鄂尔多斯地区西缘中奥陶世等深流沉积

本文论述了在鄂尔多斯地区西缘中奥陶统中首次发现的碳酸盐等深流沉积及其堆积体－等深岩丘。其等深岩可划分为砂屑等深岩、粉属等深岩、灰泥等深岩和生物屑等深岩四种类型。识别出了完整的、不完整的和由单一的砂屑等深岩叠置组成的等深岩层序。砂屑等深岩大量发育是本区等深岩丘与其它已发现的各种等深岩丘的重要区别。古流向研究和等深岩的粒度、结构特征表明，在中奥陶世，沿鄂尔多斯地区西缘斜坡带存在较强的自南而北的等深流流动体系。     

深水等深积岩丘及其含油气潜能

等深积岩丘大量存在干现代海洋调查和古代地层记录的深水沉积中,其规模可与深海大型浊积扇相比拟。岩性一般由泥级、粉砂级、砂级及细砾级等深漉沉积构成,成分上可以是陆源碎屑的或是碳酸盐的,其中粉砂级和砂级等深流沉积的单层厚度在数厘米至数十厘米,厚者可达2m 左右。颗粒的分选性一般中等一较好,局部很好,原生孔隙发育,并与深水原地沉积的页岩、泥岩互层沉积,具有良好的生储盖组合特性。对比了大西洋东缘现代沉积的 Faro 等深积岩丘和中国古代奥陶纪沉积的湘北九溪等深积岩丘、甘肃平凉等深积岩丘的层序特征,提出了等深积岩丘的形成分为萌生、成型和衰退三个阶段的沉积模式。认为等深积岩丘具有潜在的油气勘探前景。     

陕西富平地区中奥陶统等深流沉积的特征及其地质意义

陕西富平赵老峪地区中奥陶统赵老峪组发育一套与深水碳酸盐岩重力流沉积、放射虫硅质岩、火山凝灰岩伴生的等深流沉积。根据岩性特征可以将该等深流沉积划分为砾屑等深积岩、砂屑等深积岩、粉屑等深积岩和灰泥等深积岩4种类型,识别出较完整的、由单一灰泥或粉屑或砂屑等深积岩叠置组成的4种等深积岩层序。等深流的流向从东北向西南方向,说明中奥陶世富平地区可能是秦岭北侧弧后盆地伸进浅水台地的一个北东向的深海前槽。富平赵老峪地区下奥陶统马家沟组和华北地块其他地区一样都发育浅水台地相碳酸盐岩,中奥陶统突变为深水斜坡-盆地边缘相的碳酸盐岩重力流及等深流沉积,而同期华北地块主体隆升为陆,反映了在扬子板块向华北板块俯冲的背景下,秦岭北侧早古生代弧后盆地北测的陷落下沉作用。     

湘西黔东寒武纪等深流沉积

本文描述了湘西黔东地区寒武纪沉积的等深岩类型和特征。对砂质等深岩和泥砂质等深岩层序的形成过程进行了讨论。分析了等深岩中交错层理反映的古流向资料,结合古地理背景,建立了工作区等深流沉积模式。     

中国南海西北次海盆西北陆缘洋陆过渡区深水沉积体系特征

高分辨率二维地震资料显示中国南海西北次海盆西北陆缘（水深1 000 m及以下）发育如下深水沉积体系:珠江口盆地南部隆起区缓坡带（水深约1 000~1 500 m、坡度<1.2°）出露神狐南海山,该海山附近发育“海山相关等深流沉积体系”,可能受南海中层水循环（自西向东）底流控制;神狐南海山以南水深约1 500~2 500 m的陆坡区（坡度>2°）普遍发生坡移,发育“重力流滑塌体系”和“峡谷体系”,鲜见等深流沉积;下陆坡区（水深>2 500 m,坡度稍缓<2°）滑塌现象明显减少,主要发育“峡谷体系”以及“席状等深流沉积体系”,席状等深流沉积体系可能受分散的、流速较低的南海深层水循环底流控制。地震沉积记录显示,神狐南海山附近等深流侵蚀特征最早出现于晚中新世早期,其后至现今该区较稳定发育等深流沉积/侵蚀的加积序列,说明南海西北次海盆西北陆缘的稳定底流沉积/侵蚀可追溯至晚中新世早期。     

