杭州湾北岸金山三岛地貌类型与分布规律

对金山三岛地貌类型和分布规律进行了系统的研究,其完整的地貌单元从陆域向海域依次为陆地地貌、潮间带地貌、水下岸坡和海底地貌.陆地为剥蚀侵蚀丘陵或孤丘,基本地貌单元包括丘顶、山坡、陡崖、平台和断裂谷等.潮间带分为高潮滩、中潮滩和低潮滩,基本地貌单元包括海蚀崖、海蚀平台、海蚀洞、海蚀柱等海蚀地貌(又称岩滩),以及砾石滩、沙砾滩等堆积地貌.水下岸坡环岛发育,进一步分为侵蚀岸坡、稳定岸坡和堆积岸坡.海底地貌包括海底平原和海底潮流冲刷槽.     

扬子浅滩东南海域海底潮流沙脊、沙波特征

利用seabat8101多波束系统对扬子浅滩东南海底地形进行了高精度探测。发现海底呈明显近乎平行排列的条带状起伏,脊谷相间,沙脊大部分呈NW-SE向排列,发育在45~50 m水深范围之内,沙脊横剖面不对称,大部分沙脊西南侧坡度大、东北坡缓。沙脊规模略有差异,沙脊宽度约0.6~9.8 km,沙脊之间间距可达8.9~22.4 km,高度约1.8~13.3 m,研究区内最长可达53 km。部分脊槽过渡区域发育成片链状海底沙波,沙波大致呈NE-SW走向,波高约0.3~1 m,波长1 km左右。研究区中西部有海底礁石孤立地突兀于相对平坦的海底之上,暂定名为扬礁,最浅水深35.9 m,位于30°59'7.4'~31°N,124°36'48.7'~124°37'40'E。扬子浅滩东南海域沙脊是介于活动沙脊和衰亡沙脊之间的准活动沙脊。该研究将为我国海洋开发和海洋经济发展、海洋行政管理以及海洋安全保障提供服务。     

日本八重山岛南部黑岛海底丘的钙质烟囱

利用ＪＡＭＳＴＥＣ深海牵引器照相系统（１９９６）“海豚３Ｋ”和“Ｓｈｉｎｋａｉ２０００”（１９９７）完成了八重山岛近海黑岛海底丘（深度６４３～２５９０ｍ）的潜水调查。在海底丘的顶部和南部丘底发现了包括管状蠕虫的Ｃａｌｙｐ ｔｏｇｅｎａ群落 ,在海底丘顶部化能自养群落周围还发现了许多钙质烟囱、钙质砂砾管、碳酸盐壳。钙质烟囱和碳酸盐壳主要由细粒的陆源物（如石英砂和粘土矿物）组成 ,泥晶胶结。钙质烟囱不仅以碎屑形式出现 ,而且也以伴随着死亡Ｃａｌｙｐｔｏｇｅｎａ群落的原地“纯”生物烟囱的形式出现 ,它们表现为…     

公元前2．5万年西南亚得里亚海陆缘Gondola滑坡引发海啸的可能性

亚得里亚海西南陆缘,从陆架外缘到陆坡底部150km范围内,有多处边坡失稳的证据。上陆坡显示有多个陡峭的滑坡后壁,它们出现在向盆内缓倾的更新世海退序列的压实沉积单元中。在海底,Gondola滑坡是最明显的滑坡堆积,断块大,明显的滑痕（10km×2．5km）延伸到了陆架外缘（现今的深度约为180km,但滑塌时的古深度约为50m）,约4．5km3的滑体移动的最大距离达到了50km。     

日本海东缘海洋天然气水合物矿藏之上的甲烷羽状流--地下甲烷运移到浅水的可能机制

在日本海会聚边缘的东侧,第三纪沉积物厚度大、有机质丰富,是日本最好的油气区。2003—2004年,在对该区南部的Naoetsu盆地中的UT-04海岭进行调查时,日本METI和JOG-MEC意外地发现了与气体活动有关的较大的麻坑、浅表层含气沉积物以及充气泥丘。高精度地震调查证实海底之下约170     

