Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the northern Iranian Plateau: insights from middle–late Miocene foreland‐basin deposits          下载免费PDF全文

Paolo Ballato  Francesca Cifelli  Ghasem Heidarzadeh  Mohammad R. Ghassemi  Andrew D. Wickert  Jamshid Hassanzadeh  Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet  Philipp Balling  Masafumi Sudo  Gerold Zeilinger  Axel K. Schmitt  Massimo Mattei  Manfred R. Strecker 《Basin Research》2017,29(4):417-446

Sedimentary basins in the interior of orogenic plateaus can provide unique insights into the early history of plateau evolution and related geodynamic processes. The northern sectors of the Iranian Plateau of the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone offer the unique possibility to study middle–late Miocene terrestrial clastic and volcaniclastic sediments that allow assessing the nascent stages of collisional plateau formation. In particular, these sedimentary archives allow investigating several debated and poorly understood issues associated with the long‐term evolution of the Iranian Plateau, including the regional spatio‐temporal characteristics of sedimentation and deformation and the mechanisms of plateau growth. We document that middle–late Miocene crustal shortening and thickening processes led to the growth of a basement‐cored range (Takab Range Complex) in the interior of the plateau. This triggered the development of a foreland‐basin (Great Pari Basin) to the east between 16.5 and 10.7 Ma. By 10.7 Ma, a fast progradation of conglomerates over the foreland strata occurred, most likely during a decrease in flexural subsidence triggered by rock uplift along an intraforeland basement‐cored range (Mahneshan Range Complex). This was in turn followed by the final incorporation of the foreland deposits into the orogenic system and ensuing compartmentalization of the formerly contiguous foreland into several intermontane basins. Overall, our data suggest that shortening and thickening processes led to the outward and vertical growth of the northern sectors of the Iranian Plateau starting from the middle Miocene. This implies that mantle‐flow processes may have had a limited contribution toward building the Iranian Plateau in NW Iran.  相似文献   

Trends in cpue and related changes in spatial distribution of demersal fish species in the Kattegat and Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, between 1981 and 2003     

Casini  Michele; Cardinale  Massimiliano; Hjelm  Joakim; Vitale  Francesca 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2005,62(4):671-682

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Chemical characteristics of atmospheric bulk deposition in a semi-rural area of the <Emphasis Type="Bold">Po Valley</Emphasis> (Italy)     

Laura?Tositti  Linda?Pieri  Erika?BrattichEmail authorView author&#;s OrcID profile  Silvia?Parmeggiani  Francesca?Ventura 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2018,75(1):97-121

This study provides an analysis of a five-year time series chemical composition of the bulk deposition (2009–2013), collected within a farm surrounded by industrial and urban settlements in a semi-rural area of the Po Valley, with the aim of characterizing potential emission sources affecting precipitation composition at the site. Most monitoring efforts in this region, recognized as one of the most polluted in the world both due to the intense industrialisation and urbanisation as well as to frequent air stagnation conditions, are presently devoted more to gaseous and particulate pollutants than to precipitation chemistry. The bulk deposition samples were very concentrated in chemical species, both acidic and alkaline, high compared to other polluted sites in the world and to locations in the same district. The mean ions concentrations (in μeq l^?1) are: NO₃ ^? (243) > SO₄ ^2? (220) > PO₄ ^3? (176) > Cl^? (153) > NO₂ ^? (29) > F^? (2.6); NH₄ ⁺ (504) > Ca²⁺ (489) > K⁺ (151) > Na⁺ (127) > Mg²⁺ (127). pH data shows a trend toward slightly alkaline conditions attributed to the large presence of ammonium and crustal elements, in spite of high concentrations of nitrates and sulphates. The relevant concentrations of Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ further suggests that these alkaline conditions might be due to the correspondingly significant concentrations of carbonates/bicarbonates in our dataset. While back-trajectories analysis suggests the stronger importance of local resuspension over long-range transport, statistical analyses on ion composition highlight the key role exerted by agricultural activity, especially in the case of NH₄ ⁺, K⁺, Ca²⁺ and PO₄ ^3? (especially linked to fertilisation practices and soil resuspension due to mechanical operations). Apart from Na⁺ and Cl^? ions which correlate well as expected, indicating their likely common origin from marine salt, the identification of the origin of the other ions is very complex due to the contribution of diverse local sources, such as industrial and residential settlements.  相似文献   

Cyanobacterial influence on diatom community lifeform dynamics in shallow subtropical lakes of Florida USA     

Thomas J. Whitmore  Melanie A. Riedinger-Whitmore  Francesca M. Lauterman  Jason H. Curtis 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2018,60(2):223-246

