Early-middle Triassic basic magmatism and metamorphism of ultramafic-mafic complexes of the Ust’-Belaya terrane (central Chukotka, NE Russia): ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages, petrological and geochemical data, geodynamic interpretations

<p>The Ust’-Belaya terrane (Chukotka, NE Russia), belonging to the West Koryak fold belt, is made of mantle and crustal ultramafic-mafic complexes which originated during several discrete episodes of magmatic activity in the Neoproterozoic, the late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian and the early-middle Triassic and accreted to the Asian continental margin in the early Cretaceous. This paper focuses on the latest magmatic episode expressed in intrusion of microgabbro dikes and nearly coeval metamorphism superimposed on both ancient complexes and the dikes. We present original ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages, mineral and bulk-rock chemistry of the microgabbro dikes, metamorphosed dike and vein cutting ultramafic-mafic complexes. Dike microgabbros resemble differentiated arc-tholeiitic magmas originated in a subduction setting. Differentiated magmas intruded into much older spinel peridotites and dunites located at mid-crustal levels. Intrusion and crystallization of these magmas was followed by down-going movement of spinel peridotites and rocks of the mantle-crust transition zone towards a mantle wedge where they were metamorphosed at high-P conditions. This metamorphism resulted in transformation of microgabbro to garnet amphibolite, diorite to albite-zoisite-paragonite-pargasite rock and spinel peridotites to metaperidotites. P-T parameters of this metamorphism reconstructed based on mineral assemblage of garnet amphibolite correspond to those of epidote amphibolite – amphibolite – amphibole eclogite facies transition. The peculiar zoisite (clinozoisite)-paragonite mineral assemblage typical of metamorphosed vein rock indicates high-P metamorphic conditions of epidote-amphibolite facies.</p

Plasma exposure of different tungsten grades with plasma accelerators under ITER-relevant conditions

This paper presents the results of tungsten irradiation experiments performed with three plasma facilities: the QSPA Kh-50 quasi-steady-state plasma accelerator, the PPA pulsed plasma gun and the magneto-plasma compressor. Targets made of different kinds of tungsten (sintered, rolled and deformed) were irradiated with powerful plasma streams at heat fluxes relevant to edge-localized modes in ITER. The irradiated targets were analyzed and two different meshes of cracks were identified. It has been shown that the major cracks do not depend on the tungsten grade. This has been attributed to ductile-to-brittle transition effects. Meshes of inter-granular micro-cracks were detected for energy loads above the melting threshold and these were probably caused by the re-solidification process. The blister-like and cellular-like structures were observed on sample surfaces exposed to helium and hydrogen plasmas