Marine geology of Port Phillip,Victoria

The marine geology of Port Phillip is described in detail, based on data from seismic profiling, vibrocoring and grab sampling. Three major unconsolidated facies can be distinguished: sands and muddy sands peripheral to the present coastline, muds covering the major central region, and channel fills of muds and sands. The first two facies units result from an increase in wave sorting towards the coast, reworking of Tertiary and Quaternary sandstone outcrops around the coast, and a dominant mud supply from river sources into the central area. The distribution and thicknesses of the unconsolidated facies have been augmented by a shallow‐seismic program that reveals the thicknesses of the modern sediments overlying an older surface comprised of consolidated clays and sandy clays of Pleistocene or older age. In central Port Phillip, muds and sands up to 27 m‐thick have infilled Pleistocene channels cut into underlying consolidated units. Sediments immediately above the channel bases show characteristic seismic patterns of fluvial deposition. The presence of peat deposits together with gas phenomena in the water column suggest organic breakdown of channel‐fill deposits is releasing methane into the bay waters. Outside the channel areas, carbon‐14 dating indicates that the unconsolidated sediments largely post‐date the last glaciation sea‐level rise (<6500 a BP), with an early Holocene period of rapid deposition, similar to other Australian estuaries. Stratigraphic and depositional considerations suggest that the undated channel‐fill sequences correlate with the formation of cemented quartz‐carbonate aeolianite and barrier sands on the Nepean Peninsula at the southern end of Port Phillip. Previous thermoluminescence dating of the aeolianites suggests that channel‐fill sequences B, C and D may have been deposited as fluvial and estuarine infills over the period between 57 and 8 ka. The eroded surface on the underlying consolidated sediments is probably the same 118 ka age as a disconformity within the Nepean aeolianites. Further estuarine and aeolianite facies extend below the disconformity to 60 m below sea‐level, and may extend the Quaternary depositional record to ca 810 ka. Pliocene and older Tertiary units progressively subcrop below the Quaternary northwards up the bay.     

四川盆地东部上三叠统须家河组层序地层及聚煤特征研究*

四川盆地东部上三叠统须家河组共分7段,其中须一段与川西小塘子组为同期异相沉积。须一、须三、须五、须七段为含煤泥岩段,须二、须四、须六段为砂岩段。对区内钻井剖面及露头剖面进行分析,在须家河组中识别出区域性构造不整合面及河流下切冲刷面等层序界面,将须家河组划分为4个三级层序,分别对应于须一段、须二段—须三段、须四段—须五段、须六段—须七段。以地层的岩性、岩相变化特征细化分出低位体系域、湖侵体系域和高位体系域。其中低位体系域以广泛分布的河道砂岩沉积为特征;湖侵体系域与高位体系域以湖滨三角洲相的细砂岩、粉砂岩、泥岩及煤层互层为特征。对层序地层格架下的聚煤特征分析表明,层序Ⅲ聚煤最有利,其次为层序Ⅳ,层序Ⅱ最差;在层序Ⅲ内,高位体系域比湖侵体系域更有利于成煤。煤层厚度变化明显受泥炭堆积速率与可容空间增加速率的控制,高位体系域早期较高的可容空间增加速率与较高的泥炭堆积速率保持平衡,有利于厚泥炭(煤)层的形成。     

Geology of coal bearing Palaeogene sediments,onshore Torquay Basin,Victoria

New mapping at Anglesea coal mine, and coal resource and deep groundwater drilling have provided new perspectives on the economically important Eastern View Group coal bearing sedimentary succession in the onshore Torquay Basin. In the Anglesea Syncline, the upper 35 m thick brown coal seam of the Eastern View Group is overlain by a low angle unconformity. Units overlying the coal seams include high energy, cross cutting sand channels of the Boonah Formation and lower energy channel and interchannel systems of the overlying Salt Creek and Anglesea Formations. The mine section can be correlated from borehole data with the Eastern View Group and Demons Bluff Group exposed in coastal cliff sections along the adjacent Anglesea to Torquay coast. Recently drilled coal and groundwater exploration bores provide new data on the extent of the coal measures in the Anglesea area, and details of the underlying Tertiary succession that include typical Otway Basin units such as the Pember Mudstone and Pebble Point Formations. The stratigraphy below the coal measures suggests that the Otway Ranges were not present during Palaeogene times. The rank of the brown coals on and around the Otway Ranges is higher than any other Tertiary coals in onshore Victoria, and they preserve similar patterns of rank distribution to the high rank black coals in the underlying Lower Cretaceous Otway Group. Evidence for large overburden thicknesses is lacking, and the high ranks may have been augmented by higher than normal geothermal gradients in the Early Tertiary. Comparisons between the observed depositional cycles, sequence stratigraphic cycles, and worldwide coastal onlap curves suggest that the observed disconformity boundaries are sequence boundaries that provide a chronostratigraphic framework. Sequences present may include TB4.1–4.5 in the overburden units, and TB 2.4–3.6 in the coal bearing interval.     

