عرق (جيولوجيا)
العروق Vein عبارة عن رواسب من المعادن مرتبطة بالأجسام النارية القريبة وتكون غريبة عن الصخور المحيطة بها. وهى تشبه القواطع في أنها تملأ فراغات الصخور المحيطة. وتتشكل العروق حين تترسب المكونات المعدنية التي يحملها محلول مائي داخل كتلة صخرية عبر الترسيب. هذا السريان الهيدروليكي عادة ما يكون بسبب دوران حرمائي.[1]
Veins are classically thought of as being planar fractures in rocks, with the crystal growth occurring normal to the walls of the cavity, and the crystal protruding into open space. This certainly is the method for the formation of some veins. However, it is rare in geology for significant open space to remain open in large volumes of rock, especially several kilometers below the surface. Thus, there are two main mechanisms considered likely for the formation of veins: open-space filling and crack-seal growth.
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نشأتها
قد تنشأ العروق على هيئة أجسام غير منتظمة أو على شكل صفائح منبسطة أو مستدقة مثل القلم ، تتفرع من قمة وجوانب عديد من المتداخلات النارية. ويتراوح عرض العروق بين ميليمترات وعدة أمتار، بينما يتراوح طولها بين عشرات الأمتار والكيلومترات.
معدن الكوارتز
أكثر أنواع العروق شيوعا عروق الكوارتز، حيث يكون معدن الكوارتز معظم العرق، بالإضافة إلي بعض الكبريتيدات والفلزات العنصرية مثل الذهب أو الفضة التي تتواجد بنسب ضئيلة للغاية.
البجماتيت
تسمي العروق المتكونة من صخور الجرانيت خشنة التبلور جدا بالپگماتيت حيث تبلغ البلورات عدة سنتيمترات أو حتى عدة أمتار طولاً. وتتبلور تلك العروق في المراحل النهائية لتصلب صهارة غنية بالماء. وتحتوي البجماتيت على خامات من العناصر النادرة والفلزات الثقيلة.
الماء
وتكون بعض العروق ممتلئة بالمعادن التي تحتوي على كميات كبيرة من الماء المرتبط كيميائيا بالمعادن، والتي تتبلور من محاليل مائية ساخنة. وتظهر التجارب المعملية أن هذه المعادن تتبلور عند درجات حرارة مرتفعة تتراوح بين 250 إلي 350 م، وهى درجة أقل من درجة حرارة الصهارات عموما. ويوضح تركيب المعادن في هذه العروق الحرمائية أن الماء كان متواجدا بوفرة أثناء تكون العروق.
ملء الفراغات
Veins are classically thought of as being planar fractures in rocks, with the crystal growth occurring normal to the walls of the cavity, and the crystal protruding into open space. This certainly is the method for the formation of some veins. However, it is rare in geology for significant open space to remain open in large volumes of rock, especially several kilometers below the surface. Thus, there are two main mechanisms considered likely for the formation of veins: open-space filling and crack-seal growth.
عروق عزل الشروخ
On the macroscopic scale, the formation of veins is controlled by fracture mechanics, providing the space for minerals to precipitate.[2] Failure modes are classified as (1) shear fractures, (2) extensional fractures, and (3) hybrid fractures,[3] and can be described by the Mohr-Griffith-Coulomb fracture criterion.[4] The fracture criterion defines both the stress required for fracturing and the fracture orientation, as it is possible to construct on a Mohr diagram the shear fracture envelope that separates stable from unstable states of stresses. The shear fracture envelope is approximated by a pair of lines that are symmetric across the σn axis. As soon as the Mohr circle touches the lines of the fracture envelope that represent a critical state of stress, a fracture will be generated. The point of the circle that first touches the envelope represents the plane along which a fracture forms. A newly formed fracture leads to changes in the stress field and tensile strength of the fractured rock and causes a drop in stress magnitude. If a stress increases again, a new fracture will most likely be generated along the same fracture plane. This process is known as the crack-seal mechanism[5]
Crack-seal veins are thought to form quite quickly during deformation by precipitation of minerals within incipient fractures. This happens swiftly by geologic standards, because pressures and deformation mean that large open spaces cannot be maintained; generally the space is in the order of millimeters or micrometers. Veins grow in thickness by reopening of the vein fracture and progressive deposition of minerals on the growth surface.[6]
الآثار التكتونية
Veins generally need either hydraulic pressure in excess of hydrostatic pressure (to form hydraulic fractures or hydrofracture breccias) or they need open spaces or fractures, which requires a plane of extension within the rock mass.
