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沟-弧-盆体系恢复对于研究增生造山过程和解析成矿作用具有重要指示意义,多宝山岛弧带是我国重要的铜钼多金属成矿区带,其沟-弧-盆体系恢复对成矿地质背景研究及拓展区域找矿具有重要意义。通过对多宝山地区早古生代地层、岩石和构造的野外调研和系列编图,结合最新的年代学资料,重新厘定了含矿地层单位——多宝山组、铜山组的形成时代和层位:确定多宝山组形成时代为寒武纪芙蓉世-早奥陶世,铜山组形成时代为早-中奥陶世;将铜山组置于多宝山组之上,暗示地表以下保存有规模较大的主要成矿地质体——多宝山组,由此扩大了深部找矿空间。在此基础上,重建了多宝山岛弧带早古生代地层序列。在多宝山岛弧带西北侧多宝山-三卡一带划分出早古生代俯冲增生杂岩带,根据俯冲增生杂岩带与岩浆弧、伴生沉积盆地的沉积建造及时空关系,划分出弧前盆地、弧间盆地、弧后盆地等构造单元,建立了多宝山岛弧带古生代沟-弧-盆体系格架,认为多宝山岛弧带西北侧多宝山-三卡一带存在早古生代洋盆,并于奥陶纪发生南东向俯冲。指出岩浆弧靠近俯冲增生杂岩带一侧是成矿有利部位,为多宝山岛弧带铜多金属矿的成矿背景和成矿地质条件研究提供了理论依据。 相似文献
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加利福尼亚中生代弧－盆－沟系的构造和演化模式一向为世人所重视，作者应邀有机会对加州内华达岛弧地块、弗兰西斯科杂岩和大谷弧前盆地进行了实地地质考察。本文仅就这３个岩性－构造单元的一些独特地质征和地质景观作一简介。 相似文献
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显生宙期间,地球经历了温室-冰室气候的周期性交替变化。在数百万年的时间尺度,这种古气候的转变被认为是碳源和碳汇过程耦合的结果,但一直以来关于两者贡献程度的认识尚不明确。通过全球统计分析,不同学者提出大陆弧火山脱气模型和热带弧-陆碰撞模型用于解释整个显生宙古气候的演变,分别强调了碳源和碳汇的一级控制作用。为了检验上述模型,更好地理解古气候的转变机制和演化细节,本文系统总结了中国东北地区显生宙岩浆作用-矽卡岩型矿床的时空展布和构造背景,以及弧-陆碰撞的时代、规模和古地理位置,通过数据统计和作图对比,发现东北地区岩浆作用-矽卡岩成矿峰期、弧-陆碰撞缝合带的时空迁移与大气圈CO_(2)浓度和大陆冰川沉积有很好的对应关系,暗示东北显生宙构造-岩浆过程和古气候演变的内在联系。综合东北地区及全球的研究进展,本文提出如下倾向性认识:1)洋-陆俯冲过程中火山-变质脱气的强度决定了CO_(2)排放量,而热带区域弧-陆碰撞缝合带的规模决定了全球硅酸盐风化速率和CO_(2)吸收量,在地质演化过程中两者紧密联动,共同控制了显生宙古气候的演变;2)大陆弧岩浆作用的全球爆发不一定能造成温室气候的出现,如果缺乏充分矽卡岩变质脱碳反应,大陆弧CO_(2)排放通量与岛弧、大洋中脊和板内并无显著区别;3)SO_(2)属于短期效应气体,理论和实例研究均暗示爆发式火山作用难以诱发大冰期的形成,火山作用之于长期气候应该仍是促使地球升温而非变冷。 相似文献
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《地学前缘》2017,(4):284-293
依据现有的地震、钻井和野外地质资料,综合前人关于台湾地区板块相互作用、区域大地构造、岩浆活动、弧-陆碰撞过程、沉积盆地、层序地层等方面的研究成果,本文比较系统地论述了台湾地区弧-陆碰撞过程中的盆地特征及演化规律,认为约15 Ma以吕宋岛弧带为主的弧-陆碰撞对盆地样式和盆地演化产生了重大影响,自东向西,分别形成海沟、沟-坡盆地、弧前盆地、弧内盆地和弧后海相前陆盆地。弧后海相前陆盆地为台湾碰撞带最大的沉积体系,是前陆盆地发育的早期阶段,之前还经历了陆缘断陷盆地阶段和被动大陆边缘盆地阶段。研究区沉积物从源到汇的搬运过程中,盆地的沉积与构造之间的时间存在明显滞后。9~6 Ma期间,吕宋岛弧形成;晚上新世(3 Ma),台湾海相前陆盆地的沉积环境、沉积相、物源等才发生显著变化,沉积物源方向由被动大陆边缘盆地期的向SE倒转为向SW,盆地沉积与构造运动之间滞后时间长达3~6 Ma,远大于一般认为的0.1~1 Ma。沉积物沿年轻造山带走向搬运、基底沉降导致近物源区粗碎屑物质的沉积、整个搬运体系中沉积物的局部保存与释放等因素可能是导致时间滞后的主要原因。 相似文献
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台湾东部海岸山脉对弧陆碰撞的响应 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
台湾岛位于欧亚板块和菲律宾海板块的交界处,处在马尼拉海沟和琉球海沟两个方向相对的俯冲带的转换位置.由于从中新世以来吕宋岛弧与欧亚大陆斜向碰撞(弧陆碰撞)形成了今日台湾构造格局,特有的构造地质环境和正在进行中的块体增生使其成为地质学家的研究热点.针对吕宋岛弧海岸山脉段对弧陆碰撞的响应,本文综述了近年来海岸山脉年代学、地球化学、构造地质和利吉混杂岩等方面的研究成果,对海岸山脉的快速隆升和剥蚀特征进行了总结,并在此基础上指出了目前海岸山脉地质研究工作中存在的主要问题,提出今后的研究方向应集中在利吉混杂岩的形成机制、花东海盆洋壳性质和利用海岸山脉凝灰岩进行弧陆碰撞发展过程研究等几个方面. 相似文献
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蒙古-鄂霍茨克造山带呈北东向从蒙古中部延至鄂霍茨克海的乌地湾,被认为是蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋侏罗纪-白垩纪闭合产物,其对于探讨东北亚区域大地构造演化以及欧亚大陆中生代聚合具有重要意义。蒙古-鄂霍茨克造山带具有典型的山弯构造格架,其“对折”的两翼发生了强烈的“自碰撞”造山作用。关于蒙古-鄂霍茨克山弯构造形成动力学机制,前人将其归因于西伯利亚与华北-阿穆尔陆块之间的挤压缩短、古亚洲洋俯冲板片不断的后撤和西伯利亚与华北的相向旋转等动力学过程,却忽视了蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋俯冲作用对蒙古-鄂霍茨克马蹄形弯曲过程的影响。最近,弧岩浆活动的迁移和山弯构造转折端构造变形解析研究暗示蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋俯冲板片后撤可能在山弯构造形成过程中起着重要作用,但这一新的解释模式还缺乏地质证据的支持和验证。围绕蒙古-鄂霍茨克山弯构造发育的与岛弧岩浆岩同时期的弧后盆地蛇绿岩、双峰式火山岩、A2型和S型花岗岩和伴生的沉积岩等地质记录,表明蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋在二叠纪-三叠纪时期发育多期次弧后伸展,总的延伸长度超过5000km,与蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋大规模俯冲板片后撤有关。弧后盆地带的厘定表明蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋发育西太平洋型活动大陆边缘,而非安第斯型活动大陆边缘。另外,蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋的弧后伸展盆地形成时间与蒙古-鄂霍茨克山弯构造弯曲的时间一致,进一步证实俯冲板片沿走向不均匀后撤在蒙古-鄂霍茨克山弯构造形成过程中扮演着重要角色。 相似文献
