The Triassic of the Thakkhola (Nepal). II: Paleolatitudes and comparison with other Eastern Tethyan Margins of Gondwana     

J. G. Ogg  U. von Rad 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1994,83(1):107-129

During the Triassic, the Thakkhola region of the Nepal Himalaya was part of the broad continental shelf of Gondwana facing a wide Eastern Tethys ocean. This margin was continuous from Arabia to Northwest Australia and spanned tropical and temperate latitudes.A compilation of Permian, Triassic and early Jurassic paleomagnetic data from the reconstructed Gondwana blocks indicates that the margin was progressively shifting northward into more tropical latitudes. The Thakkhola region was approximately 55° S during Late Permian, 40° S during Early Triassic, 30° S during Middle Triassic and 25° S during Late Triassic. This paleolatitude change produced a general increase in the relative importance of carbonate deposition through the Triassic on the Himalaya and Australian margins. Regional tectonics were important in governing local subsidence rates and influx of terrigenous clastics to these Gondwana margins; but eustatic sea-level changes provide a regional and global correlation of major marine transgressions, prograding margin deposits and shallowing-upward successions. A general mega-cycle characterizes the Triassic beginning with a major transgression at the base of the Triassic, followed by a general shallowing-upward of facies during Middle and Late Triassic, and climaxing with a regression in the latest Triassic.  相似文献   

The Triassic of the Thakkhola (Nepal). I: stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of a north-east Gondwanan rifted margin     

U. von Rad  S. Dürr  J. G. Ogg 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1994,83(1):76-106

The Mesozoic sediments of Thakkhola (central Nepal) were deposited on a broad eastern north Gondwanan passive margin at mid-latitudes (28–41 °S) facing the Southern Tethys ocean to the north. The facies is strikingly similar over a distance of several thousand kilometres from Ladakh in the west to Tibet and to the paleogeographically adjacent north-west Australian margin (Exmouth Plateau, ODP Legs 122/123) and Timor in the east. Late Paleozoic rifting led to the opening of the Neo-Tethys ocean in Early Triassic times. An almost uninterrupted about 2 km thick sequence of syn-rift sediments was deposited on a slowly subsiding shelf and slope from Early Triassic to late Valanginian times when break-up between Gondwana (north-west Australia) and Greater India formed the proto-Indian Ocean. The sedimentation is controlled by (1) global events (eustasy; climatic/oceanographic changes due to latitudinal drift; plate reorganization leading to rift-type block-faulting) and (2) local factors, such as varying fluvio-deltaic sediment input, especially during Permian and late Norian times. Sea level was extremely low in Permian, high in Carnian and low again during Rhaeto-Liassic times. Third-order sea-level cycles may have occurred in the Early Triassic and late Norian to Rhaeto-Liassic. During the Permian pure quartz sand and gravel were deposited as shallowing upward series of submarine channel or barrier island sands. The high compositional maturity is typical of a stable craton-type hinterland, uplifted during a major rifting episode. During the early Triassic a 20–30 m thick condensed sequence of nodular ‘ammonitico rosso’-type marlstone with a ‘pelagic’ fauna was deposited (Tamba Kurkur Formation). This indicates tectonic subsidence and sediment starvation during the transgression of the Neo-Tethys ocean. During Carnian times a 400 m thick sequence of fining upward, filament-rich wackestone/shale cycles was deposited in a bathyal environment (Mukut Formation). This is overlain by about 300 m of sandy shale and siltstone intercalated with quartz-rich bioclastic grain- to rudstone (Tarap Shale Formation, late Carnian-Norian). The upper Norian to (?lower) Rhaetian Quartzite Formation consists of (sub)arkosic sandstones and pure quartz arenites, indicating different sediment sources. The fluvio-deltaic sandstones are intercalated with silty shale, coal and bioclastic limestone, as well as mixed siliciclastic-bioclastic rocks. The depositional environment was marginal marine to shallow subtidal. The fluvio-deltaic influence decreased towards the overlying carbonates of Rhaeto-Liassic (?) age (Jomosom Formation correlative with the Kioto Limestone), when the region entered tropical paleolatitudes resulting in platform carbonates.  相似文献   

