中生代地球系统与核—幔边界动力学研究进展

本文介绍了９０年以来地球物理学在地球磁场方面的研究成果,揭示了２００－１００Ｍａ全球低的地球磁场古强度;１２４－８３Ｍａ低的极性反转频率以及１７０－１１０Ｍａ近乎停滞的真极移。     

The Earth’s magnetic field history for the past 400 Myr

Published and new data on the Earth’s past magnetic field have been interpreted in terms of its links with the frequency of magnetic polarity reversals and with tectonic events such as plume-related eruptions and rifting. The paleointensity and reversal frequency variations show an antiphase correlation between 0 and 160 Ma, and the same tendency likely holds for the past 400 Myr. The geomagnetic field intensity averaged over geological ages (stages) appears to evolve in a linearly increasing trend while its variations increase proportionally in amplitude and change in structure. Both paleointensity and reversal frequency patterns correlate with rifting and eruption events. In periods of high rifting activity, the geomagnetic field increases (15 to 30%) and the reversals become about 40% less frequent. Large eruption events between 0 and 150 Ma have been preceded by notable changes in magnetic intensity which decreases and then increases, the lead being most often within a few million years.     

Paleomagnetism of the late Cryogenian Nantuo Formation and paleogeographic implications for the South China Block

A new paleomagnetic pole position is obtained from the well-dated (636.3 ± 4.9 Ma) Nantuo Formation in the Guzhang section, western Hunan Province, and the correlative Long’e section in eastern Guizhou Province, South China. Remagnetization of the recent geomagnetic field was identified and removed for both sections. The hard dual-polarity, interpreted as primary, component of the Nantuo Formation, directs east–westward with medium inclinations, yielding an average pole of 9.3°N, 165°E, A₉₅ = 4.3° that, for the first time, passed a strata-bound reversals test. The new data are consistent with previously published paleomagnetic data of the Nantuo Formation from Malong county, central Yunnan Province, which passed a positive syn-sedimentary fold test. Together, these sites represent shallow- to deep-water sections across a shelf-to-basin transect centered at ∼33° paleolatitude. The sedimentary basin may have faced an expansive ocean toward the paleo-East. In the ∼750 Ma and ∼635 Ma global reconstructions, the South China Block (SCB) was best fitted in the northern hemisphere close to northwestern Australia. However, a direct SCB-northwestern Australia connection, inferred to have existed during the Early Cambrian–Early Devonian, had not formed by the time of ∼635 Ma.     

Global repeating events in the history of the Earth and the motion of the Sun in the Galaxy

Chronological analyses of correlations between certain global repeating events (mass extinctions of marine organisms, meteorite impacts, and flashes in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals) during the Phanerozoic Eon and the motion of the solar system in the Galaxy are presented for five rotationally symmetrical models for the regular Galactic gravitational field. Thirteen of sixteen mass-extinction events can be described by a repetition interval of 183±3 million years. This is in agreement with the anomalistic period (interval between two subsequent passages of the Sun through the apocenter of its Galactic orbit) in the model of Allen and Martos. The positions of the minima and maxima in Gaussian functions approximating the frequency distribution for geomagnetic reversals also agree with the times of passage of the Sun through the apocenter and pericenter, respectively, of its Galactic orbit in this model. The maximum in the distribution of the deviations of the dates of mass extinctions from the nearest dates of impacts of large, crater-forming bodies is close to zero, providing evidence that many such events are correlated. As a rule, extinctions follow impact events. The impacts of large bodies have occurred most often when the solar system passes through the Galactic plane, while mass extinctions occur more often at some distance from the Galactic plane (about 40 pc). As a rule, intervals of increases in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals coincide with dates of impacts of large bodies. At the same time, these intervals do not show a clear correlation with the dates of mass extinctions. The intensity of mass extinctions, like the energy released by impacts, is consistently higher in periods when the Sun is moving from the apocenter toward the pericenter of its orbit, than when it is moving from the pericenter toward the apocenter. Thus, there is evidence for a variety of relationships between repeating global events in the Phanerozoic and the motion of the Sun in the Galaxy. Long-period variations in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals are correlated with the orbital motion of the Sun, and increases in the frequency of geomagnetic reversals are correlated with impacts. Mass extinctions are correlated with the impacts of large bodies, whose motions may have been perturbed by clouds of interstellar material concentrated toward the Galactic plane and by the shock front associated with the Perseus spiral arm, through which the solar system passes. The velocity of the Sun relative to the spiral pattern is estimated.     

