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廖士范 《沉积与特提斯地质》1993,(3):1-8
我国显生宙鲕铁石主要分布在我国中南、西南,其次为华东地区,主要产于中奥陶世,中、晚泥盆世,早、中侏罗世地层中,以晚泥盆世最为重要,其矿石储量占70.5％,沉积条件最好,为接近封闭的浅海泻湖中。奥陶纪及泥盆纪海水中沉积的鲕粒直径分别为0.7—2mm,0.2—0.8mm。侏罗纪湖水沉积的鲕铁石直径为0.15—0.66mm。鲕粒环带的形成,与水体波动能量使铁质围绕碎屑矿物,或围绕先已形成的自形晶微粒铁矿物旋转有关。静水沉积时能量小,无环带形成,多为无核心的铁质团粒。鲕粒环带,杂基多为自形晶铁矿物或碳酸盐物,鲕核有的为石英碎屑,右的为自形晶铁矿物或碎屑铁矿物。 相似文献
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G. C. Young 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(4):605-615
A fossil fish assemblage associated with marine invertebrates from the Coonardoo Sandstone (Wallingalair Group) at Boor Hill (eastern limb of Tullamore Syncline) contains phyllolepid and bothriolepid placoderms of probable Late Devonian age. An angular unconformity with the overlying Hervey Group indicates erosion and folding during the Middle – Late Devonian, and evidently younger than the main Tabberabberan orogenic event. Invertebrate remains demonstrate a Late Devonian marine interval, not previously recognised as far west as the Tullamore Syncline, and assumed to represent the global maximum sea-level in the late Frasnian immediately preceding the Frasnian – Famennian extinction event. A phyllolepid placoderm plate from a sedimentary interbed of the Dulladerry Volcanics in the Hervey Syncline compares with abundant phyllolepid material from the Merriganowry Shale Member of the Dulladerry Volcanics near Cowra, and similar occurrences in the Comerong Volcanics and Boyd Volcanic Complex in southeastern New South Wales. Biostratigraphic data suggest a late Middle Devonian (Givetian) age for the Merriganowry Shale Member of the Dulladerry Volcanics, which appears conformable beneath the Upper Devonian Hervey Group. 相似文献
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G. C. Young 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(7):991-1008
A diverse fossil vertebrate record in the Devonian of coastal southeastern Australia includes at least 30 genera and species representing all three major groups of extant jawed vertebrates (bony and cartilaginous fishes, and tetrapods), and both extinct groups (placoderm and acanthodian fishes). A bone recorded by W. B. Clarke in 1860 from Twofold Bay is the first published record of a Devonian vertebrate from the Southern Hemisphere. Abundant plant remains at some localities include large impressions of arborescent lycopsids, indicating one of the earliest forest environments for the Gondwana supercontinent. An early terrestrial invertebrate fauna is evidenced by fossil millipede remains. A review of the evidence for age control using paleontology and isotopic dating suggests that the lower part of the Devonian sequence (Bunga beds, Boyd Volcanic Complex) may be somewhat older (Emsian – Eifelian) than recently proposed; the tetrapod trackways at Genoa River in Victoria (lower part of the Combyingbar Formation) may correlate with the lowermost Twofold Bay Formation of the Merrimbula Group, which is overlain by the marine Bellbird Creek Formation, a manifestation of the global late Frasnian marine transgression and extinction event. Abundant placoderm remains at all higher fossil fish horizons in the overlying Worange Point Formation indicate a latest Devonian rather than Carboniferous age for the upper Merrimbula Group. 相似文献