Fragilarioid diatom taxa are often deemed ubiquitous in shallow lake systems. Their presence has been described as contributing to statistical noise in paleolimnological studies of cold-temperate lakes. In shallow, warm-temperate lakes of Florida, long-term transitions from assemblages dominated by Aulacoseira spp. to fragilarioid taxa, particularly Pseudostaurosira brevistriata, Staurosira construens var. venter, and Staurosirella pinnata, often occur. Distinctly higher limnetic nutrient optima are demonstrated by these fragilarioid taxa than by planktonic Aulacoseira spp. Community successions occur during eutrophication, and progressive replacement of Aulacoseira spp. and other planktonic taxa by fragilarioid taxa is concurrent with and apparently related to the onset of cyanobacterial dominance. We examine successions from Aulacoseira-dominated to fragilarioid-dominated assemblages in sediment cores from subtropical Florida lakes that have undergone eutrophication. Diatom profiles are compared with sedimented pigments, nitrogen stable isotopes of organic matter, and with silica accumulation rates. These study lakes have little if any macrophyte presence. Their light-extinction depths are extremely shallow, yet diatom communities are dominated by bottom-dwelling rather than planktonic taxa. Frequent wind-generated mixing, sometimes to lake bottoms, is sufficient to sustain the light needs of benthic and tychoplanktonic taxa. We conclude that assemblage changes generally are not caused by reduced water depths, silica limitation, nor increased incipient stratification, but that cyanobacteria are responsible for reducing planktonic Aulacoseira in favor of fragilarioid taxa. Cyanobacteria blooms persist over a wide seasonal range because of warm climate and high limnetic nutrient concentrations in Florida lakes. Cyanobacteria progressively displace and outcompete Aulacoseira and other planktonic taxa as eutrophication proceeds. Reduced light availability, changes in mineral/nutrient availability, and other aspects of competitive exclusion, such as cyanobacterial allelotoxins, might contribute to observed changes. Climate warming is not likely to account for Aulacoseira reduction as in colder regions because it is less pronounced in this subtropical district. Lakes with low nutrient levels and less cyanobacteria still sustain large Aulacoseira populations, and decreases in limnetic nutrients sometimes lead to the return of planktonic Aulacoseira. Rather than simply representing statistical noise for paleolimnological reconstructions, shifts to certain fragilarioid taxa indicate when subtropical Florida lakes progressed to hypereutrophic conditions that were marked by cyanobacterial proliferation.  相似文献   

Geometric and kinematic complexities in the Marche-Abruzzi external zones (Central Apennines,Italy)     

Francesca Ghisetti  Livio Vezzani 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1988,77(1):63-78

In the Central Apennines (Italy) three major domains can be recognized: the Umbria and Marche pelagic domains and the Lazio-Abruzzi carbonate platform. Their Mesozoic-Tertiary sequences are separated by major low-angle thrust systems, which superpose the Umbria domain onto both the Marche and Lazio-Abruzzi domains, the Lazio-Abruzzi platform onto the Marche sequence, and all of them onto the Apulia foreland.From Lias to Cretaceous times the Lazio-Abruzzi platform was a fault-controlled uplifted domain separating the Umbria basin to the west from the Marche basin to the east, but closed to the north. The Umbria and Marche basins evolved distinctly with the onset of the terrigenous infilling, beginning with the Serravallian-Tortonian «Marnoso-Arenacea» Formation in the inner Umbria basin and with the Messinian-Early Pliocene Laga Flysch in the outer Marche basin. From Tortonian till Early Pliocene times there was a progressive deformation of the Umbria sequence, with its emplacement onto the Lazio-Abruzzi platform, and the deformation of the Lazio-Abruzzi and Marche zones. In Early-Middle Pliocene times, both the Umbria and Lazio-Abruzzi domains were emplaced onto the previously deformed Marche domain, with passive transport of that portion of Umbria stacked on top of the Lazio-Abruzzi platform. The final stages in Middle-Late Pliocene times caused further motion of the Lazio-Abruzzi platform along the arc-shaped Gran Sasso-Morrone thrust front. Folding and thrusting persisted in the outermost zones till Early Pleistocene times.This reconstruction means that in this area the model of a regularly forward migrating fold-thrust belt is not applicable. It also suggests a large northward displacement of the Lazio-Abruzzi platform, whose differential advancement may be dynamically related to a left-lateral discontinuity to the west and a right-lateral discontinuity to the east. According to our interpretation, the left-lateral discontinuity is not coincident with the «Ancona-Anzio» line of the Italian literature, but rather is buried underneath the Umbria stacked sequences.

