High-resolution seabed imagery as a tool for biodiversity conservation planning on continental margins     

Thomas A. Schlacher  Alan Williams  Franziska Althaus  & Monika A. Schlacher-Hoenlinger 《Marine Ecology》2010,31(1):200-221

Submarine canyons increase seascape diversity on continental margins and harbour diverse and abundant biota vulnerable to fishing. Because many canyons are fished, there is an increasing emphasis on including them in conservation areas on continental margins. Here we report on sponge diversity and bottom cover in three canyons of South-eastern Australia, test the performance of biological and abiotic surrogates, and evaluate how biological data from detailed seabed surveys can be used in conservation planning in these habitats. The biological data on sponge assemblage structure and species richness were obtained from 576 seafloor images taken between 148 and 472 m depth, yielding 65 morphospecies. Seafloor characteristics were similar within and between canyons, being almost exclusively composed of sediments with very few rocky substrates of higher relief. This environmental homogeneity did not, however, translate into biological uniformity of the megabenthos, and environmental factors were consequently poor predictors of biological features. By contrast, total bottom cover of sponges was highly correlated with species richness and served as a good proxy for species-level data in this situation. Design strategies that employ information on cover or richness of sponges provided a large dividend in conservation effort by dramatically reducing the number of spatial units required to achieve a specified conservation target of 50–90% of species to be included in reserves. This demonstrates that image-derived data are useful for the design of reserves in the deep sea, particularly where extractive sampling is not warranted. Using biological data on the sponge megabenthos to identify conservation units can also minimise socio-economic costs to fisheries because of a smaller geographic and bathymetric ambit of conservation areas.  相似文献   

The Triassic of the Thakkhola (Nepal). I: stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of a north-east Gondwanan rifted margin     

U. von Rad  S. Dürr  J. G. Ogg 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1994,83(1):76-106

The Mesozoic sediments of Thakkhola (central Nepal) were deposited on a broad eastern north Gondwanan passive margin at mid-latitudes (28–41 °S) facing the Southern Tethys ocean to the north. The facies is strikingly similar over a distance of several thousand kilometres from Ladakh in the west to Tibet and to the paleogeographically adjacent north-west Australian margin (Exmouth Plateau, ODP Legs 122/123) and Timor in the east. Late Paleozoic rifting led to the opening of the Neo-Tethys ocean in Early Triassic times. An almost uninterrupted about 2 km thick sequence of syn-rift sediments was deposited on a slowly subsiding shelf and slope from Early Triassic to late Valanginian times when break-up between Gondwana (north-west Australia) and Greater India formed the proto-Indian Ocean. The sedimentation is controlled by (1) global events (eustasy; climatic/oceanographic changes due to latitudinal drift; plate reorganization leading to rift-type block-faulting) and (2) local factors, such as varying fluvio-deltaic sediment input, especially during Permian and late Norian times. Sea level was extremely low in Permian, high in Carnian and low again during Rhaeto-Liassic times. Third-order sea-level cycles may have occurred in the Early Triassic and late Norian to Rhaeto-Liassic. During the Permian pure quartz sand and gravel were deposited as shallowing upward series of submarine channel or barrier island sands. The high compositional maturity is typical of a stable craton-type hinterland, uplifted during a major rifting episode. During the early Triassic a 20–30 m thick condensed sequence of nodular ‘ammonitico rosso’-type marlstone with a ‘pelagic’ fauna was deposited (Tamba Kurkur Formation). This indicates tectonic subsidence and sediment starvation during the transgression of the Neo-Tethys ocean. During Carnian times a 400 m thick sequence of fining upward, filament-rich wackestone/shale cycles was deposited in a bathyal environment (Mukut Formation). This is overlain by about 300 m of sandy shale and siltstone intercalated with quartz-rich bioclastic grain- to rudstone (Tarap Shale Formation, late Carnian-Norian). The upper Norian to (?lower) Rhaetian Quartzite Formation consists of (sub)arkosic sandstones and pure quartz arenites, indicating different sediment sources. The fluvio-deltaic sandstones are intercalated with silty shale, coal and bioclastic limestone, as well as mixed siliciclastic-bioclastic rocks. The depositional environment was marginal marine to shallow subtidal. The fluvio-deltaic influence decreased towards the overlying carbonates of Rhaeto-Liassic (?) age (Jomosom Formation correlative with the Kioto Limestone), when the region entered tropical paleolatitudes resulting in platform carbonates.  相似文献   

New models for evolution of magma-poor rifted margins based on a review of data and concepts from West Iberia and the Alps   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1  

Gianreto?ManatschalEmail author 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2004,93(3):432-466

