Anak Krakatau's vegetation and flora circa 1991, with observations on a decade of development and change

Ecological surveys were conducted over the period 1989 to 1991 on the island of Anak Krakatau. The aims of the study were to detail a key phase of rapid change in the vegetation succession and plant colonization of this young volcano and to compare results with those from earlier studies.Floristic composition was determined by reconaissance of all vegetated areas during the period 1989 to 1991. Colonization has been rapid since 1983 with 53 species newly recorded for Anak Krakatau, comprising 8 Pteridophyta and 45 Angiospermae. Of the latter, a significant element (13) were of species believed to be human-dispersed. Comparison of all floral surveys has revealed a core of strand-line and pioneer colonists which has been common to each restart of colonization. The sea-dispersed component is already comparable in size to that of Rakata and is thought unlikely to increase significantly from this point. The accumulation of animal-dispersed species of interior habitats has only recently begun to pick up speed.Vegetation was characterised by means of plot-based sampling, including the establishment of three permanent plots, and by mapping at the whole-island scale. Variation in composition within the island is discussed, with particular reference to the three vegetated forelands. Anak Krakatau now supports the most extensive and advanced vegetation in its disrupted 61-year history. A more or less closed cover extends along the eastern/north-eastern coast-line, but the xeric interior remains only sparsely vegetated. It is concluded that because of volcanic disturbance a base-line for ecosystem development on Anak Krakatau cannot be calculated but that the pattern of change is not inconsistent with significant disturbance ca. 1972 and the subsequent relaxation of these peculiar environmental constraints.     

Photographic evidence of rate of development of plant cover on the emergent island Anak Krakatau from 1971 to 1991 and implications for the effect of volcanism

Photographs of the vegetated North and East Forelands of Anak Krakatau, which emerged from the sea in 1930 and was totally devastated by volcanic activity in 1952/53 provide some evidence of rate of change of plant cover from grassland to woodland between 1971 and 1991. The series of photographs demostrate that vegetational stages of the two forelands have not been synchronous and suggest that the North Foreland is lagging the East Foreland by about 12 years.A recent hypothesis that Anak Krakatau's vegetation was destroyed, totally or almost so, by eruptions in 1972/73 and the island's vegetation has regenerated since that time is not easily accommodated by the photographic evidence, nor by the relative rates of change on Rakata (Krakatau's post-1883 remnant) and Anak Krakatau. The photographic evidence accords more closely with a hypothesis that the 1972/73 eruptions affected the North Foreland's vegetation only, or affected it to a much greater degree than that of the East Foreland, allowing the latter's post-1952/53 succession to proceed relatively unhampered.     

东昆仑万保沟岩群洋岛地层序列特征和构造古地理的恢复

洋岛地层序列在造山带地区往往十分发育,它们在时间上、空间上具两大特点,时间上往往失序,空间上移位。东昆仑万保沟岩群也有洋岛地层序列通常具有洋岛型火山岩基底和碳酸盐岩盖层的双层式结构,具有低分异度、高丰度和地方性色彩的生物群面貌,因而温泉沟岩组和青办食宿站岩组在时间上具先后、空间上具紧密的关系。     

Archaean volcanism and sedimentation near Meekatharra,Western Australia

Archaean volcanic rocks and volcanogenic sediments exposed in a regional syncline south of Meekatharra, Western Australia are described. Initial volcanic activity produced a suite of high-Mg basalts containing 10–19% MgO. Pillowed tholeiitic basalts overlie the high-Mg basalts. These lower units are thought to have been derived from a central fracture zone. The uppermost units consist of volcanogenic sediments interlayered with andesite and dacite flows which appear to have been derived from a marginal andesite pile to the east. The Archaean sequence has been tightly folded, cross-faulted and intruded by post-Archaean dykes.The central succession is predominantly submarine, although the marginal andesite pile may be in part subaerial. Whilst there are some similarities with the Marda complex to the southeast (Hallberg et al., 1976), the rocks near Meekatharra are more analogous to those associated with modern island arcs.     

