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The composition and distribution of phenanthrenes (polyaromatic compounds) have been studied in chloroform extracts from dispersed organic matter (OM) of clayey, siliceous, carbonate, and terrigenous rocks of different ages and facies and from some oils of the Siberian Platform. Phenanthrenes have been analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. High contents of 1,7,8-trimethylphenanthrene and 1,1,7,8-tetramethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrophenanthrene are present in the OM of Vendian and Cambrian carbonate-shale deposits and in ancient oils of the Nepa-Botuobiya and Anabar anteclises. The OM of Permian continental deposits and oils of the Vilyui syneclise is dominated by 1-methyl-7-isopropylphenanthrene (retene). A triangular diagram for identification of the types of original OM of rocks and classification of genetically related oils has been constructed based on the assessment of phenanthrene biomarker distribution. Putative pathways of the formation of phenanthrene biomarkers are discussed.  相似文献   

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The main objective of this work was to define directions and principal features of the evolution of volcanism and sedimentation in Early Precambrian active volcanic zones. Analysis of reconstructed type sections of intensely metamorphosed and greenstone (sedimentary-volcanic) complexes revealed a general similarity of their structure and universal presence of two principal (contrast and differentiated) volcanic associations that replace each other from the bottom to top (Lazur, 2006). Volcanic complexes are crowned with significantly sedimentary sequences and the manifestation of bimodal (basalt-rhyolite) or acid (dacite-rhyolite) volcanism (Luchitskii et al., 1982). Our work is based on specific rock complexes, for which the primary nature of intensely metamorphosed Early Precambrian rocks has been reconstructed by geological, mineralogical, geochemical, and other methods (Lazur, 1986; Rosen et al., 2005).  相似文献   

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国际埃迪卡拉系年代地层学研究进展与发展趋势   总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2  
埃迪卡拉系为国际地层表新增的新元古界最上部的系级年代地层单位,层型剖面被确定为南澳大利亚弗林德斯山脉依诺拉马河剖面,其底界点位(GSSP)选定为埃拉逖那冰成杂砾岩(Elatina diamictite)之上盖帽碳酸盐岩努卡利那组(Nuccaleena Formation)的下界(Gradstein et al.,2004;Knoll et al.,2004)。我国修定后的震旦系与埃迪卡拉系完全相当,底界以南沱冰碛岩之上盖帽碳酸盐岩的下界为界。本文综合国际地层委员会新元古代地层分会以及相关国家和地区近年来在埃迪卡拉系年代地层学领域研究的新进展、存在问题以及未来发展趋势作一概要介绍,以期引起国内晚前寒武纪地层古生物学者的广泛关注。  相似文献   

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The configuration of the lineament-disjunctive network in the Russian segment of the Sea of Japan (sheets K-52 and K-53) was studied with structural zoning of the region using geophysical and geomorphologic data. The constructed rose diagrams revealed systematic orientation of lineaments and faults in the region as a whole and some of its areas. The orientation of linear structures in the Russian segment of the Sea of Japan is compared with that characteristic of the global disjunctive network. This allowed the following inferences: (1) the region is characterized by a single lineament-disjunctive system with four main directions of dislocations: submeridional (0–5°), sublatitudinal (86–90°), diagonal northeastern (36–65°), and diagonal southeastern (136–140°); (2) the directions of these dislocations coincide with the orientation of four main systems in the global disjunctive network (planetary fracturing); (3) the revealed disjunctive network is substantially of the Earth’s rotation genesis; (4) regularities in the distribution and orientation of faults and lineaments are determined by two interacting factors: the stress concentration in areas of the layer thickness gradient and variations in the Earth’s rotation velocity (the former controls localization of faults and the latter, their orientation).  相似文献   

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Radiowave and gas-emanation geophysical methods have long been used to study the upper segment of a geological section, i.e., at the depths of the first tens of meters. This work deals with the improvement of these methods and the accuracy of the results of works due to the use of the new techniques and technology of other electrical prospecting methods. A complex of geophysical and geochemical methods based on studying the Earth’s radio fields (the ERF method) and the emanation fields of radon or other gases in the soil (EM) has been developed and widely tested. The proposed methods were tested during the study of the zones of natural and anthropogenic risks (landslides, karsts, etc.) at fuel and energy-sector objects (pipelines, their construction sites, etc.). They can be used to solve other engineering and hydrogeological tasks related to the upper segment of a geological section.  相似文献   

