Correlation of the middle devonian formations of Australia     

J. W. Pickett with contribution by J. S. Jell  G. Seddon  P. Telford & A. J. Wright 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(4):457-466

In the Precambrian rocks west and southwest of the Mount Isa Fault three significant fold generations are recognized. Within individual successions, units containing an early phase of deformation are juxtaposed by a late fault against a sequence that does not share these earlier events.

Many of the large‐scale structures in the Judenan Beds are first‐generation folds, whereas west of the Judenan Beds the area is dominated by second‐generation folds. These two sets of folds are tentatively correlated and are referred to as the Judenan Folds. An earlier set of pre‐Judenan folding is only found in the units west of the Judenan Beds. One phase of the Sybella Granite is also associated with the Judenan folding. Later small‐scale folds associated with a crenulation cleavage are, however, of little regional importance and are commonly found only in zones of highly deformed rocks.  相似文献   

Geology and petroleum potential of the Fairway Basin in the Tasman Sea     

N. F. Exon  Y. Lafoy  P. J. Hill  G. R. Dickens  I. Pecher 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(5):629-645

The Fairway Basin is a large, generally north – south-trending, sediment-filled structure in water 1500 – 3000 m deep, on the eastern slope of the Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman Sea, and is partly within Australian jurisdiction. It was poorly known until a few years ago, when seismic profiling and piston coring cruises were carried out. The basin, about 1100 km long and 120 – 200 km wide, can be divided into three segments—north, central and south—that trend northwest, north and north-northwest, respectively. All three segments probably formed by thinning of continental crust during breakup of Lord Howe Rise and surrounding aseismic continental ridges in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene. Normal faulting, large inputs of terrigenous sediment and subsidence to bathyal marine depths occurred during that time. A period of compression, perhaps related to overthrusting on New Caledonia, occurred in the Eocene, leading to uplift (and in parts, erosion) of northern Lord Howe Rise, and reversal of faulting in the basin. By the Oligocene, the area was again in bathyal depths, and pelagic ooze and some turbidites accumulated. The basinal sequence is generally 2000 – 4000 m thick, with 1200 – 3200 m of Cretaceous to Eocene sediment concentrated in depocentres, capped by 500 – 800 m of Oligocene and younger sediment. In the depocentres, numerous sedimentary diapirs pierce sedimentary sequences. The sedimentary diapirs appear to be fed by Cretaceous muds deposited during rifting. Often, these diapirs are overlain by faults extending to the seafloor, and hummocky bathymetry is possibly caused by fluid escape. The overall geology suggests that the Fairway Basin may be a large frontier hydrocarbon province. Seismic profiles display a bottom-simulating reflector above many depocentres, 500 – 700 m below the seafloor. The bottom-simulating reflector has positive polarity, which could result from a diagenetic phase transformation, a thin gas hydrate layer with a sharp top, or from the sharp base of a gas layer (probably beneath gas hydrates). Standard piston cores taken above diapirs and apparent fluid-escape features have recovered little gas. Other than drilling, the next steps in assessing petroleum potential are to clearly document fluid-escape structures, and to sample any fluids emitted for hydrocarbons.  相似文献   

Determination of passive earth pressure with lower bound finite elements limit analysis and modified pseudo-dynamic method     

《Geomechanics and Geoengineering》2013,8(3):218-229

ABSTRACT

The present study deals with the determination of passive earth pressure under seismic condition by following the lower bound finite elements limit analysis and modified pseudo-dynamic methodology. In accordance with the lower bound finite elements formulation, the stress field was modelled using a three-noded triangular elements, while the passive pressure was determined via linear optimisation. The parametric study was performed, for a vertical rigid retaining wall, by varying the magnitude of seismic acceleration in horizontal direction (k_h) between 0 and 0.3, while the vertical seismic acceleration (k_v) was kept equal to 0 or 0.5 k_h. Furthermore, the damping coefficient for dry cohesionless backfill was kept ξ = 10%. The obtained results in various cases were found to be in good agreement with those found in the literature. It is expected that this method can be further used for solving other important geotechnical stability problems.  相似文献   

Analyse quantitative du rifting et de la relaxation thermique de la partie occidentale de la marge transformante nord-africaine: le Rif externe (Maroc)     

Philippe Favre 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(2):59-81

Résumén

Un résumé de la cinématique du Rif externe central et occidental, de la période de rifting aux événements tectoniques récents, est proposé. L’évolution du Rif externe est abordée sur le plan quantitatif par le biais des principaux mécanismes physiques qui ont pu affecter cette partie de la marge nord-africaine durant le Jurassique, le Crétacé et le Paléocène (processus de dilatation thermique lors du rifting et de contraction thermique lors du refroidissement de la lithosphère, effondrement par flexure de la marge nord-africaine lors de la collision). Les géométries et densités obtenues sont comparées avec les données gravimétriques et de sismique réfraction.

Un des aspects du modèle de Wernicke (1985), la dissymétrie du rifting de la marge africaine, semble se vérifier par l’analyse et à la modélisation de la subsidence. Mais celle-ci montre l’existence d’une fusion adiabatique tardive du manteau supérieur dont le modèle de cisaillement simple ne tient pas compte. Le soulèvement de la marge à la fin du rifting ne serait pas dû uniquement à une dilatation thermique car les données de terrain montrent des discordances angulaires importantes sur la marge africaine. Ce soulèvement est attribué localement à la poussée des rides médio-océaniques naissantes de l’Atlantique et du sillon transformant nord-africain.

