The initial collision between Indian and Asian continents marked the starting point for transformation of land-sea thermal contrast, uplift of the Tibet-Himalaya orogen, and climate change in Asia. In this paper, we review the published literatures from the past 30 years in order to draw consensus on the processes of initial collision and suturing that took place between the Indian and Asian plates. Following a comparison of the different methods that have been used to constrain the initial timing of collision, we propose that the tectono-sedimentary response in the peripheral foreland basin provides the most sensitive index of this event, and that paleomagnetism presents independent evidence as an alternative, reliable, and quantitative research method. In contrast to previous studies that have suggested collision between India and Asia started in Pakistan between ca. 55 Ma and 50 Ma and progressively closed eastwards, more recent researches have indicated that this major event first occurred in the center of the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone (YTSZ) between ca. 65 Ma and 63 Ma and then spreading both eastwards and westwards. While continental collision is a complicated process, including the processes of deformation, sedimentation, metamorphism, and magmatism, different researchers have tended to define the nature of this event based on their own understanding, an intuitive bias that has meant that its initial timing has remained controversial for decades. Here, we recommend the use of reconstructions of each geological event within the orogenic evolution sequence as this will allow interpretation of collision timing on the basis of multidisciplinary methods. 相似文献
A fluorescent sand-tracer experiment was performed at Comporta Beach (Portugal) with the aim of acquiring longshore sediment transport data on a reflective beach, the optimization of field and laboratory tracer procedures and the improvement of the conceptual model used to support tracer data interpretation.
The field experiment was performed on a mesotidal reflective beach face in low energetic conditions (significant wave height between 0.4 and 0.5 m). Two different colour tracers (orange and blue) were injected at low tide and sampled in the two subsequent low tides using a high resolution 3D grid extending 450 m alongshore and 30 m cross-shore. Marked sand was detected using an automatic digital image processing system developed in the scope of the present experiment.
Results for the two colour tracers show a remarkable coherence, with high recovery rates attesting data validity. Sand tracer displayed a high advection velocity, but with distinct vertical distribution patterns in the two tides: in the first tide there was a clear decrease in tracer advection velocity with depth while in the second tide, the tracer exhibited an almost uniform vertical velocity distribution. This differing behaviour suggests that, in the first tide, the tracer had not reached equilibrium within the transport system, pointing to a considerable time lag between injection and complete mixing. This issue has important implications for the interpretation of tracer data, indicating that short term tracer experiments tend to overestimate transport rates. In this work, therefore, longshore estimates were based on tracer results obtained during the second tide.
The estimated total longshore transport rate at Comporta Beach was 2 × 10− 3 m3/s, more than four times larger than predicted using standard empirical longshore formulas. This discrepancy, which results from the unusually large active moving layer observed during the experiment, confirms the idea that most common longshore transport equations under-estimate total sediment transport in plunging/surging waves. 相似文献
A series of enclosed ecosystem experiments were conducted in a land-based tank near the seaside of West Xiamen Harbor. The
results of experiments conducted in different seasons and years showed a repeatable phytoplankton succession. In this relatively
stable ecosystem with added nutrients and trace metals, diatoms dominated initially, dinoflagellates dominated in the later
stage, and dinoflagellate red tides eventually occurred. Vitamin B12 enrichment may speed up this succession process. Stirring the water column could stop this process. Soluble Mn at a level
of 3–4 μg/L in seawater, which also is the existing concentration of soluble Mn in Xiamen Harbor seawater, is sufficient for
the multiplication of algae and occurrence of red tide. The present study showed that excessive soluble Mn in Xiamen Harbor
cannot cause red tide, and that Fe was one of the important factors causing diatiom red tide in this present study.
Project 39570145 supported by NSFC. 相似文献
Marine geophysical data from around the submarine flanks of volcanic islands can potentially help to resolve whether large-scale
instability of an edifice has been geologically recently active. We use geophysical data to investigate part of the coast
of Pico Island of the Azores where, above sea-level, a major slump of Topo volcano has been interpreted previously from arcuate
escarpments and a rugged irregular topography seaward of them. Multibeam echo-sounder data collected offshore of this feature
show remarkably little evidence for slump fault movements in the island's submarine slope. Mid-slope benches, like those associated
with the Hilina Slump of Kilauea, are absent. The high-resolution data extends onto the island's shelf, allowing us to evaluate
evidence for continuing activity there. In particular, as the shelf's rock platform will have been last modified by surf erosion
during the postglacial period of sea-level transgression, it provides a reference surface of intermediate age (7–19 ka) that
can potentially reveal whether any movements occurred in pre-historic times. Where the arcuate escarpments are continued offshore,
the modern seabed shows no bathymetric evidence for active faults where the shelf rock platform crops out in the multibeam
data. Elsewhere, mobile shelf sediments could be disguising evidence for active faulting so we examined boomer profiles able
to image the rock platform beneath them. The data reveal a platform that is steep (6.6°) compared with the dips of platforms
that we have studied previously around the coast of adjacent Faial Island and steeper than the platform outside the proposed
slump. This suggests that it was created by coastal erosion over a shorter period and hence is consistent with a younger age
of the coastline. As with the multibeam data, where escarpments are continued offshore onto the shelf, the rock surface imaged
with these boomer data also shows no clear evidence of major slump-related fault displacements. This study therefore illustrates
how high-resolution boomer seismic and multibeam data could usefully contribute to hazard assessment of volcanic islands,
by helping to evaluate areas with no historical movements. Explanations to reconcile the onshore and offshore data here are
also put forward. 相似文献