A Preliminary Study on the Red Beds in the Northern Heyuan Basin, Guangdong Province, China

The red beds of the northern Heyuan Basin （Guangdong Province, China） are more than 4,000 m thick. Based on the lithological characters, in ascending order these beds are divided into the Dafeng Formation, Zhutian Formation, and Zhenshui Formation of the Nanxiong Group, Shanghu Formation and Danxia Formation. The Nanxiong Group with relatively mature coarse clastic rocks attains about 2940 m in thickness. The Dafeng Formation is 837 m thick, consisting of conglomerates and sandy conglomerates; the Zhutian Formation, which is 1.200 m thick, consists of purplish red sandstone with gravels, poorly sorted sandstone, feldspathic quartzose sandstone banded granular conglomerate, siltstone, and sandy mudstone. The Zhutian Formation is rich in calcareous concretions. Heyuannia （Oviraptoridae） and turtle fossils were found in this formation. The Zhenshui Formation deposited to a thickness of 900 m consists of coarse sediments, including granular conglomerate, and gravelly sandstone with well developed cross-beddings; the Shanghu Formation, which is 820 m thick, consists of purplish red granular conglomerate coarse sandstone intercalated with fine si~tstone; the Danxia Formation characterized by the Danxia ~andform is composed of coarse c~astic gravels and sandy gravels. The lower part of the Nanxiong Group whence dinosaur eggs and derived oviraptorosaurs come, belongs to the Late Cretaceous. No fossils are found in the Shanghu Formation or the Danxia Formation, but their stratigraphic order of superposition on the Nanxiong Group clearly shows their younger age.     

库车前陆盆地上侏罗统-下白垩统砾岩特征与构造演化关系

库车前陆盆地充填有上侏罗统喀拉扎组砾岩、下白垩统底部亚格列木组砾岩和下白垩统上部巴什基奇克组砾岩,通过对这三套砾岩区域分布特征、岩石学特征、砾态特征、厚度变化特征的详细描述与此三套砾岩沉积古环境的差异对比研究,认为库车前陆盆地中部库车河地区及西部卡普沙良河地区这三套砾岩成份复杂多样,具低成份与结构成熟度;所代表的气候演化特征由早到晚依次为:干旱、半干旱→温暖、湿润→干旱、炎热气候;所反映的沉积相为冲积扇、浊积扇和季节性辫状河沉积。砾岩与构造关系的结果分析表明,喀拉扎组砾岩是晚侏罗世构造活动的标志,亚格列木组砾岩为早白垩世初逆冲推覆活动的开始,巴什基奇克组砾岩则是早白垩世末构造宁静期的沉积响应产物。     

库鲁克塔格地区震旦系冰碛岩沉积环境及意义

库鲁克塔格地区震旦系发育三层冰碛岩,分别是贝义西组、特瑞爱肯组、汉格尔乔克组.通过对冰碛岩沉积特点的研究,分析沉积环境.贝义西组冰碛砾岩夹于细粒碎屑岩及火山岩间,冰碛砾岩呈块状、无层理,为海洋冰川沉积;特瑞爱肯组主要为冰碛泥砾岩和冰碛砾岩夹粉砂岩、灰岩,块状、无层理、可见大漂砾,为冰下沉积;汉格尔乔克组主要为冰碛泥砾岩和冰碛砾岩,偶夹杂砂砾岩、砂岩透镜体,块状、无层理,为冰下沉积,顶部可见冰碛纹泥层,为冰湖沉积.     

