Sedimentary history of the Tethyan basin in the Tibetan Himalayas

After an epicontinental phase, the sedimentary rocks in the Tibetan Himalayas document a complete Wilson cycle of the Neo-Tethyan (Tethys Ill) evolution between the Gondwana supercontinent and its northward drifting margin (Lhasa block) from the Late Permian to the Eocene.During the Triassic rift stage, the basin was filled with a huge, clastic-dominated sediment wedge with up to > 5 000 m of flysch in the northern zone. Widespread deltaic clastics and shallow-water carbonates of late Norian to earliest Jurassic age in the southern zone mark, in conjunction with decreasing tectonic subsidence, the transition to the drift stage.Some 4 500 m of Jurassic and Early Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates and siliciclastics accumulated on the Tethyan Indian passive margin. Deepening-upward sequences with condensed beds at their tops alternate with repeated progradational packages of shelf sediments. Extensive abyssal sediments with basaltic volcanics in the northern deep-water zone reflect continued ocean spreading and thermal subsidence. Paleomagnetic data, gained separately for the northern Indian plate and the Lhasa block, indicate that the Neo-Tethys reached its maximum width about 110 Ma ago with a spreading rate of 4.8 cm/year, before it commenced to close again.During the remnant basin stage in the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene, a shallowing-upward megasequence, capped by a carbonate platform, developed in the southern inner shelf realm. In the northern slope/basin plain zone, turbidites and chaotic sediments, derived from both the acretionary wedge and the steepening slope of the passive margin, accumulated. The depositional center of the remnant basin shifted southward as a result of flexural subsidence and southward overthrusting.The sediments from the Triassic to the Paleogene are tentatively subdivided into five mega-sequences, which are controlled mainly by regional tectonics. Climatic influence (e.g., carbonate deposition), due to northward plate motion, is partially subdued by terrigenous input and/or increased water depth. During the Oligocene and Miocene, crustal shortening led to rapid uplift and the deposition of fluvial molasse in limited basins.     

塔里木地块与古亚洲/特提斯构造体系的对接

塔里木盆地为环形山链所环绕,北缘为古亚洲体系的天山弧形山链,南缘为特提斯体系的西昆仑-阿尔金弧形山链。自新元古代晚期以来,塔里木地块及周缘地区经历了古亚洲洋盆和特提斯洋盆的开启、俯冲、闭合以及微陆块多次碰撞造山,发生多期的构造、岩浆及成矿作用。特别是受印度/亚洲碰撞(60~50Ma)以来的近程效应和远程效应影响,使塔里木盆地周缘发生强烈的隆升、缩短及走滑变形,形成了现今复杂的环型造山系,完成了古亚洲体系和特提斯体系与塔里木地块的最终对接。塔里木地块与周缘两大构造体系的焊接是从早古生代开始的。研究表明,早古生代末期塔里木已与西昆仑-阿尔金始特提斯造山系链接一起。此时,塔里木地块东段与中天山增生弧地体碰撞,而西段在晚古生代与中天山增生弧地体碰撞。塔里木盆地周缘早古生代造山系中存在早古生代中期和早古生代晚期的两次造山事件,致使塔里木盆地内映现两个早古生代构造不整合面:晚奥陶世-志留纪之间的角度不整合和中晚泥盆世与早古生代之间的角度不整合。塔里木盆地早古生代的古地理、古环境和古构造研究表明,塔里木早古生代台地位于盆地的中西部,盆地东部为陆缘斜坡和深海/半深海沉积盆地,与南天山早古生代被动陆缘链接。印度/亚洲碰撞导致塔里木盆地西南缘的喜马拉雅西构造结的形成与不断推进,使特提斯构造体系与古亚洲构造体系在西构造结处靠拢及对接,终使塔里木盆地最后定型。     

青藏高原东北缘特提斯构造域界线的探讨

东特提斯构造域北界的确定不仅可以约束构造域的范围及演化,而且对于约束中国各陆块的原始构造归属也有着非常重要的意义.本文将从地球化学角度对这一科学问题进行探讨.祁连造山带早古生代蛇绿岩单元内枕状玄武岩的元素、Sr-Nd-Pb同位素组成系统研究表明：其地幔源区的Nd和Pb同位素组成均表现出印度洋MORB型同位素组成特征;枕状玄武岩（△^207Pb/^204Pb）t变化范围为9.1～24.3（平均值为14.7）,（△^208/^204Pb）t变化范围为9.1～101.1（平均值55.3）;与古特提斯和新特提斯蛇绿岩具有一致的同位素组成.因此,祁连造山带古洋幔应属于原特提斯构造域.纵观中国境内的特提斯构造域蛇绿岩的分布特征可知：该构造域表现出自北而南变年轻的时空演化规律,从而说明中央造山带的动力学过程也应纳入冈瓦纳大陆裂解和亚洲增生的总动力学系统之中.     

