东太平洋锰结核中叠层石纹层周期信号的谱分析及其意义

利用光学显微镜对一取自东太平洋的光滑型锰结核中的叠层石纹层进行分级统计，得到纹层带、纹层组和纹层对的韵律周期分别约为500μm、50－42．8μm和11－9．0μm。利用电子探针线扫描分析获取了锰结核磨光面上一生长剖面（长0．7mm)的Si、Al、Fe、Mn元素的含量变化序列，运用功率谱分析方法识别出上述4种元素序列具有111．3μm、46．5－40．6μm、24．9－28．1μm、23．1－23．9μm和11．7－13．4μm的显著振荡周期。除了纹层带周期由于受剖面长度限制没有出现外，显微镜下统计得到的叠层石的纹层组和纹层对周期在元素序列的功率谱分析结果上均得到了反映。通过对锰结核生长速率的讨论，认为锰结核的纹层韵律很可能与地球轨道参数的周期性变化有关，纹层组周期可能对应地球轨道的黄赤交角变化周期，纹层对周期可能对应地球轨道的半岁差周期，所研究剖面叠层石的生长速率约为1．134mm/Ma。     

答《关于深海锰结核中“纳米级超微生物化石”的思考和建议》一文

本文详细讨论了东太平洋深海锰矿结核中新发现的中华微放线菌和太平洋螺球孢菌究竟是不是超微结构，首先，它们是笔者根据形态，结构和元素成分作为超微生物化石进行鉴定的，其次，透射电子显微镜中可以清楚地区分出完整的微生物结构，包括菌丝，孢子，孢囊和菌落等，它们之间的尺寸比例也是适当的，此外，透射电子显微像还揭示，深海锰质叠层石的纹层就是这些超微生物韵律性生长的结果，与滨海叠层中的纹层十分相似，笔者认为，已知微生物的最小尺寸不能作为否定新发现的超微生物化石的依据。本文还讨论了超微生物化石的术语问题。     

铁锰结核的矿物相变和其它次生变化

本文通过对太平洋中部61个铁锰结核的研究,发现在结核形成后,发生了渐近相变、退化相变和Mn、Ni、Cu的次生富集作用。渐近相变是,随着结核成岩作用的增强(伴随着氧化还原电位由高到低的变化),锰矿物发生了由原生δ-MnO_2→环带状、薄层状钠水锰矿和钡镁锰矿→块状磷片状钡镁锰矿集合体的相变。在这一相变系统中钠水锰矿是相变的过渡阶段,钡镁锰矿是相变的高级阶段。退化相变:具层纹构造的原生δ-MnO_2在底层水(可能贫Mn、Ni、Cu而富Fe)的作用下,其中一部分Mn、Ni、Cu等被水带走而沉淀下Fe,形成新的富Fe、δ-MnO_2或非晶质水合铁锰氧化物。Mn、Ni、Cu的次生富集作用。结核在重结晶作用或由结核成岩作用到成岩后生作用过程中均发生了Mn、Ni、Cu的次生富集作用。它不仅表现在由原生δ-MnO_2→环带状钠水锰矿和钡镁锰矿→块状钡镁锰矿过程中,而且还表现在由早期到后期形成的δ-MnO_2成分上。     

武汉黄棕壤中铁锰结核的环带构造、元素富集特点与环境变化意义

土壤铁锰结核的环带记录了土壤成土过程和环境条件。文章利用扫描电镜及能谱探针分析测定了铁锰结核剖面上某些元素的含量与分布,研究表明:结核内部为不规则环带,Mn、Fe、Ca呈环带分布,大部分Ca赋存于铁锰结核的外层环带,Si、Al在剖面上呈匀态分布;结核剖面上Mn、Fe、Ca的含量呈波形曲线,根据它们的变幅,推测出该结核经历了10次以上的干湿交替过程,其中在结核生长初期经历了较弱的干湿交替环境,而在其生长后期处于相对较强的干湿交替环境;通过相关分析与因子分析,结核剖面上Ba、Ca、Co、Pb的富集与氧化锰矿物有关,而Ni、P的富集与氧化铁矿物有关     

