Ar-Ar geochronology of Late Mesozoic volcanic rocks from the Yanji area, NE China and tectonic implications

Ar-Ar dating results of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic volcanic rocks from the Yanji area, NE China provide a new volcano-sedimentary stratigraphic framework. The previously defined “Triassic-Jurassic” volcanic rocks (including those from Sanxianling, Tuntianying, Tianqiaoling and Jingouling Fms.) were erupted during 118―106 Ma, corresponding to Early Cretaceous. The new eruption age span is slightly younger than the main stage (130―120 Ma) of the extensive magmatism in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt and its adjacent regions. Subduction-related adakites occurring in the previously defined Quanshuicun Fm. were extruded at ca. 55 Ma. Based on these new Ar-Ar ages, the late Mesozoic to Palaeocene volcano-sedimentary sequences is rebuilt as: Tuopangou Fm., Sanxianling/Tuntianying Fm. (118―115 Ma), Malugou/Tianqiaoling Fm. (K1), Huoshanyan/Jingouling Fm. (108―106 Ma), Changcai Fm. (K2), Quanshuicun Fm. (~55 Ma) and Dalazi Fm. Our results suggest that subduction of the Pa- laeo-Pacific Ocean beneath the East Asian continental margin occurred during 106 to 55 Ma, consistent with the paleomagnetic observations and magmatic records which indicated that the Izanagi-Farallon ridge subduction beneath the southwestern Japan took place during 95―65 Ma.     

Pediment response to drainage basin evolution in south-central Arizona

The Sonoran Desert portion of the Basin and Range physiographic province contains a number of streams that now flow across once-closed basins. We explore here the research questions of if and how granitic rock pediments respond to the transition from rimming endorheic basins to bordering through-flowing streams. Granitic rock pediments of the northern Usery and eastern McDowell Mountains once graded to the closed Miocene–Pliocene Pemberton basin that occupied the present-day location of the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers. The process of lake overflow, which integrated these rivers, first aggraded fill terraces that, in turn, caused aggradation of a mantle of transported grus on bedrock pediments. Subsequent episodic incision of the Salt and Verde rivers lowered the base level; this led to the development of erosional features such as rolling topography of a degrading pediment mantle; exposure of the former piedmont angle and its associated zones of enhanced bedrock decay and regolith carbonate; and exposure of spheroidally weathered bedrock and emerging tors, some of which experienced 20^th century erosion. The granitic pediments of the former Pemberton Basin, which now transport grus to the Salt and Verde rivers, have actively adjusted to aggradational and degradational events associated with drainage integration and do not appear to be inherited from an ancient wet climatic interval.     

柴达木盆地北缘中、新生代构造演化探讨

本文通过近年来的地震反射信息研究,对柴达木盆地北缘中、新生代地质构造演化进行了分析,透过红山地区这个窗口,揭示柴达木盆地内中、新生代两个世代的构造成因类型,展示二者叠置关系和构造样式,认为该区存在先张后压的演化历史,且后期挤压作用破坏和改造早期拉张构造样式,从而更有效地指导盆地中生代油气藏的勘探。     

陆相断陷盆地超厚煤层异地堆积的新模式

在云南先锋盆地和小龙潭盆地的超厚煤层中, 有丰富的异地成因的沉积学标志.这些成因标志揭示了2种新的异地堆积亚模式, 即“先锋亚模式”和“小龙潭亚模式”.其中, “先锋亚模式”可归纳为“湖相植物碎屑扇三角洲-水下重力流二次堆积”; “小龙潭亚模式”可归纳为“湖相植物碎屑三角洲-水下重力流二次堆积”.综合这2种亚模式及笔者原先所建立的“阜新亚模式”和“抚顺亚模式”, 可以进一步概括出完整的中国中、新生代内陆断陷盆地超厚煤层的“异地-微异地二次湖泊复合堆积模式”, 即“腐植型植物碎屑河流远源搬运→植物碎屑扇三角洲或植物碎屑三角洲沉积+湖泊漂浮异地植物碎屑沉积+湖滨沼泽泥炭微异地堆积+湖泊原地藻类泥炭原地堆积+泥质碎屑或砂质碎屑或生物壳屑沉积→洪水、弱风暴流或水下重力流的混合和搬运作用→植物碎屑与无机碎屑的机械分异和再沉积”.      

