天津蓟县剖面前寒武系洪水庄组—铁岭组米兰科维奇旋回

显生宙沉积旋回会受到地球轨道参数偏心率、地轴斜率和岁差的周期性变化(米兰科维奇旋回)的控制,但目前对前寒武系的相关研究较为薄弱。天津蓟县剖面中元古界洪水庄组-铁岭组为一套潟湖-潮坪相沉积,主要呈砂岩-页岩互层的韵律性产出。为探索这种岩性韵律是否与轨道旋回有关,对其进行了高分辨率的岩性刻画,并以磁化率和伽马能谱数据作为古气候-古环境替代性指标,通过频谱分析等方法进行旋回地层学分析。结果表明各指标均记录了完整的米兰科维奇旋回。铁岭组一段下部由短偏心率、斜率和岁差控制的地层旋回厚度分别为1.2~1.5 m、0.4 m和0.17~0.19 m,其中0.1 m的半岁差周期也较明显;洪水庄组二段顶部由长偏心率、短偏心率、斜率和岁差控制的地层旋回厚度分别为1.1~1.8 m、0.34~0.54 m、0.14~0.16 m和0.08~0.09 m。以识别出的稳定长偏心率周期405 ka旋回对洪水庄组进行了天文年代校准,并估计出当时的短偏心率、斜率以及岁差周期分别为100 ka、22~24 ka和15 ka。在洪水庄组中记录的偏心率振幅变化周期为~2 Ma,比现今~2.4 Ma的周期略短。     

The empirical Melchior laws and parametric excitation of the Chandler wobble

Models of the motion of the terrestrial reference frame with respect to an inertial frame can describe the motions of the Earth-Moon system, which are traditionally separated into precession, nutation, the polar motion, and rotation about the Earth’s axis. Existing theoretical models do not describe variations in the Earth-orientation parameters with the required accuracy, so that the current polar coordinates and duration of the day must be determined from observations. To improve theoretical models for the time dependence of the coordinates of the Earth’s pole, we examine the possible excitation of the Chandler wobble due to internal properties of the Earth-Moon system. A differential equation describing the parametric resonance in the Earth-Moon system is obtained for the first region of the parametric excitation. The solution of this equation analytically describes the finite amplitudes of the nonlinear conservative system. The theoretical results are compared with the empirical laws of Melchior deduced from observational data on the coordinates of the Earth’s pole.     

华南泥盆-石炭系界线剖面旋回地层学研究

泥盆-石炭纪过渡期是地球演化过程中的一个重要阶段,发生了地球气候系统从温室向冰室转型和生物灭绝等重大事件。准确且高分辨率的年代格架是理解这些事件的基础。本文利用高分辨率磁化率作为古气候替代指标,对贵州省长顺县睦化Ⅱ剖面和大坡上剖面以及广西壮族自治区南丹县度里剖面的泥盆-石炭系界线附近深水沉积序列进行旋回地层学研究。识别出受到短偏心率、斜率和岁差控制的沉积旋回厚度分别为1.092.39、0.290.73、0.180.51 m。利用轨道短偏心率进行天文校准,结果证实泥盆纪晚期短偏心率、斜率、岁差周期分别为约100、32.227.2和20.915 ka。利用大坡上剖面已知的U-Pb放射性同位素年龄和天文校准结果建立高精度浮动天文年代标尺并进行旋回地层对比。确定了泥盆-石炭系界线附近牙形类生物带和Hangenberg生物灭绝事件的持续时间,并计算出泥盆-石炭系界线年龄为(359.58±1.9) Ma。     