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依据泥盆纪早、中、晚3个时期的中国岩相古地理图及中国泥盆纪植物已有的资料,绘制出中国泥盆纪这3个时期的植物古地理分布图。中国泥盆纪海侵的主要方向是从中国西南部的云南地区（早泥盆世）逐渐向长江中游的华中地区（中泥盆世）及长江下游的华东地区（晚泥盆世）发展。中国泥盆纪维管植物在南方的分布是随着海侵,逐渐向华中及华东地区扩展,由早泥盆世西南地区的云南、四川、贵州,以及广西和湖南南部等地区,发展至中泥盆世云南、四川、贵州、湖南的中北部以及湖北的南部地区,在晚泥盆世的分布范围扩大到广东、湖南、湖北、江西、安徽、浙江以及江苏等地区。泥盆纪维管植物在北方的分布范围较小,从中泥盆世才开始出现,主要分布在新疆的北部,晚泥盆世在宁夏等地区也有分布。中国泥盆纪3个时期陆地维管植物各个种类所占的百分含量表明,早期的植物主要以较为原始的莱尼蕨类、工蕨类以及前石松类为主,中期石松类占优势,到了晚期石松类依然占优势,而楔叶类、真蕨类以及前裸子植物开始繁盛。 相似文献
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鄂尔多斯盆地南缘赵老峪剖面奥陶系凝灰岩
锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年及其地质意义 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
鄂尔多斯盆地南缘奥陶系赵老峪组的时代一直是依据古生物化石组合确定的,但基于笔石带其时代为晚奥陶世,而依据牙形石组合则为中奥陶世或者中奥陶世晚期,存在明显的差异,缺少高质量同位素年龄的约束。本文选择富平赵老峪剖面赵老峪组凝灰岩夹层进行精确的SHRIMP锆石U-Pb同位素测年,获得了453.2±6.9 Ma年龄结果,将此前认为的中、晚奥陶世沉积严格地确定为晚奥陶世。结合区域地质资料讨论,认为鄂尔多斯南缘上奥陶统凝灰岩层的形成与古秦岭洋壳向北的俯冲有关,可能记录了与这个过程伴生的火山喷发事件。该同位素年龄表明这里的奥陶纪地层在华北克拉通是最年轻的,故它不仅准确地确定了地层的形成时代,而且对华北克拉通早古生代地质演化史的认识有着重要的意义。 相似文献
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The northwestern corner of New South Wales consists of the paratectonic Late Proterozoic to Early Cambrian Adelaide Fold Belt and older rocks, which represent basement inliers in this fold belt. The rest of the state is built by the composite Late Proterozoic to Triassic Tasman Fold Belt System or Tasmanides.In New South Wales the Tasman Fold Belt System includes three fold belts: (1) the Late Proterozoic to Early Palaeozoic Kanmantoo Fold Belt; (2) the Early to Middle Palaeozoic Lachlan Fold Belt; and (3) the Early Palaeozoic to Triassic New England Fold Belt. The Late Palaeozoic to Triassic Sydney—Bowen Basin represents the foredeep of the New England Fold Belt.The Tasmanides developed in an active plate margin setting through the interaction of East Gondwanaland with the Ur-(Precambrian) and Palaeo-Pacific plates. The Tasmanides are characterized by a polyphase terrane accretion history: during the Late Proterozoic to Triassic the Tasmanides experienced three major episodes of terrane dispersal (Late Proterozoic—Cambrian, Silurian—Devonian, and Late Carboniferous—Permian) and six terrane accretionary events (Cambrian—Ordovician, Late Ordovician—Early Silurian, Middle Devonian, Carboniferous, Middle-Late Permian, and Triassic). The individual fold belts resulted from one or more accretionary events.The Kanmantoo Fold Belt has a very restricted range of mineralization and is characterized by stratabound copper deposits, whereas the Lachlan and New England Fold Belts have a great variety