南方红土的磁性矿物组成及其区域性差异

位于我国热带、亚热带地区的南方红土是我国分布最广的第四纪土状沉积,其经历了较强的化学风化作用,具有典型的磁性矿物组成.磁性矿物是沉积物的重要组成成分.磁性矿物的种类、粒度和含量等信息可以反映沉积物形成时的温度、降水等气候条件.因此,了解红土沉积物磁性矿物组成对于研究南方红土区的环境演化具有重要意义.本文综合分析了安徽室城、浙江长兴、江西九江及广西百色4个剖面不同层位红±样品的x-T曲线、三轴等温剩磁热退磁曲线等岩石磁学结果,发现南方红土的磁性矿物组成主要为磁铁矿、磁赤铁矿、赤铁矿及针铁矿,这些磁性矿物的相对含量不仅具有地带性差异,而且在不同风化阶段也存在差异.其中百色剖面顶部棕色土中磁赤铁矿含量相对其他剖面较高,与百色地区现今较强的风化作用相符.同一剖面内网纹红土中赤铁矿的含量较高,磁赤铁矿的含量相对较低,指示网纹化时期较强的成土作用引起磁赤铁矿向赤铁矿的转化.此外,岩石磁学结果显示百色剖面网纹红土及均质红土中含有一种特殊性质的磁性矿物,即粒度较细、解阻温度较低的成土成因赤铁矿,该矿物为后期强烈风化作用的产物.该次生矿物携带了较强的化学剩磁,引起了百色剖面初始碎屑剩磁的重磁化.该研究表明磁性矿物组成的差异还可以用来解释南方红土剩磁记录的多样性.     

长江中下游地区第四纪红土磁学特征及其环境意义

通过采集长江中下游湖南长沙(CS)、岳阳(HN)、江西南昌(NC)、新余(XY)和浙江金华高村(GC)5个剖面不同层位的红土样品,对其粒度和多种磁学参数进行测量和分析,探讨了红土剖面随深度变化的成土作用强弱以及多磁学参数在揭示我国南方红土第四纪气候演化信息的价值。结果表明:①粒度分析显示,红黄土交接带(约28°~31°N)的CS、HN、NC、GC 4个剖面的红土粒度与北方黄土和下蜀黄土有很好的可比性,具有明显的风成特性;位置更偏南的XY剖面红土颗粒较粗,10~50 μm粒组富集不明显,具有典型的冲积相特征。②各红土剖面的多磁学参数分析表明,成土过程中产生的磁铁矿、磁赤铁矿和赤铁矿是红土磁性的主要载体。③同一红土剖面内,不同沉积结构的磁性矿物含量和组成具有很大差异。下部网纹红土中赤铁矿的含量较高,磁赤铁矿的含量较上覆均质红土或黄棕色土低,揭示了网纹红土形成于中国南方一个极端湿润期,长期剧烈的水分活动导致均质红土中磁赤铁矿的溶解和铁质的流失,同时较强的成土作用使强磁性的磁赤铁矿向弱磁性的赤铁矿转化,从而导致网纹红土的磁化率比上覆均质红土或黄棕色土低了一个数量级。④具有冲积相特征的XY剖面磁学特征与其他风尘成因红土(特别是NC剖面)差异甚大,可能成为它具有不同物质来源的一个佐证。     

