A revision of the stratigraphy of the longmyndian supergroup,welsh borderland,and of its relationship to the uriconian volcanic complex

Major revisions are proposed to the stratigraphy of the late Precambrian Longmyndian Supergroup of the Welsh Borderland. The stratigraphic relationship between it and the adjacent, late Precambrian Uriconian volcanic complex is reviewed and reinterpreted. Contrary to previous belief it is proposed that the Wentnor Group of the Longmyndian Supergroup does not overlie the Stretton Group unconformably. An apparent unconformity is interpreted as the result of post-Longmyndian tectonism. The Ragleth Tuff Formation, previously included with the Uriconian volcanic complex, is argued to be part of the Longmyndian Supergroup. The Helmeth Grit Member, previously thought to be the base of the Longmyndian Supergroup, is incorporated within the Ragleth Tuff Formation. These modifications necessitate a revision of the previously held belief that the Helmeth Grit Member is the base of the Longmyndian Supergroup which overlies the ‘Ragleth Tuffs’ of the Uriconian volcanic complex unconformably. The Ragleth Tuff Formation and the Stretton Shale Formation are thought to be faulted against the Eastern Uriconian, and the Wentnor Group is thought to be faulted against the Western Uriconian. Juxtaposition of the Longmyndian Supergroup with the Uriconian volcanic complex across faults is the result of strike-slip movements along the Church Stretton and Pontesford-Linley fault systems. Lithological and petrographical evidence suggests that the Longmyndian Supergroup is partly coeval with, and partly younger than, the Uriconian volcanic complex, which acted as a source. The Willstone Hill conglomerate, previously thought to be interbedded with the Eastern Uriconian, may be a representative of the Wentnor Group which overlies the Eastern Uriconian unconformably. As such, it may represent a late onlap of Longmyndian sediments onto the Eastern Uriconian at the margins of the Longmyndian basin. A new formation, the Linley Formation, is recognized. This occurs as fault-bounded slivers and lenses within the Pontesford-Linley fault system, and correlation with the rest of the Longmyndian is uncertain.     

四川会理—会东及邻区中元古界昆阳群沉积特征及演化

四川会理 会东及邻区中元古界昆阳群 ,由下而上可分为力马河组、凤山营组和天宝山组 ,与古元古界河口群为不整合接触 ,其代表年龄值为 1 70 0± 1 0 0Ma～ 1 2 0 0± 1 0 0Ma。对这套地层的沉积学研究 ,前人涉及甚少。笔者在野外考察和室内分析的基础上 ,对其沉积相和沉积环境进行了详细的研究。初步认为研究区的中元古界昆阳群可分为 7种沉积相 ,进而探讨了该区的沉积演化历史。     

祁连山北缘旱峡早白垩世下沟组-中沟组沉积相研究

祁连山北缘旱峡地区发育完整的下白垩统下沟组-中沟组沉积序列;以陆源碎屑岩为主,发育砾岩、砂岩、钙质粉砂岩和页岩等;其中砾石分选差、磨圆一般、成分以灰白色砂岩为主,砂岩成分、结构成熟度中等-差。岩石组合、沉积序列和综合沉积特征研究表明,下沟组和中沟组主要由湖泊、扇三角洲、河流等3种类型沉积相、亚相与微相类型组成,发育了一系列重力流成因的沉积类型;湖泊沉积主要发育在下沟组底部和中沟组,扇三角洲沉积分布在下沟组中-上部,中沟组发育河流沉积。研究区早白垩世中期古流向以EN向为主,早白垩世晚期以W向为主,表明沉积沉降中心也由早期的旱峡西移至研究区西南侧。在综合分析的基础上,建立了研究区下白垩统下沟组-中沟组沉积相模式。     

