桂西北晚古生代地层中的毗连不整合研究

桂西北右江地区广泛发育碳酸盐岩孤立台地,台地边缘发育大量沉积岩脉、角砾岩体、台地边缘同沉积正断层、及局部地层缺失造成的特殊界面,各要素之间的成因关系一直有争论。毗连不整合是指因同沉积断层作用使平坦地形变成强烈起伏的陡坡地形,粗碎屑物质快速沉积于地形凹处,新沉积的地层与早先坡下的较老基岩横向相接,因此造成新老地层之间的不整合,多形成于构造不稳定地区。国外地质学家最初将其识别为普通的角度不整合、陆架边缘不整合或者台地边缘不整合等等,国内地质学家也注意到了这类特殊界面,但在一些野外露头上观察其为断层面,而在另一些露头上观察其为侵蚀间断（不整合）面,由此产生争论：这类特殊界面是断层还是不整合？并产生很多名称：同构造沉积不整合、碳酸盐岩台地边缘围限断裂带、角度不整合接触带、陡崖式假不整合、事件沉积不整合、超覆不整合、构造窗和飞来峰等等,迄今为止没有统一。笔者等在研究广西晚古生代孤立碳酸盐岩台地边缘沉积岩脉和角砾岩体的过程中,发现特殊界面与沉积岩脉和角砾岩体关系密切,并发现如果将这些特殊界面归类于传统不整合面,均有与地质事实相矛盾的地方,因而认为其应重新归类。随着研究的深入：笔者等在凤山剖面的同一露头上观察到关键地质现象：特殊界面下部具断层特征,上部具溶蚀间断特征,因此认为其是遭受溶蚀的同沉积断层面。其成因是：同沉积构造十分活跃,使同沉积断层面上部来不及被新沉积物掩埋而遭受水下溶蚀,从而形成巨大地形起伏,造成新老地层横向相接,与Davis毗连不整合概念吻合,据此将这类特殊界面统一命名为毗连不整合。随即发现桂西北晚古生代地层内部广泛发育毗连不整合,并且发现晚古生代地层与下伏寒武系、及上覆三叠系之间也是毗连不整合接触,这是桂西北晚古生代地层及相关寒武系和三叠系的基本特色,由于毗连不整合代表区域地质构造活动强烈,表明桂西北地质构造从古生代到中生代一直处于活动状态,地层—构造活动记录与古特提斯域特征相似,属古特提斯洋的东沿部分。从而结束特殊界面是断层还是不整合的争论,为桂西北地层与构造的深入研究及其大地构造归属提供了新证据。     

Petrological and isotopic implications of some contrasting Late Precambrian carbonates, NE Spitsbergen

The dominantly shallow-marine Vendian succession of NE Spitsbergen contains distinctive types of carbonate rock. Limestones deposited before Vendian glaciation resemble those described from other Upper Proterozoic successions, being high in Sr and inferred to have been originally aragonitic, including the distinctive 5–10 Jim equant polygonal calcite of cemented shrinkage cracks. In contrast, manganoan stromatolitic limestones within marginal-marine glacial-outwash deposits, and consisting of micrite, microspar and fascicular-optic calcite are interpreted as originally calcitic. The restriction of primary marine calcite to cold seawater is comparable with Recent and Permian carbonates, although the Precambrian example formed in a sea diluted with meltwater. There is good textural preservation of relatively ¹⁸O-rich oolitic dolostones which were cemented in a supratidal environment by artesian fluids. Nevertheless, early diagenetic replacement is inferred, immediately prior to a glacial episode. Post-glacial dolostones are either replacive marine, or evaporative lacustrine, but share rather more negative δ¹⁸O values, closer to the mean of Late Precambrian dolostones. The heaviest oxygen isotope values constrain seawater δ¹⁸O to no more negative than — 2 to — 4_SMOW. The main reason for the pronounced oxygen isotopic depletion of most Late Precambrian carbonates is their initial metastable mineralogy. The possibility of determining palaeolatitudes of the enigmatic widespread Late Proterozoic glaciations by isotopic analysis of freshwater periglacial calcareous precipitates is raised. Significant carbon isotope variations reflect changes in depositional water chemistry: some of these could be global in extent.     

