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Joggins is a famous fossil locality in Nova Scotia, Canada. Hewn by some of the world's highest tides on the Bay of Fundy, these crumbling cliffs shed light on the life and environments of the Carboniferous Coal Age, 315 million years ago. The site has been a magnet for geologists since the early nineteenth century. Charles Lyell described it as the world's best coal‐bearing section and together with his colleague, William Dawson, reported amazing fossil forests and a rich terrestrial fauna. Since that golden age, the rate of new fossil discoveries has hardly diminished and in recognition of its importance, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2008. Even after many years of study, it remains a tremendous thrill for us to explore this ‘classic locality’ in far‐flung Nova Scotia. Each winter storm, rock fall, and tide brings with it the tantalizing possibility of new fossils and new scientific insights. In this article we share something of our excitement for Joggins and provide an up to date field guide for those wishing to unlock its secrets. 相似文献
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Carboniferous deep‐water marine strata have been insufficiently studied in western Junggar, NW China where the deep‐water facies successions have long been disputed in terms of age constraints, sequence and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. This paper introduces some views in the light of new materials obtained from this region in recent years. The presence of the Visean plant fossils from the upper Ta'erbahatai Formation in the Tarbgatay Mountains indicates that the formation can be extended to the Early Carboniferous epoch in age. This unit also displays obvious diachroneity, which is of Late Devonian to Early Tournaisian age in the Saur Mountains and Late Devonian to Visean age in the Tarbgatay Mountains. The Xibeikulasi, Baogutu and Tailegula formations are widely distributed in northwestern Karamay areas. The scouring structures and graded bedding near the boundaries between the three formations confirm the stratal sequence that they were originally assigned, namely the Xibeikulasi, Baogutu and Tailegula formations in ascending order. The ‘fossil chaos’ of the three formations is due to mistaking fossils of other stratigraphic units for fossils of these three formations. After revision, only the Early Carboniferous fossils are considered reliable, and combined with the newly found plant fossils, the Xibeikulasi, Baogutu and Tailegula formations are re‐assigned to the early Visean, late Visean, and latest Visean to Serpukhovian ages, respectively. An extension of the lower Hala'alate Formation was recognized in the southwestern Hala'alate Mountains. The presence of the latest Early Carboniferous brachiopods constrains the Hala'alate Formation as late Serpukhovian to Bashkirian in age, bearing the mid‐Carboniferous boundary. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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北天山上石炭统奇尔古斯套组中发现早二叠世珊瑚化石 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3
新近于北天山艾维尔沟北原划为上石炭统的奇尔古斯套组火山岩系所夹灰岩中,采到了结节脊板杯珊瑚Cy-athocariniatuberculataSoshkina,其时代属于早二叠世,表明该区奇尔古斯套组的一部分应属下二叠统。另外,于头屯河原划为上石炭统的奇尔古斯套组火山-碎屑岩系所含灰岩砾石中,采到伊万诺夫格鲁特珊瑚GrootiaivanoviDubrolyubova,时代属于晚石炭世,与达拉阶(即莫斯科阶)相当,故地层时代应晚于晚石炭世达拉期,根据区域对比推测该地层的一部分也应属于下二叠统。艾维尔沟一带早二叠世珊瑚化石的发现,表明北天山石炭纪强烈的拉张事件可以持续到早二叠世。 相似文献
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本文主要就吉林省永吉县至磐石市一带石炭系磨盘山组地层穿时的讨论,从沉积的石灰岩特征和所含生物化石特征阐述这套巨厚的石灰岩具有穿时特征,根据不同位置测量剖面及化石对比进一步验证了对这一问题的看法。 相似文献
