Petrological characterization,U-Pb geochronology,Lu-Hf analyses and major and trace element data from mafic intrusions in the Central Espinhaco(central portion of the Brazilian shield)are used here to investigate the ...Petrological characterization,U-Pb geochronology,Lu-Hf analyses and major and trace element data from mafic intrusions in the Central Espinhaco(central portion of the Brazilian shield)are used here to investigate the geological significance of the Early Neoproterozoic magmatism in the context of the Sao Francisco-Congo paleocontinent.These mafic bodies are represented by medium to coarse-grained metagabbros with plagioclase,amphibole and clinopyroxene.Zircon U-Pb isotopic data from two samples yielded weighted mean 206pb/238U ages of 895±3.4 Ma(MSWD=1.7)and 896±2.4 Ma(MSWD=0.64),regarded as the best estimates for the crystallization age of these mafic rocks.Major and trace element data(including REEs)show that the gabbros originated from a subalkaline tholeiitic magma,typical of intraplate magmatism.Such rocks are slightly enriched in LREEs and LILEs and depleted in HFSEs.Our new isotope and geochemical data,along with regional knowledge,indicate that these metagabbros mark the beginning of an important Tonian-age extensional tectonic event of the landmass of which the Sao Francisco-Congo paleocontinent was part(Rodinia supercontinent or Central African block?).We furthermore suggest that these rocks belong to a prominent suite of Tonian-age mafic rocks that mark a diachronic breakup attempt of this landmass which may have occurred from south to north along the Espinhaco mountain range.展开更多
The continent of China developed through the coalescence of three major cratons(North China, Tarim and Yangtze) and continental micro-blocks through the processes of oceanic crust disappearance and acceretionary-colli...The continent of China developed through the coalescence of three major cratons(North China, Tarim and Yangtze) and continental micro-blocks through the processes of oceanic crust disappearance and acceretionary-collision of continental crusts. The strata of the Chinese continental landmass are subdivided into 12 tectonic-strata regions. Based on the composition of geological features among the three main cratons, continental micro-blocks and other major global cratons, their affinities can be preliminarily deduced during the Tonian period, using evidence from sedimentary successions, paleobiogeography, tectonic and magmatic events. The Yangtze and Tarim cratons show that they have close affinities during the assembly-dispersal milestone of the Rodinia Supercontinent. The sedimentary record and magmatic age populations in the blocks suggest that there was a widespread, intensive magmatic event that resulted from a subduction process during ~1000–820 Ma, related to continental rifting around the Yangtze and Tarim cratons. However, they differ greatly from the North China Craton. The continental micro-blocks in the Panthalassic Ocean could have some missing connection with the North China Craton that persisted until the Middle-Late Devonian. In contrast, the Alxa Block showed a strong affinity with the Tarim Craton. The revised Tonian paleogeography of the Rodinia Supercontinent is a good demonstration of how to show the relationship between the main cratons and the continental micro-blocks.展开更多
Reports of shoshonitic rocks in Precambrian terrains are relatively rare.Pl-Grt amphibolites and Hbl-Bt mafic granulites occurring in the migmatitic gneisses of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex(CGC)show calc-alkaline...Reports of shoshonitic rocks in Precambrian terrains are relatively rare.Pl-Grt amphibolites and Hbl-Bt mafic granulites occurring in the migmatitic gneisses of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex(CGC)show calc-alkaline and shoshonitic characteristics.Relict porphyritic,sub-ophitic and poikilitic textures are noted in these rocks.Their parent magma was emplaced during the waning phase of the regional metamorphism.Geochemically,these metamafics are similar to the GroupⅢpotassic and ultrapotassic rocks of Foley et al.(1987).The magma was derived from the metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle(SCLM).Subduction-related sediment melts metasomatized the SCLM.Compositionally,the SCLM is a metasomatized phlogopite-amphibole-spinel-bearing harzburgite.1%–5%batch melting of the SCLM could produce the parental magma of the mafic granulites.Pressures and temperatures of metamorphic equilibration were carried out by pseudosection modeling.Peak metamorphic assemblage(M_(1):Grt-Cpx-Pl-Qz)in garnetiferous amphibolite equilibrated at 740℃and 8.7 kbar.The Cpx-Pl corona appeared around the garnet during decompression(M_(2):655℃,6 kbar).The Hbl-Pl symplectites around garnet formed during isobaric cooling(M_(3):580℃and 5.9 kbar).The emplacement of shoshonitic magma and subsequent decompression happened at the slab break-off stage of continental collision(~990 Ma).展开更多
