基于多种培养基和不同培养温度的马里亚纳海沟异养细菌多样性分析

马里亚纳海沟具有低温、高压、永久黑暗以及营养匮乏等深海环境特征,其中的细菌多样性对深海环境具有极为重要的作用.为研究马里亚纳海沟海水中异养细菌的物种多样性,采用多种培养基、不同培养温度同步筛选,单菌落16S rRNA基因序列鉴定,邻近法系统发育树构建分析等方法,对25个海水样品进行异养细菌多样性分析.共获得细菌531株...     

韩城断裂北东段晚更新世以来最新活动研究

韩城断裂是汾渭断陷带临汾盆地WS边界的一条控制性断裂,据最新的野外调查研究结果将该断裂分为3段,其中NE段活动性最强,形成的构造地貌也最为显著。本文在野外地质地貌调查的基础上,在NE段选取4个地点进行了探槽开挖和年代样品测试,并对揭示的古地震事件进行了分析探讨,综合各个探槽及典型地质剖面古地震事件分析结果认为,韩城断裂NE段最新的活动时代为距今6~8ka。     

菲律宾群岛深部速度结构成像与双向俯冲板片构造特征

菲律宾群岛受到欧亚板块、菲律宾海板块和印度-澳大利亚板块的碰撞作用,地质环境复杂,构造因素多样.尽管近几年来已经有了少数关于该区域层析成像的研究,但这些研究的区域主要集中在马尼拉海沟、吕宋岛及中菲律宾地区,而关于群岛周围其他海沟和南菲律宾地区的讨论相对较少.到目前为止,还没有同时获得过关于菲律宾群岛深部纵、横波速度结构的研究,本次研究通过反演155779条P波震相和59642条S波震相,同时获得了菲律宾群岛从地表至150 km深度的纵、横波速度结构.地震层析成像结果表明该地区的壳幔速度结构具有较强的不均一性,地壳内部存在着广泛的低速异常,而表征俯冲板块的高速异常则沿着群岛周边的海沟展布.南海块体在马尼拉海沟中段的俯冲角度和俯冲活动性比南段小;菲律宾海板块在东吕宋海槽南段微弱的俯冲作用很有可能同本哈姆海台的碰撞有关.菲律宾群岛大部分M_W>6.0的强震沿着各个板块的边界发生,体现出菲律宾海板块同欧亚板块之间的强耦合作用,群岛西侧的南海块体在马尼拉海沟16°N-20°N之间呈现出的弱耦合状态可能跟北吕宋地区的拉张应力环境有关,南海块体在16°N以南的地区同上覆块体之间的耦合作用较强;群岛东侧的菲律宾海板块在14°N以北的地区没有强震发生,它与菲律宾群岛之间的耦合程度从北向南逐渐增强,在12°N以南的地区要强于12°N以北的地区;此外苏禄海盆和菲律宾构造带之间也存在着强耦合关系.     

阿塔卡马海沟深渊和非深渊站位的沉积脂肪酸对比研究

深渊海沟作为海洋的最深处,是最不被人了解的地球生态环境之一。有机质的输入、含量和活性对于维持深渊生态系统和深渊生物地球化学循环至关重要。本文利用脂肪酸生物标志物方法,研究了来自阿塔卡马海沟的4个沉积物柱状样(长度为15-35cm),比较了水深2560-7770m的深渊(A5, A10)和非深渊(A1, A9)站位的脂肪酸含量、来源和保存状况。本研究共检测到50种脂肪酸化合物,包括来自陆源有机质的长链饱和脂肪酸,来自海源浮游植物的短链饱和脂肪酸、单不饱和脂肪酸和多不饱和脂肪酸,以及来自细菌的甲基支链脂肪酸。总脂肪酸的平均含量在非深渊站位A1最高[(13.4±2.9)mg/gdws],而深渊站位A5最低[(5.4±2.2)μg/gdws],这可能与各站位的初级生产力和水深有关。在所有站位中,海源脂肪酸均处于主导地位(61.6%±9.2%),其比例显著高于陆源脂肪酸(33.6%±10.7%)和细菌脂肪酸(4.9%±2.3%),表明在阿塔卡马海沟沉积物中脂肪酸主要是海源有机质的贡献。在每个站位,随着沉积物深度的增大,陆源脂肪酸的比例均明显增加,而海源脂肪酸的比例则减少,该结果与脂肪酸指数FA-...     