Direct observation and extensive sampling in ancient margins exposed in the Alps, combined with drill-hole and geophysical data from the present-day Iberia margin, result in new concepts for the strain evolution and near-surface response to lithospheric rupturing at magma-poor rifted margins. This paper reviews data and tectonic concepts derived from these two margins and proposes that extension, leading to thinning and final rupturing of the continental lithosphere, is accommodated by three fault systems, each of them characterized by a specific temporal and spatial evolution during rifting of the margin, by its fault geometry, and its surface response. The data presented in this paper suggest that margin architecture and distribution of rift structures within the future margin are controlled first by inherited heterogeneities within the lithosphere leading to a contrasting behaviour of the future distal and proximal margins during an initial stage of rifting. The place of final break-up appears to be determined early in the evolution of the margin and occurs where the crust has been thinned during a first stage to less than 10 kilometres. During final break-up, the rheology of the extending lithosphere is controlled by the thermal structure related to the rise of the asthenosphere and by serpentinization and magmatic processes.Dedicated to Daniel Bernoulli who taught me to compare the geological record of oceans and orogens  相似文献   

A geophysical study of the northern Svalbard continental margin   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Wolfram H. Geissler  Wilfried Jokat 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,158(1):50-66

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Gravity anomalies and segmentation at the East Coast, USA continental margin     

P. Wyer  A. B. Watts 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,166(3):1015-1038

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Structure and early evolution of the Arabian Sea and East Somali Basin   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

P. R. Miles  M. Munschy  & J. Ségoufin 《Geophysical Journal International》1998,134(3):876-888

The Laxmi Ridge is a large-scale basement high buried beneath the sediments of the Indus Fan. The location of the ocean–continent transition (OCT) on this margin has previously been proposed at either the southern edge of the Laxmi Ridge or beyond it towards the India–Pakistan shelf. The former explains the margin-parallel Laxmi Basin as thinned continental crust, the latter as a failed rift of earlier seafloor spreading. To examine the structure of this margin, a reassessment of marine magnetic data has detailed seafloor-spreading magnetic anomalies prior to anomaly 24 in both the Arabian and East Somali basins. The previously identified anomaly 28 is not interpreted as a seafloor-spreading anomaly but as a magnetized basement feature adjacent to, and merging with, the ridge—the Laxmi Spur. New gravity models across the Laxmi Ridge and adjacent margin using ship and satellite data corroborate the existence of underplated crust beneath the Laxmi Ridge and Basin and the location of the OCT at the southern edge of the Ridge. The results are not compatible with the existence of a pre-anomaly 28 phase of seafloor spreading, although large-scale intrusions may be the origin of some of the basement features in the Laxmi Basin. The models also identify the Laxmi Spur as a low-density feature with a natural remanent magnetization (NRM) compatible with serpentinization. The Laxmi Ridge is mapped to the southeast, where it appears to terminate at a point coinciding with the appearance of E–W magnetic lineations and gravity anomalies at 15.5°N. Thereafter it becomes indistinct. This is interpreted as necessary in the reconstruction to the Mascarene Plateau to avoid continental overlap.  相似文献   

中扬子台地及其南缘早奥陶世道保湾期生态地层     

肖传桃  朱忠德  胡明毅  李相明 《沉积与特提斯地质》1997,17(2):53-57

通过对中扬子台地及其南缘早奥陶世道保湾期生态地层的研究，划分出了7个生态相域，即：Batostoma-Calathium群落台地生物礁生态相域、Calathium-Archaeoscyphia群落台地生物礁生态相域、Sinorthis群落内陆棚生态相域、Cameroceras群落中一外陆棚生态相域、Endoceras群落深水斜坡生态相域、Tatragraptus群落盆地边缘生态相域、Didymograptus群落深水盆地生态相域。根据生态相域的组合特征，建立了4个生态相区和1个生态相体系。生态地层研究的结果揭示了中扬子台地及其南缘道保湾期的生态特征、古生物地理和古构造及沉积古地理等特征。  相似文献   

新地球动力学模式的探讨     

吴友林  林舸 《华东地质学院学报》1996,19(1):7-13

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A tensile, flexural model for the initiation of subduction   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

David V. Kemp  David J. Stevenson 《Geophysical Journal International》1996,125(1):73-93

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Imaging of convergent zones by seismic acquisition and processing     

Manik  Talwani Walter  Kessinger 《Island Arc》1997,6(3):327-335

Abstract The complex crustal geology of convergent zones requires carefully planned seismic experiments for accurate imaging. Situations that require 2-D or 3-D experiments, pre-stack or post-stack processing, and time or depth migration, are discussed. Some of the advanced techniques available for seismic processing are described. Some results of 3-D post-stack depth migration of a 3-D data set on the Barbados margin that were obtained by the University of Texas Institute of Geophysics and reprocessed at the Houston Advanced Research Center illustrate the advantage of three-dimensionality, and the value of advanced processing techniques.  相似文献