美国得克萨斯古生界和中生界鲕粒的微孔隙度

本文所述的由1-5μm自形菱形方解石组成的微晶化鲕粒采自得克萨斯奥陶系-侏罗系的鲕粒灰岩和泥粒灰岩,其中:露头样品4个,岩心样品3个,岩屑样品7个。微晶化鲕粒的孔隙度可大于15%,渗透率为1毫达西.鲕粒的微晶化不是由淋滤作用所引起,而是在矿物稳定化过程中由文石转化而成方解石。     

Comparative characteristics of Middle Paleozoic and Late Riphean plume magmatism of the Siberian platform

Based on isotopic and geochemical data for Late Riphean dikes and sills and for Devonian dolerite dikes and basalt covers within the Sette-Daban rift in the western part of the Siberian platform, we proved conceptions about the participation of various deep sources in their formation. The inverse correlation in Devonian basites between concentrations of Nb, light rare earth elements, and a number of other highly incompatible elements on the one hand and Zr, Y, and other moderate incompatible elements, including heavy rare earth elements on the other hand allows us to assume that two sources participated in the formation of melts. The source of dolerites is close to the EMORB type, and the source of basalts is close to the OIB type. The compositions of Riphean rocks correspond to a trend for which magma formation occurred with the participation of a source with characteristics between NMORB and EMORB and also a component typical of subduction zones. The data obtained imply associate formation of basites with the influence of mantle plumes on the lithosphere of the southeastern part of the Siberian craton in the Late Riphean and Middle Paleozoic. In the Riphean the plume mantle was composed of a moderately depleted mantle of the EMODB type and a mantle with the composition close to the above-subduction mantle, which was metosomatically changed under the influence of fluid water, which caused the appearance of a Nb and Ta deficit in melting products. The isotopic characteristics Nd(¹⁴⁷Sm/¹⁴⁴Nd = 0.165 and ɛ_Nd(T) ∼ 2.3–4.7) of rocks show the moderate depleted nature of these sources.     

Evolution of central eastern Australia during the late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic

Palaeogeographic reconstructions and structural analysis of the Late Carboniferous to Triassic of central eastern Australia indicate that sedimentation and deformation were responses to the prolonged application of a dextral rotational force couple to the craton margin and to eustatic sea‐level changes. The force couple distorted the craton margins and adjacent Yarrol‐New England geosyncline and orogen into an incipient coupled orocline. The influence of the couple commenced in the Late Devonian and continued with varying effect until the Late Triassic, when it reversed to a sinistral system, part of a completely different stress regime that controlled sedimentation and structure during the Early Jurassic. Within the craton, deformation mainly took the form of a series of en echelon depressions, such as the Drummond Basin, Koburra, Denison and Taroom Troughs. A lineament between Longreach and Roma marks the southern boundary of this type of strain, although crust beyond its limit was not so rigid as to be unaffected by the force couple. The Yarrol‐New England region during the Devonian and the Early Carboniferous was the site of geosynclinal deposition where a thick and typically volcanogenic wedge lay along the eastern border of the craton. During the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian comparable wedges were formed farther to the east, in effect building outwards into the geosyncline. The same tensional regime that created the geosyncline is seen as the means for thinning crust below the sediment wedge and thus provided thermal instability, and for the igneous diapirism expressed as both intrusion and extrusion that characterizes the orogen from the Late Carboniferous onwards. The dextral force couple was responsible for most of the deformation and for controlling final emplacement of plutons. Sea‐level rises were marked in the late Early Permian and again in the early Late Permian.     