Anak Krakatau — a colonization model within a colonization model?

The ppaer re-examines three suggestions previously made concerning the colonization of the Krakatau islands since the extirpating 1883 eruption that involve the more recently emergent volcanic island Anak Krakatau, which itself suffered a devastating eruption in 1952. The suggestions re-addressed in the light of recent comments by other workers are:

The last glaciation of the Arctic volcanic island Jan Mayen

The volcanic island of Jan Mayen, remotely located in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, was covered by a contiguous ice cap during the Late Weichselian. Until now, it has been disputed whether parts of the island south of the presently glaciated Mount Beerenberg area were ever glaciated. Based on extensive field mapping we demonstrate that an ice cap covered all land areas and likely also extended onto the shallow shelf areas southeast and east of the island. Chronological interpretations are based on K-Ar and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of volcanic rocks, cosmogenic nuclide (³⁶Cl) surface exposure dating of bedrock and glacial erratics, and radiocarbon dating. We argue that ice growth started after 34 ka and that an initial deglaciation started some 21.5–19.5 ka in the southern and middle parts of the island. In the northern parts, closer to the present glaciers, the deglaciation might have started later, as evidenced by the establishment of vegetation 17–16 cal. ka BP. During full glaciation, the ice cap was likely thickest over the southern part of the island. This may explain a seemingly delayed deglaciation compared with the northern parts despite earlier initial deglaciation. In a broader context, the new knowledge of the Late Weichselian of the island contributes to the understanding of glaciations surrounding the North Atlantic and its climate history.     

哀牢山缝合带中两类火山岩地球化学特征及其构造意义

在哀牢山构造带的哀牢山断裂与花山－雅邑断裂之间出路大量不同构造环境的岩浆岩。除双沟蛇绿岩外,尚发现有景东火山岩和墨江火山岩。地球化学研究表明,景东火山岩具有类似于富集型洋中脊玄武岩（Ｐ－ＭＯＲＢ）地球化学特征,形成于以双沟蛇绿岩为代表的哀牢山洋盆先期的陆内裂谷构造环境;墨江火山岩具有岛弧火山岩地球化学特征,形成于哀牢山洋盆向西俯冲消减作用下的岛弧构造环境。景东裂谷型火山岩和墨江岛弧火山岩分别代表了     

High‐resolution conceptual hydrogeological model of complex basaltic volcanic islands: a Mayotte,Comoros, case study

We present a high‐resolution conceptual hydrogeological model for complex basaltic volcanic islands based on Mayotte Island in the Comoros. Its geological structure and hydrogeological functioning are deduced from a large dataset: geological mapping, geophysics, some forty new boreholes, piezometric data, hydraulic conductivity, hydrochemical data, etc. We describe previously unknown deep cut‐and‐fill palaeovalleys. The resulting conceptual geological and hydrogeological model of the island is very different from the Hawaiian model, in that it lacks a low‐elevation basal aquifer and dyke‐impounded high‐level aquifers. It is closer to the Canary Islands model, which has, however, not yet been described at a high‐resolution scale. It does not have a continuous aquifer, but rather a discontinuous succession of perched aquifers separated by aquicludes and aquitards. This results more from the complex geological structure of the island, which has experienced several phases of volcanism, erosion and weathering, than from its age, but is also a result of the high‐resolution scale of the model. High‐resolution conceptual modelling is now necessary to solve problems of applied geology and hydrogeology.     

