TEMPERATURE SEQUENCE AND ITS CHANGE FOR RECENT 200 YEARS IN THE MIDDLE REACHES OF THE TARIM RIVER

Based on the populus euphratica chronologies in the middle reaches of the Tarim River,the temperaturesequence in growing season of populus euphratica for recent 200 years at Shaya weather station is reconstructed,which can be regarded as evidence of warm-cold changes in recent 100 years in the middle reaches of theTarim River.     

Neptune: A marine micropaleontology database

Marine micropaleontology must in the future provide more precise chronologic and paleoenvironmental information, which in turn must be based on better, more consistent taxonomic and distributional data. Better tools for synthesis and standardization of this data are needed, as the ever expanding published literature is rapidly becoming unmanageable by purely manual compilation methods. The micropaleontology group at the ETH has developed a large relational database of marine microfossil data to partially meet this need. It currently contains biogeographic data on the distribution in Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) holes of nearly 8,000 species of Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera, radiolaria, diatoms and calcareous nannofossils. The database also includes full stratigraphic occurrence (range chart) data for these fossil groups from more than 100 selected Neogene holes. A particular feature of the database is that all sample information and species names in the original reports are linked to newly created, updatable, comprehensive age models and synonymy lists which reflect modern chronology and taxonomic usage. Searches of the database automatically make use of this information in producing reports. Species ' occurrences, including first and last occurrence information, can be further analyzed using external spreadsheet and statistics packages; plotted by mapping programs; or displayed by a new program which creates composite age-range charts.     

准噶尔盆地第三纪磁性地层柱的建立

通过对新疆准噶尔盆地第三系３个剖面古地磁样品的分析、测试，在生物地层学研究的基础上，建立了一条较为完整的第三纪磁性地层柱，标定了各组地质年代，为在不同盆地进行对比，提供了新的依据。     

High resolution time series of lead and zinc in sediments of Lake Constance

Sediments in Lake Constance have been dated by radiometric methods and lamination counting. Investigations into the concentrations of lead and zinc in the sediments were carried out to get detailed information about environmental history. Maximum concentrations were found at the beginning of the 1960's. The lead maximum contamination occurred 3 years before the zinc maximum and has an unidentified source. The use of coal, leaded gasoline or the remobilization within the sediment could be excluded to result in the lead maximum. The fluctuations in zinc contamination could be explained with increasing and decreasing pollution (industry, coal burning, building of sewage plants). The greatest fluctuations of both metals occur during periods of great change in the economic history of Germany.     

英峰岭红土-火山岩序列古地磁年代初步结果

夏商周断代工程的总目标是制订有科学依据的年表。研究途径主要有两条：1）根据古代天象记录，通过现代天文计算推定其年代；2）根据考古提供的系列样品作^14c年龄测定，转换成误差较小的、有考古内涵的历法年。天文推算可以得出年龄定点，^14C测年可以覆盖全面，建立起夏商周的年龄框架。两者结果互证，再同历史文献、考古研究等多学科综合研究，制订出夏商周三代年表。同过去相比，这应当是最有科学依据的。     

河北矾山钾质碱性超镁铁岩—正长岩杂岩体Sm—Nd年龄和Sr、Nd同位素特征

河北矾山侵入杂岩,由层状钾质超镁铁岩--正长岩组成,已知它含有大型磁铁矿磷灰石矿床.现在已测定了岩体的岩石和矿物的Sm-Nd同位素资料,并获得了杂岩体的Sm-Nd同位素年龄.4个矿物样品和2个全岩样品Sm-Nd等时线年龄为243.4±9.7Ma,INd=0.512045,εNd(t)=-5.4;4个矿物样品和7个全岩样品等时线年龄为239±19Ma,INd=0.512055,εNd(t)=-5.3.这些年龄资料表明,矾山岩体可能侵位于早三叠.而矾山岩体的Rb-Sr等时线年龄为218±8Ma,Isr=0.70554,εsr=18.4的事实可能暗示矾山岩体在中三叠才完全固结并达到Rb-Sr体系封闭的温度.上述矾山岩体的Sr、Nd同位素特征表明,矾山岩体的物质源自富集的上地幔.     

