Fusulinoidean faunal succession of a Paleo–Tethyan oceanic seamount in the Changning–Menglian Belt, West Yunnan, Southwest China: An overview     

Katsumi Ueno  Yujing Wang  Xiangdong Wang 《Island Arc》2003,12(2):145-161

Abstract   Fusulinoidean faunal succession from Paleo–Tethyan seamount-type carbonates of the Yutangzhai section in the Central zone of the Changning–Menglian Belt of West Yunnan, Southwest China, is presented for the first time. The Changning–Menglian Belt is one of the orogenic belts that represent the closed main Paleo–Tethys in East Asia. The Yutangzhai section is represented by basalts and overlying carbonates, about 1100 m thick. It exhibits a continuous faunal succession composed of 17 fusulinoidean assemblages ranging from the Serpukhovian (late Mississippian/late Early Carboniferous) to Midian/Capitanian (late Middle Permian/late Guadalupian). No significant faunal break can be recognized in this section. The generic and some specific composition of the Yutangzhai assemblages indicates that the faunal succession is similar to those observed in Tethyan and Panthalassan areas and is of tropical Tethyan type although their generic diversity is definitely lower than those of Paleo–Tethyan shelves, such as South China, Indochina, and Central Asia. Throughout the Yutangzhai section, the carbonate rocks are essentially massive, very pure in composition, and devoid of terrigenous siliciclastic inputs. These lithologic characters are identical to those observed in accreted shallow-marine carbonate successions of seamount origin in Permian and Jurassic accretionary complexes of Japan, for example the Akiyoshi Limestone. This evidence further demonstrates the seamount origin of the basalt–limestone succession in the Central zone of the Changning–Menglian Belt from the viewpoint of lithofacies. In middle Mississippian (middle Early Carboniferous) time, oceanic submarine volcanism that was probably related to hot spot activities formed a number of seamounts and oceanic plateaus. It was active not only in the Panthalassa, but also in the Paleo–Tethys.  相似文献   

Compositional variation and genesis of ferromanganese crusts of the Afanasiy—Nikitin Seamount, Equatorial Indian Ocean   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

R. P. Rajani  V. K. Banakar  G. Parthiban  A. V. Mudholkar  A. R. Chodankar 《Journal of Earth System Science》2005,114(1):51-61

Eight ferromanganese crusts (Fe-Mn crusts) with igneous and sedimentary substrates collected at different water depths from the Afanasiy-Nikitin Seamount are studied for their bulk major, minor and rare earth element composition. The Mn/Fe ratios < 1.5 indicate the hydrogenetic accretion of the Fe-Mn hydroxides. These Fe-Mn crusts are enriched in Co (up to 0.9%, average ∼ 0.5%) and Ce. The Ce-content is the highest reported so far (up to 3763 ppm, average ∼ 2250 ppm) for global ocean seamount Fe-Mn crusts. In spite of general similarity in the range of major, minor, and strictly trivalent rare earth element composition, the dissimilarity between the present Fe-Mn crusts and the Pacific seamount Fe-Mn crusts in Co and Ce associations with major mineral phases indicates inter-oceanic heterogeneity and region-specific conditions responsible for their enrichment. The decrease in Ce-anomaly (from ∼ 8 to ∼ 1.5) with increasing water depth (from ∼ 1.7 km to ∼ 3.2 km) might suggest that the modern intermediate depth low oxygen layer was shifted and sustained at a deeper depth for a long period in the past.  相似文献   

Pacific seamount volcanism in space and time     

J. K. Hillier 《Geophysical Journal International》2007,168(2):877-889

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西北太平洋富钴结壳的钙质超微化石地层学研究及意义   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

潘家华  张静  刘淑琴  万晓樵 《地球学报》2007,28(5):411-417

本文对采自西北太平洋某海山的CHA56富钴结壳样品进行了钙质超微化石及生物地层学的研究与分析,并对其所折射的时代意义进行了探讨.该结壳从构造上分为3层:致密型上层、疏松型中层和致密型下层.在研究中对各构造层和各分层有颜色或细微构造变化的层位都进行了取样分析.在识别化石的基础上,确定了该结壳的疏松型中层为晚中新世到晚上新世(0.5～11.9 Ma)沉积;致密型下层为晚古新世到晚渐新世(56.3～23.2Ma)沉积.研究发现,在致密型下层和疏松型中层之间存在沉积间断.研究认为,新生代渐新世/中新世(O/M)时太平洋深水海洋环境的变化,可能是导致西北太平洋海山上3层构造结壳下、中层间显微构造、色泽和成分发生变化和沉积间断产生的主要原因,下、中层间的界面成为结壳生长过程中一个特定的时间标识.  相似文献   

Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of Middle Ordovician Ocean Island Basalts from the Chagantaolegai Ophiolitic Mélange in Junggar, NW China     

CHEN Jiafu  LI Rongyan  MA Haitao  HAN Baofu  LIU Junlai 《《地质学报》英文版》2021,95(4):1099-1111

Seamount accretion is one of the most significant accretionary orogenic processes in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, but there are few paleo-seamounts reported from and debate on the tectonic evolution of the Junggar Ocean still exists. In this study, we present geochronological, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic data for basalts from the Chagantaolegai ophiolitic mélanges in Junggar. Zircon U-Pb dating on one basalt yielded a weighted mean 206 Pb/238 U age of 469 ± 7 Ma, which suggests that it formed in the Middle Ordovician. All rock samples belong to alkaline basalt and show similar geochemical characteristics, displaying high TiO2(～3 wt%),(La/Yb)N(17.6–19.0), ΣREE(232–289 ppm) and enrichment in Nb and Ta, which implies an ocean island basalt(OIB) affinity. Based upon positive εN d(t)(+4.16 to +4.23), ΔNb(0.20–0.22) and low initial 87 Sr/86 Sr(0.70425 to 0.70452) and Zr/Nb(3.35–3.57), we suggest that the Chagantaolegai OIB samples were likely derived from a fertile mantle source related to plume. The OIB rock assemblage, chert and marble in the southern part of the Chagantaolegai ophiolitic mélange indicates that a Middle Ordovician seamount was accreted to the Boshchekul-Chingiz arc due to the northward subduction of the Junggar-Balkhash Ocean.  相似文献   