松辽盆地东南隆起区营城组一段熔浆胶结复成分砾岩特征及其成因分析

对野外剖面实际测量及室内薄片鉴定等资料研究表明,松辽盆地营城组一段复成分砾岩共有4种胶结成岩类型：熔浆胶结、灰泥球胶结、凝灰质胶结和砂泥质胶结。其中以熔浆胶结发育最为广泛。砾岩中砾石成分复杂,以基底花岗岩及二叠系变质岩为主,原地火山岩次之。砾石整体分选性差,磨圆度中等-好,以次圆状-次棱角状最为发育。自基底向火山活动中心,砾岩中外来砾石逐渐减少,原地火山岩砾石逐渐增多。基质成分由底部的砂泥质向上过渡为凝灰质并最终完全过渡到熔浆质胶结。砾岩是冲积扇或辫状河等沉积环境下已经堆积但未固结或半固结的砂砾质沉积物,在火山活动期被火山碎屑流或熔浆流再搬运,这种碎屑流、熔浆流和水介质构成的多相混合物通过岩浆冷凝和压实复合成岩作用而形成的岩石,实质是爆发相热碎屑流亚相的另一种表现形式。由于该类砾岩主要见于断陷盆地边缘火山岩序列下部靠近基底一侧,说明其形成与构造-岩浆活动密切相关,是火山旋回早期所特有的产物。     

Deposition and diagenesis of carbonate conglomerates in the Kremenara anticline, Albania: a paragenetic time marker in the Albanian foreland fold-and-thrust belt

This paper addresses the diagenesis of carbonate conglomerates in that it assesses the potential of conglomerates in refining the paragenetic history in complex structural areas, such as the Albanian foreland fold‐and‐thrust belt. Of major interest are stylolites (burial and tectonic) which are restricted to conglomerate fragments or which crosscut the conglomerate matrix. Based on the inferred age of stylolite development in relation to burial, uplift and tectonic history, and the Lower to Middle Miocene age of the conglomerates, the succession of diagenetic events was subdivided into several stages. The Poçem polymict transgressive carbonate conglomerate (Kremenara anticline, central Albania) was deposited in a shallow marine environment. These conglomerates are covered by intertidal rhodolithic packstones–grainstones. The stable‐isotope signature of these packstones–grainstones (δ¹⁸O_V‐PDB = −1·0 to +0·7‰; δ¹³C = +1·0 to +1·4‰) plots is within the range of marine Early and Middle Miocene values. Shortly after deposition of the conglomerates, micritization, geopetal infill and acicular calcite cementation took place. A first calcite vein generation is interpreted as having formed from a Messinian brine during shallow burial. Burial stylolites developed during further burial in the Pliocene. These stylolites serve as an important diagenetic time marker. The post‐burial stylolite meteoric calcite vein cement probably precipitated during the following telogenetic stage. Karstification and calcite concretion precipitiation pre‐date overturning of the western limb of the anticline. Reopening of subvertical fractures and tectonic stylolites in the western limb of the Kremenara anticline, followed by oil migration, represents one of the latest diagenetic events. These fractures and stylolites provide major pathways for hydrocarbon production.     

辽西晚三叠世末—中侏罗世崩塌-滑坡-泥石流沉积及其构造意义

燕山板内造山带东部辽西、冀北地区，晚三叠世末—中侏罗世期间发生了两次大规模的滑坡、泥石流沉积和成群的巨大岩块崩塌事件。辽西晚三叠世—早侏罗世邓杖子组是一套以碳酸盐岩砾岩为主的崩塌、泥石流、滑坡及深水浊积岩序列，邓杖子组中砾岩的砾石成分自下而上表现出明显的变化规律，即邓杖子组下部砾岩砾石时代新而上部砾岩砾石时代老。其中最新的砾石成分是来自于邓杖子组之下的晚三叠世水泉沟组的安山岩，砾石时代的倒序显示同构造剥蚀-沉积的特点。同时，邓杖子组沉积组合也反映出伸展盆地的沉积特点。邓杖子组沉积后不久，在辽西—冀北的其他地区，还发育许多早—中侏罗世巨大的崩塌岩块，野外见到的最大岩块延伸长度超过4km。崩塌、滑坡、泥石流及成群发育的巨大崩塌岩块都是在地壳快速隆升过程中发生的同构造沉积记录，这从构造-沉积学的角度显示燕山地区在早中生代曾经发生过强烈快速隆升。     