辽东苏子河盆地聂尔库组沉积相与沉积环境研究

辽东苏子河盆地是早白垩世形成的小型断陷盆地,盆地内发育了相对连续的陆相沉积,是研究白垩纪陆地环境及气候演化的理想地区。早白垩世晚期沉积的聂尔库组地层出露连续,沉积现象典型。通过分析聂尔库组沉积岩类型、沉积构造、古生物化石及垂向沉积序列,可识别出扇三角洲相和湖泊相,其中扇三角洲相包括扇三角洲平原亚相、扇三角洲前缘亚相和前扇三角洲亚相,湖泊相主要为滨浅湖泥砂沉积。研究表明,聂尔库组形成于断陷盆地边缘陡坡带,属于间歇性洪水控制的扇三角洲—湖泊沉积体系,经历了扇三角洲—湖泊—扇三角洲的沉积环境变化,代表了断陷湖盆由深陷扩张期—抬升收缩早期的沉积充填过程。根据沉积岩与沉积相特征,结合古生物、特殊沉积、黏土矿物及地球化学资料,认为早白垩世晚期辽东地区总体与当时全球"温室气候"的大背景相一致,处于高温干旱/潮湿的气候条件,但这种高温气候具有不均一性,存在气候波动。     

广西百色盆地古近系始新统沉积相特征及演化

利用野外露头、地震、测井和分析化验等资料,对盆地古近系始新统那读组和百岗组进行层序地层和沉积相研究。那读组和百岗组可划分为3个Ⅲ级层序,9个体系域,那读组那三段构成层序Ⅰ,那读组那二段和那一段构成层序Ⅱ,百岗组构成层序Ⅲ。层序Ⅰ和层序Ⅱ是盆地断陷期沉积,发育冲积扇相、河流相、三角洲相、扇三角洲相、深湖亚相和滨-浅湖亚相。层序Ⅱ湖泊沉积范围广,厚度大,厚层的湖相暗色泥岩是盆地主要烃源岩和区域性盖层。层序Ⅲ是盆地坳陷期的沉积,发育冲积扇相、扇三角洲相、河流相、三角洲相和滨-浅湖亚相。盆地中古近系沉积经过了洪积或冲积扇、河流三角洲→湖泊（扇三角洲）→河流的发育过程,反映了盆地从初期形成→扩张→萎缩的完整的演化序列。在层序Ⅰ和层序Ⅱ的低水位体系域,田东凹陷的中央断凹、南部次凹和那笔凸起的北部断鼻等区带发育长轴分布的河流三角洲砂岩,这些砂岩处于烃源岩成熟区,油气成藏条件优越,是河道岩性油藏勘探的有利区。在层序Ⅱ湖侵体系域和高水位体系域,北部陡坡发育扇三角洲砂体,与烃源岩指状交叉接触,有利于油气运聚成藏,容易形成大量上倾尖灭岩性油藏。     

渤海湾盆地黄河口凹陷古近系东营组三段沉积特征

综合利用地震、测井、录井、岩心及分析化验资料,通过综合分析和系统沉积学编图,确定了黄河口凹陷古近系东营组三段（东三段）主要发育扇三角洲、辫状河三角洲、湖泊和湖底扇。东三段下部辫状河三角洲发育于黄河口凹陷的西南部和南部,在渤南凸起的南北两侧均发育扇三角洲朵体,半深湖-深湖主要分布于西部深凹部位,在B-2断隆带南部的半深湖区发育湖底扇,绝大部分地带为滨浅湖沉积,以滨浅湖泥滩和混合滩沉积为主。东三段上部辫状河三角洲发育于黄河口凹陷的西南部、南部及D-4断隆带的南侧,仅在渤南凸起的北侧发育扇三角洲朵体,半深湖-深湖主要分布于西北次凹部位,绝大部分地带为滨浅湖沉积,以滨浅湖泥滩和混合滩沉积为主。E-1-1-F-4-1井一带继承性发育滨浅湖砂质滩坝沉积。滨浅湖砂质滩坝由含砾粗砂岩、含砾中砂岩、含砾细砂岩及中、细砂岩组成,骨架颗粒成分以石英为主,发育低角度交错层理,纹层由定向排列的砾石或暗色组分显示,纹层平直,以低角度相交。滨浅湖砂质滩坝微相区为东三段优质储集层发育区。     

Depositional history and stratigraphical evolution of the Sakamena group (Middle Karoo Supergroup) in the southern Morondava Basin, Madagascar