Detrital zircon and monazite track the source of Mesozoic sediments in Kutch to rocks of Late Neoproterozoic and Early Palaeozoic orogenies in northern India

Detrital zircon and monazite dating of clastic rocks in the Mesozoic Kutch Basin at the western continental margin of India reveals predominant sediment derivation from rocks of Neoproterozoic Pan-African orogeny, followed by those of Cambro-Ordovician Bhimphedian (or Kurgiakh) orogeny and 850–1000 Ma rocks, with subordinate input from rocks of 700–800 Ma, 1500–1600 Ma, 2400–2500 Ma and 2800–3300 Ma. This finding refutes the existing idea regarding the predominant Mesoproterozoic source inferred for this basin. The dominance of southwesterly palaeocurrent data of Mesozoic rocks in Kutch Basin rules out sediment supply from south or west. Th/U ratios of detrital zircon grains indicate predominantly magmatic and subordinately metamorphic source rock. Petrographic data, particularly the QFR plot supports this interpretation of source rock. Rocks belonging to the Pan-African orogeny are poorly exposed in northwestern India while isolated outcrops of peralkaline granites in the Himalayan region bear testimony of the Bhimphedian orogeny. While the paucity of records of the Pan-African orogeny in western India possibly relates to either burial under the Deccan Flood Basalts or extensive erosion during Mesozoic greenhouse climate, the dearth of rocks of Bhimphedian orogeny results from its occurrence along the present-day Himalayan thrust belt. The absence of detrital zircon grains younger than 458 Ma indicates that post-Ordovician tectono-thermal events skipped the source area. The large gap between youngest detrital zircon and the depositional age of the Mesozoic sediments, suggests long-distance sediment transport as well as sediment recycling. This study, therefore, indicates the existence of widespread younger magmatic rocks to the north during the deposition of Mesozoic of Kutch.     

江苏晚古生代孢粉组合序列

结合新得的孢粉材料 ,总结了江苏泥盆纪—二叠纪孢粉组合序列 ,共计 7个组合 (带 ) :1)五通组下部观山段AL组合 (Fa2 b- c) ;　 2 )擂鼓台段中下部 L H组合 (Fa2 d) ;　 3)擂鼓台段中上部 L C组合 (Tn1 a— Tn1 b早期 ) ;　 4a)擂鼓台段顶部 MD组合 (Tn1 b晚期— Tn2 ) ;　 4b)“老坎组”MC组合 (Tn1 b晚期— Tn2 ) ;　 5 )高骊山组 DP组合(Tn3— V1 - 2 ) ;　 6 )龙潭组 GM组合 (P21 — P1 2 ) ;　 7)大隆组 CS组合 (暂名 ) (P22 )。简要介绍了每个组合的内容和特征并对某些地层的时代作了进一步讨论。     

中国东南部晚中生代构造作用

濒太平洋西缘,位居东亚陆缘南段的中国东南部,是在EW向古亚洲构造域基底之上发育起来的。研究表明,该区在早、中侏罗世经历了一次从EW向古亚洲构造域向NE向西太平洋构造域的体制转换,其转换位置之一是在南岭一带,其地质标志是侏罗纪盆地内近东西走向的灰色沉积岩层、同位素年龄值为180 Ma左右的双峰式火山岩和中侏罗世A型花岗岩等。到早白垩世,本区已基本完成古亚洲域向西太平洋构造域的体制转换。中国东南部晚中生代火成岩的成因机制基本上可用古太平洋岩石圈消减作用、玄武岩浆底侵作用和地壳深熔作用相结合的模式来解释。日本中央构造线—台湾纵谷带—菲律宾民都洛-巴拉望带是晚中生代古太平洋板块向东亚陆缘的消减带。晚中生代古太平洋板块(伊泽奈琦和库拉板块)低角度(<30°)、快速率(>10cm/a)的俯冲,是西太平洋陆缘区能形成宽阔火山岩带的重要动力学原因。宽阔的火山—侵入杂岩区和6条区域断裂构成了中国东南部晚中生代的基本构造框架。台湾纵谷带为古太平洋板块的俯冲-缝合带,而发育在大陆内部的5条区域断裂则具不同构造属性:长乐—南澳带是晚中生代大陆内部的左旋走滑带,上虞—政和—大埔断裂是古基底隆升区与晚中生代火山—沉积盆地区的分界带,绍兴—江山—东乡—萍乡断裂是晚白垩世—古近纪红     