湘北沅古坪地区下奥陶统等深流沉积特征研究

通过野外剖面实测和详细描述,沅古坪地区下奥陶统盘家咀组为一套以灰色泥晶灰岩、砂屑灰岩和生物屑灰岩为主的深水碳酸盐岩沉积,主要发育垂向降落沉积、重力流沉积和等深流沉积3种沉积类型.根据岩性特征可将该等深流沉积划分为灰泥等深岩、砂屑等深岩和生物屑等深岩3种类型,其中灰泥等深岩尤为发育,砂屑等深岩、生物屑等深岩次之,并对其发育特征以及垂向层序进行了归纳总结.研究表明,研究区主要存在由单一灰泥等深岩、砂屑等深岩与灰泥等深岩、生物屑等深岩与灰泥等深岩组成的3种不完整等深岩层序.在剖面上,根据等深岩发育类型及程度,将盘家咀组划分为三部分,从第Ⅰ部分至第Ⅲ部分,等深岩沉积厚度所占比例呈增大趋势;结合区域沉积背景,认为该地区早奥陶世盘家咀组沉积期等深流活动的强度总体上呈由弱到强的变化规律,为此等深岩丘的成熟期,这对该等深岩丘的形成机理研究及其展布范围的界定具有重大意义.     

从桌子山剖面看贺兰坳拉谷北段奥陶系等深流沉积

采用野外观察描述和室内分析相结合的方法,综合分析了贺兰坳拉谷北段桌子山剖面奥陶系各组地层沉积相特征,得到了沉积环境的垂向变化和横向迁移规律。以桌子山剖面奥陶系沉积相研究为基础,结合沉积相模式,识别出了典型的碳酸盐等深流沉积,建立了贺兰坳拉谷北段奥陶系层序地层学模式,从而为验证坳拉谷的存在提供了有力的证据。     

中国油气勘探的一个新领域——深水牵引流沉积

深水牵引流沉积主要分为等深流沉积和内波内潮汐沉积两类。前者可形成巨大的堆积体——等深积岩丘,其规模可与海底扇相比拟。现代海洋大陆坡及陆隆地带等深积岩丘非常发育;古代地层记录中也有等深积岩丘,如已开采数十年的阿拉伯克拉通白垩系等深积岩丘油田。后者则不仅可形成分选极好的砂级沉积物,而且可形成规模巨大的“沉积物波”,并成群成带地出现。海洋中沉积物波的迁移可形成巨大的沉积体。在世界各大洋深盆海底,均有大范围分布的现代大型沉积物波。中国地层记录中的大型沉积物波,首先在塔里木盆地塔中地区中一上奥陶统中被识别出来,并有良好油气显示。认为中国的广大地区发育有多个时代的海相深水沉积,深水牵引流沉积储集层是中国21世纪油气勘探具巨大潜力和现实可行性的新领域。其油气勘探首选地区是塔里木盆地、扬子地台南缘和鄂尔多斯西缘。     

Simulation of the interactions between gravity processes and contour currents on the Algarve Margin (South Portugal) using the stratigraphic forward model Sedsim

The margin of the Gulf of Cadiz is swept by an intermediate current the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) flowing from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. On the northern margin of the Gulf (Algarve Margin, South Portugal) the MOW intensity is low, and fine-grained contourite drifts are built up with an alongslope alignment. Recent sedimentological studies emphasize the presence of complex process interactions resulting in the formation of a unique depositional architecture. Alongslope processes related to contour currents generate contourite drift, while downslope processes form canyons and channels aligned on deep faults. This paper uses a combined oceanographic and geological dataset to simulate the different types of interactions between gravity processes and contour currents, which were evidenced on this margin. An extrapolation of the contour current intensity has been used based on the present day velocity field and sea-level fluctuations over the simulated geological time-scale. According to our model results, the construction of the contourite drift is closely linked to contour current velocities and directions, the types of sediments transported and the existing topography. Using modern sedimentological understanding of the area, we have correlated gravity flow's strongest activity to sea level lowstand periods mainly due to a closer connection between canyon's mouth and river or deltaic systems. The simulated gravity flows are initialized at different locations and times on the margin depending on the preserved lobes retrieved from seismic analysis. Their resulting morphological features are identified as perched-lobes with volumes and forms close to the ones observed on Portimão and Lagos Drifts. This study provides a process-based understanding of the construction of contourite system and a physical evaluation of the interactions between gravity flows perpendicular to the slope, and alongslope processes. In addition, it shows the influence of autocyclic factors in the construction of contourite sedimentation, which is important to consider in future sedimentary paleo-reconstruction interpretations.     