花岗岩上发育的亚热带红土岩石磁学特征

本文对发育于花岗岩上的两个亚热带红土剖面进行了系统的岩石磁学研究,测试了磁化率、频率磁化率、等温剩磁、非磁滞剩磁、磁滞回线等常温磁学参数,选取代表性样品进行了高低温岩石磁学分析,拟探讨亚热带红土磁性矿物的特征及湿热环境下土壤中磁性矿物的转化规律。实验结果表明:亚热带红土的强磁性矿物为磁铁矿、磁赤铁矿;弱磁性矿物为赤铁矿和针铁矿,滞水土层中含有纤铁矿。花岗岩具有较强的磁性,在其上发育的红土也因此具有较强的磁性。花岗岩中的亚铁磁性矿物的磁畴以多畴占主导地位,随着风化强度的增强,逐渐形成较细粒的超顺磁与单畴磁性矿物。亚热带红土中的磁赤铁矿与位于半干旱区黄土高原成土作用形成的磁赤铁矿存在着磁学性质上的差异,表现为具有更高的居里点(约600℃和640℃),可能说明亚热带红土中的磁赤铁矿粒径更粗。两个剖面在磁学性质上存在着明显的差异,泉州剖面磁性矿物以磁铁矿为主,磁化率最高可达1823×10~(-8)m~3/kg,平均值为1033.1×10~(-8)m~3/kg,具有较低的剩磁矫顽力;福州剖面磁性矿物以磁铁矿和部分热稳定磁赤铁矿为主,磁化率最高为385.73×10~(-8)m~3/kg,平均值为91.5×10~(-8)m~3/kg。基于磁学参数分析,认为母质与后期成土作用共同造成了两个剖面的磁学性质差异,但后者起主导作用。磁化率在两个剖面中,均随着深度减小而减小,与温带地区表层土磁化率增强有很大区别。湿热环境条件下,强磁性矿物溶解或转化为弱磁性矿物的程度主导剖面磁化率变化。     

中国亚热带风尘沉积物磁学特征对比研究

中国亚热带地区的风尘沉积包括均质红土、黄棕色土、网纹红土和下蜀土等不同类型沉积层.本文选择江西九江(JL)、浙江浦江(PJ)和江苏新港(XG-3)3个剖面,进行了多种磁学参数测量.研究结果表明:1)黄棕色土与网纹红土在剖面上叠加组成加积型红土剖面构型,两者的磁性矿物含量、类型和磁畴的差异,导致磁化率的不同.黄棕色土磁化率高,磁性矿物含量高,磁性颗粒以细小的亚铁磁性矿物磁铁矿和磁赤铁矿为主.根据半定量估算,黄棕色土样品中SP颗粒含量大多介于50％ ～ 75％之间,其中的古土壤样品SP颗粒含量多数大于75％.网纹红土磁化率低,磁性矿物含量低,磁性颗粒粒径较黄棕色土粗,矿物类型以不完整反铁磁性矿物赤铁矿为主.2)下蜀黄土具有较高的x,xfd,SIRM和xARM;x和xfd呈正相关关系(r2 =0.87),黄土层的xARM/SIRM与xARM/x远低于古土壤,反映除较细的粒度组分外,还有较粗的PSD/MD颗粒存在.细颗粒亚铁磁性矿物对磁化率贡献较大.3)据磁学参数辅以其他理化指标推测,黄棕色土与下蜀黄土形成环境与现在亚热带环境类似,但黄棕色土以较低的粉砂与粘土比值反映其化学风化作用较下蜀黄土强,显示了一定的纬度效应.4)广泛分布于亚热带地区的网纹红土磁学特征类同,粒度组成和地球化学指标也相似,反映形成时期区域内的自然要素的地带性分异不及今日明显.另一方面,网纹红土中较高的HIRM、矫顽力和居里温度指示其含有较多的赤铁矿,而且磁性矿物颗粒较其上的黄棕色土粗,全铁含量略高于黄棕色土,87Sr/86Sr比值也较黄棕色土高,所有这些都佐证网纹红土与黄棕色土可能具有不完全相同的物质来源.     

湘赣丘陵区红土剖面磁化率分布特征及其环境记录

南方红土是记录古环境信息的良好载体。为了揭示南方红土剖面磁化率的古环境意义及其与化学蚀变指数之间的关系,采集了湘赣地区黄金(HJ)、沙河(SH)、田村(TC)、高兴(GX)和松木(SM) 5个红土剖面共计263个样品,同时进行低频磁化率和化学元素测量和分析。研究结果显示:①赣南地区均质红土层、红壤层低频磁化率均值小于网纹红土层,红土剖面的低频磁化率均值分布范围介于(12.1～463.91)×10~(-8)m~3/kg之间。②衡阳地区红土低频磁化率与对应化学蚀变指数(CIA)值相关性较好,即为磁化率高值区指示暖湿沉积环境,磁化率低值区指示暖干沉积环境。③低频磁化率曲线波动频度和幅度存在区域性差异,但从剖面底部往上一致呈现为递减的变化趋势,揭示了湘赣地区红土沉积环境整体上由暖湿向温干方向演变。     

