Inflorescences of Mauldinia sp. (Lauraceae) and associated fruits from the Cenomanian of Languedoc Roussillon,France     

《Cretaceous Research》2016

Inflorescences of Mauldinia (Lauraceae) are described from the middle Cenomanian Pauletian facies of Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, south-eastern France. This is the first record of the genus from this part of Europe. Mauldinia sp. is described based on peduncles and lateral units. Isolated, slender peduncles show spirally arranged scars or rarely attached lateral units. Isolated lateral units consist of cladode-like structures showing up to seven flower/fruit scars. Some isolated fruits were found associated with peduncles and lateral units. Fruits are ovoid fruits contain a single, elongated seed. The pericarp consists of epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. The seed consists of two cotyledons containing well-developed reserve cells. Mauldinia sp. from Gard differs from known Mauldinia species by having longer internodes along the peduncle and by the shape of the lateral units. Sedimentological and palaeontological evidence suggests that Mauldinia sp. from Gard grew in a protected, littoral environment with limited marine influence. This report provides new information to the relatively poorly known Cretaceous record of angiosperms in France. The occurrence of Mauldinia in the lower Upper Cretaceous of Gard corroborates the widespread occurrence of the genus in marginal littoral environments during the mid-Cretaceous.  相似文献   

Role of Siliceous Fossil Dissolution in Downcore Variations of Grain Size and Water Content: Western Margin of Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, NE Equatorial Pacific     

Hoi-Soo Jung  Kap-Sik Jeong  Yong-Shik Chu  Sung-Hyun Park  Ki-Hyune Kim 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2001,19(3):181-195

Grain size and water content in box-core sediments from the Clarion-Clipperton fracture zone (C-C zone) in the northeast equatorial Pacific were analyzed in detail to understand the downcore variations across a hiatus between Quaternary and Tertiary layers. Grain-size distributions in the topmost core sediments show two modes: a coarse mode (peaked at 50 μm) and a fine mode (at 2-25 μm). The coarse mode disappears gradually with depth accompanied by the dissolution of siliceous fossil tests, whereas the fine mode coarsens due to the formation of authigenic minerals. Water content increases abruptly across a color boundary between an upper pale brown layer and a lower dark brown layer that is the hiatus between Quaternary and Tertiary layers. Abundant smectites and microvoid molds, which are created by the prolonged fossil dissolution in the underlying sediment, are attributed for the abrupt downcore variation of water content. Overall variations in grain size and water content in the topmost core sediments in the western C-C zone are possibly constrained by the dissolution of biogenic siliceous fossils. Variations in geotechnical properties related to these changes must be considered in the design of nodule collectors.  相似文献   

A new species of Cyrtophyllitinae (Insecta: Ensifera) from the Cretaceous China     

《Cretaceous Research》2017

A new fossil species of Cyrtophyllitinae, Vitimoilus ovatus sp. nov., is described from the Dabeigou Formation and Yixian Formation of the Lower Cretaceous of China. It is clearly placed in Vitimoilus Gorochov, 1996 according to the following characters: R forking into RA and RP distally, M forking into MA and MP distally; CuA fused with CuPaα distal of the middle of the wing length; cross-veins in basal part of CuPb–CuPaβ area non-strongly curved.  相似文献   

Late Holocene vegetation and climate oscillations in the Qaidam Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Yan Zhao  Zicheng Yu  Xiuju Liu  Fahu Chen 《Quaternary Research》2010,73(1):59-69