A Section Across a Tethyan Suture in Northwestern Turkey

A section across a major Tethyan suture in northwestern Turkey is described in detail. The suture of Early Tertiary age juxtaposes two continental blocks with distinct stratigraphic, structural, and metamorphic features. The Sakarya Zone in the north is represented by Permo-Triassic accretion-subduction complexes, which are unconformably overlain by Jurassic to Paleocene sedimentary rocks. The Anatolide-Tauride Block to the south of the suture consists of two tectonic zones. The Tavsanli Zone consists of a coherent blueschist sequence with Late Cretaceous isotopic ages. This blueschist sequence is tectonically overlain by Cretaceous oceanic accretionary complexes and peridotite slabs. The Bornova Flysch Zone consists of Triassic to Cretaceous limestone blocks in an uppermost Cretaceous to Paleocene flysch. The suture is represented by a N-vergent thrust fault separating lithologies from these two continental blocks.

The orogenic history of the region can be considered in two stages. In the Late Cretaceous, the northern margin of the Anatolide-Tauride Block was subducted under the Tethyan oceanic lithosphere and was metamorphosed in blueschist-facies conditions. Blueschists were largely exhumed by the latest Cretaceous or early Paleocene, prior to the continental collision. In the second stage, during the Paleocene, the continent-continent collision produced a doubly vergent orogen involving both S- and N-vergent thrusting, but did not lead to major crustal thickening.     

藏南定日地区上三叠统-古近系构造沉降分析与沉积盆地特征

构造沉降史研究是沉积盆地分析的一项重要内容。本文对藏南定日地区上三叠统-古近系进行了构造沉降史分析。研究表明:特提斯喜马拉雅定日地区晚三叠世-古近纪经历了由被动大陆边缘盆地沉降向周缘前陆盆地沉降的转换过程,根据构造沉降曲线特征,可划分为五个阶段。第Ⅰ-Ⅲ阶段即晚三叠世-晚白垩早期为被动大陆边缘沉降阶段,构造沉降曲线总体比较缓,沉降速率整体呈指数衰减,反映被动大陆边缘稳定的构造沉降过程。第Ⅳ阶段晚白垩晚期-古新世早期为构造隆升,古新世晚期再次为稳定构造沉降。对于晚白垩晚期-古新世早期的隆升有两种可能的解释,即德干地幔柱上涌引起的隆升或大陆碰撞板块挠曲引起的隆升。第V阶段始新世时期为印度-亚洲大陆碰撞形成的周缘前陆盆地沉降期,构造沉降曲线斜率增大,沉降速率增加,反映了该时期前陆盆地前渊区快速的沉降特征。     

Monsoon as a cause of radiolarite in the Tethyan realm

The radiolaritic facies (red/green cherts with radiolarians) is a very characteristic feature of the Tethyan realm. For a long time, its presence has been interpreted as a consequence of depth of an oceanic environment. It is now preferable to consider it as high productivity sediment. We here underline the interpretation inferring the role of monsoons for such productivity according to the relative position of lands at that time.     

Tethyan Crinoids in the Panthalassa Ocean

Three late Anisian (Etalian) and five late Ladinian (Kaihikuan) crinoids are known to occur in a sequence exposed at Caroline Cutting, Oreti Valley, Southland, New Zealand - ‘Isocrinus’ carolinensis, ‘Isocrinus’ balrnacaanensis, Dadocrinus gractlis (late Anisian - Etalian), Holocrinus trechmanni, Encriniis undatus, Encrinus ternio, Holocrinus quinqueradiatus, Tollmannicrinus sakltbelensts (Late Ladinian - Kaihikuan). Crinoids D. gracilts, E. ternto, H. quinqueradiatus, and T. saklibelensis are known to occur elsewhere, albeit in the Northern Hemisphere. These species are also known from intermediate migratory points on a Tethys Ocean route between New Zcaland and Europe. ‘Isocrinus’ occurs at Caroline Cutting about thc time when it has been proposed that thc Isocrinidae radiated from the Holocrinidae. It is suggested that the offshore Gondwanaland environment of Caroline Cutting was the locus of some of the earliest Isocrinidae known in the Southern hemisphere. This biogeographic situation suggests an ongoing interchange of migratory crinoid faunas from Northern Hemisphere basinal peri-Tethys, along a Tethys Ocean route, to an offshore Gondwanaland Middle Triassic point now called Caroline Cutting.     