of metallogenic environments associated with both accretionary and dispersive tectonic episodes.The earliest deposits in the Lachlan Fold Belt are stratabound Cu and Mn deposits of Cambro-Ordovician age. In the Ordovician Cu deposits were formed in a volcanic are. In the Silurian porphyry Cu---Au deposits were formed during the late stages of development of the same volcanic are. Post-accretionary porphyry Cu---Au deposits were emplaced in the Early Devonian on the sites of the accreted volcanic arc. In the Middle to Late Silurian and Early Devonian a large number of base metal deposits originated as a result of rifting and felsic volcanism. In the Silurian and Early Devonian numerous Sn---W, Mo and base metal—Au granitoid related deposits were formed. A younger group of Mo---W and Sn deposits resulted from Early—Middle Carboniferous granitic plutonism in the eastern part of the Lachlan Fold Belt. In the Middle Devonian epithermal Au was associated with rifting and bimodal volcanism in the extreme eastern part of the Lachlan Fold Belt.In the New England Fold Belt pre-accretionary deposits comprise stratabound Cu and Mn deposits (pre-Early Devonian): stratabound Cu and Mn and ?exhalite Au deposits (Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous); and stratabound Cu, exhalite Au, and quartz—magnetite (?Late Carboniferous). S-type magmatism in the Late Carboniferous—Early Permian was responsible for vein Sn and possibly Au---As---Ag---Sb deposits. Volcanogenic base metals, when compared with the Lachlan Fold Belt, are only poorly represented, and were formed in the Early Permian. The metallogenesis of the New England Fold Belt is dominated by granitoid-related mineralization of Middle Permian to Triassic age, including Sn---W, Mo---W, and Au---Ag---As Sb deposits. Also in the Middle Permian epithermal Au---Ag mineralization was developed. During the above period of post-orogenic magmatism sizeable metahydrothermal Sb---Au(---W) and Au deposits were emplaced in major fracture and shear zones in central and eastern New England. The occurrence of antimony provides an additional distinguishing factor between the New England and Lachlan Fold Belts. In the New England Fold Belt antimony deposits are abundant whereas they are rare in the Lachlan Fold Belt. This may suggest fundamental crustal differences. 相似文献
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云南景洪东南地区出露一套泥盆系,前人将其以粗粒碎屑岩为特征的部分命名为怕当组,根据腕足类化石鉴定其地质时代为中泥盆世;以碎屑岩、凝灰岩为特征的部分被命名为南光组,根据植物化石斜方薄皮木（Lepotophloeum rhombicum）划归晚泥盆世。对其沉积环境尚存在陆相和海陆交互相、浅海陆架相、半深海-深海相沉积环境的不同认识。本研究发现,粗粒碎屑岩层序中也发现有晚泥盆世标准植物化石斜方薄皮木（Lepotophloeum rhombicum）,并且粗粒碎屑岩层序位于剖面上部,南光组位于剖面下部,说明两者的地质时代均为晚泥盆世。故建议废除怕当组,将两者合并为上泥盆统南光组。南光组具有典型的鲍马序列特征,含有放射虫等海洋环境生物化石,属于深海浊流沉积层序。 相似文献
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加里东运动构造古地理及滇黔桂盆地的形成--兼论滇黔桂盆地深层油气勘探潜力 总被引：14，自引：0，他引：14