Control of paleoshorelines by trench forebulge uplift,Loyalty Islands

Unlike most tropical Pacific islands, which lie along island arcs or hotspot chains, the Loyalty Islands between New Caledonia and Vanuatu owe their existence and morphology to the uplift of pre-existing atolls on the flexural forebulge of the New Hebrides Trench. The configuration and topography of each island is a function of distance from the crest of the uplifted forebulge. Both Maré and Lifou are fully emergent paleoatolls upon which ancient barrier reefs form highstanding annular ridges that enclose interior plateaus representing paleolagoon floors, whereas the partially emergent Ouvea paleoatoll rim flanks a drowned remnant lagoon. Emergent paleoshoreline features exposed by island uplift include paleoreef flats constructed as ancient fringing reefs built to past low tide levels and emergent tidal notches incised at past high tide levels. Present paleoshoreline elevations record uplift rates of the islands since last-interglacial and mid-Holocene highstands in global and regional sea levels, respectively, and paleoreef stratigraphy reflects net Quaternary island emergence. The empirical uplift rates vary in harmony with theoretical uplift rates inferred from the different positions of the islands in transit across the trench forebulge at the trench subduction rate. The Loyalty Islands provide a case study of island environments controlled primarily by neotectonics.     

Resolving slip vector azimuths and plate motion along the southern boundary of the South Bismarck Plate,Papua New Guinea

The interaction of the Australian, South Bismarck and Solomon Sea Plates in Papua New Guinea is the source of frequent earthquakes that occur as a result of subduction and arc continent collision. Previous investigators have drawn attention to a discontinuity in the horizontal azimuth of slip vectors along the southern boundary of the South Bismarck Plate, with those to the west of 148°E being systematically rotated 20ndash;30° clockwise compared to those located east of 148°E. This has led to the suggestion that relative motion may be occurring between the Huon Peninsula and New Britain or that more than two plates are acting south of the South Bismarck Plate. Global positioning system (GPS) measurements since 1991 indicate that there is no internal deformation occurring within the South Bismark Plate and that at least two distinct plates are in contact with the southern edge of the South Bismarck Plate. We show from a study of a recent earthquake dataset that the change in slip vector azimuth can be modelled by the interaction of the overriding South Bismarck Plate with the underthrusting Australian and Solomon Sea Plates, consistent with the GPS observations, while maintaining the South Bismarck Plate as a rigid entity. We found that a transition zone exists between 147°E and 148°E where the underlying plate changes from the Australian Plate to the Solomon Sea Plate. There are insufficient data at present to indicate whether or not a third plate, the Woodlark Plate, is also interacting directly with the South Bismarck Plate in this transition zone. Slip vector azimuths were used to estimate an Euler pole (6.74°S, 144.64°E), which describes the relative motion of the South Bismarck and Solomon Sea Plates along the New Britain Trench.     

Turbidites deposited on Southern Central Chilean seamounts: Evidence for energetic turbidity currents

Gravity cores obtained from isolated seamounts located within, and rising up to 300 m from the sediment-filled Peru–Chile Trench off Southern Central Chile (36°S–39°S) contain numerous turbidite layers which are much coarser than the hemipelagic background sedimentation. The mineralogical composition of some of the beds indicates a mixed origin from various source terrains while the faunal assemblage of benthic foraminifera in one of the turbidite layers shows a mixed origin from upper shelfal to middle-lower bathyal depths which could indicate a multi-source origin and therefore indicate an earthquake triggering of the causing turbidity currents. The bathymetric setting and the grain size distribution of the sampled layers, together with swath echosounder and sediment echosounder data which monitor the distribution of turbidites on the elevated Nazca Plate allow some estimates on the flow direction, flow velocity and height of the causing turbidity currents. We discuss two alternative models of deposition, both of which imply high (175–450 m) turbidity currents and we suggest a channelized transport process as the general mode of turbidite deposition. Whether these turbidites are suspension fallout products of thick turbiditic flows or bedload deposits from sheet-like turbidity currents overwhelming elevated structures cannot be decided upon using our sedimentological data, but the specific morphology of the seamounts rather argues for the first option. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy of one of the cores indicates that the turbiditic sequences were deposited during the last Glacial period and during the following transition period and turbiditic deposition stopped during the Holocene. This climatic coupling seems to be dominant, while the occurrence of megathrust earthquakes provides a trigger mechanism. This seismic triggering takes effect only during times of very high sediment supply to the shelf and slope.     

