Variscan geodynamic evolution of the Carnic Alps (Austria/Italy)

The South-Alpine Carnic Alps are part of the southern flank of the European Variscides and display a continuous sedimentary record from Late Ordovician to Devonian times followed by Carboniferous S-directed nappe stacking and Late Carboniferous to Early Permian post-collisional collapse. The tectonometamorphic and sedimentary evolution of the Carnic Alps resembles a continuous process where pre- and syn-orogenic volcanism, syn-orogenic flysch sedimentation, deformation including nappe stacking, metamorphism and tectonic collapse shift in age from internal zones in the N towards external zones in the S. New structural, petrological and sedimentological data are presented concerning the tectonometamorphic history of the Carnic Alps. We distinguish three thrust sheets or tectonic nappes differing in their stratigraphic, sedimentological, deformational and metamorphic histories which were thrust over each other in Carboniferous times. Our data lead to a new geodynamic model showing an evolution from rifting or back-arc spreading in the Late Ordovician to the establishment of a mature passive continental margin in the Late Devonian/Early Carboniferous, flysch sedimentation in an active continental margin setting during the Visean/Namurian and finally collision during the Late Carboniferous between the northern margin of Gondwana and a microcontinent to the N.     

臭牛沟组命名剖面(竹蜓)类的发现

<正> 臭牛沟组的命名剖面地点,位于甘肃武威西南35km的臭牛沟河北岸,现属甘肃天祝藏族自治县祁连乡管辖。据袁复礼研究,臭牛沟组不整合于早古生代南山系变质岩之上,其上为上石炭统假整合覆盖。袁氏将臭牛沟组粗略划分为四层,由下而上为,1.石英岩和砂岩(50m),2.砂岩和页岩,底部页岩产植物化石(12m),3.砂岩和页岩,未获化石(5m),4.灰岩和页岩,富含化石(68m)。袁氏在层4中采集的大批海相动物化石,经赵     

全球石炭纪-二叠纪植物群的演化和分布特征

在全球范围内，石炭纪和二叠纪植物群可以划分为五个植物群，即早石炭世（杜内期、维宪期和纳缪尔Ａ期）的全球性拟鳞木植物群（Ｌｅｐｉｄｏｄｅｎｄｒｏｐｓｉｓｆｌｏｒａ）和晚石炭世（纳缪尔Ｂ—Ｃ期、威斯发期和斯蒂芬期）至二叠纪的华夏植物群、欧美植物群、安加拉植物群和冈瓦纳植物群。早石炭世拟鳞木植物群广泛分布于世界许多地区，具有全球一致性，以Ｌｅｐｉｄｏｄｅｎｄｒｏｐｓｉｓ，Ｓｕｂ ｌｅｐｉｄｏｄｅｎｄｒｏｎ，Ａｒｃｈａｅｏｓｉｇｉｌａｒｉａ，Ａｒｃｈａｅｏｃａｌａｍｉｔｅｓ，Ｃａｒｄｉｏｐｔｅｒｉｄｉｕｍ，Ｒｈｏｄｅｏｐｔｅｒｉｄｉｕｍ，Ｒｈａ ｃｏｐｔｅｒｉｓ，Ａｄｉａｎｔｉｔｅｓ，Ｔｒｉｐｈｙｌｏｐｔｅｒｉｓ等为特征。拟鳞木植物群逐渐从泥盆纪植物群分离出来，繁盛于早石炭世早期，绝灭于早石炭世末期。在早石炭世和晚石炭世的转换期，全球性气候变化和构造运动导致早石炭世拟鳞木植物群典型分子的绝灭和晚石炭世植物群先驱分子的出现。因此，华夏植物群、欧美植物群、安加拉植物群和冈瓦纳植物群衍生于早石炭世全球一致性拟鳞木植物群，但它们各自发展在不同的环境中。     

甘肃靖远石炭系研究新进展

<正> 甘肃靖远磁窑的石炭系出露完整,富含生物化石,李星学等(1974)作了较详细研究,奠定了本区石炭系层序的基础,首次建立了西北地区属于纳缪尔期的地层单元——靖远组。此后,不少地层和古生物工作者在对靖远磁窑石炭系作过调查,高联达对下石炭统作过孢粉研究(1980),王志浩、王成源(1983),史美良、赵治信(1985)对该区石炭系部分层     

