Revision of the early Holocene lake sediment based chronology and event stratigraphy on Hochstetter Forland, NE Greenland

The previously established and often debated lake sediment based chronology and event stratigraphy from Hochstetter Forland, NE Greenland, has been re-examined. These new studies show that the last deglaciation of the coastal area is several thousand years younger than previously described. The main reason behind the difference is the fact that the older chronology was based on ¹⁴C datings of bulk sediment samples, which are now shown to contain enough coal fragments to produce erroneous ages. The re-examination was performed on sediments from two lakes located within the Nanok moraine system: one is situated at or slightly above the marine limit around 65 m. the other at 21–22 m a.s.l. The combined stratigraphy from the two lakes shows that the area was deglaciated before 9000 BP, after which followed deposition of glaciomarine sediments, fining upwards. The first vegetation seems to have been dominated by grasses, Lycopodium and Polypodiaceae. At c . 8000 BP the limnic production increased significantly and a pioneer vegetation characterized the area. At this time the 'Artemisia' grains appear. A short but distinct climatic cooling occurs at c . 7500 BP causing a significant drop in lake productivity and possibly also producing coarser sediments in the (glacio)marine environment. About 200 years later the lake productivity again increased, very rapidly, and the marine sediments became finer and more rich in molluscs, as a response to the beginning of the climatic optimum. Because of the time-lag between climate and vegetation response it took another 300 years before Betulci nana immigrated, at the same time as the 'Artemisia' grains disappeared, and another several hundred years before a real dwarf-shrub vegetation developed in these parts of Hochstetter Forland. Before the lower lake was isolated from the sea at c . 6000 BP, coarse wave-washed sediments, followed by a typical isolation sequence, were deposited in it.     

Upper Cretaceous bottom current deposits,north-east Greenland

Reported ancient bottom current deposits in deep marine settings are scarce and most of them remain contentious. This study describes sedimentological, ichnological and petrographical characteristics of a drill core that covers ca 10 Myr of Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy at Hold with Hope, north-east Greenland. The core is divided into four facies associations, which are interpreted to reflect deposition from bottom currents, turbidity flows and hemipelagic settling in slope and/or near slope environments. The evidence for bottom current influence is three-fold. Firstly, pervasive indications of winnowing such as marine bioclast-rich lags and outsized clasts on ‘mud on mud’ contacts are suggestive of low-sediment concentration flows capable of transporting up to pebble-sized clasts. Common Mn–Fe–Mg rich carbonate matrix cements and various types of hiatal chemogenic lag deposits showing glauconite, apatite and carbonate clasts also point to condensation, prolonged exposure at the sediment–water interface and recurrent phases of sea-floor erosion. Secondly, such deposits can show indicators for tidal processes such as double mud-drapes, tangential bottom sets in dune-scale cross-bedding and cyclic rhythmites. Thirdly, inverse to normal grading at various scales is common in fully marine, commonly seafloor-derived sediments. Ichnological data indicate considerable taxonomic variability in the bottom current deposits, but recurrent fabrics are characteristically dominated by morphologically simple burrows such as Thalassinoides and Planolites, with secondary Phycosiphon, Nereites, Zoophycos and/or Chondrites. In general, opportunistic taxa are common whereas mature composite ichnofabrics are rare. The omission surfaces are locally burrowed with stiffground to firmground trace fossil suites. The results contribute to establishing sedimentological, ichnological and mineralogical criteria for recognition of bottom current deposits as well as to the understanding of the Late Cretaceous palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Arctic region.     

Radiolarians from Upper Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian and Upper Kimmeridgian) deposits of Yaroslavl oblast

The middle Oxfordian and late Kimmeridgian radiolarian assemblages from Upper Jurassic deposits of Yaroslavl oblast are studied for the first time. The middle Oxfordian assemblage is dominated by stauraxonic morphotypes of genera Paronaella and Pseudocrucella occurring in association with discoid forms. Nassellarian radiolarians are very rare in this assemblage of extremely low taxonomic diversity, which is lacking spheroidal morphotypes. The late Kimmeridgian assemblage is more diverse in morphological and taxonomic aspects. It includes spheroidal forms, those of the family Pantanelliidae Pessagno inclusive, and more frequent nassellarian species, but stauraxonic radiolarians are less abundant in its composition. This assemblage is comparable to a considerable extent with the Kimmeridgian radiolarians from Moscow oblast, being of the South Boreal type according to its composition.     