雅浦海沟南部超深渊沉积物成分与形貌

对雅浦海沟南部超深渊D151站位(137^°37^''45^″E,8^°2^''23^″N)柱状沉积物的含水率、总有机碳(TOC)和多种金属元素含量、粒径以及表面形貌进行分析,结果表明该沉积物含水率为55%~72%,和马里亚纳海沟^“挑战者^”深渊沉积物的较为接近,高于冲绳海槽北部沉积物的;且随深度增加而减小,这可能与上覆沉积物的挤压作用有关。沉积物TOC质量分数和^“挑战者^”深渊以及渤海湾的接近,低于冲绳海槽北部和雅浦海沟北部的;TOC质量分数随沉积深度增加而减小,这可能与有机物的降解有关。沉积物样品中的Cd,Co,Cu,Mn,Ni,Zn等元素主要受岩石剥蚀的影响,Al,B,Ca,Fe,Mg,V等元素主要受陆源物质影响。沉积物中发现的火山玻璃碎片对应火山事件;Ba,Cd,Co,Cu,Mn,Ni,Sb,Sr,V,Zn的质量分数在16~18 cm 沉积层出现最大值,可能与火山活动有关。D151站位沉积环境为氧化环境,沉积物的主要来源为陆源和火山源,包括粉砂和砂质粉砂,粒度接近于冲绳海槽北部的,高于^“挑战者^”深渊的;沉积方式以均匀悬浮为主。沉积物C-M 图的数据点分布较为分散,可能与雅浦海沟西侧较为陡峭有关。由于位于碳酸盐补偿深度(CCD)以下,沉积物中的微体古生物化石以硅质为主,未发现钙质生物。故该站位沉积物的水动力环境在地质历史中整体较为稳定。     

雅浦海沟深海沉积物可培养真菌多样性及其反硝化能力研究

自雅浦海沟4个站位的12个沉积物样品中分离得到38株真菌菌株,基于形态观察和ITS序列信息对所得菌株进行分类鉴定,发现它们分别属于青霉属(Penicillium,17株)、曲霉属(Aspergillus,7株)、篮状菌属(Talaromyces,1株)、枝孢属(Cladosporium,6株)、赭霉属(Ochroconis,1株)、Meyerozyma属(1株)、梅拉菌属(Meira,1株)、Cystobasidium属(2株)、Wallemia属(1株)和红酵母属(Rhodotorula,1株)等10个属.其中青霉属、曲霉属和枝孢属菌株为优势菌株,分别占分离菌株总数的44.7%、18.4%和15.8%;而Wallemia属(节担菌纲)菌株是首次从深海环境中分离到.利用PCR技术在分离的深海真菌菌株中检测nir K和P450nor两种反硝化关键酶基因,结果显示nir K基因可在黄曲霉(Aspergillus flavus)、黑曲霉(Aspergillus niger)、杂色曲霉(Aspergillus versicolor)、枝孢菌(Cladosporium sp.)、枝状枝孢(Cladosporium cladosporioides)和产黄青霉(Penicillium chrysogenum)等6种真菌菌株中检测到,而P450nor基因仅在黄曲霉菌株中检测到.同时还通过富集培养方法从上述沉积物样品中分离获得两株反硝化枝孢菌.结果表明,雅浦海沟深海沉积物环境中存在着丰富的真菌资源,它们在深海环境氮循环中起着一定作用,这将增强人们对深海环境可培养真菌多样性及其生态作用的认识.