Astronomical dating in the 19th century

Today astronomical tuning is widely accepted as numerical dating method after having revolutionised the age calibration of the geological archive and time scale over the last decades. However, its origin is not well known and tracing its roots is important especially from a science historic perspective.Astronomical tuning developed in consequence of the astronomical theory of the ice ages and was repeatedly used in the second half of the 19th century before the invention of radio-isotopic dating. Building upon earlier ideas of Joseph Adhémar, James Croll started to formulate his astronomical theory of the ice ages in 1864 according to which precession controlled ice ages occur alternatingly on both hemispheres at times of maximum eccentricity of the Earth's orbit. The publication of these ideas compelled Charles Lyell to revise his Principles of Geology and add Croll's theory, thus providing an alternative to his own geographical cause of the ice ages. Both Croll and Lyell initially tuned the last glacial epoch to the prominent eccentricity maximum 850,000 yr ago. This age was used as starting point by Lyell to calculate an age of 240 million years for the beginning of the Cambrium. But Croll soon revised the tuning to a much younger less prominent eccentricity maximum between 240,000 and 80,000 yr ago. In addition he tuned older glacial deposits of late Miocene and Eocene ages to eccentricity maxima around 800,000 and 2,800,000 yr ago. Archibald and James Geikie were the first to recognize interglacials during the last glacial epoch, as predicted by Croll's theory, and attempted to tune them to precession. Soon after Frank Taylor linked a series of 15 end-moraines left behind by the retreating ice sheet to precession to arrive at a possible age of 300,000 yr for the maximum glaciation.In a classic paper, Axel Blytt (1876) explained the scattered distribution of plant groups in Norway to precession induced alternating rainy and dry periods as recorded by the layering in Holocene peat bogs. He specifically linked the exceptionally wet Atlantic period to the prolonged precession minimum at 33,300 yr ago and further related basic stratigraphic alternations to precession induced climate change in general. Such a linkage was also proposed by Grove Karl Gilbert for cyclic alternations in the marine Cretaceous of North America. Extrapolating sedimentation rates, he arrived at an astronomical duration for part of the Cretaceous that was roughly as long as the final estimate of William Thomson for the age of the Earth. Assuming that orbital parameters directly affect sea level, Karl Mayer-Eymar and Blytt correlated the well known succession of Tertiary stages to precession and eccentricity, respectively. Remarkably, Blytt, like Croll before him, used very long-period cycles in eccentricity to establish and validate his tuning.Understandably these studies in the second half of the 19th century were largely deductive in nature and proved partly incorrect later. Nevertheless, this fascinating period marks a crucial phase in the development of the astronomical theory of the ice ages and climate, and in astronomical dating. It preceded the final inductive phase, which started with the recovery of deep-sea cores in 1947 and led to a spectacular revival of the astronomical theory, by a century. The first half of the 20th century can best be regarded as an intermediate phase, despite the significant progress made in both theoretical aspects and tuning.     

基于米氏旋回的三角洲前缘油层对比研究

基于米兰科维奇天文旋回理论在三角洲前缘开展砂岩组和单层级别的油层对比研究,频谱分析和小波变换揭示萨尔图油层Ⅲ油层组存在米兰科维奇天文旋回,可识别出比值接近5∶2∶1的3个旋回厚度,分别对应于偏心率100 ka、斜率40 ka和岁差20 ka周期,推测地层在沉积时受到米兰科维奇天文轨道周期性变化的影响。根据岁差20 ka周期带通滤波（BPF）和堆积速率变化特征,将萨尔图油层Ⅲ油层组划分为9个砂岩组和20个单层。研究表明,岁差20 ka周期调控气候波动的机制与超短期基准面升降变化之间存在着一定的协调作用,利用米兰科维奇天文旋回划分出的单层具有严格的等时性。20个单层砂体的展布特征表明,萨尔图油层Ⅲ油层组经历了多期水进—水退事件,与砂岩组的划分具有较好的对应关系。     

A multidimensional analysis and the chronologic structure of the Earth’s geodynamic activity

An attempt has been undertaken to examine time series of volcanic and seismic events in a multidimensional reference system related to the parameters of the Earth’s orbital motion. Volcanic eruptions and strong (M > 5) earthquakes (a sample from the USGS/NEIC seismological database: Significant Worldwide Earthquakes) [18] were analyzed within the fields of the JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides, (DE-406) astronomical indicators [19]: the Earth-Moon distance, Earth-Sun distance, ecliptic latitude of the Moon, and the differences between the geocentric longitudes of the Moon and Sun, Venus and Sun, and Mars and Sun. Distribution spectra were obtained and normalization was performed taking the nonuniform motion of celestial bodies into consideration, and the values of multidimensional diurnal probability were calculated. As a result, the statistically reliable drift in the distribution of geoevents was calculated relative to the duration of the intervals of multidimensional diurnal probability, which indicates distribution regions where more geoevents can take place during shorter intervals (and vice versa). Linear relationships between the multidimensional diurnal probability and diurnal probability of geoevents were found. All these results and the astronomic ephemerides were used as a base for computing the probabilities of volcanic and seismic activity of the Earth for the period of 2005–2007. The spatial structure of volcanic and seismic processes was examined, which allowed the revelation of probabilistic parameters of the spatiotemporal structure of Earth’s geodynamic activity and outlining an approximate algorithm for its monitoring.     