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哀牢山缝合带是东南亚古特提斯构造域重要的缝合带之一,带内广泛出露的晚古生代基性岩是研究其构造演化历史的关键,但它们的岩石成因和形成环境存在较大的争议,制约了人们对该地区古特提斯构造演化的理解。本文对哀牢山缝合带西部的基性侵入岩和基性火山岩进行了详细的野外地质调查、岩石学和地球化学研究,并结合已有的年代学和地球化学数据结果综合分析,目的在于查明它们的成因和形成环境,为进一步探讨哀牢山缝合带构造演化提供制约。锆石U-Pb年龄数据显示五素和坝溜地区的基性火山岩形成于早二叠世(288～287 Ma),而大龙凯和雅轩桥地区的基性侵入岩和火山岩则形成于中二叠世(272～265 Ma)。地球化学数据显示,早期基性岩(早二叠世)稀土元素含量较高(∑REE=59.75×10~(-6)～135.08×10~(-6)),明显富集轻稀土元素(LREE/HREE=2.64～3.32)和大离子亲石元素(Rb、Ba、Th等)显著亏损Nb、Ta和Ti等高场强元素类似于岛弧岩浆岩,高的Ta/Yb(0.09～0.18)和Ce/Yb(6.59～9.03)值表明其属于钙碱性系列;晚期基性岩(中二叠世)具有较低的稀土元素总量(∑REE=28.77×10~(-6)～76.16×10~(-6)),轻微富集轻稀土元素(LREE/HREE=1.75～2.55)相对早期基性岩更加富集Rb、Ba,亏损Nb、Ta、Ti等元素,较低的Ta/Yb(0.05～0.09)和Ce/Yb(3.58～5.97)值表明其属于拉斑质系列。上述研究表明,哀牢山缝合带西部的晚古生代基性岩具有由钙碱性系列向拉斑质系列演化的趋势,结合相关区域地质资料,认为哀牢山缝合带西部出露的基性侵入岩和火山岩记录了晚古生代与板片俯冲相关的多期演化过程:早二叠世,哀牢山支洋或弧后盆地向西发生洋-陆俯冲,俯冲板片脱水并导致地幔楔岩石部分熔融,在哀牢山西部五素-雅轩桥地区形成安第斯型陆缘弧;中二叠世,先存的大陆弧发生弧内伸展,逐渐演变为新的弧后盆地,形成类似于MORB和IAT的基性-超基性岩石组合。 相似文献
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冈底斯弧前区域地层沉积记录,对新特提斯洋消亡和印度-亚洲碰撞过程的研究具有十分重要的意义。位于西藏南部札达地区的达机翁组,北邻冈底斯岩浆弧,南靠雅鲁藏布江缝合带。岩石组成主要包括砾岩、岩屑砂岩、泥页岩和灰岩等。沉积环境分析认为达机翁组形成于扇三角洲相环境。火山灰锆石U-Pb定年、碎屑锆石最年轻年龄以及底栖有孔虫化石组合共同约束达机翁组的形成时代为晚白垩世-始新世早期(即ca.73～49Ma)。物源区分析结果表明达机翁组物源类似于区域上分布的日喀则弧前盆地沉积,直接以北侧冈底斯岩浆弧为主要物质源区。通过与区域弧前沉积对比,为冈底斯弧前盆地海相地层时代提供制约,结果显示新特提斯洋在亚洲大陆南缘的弧前海退存在东西方向上的穿时性,即海水自东向西逐渐退出,并最终在～49Ma退出冈底斯-拉达克弧前区域。 相似文献
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后弧岩浆作用（rear arc magmatism）是一个新的术语,国内文献大多认为与弧后（back arc）相当,也译为弧后。实际上rear arc 不同于back arc,前者仍然属于弧的范围,而后者已不属于弧结构。目前,对后弧岩浆作用的研究还十分有限, 原因一是 rear arc 出露较少,二是 rear arc 的鉴别标志不清楚。本文尝试对后弧玄武岩（rear arc basalt, RAB）作一个简单的介绍, 并采用对大量数据进行分析比较的方法与典型的岛弧玄武岩（IAB）和弧后盆地玄武岩（BAB）作一个对比。研究表明,后弧玄武岩主要由中-高 K 钙碱性和钾玄岩系列组成, 与典型的 IAB 和 BAB 相比, RAB 富集 Na2O、K2O、P2O5 ,贫CaO。后弧岩浆作用的微量元素具有典型的弧岩浆岩的特点,但LILE 及HFSE 比典型的岛弧岩浆的含量更富集,LREE 明显高于岛弧岩浆岩。 与岛弧岩浆相似,后弧岩浆同样具有明显的Nb-Ta 负异常。研究表明,上述3 类玄武岩很难区分开。但是,BAB 和RAB之间还是有一些不同的,如Sc/Nb-Ba/Y、Cu/P2O5-Y/Zr、Sc/Nb-Sr/Y 以及F2O3 /Zr-Y/Zr 等判别图。本文作者指出,后弧岩浆作用的提出完善了弧结构：一个完整的弧,从海沟向弧的方向,随着板块的俯冲作用,岩浆源区深度增加,地壳混染程度增加,依次出现前弧、弧和后弧岩浆作用, 至弧的后部,洋壳拉张,出现弧后盆地。前弧以玻安岩为代表,弧主要是IAB,后弧为碱性玄武岩,弧后则为MORB（+IAB 的印记）。显然,后弧岩浆作用的提出,对古造山带岛弧结构的恢复、古俯冲方向的确定是有积极意义的。 相似文献
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冈底斯造山带的时空结构及演化 总被引：143，自引：72，他引：143
冈底斯带的构造属性及其构造单元划分一直是青藏高原基础地质研究中最热门的科学问题之一。根据新的地质调查资料、研究成果并结合我们的分析数据，对冈底斯带的地质构造格局进行了厘定和划分，讨论了冈底斯带晚古生代-中生代的构造演化历史。冈底斯带可划分为6类不同的构造单元和18个次级单元，这些不同级别的构造划分较为全面准确地概括了冈底斯带的地质面貌。通过对不同构造单元时空结构的剖析和对相关火山岩浆作用记录的分析，认为冈底斯带不是简单的地块、陆块或地体，而很可能是以隆格尔-念青唐古拉为主轴，经历石炭-二叠纪、早中三叠世、晚三叠世、早中侏罗世、晚侏罗世-早白垩世、晚白垩世-始新世六次造弧增生作用和相关的弧-陆、陆-陆碰撞作用并最终定型于新生代晚期的复合造山带，并在此基础上，提出冈底斯带的构造演化很可能受班公湖-怒江特提斯洋向南、雅鲁藏布洋向北的双向俯冲的制约。强调以增生弧为背景的火山岩浆弧（如昂龙岗日火山岩浆弧、东恰错弧、桑日火山弧）可能是冈底斯地区寻找斑岩铜矿的最佳有利场所。 相似文献
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Nicklas G. Pisias 《Quaternary Research》1979,11(3):373-386