La modélisation de la subsidence tectonique permet d’expliquer l’absence d’intumescence sous le Rif. Elle est attribuée aux taux d’amincissement crustaux élevés durant les phases d’extension triasico-jurassiques. Cette approche quantitative confirme l’existence d’un bassin intra-continental avorté au sud-ouest et d’une marge continentale sensu stricto au nord-est. Si l’océanisation paraît plus tardive dans la partie rifaine du sillon transformant nord-africain (Callovien) que dans l’Atlantique Central (Bajocien), la subsidence post-rift ne se distingue pas de celle d’une marge passive classique.  相似文献   

燕辽地区长城系串岭沟组及团山子组沉积时代的新制约   总被引：18，自引：15，他引：3  

张拴宏  赵越  叶浩  胡健民  吴飞 《岩石学报》2013,29(7):2481-2490

华北克拉通北部燕辽地区是长城系地层出露最全的标准建组地区之一.近年来研究结果表明长城系地层底界年龄比以往所认为的18亿年明显年轻.新的锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb测年结果显示,平谷熊耳寨团山子组上部钾质火山岩的锆石207 Pb/206 Pb加权平均年龄为1637±15Ma(95％置信度,N=15,MSWD=0.75),一致年龄为1641±4Ma(1σ,N=14,MSWD=0.12),限定了团山子组上部的沉积时代.蓟县青山岭侵位于串岭沟组地层内闪长玢岩脉的锆石207 Pb/206Pb加权平均年龄为1634±9Ma(95％置信度,N=17,MSWD=0.40),表明串岭沟组地层沉积发生在1634±9Ma之前.结合前人大红峪组火山岩的研究结果还表明,燕辽拗拉槽(裂谷)钾质火山岩的喷发开始于1637±15Ma,在大红峪期(～1625Ma)达到高潮.  相似文献   

Zircon U-Pb Ages and Lu-Hf Isotopes for Negative to Low δ18O Magmatic Rocks of Neoproterozoic Age in South China     

ZHANG Shaobing  ZHENG Yongfei 《《地质学报》英文版》2013,87(Z1):286-288

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The effects of scene heterogeneity on soil moisture retrieval from passive microwave data   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ian J. Davenport  Melody J. SandellsRobert J. Gurney 《Advances in water resources》2008

The τ–ω model of microwave emission from soil and vegetation layers is widely used to estimate soil moisture content from passive microwave observations. Its application to prospective satellite-based observations aggregating several thousand square kilometres requires understanding of the effects of scene heterogeneity. The effects of heterogeneity in soil surface roughness, soil moisture, water area and vegetation density on the retrieval of soil moisture from simulated single- and multi-angle observing systems were tested. Uncertainty in water area proved the most serious problem for both systems, causing errors of a few percent in soil moisture retrieval. Single-angle retrieval was largely unaffected by the other factors studied here. Multiple-angle retrievals errors around one percent arose from heterogeneity in either soil roughness or soil moisture. Errors of a few percent were caused by vegetation heterogeneity. A simple extension of the model vegetation representation was shown to reduce this error substantially for scenes containing a range of vegetation types.  相似文献   

Passive L-band microwave soil moisture retrieval error arising from topography in otherwise uniform scenes     

Melody J. Sandells  Ian. J. Davenport  Robert. J. Gurney 《Advances in water resources》2008

Soil moisture is an important component of the water cycle and will be measured for the first time on a global scale by a dedicated passive L-band microwave radiometer that is planned for launch in 2008. Here, the contribution of topography to the error budget is examined for a vegetated scene with uniform microwave emission. Dual-polarization brightness temperature curves were generated over a range of look angles for 1-D scenes with simple geometrical features, and the soil moisture was retrieved assuming a flat surface. The errors were small for the scenarios considered. Theoretical errors were tested for realistic topography with a DEM transect of a mountainous region, and were found to be comparable. Knowledge of the mean slope from high-resolution DEM data can be used to improve the accuracy of the retrieval.  相似文献   

A review of research on seismic behaviour of irregular building structures since 2002   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Mario De Stefano  Barbara Pintucchi 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2008,6(2):285-308

The paper presents an overview of the progress in research regarding seismic response of plan and vertically irregular building structures. Three areas of research are surveyed. The first is the study of the effects of plan-irregularity by means of single-storey and multi-storey building models. The second area encompasses passive control as a strategy to mitigate torsional effects, by means of base isolation and other types of devices. Lastly, the third area concerns vertically irregular structures and setback buildings. Although fewer papers have been published in this last area with respect to the former ones, this state-of-the-art reports extensively on research efforts and progress into the seismic behaviour of irregular buildings in elevation to show the growing interest among specialists in the field.  相似文献   

赣南陂头A型花岗岩的地质地球化学特征及其形成的构造环境   总被引：59，自引：10，他引：49  

范春方  陈培荣 《地球化学》2000,29(4):358-366

赣南陂头岩体主要钾长花岗岩组成,岩石为准铝质（ＡＮＫＣ＝０．９４～１．０７,平均０．９８）,富硅（ＳｉＯ２：７１．０６％～７６．２８％）,富碱（Ｎａ２Ｏ＋Ｋ２Ｏ：８．１％～９．８％）,ＦｅＯ＾Ｔ／ＭｇＯ（％）较高（９．６０～２２．００）,ＣａＯ和ＭｇＯ含量低（分别为０．５８％～１．１６％和０．０７％～０．２５％）,富含稀土元素（∑ＲＥＥ＝２７１．３６～７１７．７５μｇ／ｇ）和高场强元素（Ｙ、Ｚｒ、  相似文献