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The distribution behavior of tellurium (Te) between soil and water in a synthetic soil-water system was studied coupled with the speciation of Te both in soil and water phases by using X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy and a high-performance liquid chromatography connected to an ICP-MS (HPLC-ICP-MS), respectively. The results were compared with a similar data set for Se, which was simultaneously obtained in this study. The oxidation states and host phases of Te and Se in the soil samples were given by XAFS, while the oxidation states in water were given by HPLC-ICP-MS. It was found that both Te and Se in soil are mainly associated with Fe(III) hydroxides under oxic conditions. From the EXAFS analyses, the outer-sphere complex is important for the Se(VI) sorbed on Fe(III) hydroxides in soils, while Se(IV), Te(IV), and Te(VI) form inner-sphere complexes. Under reducing condition, it was found that Te(0) and Se(0) species were formed and that Se was more readily reduced to Se(0) than Te, as is predicted from their Eh-pH diagrams. The reduction process from hexavalent to zerovalent species was different between Se and Te, that is, the direct reduction from Se(VI) to Se(0) was observed for Se, while Te was reduced stepwise from Te(VI) to Te(0) via Te(IV). In terms of the distribution between soil and water, Se distribution to water was much higher than that of Te under wide redox conditions. For Se, selenate is the predominant species in water even under reducing condition due to the much higher solubility of Se(VI) than Se(IV). Furthermore, a much smaller distribution of Te in water was primarily due to the larger affinities of Te(IV) and Te(VI) to Fe(III) hydroxides than Se(VI), which originates from the formation of the inner-sphere complexes of Te(IV) and Te(VI) to Fe(III) hydroxides.  相似文献   

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The distribution of radioactive Cs and heavy metals (V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, and Pb) in the lichen-substrate system and in lichen tissues were examined using the example of Cladonia genera. The upper podetia-lower podetia-dead podetia-base-substrate system was sampled at 32 sites in Novosibirsk oblast and Altai administrative territory, 16 of which were selected for detailed studying of the trace element distribution in the upper and lower podetia using cold press and the modified Dexter technique. One in vivo and two in vitro experiments simulated the influence of metal-rich atmospheric fallouts on the lichen carpet. The lichen carpet was irrigated by solution of metal nitrates (Co, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, and Pb) in the former case and loaded in these solution during the latter experiment. The experiment performed in the laboratory conditions (in vitro) was aimed at studying the dynamics of metal accumulation in lichen constituents and their subsequent extraction with distilled water to monitor metal sorption on the podetium cell walls. The metal contents and the activity of radioactive Cs in the lichen samples, including lichen cell sap, as well as in the base and substrate, were determined by atomic-absorption and gamma spectroscopic methods. In terms of accumulation, the elements are subdivided into two groups. The lowest contents of Group-1 elements (137 Cs, Zn, Cd, Hg, and Pb) were found in the substrate, and the highest contents, detected at the base and dead podetium, are presumably of technogenic origin. The Group-2 elements (Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and Cu) enrich the substrate. It was established that the elements are mainly accumulated in lichens in cell walls and the membrane. The lichen sap and water-soluble compounds of protoplasma contain less than 0.1% of the total element content in the tissue. Most Zn, Cd, Co, and Pb ions (about 80% of the total absorbed amount) migrated from experimental solution into lichen cells during the first 12 h.  相似文献   

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Differences in the degree of confinement, redox conditions, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) are the main factors that control the persistence of nitrate and pesticides in the Upper Floridan aquifer (UFA) and overlying surficial aquifer beneath two agricultural areas in the southeastern US. Groundwater samples were collected multiple times from 66 wells during 1993–2007 in a study area in southwestern Georgia (ACFB) and from 48 wells in 1997–98 and 2007–08 in a study area in South Carolina (SANT) as part of the US Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program. In the ACFB study area, where karst features are prevalent, elevated nitrate-N concentrations in the oxic unconfined UFA (median 2.5 mg/L) were significantly (p = 0.03) higher than those in the overlying oxic surficial aquifer (median 1.5 mg/L). Concentrations of atrazine and deethylatrazine (DEA; the most frequently detected pesticide and degradate) were higher in more recent groundwater samples from the ACFB study area than in samples collected prior to 2000. Conversely, in the SANT study area, nitrate-N concentrations in the UFA were mostly <0.06 mg/L, resulting from anoxic conditions and elevated DOC concentrations that favored denitrification. Although most parts of the partially confined UFA in the SANT study area were anoxic or had mixed redox conditions, water from 28 % of the sampled wells was oxic and had low DOC concentrations. Based on the groundwater age information, nitrate concentrations reflect historic fertilizer N usage in both the study areas, but with a lag time of about 15–20 years. Simulated responses to future management scenarios of fertilizer N inputs indicated that elevated nitrate-N concentrations would likely persist in oxic parts of the surficial aquifer and UFA for decades even with substantial decreases in fertilizer N inputs over the next 40 years.  相似文献   