The Pan-African/Brasiliano orogenic belts are a part of numerous Neoproterozoic orogenic belts that belong to the long-lived orgenic cycle that distancing phase started at the Tonian around 1.0 Ga. The Tonian magmatis...The Pan-African/Brasiliano orogenic belts are a part of numerous Neoproterozoic orogenic belts that belong to the long-lived orgenic cycle that distancing phase started at the Tonian around 1.0 Ga. The Tonian magmatism fairly documented in the Neoproterozoic belts of Borborema Province (NE-Brazil), seemed so far inexistent in the Central African Orogenic Belt (CAOB) although these two belts <span style="font-family:Verdana;">were</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> geologically correlated. Through the Lu-Hf geochronological analysis on zircon of tonalite, the present work, coupled with the previous data, suggests the existence of a Tonian age magmatism in the Central Cameroon Domain of the CAOB although the latter is much reworked. The Nguesseck tonalite outcrops in the northern part of the Mbé</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sassa-Mbersi region, in the northern edge of Central Cameroon Domain of the CAOB and in the Tcholliré</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Banyo shear zone (TBSZ). The Lu-Hf data obtain on the zircon grains of this tonalite reveal juvenile Hf</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">TDM</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> age of ca. 1.0 Ga. This age, combined to the previous geochemical data suggest</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> that the protholites of this tonalite would have extracted from the source during the distancing phase (rifting and oceanization) of the Pan-african/Brasiliano orogeny at the early Neoproterozoic.</span>展开更多
We present a new discrete integrable coupling system by using the matrix Lax pair U, V C s/（4）. A novel spectral problem of modified Toda lattice soliton hierarchy is considered. Then, a new discrete integrable coup...We present a new discrete integrable coupling system by using the matrix Lax pair U, V C s/（4）. A novel spectral problem of modified Toda lattice soliton hierarchy is considered. Then, a new discrete integrable coupling equation hierarchy is obtained through the method of the enlarged Lax pair. Finally, we obtain the Hamiltonian structure of the integrable coupling system of the soliton equation hierarchy using the matrix-form trace identity. This discrete integrable coupling system includes a kind of a modified Toda lattice hierarchy.展开更多
The Neoproterozoic Tonian strata (ca.870-725 Ma) in the western Jiangnan Orogen archive the records of sedimentary provenance and tectonic setting which can be used to understand the geological evolution of the South ...The Neoproterozoic Tonian strata (ca.870-725 Ma) in the western Jiangnan Orogen archive the records of sedimentary provenance and tectonic setting which can be used to understand the geological evolution of the South China Continent.These strata are separated into the basement and cover sequences by a regional angular unconformity.The basement sequence can be subdivided into the lower and the upper parts by the widespread interbedded ca.840 Ma basalt with pillow structure.In the present work,234 concordant detrital zircon analyses are obtained from three Tonian sandstone samples in the Fanjingshan district,Guizhou Province.Combined with previous results,a total of 1736 analyses of detrital zircon U-Pb ages derived from 12 formations of Tonian strata in the western Jiangnan Orogen are used to decipher the integrated sedimentary and tectonic histories.The zircons from the lowermost part of the basement sequence (the Yujiagou Formation) show oval morphology and display two Paleoproterozoic age peaks at 2325 Ma and 1845 Ma which are similar with the detrital zircon age peaks from the Late Paleoproterozoic to Early Mesoproterozoic Dongchuan/Dahongshan/Hekou groups,suggesting a passive margin basin in which the sediments were mainly sourced from the southwestern Yangtze Block.However,the zircon age population of the lower part of the basement sequence (the Xiaojiahe,Huixiangping formations and their equivalents) indicates the sedimentary derivation from bidirectional sources (the ca.870 Ma arc materials in the south and the old detritus