新疆吐哈盆地中、下侏罗统含煤岩系层序地层及古地理

在吐哈盆地中、下侏罗统含煤岩系层序地层分析的基础上,对聚煤期古地理特征及其与聚煤作用的关系进行了研究。结果表明,吐哈盆地中、下侏罗统含煤岩系形成于河流-三角洲-湖泊沉积体系,其中共发育4个三级层序,分别对应于八道湾组、三工河组、西山窑组一、二段和三、四段。吐哈盆地从层序Ⅰ到层序Ⅳ,先后经历了沼泽（层序Ⅰ）-湖泊（层序Ⅱ）-沼泽（层序Ⅲ）-湖泊（层序Ⅳ）过程。在对应于最大湖泛面的湖侵体系域末期和高位体系域早期,较快的可容空间增加速率与泥炭堆积速率相平衡,从而有利于厚煤层的堆积。煤层厚度、碳质泥岩厚度与砂砾岩含量呈负相关关系,即砂砾岩含量越少,煤和碳质泥岩厚度越大;地层厚度300～500 m（层序Ⅰ）和400～550m之间（层序Ⅲ）时,煤层厚度最大,说明有利于煤和碳质泥岩聚集的环境是沉降速率中等、陆源碎屑供给相对较少的三角洲间湾、湖湾以及下三角洲平原环境,层序Ⅰ和层序Ⅲ的聚煤中心如艾维尔沟、柯尔碱、桃树园、七泉湖、柯柯亚、鄯善、艾丁湖、沙尔湖、大南湖和三道岭等均属于这类环境。     

二连盆地白音查干凹陷下白垩统阿尔善组-都红木组层序地层

层序地层学是岩性-地层油气藏勘探研究的核心技术之一。为深入开展二连盆地白音查干凹陷岩性-地层油气藏勘探,在前人研究成果基础上,通过研究区200多口井的精细地层对比和33口井759.42 m岩心的详细观察及区域构造-沉积演化分析,综合运用构造、古生物、岩性、测井以及地震反射等5个方面的特征,对白音查干凹陷(主要是西部次凹)油气勘探的主要目的层下白垩统阿尔善组—都红木组的层序发育特征进行再认识,对层序界面的性质进行重新厘定。将白音查干凹陷下白垩统阿尔善组—都红木组划分为2个超长期层序(分别对应于阿尔善组—腾格尔组和都红木组)和5个长期层序(分别对应于阿尔善组一段、阿尔善组二段、腾格尔组、都红木组一段和都红木组二段~三段);提出白音查干凹陷下白垩统腾格尔组长期层序的底界面为一连续沉积的整合面,不能构成油气运移的良好通道,即在腾格尔组底部即使圈闭条件良好(如锡40井—锡43井区),但也会因缺乏良好的油气运移通道致使圈闭中供油不足而不能成藏。     

松辽盆地滨北地区层序地层学研究及隐蔽油气藏预测

在地震、测井、岩心、地球化学等各种资料的基础上将松辽盆地滨北地区划分为3个一级层序,11个二级层序,16个三级层序。重点研究青山口组、姚家组以及嫩江组的层序特征,分析了滨北地区油气勘探缓慢的原因,指出下一步油气勘探的方向,确定有利隐蔽圈闭的勘探目标为青山口组中的透镜状砂体以及姚家组的河流相薄层砂体。     

琼东南盆地陵水组层序地层与沉积相分析

利用高分辫率层序地层学方法,结合岩心?测井和地震资料,识别琼东南盆地陵水组各级层序界面,建立地层层序格架,探讨地层格架下沉积相类型?演化规律以及平面展布,并就有利沉积相带分布进行了讨论?结果表明:从测井资料看出,层序界面识别标志主要为岩性和颜色发生突变;将琼东南盆地陵水组划分为3 个三级层序(Els1?Els2和Els3);结合测井响应特征,对地震剖面进行精细刻画,在3 套三级层序中识别出辫状河三角洲?扇三角洲?滨海?陆棚?碳酸盐台地等5种沉积相?     