In all cases except brecciation, therefore, a vein measures the plane of extension within the rock mass, give or take a sizeable bit of error. Measurement of enough veins will statistically form a plane of principal extension.
In ductilely deforming compressional regimes, this can in turn give information on the stresses active at the time of vein formation. In extensionally deforming regimes, the veins occur roughly normal to the axis of extension.
التمعدن والتعرق
Veins are common features in rocks and are evidence of fluid flow in fracture systems.[7] Veins provide information on stress, strain, pressure, temperature, fluid origin and fluid composition during their formation.[2] Typical examples include gold lodes, as well as skarn mineralisation. Hydrofracture breccias are classic targets for ore exploration as there is plenty of fluid flow and open space to deposit ore minerals.
Ores related to hydrothermal mineralisation, which are associated with vein material, may be composed of vein material and/or the rock in which the vein is hosted.
العروق الحاملة للذهب
In many gold mines exploited during the gold rushes of the 19th century, vein material alone was typically sought as ore material.[8] In most of today's mines, ore material is primarily composed of the veins and some component of the wall rocks which surrounds the veins.[9]
The difference between 19th-century and 21st-century mining techniques and the type of ore sought is based on the grade of material being mined and the methods of mining which are used. Historically, hand-mining of gold ores permitted the miners to pick out the lode quartz or reef quartz, allowing the highest-grade portions of the lodes to be worked, without dilution from the unmineralised wall rocks.
Today's mining, which uses larger machinery and equipment, forces the miners to take low-grade waste rock in with the ore material, resulting in dilution of the grade.
However, today's mining and assaying allows the delineation of lower-grade bulk tonnage mineralisation, within which the gold is invisible to the naked eye. In these cases, veining is the subordinate host to mineralisation and may only be an indicator of the presence of metasomatism of the wall-rocks which contains the low-grade mineralisation.
For this reason, veins within hydrothermal gold deposits are no longer the exclusive target of mining, and in some cases gold mineralisation is restricted entirely to the altered wall rocks within which entirely barren quartz veins are hosted.
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انظر أيضاً
الهامش
- ^ Schroeter, Tom. "Vein Deposits". earthsci.org. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ أ ب Bons, Paul D.; Elburg, Marlina A.; Gomez-Rivas, Enrique (2012-10-01). "A review of the formation of tectonic veins and their microstructures". Journal of Structural Geology (in الإنجليزية). 43: 33–62. Bibcode:2012JSG....43...33B. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2012.07.005. ISSN 0191-8141.
- ^ Scholz, Christopher H. (2019). The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting (3 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-16348-5.
- ^ Phillips, William John (1972-08-01). "Hydraulic fracturing and mineralization". Journal of the Geological Society (in الإنجليزية). 128 (4): 337–359. Bibcode:1972JGSoc.128..337P. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.128.4.0337. ISSN 0016-7649. S2CID 128945906.
- ^ Ramsay, John G. (March 1980). "The crack–seal mechanism of rock deformation". Nature (in الإنجليزية). 284 (5752): 135–139. Bibcode:1980Natur.284..135R. doi:10.1038/284135a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4333973.
- ^ Renard, Francois; Andréani, Muriel; Boullier, Anne-Marie; Labaume, Pierre. "Crack-seal patterns: records of uncorrelated stress release variations in crustal rocks" (PDF). hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/. Université Joseph Fourier.
- ^ Ferry, John M. (1994). "A historical review of metamorphic fluid flow". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (in الإنجليزية). 99 (B8): 15487–15498. Bibcode:1994JGR....9915487F. doi:10.1029/94JB01147. ISSN 2156-2202.
- ^ Ralph, Chris. "California Gold Quartz Veins". Nevada Outback Gems. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ Lyell, Charles. "Elements of Geology". geology.com. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
المصادر
- محمد أحمد حسن هيكل, منير (2008). أساسيات الجيولوجيا الفيزيائية. القاهرة، مصر: الدار العربية للكتاب.
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