甘肃环县剖面记录的末次间冰期地磁场

环县剖面的古地磁研究结果表明，在第一层古土壤S1的上部和下部分别存在两个地磁场异常。通过剖面磁化率曲线与深海沉积物氧同位素曲线的对比，建立了地磁场变化的时间序列。S1上部记录的地磁场异常，年龄与挪威-格陵兰海及大西洋中发现的地磁异常年龄相当。S1下部的地磁异常，以磁偏角方向强烈摆动，偶极磁场强度明显下降为特征，其年龄与报道的布莱克事件的年龄相当，也与索马里海和地中海所记录的大幅度偶极磁场减弱相吻合，但与西宁剖面的记录不同的是，环县剖面记录的地磁场从没有达到完全的倒转，VGP曲线表现为围绕采样点旋转的经过南半球低纬地区的大环。这些特征表明，在偶极磁场减弱期，具有强烈区域性的非偶极磁场的变化可能对地磁场起着重要的作用。     

Stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of a 3-km-thick Miocene lava pile in the Mjoifjördur area,eastern Iceland

We have carried out stratigraphic mapping in the Upper Miocene basalt lava pile around the fjords Mjoifjördur and Seydisfjördur, eastern Iceland. The mapping is based on conventional methods including the use of interbasaltic clastic horizons and petrographically distinct lava groups. These units are also used to provide correlations with the Nordfjördur area south of Mjoifjördur. We present a 3-km composite stratigraphic column for the area between Mjoifjördur and Seydisfjördur. The geology of this area shows some differences from the classical model of Walker for the structure of eastern Iceland partly due to the fact that most of Mjoifjördur is not in the vicinity of central volcanoes. Detailed laboratory measurements of remanent magnetization were carried out on oriented core samples from 363 lavas in 10 selected profiles. The local paleomagnetic polarity stratigraphy supports correlations made on the basis of other criteria. Over 20 geomagnetic reversals are recorded in the eastern Iceland lava pile in a period approximately 13-10 Ma ago. The geomagnetic field during this period averages to a central axial dipole field, and its overall statistical properties resemble those obtained in earlier surveys in Iceland.     

山西五台山滹沱群四集庄冰碛岩碎屑锆石年龄及其对大氧化事件研究意义

山西滹沱群四集庄组变质陆源碎屑混杂岩的砾石岩性复杂,分选和磨圆性差,砾石表面可见划痕和凹面,发育落石构造,表明其沉积于冰水过渡带环境,记录了华北克拉通古元古代冰期事件。四集庄组不同层位不同岩石的碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄集中于2.5 Ga左右,下部2件陆源碎屑混杂岩样品的碎屑锆石给出的最小年龄分别为(2 440±40) Ma和(2 400±23) Ma,而上部1件砂岩样品碎屑锆石的最小年龄为(2 121±22) Ma,说明冰川沉积作用发生在2.4 Ga之后, 2.1 Ga之前或2.1 Ga左右,与全球性休伦冰川事件(Huronian Glaciation Event,HGE)发生时间一致。砂岩相最小碎屑锆石年龄2.1 Ga左右,说明五台地区冰川事件之后沉积作用仍未结束,冰川沉积发生在陆缘广海盆地。四集庄组之上的大石岭组具有碳酸盐岩碳同位素正漂移,沉积于2.12 Ga之后,2.08 Ga之前,与全球碳酸盐岩碳同位素正漂移事件时间一致。青石村组的红层沉积于2.08 Ga左右,也与全球红层发育记录一致。华北克拉通滹沱群记录了相对完整的大氧化事件序列。     