松潘-甘孜造山带义敦岛弧中段三叠纪火山-沉积盆地的演化

通过对三叠纪义敦岛弧中段83条剖面和沉积等厚线的综合分析研究,将其划分为义敦弧后前陆盆地、义敦火山弧、昌台-禾尼弧间盆地群、沙鲁里火山岩浆弧、雄龙西-金厂沟弧前盆地群5个次级的构造古地理单元。其中弧后盆地主要有上麻绒和义敦2个沉积中心,义敦火山弧可进一步细分出果德、根隆、郎格、哈逮4个次级火山穹隆,弧间盆地群有拿它盆地、曲登盆地、夏塞盆地、哈日盆地,沙鲁里火山岩浆弧可进一步细分为木合沟和口娘公玛2个次级火山穹隆,弧前盆地有雄龙西盆地、莫坝盆地、金厂沟盆地等8个次级火山-沉积盆地。认为义敦岛弧的演化主要受理塘缝合带演化的控制,也受金沙江缝合带演化的影响,总体上在三叠纪经历了夭折裂陷槽→不成熟岛弧→成熟岛弧→残余盆地的演化历程。     

松潘-甘孜造山带义敦岛弧中段三叠纪 火山-沉积盆地的演化

通过对三叠纪义敦岛弧中段83条剖面和沉积等厚线的综合分析研究,将其划分为义敦弧后前陆盆地、义敦火山弧、昌台-禾尼弧间盆地群、沙鲁里火山岩浆弧、雄龙西-金厂沟弧前盆地群5个次级的构造古地理单元.其中弧后盆地主要有上麻绒和义敦2个沉积中心,义敦火山弧可进一步细分出果德、根隆、郎格、哈逮4个次级火山穹隆,弧间盆地群有拿它盆地、曲登盆地、夏塞盆地、哈日盆地,沙鲁里火山岩浆弧可进一步细分为木合沟和口娘公玛2个次级火山穹隆,弧前盆地有雄龙西盆地、莫坝盆地、金厂沟盆地等8个次级火山-沉积盆地.认为义敦岛弧的演化主要受理塘缝合带演化的控制,也受金沙江缝合带演化的影响,总体上在三叠纪经历了夭折裂陷槽→不成熟岛弧→成熟岛弧→残余盆地的演化历程.     

西准噶尔塔尔巴哈台-谢米斯台地区火山热液型铜矿床(点)地质及含矿火山岩年代学、地球化学特征

西准噶尔塔尔巴哈台-谢米斯台地区研究和找矿勘探工作十分薄弱,近年来随着谢米斯台铜矿的发现,本项目组陆续发现了喀因德、乌兰浩特、阿依德、巴汗等铜矿点,指示该区具有与火山热液活动有关的铜成矿作用有的潜力。本文对这些矿床(点)开展了地质特征、年代学和地球化学研究显示,区内发育的阿尔木强、谢米斯台铜矿床以及喀因德、乌兰浩特、阿依德、巴汗等铜矿点与火山岩地层密切相关,矿化主要表现为黄铁矿化、孔雀石化,发育绿帘石化、绿泥石化、硅化、碳酸岩化等蚀变,具有火山热液型铜矿特点。锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb测年获得喀因德铜矿点火山岩年龄为455.1±5.4Ma,乌兰浩特铜矿点火山岩年龄为428.6±4.6Ma,阿依德铜矿点火山岩年龄为428.8±7.2Ma,谢米斯台铜矿床火山岩年龄为424.3±4.3Ma,阿尔木强铜矿床火山岩年龄为426.7Ma,巴汗铜矿点火山岩年龄为411.7±4.7Ma,可分为晚奥陶世、中志留世、早泥盆世三个阶段,以中志留世为主。地球化学特征显示晚奥陶世、中志留世、早泥盆世三个阶段的火山岩均形成于岛弧环境;且具有类似的岩浆源区和演化过程;岩浆在上升侵位过程中没有明显的受到外来物质混染。综合地质、年代学和地球化学特征显示,塔尔巴哈台-谢米斯台地区与火山热液有关的铜矿床(点)主要受控于构造背景、地层组合、岩石类型、蚀变、控矿构造等因素,其中中志留世中基性火山岩、与火山机构相关的深部可能存在的次火山岩或浅成侵入岩分布区具有较好的找矿潜力。     

