Late Quaternary lake evolution in the Gaxun Nur basin,central Gobi Desert,China, based on quartz OSL and K‐feldspar pIRIR dating of paleoshorelines     

《第四纪科学杂志》2017,32(3):347-361

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The challenge of dating early pleistocene fossil teeth by the combined uranium series–electron spin resonance method: the Venta Micena palaeontological site (Orce,Spain)     

Mathieu Duval  Christophe Falguères  Jean‐Jacques Bahain  Rainer Grün  Qingfeng Shao  Maxime Aubert  John Hellstrom  Jean‐Michel Dolo  Jordi Agusti  Bienvenido Martínez‐Navarro  Paul Palmqvist  Isidro Toro‐Moyano 《第四纪科学杂志》2011,26(6):603-615

The palaeontological site of Venta Micena (Orce, Andalusia, Spain) lies in the eastern sector of the Guadix–Baza basin, one of the best documented areas in Europe for Plio‐Pleistocene biostratigraphy. The combination of biochronological and palaeomagnetic results, combined with the radiometric data obtained for Atapuerca Sima del Elefante, indicated that the Venta Micena stratum was formed between the Jaramillo and Olduvai palaeomagnetic events, most likely between 1.22 and 1.77 Ma. Five fossil teeth from two outcrops (sites A and B) were selected to assess the potential of combined uranium series–electron spin resonance (US‐ESR) dating of Early Pleistocene sites. Although the US‐ESR results of the first outcrop showed a large scatter between the three teeth, the mean age of 1.37 ± 0.24 Ma can be considered a reasonable age estimate for Venta Micena. The mean ESR age of 0.62 ± 0.03 Ma obtained for site B seems to be a severe underestimation when compared with the independent age control. This underestimation is attributed to a relative recent U‐mobilization event that led to some U‐leaching. The results show that any ESR age calculations of old samples are extremely sensitive to variations in the measured ²³⁰Th/²³⁴U ratios in dental tissues. Although the results demonstrate that ESR can in principle be applied to Early Pleistocene sites, they also reveal the complexity of dating such old teeth. It is necessary to continue research in several directions, such as study of the behaviour of ESR signals in old teeth and understanding recent U‐mobilization processes, to improve the reliability of the combined US‐ESR dating method applied to Early Pleistocene times, a period for which the number of available numerical dating techniques is very limited. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Plio-Pleistocene mammals from Mille-Logya,Ethiopia, and the post-Hadar faunal change     

Denis Geraads  Denne Reed  W. Andrew Barr  René Bobe  Peter Stamos  Zeresenay Alemseged 《第四纪科学杂志》2021,36(6):1073-1089

We describe the non-primate mammalian fauna from the late Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene deposits of Mille-Logya in the Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia, dated to c. 2.9–2.4 Ma, and divided into three successive units: Gafura, Seraitu, and Uraitele. We identify 41 mammalian taxa (including rodents), the most diverse group being the Bovidae, with 17 taxa. While the Gafura assemblage still resembles those from the earlier Hadar Formation, the younger Seraitu assemblage documents a major turnover. While there is little change in the species present across this interval, the relative abundances of various taxa change dramatically, with suids being largely replaced by open-country bovids (Alcelaphini and Antilopini). We interpret this faunal change as reflective of an environmental shift, contemporaneous with the replacement of Australopithecus afarensis by Homo in the area.  相似文献   

A complete titanosaur femur from West Texas with comments regarding hindlimb posture     

《Cretaceous Research》2014

An isolated titanosaur femur recovered from the Javelina Formation (Maastrichtian) of Big Bend National Park, Texas is the most complete example yet reported from North America. The specimen is likely referable to Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, the only titanosaur thus far known from Upper Cretaceous strata in North America, but cannot be attributed with certainty to that taxon. Compared to femora from other titanosaurs, the specimen has a relatively reduced abductor crest, a less elevated femoral head, and a distal joint surface that is orthogonal to the long axis of the shaft. These differences suggest that the Big Bend femur pertains to a species where hindlimb stance was closer to vertical, and with a comparatively narrower gait than other titanosaurids.  相似文献   

Identifying slope processes over time and their imprint in soils of medium‐high mountains of Central Europe (the Karkonosze Mountains,Poland)          下载免费PDF全文

Jaroslaw Waroszewski  Markus Egli  Dagmar Brandová  Marcus Christl  Cezary Kabala  Malgorzata Malkiewicz  Jakub Kierczak  Bartłomiej Glina  Paweł Jezierski 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2018,43(6):1195-1212