Two independent data sets are used to develop a model for reconstructing sea-surface temperature and dynamic height anomaly distributions for the California Current during the last 8000 years. The first data set, all hydrographic data available for the California Current region, was used to determine the statistical relationships between the historical record of sea-surface conditions in the Santa Barbara Basin and all one-degree-square grid points of the California Current area. Given these relationships and the second data set, an 8000-year record of sea-surface temperatures and dynamic height anomalies from the Santa Barbara Basin, past sea-surface conditions throughout the California Current can be estimated for times before historical observations. The 8000-year record of sea-surface conditions was estimated by analysis of the radiolarian fauna found in a varved sediment core from the Santa Barbara Basin (Pisias, N. G., 1978, Quaternary Research 10, 366–384). The reconstructions of sea-surface temperature and dynamic height anomalies indicate that at times of cold sea-surface conditions in the Santa Barbara Basin, the flow of the California Current was much stronger than it is today or was during the times of the warmest sea-surface conditions during the last 8000 years. The atmospheric circulation during the winter of 1950, the period of the coldest recorded sea-surface temperatures in the Santa Barbara Basin based on the historical data set, contained a strong northerly component in the winds which is consistent with the inferred increase in the California Current at times of cold sea-surface temperatures. Times of warm sea-surface temperatures in the Santa Barbara Basin are characterized by decreased southward flow of the California Current and a marked increase in northward flow into the Santa Barbara Basin itself. In the historical record, times of warm sea-surface temperatures are often associated with high precipitation in southern California. The atmospheric circulation during the winter of 1968–1969 is characterized by strong eastward flow over southern California and a northward transport of warm humid air from the tropics into the region of southern California producing the high rainfall observed. The persistence of this atmospheric circulation could produce the more zonal flow predicted for the California Current during times of warmer average conditions in the Santa Barbara Basin. 相似文献
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We demonstrate that Pliocene to Early Quaternary sedimentary formations in Baja California Sur (Mexico) were deposited syn-tectonically over a major detachment associated with the exhumation of Mesozoic crust. The detachment dips to the ENE and is associated with E–W stretching. This large extensional structure strikes almost parallel to the general trend of the Gulf of California and extension is oblique to the East-Pacific seafloor-spreading direction. Crustal-scale stretching in this area was still active after the beginning of seafloor spreading c. 3.6 Ma ago. The detachment is capped by Late Pleistocene–Holocene alluvial sediments the deposition of which seems to be partly syn-tectonic and controlled by minor stretching subparallel to the present-day North American–Pacific kinematic vector. We discuss the implications of our observations on strain partitioning during opening of the California Gulf as well as on the structure of the Gulf of California margin. 相似文献