海底水合物丘与泥火山的演化特征及其对天然气水合物聚集的影响

海底水合物丘与泥火山均属于不同相态流体向上运移排出至地表过程中的产物,与这2种特殊地质体相关的浅表层天然气水合物具有独特的成藏过程和赋存规律,同时,它们也都是富碳流体排放的重要途径.然而,由于对这2种地质体缺少系统的调查,加之对浅表层天然气水合物资源和碳泄漏过程的研究程度不高,当前在海底水合物丘与泥火山特征刻画及准确甄...     

海底滑坡及其反射地震识别综述

<正>海底滑坡是一种重要的地质营力,对于海底地貌塑造、海底沉积物搬运和沉积具有重要意义[1],对于油气和水合物的聚集成藏亦具有重要的影响[2-7]。同时,由于海底滑坡破坏海底的稳定性,其对海底工程(如海底光缆、海上石油钻井平台等)和环境也构成潜在的威胁[8-9]。因此,近年来海底滑坡研究正越来越受到工业界和学术界的关注。由于沉积物在海底滑移时受到的浮力较大,海底滑坡的规模通常要比陆地滑坡大很多[10]。目前全球范围内记录在案的最大海底滑坡是发生在南非海上的Agulhas滑坡,其滑移距离超过140 km,作为单一滑坡事件,它所搬运的沉积物的体积高达20 000 km[11]。人     

日本发现世界上含金、银率最高的热水矿床

日本通产省工业技术院地质调查所,最近在冲绳本岛附近海底,发现金、银含有率为世界最高的热水矿床。是在世界热水矿床中,水深最浅,开发最有希望、经济价值最高的矿床。热永矿床是从海底喷出的热水中所含有的重金属等,成为硫化物,固结在海底的。热水矿床是有希望的海底矿物资源,已引起各国重视。此番确认的热水矿床在冲绳西北约110km、水深约1400m 的冲绳海沟处。是日本与西德于1988年共同发现的。这个矿床含有与日本生产金银的“黑矿”,具有相同物质。通过1.5t 矿石分析,黑矿部分,每 t 含金14g,含银11kg。     

北吕宋海槽深海滑坡沉积及其分布特征

通过浅地层剖面和多波束地形资料的精细解释,在北吕宋海槽中部发现了一个规模约500 km2,平均厚20多米的海底滑坡沉积。通过对该滑坡体的物源及其沉积环境分析,将整个滑坡体沉积分为末端区和前缘区两个部分。从滑坡体与周围地层的叠置关系及火山弧喷发的历史来看,初步认为该海底滑坡是地震造成的。该滑坡体的发现对深化深水滑坡体的认识具有重要作用。     

海底烃类渗漏的地球物理识别

海底烃类渗漏在向上运移过程中会改变深部地层和海底表层沉积物的声学性质,在地震和浅地层剖面上会形成各种可能指示烃类渗漏的地球物理标志。渗漏烃到达海底后会改变海底表面形态,形成与海底烃类渗漏有关的表面特征,如麻坑构造、海底凸起、海底古河道、碳酸盐丘、硬地面、泥火山以及表面断层等。渗漏烃进入海水后在继续上升过程中会形成气泡、渗漏羽,到达海面后会形成表面油膜。利用侧扫声纳、多波束测深和浅地层剖面可以探测到与海底烃类渗漏有关的表面特征。合成孔径雷达能够识别因海底烃类渗漏形成的海水表面油膜。海底烃类渗漏的地球物理标志是间接的,必须通过地球化学校验才能确定渗漏的存在。     

A near-bottom survey of lineated abyssal hills in the equatorial pacific

A 250 km² area of abyssal hills in the vicinity of 14°N, 126°W (between the Clarion and Clipperton Fracture Zones in the Equatorial Pacific) was surveyed in detail using an instrument package towed close to the deep sea floor, the MPL Deep Tow device. Both topography and near bottom magnetic field are lineated perpendicular to the major fracture zones. Except for a few localized depressions, the sediment surface is generally smooth and of low relief with maximum elevation differences of 200 m and slopes of six degrees. Several small graben-like troughs and depressions were observed, most of them near the crest of one abyssal hill. The largest trough is two kilometers long, 250 m wide and 50 m deep with steep sides (>30°). These troughs are tentatively interpreted as the result of tensional separation at the tops of the hills caused by down-slope creep and consolidation of the pelagic sediments.Contribution of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, new series.     