Soils in mountainous areas are often polygenetic, developed in slope covers that relate to glacial and periglacial activities of the Pleistocene and Holocene and reflect climatic variations. Landscape development during the Holocene may have been influenced by erosion/solifluction that often started after the Holocene climatic optimum. To trace back soil evolution and its timing, we applied a multi‐methodological approach. This approach helped us to outline scenario of soil transformation. According to our results, some aeolian input must have occurred in the late Pleistocene. During that time and the early Holocene, the soils most likely had features of Cryosols or Leptosols. Physico‐chemical and mineralogical analyses have indicated that the material was denudated (between late Boreal to the Atlantic) from the ridge and upper‐slope positions forming a colluvium at mid‐slope positions. Later, during the Sub‐Boreal, mass wasting of the remains of silt material deposited at the end of the Pleistocene age on the ridge top seems to have occurred. In addition, the cool and moist conditions caused the deposition of a colluvium at the lower‐slope positions. The next phase was characterized by the transformation of Leptosols/Cambisols into Podzols at upper‐slope or shoulder positions and to Albic Cambisols at mid‐slope positions. During the Sub‐Boreal period, Stagnosols started to form at the lower part of the slope catena. Overall, the highest erosion rates were calculated at the upper‐slope position and the lowest rates at mid‐slope sites. Berylium‐10 (¹⁰Be) data showed that the Bs, BC/C were covered during the Holocene by a colluvium with a different geological composition which complicated the calculation of erosion or accumulation rates. The interpretation of erosion and accumulation rates in such multi‐layered materials may, therefore, be hampered. However, the multi‐methodological reconstruction we applied shed light on the soil and landscape evolution of the eastern Karkonosze Mountains. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

甘肃陇中盆地会宁关公滩剖面磁性地层年代学研究   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

吴百灵  邓成龙  孔艳芬  刘素贞  孙蕗  李仕虎  葛俊逸  王元  金昌柱  朱日祥 《地球物理学报》2018,61(4):1390-1399

本文对陇中盆地会宁含小哺乳动物化石的关公滩剖面河湖相沉积序列进行了详细的岩石磁学和磁性地层学研究，磁化率各向异性结果表明关公滩剖面沉积物记录了典型的原生沉积组构，沉积物沉积以后几乎没有受到后期的扰动.最大磁化率主轴方向与现今的古水流流向基本一致，表明区域西高东低的地貌至少在中更新世早期已经形成.磁滞回线、等温剩磁获得曲线的矫顽力谱分析、三轴等温剩磁退磁曲线等岩石磁学结果显示：关公滩剖面河湖相沉积物的磁性矿物有磁铁矿、磁赤铁矿和赤铁矿，其中磁铁矿和赤铁矿是主要的剩磁载体，但其特征剩磁载体以赤铁矿为主.系统退磁结果显示，在大部分样品中，磁铁矿和赤铁矿均记录了几乎相同的特征剩磁的方向，整个剖面呈现单一的正极性.另外，关公滩剖面底部河湖相沉积物中产出丰富的小哺乳动物牙齿化石，经初步研究包括复齿鼠兔（Ochotonoides complicidens）、丁氏鼢鼠（Myospalax tingi）、方氏鼢鼠（Myospalax fontanieri）、变异仓鼠（Cricetinus varians）、大林姬鼠（Cricetinus varians）、复齿旱獭（Marmota complicidens）等六个种类，其中丁氏鼢鼠和复齿鼠兔是相对原始的种类，其时代跨越早更新世至中更新世早期，其他都是我国北方中、晚更新世常见的种类，该小哺乳动物化石组合性质表明其时代很可能为中更新世早期.因此，综合磁性地层学和小哺乳动物生物年代学结果，关公滩剖面记录了布容正极性时的沉积，剖面底部堆积及其哺乳动物群的时代应为中更新世早期.  相似文献   

A 560–440 ka tephra record from the Mercure Basin,southern Italy: volcanological and tephrostratigraphic implications          下载免费PDF全文

BIAGIO GIACCIO  PAOLO GALLI  EDOARDO PERONACE  ILENIA ARIENZO  SEBASTIEN NOMADE  GIAN PAOLO CAVINATO  MARCO MANCINI  PAOLO MESSINA  GIANLUCA SOTTILI 《第四纪科学杂志》2014,29(3):232-248

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扎格罗斯前陆盆地晚中新世快速剥露证据——来自磷灰石(U- Th)/He的约束     