High‐ and low‐Cr chromitite in a Tibetan Ophiolite: Evolution from Mature Subduction System to Incipient Forearc in the Neo‐Tethyan Ocean

The microstructures, major‐ and trace‐element compositions of minerals and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) maps of high‐ and low‐Cr# [spinel Cr# = Cr³⁺/(Cr³⁺+Al³⁺)] chromitites and dunites from the Zedang ophiolite in the Yarlung Zangbo Suture (South Tibet) have been used to reveal their genesis and the related geodynamic processes in the Neo‐Tethyan Ocean. The high‐Cr# (0.77‐0.80) chromitites (with or without diopside exsolution) have chromite compositions consistent with initial crystallization by interaction between boninitic magmas, harzburgite and reaction‐produced magmas in a shallow, mature mantle wedge. Some high‐Cr# chromitites show crystal‐plastic deformation and grain growth on previous chromite relics that have exsolved needles of diopside. These features are similar to those of the Luobusa high‐Cr# chromitites, possibly recycled from the deep upper mantle in a mature subduction system. In contrast, mineralogical, chemical and EBSD features of the Zedang low‐Cr# (0.49‐0.67) chromitites and dunites and the silicate inclusions in chromite indicate that they formed by rapid interaction between forearc basaltic magmas (MORB‐like but with rare subduction input) and the Zedang harzburgites in a dynamically extended, incipient forearc lithosphere. The evidence implies that the high‐Cr# chromitites were produced or emplaced in an earlier mature arc (possibly Jurassic), while the low‐Cr# associations formed in an incipient forearc during the initiation of a new episode of Neo‐Tethyan subduction at ～130‐120 Ma. This two‐episode subduction model can provide a new explanation for the coexistence of high‐ and low‐Cr# chromitites in the same volume of ophiolitic mantle.     

Evidence for a Widespread Tethyan Upper Mantle with Indian-Ocean-Type Isotopic Characteristics

The mantle sources of Tethyan basalts and gabbros from Iran,Tibet, the eastern Himalayas, the seafloor off Australia, andpossibly Albania were isotopically similar to those of present-dayIndian Ocean ridges and hotspots. Alteration-resistant incompatibleelement compositions of many samples resemble those of ocean-ridgebasalts, although ocean-island-like compositions are also present.Indian-Ocean-type mantle was widespread beneath the Neotethysin the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, and present beneath atleast parts of the Paleotethys as long ago as the Early Carboniferous.The mantle beneath the Indian Ocean today thus may be largely‘inherited’ Tethyan mantle. Although some of theTethyan rocks may have formed in intra-oceanic back-arcs orfore-arcs, contamination of the asthenosphere by material subductedshortly before magmatism cannot be a general explanation fortheir Indian-Ocean-ridge-like low-²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb signatures. Supplyof low-²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb material to the asthenosphere via plumesis not supported by either present-day Indian Ocean hotspotsor the ocean-island-like Tethyan rocks. Old continental lowercrust or lithospheric mantle, including accreted, little-dehydratedmarine sedimentary material, provides a potential low-²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pbreservoir only if sufficient amounts of such material can beintroduced into the asthenosphere over time. Anciently subductedmarine sediment is a possible low-²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb source only ifthe large increase of U/Pb that occurs during subduction-relateddewatering is somehow avoided. Fluxing of low-U/Pb fluids directlyinto the asthenosphere during ancient dewatering and introductionof ancient pyroxenitic lower-crustal restite or basaltic lower-arccrust into the asthenosphere provide two other means of creatingTethyan–Indian Ocean mantle, but these mechanisms, too,have potentially significant problems. KEY WORDS: Indian Ocean; mantle geochemical domains; ophiolites; Tethyan Ocean     

Plate Tectonics and mineralization in the Tethyan region

The association between mineralization and plate movements is becoming evident in the American Cordillera and the Pacific Island Arcs. This paper attempts to show how these ideas apply to the zone along which the Eurasian and Afro-Arabia plates collided during the late Mesozoic, between the Alps and the Himalayas. The study highlights some of the outstanding problems concerned with plate collision and the important question of the origin of ophiolite complexes. Some of the major mineralized districts in Greece, Turkey and Iran can be related to active plate edges, to island arc development and to related tectonism around pre-Mesozoic crystalline massifs. The study reinforces the view that the younger tectonic zones traversing the Middle East will become major mineral-producing areas in the future.     