Faith and Doubt in an American Working Landscape: The Importance of Scale,Work, and Place in Rural Development Planning

The term “working landscape” (WL) is increasingly used by American planners and policy makers to describe the rural places and livelihoods they aim to shape. This paper draws from a mixed-methods study of WL language as a collective action frame in the state of Vermont, where WL has been formalized into policy. Natural resource leaders and professionals share a common definition of WL that is supported by four key beliefs. However, interviews conducted in two representative farming communities suggest that landuse practitioners have not adopted WL language, and in some cases are skeptical of its meaning. The analysis explores potential explanations for the failure of the WL collective action frame to resonate across scales. The paper argues for a bottom-up planning approach that produces working landscapes policies that allow for diverse forms of work and accommodate the specificities of place.     

青藏羌塘盆地中、新生代火山岩同位素地球化学特征及其意义

通过对羌塘盆地火山岩（含少数侵入岩）的 锶（Sr）、钕（Nd）和铅（Pb）同位素地球化学的研究,获得中、新生代不同类型火山 岩和花岗岩类Sr同位素比值大多数为０706～0710 , 〖HT5”SS〗ε〖HT5”SS〗 N d 值 为-054～-81,均为负值, 206Pb/204Pb值为 171493～ 190313, 207Pb/204Pb值为154350～15666,208Pb/2 04Pb值为 37566~39072。根据同位素地球化学特征,中生代火山岩 物质主要 来源于富集地幔区和下地壳,原始岩浆为壳幔混合型,可能与造山带的岛弧—活动陆缘环 境 有关。早第三纪火山岩岩浆来自富集幔源区,与大陆拉张环境有关。第四纪火山岩形成于高 钾熔岩区内,与俯冲环境有关。总之,本区的火山岩中生代为造山带火山岩,新生代（主要 为早第三纪）为大陆裂谷带火山岩。     

福建晋江中-基性岩墙群的锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年和岩石地球化学

福建晋江晚中生代中-基性岩墙群可分为两期:早期岩墙群,岩性为角闪辉绿岩,近东西走向(N70-85E),锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄为90±2Ma;晚期岩墙群,岩性为微晶闪长岩,北东走向(N35～50E),锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄为87±2Ma。两期岩墙群沿晚中生代花岗片麻岩的节理侵入。在地球化学上,它们具有轻稀土元素和大离子亲石元素富集、高场强元素亏损等特点,I_(Sr)=0．7045～0．7053,ε_(Nd)(t)=-1．18～-1．97,与金门、小金门岛的镁铁质岩墙群相似,也和闽东南晚中生代基性火成岩(辉长岩、玄武岩)的一致。它们是起源于受消减作用影响的岩石圈地幔部分熔融而产生的玄武岩浆,经岩浆分异作用,在拉张的构造环境中侵入形成。     

Lithospheric Stretching,Subsidence and Thermal History Modeling: Application to Yinggehai,Qiongdongnan and Songliao Basins in East China

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Very slow erosion rates and landscape preservation across the southwestern slope of the Ladakh Range,India

Erosion rates are key to quantifying the timescales over which different topographic and geomorphic domains develop in mountain landscapes. Geomorphic and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) methods were used to determine erosion rates of the arid, tectonically quiescent Ladakh Range, northern India. Five different geomorphic domains are identified and erosion rates are determined for three of the domains using TCN ¹⁰Be concentrations. Along the range divide between 5600 and 5700 m above sea level (asl), bedrock tors in the periglacial domain are eroding at 5.0 ± 0.5 to 13.1 ± 1.2 meters per million years (m/m.y.)., principally by frost shattering. At lower elevation in the unglaciated domain, erosion rates for tributary catchments vary between 0.8 ± 0.1 and 2.0 ± 0.3 m/m.y. Bedrock along interfluvial ridge crests between 3900 and 5100 m asl that separate these tributary catchments yield erosion rates <0.7 ± 0.1 m/m.y. and the dominant form of bedrock erosion is chemical weathering and grusification. Erosion rates are fastest where glaciers conditioned hillslopes above 5100 m asl by over‐steepening slopes and glacial debris is being evacuated by the fluvial network. For range divide tors, the long‐term duration of the erosion rate is considered to be 40–120 ky. By evaluating measured ¹⁰Be concentrations in tors along a model ¹⁰Be production curve, an average of ~24 cm is lost instantaneously every ~40 ky. Small (<4 km²) unglaciated tributary catchments and their interfluve bedrock have received very little precipitation since ~300 ka and the long‐term duration of their erosion rates is 300–750 ky and >850 ky, respectively. These results highlight the persistence of very slow erosion in different geomorphic domains across the southwestern slope of the Ladakh Range, which on the scale of the orogen records spatial changes in the locus of deformation and the development of an orogenic rain shadow north of the Greater Himalaya. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.