Namurian bentonites in the Pennine Basin, UK – origin and magmatic affinities

Nine Namurian clay bands retrieved from boreholes in the northern part of the Pennine Basin are, on the basis of their petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry, shown to be volcanic in origin and are therefore bentonites. The bentonites, which have a fragmental texture, are normally graded and show rare preservation of shard textures, representing vitric tuff deposits that have been altered subsequently to clay-dominated horizons. Crystals are a minor component of the bentonites, but biotite, in particular, is concentrated at the base of the beds. A clay mineral assemblage of mixed-layer illite–smectite with subordinate kaolinite identifies most of the samples as K-bentonites, but kaolinite dominates two samples that can be classed as tonsteins. Temporal variation of salinity within the depositional basin is suggested to explain these different clay assemblages. The major element geochemistry of the bentonites reflects their clay mineralogy and the compositions of diagenetic minerals present, the latter including pyrite, carbonates and hydroxyapatite. Enrichment of the bentonites in some trace elements (including Ba, Sr, Pb, Cu and Ni) can be related to the presence of the diagenetic minerals, but the extent to which the elements are added from external sources as opposed to being redistributed within the ash is unclear. Immobile trace element systematics suggest a rhyodacite/dacite composition for the original ash and derivation from the collision of plates, this being supported by evidence provided by the rare earth elements (REE) in one group of samples. However, in another group of samples, variations in REE concentrations may be caused by mobility of these elements during alteration. The chemistry of the Namurian bentonites contrasts markedly with that of the local Carboniferous volcanics but is comparable, in some respects, with one group of Westphalian tonsteins, although the latter are more rhyolitic in character. It is suggested that the Namurian bentonites and the Westphalian tonsteins of acid affinities originated from volcanic activity associated with a destructive plate margin in the Variscan externides and that the observed compositional trend may reflect magma evolution possibly related to the progressive east–west closure.     

Interpreting complex fluvial channel and barform architecture: Carboniferous Central Pennine Province,northern England

The Bashkirian Lower Brimham Grit of North Yorkshire, England, is a fluvio‐deltaic sandstone succession that crops out as a complex series of pinnacles, the three‐dimensional arrangement of which allows high‐resolution architectural analysis of genetically‐related lithofacies assemblages. Combined analysis of sedimentary graphic log profiles, architectural panels and palaeocurrent data have enabled three‐dimensional geometrical relationships to be established for a suite of architectural elements so as to develop a comprehensive depositional model. Small‐scale observations of facies have been related to larger‐scale architectural elements to facilitate interpretation of the palaeoenvironment of deposition to a level of detail that has rarely been attempted previously, thereby allowing interpretation of formative processes. Detailed architectural panels form the basis of a semi‐quantitative technique for recording the variety and complexity of the sedimentary lithofacies present, their association within recognizable architectural elements and, thus, the inferred spatio‐temporal relationship of neighbouring elements. Fluvial channel‐fill elements bounded by erosional surfaces are characterized internally by a hierarchy of sets and cosets with subtly varying compositions, textures and structures. Simple, cross‐bedded sets represent in‐channel migration of isolated mesoforms (dunes); cosets of both trough and planar‐tabular cross‐bedded facies represent lateral‐accreting and downstream‐accreting macroforms (bars) characterized by highly variable, yet predictable, patterns of palaeocurrent indicators. Relationships between sandstone‐dominated strata bounded by third‐order and fifth‐order surfaces, which represent in‐channel bar deposits and incised channel bases, respectively, chronicle the origin of the preserved succession in response to autocyclic barform development and abandonment, major episodes of incision probably influenced by episodic tectonic subsidence, differential tilting and fluvial incision associated with slip on the nearby North Craven Fault system. Overall, the succession represents the preserved product of an upper‐delta plain system that was traversed by a migratory fluvial braid‐belt system comprising a poorly‐confined network of fluvial channels developed between major sandy barforms that evolved via combined lateral‐accretion and downstream‐accretion.     

