“元谋组”及“元谋动物群”含义的厘定

讨论了云南元谋盆地的“元谋组”,“元谋动物群”的含义和时代。元谋组应只指钱方等人的“元谋组”的第四段地层 ,相应的动物群称为“元谋人”动物群。钱方等人的第三段地层应称甘棠组 ,其动物群名称为甘棠动物群。甘棠组和元谋组的时代分别为早更新世早期和晚期。     

元谋人发现二十周年纪念会及元谋新生代地质现场讨论会的学术信息

由中国古生物学会昆明组和云南省地质学会地层古生物专业委员会联合发起的“元谋人发现廾周年纪念会及元谋地区新生代地质现场学术讨论会”于1984年12月3日至8日在元谋县召开。有来自北京、天津、上海、辽宁、河北、河南、山东、山西、陕西、甘肃、江苏、广东、四川、贵州、云南100个单位的147名代表。会议收到论文65篇,内容包括古人类及其古文化、新生代地层古生物等。自元谋人发现廾年来,元谋地区在古人类、古文化、古脊椎动物及新生代地质方面,取得的成绩是显著的。第一,对元谋地区古人类及其古文化的研究,出现了崭新的局面。至     

《元谋人——云南元谋古人类与古文化图文集》即将出版

《元谋人——云南元谋古人类与古文化图文集》一书,将于1984年4月由云南人民出版社出版。16开印装,估价每册精装本5.90元,平装本4.60元。本书主要汇集了自元谋人牙齿化石发现以来,我国各有关方面的专业技术人员、专家、学者对元谋人所进行的多学科研究的论文和成果。文集中包括的主要论文有:中国地质科学院地质力学研究所钱方、浦庆余的“元谋人牙齿化石发现的经过”;北京地质博物馆胡承志和北京自然博物馆周国兴的“云南元谋发     

应用古地磁研究云南古猿的生存年代

应用古地磁研究方法，对我省出土古猿化石的开远小龙潭煤系，禄丰石灰坝的砂、砾石、褐煤层及元谋竹棚、小河一带的砂、泥质层作了系统的古地磁采样测试得出：（１）开远小龙潭煤系及动物群化石的时代为５．１０－１０．００Ｍａ，其中，开远古猿产出层位的年代为８．３０±０．１０Ｍａ。（２）禄丰石灰坝含古猿及哺乳动物化石的一套砂、砾石、褐煤的时代为３．８９－４．５９Ｍａ，禄丰古猿化石产出层位的年代为４．００±０．１０Ｍａ。（３）元谋竹棚、小河一带古猿化石及动物群的地层时代为２．１２－３．４０Ｍａ，其中元谋蝴蝶古猿的时代为２．７６±０．１０Ｍａ，竹棚猿人的年代为２．１３±０．１０Ｍａ。上述古猿的地质年代为晚中新世一早更新世。云南古猿的演化，从开远小龙潭到禄丰石灰坝直至元谋竹棚、小河一带，在时间和地点上构成了一连续的演化序列。云南古猿生存年代的进一步确定，对研究人类的起源、演化及寻找人类的祖先有着重要的科学意义。     

元谋人起源于龙川冰期探讨

云南元谋小河及竹棚村考古发现大批化石,牙齿1525枚.古猿臼齿M3＞ M2＞ M1,M3硕大.元谋化石进化,M2＞ M3＞ M1,有的M3退化小于M1.上中门齿成铲形结构,齿釉柱类型由3A型进化成3B型,与现代人相同.小河地层中有钙质胶结砾石,植物孢子花粉稀少,证明气候严寒,与老鸦塘同属龙川冰河时期.龙川组测年447万年～340万年.元谋人起源于距今440万年的小河村.     