青藏高原沱沱河盆地渐新世湖相叠层石:韵律纹层记录的古气候条件

沱沱河盆地通天河剖面渐新世雅西措群发现一套产于湖泛过程中的柱状叠层石。通过对叠层石纹层形态和显微组构的研究,发现这些叠层石具有典型的富藻纹层和富屑纹层交替的显微结构特征,发育三级生长节律,纹层对之间渐变接触,纹层带之间间断明显。采用激光微区取样的方法,针对4块样品的8个纹层对,系统采集了16对碳氧同位素数据,结果是富藻纹层同位素值整体上均高于富屑纹层,正相关性明显。这表明富藻纹层生长时期气候炎热湿润,富屑纹层生长时期相对寒冷干燥。认为湖相叠层石生长受周期性气候变化的控制,其韵律纹层记录了丰富的古气候信息。     

可可西里盆地东部五道梁群热水湖相成因新认识

五道梁地区位于青藏高原北部可可西里盆地东部,其中新世发育一系列古湖泊,保存有大套碳酸盐沉积。本文通过对五道梁北山含叠层石剖面和南部剖面进行矿物学、元素地球化学研究,发现叠层石剖面主要矿物为方解石和少量石英,而南侧剖面则含有铁白云石、方解石、石英和钠长石。铁白云石和钠长石次生加大边的发现说明该区曾受热水活动的影响。元素分析结果也显示As、Sb、Ba、Fe等热水沉积标志元素含量较高,且Ni/Co、Mn/Sr、V/Cr、V/Sc等比值也较高;加之稀土元素配分模式和碳氧同位素特征均表明该地区为热水湖相沉积。另外叠层藻的出现也反映当时湖水温度至少为20~30℃。综合各种分析结果说明五道梁群为热水湖相成因,该区中新世发育有大量火山岩,因此可作为下一步寻找火山沉积型硼矿床重要线索。     

土壤铁锰结核中锰矿物类型鉴定的探讨

用化学选择溶提、X射线衍射 (XRD)等技术 ,对土壤铁锰结核中锰矿物类型的鉴定进行了探讨。结果表明 :根据 0 .1mol·L-1盐酸羟胺 (HAHC)处理前后土壤铁锰结核的XRD峰的变化 ,可鉴定出其所含的锂硬锰矿和钙锰矿 ;分析HAHC处理前后同一XRD谱线上不受锰矿物干扰的相邻层状硅酸盐矿物衍射峰与所含锰矿物衍射峰强度的比值变化 ,确定了水钠锰矿的存在 ;结合铁锰结核中与锰矿物类型相关的元素含量 ,可鉴定出其所含的钡硬锰矿和铅锰矿。     

天津市蓟县东营房叠层石矿的开发利用研究

天津市蓟县东营房水泥灰岩矿区赋存着叠层石矿资源,叠层石灰岩赋存于中元古界蓟县系铁岭组上段的层位中,经估算,叠层石灰岩的储量达1000万m^3。这些叠层石灰岩是一种微生物沉积岩石,其美丽的色彩和层纹特性,经深加工可形成建筑饰面石料和叠加层石工艺品坯料,通过合理的市场开发,可使叠层石灰岩的价值倍增,产生可观的经济效益和良好的社会效益。     

可可西里地区中新世湖相叠层石成因及其古气候意义

青藏高原北部可可西里地区新发现湖相叠层石,它们集中分布在中新世五道梁群地层中.这些叠层石形态以穹隆状最为常见,局部地区甚至形成叠层石藻丘礁,根据显微镜和扫描电镜观察,其纹层构造和显微结构与现代海洋叠层石和前寒武纪时期的叠层石十分相似.根据对采集的叠层石样品进行微量元素分析、碳氧同位素分析.并与藻团块灰岩、生物碎屑灰岩和泥质灰岩以及少量白云岩进行对比研究,结果表明:叠层石灰岩、藻团块灰岩具有相似的地球化学特点,表现为低Sr/Ba、高Fe/Mn的特点,判断这些叠层石碳酸盐沉积在低盐度湖泊环境,建造叠层石的蓝绿藻生长在滨浅湖地带.它们的δ18O值变化于-6.63‰～-7.63‰之间,接近一般湖相淡水灰岩的范围内,指示入湖水量增加、湖水向淡化方向发展.湖泊中蓝绿藻类繁盛和叠层石的出现指示高湖面湖泛事件,说明青藏高原中新世时期曾出现过气候异常湿润期,这为判别区域气候的干湿变化提供了一个沉积标识.     