塔里木盆地石炭系泥岩沉积时的古盐度分析

通过对塔里木盆地巴楚、塔中、塔河地区井下及巴楚小海子露头、阿克苏四石厂露头的石炭系泥岩中黏土矿物、微量和常量元素的测定,利用Adams和Couch古盐度计算公式、Walker相当硼判定法及锶钡比值法定量—半定量地分析了该区石炭系泥岩沉积时的古盐度特征,结果表明古盐度在4.7‰~33.9‰,大部分为半咸水沉积,其次为淡水—微咸水沉积,个别为咸水沉积;且古盐度变化明显,平面上巴楚组泥岩段泥岩总体具有从塔东北向塔西南古盐度变大的趋势;卡拉沙依组砂泥岩段泥岩在塔中古盐度最小,塔西南最大,塔北居中。由于沉积物中泥岩沉积时的古盐度特征是沉积环境的判别标志之一,因此它对有争议的卡拉沙依组砂泥岩段及巴楚组角砾岩段沉积环境的判定提供了沉积水体性质方面的依据。石炭系泥岩沉积时的古盐度与该时期海平面升降及沉积相演化有关,该泥岩形成于石炭纪海平面相对下降或上升缓慢、古盐度相对较低的沉积环境。     

The Brampton kame belt and Pennine escarpment meltwater channel system (Cumbria, UK): Morphology, sedimentology and formation

The Brampton kame belt represents one of the largest glaciofluvial complexes within the UK. It is composed of an array of landform-sediment assemblages, associated with a suite of meltwater channels and situated within a palimpsest landscape of glacial features in the heart of one of the most dynamic parts of the British-Irish Ice Sheet. Glacial geomorphological mapping and sedimentological analysis have allowed a detailed reconstruction of both the morphological features and the temporal evolution of the Brampton kame belt, with processes informed by analogues from modern ice margins. The kame belt demonstrates the development of a complex glacier karst typified by the evolution of subglacial meltwater tunnels into an englacial and supraglacial meltwater system dominated by ice-walled lakes and migrating ice-contact drainage networks. Topographic inversion led to the extensive reworking of sediments, with vertical collapse and debris flows causing partial disintegration of the morphology. The resultant landform comprises a series of kettle holes, discontinuous ridges and flat-topped hills. The Pennine escarpment meltwater network, which fed the Brampton kame belt, is composed of an anastomosing subglacial channel system and flights of lateral channels. The Brampton kame belt is envisaged to have formed during the stagnation of ice in the lee of the Pennines as ice retreated westwards into the Solway Lowlands. The formation of the Brampton kame belt also has particular conceptual resonance in terms of constraining the nature of kame genesis, whereby an evolving glacier karst is a key mechanism in the spatial and temporal development of ice-contact sediment-landform associations.     

黔桂地区石炭系层序地层格架及海平面变化

从石炭系到下二叠统,构成一个二级层序,其底面为紫云运动主幕不整合面及其相关面,顶界面为黔桂运动不整合面及其相关面,包含6个三级层序.研究区范围内,从连陆台地到孤立台地乃至台沟背景,沉积特征明显不同,如在连陆台地上发育煤系地层并且发育较多的白云岩地层,而在孤立台地上则以大套碳酸盐岩地层为特征,台沟背景中以暗色细粒沉积为主包括台盆相和台棚相沉积.因此,三级沉积层序的相序特征形成有规律的空间变化,虽然在不同的地点三级层序的形成时限和相序组构存在差异,但它们所代表的相对海平面变化过程基本上是同步的.在前人大量的古生物学研究成果的基础上,追索各三级沉积层序界面的空间展布特征,以地层记录中的两种相变面和两种穿时性为基本要素,可以建立黔桂地区石炭系(含下二叠统)的地层层序格架.     

松辽盆地石炭-二叠系烃源岩研究

松辽盆地石炭-二叠系是烃源岩，沉积埋藏史可划分出持续深埋型、平衡埋藏型和短暂浅埋型3种类型。早白垩世晚期，石炭—二叠系烃源岩地温又一次达到并超过90℃，开始第二期生烃，油、气并生。这一时期，有效供烃区位于盆地东南部农安地区、西北部黑鱼泡地区，生气强度超过了生油强度。通过对石炭—二叠系沉积埋藏史、有机质热演化史和生烃史研究，无论对于深层找气，还是对盆地中新生代地层的油气勘探都具有十分重要的地质意义。     

Volcanism Pacing Slumping Gravity Flow Deposits during the Late Carboniferous in the Southern Margin of the Junggar Basin,China

Deep-water gravity depositional processes and evolution in arc systems have become topics of intense research focus in recent years. This study discusses the co-evolution of volcanism and deep-water gravity flow deposits at the southern margin of the Junggar Basin, based on petrology, geochronology and geochemical analyses. The results show that a massive collapse of unstable sediments from the slope was triggered by volcanism, resulting in the formation of slumping gravity flows. The occurrence...     