中国东北44 Ma/42 Ma火山事件的出现及其地质找矿意义

中国东北地区古近纪玄武岩浆喷发火山事件从48 Ma~32 Ma,每1 Ma内至少有一处或数处,以K-Ar测年数据记录了其活动的存在.唯44 Ma/42 Ma间,火山事件间隔时间超过1 Ma,即全区该时段近60个测年数据,未发现有43 Ma±的测年记录.此时,正是太平洋板块由NNW向运动转向NW-NWW向运动,也是太平洋天皇海岭-夏威夷海山火山链活动从NNW向转向NW-NWW向活动的转折时间.东北大陆边缘从拉分-张裂的区域应力场转换为NW向的拉伸（或伸展）应力场.陆缘裂谷或叠加于早期的拉分-张裂盆地之上,或出现新的裂谷盆地,形成了晚始新世石油、油页岩、煤等含矿岩系,并成为古近纪沉积盆地该类资源的主含矿层.     

Early Paleozoic tectonics and geodynamics of Central Asia: role of mantle plumes

There were two key stages in the history of Paleozoids that formed in the place of the Paleoasian ocean, one in the Cambrian–Ordovician and the other in the Permian–Triassic. Both time spans were characterized by a combination of similar geodynamic, magmatic, and geomagnetic events: closure and opening of oceanic basins, intense plume magmatism associated with Earth's core cooling, and absence of geomagnetic reversals (superchrons). Three superchrons about 490–460, 260–300, and 124–86 Ma correlate with major events of plume magmatism. Plume reconstructions have to be updated for the period 490–460 Ma, which corresponded to the third superchron and was marked by ocean opening. The previous superplume, about 800–740 Ma, requires further justification but fits the global periodicity with 240 Ma major cycles and smaller ones of 120 (or also 30) Ma.In the Late Cambrian–Ordovician, large-scale accretion and collision events acted, in similar tectonic settings, upon the vast territory that currently extends from the Polar Urals to Lake Baikal (and was times larger in the past). As a result, Gondwanian microcontinents (Kokchetav, Altai–Mongolia, Tuva–Mongolia, etc.) and island arcs joined into the Kazakhstan–Tuva–Mongolia system. The formation of the Late Cambrian–Ordovician orogen in Central Asia was synchronous with opening of the Ural, Ob–Zaisan, Turkestan, and Paleotethys oceans. The plume pulses (520–500 and 490–460 Ma) may have been responsible for opening of new oceans, accelerated amalgamation of terranes, and synchronicity in geodynamic events from the Urals to Transbaikalia.     

偏极性现象研究及其地球动力学意义

对于１０８年或更长的地史时期而言,地磁场表现出偏极性特征。统计表明,偏极性变化与磁极倒转频率、长期变、古强度变化等古地磁现象以及地球自转速率变化、真极移和海底扩张等地球动力学现象均有不同程度的相关关系。偏极性呈现周期性变化,其中６４０～５３３Ｍａ的周期对应于王鸿祯等（１９９７）所提出的联合古陆周期。笔者认为,Ｍａｒｕｙａｍａ（１９９４）的地幔羽模型可能有助于说明岩石圈板块通过全地幔对流的方式介入核幔边界条件,进而影响或控制了偏极性的长周期变化。     

