Earthquake event deposits in Mesoproterozoic Kunyang Group in central Yunnan Province and its geological implications

Earthquake and its resultant tsunami, as a kind of disaster events in geological history, may be recorded as event deposits of seismite and tsunamite. Typical characteristics of seismite and tsunamite, including seismo-fracture bed, synsedimentary microfracture, micro-corrugated lamination, molar tooth structure, hummocky bedding, occurs in Mesoproterozoic Dalongkou Formation of Kunyang Group in central Yunnan Province. Three types of sedimentary units have been recognized: seismite (unit-A, including limestone with molar tooth structure, seismic shattering rock, seismic corrugated rock, autoclastic breccia and intraclastic parabreccia), tsunamite (unit-B, intraclastic limestone with hummocky or parallel beddings) and background deposits (unit-C). Various stackings of these units construct three distinct sedimentary sequences: A-B-C, A-C and B-C. A-B-C represents an event sedimentary sequence of earthquake-tsunami-background deposits, A-C represents the sequence of earthquake and background deposits (no tsunami occurring), and B-C represents the sequence of tsunami and background deposits (far from the center of earthquake). As the central Yunnan Province was located in a tectonic setting of rift basin in Mesoproterozoic Era, the earthquake event deposits of the Dalongkou Formation are sedimentary response to tectonic activity of the rift basin.     

A preliminary study of NW Zhejiang foreland fold and thrust belt in Southeast China

The Upper Permian Dalong Formation (P₂d) and Changxing Formation (P₂C), and the Lower Triassic Zhengtang Formation (Tlz) are of deep-water turbidites. The sedimentary features of the NW Zhejiang are of SE-dipping passive continental margin from the Paleozoic to the early Triassic. Together with the foreland molasse basin during the late Triassic (T₃w), the tectonics of the NW Zhejiang is characterised by a tectogenesis which took place in the middle Triassic. From SE to NW, the structural style varies from multi-duplex, antiformal stack to imbricate fans, and then to Jura Mountain-type fold zone with fold-style varying gradually from large-scale tight fold to midscale chevron fold, then to cylindrical fold, reviewing a preliminary scenario of foreland fold and thrust belt. The space-distributed structures and the tectonic vergence indicate the significance of deformation in (T1-T₃). Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences.     

阿拉善地块北缘恩格尔乌苏地区发现志留纪侵入体

阿拉善地块北缘地区位于中亚造山带的南缘中段,连接了兴蒙造山带和北山造山带等构造单元,其古生代的构造演化对于中亚造山带南缘构造单元的对比连接具有重要的意义,是研究中亚造山带古生代构造演化的关键位置。统计归纳近年来阿拉善地块北缘地区的年代学数据发现,该地区的岩浆活动主要集中在晚古生代期间,特别是二叠期间,尚没有早古生代侵入岩的报道。恩格尔乌苏蛇绿混杂岩是阿拉善地块北缘地区出露的一条重要蛇绿岩带,本次研究在该混杂岩带中发现了早古生代的黑云母花岗岩。通过锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb年代学测试发现其时代为423±4.5 Ma和434±1Ma,代表了其岩浆结晶年龄,表明该侵入岩形成于志留纪期间,是阿拉善地块北缘地区最早发现的早古生代侵入体之一。该志留纪岩体的发现,表明恩格尔乌苏混杂岩在带志留纪期间已经出现岩浆活动,具有多期活动的特征。该志留纪岩体的发现,是研究、认识阿拉善地块北缘地区早古生代构造环境的重要对象,对于连接对比东、西相邻构造单元具有重要的意义。结合相邻白山组地层的碎屑锆石时代及晚泥盆世侵入岩的发现等研究成果推断,阿拉善地块北缘地区在早古生代开始就存在岩浆活动,该地区可能并非是早古生代的稳定被动大陆边缘。     

北山北部双井子复式岩体年代学、地球化学及其大地构造意义

北山造山带位于中亚造山带南缘中段地区,连接了东西部构造单元,具有重要的大地构造意义。白山构造带位于北山南北构造单元的结合部位,该构造带广泛出露的侵入岩对于认识北山北部地区晚古生代的构造演化具有重要意义。本次研究针对白山构造带中双井子岩体进行了岩石学、地球化学和锆石U-Pb年代学及Hf同位素研究。双井子花岗闪长岩和钾长花岗岩的LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄分别为284.9±1.5 Ma和327.6±1.6 Ma。地球化学研究发现两者都表现出弱过铝质、钙碱性I型花岗岩的特征,并都表现出轻、重稀土元素的分异,且相对富集大离子亲石元素,亏损高场强元素。另外,锆石Hf同位素研究表明两者都具有高的εHf(t)值(5.87~12.24),以及相对年轻的锆石Hf同位素二阶段模式年龄(tDM2=510~961 Ma),表明了双井子岩体应来源于新生下地壳重熔的产物,并且其母岩浆在形成过程过程中可能受到亏损地幔物质的混染,也暗示了北山北部地区在晚石炭世—早二叠世经历了强烈的陆壳生长过程。北山北部地区的红石山蛇绿岩及白山组火山岩的研究成果表明两者都具有俯冲带岩石的特征,表明了白山构造带在石炭纪—中二叠世期间仍处于大洋俯冲阶段。通过本次研究所得数据以及相关的研究成果推测双井子侵入岩应形成于红石山蛇绿岩所代表的古大洋向南俯冲过程。     

Heterogeneity of water-retention capacity of forest and its influencing factors based on meta-analysis in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