基于宏基因组测序研究中太平洋海山富钴结壳区非培养微生物生态功能     

霍颖异  程虹  Anton F. Post  王春生  江夏薇  潘杰  吴敏  许学伟 《海洋学报(英文版)》2015,34(4):92-113

富钴结壳是一种重要的海底矿产资源.富钴结壳是生物地球化学和微生物学的研究热点,但目前我们对富钴结壳区的微生物群落结构仍缺乏认识.本研究针对中太平洋海山富钴结壳区沉积物,采用非培养方法获得微生物基因组信息并分析其生态学功能.采用PCR的方法筛选得到78个带有16S rRNA基因的克隆.变形杆菌门和奇古菌门MGI类群分别为古菌和细菌的主要类群.测序并分析了9个带有16S rRNA 基因的fosmid克隆.这些克隆中含有较多的代谢相关和重金属抗性相关基因,表明多样的代谢和抗逆途径在微生物适应富钴结壳环境中发挥了重要作用.代谢途径分析表明,氮循环是富钴结壳区一种重要的生物地球化学过程.此外,发现多个水平基因转移事件,这些基因大部分转移自细菌,少量转移自古菌或植物.比较基因组分析表明,属于奇古菌门MGI类群的克隆W4-93包含一段共线性的基因簇.以上结果说明水平基因转移和基因组分歧进化在微生物适应深海环境过程中发挥了重要作用.  相似文献   

东太平洋海盆海山玄武岩特征   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

康长生  梁德华  廖志良 《海洋地质与第四纪地质》1997,(2)

东太平洋海山玄武岩属于大洋岛屿拉斑玄武岩，主要由橄榄拉斑玄武岩、石英拉斑玄武岩和橄榄玄武岩组成，具有拉斑玄武岩系列和过渡玄武岩系列。岩石具有基质为拉斑玄武结构或间隐结构的斑状结构和气孔构造，斑晶主要由拉长石和普通辉石组成，基质除拉长石和玻璃质外，还有少量普通辉石和磁铁矿等，岩石化学成分中Ａｌ２Ｏ３、Ｎａ２Ｏ、Ｋ２Ｏ含量偏高。玄武岩中稀土元素分配型式基本相同，曲线较平坦，稀土分馏不明显，具Ｃｅ、Ｅｕ负异常，反映岩石具有共同的成因，属晚白垩世以来的产物  相似文献   

南海中部海山性质研究   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

杨金玉  张训华  王修田 《海洋科学》2001,25(7):31-34

南海海底的海山和海丘是南海成过程中的产物，如何理解它们的性质，直接关系到如何构建南海的形成演化机制。通过重力异常场计算、地质剖面模型拟合的方法分析指出南海海山有年轻的大洋玄武岩海山，也有包含了大陆玄武岩的“双性”海山。  相似文献   

Erratic continental rocks on volcanic seamounts off the US west coast     

Jennifer B. Paduan  David A. Clague 《Marine Geology》2007,246(1):1-8

Sampling of volcanic seamounts with dredges and the remotely operated vehicle Tiburon recovered erratic rocks in surprising abundance as far as 500km offshore of the US West coast. The erratics usually have continental lithologies and appear to have been weathered in nearshore environments. They are probably transported by kelp holdfasts, drift logs, and pinnipeds to the seamounts, where they accumulate over time. The erratics are concentrated as lag deposits and kept from becoming buried in sediment by currents that sweep the seamounts. The erratics often have thinner manganese-oxide crusts than rocks of the seamounts because they were delivered to the seafloor more recently and manganese-oxide crusts precipitate over time. The thinner crusts make erratics easier to collect. While most of the erratics clearly did not originate by the volcanic processes that formed the seamounts, careful evaluation of some is necessary to distinguish them as erratics. Failure to recognize the presence of erratics may result in unrealistically complex interpretations of regional geology.  相似文献   

An Eta-Coordinate Version of the Princeton Ocean Model   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Yiyong Luo  Changlong Guan  Dexing Wu 《Journal of Oceanography》2002,58(4):589-597

The Princeton Ocean Model (POM) is widely used in both the research and real-time marine forecast communities. However, there is a single heavily criticized feature and shortcoming of POM, i.e., the pressure gradient (PG) error associated with sloping topography. To overcome this problem, in this paper we present an eta-coordinate POM (ECPOM). The eta-coordinate system was originally adopted in atmospheric numerical models and has proved to be effective in removing the large errors associated with the horizontal pressure gradient force and advection and diffusion terms along a steeply sloping topography. A familiar idealized seamount problem is used to test the PG error in the ECPOM in order to isolate errors from other sources, as is done in the literature. The model is set up so that, ideally, the ocean should be at rest forever; any development of circulation is regarded as numerically artificial. Results show that in ECPOM, errors are dramatically reduced by two orders of magnitude over a wide range of parameters. As a trade-off, the bottom boundary of the ECPOM is a stepwise instead of a continuous one, as in the sigma-coordinate POM (SCPOM). Modification of the SCPOM to the ECPOM is straightforward and minimal. Compared to the z-coordinate model, the ECPOM is numerically simpler since the eta-coordinate has a surface-following character. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献