平山湖含煤区中侏罗统含煤性及其影响因素

通过对平山湖含煤区中侏罗统含煤性特征、地层厚度、煤层厚度以及展布规律的研究,结合构造、沉积环境以及物源供给等方面进行综合分析,结果表明:平山湖含煤区中侏罗统含煤性呈中南部好,向四周逐渐变差的趋势,煤系总体沿北西走向呈条带状分布,煤层厚度总体上沿走向(NW-SE)变化不大,沿倾向向两侧逐渐变薄;\     

陇南煤田含煤沉积地质特征研究

通过对陇南煤田已知煤矿点有关资料的分析,研究了该区侏罗纪煤系的沉积特征和古构造展布特征。结果表明,陇南煤田的古构造对含煤沉积的控制作用,主要是通过对古河流展布和古气候的控制而体现的。不同层位的煤层,其下面普遍有河流相沉积,说明煤层是在古河流基础上发展起来的;适于成煤的气候自早侏罗世至晚侏罗世,具有由西向东迁移的特点,因此,陇南煤田的找煤勘探应沿古武都河的西北—东南延伸方向开展。     

The petrogenesis of the Kangerdlugssuaq alkaline intrusion,east Greenland

Evidence of layering and physical conditions of emplacement are discussed for this saucer-shaped, differentiated syenite mass. The intrusion is thought to derive from a magma of quartz trachytic composition,rather than from partial melting of the basement gneiss. The derivation of an undersaturated residual liquid, necessary to produce the pulaskite and the foyaite, is discussed, together with the mechanism whereby the ‘thermal barrier’ is crossed. Possible explanations considered are the depression of the thermal barrier through increased vapour pressure; the formation of iron-bearing feldspar; escape of silica and some potassium with volatile constituents; and crystal ? liquid equilibrium control.     

蒙古国早–中侏罗世含煤盆地分布及构造背景和地层

蒙古国早–中侏罗世的主控构造是蒙古–鄂霍次克洋的消减闭合,其北地区发育弧后张裂盆地,其南的拼合大陆内的古缝合线被该消减造山运动激活而发生陆内造山。内蒙的3个陆内造山的磨拉石盆地均延入蒙古境内,故蒙古东部磨拉石盆地的发育与内蒙有相似的几何学和运动学特征。概述了各盆地的代表性地层,尽管其岩性和含煤性有明显差别,但因受制于同一个造山作用,沉积记录都以砾岩开始,都为向上变细的序列,且煤层均赋存于地层柱的中部,据此可把盆地演化分为成煤前、成煤和成煤后3个阶段。成煤阶段大煤田的形成受构造(堆积空间)和气候(成煤物质供应)的双重控制。     

Early Cambrian wave-formed shoreline deposits: the Hardeberga Formation,Bornholm, Denmark

International Journal of Earth Sciences - During the early Cambrian, the Danish island Bornholm was situated on the northern edge of the continent Baltica with palaeolatitudes of about 35°S....     

Methane-bearing,aqueous, saline solutions in the Skaergaard intrusion,east Greenland

Solutions of H₂O–NaCl–CH₄ occur in fluid inclusions enclosed by quartz, apatite and feldspar from gabbroic pegmatitites, anorthositic structures and intercumulus minerals within the Skaergaard intrusion. The majority of the fluid inclusions resemble 10 m diameter sub-to euhedral negative crystals. A vapour phase and a liquid phase are visible at room temperature, solids are normally absent. The salinity of the fluids ranges from 17.5 to 22.8 wt.% NaCl. CH₄, which comprises less than six mole percent of the solution, was detected in the vapour phase of the fluid inclusions with Raman microprobe analysis. Homogenization of the fluid inclusions occurred in the liquid phase in the majority of the fluid inclusions, though 10% of the inclusions homogenized in the gas phase. Thermodynamic consideration of the stability of feldspars + quartz, and the C–O–H system, indicates that the solutions were trapped at temperatures between 655 and 770°C, at oxygen fugacities between 1.5 and 2.0 log units below the QFM oxygen buffer. Textural evidence and the composition of the solutions suggest that the fluids coexisted with late-magmatic intercumulus melts and the melts which formed gabbroic pegmatites. These solutions are thought to have contributed to late-magmatic metasomatism of the primocryst assemblages of the Skaergaard intrusion.     