Water retention is important in forest ecosystem services.The heterogeneity analysis of water-retention capacity and its influencing factors is of great significance for the construction of water-retention functional areas,restoration of vegetation,and the protection of forest ecosystems in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.A total of 1366 records concerning water-retention capacity in the canopy layer,litter layer,and soil layer of forest ecosystem in this region were obtained from 193 literature published from 1980 to 2017.The influencing factors of water-retention capacity in each layer were analyzed,and path analysis was used to investigate the contribution of the factors to the water-retention capacity of the three layers.The results showed that mixed forests had the highest water-retention capacity,followed by broad-leaved forests,coniferous forests,and shrub forests.In addition,no matter the forest type,the ranking of the water-retention capacity was soil layer,canopy layer,and litter layer from high to low.The main influencing factors of water-retention capacity in forest canopy were leaf area index and maximum daily precipitation(R2=0.49),and the influencing coeffi-cients were 0.34 and 0.30,respectively.The main influencing factors of water-retention ca-pacity in the litter layer were semi-decomposed litter(R2=0.51),and the influencing coefficient was 0.51.The main influencing factors of water-retention capacity in the soil layer were non-capillary porosity and soil depth(R2=0.61),the influencing coefficients were 0.60 and 0.38, respectively.This study verifies the simulation of the water balance model or inversion of remote sensing of the water-retention capacity at the site scale,and provides scientific basis for further study of the impact of global change on water retention.     

新疆西昆仑库地混杂带中基性火山岩构造环境分析

库地北一些克沟基性火山岩是西昆仑库地蛇绿岩的重要组成单元之一，而有关其形成的构造环境仍存在很多争议，由此影响了对该蛇绿岩性质、形成和演化方面的深入认识。笔者在野外对一些克沟基性火山岩地质剖面进行了详细的观察，在综合前人研究资料的基础上，利用地球化学(主量、微量及稀土元素)及Sm／Nd同位素分析等数据对其构造背景进行了多种手段相结合的判别和分析，确定其形成的构造环境为洋内弧，从而为进一步确定库地蛇绿岩的形成环境提供了新的佐证。     

Geochemical and isotopic constraints on the role of juvenile crust and magma mixing in the UDMA magmatism,Iran: evidence from mafic microgranular enclaves and cogenetic granitoids in the Zafarghand igneous complex

International Journal of Earth Sciences - The Zafarghand Igneous Complex is composed of granite, granodiorite, diorite, and gabbro that contain many mafic microgranular enclaves. This complex was...     

Rhenium-Osmium Isotope Constraints on the Origin of the Tianyu Cu-Ni Deposit in the East Tianshan Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, NW China

The Tianyu Cu-Ni sulfide deposit occurs in the north margin of the Central Tianshan Arc in East Tianshan orogenic belt, Xinjiang, NW China. The intrusions consist of gabbro, peridotite, and olivine pyroxenite. The peridotite and pyroxenite are the main host rock for the Cu-Ni ores. Rhenium and osmium isotopic analyses of Ni- and Cu-bearing sulfide minerals from the deposit have been used to determine the source of osmium, and by inference, the sources of ore metals. Sulfide ore samples have Os and Re concentrations varying in the ranges 1.85 to 4.58 ppb and 93.56 to 146.00 ppb, respectively. An initial 187Os/188Os ratio ranges from 0.86 to 1.23 for the ores and the γOs values from 592 to 2227. Osmium isotopic data suggest that the Tianyu intrusion and associated Cu-Ni mineralization has derived from crustal-contaminated mantle melts. The intrusions early show island-arc geochemical signatures, which indicate that the Hulu mafic–ultramafic intrusions, along with the Cu-Ni deposit, formed as a result of subduction of oceanic crust in the Early Permian.     

Multi-Method Chronometric Constraints on the Thermal Evolution of the Central Tianshan, NW China

<正>The Tianshan orogenic belt is a major part of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt(CAOB),extending from west to east for over 2500 km through Uzbekistan,Tajikistan,Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to Xinjiang in NW China,and contains the record of multi-phase tectonothermal evolution.Till now,various research methods have been employed to reveal the exhumation     

Development of quantitative methods for detecting climate contributions to boundary shifts in farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China

The quantitative effect of climate change on fragile regions has been a hot topic in the field of responses to climate change. Previous studies have qualitatively documented the impacts of climate change on boundary shifts in the farming-pastoral ecotone (FPE); however, the quantitative methods for detecting climate contributions remain relatively limited. Based on long-term data of meteorological stations and interpretations of land use since 1970, climate and land use boundaries of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s were delineated. To detect climate contributions to the FPE boundary shifts, we developed two quantitative methods to explore the spatial-temporal pattern of climate and land use boundary at the east-west (or south-north) (FishNet method) and transect directions (Digital Shoreline Analysis System, DSAS method). The results indicated that significant differences were exhibited in climate boundaries, land use boundaries, as well as climate contributions in different regions during different periods. The northwest FPE had smaller variations, while the northeast FPE had greater shifts. In the northwest part of the southeast fringe of the Greater Hinggan Mountains and the Inner Mongolian Plateau, the shifts of climate boundaries were significantly related to the land use boundaries. The climate contributions at an east-west direction ranged from 10.7% to 44.4%, and those at a south-north direction varied from 4.7% to 55.9%. The majority of the results from the DSAS were consistent with those from the FishNet. The DSAS method is more accurate and suitable for precise detection at a small scale, whereas the FishNet method is simple to conduct statistical analysis rapidly and directly at a large scale. Our research will be helpful to adapt to climate change, to develop the productive potential, as well as to protect the environment of the FPE in northern China.