Controls on carbonate platform architecture and reef recovery across the Palaeozoic to Mesozoic transition: A high-resolution analysis of the Great Bank of Guizhou

Carbonate platforms spanning intervals of global change provide an opportunity to identify causal links between the evolution of marine environment and depositional architecture. This study investigates the controls on platform geometry across the Palaeozoic to Mesozoic transition and yields new stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental constraints on the Great Bank of Guizhou, a latest Permian to earliest Late Triassic isolated carbonate platform in the Nanpanjiang Basin of south China. Reconstruction of platform architecture was achieved by integrating field mapping, petrography, biostratigraphy, satellite imagery analysis and δ¹³C chemostratigraphy. In contrast to previous interpretations, this study indicates that: (i) the Great Bank of Guizhou transitioned during Early Triassic time from a low-relief bank to a platform with high relief above the basin floor (up to 600 m) and steep slope angles (preserved up to 50°); and (ii) the oldest-known platform-margin reef of the Mesozoic Era grew along steep, prograding clinoforms in an outer-margin to lower-slope environment. Increasing platform relief during Early Triassic time was caused by limited sediment delivery to the basin margin and a high rate of accommodation creation driven by Indosinian convergence. The steep upper Olenekian (upper Lower Triassic) slope is dominated by well-cemented grainstone, suggesting that high carbonate saturation states led to syndepositional or rapid post-depositional sediment stabilization. Latest Spathian reef initiation coincided with global cooling following Early Triassic global warmth. The first Triassic framework-building metazoans on the Great Bank of Guizhou were small calcareous sponges restricted to deeper water settings, but early Mesozoic reef builders were volumetrically dominated by Tubiphytes, a fossil genus of uncertain taxonomic affinity. In aggregate, the stratigraphic architecture of the Great Bank of Guizhou records sedimentary response to long-term environmental and biological recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction, highlighting the close connections among marine chemistry, marine ecosystems and carbonate depositional systems.     

Middle to Late Ordovician arc system in the Kyrgyz Middle Tianshan: From arc-continent collision to subsequent evolution of a Palaeozoic continental margin

New geological, geochronological and isotopic data reveal a previously unknown arc system that evolved south of the Kyrgyz Middle Tianshan (MTS) microcontinent during the Middle and Late Ordovician, 467–444 Ma ago. The two fragments of this magmatic arc are located within the Bozbutau Mountains and the northern Atbashi Range, and a marginal part of the arc, with mixed volcanic and sedimentary rocks, extends north to the Semizsai metamorphic unit of the southern Chatkal Range. A continental basement of the arc, indicated by predominantly felsic volcanic rocks in Bozbutau and Atbashi, is supported by whole-rock Nd- and Hf-in-zircon isotopic data. ε_Nd(t) of + 0.9 to − 2.6 and ε_Hf(t) of + 1.8 to − 6.0 imply melting of Neo- to Mesoproterozoic continental sources with Nd model ages of ca. 0.9 to 1.2 Ga and Hf crustal model ages of ca. 1.2 to 1.7 Ga. In the north, the arc was separated from the MTS microcontinent by an oceanic back-arc basin, represented by the Karaterek ophiolite belt. Our inference of a long-lived Early Palaeozoic arc in the southwestern MTS suggests an oceanic domain between the MTS microcontinent and the Tarim craton in the Middle Ordovician.The time of arc-continent collision is constrained as Late Ordovician at ca. 450 Ma, based on cessation of sedimentation on the MTS microcontinent, the age of an angular unconformity within the Karaterek suture zone, and the age of syncollisional metamorphism and magmatism in the Kassan Metamorphic Complex of the southern Chatkal Range. High-grade amphibolite-facies metamorphism and associated crustal melting in the Kassan Metamorphic Complex restricts the main tectonic activity in the collisional belt to ca. 450 Ma. This interpretation is based on the age of a synkinematic amphibolite-facies granite, intruded into paragneiss during peak metamorphism. A second episode of greenschist- to kyanite–staurolite-facies metamorphism is dated between 450 and 420 Ma, based on the ages of granitoid rocks, subsequently affected or not affected by this metamorphism. The latest episode is recorded by greenschist-facies metamorphism in Silurian sandstones and granodiorites and by retrogression of the older, higher-grade rocks. This may have occurred at the Silurian to Devonian transition and reflects reorganization of a Middle Palaeozoic convergent margin.Late Ordovician collision was followed by initiation of a new continental arc in the southern MTS. This arc was active in the Early Silurian, latest Silurian to Middle Devonian, and Late Carboniferous, whereas during the Givetian through Mississippian (ca. 385–325 Ma) this area was a passive continental margin. These arcs, previously well constrained west of the Talas-Ferghana Fault, continued eastwards into the Naryn and Atbashi areas and probably extended into the Chinese Central Tianshan. The disappearance of a major crustal block with transitional facies on the continental margin and too short a distance between the arc and accretionary complex suggest that plate convergence in the Atbashi sector of the MTS was accompanied by subduction erosion in the Devonian or Early Pennsylvanian. This led to a minimum of 50–70 km of crustal loss and removal of the Ordovician arc as well as the Silurian and Devonian forearcs in the areas east of the Talas-Ferghana Fault.     

