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Mineralogical Characteristics of Hydrothermal Laumontite and Adularia in the Breccia Zone of a Fault, Yangbuk-myeon, Gyeongju and Implications for Fault Activity

경주시 양북면 단층각력대에서 산출하는 로몬타이트와 아듈라리아의 광물학적 특징과 후기 단층활동

  • 추창오 (경북대학교 지질학과) ;
  • 장윤득 (경북대학교 지질학과) ;
  • 장천중 (한국수력원자력(주) 중앙연구원 부지재해평가팀)
  • Received : 2012.03.20
  • Accepted : 2012.03.27
  • Published : 2012.03.31
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Abstract

Morphological and mineralogical characteristics of laumontite and adularia in the breccia zone in a fault, Yangbuk-myeon, Gyeongju, Korea suggest that they formed by reaction with hydrothermal alteration related to fault activity. Laumontite commonly occurring in the breccia zone is related to the presence of hydrothermal fluids bearing alkaline elements in the zone. Laumonite is characterized by elongated columnar form with aspect ratio varying 5~10. Laumontite and adularia whose characteristic euhedral forms are indicative of the latest product formed as rapid precipitation from fluids or replacements of Ca-plagioclase. Hydrothermal fluids reacted with intensively fractured granite, typical with high permeability, leached alkaline elements such as Ca, K, allowing laumontite and adularia to be precipitated under neutral to weak alkaline conditions. It is noteworthy that the formation process and genesis of low temperature minerals such as laumontite and adularia are very similar to those formed by wallrock alteration or hydrothermal alteration that occurred in epithermal deposits. Taking into account its characteristic morphology and chemistry, authigenic K-feldspar that commonly forms at low temperature in many fault zones must be adularia.

경주시 양북면 단층대의 각력암에서 로몬타이트와 아듈라리아가 산출되는데, 이들의 형태적 특징은 단층활동과 관련된 열수와의 반응으로 형성되었음을 지시한다. 로몬타이트의 산출은 충분한 물이 존재하는 각력대에 알칼리원소가 풍부하게 공급되었음을 의미한다. 로몬타이트는 신장된 주상형의 결정이 특징적인데 길이와 폭의 비는 대부분 5~10 : 1 범위이다. 자형의 로몬타이트, 아듈라리아는 Ca-사장석을 교대하거나, 유체로부터 침전되어 이차적으로 형성되었는데, 최후기 단계에서 비교적 빠르게 형성되었다. 단층파쇄작용으로 인해 투수성이 높아진 화강암질 모암은 열수와 반응하여 Ca, K와 같은 알칼리원소를 용탈시켰으며, 중성-약알칼리성의 열수용액으로부터 각력대에 로몬타이트, 아듈라리아가 침전되었다. 단층파쇄대에서 흔히 발달하는 로몬타이트와 아듈라리아와 같은 저온성 변질광물의 형성과정과 성인은 천열수광상에서 흔히 일어나는 모암변질, 열수반응과 유사하다. 단층대에서 생성되는 저온성, 이차적 아듈라리아의 형태적 특징과 화학조성은 조암광물의 K-장석류와 구분되므로 국내의 단층대에서 흔히 산출하는 K-장석은 아듈라리아일 가능성이 높다.

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