中国南方的滇黔桂地区,早古生代与晚古生代之交曾经发生过较为强烈的加里东运动,包括三个幕:寒武纪末期的郁南运动,中、奥陶世末期的都匀运动以及志留纪末期的广西运动;奥陶系与志留系的残留不全和晚奥陶世至志留纪大片古陆———滇黔桂古陆的展布是加里东运动的重要体现。志留纪末期的广西运动之后,在大致相当于早古生代“滇黔桂古陆”分布的地区形成一个特殊的“滇黔桂盆地”,而且在滇黔桂盆地的主体部位常常是泥盆系直接覆盖在寒武系之上。寒武系,特别是下寒武统,由于寒武纪初期的快速海侵作用而在研究区域普遍发育烃源岩系;研究区域的泥盆系,特别是中泥盆统,在台间盆地中发育优质烃源岩。因此,巨大的构造古地理演变和海陆变迁,形成了一个晚古生代的泥盆系优质烃源岩与早古生代的下寒武统优质烃源岩的空间叠合区域,该叠合区域的加里东运动不整合面上、下的储集体即成为该地区的深层油气勘探对象,预示着滇黔桂盆地的深层存在较大的油气勘探潜力。 相似文献
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黑龙江多宝山古生代海盆闭合的岩石学证据 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
综合研究黑龙江多宝山地区古生代沉积地层、生物化石,通过分析侵入岩岩石地球化学及其锆石U--Pb 同位素测年资料,表明该地区早奥陶世至晚泥盆世早期为海相沉积地层,晚泥盆世晚期为海陆交互相沉积地层,早石炭世为陆相河湖沉积地层。多宝山海盆东南侧出露一套年龄为( 300 ± 3 ～ 357 ± 4) Ma 的花岗岩,其中正长、二长花岗质糜棱岩为后造山花岗岩,碱长花岗岩为造山后A 型花岗岩。表明多宝山海盆于晚泥盆世开始闭合,至早石炭世为陆相河湖沉积,晚石炭世-早二叠世为抬升剥蚀阶段。表现为多宝山地区于早石炭世开始造山,晚石炭世晚期或延至早二叠世发生造山后伸展作用。 相似文献
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藏北羌塘地区地层新资料 总被引：34，自引：0，他引：34
新的牙形石化石资料证实在羌塘北部地区有泥盆纪查桑组地层，它是该盆地保存的最古老海相沉积地层，羌塘地区中西部广大地区上侏罗统索瓦组顶部产有丰富的以Virgatosphinctes和Aulacosphinctes两属为主的菊石化石，可初步建立5个菊石组合，其中Berriasella和Blanfordiceras菊石的出现使最高海相层位上延至提塘阶顶部或贝利阿斯阶，而圆笠虫(Orbitolina)、似异卷虫（Heterohelix）出现可能反映有海相白垩纪地层的存在，在晚三叠世肖茶卡组中发现有Epigondolella牙形石动物群，这是我国晚三叠世最高位牙形石带又一产地，首次在双湖比隆组油页岩剖面顶部发现产Harploceras sp.菊石化石的层位，时代属早上托阿尔斯（Toarcian）。解决了这一特殊沉积地层单位长期争论的时代归属问题，并指出它与早侏罗世海侵高峰期全球缺氧事件有关。 相似文献
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G. C. Young R. L. Dunstone P. J. Ollerenshaw J. Lu B. Crook 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2020,67(2):221-242
AbstractEdenopteron, with a lower jaw some 48?cm long, and total length perhaps exceeding 3 m, is the largest Devonian lobe-fin known from semi-articulated remains. New material described from the type locality (Boyds Tower, south of Eden) includes three slightly smaller articulated skulls and jaws, and additional bones of the shoulder girdle. Another articulated skull roof, shoulder girdle and palate is described from a second locality (Hegarty Bay), about 10?km south of Boyds Tower. Both localities represent the upper part of the Worange Point Formation, of late Famennian age (uppermost Upper Devonian). The new morphological evidence supports a close relationship to the tristichopterids Mandageria and Cabonnichthys, from the slightly older (Frasnian, Upper Devonian) fossil fish assemblage at Canowindra, New South Wales. Features of the shoulder girdle (supracleithrum, anocleithrum) suggest that Edenopteron is more closely related to Mandageria than Cabonnichthys. Eight characters are used to define a tristichopterid subfamily Mandageriinae, to which Notorhizodon from the Middle Devonian of Antarctica is also referred. The Mandageriinae is endemic to East Gondwana (Australia–Antarctica). In combination with possibly the most primitive tristichopterid, Marsdenichthys from the Frasnian of Victoria, these distributions implicate East Gondwana as a likely place of origin for the entire group. This relates to the major but unresolved question of a possible Gondwana origin for all the land vertebrates (tetrapods).