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东天山库姆塔格沙垄地区企鹅山群的解体及岩石地层单位厘定 总被引：5，自引：2，他引：3
东天山企鹅山群的组级岩石地层单位厘定争议已久.1∶5万区域地质矿产调查, 于库姆塔格沙垄地区企鹅山群中的两套碳酸盐岩中, 分别发现了牙形刺Streptognathodus suberectus, Idiognathoides sinuata和珊瑚Pelalaxis intermedia, Lithostrotionella rarivesicula, Fomichevella kiaeri, 确认其时代分属晚石炭世罗苏阶-达拉阶和达拉阶-小独山阶, 分别重新厘定为底坎尔组和脐山组.由该两组沉积地层隔离的两套火山岩, 空间上分布相对固定, 岩石组合特征明显, 野外极易识别和区别, 大区易于对比, 且分属早石炭世和晚石炭世.库姆塔格沙垄地区企鹅山群可进一步解体并由老到新厘定为小热泉子组、底坎尔组、企鹅山组和脐山组等4个组级岩石地层单位. 相似文献
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南秦岭淅川地区上石炭统周营组有多门类化石共生 ,类为晚石炭世的标准分子 ,菊石、腕足、珊瑚、双壳、腹足类多具泥盆纪生物群特征。岩石组合、岩性特征、层序特征、沉积环境演变及构造古地理、生态的综合研究表明 ,周营组为晚石炭世沉积地层 ,其内的晚石炭世、中晚泥盆世古生物组合是在有障壁的局限滞留盆地这一特殊的古地理和生态环境下形成和发展起来的 ,是南秦岭淅川地区特有的组合 ,不具有搬运再沉积的物质条件 ,不是搬运再沉积的结果。每一次海侵 ,海水的加深和有机质的富集 ,是周营组生物群得以发生和发展的有利条件。海水的退出、咸化和相对闭塞环境下食物的缺乏 ,是生物群绝灭 ,并很好保存埋藏的主要原因。 相似文献
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新疆温泉及吉木乃地区早石炭世异珊瑚 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文描述的异珊瑚化石是1983年在新疆温泉及吉木乃地区下石炭统上部采集的,有3属11种,其中包括1个新种.它们共同的特点是个体很小,体径仅2—4mm. 相似文献
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Louis Howell Stuart Egan Graham Leslie Stuart Clarke Andrew Mitten Jamie Pringle 《Geology Today》2020,36(1):22-26
The Carboniferous northern Pennine Basin remains the type locality for the ‘block and basin’ tectonic framework model. It has been widely believed that during periods of tectonic extension, large low-density bodies within the basement permit buoyant blocks to resist isostatic subsidence. However, lithosphere-scale structural and geodynamic modelling experiments dispute this; suggesting instead that the formation of intra-basinal highs occurs prior to lithospheric extension. In northern UK, this tectonic framework is controlled by a combination of tectonic stress, isostasy and the buoyancy forces of low-density granite, lithospheric flexure and, importantly, the inherited structural framework. It is hoped that further study can lead to a greater appreciation of the interplay of structural and geodynamic process that control the ‘block and basin’ framework. 相似文献
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藏北羌塘中部日湾茶卡组物源——LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄及稀土元素特征 总被引：5，自引：1，他引：4
在龙木错—双湖—澜沧江板块缝合带中段的冈玛错—日湾茶卡地区,近东西向展布着一条富含暖水型生物化石的早石炭世地层日湾茶卡组(C1r)。对日湾茶卡组砂岩中的碎屑锆石进行LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年,分析结果显示存在325~400Ma、400~500Ma、500~600Ma、950~1100Ma、1400~1800Ma和大于1800Ma六个年龄区间;最年轻的碎屑锆石年龄为325 Ma,时代为早石炭世维宪期;碎屑锆石中362 Ma和454Ma的年龄峰值最明显,为龙木错—双湖—澜沧江洋岛弧消减事件和加里东运动的年龄记录,表明碎屑岩的物源区主要来自于扬子大陆周缘。结合古生物化石资料可知,日湾茶卡组属于欧亚大陆扬子型石炭纪沉积地层,为岛弧环境下的一套浅水台型沉积。 相似文献
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四川龙门山石炭纪珊瑚组合序列 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
四川龙门山地区石炭系发育完整,生物化石丰富,是研究石炭系良好的地区之一。本文依据珊瑚化石演化序列,提出本区石炭系8个珊瑚组合序列。本区石炭系厚约220m,以碳酸盐岩沉积为主。上界与二叠系为假整合;下界和泥盆系连续沉积。在其下伏的地层中发现有孔虫Quasiendothyra Communis(Rauser),可归入上泥盆统,相当于西欧的艾特隆层。因此本区的下界和西欧的泥盆—石炭界线是接近的。 相似文献
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新疆哈拉阿拉特山地区的地层和沉积环境 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文根据对新疆准噶尔盆地西北缘的哈拉阿拉特山地区的石炭系、二叠系所作的地层研究以所获的生物化石、岩矿特征、元素分布、粘土矿物组合等新资料,确定了本地区地层的时代、层序,修正了前人的认识。并对哈拉阿拉特山区的沉积环境进行了分析,探讨了沉积相演化过程。对准噶尔盆地的形成演化提出了见解。 相似文献
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通过1∶250 000天水幅区域地质调查,在礼县鲁班石、郭家坪、青林寺、大南岔沟、固城一带的石炭系地层中相继新发现了丰富的珊瑚、腕足、蜓及非蜓有孔虫、牙形刺及古植物化石,为该地区石炭纪地层的划分和时代归属提供了重要证据。经过区域对比,发现原划地层单元的名称和时代归属都有值得商榷之处。根据新发现的化石及其组合特征,重新厘定了本区石炭纪地层的地层序列和岩石地层单元名称。 相似文献
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西藏羌北地区石炭纪地层的发现 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