石炭纪年代地层学研究概况

国际石炭系分会尝试性地将石炭系分成两部分 ,下石炭亚系或 Mississipian及上石炭亚系或 Pennsylvani-an,前者包括 3个统 :Tournaisian,Visean,Serpukhovian;后者包括 4个统 :Bashkirian,Moscovian,Kasimovian以及Gzhelian。由于全球对比的需要 ,西欧和北美的统级年代单位作为辅助性序列也被置于综合年代地层表中。石炭系底界、中间界线及顶界的 GSSP已经分别确立在法国的 L aserre剖面 ,美国的 Arrow Canyon剖面 ,哈萨克斯坦的Aidaralash Creek剖面。据西欧及澳大利亚的同位素年龄数据 ,石炭纪的时间跨度为 5 3 Ma。中国的石炭系划分成丰宁亚系和壶天亚系 ,前者包括岩关统和大塘统以及汤粑沟阶 ,旧司阶 ,上司阶和德坞阶 ;后者包括威宁统和马平统以及罗苏阶 ,滑石板阶 ,达拉阶和小独山阶。     

Stratigraphy and correlation of Carboniferous ignimbrites,Rocky Creek region,Tamworth Belt,Southern New England Orogen,New South Wales

Carboniferous (Visean to Westphalian) pyroclastics and lava flows in the Rocky Creek region, used to redefine the base of the Kiaman reversal, are formally defined or redefined and the status of the main formations clarified. These units include the Caroda Formation, containing the Kooringal Dacite, Boomi Rhyolite and Barney Springs Andesite Members; the Clifden Formation with the Wanganui Andesite, Glen Idle Rhyolite, Appleogue Dacite, Bexley Rhyolite, Pine Cliffs Rhyolite and Downs Rhyodacite Members; Rocky Creek Conglomerate with the Hazelvale Rhyodacite, Mt Hook Rhyolite, Darthula Rhyodacite and Pound Rock Rhyodacite Members; and Lark Hill Formation with the Eulowrie Pyroclastic, Tycannah Rhyodacite and The Tops Rhyolite Members; a number of informal units are also described. The restriction of most volcanic units to one of the three thrust blocks (Boomi, Kathrose and Darthula blocks) of the Rocky Creek region, suggests their current relationships reflect either shortening due to overthrusting or an original distribution affected by depositional or erosional processes. A westerly increase in the proportion of ignimbrites indicates nearness to sources in that direction. Intermediate volcanism, largely confined to southern and central parts of the Boomi block in the east, began in the Visean and ended in the early Namurian. Acid volcanism also began in the Visean in the northern Boomi block but, with the exception of the Peri Rhyolite Member of the Clifden Formation, did not become widespread until later in the Namurian and Westphalian. In contrast, only acid volcanism took place during the early Namurian to Westphalian in the Kathrose and Darthula blocks. Correlations based on AS3 and SL13 SHRIMP dates illustrate a discordance of about 3% when compared with the most likely location for the base of the Kiaman reversal. The bases of both the Rocky Creek Conglomerate and Lark Hill Formation appear to be slightly diachronous.     

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111000600

Detailed studies on Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous carbonate rocks in central Hunan, southern China have led to the recognition of 25 lithofacies which can be grouped into:(1) inner ramp peritidal platform,(2) inner ramp organic bank and mound.(3) mid ramp,(4) outer ramp,and(5) shelf basin fades associations.The peritidal platform fades association dominates the Zimenqiao Formation (Namurian A or late Datangian) and is characterized by gypsum and dolostone-containing sequences, indicating a peritidal platform environment.The other four fades associations dominate the Menggongao Formation(late Famennian).Liujiatang Formation(Tournaisian or Yangruanian).Shidengzi Formations (early Visean or early Datangian).Five upward-shallowing cycles were distinguished in these three Formations.The predominant fades associations developed in each Formation demonstrate an overall transgression-regression cycle in the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous in central Hunan.The overall transgressive sequence was preserved in the Shaodong.Menggongao.and Liujiatang Formations,and the overall regressive sequence was preserved in the Liujiatang.Shidengzi.Ceshui and Zimenqiao Formations.     