Structural geomorphology of a fast-spreading rise crest: The East Pacific Rise near 3°25′S

A deeply-towed instrument package was used in a detailed survey of the crest of the East Pacific Rise (EPR) near 3°25S, where the Pacific and Nazca plates are separating at 152 mm/yr. A single 90 km-long traverse of the rise crest extends near-bottom observations onto the rise flanks. A ridge at the spreading axis is defined by its steep regional slopes, probably caused by rapid crustal contraction as the spreading magma chamber freezes, rather than by outward-facing fault scarps. It can be divided into a marginal horst-and-graben zone with low (<50 m), symmetric fault blocks, and a 2 km-wide elongate axial shield volcano that is unfaulted except for a narrow crestal rift zone. This has a summit graben (10–35 m deep) probably formed by caldera collapse, and narrow pillow basalt walls built over vent fissures. Small, low (<50 m) volcanic peaks occur on the shield volcano and the horst-and-graben zone, and some may have been built away from the spreading axis. Major plate-building lava flows issue from the crestal rift zone and flow an average of 500 m down the sides of the volcano. The marginal horst-and-graben zone results from tensional faulting of a thin crust of lava, and evolves by progressive shearing on inclined fault planes. Crustal extension continues at least as far as 20 km from the axis, and the large, long fault blocks formed in thicker crust beyond the subaxial magma chamber develop into abyssal hills. Pelagic sedimentation, at a maximum rate of 22 m/10⁶ years, gradually infills open fissures and smooths the small-scale roughness of the fault blocks. Off-axis volcanism has also resulted in smoother crust, and built seamounts.Comparison of the EPR at 3°25S with the Famous Rift and Galapagos Rift reveals a similarity in the processes and small-scale landforms at fast, medium and slow-spreading ridges. There are significant differences in the medium-scale landforms, probably because plate-boundary volcanic and tectonic processes act on crust of very different strength, thickness, and age.Contribution of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, new series.     

Données géomorphologiques sur la région de Fresh Creek,Ile Andros (Bahama)

A geomorphological study of the east coast of Andros (Fresh Creek area) shows the existence of a paleotopography represented by low-altitude hills (few metres). This paleotopography is protected by the presence of a calcitic Quaternary crust which covers Pleistocene calcarenite.In the western part of the area, there are long woody axes, oriented NE-SW, parallel to the channels of the creek. They end at two kilometres from the coast, along which is a second kind of lower hills, orthogonal to the first.The first axes can be interpreted as megaripples as seen at the present time on modern deposits (on the Great Bahama Bank) and fossilized by the upper crust. The second direction is made by accretion ripples along the coast.The surface of the Bahamian calcarenite has been studied. The Bahamian karst presents two topographical forms: “blue holes” like those outside the island, which are 60–80 m in diameter and both sparse and deep; and “washtub” dolines; these are numerous and shallow, and, from low altitude, exhibit a honeycombed aspect on the surface. This karstic topography with dolines and blue holes is also seen through the water of the Creek the hard bottom of which is covered only here and there with a few centimetres of sediments. Hence, there is a submerged karstic topography, made of the same elements as the aerial karst, but submerged by the Holocene transgression. The present karstic relief, in relation with the different eustatic levels of the Quaternary, has begun 120,000 years ago, according to the isotopic ages, and might be composed by different steps, difficult to show now, in the topography.The blue holes in the interior of the island of young and little evolved karst, were formed more by solution than by collapse of the karstic caves, because of the absence of a real river to drain the Andros shelf at the time of low sea levels. Blue holes of the inside of the island, as they are called, with submarine openings, have the same salinity as the water of the creek (17.5 g/l). The dolines with very low salinity (0.7 g/l to 3.8 g/l) are filled with stromatolites and charophytes, slowly forming sediments made up essentially of high-magnesian calcite.It seems that the Andros Island karst can be compared with that of the Yucatan, where there are round and deep open pits, called cenote, of which the Bahamian equivalent would be the blue holes which were drowned by the Holocene transgression.     

