Largest Toothed Pterosaur Skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning,China, with Comments on the Family Boreopteridae

A new pterosaur Moganopterus zhuiana gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on a complete skull with lower jaws and anterior cervical vertebrae. It is characterized by much elongated upper and lower jaws with at least 62 total, long, curved teeth with sharp tips, a well developed parietal crest extending posterodorsally, forming an angle of 15 degrees with the ventral margin of the skull, the ratio of length to width of cervical vertebrae greater than 5:1. The skull length is 750 mm, and it is the largest toothed pterosaur found so far in the world. Based on this new pterosaur, the Boreopteridae can be divided into two subgroups: Boreopterinae sub-fam. nov. and Moganopterinae sub-fam. nov., which is also confirmed by the phylogenetic analysis.     

青藏高原冰川对气候变化的响应及趋势预测

青藏高原是世界上中低纬度地区最大的现代冰川分布区,这里冰川末端在近百年来总的进退变化趋势是退缩,但在本世纪初至20～30年代和70～80年代间多数冰川曾出现过稳定甚至前进。对比近百年来气候变化,冰川变化虽然滞后于温度变化,但它们之间存在着很好的对应关系,多数冰川对温度变化滞后时间在10～20年间。根据80年代以来平均物质净平衡值,大致将青藏高原划分为:内部为平衡或正平衡区;向外为负平衡区;边缘为强负平衡区。以冰川对气候响应滞后关系预测,在今后10～20年间,青藏高原边缘冰川末端仍继续处于后退,而高原内部冰川末端位置变化不大。     

贵州黑色岩系金-铂族元素地球化学特征及成因分析

为探讨贵州下寒武统黑色岩系中铂族元素物质来源及钼-镍、钒多金属形成的沉积环境与成矿作用,在钼-镍、钒多金属层及其顶底页岩、底部硅质岩中采集样品测试分析。通过对样品中金、铂族元素含量(质量分数)及其地球化学特征值研究,结果表明：黑色岩系中金及铂族元素含量显示协同变化特征;Pd富集,Ru、Ir亏损明显,Pt、Rh、Os基本持平或略有变化;样品的原始地幔标准值标准化模式配分曲线从Os、Ru、Rh、Ir、Pt到Pd大致呈“W”型,配分曲线略呈左倾,总体上呈现w(Pd)>w(Pt)>w(Os)>w(Rh)>w(Ru)>w(Ir)的变化关系;黑色岩系铂族元素来源与正常海水及海底热水喷流作用关系密切,地外来源可能性极小;黑色岩系钼-镍、钒多金属层中铂族元素的富集存在单独成矿作用或成矿作用的叠加,而且在钒多金属层内局部存在分层或条带分异。     

A Special Orogenic-type Rare Earth Element Deposit in Maoniuping, Sichuan, China: Geology and Geochemistry

Abstract: The Maoniuping REE deposit is the second largest light rare earth elements deposit in China, explored recently in the northern Jinpingshan Mountains, a Cenozoic intracontinental orogenic belt in southwestern China. It is a vein-type deposit hosted within, and genetically related to, carbonatite-alkalic complex. Field investigation and new geochemical data of the carbonatites from the carbonatite-alkalic complex support an igneous origin for the Maoniuping carbonatites and related REE mineralization. Carbonatite itself carries rare earth elements which were enriched by hydrothermal solution.
It is known that most of the REE deposits related to carbonatite-alkalic complexes were formed in relatively stable tectonic setting such as cratonic or rifting environment. The Maoniuping deposit, however, was formed during the processes of Cenozoic orogeny. Although the Maoniuping deposit is located in the north sector of the Panxi paleo-rift zone, the rift had been closed before early Cenozoic and evolved into an intracontinental orogenic belt, i.e., the Jinpingshan Orogen, which was formed since later Mesozoic to early Cenozoic. Geochronological and geochemical data also prove that the Maoniuping REE deposit was formed in an intracontinental orogenic belt instead of rift system or stationary block.
The Maoniuping REE deposit is similar to the Mountain Pass REE deposit in many respects such as the high contents of bastnaesite and barite, the low content of niobium, and the common occurrence of sulfides. The discovery of the Maoniuping deposit and other REE deposits during the past two decades suggest a good potential for prospecting REE deposits along the alkalic complex belt located on the eastern side of the Qinghai–Xizang–West Sichuan Plateau.     

Quaternary Climate and Environment in the Lop Nur, Xinjiang

Since the middle Early Pleistocene (1.20 Ma B.P.), the desert steppe climate and environment have predominated in the Lop Nur area, Xinjiang, characterized by warm humid epochs interrupted by dry cold intervals. The grain-size and magnetic susceptibility curves record 30 climatic oscillations, each with a ca. 40 ka cycle, in the area since 1.2 Ma B.P., which reflects the controlling effects exerted by the astronomic factor on the environment. The Quaternary sedimentary environment in the Lop Nur gradually changed from a fresh lake through a brackish lake to a saline lake, showing a spiral evolution, and finally it evolved into a playa.     