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The magmatic and tectonic activity of eastern South America and the western South Atlantic shows that extension of the continental crust is the determinant factor of magmatism. Heating of the upper mantle is a necessary condition of its manifestation. Ascending plume material is a source of additional heat. In the Early Mesozoic, Eastern Brazil was situated above a large, ascending and probably ramifying plume, which has supplied heat and material since the Triassic, creating favorable conditions for continental magmatism. Magmatic activity continued, gradually waning, until the Neogene as evidence for long-term retention of heat energy beneath the continental lithosphere after the plume ascent. It has been shown that heated mantle material can be displaced from the continent to the ocean for a significant distance beneath the lithosphere with the formation of linear tectonomagmatic rises of the oceanic crust. The structural elements inherited certain directions on the continent and in the ocean, beginning from the Neoproterozoic. These directions were reactivated and continued to control the younger structural grain and magmatic activity. In Southeastern Brazil, these were the structural units striking in the southeastern (about 120° SE) and northeastern directions parallel to the continent-ocean boundary. In Northeastern Brazil, the W-E- and N—S-trending structural units are predominant. All these directions are manifested in oceanic structural units (Rio Grande, Vitória-Trindadi, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco rises, etc.).  相似文献   

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In the Kaliningrad region, sediments of the Upper Eocene Prussian Formation accommodates the world’s largest explored amber deposits (up to 90% of world reserves). They are also partly tracked on the shelf of the southeastern Baltic region and subjected to bottom erosion, which is particularly intense during storm activity in the sea. Recent alongshore currents transport amber fragments over great distances, resulting in the formation of new (secondary) amber-bearing deposits in Holocene sediments in some places. The paper addresses formation conditions of such deposits. Catastrophic events, such as hydrospheric floods provoked by the regional glaciation, meteorite falls, and earthquakes (tsunamis), are of great significance.  相似文献   

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Chronological analyses of correlations between certain global repeating events (mass extinctions of marine organisms, meteorite impacts, and flashes in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals) during the Phanerozoic Eon and the motion of the solar system in the Galaxy are presented for five rotationally symmetrical models for the regular Galactic gravitational field. Thirteen of sixteen mass-extinction events can be described by a repetition interval of 183±3 million years. This is in agreement with the anomalistic period (interval between two subsequent passages of the Sun through the apocenter of its Galactic orbit) in the model of Allen and Martos. The positions of the minima and maxima in Gaussian functions approximating the frequency distribution for geomagnetic reversals also agree with the times of passage of the Sun through the apocenter and pericenter, respectively, of its Galactic orbit in this model. The maximum in the distribution of the deviations of the dates of mass extinctions from the nearest dates of impacts of large, crater-forming bodies is close to zero, providing evidence that many such events are correlated. As a rule, extinctions follow impact events. The impacts of large bodies have occurred most often when the solar system passes through the Galactic plane, while mass extinctions occur more often at some distance from the Galactic plane (about 40 pc). As a rule, intervals of increases in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals coincide with dates of impacts of large bodies. At the same time, these intervals do not show a clear correlation with the dates of mass extinctions. The intensity of mass extinctions, like the energy released by impacts, is consistently higher in periods when the Sun is moving from the apocenter toward the pericenter of its orbit, than when it is moving from the pericenter toward the apocenter. Thus, there is evidence for a variety of relationships between repeating global events in the Phanerozoic and the motion of the Sun in the Galaxy. Long-period variations in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals are correlated with the orbital motion of the Sun, and increases in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals are correlated with impacts. Mass extinctions are correlated with the impacts of large bodies, whose motions may have been perturbed by clouds of interstellar material concentrated toward the Galactic plane and by the shock front associated with the Perseus spiral arm, through which the solar system passes. The velocity of the Sun relative to the spiral pattern is estimated.  相似文献   