The Karoo Supergroup in Madagascar is subdivided into three lithostratigraphical units: the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian Sakoa Group; the Late Permian-Middle Triassic Sakamena Group; and the Triassic-Early Jurassic Isalo Group. The Sakamena Group is fairly well exposed in the southern Morondava Basin, where it is approximately 4000 m thick. The Sakamena Group is separated from the Sakoa Group by an angular unconformity. The Lower Sakamena Formation is characterised by two major facies associations: (1) interbedded muddy conglomerates and coarse sandstones; and (2) interbedded sandstones and mudstones, which were deposited in a rejuvenated rift setting by coarse-grained fluvial systems and debris flows on the rift margins. In the Vatambe area, facies represent fandelta deposition in a saline lake or tongue of the ocean. The Middle Sakamena Formation comprises three major facies: (1) laminated mudstones and sandstones; (2) sandstones; and (3) mudstones. The Middle Sakamena facies were deposited by low gradient meandering streams and in shallow lakes. The Upper Sakamena Formation was deposited in similar environments, except that it is comprised predominantly of red beds. The Isalo Group consists predominantly of coarse-grained sandstones (up to 6000 m thick). These sandstones were deposited by braided streams with the coarse detritus derived from a structural uplift in the east.     

The stratigraphy of the arenig series in the Aberdaron to Sarn Area,Western Llŷcn,North Wales

A new interpretation of the Arenig succession in the Aberdaron area is presented based on biostratigraphical correlation. A lithostratigraphy based on section correlation is presented, and three subareas are identified, each with a different stratigraphy. The Sarn Formation comprises the basal ‘flaggy’ sandstone unit in all three areas but is diachronous: in the south it underlies a Moridunian fauna whilst north of the Bryncroes fault it comprises the majority of the Arenig succession and is probably Fennian in age. The Aberdaron Formation is restricted to the south and is dominated by laminated siltstone. The Wǐg Member, a mudstone unit at the base with a Mordunian fauna is found only to the east of the Wǐg–Nefyn fault, whilst the breccio-conglomerate Porth Meudway Member, at the top of the formation, is restricted to the west of the fault and is probably Fennian in age. The Arenig–Llanvirn boundary is approximately marked throughout the area by a tufaceous unit termed the Carw Formation. The new correlations require the repetition of the succession by a previously unrecognized NNE–SSW trending fault. The junction with the Mona Complex west of Aberdaron is considered to be predominantly faulted. The two subareas south of Bryncroes are sufficiently similar to suggest both belonged to the same deepening basin, probably initiated in the Moridunian. The absence of the Aberdaron Formation and the development of contemporary shallower water facies to the north is taken to indicate this area lay on the footwall of a normal fault bounding the basin to the northwest.     

Stratigraphy and structure of Devonian fluvial sediments,western Beara Peninsula,south-west Ireland

A stratigraphic and structural summary of 5 km of Upper Devonian strata of south-west Beara, part of the Munster Basin, south-west Cork is presented. Five formations are recognized on the basis of lithofacies geometries and associations. The lowest Caherkeen Formation comprises rapidly alternating sheet-like, plane-bedded, low-angle, cross-bedded sandstones and laminated, rippled or desiccated mudrocks. The incoming of thin lenticular sandstone packages, commonly with high-angle cross-bedding, distinguishes the overlying Eagle Hill Formation. The succeeding Reen Point Formation comprises thicker bedsets of plane-bedded, low-angle and high-angle cross-bedded sandstones, separated by thick, massive mudrocks. Intraformational breccias and calcareous nodular siltrocks are distinctive features. The Tholane Formation is characterized by thick massive red-green mudrocks and a general absence of coarser grained lithologies. This sequence was deposited in a terminal fluvial fan in a basin characterized by decreasing subsidence rates and gradient with time. The overlying Toe Head Formation represents the deposits of a fluvial coastal plain. It has siltrocks that are predominantly green, often with preserved fish and plant debris. There is a relative absence of high-angled cross-bedded sandstones and an abundance of flat-laminated and inclined parallel-laminated sandstones. The structure of the Beara Peninsula comprises a WSW plunging anticlinorium with a single cleavage formed during the Variscan orogeny. Evidence from locally transecting cleavages and from mapping indicates dextral transpression. Development of the three main fault trends was contemporaneous with the folding. The well-known copper mineralization of the Allihies area is associated with east-west fault trends, a pattern observed elsewhere in the western Munster Basin. Basement involvement during both basin development and deformation is likely, but is difficult to test.     