An endemic Gondwanan sub-group (Mandageriinae) of the Devonian fishes closest to land animals (tetrapodomorph tristichopterids) is confirmed.
Retention of primitive features (e.g. accessory vomers) points to an earlier origin of the Mandageriinae in East Gondwana, consistent with the Victorian occurrence of another primitive tristichopterid (Marsdenichthys).
Edenopteron is confirmed from a second south coast fossil site, and new characters indicate its closest relative is Mandageria from Canowindra, NSW.
Congruent evidence of older Gondwanan occurrences in other groups (basal tetrapodomorphs, rhizodontids, canowindrids), and previously dismissed trace fossil evidence (Grampians trackways), implicate South China and East Gondwana as the likely place of origin for all land vertebrates.
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The first age constraint on the upper part of the pre-Upper Ordovician series of the Pyrenees is presented. Data are based on acritarchs from the Jujols Group in the La Molina area on the southern slope of the Canigó massif, near the Upper Ordovician unconformity. The new data allow us to attribute a Late Cambrian (Furongian) to Early Ordovician age to the upper part of the Jujols Group and to support the absence of well developed Middle Ordovician strata in the Pyrenees. Our results confirm the occurrence of an Upper Ordovician unconformity and highlight the “Sardic” affinity of the pre-Upper Ordovician sequences in the Pyrenees. These sequences differ markedly from the pre-Upper Ordovician series of the Iberian Massif. 相似文献
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The first definitive evidence for a late Middle to early Late Ordovician age for the Jindalee Group comes from identification of conodonts, including Periodon aculeatus, preserved in chert from an exposure northeast of Cootamundra, New South Wales. In the Grenfell area, the Hoskins Chert, a constituent formation of the Jindalee Group, also yields conodonts of the same general age, although no diagnostic species have been recognised. Conodonts found in the Jindalee Group, along with a distinctive fossil flora of probable cyanobacterial filaments, are similar to those of the Mugincoble Chert in the vicinity of Parkes. Age correlation of the Jindalee Group with the Girilambone Group is confirmed by the newly found conodonts, but at a much more precise level than previously inferred. However, the tectonic settings of the Jindalee and Girilambone Groups might have been quite distinct, with the Jindalee Group forming in an intra‐arc rift and the Girilambone Group depositing in the backarc Wagga Marginal Basin. 相似文献
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南天山造山带中段古生界构造地层研究新进展 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3
南天山古生代地层的三度空间位置因造山作用改造而发生结构性重组。以测制综合地质构造剖面为纽带，将变形构造解析、沉积序列分析和微体古生物研究有机结合研究阿拉塔格组、查汗沙拉含矿岩系的地层序列与时代归属，取得两个主要进展。①阿拉塔格组为一套连续沉积的单向型旋回，下部以火山岩为主，向上碳酸盐岩－硅质岩比例逐渐增大，碎屑岩颗粒向上逐渐变粗，它的地质时代至少可从早泥盆世延续至晚泥盆世；②查汗沙拉地区出露异地志留纪生物碎屑灰岩和原地志留纪－石炭纪地层，赋矿地层位于浊积岩系上部，时代为中、晚泥盆世。以此研究为基础，探讨、提出了重建造山带地层序列的基本原则和主要途径。 相似文献
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卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带位于新疆准噶尔盆地东北缘,查明卡拉麦里蛇绿岩所代表的古洋盆形成和闭合时代,是新疆东准噶尔乃至古亚洲洋演化历史的关键地质问题之一。本文通过对蛇绿岩带两侧志留—石炭系的岩石组合、结构构造、接触关系以及生物化石等沉积-构造特征的对比分析,揭示卡拉麦里构造带古生代的构造演化。在卡拉麦里蛇绿岩带北侧,广泛发育上志留统、下泥盆统与中—上奥陶统和加里东期花岗岩的角度不整合,普遍缺失下志留统,不整合面之下的奥陶系为变质达绿片岩相的安山岩为主,而在蛇绿岩带南北两侧的中、上志留统—泥盆系—下石炭统沉积体系特征相似,可以对比:地层间整合接触,产状平缓,褶皱、断裂构造和变质作用均不发育,主要为开阔的短轴背斜、向斜,与卡拉麦里蛇绿混杂岩带中的强变形构造明显不同;岩石组合都以火山碎屑岩为主,多见交错层理等沉积构造,产门类众多的动植物化石,反映了滨—浅海相的沉积环境。以上说明,卡拉麦里构造带晚古生代并不存在一个开阔的大洋,卡拉麦里蛇绿岩所代表的古洋盆在中志留世之前已经闭合。 相似文献
