Talc-bearing serpentinized peridotites from the southern Mariana forearc: implications for aseismic character within subduction zones

The serpentinized peridotites overlying the subducted zones in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM) arc system have been interpret as the cause of the low-velocity layer identified beneath the IBM froearc, in turn few earthquakes occurred along the plate boundary. Chrysotile, which is a low temperature and highly hydrated phase of serpentine with low frictional strength, has been suggested as the low velocity material in the serpentinized peridotites, besides, brucite is inferred to be likely conducive to stable sliding. However, such idea encounters challenging in our serpentinized peridotites from the southern Mariana forearc, which absent both the above minerals. The presence of talc, which characterized by its weak, low-friction and inherently stable sliding behavior, provides new clue. Here we report the occurrence of talc in serpentinized peridotites collected from the landward trench slope of the southern Mariana forearc. We infer that talc is mainly forming as a result of the reaction of serpentine minerals with silica-saturated fluids released from the subducting slab, and talc also occurs as talc veins sometimes. Due to its unique physical properties, talc may therefore play a significant role in aseismic slip in the IBM subduction zone.

PBT/HIPS枘混体系的结构与性能及生物隆解聚合物结晶性能的研究

以过氧化二异丙苯(DCP)为引发剂，甲基丙烯酸缩水甘油醋(GMA)为活性单体对HIPS进行熔融接枝，制得了功能化的高抗冲苯乙烯(HIPS－g－GMA）。比较HIPS－g－GMA和纯的HIPS的红外谱图，可以看到在HIPS－g－GMA的谱图上出现了一个新的吸收峰，即1730cm~(-1)处的C=O的伸缩振动吸收峰，它为接枝的GMA中的醋基基团的特征峰，因此可以确定GMA己经接枝到HIPS上。能谱分析也提供了相似的结论。同时研究了单体浓度和DCP用量对产物接枝率的影响。用化学滴定方法测定了接枝物的接枝率。随着GMA量的增加，接枝率也随之增加，当GMA用量超过14％时，接枝率趋于平缓；接枝率随DCP量增加而增加。采用DSC、SEM, WAXD, DMA及力学性能等方法和手段研究PBTIHIPS和PBT/HIPS-g-GMA二元共混体系的结晶、形态结构、动态力学性能及力学性能随组成的变化。当PBT为分散相，在增容体系中的PBT出现了分级结晶现象，结晶温度降低，这是由于分散相更为精细的结果。DMA结果表明，在PBTIHIP S-g-GMA体系中由于发生了化学反应，有接枝共聚物生成，体系中两个聚合物的Tg松弛均出现了较明显的降低，增容后体系的力学性能有显著提高。采用DSC, SEM, DMA及力学性能等方法和手段研究PBT/HIPS/HIPS-g-GMA三元共混体系的结构与性能。结果表明PBT无论是分散相还是连续相，HIPS-g-GMA的作用表现为：（1）对PBTIHIPS体系的熔融和结晶行为产生了明显的影响，使PBT的结晶速率变慢，结晶度降低，结晶尺寸分布变宽，结晶完善性变差；（2）改善了共混体系的相容性。未增容体系的形态结构为锐型界面，分散相粒子同基材相连接处清晰缝隙表明两组分间界面粘接很差，为典型的不相容两相形态结构；而加入功能化接枝物的体系的分散相粒子明显变小且分布均匀，甚至难以分辨两相结构的界面；（3）提高了体系的力学性能。在多官能团单体存在下，辐照对PBTIHIPS产生影响。（1）对共混体系的熔融和结晶行为产生影响，使共混体系中的PBT的熔点降低，熔程变宽，结品度下降，结晶速率变慢，结晶尺寸分布变宽，结晶完善性变差；（2）辐射引发多官能团单体反应，使体系的两个Tg松弛发生内移，表明体系的相容性得到改善；（3）当PBT为连续相时，辐射引发的多官能团单体反应对体系的形态结构影响不如化学增溶剂HIPS-g-GMA的效果显著，含有TMPTA的体系的形态结构要好于TAIL o当PBT为分散相，体系的形态结构变化很大，分散相尺寸明显变下小，且分布均匀；（4）辐射改性能提高PBT为分散相的共混体系的力学性能。利用DSC研究了不同成核剂对生物降解聚合物PHBV的结晶性能的彩响。结果表明：（1)添加的成核剂均能影响PHBV的结晶和熔融行为，提高PHBV的结晶速率和使PHBV的结晶更加完美；（2）所有的成核剂均能降低PHBV的结晶自由能；（3）成核剂对PHBV的影响依次为BN, talc, Tb_2O_3和La_2O_3。

Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Crosslinked Plasticized Poly(L-lactic acid)

Enhancing the stability of plasticized poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) with poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) is necessary for its practical application. In this study, plasticized PLLA (PLLA/PEG 80/20 wt/wt) was crosslinked under I-ray (Co-60) in the presence of triallyl isocyanurate (TALC) as crosslinking agent. FTIR analysis revealed that PLLA, PEG, and TALC formed a cocrosslinking structure. Crystallization behavior and mechanical properties of the crosslinked plasticized PLLA were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and tensile tests. Experimental results indicated that the crystallization behaviors of both PEG and PLLA in the blends were restrained after irradiation. The melting peak of PEG in the crystallized samples disappeared at a low irradiation doses about 10 kGy. Although PLLA still owned the behavior of crystallize, its cold crystallization temperature and glass transition temperature shifted to higher temperature. Mechanical properties of the plasticized PLLA were strengthened through crosslinking. Both yield strength and elastic modulus of the samples increased after crosslinking.

Effect of nucleating agent on the isothermal crystallization kinetics of PHBV

The crystallization behavior of PHBV, poly(beta -hydroxybutyrate-co-beta -hydrxyvalerate), with nucleating agents under isothermal conditions was investigated. A differential scanning calorimeter was used to monitor the crystallization process from the melt. During isothermal crystallization, the dependence of relative degree of crystallinity on time was described by the Avrami equation. It has been shown that the addition of BN and Tale causes a considerable increase in the overall crystallization rate of PHBV but does not influence the Avrami exponent n, mechanism of nucleation and spherulite growth mode of PHBV. A little of nucleating agent will increase the crystallization rate and decrease the fold surface free energy sigma (e), remarkably. The effect of BN is more significant than that of Talc.

Serpentinization of peridotites from the southern Mariana forearc

A detailed petrologic and mineralogic study was carried out on serpentinized peridotites dredged from the southern landward slopes of the Mariana Trench, in order to reveal the serpentinization process of these unusual rocks and to identify the sole presence of the mineral lizardite. The constituent minerals of these southern Mariana forearc peridotites are olivine, amphibole and spinel, as well as serpentine, chlorite and talc. Compared with serpentinite seamounts, the serpentinized peridotites from the southern Mariana forearc are characterized by the absence of magnetite and brucite, and the common presence of talc; besides, the serpentine mineral variety is simplex, only lizardite. Combining mineral chemistry and mineral phase relationships, we conclude that (1) the absence of magnetite in the serpentinized peridotites is due to incomplete serpentinization, other than magnetite, the iron end-member in olivine forms Fe-rich brucite and Fe-rich serpentine; (2) brucite is not stable with high silica activity, reacting with later SiO2-rich fluid and then forming lizardite, leading to a lack of brucite in these serpentinized peridotites; (3) the occurrence of talc is the result of later SiO2-rich fluid reactions with lizardite; and (4) the reason for the sole occurrence of lizardite is that the temperature condition of our study area was not high enough for the formation of antigorite (which is stable at > 500 degrees C). Despite the broad overlap of lizardite and chrysotile in growth temperature, differences in the modes of occurrence of lizardite and chrysotile, such as the scarcity of H2O, low porosity and permeability, as well as the actual situation of initial serpentinization in the study area, result in the absolute prevalence of lizardite over chrysotile in the area. (C) 2009 National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier Limited and Science in China Press. All rights reserved.