Global geoheritage significance of Ordovician stratigraphy and sedimentology in the Cliefden Caves area,central western New South Wales

Globally significant geoheritage features of the Cliefden Caves area, in the Belubula River Valley between Orange and Cowra in central western New South Wales, comprise a richly fossiliferous shallow-water limestone succession of Late Ordovician age (the Cliefden Caves Limestone Subgroup) overlain by deep-water laminites and allochthonous limestones of the Upper Ordovician Malongulli Formation. Key features of the Ordovician geology of the Cliefden Caves area that have been identified using the Geoheritage Toolkit as being of international significance are the abundance of unique and exceptionally diverse fossils in the Fossil Hill Limestone (forming the lower part of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Subgroup), which supplement detailed interpretation of carbonate-dominated deposition within an Ordovician volcanic island setting. The fossiliferous limestones preserve biostromes and local small bioherms of stromatoporoids and corals, and recurrent in situ and disarticulated/imbricated Eodinobolus shell beds formed in shallow, quiet-water, dominantly muddy carbonate sediments that passed up-sequence to clay-free carbonate environments. These mud-dominated carbonate sediments are interspersed with higher-energy conditions, represented by skeletal, lithoclastic and calcrete-ooid grainstones overlying disconformities, leading to the identification of subaerial disconformities and associated diagenesis in the Fossil Hill Limestone. The Fossil Hill Limestone is succeeded by massive limestones in the middle part of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Subgroup and then, in turn by the Vandon Limestone and the deeper-water graptolitic laminites of the Malongulli Formation—this completes a succession that is rarely preserved in the geological record, further enhancing the geoheritage significance of the Cliefden Caves area.     

Geochemical Constraints of the Ediacaran Volcano-Sedimentary Succession of the Sa’al Metamorphic Complex at Wadi Zaghra, South Sinai, Egypt

The volcano-sedimentary succession around Wadi Zaghra in Sinai, at the northernmost segment of the Arabian Nubian Shield, comprises volcanic rocks interbedded with rather immature sediments. The succession is dominated by intermediate to silicic volcanics of medium-to high-K calc-alkaline affinity. It is divided into two units, the lower unit includes intermediate rocks and dacites interbedded with graywackes, semi-pelites and pelites and topped by polymict conglomerates. This unit is subjected to folding and regional metamorphism(up to garnet zone) and is intruded by quartz diorite-granodiorite inducing, locally, low-pressure contact thermal metamorphism. The unmetamorphosed upper unit encompasses acid volcanics intercalated with litharenite, sublitharenite and minor arenite. The rhyolites of this unit pertain to the highly fractionated granites and are characterized by an agpaitic index(NK/A) ranging from 0.87 to 0.96. They may reflect either extensive interaction of subduction-related magmas with the continental crust or a change in the tectonic regime. The present lithological and geochemical characteristics of the studied sediments together with available zircon ages indicate rather distal provenance of their detritus. This detritus comprises fluvial-alluvial sediments accumulated in the intermontane basins, which are half-grabens or tilted fault blocks. The tectonic setting of the depositional basins is active continental margin and continental island arcs. Geochemical patterns of the Zaghra volcano-sedimentary succession indicate their correlation with the Dokhan Volcanics-Hammamat Clastics sequence of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Also, the Zaghra volcanics display geochemical similarities with those exposed in Sinai, at the Rutig, Ferani and Iqna Shar'a areas. The Zaghra succession is dated as Ediacaran but is not related either to the ensimatic island arc assemblage or to the rift-related assemblage formed during the early stages of the break-up of Rodinia as previously thought.     