Advances in the research on Carboniferous deep‐water marine deposits in western Junggar,northwestern China

Carboniferous deep‐water marine strata have been insufficiently studied in western Junggar, NW China where the deep‐water facies successions have long been disputed in terms of age constraints, sequence and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. This paper introduces some views in the light of new materials obtained from this region in recent years. The presence of the Visean plant fossils from the upper Ta'erbahatai Formation in the Tarbgatay Mountains indicates that the formation can be extended to the Early Carboniferous epoch in age. This unit also displays obvious diachroneity, which is of Late Devonian to Early Tournaisian age in the Saur Mountains and Late Devonian to Visean age in the Tarbgatay Mountains. The Xibeikulasi, Baogutu and Tailegula formations are widely distributed in northwestern Karamay areas. The scouring structures and graded bedding near the boundaries between the three formations confirm the stratal sequence that they were originally assigned, namely the Xibeikulasi, Baogutu and Tailegula formations in ascending order. The ‘fossil chaos’ of the three formations is due to mistaking fossils of other stratigraphic units for fossils of these three formations. After revision, only the Early Carboniferous fossils are considered reliable, and combined with the newly found plant fossils, the Xibeikulasi, Baogutu and Tailegula formations are re‐assigned to the early Visean, late Visean, and latest Visean to Serpukhovian ages, respectively. An extension of the lower Hala'alate Formation was recognized in the southwestern Hala'alate Mountains. The presence of the latest Early Carboniferous brachiopods constrains the Hala'alate Formation as late Serpukhovian to Bashkirian in age, bearing the mid‐Carboniferous boundary. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

靖远磁窑晚石炭世沉积环境基本特征

磁窑地区晚石炭世为滨海环境，由２个较大的沉积旋回组成。纳缪尔晚期以河流环境开始，逐渐被沼泽、潮坪－泻湖环境代替，形成第１个旋回。维斯发早期为滨海三角洲环境，逐渐演变成泻湖－潮坪环境，最后为碳酸盐台地，以最大的海侵活动结束。     

河南商城—固始地区石炭系沉积环境及其构造意义

根据沉积相分析,同时综合分析区域地质资料,笔者提出河南商城－固始地区石炭系及安徽金寨地区梅山群为典型前陆磨拉石含煤建造,其沉积相主要为滨海、潮坪、泻湖、局限台地及砾质辫状河－冲积扇相,代表了统一的石炭纪一二叠纪合肥弧后前陆盆地的南部边缘相,说明大别地块（北大别弧）于早古生代晚期－晚古生代早期即与华北板块碰扪结成一体。     

辽南复州湾本溪组下部植物群的发现

<正> 辽南复州湾地区本溪组出露较好,以往在上部即三棱山灰岩及以上层位研究较详,而下部研究甚少,未见古生物方面的报道,其地质时代总是同上部一起看作相当莫斯科期,有人曾怀疑该段地层有属早石炭世的可能(辽宁区域地质志,1989)。本文对复州湾区本溪组下部地层测制了两条剖面,三棱山剖面在以往资料中常见涉及,此处不再赘述,而位于三棱山西北约400m、丁屯村东的水泥厂附近(新开大路两侧),下部层位发育、出露甚好(图1),自上而下详述如下:     

Early Carboniferous paleogeography of the northern Verkhoyansk passive margin as derived from U–Pb dating of detrital zircons: role of erosion products of the Central Asian and Taimyr–Severnaya Zemlya fold belts

The first U–Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Lower Carboniferous sandstones in the frontal part of the northern Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust belt showed that detrital zircon age spectra for the Lower Visean (Krestyakh Formation) and the Upper Visean–Serpukhovian (Tiksi Formation) rocks are quite different. The Early Visean sandstones contain up to 95% detrital zircons of Precambrian age, while those of Late Visean–Serpukhovian age, only 55%. The shape of age distribution plots of Precambrian zircons for both samples is similar, indicating that reworking of terrigenous sediments of the Krestyakh Formation or the same sources dominated in Early Visean time (crystalline basement of the craton, eroded Meso- and Neoproterozoic sedimentary complexes, and igneous rocks of Central Taimyr) contributed significantly to the accumulation of the Late Visean–Serpukhovian deposits. In the rocks of the Tiksi Formation, 45% of detrital zircons are of Paleozoic age, while 24% are Early Paleozoic, with prevailing Cambrian and Ordovician ages. Possible provenance areas with abundant igneous rocks of this age could be the Taimyr–Severnaya Zemlya and Central Asian fold belts extending along the northern, western or southwestern margins of the Siberia. The presence of Middle–Late Devonian zircons is thought to be related to the erosion of granitoids of the Yenisei Ridge and the Altai–Sayan region. Early Carboniferous detrital zircons probably had a provenance in igneous rocks of the Taimyr–Severnaya Zemlya fold belt, on the assumption that collision between the Kara block and the northern margin of the Siberian continent had already occurred by that time. In Early Visean time, sedimentation occurred in small deltaic fans, likely along steep fault scarps that formed as a result of Middle Paleozoic (Devonian–Carboniferous) rifting. The clastic material came from small rivers that eroded the nearby area. Late Visean–Serpukhovian time was marked by a sharp increase in the amount of clastic material and by the appearance of detrital zircons coming from new provenance regions, such as fold belts extending along the northern and southwestern margins of the Siberian continent. A large river system, which was able to transport clastic material over large distances to deposit it in submarine fans on the northern Verkhoyansk passive continental margin, had already existed by that time.     