The sedimentary and tectonic setting of the Transvaal Supergroup floor rocks to the Bushveld complex

The Palaeoproterozoic Transvaal Supergroup floor to the Bushveld complex comprises protobasinal successions overlain by the Black Reef Formation, Chuniespoort Group and the uppermost Pretoria Group. The protobasinal successions comprise predominantly mafic lavas and pyroclastic rocks, immature alluvial-fluvial braidplain deposits and finer-grained basinal rocks. These thick, laterally restricted protobasinal sequences reflect either strike-slip or small extensional basins formed during the impactogenal rifting and southeasterly-directed tectonic escape, which accompanied collision of the Zimbabwe and Kaapvaal cratons during Ventersdorp times. The erosively-based sheet sandstones of the succeeding Black Reef Formation reflect northwand-directed compression in the south of the basin. Thermal subsidence along the Ventersdorp Supergroup and Transvaal protobasinal fault systems led to shallow epeiric marine deposition of the sheet-like Chuniespoort Group carbonate-BIF platform succession. After an estimated 80 Ma hiatus, characterized by uplift and karstic weathering of the Chuniespoort dolomites, slower thermal subsidence is thought to have formed the Pretoria Group basin. Widespread, closed basin alluvial fan, fluvial braidplain and lacustrine sedimentation, as well as laterally extensive, subaerial andesitic volcanism (Rooihoogte to Strubenkop Formations), gave way to a marine transgression, which laid down the tuffaceous mudrocks, relatively mature sandstones and subordinate subaqueous volcanic rocks of the succeeding Daspoort, Silverton and Magaliesberg Formations. Poorly preserved post-Magaliesberg formations in the Upper Pretoria Group point to possible compressive deformation and concomitant rapid deposition of largely feldspathic detritus within smaller closed basins.     

Facies and allostratigraphy of high-latitude, glacially influenced marine strata of the Early Permian southern Sydney Basin, Australia

The Sydney Basin of New South Wales, Australia is a foreland basin containing a thick (up to 10 km) Permo-Triassic succession. The southern margin of the basin exposes strata deposited during Late Palaeozoic glaciation of south-eastern Gondwana. The Early Permian Wasp Head, Pebbley Beach, Snapper Point Formations and Wandrawandian Siltstone were deposited between 277 and 258 Ma on a polar, glacially influenced continental margin adjacent to ice sheets located over East Antarctica and eastern Australia. Sedimentary facies, together with related ichnofacies and fauna, can be grouped into six facies associations that record marine sub-environments ranging from high energy, storm-dominated inner shelf to turbidite-dominated upper slope settings. Cold marine conditions, with near-freezing bottom water temperatures, are recorded by glendonites. Ice-rafted debris, most likely deposited by icebergs, occurs in almost all facies associations. An allostratigraphic approach, emphasizing the recognition of bounding discontinuities (i.e. erosion surfaces and marine flooding surfaces), is used to subdivide the Early Permian stratigraphy into facies successions. Three types of succession can be identified and record changes in the relative influence of allocyclic controls such as basin tectonics, sediment supply and glacio-eustatic sea level variation. Together, sedimentological and allostratigraphic data allow reconstruction of the depositional history of the south-western margin of the Sydney Basin. Initial marine sedimentation, characterized by sediment gravity flows and storm-deposited sandstones of the lower Wasp Head Formation, occurred adjacent to a faulted basin margin. Overlying successions within the upper Wasp Head, Pebbley Beach and Snapper Point Formations, record aggradation in inner to outer shelf settings along a storm- and glacially influenced continental margin. Tectonic subsidence and basin flooding is recorded by deeper water turbidites of the Wandrawandian Siltstone.     

古新世特提斯喜马拉雅南亚带石英砂岩成因及其构造意义:以藏南岗巴地区古新统基堵拉组为例

特提斯喜马拉雅南亚带作为印度被动大陆北缘的主要构造单元,相较于其他类似构造单元发育着多套特殊的石英砂岩,意味着被动大陆边缘物源区陆源碎屑供应能力的多次变化,而引起印度被动大陆北缘石英砂岩沉积的构造背景和构造意义尚不明确。以特提斯喜马拉雅南亚带的岗巴地区古新统基堵拉组石英砂岩为例,通过砂岩碎屑成分分析、古流向恢复、重矿物分析和碎屑锆石年代学方法,对基堵拉组石英砂岩的沉积学及物源区特征,以及蕴含的成因和构造意义进行探讨。从沉积相分析结果来看,在早古新世岗巴地区所属的板块为印度被动大陆边缘,处于新特提斯洋的海岸线附近,以滨岸相为主,显示了一种浅海陆棚到陆相的变化。从砂岩岩相学的结果分析,基堵拉组的陆源碎屑物主要是成熟度极高的石英砂岩,同时古水流近NNE方向。从碎屑锆石年代学数据分析结果可知,基堵拉组的碎屑锆石年龄特征与早白垩世德干高原地区相吻合。故认为基堵拉组石英砂岩的形成是由于印度北缘的陆源碎屑供应量突然增多与被动大陆边缘物源区构造抬升导致,而引起被动大陆边缘物源区构造抬升的原因主要与德干大火成岩省形成相关。最终认为石英砂岩的发育成因与印度大陆北缘德干大火成岩省形成时构造隆升所导致的稳定克拉通再活化有关。     

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.     

乌尔逊凹陷沉积成岩体系与油气分布

乌尔逊凹陷地处海拉尔盆地中央，是一个面积较大、勘探程度较高的箕式凹陷。其主要储集层为基岩风化壳、下白垩统的铜钵庙组、南屯组及大磨拐河组。已在其中的两个弧形构造带20余口井获商业油气流。受西缘主断裂控制，该凹陷内形成了4类构造体系，同时也控制形成了西陡东缓的古地形。南屯组、大磨拐河组的各类沉积相以不完整的环带状展布，由此划分出7类构造岩相带，即乌西断阶扇三角洲构造岩相带、乌中深洼湖相构造岩相带，吞－巴中央隆起三角洲构造岩相带、乌东斜坡辫状三角洲构造岩相带、苏仁诺尔弧形断隆近岩水下扇－浊积扇构造岩相带、黄旗庙鼻状隆起扇三角洲构造岩相带、巴彦塔拉弧形断垒冲积扇构造岩相带。分析了南屯组、大磨拐河组的储层特征，并确定5种成岩相，即压实成岩相、碳酸岩交代及胶结成岩相、溶蚀溶解成岩相、自生矿物充填成岩相、硅质沉淀成岩相等。成岩相的差异导致各构造岩相带内的油气藏类型和含油规模的不同。溶蚀溶解成岩相孔渗性最好，苏仁格尔、巴彦塔拉构造岩相带以这种成岩相为主，并已发现一定规模的油气储量。而吞－巴、黄旗庙构造岩相带则是下一步突破的方向。     

胜利油田渤南洼陷古近系沙河街组沉积相

渤南洼陷古近系沙河街组为一套冲积－湖泊沉积，由曲流河三角洲相、辫状河三角洲相、扇三角洲相、水下扇相和湖泊相组成，可分出14个亚相，35个微相，其中辫状河三角洲最发育，其特征显著，明显有别于其它四种类型的三角洲。研究区辫状河三角洲由辫状河三角洲前缘及前三角洲构成，辫状河三角洲前缘的主体是由含砂岩及中粗粒砂岩组成的水下分流河道砂坝，三角洲中交错层理发育，其中尤以水道砂坝侧向迁移加积而形成的侧积交错层异常发育为标志。     

扬子克拉通北缘中元古界神农架群沉积特征*

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