内蒙古大青山煤田晚古生代砾岩的沉积特征

大青山煤田晚古生代地层中有 1 4层沉积砾岩。其中,晚石炭世地层中赋存 8层,二叠世 6层。通过对这些砾岩层的野外测量、室内岩矿鉴定等综合分析研究,查明晚石炭世的砾岩几乎全是稳定的单成分砾岩,石英砂岩和燧石质砾石的含量高达 93 %以上,砾石最大扁平面均向南倾,倾角在 5° - 1 0°之间,与砾岩伴生的粗粒石英砂岩发育大型低角度双向交错层理,萨胡环境判别参数等特征表明晚石炭世砾岩为滨海环境下的产物。二叠世的砾岩则主要是复杂成分的砾岩,尤其是早二叠世晚期及晚二叠世初期形成的 2层砾岩中砾石种类达 1 5种,以中酸性火山岩和火山碎屑岩砾石为主,并含较多量的变质岩和中酸性侵入岩砾石,砾岩层各种特征表明二叠世砾岩为河流相产物。大青山煤田晚古生代沉积砾岩的形成与北部造山带的隆升密切相关,它们是前陆盆地的沉积产物。     

江西抚崇盆地晚白垩世-古新世莲荷组砾石砾组分析

赣杭构造带中、新生代红色粗碎屑岩发育,对红层中砾石组构分析有助于理解红盆形成、演化过程.运用砾组分析方法,对江西抚崇盆地晚白垩世—古新世莲荷组砾岩层的砾性、砾度、砾态及砾向进行分析,并在此基础上对研究区红盆砾岩的物质来源、成因和形成条件等进行综合判断.研究结果表明,莲荷组砾岩为晚白垩世—古新世半干旱—干旱条件下的一套冲积扇相粗碎屑沉积,具有多物源和快速堆积的特点.总体上,砾石成分复杂,风选程度较差,呈次棱角—次圆状,风化程度较低.盆地不同地区砾石成分组合特征具有明显差别,反映了盆地周围复杂的物源供应条件.根据盆地周边出露基岩地层和扁平状砾石产状统计玫瑰花图判断,莲荷组沉积时期,物源主要来自盆地内部的基岩地层以及盆地西南部、西部和东北部.     

青藏高原羌塘南部冰海杂砾岩的成因与物源——以冈玛错地区为例

青藏高原及其邻区石炭纪—二叠纪地层中广泛分布的漂砾层、杂砾岩、含砾板岩等是一套特殊的冰海相沉积岩,称为冰海杂砾岩,前人已对它的成因环境做了初步的研究,但没有获得统一的结论。本次以青藏高原羌塘南部冈玛错地区冰海杂砾岩的砾石为研究对象,观察它们的野外特征和镜下特点,并对与冰海杂砾岩互层产出的石英砂岩做了粒度分析。结果表明,冰海杂砾岩是在冈瓦纳大陆冰川呈消融状的情况下,冰阀搬运沉积的产物。通过碎屑锆石和岩性对比,初步认为冰海杂砾岩的物源为冈瓦纳大陆,并简单论述了冰海杂砾岩各类砾石的可能来源。以上研究成果为探讨冈瓦纳大陆的沉积环境提供了依据。     

Description of Pseudosabinia klinghardti and some species of Pseudopolyconites (rudist bivalves) from the Late Cretaceous shallow-marine deposits from the Roşia Basin,Apuseni Mountains,Romania: Systematic palaeontology,biostratigraphy, and palaeobiogeography

The shallow-marine, mixed siliciclastic-calcareous Late Cretaceous deposits from the Apuseni Mountains have been extensively studied and compared to coeval deposits from the Alpine Gosau. The former are mainly represented by conglomerates, sandstones, marls, and limestones with rudists that unconformably overlie the crystalline basement and its Permo-Mesozoic cover. Our new, detailed investigations on the rudist fauna from Măgura Hill, the type locality of Pseudopolyconites hirsutus (Patrulius) and Miseia costulata Patrulius, indicate a Late Santonian–Early Campanian age for these deposits instead of an Early Santonian one as previously suggested (Patrulius, 1974). This study also mentions for the first time the occurrences of Pseudosabinia klinghardti (Böhm) and Pseudopolyconites parvus Milovanović in the rudist-bearing deposits from the Apuseni Mountains. We include their palaeontological features, as well as the ones for Pseudopolyconites hirsutus. Based on new biostratigraphic data, our study expand the stratigraphic range of Pseudosabinia klinghardti and Pseudopolyconites parvus – previously considered characteristic for the Early Campanian–Maastrichtian interval. Also we add new information on their palaeobiogeographic distribution within the central-eastern Mediterranean area during the Late Cretaceous.     