新疆三塘湖盆地石炭系含油气系统初步评价

新疆三塘湖盆地晚古生代发育哈尔加乌组和卡拉岗组陆相火山喷发岩系,二者在岩石组合上均以中酸性火山岩及其碎屑岩为主,局部夹基性火山岩。通过岩性剖面和化石组合对比认为哈尔加乌组和卡拉岗组为同一时代地层,没有上下关系,时代为晚石炭世—早二叠世。对哈尔加乌组火山岩进行锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年获取年龄值为319.6±9.8 Ma,表明这套火山岩含有石炭纪的部分,限定这套火山岩系的喷发时限为石炭纪中期至早二叠世。哈尔加乌组和卡拉岗组火山岩发育多期的火山喷发—沉积旋回,形成巨厚层的火山岩和火山碎屑岩的互层,具备良好的油气储集条件,其下伏老爷庙组暗色泥岩夹层有机碳(TOC)含量较高(0.71%～1.62%),属于一般烃源岩—好烃源岩,这套烃源岩与哈尔加乌组—卡拉岗组火山岩构成生储盖组合,上覆上二叠统芨芨槽子群泥岩为盖层,构成盆地与火山岩相关的石炭系含油气系统,具有重大的石油地质意义。     

Events in alpine deformation and metamorphism in the Northern Pennine Zone and Southern Gotthard massif regions,Switzerland

The Pennine nappes consist of broad subrounded anticlinal cores of crystalline basement enveloped by a relatively thin cover of Mesozoic metasediments. They have been subsequently refolded by two more phases of deformation, F 2 and F 3, on a regional scale. The imprint of these deformations, F 2 and F 3, also occur in the southern part of the Gotthard massif and its Mesozoic cover. The main episode of Alpine metamorphism, producing principal porphyroblasts, has occurred after the formation of Pennine nappes as a result of heat emanating from the thermic dome of the Lepontine Alps. The study of metamorphic fabrics suggests that the Alpine metamorphism probably had a higher grade during the time of the rise of thermic dome than during the formation of Pennine nappes.

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Zusammenfassung Die penninischen Decken bestehen aus breiten, abgerundeten antiklinalen Kernen kristallinen Basements, die von relativ geringmÄchtigen mesozoischen Metasedimenten umgeben sind. Sie wurden regional durch zwei weitere Deformationsphasen, F 2 und F 3, noch einmal gefaltet. Die Auswirkungen dieser Deformationen, F 2 und F 3, zeigen sich auch im südlichen Teil des Gotthard-Massivs und seiner mesozoischen Bedeckung. Die Hauptphasen alpiner Metamorphose, die im wesentlichen Porphyroblaste erzeugte, fand nach der Bildung der penninischen Decken statt als Ergebnis von WÄrme, die dem thermischen Dom der Lepontinischen Alpen entströmte. Aus der Untersuchung metamorpher Gefüge geht hervor, da\ die alpine Metamorphose wÄhrend der Zeit der Heraushebung des thermischen Domes offenbar stÄrker war als wÄhrend der Bildung der penninischen Decken.

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Résumé Les nappes pennines consistent en de larges noyaux anticlinaux munis d'une enveloppe relativement peu épaisse de métasédiments mésozoÏques. Elles furent encore plissées à l'échelle régionale au cours de deux autres phases de déformation F 2 et F 3. Les effets de ces déformations F 2 et F 3 se montrent aussi dans la partie méridionale du massif du Gotthard et de sa couverture mésozoÏque. La phase principale du métamorphisme alpin, qui a essentiellement produit des porphyroblastes, a eu lieu après la formation des nappes pennines par suite de l'apport de chaleur émanant du « dÔme thermique » des Alpes Lépontiennes. De l'étude des structures métamorphiques, il ressort que le métamorphisme alpin, pendant la montée du « dÔme thermique », est clairement d'un degré plus élevé que pendant la formation des nappes pennines.

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Paleoecology of Late Carboniferous Phylloid Algae in Southern Guizhou, SW China

Phylloid algae arc important rcef-builders in the late Carboniferous. This paper focuses on the paleoecology of phylloid algae in the Late Carboniferous on well-exposed reefs in Ziyun County, Guizhou Province. Phylloid algae growing closely packed arc attached via holdfast or similar structure to substrate. They were growing in environments such as shallow water, photic zone and below the wave base with medium energy currents. They have a variety of morphological forms, such as single cup-shaped, cabbage-shaped and clustering cup-shaped. The thalli arc of certain tenacity and intensity. In the areas dominated by phylloid algae, other marine orgam＇sms arc relatively scarce. Obviously, phylloid algae arc stronger competitors for living space than other co-occurring organisms.     