芝麻坊石榴子石二辉橄榄岩多期变质演化及其地幔过程

Many garnet peridotite bodies are enclosed in ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) gneisses and/or migmatites in worldwide UHP terranes formed by subduction of continental crust. On the basis of petrochemical data, a group of garnet peridotites have been derived from depleted mantle and were subsequently metasomatized by melts and/or fluids derived from the subducted continental crust. However, their depletion and enrichment processes and tectonic evolutions are still in conflicts. New evidences for metamorphism of garnet lherzolite from Zhimafang, Donghai County, Sulu UHP terrane are reported. The garnet lherzolite have experienced a prolonged multistage metamorphic history. At least seven stages of recrystallization have been identified based on detailed analysis of reaction textures and mineral compositions. Stage I was a high-pressure and high-temperature enriched garnet lherzolite stage, which is inferred from the presence of high Ca-Cr core of garnet porphyroclast and inclusions of high-Mg clinopyroxene, high-Al-Cr orthopyroxene and high-Mg olivine. Stage II is a high-temperature and low-pressure depleted spinel-hurzbergite or spinel-dunite stage, as indicated by the presence of relict Al-rich spinel, very high-Mg and low-Ni olivine and high-Mg orthopyroxene included in the low-Cr mantle of the porphyroclastic garnet and core of fine-grained neoblastic garnet, clinopyroxene is absent in this stage. Stage III is an hydrous amphibole spinel-lherzolite stage, which recorded events of cooling and metasomatic re-enrichment, this stage is manifested by metasomatic origin of amphibole and phlogopite-bearing porphyroblastic clinopyroxene, and porphyroblastic orthopyroxene. Stage IV is a high-pressure amphibole garnet-lherzolite stage, which is indicated by the formation of low-Cr mantle of the porphyroclastic garnet and amphibole-bearing low-Cr core of neoblastic garnet. Stage V is an UHP metamorphic garnet-lherzolite stage, which is characterized by the formation of high-Cr rim of both porphyroclastic and neoblastic garnet and recrystallization of olivine, clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene in the matrix. During UHP metamorphism, the garnet lherzolite is dehydrated, hornblende decomposed to clinopyroxene and olivine. Stage VI is a high-pressure decompression amphibole garnet-lherzolite stage, indicated by formation of later coarse-grained pargasitic hornblende and phlogopite in the garnet stability field. Stage VII is a low-pressure decompression amphibole-chlorite spinel-lherzolite stage, indicated by replacement of garnet by kelyphite of high-Al orthopyroxene + aluminous spinel + tremolitic amphibole + chlorite + talc. The metamorphic evolutions of Zhimafang garnet lherzolite suggest that it displays progressive mantle wedge convection during the subduction of previous oceanic and subsequent continental slab. We propose that the Zhimafang garnet lherzolite were originated from enriched deep mantle wedge above the previously subducted oceanic slab, subduction of oceanic slab resulted in their convection to shallower back arc and sub-arc setting, decompressional melting transformed the enriched garnet-lherzolite to depleted spinel-hurzbergite or spinel-dunite, the spinel-hurzbergite or spinel dunite was then convected to the hydrous mantle wedge corner driven by corner flow and was cooled and metasomatized by slab-derived melts/fluids, and was transformed to enriched lherzolite. The lherzolites formed a downward mantle wedge layer above successively subducted continental crust. The peridotite subducted together with the underlying continental crust and suffered UHP metamorphism. Finally, the garnet-lherzolite exhumed to the earth surface together with the UHP terrane. Detailed analyses of reaction textures and mineral compositions revealed several stages of metasomatism related to continental subduction and exhumation.