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《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(4):201-213
Travertines exposed in several locations in Central Anatolia are the important lithological product for the interpretation of local neotectonics. The fissure-type travertines provide significant information about stress orientation during deposition. Two travertine masses cropping out in the Kirsehir region have been studied and dated by the U-series method to obtain new chronological constraints, determine dilation rates and contribute to studies on the recent tectonic evolution of the area. The Kusdili and Kayabasi travertine masses are located on the hanging wall of the Kirsehir Fault, similar to numerous fissure ridge banded travertine deposits which are inactive today in the region. While individual fissures of the Kusdili travertine mass (Late Pleistocene-Holocene) have been dilated at rates of between 0.303 and 0.386 mm yr–1 during deposition, the Kayabasi travertine mass (Late Pleistocene) produced measured dilation rates of between 0.136 and 0.187 mm yr–1. The central fissures, filled by banded travertine, roughly follow the ridge crests. While the ridge crest has a NNE-SSW trend in the Kayabasi travertine mass, the ridge crest of the Kusdili travertine mass shows a NE-SW trend. This difference may be related to the clockwise rotation of the stress tensors from Late Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene-Holocene in the region. 相似文献
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Although vertebrate fossils are commonly abundant in museum palaeontological collections, they are only rarely accompanied by contextual data (e.g., stratigraphic and taphonomic information) that allow them to be placed independently into reliable temporal frameworks critical for testing significant evolutionary and extinction hypotheses. Moreover, where critical samples do exist in such collections, sampling for direct geochronological analyses becomes a significant concern, especially where such sampling is destructive in nature. Here we apply a direct fossil dating, micro-drilling sampling approach that minimises damage to and destruction of precious museum specimens. We carried out a systematic U–Th dating study (n = 28 ages) of an isolated museum specimen of the extinct Palorchestes azael (megafaunal ‘marsupial tapir’) originally collected in 1977 from Tea Tree Cave, Chillagoe, northeastern Australia. We obtained 21 U–Th ages and constructed 230Th-age profiles across three teeth exposed in cross-section, using micro-drilling and thermal ionisation mass spectrometry. Individual sample masses were as little as 0.18 mg (U concentration 33–82 ppm), meaning that the sampling resulted in only minimal destruction of the specimen. The results show no evidence of U leaching, suggesting that the dates represent reliable minimum ages. For independent age control, we also dated calcite that had encrusted the sample (thus, providing a minimum age; n = 6) and an older calcite clast that had been reworked into the surrounding breccia at the time of burial (thus, providing a maximum age; n = 1). U–Th ages of the teeth are older than the calcite overgrowths and younger than the reworked calcite, consistent with their demonstrable relative age relationships. Collectively, the results unequivocally bracket the age of the fossil between 199.1 ± 8.9 ka and 137.4 ± 1.1 ka (2σ), adding another rare datum to inform the timing and geographic distribution of last occurrences of the species. The benefits of our dating approach of museum fossil specimens are threefold: 1) it is minimally destructive even compared with laser-ablation method; 2) the use of U vs. apparent age approach allows direct testing for potential U leaching as occasionally seen in fossil dating; and 3) the combination of fossil and associated speleothem dating provides the most robust means of securely bracketing the age of fossils that lack firm stratigraphic control. 相似文献
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Yumidong (Corn Cave) is a newly discovered Paleolithic site in the Three Gorges region of central China. Numerous Paleolithic artifacts have been excavated from the sedimentary deposits of the cave in association with faunal remains attributed to the Middle-Late Pleistocene Ailuropoda-Stegodon fauna of southern China. To establish the chronology of the sedimentary sequence (>5 m thick), 14C dating was applied to bone and charcoal samples (n = 6); the U-series method was used to date in situ precipitated speleothems (n = 12), transported speleothem samples (n = 6) and 18 subsamples of a fossil tooth; and the coupled ESR/U-series method was used to date fossil teeth (n = 6). The derived dates were combined using a hierarchical Bayesian approach to generate a unified chronostratigraphy for the Yumidong sequence. In our Bayesian analyses, the 14C and coupled ESR/U-series dates were considered to provide direct age estimates for the target layers, while the U-series dates of the in situ precipitated speleothems and fossil tooth were used as minimum age constraints and those of the transported speleothem fragments as maximum age constraints. The Bayesian analyses provided robust time intervals for the archeological layers: L2-Upper (14–23 ka), L2-Lower (27–63 ka), L3 (106–171 ka), L4 (140–192 ka), L10 (157–229 ka), L11 (181–256 ka), and L12 (214–274 ka) with a probability of 95%, allowing the establishment of a ∼300 ka long geological and archeological history for the Yumidong site and placing it as a reference site for Paleolithic cultural evolution in the Three Gorges region from the late Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene. 相似文献