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Nicklas G. Pisias 《Quaternary Research》1978,10(3):366-384
The varved sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin off southern California, offer a unique opportunity to study the changes in oceanographic conditions of this nearshore area during the last 8000 yr. Quantitative analysis of Radiolaria found in recent surface sediment samples from the eastern North Pacific allows the identification of four “assemblages” which can be related to the physical oceanography of the California Current. Two assemblages are associated with the southerly flowing California Current, one with the main stream of the current (California Current Assemblage) and the other with the offshore flow along northern California (Central Assemblage). The two other assemblages are associated with the subtropical region of the eastern North Pacific (Subtropical Assemblage) and one found mostly off the coast of Baja California (Baja Assemblage). Analysis of the Radiolaria found in the varved sediments of a core from the Santa Barbara Basin give an 8000-yr continuous record of these four assemblages. The California and Baja Assemblages show only minor fluctuations in their importance in the sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin. The California Assemblage, however, shows a steady increase during this time period. Prior to 5400 yr B.P. the Radiolaria were predominately subtropical in character, whereas after 5400 yr B.P. the Central Assemblage becomes more important. Since 5400 yr B.P. most of the changes in the radiolarian fauna consist of fluctuations in the importance of these two assemblages. Past sea-surface temperatures for the month of February were calculated using the transfer function technique of J. Imbrie and N. G. Kipp (1971, In “The Late Cenozore Glacial Ages” L. K. Turekian, Ed.), (Chap. 5, Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn.). The time series of paleotemperature estimates show major changes in the average February temperature of Santa Barbara Basin waters. The range of estimated temperatures (12°C) exceeds that of the historical observations of February temperatures in the Santa Barbara Basin but does not exceed the observed range for the California Current region. The intervals from 800 to 1800 yr B.P. 3600 to 3800 yr B.P. and 5400 to the end of the record appear to have been generally warmer than today. Comparison of the Holocene record of alpine glacial advances with the radiolarian assemblage and paleotemperature time series shows that the initiations of advances was coincident with a decrease in sea-surface temperatures and an increase in the importance of the Central Assemblage in the Santa Barbara Basin. The terminations of these advances were not marked by any consistent characteristic in the Santa Barbara Basin time series. 相似文献
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Alan J. Woods 《Quaternary Research》1980,13(3):346-364