from the southwestern Yangtze Block) which is consistent with a back arc setting for the deposition of the sediments.Zircons from the upper part of the basement sequence (the Duyantang Formation and its equivalent) show euhedral and subangular morphology and display a unimodal age peak at ca.835 Ma.This sequence was possibly deposited in a convergent setting and the detritus were came from the locally distributed syn-collisional igneous rocks.The lower part of the cover sequence (the Xinzhai and Wuye formations and their equivalents) shows a distinct zircon age peak at 815-809 Ma and two subordinate peaks at 2485 Ma and 2018 Ma,suggesting that the basin had gradually transformed into a continental rift basin and received the detritus from the ca.815 Ma post-collisional magmatic rocks as well as from different Paleoproterozoic source rocks in the northern Yangtze Block.We propose a tectonic evolution model that envisages eruption of ca.840 Ma basalt in a back arc basin that existed during ca.870-835 Ma,an angular unconformity was formed during amalgamation of the Yangtze Block and the Cathaysia Block at ca.835-820 Ma and the rifting of the South China Continent was initiated at ca.800 Ma.Our study concludes that the South China Continent was formed on the periphery of the Rodinia supercontinent.展开更多
The nitrogen isotope compositions(δ^(15)N )of sedimentary rocks can provide information about the nutrient N cycling and redox conditions that may have played important roles in biological evolution in Earth’s histo...The nitrogen isotope compositions(δ^(15)N )of sedimentary rocks can provide information about the nutrient N cycling and redox conditions that may have played important roles in biological evolution in Earth’s history.Although considerableδ^(15)N data for the Precambrian have been published,there is a large gap during the Early Neoproterozoic that restrains our understanding of the linkages among N cycling,ocean redox changes and biological evolution during this key period.Here,we report bulkδ^(15)N and organic carbon isotope(^(δ)13C_(org))compositions as well as the total nitrogen(TN)and total organic carbon(TOC)contents from the Tonian fossiliferous Liulaobei Formation in the southern part of the North China Platform.Theδ^(15)N in the study section is dominated by very stable values centering around+4.3‰,which is moderately lower than that in modern sediments(~+6‰).These positiveδ^(15)N values were attributed to partial denitrification under low primary productivity(scenario 1)and/or denitrification coupled with dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium(DNRA)(scenario 2).In either case,the availability of fixed nitrogen may have provided the nutrient N required to facilitate facilitated eukaryotic growth.Our study highlights the pivotal role of nutrient N in the evolution of eukaryotes.展开更多
We present a detailed magnetostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic profile through the Riphean(Tonian)Katav Formation in the southern Urals.The study confirms the primary nature of the magnetization in these rocks.The ...We present a detailed magnetostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic profile through the Riphean(Tonian)Katav Formation in the southern Urals.The study confirms the primary nature of the magnetization in these rocks.The cyclostratigraphic study identified several orbital periods including the 405 ka long eccentricity.This allows us to quantify the reversal frequency in the Katav and our estimates range of 7–12 reversals per million years.Based on our study,we identify an interval of magnetic field reversal hyperactivity in the Neoproterozoic interval.Age estimates for the Katav are contentious and range somewhere between 800 Ma and 900 Ma based on carbonate Pb-Pb ages and stable isotope correlations.The paleomagnetic poles obtained in this study of the Katav(and overlying Inzer)Formation do not fit anywhere on the Baltica apparent polar wander path between 1100 Ma and 900 Ma.Furthermore,they lie 90away from the 900 Ma segment of the path.We tentatively estimate their age to be closer to 800 Ma and perhaps confirm a previously hypothesized pulse of rapid true polar wander between 825 Ma and 790 Ma.展开更多
基金CAPES,FAPEMIG(APQ-00125-12)and Petrobras(Geotectonic Studies Network)for financial supportthe Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto and CDTN(Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear)for institutional support。
