Teaching about relict, no-analog landscapes     

Arthur L. Bloom   《Geomorphology》2002,47(2-4)

Only a few very young landforms are the result of currently operating geomorphic processes. Because the time scale for landscape evolution is much longer than the time scale for late Cenozoic climate changes, almost all landscapes are palimpsests, written over repeatedly by various combinations of climate-determined processes. Relict glacial and periglacial landforms are widely identified in mid-latitude regions that have been traditionally described as having been shaped by the “normal” processes of fluvial erosion. Less confidently, deeply weathered regolith and associated relict landforms in the middle and high latitudes are attributed to early Tertiary warmth. However, assemblages of geomorphic processes specific to certain climatic regions, like faunal and floral assemblages, cannot be translated across latitude, so in spite of the many books about the geomorphology of specific modern climate regions, there are few sources that discuss former warm high-latitude, or cold low-latitude, low-altitude geomorphic processes that have no modern analogs. Students and teachers alike who attempt to interpret landforms by extrapolating modern climatic conditions to other latitudinal zones will find their outlook broadened, and they become better prepared to consider the geomorphic impacts of global climate change.  相似文献   

The property, age and formation environment of the palaeokarst in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau     

GAO Quan-zhou  CUI Zhi-jiu  TAO Zhe  LIU Geng-nian  HONG Yun 《地理学报》2002,12(2):144-152

The karst landforms distributed on the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau can be genetically classed with the Tertiary underground karst, which were gradually exhumed to the surface with the uplift of the plateau during Quaternary period. The relative deposits of the Tertiary palaeokarst processes, such as the residuum and speleothem, were discovered recently in the southern and southeastern fringe areas of the plateau, where has geological-currently been disintegrated by the headward erosion processes of the modern river systems. The major chemical components of the clay portion of the residuum consist mainly of SiO2C, Al2CO3 and Fe2O3. The clay minerals composition of the clay portion belongs to illite-kaolinite pattern for most of the residuum samples, and kaolinite-illite pattern for a few of the samples. It can be judged from the silicic acid index and the clay minerals composition that the formation of the residuum of the Plateau was in its initial phase. However, such a lower chemical weathering index only reflected the weathering degree in the bottom or lower parts of the lateritic weathering crust. The relatively intensive chemical weathering processes of the surface layers of the lateritic weathering crust could be logically speculated. The surface feature textures of quartz grains in the residuum were formed mainly by the chemical erosion, which revealed a long-term humid-tropical environment when the residuum and the palaeokarst formed.  相似文献   

中国东部陆缘中区第三纪构造-火山事件及其对含油气盆地的控制   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3  

宋维海  张兴洲  王璞珺 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》2003,33(4):479-484

中国东部陆缘中区第三纪主要发育5期构造-火山事件高峰，分别发生在58～46Ma、38～36Ma、26～24Ma、20～16Ma、8～4Ma。形成的火山岩岩性相对单一，主要为玄武岩，大量隐伏于新生代含油气断陷盆地中，这与裂谷作用有关，而野外露头区只发育古新世、中新世和上新世火山岩。研究表明，火山作用伴随着盆地发育的全过程。成盆早期的火山岩代表着裂谷作用的开始。成盆中期火山活动相对强烈，不但形成大量火山岩，而且也是盆地生油岩发育的主要时期。盆地形成后期火山作用微弱。新生代火山作用的中心往往成为成盆中心和油气聚集区。  相似文献   

东营凹陷第三系隐蔽油气藏的地震预测研究   总被引：6，自引：4，他引：6  

林松辉  王华  王兴谋  韩宏伟  潘兴祥  崔红庄 《地质科技情报》2003,22(2):57-62

论述了山东省东营凹陷第三系隐蔽油气藏(四大类：岩性型、地层型、裂隙型和复合型)的识别与地震预测技术，应用相干分析、地震属性分析和Stratamagic等地球物理勘探技术，对隐蔽油气藏进行了预测、描述及油气综合评价，为勘探开发提供了井位，取得了显著的效果。  相似文献   

福建龙永煤田二叠纪(竹蜓)生物带的面貌特征与对比     

胡兆曦 《中国煤田地质》2003,(4)

研究地层是有效寻找沉积矿产的重要基础,将龙永煤田内关于的层位及分带性与大区域上的相似层位作了对比,并论述了本煤田的特征与变迁的基本过程。最后,结合多年来的研究成果,就煤田内的产出情况,作了两点必要的说明。  相似文献   