Pollen evidence from sediment cores at Hurleg and Toson lakes in the Qaidam Basin was obtained to examine vegetation and climatic change in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The chronologies were controlled by ²¹⁰Pb and ¹³⁷Cs analysis and AMS ¹⁴C dating. Pollen assemblages from both lakes are dominated by Chenopodiaceae (∼ 40%), Artemisia (∼ 30-35%) and Poaceae (∼ 20-25%), with continued occurrence but low abundance of Nitraria, Ephedra, and Cyperaceae. Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae (A/C) pollen ratios from two lakes show coherent large oscillations at centennial timescale during the last 1000 yr. A/C ratios were high around AD 1170, 1270, 1450, 1700 and 1920, suggesting that the vegetation was more “steppe-like” under a relatively moist climate than that during the intervening periods. Wet-dry climate shifts at the two lakes (2800 m asl) are in opposite phases to precipitation changes derived from tree-ring records in the surrounding mountains (> 3700 m asl) and to pollen and snow accumulation records from Dunde ice core (5300 m asl), showing that a dry climate in the basin corresponds with a wet interval in the mountains, especially around AD 1600. This contrasting pattern implies that topography might have played an important role in mediating moisture changes at regional scale in this topographically complex region.  相似文献   

湖南中部中泥盆世的轮藻化石及其生活环境探讨     

曾德敏  胡济民 《湖南地质》2001,20(2):89-91,97

湖南中部长沙、宁乡、益阳、安化、涟源、邵东等县，中泥盆统跳马涧组和棋子桥组产丰富的轮藻化石，以宁乡县崔坪峡塘剖面为代表，有3属7种1型1新种，并首次发现了轮藻植物节部化石，建立了2个化石带：（1）Trochiliscus ingricus-Eochara changshaensis组合带，分布在跳马涧组，时代为中泥盆世早期；（2）Sycidium顶峰带，分布在棋子桥组，时代为中泥盆世晚期，并对轮藻的生活环境进行了探讨。  相似文献   

华东白垩纪暴龙类恐龙蛋化石的新发现   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

钱迈平  姜扬  蒋严根  张元军  陈荣  李龙明  邢光福 《江苏地质》2008,32(2):86-97

华东地区虽然迄今没有发现可靠的暴龙类恐龙骨骼化石,但近年在浙江天台白垩纪赤城山组地层中发现了白垩纪巨型暴龙类恐龙产的西峡巨型长形蛋（Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis）化石。因暴龙类恐龙目前在系统分类上被归入兽足亚目（Theropoda）暴龙超科（Tyrannosauroidea）暴龙科（Tyrannosauridae）,建议巨型长形蛋化石也可采用相应分类方法,归入长形蛋化石亚目（Elongatoolithineae）巨型长形蛋化石超科（Macroelongatoolithoidea）巨型长形蛋化石科（Macroelongatoolithidae）,以便对应研究。这些蛋究竟是哪一种暴龙类恐龙所产？从目前掌握资料分析,在东亚的暴龙类恐龙属种中,冠龙和帝龙个体较小,成年体长分别仅约3m和1．6m,年代更早,分别为约160Ma和130Ma,基本上可以排除在外。鹰龙和分支龙成年体长5m～6m,还不能算巨型暴龙类恐龙。只有体长达10m,甚至更大的特暴龙,似乎最有可能产下这样的巨型长形蛋。但特暴龙迄今已知的化石层位时代为晚白垩世末期的Maastrichtian期（71Ma～65Ma）,而浙江的巨型长形蛋的年代则是晚白垩世早期的Turonian期（约92Ma）。这样就存在两种可能,或许是特暴龙的生存年代要上溯到约92Ma,或许这种巨型长形蛋是另一种目前尚不为人知的,生存年代在约92Ma的巨型暴龙类恐龙所产。此外,根据这些蛋化石的外形特征及其在巢穴里的分布方式可以推测,这种暴龙类恐龙,具有功能双输卵管系统,每次产卵2枚,蛋在巢穴里呈2个一组放射状排列。其蛋壳并非刚性的硬壳,而是具有一定韧性的厚牛皮纸状外壳,在重力作用下变形呈扁的长椭球形。  相似文献   