南方红土磁性地层年代学研究进展

南方红土是中国分布最广的第四纪土状堆积,蕴含丰富的古气候、古地理以及古人类演化的信息。然而,南方红土地区长期高温多雨的气候造成许多定年材料的缺乏,导致其年代学研究进展比较缓慢。磁性地层学方法是一种适合于中、新生代海陆相沉积物定年的快捷、有效的方法,近年来南方红土的磁性地层年代学研究取得了很好的结果。文中比较系统地总结了近年来南方红土磁性地层年代学研究方面的进展。这些研究显示南方红土中的载磁矿物包括赤铁矿、磁赤铁矿、磁铁矿和针铁矿,其中磁铁矿和赤铁矿是特征剩磁的主要载体。磁性地层结果表明南方红土记录了Matuyama负极性时晚期至Brunhes正极性时早-中期的沉积,其沉积起始年龄不晚于Jaramillo正极性亚时,即早于11 Ma。这些磁性地层学结果为揭示南方红土记录的环境变化和中国南方亚热带地区早期人类演化提供了年代学基础。     

三门峡会兴沟剖面黄土—古土壤序列的岩石磁学研究

岩石磁学是古地磁学和环境磁学研究的基础,是鉴定岩石和沉积物中磁性矿物种类、粒度和含量的有效途径。对黄土高原东南部三门峡盆地的水沟—会兴沟旧石器遗址会兴沟剖面黄土—古土壤序列(S_0~S_8)进行系统的岩石磁学研究表明:本剖面沉积物的主要载磁矿物为磁铁矿、磁赤铁矿和赤铁矿,显示准单畴(PSD)磁性颗粒特征。所有磁学参数曲线均表现出基本一致的变化特征,与深海氧同位素曲线能够很好的对应,反映了第四纪以来的冰期—间冰期旋回中,东亚季风影响下的风尘黄土堆积中磁性矿物种类、粒度和含量的周期性变化特征。黄土中高矫顽力磁性矿物的相对含量要高于古土壤中的,而随着成土作用的加强,在古土壤中细粒的低矫顽力磁性矿物显著增加的同时,其中高矫顽力磁性矿物的绝对含量也相应增加。质量磁化率(χ)与非磁滞剩磁磁化率(χ_(ARM))和饱和等温剩磁(SIRM)及磁粒度参数χ_(ARM)/SIRM和χ_(ARM)/χ均呈明显的正相关关系,表明由成土作用产生的单畴(SD)颗粒和较小PSD颗粒对磁化率增强有显著的贡献。     

城市道路尘埃的磁性特征及其环境意义

城市环境磁性研究表明,道路尘埃中的粗颗粒磁性载体(频率磁化率系数χ′FD＜5%)多为人为源,磁性矿物以单畴和多畴状态的磁铁矿为主,同时含有少量的赤铁矿和其他磁性矿物;细颗粒磁性载体(χ′FD为7%～11%)多为自然源,磁化率较低(小于100×10-8 m3/kg).磁性物质在迁移时往往与粗一级粒径的尘埃颗粒相伴生,磁性参数(如磁化率)和重金属元素(如铅、锌)质量分数之间呈相关关系,它们之间的关系可以用回归分析方法确定.利用电镜分析、因子分析和聚类分析方法可以识别道路尘埃物质的污染源.因此,道路尘埃的磁性特征研究在城市环境评价中具有潜在的重要意义.     