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Mafic enclaves are commonly found in intermediate arc magmas, and their occurrence has been linked to eruption triggering by pre-eruptive magma mixing processes. New major, trace, Sr–Nd and U–Th isotope data of rocks from Nisyros in the Aegean volcanic arc are presented here. Pre-caldera samples display major and trace element trends that are consistent with fractionation of magnetite and apatite within intermediate compositions, and zircon within felsic compositions, and preclude extensive hybridization between mafic and felsic magmas. In contrast, post-caldera dacites form a mixing trend towards their mafic enclaves. In terms of U-series isotopes, most samples show small 238U excesses of up to 10%. Mafic enclaves have significantly higher U/Th ratios than their dacitic host lavas, precluding simple models that relate the mafic and felsic magmas by fractionation or aging alone. A more complicated petrogenetic scenario is required. The post-caldera dacites are interpreted to represent material remobilized from a young igneous protolith following influx of fresh mafic magma, consistent with the U–Th data and with Sr–Nd isotope constraints that point to very limited (< 10%) assimilation of old crust at Nisyros. When these results are compared to data from Santorini in the same arc, there are many geochemical similarities between the two volcanic centers during the petrogenesis of the pre-caldera samples. However, striking differences are apparent for the post-caldera lavas: in Nisyros, dacites show geochemical and textural evidence for magma mixing and remobilization by influx of mafic melts, and they erupt as viscous lava domes; in Santorini, evidence for geochemical hybridization of dacites and mafic enclaves is weak, dacite petrogenesis does not involve protolith remobilization, and lavas erupt as less viscous flows. Despite these differences, it appears that mafic enclaves in intermediate Aegean arc magmas consistently yield timescales of at least 100 kyrs between U enrichment of the mantle wedge and eruption, on the upper end of those estimated for the eruptive products of mafic arc volcanoes. Finally, the data presented here provide constraints on the rates of differentiation from primitive arc basalts to dacites (less than 140 kyrs), and on the crustal residence time of evolved igneous protoliths prior to their remobilization by mafic arc magmas (greater than 350 kyrs). 相似文献
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Recently, alternative models to estimate the age of diagenetically altered fossil reef corals have been presented based on either redistribution of U or its immediate daughters 234Th and 230Th. Here, we present three methods to estimate the uncertainty of ages derived using an amended version of our coral isochron method [Scholz et al., 2004. U-series dating of diagenetically altered fossil reef corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 218, 163–178], which is based on addition/loss of U. The obtained uncertainties are substantially larger than those previously published and should, in general, be more reliable. The isochron method yields larger uncertainties than alternative models based on Th redistribution due to -recoil processes. However, comparison of model open-system ages based on such redistribution of U-series daughters for different sub-samples from an individual coral specimen shows that the smaller errors derived with these models cannot account for the observed variability. We recognise that none of the available models is applicable to all corals, probably reflecting different diagenetic processes even in different sub-samples from one coral specimen. To better understand the diagenetic processes and precisely constrain the uncertainties of the ages derived from diagenetically altered corals, the application of all available models is recommended. 相似文献
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266 to 46 ka) based on a speleothem stable carbon isotope record Edward J. Hodge David A. Richards Peter L. Smart Bartolom Andreo Dirk L. Hoffmann Dave P. Mattey Antonio Gonzlez-Ramn 《Quaternary Research》2008,69(3):447-457