地球气候变化的米兰科维奇理论研究进展

米兰科维奇理论是从全球尺度上研究日射量与地球气候之间关系的天文理论（以下简称为“米氏理论”）。该理论认为,地球轨道偏心率、黄赤交角及岁差等三要素变化引起的到达北半球中高纬度夏季日射量变化是造成冰期—间冰期旋回的根本原因。详细回顾了米氏理论的发展历程,并以南极东方站过去42万年大气和气候变化的历史资料为例,讨论了经典米氏理论中有待研究的若干问题。     

泥河湾湖相沉积层记录的古气候周期性

对泥河湾盆地西部井儿洼钻孔上部 12 2 4m的湖相沉积物以约 0 2m的间距系统取样 ,测量其CO2 含量。以建立的时间标尺为基础 ,分析了最近 12 0 0ka以来古气候变化的周期特征。结果表明地球轨道要素偏心率、地轴倾斜变化周期的 40 0ka、10 0ka、40ka的准周期成分在湖相沉积中有明显反映 ,而岁差 2 0ka周期成分不明显 ,同时包含有 70ka、5 5ka的周期。这些结果说明第四纪古气候变化既与地球轨道要素变化有关 ,也与地球系统内部其它因素变化有关。古气候特征性周期在780ka左右出现转折 ,在此之前地球轨道周期不明显 ,在此之后出现较显著的地轴倾斜周期 46ka及31ka。     

High-resolution cyclostratigraphic analysis from magnetic susceptibility in a Lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) marl–limestone succession (La Méouge,Vocontian Basin,France)

High-resolution magnetic susceptibility (MS) analysis was carried out on a Lower Kimmeridgian alternating marl–limestone succession of pelagic origin that crops out at La Méouge (Vocontian Basin, southeastern France). The aim of the study was to characterize the strong, dm-scale sedimentary cyclicity of the succession at a very high resolution, and to analyze the cycles for evidence of astronomical forcing. From marl to limestone, MS varies progressively and closely tracks the highest frequency cyclicity corresponding to the basic marl–limestone couplets. Long-term wavelength cycling modulates the high-frequency cyclicity (couplets), and appears to be controlled by clay content. Spectral analysis of the MS record reveals the presence of the complete suite of orbital frequencies in the precession, obliquity, and eccentricity (95–128 ka and 405 ka) bands with very high amplitude of the precession index cycles originating from dm-scale couplets. 405 ka-eccentricity cycles are very pronounced in the MS maxima of the marl members of the couplets, suggesting eccentricity-driven detrital input to the basin. 405 ka-orbital tuning of the MS maxima further sharpens all of the orbital frequencies present in the succession. These results are similar to those of previous studies at La Méouge that used carbonate content observed in field. Our results are also in accordance with cyclostratigraphic studies in Spain and Canada that report dominant precession index forcing. By contrast, in the Kimmeridge Clay (Dorset, UK), obliquity forcing dominates cyclic sedimentation, with weaker influence from the precession index. Ammonite zone duration estimates are made by counting the interpreted precession cycles, and provide an ultra-high resolution assessment of geologic time. In sum, this study demonstrates the power of the MS as a proxy in characterizing the high-resolution cyclostratigraphy of Mesozoic sections, particularly in alternating marl–limestone successions, and for high-resolution correlation and astronomical calibration of the geologic time scale.     

Long-period variations of pulsar emission and the dynamical ellipticity of neutron stars

Assuming that the observed periodic variations of pulsar emission are due to the free precession of the spin axis, we investigate the evolution of the rotation of a two-layer neutron star using the Hamiltonian method of Getino. We model the dynamical characteristics of a rotating neutron star using the observed variations of the emission of seven pulsars. We estimate the dependence of the period of the Chandler wobble, the period of precession of the spin axis, and the dynamical ellipticity of a neutron star on the model used to describe the super-dense neutron matter and the mass of the star.     

青藏高原古近系牛堡组三段天文周期旋回分析及古湖平面演化研究：以尼玛盆地尼1井为例

青藏高原中部尼玛盆地是一个形成于班公湖-怒江缝合带之上的新生代陆相裂谷盆地。交通不便和勘探程度较低等因素导致其高精度沉积旋回特征和地层学一直鲜有研究。尼1井是盆地内第一口地质探井,通过对该井古近系牛堡组三段的自然伽马测井曲线进行频谱分析,证实了天文轨道周期对盆地内湖相地层的沉积具有显著影响。滤波分析显示牛堡组三段保存了41个短偏心率(～100 kyr)周期,76个斜率(～54 kyr)周期和178个岁差(～23 kyr)周期,平均沉积速率为92.03m/Ma,沉积时限～4.1 Myr。此外,结合Fischer图解与总有机碳含量的变化趋势,确定牛堡组三段湖平面经历了1次长周期的升-降变化过程。综合分析,认为尼玛盆地优质烃源岩的形成主要受天文旋回周期影响下的湖平面变化所控制。     

