塔里木盆地侏罗系层序地层特征

通过野外露头资料、测井资料和地震资料分析,塔里木盆地侏罗系可识别出8个层序边界,除层序边界JSB6和JSB7为Ⅱ型外,其他均为Ⅰ型.层序界面上下常表现为沉积相突变或地层缺失.根据8个三级层序边界可识别出7个三级层序,即JSQ1～JSQ7,各层序在盆地内的分布却不均匀.JSQ1和JSQ2层序分布在阿克库勒凸起的于奇地区、...     

浅议塔河地区“东河砂岩”三角洲沉积

近年来在塔河地区钻揭了一套典型的河控三角洲相“东河砂岩”,它与东河塘、塔中和哈得逊等地区发现的前滨相和滨面相“东河砂岩”明显不同.钻井岩心上该套三角洲相砂岩表现为板状交错层理、平行层理厚砂体;粒度概率具有河道、河口坝微相特征;平面上地震振幅、反射强度斜率属性异常呈以S99、T728井为中心的“鸟足状”外形;古盐度测试结...     

巴尔喀什湖水量平衡研究

巴尔喀什-阿拉湖流域是中亚地区重要和独特的景观生态系统,巴尔喀什湖是该区域的核心,其水位变化作为巴尔喀什湖流域生态系统及其保护的主要指标,向来备受世人关注.研究巴尔喀什湖水量平衡,对合理确定巴尔喀什湖生态系统保护目标及保护措施,具有十分重要的理论与现实意义.在明晰巴尔喀什湖水系、水位影响因素的基础上,构建了巴尔喀什湖水...     

长江口水下三角洲沉积物记录的古环境演化

长江口水下三角洲60 m的HYZK5钻孔,揭示了末次冰期以来河流相、滨海湖沼相、河口湾-浅海相(前三角洲相)和水下汉道相的沉积环境演化.泥炭层形成于末次冰期的冷湿气候环境;有孔虫丰度的变化反映了12 000 cal.aBP以来海平面迅速上升,但在11 200～10 000 cal.aBP出现短暂的停顿.沉积物的粒度、磁...     

长江三角洲表层土壤Sn元素的空间分布特征 及影响因素

对长江三角洲地区表层土壤Sn含量的空间分布特征进行分析,发现土壤平均含Sn量为8.35mg/kg,远远高于全国A层土壤Sn的背景值2.6mg/kg,表层土壤中Sn空间分布不均匀,呈现由苏锡常、宁镇扬、杭嘉湖、宁绍等经济带增高的趋势。各种沉积环境、土壤类型中Sn的含量也较全国类似或同类沉积环境、土壤类型中Sn的含量高,显示了高背景的特点。人类活动影响强烈区表层土壤中Sn元素富集明显,90.39%的面积区表现出富集的特征,富集系数大于2的强富集区面积占44.03%。另外,Ag、Bi、Hg、P、Pb、Sb、Se、TOC等也与土壤Sn呈相关性,可能与土壤Sn的富集有成因联系。     

依-舒地堑汤原与方正断陷宝泉岭组二段沉积体系的异同

汤原断陷和方正断陷是位于依兰—舒兰地堑内两个主要的一级负向构造单元,表现为受东西两条深大断裂控制的双断式断陷。汤原断陷和方正断陷古近系宝泉岭组二段在相类似的构造与沉积背景下沉积特征有异同。共识别出3种主要沉积相类型：扇三角洲相、湖泊相和湖底扇相。控盆断裂对这两个断陷的沉积具有同样重要的控制作用,宝二段沉积时期方正断陷的构造作用强度比汤原断陷大得多,方正断陷湖盆面积比汤原断陷小,但湖盆深度要深。     

长江口水下三角洲泥质区近期沉积物粒度变化特征及其影响因素

河口水下三角洲是河流和海洋环境共同作用的产物,沉积地层中蕴藏了许多环境变化信息.在长江口水下三角洲泥质区采集了柱样SC09,首先利用放射性同位素210Pb确定了沉积柱样的平均沉积速率,其次对沉积柱样以0.2 cm间隔进行高分辨率取样,获得了沉积物粒度参数,然后提取了沉积物粒度敏感组分,并对其进行了经验模态分解(EMD)...     