上扬子克拉通南缘中泥盆统--石炭系高频层序及复合海平面变化

上扬子克拉通南缘中泥盆统-石炭系地层高频层序可以划分为三个级别,并与层序地层学术语可以对比:六级层序-韵律层;五级层序-准层序;四级层序-准层序组。不同级别高频层序的形成受米兰柯维奇驱动力引起的具不同周期和频率的复合海平面变化控制。克拉通边缘沉积环境中,低频海平面变化的上升阶段形成以淹没节拍为主的高频层序,而在停滞至下降阶段形成以暴露节拍为主的高频层序。所以,通过对不同特征的高频层序及垂向叠加的分析,可以求解低频海平面的变化。     

上扬子克拉通南缘中泥盆统-石炭系高频层序及复合海平面变化

上扬子克拉通南缘中泥盆统—石炭系地层高频层序可以划分为三个级别 ,并与层序地层学术语可以对比 :六级层序—韵律层 ;五级层序—准层序 ;四级层序—准层序组。不同级别高频层序的形成受米兰柯维奇驱动力引起的具不同周期和频率的复合海平面变化控制。克拉通边缘沉积环境中 ,低频海平面变化的上升阶段形成以淹没节拍为主的高频层序 ,而在停滞至下降阶段形成以暴露节拍为主的高频层序。所以 ,通过对不同特征的高频层序及垂向叠加的分析 ,可以求解低频海平面的变化     

The Gramscatho Basin, south Cornwall, UK: Devonian active margin successions

Deep marine deposits of the Gramscatho Basin of south Cornwall reflect two tectonic regimes; Early to Middle Devonian rifting of continental lithosphere with formation of oceanic lithosphere to the south, and Middle Devonian to earliest Carboniferous convergence along its southern margin. Sediments on thinned continental crust to the north and oceanic lithosphere to the south were juxtaposed in the Late Devonian when nappes of deep water flysch and olistostrome were thrust up on to the northern continental margin of the basin. Basin closure was accommodated by forward propagating thrust nappes, accompanied by penecontemporaneous sedimentation. The stratigraphical sequences of major nappes illustrate the progradation of flysch with climactic sedimentation of olistostrome in late Mid- to Late Devonian times. The Lizard Complex, including the Lizard ophiolite, within that nappe stack, constitutes part of one of the GCR sites which are largely in the allochthonous rocks. Many of those sites feature the olistostrome, Roseland Breccia Formation, with its great variety of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic clasts (up to 1.5 km), and the association of ocean floor basalt and penecontemporaneous acidic volcanics indicative of the coming together of oceanic and continental plates. A site at the top of the parautochthonous continental margin succession displays the erosion products of the youngest nappe as it emerged and advanced across the sediment surface, marking closure of the oceanised Gramscatho Basin and continental collision.     

U-Pb systematics of an Upper Carboniferous black shale from South Yorkshire, UK

Open-system behaviour of uraniferous shales, which has been known for many years, has discouraged attempts to use U-Pb geochronology to date sedimentary systems. Techniques now available can facilitate better understanding of their geochemical evolution and their possible use in geochronometry. For the U-rich Alton (G. listeri) Marine Band, a combined fission track mapping, electron optical and sequential chemical extraction study confirms that uranium is incorporated into francolite, an early diagenetic precipitate. U-Pb analyses of uranium-rich (>1000 ppm) francolite nodules are discordant and imply ages ∼50-150 Ma younger than the date of sedimentation. Pb isotopic analysis suggests that uranium daughters continually leaked from the francolite, ²³⁸U daughters being released more efficiently than those of ²³⁵U. Extrapolation of the U-Pb data to concordia produces an age consistent with the time of sedimentation. These features are also displayed by other uranium-rich shales such as the Swedish Kolm Measures, despite uranium being incorporated into different phases. Preferential loss of ²³⁸U daughters from fine-grained particles due to alpha recoil could explain the unusual U-Pb isotopic composition, in both examples. Further work would be justified to investigate the application of U-Pb isotopic analysis of such material to date sedimentary sequences.     

