Rare earth element fractionation in authigenic illite–smectite from Late Permian clastic rocks,Bowen Basin,Australia: implications for physico-chemical environments of fluids during illitization     

《Chemical Geology》2003,193(3-4):167-179

REE analyses were performed on authigenic illitic clay minerals from Late Permian mudrocks, sandstones and bentonites from the Bowen Basin (Australia). The mixed-layer illite–smectite exhibit REE patterns with an obvious fractionation of the HREE from the LREE and MREE, which is an apparent function of degree of illitization reaction. The highly illitic (R≥3) illite–smectite from the northern Bowen Basin show a depletion of LREE relative to the less illitic (R=0 and 1) clays. In contrast, an enrichment of HREE for the illite-rich clays relative to less illitic clays is evident for the southern Bowen Basin samples. The North American Shale Composite-normalized (La/Lu)_sn ratios show negative correlations with the illite content in illite–smectite and positive correlations with the δ¹⁸O values of the clays for both the northern and southern Bowen Basin samples. These correlations indicate that the increasing depletion of LREE in hydrothermal fluids is a function of increasing water/rock ratios in the northern Bowen Basin. Good negative correlations between (La/Lu)_sn ratios and illite content in illite–smectite from the southern Bowen Basin suggest the involvement of fluids with higher alkalinity and higher pH in low water/rock ratio conditions. Increasing HREE enrichment with δ¹⁸O decrease indicates the effect of increasing temperature at low water/rock ratios in the southern Bowen Basin.Results of the present study confirm the conclusions of some earlier studies suggesting that REE in illitic clay minerals are mobile and fractionated during illitization and that this fact should be considered in studies of sedimentary processes and in identifying provenance. Moreover, our results show that REE systematic of illitic clay minerals can be applied as an useful technique to gain information about physico-chemical conditions during thermal and fluid flow events in certain sedimentary basins.  相似文献   

The origin of crude oils from the Shuguang-Huanxiling Buried Hills in the Liaohe Basin,China: evidence from chemical and isotopic compositions     

《Applied Geochemistry》2003,18(3):445-456

Since the Shu103 well was successfully drilled in 1995, the Buried Hill reservoir is receiving a new exploration emphasis in the Liaohe Basin, China. The Buried Hill oils can be divided into 3 main types in the Shuguang-Huangxiling area based on their chemical and isotopic compositions. The first type is collected mostly from the Shuguang area. The similarity to the Es4 oils and the Es4 source rock extracts indicates that they were mainly expelled from the fourth member of the Shahejie formation (Es4) in the Chenjia Sag and/or Panshan Sag, deposited in a stratified paleolake system. The second is charactized by a relative high Pr/Ph ratio, low gammacerane content and depletion of ¹²C in individual n-alkanes. These characteristics represent a typical origin from dominantly freshwater paralic lacustrine sediments. Various biomarker indices of the other Buried Hill oils fall between the former two types. The authors infer that these oils may be derived from the adjacent Qingshui Sag and/or Panshan Sag, and were likely generated from transitional sedimentary facies between well-circulated freshwater paralic lacustrine and relatively closed saline lacustrine.  相似文献   

Vestiges of the Mesoproterozoic Events in the Neoproterozoic Mozambique Belt: the East African Perspective in the Rodinia Puzzle     

《Gondwana Research》2003,6(3):409-416

Most of the geological and palaeogeographical models consider the Neoproterozoic supercontinent Gondwana (∼650-550 Ma) as the direct offspring of the disintegrated Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia (∼1300-750 Ma). One of the main classical sutures along which the dispersing Rodinia fragments were fused into a new supercontinent (Godwana) is identified as the Mozambique belt of East Africa. The calc-alkaline magmatism (∼1200-950 Ma) in northern Mozambique, southern Malawi and southern Tanzania is regarded as the sole evidence for fragmentation of Rodinia, which is traced within this Neoproterozoic orogenic belt. There are no unequivocal Mesoproterozoic (Kibaran) sediments in this orogen. Concrete evidence for Kibaran metamorphism and deformation is missing. Thus, these solitary documented Kibaran magmatic vestiges in the belt do not ascribe to a true complete orogenesis, which involved the disintegration and dispersal of Rodinia. Consequently, the available sparse Mesoproterozoic (Kibaran) geological and isotopic data from the Mozambique belt of East Africa contentiously suggest its involvement in the aggregation of the supercontinent Rodinia at about 1300-1100 Ma ago.  相似文献   