大别造山带北缘石炭系胡油坊组砾石特征及其构造意义

大别造山带北缘晚石炭世胡油坊组内含有一套岩块砾岩层 ,砾石主要由绿片岩相的石英片岩、绢云母石英片岩、石英岩和千枚岩组成 ,其次有变余砂岩和碳酸盐岩等。Rb- Sr同位素测定表明 ,绿片岩相砾石经历了晚元古代末期和晚古生代两期变质事件 ,全岩等时线年龄为 5 6 5± 30 Ma和 30 7Ma。变质岩砾石不是来源于佛子岭群或信阳群 ,而可能来自于扬子陆块的中、晚元古代地层。砾石以及古生物的证据还表明 ,大别山在古生代时存在一个主要由扬子陆块早古生代碳酸盐岩和中、晚元古代变质岩组成的构造剥露区 ,不存在一个大别山古岛弧。     

胶莱盆地蛇窝泊地区白垩纪林寺山组沉积时代与物源特征:来自碎屑锆石U-Pb测年与稀土元素组成的新证据

林寺山组是胶莱盆地莱阳群底部重要的地层单元之一.准确限定其沉积时代与物源性质对于客观重建华北陆块东部晚中生代大地构造格局以及周缘造山带/前寒武纪变质基底晚中生代的折返过程具有重要的制约作用.以莱阳盆地蛇窝泊地区莱阳群林寺山组细砾岩为研究对象,对其开展了野外地质调查、岩相学观察、锆石U-Pb测年与锆石稀土元素分析等综合研究,并获得了如下初步认识.（1）林寺山组细砾岩中最小一组碎屑锆石加权平均年龄分别为129±1 Ma与127±5 Ma,结合区域上不整合于莱阳群之上青山群火山岩锆石谐和年龄为119±1 Ma,推测蛇窝泊地区林寺山组沉积时代介于127~119 Ma.（2）蛇窝泊地区林寺山组细砾岩的碎屑锆石年龄变化于2 858~126 Ma之间,并以新太古代晚期与白垩纪早期碎屑锆石为主.前古元古代的碎屑锆石主要来源于胶北前寒武纪变质岩,表明胶北太古宙-古元古代变质岩至少在白垩纪早期已折返至近地表.（3）160~120 Ma岩浆型碎屑锆石主要来源于胶东同时代的中酸性侵入体,暗示在白垩纪早期至少部分160~120 Ma中酸性侵入体已抬升至地表.（4）林寺山组发育少量的二叠纪（280 Ma）和印支期（213 Ma）变质锆石,表明胶东地区可能存在二叠纪约280 Ma区域变质-变形事件,同时暗示早白垩世苏鲁超高压变质岩已经折返到地表.      

青藏高原羌塘南部冰海杂砾岩的成因与物源——以冈玛错地区为例

青藏高原及其邻区石炭纪—二叠纪地层中广泛分布的漂砾层、杂砾岩、含砾板岩等是一套特殊的冰海相沉积岩,称为冰海杂砾岩,前人已对它的成因环境做了初步的研究,但没有获得统一的结论。本次以青藏高原羌塘南部冈玛错地区冰海杂砾岩的砾石为研究对象,观察它们的野外特征和镜下特点,并对与冰海杂砾岩互层产出的石英砂岩做了粒度分析。结果表明,冰海杂砾岩是在冈瓦纳大陆冰川呈消融状的情况下,冰阀搬运沉积的产物。通过碎屑锆石和岩性对比,初步认为冰海杂砾岩的物源为冈瓦纳大陆,并简单论述了冰海杂砾岩各类砾石的可能来源。以上研究成果为探讨冈瓦纳大陆的沉积环境提供了依据。     