Die horizontale Verteilung von Chlorophyll im Bielersee   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dr. J. von Orelli 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1981,43(1):168-175

Chlorophyll content of mixed samples taken between 0 und 10 m was measured on 14 days at 15 stations. The purpose of that study was to assess the validity of measurements taken at one single sampling station.   相似文献   

Coexisting Ca-poor pyroxenes in the Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex     

Gerhard von Gruenewaldt  Klaus Weber-Diefenbach 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1977,65(1):11-18

Electron microprobe analyses of Ca-poor pyroxenes in gabbroic rocks of the Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex reveal that inverted pigeonites have lower Mg/Fe ratios than coexisting hypersthenes. Textural relationships, however, indicate that the two Ca-poor pyroxenes did not crystallize simultaneously from the magma. Early pigeonite reacted with the magma to form hypersthene and the difference in the Mg/Fe ratio of these two pyroxenes reflects the difference of this ratio between early pigeonite and the magma at the time of reaction. Some of the grains of early pigeonite, now inverted to hypersthene, evidently escaped this reaction with the magma. Bulk compositions of pyroxenes intermediate between that of pigeonite and hypersthene are postulated on the grounds of varying amounts of exsolved augite in the hypersthene which has originated from pigeonite by reaction with magma.  相似文献   

Geochemical processes controlling the relationship between Co,Mn, and Fe in early diagenetic deep-sea nodules     

P. Halbach  R. Giovanoli  D. von Borstel 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1982,60(2):226-236

Early diagenetic manganese nodules from the northeast Pacific nodule belt and from the southeast Pacific (Peru Basin) show primary growth features of dendritic microtextures consisting of alternating laminae of crystalline 10-Åmanganate (A1 substance) and amorphous material which is composed of an intimate mixture of ferric hydroxide, silicate, and δ-MnO₂ (A2 substance). The formation of rhythmic sequences of A1 and A2 microlayers is explained by physico-chemical changes in the peneliquid sediment layer and in the microenvironment of the accreting nodule surface: (a) upward diffusion of Mn²⁺ in the interstitial water as a result of decay of organic matter and Mn mobilization; (b) oxidation of Mn²⁺ and formation of 10-Åmanganate in the upper part of the peneliquid sediment layer, leading to pH depression in the microenvironment of the nodule surface which decreases the mobility of silicate, resulting in formation of A2 layers; (c) restoration of pH and renewed precipitation of 10-Åmanganate.Based on data of 171 bulk analyses and on electron microprobe investigations, interelement relationships between Co, Mn, and Fe are pointed out. Fe and Co show a significant positive correlation (r = 0.84), while Mn and Co are poorly negatively correlated (r = ?0.21), assuming linear regression. The enrichment of Co within the amorphous A2 phase is attributed to specific surface adsorption and subsequent oxidation of Co²⁺ to Co³⁺ in the strong electric field of Si⁴⁺. Robust complexes of Co(III) and ≡ FeH₂SiO₄^? prevent most of the Co from being available for the 10-Åmanganate precipitation. Concerning the relation between Mn and Fe and Co respectively, the highest correlation coefficients are obtained using an inverse logarithmic regression. Under early diagenetic conditions, the concentration and precipitation of Mn²⁺ in the interstitial water depends on the redox gradient which is controlled by the amount of decomposing organic matter. The Nernst equation describes the relationship as a reciprocal logarithmic function. However, the quantities of colloidal ferric hydroxide and of dissolved silicate are not affected by variations of the redox potential. These different characteristics in the precipitation of Mn and the Fe- and Si-rich colloidal phase may cause the significantly negative logarithmic correlation of Mn versus Fe and Co, respectively.  相似文献   

Competition for the general cargo transports of Sweden's foreign trade     

Christopher von Schirach-Szmigiel 《GeoJournal》1978,2(2):133-146

The object of the paper is to analyze changes in modal and port allocation of general cargo flows in Sweden's foreign trade between 1960 and 1976. It summarizes some results of a forthcoming report on the project ‘Tendencies in Liner Shipping’ financed by the ‘Transport Research Delegation’, Stockholm.  相似文献   

