东南沿海地区新生代火山作用和地幔柱

通过本文的研究表明 ,东南沿海地区从沿海→内陆 (牛头山→闽清→明溪 )新生代玄武岩的年龄逐渐变小 ,具有火山链的特征 ;微量元素和 Sr- Nd同位素特征与洋岛玄武岩 (OIB)类似 ;上地幔具有过热状态和扰动的热结构 ;地球物理具有低的 Vs 异常及提供了在该区下面具有地幔柱的 CT模式 ;火山岩具有较高的 3He/4He同位素比值 ,因此提出了研究区下面存在地幔柱。进一步根据火山岩的热动力学参数 ,从沿海→内陆 ,随火山岩年龄变小 ,火山岩的碱性程度逐渐增加 ,岩浆起源的深度逐渐变深 ,局部熔融程度逐渐变小等特征 ,提出了地幔柱的形成是由太平洋板块俯冲诱发 ,地幔柱位于俯冲带上面 ,南海的扩张和新生代火山岩的形成是地幔柱作用的结果 ,并提出地幔柱成因演化模式。     

Pygostyle-like Structure from Beipiaosaurus (Theropoda, Therizinosauroidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China

Pygostyle was previously considered as a unique structure of ornithothoracine birds, used to maneuver tail feathers. A similar structure from an oviraptorosaurian dinosaur was considered functionally associated with the rectrices as in birds. We report a pygostyle-like structure from a therizinosauroid dinosaur. The presence of filamentous integuments, but absence of rectrices, on the tail of this therizinosauroid, combined with other lines of evidence, suggests that the initial function of the pygostyle was not related to the rectrices.