Three emergent marine terraces are prominent between Playa El Marron and Arroyo El Salinito and comprise the most extensive Pleistocene planation surfaces in central Baja California, Mexico. The deposits of the lowest terrace, the Tomatal, are 120,000 ± 20,000 yr old (Sangamonian?) while the absolute ages of the two higher and older terraces, the Andrés and Aeropuerto, are unknown. The Tomatal terrace is particularly well developed and comprises degraded sea cliffs, paleodunes, and lagoonal sequences. Shingle paleobeach ridges also occur locally and reflect shore progradation and tombolo formation. The Tomatal shoreline is nearly horizontal at 7 ± 1 m above present mean sea level, whereas the older Aeropuerto terrace has been tilted so that it decreases in elevation toward the southeast. Nonetheless, coastal tilting is not nearly as great as at many other localities in California and Baja California. This is despite the fact that the entire Baja California peninsula has been assumed to be tectonically unstable during the Pleistocene, primarily because of the forces generated by plate motion. 相似文献
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Donald Lee Johnson 《Quaternary Research》1977,8(2):154-179
The present Mediterranean climate of coastal California is unique in North America and reflects the interaction of several important synoptic controls, principally the North Pacific semipermanent anticyclone, and to a lesser extent the Aleutian low-pressure system and the cool California oceanic current. These synoptic climatic controls, key parts of the global air-sea circulation, were probably operative throughout late Quaternary time as shown by paleoecologic evidence. The thick accumulations of sediments in basins of offshore California indicate that while variable sedimentation regimes reflect changing climatic and oceanographic conditions, the Quaternary climate was probably semiarid as now, even during glacial maxima. Late Quaternary coastal dunes preserve former wind directions and show that prevailing late Quaternary winds were directionally equivalent to modern winds, which are controlled by the North Pacific anticyclone and by interactions between the North Pacific high and the interior basin low. These sand dunes contain buried, datable, carbonate-rich soils. Precipitation then, like the present rainfall regime, was not enough to leach the carbonates from the soils. Charcoal in buried dunes and soils shows that fire was environmentally important throughout the Quaternary, just as it is today. Fossil plants indicate that sclerophyllous vegetation and forest stands of conifers, adapted to a Mediterranean climate, were widely distributed during late Quaternary time. Fossil pollen in the Sierra Nevada indicates the influence of the North Pacific high. The historical precipitation record overlaps a late Holocene tree-ring record permitting extrapolation of the precipitation curve back nearly 600 years. Well-defined wet and dry trends in the precipitation pattern characterized this time span, and provide a possible analog to the earlier Holocene and Pleistocene precipitation regime. The paleoecologic record shows that the late Quaternary climate of coastal California was characterized by regimes similar to those prevailing today. The persistence of a Mediterranean climate in California during the last glaciation contrasts with dramatic climatic changes experienced in glaciated parts of North America. California thus was an Ice Age refugium for animals and cold-sensitive plants. 相似文献