Ordovician Macquarie Arc and turbidite fan relationships,Lachlan Orogen,southeastern Australia: stratigraphic and tectonic problems

Ordovician rocks of the Lachlan Orogen consist of two major associations, mafic to intermediate volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks (Macquarie Arc), which aerially comprise several north–south-trending belts, and the quartz-rich turbidite succession. Relationships between these associations are integral to resolving their tectonic settings and opinions range between contacts being major thrusts, combinations of various types of faults, and stratigraphic contacts with structural complications. Stratigraphic contacts between these associations are found with volcaniclastic-dominant units overlying quartz-turbidite units along the eastern boundary of the eastern volcanic belt and along the southern boundary of the central volcanic belt. Mixing between these major associations is limited and reflects waning quartzose turbidite deposition along a gently sloping sea floor not penetrating steeper volcaniclastic aprons that were developing around the growing volcanic centres formed during late Middle Ordovician to early Silurian Macquarie Arc igneous activity. An island arc setting has been most widely supported for the Macquarie Arc, but the identification and polarity of the associated subduction zone remain a contentious issue particularly for the Early Ordovician phase of igneous activity. The Macquarie Arc initiated within a Cambrian backarc formed by sea-floor spreading behind a boninitic island arc and presumably reflects a renewed response to regional convergence as subduction ceased along the Ross–Delamerian convergent boundary at the East Gondwana continental margin. An extensional episode accompanied initiation of the late Middle Ordovician expansion in island arc development. A SSE-dipping subduction zone is considered to have formed the Macquarie Arc and underwent anticlockwise rotation about an Euler pole at the western termination of the island arc. This resulted in widespread deformation west of the Macquarie Arc in the Benambran Orogeny and development of subduction along the eastern margin of the orogenic belt.     

Macrobenthic Community in Tolo Harbour,Hong Kong and its Relations with Heavy Metals

The present study investigated the macrobenthic community in Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, aiming at linking heavy metal concentrations to differences in macrobenthic community. The stations investigated in Tolo Harbour have widely contrasting features, with some areas located in the Plove Cove displaying both high species richness and abundance while other areas displaying quite impoverished or even void of macrobenthos. High diversity and abundance of macrobenthos in areas with low heavy metal concentrations were recorded. Strong negative correlation between macrobenthic diversity and heavy metal concentrations was found, and this implicated the pollution-induced degradation of macrobenthos in some locations in Tolo Harbour. These results support the Pearson–Rosenberg model for succession along a pollution gradient.     

The Geology of the Western Highlands of New Guinea

Abstract

The oldest rocks in the Western Highlands of New Guinea are granite and metamorphic rocks, and these are unconformably overlain by an incomplete marine succession of Permian, Upper Jurassic, Cretaceous, Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene sediments with a maximum thickness of 34,000 ft. The sedimentary succession in the east of the region is much thicker than in the west. Jurassic seas transgressed from the east. Studies of the faunas and petrology of the sediments show that the western part of the region was out of range of the sources of Cretaceous vulcanism and slow pelagic sedimentation continued into the Lower Miocene. By the Middle Miocene a volcanic island arc had developed in the vicinity of the Lai Syncline and the sediments are of shallow-water type, rich in volcanic debris.

Both sediments and basement were folded into a number of anticlines and synclines at the end of the Pliocene. Vigorous erosion was followed by extensive Pleistocene vulcanism in the west. Pleistocene glaciation occurred in the Bismarck Range down to about 13,000 feet above sea-level.     

Genetic evolution of Permo-Triassic volcaniclastic sequences at Uspallata, Mendoza Precordillera, Argentina

Permo-Triassic volcanic rocks of the Choiyoi Group crop out at Quebrada de Santa Elena and del Telégrafo, Mendoza Precordillera, Argentina. In this area, six volcanic events were generated through three volcanic stages that include collapse of voluminous Plinian columns associated to caldera pressurization and depressurization, emplacement of sub-volcanic bodies and dikes connected to depressurization of the magmatic chamber and establishment of resurgent domes and lava associated to caldera collapse events.