豫西地区下三叠统刘家沟组砾岩成因

豫西地区刘家沟组中下部发育多层砾岩,其中扁平砾石与球形砾石共生,扁平砾多顺层排列,球形砾常具圈层结构。因该砾岩层发育普遍,特征明显,成为刘家沟组的区域划分对比标志之一。但迄今为止,其成因众说纷纭、未有定论。通过砾岩发育层段的野外观察,结合刘家沟组的沉积环境分析,认为宜阳地区刘家沟组砾岩层的砾石不是单纯的物理成因,其形成可能与微生物繁盛的席底底质有关。微生物席的存在使沉积物表面具有一定的粘性和韧性,在动荡水流的作用下,部分破坏作用形成的微生物席碎片卷曲、滚动,形成具有圈层结构的"砂球",在湖泊重力流作用下,扁平的微生物席碎片与"砂球"被搬运至较深水区域,形成特征明显的扁平砾石砾岩层。     

Facies and provenance analysis of Paleogene‐age alluvial conglomerates from the northern part of the Mesta Basin,SW Bulgaria

The Mesta Basin in southwest Bulgaria is a graben that contains a Paleogene‐age siliciclastic and volcaniclastic succession deposited in alluvial and fluvial settings. A sedimentological analysis has shed light on conglomerate provenance, and the links between deposition and tectonic setting. Petrographical and chemical analysis of conglomerate clasts and matrix from the Dobrinishka, Gradinishka, Osikovo (or Osenovo) and Zlataritsa formations reveal both local, and more distal source provenance ages. The basal conglomerates are subdivided into three types, a lower and upper polymictic and a middle granitic conglomerate type. Petrographical and chemical analysis reveals granite, gneiss and amphibolite clasts that were sourced from the Sidironero–Mesta Unit of the Middle Allochthon of the Rhodope Metamorphic Complex, and the Rila–Rhodope Batholith to the east of the basin. Cathodoluminescence analysis of quartz sand grains reveals an increased input of red‐ and violet‐luminescent volcanic grains. Volcanic quartz in the oldest conglomerates indicates a hitherto unknown early (pre‐Oligocene) phase of volcanic activity in the vicinity of the Mesta Basin. The conglomerates were deposited in association with movement on the Ribnovo low‐angle normal fault during the Late Eocene, creating subsidence and the development of considerable accommodation space. The establishment of a fluvial environment followed subsequent Oligocene‐age volcanic activity. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

西藏达金砾岩的沉积时代、物源及构造背景

达金砾岩出露于西藏阿里地区冈仁波齐峰南麓,因其地层中发现深海有孔虫化石而受到广泛关注,然而由于达金砾岩的沉积时代不确定,对其沉积的大地构造背景也没有统一的认识。本文中,根据最年轻的碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄限定达金砾岩的最大沉积时代为渐新世末-中新世初(24~27Ma)。综合野外观察,砂岩碎屑统计和碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄分析,本文认为达金砾岩的底部和顶部地层中碎屑物质直接来源于北侧的冈底斯弧,而其中部地层中碎屑物质(包括有孔虫化石)应再旋回自西侧的弧前盆地错江顶群地层。达金砾岩与上覆的冈底斯砾岩连续沉积,且其沉积时代,源区分析结果都与冈底斯砾岩一致,因此本文认为达金砾岩应隶属于冈底斯砾岩。达金砾岩地层变形较弱,产状近乎水平,应沉积于拉张应力背景下,可能与渐新世末-中新世初俯冲的印度板片的"折返"和"断离"有关。     

滇东黔西晚二叠世早期辫状河三角洲沉积体系及其聚煤特征

滇东黔西上二叠统底部发育着一套玄武岩质砾岩，本文针对云南富源和贵州盘县一带的底砾岩进行综合研究，认为这套砾岩为辫状河三角洲沉积，并进一步识别出砾质辫状河道、砂质辫状河道、砾质河口坝、砂质河口坝等沉积类型。文中还对该辫状河三角洲的沉积序列、发育背景以及与聚煤作用关系等问题做了一定分析，认为三角洲朵体之间地区以及在衰退的三角洲朵体之上成煤较好。     