The metamorphic evolution of garnet-cordierite-sillimanite-gneisses of the Gruf-Complex,Eastern Pennine Alps

Metapelitic gneisses occuring as lenses and bands within the migmatites of the Gruf-Complex in the eastern Pennine Alps contain various combinations of the minerals quartz, biotite, cordierite, garnet, sillimanite, plagioclase. K-feldspar, spinel, orthopyroxene, anthophyllite and muscovite. The most common rock type is represented by a darkschistosebiotiterichcordierite-garnet-sillimanite-gneiss. A consistent pressure-temperature range of 3–4 kb and 600–650° C has been calculated for the last metamorphic equilibration from six geological thermobarometers. However, from textural evidence it may be concluded that the rocks were at both higher temperatures and pressures prior to the PT-conditions calculated from thermobarometry. Although the maximum conditions reached are unknown and earlier stages are poorly preserved it is suggested that they coincide with the maximum conditions deduced from rare occurrences of sapphirine granulite in the Gruf-Complex. These are 10 kb and 800° C (Droop and Bucher 1983). Sillimanite+K-feldspar, orthopyroxene+quartz, spinel+quartz and garnet-K-feldspar persisting in rocks with low activity of H₂O are strong evidence for this. The H₂O required to make the observed high degree of equilibration at 3–4 kb and 600–650° C possible was presumably released by crystallizing migmatitic melts present in the quartzo-feldspathic gneisses of the Gruf-Complex. Further evidence comes from the PT-coordinates of the H₂O-saturated muscovite granite solidus which coincides with the high temperature limits of inferred equilibration above and which the rocks must have crossed along the decompression and cooling path during their metamorphic evolution.     

黔南独山石炭系层序地层及麦粒(竹蜓)带冰川型全球海平面变化

应用露头层序地层学原理和方法,对黔南独山地区碳酸盐岩为主的石炭系著名剖面进行了重新研究.识别出10个三级层序,其中岩关阶2个,大塘阶3个,威宁阶2个,马平组3个,大部分可以在台地和斜坡带追踪对比.在晚石炭世Triticites(Tr)带内识别出17个副层序和相应的海平面变化旋回,可以与北美中大陆同期17个四级层序和相应的海侵-海退旋回对比.黔南和北美中大陆之间存在相同的冰川型全球海平面变化和不同的构造背景,是出现上述现象的主要原因.     

塔中地区石炭系东河砂岩层序地层研究

东河砂岩是沉积于早海西期角度不整合面之上的第一套旋回性地层单元，它是由最底部的低水位体系域（ＬＳＴ）、海侵体系域（ＴＳＴ）及高水位体系域组成的Ⅰ类标准沉积层序，相当于三级海平面旋回的沉积地层。ＬＳＴ以缺失其早期的盆底扇、斜坡楔状体等为特征，仅发育其晚期的陆上河流充填沉积；ＴＳＴ中不发育凝缩层段，副层序在垂向上以弱退积至加积方式堆叠。一个完整的海平面相对升降旋回导致区内不同时期、不同地区的沉积体系及沉积特征不同。     

辽东太子河流域中石炭世若干生物礁的发现及研究

辽东太子河流域中石炭统本溪组中发现了若干个生物礁。造礁生物为Chaetetes Penchiensis和Arach nastraeaman chrita。太子河流域的几个生物礁在生物组成、造礁方式和礁石特征等诸方面完全一致。在宏观上呈不连续天带状展布。与区域沉积相带展布方向相同。因此,本文认为它们同属一个岸礁体系。     

南沙海区曾母盆地地层系统

曾母盆地是南沙海区研究和勘探程度较高的盆地, 其地层系统一直是建立整个南沙海区地层系统的重要依据.然而由于盆地沉积厚度大和横向相变快等原因, 对曾母盆地的分层方案和地层时代的认识存在很大分歧.为了给曾母盆地甚至南沙海区的油气勘探中地层划分对比和地震剖面的解释提供基础依据, 在搜集整理和分析国外有钻井控制的地震剖面和分层方案的基础上, 提出了一个实用的、便于与南海北部盆地对比的曾母盆地地层划分对比方案.将中海油对南海北部诸盆地制定的一套地层界面编号系统和地矿部广州海洋地质局对曾母盆地地层的命名结合起来, 并根据国外在曾母盆地获得的钻探和联井地震测线资料对界面的时代作了一定调整, 将曾母盆地基底以上的地层划分为4组1群(曾母组、立地组、海宁组、南康组、北康群), 之间由5个重要不整合面(T_g、T₆₀、T₄₀、T₃₂、T₃₀) 相分隔.还将该方案与国内外其他方案进行了对比和讨论, 以供阅读有关资料时参考.为了方便将这套地层系统应用于地震剖面的解释和分析, 用实例显示了同一地层中由于地层相变而造成的地震相的巨大变化, 以及各重要不整合面的特征及其在地震剖面上的表现.      

准噶尔盆地车排子地区石炭系火山碎屑岩储层特征研究

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