Late Cenozoic paleomagnetism of West Siberian Plate

On the basis of combined (paleomagnetic, lithological, and paleontological) data, a scale of Neogene geomagnetic polarity is proposed for the West Siberian Plate (WSP). It comprises 17 large orthozones of normal and reversed polarity. The scale was compiled by comparing and correlating the Neogene key sections of the Kulunda and Baraba plains, Irtysh regions between Omsk and Pavlodar and near Tara, and Ob’ region near Tomsk. The reliability of paleomagnetic data is confirmed by component analysis of natural remanent magnetization and by a possibility of determining its primary component. In the studied Neogene rocks this is a high-temperature component related to magnetite, hematite, and maghemite, which decays at 420–675 °C. In the period from Early Miocene to Late Pliocene, the Late Cenozoic geomagnetic field reconstructed from NRM vectors for WSP rocks of Neogene age experienced 17 reversals (at the level of orthozone boundaries), with eight regimes of normal polarity and nine regimes of reversed polarity. Comparison of the WSP Neogene scale with Berggren’s scale provided absolute age boundaries of the Late Cenozoic series on the WSP regional stratigraphic scale. The 23.8 Ma boundary between the Oligocene and Miocene is recorded in the regional scale at the sole of the Lyamin beds of the Abrosimovka Formation, at the bottom of Orthochron R₁N₁aq, and the Miocene-Pliocene 5.2 Ma boundary (Chron C3r), in the Novaya Stanitsa Formation (top of the Cherlak beds).     

洛川黄土地层学

黄土和古土壤的磁化率与所含磁性矿物的浓度和颗粒大小密切相关。磁化率信号的主要载体是非常细的磁铁矿和(或者)磁赤铁矿。洛川黄土序列的磁化率曲线变化与成壤作用和粉尘堆积作用强弱有关,反映了气候的变化。磁化率值为识别黄土和古土壤层提供了一个工具。文中建议了黄土岩石地层单位命名的原则。洛川黄土-古土壤序列的磁化率曲线记录了最近2.5Ma气候变化的历史,与深海沉积的气候记录可以对比。     

Timing of the Nihewan formation and faunas

Magnetostratigraphic dating of the fluvio-lacustrine sequence in the Nihewan Basin, North China, has permitted the precise timing of the basin infilling and associated Nihewan mammalian faunas. The combined evidence of new paleomagnetic findings from the Hongya and Huabaogou sections of the eastern Nihewan Basin and previously published magnetochronological data suggests that the Nihewan Formation records the tectono-sedimentary processes of the Plio-Pleistocene Nihewan Basin and that the Nihewan faunas can be placed between the Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic reversal and the onset of the Olduvai subchron (0.78-1.95 Ma). The onset and termination of the basin deposition occurred just prior to the Gauss-Matuyama geomagnetic reversal and during the period from the last interglaciation to the late last glaciation, respectively, suggesting that the Nihewan Formation is of Late Pliocene to late Pleistocene age. The Nihewan faunas, comprising a series of mammalian faunas (such as Maliang, Donggutuo, Xiaochangliang, Banshan, Majuangou, Huabaogou, Xiashagou, Danangou and Dongyaozitou), are suggested to span a time range of about 0.8-2.0 Ma. The combination of our new and previously published magnetostratigraphy has significantly refined the chronology of the terrestrial Nihewan Formation and faunas.     

Geochemistry of Lavas from the Emperor Seamounts, and the Geochemical Evolution of Hawaiian Magmatism from 85 to 42 Ma