Petrologic and geochemical data indicate increasing acidification toward younger events varying from dacitic to rhyodacitic and rhyolitic rocks. The lithofacial organization allows correlating with the Lower to Upper Permian Horcajo Formation described in the Valle del Río de los Patos, San Juan province. Geochemical data suggests subduction-related arc magmatism in an extensional condition during Lower to Upper Permian.     

赣东北地区早古生代登山岩群弧后盆地火山岩的成因与洋壳演化

由于早古生代微古化石群的发现（薛重生等,１９９５）,赣东北广丰－上饶地区的登山岩群被划归下古生界,本文介绍了登山岩群中海相火山岩的地质特征,对其中的拔竹岩组,叶家岩组的火山岩岩地球化学特征和成因进行了研究,指出该两岩组火山岩均属岛弧拉斑玄武岩系列,并具向大洋拉斑玄岩过渡的性质,是弧后小洋盆扩张期的产物,两岩组火山岩在火山活动方式,岩浆演化方式和岩浆进化程度上存在与洋壳由早到晚减薄的相应规律变化。     

内蒙古中西部多岛海构造演化

内蒙古中西部大陆由一个微大陆、三条弧后盆地和三条火山岛弧,即华北微大陆、白云鄂 傅弧后盆地、白乃庙火山岛弧、温都尔庙弧后盆地、苏尼特左－锡林浩特火山岛弧、贺根山弧后盆 地和二连浩特－锡林郭勒火山岛弧组成。经过了长期而复杂的微大陆和火山弧的裂解、弧后盆地 的消减衰亡及弧－陆和弧－弧碰拉等构造演化,才最终形成今天所见到的这种构造样式。     

Origin of silicic volcanism in the Panamanian arc: evidence for a two-stage fractionation process at El Valle volcano

In the Central American Volcanic Arc, adakite-like volcanism has often been described as volumetrically insignificant. However, extensive silicic adakitic volcanism does occur in the Panamanian arc and provides an opportunity to evaluate the origin of this magma-type as well as to contrast its origin with other Central American silicic magmas. The Quaternary volcanic deposits of El Valle volcano are characterized by pronounced depletions in the heavy rare earth elements, low Y, high Sr, high Sr/Y, relatively high MgO, and low K₂O/Na₂O, when compared with other Quaternary Central American volcanics at similar SiO₂. These chemical features are also diagnostic of adakitic signatures. Our new ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of lava flows and ash flows that compose the volcanic edifice of El Valle volcano illustrate that the eruptive volume of adakitic-like volcanism is substantial during the Quaternary (~120 km³). Adakitic-like magmas dominate the stratigraphic record. Common to all models for the origin of an adakite geochemical signature is the involvement of garnet, as a residual or fractionating phase. The stability of garnet in hydrous magmas has been recently reevaluated with important consequences; garnet is a stable primary igneous phase at pressure and temperature conditions expected for magma differentiation at the roots of a mature island arc. Moreover, adakite-like volcanism erupted at El Valle volcano displays the middle rare earth element depletion observed in other Panamanian volcanic centers that has been attributed to significant amphibole fractionation. Extensive amphibole fractionation may have occurred in two stages. The first stage of fractionation, garnet + amphibole fractionation, occurs from hydrous basaltic–andesitic parental magmas that have ponded at the base of an overthickened crust. The second stage occurs at mid-lower crustal levels where abundant amphibole + plagioclase and minor sphene crystallized from water-rich magmas. These two stages combined may have resulted in an amphibole-rich cumulate layer. This amphibole layer is likely the source of the abundant amphibole-rich cumulate enclaves and blobs found in volcanic products across the Panamanian arc. Stalling of water-rich magmas during this two-stage fractionation process could drive the interstitial liquids to the evolved compositions typical of continental crust, while leaving behind amphibole-rich cumulate rocks that may eventually be returned to the asthenosphere. Differentiation of H₂O-rich magmas under the conditions appropriate for the roots of island arcs may therefore be a key process in developing a better understanding of the generation of continental crust in island arc environments.