辽宁阜新盆地下白垩统沙海组沉积环境与聚煤规律

阜新盆地下白垩统沙海组沉积环境和聚煤规律研究较为薄弱.在野外观察的基础上,结合岩心观察与描述、连井剖面分析以及测井曲线分析等手段,对阜新盆地沙海组沉积环境和聚煤规律进行分析.结果表明:阜新盆地沙海组主要可识别出冲积扇一扇三角洲沉积体系和湖泊沉积体系;沙海组可分为3个三级层序,每个层序又可进一步分为湖侵体系域和高位体系域...     

沁水盆地石炭——二叠纪含煤岩系高分辨率层序地层及聚煤模式

晋东南沁水盆地的煤层气储层主要是石炭-二叠系煤层,其厚度变化明显受控于当时的沉积环境及层序地层格架。本文对该盆地含煤岩系的太原组和山西组进行了高分辨率层序地层分析,并探讨了主采煤层15号和3号煤层在层序地层格架下的分布模式。以区域性分布的与下切谷砂岩共生的间断面、不整合面、海侵方向转换面、下切谷砂岩底面、由深变浅-再由浅变深的沉积相转换面以及共生的古土壤层为界,将含煤岩系划分为3个三级复合层序和9个四级层序。15号厚煤层和3号厚煤层位于三级海侵(泛)面附近,前者形成于障壁——潟湖及滨外陆棚沉积环境,较低的泥岩堆积速率与较慢的可容空间增长速率相平衡;后者形成于三角洲平原分流间湾环境,较高的泥炭堆积速率与较高的可容空间的增长速率相平衡。太原组的以“根土岩——煤层——海相石灰岩”旋回为代表的四级层序中的煤层可能形成于“海相灰岩层滞后时段”,即从海平面抬升到陆棚之上到碳酸盐岩真正沉积下来之前的时段,因为缓慢的海平面抬升速率与泥炭堆积速率保持较长时间的平衡,从而聚集了厚层的泥炭/煤层。     

沁水盆地石炭-二叠纪含煤岩系高分辨率层序地层及聚煤模适

晋东南沁水盆地的煤层气储层主要是石炭-二叠系煤层,其厚度变化明显受控于当时的沉积环境及层序地层格架.本文对该盆地含煤岩系的太原组和山西组进行了高分辨率层序地层分析,并探讨了主采煤层15号和3号煤层在层序地层格架下的分布模式.以区域性分布的与下切谷砂岩共生的间断面、不整合面、海侵方向转换面、下切谷砂岩底面、由深变浅-再由浅变深的沉积相转换面以及共生的古土壤层为界,将含煤岩系划分为3个三级复合层序和9个四级层序.15号厚煤层和3号厚煤层位于三级海侵(泛)面附近,前者形成于障壁一渴湖及滨外陆棚沉积环境,较低的泥岩堆积速率与较慢的可容空间增长速率相平衡;后者形成于三角洲平原分流间湾环境,较高的泥炭堆积速率与较高的可容空间的增长速率相平衡.太原组的以"根土岩-煤层-海相石灰岩"旋回为代表的四级层序中的煤层可能形成于"海相灰岩层滞后时段",即从海平面抬升到陆棚之上到碳酸盐岩真正沉积下来之前的时段,因为缓慢的海平面抬升速率与泥炭堆积速率保持较长时间的平衡,从而聚集了厚层的泥炭/煤层.     

松嫩盆地扶余地区白垩系嫩江组岩石地层与沉积环境

松嫩盆地白垩纪地层发育,其嫩江组沉积厚度大,呈盆地演化后期的沉积特征。本文从扶余地区嫩江组岩石组合、韵律变化、厚度及区域分布入手讨论其特点,对其影响因素(泥质、粉砂质、细砂质岩石)进行分析总结。根据岩石组合,该区嫩江组可划分成三段:下段黑色泥(页)岩—粉砂质泥岩互层;中段灰绿色粉砂质泥岩、泥质粉砂岩、细砂岩互层;上段杂色粉砂质泥岩互层。分析沉积岩石颜色、构造及韵律组合特征,推测嫩江组由下而上为半深湖—深湖—半深湖(浅湖)相交替变化—滨湖(湖滩)相演化过程。     