“元谋人”时代刍议

从古地磁剖面、地层的沉积速度及咀乳动物群性质三方面出发,讨论了“元谋人”的时代,通过古地磁剖面的对比,认为“元谋人”的层位应位于贾拉米洛亚时和后贾拉米洛亚时之间。“元谋人”运动群中含有不少的早更新世中、晚期分子和中更新世分子,其特点可与公王岭运动群对比,动物群中虽然出现了华北地区新第三纪的的动物,但也显得进步,是演化残余的产物。     

元谋古猿的生活环境与年代

元谋古猿化石主要发现于云南元谋县小河村地区的小河组中。通过对小河组的沉积特征、粘土矿物分析、古植物孢粉和哺乳动物群的研究及地貌和新构造运动研究,可以认为,在元谋古猿生活时期,元谋盆地已开始断陷;盆地中河流、湖泊发育;植物群落为稀树林－草原型;气候温干,降水量年变幅大,年平均温度１０℃左右。通过对小河组磁性地层研究,得出小河组年代约为距今３．８￣５．５Ｍａ,含元谋古猿化石层年代约为距今３．９￣５．２     

关于中国的海相三叠系建阶及下三叠统分阶界线

国际地层委员会提出将在近年内完成各地质年代中阶间界线层型的选定工作.全国地层委员会也于第3届全国地层委员会上提出了中国各时代地层的建阶方案.因此, 以阶为实体的年代地层学研究已成为当前地层学研究的焦点.介绍了国际三叠系年代地层划分方案及确定过程, 并列述了中国海相三叠系建阶方案.重点讨论了中国海相下三叠统各阶顶、底界线及其确定标准和标志, 提出了中国下三叠统建阶工作研究重点      

黑龙江黑宝山-罕达气盆地早白垩世九峰山组年代地层划分

为了确定黑龙江黑宝山-罕达气盆地九峰山组形成的气候环境及时代,对九峰山组生物地层特征进行了系统的总结与对比.植物及其孢粉化石反映了典型的亚热带潮湿气候环境,时代为早白垩世.对九峰山组下部所夹流纹质凝灰岩进行了LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素测年,获得了119±0.89 Ma成岩年龄.综合古生物和同位素年龄确定九峰山组形成于早白垩世阿普特阶中晚期,这一研究成果可为东北地区晚中生代区域性地层、成煤时代、含煤盆地对比提供精确的年代依据.     

元谋变质岩若干基础地质问题探讨

本文在对元谋变质岩调查研究历史沿革作出评论的基础上，就其地层划分、矿产资源总貌及成矿特征、与周边变质岩地层对比、地质时代分析等基础地质相关问题进行探讨，进而得出基本结论为：元谋变质岩可分为两套地层──普登群与猛岗河群，其地质时代分别属于太古宙及古元古代。     

元谋人时代研究评述——兼论我国早更新世古人类时代问题

我国早更新世古人类遗址时代的确定对于认识早期人类起源、扩散与演化具有重要意义。对元谋人化石的各种年龄测定结果和认识分歧进行了综合评述。综合分析认为，在翔实的岩石地层学和古生物地层学基础上，开展高分辨率磁性地层学研究是解决包括元谋人在内的这一时期哺乳动物时代科学问题的最有效的研究途径。     

Correlation and paleoenvironments of middle Paleogene marine beds based on dinoflagellate cysts in southwestern Patagonia,Argentina