南海北缘一统暗沙附近深水等深流沉积体系特征

利用高分辨率2D地震资料揭示南海北缘一统暗沙附近(水深700~1 000 m)发育海山相关的深水等深流沉积体系, 为南海北部陆缘深水洋流循环和深海动力学研究, 以及深水油气矿产资源勘探提供了新的资料.一统暗沙南、北两侧发育边缘侵蚀槽沟, 其中北缘的边缘槽沟可称为"环槽", 反映底流(可能属于南海中层水循环体系)自西向东流经海山.一套等深流沉积的伸长状-丘状漂积体沿环槽北岸发育.一统暗沙南侧和背侧还发育黏附型漂积体、南侧沉积区和补丁型漂积体.地震沉积记录显示该区稳定底流侵蚀-沉积活动可追溯至晚中新世早期.      

An Early Paleozoic Inter‐Platform Shelf in the Southwest of Tarim Basin,NW China and its Significance for Petroleum Exploration

An early Paleozoic inter‐platform, platform, slope and shelf succession comprised of five Cambrian to mid‐Ordovician seismic sequences, has been identified in the southwestern part of the Tarim Basin. A previously unknown, elongate shelf succession that extends from east to west transects the Taxinan area of the southwestern Tarim Basin. It was flanked by carbonate platforms and platform margins, and by peri‐platform margin slopes on its north and south sides. The Markit platform margin and slope, located along the northern side of the shelf, extended nearly linearly west to east with some headlands and embayments towards the east. The Tangnan platform margin and slope, located along the southern side of the shelf, extended southwest to northeast and was more sinuous with pronounced northwest‐directed headlands flanked by embayments. Differentiation of these settings began in earliest Cambrian time during continental breakup. Initially, broad gentle slopes flanked an open shelf seaway in Cambrian time. In Early Ordovician time, the Markit and Tangnan platform margins became more distinct and rimmed, and were flanked by slightly steeper, but still very gentle slopes. During their deposition, these platform margins and their adjoining slopes exhibited some lateral migration, with a slight overall widening of the open shelf seaway between them from Cambrian to Ordovician time. The presence of these platform margin and slope successions in the southwestern area of the Tarim basin provides another focus for petroleum exploration and discovery of additional carbonate reef‐shoal reservoirs in the Markit and Tangnan areas. The adjoining deep‐water shelf shale and mudstone shelf succession itself is an additional prospective petroleum source rock in close proximity to these potential reef‐shoal reservoirs.     

陕西富平地区上奥陶统赵老峪组等深流沉积特征及影响因素*

陕西富平地区上奥陶统赵老峪组发育等深流沉积。以实测剖面、岩石光面、薄片资料以及地球化学资料为基础,结合前人研究成果,对赵老峪组等深积岩类型、层序以及等深流沉积发育的影响因素进行了分析。研究认为: (1)赵老峪组发育灰泥等深积岩和粉屑等深积岩2种类型,识别出由单一的灰泥等深积岩以及灰泥等深积岩与粉屑等深积岩组成的2种等深积岩层序;(2)等深流水团温度越低,盐度越高,则等深流强度越大;(3)等深流水团水温由高变低、再变高,盐度由低变高、再变低,可能造成了等深积岩层序由细变粗、再变细;(4)古水深变大、古气候变干热、古盐度变低有利于等深流和等深流沉积的发育。     

STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE LITHOSPHERE IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE VORONEZH CRYSTALLINE MASSIF