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L.P. Zonenshain V.G. Korinevsky V.G. Kazmin D.M. Pechersky V.V. Khain V.V. Matveenkov 《Tectonophysics》1984,109(1-2)
The Uralian Fold Belt originated due to the East European-Kazakhstan continental collision in the Late Paleozoic-Early Triassic. The Uralian paleo-ocean existed from the Ordovician to Early Carboniferous. It evolved along the Western Pacific pattern with island arcs and subduction zones moving oceanwards from the East European margin and leaving newly opened back-arc basins behind from the Silurian to the Middle Devonian. A fossil spreading pattern similar to present one can be reconstructed for the Mugodjarian back-arc basin with the spreading rate of 5 cm/yr and depth of basaltic eruption of 3000 m. Since the Devonian, the closure of the Uralian paleo-ocean has begun. A subduction zone flipped over under the Kazakhstan continent, and remnants of an oceanic floor were completely consumed before the Late Carboniferous. After that the continental collision began which lasted nearly 90 Ma. As a result, the distinct linear shape and nappe structure of the Urals were formed. 相似文献
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学者们对塔中北坡走滑断层的活动期次和发育时间以及形成机制展开过一些研究,但尚未达成共识.近期高品质三维地震资料的获得,有助于对该区走滑断层展开更详细的研究.基于三维地震数据的解释,发现塔中北坡发育一系列下断穿寒武系基底、上断至中泥盆统的NNE向走滑断裂.地震剖面上显示多数走滑断裂几何学形态复杂,以上奥陶统为界,断裂呈现下部"正花状"与上部"负花状"相互叠置的"复合花状"构造样式.三维地震相干切片显示,下部断裂呈NNE向线性延伸且只分布于主位移带附近;上部断裂为NW走向,整体上呈现为右阶雁列排布.根据界面沿断层局部"隆升"高度的分析以及断层生长指数的计算可知,下部断层形成时间不早于晚奥陶世,上部雁列正断层的发育时间为中志留-中泥盆世.结合塔里木盆地周缘构造背景分析,认为下部基底断层可能发育于晚奥陶世,与古昆仑洋强烈俯冲碰撞作用相关;上部雁列断层的形成可能受控于下部基底走滑断层的活化,与阿尔金域强烈的褶皱造山作用相关. 相似文献
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Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento Armelle RiboulleauMarco Vecoli Gerard J.-M. Versteegh 《Organic Geochemistry》2011,42(6):605-617
Twenty one core samples of Late Ordovician to Early Devonian age from sections in southern Tunisia, North African Platform (Gondwana) and containing marine and terrestrial organic matter with microbial input were investigated to link the aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon distributions with the terrestrial and marine palynomorph content (e.g. acritarchs, prasinophytes, chitinozoans, cryptospores and trilete spores). In addition to several biomarkers of algal/bacterial origin, long chain n-alkanes that might be derived from land plants, as well as the terrestrial diterpane, norabietane, were found. Several land plant-derived biomarkers, such as retene, cadalene, simonellite, tetrahydroretene and C19 isohexylalkyl naphthalene were observed in the aromatic fractions. While these terrestrial biomarkers could be clearly recognized in the middle Silurian-lower Devonian samples, their presence in the upper Ordovician-lower Silurian sediments is more doubtful, because of much lower relative abundances. The land plant biomarkers show a fairly good correlation with the occurrence and abundance of cryptospores and trilete spores, derived from bryophytes and tracheophytes, which covered the emerged areas around the Ghadamis Basin during the Silurian and Devonian. The early tracheophytes (e.g. Cooksonia, lycophytes and zosterophylls) are therefore suggested as a new terrestrial source for most of the saturated and aromatic biomarkers found in sediments of Middle Silurian to Early Devonian age. 相似文献