Seamount chains formed near the crest of Juan de Fuca Ridge,northeast Pacific Ocean

Heck and Heckle are seamount chains trending approximately northwest on the western flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge near its northern end. Evidence from magnetic anomalies and from chemistry and relative ages of dredged basalt suggests that the seamounts in these chains are produced near the spreading centre on Juan de Fuca Ridge and do not continue to grow as they are carried away by sea-floor spreading. Their development is possibly related to transverse fractures on Juan de Fuca Ridge resulting from reorientation of the ridge from north to north-northeast which began about 8 m.y. ago, combined with tension in the Pacific Plate. In contrast the Eickelberg Chain to the south may have been produced by a fixed-mantle plume now located near Juan de Fuca Ridge, as suggested by limited basalt geochemistry and by the long and productive life of that chain. The Pratt-Welker Chain may also have been produced by a mantle plume, but most other seamounts on the western flanks of Juan de Fuca and Explorer ridges are thought to have formed at crustal fractures near the spreading centres in the same way as the seamounts of the Heck and Heckle chains.     

Potassium-argon/argon-40-argon-39 geochronology of Cenozoic alkali basalts from the South China Sea

Based on the isotopic chronologic results of Cenozoic alkali basalts from the South China Sea, the characteristics of volcanic activi- ty of the South China Sea after spreading were studied. The potassium - argon ages of eight alkali basalt samples from the South China Sea, and the argon - argon ages of two samples among them are reported. Apparent ages of the whole rock are 3.80 to 7. 91 Ma with an average value of 5.43 Ma （potassium- argon, whole rock）, and there is little difference among samples at the same location, e. g. , 4. 76 - 5.78 Ma for location S（M-12. The argon - argon ages for the two samples are 6.06 and 4. 71 Ma, which lie within the age scope of potassium - argon method. The dating results indicate that rock-forming age is from late Miocene to Pliocene, which is consistent with erupting event for alkali basalts from adjacent regions of the South China Sea. Volcanic activities occur after the cessation of spreading of the South China Sea, which are controlled by lithospheric fault and the spreading center formed during the spreading period of the South China Sea. These dating results, combined with geochemical characteristics of these basalts, the published chronological data for the South China Sea and its adjacent regions, and the updated geophysical data near Hainan Island, suggest that after the cessation of spreading of the South China Sea, there occur widely distributing magmatic activities which primarily is alkali basalt, and the volcanic activity continues to Quaternary. The activity may be relative to Hainan mantle plume originated from core/mantle boundary.     

马里亚纳海槽热液区岩石矿物学和岩石化学特征研究

马里亚纳海槽中央轴裂谷中的小扩张脊部位 ,广布火山喷发的玄武岩体 ,海底热液硫化物就是从这些岩体的裂隙中喷溢堆积起来的。利用我国“大洋一号”船拖网所获岩样进行了矿物学和岩石化学特征研究 ,认定为高铝低钾的大洋底玄武岩或拉斑玄武岩系列和钙 -碱玄武岩。为进一步弄清马里亚纳海槽区热液活动岩石学条件和探讨海槽区热液物质来源提供科学证据     