相关和频谱分析法在岩溶系统中的应用研究综述

岩溶含水层由多重含水介质组成,具有高度的非均质性,从系统角度出发,将岩溶系统看作是一个过滤器,将降雨作为输入信号,泉流量、水位、电导率、浊度等物理化学参数作为输出量进行相关和频谱分析是认识岩溶系统内部结构特征的有效方法。文章综述了相关和频谱分析法在岩溶系统研究中的应用,首先介绍了相关和频谱分析法基本理论的形成、发展过程和研究意义,然后总结了如何根据不同的研究目的选择相关和频谱分析法使用的时间序列的长度、周期和类型,最后阐述了该方法应用于岩溶系统分析的局限性。      

哀牢山南段长安金矿深部找矿新进展

长安金矿床是"十五"期间云南省重大找矿突破之一。文章介绍了长安金矿床成矿地质背景、矿床地质特征、矿床类型、控矿因素等方面的新认识,提出了矿床主矿体并非受控于中上志留统与下奥陶统之间的加里东期不整合面,而是受控于NNW向陡立的F6断裂破碎带,属于构造破碎蚀变岩型金矿";通过采用TEM+IP物探方法圈定深部低阻、高充电率异常带,并结合成矿地质因素确定深部找矿空间,深部找矿工作获得新突破,扩大了资源∕储量。     

夏季黄河下游地区中尺度对流系统的气候特征分布

利用1996~2008年逐小时卫星资料、NCEP再分析资料及统计方法, 研究了位于黄河下游地区的中尺度对流系统(Mesoscale Convective System, 简称MCS)的气候特征, 其中包括中尺度对流复合体(Mesoscale Convective Complex, 简称MCC)、持续拉长状对流系统(Permanent Elongated Convective System, 简称PECS)、β中尺度对流复合体(Meso-β Scale MCC, 简称MβCCS>)、β中尺度持续拉长状对流系统(Meso-β Scale PECS, 简称MβECS)4类。结果表明:MCC和PECS是黄河下游地区影响夏季降水的主要MCS, 其中7月份MCC最多, 并且MCC的数量明显大于PECS;与发生在美国的MCS比较, 发生在黄河下游地区的MCC和PECS在成熟期的面积和平均偏心率较大、生命史较长, 但MβCCS和MβECS的生命史较短、平均偏心率变化不大;黄河下游地区PECS表现出成熟较快和消亡较慢的特征, 其最低相当[A1] 黑体温度 (BlackBody Temperature, 缩写为TBB) 平均值为-72℃, 比MCC低1℃左右, 生命史比MCC长0.9 h;在MCC的形成、成熟及消亡期, 其日循环特征均表现为明显的双峰特征, 而PECS却呈现出单峰特征;黄河下游地区MCC的发生时间主要集中在2个时段, 一个是在下午形成, 傍晚成熟, 凌晨消亡, 另一个则在后半夜形成, 凌晨成熟, 上午甚至中午才消亡;MCS具有明显的年际变化特点, 在MCS较少的1999年, 500 hPa的副热带高压偏南, 华北地区位势高度较常年明显偏高, 而在MCS较多的2001年, 副高异常偏强, 华北地区位势高度较常年明显偏低, 850 hPa上为一低压槽, 黄河下游地区主要受副高边缘的西南气流影响。     

持续拉伸型中尺度对流系统发生发展与江苏暴雨分析

利用自动气象站、卫星探测资料,NCEP/NCAR 1°×1°再分析资料等,从环流特征,动力、热力和水汽条件等对发生在江苏地区的两次梅汛期大暴雨过程的中尺度对流云团的发生、发展进行了分析。结果表明:这两次中尺度对流云团中均存在持续伸长型的中尺度对流系统(PECS),大暴雨区与T_BB<-70 ℃区域有较好的对应关系,有利的环境场形成的高空辐散、低空辐合和强烈的上升运动是PECS发生发展的重要条件。PECS云团处于200 hPa高空急流入口区右侧、西南低空急流左侧(切变线南侧),呈西南—东北向线状排列,低层暖湿不稳定气流诱发中尺度云团的产生,气旋性涡度场对积云对流活动具有组织和增强作用。当正涡度向垂直方向发展时,附近产生强烈的垂直上升运动,对应着中尺度PECS云团的强烈发展。强烈的对流不稳定有利于中尺度对流系统的发展,也有利于触发暴雨产生。     

江苏连续三次区域性浓雾形成过程的机理分析

本文利用常规观气象测资料、NCEP/NCAR再分析资料及风廓线雷达资料和能见度自动观测资料等对2013年12月上旬江苏省连续三次区域性浓雾的特征和发生发展机理进行了详细分析,重点对锋面冷却雾的形成过程进行了研究。结果表明:三次浓雾过程都发生在有利的环流形势下,但成因却显著不同。辐射雾主要由夜间地面辐射冷却配合高湿静风形成,边界层低空急流有利于逆温的形成,为浓雾发展、维持提供条件;平流雾是由海上暖湿平流流经江苏冷的下垫面而形成,东南气流输送充足的水汽、加上稳定的逆温层是平流雾形成的必要条件;锋面雾由冷锋前部的冷平流冷却效应而形成,浓雾主要发生在锋前,但冷锋入侵后,前期充分的水汽积累和动力辐合使锋后能见度依然较低,浓雾继续存在。