Estimation of Illitization Rate of Smectite from the Thermal History of Murakami Deposit, Japan

ABSTRACTThe research on illitization of smectite in the natural environment affords information on the long-term durability of bentonite which is the candidate for buffer material.Murakaml bentonite deposit in central Japan, where the bentonite and rhyolitic intrusive rock were distributed, was surveyed and the lateral variation of smectite to illite in the aureole of the rhyolite was studied.The radiometric ages of some minerals from the intrusive rock and the clay deposit were determined. Comparison of the mineral ages ( obtained by K-Ar, Rb-Sr and fission-track methods ) with closure temperature estimated for the various isotopic systems allowed the thermal history of the area. The age of the intrusion was 7.1± 0.5 Ma(; Mega d'annees), and the cooling rate of the intrusive rock was estimated to be approximately 45 °C/Ma.Sedimentation ages of the clay bed were mostly within the range from 18 to 14 Ma. However, the fission-track age of zircon in the clay containing illite/smectite mixed layers was 6.4±0.4 Ma, which was close to that of the intrusion. The latter value could be explained as the result of annealing of fission-tracks in zircon. The presence of annealing phenomena and the estimated cooling rate concluded that illitization had occured in the period of 3.4 Ma at least under the temperature range from above 240±50 to 105 °C. Illite-smectite mixed layers occured from smectite in the process. The proportion of iliite was about 40 %. Approximately, 29 kcal/mol as a value of activation energy was calculated to the illitization.The hydrogen isotopic ratio ( D/H ) of constitution water of the illite was determined. The values that were calculated for the water, which was related to the illitization, fell within the range of hydrogen isotopic ratios of seawater.

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Thermal History of Rajasthan Pegmatites of India as Revealed by Fission Track Studies

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e74-046 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 519-525 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

M. K. Nagpal ◽

K. K. Nagpaul

Keyword(s):

Cooling Rate ◽

Thermal History ◽

Fission Track ◽

Track Method ◽

History Of ◽

Orogenic Cycle

Three cogenetic minerals, namely, muscovites, biotites, and apatites from the Bhilwara (Rajasthan) mica belt of India have been dated by the fission track method. The muscovite ages are ~800 m.y. and the biotite and apatite ages are ~600 m.y. The geological annealing suffered by these minerals has been assessed. The observed discordancies of the ages in the three minerals, each having different annealing characteristics, are interpreted in terms of the thermal history of the region. A cooling rate of ~ 1/4° m.y.−1, after the occurrence of the last major metamorphic activity (i.e. the Delhi orogenic cycle) in the region, has been inferred.

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Using fission track dating to decode the thermal history of minerals

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ◽

10.1038/s43017-021-00164-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mónica G. Ramírez-Calderón

Keyword(s):

Thermal History ◽

Fission Track ◽

Fission Track Dating ◽

History Of

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Resolving thermal histories via multi-kinetic apatite fission track data: A case study from Phanerozoic strata within the Peel Plateau NWT, Canada

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3135 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Spalding ◽

Jeremy Powell ◽

David Schneider ◽

Karen Fallas

Keyword(s):

Low Temperature ◽

Thermal History ◽

Fission Track ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Source Rocks ◽