文摘Petrological characterization,U-Pb geochronology,Lu-Hf analyses and major and trace element data from mafic intrusions in the Central Espinhaco(central portion of the Brazilian shield)are used here to investigate the geological significance of the Early Neoproterozoic magmatism in the context of the Sao Francisco-Congo paleocontinent.These mafic bodies are represented by medium to coarse-grained metagabbros with plagioclase,amphibole and clinopyroxene.Zircon U-Pb isotopic data from two samples yielded weighted mean 206pb/238U ages of 895±3.4 Ma(MSWD=1.7)and 896±2.4 Ma(MSWD=0.64),regarded as the best estimates for the crystallization age of these mafic rocks.Major and trace element data(including REEs)show that the gabbros originated from a subalkaline tholeiitic magma,typical of intraplate magmatism.Such rocks are slightly enriched in LREEs and LILEs and depleted in HFSEs.Our new isotope and geochemical data,along with regional knowledge,indicate that these metagabbros mark the beginning of an important Tonian-age extensional tectonic event of the landmass of which the Sao Francisco-Congo paleocontinent was part(Rodinia supercontinent or Central African block?).We furthermore suggest that these rocks belong to a prominent suite of Tonian-age mafic rocks that mark a diachronic breakup attempt of this landmass which may have occurred from south to north along the Espinhaco mountain range.
基金funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0601005)the Geological Survey of China(DD20190370,DD20190811,cdcgs2018001)+1 种基金the National Science Foundation of China(41772107,41772016)the 13th Five-year Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2016ZX05034-002-003)。
文摘The continent of China developed through the coalescence of three major cratons(North China, Tarim and Yangtze) and continental micro-blocks through the processes of oceanic crust disappearance and acceretionary-collision of continental crusts. The strata of the Chinese continental landmass are subdivided into 12 tectonic-strata regions. Based on the composition of geological features among the three main cratons, continental micro-blocks and other major global cratons, their affinities can be preliminarily deduced during the Tonian period, using evidence from sedimentary successions, paleobiogeography, tectonic and magmatic events. The Yangtze and Tarim cratons show that they have close affinities during the assembly-dispersal milestone of the Rodinia Supercontinent. The sedimentary record and magmatic age populations in the blocks suggest that there was a widespread, intensive magmatic event that resulted from a subduction process during ~1000–820 Ma, related to continental rifting around the Yangtze and Tarim cratons. However, they differ greatly from the North China Craton. The continental micro-blocks in the Panthalassic Ocean could have some missing connection with the North China Craton that persisted until the Middle-Late Devonian. In contrast, the Alxa Block showed a strong affinity with the Tarim Craton. The revised Tonian paleogeography of the Rodinia Supercontinent is a good demonstration of how to show the relationship between the main cratons and the continental micro-blocks.
基金partly funded by the UGC-UPE-II given to the University of Calcutta under the Non-focus Area ProgrammeThe Research Fellowship in Sciences for meritorious students(RFSMS)of the University Grants Commission,Government of India,awarded to Susmita Das(No.F.747/2007 BSR)。
文摘Reports of shoshonitic rocks in Precambrian terrains are relatively rare.Pl-Grt amphibolites and Hbl-Bt mafic granulites occurring in the migmatitic gneisses of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex(CGC)show calc-alkaline and shoshonitic characteristics.Relict porphyritic,sub-ophitic and poikilitic textures are noted in these rocks.Their parent magma was emplaced during the waning phase of the regional metamorphism.Geochemically,these metamafics are similar to the GroupⅢpotassic and ultrapotassic rocks of Foley et al.(1987).The magma was derived from the metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle(SCLM).Subduction-related sediment melts metasomatized the SCLM.Compositionally,the SCLM is a metasomatized phlogopite-amphibole-spinel-bearing harzburgite.1%–5%batch melting of the SCLM could produce the parental magma of the mafic granulites.Pressures and temperatures of metamorphic equilibration were carried out by pseudosection modeling.Peak metamorphic assemblage(M_(1):Grt-Cpx-Pl-Qz)in garnetiferous amphibolite equilibrated at 740℃and 8.7 kbar.The Cpx-Pl corona appeared around the garnet during decompression(M_(2):655℃,6 kbar).The Hbl-Pl symplectites around garnet formed during isobaric cooling(M_(3):580℃and 5.9 kbar).The emplacement of shoshonitic magma and subsequent decompression happened at the slab break-off stage of continental collision(~990 Ma).