新疆的管孔石燕和大长身贝

新疆的管孔石燕分布在中天山—觉洛塔格一线及其以北地区,时代为晚泥盆世晚期至早石炭世维宪晚期。新疆的大长身贝分布于中天山及觉洛塔格一线及其以南地区,时代为早石炭世维宪晚期至晚石炭世的巴什基尔早期。两者分布时期均与传统观念(管孔石燕为杜内期、大长身贝为维宪期)不同。     

TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE RUDNYY ALTAY DURING THE PALEOZOIC

Only the post-Ordovician history can be reconstructed for Rudnyy Altay and the adjacent South Altay and Kalba. Its distinctive feature is intensive Late Devonian - Early Carboniferous subsidence, followed by a general late Visean - early Namurian uplift. In the Silurian and Early Devonian it presented an anticlinal uplift, while Kalba and South Altay were subsiding. The Hercynian geosynclinal troughs of Rtidnyy Altay (Bystrushinsk and Beloubinsk) are geosynclines of the "second generation," a result of the breaking up of the Caledonian uplift. The terminal stage in Rudnyy Altay culminated in a Permian uplift. Each stage was accompanied by faulting and volcanism, the great Irtysh fault probably being the oldest. The authors believe that synclines and anticlines of Gornyy Altay were developed on the background of a vast magmatic hearth, with the lighter acid magmatic products moving toward the anticlines, by way of a dense network of faults. Basic material from deeper reaches ascended by way of deep rifts, to marginal parts of anticlinal uplifts. -- Scripta Technica, Inc.     

广州地区晚泥盆世至早石炭世地层及植物组合

广州地区晚泥盆世至早石炭世地层发育良好 ,出露地层为上泥盆统金钱岭组、沙水岗组以及下石炭统龙江组、石磴子组、测水组和梓门桥组 ,含有非常丰富的动植物化石 ,其中 ,广州市西北郊出露有陆相晚泥盆世至早石炭世地层的连续剖面 ,是研究陆相泥盆系与石炭系界线的理想剖面。含植物化石的陆相地层沙水岗组、龙江组和测水组中的植物化石可划分为 4个组合 ,自下而上为 :1) L epidodendropsis hirmeri- Sublepidodendron mirabile- H ama-tophyton verticillatum组合 ,代表沉积为沙水岗组 ,时代为晚泥盆世晚期 ;　 2 ) Sublepidodendron mirabile-Rhodeopteridium cf. hsianghsiangense组合 ,代表沉积为龙江组 ,时代为早石炭世杜内期 ;　 3) Cardiopteridiumspetsbergense- Triphyllopteris collombiana- Adiantites gothanii组合 ,代表沉积为测水组下段 ,时代为早石炭世维宪早期 ;　 4) Archaeocalamites scrobiculatus- Cardiopteridium spetsbergense- Paripteris gigantea组合 ,代表沉积为测水组上段 ,时代为早石炭世维宪晚期     

黔南独山石炭系层序地层及麦粒(竹蜓)带冰川型全球海平面变化

应用露头层序地层学原理和方法,对黔南独山地区碳酸盐岩为主的石炭系著名剖面进行了重新研究.识别出10个三级层序,其中岩关阶2个,大塘阶3个,威宁阶2个,马平组3个,大部分可以在台地和斜坡带追踪对比.在晚石炭世Triticites(Tr)带内识别出17个副层序和相应的海平面变化旋回,可以与北美中大陆同期17个四级层序和相应的海侵-海退旋回对比.黔南和北美中大陆之间存在相同的冰川型全球海平面变化和不同的构造背景,是出现上述现象的主要原因.     