四川盆地西缘晚新生代大邑砾岩的物源及其成因：来自重矿物和孢粉的证据

新生代早期印度与欧亚板块的俯冲碰撞造就了巍峨高耸的青藏高原.然而,在其相邻的四川盆地,伴随青藏高原强烈隆升所堆积的碎屑沉积物,最老仅能追索到晚新生代的大邑砾岩.因此,解读广泛发育于四川盆地西缘的大邑砾岩成因对获取青藏高原及其周缘古环境信息及理解相关的构造演化过程具有重要意义.本文报告了对三个典型大邑砾岩剖面样品的重矿物和孢粉组合研究结果,试图从大邑砾岩的物源区和沉积环境来解读大邑砾岩的成因.大邑砾岩中重矿物种类繁多,表明相应物源区具有多种岩石类型.除极不稳定矿物外,大邑砾岩新鲜剖面样品的重矿物组合与现代岷江沉积极其相似,表明大邑砾岩是经由岷江通道输送到四川盆地的;富含石榴子石等远源矿物表明当时的古岷江已切穿龙门山,深入到松潘-甘孜褶皱带内.孢粉分析显示孢粉含量极低,为0.2粒/克,孢粉类型以高山黯针叶林成分为主,混有少量落叶阔叶林和草本植物花粉,显示了高寒的环境.结合已有的年代学结果,本文认为大邑砾岩是形成于2.0Ma的冰水沉积物,其形成反映了青藏高原第四纪早期的寒冷环境.     

准南前陆盆地燕山期构造活动及其成藏意义

准南前陆盆地燕山期盆地格局的演变、沉积中心有规律的迁移、沉积特征(与构造活动相关的砾岩及其分布)显示晚侏罗世—早白垩世早期、晚白垩世是准南前陆盆地燕山期构造活动相对活跃的时期。晚侏罗世—早白垩世早期的喀拉扎砾岩、白垩系清水河组底砾岩为一套形成于邻近高地附近的剥蚀产物或冲积产物,其分布特征及成因是晚侏罗世—早白垩世早期局部挤压和构造隆升较为活跃的产物,也是盆地边界萎缩、盆山格局发生变化的重要证据,同时天山明显隆升并导致天山南北早白垩世沉积环境的巨大差异。准南前陆盆地烃源岩大量生排烃、圈闭形成、油气运聚成藏与燕山期构造活动关系密切;燕山期发育的储层是准南前陆盆地的主要油气储层,晚侏罗世—早白垩世早期砂砾岩和不整合分布也在一定程度上控制了油气分布,是今后寻找有利隐蔽油气藏、岩性地层油气藏的重要目标之一;燕山期古构造及其形成时间与油气成藏期的良好匹配决定其油气成藏的有效性。     

塔里木盆地北缘奥陶系古溶洞和古岩溶沉积中包壳砾石和包壳砾岩的发现及特征*

塔里木盆地北缘奥陶系发育典型的古岩溶,笔者在其中发现了一种非常特殊的沉积物或沉积构造:包壳砾石和包壳砾岩,且这种包壳砾岩之前从未见报道。该包壳砾石和包壳砾岩的结构类似鲕粒或核形石,可分为核心和包壳2部分,大部分呈近圆形或扁圆形,少数形态不规则,直径为数厘米到数十厘米。核心可分为4种,分别是:(1)与溶洞围岩相同的灰岩砾石;(2)由砂岩形成的核心;(3)由砾岩构成的复合核心;(4)由古钙华碎块形成的核心。包壳也可分为4种类型,分别是:(1)具有圈层的包壳;(2)颗粒状包壳;(3)均质包壳;(4)由颗粒状包壳和圈层状包壳组合形成的复合包壳。包壳砾石和包壳砾岩是溶洞和岩溶沉积中的典型产物,其不仅可以作为识别溶洞和岩溶的标志之一,而且具有一定的储集能力,是一种有效的油气储集体。