An understanding of paleonvironmental and paleoceanographic evolution of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean during the Palaeogene is prevented by the lack of precise tools to date and correlate the sedimentary units. Palynological samples collected in the upper portion of the Man Aike Formation, which crops out southern Lago Argentino area, in the southwest of the Austral Basin (50°21′45″S–72°14′30″W), contain well preserved marine organic dinoflagellate cysts, which are potentially important biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental indicators. Herein we describe the composition of the Man Aike Formation's dinoflagellate cyst assemblages and compare them to similar assemblages collected in the same basin in the upper member of the Río Turbio Formation using Compositional Statistical Analysis. The dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the upper part of the Man Aike Formation are highly correlated to the assemblages from the upper member of the Río Turbio Formation from outcropping sections (51°31′13″S–72°15′11″W) and with the lower part of sediment cores drilled by Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales in the Río Turbio Formation area. These dinoflagellate cyst assemblages show a very low correlation with the assemblages from the upper part of the Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales's cores. The comparison of our results with the high-resolution Southern Pacific Ocean dinoflagellate cyst zonation for the late Palaeocene to late Eocene allow us to date some of the dinoflagellate events recorded in formations of southwestern Patagonia. The assemblages from the Man Aike Formation and the lower part of the upper member of the Río Turbio Formation relate to the zones SPDZ11 and SPDZ12 and are assigned to the mid-middle Eocene (late Lutetian to early Bartonian). The biostratigraphy proposed herein constrains the age of the Man Aike Formation and equivalent units based on calcareous microfossil data, mollusks affinities and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotopic values to an age ranging between ∼42 and 39 Ma. The assemblages from the upper part of the upper member of the Río Turbio Formation relate to the SPDZ13 Zone, which corresponds to the late Eocene (early Priabonian). The dinoflagellate cyst assemblages indicate that they were under the influence of relatively warm, marine open waters in an inner-shelf environment for the lower part of the sections. In the upper part of the sections, the assemblages suggest shallow marine waters associated with coastal areas and high trophic levels, possibly as a result of freshwater inputs.     

Sedimentary record and luminescence chronology of the Lateglacial and Holocene aeolian sediments in Lithuania

Sand dunes are common along the sea coasts of Lithuania and in some regions of the mainland part of the country. Until recently, the age of the aeolian deposits was only approximate because of the lack of radiocarsbon-dating of soils buried in dune deposits. A relatively new alternative method to direct dating of organic-free deposits is infra-red optically stimulated luminescence (IR-OSL). Using this method, we investigated the sedimentary history of some Lateglacial and Holocene depositional sites of Lithuanian dunes. The samples for IR-OSL dating have been taken from boreholes (Mančiagirè, Smalininkai, Žalioji Giria) and outcrops (Mančiagire and Ventes Ragas) in different dune massifs. The results indicate that the aeolian sedimentation in Lithuania started during the Younger Dryas. The termination of the aeolian processes in the continental part of Lithuania is correlated with the end of the Atlantic or the beginning of the Subboreal period; this can be explained by significant climatic changes during the Atlantic period. There were several periods of high aeolian activity during the Holocene, but these are asynchronous in different dune massifs and variations in the sedimentation rate occurred both vertically over the section and spatially across the massif.     

辽源建安—个新的晚白垩世火山群的确定

在辽源建安火山群内运用全岩K-Ar测年方法首次获得老道山、双山、毛山及四甲山火山锥体玄武岩的年龄分别为(99.28±1.59)Ma、(91.70±1.67)Ma、(82.55±1.94)Ma、(82.18±2.37)Ma,可确认建安火山群是当前中国东北乃至中国东部规模最大的晚白垩世火山群。这一结果为探讨中国东部晚白垩世时期的构造演化提供了精确的年代学资料,同时,该火山群的形成与寻找无机成因的油气藏具有重要联系,也为该地区蓝宝石矿及伴生宝石矿的初查工作提供了依据。     

Sublacustrine hydrothermal seeps and silicification of microbial bioherms in the Ediacaran Oued Dar'a caldera,Anti‐Atlas,Morocco