Anthropogenic influences on shoreline and nearshore evolution in the San Francisco Bay coastal system

Analysis of four historical bathymetric surveys over a 132-year period has revealed significant changes to the morphology of the San Francisco Bar, an ebb-tidal delta at the mouth of San Francisco Bay estuary. From 1873 to 2005 the San Francisco Bar vertically-eroded an average of 80 cm over a 125 km² area, which equates to a total volume loss of 100 ± 52 million m³ of fine- to coarse-grained sand. Comparison of the surveys indicates the entire ebb-tidal delta contracted radially, with the crest moving landward an average of 1 km. Long-term erosion of the ebb-tidal delta is hypothesized to be due to a reduction in the tidal prism of San Francisco Bay and a decrease in coastal sediment supply, both as a result of anthropogenic activities. Prior research indicates that the tidal prism of the estuary was reduced by 9% from filling, diking, and sedimentation. Compilation of historical records dating back to 1900 reveals that a minimum of 200 million m³ of sediment has been permanently removed from the San Francisco Bay coastal system through dredging, aggregate mining, and borrow pit mining. Of this total, ∼54 million m³ of sand-sized or coarser sediment was removed from central San Francisco Bay. With grain sizes comparable to the ebb-tidal delta, and its direct connection to the bay mouth, removal of sediments from central San Francisco Bay may limit the sand supply to the delta and open coast beaches.     

Seasonal variation of suspended-sediment transport through the southern Bohai Strait

Based on field observations made in winter 2006 and summer 2007 and on multiscene MODerate resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) imagery, the seasonal variation of suspended-sediment transport in the southern Bohai Strait and its possible mechanisms are examined. The field observations in two different seasons allow an exponential empirical model to be used to retrieve suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) from MODIS imagery. Both the field-survey data and the MODIS-derived SSC show that the sediment transport in the southern Bohai Strait has a significant seasonal variation due to the seasonally varying thermohaline structure of the water column and the hydrodynamics resulting from the seasonally alternating monsoons. The SSC in winter is approximately 3–10 times higher than in summer. Considering the seasonal variation of water flux (WF) and SSC, the annual sediment flux (SSF) through the southern Bohai Strait is estimated to be approximately 40.0 Mt yr⁻¹, about 4–8 times previous estimates, which did not take into account seasonal variation. Although the Huanghe (Yellow River) discharges a large amount of sediment in the summer, the SSF through the southern Bohai Strait in the winter (∼32.0 Mt) is about 4 times greater than it is in the summer. The strong seasonal variability of SSF through the southern Bohai Strait indicates that strong resuspension along the coast of the Huanghe delta in winter and enhanced longshore transport by coastal currents due to winter monsoon activity might be the major mechanisms of cross-strait transport of sediment in winter.     

Structural controls on Quaternary deepwater sedimentation, mud diapirism, and hydrocarbon distribution within the actively evolving Columbus foreland basin, eastern offshore Trinidad

Eastward migration of the Caribbean plate relative to the South American plate has caused lithospheric loading along the northern margin of South America, which is recorded by an 1100-km-long foreland basin which is oldest in the west (Maracaibo basin, 65-55 Ma) and youngest in the east (Columbus basin, eastern offshore Trinidad, 15-0 Ma). The Orinoco River has been the primary source of sediment for the basin since early Miocene. We have integrated approximately 775 km of deep-penetration 2D seismic lines acquired in the area of eastern offshore Trinidad as part of the 2004 “Broadband Ocean-Land Investigations of Venezuela and the Antilles arc Region” (BOLIVAR) project, 8000 km² of shallow industry 3D seismic data, and published industry well data from offshore eastern Trinidad. Active mud diapirism in the Columbus basin is widespread and is related to overthrusting and tectono-sedimentary loading of upper Miocene-lower Pliocene age mud. Analysis of the shallow 3D seismic data reveals the presence of extensive gravity-flow depositional elements on the Columbus basin slope and the deepwater area. These stacked gravity-flow deposits are characterized by mass-transport deposits at the base, turbidite frontal-splay deposits, leveed-channel deposits, and capped by fine-grained condensed-section deposits. Exploration targets in the deepwater area are located towards the center of the Columbus basin, where northeast-trending fault-propagation folds are important Plio-Pleistocene trap-forming elements. Deep basin wells drilled in recent years have proven that turbidites were transported into the deepwater Columbus basin during the Plio-Pleistocene. Analysis of these well results suggests that a deeper oil charge is present within the deepwater Columbus basin area. The primary uncertainty for this variable hydrocarbon system is whether fault or diapiric pathways connect or divert the petroleum charge at depth with shallower reservoir rocks.