Apatite Fission Track ◽

Petroleum Systems ◽

History Of ◽

Thermal Histories ◽

Peel Plateau

Resolving the thermal history of sedimentary basins through geological time is essential when evaluating the maturity of source rocks within petroleum systems. Traditional methods used to estimate maximum burial temperatures in prospective sedimentary basin such as and vitrinite reflectance (%Ro) are unable to constrain the timing and duration of thermal events. In comparison, low-temperature thermochronology methods, such as apatite fission track thermochronology (AFT), can resolve detailed thermal histories within a temperature range corresponding to oil and gas generation. In the Peel Plateau of the Northwest Territories, Canada, Phanerozoic sedimentary strata exhibit oil-stained outcrops, gas seeps, and bitumen occurrences. Presently, the timing of hydrocarbon maturation events are poorly constrained, as a regional unconformity at the base of Cretaceous foreland basin strata indicates that underlying Devonian source rocks may have undergone a burial and unroofing event prior to the Cretaceous. Published organic thermal maturity values from wells within the study area range from 1.59 and 2.46 %Ro for Devonian strata and 0.54 and 1.83 %Ro within Lower Cretaceous strata. Herein, we have resolved the thermal history of the Peel Plateau through multi-kinetic AFT thermochronology. Three samples from Upper Devonian, Lower Cretaceous and Upper Cretaceous strata have pooled AFT ages of 61.0 &#177; 5.1 Ma, 59.5 &#177; 5.2 and 101.6 &#177; 6.7 Ma, respectively, and corresponding U-Pb ages of 497.4 &#177; 17.5 Ma (MSWD: 7.4), 353.5 &#177; 13.5 Ma (MSWD: 3.1) and 261.2 &#177; 8.5 Ma (MSWD: 5.9). All AFT data fail the &#967;2 test, suggesting AFT ages do not comprise a single statistically significant population, whereas U-Pb ages reflect the pre-depositional history of the samples and are likely from various provenances. Apatite chemistry is known to control the temperature and rates at which fission tracks undergo thermal annealing. The rmro parameter uses grain specific chemistry to predict apatite&#8217;s kinetic behaviour and is used to identify kinetic populations within samples. Grain chemistry was measured via electron microprobe analysis to derive rmro values and each sample was separated into two kinetic populations that pass the &#967;2 test: a less retentive population with ages ranging from 49.3 &#177; 9.3 Ma to 36.4 &#177; 4.7 Ma, and a more retentive population with ages ranging from 157.7 &#177; 19 Ma to 103.3 &#177; 11.8 Ma, with rmr0 benchmarks ranging from 0.79 and 0.82. Thermal history models reveal Devonian strata reached maximum burial temperatures (~165&#176;C-185&#176;C) prior to late Paleozoic to Mesozoic unroofing, and reheated to lower temperatures (~75&#176;C-110&#176;C) in the Late Cretaceous to Paleogene. Both Cretaceous samples record maximum burial temperatures (75&#176;C-95&#176;C) also during the Late Cretaceous to Paleogene. These new data indicate that Devonian source rocks matured prior to deposition of Cretaceous strata and that subsequent burial and heating during the Cretaceous to Paleogene was limited to the low-temperature threshold of the oil window. Integrating multi-kinetic AFT data with traditional methods in petroleum geosciences can help unravel complex thermal histories of sedimentary basins. Applying these methods elsewhere can improve the characterisation of petroleum systems.

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Thermal history of the Siberian platform: Apatite Fission-Track data from the Permian-Triassic magmatic complexes

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9702 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tatyana Bagdasaryan ◽

Roman Veselovskiy ◽

Viktor Zaitsev ◽

Anton Latyshev

Keyword(s):

Siberian Platform ◽

Thermal History ◽

Fission Track ◽

Sedimentary Cover ◽

Geothermal Gradient ◽

State University ◽

Apatite Fission Track ◽

History Of ◽

Cover Up ◽

Moscow State University

The largest continental igneous province, the Siberian Traps, was formed within the Siberian platform at the Paleozoic-Mesozoic boundary, ca. 252 million years ago. Despite the continuous and extensive investigation of the duration and rate of trap magmatism on the Siberian platform, these questions are still debated. Moreover, the post-Paleozoic thermal history of the Siberian platform is almost unknown. This study aims to reconstruct the thermal history of the Siberian platform during the last 250 Myr using the low-temperature thermochronometry. We have studied intrusive complexes from different parts of the Siberian platform, such as the Kotuy dike, the Odikhincha, Magan and Essey ultrabasic alkaline massifs, the Norilsk-1 and Kontayskaya intrusions, and the Padunsky sill. We use apatite fission-track (AFT) thermochronology to assess the time since the rocks were cooled below 110&#8451;. Obtained AFT ages (207-173 Ma) are much younger than available U-Pb and Ar/Ar ages of the traps. This pattern might be interpreted as a long cooling of the studied rocks after their emplacement ca. 250 Ma, but this looks quite unlikely because contradicts to the geological observations. Most likely, the rocks were buried under a thick volcanic-sedimentary cover and then exhumed and cooled below 110&#8451; ca. 207-173 Ma. Considering the increased geothermal gradient up to 50&#8451;/km at that times, we can estimate the thickness of the removed overlying volcanic-sedimentary cover up to 207-173 Ma as about 2-3 km.The research was carried out with the support of RFBR (grants 20-35-90066, 18-35-20058, 18-05-00590 and 18-05-70094) and the Program of development of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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