青藏高原巴颜喀拉地块构造形变特征的数值模拟

1997年以来发生在青藏高原主体的一系列强震均围绕巴颜喀拉地块周缘断裂带分布。在现今GPS观测的约束下,利用弹塑性平面应力有限元模型,模拟分析了巴颜喀拉地块在周缘断裂带控制下的构造形变特征。结果表明,弹性模型不能解释现今利用GPS观测到的巴颜喀拉地块的构造形变特征,当昆仑山断裂带中段和玉树—鲜水河断裂带处于塑性屈服状态（有较大相对滑动）时,计算得到的速度场与GPS的观测值吻合较好,表明该区现今的地壳运动主要被这2条断裂的变形所吸收。进一步的模拟分析发现,如果依据断裂带上强震的复发周期给定各个断裂带的相对塑性屈服强度,则在玉树—鲜水河断裂带和东昆仑断裂带中段进入塑性屈服之后,玛尔盖茶卡—若拉岗日断裂带玛尼段和黑石北湖断裂带会先后进入破裂滑动状态,东昆仑断裂带东段和龙门山断裂带南段最后进入屈服状态,指示巴颜喀拉地块的整体运动在周缘断裂带控制下具有分段性和分期性。     

青藏高原拉萨地块西部中新世赛利普超钾质岩石的地球化学与岩石成因

西藏拉萨地块西部赛利普中新世碰撞后超钾质火山岩由中国地质调查局地质填图首次发现,露头呈残丘状集中分布于中新世赛利普盆地.为一套含地幔包体的粗面岩,SiO2含量中等(55.36%～6.70%),高K2O含量(6.70%～7.50%)和K2O/Na2O比值(3.34～4.93).岩石高MgO(6.4%～7.95%)、Cr(174×10-6～421×10-6)、Ni(268×10-6～337×10-6)和Mg#(68～72),岩石为地幔部分熔融的原始岩浆.岩石高度富集大离子亲石元素(LILE)和轻稀土元素(LREE)、具有明显的Nb、Ta、Ti的负异常、富集放射性成因Sr、Pb及Nd同位素(87Sr/86Sr=0.727327～0.727803,206Pb/204Pb=18.705～18.779,207Pb/204Pb=15.731～15.761,208Pb/204Pb=39.775～39.919,143Nd/144Nd=0.511848～0.511861)、较低的εNd值(≈-15)和古老的Nd模式年龄(tDM=2.2～2.4 Ga),这些地球化学特征揭示出赛利普的岩浆源区为富集地幔(EM Ⅱ).将赛利普与拉萨地块西部其他地点和青藏高原北部的北羌塘和西昆仑地区出露的超钾质岩石进行综合对比表明,赛利普超钾质岩石可能为尖晶石相含金云母橄榄岩及少量石榴石相含金云母橄榄岩地幔的低度部分熔融的产物.拉萨地块超钾质岩石的形成可能与印度大陆岩石圈俯冲,或是俯冲的印度大陆地壳前缘撕裂和分段俯冲有关.     

Quantitative Biostratigraphic Analysis upon the Upper Cretaceous in Tethyan Himalaya

Biostratigraphic analysis is an essential element for understanding global tectonics and the evolution of life on Earth. Quantitative analysis of sedimentary sequences provides the precise age constraints on timing of significant events in Earth’s history. This paper presents results from quantitative stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous Tethyan Himalayan sequences. This analysis resulted in a new composite stratigraphic section for the Cretaceous strata of Tibet (TIBETKCS). The eight Upper Cretaceous sections were analyzed in this study and 12 planktonic foraminifera zones were recognized based on available data. Quantitative measurements were made using a Graphic Correlation with Graphcor 3.0 software and correlated to the world standard Cretaceous Composite Section (MIDKCS). The sections were also examined using Constrained Optimization software by CONOP9. Level Penalty was applied as the rule to measure misfit among automatically correlated sections. The new TIBETKCS correlates well with planktonic foraminifera ages from previous work in southern Tibet. A fitting equation of y=?0.19x+305 with a correlation coefficient of 0.94 was obtained from this work. The ages of the first and last appearances of 64 planktonic foraminifera can be calculated with this equation with ± 0.3 Ma precision. This level of precision is approximately 10 times higher than age determinations with traditional methods. Two extinction events were resolved within this analysis at ~93.5 Ma and ~85.5 Ma corresponding to the Ocean Anoxic Events at Cenomanian–Turonian and Coniacian–Santonian boundaries respectively.     