This paper presents a case study of the sublacustrine precipitation of hydrothermal silica ± TiO₂ in the Ediacaran Mançour Group of the Saghro inlier, Anti‐Atlas, Morocco. Lacustrine carbonates containing stromatolitic mats and bioherms occur in ephemeral ponds developed within the Oued Da'ra caldera. Its syn‐eruptive infill consists of pyroclastites, ashflow tuffs, and subsidiary lava flows and sills, whereas inter‐eruptive deposition is mainly represented by slope‐related debris‐flow breccias and landslides, alluvial fans and fluvial channels. Carbonate production took place in a mosaic of differentially subsiding, fault‐bounded intra‐caldera blocks controlled by episodic collapse‐induced drowning, pyroclastic blanketing and migration of alluvial/fluvial environments. After microbial carbonate production, the carbonates recorded several early‐diagenetic processes, punctuated by polyphase fissuring (controlling secondary permeability) locally linked to hydrothermal influx. Three generations of carbonate cements are recognisable: (i) fibrous, botryoidal and blocky/drusy mosaics of calcite; (ii) idiotopic mosaics of dolomite caused by flushing of hypersaline Mg‐rich brines; and (iii) euhedral to drusy calcite via dedolomitization. The δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O values from carbonate cements broadly become successively isotopically lighter, as a result of meteoric and hydrothermal influence, and were probably overprinted by the Panafrican‐3 phase that affected the top of the Mançour Group. Two mechanisms of silicification are involved: (i) early‐diagenetic occlusion of interparticle pores at the sediment/water interface of pyroclastic substrates and reefal core and flanks; and (ii) hydrothermal precipitation of silica ± TiO₂ lining fissures and vuggy porosity encased in the host rock. Silica conduits cross‐cutting lacustrine mats and bioherms exhibit high potential of preservation in collapsed volcanic calderas. Primary fluid inclusions of hydrothermal silica contain brine relics with NaCl/CaCl₂ ratios of 2·1 to 4·4, representing minimum entrapment temperatures of about 142 to 204°C, and abiotic hydrocarbons (heavy alkanes) related to serpentinization of the volcanic and volcanosedimentary basement of the Oued Dar'a caldera.     

云南建水煌斑岩年代学和地球化学及其构造意义

华南大陆内部燕山期的岩浆事件可分为2期:燕山早期180~150 Ma,燕山晚期140~80 Ma。而处于扬子板块西南缘的滇黔贵等地,仅见有第二期晚白垩世中酸性侵入岩与相关成矿作用,缺乏第一期岩浆活动的时间记录。本文在滇东建水地区首次发现了麦地村煌斑岩,对其进行高精度LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年和主微量元素测试分析。结果显示煌斑岩的锆石U-Pb年龄为(158.4±2.4)Ma(MSWD=4.2),为晚侏罗世的产物,补充了该区较为空白的第一期岩浆热事件。麦地村煌斑岩不相容元素明显高于原始地幔,表现出不同程度的富集,大离子亲石元素Rb、Ba、Ce等富集程度不明显,高场强元素中U、Ta、Pb等表现出一定程度富集,LREE相对富集,HREE相对亏损,不具有Nb-Ta-Ti负异常的俯冲型配分曲线特征,具有明显的OIB型洋岛玄武岩稀土元素配分特征,为板内伸展环境下的产物。滇东地区发育中生代时期的NNE构造,早期NNE向褶皱叠加有后期同方向正断层。早期褶皱表现为SEE-NWW挤压应力作用下的构造特征,后期断层表现出同方向张应力作用下的特征。煌斑岩正是由于该区发生挤压之后伴随着一期应力松弛调整,伸展减压作用诱发地幔物质部分融熔,来自于深处的软流圈地幔流体与岩石圈地幔发生交代作用,形成富集型地幔,交代富集的岩石圈地幔局部受热、部分熔融,发生上升侵位。煌斑岩的侵位时间即是滇东地区中生代从挤压向伸展转换的起始时间。     

元谋盆地的新第三纪地层

元谋北部芝麻地段新发现的动物化石层位相当于小河组下部的湖相地层,据之将小河组分为上下两部分,并进一步探讨元谋盆地含古猿动物化石层的地质时代。     

A multi‐method approach to dating the burial and skeleton of Kiacatoo Man,New South Wales,Australia