新疆富蕴县下石炭统南明水组沉积相及其古地理意义

新疆富蕴县以南下石炭统维宪阶南明水组的主要沉积相类型为扇三角洲相、滨海相、海岸平原相,其中扇三角洲相又分为扇三角洲平原和前缘亚相,滨海相主要为临滨亚相。古流向集中于320°~340°,表明物源来自研究区东南方向,推测早古生代塔尔巴哈台褶皱带东段是研究区南明水组的蚀源区。准噶尔东北部早石炭世维宪期古构造格局可能包括准噶尔古陆东北缘由早古生代褶皱带构成的剥蚀区（隆升区）和该剥蚀区西北以南明水组为代表的晚古生代被动大陆边缘。     

新疆北部后碰撞构造演化与成矿

以夹于陆块间的蛇绿岩套构造就位及其伴随的区域变形变质、同碰撞花岗岩侵入时期,作为主碰撞期。后碰撞发生在主碰撞之后,并随大规模花岗质岩浆作用的结束而结束。依此标志,新疆北部后碰撞阶段的主体时限为早石炭世维宪期—晚二叠世。研究表明,新疆北部后碰撞阶段具有明显的继承性、旋回性、阶段性和方向性,经历了早石炭世伸展—晚石炭世挤压(隆升)和早二叠世伸展—晚二叠世挤压(隆升)两个伸展—挤压旋回。其中,早石炭世伸展可能与主碰撞导致的岩石圈板片拆沉有关,早二叠世伸展则可能与刚性增强的新陆壳下幔源岩浆的底侵作用有关。由多陆块碰撞过程中产生的巨大挤压应力,被后碰撞期不同机制幔源岩浆作用导致的阶段性伸展所消耗,由此逐步完成了碰撞后新陆壳的固结。新疆北部后碰撞的伸展阶段和挤压—伸展转变期,是大规模成矿的高峰期,并具有独特的成矿时空分布规律性。     

南京附近高骊山砂岩之再研究

<正> 高骊山砂岩系1931年朱森创名。创名剖面在句容高骊山南坡。详细分层描述见于1935年李毓尧、李捷、朱森著“宁镇山脉地质”一书(209页)。1932年李四光、朱森将和州灰岩(上)和高骊山系(下)代表龙潭一带的下石炭统上部。1956年“中国区域地层表(草案)补编”一书中首称高骊山组。我们认为:高骊山组与高骊山系含义相似,后者为大塘     

Carboniferous palaeogeography of the Yarrol and New England Orogens,eastern Australia

During the Carboniferous Period the Yarrol and New England Orogens comprised an active depositional margin east of cratonised parts of Australia. Patterns of deposition within the orogens were probably controlled by dextral shear systems believed responsible for tectonism and the positions of the various depositional elements (volcanic chain, shelf, slope and basin, pull‐apart troughs and graben), and global changes in sea level. These patterns are illustrated by a series of non‐palin‐spastic palaeogeographic reconstructions.

In the Early Carboniferous, similar patterns of deposition existed within the western volcanic chain, marine shelf, and eastern slope and basin provinces of both orogens. Sediments were deposited in two cycles. They range from volcanic fluvial and marine sandstone to siltstone, mudstone and turbidites. Complex depositional patterns within shelfal regions are shown in detailed palaeogeographic reconstructions.

This uniform pattern changed during the latest Visean and Namurian, with the uplift of the New England Arch, subsidence of a non‐marine graben (Werrie Trough) to the west, and development of a new shelf in the east. The Werrie Trough received volcanics as well as fluvial and glacigene sediments, and the shelf marine sandstone and siltstone. The Yarrol Orogen was unaffected by tectonism but there was a change in provenance.

Late in the Carboniferous the Yarrol Orogen was restructured by the intrusion of granitoids into the former volcanic chain, and development of the Yarrol and North D'Aguilar Troughs as probable pull‐apart basins. In the New England Arch, deformation and metamorphism were followed by intrusion of S‐type granitoids. A comparable episode of deformation and metamorphism affected the southeastern part of the Yarrol Orogen at the end of the Carboniferous Period. This partial cratonisation of the mobile zone was a prelude to widespread basin formation during the Permian Period.