西藏羌北地区从未发现过有可靠化石依据的石炭纪地层。在西藏1∶25万玛依岗日幅区域地质调查中,于原侏罗系分布区内,发现了一套厚度大于298·05m的以碳酸盐岩为主夹碎屑岩地层。碳酸盐岩中含丰富的Eostaffella、Pseudoendothyra、Milleralla、Ozawainella、Pseudostaffella、Profusulinella、Fusulina、Fusulinella、Triticites、Protricites等,属于典型的石炭纪分子。虽未见顶、底,但它是羌北地层分区的唯一一处有可靠化石依据的石炭纪地层,故建立瓦垄山组(C1-2w)。 相似文献
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Sarah K. MARTIN 《《地质学报》英文版》2010,84(4):925-953
<正>Beetles(Coleoptera)are the most common insects recovered from the Lower Jurassic Mintaja insect locality of Western Australia,with over half of the fossils recorded from this site being isolated coleopteran elytra. A range of partial beetle bodies and other isolated beetle sclerites have also been recovered from the locality; much of this material is taxonomically unidenitifiable due to its disarticulation and poor preservation.A number of the Mintaja coleopterans are assigned to the archostematan family Ommatidae,including Zygadenia westraliensis(Riek,1968)comb.nov,previously placed in the morphogenus Mesothoris,and an unnamed species of Tetraphalerus.Also recorded is a new species of elaterid,Lithomerus wunda sp.nov.,along with other fragments likely attributable to the same family.The remaining material is assigned into morphospecies, separated primarily on preserved body parts—specifically,there are three morphospecies based on partially articulated coleopteran bodies,two morphospecies based on isolated head capsules,three morphospecies based on isolated thoracic sclerites,three morphospecies based on isolated abdominal sclerites,and 13 morphospecies based on isolated elytra.Overall,the ecology of these fossils is difficult to interpret due to poor preservation, although some of the beetles were likely aquatic,and the Ommatidae and Elateridae were both likely xylophilous. There is a strong similarity between the Mintaja coleopterans and those from the Late Triassic Denmark Hill locality of Queensland,though many of these similarities are based on morphotaxa and may be superficial in nature.Of the species that have been assigned to named taxa,all are generally typical of the Late Mesozoic worldwide,with Zygadenia,Tetraphalerus and Lithomerus all long-ranging,cosmopolitan genera. 相似文献
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《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2018,47(4):1118-1143
This paper presents a reconstruction of the marginal zone of the Anglian (Elsterian, 480–420 ka BP) age ice sheet in the Danbury‐Tiptree area, East Anglia, UK. The research area is a unique locality where the ice front abutted against a 30‐km‐long and 100‐m‐tall ridge in an otherwise lowland area. Observations from three main field localities (Danbury quarry, Royal Oak pit and Tiptree quarry) are complemented with ground penetrating radar survey data, borehole data analysis, laboratory analyses and geological map interpretation. A four‐stage model of the evolution of the landscape in the Danbury‐Tiptree area is presented. The results are of broader importance, in that the sedimentary record sheds light on the processes operating at a constrained ice‐sheet margin. The paper identifies the most important characteristics of the depositional environments at an ice front terminating within this type of setting: (i) high temporal and spatial variability of energetic depositional conditions, resulting in the presence of a vast array of distinct depositional sub‐environments; (ii) mechanisms promoting differential erosion leading to enhanced topography, and (iii) unusually high overburden pressure in the topographically constrained ice margin within the otherwise lowland area influencing the ice‐sheet–bedrock interaction in this particular research area, inducing postglacial seismicity. 相似文献