure granulite grade in the southern Hengshan and amphibolite- to greenschist-facies grade in the Wutaishan to the SE. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Numerical thermodynamic modelling of mineral composition and modes for specified pressure-temperature paths reveals the strong influence of fractional garnet crystallisation, as well as water fractionation, on garnet growth histories in high pressure rocks. Disequilibrium element incorporation in garnet due to the development of chemical inhomogeneities around porphyroblasts leads to pronounced episodic growth and may even cause growth interruptions. Discontinuous growth, together with pressure- and temperature-dependent changes in garnet chemistry, cause zonation patterns that are indicative of different degrees of disequilibrium element incorporation. Chemical inhomogeneities in the matrix surrounding garnet porphyroblasts strongly affect garnet growth and lead to compositional discontinuities and steep compositional gradients in the garnet zonation pattern. Further, intergranular diffusion-controlled calcium incorporation can lead to a characteristic rise in grossular and spessartine contents at lower metamorphic conditions. The observation that garnet zonation patterns diagnostic of large and small fractionation effects coexist within the same sample suggests that garnet growth is often controlled by small-scale variations in the bulk rock chemistry. Therefore, the spatial distribution of garnet grains and their zonation patterns, together with numerical growth models of garnet zonation patterns, yield information about the processes limiting garnet growth. These processes include intercrystalline element transport and dissolution of pre-existing grains. Discontinuities in garnet growth induced by limited element supply can mask traces of the thermobarometric history of the rock. Therefore, thermodynamic modelling that considers fractional disequilibrium crystallisation is required to interpret compositional garnet zonation in terms of a quantitative pressure and temperature path of the host rock
In the estimate of dispersion with the help of wavelet analysis considerable emphasis has been put on the extraction of the group velocity using the modulus of the wavelet transform. In this paper we give an asymptotic expression of the full propagator in wavelet space that comprises the phase velocity as well. This operator establishes a relationship between the observed signals at two different stations during wave propagation in a dispersive and attenuating medium. Numerical and experimental examples are presented to show that the method accurately models seismic wave dispersion and attenuation
Carpholite+chloritoid+pyrophyllite association occurs widely in the Triassic metaclastic rocks of the Afyon Zone in west-central Turkey. Fe-Mg-carpholite is associated with rare aragonite pseudomorphs and glaucophane in marbles and metabasites, respectively. The Afyon Zone consists stratigraphically of a Pan-African basement and an overlying Mesozoic cover sequence. The Pan-African basement, which shows Barrovian-type amphibolite-facies metamorphism, comprises garnet-mica schists, intruded by sodic amphibole-bearing metagabbros and leucocratic metagranites. It is unconformably overlain by a continuous metasedimentary sequence extending from Triassic to early Palaeocene. This cover sequence begins with metaconglomerates, which pass upwards into phyllites. Fe-Mg-carpholite occurs within this metaclastic sequence as rosette-like crystals in metapelites and fibres in quartz segregations. The metaclastic rocks are succeeded by metamorphosed platform carbonates, grading into Latest Mesozoic metamorphosed pelagic limestones, which in turn progress up to a Late Mesozoic-Early Tertiary olistostrome. This sequence is tectonically overlain by the blueschists of the Tavsanh Zone. Fe-Mg-carpholite-bearing assemblages imply temperatures of about 350 degrees C and minimum pressures of 6-9 kbar, corresponding to burial depths of about 30 km for the Mesozoic passive continental margin sediments and the underlying Pan-African supracrustal metasediments and metaintrusives. The metamorphic rocks of the Afyon Zone are unconformably overlain by Upper Palaeocene-Lower Eocene sedimentary rocks, indicating a Paleocene age for the regional HP/LT metamorphism. This implies continuous younging of HP/LT metamorphism in the Anatolides related to northward subduction of the Anatolide-Tauride platform beneath the Sakarya Zone. From north to south this involved the Tavsanh Zone (Campanian, 80 +/- 5 Ma), the Afyon Zone (Palaeocene?), the Menderes Massif (Middle Eocene) and the Lycian Nappes (Late Cretaceous-Eocene?), all of which were probably derived from the frontal part of the Anatolide-Tauride platform. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Basin formation dynamics of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (TPB) are here investigated by means of cross-section numerical modelling. Previous works hypothesised that basin subsidence occurred due first to extension (Oligocene) and then to subsequent loading due to back-thrusting (Miocene). However, structural evidence shows that the TPB was mainly under contraction from Oligocene until post Pliocene time while extension played a minor role. Furthermore, thermal indicators strongly call for a cold (flexure-induced) mechanism but are strictly inconsistent with a hot (thermally induced) mechanism. Our new modelling shows that the TPB stratigraphic features can be reproduced by flexure of a visco- elastic plate loaded by backthrusts active in the Western Alps in Oligo-Miocene times. Far-field compression contributed to the TPB subsidence and controlled the basin infill geometry by enhancing basin tilting, forebulge uplift and erosion of the southern margin of the basin. These results suggest that the TPB subsidence is the result of a combination of mechanisms including thrust loading and farfield compressional stresses. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Potential fields are classically represented on the sphere using spherical harmonics. However, this decomposition leads to numerical difficulties when data to be modelled are irregularly distributed or cover a regional zone. To overcome this drawback, we develop a new representation of the magnetic and the gravity fields based on wavelet frames. In this paper, we first describe how to build wavelet frames on the sphere. The chosen frames are based on the Poisson multipole wavelets, which are of special interest for geophysical modelling, since their scaling parameter is linked to the multipole depth (Holschneider et al.). The implementation of wavelet frames results from a discretization of the continuous wavelet transform in space and scale. We also build different frames using two kinds of spherical meshes and various scale sequences. We then validate the mathematical method through simple fits of scalar functions on the sphere, named 'scalar models'. Moreover, we propose magnetic and gravity models, referred to as 'vectorial models', taking into account geophysical constraints. We then discuss the representation of the Earth's magnetic and gravity fields from data regularly or irregularly distributed. Comparisons of the obtained wavelet models with the initial spherical harmonic models point out the advantages of wavelet modelling when the used magnetic or gravity data are sparsely distributed or cover just a very local zone
The up to similar to4 km high southern Patagonian Andes form a pronounced topographic barrier to atmospheric circulation in the southern hemisphere westerlies, and cause one of the most drastic orographic rain shadows on earth. Geologic data imply that this climatic pattern has been established or significantly enhanced during Miocene surface uplift of this Andean segment. We report evidence for important climatic and ecologic changes in the eastern foreland of the Patagonian Andes that appear to be the result of this uplift. To provide constraints on Miocene plant ecosystems and precipitation in the eastern (leeward) foreland of the Patagonian Andes, we determined carbon and oxygen isotope values of pedogenic carbonate nodules from a similar to500 m thick section of the continental Santa Cruz Formation. The age of these deposits was constrained by Ar/Ar dating of intercalated tuffs, which range from similar to22 to 14 Ma. At similar to16.5 Ma, the delta(13)C values increase by similar to3parts per thousand, the delta(18)O values decrease by >2parts per thousand, and the scatter in the oxygen isotope data increases significantly. We interpret these changes as the consequence of >1 km surface uplift in this Andean segment (from the delta(18)O values), and increased aridity to its east (from the delta(13)C values and the increased scatter in the delta(18)O values). Sediments overlying the Santa Cruz Formation are very limited in extent and volume, and dominated by coarse conglomerates related to Pleistocene and older glaciations. It thus seems that, by similar to14 Ma, deposition in the eastern foreland of the Southern Patagonian Andes had essentially ceased as the result of rain shadow formation. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
The PEGASOS project was a major international seismic hazard study, one of the largest ever conducted anywhere in the world, to assess seismic hazard at four nuclear power plant sites in Switzerland. Before the report of this project has become publicly available, a paper attacking both methodology and results has appeared. Since the general scientific readership may have difficulty in assessing this attack in the absence of the report being attacked, we supply a response in the present paper. The bulk of the attack, besides some misconceived arguments about the role of uncertainties in seismic hazard analysis, is carried by some exercises that purport to be validation exercises. In practice, they are no such thing; they are merely independent sets of hazard calculations based on varying assumptions and procedures, often rather questionable, which come up with various different answers which have no particular significance. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved