Early Cretaceous ostracoda from the Goban Spur; D.S.D.P. leg 80, site 549

Site 549 recovered a Lower Cretaceous succession which has been shown to include parts of the Barremian and Albian stages. Forty-four species of Ostracoda are illustrated and their stratigraphic distribution used to recognise three major facies units. An high diversity inner shelf facies earlier in the Barremian gives way to a low diversity, outer shelf facies, higher in the succession. The early Albian appears to indicate a return to an inner shelf fauna. The faunas recovered have been compared to similar faunas elsewhere in N. W. Europe.     

Paleomagnetic investigations in the Thüringer Forest (G.D.R.)

In the Thüringer Forest, the whole “Rotliegende” is well exposed, and was chosen as beginning of a Permian traverse via Czechoslovakia, Austria into Italy. Rockmagnetic experiments established haematite as main carrier of the NRM, except a few localities, where magnetite was found to be present. Sediments and volcanites show consistent ChRM directions. The comparison with KrŠ's (1978) compilation proves a good Permian pole position.     

Glaciers and Glaciation by Benn,D. I. & Evans,D. J. A.

2010: Glaciers and Glaciation. Second edition. 802 pp. Hodder Education, London. ISBN 978‐0‐340‐905791. Paperback, Full Colour, £45.00     

三维直流电场积分方程中奇异性的近似处理

直流电场积分方程的核函数是磁并矢格林函数,其数学表达式与电并矢格林函数的数学表达式完全不同。因此,在处理直流电场积分方程的奇异性时不能直接利用文献中针对电并矢格林函数所提出的奇异性消除公式。为了寻求处理磁并矢格林函数奇异性的有效途径,参考文献中针对电并矢格林函数的奇异性消除方法,提出了针对磁并矢格林函数的拟源并矢概念,并求出了当包围奇异点的小邻域为球体、立方体等不同形状时的拟源并矢。如果将这些拟源并矢代入到电场的积分方程中,可以得到只含有正常非奇异积分的数值计算方案。将这个计算方案用于实现关于直流电场的拟解析近似理论,则可以使三维直流电场的快速数值模拟成为可能。     

P–T–t–D paths of Everest Series schist, Nepal

U(–Th)–Pb geochronology, geothermobarometric estimates and macro‐ and micro‐structural analysis, quantify the pressure–temperature–time–deformation (P–T–t–D) history of Everest Series schist and calcsilicate preserved in the highest structural levels of the Everest region. Pristine staurolite schist from the Everest Series contains garnet with prograde compositional zoning and yields a P–T estimate of 649 ± 21 ° C, 6.2 ± 0.7 kbar. Other samples of the Everest Series contain garnet with prograde zoning and staurolite with cordierite overgrowths that yield a P–T estimate of 607 ± 25 ° C, 2.9 ± 0.6 kbar. The Lhotse detachment (LD) marks the base of the Everest Series. Structurally beneath the LD, within the Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS), garnet zoning is homogenized, contains resorption rinds and yields peak temperature estimates of ～650 ± 50 ° C. P–T estimates record a decrease in pressure from ～6 to 3 kbar and equivalent temperatures from structurally higher positions in the overlying Everest Series, through the LD and into GHS. This transition is interpreted to result from the juxtaposition of the Everest Series in the hangingwall with the GHS footwall rocks during southward extrusion and decompression along the LD system. An age constraint for movement on the LD is provided by the crystallization age of the Nuptse granite (23.6 ± 0.7 Ma), a body that was emplaced syn‐ to post‐solid‐state fabric development. Microstructural evidence suggests that deformation in the LD progressed from a distributed ductile shear zone into the structurally higher Qomolangma detachment during the final stages of exhumation. When combined with existing geochronological, thermobarometric and structural data from the GHS and Main Central thrust zone, these results form the basis for a more complete model for the P–T–t–D evolution of rocks exposed in the Mount Everest region.