西藏佩枯错盆地帮荣组沉积环境演化特征

笔者通过西藏佩枯错盆地帮荣组剖面的野外地质调查以及沉积物粒度、磁化率、碳酸盐等环境指标的分析,结合ESR法和U系测年资料,分析了晚更新世帮荣组沉积环境演化特征。分析结果表明,127～15kaB.P.的晚更新世时,佩枯错盆地进入强烈断陷阶段,佩枯错古湖经历了初始浅湖期,发展深湖期和萎缩浅湖期一个完整的湖泊演化过程。127～56kaB.P.,气候温暖湿润,湖水增加,古湖发育进入浅湖期;56～31kaB.P.,湖水波动上升,古湖进入发展深湖期;31～15kaB.P.,湖泊步入萎缩浅湖期,15kaB.P.左右出现的冻融褶皱,可能指示该区进入冰缘期。     

南海北部莺歌海—琼东南盆地晚第三纪层序地层与海平面变化

莺歌海—琼东南盆地自晚第三纪海侵以来 ,可划分出 3个二级层序和 1 3个三级层序 ,利用生物化石 (主要为浮游有孔虫 )基准面确定层序的界面年龄值 ,自上而下分别为 1 .9Ma、2 .2Ma、 2 .8Ma、 3 .4 Ma、 5.1 Ma、 6.0 Ma、 1 0 .2 Ma、 1 2 .6Ma、 1 5.2 Ma、 1 9.6Ma、 2 1 .0 Ma、2 3 .7Ma、 2 5.5Ma、 3 0 Ma。通过各层序沉积期的环境演变 ,探讨了海平面变化的周期性 ,并与同时代的全球海平面旋回作了对比。本区最高海平面时期为早上新世 ,即相当于浮游有孔虫N1 9带至 N2 1 带下部 ,其次为中中新世早期 ,相当于浮游有孔虫 N9至 N1 2 带。     

松辽盆地白垩系青山口组核形石的发现及其环境意义

在松辽盆地上白垩统青山口组中首次发现核形石灰岩,见于细砂岩、粉砂岩和泥质岩层系中。核形石有三种类型：环状、石笋状和姜状核形石。多数核形石由核心和多环纹层组成,少数具不明显核心或呈单层环状。该套核形石形成于湖泊三角洲前缘分流河口砂坝侧翼的水下分流间湾环境。地形坡度和三角洲前缘的生长,致使核形石普遍发生准同生变形。由于核形石出现于青山口组二、三段,处于温湿向干热气候转变时期,因此核形石可能作为重要的古气候变迁标志。     

Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of a Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) coal from the central Appalachian Basin,USA

Peat mires retain a sensitive record of water‐table (base‐level) fluctuations throughout their accumulation. On this basis, coals provide one of the best opportunities to interpret high‐resolution base‐level change in ancient non‐marine deposits. The petrographic composition of 275 samples collected from 11 localities along a 100 km south‐west to north‐east transect across the regionally extensive (>37 000 km²) Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) Fire Clay coal of the Central Appalachian Basin, USA was analysed to determine its internal stratigraphy. The coal is positioned within the late lowstand/early transgressive systems tract of a fourth‐order depositional sequence. The results of the petrographic analyses reveal a cyclicity in the composition of the Fire Clay coal, which defines six units that are correlated over more than 100 km. Each coal cycle is characterized by a gradual upward transition from vitrinite‐dominated to inertinite‐dominated coal, which represents a ‘drying‐up’ succession. Increased concentrations of resistant peat components at the top of the drying‐up successions indicate reduced peat accumulation rates associated with slowing rate of water‐table rise, and may represent a residue of peat remaining from a phase of exposure and erosion resulting from a falling water table. These drying‐up successions are bound by surfaces that display an abrupt coal facies shift from inertinite‐rich to vitrinite‐rich coal, representing a rapid water‐table rise. Each cycle represents markedly different mire conditions with different aerial distributions, which supports the notion of temporal disconnection between each unit of coal, and suggests that considerable time may be ‘locked‐up’ in unit bounding exposure surfaces. Recognition that the rate of peat accumulation in a mire may vary considerably through time, has important implications for studies which assume that peat and coal successions provide continuous and time‐invariant records of base‐level fluctuations or palaeoecological change.     