Seismostratigraphic complex of Jurassic deposits, Barents Sea shelf

The Jurassic deposits of the Barents Sea are very promising for hydrocarbon prospecting. This complex of deposits occurs at a depth that is accessible for drilling. Using the seismostratigraphic method, the environments and stages of sedimentation in Jurassic are found. The alimentary zones and migration routes are defined. The most promising zones for prospecting for new large hydrocarbon fields are determined.     

川西坳陷上侏罗统浅水漫湖沉积特征与砂体叠置模式

川西坳陷在上侏罗统蓬莱镇组沉积期,地形平缓、气候干旱,湖平面频繁变化,发育了一套以浅水三角洲-漫湖为主的沉积体系。基于高分辨率层序地层学理论,通过对野外露头、岩心、分析化验和钻井资料的综合利用,阐明了发育在湖平面频繁变化背景下的浅水漫湖沉积特征,总结了砂体垂向叠置关系和平面分布规律,建立了浅水漫湖沉积体系砂体叠置模式。(1)分流河道和滩坝是研究区内浅水漫湖沉积体系的主要微相类型;(2)分流河道垂直于湖岸线分布,滩坝平行于湖岸线分布,在高频层序发育过程中,由于湖浪淘洗、河流进积等因素的改造,浅水漫湖沉积砂体经历了沉积-破坏-再沉积的过程,在平面上表现为分流河道切割多期平行于湖岸线的滩坝砂;(3)多种成因砂体叠置模式可以分为4种,分别为同期同相自旋回叠置模式、同期异相自旋回叠置模式、不同期同相异旋回叠置模式和不同期不同相异旋回叠置模式。     

新疆阿勒泰地区侏罗纪煤系赋存特征及远景预测

新疆阿勒泰地区煤炭资源的研究开发程度较低。以区域地质、煤田地质资料为基础,结合遥感、物探等资料,通过对重点含煤区进行野外地质调查,对阿勒泰地区侏罗纪煤系赋存特征进行了研究。结果显示：该区侏罗纪煤系均赋存在准噶尔板块内;含煤盆地类型为大型内陆坳陷盆地和小型山间断（坳）陷残留盆地,且内陆坳陷盆地成煤环境优于山间断（坳）陷残留盆地。最终圈定了卡姆斯特、奥塔乌开给什、青格里、哈拉通沟、迪伦山-喀拉玛盖、托斯特-乌伦古6个（预测）含煤区。     

Sedimentology of gravelly Lake Lahontan highstand shoreline deposits,Churchill Butte,Nevada, USA

Gravelly shoreline deposits of the latest Pleistocene highstand of Lake Lahontan occur in pristine depositional morphology, and are exposed in gravel pits along Churchill Butte in west-central Nevada. Four environments differentiated at this site are alluvial fan/colluvium, lakeshore barrier spit, lake lower-shoreface spit platform, and lake bottom. Lakeshore deposits abut, along erosional wave headcuts, either unsorted muddy to bouldery colluvium fringing Churchill Butte bedrock, or matrix-supported, cobbly and pebbly debris-flow deposits of the Silver Springs fan. The lakeshore barrier spit is dominated by granule pebble gravel concentrated by wave erosion of the colluvial and alluvial-fan facies. The lakeward side of the barrier consists of beachface deposits of well-sorted granules or pebbles in broad, planar beds 1–10 cm thick and sloping 10–15°. They interfinger downslope with thicker (10–25 cm) and less steep (5–10°) lakeward-dipping beds of fine to medium pebble gravel of the lake upper shoreface. Interstratified with the latter are 10–40-cm-thick sets of high-angle cross-beds that dip southward, alongshore. Higher-angle (15–20°), landward-dipping foresets of similar texture but poorer sorting comprise the proximal backshore on the landward side of the barrier. They were deposited during storm surges that overtopped the barrier berm. Gastropod-rich sand and mud, also deposited by storm-induced washover, are found landward of the gravel foresets in a 15-m-wide backshore pond. Algal stromatolites, ostracodes, and diatoms accumulated in this pond between storm events. The lake lower shoreface, extending from water depths of 2 to 8 m, consists of a southward-prograding spit platform built by longshore drift. The key component of this platform is large-scale sandy pebble gravel in 16° southward-dipping `Gilbert' foresets that grade at a water depth of about 6–7 m to 4°-dipping sandy toesets. A shift from bioturbated lower-shoreface sand and silt, to flat and laminated lake-bottom silt and mud, occurs between water depths of 10–40 m and over a shore-normal distance of ≥250 m. This lake-bottom mud facies, unlike the others, is areally expansive.     

Strongly undersaturated Tertiary volcanic rocks from the Kangerdlugssuaq area, east Greenland

Erratic blocks from the interior of Kangerdlugssuaq fjord are described with chemical analyses and microprobe data for their constituent minerals. A strongly peralkaline phonolite, unlike any previously known from the province, shows that some magmas which precipitated alkali feldspar, nepheline and amphibole (magnesio-katophorite) differentiated along a trend towards increasing peralkalinity, although this trend is unknown in the nearby plutons. Feldspar-free nephelinite and less undersaturated limburgite are also encountered, which apparently provided a petrographic link between the strongly undersatrated ultramafic rocks recently discovered in the area and the alkali basalts of Prinsen af Wales Bjerge.

Recognition of these rock types provides further important analogies with the plume-generated triple junctions of the African Rift and affords samples approximating closely to the compositions of the more unusual magmas of the area.     

Organic petrography and geochemistry of inertinite-rich mudstones, Jakobsstigen Formation, Upper Jurassic, northeast Greenland: Indications of forest fires and variations in relative sea-level

The lower-middle Oxfordian Jakobsstigen Formation, Wollaston Forland, northeast Greenland, consists mainly of stacked coarsening-upward successions of offshore to shoreface heteroliths, sandstone and rare foreshore sandstones. The units are separated by thin, laterally extensive sheets of terrigenous carbonaceous mudstones, which have been subjected to organic petrographic and geochemical studies. The mudstones are thermally immature, with maturities corresponding to R₀ in the range 0.35–0.50%. The mudstones contain very high proportions of allochthonous inertinite, subordinate huminite, char and negligible proportions of liptinite. Inertinite reflectance distributions are markedly bimodal, with maxima at approximately 1.73 and 4.91% R_m. Both pyrolysis yields and solvent extract yields are low. The distributions of n-alkanes are markedly light-end skewed and show a pronounced predominance of even-numbered compounds in the lower carbon number range. Biomarker-distributions feature a dominance of C₂₉-steranes, slight enhancement of extended hopanes and αββ-steranes, low proportion of tricyclic triterpanes and very low hopane/sterane ratios. Sedimentological, organic petrographical and geochemical evidence suggests that the regular alternation between marine and terrestrial depositional environments during deposition of the Jakobsstigen Formation was related to low-amplitude, high-frequency changes in relative sea-level and local climate. The mudstones were deposited during early rise of relative sea-level in shallow, flat-bottomed lakes or lagoons on a broad coastal plain. The lakes acted as traps for fine elastic sediment and for predominantly windborne inertinite, generated by wildfires in the hinterland. High rates of evaporation rendered the lakes mildly saline, hampering their colonization by vegetation other than cyanobacteria and halophilic microorganisms. Similarly, saline porewaters excluded higher plant vegetation from emergent areas. Upon continued rise of the relative sea-level, the lakes were gradually flooded and their deposits became covered by sandy shallow marine sediments. The larger areas covered by shallow marine waters during periods of high relative sea-level led to a more humid local climate and to lower frequency of wildfires. During falling relative sea-level, the marine deposits were eroded and partially removed and the cycle subsequently repeated upon renewed rise in relative sea-level. Hence, minor changes in relative sea-level gave rise to the regular alternation of two vastly different depositional environments, as well as to marked variations in local climate.     

Characterization and correlation of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) bentonite deposits in the Paris Basin and the Subalpine Basin, France

Abstract Explosive volcanic activity is recorded in the Upper Jurassic of the Paris Basin and the Subalpine Basin of France by the identification of five bentonite horizons. These layers occur in Lower Oxfordian (cordatum ammonite zone) to Middle Oxfordian (plicatilis zone) clays and silty clays deposited in outer platform environments. In the Paris Basin, a thick bentonite (10–15 cm), identified in boreholes and in outcrop, is dominated by dioctahedral smectite (95%) with trace amounts of kaolinite, illite and chlorite. In contrast, five bentonites identified in the Subalpine Basin, where burial diagenesis and fluid circulation were more important, are composed of a mixture of kaolinite and regular or random illite/smectite mixed-layer clays in variable proportions, indicating a K-bentonite. In the Subalpine Basin, a 2–15 cm thick bentonite underlain by a layer affected by sulphate–carbonate mineralization can be correlated over 2000 km². Euhedral zircon, apatite and biotite crystals have been identified in all the bentonites. The geochemical composition of the bentonites in both basins is characterized by high concentrations of Hf, Nb, Pb, Ta, Th, Ti, U, Y, Zr and low concentrations of Cr, Cs and Rb. Biostratigraphical and geochemical data suggest that the thick bentonite in the Paris Basin correlates with the thickest bentonite in the Subalpine Basin, located 400 km to the south. These horizons indicate that significant explosive volcanic events occurred during the Middle Oxfordian and provide potential long-distance isochronous marker beds. Immobile element discrimination diagrams and rare-earth element characteristics indicate that the original ash compositions of the thickest bentonites correspond to a trachyandesitic source from a within-plate alkaline series that was probably related to North Atlantic rifting.     

赣南张天堂地区岩体型钨矿晚侏罗世成岩成矿的同位素年代学证据

摇篮寨钨矿是新近发现于赣南张天堂地区的代表性岩体型钨矿床。笔者对其含矿岩体和矿石进行了成岩成矿年龄精测,分别获得细粒似斑状白云母花岗岩锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄为(156.9±1.7)Ma(n=11,MSWD=3.3),浸染状辉钼矿Re-Os同位素的模式年龄为(155.2±2.3)Ma～(156.5±2.1)Ma、等时线年龄为(155.8±2.8)Ma(n=4,MSWD=0.49)。结合区域最新获得的高精度测年数据的分析,结果表明,本区钨矿床形成于晚侏罗世(集中在150～160Ma),钨成矿和与之有密切成因关系的花岗岩类岩体成岩不存在明显时差(1～5Ma),本区的钨锡成矿对应于华南中生代第二次大规模成矿作用。     

Fracture propagation associated with dike emplacement at the skaergaard intrusion,east Greenland

Extensive magmatic activity, including several episodes of dike emplacement, was associated with early Tertiary continental rifting in Eastern Greenland. Exposures of the Skaergaard intrusion host a large number of these dikes as well as a variety of hydrothermal veins. One vein set has a characteristic outcrop expression and is filled with silica-rich chlorites. Relative timing constraints as well as the distribution and geometric relations of these veins relative to the mafic dikes indicate that at least some of these fractures formed during the emplacement of the dikes that cut the intrusion. Calculations based on elastic theory permit modeling of dike geometries observed in the field and prediction of fracture geometries that could be associated with the inflation of these dikes. Extensional fractures may form in the area ahead of the dike termination for a variety of loading conditions. The predicted width to length ratio for the dike as well as the size of the predicted fracture zone increases with increasing magma pressure within the dike and/or increasing differential between the remote principal stresses. For dike geometries similar to those observed in the field, the predicted fracture zone is roughly elliptical in cross-section and is centered in front of the dike termination. The size of the zone perpendicular to the dike trend varies from less than one meter to several meters. Field observations indicate that dike-parallel fractures are locally offset normal to the dike margin by distances of a few centimeters to a few meters. Our analysis implies that at least some of these fractures initiated and propagated ahead of the dikes as they were emplaced. The cooling of these dikes initiated localized hydrothermal systems that formed the vein minerals currently filling the fractures.     

吉林省中东部晚中生代含煤地层中的木化石

通过对吉林省晚中生代含煤地层中木化石的系统调查，共采集162块木化石，均属裸子植物，共5属8种。其中出现频率最高者为异木属，其次为落羽杉型木属等，Taxadiorylon albertense，T．pseudonlbertense两种在中国为首次发现。笔者将木化石称Xenoxylon latiporosum-Taxodioxylon pseudoalbeltense组合。研究表明，异木属主要生长在温湿的温带气候环境；据目前的资料还不能证明该属是适应能力极强的树种。本文还记述了上述木化石产出的地质概况，并探讨了其地质意义和古环境。