Kiacatoo Man, a large, rugged Aboriginal adult buried in the Lachlan riverine plains of southeastern Australia, was discovered in 2011. Laser‐ablation uranium series analysis on bone yielded a minimum age for the burial of 27.4 ± 0.4 ka (2σ). Single‐grain, optically stimulated luminescence ages on quartz sediment in which the grave had been dug gave a weighted mean age of 26.4 ± 1.5 ka (1σ). Luminescence samples from the grave infill and from sediment beneath the grave exhibit overdispersed dose distributions consistent with bioturbation or other disturbance, which has obscured the burial signal. The overlap between the minimum (U‐series) and maximum (luminescence) ages places the burial between 27.0 and 29.4 ka (2σ). Luminescence ages obtained from the channel belt of between 28 ± 2 and 25 ± 3 ka indicate that fluvial sedimentation was occurring before the Last Glacial Maximum, which is consistent with the broader geomorphic setting. Together, these results are internally and regionally consistent, and indicate that Kiacatoo Man was one of the more ancient individuals so far identified in Australia. His remains are important to our understanding of patterns of biological variation and other processes that have shaped people in the Murray‐Darling Basin through time. Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The ICL Network on “Landslides and Cultural & Natural Heritage (LACUNHEN)”

In recent decades, the concept of cultural heritage has evolved into one that encompasses an understanding of the history of humanity, together with scientific knowledge and intellectual attitudes. This changing concept has prompted a subsequent re-evaluation of what constitutes the outstanding universal values of World Heritage sites and the operational methods for implementing the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. The scope has broadened from studying a single monument in isolation to one that values a multidimensional, multiregional, and inter-disciplinary approach and encapsulates vast spans of human history. Within this broader view, landslides and more generally slope instabilities are an important factor endangering cultural heritage sites, especially prehistoric sites, earth/rock monuments, and archaeological sites affected by environmental processes and degradation. Natural and cultural heritage sites, as well as cultural landscapes, are then tied into a common framework that the Geological Society of America has defined “Men’s legacy to Earth and Earth’s legacy to Man”. On the other hand, not too much effort has been expended in the past to develop conservation policies systematically integrating geological, geomorphological, and engineering geological aspects into daily practices. The purpose of the “LAndslides and CUltural & Natural HEritage” thematic Network (LACUNHEN) is to create a platform for scientists and practitioners who are ready to jointly contribute to safeguarding relevant endangered Natural and Cultural Heritage sites (e.g., Machu Picchu). They will share and disseminate their respective experience, demonstrating how these special “objects” require approaches, techniques, and solutions that go far beyond traditional civil engineering perspectives.     

大悟杂岩的形成和抬升时代及其地质意义

大悟杂岩位于大别山西段,主体为花岗质片麻岩。为了限定其形成与变形过程,本文综合运用锆石U-Pb法和白云母~(40) Ar/~(39) Ar法进行年代学研究。锆石U-Pb LA-ICP-MS法对这些花岗质片麻岩定年结果显示:锆石的Th/U值为0.79~4.29,属于典型的岩浆锆石特征;206Pb/238 U的加权平均年龄为(810±63)Ma(n=12,MSWD=0.021),代表这些花岗质片麻岩的形成时代。大悟杂岩核部花岗质片麻岩的白云母坪年龄为(210.5±1.4)Ma,相应的等时线年龄为(211.6±2.5)Ma。这些新的研究结果支持以下两点认识:大悟杂岩中的花岗质片麻岩形成于新元古代,而不是白垩纪;这些前寒武纪岩石的构造抬升过程发生在三叠纪晚期(211 Ma)。由于西大别晚三叠世构造与高压—超高压变质岩的出露过程有关,因此,大悟杂岩的变形与高压—超高压变质岩的抬升之间的关系就成为一个耐人寻味的科学问题。同时,由于大悟杂岩中的多数构造面理和线理形成于区域高压—超高压变质作用之后,据此推断西大别三叠纪晚期的变形发生在造山晚期-后造山背景下,伴随着地壳和岩石圈的大规模伸展与减薄。