Lateral migration,thermoluminescence chronology and colour variation of longitudinal dunes near Birdsville in the Simpson Desert,central Australia

The longitudinal dunes of the Simpson Desert, in the vicinity of Birdsville, have been reworked largely during the Holocene from dunes deposited up to 80000 years ago or earlier. The widespread asymmetry of these roughly northward-trending dunes, with steeper eastern faces and more gentle western faces, supports wind-rose data showing sand-transporting winds from the southwest obliquely intersecting the dunes. While this suggests a change in the wind pattern since the dune field was oriented, it does not indicate that the dunes are necessarily shifting leeward (eastward) as a consequence. It is hypothesized that the direction of migration is controlled by the extent to which the dunes are vegetated. Relatively well-vegetated dunes can accrete sand on their gentle stoss slopes and erode on their lee slopes causing them to shift westward and hence obliquely into the wind, a condition that probably prevails in wetter regions and during episodes of relatively humid climate. In contrast, in very dry areas or during arid phases, sand can move unimpeded up a sparsely vegetated stoss face and over the crest to form an avalanche or slip face on the lee side, thereby causing the dunes to shift eastward. Despite evidence that longitudinal dune crests can shift laterally to some extent, the dunes in the western part of the Simpson Desert have not migrated, either westward or eastward, more than 100m or so from their Pleistocene cores. Aeolian transport and partial or complete removal of iron cutans from around quartz grains results in dunes of widely varying colour yet of similar age.     

辽宁核电站温坨子厂址东岗断裂活动性研究

本文在综合地质、地貌、地形变、地震、物探和年代测定等资料的基础上，对东岗断裂的活动性进行了全面分析。所得结果表明，东岗断裂性在中更新世时期有过两期活动，但自晚更新世（１０万年）以来没有活动，故可鉴定为非能动性断裂。     

河北坝上高原小滦河流域古土壤碳库地质成因和稳定性评价

土壤碳库是陆地生态系统中最大的碳库，以往研究主要针对现代土壤碳库，而古土壤的碳库特征研究相对薄弱。本文以河北坝上高原小滦河流域古土壤为研究对象，通过光释光（OSL）年代学、元素地球化学、团聚体分析方法，研究了风成沙地稀疏草地单元和河湖残积灌草混合单元内古土壤碳库特征。结果表明：古土壤形成时代为5. 7~3. 3 ka的全新世温暖期，气候温暖湿润，雨水充足，发育以松和蒿属为主要建群种的针叶林－草原植被。碳库以有机碳（SOC）为主，平均有机碳密度为3. 85 kg/m2，有机碳库储量为153. 1×107 kg。河湖相沉积物微团聚体的含量较高，对古土壤层碳库的物理保护作用较强，碳库稳定性较高；风积相沉积物微团聚体含量相对较低，加速有机碳的分解，碳库稳定性较差。提出不同沉积单元的土地利用保护方式，减少土壤有机碳的分解流失，支撑当地碳达峰、碳中和工作推进。     

北祁连山西段同位素测年概况

作者在广泛收集前人资料的基础上,通过课题研究工作,剔除了一些地点、岩性、测试不详及方法不系统的年龄数据,获得了一组有价值的同位素年代学数据。它们可以代表目前北祁连山西段同位素年代学研究的主要成果与认识,对研究本区盆地-构造-岩浆-热事件提供了重要成因信息。综合评价这一成果,方法较全面,数据有一定系统性,从而有力地支持了对本区各类地质体形成与演化的认识,解决在北祁连山西段科研、地质找矿以及区域地质调查中一些长期争议的地层时代问题,对推动本区成矿时代、热历史等问题研究的深入,有重要意义。