The Late Precambrian through Silurian tectonic evolution of east-central South China is modeled in terms of a history of rift, drift, and collision during Late Proterozoic, Sinian, and Late Ordovician-Early Silurian times, respectively. We review the regional stratigraphie development of this area, focusing particularly on north-central Hunan province, and argue from our observations and those of others that the Jiangnan, Xuefeng, and Jiuling ranges of the Nanling realm approximately demarcate the paleogeographic transition in Sinian to Ordovician times of shelf to off-shelf environments developed along a passive-type continental margin that started rifting in the pre-Sinian Late Proterozoic. The rift sequence is recorded by the Penhsi (= Banxi) Group, which rests unconformably above an older-presumed Middle to early Late Proterozoic-low-grade metamorphic basement. The Penhsi varies markedly in thickness but is everywhere characterized by nonmarine to paralic clastic facies. The Penhsi conformably to disconformably underlies the Sinian through Lower Paleozoic sequence throughout central South China, which developed along an E-facing, passive-type continental margin. This passive-type margin was destroyed by the Guangxian Orogeny. The Guangxian Orogeny was marked initially by the northwestward progradation of deep-marine turbidites of Late Ordovician age in the most off-shelf regions, progressing to earliest Silurian age on the shelf to the northwest. Folding and concomitant thrusting in the off-shelf regions, and subsequent erosion beneath the unconformably overlying nonmarine Middle Devonian strata, truncate the stratigraphie record of the orogen within the Early Silurian. Farther northwest, in regions undisturbed by the Guangxian Orogeny, Silurian foreland-basin sedimentation included the entire Lower Silurian succession, which grades rapidly upward from basinal to inter-tonguing marine and nonmarine elastics. This reflects a change from flexurally induced subsidence first outpacing local sedimentation, followed by sedimentation outstripping and then keeping pace with subsidence.     

对华南早古生代板溪洋的质疑

许靖化教授等近年来就中国南方大地构造的机制及演化提出了一种新的模式,在国内外引起较大的反响,有助于我国大地构造学的深入研究。     

Evolution of contourite systems in the late Cretaceous Chalk Sea along the Tornquist Zone

Based on integration of seismic reflection and well data analysis this study examines two major contourite systems that developed during the late Cretaceous in the southern Baltic Sea. The evolution of these Chalk Sea contourite systems between the Kattegat and the southern Baltic Sea started when Turonian to Campanian inversion tectonics overprinted the rather flat sea floor of the epeiric Chalk Sea. The Tornquist Zone and adjacent smaller blocks were uplifted and formed elongated obstacles that influenced the bottom currents. As a consequence of the inversion, the sea floor west of the Tornquist Zone tilted towards the north‐east, creating an asymmetrical sub‐basin with a steep marginal slope in the north‐east and a gentle dipping slope in the south‐west. A south‐east directed contour current emerged in the Coniacian or Santonian along the south‐western basin margin, creating contourite channels and drifts. The previously studied contourite system offshore Stevns Klint is part of this system. A second, deeper and north‐west directed counter‐flow emerged along and parallel to the Tornquist Zone in the later Campanian, but was strongest in the Maastrichtian. This bottom current moderated the evolution of a drift‐moat system adjacent to the elevated Tornquist Zone. The near surface Alnarp Valley in Scania represents the Danian palaeo‐moat that linked the Pomeranian Bay with the Kattegat. The previously studied contourite system in the Kattegat represents the north‐western prolongation of this system. This study links previous observations from the Kattegat and offshore Stevns Klint to the here inferred two currents, a more shallow, south‐east directed and a deeper, north‐west directed flow.     