Palaeomagnetic evidence for Tertiary counterclockwise rotation of Adria     

E. Mrton  K. Drobne  V. osovi  A. Moro 《Tectonophysics》2003,377(1-2):143

With the aim of obtaining Tertiary palaeomagnetic directions for the Adriatic Foreland of the Dinaric nappe system, we carried out a palaeomagnetic study on platform carbonates from stable Istria, from the northwestern and the Central Dalmatia segment of imbricated Adria. Despite the weak to very weak natural remanences of these rocks, we obtained tectonically useful palaeomagnetic directions for 25 sites from 20 localities. All exhibit westerly declinations, both before and after tilt correction. Concerning the age of the magnetizations, we conclude that five subhorizontal and magnetite bearing Eocene localities from stable Istria are likely to carry primary remanence, whereas three tilted and hematite-bearing ones were remagnetized. In the northwestern segment of imbricated Adria the cluster of the mean directions improved after tectonic correction indicating pre-tilting magnetization. In contrast, Maastrichtian–Eocene platform carbonates from Central Dalmatian were remagnetized in connection with the late Eocene–Oligocene deformation or Miocene hydrocarbon migration. Based on the appropriate site/locality means, we calculate mean palaeomagnetic directions for the above three areas and suggest an alternative interpretation of the data of Kissel et al. [J. Geophys. Res. 100 (1995) 14999] for the flysch of Central Dalmatia. The four area mean direction define a regional palaeomagnetic direction of Dec=336°, Inc=+52°, k=107, α₉₅=9°. From these data we conclude that stable Istria, in close coordination with imbricated Adria, must have rotated by 30° counterclockwise in the Tertiary, relative to Africa and stable Europe. We suggest that the latest Miocene–early Pliocene counterclockwise rotations observed in northwestern Croatia and northeastern Slovenia were driven by that of the Adriatic Foreland, i.e. the rotation of the latter took place between 6 and 4 Ma.  相似文献   

西安市近50年来气候变化多时间尺度分析   总被引：79，自引：4，他引：79  

邓自旺  林振山 《高原气象》1997,16(1):81-93

利用Ｍｏｒｌｅｔ小波变换法分析了西安市近５０年月平均气温距平和月降水量距平变化的多层次时间尺度结构，发现西安市气候变化除１年的自然周期变化和２０－４０年尺度范围的周期变化信号在全时间域中都强小，其它时间尺度的周期变化在时间域中分布很不均匀，具有很强的局部化特征，西安市月平均气温距平变化主要表现为随机振荡，无特征尺度，而月降水量距平变化则有显著的４～５月的时间尺度，西安市气候变化受地理条件的影响较大  相似文献   

基于小波变换的动态地震活动周期分析   总被引：25，自引：0，他引：25  

杜兴信 《地震》1997,17(3):257-264

利用Ｍｏｒｌｅｔ小波变换对华北、中国大陆和陕西的地震活动进行了动态周期分析。结果表明，地震活动既存在比较稳定的周期，也有一定时变性，如华北近５００ａ来存在比较稳定的３００ａ周期和６０ａ左右周期，陕西近２０ａ来存在比较稳定的２￣３ａ周期，中国大陆５级以上地震在１９１０￣１９８０年普遍存在３０ａ左右周期，但在１９８０年后变为２０ａ左右周期，小波分析揭示的地震活动周期时变性，一方面提示在依据周期规律外推  相似文献   

论冷战后国际政治的基本态势及世界政治地理的研究任务与重点     

王国梁  刘养洁 《世界地理研究》1997,(2)

本文立足于政冶地理学的基本理论，从冷战后国际政治基本态势的分析入手，系统阐述了当前世界政治地理研究的基本任务，并在此基础上提出了当前及今后一段时期世界政治地理研究应以世界政治地理格局的演变、国家形成与消亡的地理政治背景、国际领土及边界争端和各国行政区划的基本原则为重点。  相似文献   

库车盆地西北缘下第三系碳、氧同位素特征及成岩环境   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

傅启龙 《地层学杂志》1996,20(4):280-284

库车盆地西北缘及柯坪地区下第三系碳酸盐岩稳定同位素分析结果显示氧同位素组成在相对较小的范围内变化，而碳同位素组成变化很大。沉积学研究表明塔拉克组和小库孜拜组海相地层主要为潮坪、萨布哈和渴湖相沉积，在成岩过程中或成岩期后，沉积物不同程度地受到了淡水作用的影响。所分析的样品大部分形成于大气淡水成岩环境，富集１２Ｃ，δ１３Ｃ为正值的样品一般形成于海水成岩环境。稳定同位素分析是研究成岩作用的有效手段之一。  相似文献