末次冰期鄱阳湖西南缘地区的风尘堆积

鄱阳湖湖滨沙山是末次冰期特定气候条件下季风活动所产生的风成沙丘沉积体。在调查鄱阳湖沙山的过程中,发现位于鄱阳湖南部沙山下风方向的丰城—樟树—新余一带岗丘顶部几米厚的第四纪堆积地层,虽然颜色明显偏红,但地层性状及沉积学特征却与北方风成黄土及宁镇下蜀黄土有着很大的相似性。通过对具代表性的新余打鼓岭剖面进行分析,确认其成因系风力搬运而成的粉尘堆积。结合冬季风路径上沉积物粒度的空间变化特征,初步提出鄱阳湖沙山与新余一带风尘红土堆积是在末次冰期特定气候条件下,冬季风作用所形成的风沙-风尘堆积系统。鄱阳湖风成沙丘及其西南缘风尘沉积的发育是晚更新世末期江南鄱阳湖区气候环境恶化的佐证,也是对我国西北地区沙漠-黄土堆积过程的区域响应。     

中太平洋海山玄武岩的岩石学特征与年代

玄武岩在中太平洋海山分布广泛, 且普遍存在风化蚀变现象.对测区内玄武岩样品的岩石学特征研究表明, 玄武岩具斑状结构, 基质以间粒结构为主.斑晶矿物为基性斜长石、单斜辉石和伊丁石化橄榄石.基质矿物为斜长石、辉石、橄榄石、铁矿物、磷灰石、玻璃及次生矿物等. 各海山玄武岩同属碱性玄武岩系列, 并为钾质类型玄武岩, 它们的形成基本上处于同一地质构造环境中.稀土元素分析结果为轻稀土富集型, 轻重稀土在岩石形成过程中发生了不同程度的分异作用.CM5海山玄武岩比其他海山年代相对较老（60 Ma）.     

南马里亚纳海槽岩石学特征

南马里亚纳海槽岩性比较复杂：有玄武岩，根据标准矿物组合，进一步划分为碱性玄武岩，橄揽拉斑玄武岩和石英拉斑玄武岩；火山碎屑岩，包括凝灰岩和角砾凝灰岩；以及方辉橄榄岩．大部分玄武岩样品是距今五百万年以后形成的，个别岩石样品的形成年龄为八百万年左右．不同类型的玄武岩是含Ｈ２Ｏ的地幔岩块在底辟上升过程中，局部熔融、分离的产物；火山碎屑岩是火山喷发的火山灰、火山砾被水化学分解的物质胶结而成；方辉橄榄岩是地幔岩浆底辟上升直接侵入结晶的产物．     

Analysis of a fast-spreading rise crest: The East Pacific Rise, 9° to 12° south

The axis of the East Pacific Rise is defined by a topographic block about 15 km wide and 300 to 350 m high which is flanked by abyssal hills 100 to 200 m high and 3 to 5 km wide. These hills often are tilted such that their steep slopes face the axis. An empirical model explaining these features combines axial extrusion to form the central block and rotational faulting to lower the shoulders of the axial block to the regional depth and tilt them outward.The axial block is offset about 10 km left-laterally at 10.0°S and a similar amount right-laterally at 11.5°S. Offsets (or lack of offsets) of young magnetic anomalies indicate that these axial displacements occurred between 1.7 and 0.9 m.y. ago and 0.7 m.y. ago and the present in the north and south. respectively. These small axial offsets are interpreted to be the result of either brief episodes of asymmetric see-floor spreading or discrete jumps in the site of spreading activity. Both axial shifts were to the west; a unidirectional sequence of such shifts occurring at the above rate of one per million years would be difficult to differentiate from true regional asymmetric spreading and might explain that phenomenon on other medium-to fast-spreading rises.Reconnaissance data from the east flank of the East Pacific Rise indicate that spreading activity began on that part of the rise between the 9°S and 13.5°S fracture zones approximately 8.2 m.y. ago when the site of crustal accretion jumped westward from the now dormant Galapagos Rise. Slope change in crust approximately 2 and 6 m.y. old imply faster spreading rates between about 6 and 2 m.y. ago than either before or after that time. Identification and correlation of anomaly 3 allows an estimate of about 90 mm/y for this higher east flank spreading rate. Since 1.7 m.y. ago spreading rates have averaged about 80 mm/y to the west and 77 mm/y to the east.