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Zusammenfassung Der Zentralappennin (Italien) besteht aus drei Hauptbereichen: die pelagialen Gebiete Umbriens und der Marche sowie die Karbon-Platte Latiums und der Abruzzen. Die Formationsgruppen des Mesozoikum-Tertiär dieser drei Gebiete werden durch große Überschiebungsbahnen getrennt, welche die umbrische Zone auf die Zone der Marche sowie Latiums und der Abruzzen schieben, die Zone Latiums und der Abruzzen ihrerseits auf die Formation der Marche und alle zusammen auf das Vorland Apuliens.Die ursprüngliche paleogeographische Struktur der drei Gebiete läßt darauf schließen, daß die Latium-Abruzzen-Platte vom Lias bis zur Kreidezeit eine aktive, erhobene Zone darstellt, die das Umbrische Becken im Westen vom Becken der Marche im Osten trennt, wobei sich die Platte nach Norden hin schließt, was ein Ineinandergreifen der beiden pelagialen Gebiete mit sich bringt. Beide Becken weisen eine getrennte Evolution auf, mit dem Beginn einer terrigenen Zufuhr, bestehend aus der Marnoso-Arenacea-Formation des Serravall-Tortons im Inneren des Umbrischen Beckens und mit dem Laga Flysch des Messin und Unter-Pliozän im äußeren Umbrischen Becken. Vom Torton bis zum Unteren Pliozän hat eine progressive Deformation der Umbrischen Sequenz stattgefunden, die auf dem Gebiete Latiums und der Abruzzen abgelagert wurde, was wiederum zur Deformation in der Zone Latiums und der Abruzzen sowie der Marche führte. Im unteren Mittel-Pliozän wurden sowohl die Formationen Umbriens als auch die der Zonen von Latium und der Abruzzen auf die schon deformierte Formationsgruppe der Marche aufgeschoben, mit nachfolgend passivem Transport des schon auf der Latium-Abruzzen-Platte aufgelagerten Teils der Umbrischen Formation. Die letzten Ereignisse im mittleren Ober-Pliozän führten zu einem weiteren Vorschub der Latium-Abruzzen-Platte längs der bogenförmigen Verwerfungsfront Gran Sasso-Morrone, sowie zu nachfolgenden Falten und Verwerfungen in den äußersten Gebieten bis zum unteren Pleistozän.Diese Rekonstruktion bedeutet vor allen Dingen, daß in diesem Gebiet das Modell einer regelmäßig voranschreitenden Überschiebungsfront nicht anwendbar ist. Sie deutet ferner auf eine große, nordwärts gerichtete Verschiebung der Latium-Abruzzen-Platte hin, deren differenzierter Vorschub dynamisch in Bezug zu einer links-lateralen Verschiebung nach Westen und einer rechts-lateralen Verschiebung nach Osten zu bringen ist. Gemäß unserer Auslegung stimmt die links-laterale Verschiebung nicht mit der «Ancona-Anzio» Linie der einschlägigen italienischen Fachliteratur überein, sondern ist eher unter den überlagernden Sequenzen Umbriens zu suchen.

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Résumé On peut distinguer trois domaines dans la partie centrale des Apennins (Italie): le domaine pélagique des Marches, celui de l'Ombrie et la plate-forme carbonatée du Latium-Abruzzes. Les séries stratigraphiques mésozoïques-tertiaires de ces trois domaines sont séparées par d'importants systèmes de chevauchement qui ont provoqué la superposition du domaine ombrien sur ceux des Marches et du Latium-Abruzzes, la superposition de la plate-forme du Latium-Abruzzes sur la série des Marches, et enfin la superposition de toute la chaîne sur l'avantpays de l'Apulie.Du Lias au Crétacé, la plate-forme du Latium-Abruzzes constituait un domaine soulevé par des failles actives; ce domaine séparait le bassin de l'Ombrie à l'ouest du bassin des Marches à l'est et était limité au nord, permettant ainsi la communication des deux régions pélagiques. Ces deux bassins ont présenté une évolution distincte débutant par un remplissage terrigène; celui-ci est représenté, dans le bassin ombrien plus interne par la Formation Marnoso-Arénacéa (Serravalien-Tortonien), et dans le bassin externe des Marches par la formation du Flysch de la Laga (Messinien-Pliocène inférieur). A partir du Tortonien jusqu'au début du Pliocène, la série ombrienne a subi une déformation progressive, et à été charriée sur le domaine du Latium-Abruzzes, provoquant la déformation de ce dernier, ainsi que du domaine des Marches. Au cours du Pliocène inférieur et moyen, les domaines de l'ombrie et du Latium-Abruzzes ont été charriés sur la série des Marches ainsi déformée, entraînant de ce fait le transport passif de la portion de la séquence ombrienne préalablement charriée sur la plate-forme du Latium-Abruzzes. Plus tard, des mouvements méso- à tardi-pliocènes ont provoqué un dernier charriage de la plate-forme du Latium-Abruzzes le long de l'arc de chevauchement Gran Sasso-Morrone; enfin, les plissements et les charriages ont persisté dans les zones les plus externes jusqu'au Pléistocène inférieur.Cette reconstitution signifie que le modèle d'une chaîne plissée et charriée se déplaçant régulièrement vers l'avant-pays ne peut pas être appliqué à cette région. Elle indique également un vaste déplacement vers le Nord de la plate-forme du Latium-Abruzzes, transport qui peut être dynamiquement mis en relation avec un décrochement sénestre à l'ouest et un décrochement dextre à l'est. Selon notre interprétation, le décrochement sénestre ne coïncide pas avec la ligne «Ancona-Anzio» de la littérature italienne, mais est enterré sous l'édifice charrié de l'Ombrie.