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中祁连西段花岗岩类的地球化学特征及构造意义   总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2  
中祁连西段石板墩地区北部及南部发育有辉长岩、闪长岩及花岗岩。北带岩体的LA-ICPMS锆石U-Pb年龄为(469.3±2.8)Ma,(461.2±3.3)Ma和(470.0±2.5)Ma;岩石Si O2质量百分含量为53.2%~66.11%,高Al,Ti,Mg,Fe,Ca,K,Na,A/CNK1.1;富集大离子亲石元素Rb,K和Pb,亏损高场强元素Nb,Ta,Ce,Sr,Hf,Ti;REE总量较高,LREE富集、HREE近平坦型分布,中等的负Eu异常,δEu=0.6;此外,在构造判别图中,样品落于岛弧环境。南带岩体LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄为(470.9±2.8)Ma和(472.3±4.2)Ma,岩石Si O2质量百分含量较高(67.13%~70.73%),高Al,Mg,Fe,Ca,富Na贫K,A/CNK1.1;岩石表现为明显的高Sr低Yb,Y的特点,富集大离子亲石元素R,K,Sr等,亏损高场强元素Nb,Ta,P,Ti等;REE总量较低,LREE富集、HREE亏损,轻重稀土分异明显,轻微的负Eu异常至正异常,δEu=0.74~1.18。研究表明,北带岩体为地幔楔部分熔融产生的,形成于岛弧环境;南带岩体为消减的大洋岩石圈板块部分熔融产生的埃达克岩,是北祁连向南俯冲导致的岩浆作用的产物,"中祁连西段"是早古生代时期在"残留的微陆块"基础上形成的一个岛弧增生杂岩地体。  相似文献   

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More than two-thirds of the published K-Ar, Rb-Sr and fission-track mineral dates from the Himalaya lie in the 5–75 m.y. range as a result of metamorphic overprint, uplift and cooling during the Late Cretaceous—Tertiary Himalayan orogeny. In contrast, the few but almost invariably old, Rb-Sr whole-rock ages reveal pre-Tertiary magmaticmetamorphic events.The pattern of distribution of these young dates vis-á-vis geological evidence reveals three phases, of the Himalayan orogeny, viz.: (1) folding and metamorphism (50–75 m.y.); (2) uplift (25–40 m.y.); and (3) major uplift, thrusting, formation of nappe structures, mylonitization and regional retrogression. The maximum concentration of dates in the 10–25 m.y. period marks this paroxysmal phase of the Himalayan orogeny.The Rb-Sr dates of co-existing muscovites and biotites have been used to compute the rates of cooling and uplift. Thus, slow cooling at the rate of about 4°C m.y.−1 from 50 to 25 m.y. and rapid cooling at the rate of 19°-21°C m.y. from 25 m.y. to present have been inferred. The high rate of cooling over the past 25 m.y. is the result of major uplift at the rate of 0.7–0.8 mm yr−1, which is in conformity with the current rate of uplift obtained from geodetic survey.  相似文献   

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祁连山中部亚高山草地土壤呼吸及其组分研究   总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1  
草地碳通量组分的区分及其与环境因子的关系是了解生态系统碳循环的重要环节。于2013年6-8月在祁连山中部亚高山草地开展了土壤呼吸及其组分研究,利用根去除法区分根系自养呼吸和土壤微生物异养呼吸。采用LI-8100土壤碳通量系统测定生态系统呼吸、土壤呼吸及土壤微生物呼吸速率,同时测定10cm处土壤温度和5cm处土壤湿度。分析呼吸速率和环境因子的昼夜变化动态,自养呼吸和异养呼吸速率占土壤呼吸速率的比例,呼吸速率与土壤温湿度及与生物量的关系。结果表明:生态系统呼吸、土壤呼吸和土壤微生物呼吸速率的日变化趋势均呈单峰型曲线,具体表现为生态系统呼吸(11.07μmol · m-2 ·s-1)>土壤呼吸(6.31μmol·m-2·s-1)>异养呼吸(4.92μmol·m-2 ·s-1)>自养呼吸(1.39μmol·m-2·s-1);自养和异养呼吸速率分别占土壤呼吸速率的22.03%和77.97%;呼吸速率与10cm处土壤温度呈指数相关,Q10值排序为:土壤微生物呼吸(Q10=3.74)>土壤呼吸(Q10=2.76)>生态系统呼吸(Q10=2.49),呼吸速率与5cm处土壤湿度呈显著线性负相关关系,双因素模型明显提高了呼吸速率与温湿度的相关性,能够分别解释土壤微生物呼吸,土壤呼吸和生态系统呼吸速率变异的89%,79%和62%;地上生物量和呼吸速率之间存在显著线性正相关关系,地下生物量与呼吸速率之间呈二次回归关系(P=0.01),未刈割草地呼吸速率大于刈割草地土壤呼吸速率,刈割一年的土壤呼吸速率大于刈割两年的土壤呼吸速率。  相似文献   