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《International Geology Review》2012,54(11):1315-1331
The Gulf of California is an excellent example of how new ocean basins form. Tectonically, the northern Gulf of California is an incipient ocean basin and studies on it have defined acoustic basement and reveal the presence of new oceanic crust and intrusive bodies. Some recent studies report fundamental differences between the basins of the northern and southern Gulf of California: that the latter have well-developed oceanic crust beneath a thin cover of sediments, whereas the northern basins show proto-ocean basins, which may reflect thermal insulation of the thick sedimentary cover, the presence of low-angle faults, and more diffuse and distributed deformation. During the 1970s, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) undertook a 2D seismic reflection survey in the northern Gulf of California, over many active rift basins, including the Consag Basin. Through the processing and interpretation of these data, we describe the structural characteristics of the Consag Basin beyond 2 km depths. Using seismic reflection data, we identified an intrusion in the central part of this basin that may represent new oceanic crust buried by more than 4 km of sediments. 相似文献
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《地学前缘(英文版)》2022,13(3):101351
Isla San Pedro Nolasco (ISPN) is a structural high bounded by inactive dextral oblique-slip faults in the east-central part of the Gulf of California rift zone and is composed of intrusive rocks not exposed on other Gulf of California islands. Here we present the reconnaissance results from geological mapping, as well as first geochemical and geochronological data for the ISPN intrusive complex. The intrusive rocks compose a sheet-like body of intermediate and felsic composition intruded by an intermediate and acidic dike swarm. All intrusive rocks (host and dikes) range in age from ca. 9 Ma to 10 Ma (40Ar/39Ar) and show a hydrous ferromagnesian mineral association (amphibole and biotite) with a calc-alkalic and transitional affinity. This hydrated mineralogical association has not been recognized in the coeval rocks along the onshore western margin of the North American plate (coastal Sonora). However, such hydrous mineralogical association is found in the coeval rift transitional volcanic rocks from the Baja California Microplate at Santa Rosalía and Bahía de Los Ángeles – Bahía de Las Ánimas. The ISPN continental block, at least 40 km long, has been pulled apart by transtensional faulting of the late Miocene Gulf of California shear zone before the westward migration of the North America-Pacific plate boundary at ca. 3–2 Ma. Eventually, ISPN became isolated as an island during the late Miocene flooding of the Gulf of California seaway. 相似文献