The earthquake swarm 2000 in the region Vogtland/NW-Bohemia—earthquake recording at German stations and temporal distribution of events     

《Journal of Geodynamics》2003,35(1-2):83-96

The last strong earthquake swarm in the region Vogtland/NW-Bohemia occurred between August and November 2000 with about 10000 micro-earthquakes at magnitudes up to 3.7. On the territory of Germany the seismic activity was monitored both by means of permanent and mobile stations. Mobile stations were installed by the Seismological Central Observatory at Erlangen (SZGRF) in co-operation with the “Geo-Forschungs-Zentrum”-(GFZ)-Potsdam and the University of Potsdam. The objects of this paper are: (1) the presentation of seismic stations on the German side of the earthquake region during the swarm 2000, (2) the comparison of the frequency–time and magnitude–time distribution of the recent swarm 2000 with previous swarms in the 20th century.  相似文献   

A 7500-year peat-based palaeoclimatic reconstruction and evidence for an 1100-year cyclicity in bog surface wetness from Temple Hill Moss,Pentland Hills,southeast Scotland     

《Quaternary Science Reviews》2003,22(2-4):259-274

Analyses of plant macrofossils, peat humification and testate amoebae were used to reconstruct a proxy climate record spanning the last 7500 years from an ombrotrophic bog, Temple Hill Moss, in southeast Scotland. The plant macrofossil data were subjected to detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) which modelled effectively the significant wet shifts within the record. A mean water table depth transfer function was applied to the testate amoebae data to provide quantifiable changes. The three proxy records show coherent phase changes which are interpreted as variability in past effective precipitation. Two tephra horizons (Glen Garry and Lairg A) were used in conjunction with radiocarbon dates to construct an age/depth model, producing a robust geochronology from which a time series was calculated. The palaeoclimatic reconstruction identified major wet shifts throughout the Holocene, with specific events occurring around cal. 6650, 5850, 5300, 4500, 3850, 3400, 2800–2450, 1450–1350 and 250–150 BP. Spectral analysis of the plant macrofossil DCA and colorimetric humification data produced a millennial scale periodicity of 1100 years. The same periodicity has also been found in a palaeoclimatic reconstruction from a site in Cumbria (Walton Moss), and may be linked with millennial scale periodicities found in oceanic palaeoclimatic records.  相似文献   

Radiocarbon dating from 40 to 60 ka BP at Border Cave,South Africa     

《Quaternary Science Reviews》2003,22(8-9):943-947

We present 21 radiocarbon dates on 19 charcoal samples from the sedimentary sequence preserved in Border Cave, South Africa. The background radiocarbon activity for charcoal from the cave was determined to be 0.050±0.018 percent modern carbon, from the analysis of a radiocarbon-dead sample from unit 5WA. Radiocarbon ages for individual samples ranged from 25.2 to >58.2 ka BP.The error-weighted mean ages for successively older strata are 38.5+0.85/−0.95 ka BP for unit 1WA, 50.2+1.1/−1.0 ka BP for units 2BS.LR.A and 2BS.LR.B, 56.5+2.7/−2.0 ka BP for unit 2BS.LR.C and 59.2+3.4/−2.4 ka BP for unit 2WA. This radiocarbon chronology is consistent with independent chronologies derived from electron spin resonance and amino acid racemization dating. The results therefore provide further evidence that radiocarbon dating of charcoal by the ABOX-SC technique can yield reliable radiocarbon ages beyond 40 ka BP. They also imply that Border Cave 5, a modern human mandible, predates >58.2 ka BP and that the Middle Stone Age (Mode 3)—Later Stone Age (Mode 5) transition of Border Cave was largely effected between ∼56.5 and ∼41.6 ka ago.  相似文献   

The contribution of agricultural erosion to reservoir sedimentation in the Dominican Republic     

《Water Policy》2002,3(6):491-505

It is often assumed that the main cause of contemporary erosion and dam sedimentation in tropical watersheds is the cultivation of steep slopes. This study, using fallout ¹³⁷Cs to estimate net sediment loss since 1963 found erosion in the Nizao watershed of the Dominican Republic to be much lower than often reported for steep tropical hillsides. Because only 17% of the sediment moving into the reservoirs can be attributed to surface agricultural erosion, policies to eliminate upland agriculture will have limited benefits if the principal sources are of natural origin or associated with construction of the dams, and rural roads and trails.  相似文献   

