贺兰山油松生长的气候响应机制初步探讨

应用VaganovShashkin模型对贺兰山油松的生长变化作了拟合,发现4～8月的降水量大小决定了该年树木生长的宽度变化,另外,除5月外的1～8月份温度和树木生长的负相关是因为较高的温度不利于土壤中水分的保持,间接地导致树木生长的减慢。VS模型在贺兰山地区取得了良好的拟合效果,更为符合树木生长的生理学意义。通过拟合序列和3个采样点树轮宽度序列的对比发现,拟合序列代表着一个较大范围树轮宽窄的变化。坡向对树木生长的影响较大,甚至超过了海拔高度和距离的影响,故建议树木年轮气候学采样应沿着同一坡向采样。     

Palaeodiet of Miocene Producers and Depositional Environments: Inferences from the First Evidence of Microcoprolites from India

This paper reviews research on coprolites from India, providing the first evidence of microcoprolites from the early Miocene (Aquitanian) Khari Nadi Formation sedimentary succession, exposed about 1.5 km northeast of the village of Kotada, Kachchh (Kutch) District, Gujarat State, western India. Morphometric and size comparisons (in a statistical framework) with known coprolites from the Mesozoic-Cenozoic successions of India (including those recorded herein) and globally suggest that fishes were the likely producers of the Kotada coprolites. Scanning electron microscopy confirms the presence of fish dental remains within the coprolites, while both Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) reveal the phosphatic nature of the microscopic coprolite specimens (recorded herein) hinting that the producer(s) were predominantly carnivorous (ichthyophagous) in their diet. Furthermore, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the host and associated lithologies allows us to deduce that the Kotada coprolites were deposited in a shallow marine environment, with possible aerial exposure of the host lithology occurring at some point after deposition. To the best of our knowledge, the present report is the first record of microscopic fish coprolites from India, as well as being the first from the Aquitanian of India and the oldest Neogene record from India.     

A Giant Gold System, Geita Greenstone Belt, Tanzania

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Origin OF Gold Ores in Black-Shale Hosted Deposits OF the Bodaybo Region,Russia

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