豫西寒武纪叠层石演化特征及其与后生动物的耦合关系

作为微生物席建造物的叠层石记录了大量的古环境和古地理信息,在豫西寒武系出露18层叠层石,以宏观和微观沉积特征为基础,依据各组段叠层石丰度(层厚度)和分异度(形态类型)的演化,将豫西寒武纪叠层石划分为6个演化组合。从叠层石组合的微观纹层、微生物化石及其微生物席演化等方面,结合沉积学和生物化石特征,探讨了豫西寒武纪叠层石的幕式演化,分别为微生物岩-叠层石演化幕和微生物岩-灰岩演化幕。以中寒武世灰岩中微生物岩与遗迹化石的密度关系为例,并从整个寒武纪微生物岩与后生动物化石之间关系的角度分析,认为叠层石微生物岩演化与后生动物之间并非只是简单的“此消彼长”,而是一种动态平衡的耦合关系。     

甘孜—理塘结合带锰结核的发现及其地质意义

在甘孜—理塘结合带内理塘县中木拉乡附近发现锰结核。通过地质填图和综合研究,该锰结核产于结合带内瓦能蛇绿混杂岩组中的黑色粉砂质板岩中。其沉积层序为玄武岩→硅质岩→含锰结核粉砂质板岩。锰结核主量元素具有高Mn、低Fe、Si、Ca的特点,其中Mn含量为42.19%,高出大洋锰结核平均值1.83倍,Mn/Fe值较高,达8.1。锰结核中除Cr高于大洋锰结核平均值2～7倍外,多数微量元素低于大洋锰结核平均值。稀土元素具有较明显的Ce正异常,稀土总量、轻重稀土分异程度、Eu异常特征与混杂岩中的砂岩、硅质岩近似,而与玄武岩差别较大。该锰结核产出于大陆边缘构造环境,火山活动微弱,代表甘孜—理塘洋扩张到最大程度时的沉积。其时甘孜—理塘洋规模仍是有限的。     

叠层石与沉积矿产的关系

本文通过笔者实际考察资料及国内外学者研究资料,综合分析了叠层石与沉积矿产关系的研究现状,探讨了叠层石和造叠层石底栖微生物群落对铁、铜、多金属、磷、锰等矿产的成矿作用。叠层石可以概括为直接的和间接的两种成矿作用:①叠层石为容矿体,其本身就是一种矿石类型;②叠层石不含矿,其岩礁为矿的间隔体。后者是一种金属硫化物避开叠层石岩礁而在礁侧沉积成巨大的富矿模式。     

叠层石与沉积矿产的关系

本文通过笔者实际考察资料及国内外学者研究资料,综合分析了叠层石与沉积矿产关系的研究现状,探讨了叠层石和造叠层石底栖微生物群落对铁、铜、多金属、磷、锰等矿产的成矿作用。叠层石可以溉括为直接的和间接的两种成矿作用:①叠层石为容矿体,其本身就是一种矿石类型;②叠层石不含矿,其岩礁为矿的间隔体。后者是一种金属硫化物避开叠层石岩礁而在礁侧沉积成巨大的富矿模式。     

Pelagic Manganese Nodules--A New Type of Oncolites

Pelagic manganese nodules from the East Pacific Ocean have been studied using polarizing,scanning electron and transmission electron microscopes. It has been revealed that the manganesenodules are composed of cores and stromatolite coatings. The structures and textures of thesenodules are peculiar to oncolite. Consequently, the pelagic manganese nodules are manganeseoncolites. Based on the stromatolites in the coatings, the manganese oncolites from the East Paci-fic Ocean can be divided into two types. One is smooth on surface and dense inside. Its coatingsare composed mainly of Minima. The other has a knobby surface and is loose internally. Itscoatings consist mainly of Admirabilis. The TEM investigation has also revealed that the con-structors of the manganese oncolites are ultra-microbes. The Minima is constructed byMiniactinomyces chinensis sp. nov. and the Admirabilis is built by Spirisosphaerospora pacifica sp.nov.     

