The combined application of organic sulphur and isotope geochemistry to assess multiple sources of palaeobiochemicals with identical carbon skeletons

Five immature sediments from a Messinian evaporitic basin, representing one evaporitic cycle, were studied using molecular organic sulphur and isotope geochemistry. It is shown that a specific carbon skeleton which is present in different "modes of occurrence" ("free" hydrocarbon, alkylthiophene, alkylthiolane, alkyldithiane, alkylthiane, and sulphur-bound in macromolecules) may have different biosynthetic precursors which are possibly derived from different biota. It is demonstrated that the mode of occurrence and the carbon isotopic composition of a sedimentary lipid can be used to "reconstruct" its biochemical precursor. This novel approach of recognition of the suite of palaeobiochemicals present during the time of deposition allows for identification of the biological sources with an unprecedented specificity.     

Budyko框架下黄河流域蒸散发时空变化影响因素研究

蒸散发是水循环过程中的重要环节,研究蒸散发时空变化影响因素,有利于认识区域水资源的时空分异规律。黄河流域地处干旱半干旱地区,水资源短缺且时空分布不均,水问题突出。在黄河流域分析蒸散发对变化环境的响应,揭示气候变化、植被季节性和物候变化的水文水资源效应,对地区水资源可持续发展和规划管理等具有重要的理论意义和现实意义。基于多元自适应回归样条(MARS)非参数模型,采用黄河流域内30个子流域的全球监测与模型研究组(GIMMS)制作的第三代归一化植被指数(NDVI_3g)数据集、气象数据、土壤数据、土地利用/覆盖数据以及地形地貌数据,在Budyko框架下分析了水热耦合控制参数■与环境变量因子的关联性,探讨了变化环境对流域蒸散发的影响机制。结果表明：(1)流域水平衡关系的空间变异与流域水热耦合季节性、地形地貌空间变异性、降水的季节性特征(平均暴雨深度和降水变异系数)显著相关。(2)年际尺度上：流域水热的不同步性是影响流域水平衡年际分异最重要的气候季节性指数,水热的不同步性增大,流域的蒸散比减小,产流增加;降水越集中、年内变异程度越高、降水的季节性越明显,流域蒸散比越小;植被的...     

Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification

A new route for the formation of gammacerane from tetrahymanol is proposed; in addition to dehydration and hydrogenation, sulphurisation and early C-S cleavage are shown to be important in the pathway of formation, especially in marine sediments. Evidence is twofold. First, relatively large amounts of the gammacerane skeleton are sequestered in S-rich macromolecular aggregates formed by natural sulphurisation of functionalised lipids. Selective cleavage of polysulphide linkages with MeLi/MeI led to formation of 3-methylthiogammacerane, indicating that the gammacerane skeleton is primarily bound via sulphur at position 3, consistent with the idea that tetrahymanol (or the corresponding ketone) is the precursor for gammacerane. Second, upon mild artificial maturation of two sediments using hydrous pyrolysis, gammacerane is released from S-rich macromolecular aggregates by cleavage of the relatively weak C-S bonds. The stable carbon isotopic compositions of gammacerane and lipids derived from primary producers and green sulphur bacteria in both the Miocene Gessoso-solfifera and Upper Jurassic Allgau Formations indicate that gammacerane is derived from bacterivorous ciliates which were partially feeding on green sulphur bacteria. This demonstrates that anaerobic ciliates living at or below the chemocline are important sources for gammacerane, consistent with the fact that ciliates only biosynthesize tetrahymanol if their diet is deprived of sterols. This leads to the conclusion that gammacerane is an indicator for water column stratification, which solves two current enigmas in gammacerane geochemistry. Firstly, it explains why gammacerane is often found in sediments deposited under hypersaline conditions but is not necessarily restricted to this type of deposits. Secondly, it explains why lacustrine deposits may contain abundant gammacerane since most lakes in the temperate climatic zones are stratified during summer.     

Vestiges of life in the oldest Greenland rocks? A review of early Archean geology in the Godthabsfjord region, and reappraisal of field evidence for > 3850 Ma life on Akilia

The Godth?bsfjord region of West Greenland contains the most extensive, best exposed and most intensely studied early Archean rocks on Earth. A geological record has been described of numerous magmatic events between ~3.9 and 3.6 Ga, and evidence of life at >3.85 Ga and ~3.8-3.7 Ga has been proposed from two widely-separated localities. Some of these claims have recently been questioned, and the nature of the best preserved remnants of the oldest known terrestrial volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the Isua greenstone belt are being reinvestigated and substantially reinterpreted. The first part of this article reviews the evolution of geological research and interpretations, outlining the techniques by which the geological history has been determined and the ensuing controversies. The second part re-examines crucial field evidence upon which the antiquity of the oldest terrestrial life is claimed from the island of Akilia.     

大密度地图地名配置专家系统

大密度地图地名配置专家系统［美］Ｊ．Ｓ．ＤｏｅｒｓｃｈｌｅｒＨ．Ｆｒｅｅｍａｎ１引言地图是对地理区域内地形要素的收集。这些要素能用符号、线条或边界描绘在地图上。地名对要素进行识别和分类，且把它们和它们的物理对应物联系起来。自动化的地图生产系统必须能对...