九江红土的磁学特征及其环境意义

为了解南方红土磁性变化的机理,采用磁化率仪、扫描电子显微镜及X荧光光谱分析对九江红土剖面的磁性特征、磁性矿物的特征及风化程度进行了深入研究。研究结果表明,九江剖面上部砂土经历的风化改造强度弱于下部的网纹红土,而磁性强度高于下部网纹红土,磁性强度的增加与超顺磁颗粒及多畴磁铁矿的含量密切相关;风化强度的增加导致磁铁矿的晶形遭到破坏,同时导致红土中强磁性矿物向弱磁性矿物转化,这是造成网纹红土磁性强度低于砂土的主要原因;红土中的多畴磁铁矿并不是形成于风化成土作用过程中,而是来自红土原始母质的风化残留。从中更新世到晚更新世气候由湿热向冷干转变,风化作用强度逐渐减弱,导致上部砂土相对于网纹红土保留了更多的强磁性矿物。因此,红土中主要的载磁矿物并不是风化成土过程中的产物,其磁性特征不能反映气候环境的变化。     

黄土高原-阿拉善高原典型断面表土磁学特征研究

在黄土高原-阿拉善高原区域沿接近降水量最大梯度线方向系统采集了表土(包括沙漠和土壤)样品,详细研究了其环境磁学、粒度和有机质含量等环境替代指标的变化特征.结果表明,整个断面表土中的强磁性矿物主要为磁铁矿和磁赤铁矿,并含有赤铁矿.阿拉善高原表土中磁性矿物颗粒多为多畴(MD),总体含量偏低,磁性矿物中硬磁组分含量较高;黄土高原区表土中磁性颗粒多为准单畴(PSD),总体含量偏高,磁性矿物中软磁组分含量较高.进一步分析发现,在干旱地区,频率磁化率与降水有良好的相关性,而常用的磁化率不能较好地反映降水量变化.本研究指示在干旱地区应用单一磁化率指标解释环境变化需要谨慎.     

The terrestrial fauna of the Late Triassic Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry fissures,South Wales,UK and a new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia)

Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry in South Wales yielded a rich cache of fossils in the early 1950s, including articulated specimens of new species (the small sauropodomorph dinosaur Pantydraco caducus and the crocodylomorph Terrestrisuchus gracilis), but no substantial study of the wider fauna of the Pant-y-ffynnon fissure systems has been published. Here, our overview of existing specimens, a few described but mostly undescribed, as well as freshly processed material, provides a comprehensive picture of the Pant-y-ffynnon palaeo-island of the Late Triassic. This was an island with a relatively impoverished fauna dominated by small clevosaurs (rhynchocephalians), including a new species, Clevosaurus cambrica, described here from a partially articulated specimen and isolated bones. The new species has a dental morphology that is intermediate between the Late Triassic Clevosaurus hudsoni, from Cromhall Quarry to the east, and the younger C. convallis from Pant Quarry to the west, suggesting adaptive radiation of clevosaurs in the palaeo-archipelago. The larger reptiles on the palaeo-island do not exceed 1.5?m in length, including a small carnivorous crocodylomorph, Terrestrisuchus, and a possible example of insular dwarfism in the basal dinosaur Pantydraco.     

Définition d'une limite multicritère ; stratigraphie du passage Campanien–Maastrichtien du site géologique de Tercis (Landes,SW France)Definition of a multi-criteria boundary; stratigraphy of the Campanian–Maastrichtian interval of the geological site at Tercis (Landes,SW France)

Lithostratigraphy, physicochemical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and geochronology of the 77–70 Ma old series bracketing the Campanian–Maastrichtian boundary have been investigated by 70 experts. For the first time, direct relationships between macro- and microfossils have been established, as well as direct and indirect relationships between chemo-physical and biostratigraphical tools. A combination of criteria for selecting the boundary level, duration estimates, uncertainties on durations and on the location of biohorizons have been considered; new chronostratigraphic units are proposed. The geological site at Tercis is accepted by the Commission on Stratigraphy as the international reference for the stratigraphy of the studied interval. To cite this article: G.S. Odin, C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 409–414.     