Late Mesozoic Exhumation of the Huangling Massif: Constraints on the Evolution of the Middle Yangtze River

Plate subduction leads to complex exhumation processes on continents. The Huangling Massif lies at the northern margin of the South China Block. Whether the Huangling Massif was exhumed as a watershed of the middle reaches of the Paleo-Yangtze River during the Mesozoic remains under debate. We examined the exhumation history of the Huangling Massif based on six granite bedrock samples, using apatite fission track (AFT) and apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He (AHe and ZHe) thermochronology. These samples yielded ages of 157–132 Ma (ZHe), 119–106 Ma (AFT), and 114–72 Ma (AHe), respectively. Thermal modeling revealed that three phases of rapid cooling occurred during the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous, late Early Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous. These exhumation processes led to the high topographic relief responsible for the emergence of the Huangling Massif. The integrated of our new data with published sedimentological records suggests that the Huangling Massif might have been the watershed of the middle reaches of the Paleo-Yangtze River since the Cretaceous. At that time, the rivers flowed westward into the Sichuan Basin and eastward into the Jianghan Basin. The subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Asian continent in the Mesozoic deeply influenced the geomorphic evolution of the South China Block.     

Sedimentology and palaeoenvironment of the southeast Sicilian Tertiary platform carbonates

A thick succession of shelf and shelf-slope carbonates is developed in southeastern Sicily. Sedimentological aspects of the Oligocene to Tortonian sequence, including distribution and palaeoenvironmental factors, are considered. A new formation and four new members are proposed in the upper part of the succession.The region comprises a western half, typically exhibiting the principal deeper-water planktonic facies including marls, and an eastern area displaying typically inner-shelf carbonates and an attenuated succession. Coralline algal limestones and calcarenites are more typical of this latter region but there are also some volcanic intercalations. An attempt is made to relate the Hyblean succession to that of the Maltese Islands which lie at the southern end of this Tertiary carbonate platform.     

Identification and occurrence of 25-norbenzohopanes in biodegraded bitumen from Palaeozoic carbonates in northern Alberta

In addition to the previously reported 25-norhopanes and 25-norhopanoic acids, for the first time we report the identification of 25-norbenzohopanes. The hydrocarbon composition of the bitumen from Palaeozoic carbonates in northern Alberta displays molecular evidence for severe levels of biodegradation characterised by the removal of C₃₀–C₃₅ hopanes. Biodegradation is also indicated by the removal of C₃₂ and C₃₃ benzohopanes. The appearance of C₃₁ and C₃₂ 25-norbenzohopanes corresponds to the decrease in C₃₂ and C₃₃ benzohopanes, suggesting that 25-norbenzohopanes originate by demethylation of benzohopane counterparts. Demethylation at C-10 in the hopanoids affects a broader class of compounds that so far includes the hopanes and hopanoic acids, as well as the benzylated hopanoid species.     