Reconstruction of Alpine Cenozoic paleorelief through the analysis of caves at Siebenhengste (BE,Switzerland)     

《Geodinamica Acta》2002,15(5-6):261-276

The cave region of Siebenhengste, situated north of Lake Thun (Switzerland), contains one of the most important cave systems in the world, which extends from 500 to 2000 m a.s.l. It has a complex multiphase history. The recognized speleogenetic phases are related to spring level and to old valley floors. The six most recent phases were investigated in St. Beatus cave and Bärenschacht. They suggest a progressive Quarternary Aare valley incision to 890, 805, 760, 700, 660, and 558 m a.s.l. that is confirmed by statistical analysis of small caves. U/Th-datings of flowstone allowed a timing of the valley deepening phases: the valley bottom was at 760 m already before 350 ka, the one at 700 m was active between 235 and 160 ka. The cave morphology in the upper part of the cave system was coupled with sedimentological observations. This combination leads to the hypothesis that the uppermost (oldest) cave parts were already created in the Miocene, during and after the last deposition of the Molasse. Ideas about the evolution of the paleorelief suggest that today's Aare valley is a product of glacial erosion, and that the old Aare valley shifted its position several times between the Miocene and today.  相似文献   

Magmatic Gradients in the Cretaceous Caleu Pluton (Central Chile): Injections of Pulses from a Stratified Magma Reservoir     

《Gondwana Research》2002,5(2):307-324

The Caleu pluton (Central Chile) extending over 338 km² and with more than 1, 400 m of vertical relief intrudes the N-S trending Lower Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary and volcanic successions at a depth equivalent to a pressure of 2 kb. The host, stratified volcanic successions, are tilted about 30°–40° E, whereas the pluton shows paleomagnetic evidence of either tilting of <15° E or clockwise rotation by few degrees.A gradient of westward increasing SiO₂ content is recognized across the pluton, giving rise to three N-S elongated zones: Gabbro/Diorite Zone (GDZ), Tonalite Zone (TZ) and Granodiorite Zone (GZ). Biotite and hornblende compositions also exhibit a westward decreasing gradient in Mg/(Mg+Fe), indicating that the more mafic the zone is, the more oxidizing is its crystallization condition. Horizontal inward gradients of progressively less evolved rocks are recognized across GDZ and TZ, whereas no horizontal gradients were found in the GZ. Vertical compositional gradients are recognized in the GDZ and TZ, which consist of an upward increase in SiO₂ and decrease in MgO, FeO, Fe₂O₃, and compatible trace elements. A vertical compositional boundary was recognized along a traverse across the TZ separating two magma pulses with similar trends of compositional variations.The three zones of the Caleu pluton were derived from a common isotopically (Sr-Nd) depleted source. Each zone probably evolved independently, as their compositional characteristics would have not been acquired in situ. The resulting compositional characteristics of the zones would have been developed prior to the intrusion, in a subjacent stratified reservoir placed at about seven kilometers below the pluton.  相似文献   

Evaluating the timing of hydrocarbon generation in the Devonian Duvernay Formation: paleomagnetic,rock magnetic and geochemical evidence     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2002,19(3):275-287

The physical and chemical changes associated with the thermal maturation of organic-rich shale have affected the paleomagnetic and rock magnetic characteristics of the Devonian Duvernay Formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. This formation has several lithofacies that correspond to deposition in platform, slope and deeper water settings under varied redox conditions. Shale, laminated mudstone and some massive mudstone facies show evidence of magnetic changes associated with maturation but wackestone, packstone and some massive mudstone facies appear to be unaffected by the process. Rock magnetic evidence suggests that thermal maturation induces a change in the magnetization carrier from magnetite and hematite to solely magnetite.The packstone and wackestone facies commonly show a reversed characteristic magnetization with a paleopole at 194°E, 70°N (A₉₅=13.2) of Late Cretaceous-age. Shale and laminated mudstone facies in immature areas of the basin have inclination-only characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) means that range from 55 to 67 °C, requiring a pre-Cretaceous magnetization age. Shale and laminated mudstone facies in mature areas of the basin have a much steeper ChRM in direction ranging from 77 to 83 °C. Their very steep nature suggests that step demagnetization has not completely removed a drilling-induced remanence in some wells.  相似文献