南海ODP1148站中中新世(12～18.3 Ma) 天文调谐的年代标尺

ODP1148站深海沉积岩心的磁化率记录显示出较强的周期性变化规律．研究发现,中新世和渐新世的深海地层物性参数具有很强的斜率周期．Shackletoneta1．利用这一规律,以北半球高纬太阳辐射曲线作为天文调谐的目标,以ODP154航次的深海沉积岩心的磁化率记录作为调谐对象,将磁化率的极大值与北半球天文辐射的极小值相对应,建立了14～34Ma的天文调谐的年代标尺．采用相同的方法,利用南海北部ODP1148站深海沉积岩心的磁化率记录和北半球高纬太阳辐射曲线建立了南海中中新世天文调谐的年代标尺．调谐后的磁化率记录显示了很强的斜率周期和较强的岁差周期,并与太阳辐射在这2个记录上高度相关,此外偏心率周期在磁化率记录中也较显著．调谐后1148站的浮游有孔虫事件年龄与ODP154航次采用相同的天文调谐方法获取的事件年龄异常接近,而与传统方法获取的生物地层事件年龄有较大差距,这在一定程度上证明了利用天文调谐的方法建立中新世深海地层年代标尺的可行性．     

Obliquity and precessional forcing of continental snow fall and melt: implications for orbital forcing of Pleistocene ice ages

Milankovitch theory posits that Earth's orbital cycles were the primary forcing of Pleistocene ice-age cycles through their strong influence on summer insolation at high latitudes. Accordingly, Milankovitch theory predicts ice volume should vary at both obliquity and precessional periods. However, early Pleistocene global ice volume varied mainly at the obliquity period with weak variability at the precessional period suggesting that Milankovitch theory is not sufficient to explain the ice-age cycles. Here we describe the results from a series of coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model experiments, using the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model, that systematically investigate the influence of precession and obliquity on continental snowfall and potential ablation.Our model results identify three factors that magnify the influence of obliquity forcing on the global ice volume: First, high-latitude snowfall variability is dominated by changes in Earth's axial tilt. Second, hemispheric changes in net snowfall due to Earth's precession are out-of-phase, and largely cancel to produce a very small global snowfall change. Third, snowmelt variability over Antarctica responds greatly to changes in obliquity that intensify accumulation over obliquity cycle. We discuss the implications of these factors for existing hypotheses that account for the variability in the ice volume record.     

天文古气候理论及其进展—从米兰柯维奇到贝尔杰

扼要介绍了天文古气候学的创立和发展简史。太阳是地球大气运动的第一驱动力，地球气候的长期演变在很大程度上受到入射太阳辐射变化的影响。入射太阳辐的变化主要和三个地球轨道参数有关，即地球绕太阳运行的椭圆轨道偏心率，地球自转轴倾角及岁差。太阳辐射的长期振荡主要集中在与这三个参数有关的频率上，这些频率通常被称为米兰柯维奇频率，数值模拟和地学记录都证实地质时间尺度的古气候的演化大多位于米兰柯维奇频率带上。     

New results on the Earth insolation and their correlation with the Late Pleistocene paleoclimate of West Siberia

The three problems composing the astronomical theory of paleoclimate have been solved in a new way. Two of them (changes in the orbital motion of the Earth and its insolation) have confirmed the results of previous research. In the third problem (a change in the rotational motion of the Earth), the obtained oscillations of the Earth’s rotation axis have an amplitude seven–eight times higher than the earlier estimated one. They lead to changes in insolation, which explain the paleoclimatic fluctuation. The changes in insolation and its structure for 200 kyr are considered. It is shown that the Late Pleistocene key events in West Siberia, for example, the last glaciations and warming between them, coincide with the extremes of insolation. The insolation periods of paleoclimatic changes and their characteristics are given.     

A gravitational-tidal mechanism for the Earth’s polar oscillations

Perturbed, rotational-oscillational motions of the Earth induced by the gravitational torques exerted by the Sun and Moon are studied using a linear mechanical model for a viscoelastic rigid body. A tidal mechanism is identified for the excitation of polar oscillations, i.e., for oscillations of the angular-velocity vector specified in a fixed coordinate frame, attributed to the rotational-progressive motion of the barycenter of the Earth-Moon “binary planet” about the Sun. The main features of the oscillations remain stable and do not change considerably over time intervals significantly exceeding the precessional period of the Earth’s axis. A simple mathematical model containing two frequencies, namely, the Chandler and annual frequencies, is constructed using the methods of celestial mechanics. This model is adequate to the astrometric measurements performed by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). The parameters of the model are identified via least-squares fitting and a spectral analysis of the IERS data. Statistically valid interpolations of the data for time intervals covering from several months to 15–20 yr are obtained. High-accuracy forecasting of the polar motions for 0.5–1 yr and reasonably trustworthy forecasting for 1–3 yr demonstrated by observations over the last few years are presented for the first time. The results obtained are of theoretical interest for dynamical astronomy, geodynamics, and celestial mechanics, and are also important for astrometrical, navigational, and geophysical applications.     