特提斯喜马拉雅白垩纪层序地层分析

白垩纪是新特提斯演化过程中一个极其重要的阶段,其沉积蕴涵着新特提斯早期演变的丰富信息。在对典型剖面进行层序地层分析的基础上,结合前人的研究成果,笔者分别对特提斯喜马拉雅沉积带南、北两亚带白垩系进行较为详细的露头层序地层学研究,在沉积南带识别出为24个三级层序、5个层序组(亚二级层序)、2个二级层序(中层序),在北亚带识别出22个三级层序、5个层序组(亚二级层序)、2个二级层序(中层序)。特提斯喜马拉雅早白垩世层序地层总体表现为海进的退积序列,反映了特提斯洋壳的扩张阶段;晚白垩世层序地层总体表现为海退的进积序列,反映了特提斯洋盆地持续收缩和长期海平面逐步下降的过程,应是洋壳俯冲阶段的产物。整个白垩纪显示出一次极其明显的海水进退旋回,是特提斯洋从扩张到收缩这一演化过程的客观反映。由对层序特征、沉积特征及古生物特征等的分析所得出的特提斯喜马拉雅在白垩纪的海水进退规程,与同期的全球海平面的变化基本一致。     

活化断层对加拿大阿萨巴斯卡盆地不整合型铀矿的控制

先存断层的活化对许多热液矿床的形成起到至关重要的作用。加拿大阿萨巴斯卡盆地的不整合型铀矿是一个受活化断层控制矿床的典型例子。该铀矿产于基底与盆地砂岩之间的不整合面附近,并与根植于基底的断层密切相关。这些控矿基底断层切穿并错动了盆地的不整合面。一系列证据表明这些基底断层以韧性的方式形成于盆地之前,但在盆地形成之后又发生脆性活化,而正是这种断层活化作用控制铀矿的产出。先存断层作为完整岩石中的薄弱位置,在后期构造运动中,其活化比产生新断层更容易发生。数值模拟表明在后期挤压构造运动中,有先存基底断层的不整合面被显著错动,而无先存断层的不整合面并没有错动。基底断层的脆性活化,不仅在活化过程中为流体提供了驱动力,而且由于活化导致岩石渗透率的提高,为后期的流体流动提供了通道以及容矿场所,形成阿萨巴斯卡盆地的不整合型铀矿。     

Speculations on the genesis of crinoidal limestones in the Tethyan Jurassic

Crinoidal limestones in the Tethyan Jurassic often occur capping reef or carbonate-platform successions, and these bioclastic deposits commonly exhibit a lensoid form. They may also occur in tectonic fissures or as turbidites in basinal sequences. Their age is commonly Liassic, though they may be younger.The crinoidal lenses are here interpreted as sand-waves formed on current-swept pelagic seamounts; and a parallel may be drawn with the Blake Plateau where partly lithified carbonate sand bodies, albeit composed of globigerines and pteropods, have recently been described. The Liassic was a time when many seamounts were formed by block-faulting of reefs and carbonate platforms, and this explains the widespread distribution of crinoidal deposits of this age. Autochthonous crinoidal calcarenites may characterise an early shallow-water phase of seamount evolution.The presence of kaolinite in many of the west Sicilian examples of this rock type is taken as suggesting the former presence of exposed and lateritised areas, oceanic islands, which may also have furnished a food supply for the crinoid gardens.The formation of nodular crinoidal limestones, which occur in some Tethyan localities, is attributed to diagenetic segregation of calcium carbonate.