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Evaluation of the shelters over the prehistoric Megalithic Temples of Malta: environmental considerations     

Francesca Becherini  JoAnn Cassar  Mario Galea  Adriana Bernardi 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(14):1079

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A newly discovered Pliocene volcanic field on the western Sardinia continental margin (western Mediterranean)     

Alessandro Conforti  Francesca Budillon  Renato Tonielli  Giovanni De Falco 《Geo-Marine Letters》2016,36(1):1-14

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Subsidence Modeling Validation Through Back Analysis for an Italian Gas Storage Field     

Giulia Codegone  Vera Rocca  Francesca Verga  Christian Coti 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2016,34(6):1749-1763

The multi-disciplinary work described in the paper was aimed at analyzing and predicting the cyclical ground surface movements induced by underground gas storage (UGS) activities in a depleted gas field located in the Po Plain (Italy). The field has been operated as a storage facility for nearly three decades. Currently, the possibility of delta-pressuring the reservoir (i.e. to increase the maximum operating pressure above the initial reservoir pressure) to enhance the storage performance is being considered. Significant information was collected over time: 2/3D seismic surveys, geological and sedimentological studies, 60+ logged wells, geotechnical lab tests and 50+ years of production history and monitoring were available for the development of a fully integrated static–dynamic–geomechanical analysis. The mechanical aspects of the study are the focus of this paper. The data coming from different sources at different scales were analysed and integrated to set up and characterize a 3D finite element method mechanical model to calculate the surface movements induced by UGS activity by adopting an elasto-plastic constitutive law. The model was then calibrated via a back analysis approach, i.e. the model parameters were fine-tuned so that the simulated subsidence/uplift would compare satisfactorily with the ground movements collected over nearly 10 years of monitoring via interferometric synthetic aperture radar analysis in the region under investigation. Eventually, the calibrated model was used as a forecasting tool for subsidence evaluation under different future storage strategies, including delta-pressuring conditions. Results proved that no significant subsidence is expected even if the maximum operating pressure reached 120 % of the initial formation pressure.  相似文献   

First directional archaeomagnetic results from Syria: evidence from Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna     

Fabio Speranza  Lara Maritan  Claudio Mazzoli  Daniele Morandi Bonacossi  Francesca D'Ajello Caracciolo 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,165(1):47-52

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Latest Precambrian to Early Cambrian U–Pb zircon ages of augen gneisses from Calabria (Italy), with inference to the Alboran microplate in the evolution of the peri-Gondwana terranes     

Francesca Micheletti  Pierre Barbey  Annamaria Fornelli  Giuseppe Piccarreta  Etienne Deloule 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2007,96(5):843-860

In situ U–Pb dating of zircons from five samples of Calabrian augen gneisses shows that their protoliths are Latest Precambrian to Early Cambrian in age (562 ± 15, 547 ± 7, 540 ± 4, 539 ± 16 and 526 ± 10 Ma), and contain Archaean (3.1 Ga), Palaeoproterozoic (1.7–2.4 Ga) and Neoproterozoic (0.6–0.9 Ga) inheritance. Geochemical signature of augen gneisses is typical of high-K calc-alkaline post-collisional magmatism. Their Sr–Nd isotopic compositions [0.7093 < (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)_i < 0.7139; −3.2 < ɛ_Nd(t) < −5.4; 1.5 < T _DM < 1.7 Ga] indicate the involvement of a crustal component in significant proportions. The Calabrian augen gneisses have, therefore, to be distinguished from the orthogneisses of Sardinia and northern Algeria, and from the porphyroids of Sicily, which are Middle Ordovician. By contrast, the Calabrian augen gneisses show a close similarity to the Pan-African post-collisional granitoids of the northern edge of the West African craton (e.g. the Moroccan Anti-Atlas). This suggests a peri-Gondwana origin and corroborates previous palaeogeodynamic reconstructions attributing the Alboran microplate to the northern margin of the West African craton.  相似文献