东昆仑热水钼多金属矿床辉钼矿Re Os同位素年龄及地质意义

热水钼多金属矿床位于青海省东昆仑造山带东段,是近年来新发现的一处斑岩型钼矿床。该矿床钼矿体主要分为四个矿带,矿体呈条带状,脉状等产出,矿石矿物以辉钼矿为主,围岩蚀变较为发育,具有一定分带性,呈面型蚀变,线性排布特征。本文通过Re-Os同位素定年方法对钼矿区6件辉钼矿样品进行了精确年龄测定,其模式年龄介于229.4±3.1~230.6±3.1Ma之间,年龄分布范围较为集中,平均为230.17Ma,等时线年龄为228.6±7.9Ma,MSWD=0.25,模式年龄加权平均值为230.2±2.5Ma,MSWD=0.025,表明成矿作用形成于印支期。6件辉钼矿样品Re含量介于13.02×10~(-6)~17.7×10~(-6),指示成矿物质可能主要来源为壳幔混合。结合已有成矿年龄研究,认为东昆仑造山带印支期成矿作用强烈,主要可分为两期,印支早期与印支晚期,形成一系列矿床,在印支晚期后碰撞阶段与岩浆热液相关的矿床具有较大成矿潜力。     

青海东昆仑哈西亚图铁多金属矿区石英闪长岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄和岩石地球化学特征

东昆仑地区是青海省重要的夕卡岩型铁多金属矿成矿带,哈西亚图铁多金属矿是近年来首例在东昆仑金水口岩群中发现的与中酸性岩体有关的夕卡岩型矿床,目前铁、金、锌矿已达中型。其成矿作用与矿区东北部石英闪长岩关系密切,矿体产于石英闪长岩的外接触带。采用LA-ICP-MS同位素测定技术,测得石英闪长岩锆石U-Pb年龄为246.8±1.8Ma(MSWD=0.074),形成于早三叠世,表明东昆仑地区早三叠世存在夕卡岩成矿作用。地球化学研究表明,石英闪长岩为高钾钙碱性系列,具有安第斯型活动大陆边缘火成岩的构造属性。研究认为,石英闪长岩是阿尼玛卿洋盆向北俯冲,致使壳幔岩浆发生混合,后经侵位、结晶分异形成的。     

Avoidance response of sediment living amphipods to zinc pyrithione as a measure of sediment toxicity

An avoidance test was developed using non-cultured individuals of the sediment dwelling amphipod Monoporeia affinis. As test substance we used zinc pyrithione, an antifouling agent and a common shampoo ingredient. The toxicity to Daphnia and fish is well known but sediment toxicity of this very hydrophobic compound is less known. The preference of juvenile M. affinis was tested in jars, each including 12 petri dishes. In each replicate, half of the petri dishes contained sediment mixed with six concentrations ranging from 0 to 10microg zinc pyrithione per L sediment and half of the petri dishes contained the corresponding sediment-substance mixture plus an extra food addition. The amphipods significantly avoided petri dishes with the three highest concentrations of zinc pyrithione and the calculated EC(50) was 9.65microgL(-1) sediment. No difference in mortality was observed between concentrations. Using the avoidance behaviour in sediment toxicity testing is a simple and cost-effective screening for toxicants.     

Method for assessing the chronic toxicity of marine and estuarine sediment-associated contaminants using the amphipod Corophium volutator

Acute sediment toxicity tests do not test key life stage events such as moulting and reproduction and therefore do not reveal the longer-term effects of contaminant exposure. A laboratory method is described for determining the chronic toxicity of contaminants associated with whole sediments. The test is conducted using neonates of the estuarine amphipod Corophium volutator at 15 degrees C, salinity 25 psu and a 12 h light:12 h dark photoperiod. The endpoints are survival and growth after 28 days and survival, growth and reproduction of amphipods upon termination of test i.e. reproduction within all control vessels (ca 75 days). The sediment chronic toxicity test was used to investigate the effects of sediments spiked with environmentally relevant preparations of slightly weathered Alaskan North Slope crude oil, including a water-accommodated-fraction (WAF) and a chemically-dispersed (Corexit 9527) WAF. Sediment oil concentrations were quantified using ultra-violet fluorescence. The amphipods exposed to chemically dispersed oil had higher mortality and lower growth rates than control-, Corexit 9527- and WAF-exposed organisms, resulting in reduced reproduction. The described method supplements the standard acute sediment test and would be particularly useful when long-term ecological effects are suspected but acute tests reveal no significant mortality. The sediment chronic test reported herein has shown that sediment that was not evidently toxic during 10-day acute tests could have population-level effects on sediment-dwelling amphipods.     

Source and profile of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in shellfish in Daya Bay, South China Sea

Changes in cell density and cyst flux of Alexandrium tamarense, paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxin contents in shellfishes, and environmental parameters were measured in two stations in Daya Bay, South China Sea from March 2005 to July 2006. Vegetative cells of A. tamarense occurred sporadically; however, they presented abundantly during the winter months. Meanwhile, cyst flux reached its maximum level just following the peak abundance of motile cells. The PSP contents in shellfish were generally low, but higher in winter with the maximum of 14,015 μg STX equiv./kg. The majority of toxins were found in digestive glands, with a maximum of 66,227 μg STX equiv./kg. There were significant positive relationships between toxin level and vegetative cell density and cyst flux. This indicates that vegetative cells and cysts of Alexandrium significantly influenced PSP level, and could be an important source of PSP toxins in shellfish during winter.     

Assessment of organotin contamination in marine sediments and biota from the Gulf and adjacent region

Butyltin species were measured in sediments from coastal locations in the Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Both butyltin and phenyltin species were measured in biota samples from four countries in this region. With tributyltin (TBT) concentrations up to 60 ngSng(-1), some sediments could be classified as contaminated (i.e. TBT>1.3 ngSng(-1)), namely Dukhan (Qatar), the BAPCO industrial complex and Askar (Bahrain), and Hilf and the Raysut Port Area (Oman). Higher concentrations of total butyltins were found in oysters relative to fish, but ranging from 6.5 to 488 ngSng(-1) dry weight they are nonetheless relatively low. Diphenyltin and triphenyltin were found in some fish and bivalves from the Gulf, but not in biota from the Gulf of Oman. The environmental levels of organotin species are comparatively low by global standards and pose no immediate public health problems.     

Estimating hydraulic parameters when poroelastic effects are significant

For almost 80 years, deformation-induced head changes caused by poroelastic effects have been observed during pumping tests in multilayered aquifer-aquitard systems. As water in the aquifer is released from compressive storage during pumping, the aquifer is deformed both in the horizontal and vertical directions. This deformation in the pumped aquifer causes deformation in the adjacent layers, resulting in changes in pore pressure that may produce drawdown curves that differ significantly from those predicted by traditional groundwater theory. Although these deformation-induced head changes have been analyzed in several studies by poroelasticity theory, there are at present no practical guidelines for the interpretation of pumping test data influenced by these effects. To investigate the impact that poroelastic effects during pumping tests have on the estimation of hydraulic parameters, we generate synthetic data for three different aquifer-aquitard settings using a poroelasticity model, and then analyze the synthetic data using type curves and parameter estimation techniques, both of which are based on traditional groundwater theory and do not account for poroelastic effects. Results show that even when poroelastic effects result in significant deformation-induced head changes, it is possible to obtain reasonable estimates of hydraulic parameters using methods based on traditional groundwater theory, as long as pumping is sufficiently long so that deformation-induced effects have largely dissipated.