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Zusammenfassung Crinoiden-Kalke treten im Jura der Tethys oft im unmittelbar Hangenden von Riff-Komplexen oder Karbonat-Plattformen auf, wobei es sich meist um linsenförmige Gesteinskörper handelt. Außerdem treten diese bioklastischen Sedimente in tektonischen Spalten oder als Turbidite mit Becken-Sedimenten assoziiert auf. In den meisten Fällen sind die Crinoiden-Kalke liassischen Alters, zuweilen finden sie sich aber auch in jüngeren Schichtreihen.Wir möchten die hier beschriebenen Crinoiden-Kalklinsen als sand-waves interpretieren, welche von Strömungen auf seamounts in einem pelagischen Ablagerungsraum gebildet wurden. Sie lassen sich mit Ablagerung des Blake Plateau vergleichen, von wo teilweise lithifizierte Karbonatsande, welche allerdings von Globigerinen und Pteropoden aufgebaut werden, beschrieben wurden. Während des Lias entstanden viele seamounts durch differentielle Absenkung der durch liassische Brüche zerstückelten Riff-Komplexe und Karbonat-Plattformen, und dies mag das gehäufte Auftreten von Crinoiden-Kalken im Lias erklären. Autochthone Crinoiden-Kalkarenite scheinen deshalb für erste, relativ untiefe Absenkungsphasen von seamounts charakteristisch zu sein.Kaolinit tritt in vielen liassischen Crinoiden-Kalken West-Siziliens auf, was für gleichzeitige Emersion und Lateritisierung begrenzter Gebiete, wahrscheinlich in der Form von ozeanischen Inseln sprechen würde. Diese Gebiete hätten gleichzeitig organisches Material zur Ernährung der Crinoiden-Rasen geliefert.Knollige Crinoiden-Kalke, welche ebenfalls im Jura der Tethys vorkommen, werden durch frühdiagenetische Umlagerung von Calciumkarbonat erklärt.

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Résumé Parmi les dépÔts jurassiques de la Tethys, des calcaires à CrinoÏdes reposent souvent directement sur des récifs ou sur des plateformes carbonatées. Dans la plupart des cas, il s'agit de dépots à extension lenticulaire. En outre, les sédiments bioclastiques sont déposés dans des fissures tectoniques ou ils sont intercalés comme turbidites dans les sequences sédimentaires des bassins. Le plus souvent, leur âge est liasique, plus rarement on les trouve dans des niveaux plus élevés.Les dépÔts lenticulaires à CrÏnoides sont interprétés ici comme des dunes sous-marines («sand-waves») qui se forment sur des plateaux plus ou moins profonds («seamounts») dans le domaine pélagique de la mer. Ils peuvent Être comparés avec des dépÔts actuels sur le Blake Plateau. On y a décrit récemment des sables carbonatés, en partie consolidés, formés par des coquilles de Globigérines et de Ptéropodes. Dans la région méditerranéenne, de nombreux plateaux sous-marins se sont formés pendant les temps liasiques où des récifs et des plateformes carbonatées ont été souvent morcelés par des failles. Ceci peut expliquer la fréquence des calcaires à CrinoÏdes pendant l'époque liasique. Des calcarenites à CrinoÏdes déposés sur place pourraient caractériser une première phase d'approfondissement modéré dans l'évolution des plateaux sous-marins.Dans de nombreux calcaires à CrinoÏdes liasiques de la Sicile occidentale, l'on trouve de la caolinite. On pourrait en déduire que des Îlots océaniques à sol latéritique émergaient dans le voisinage. Ils auraient pu fournir en mÊme temps le matériel organique nécessaire pour alimenter les prairies de CrinoÏdes.La génèse des nodules observés dans les calcaires à CrinoÏdes provenant de plusiers localités dans la Tethys pourrait Être expliquée par un déplacement du calcaire pendant les premières phases de la diagénèse.

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Volcanism in Sanjiang Tethyan Orogenic Belt:New Facts and Concepts

Sanjiang area in Southwestern China is tectonically sit-uated at the east end of Himalaya-Tethys tectonic do-main and at the conjunction of Tethyan MountainChain and Circum-Pacific Mountain Chain.It is one ofthe key areas to understand the global tectonics and alsoone of gigantic metallogenic provinces in China and evenin the world.Volcanism had occurred during the periodof time from Proterozoic to Cenozoic.The most impor-tant and active periods of volcanism,however,areCarboniferous,Permian and Triassic.The pattern ofspatial distribution of Sanjiang volcanic rocks andophiolites can essentially be described as that severalintra——continental micro-massif volcanic districts arerespectively sandwiched between each two of four couplingophiolite—are volcanic belts,which are successively fromwest to east:Dingqing-Nujiang belt,Laneangjiangbelt,Jinshajiang belt and Ganzi-Litang belt.Fourtectono-magmatic types of volcanic rocks have been recognized in Sanjiang area as follows:mid-ocean-ridge/para-mid-ocean-rid     