The effect of water on accessory phase solubility in subaluminous and peralkaline granitic melts

The solubilities of columbite, tantalite, wolframite, rutile, zircon and hafnon were determined as a function of the water contents in peralkaline and subaluminous granite melts. All experiments were conducted at 1035 °C and 2 kbar and the water contents of the melts ranged from nominally dry to approximately 6 wt.% H₂O. Accessory phase solubilities are not affected by the water content of the peralkaline melt. By contrast, solubilities are affected by the water content of the subaluminous melt, where the solubilities of all the accessory phases examined increase with the water content of the melt, up to 2 wt.% H₂O. At higher water contents, solubilities are nearly constant. It can be concluded that water is not an important control of accessory phase solubility, although the water content will affect diffusivities of components in the melt, thus whether or not accessory phases will be present as restite material. The solubility behaviour in the subaluminous and peralkaline melts supports previous spectroscopic studies, which have observed differences in the coordination of high field strength elements in dry vs. wet subaluminous granitic glasses, but not for peralkaline granitic glasses. Lastly, the fact that wolframite solubility increases with increasing water content in the subaluminous melt suggests that tungsten dissolved as a hexavalent species.     

Late Wuchiapingian (Late Dzhulfian,early Late Permian) limestone olistolites within the Tertiary flysch of Glypia Unit (Mount Parnon,central–eastern Peloponnesus,Greece)

Some olistolites reworked in a Tertiary flysch of Mount Parnon (Peloponnesus, Greece) exhibit a Late Permian assemblage, dominated by Paradunbarula (Shindella) shindensis, Hemigordiopsis cf. luquensis and Colaniella aff. minima. This association corresponds to the Late Wuchiapingian (=Late Dzhulfian), a substage whose algae and foraminifera are generally little known. Contemporaneous limestones crop out in the middle part of the Episkopi Formation in Hydra, but they are rather commonly reworked in Mesozoic and Cainozoic sequences. The palaeobiogeographical affinities shared by the foraminiferal markers of Greece, southeastern Pamir, and southern China, are very strong (up to the specific level), and are congruent with the Pangea B reconstructions. To cite this article: E. Skourtsos et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 925–931.     

PALEONTOLOGY

正20141596 Liu Yunhuan(School of Earth Sciences and Resources,Chang’an University,Xi’an 710054,China);Shao Tiequan Early Cambrian Quadrapyrgites Fossils of Xixiang Boita in Southern Shaanxi Province(Journal of Earth Sciences and Environment,ISSN1672-6561,CN61-1423/P,35(3),2013,p.39-43,3 illus.,20 refs.)     

GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION

正20141719 Chen Zhijun(State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources,China University of Geosciences,Wuhan 430074,China);Chen Jianguo Automated Batch Mapping Solution for Serial Maps:A Case Study of Exploration Geochemistry Maps(Journal of Geology,ISSN1674-3636,CN32-1796/P,37(3),2013,p.456-464,2 illus.,2 tables,10 refs.)     

MICROPALAEONTOLOGY

正20140962 Chen Fenning(Xi’an Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources,Xi’an710054,China);Chen Ruiming Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene Ostracoda Fauna of Gyirong Basin,Southern Tibet(Acta Geologica Sinica,ISSN0001-5717,CN11-1951/P,87(6),2013,p.872-886,6illus.,56refs.)     

PETROLOGY

正1.IGNEOUS PETROLOGY20142008Cai Jinhui(Wuhan Center,China Geological Survey,Wuhan 430205,China);Liu Wei Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Mineralization Significance of Granodiorites from Fuzichong Pb-Zn Deposit,Guangxi,South China(Geology and Mineral Resources of South China,ISSN1007-3701,CN42-1417/P,29(4),2013,p.271-281,7illus.,     

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY

正20141205Cheng Weiming(State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System,Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,CAS,Beijing 100101,China);Xia Yao Regional Hazard Assessment of Disaster Environment for Debris Flows:Taking Jundu Mountain,Beijing as an     

PROSPECTING EXPLORATION

正20141266Fan Chaoyan(Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources and Geological Processes,Guangzhou 510275,China);Wang Zhenghai On Error Analysis and Correction Method of Measured Strata Section with Wire Projection Method(Journal of