广西东攀二叠系-三叠系界线剖面基于岩石磁参数的米兰科维奇旋回特征和地层对比

二叠纪-三叠纪之交发生了地质历史上最大的生物集群绝灭。通过对广西东攀二叠系-三叠系界线剖面不同的磁学数据进行频谱分析,其结果均具一致的功率谱峰,对比煤山剖面的同位素年龄将厚度频率35.7∶15.6∶7.7cm/cycle换算为时间周期95∶41.6∶20.5kyr/cycle,分别与米兰科维奇旋回偏心率、斜度、岁差相当,从而将地层研究的精度提高到万年级,为生物绝灭和众多地质事件提供时间上的约束。不同的磁学参数分别受控于不同的天文周期,磁性矿物种类主要受偏心率旋回控制,同时也受斜度周期的影响,而岁差周期则是促使岩石携磁能力高频变化的原因。不同二叠系—三叠系剖面(集中在界线附近)的磁化率曲线具有一致特征,可作为界线点确定的辅助依据。     

The impact of varying ice sheets and greenhouse gases on the intensity and timing of boreal summer monsoons

Climate models, forced only with insolation, indicate that boreal summer monsoons respond to orbital forcing with a zero phase both at the precession and obliquity bands. Discrepancies exist among data with respect to the timing of the response. Some late Pleistocene monsoon records show small lags of 2–3 kyr, close to model results, while many others show considerably longer lags of 5–8 kyr. It has been hypothesized that such lags arise from factors that were, up till now, not included in the modelling experiments, namely variations in glacial-age boundary conditions.Here we address this issue using long, time-dependent climate simulations that do include varying ice sheets and greenhouse gas concentrations. Inclusion of these additional forcings introduces a small peak in the monsoon spectra at the 100 kyr period, while monsoon variance remains dominated by precession with a smaller contribution from obliquity. At the precession band orbital forcing remains the dominant control, with lags close to zero. At the obliquity band varying ice sheet and greenhouse gases explain most of the simulated African and Indian monsoon variance, with orbital forcing playing a minor role. For the East Asian monsoon orbital forcing remains dominant. As a result the simulated obliquity phase of different monsoon systems lies between summer insolation maxima and ice minima/greenhouse gas maxima, with a lag that varies with distance to the Eurasian ice sheet.     

2.5Ma以来地球轨道参数变化对黄土粒度变化的线性驱动

本文对2.5Ma以来宝鸡黄土剖面粒度曲线与ETP曲线做了互功率谱和凝聚函数分析,以期反映风力强度与地球轨道参数变化的关系。结果表明,2.5Ma以来粒度记录中始终存在着与地轴倾斜度、岁差呈线性响应的41000a、23000a和19000a周期;同时,在0.6—0.0MaB.P.时段存在与偏心率呈线性响应的0.1Ma周期,在2.5—1.6MaB.P.时段存在与偏心率0.4Ma呈线性响应的周期。上述结果佐证了地球轨道变化对内陆古气候变化的线性驱动作用,但该理论不能解释在约0.9—0.6MaB.P.和1.6MaB.P.前后出现的二次较大的主导气候周期转型事件。     

地球节律的成因

地球节律主要受地球内部能量间歇性的释放所控制。旋转系统有不同于非旋转系统的位能、热能和旋转能的相互转换方式。在重力分异和热对流过程中，地核不仅有巨量热能，而且有巨量的旋转能和放射性蜕变能。这是地球能量释放的内因。天文因素使地球内核周期性地南北振动，使地球轨道、体积，形状、自转速度、公转速度和差异旋转状态周期性地变化。这是地球能量间歇性释放的外因。对作差异旋转的内核而言，万有引力常数Ｇ的变化可以改变太阳辐射量和太阳系体积，影响核幔的角动量交换和地壳地幔容积，造成热幔柱的形成与喷发，控制了核幔边界的能量交换过程。这是天文周期与地质旋回一一对应的原因，也是地球节律产生的根本原因。这使人们可以从天文周期预测地质变动。