The Hawaiian–Emperor Seamount Chain (ESC), in the northernPacific Ocean, was produced during the passage of the PacificPlate over the Hawaiian hotspot. Major and trace element concentrationsand Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions of shield andpost-shield lavas from nine of the Emperor Seamounts providea 43 Myr record of the chemistry of the oldest preserved Hawaiianmagmatism during the Late Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic (from85 to 42 Ma). These data demonstrate that there were large variationsin the composition of Hawaiian magmatism over this period. Tholeiiticbasalts from Meiji Seamount (85 Ma), at the northernmost endof the ESC, have low concentrations of incompatible trace elements,and unradiogenic Sr isotopic compositions, compared with youngerlavas from the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Chain (<43 Ma).Lavas from Detroit Seamount (81 Ma) have highly depleted incompatibletrace element and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions, which aresimilar to those of Pacific mid-ocean ridge basalts. Lavas fromthe younger Emperor Seamounts (62–42 Ma) have trace elementcompositions similar to those of lavas from the Hawaiian Islands,but initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios extend to lower values. From 81to 42 Ma there was a systematic increase in ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr of boththoleiitic and alkalic lavas. The age of the oceanic lithosphereat the time of seamount formation decreases northwards alongthe Emperor Seamount Chain, and the oldest Emperor Seamountswere built upon young, thin lithosphere close to a former spreadingcentre. However, the inferred distance of the Hawaiian plumefrom a former spreading centre, and the isotopic compositionsof the oldest Emperor lavas appear to rule out plume–ridgeinteraction as an explanation for their depleted compositions.We suggest that the observed temporal chemical and isotopicvariations may instead be due to variations in the degree ofmelting of a heterogeneous mantle, resulting from differencesin the thickness of the oceanic lithosphere upon which the EmperorSeamounts were constructed. During the Cretaceous, when theHawaiian plume was situated beneath young, thin lithosphere,the degree of melting within the plume was greater, and incompatibletrace element depleted, refractory mantle components contributedmore to melting. KEY WORDS: Emperor Seamounts; Hawaiian plume; lava geochemistry; lithosphere thickness; mantle heterogeneity     

Possible causes of quasiperiodic variations in geomagnetic reversal frequency and Sr/Sr ratios in marine carbonates through the Phanerozoic

Variations in frequency of geomagnetic reversals through the Phanerozoic have been analyzed jointly with ⁸⁷Sr/ ⁸⁶Sr ratios in marine carbonate sediments. The time series of both parameters contain principal components with periods from 90 to 110 Ma and show a certain correlation. Namely, (i) both time series have five local minimums spaced at similar intervals (period lengths); (ii) the minimums in the Δ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr curve follow in time those of the reversal frequency, with a lag from 12 Myr in the Ordovician to 38 Myr in the Cretaceous; (iii) the rate of heat transfer from processes at the core-mantle boundary (in D″ layer) which control the Earth's geological life was from 7 to 25 cm/yr in the Phanerozoic. This rate approaches the observed velocities of horizontal plate motion and the predicted mantle convection rates.     

显生宙以来地磁场频繁倒转与大地构造关系

显生宙以来,地磁场有7次频繁倒转间断,每次倒转伴随有相应的造山运动及岩浆活动。地磁场频繁变化,与之相伴的造山运动的发生,大陆与大洋的构造运动、生物的大量灭绝等,都与太阳系在银河系中的活动有关。     

High‐precision U–Pb age and duration of the latest Devonian (Famennian) Hangenberg event,and its implications

Precise U–Pb zircon dates from three volcanic ash beds that bracket the Hangenberg Shale in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, constrain the age and duration of one of the most significant palaeobiological events of the Palaeozoic Era, the Hangenberg Event. It is linked to a terminal Devonian global shift from greenhouse to icehouse climate conditions, a global transgression, and widespread black shale deposition. Our results constrain the Hangenberg Event to between 358.97 ± 0.11 Ma and 358.89 ± 0.20 Ma, with a calculated duration of 0.05 +0.14/?0.05 Ma. A third, underlying ash bed yielded a distinctly older age of 359.97 ± 0.46 Ma. The duration of ~50–100 ka. for the event is comparable to those of Quaternary glaciations, and is consistent with both a glacio‐eustatic origin for the eustatic fluctuations and changes in ocean chemistry that led to this major reorganization of the biosphere.     