Contour current imprints and contourite drifts in the Bahamian archipelago

New data collected along the slopes of Little and Great Bahama Bank and the abyssal plain of the Bahama Escarpment provides new insights about contour current‐related erosive structures and associated deposits. The Bahamian slope shows abundant evidence of bottom current activity such as furrows, comet‐like structures, sediment waves and drifts. At a seismic scale, large erosion surfaces and main periods of drift growth resulted from current acceleration related to plate tectonic processes and progressive opening and closure of gateways and long‐term palaeoclimate evolution. At present‐day, erosion features and contourite drifts are either related to relatively shallow currents (<1000 m water depth) or to deep currents (>2500 m water depth). It appears that the carbonate nature of the drifts does not impact the drift morphology at the resolution addressed in the present study. Classical drift morphologies defined in siliciclastic environments are found, such as mounded, plastered and separated drifts. In core, contourite sequences show a bi‐gradational trend that resembles classical contourite sequences in siliciclastic deposits showing a direct relationship with a change in current velocity at the sea floor. However, in a carbonate system the peak in grain size is associated with increased winnowing rather than increased sediment supply as in siliciclastic environments. In addition, the carbonate contourite sequence is usually thinner than in siliciclastics because of lower sediment supply rates. Little Bahama Bank and Great Bahama Bank contourites contain open‐ocean input and slope‐derived debris from glacial episodes. Inner platform, platform edge and open ocean pelagic input characterize the classical periplatform ooze during interglacials. In all studied examples, the drift composition depends on the sea floor topography surrounding the drift location and the type of sediment supply. Carbonate particles are derived from either the slope or the platform in slope and toe of slope drifts, very deep contourites have distant siliciclastic sources of sediment supply. The recent discovery of the importance of a large downslope gravitary system along Bahamian slopes suggests frequent interactions between downslope and along‐slope (contour currents) processes. The interlayering of mass flow deposits and contourites at a seismic scale or the presence of surface structures associated with both contour currents and mass flow processes shows that both processes act at the same location. Finally, contour currents have an important impact on the repartition of deep‐water coral mounds. Currents can actively interact with mounds as a nutrient and oxygen supplier or have a passive interaction, with mounds solely being obstacles orienting erosion and deposition.     

东沙隆起南缘第四系等深流沉积特征及成因机制

珠江口盆地东沙隆起南缘深水陆坡区（水深约900~2 600 m）是西北太平洋和南海水体交换的活跃区域,发育了类型丰富的等深流沉积体,但等深流沉积特征和成因机制尚不明确,相关研究仍缺乏足够证据。通过区域地震资料和ODP1144站钻井数据分析发现,该区第四系地层中可识别5种深水底流成因的等深流沉积:涂抹形漂积体、伸长形-丘形漂积体、限制形漂积体、沉积物波以及席状漂积体。根据等深流沉积特征、发育类型以及分布范围,从陆坡到深海平原大致依次出现涂抹形漂积体、伸长形-丘形漂积体、限制形漂积体和席状漂积体,而具有波状沉积底形的沉积物波主要发育于陆坡区。东沙隆起南缘第四系等深流沉积的形成、演化受控于多种因素,其中主控因素包括:西北太平洋与南海中-深层水体的"双层"环流结构、科里奥利力的"右偏"效应、冰期-间冰期海平面升降所诱导的底流与重力流交互作用机制以及新构造运动时期火山活动对海底地貌的改造。     

南海北部陆坡高速堆积体的构造成因

南海北部陆坡是南海海域沉积活动最为活跃的地区之一,发育着迄今为止所发现的南海最高沉积速率堆积体。构成该堆积体的沉积物究竟来自何方,仍是南海沉积学研究中未解决的问题之一。通过对南海北部多道地震剖面的解释和海底底流观测资料的分析,指出南海北部中新统披覆层是南海北部断陷阶段结束后开始沉积的一套地层,直到上新世开始前,该地层在很大一个区域内是保持水平的;上新世后,由于构造抬升,中新统披覆层随之隆起,并在东沙隆起的部位遭受很大程度的剥蚀,其剥蚀量和南海北部珠江、韩江以及台湾西南部高屏溪和曾文溪向南海的输沙量相当,为南海北部一个非常重要的沉积物来源。研究分析指出,如果珠江和韩江所携带的沉积物全部沉积到南海北部陆坡区,则可获得的沉积速率为12 cm/ka,这一数值远低于该高速堆积体上的沉积速率值。从南海北部现今的沉积动力条件和地形上看,来自珠江和韩江的沉积物几乎不可能经过平坦的陆架区,再绕过东沙岛,优先沉积到该高速堆积体上。本研究中的高速堆积体的沉积物也不可能主要来自台湾西南的高屏溪和曾文溪,因为台西南河流所携带的沉积物被特殊的洋流体系圈闭于台湾周边一个较小的范围内沉积下来。观测数据表明,南海北部东沙隆起区有足够强的水动力环境能够剥蚀海底隆起的沉积地层,并将剥蚀下来的沉积物向南经陆架输运到陆坡区;该高速堆积体紧邻东沙隆起剥蚀区,其沉积物来源应该主要来自东沙隆起剥蚀区。     

华南加里东运动初探

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