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The Hodson mining district is in the westernmost foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California, about 17 km west of the town of Angels Camp. This district is part of the West Gold Belt, which lies about 12–16 km west of, and generally parallel to, the better known Mother Lode Gold Belt in central California. The district produced several million dollars worth of Au between about 1890 and 1940. 相似文献
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A humerus, coracoid, and pedal phalanx of the California Condor, Gymnogyps californianus, were recovered from the Hiscock Site in western New York, in an inorganic stratum containing wood that is 11,000 radiocarbon years old. Associated vertebrates include mastodont, wapiti, and caribou. Pollen and plant macrofossils from the sediments indicate a spruce-jack pine woodland and a local, herb-dominated wetland community. Historic records (all from western North America) and previous late Pleistocene fossils of the California Condor are associated mainly with warm-temperate climates and floras. The New York fossils show that this bird was able to live in a colder climate and in a boreal, coniferous setting at a time when appropriate food (large mammal carrion) was available. The California Condor, which survives only in captivity, has suffered a greater reduction in geographical range than previously suspected. Much of this reduction in range probably occurred ca. 11,000 yr B.P. when the extinction many North American large mammals resulted in severely reduced availability of food for the California Condor and other large scavenging birds. 相似文献
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A spatially explicit degree-day model was used to evaluate the risk of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) transmission by mosquitoes
to humans and livestock within five target states in the continental United States: California, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York,
and Texas. A geographic information system was used to model potential virus transmission based on a 12-day moving window
assessment of the extrinsic incubation period theorized for RVFV in the United States. Risk of potential virus transmission
in each state was spatially evaluated on a 10-km grid using average historical daily temperature data from 1994 to 2003. The
highest levels of transmission risk occur in California and Texas, with parts of these states at risk of RVFV transmission
for up to 8 months per year. Northern Minnesota, central New York, and most of coastal and high-elevation California are at
low to null risk. Risk of impact to the livestock industry is greatest in California, Texas, and Nebraska. A standard global
climate model was used to evaluate future risk in the year 2030 in Nebraska, and showed an increase of transmission risk days
from approximately 3 to 4 months per year. 相似文献