Geomagnetic reversal history

The history of geomagnetic polarity reversals in the Cenozoic and Late Mesozoic is well known since the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian). A continuous record of polarity has been derived for this time interval from the interpretation of oceanic magnetic anomalies. Most of the polarity chrons in this oceanic record have been verified and dated in coordinated magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic studies. This has led to the generation of progressively refined and improved geomagnetic reversal time-scales that provide a framework for absolute dating of palaeontological zonations. By serving as a basis for statistical analysis of reversal frequency they provide information relevant to processes in the Earth's core. The rate of reversals since the Late Cretaceous shows a steady increase on which a cyclical variation appears to be superposed. A stochastic model for reversals predicts a Poisson distribution of polarity interval lengths. The polarity time scales contain many fewer short (± 50 kyr) polarity chrons than a Poisson distribution, and it has been suggested that a gamma renewal process with index greater than unity is a more appropriate statistical model. The statistical arguments give no convincing reason for abandoning the model and other, physical reasons must be sought to explain the incompleteness of the reversal record. The discovery and verification of short chrons in the oceanic record may best be investigated by deep-tow magnetometer surveys. The reversal history before the Late Jurassic is not well known. Magnetostratigraphy in coeval Early Jurassic sections has not given correlatable records and it has not been possible to compile a definitive polarity sequence. Evaluation of geomagnetic polarity history for the Early Mesozoic and the Palaeozoic will require unambiguous magnetostratigraphy in well-dated sections where verification of the polarity pattern is possible at the fossil zone or stage level.     

从板缘碰撞到陆内造山:华南东南缘早古生代造山作用演化

华南的广西运动被认为是发生在早古生代的陆内造山作用,然而触发陆内变形的地球动力学机制仍然不清.广西运动形成了泥盆系与下伏岩石之间广泛的不整合面以及分布在局部地区的下古生界内部的多个不整合面.广西运动期间的构造热事件和古生物响应时间在460~380 Ma,时间上对应于奥陶系和泥盆系之间的多个不整合,而分布在华南南缘的寒武系和奥陶系之间的不整合面（郁南运动）仅与少量的530~480 Ma之间的变质事件相当,但是却同步于广泛分布在东冈瓦纳北缘的造山事件.华南南部寒武系-奥陶系不整合面上下的碎屑锆石年代学研究表明,早古生代华南与印度北缘相连,而三亚地块在寒武纪是澳大利亚西缘的一部分,直到奥陶纪才与华南拼合,同步于冈瓦纳最终的聚合.郁南运动之后,华夏板块处于冈瓦纳内部,来自冈瓦纳东缘造山作用的应力向大陆内部传播,在具有弱流变学性质的南华盆地聚集,导致盆地构造反转,触发了广西运动.早古生代的华南经历了从板缘碰撞（郁南运动）到陆内造山（广西运动）的演化过程.      

Paleomagnetic modeling of seamounts near the Hawaiian–Emperor bend

The Hawaiian–Emperor Seamount chain records the motion of the Pacific Plate relative to the Hawaiian mantle hotspot for 80 m.y. A notable feature of the chain is the pronounced bend at its middle. This bend had been widely credited to a change in plate motion, but recent research suggests a change in hotspot motion as an alternative. Existing paleomagnetic data from the Emperor Chain suggest that the hotspot moved south during the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary, but reached its current latitude by the age of the bend. Thus, data from area of the bend are important for understanding changes in plume latitude. In this study, we analyze the magnetic anomalies of five seamounts (Annei, Daikakuji-W, Daikakuji- E, Abbott, and Colahan) in the region of the bend. These particular seamounts were chosen because they have been recently surveyed to collect multibeam bathymetry and magnetic data positioned with GPS navigation. Inversions of the magnetic and bathymetric data were performed to determine the mean magnetization of each seamount and from these results, paleomagnetic poles and paleolatitudes were calculated. Three of the five seamounts have reversed magnetic polarities (two are normal) and four contain a small volume of magnetic polarity opposite to the main body, consistent with formation during the Early Cenozoic, a time of geomagnetic field reversals. Although magnetization inhomogene ties can degrade the accuracy of paleomagnetic poles calculated from such models, the seamounts give results consistent with one another and with other Pacific paleomagnetic data of approximately the same age. Seamount paleolatitudes range from 13.7 to 23.7, with an average of 19.4 ± 7.4 (2σ). These values are indistinguishable from the present-day paleolatitude of the Hawaiian hotspot. Together with other paleomagnetic and geologic evidence, these data imply that the Hawaiian hotspot has moved little in latitude during the past 45 m.y.