Starch grains from dental calculus reveal ancient plant foodstuffs at Chenqimogou site, Gansu Province

Chenqimogou site, located at the south bank of Tao River, is comprised of a large group of graves dated to ~4000 a BP. For its large scale, unique mortuary system, and abundant of typical artifacts, the site was named one of Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries of 2008 in China. Many intact human skeletons have been excavated from the graves. Three teeth from two adult skeletons excavated from graves M187 and M194 were examined. Forty-eight starch grains were retrieved from dental calculus of three teeth. Six...     

古老大陆岩石圈地幔再循环与蛇绿岩中铬铁矿床成因

不同地区、不同时代蛇绿岩中不同类型铬铁矿岩的Re-Os同位素研究表明,在铬铁矿石或围岩中均存在极度亏损的具有大陆岩石圈地幔属性的物质。新疆达拉布特古生代蛇绿岩带中萨尔托海富Al铬铁矿岩的Os同位素组成为0.1109～0.1256,对应的模式年龄为3.5～0.6Ga;西藏班公湖—怒江中生代蛇绿岩带中东巧富Cr铬铁矿石及围岩Os同位素组成介于0.1175～0.1261,对应的模式年龄为1.5～0.1Ga;雅鲁藏布江中生代蛇绿岩带中罗布莎富Cr铬铁矿岩的Os同位素变化范围为0.1038～0.1266,对应的模式年龄为3.37～0.28Ga,而该带中不含矿的泽当二辉橄榄岩的Os同位素组成为0.1256～0.1261,没有古老大陆岩石圈地幔属性的物质存在,与新特提斯洋地幔Os组成较为接近。推测在蛇绿岩形成过程中,古老大陆岩石圈地幔参与循环有利于形成铬铁矿床,明确提出"熔体与古老大陆岩石圈地幔反应成矿"的假说,指出蛇绿岩带中存在的古老微陆块可能是找矿的指示标志。     

长江流域不同地质生态环境土壤碳酸酐酶活性、有机碳含量及其相关性

为了探讨流域岩溶生态系统土壤碳酸酐酶(CA)活性、有机碳含量及CA固碳之间的潜在关系,选取长江流域干流及支流沿岸不同地质生态环境下的10个样地,比较长江流域不同地质生态环境下表层土壤(0~20cm)中的碳酸酐酶(CA)活性与土壤有机碳(SOC)含量,并分析二者之间的关系。结果表明:(1)长江流域岩溶区的表层土壤CA活性要高于非岩溶区(P0.01),土壤CA活性的差异与样地的地质类型及植被类型不同有关;(2)位于岩溶区高场(GC)样地的年平均SOC含量最高(1.09%),而位于非岩溶区外洲(WZ)样地的年平均SOC含量最低(0.29%),而且总体比较而言,长江流域冬季表层土壤的平均SOC含量显著高于夏季(P0.01);(3)相关性分析结果显示,不同季节长江流域岩溶区表层土壤CA活性与SOC含量呈一定的正相关。研究结果为进一步研究流域岩溶生态系统土壤CA与土壤固碳能力之间的关系奠定了基础。     

Preparation,characterization,and antifungal evaluation of a new type of aminourea chitooligosaccharide derivatives

Phytopathogenic fungi cause heavy negative impact on the agricultural economy,but most existing fungicides are toxic and pose a threat to both human health and environments.A green and efficient fungicide is urgently needed.Chitooligosaccharides(COSs),the degradation products of natural polysaccharide chitosan,are nontoxic and biodegradable antifungal substances.In this study,a novel type of aminourea chitooligosaccharide derivatives(AUCOS)was synthesized by successively grafting a hydrazine group and an amine-carbonyl group onto a chitooligosaccharide backbone to enhance the antifungal capability of COSs.The structures of the target compounds were identified by FTIR,1H NMR,and 13C NMR,and the degree of substitution of each product was calculated from the results of the elemental analysis.The antifungal activities of the prepared chitooligosaccharide derivatives against Fusarium solani,Verticillium albo-atrum and Phytophthora capsici were tested in vitro.The AUCOSs had better inhibitory efficiencies against the three plant pathogen fungi than that of chitooligosaccharide,of which aminourea chitooligosaccharide 2(AUCOS2)was the most promising antifungal compound,whose highest inhibition rates were 60.12%,82.95%,and 85.23%against F.solani,V.albo-atrum and P.capsici,respectively.The synthesized derivatives have good application prospects in crop protection and deserve further research.     

