GPS技术在测量喜马拉雅山地区板块运动和地壳垂直位移中的应用

大量的研究成果普遍认为,喜马拉雅山是一座年轻的快速隆升的山脉,而支持这种主张的定量数据却不多。本文在多次实地工作的基础上(尤其是1991年所进行的全球定位系统(GPS)测量),并结合有关资料,对喜马拉雅山的板块运动和垂直地壳位移作以阶段性的研究。     

Geologic structure and neotectonics of the North African Continental Margin south of Sicily

Marine geological and geophysical data together with drilling information indicate that the North African passive continental margin has been subjected to extension and wrenching after it collided with the northern part of Sicily. The area of the Tripolitania Basin, Jarrafa Trough, Melita and Medina Bank and the Ragusa-Malta Plateau has formed part of a sinking passive margin since the dispersal of Gondwanaland at about 180 My ago as observed from geohistory diagrams. A record of rifting in a NW-SE direction accompanied by dextral shear along the southern troughs is observed in seismic reflection data. The rifting started during the Neocomian and lasted until the Eocene when activity became minor. A pre-Middle Miocene period of northward subduction of oceanic crust is inferred from the geology in NE Sicily. Uplift of the northern part of the African margin after collision in the Middle Miocene is seen in wells in southern Sicily. After the Messinian a rift and dextral shear zone established itself across the African Margin from the Strait of Sicily to the Medina Ridge in the lonian Basin. The zone is marked by up to 1.7 km deep grabens, narrow active wrench faulted channels, volcanic fissures and local uplifted ‘Keilhorsts’ such as Malta. This zone, which varies in width from 100 to 35 km, forms the southern boundary of a microplate which includes Sicily. We speculate that the present motion of this microplate is partly due to the eastward movement of the Calabrian Arc with the Sicilian block over the last remaining oceanic lithosphere in the Eastern Mediterranean.     

A section of Vendian in the east of West Siberian Plate (based on data from the Borehole Vostok 3)

The Borehole Vostok 3 drilled in the east of the West Siberian Plate (Tomsk Region) revealed a Vendian section in the depth range 5002–3870 m, which was subdivided into the Poiga, Kotodzha, and Raiga Formations based on geological, geophysical, and paleontological data. In the Kotodzha and Raiga Formations, typical Upper Vendian fossils of Cloudina hartmanae and Namacalathus sp. were found along with diverse Platysolenites, which are commonly considered to be of zonal significance in Lower Cambrian strata. Hence, the stratigraphic interval with abundant diverse Platysolenites has a wider stratigraphic range than it was believed earlier and seems to cover the Upper Vendian and Lower Cambrian deposits. The Borehole Vostok 3 is the first Siberian occurrence of the fossils Namacalathus, the world's fourth occurrence of the Cloudina-Namacalathus association, and the first site where coexisting Platysolenites and typical Vendian organisms have been found. Therefore, the borehole provides one of the most informative (in paleontological context) Upper Vendian sections.     

Spreading change of Africa–South America plate: insights from space geodetic observations

The results derived from geological data show that the half-spreading rate between the African and South American plates has remained relatively constant at 2 cm/year over the past 80 million years (Silver et al. in Science 279:60–63, 1998). In this paper, we have reestimated a new relative angular velocity of Africa–South America plates using the selected space geodetic station data through a new method. Our angular velocity estimates the spreading rates of Africa–South America plate over several years that are similar in azimuth but significantly slower in rate than the NUVEL-1A predictions averaged over the past 3 million years. The implied rates of deceleration coincide with longer-term trends over the past 35 million years and may reflect the effects of plate interaction and coupling of Africa–South America plates. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Linguistics,geography, and the potential of Australian island toponymies

Australian placename studies have focused on documenting toponymic histories and issues of concern mainly for placename taxonomy and etymology. Language-external factors such as geographical and environmental conditions have not been of great interest to Australian toponymists. This article assesses the role of geographical and environmental constriction of island places on their toponymy. It considers whether or not island locations breed ‘insular toponymies’ or placename histories inaccessible and not readily accessible to outsider researchers. The case studies are Norfolk Island, South Pacific, and Dudley Peninsula, South Australia, two island environments within political Australia. The results demonstrate that the degree of insularity of the toponymies of the two island environments is driven more by geographical and social factors than linguistic elements. The results put forward several ways in which geographers, linguists, historians, toponymists, and Australian studies scholars could work together and collaborate to better understand Australian island places.     

塔里木板块二叠纪构造演化的古植物群（大植物、孢粉）响应

塔里木板块二叠纪的构造演化导致板块古地理位置、古地貌和古环境的演变(包括气候条件的改变)，相应地塔里木板块的植物群在区系性质方面发生了重要变更。该板块二叠纪植物群演替历史分为3个演化阶段：①欧美植物群阶段(阿赛尔期-罗德期)；②欧美-安加拉混生植物群阶段(沃德期-吴家坪期)早期；③安加拉植物群阶段(吴家坪期中晚期-长兴期)。     

大洋钻探（ODP）与测井地质研究

ＯＤＰ是ＤＳＤＰ的继续，它验证了岩石层板块构造理论，揭示出晚中生代以来的全球气候变化过过程，还带动了一批新学科，如层序地层学，锶同位素地层学的出现，使地质学从零星的描述发展到地球系统研究阶段。同时，使测井技术层次由油气，煤炭测井上升到测井地质的成因研究。     

GPS测量研究板块边界的地壳运动和变形

近些年来，ＧＰＳ（全球定位系统）测量取得的进展是其测量精度已可与ＶＬＢＩ及ＳＬＲ相媲美，由于这样的发展及ＧＰＳ具有使用方便经济的特点，作为强有力的工具而被用于研究全球大地测量学及地球动力学，ＧＰＳ测量监测全球板块运动，监视海平面上升，建立地球（参考）框架等等。     

华北板块北缘东段上三叠统的若干特征

位于华北板块与古蒙古洋板块的交接处、金银别河至白水滩一带的一套变质的陆相碎屑岩,前人命名为白水滩组,时代归属早侏罗世。80年代末笔者在此进行1∶5万区域地质调查,在该地层中采到了Neoclamites sp.,Cycadocarpiclium sp.,Uniohuang bogouensis(?)等重要分子,同时发现其被二长花岗岩(U—Pb 192.7Ma)侵入,暂与小营子组对比,将其时代归属为晚三叠世。该套地层分为上下两段,即下部砾岩段和上部砂岩段;地层褶皱形态复杂,断裂构造发育,新老地质体相互推覆掩盖,构成独特的地质景观。