从浙江天台白垩纪蛋化石复原恐龙类群   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2  

钱迈平  邢光福  陈荣  蒋严根  丁保良  阎永奎  章其华 《江苏地质》2007,31(2):81-89

浙江天台盆地白垩纪地层中,已发现了甲龙类及慢龙类等恐龙骨骼化石及数以千计的蛋化石,其中许多为恐龙蛋化石。根据国内外相同类型的蛋化石中迄今已发现的恐龙胚胎化石研究成果,可大致确定其中一部分蛋化石分别是由鸭嘴龙类、巨龙类、慢龙类、盗蛋龙类、伤齿龙类和暴龙类等恐龙所产。并发现鸭嘴龙类、巨龙类和慢龙类的圆形蛋、副圆形蛋在数量上占绝大多数,盗蛋龙的长形蛋和伤齿龙的棱柱形蛋较少,暴龙类的巨型长形蛋最少,从而反映了他们各自在生态金字塔中的位置。  相似文献   

Is there an Insect Signal for the "Little Ice Age"?     

Paul C. Buckland  Pat E. Wagner 《Climatic change》2001,48(1):137-149

The downturn in temperature in the late medieval period is likely to have had significant impact upon insect distribution. Despite the amount of study fossil insect faunas have been afforded, there is presently little convincing evidence of climatic, rather than human impact upon faunas during the "Little Ice Age". This probably reflects as much the paucity of suitable sites, as the overarching scale of habitat destruction by Man.  相似文献   

云南新生代断陷盆地的环境地质记录   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

贝丰  宋振亚 《地球科学进展》2000,15(1):25-33

盆地的环境地质记录是从盆地的形成、发展演变、沉积物形成的地球化学与古气候环境、沉积物堆积后所经历的压实、成岩来加以研究的。除无机介质(矿物)外的有机质,在成岩压实受热过程中化学成分与结构的变化,也是盆地环境地质记录的一部分,环境地质研究的归宿是对矿产—化石燃料形成与潜能的估价,完整的研究应该包括化石燃料形成(成烃成煤)环境及成藏(保存)环境等。对云南滇西陇川、瑞丽及保山等三个新生代断陷盆地环境地质记录的研究揭示,在极其相似的盆地形成演变、沉积地球化学与古气候、成岩与成烃背景基础上,化石燃料的形成与潜能在三个盆地具有差异性;指出陇川盆地以找寻煤型气及初熟(低熟)油为主,保山盆地以寻找浅部生物成因气及煤型气为主,瑞丽盆地相对潜能较差,仅有生物气浅部产出的可能。  相似文献   

Carbon capture and storage, bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, and the escape from the fossil-fuel lock-in     

Philip J. Vergragt  Nils Markusson 《Global Environmental Change》2011,21(2):282-292

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is increasingly depicted as an important element of the carbon dioxide mitigation portfolio. However, critics have warned that CCS might lead to “reinforced fossil fuel lock-in”, by perpetuating a fossil fuel based energy provision system. Due to large-scale investments in CCS infrastructure, the fossil fuel based ‘regime’ would be perpetuated to at least the end of this century.In this paper we investigate if and how CCS could help to avoid reinforcing fossil fuel lock-in. First we develop a set of criteria to estimate the degree of technological lock-in. We apply these criteria to assess the lock-in reinforcement effect of adding CCS to the fossil fuel socio-technical regime (FFR).In principle, carbon dioxide could be captured from any carbon dioxide point source. In the practice of present technological innovations, business strategies, and policy developments, CCS is most often coupled to coal power plants. However, there are many point sources of carbon dioxide that are not directly related to coal or even fossil fuels. For instance, many forms of bio-energy or biomass-based processes generate significant streams of carbon dioxide emissions. Capturing this carbon dioxide which was originally sequestered in biomass could lead to negative carbon dioxide emissions.We use the functional approach of technical innovations systems (TIS) to estimate in more detail the strengths of the “niches” CCS and Bio-Energy with CCS (BECCS). We also assess the orientation of the CCS niche towards the FFR and the risk of crowding out BECCS. Next we develop pathways for developing fossil energy carbon capture and storage, BECCS, and combinations of them, using transition pathways concepts. The outcome is that a large-scale BECCS development could be feasible under certain conditions, thus largely avoiding the risk of reinforced fossil fuel lock-in.  相似文献