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土壤冻融过程对祁连山森林土壤碳氮的影响   总被引:4,自引:1,他引:3  
利用祁连山区3个气象站常年监测的冻土与温度资料,研究了0~60 cm层次土壤有机碳和全氮分布及与海拔高度、土壤温度的关系,并在室内模拟研究了冻融过程(-20~15 ℃)对祁连山青海云杉林和高山灌丛林土壤有机碳和氮矿化过程的影响. 结果表明:土壤的有机碳和全氮含量随海拔上升呈增加趋势,土壤有机碳和全氮含量与海拔呈显著正相关关系,与土壤温度呈显著负相关关系. 室内模拟实验表明,经过多次冻融循环过程,冻融处理抑制了土壤有机碳矿化过程,对照处理土壤有机碳矿化速率高于冻融处理. 冻融次数也是影响土壤有机氮矿化的一个重要因素,经过42次冻融,青海云杉林和高山灌丛林土壤中有机氮质量分数分别提高了2.42倍和2.82倍. 土壤冻融过程促进了土壤有机氮的矿化,有利于土壤中有效氮的累积.  相似文献   

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A physical-biological-chemical model (PBCM) is used for investigating the seasonal cycle of air-sea carbon flux and for assessing the effect of the biological processes on seasonal time scale in the Arabian Sea (AS) and Bay of Bengal (BoB), where the surface waters are subjected to contrasting physical conditions. The formulation of PBCM is given in Swathi et al (2000), and evaluation of several ammonium-inhibited nitrate uptake models is given in Sharada et al (2005). The PBCM is here first evaluated against JGOFS data on surface pCO2 in AS, Bay of Bengal Process Studies (BoBPS) data on column integrated primary productivity in BoB, and WOCE Il data on dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and alkalinity (ALK) in the upper 500 meters at 9°N in AS and at 10°N in BoB in September–October. There is good qualitative agreement with local quantitative discrepancies. The net effect of biological processes on air-sea carbon flux on seasonal time scale is determined with an auxiliary computational experiment, called the abiotic run, in which the biological processes are turned off. The difference between the biotic run and abiotic run is interpreted as the net effect of biological processes on the seasonal variability of chemical variables. The net biological effect on air-sea carbon flux is found to be highest in southwest monsoon season in the northwest AS, where strong upwelling drives intense new production. The biological effect is larger in AS than in BoB, as seasonal upwelling and mixing are strong in AS, especially in the northeast, while coastal upwelling and mixing are weak in BoB.  相似文献   

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三江特提斯叠加成矿作用样式及过程   总被引:78,自引:64,他引:14  
邓军  王长明  李龚健 《岩石学报》2012,28(5):1349-1361
三江地区经历了特提斯洋的多期洋-陆俯冲和新生代以来的陆-陆碰撞;成矿主要集中在大洋生长与俯冲造山阶段以及碰撞造山主碰撞向晚碰撞的转换阶段,控制了区域喜马拉雅期斑岩型铜金矿带、沉积岩容矿型铅锌多金属矿带与造山型金矿带等。在不同时期构造环境作用下,在矿田与矿床范围内形成了复杂多样的叠加成矿作用。叠加成矿作用可划分为3种类型及9种方式:(1)VMS-岩浆热液叠加型。包括喜马拉雅期岩浆热液型矿体叠加海西期-燕山期"VMS型"矿体(老厂式Pb-Zn-Mo矿床和鲁春式Cu-Pb-Zn矿床),印支/燕山期岩浆热液型矿体叠加海西期VMS型矿体的羊拉式Cu-Mo-Pb-Zn矿床;(2)沉积-热液叠加型。包括喜马拉雅期岩浆热液型矿体叠加燕山期沉积矿源层的白秧坪式Cu-Pb-Zn矿床,喜马拉雅期建造热液型Ge矿体叠加沉积煤层的大寨/中寨式Ge矿床,燕山期岩浆热液叠加加里东期分水岭式Fe-Cu矿床;(3)多期热液叠加型。主要为喜马拉雅期与印支期两期叠加成矿作用的老王寨床式Au矿床,燕山期叠加印支期普朗-红山式Cu矿床,喜马拉雅期多期次叠加的金满Cu矿床。叠加成矿作用增加矿床的资源储量,丰富了矿种类型;但是现在仅有部分年代学与矿田-矿床尺度地质现象的某些证据,叠加矿床的矿体-矿石结构特征、形成条件与地球化学及矿物学约束仍有待于进一步研究。  相似文献   