Petrogenesis of Songshugou dunite body in the Qinling orogenic belt,Central China: Constraints from geochemistry and melt inclusions

The chemical variation of the Earth’s mantle rocks has been interpreted to reflect multiple episodes of partial melting. With the increasing of melt generation and extraction, the readily molten minerals and incompatible elements decrease in the residual mantle peridotite. The present-day gladiate of the Earth, however, cannot cause mantle batch melting[1], nor 40% partial melting that allows pyroxenes to be completely dissolved into melt and forms dunite[2,3]. Recent studies show that mantl…     

Magnetic properties of Jiaxian red clay sequences from northern Chinese Loess Plateau and its paleoclimatic significance

Rock magnetism research on eolian deposits from the Chinese Loess Plateau shows that magnetite, maghe- mite and hematite are the main magnetic minerals in loess-paleosol sequences and red clay se-quences[1―8], and finds that the magnetic susceptibility increase is positively correlated to the content of ultra-fine minerals and relatively strong pedogene- sis[7―15]. This offers significant information in studying the Late Cenozoic paleoclimatic history of Chinese Loess Plateau[1,5―8,10―22…     

δ13C-δ18O Covariance: An Effective Indicator of Hydrological Closure for Lakes?

The correlation between the δ^13C and δ^13C-δ^18O in primary carbonates is affected by several factors such as hydrological balance, total CO2 concentrations, climatic condition and lake productivity. The influence of these factors on the δ^13C-δ^18O correlation may be different on different time scales. In this paper, two different-type lakes in southwestern China, Lake Erhai and Lake Chenghai, are selected to investigate the influence of climatic pattern on the δ^13C-δ^18O correlation and to evaluate the reliability of the δ^13C-δ^18O covariance as an indicator of hydrological closure. The results show that there exists good correlation between the δ^13C and δ^18O in Lake Erhai （overflowing open lake） and in Lake Chenghai （closed lake）. This suggests that the δ^13C-δ^18O covariance may be not an effective indicator of hydrological closure for lakes, especially on short time scales. On the one hand, a hydrologically open lake may display covariant δ^13C and δ^18O as a result of climatic influence. The particular alternate warm-dry and cold-wet climatic pattern in southwestern China may be the principal cause of the δ^13C-δ^18O covariance in Lake Erhai and Lake Chenghai. On the other hand, a hydrologically closed lake unnecessarily displays covariant trends between δ^13C and δ^18O because of the buffering effect of high CO2 concentration on the δ^13C shift in hyper-alkaline lakes. We should be prudent when we use the covariance between δ^13C and δ^18O to judge the hydrological closure of lake.     

Molecular structure parameters and thermal stabilities of benzocarbazoles

The distance between 4-H and adjacent H on the substitutional benzene ring in benzo[c]carbazole was calculated in terms of molecular structure parameters. The result showed that the distance is shorter than the sum of van der Vaals＇ radii of two hydrogen atoms. This means that there is a steric hinderance between them. This effect will make the bond angle stretch and the bond length extend, or cause the molecule to distort, thus making benzo[c]carbazoles become unstable in thermodynamics. On the contrary there is no such effect for benzo[a]carbazoles. This conclusion has been confirmed by the result of calculation of the distance between the same two atoms with software GaussView. So the skeleton of benzo[c]carbazoles in sediments may be breached or isomerized with increasing maturity. It is consistent with the decrease of the ratio of benzo[c]carbazole to benzo[a]carbazole in hydrocarbon migration, suggesting that [c]/[a] not only changes with the distance of migration, but also may be influenced by maturity.     

Au-Te Mineralisation of Sentyabr’sky Gold Deposit, Northeastern Russia

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