We present the longest-duration directly dated terrestrial palaeoclimate record from the western Mediterranean region: a flowstone speleothem from Gitana Cave, southeast Spain. The main phase of growth was 274 to 58 ka, dated by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) U-series methods. Effective precipitation, which we consider primarily responsible for flowstone calcite δ13C variations, measured at 300 μm resolution, was higher during interglacials associated with marine oxygen isotope stages (MIS) 7 and 5, and lower during glacial MIS 6. There is a close correspondence between speleothem δ13C and sea surface temperature (SST) estimates from adjacent Atlantic Ocean cores during MIS 6, which implies that oceanic conditions are critical in controlling the western Mediterranean terrestrial moisture balance during glacial periods. Other features of our record, such as the sequence of termination II warming/moistening between approximately 133 and 127 ka, including a “pause” around 130–128 ka, and the lagged termination of MIS 5 warm intervals (5e, 5c and 5a) are similar to other terrestrial records within the Mediterranean basin, indicating climate synchroneity along the northern Mediterranean coast. The Gitana cave region also may have been a refugium for temperate species during short-lived cold/arid periods during MIS 5. 相似文献
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ZhiGang Zeng ShaoXiong Yu XueBo Yin XiaoYuan Wang GuoLiang Zhang XiaoMei Wang DaiGeng Chen 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2009,52(7):913-924
The geochemical and U-series isotopic characteristics of hydrothermal sulfide samples from the Jade site (127°04.5′E, 27°15′N,
water depth 1300–1450 m) at Jade site in the Okinawa Trough were analyzed. In the hydrothermal sulfide samples bearing sulfate
(samples HOK1 and HOK2), the LREEs are relatively enriched. All the hydrothermal sulfide samples except HOK1 belong to Zn-rich
hydrothermal sulfide. In comparison with Zn-rich hydrothermal sulfides from other fields, the contents of Zn, Pb, Ag, Cd,
Au and Hg are higher, the contents of Fe, Al, Cr, Co, Ni, Sr, Te, Cs, Ti and U lower, and the 210Pb radioactivity ratios and 210Pb/Pb ratios very low. In the hydrothermal sulfide mainly composed of sphalerite, the correlations between rare elements Hf
and U, and Hf and Mn as well as that between dispersive elements Ga and Zn, are strongly positive; also the contents of Au
and Ag are related to Fe-sulfide, because the low temperature promotes enrichment of Au and Ag. Meanwhile, the positive correlations
between Fe and Bi and between Zn and Cd are not affected by the change of mineral assemblage. Based on the 210Pb/Pb ratios of hydrothermal sulfide samples (3.99×10−5-5.42×10−5), their U isotopic composition (238U content 1.15–2.53 ppm, 238U activity 1.07–1.87 dpm/g, 234U activity 1.15–2.09 dpm/g and 234U/238U ratio 1.07–1.14) and their 232Th and 230Th contents are at base level, and the chronological age of hydrothermal sulfide at Jade site in the Okinawa Trough is between
200 and 2000 yr.
Supported by the Pilot Project of Knowledge Innovation Project, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-211), National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40830849, 40176020), and Special Foundation for the Eleventh Five Plan of
COMRA (Grant No. DYXM-115-02-1-03) 相似文献
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A. Joshua West Gideon M. Henderson Michael J. Bickle 《中国地球化学学报》2006,25(B08):272-272
The causal links between physical erosion and chemical weathering remain poorly constrained, despite their importance for understanding landscape evolution, nutrient supply for ecosystem development, and the quantitative impact of tectonic uplift on the long-term carbon cycle and Earth＇s climate. This is partly because weathering processes are particularly complicated at high erosion rates, where there are a variety of controlling parameters. The Himalayas provide an ideal natural laboratory for studying weathering processes across an environmental gradient undergoing rapid erosion. We have previously used solute budgets to determine weathering rates in small catchments in the High Himalayas and Middle Hills of central Nepal. In-situ weathering rates are highest in the warmer Middle Hills, while the total riverine budgets suggest that much of the weathering of High Himalayan material must occur after erosion, during transport through the Ganges Plain （West et al., 2002）. Here, we will present new data on the geochemistry of the solid phase （soils and sediments） from these small Himalayan catchments, including time constraints from U-series analysis. This will provide information about the residence time of material in the weathering environment, and its relation to weathering rates. 相似文献
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南沙群岛永暑礁7个表层礁坪原生块状珊瑚的高精度TIMS U-Th和12个常规^14C测年结果表明,永暑礁表层礁坪形成于现代,与钻探研究结果吻合。全新世永暑礁系从约7300aBP开始,以现代礁坪面以下17m左右的晚更新世礁灰岩为基底连续发育至今,因此,与南海周边地区的珊瑚礁不同,南沙群岛珊瑚礁的表层块状珊瑚不能够提供全新世高海平面的证据。由于现代珊瑚礁的堆积速率大于地壳沉降速率,可能会形成更多的灰沙洲或灰沙岛。 相似文献
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综述了20多年来洋中脊新生玄武岩中铀系不平衡研究成果,分析了铀系不平衡的形成机制和主要影响因素,并探讨了铀系不平衡研究中的一些问题。结果表明:(1)玄武质岩浆中230Th/238U不平衡可能产生于石榴子石稳定的深部源区,也可能来自230Th的"内部增长"(in-growth),过剩230Th更可能形成于含铝单斜辉石;(2)226Ra/230Th不平衡可能来自岩浆的形成过程,也可能来自岩浆迁移过程;(3)铀系不平衡与岩浆滞留时间和上升速率紧密相关,226Ra的大量过剩显示,这个不平衡事件形成于8ka以内,如果不考虑玄武质岩浆迁移过程的事件,则意味着岩浆迁移时间不超过8ka。提出当前亟待解决的问题:①准确模拟地幔部分熔融条件并测定铀系子体在熔体/地幔残留相间的分配系数;②提出更合理的结晶分异模型;③探索流体对226Ra/230Th不平衡的影响。 相似文献