Zur Tektonik am Nordostrand der Münchberger Gneismasse bei Hof     

Gerhard von Horstig 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1960,49(2):375-389

Zusammenfassung In der Umgebung von Hof wird unterschieden eine ältere Pressungstektonik in der sudetischen Phase der variskischen Orogenese und eine jüngere Zerrungstektonik. Die Pressungstektonik ist dem NW-Rahmen der Münchberger Gneismasse ähnlich, jedoch von geringerer Intensität. In einer 1. Phase kommt es zu einer Schicht- und Schieferungsfaltung, in einer unmittelbar anschließenden 2. Phase besonders an den Grenzen größerer Schichtkomplexe zu Überschiebungen mit NW- bis N-Vergenz. Die Überschiebungen reißen öfter an NW streichenden Blattverschiebungen auseinander, wodurch das Gefüge im Uhrzeigersinn verdreht wird. Durch die jüngere Zerrungstektonik wurden viele dieser Blattverschiebungen in SW fallende Abschiebungen umgewandelt. Der Wartturmberg wird als autochthone Aufpressung aus der Tiefe gedeutet.  相似文献   

Petrographische Untersuchungen am nordwestdeutschen Posidonienschiefer     

von Gaertner  Hans Rudolf 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1955,43(2):447-463

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt eine Beschreibung der petrographischen Verhältnisse im Posidonienschiefer. An neuen Mineralien wurden anomale zweiachsige Calcite und Whewellit festgestellt. Die Feinschichtung läßt sich nach Zählung von dickeren Lagen als Warvenschichtung erkennen. Kleine Strömungen haben Erosionsrinnen geschaffen. Von besonderem Interesse ist ein Gliederungsversuch der organischen Substanz, die sich in der differentiellen Thermoanalyse als besonders vielfältig erweist. Durch verschiedene Vorgänge bei der Diagenese wird organische durch anorganische Substanz ersetzt. Eine ganze Reihe von solchen diagenetischen Reaktionen werden beschrieben. Der stete Wechsel zwischen Sapropel—Gyttja und sogar sauerstoffreichem Wasser läßt vermuten, daß das Sediment immer wieder ein Stadium durchlief, in dem die Erdölbildung stattfinden konnte. Es kommt also als Erdölmuttergestein voraussichtlich in Frage. Weitere Untersuchungen sind abzuwarten.  相似文献   

On statistical dissipation in GCM-climate     

J.-S. von Storch 《Climate Dynamics》2004,23(1):1-15

This work studies the dissipation that affects the statistical behavior of a climate variable. The hypothesis tested is that the statistical dissipation of large-scale variables in a climate model is significantly influenced by the temporal variations of the models small scale variables. The test is made with the T21 ECHAM4 atmospheric GCM by varying models representation of small-scale variables in two different ways. First, the strength of the horizontal diffusion is modified. Secondly, white noise unrelated to the state of the large-scale variables is added to variables with the smallest scales (wave numbers equal to and smaller than 18). It is found that the statistical dissipations of large-scale variables (e.g., vorticity at wave numbers equal to and larger than six) depend on the intensity of small-scale fluctuations, no matter whether they are induced by modifying the horizontal diffusion or by adding noise. The stronger the small-scale fluctuations, the stronger are the dissipations of the large-scale variables. This result suggests that the simulation of low-frequency climate variations and the prediction of climate change responses depend on the model representation of small-scale climate components.  相似文献   

The determination of cloud altitudes using SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT     

Kokhanovsky  A.A. Rozanov  V.V. von Hoyningen-Huene  W. Bovensmann  H. Burrows  J.P. Baltink  H.K. 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2004,1(3):211-214

This letter shows first results for the application of a recently developed semianalytical cloud retrieval algorithm for the determination of cloud top heights from space. The technique is based on the measurements of the top-of-atmosphere reflectance in the oxygen A-band. The depth of the band depends on the cloud top height and its geometrical thickness. The data obtained are compared to ground-based measurements of the cloud top height using a cloud-profiling radar.  相似文献