文摘The Pan-African/Brasiliano orogenic belts are a part of numerous Neoproterozoic orogenic belts that belong to the long-lived orgenic cycle that distancing phase started at the Tonian around 1.0 Ga. The Tonian magmatism fairly documented in the Neoproterozoic belts of Borborema Province (NE-Brazil), seemed so far inexistent in the Central African Orogenic Belt (CAOB) although these two belts <span style="font-family:Verdana;">were</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> geologically correlated. Through the Lu-Hf geochronological analysis on zircon of tonalite, the present work, coupled with the previous data, suggests the existence of a Tonian age magmatism in the Central Cameroon Domain of the CAOB although the latter is much reworked. The Nguesseck tonalite outcrops in the northern part of the Mbé</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sassa-Mbersi region, in the northern edge of Central Cameroon Domain of the CAOB and in the Tcholliré</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Banyo shear zone (TBSZ). The Lu-Hf data obtain on the zircon grains of this tonalite reveal juvenile Hf</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">TDM</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> age of ca. 1.0 Ga. This age, combined to the previous geochemical data suggest</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> that the protholites of this tonalite would have extracted from the source during the distancing phase (rifting and oceanization) of the Pan-african/Brasiliano orogeny at the early Neoproterozoic.</span>
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province Grant No.2013020056
文摘We present a new discrete integrable coupling system by using the matrix Lax pair U, V C s/（4）. A novel spectral problem of modified Toda lattice soliton hierarchy is considered. Then, a new discrete integrable coupling equation hierarchy is obtained through the method of the enlarged Lax pair. Finally, we obtain the Hamiltonian structure of the integrable coupling system of the soliton equation hierarchy using the matrix-form trace identity. This discrete integrable coupling system includes a kind of a modified Toda lattice hierarchy.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41603039)China Postdoctoral ScienceFoundation (2016M601092)+2 种基金Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry (201510)Geosciences Research Foundation of Bureau of Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development Guizhou Province (QDKKH[2016]34)Guizhou Scientific and Technology Planning Project (QKHPTRC[2018]5626, QKHPTRC[2017]5739, QKH[2016]PTRC5401)
文摘The Neoproterozoic Tonian strata (ca.870-725 Ma) in the western Jiangnan Orogen archive the records of sedimentary provenance and tectonic setting which can be used to understand the geological evolution of the South China Continent.These strata are separated into the basement and cover sequences by a regional angular unconformity.The basement sequence can be subdivided into the lower and the upper parts by the widespread interbedded ca.840 Ma basalt with pillow structure.In the present work,234 concordant detrital zircon analyses are obtained from three Tonian sandstone samples in the Fanjingshan district,Guizhou Province.Combined with previous results,a total of 1736 analyses of detrital zircon U-Pb ages derived from 12 formations of Tonian strata in the western Jiangnan Orogen are used to decipher the integrated sedimentary and tectonic histories.The zircons from the lowermost part of the basement sequence (the Yujiagou Formation) show oval morphology and display two Paleoproterozoic age peaks at 2325 Ma and 1845 Ma which are similar with the detrital zircon age peaks from the Late Paleoproterozoic to Early Mesoproterozoic Dongchuan/Dahongshan/Hekou groups,suggesting a passive margin basin in which the sediments were mainly sourced from the southwestern Yangtze Block.However,the zircon age population of the lower part of the basement sequence (the Xiaojiahe,Huixiangping formations and their equivalents) indicates the sedimentary derivation from bidirectional sources (the ca.870 Ma arc materials in the south and