Paleoclimate of some Permo-Triassic carbonates of Malaysia

Four hundred thin-sections of Permian (Chuping and Summalayang Limestones) and Triassic (Kodiang Limestone) carbonates of Malaysia were studied, mainly to interpret probable climatic zones during their formation.

Chuping Limestone is rich in skeletal grains and intraclasts formed in shallow, high-energy environments. Original mineralogy of skeletal grains and early diagenetic cements were chiefly calcites with some aragonite. The faunal assemblage is similar to that of subpolar carbonates. The brachiopods are characterized by heavy δ¹³C and light δ¹⁸O and these values lie in the same field as an Early Permian fauna from eastern Australia. The δ¹⁸O values of fauna show unrealistic temperatures because the fauna has equilibrated with melt waters. However, calculated original δ¹⁸O values of the fauna from δ¹³C indicate temperatures ranging from 2 to 13°C with δ_w of +1.2. These features reflect cool-temperate (to ?subpolar) conditions.

Summalayang Limestone is rich in fusulinids and was deposited in bar to shelf environments. Fusulinids are often filled with fine, equigranular sparry calcite. Early diagenetic origin of these cements is indicated by erosion of cements during transportation and also by the cross-cutting relationship of veins with cements. These cements were originally Mg calcites. The foramol faunal assemblage, and predominantly Mg calcite mineralogy of both fauna and cements, reflect temperate climate.

Kodiang Limestone was deposited in peritidal environments. This limestone formation has all the characteristic features of modern, warm, tropical carbonates such as chlorozoan assemblage, diverse non-skeletal grains, abundant early diagenetic dolomites and predominance of aragonitic fauna, non-skeletal grains and cements.

The formation of temperate carbonates during the Permian suggests that Malaysia was probably part of Gondwanaland.     

开鲁盆地晚中生代地层

根据２００余口钻井资料，运用了生物地层学、岩石地层学、磁性地层学等方法，建立了开鲁盆地晚中生代地层层序及其与邻区地层的对比关系。早白垩世为盆地断陷期，发育了含热河生物群地层，包括义县组、九佛堂组、沙海组、阜新组；中晚白垩世为盆地坳陷期，发育含松花江生物群与明水生物群地层，包括泉头组—青山口组、姚家组、嫩江组、四方台组、明水组。     

长江中下游晚中生代橄榄玄粗岩系列火山岩:年代学格架、地球化学特征及成因讨论

长江中下游晚中生代橄榄玄粗岩系列火山岩发育在宁芜、庐枞、溧水和怀宁四个火山岩盆地内,该系列的火山岩地球化学性质上以相对富碱、高K、明显富集Rb、Th、U、K等强不相容元素和轻稀土元素,亏损高场强元素Nb、Ta和Ti为特征。Ba和Sr的特征在不同盆地内随岩性的不同表现各异,表明斜长石的分离结晶可能在这些盆地内岩浆演化过程中起着一定的作用。这些盆地内的橄榄玄粗岩系列火山岩的部分地球化学性质(如Ce/Yb比值)与大多数大陆环境下的橄榄玄粗岩系列岩石不同,而类似于大洋岛弧内的,可能意味着区内由于岩石圈的减薄,软流圈地幔上涌到了相对较浅的部位,控制源区部分熔融的主要是尖晶石相地幔岩。这些火山岩的Sr、Nd同位素组成总体处于扬子克拉通岩石圈地幔附近,指示这些橄榄玄粗质母岩浆主要是由富集的岩石圈地幔部分熔融形成的。但盆地所处的构造位置对岩浆的性质也有显著的影响,指示地壳基底物质的混染也不同程度存在。区内榄玄粗岩系列火山活动持续的时间很短,主要集中在约128134 Ma左右,峰值约130 Ma,其成因的动力学机制可能与晚中生代发生在中国东部的岩石圈减薄事件有关。