Fine‐grained agglutinated elongate columnar stromatolites: Tieling Formation,ca 1420 Ma,North China

The Mesoproterozoic Tieling Formation, near Jixian, northern China, contains thick beds of vertically branched, laterally elongate, columnar stromatolites. Carbonate mud is the primary component of both the stromatolites and their intervening matrix. Mud abundance is attributed to water column ‘whiting’ precipitation stimulated by cyanobacterial photosynthesis. Neomorphic microspar gives the stromatolites a ‘streaky’ microfabric and small mud flakes are common in the matrix. The columns consist of low‐relief, mainly non‐enveloping, laminae that show erosive truncation and well‐defined repetitive lamination. In plan view, the columns form disjunct elongate ridges <10 cm wide separated by narrow matrix‐filled runnels. The stromatolite surfaces were initially cohesive, rather than rigid, and prone to scour, and are interpreted as current aligned microbial mats that trapped carbonate mud. The pervasive ridge–runnel system suggests scale‐dependent biophysical feedback between: (i) carbonate mud supply; (ii) current duration, strength and direction; and (iii) growth and trapping by prolific mat growth. Together, these factors determined the size, morphology and arrangement of the stromatolite columns and their laminae, as well as their branching patterns, alignment and ridge–runnel spacing. Ridge–runnel surfaces resemble ripple mark patterns, but whether currents were parallel and/or normal to stromatolite alignment remains unclear. The formation and preservation of Tieling columns required plentiful supply of carbonate mud, mat‐building microbes well‐adapted to cope with this abundant sediment, and absence of both significant early lithification and bioturbation. These factors were time limited, and Tieling stromatolites closely resemble coeval examples in the Belt‐Purcell Supergroup of Laurentia. The dynamic interactions between mat growth, currents and sediment supply that determined the shape of Tieling columns contributed to the morphotypical diversity that characterizes mid–late Proterozoic branched stromatolites.     

Geochemistry and Origin of Layers in Single Manganese Nodule from the Philippine Sea and Manganese Nodules from Offshore Minami-Torishima,Western Pacific

Layers from one manganese nodule dredged from the Philippine Sea(16°56'N, 129°48'E; water depth, 5700 m) and 45 bulk nodules from offshore Minami-Torishima Island, Japan(23°3'N, 153°22'E; water depth, 1200 m) were analyzed chemically and their origin is discussed based on geochemical constraints. In general, Cu, Ni, Zn and Mo tend to increase with increasing Mn content, while Co, Pb, Ba, V, Sc, Th, and the rare earth elements(REEs) show less variation with increasing Mn content. Nodule 42 H from the Philippine Sea has an average Mn/Fe ratio close to 1 and shows a positive Ce anomaly, suggesting a predominant hydrogenous origin. Profiles of 230Th230 ex and Thex/232 Th ratios in the outer ~0.3 mm of nodule 42 H indicate a steady growth rate of ~1.7 mm/Myr. Nodule E30 from offshore Minami-Torishima is characterized by lower Mn, Fe, Mn/Fe(0.53) and Mo/V(0.2) ratios but higher P and Cu/Ni(0.31) ratio relative to other nodules from that area. The Ce content of E30 is unusually low(82 ppm) when compared with other nodules from the area and it is the only nodule analyzed with a negative Ce anomaly(-0.64). Based on the geochemical data we suggest that most nodules from offshore Minami-Torishima are primarily of hydrogenous origin except E30, which is dominated by hydrothermal input, and E45, which has about a 35% hydrothermal contribution.     

Some geochemical controls on Ni and Co concentrations in marine ferromanganese deposits

The uptake of Ni and Co in the hydrous Mn oxide or the amorphous Fe-oxide phases of ferromanganese deposits in the oceans was studied by electron-microprobe analyses of 17 natural manganese nodules and by experiments on desorption-dissolution of these metals from synthetic Fe oxide or Mn oxides and natural nodule material. Ni was found to occur nearly always in the Mn-oxide phases of natural nodules, while Co occurs both in the Mn-oxide and Fe-oxide phases, with a slight preference for the latter. The solubility of Ni and Co (from coprecipitates of these metals with Fe hydroxides after aging) in seawater was found to depend strongly on the crystallinity of the host phase. The adsorption of Co by the synthetic Mn oxides from seawater was higher than that of Ni. The experimentally determined solubility of Ni and Co in seawater from natural nodule material is extremely low and matches the concentration range of these metals in ocean water.     

Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) stromatolite mounds in a fore-reef slope setting, Laibin, Guangxi, South China

The Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) is generally a period of scarce carbonate buildups in South China. This study documents outcrops of stromatolite mounds at Mengcun and Helv villages, in Laibin City, Guangxi Province, South China. The stromatolite mounds contain various stromatolite morphologies including laminar, wavy-laminar, domal or hemispheroidal, bulbous, and flabellate-growth columns. Intramound rocks are brachiopod floatstone and dark thin-bedded laminated micrite limestone. Individual stromatolites at Mengcun village are generally 3–6 cm thick and morphologically represent relatively shallow-water laminar (planar and wavy-undulated stromatolites) and deeper-water domal, bulbous and columnar forms. Where mounds were formed, the stromatolites continued growing upward up to 60 cm thick. Thrombolitic fabrics also occur but are not common. Stromatolite microscopic structure shows the bulk of the lamination to consist of wavy microbialite and discrete thin micritic laminae. These mounds are intercalated in deep-water fore-reef talus breccia, packstone formed as a bioclastic debris flow and thin-bedded limestone containing common chert layers of the Tatang Formation (late Viséan). Further evidence supporting the deep-water setting of the stromatolite mounds are: (1) a laterally thinning horizon of brachiopod floatstone containing deep-water, small, thin-shelled brachiopods, peloidal micritic sediments and low-diversity, mixed fauna (e.g., thin-shelled brachiopods, tube-like worms and algae) that have been interpreted as storm deposits, (2) common fore-reef talus breccias, (3) lack of sedimentary structures indicating current action, (4) preservation of lamination with sponge spicules, and (5) lack of bioturbation suggesting that the stromatolites grew in a relatively low energy, deep-water setting. The stromatolite mounds are the first described stromatolite mounds in Mississippian strata of South China and contain evidence that supports interpretations of (1) growth history of Mississippian microbial buildups and (2) environmental controls on stromatolite growth and lithification.     

Lacustrine stromatolites: Useful structures for environmental interpretation – an example from the Miocene Ebro Basin

The significance of stromatolites as depositional environmental indicators and the underlying causes of lamination in the lacustrine realm are poorly understood. Stromatolites in a ca 600 m thick Miocene succession in the Ebro Basin are good candidates to shed light on these issues because they are intimately related to other lacustrine carbonate and sulphate facies, grew under variable environmental conditions and show distinct lamination patterns. These stromatolites are associated with wave‐related, clastic‐carbonate laminated limestones. Both facies consist of calcite and variable amounts of dolomite. Thin planar stromatolites (up to 10 cm thick and less than 6 m long) occurred in very shallow water. These stromatolites represented first biological colonization after: (i) subaerial exposure in the palustrine environment (i.e. at the beginning of deepening cycles); or (ii) erosion due to surge action, then coating very irregular surfaces on laminated limestones (i.e. through shallowing or deepening cycles). Sometimes they are associated with evaporative pumping. Stratiform stromatolites (10 to 30 cm high and tens of metres long) and domed stromatolites (10 to 30 cm high and long) developed in deeper settings, between the surge periods that produced hummocky cross‐stratification and horizontal lamination offshore. Changes in stromatolite lamina shape, and thus in the growth forms through time, can be attributed to changes in water depth, whereas variations in lamina continuity are linked to water energy and sediment supply. Growth of the stromatolites resulted from in situ calcite precipitation and capture of minor amounts of fine‐grained carbonate particles. Based on texture, four types of simple laminae are distinguished. The simple micrite and microsparite laminae can be grouped into light and dark composite laminae, which represent, respectively, high and low Precipitation/Evaporation ratio periods. Different lamination patterns provide new ideas for the interpretation of microbial laminations as a function of variations in climate‐dependent parameters (primarily the Precipitation/Evaporation ratio) over variable timescales.