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V. N. Puchkov 《Geotectonics》2012,46(1):37-46
The dike swarms of the entire Urals are classified for the first time; the related igneous complexes associated with them
in space and time are named. The following types and chronological levels of the Uralian dikes are distinguished (proper names
are given after type localities). The epicontinental type comprises the Middle Riphean Mashak, Late Riphean Arsha-Serebryanka, Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician Kidryasovo-Lemva, Ordovician-Silurian
Ushat, Devoninan Inzer-Timaiz (the most extended of all), Early Carboniferous Magnitogorsk-Mugodzhary, and Triassic Borisovo
dike swarms. Many of them are probably related to plume events. The existence of the Early Riphean dike complex remains unclear.
Oceanic (spreading or suprasubduction) dike-in-dike type: Ordovician Man’ya oceanic type, Devonian Aktogai backarc and Khabarny suprasubduction types. The igneous
complexes associated with dike swarms are rather diverse. In addition to rhyolite dikes, in many cases determining the contrasting
character of magmatism, large comagmatic gabbro and gabbro-granite intrusions are noted, as well as minor intrusions of subalkali
granitoids, syenites, and, apparently, carbonatites and kimberlites. Flood basalt fields are noted at the periphery of the
Urals, implying the occurrence of a feeding dike swarm beneath them. 相似文献
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Devonian strata near Fowlers Gap and Nundooka Stations, northern Barrier Ranges comprise ～2.7 km of sparsely fossiliferous, fluvially deposited sandstones (Mulga Downs Group). These strata are subdivided into the Coco Range Sandstone (oldest, Emsian‐Eifelian) found west of the north‐trending Nundooka Creek Fault, and the Nundooka Sandstone (youngest, ?Frasnian‐Famennian found east of the fault). Eleven stratigraphic units are mapped and two of these in the Coco Range Sandstone are formally named as The Valley Tank Arenite and Copi Dam Arenite Members. The Coco Range Sandstone and Nundooka Sandstone are tentatively correlated with strata in the Bancannia Trough. Deposition of the Coco Range Sandstone and Nundooka Sandstone was, however, separate from that of the Bancannia Trough, probably due to topographic highs which occurred east of the Western Boundary Fault. The Coco Range Sandstone is cut by northeast‐trending faults splaying from the Nundooka Creek Fault. These faults have vertical planes and are thought to predate deposition of the Nundooka Sandstone. In the Late Cretaceous the Nundooka Creek and Western Boundary Faults became active and areas west of these faults were uplifted to form Coco Range and Bald Hill. This fossil landscape was progressively buried by deposition of the Palaeocene‐Eocene Eyre Formation until it was half covered by strata. During the Oligocene silcrete of the Cordillo Surface formed and was overlain conformably by the sandy Doonbara Formation (Miocene). Since the Miocene, much of the Eyre Formation has been removed by erosion to exhume a Late Cretaceous landscape. Subsequently in the ?Pliocene there was some faulting along the Nundooka Creek and Western Boundary Faults because locally the Cordillo Surface and the Doonbara Formation dip toward the faults at 30–72°. At three localities there is evidence of probable Quaternary activity on the Nundooka Creek and the Western Boundary Faults (downthrow to the east) suggesting a different style of tectonics from that in the Miocene. 相似文献