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大别山南坡蕲春等地榴辉岩的发现及相关问题   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
郝杰  刘小汉 《地质通报》2003,22(10):798-802
20世纪90年代早、中期,一些研究者根据榴辉岩的出露情况,将大别山腹地的大别杂岩出露区划分为“北大别地体”、“UHP地体”和“宿松地体”3个不同性质的大地构造单元,其中“北大别地体”和“宿松地体”2个地体被视为不含榴辉岩的构造单元。然而,自90年代后期以来,在“北大别地体”中陆续发现了大量的榴辉岩露头。近期笔者在“宿松地体”中也首次发现了榴辉岩露头。上述事实表明前人仅仅根据榴辉岩的出露将大别杂岩划分为3个构造单元的认识是不妥的,大别杂岩应该为一个具有一定成因联系的构造-岩石单元,属于同一个大地构造单元。  相似文献   

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钦杭成矿带东段钨成矿规律   总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1       下载免费PDF全文
钦杭成矿带是我国一条重要的金属矿产成矿带,近年来随着朱溪和大湖塘两个世界级钨矿床的探明,更是引起了广泛关注。在综合分析已有资料的基础上,结合最新找矿勘查和研究成果,初步总结了钦杭成矿带东段钨矿成矿规律。认为区内钨矿床可划分为石英脉型、接触交代型、蚀变花岗岩(云英岩)型、斑岩型和复合型5种类型。在空间展布上具有区-带-田结构,在成岩-成矿时间上以燕山期为主(120~162 Ma),印支期(~225 Ma)次之,壳源重熔(S型)花岗岩与钨成矿关系尤为密切,次为I型花岗质岩浆。钨主要来源于岩浆岩,少部分亦来源于地层。完善了钦杭成矿带东段钨矿成矿模式,并分析了区内找矿潜力。  相似文献   

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Jos  M. Martí  n  Juan C. Braga 《Sedimentary Geology》1994,90(3-4):257-268
The Messinian (Late Miocene) marine stratigraphic record of the Sorbas Basin (S.E. Spain) is well preserved and can be considered as being representative of the entire western Mediterranean. It exhibits a series of features relating to: (1) the composition, characteristics and evolution of coral reefs; (2) changes between temperate and subtropical climates; and (3) the extensive development of microbial carbonates (stromatolites and thrombolites) at the end of the Messinian. Each of these features has global significance.

Porites, which is the major and almost only coral component in reefs, is heavily encrusted with stromatolites. These reefs grew at the edge of the subtropical belt and were totally eliminated at the end of the Messinian because of global cooling.

Lowermost-Messinian carbonate sediments in the Sorbas Basin reflect a temperate climate, whereas those immediately above, which contain bioherms and coastal reefs, are subtropical. The shift from temperate to subtropical conditions during the early Messinian was accompanied by an important change in water circulation within the western Mediterranean. Temperate times were marked by cold surface Atlantic waters entering the Mediterranean, whereas subtropical times coincided with warm surface waters entering the western Mediterranean from the east. The subtropical waters were thermally stratified, which favoured the deposition of euxinic marls and diatomites at the centre of the basin. The upwelling of nutrient-rich water promoted stromatolite development within reefs and Halimeda growth on adjacent slopes.

Lastly, microbial carbonates (stromatolites and thrombolites) attained giant dimensions during the late Messinian, which can be regarded as a measure of their success in occupying a variety of ecological niches. This abundance of available habitats is believed to have resulted from the Messinian “salinity crisis”, which was followed by a re-colonization of the western Mediterranean. In this context stromatolite proliferation was due to opportunism of microbial communities in colonizing the new environments, rather than to a complete absence of other competitive biota. We do not believe that hypersaline conditions were a causal factor in stromatolite development because of the normal-marine biota associated with them.  相似文献   


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