亚洲特提斯域油气聚集地质特征

特提斯域含油气性,特别是亚洲特提斯域油气聚集地质特征,举世瞩目。本文从亚洲特提斯域地质演化、构造单元划分着手,讨论油气地理分布、油气分布与盆地类型、油气盆地与沉积环境、油气分布与盆地保存的特点,进而对亚洲特提斯域油气富集基本因素进行总结。亚洲特提斯域含油气盆地是特提斯洋形成、演化、造山和消亡过程的沉积-构造产物,其盆地成因和赋存的油气具有特提斯固有的特色。亚洲特提斯域油气地理上主要分布于西亚段南带,其次为西亚段北带、东南亚段中带,再次为中亚段。分析发现,亚洲特提斯油气分布,就盆地类型而言,主要与前陆盆地、克拉通边缘盆地相关;就成烃物质的沉积-构造环境而言,多位于古赤道与45°古纬度之间,盆地形态主要与台地、环形坳陷、线形坳陷沉积-构造环境相关。亚洲特提斯域油气分布与盆地保存关系极为密切,盆地保存是盆地油气评价的先决条件。文章把亚洲特提斯域油气富集基本因素归纳为两点,一是盆地演化过程中具备广阔平缓、长期保持被动陆缘沉积-构造环境,二是盆地演化末期直至现今保持沉积物被埋藏、保存的状况。     

The Carpatho-Balkanides and adjacent area: a sector of the Tethyan Eurasian metallogenic belt

The Tethyan Eurasian metallogenic belt (TEMB) was formed during Mesozoic and post-Mesozoic times in the area of the former Tethyan ocean on the southern margin of Eurasia, with the Afro-Arabian and Indian plates to the south. It extends from western Mediterranean via the Alps and southeastern Europe through the Lesser Caucasus, the Hindu Kush, and the Tibet Plateau to Burma and SW Indonesia, linking with the West Pacific metallogenic belt. The Carpatho-Balkan region is one of the sectors of the TEMB, characterized by some specific features. The emplacement of ore deposits is related to a definite time interval, and to specific tectonic settings such as: 1. Late Permian-Triassic intracontinental rifting along the northern margin of Gondwanaland and/or fragments already separated. This setting involves volcanogenic and volcano-sedimentary deposits (iron, lead/zinc, manganese, antimony, mercury, barite), skarn deposits associated with volcano-plutonic complexes of bimodal magmatism, and low temperature carbonate-hosted lead/zinc deposits. 2. Jurassic intraoceanic rifting – ophiolite complexes: This setting hosts major magmatic (particularly podiform chrome deposits) and volcano-sedimentary deposits, mainly of the Cyprus type. 3. Subduction-related setting involves porphyry copper deposits, lesser skarn deposits (iron, locally Pb-Zn), massive sulphide Cu (e.g. Bor) accompanied locally by Pb-Zn of replacement type, epithermal gold deposits, associated with calc-alkaline igneous complexes of the Early Tertiary-Late Cretaceous, and the Neogene gold/silver and base metals deposits. 4. Post-collision continent-continent setting includes deposits of Pb-Zn, Sb, As, Au-Cu associated with volcano-plutonic complexes of calc-alkaline affinity. Several major Alpine metallogenic units are developed in the Carpatho-Balkanides and adjacent area, each characterized by specific development, mineral associations, and types of ore deposits. Received: 3 June 1996 / Accepted: 10 January 1997     

Comparison of kriging techniques in a space-time context

Space-time processes constitute a particular class, requiring suitable tools in order to predict values in time and space, such as a space-time variogram or covariance function. The space-time co-variance function is defined and linked to the Linear Model of Coregionalization under second-order space-time stationarity. Simple and ordinary space-time kriging systems are compared to simple and ordinary cokriging and their differences for unbiasedness conditions are underlined. The ordinary space-time kriging estimation then is applied to simulated data. Prediction variances and prediction errors are compared with those for ordinary kriging and cokriging under different unbiasedness conditions using a cross-validation. The results show that space-time kriging tend to produce lower prediction variances and prediction errors that kriging and cokriging.