山西榆社盆地新近系高庄组沉积环境演化

通过山西榆社盆地新近系高庄组剖面的野外地质调查以及沉积物粒度、碳酸盐、磁化率等环境指标的分析,结合前人的ESR测年资料,分析了上新世早期高庄组的沉积环境演化特征。认为榆社盆地上新世早期(5.25～3.16 Ma)以温暖湿润条件下的湖泊环境为主,存在多次强弱不等的干旱气候波动,且榆社古湖水体经历了3次稳定增加—波动性增加的周期性变化。5.25～4.50 Ma盆地演化进入初次裂陷活动期,水体经历稳定加深阶段—波动加深阶段,形成桃阳段地层;4.44～3.89 Ma盆地演化进入裂陷稳定期,对应南庄沟段的沉积,水体经历稳定阶段—波动加深阶段;3.81～3.16 Ma盆地演化进入二次裂陷活动期,对应醋柳沟段的沉积,水体经历稳定加深阶段—波动平衡阶段,其中3.50～3.33 Ma出现极端干旱的气候事件,而后向温暖湿润环境转化。     

鄂尔多斯盆地镇-泾地区中侏罗统延安组沉积体系及聚煤特征

在前人研究的基础上,结合大量新的钻井、测井资料,以鄂尔多斯盆地镇原-泾川地区中侏罗统延安组为例,运用沉积学的方法详细阐述了研究区目的层位的沉积体系,以及重点沉积微相的发育特征。延安组自下而上由河流沉积体系逐渐过渡为三角洲沉积体系。沉积微相主要发育有河流体系的心滩、边滩、河漫滩和岸后沼泽,以及三角洲体系的分流河道、洪泛平原和平原沼泽等。另对研究区延安组的聚煤特征给予了分析,并从构造、环境、气候及古地形等方面讨论了该区的成煤控制因素。     

近海型含煤岩系沉积学及层序地层学研究进展

层序地层学是近20年来发展起来的一门新的方法学科,并在聚煤作用分析中得到广泛应用。作者就近海型含煤岩系沉积学研究历史以及煤系层序地层学研究方法及有关问题进行探讨,认为近海环境的聚煤作用实际上是海平面(基准面)上升过程中发生的,同时提出煤层厚度受泥炭堆积速率与可容空间增加速率的控制：靠陆一侧冲积平原和三角洲平原沉积环境中,厚煤层主要出现在最大海泛面位置;而靠海一侧障壁-潟湖或碳酸盐岩台地沉积环境中,厚煤层主要出现在初始海泛面的位置;但就整个三级复合层序来说,层序中厚度最大、分布最广的煤层主要分布于可容空间增加速率最大的最大海泛面附近的位置。对于中国晚古生代近海型煤系中常见的“根土岩-煤-石灰岩”序列,聚煤作用发生于海相石灰岩“滞后时段”,即在海侵之后、海相石灰岩层真正沉积下来之前的时段,这一时段可容空间增加速率与泥炭堆积速率平衡,有利于聚煤作用发生。     

鄂尔多斯盆地西南缘上三叠统延长组层序地层学与砂体成因研究

以鄂尔多斯盆地西南缘延长组为例,运用高分辨率层序地层学原理,对延河等露头沉积特征进行深入研究。研究认为不整合面、冲刷侵蚀面、岩性岩相转换面和湖泛面为重要的层序界面,并划分出1个超长期基准面旋回,5个长期基准面旋回及17个中期基准面旋回。延长期东、西两岸发育河流—三角洲沉积体系,东北部主要为曲流河、曲流河三角洲体系;西南主要发育辫状河及辫状河三角洲沉积体系。有利储集砂体主要为水下分流河道成因、水下分流河道—河口坝复合成因、河口坝成因和滑塌浊积扇成因等4种类型。研究认为,随湖平面变化,在基准面升降过程中,可容纳空间(A)与沉积物补给量(S)的比值(A/S)影响不同物源方向沉积体系的分布,并建立了沉积演化分布模式。     

重庆地区晚二叠世煤系层序地层与聚煤作用

重庆地区上二叠统包括龙潭组/吴家坪组和长兴组,主要发育海陆过渡相(海湾-泻湖-潮坪)及浅海碳酸盐沉积,其中龙潭组和吴家坪组为同期异相沉积。通过对区内钻井剖面及露头剖面的分析,在本区上二叠统中识别出区域性构造不整合面和沉积相转换面等地层界面,并将上二叠统划分为2个三级层序。基于近海煤盆地的背景,研究区厚煤层常靠近初始海泛面发育。总体来看,近海含煤盆地三级层序以海侵体系域聚煤最好。