the old detritus from the southwestern Yangtze Block) which is consistent with a back arc setting for the deposition of the sediments.Zircons from the upper part of the basement sequence (the Duyantang Formation and its equivalent) show euhedral and subangular morphology and display a unimodal age peak at ca.835 Ma.This sequence was possibly deposited in a convergent setting and the detritus were came from the locally distributed syn-collisional igneous rocks.The lower part of the cover sequence (the Xinzhai and Wuye formations and their equivalents) shows a distinct zircon age peak at 815-809 Ma and two subordinate peaks at 2485 Ma and 2018 Ma,suggesting that the basin had gradually transformed into a continental rift basin and received the detritus from the ca.815 Ma post-collisional magmatic rocks as well as from different Paleoproterozoic source rocks in the northern Yangtze Block.We propose a tectonic evolution model that envisages eruption of ca.840 Ma basalt in a back arc basin that existed during ca.870-835 Ma,an angular unconformity was formed during amalgamation of the Yangtze Block and the Cathaysia Block at ca.835-820 Ma and the rifting of the South China Continent was initiated at ca.800 Ma.Our study concludes that the South China Continent was formed on the periphery of the Rodinia supercontinent.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41872032,41830215,41930320)the Chinese‘111’project(No.B20011)the support from the China Scholarship Council for one-year of studying abroad。
文摘The nitrogen isotope compositions(δ^(15)N )of sedimentary rocks can provide information about the nutrient N cycling and redox conditions that may have played important roles in biological evolution in Earth’s history.Although considerableδ^(15)N data for the Precambrian have been published,there is a large gap during the Early Neoproterozoic that restrains our understanding of the linkages among N cycling,ocean redox changes and biological evolution during this key period.Here,we report bulkδ^(15)N and organic carbon isotope(^(δ)13C_(org))compositions as well as the total nitrogen(TN)and total organic carbon(TOC)contents from the Tonian fossiliferous Liulaobei Formation in the southern part of the North China Platform.Theδ^(15)N in the study section is dominated by very stable values centering around+4.3‰,which is moderately lower than that in modern sediments(~+6‰).These positiveδ^(15)N values were attributed to partial denitrification under low primary productivity(scenario 1)and/or denitrification coupled with dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium(DNRA)(scenario 2).In either case,the availability of fixed nitrogen may have provided the nutrient N required to facilitate facilitated eukaryotic growth.Our study highlights the pivotal role of nutrient N in the evolution of eukaryotes.
基金The work was carried within the framework of the State Assignment of IG UFRC RAS No.FMRS-2022-0013This work was partly funded by the Grant No.20-05-00410 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
文摘We present a detailed magnetostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic profile through the Riphean(Tonian)Katav Formation in the southern Urals.The study confirms the primary nature of the magnetization in these rocks.The cyclostratigraphic study identified several orbital periods including the 405 ka long eccentricity.This allows us to quantify the reversal frequency in the Katav and our estimates range of 7–12 reversals per million years.Based on our study,we identify an interval of magnetic field reversal hyperactivity in the Neoproterozoic interval.Age estimates for the Katav are contentious and range somewhere between 800 Ma and 900 Ma based on carbonate Pb-Pb ages and stable isotope correlations.The paleomagnetic poles obtained in this study of the Katav(and overlying Inzer)Formation do not fit anywhere on the Baltica apparent polar wander path between 1100 Ma and 900 Ma.Furthermore,they lie 90away from the 900 Ma segment of the path.We tentatively estimate their age to be closer to 800 Ma and perhaps confirm a previously hypothesized pulse of rapid true polar wander between 825 Ma and 790 Ma.