李佳纬  孙继敏  吕丽星  张志亮  田晟辰  曹萌萌  李有生  苏柏 《地质学报》2020,94(12):3674-3688

伊朗扎格罗斯造山带是世界上最年轻的造山带之一，前人对其构造演化历史的研究尚存争议。前陆盆地蕴藏着丰富的造山带热史信息，为研究造山带的隆升和剥露历史提供了重要途径。本研究选取位于扎格罗斯前陆盆地前缘中部的Kuh- E Bedush向斜和Kuh- E Murdeh向斜翼部出露的第三纪陆相红层(Agha Jari组)为研究对象，共采集11个粗砂岩样品进行磷灰石(U- Th)/He测试分析。11个样品共得到38个单颗粒年龄，年龄区间为0. 8~79. 9Ma。大部分样品的单颗粒年龄比较分散，表明这些样品没有发生完全热重置。相反，位于Murdeh向斜剖面最底部的样品，(U- Th)/He年龄小于其对应的地层年龄，并且集中分布在8. 3~6. 8Ma，表明该样品发生了完全重置并记录了最后一次剥露事件的时间。因此，我们认为扎格罗斯前陆盆地于晚中新世~7. 5 Ma经历了一期快速剥露事件。此外，我们发现未重置的(U- Th)/He年龄大致分布在四个时间段：晚白垩纪—早古新世、早—中始新世、渐新世、早—中中新世。根据所得热年龄并结合前人研究设定了三种不同的热史，正演模拟结果与实际样品拟合较好，由此推断出前陆中部Agha Jari陆相红层沉积物可能来自于：①晚白垩世以来以蛇绿岩套为主的仰冲体持续剥露；②萨南达季- 锡尔詹变质带(SSZ)渐新世和中新世逐渐加速的剥露；③渐新世末堆积在仰冲体之上的同造山期砾岩，在中新世的大规模逆冲作用下重新剥露。  相似文献   

Climate control on stacked paleosols in the Pleistocene of the Po Basin (northern Italy)     

Luigi Bruno  Michela Marchi  Ilaria Bertolini  Guido Gottardi  Alessandro Amorosi 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(4):559-571

Paleosols are recurrent features in alluvial successions and provide information about past sedimentary dynamics and climate change. Through sedimentological analysis on six sediment cores, the mud-dominated succession beneath the medieval ‘Two Towers’ of Bologna was investigated down to 100 m depth. A succession of weakly developed paleosols (Inceptisols) was identified. Four paleosols (P1, P2, P3 and PH) were radiocarbon-dated to 40–10 cal ka bp . Organic matter and CaCO₃ determinations indicate low groundwater levels during soil development, which spanned periods < 5 ka. The development and burial of soils, which occurred synchronously in the Bologna region and in other sectors of the Po Plain, are interpreted to reflect climatic and eustatic variations. Climatic oscillations, at the scale of the Bond cycles, controlled soil development and burial during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 (P1 and P2). Rapid sea-level oscillations probably induced soil development at the MIS 3/2 transition (P3) and favored burial of PH after 10 ka bp . Weakly developed paleosols in alluvial successions can provide clues to millennial-scale climatic and environmental variations. In particular, the paleosol-bearing succession of the Po Plain represents an unprecedent record of environmental changes across the Late Pleistocene (MIS 3 and 2) in the Mediterranean region.  相似文献   

东天山博格达晚石炭世双峰式火山岩地球化学特征及意义     

刘亮  李江涛  江辉  杨宇东  何文劲  王莲  王傅佳 《岩石矿物学杂志》2020,39(5):525-538

东天山博格达造山带晚石炭世柳树沟组为一套由玄武岩和流纹岩组成的双峰式火山岩,形成于晚石炭世,其Si O_2含量介于46.18%～46.56%和76.06%～76.25%之间,具有明显的Daly成分间断。其中,玄武岩具富Na贫K特征,Ti O_2、Al_2O_3、Ca O和MgO含量均较高,∑REE为75.54×10~(-6)～80.22×10~(-6),LREE/HREE值为3.00～3.12,以富集Ba、Rb等大离子亲石元素(LILE)和不相容元素(P、K),相对亏损Ti、Ta、Nb等高场强元素(HFSE)和不相容元素(U、Th)为特征;流纹岩Na_2O/K_2O值为0.32～0.36,属低Ti、低Mg类流纹岩,∑REE为520.72×10~(-6)～595.26×10~(-6),LREE/HREE值为5.60～6.53,具有Rb、Th、K、La、Ce、Zr、Hf、Sm等元素的富集以及Ba、U、Ta、Nb、Sr、P和Ti元素的亏损特征。柳树沟组双峰式火山岩形成于大陆裂谷环境,具板内成因特征,玄武岩可能为亏损尖晶石相地幔橄榄岩向石榴石相地幔橄榄岩过渡相较高程度部分熔融的产物,受到地壳物质混染;流纹岩具典型的A型花岗岩的地球化学特征。  相似文献