Natural sealed fractures in mudrocks: A case study tied to burial history from the Barnett Shale,Fort Worth Basin,Texas, USA

The Mississippian Barnett Shale (Texas, USA), consisting of organic-rich shales and limestones, hosts the largest gas fields of North America. This study examines sealed fractures from core and outcrop samples of the Barnett Shale of the Fort Worth Basin and aims to: 1) characterize the phases occurring in the fractures from samples having experienced different burial histories; 2) establish a paragenetic sequence to relate the timing of fracture origin and sealing with the burial history of the basin; and 3) contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms of fracture formation in shales, including overpressure origin.Four fracture generations were distinguished in the most deeply buried core samples by characterizing the sealing minerals petrographically and geochemically. The generations were inserted into the framework of a reconstructed burial history for the Fort Worth Basin, which allowed a time sequence for fracture development to be established. This in turn allowed inference of conditions of fracture development, and consideration of fracture mechanisms as well as the origin of the parent fluids of sealing minerals.Type 1 fractures formed during early mechanical compaction (at a few 10 s to 100 m of depth) of still not fully cemented sediments. Type 2 fractures formed during moderate burial (∼2 km), from slightly modified seawater. Their timing is consistent with overpressure generated during rapid deposition and differential compaction of Pennsylvanian lithologies during the onset of the Ouachita compressional event. Type 3 fractures formed during deep burial (>3 km) from silica-rich basinal brines possibly derived from clay diagenesis. Type 4 fractures formed at very deep burial (>4 km), from hot and ¹⁸O-rich fluids, carrying light oil (20-30 API) and record the opening of the fluid system after hydrocarbon migration.Differences are highlighted between the timing and thermal regimes under which fractures formed in Barnett lithologies from different areas of the basin, this suggesting that extrapolation of outcrop observations to subsurface must be used with due care.     

环境因子对海蜇生长发育影响的研究进展

<正>海蜇(Rhopilema esculenta Kishinouye)隶属于刺胞动物门(Cnidaria),钵水母纲(Scyphozoa),根口水母目(Rhizostomeae),根口水母科(Hizostomadae),海蜇属(Rhopilema)[1]。海蜇为进化比较保守的两胚层动物[2]。丁耕芜等[3]首次报告了海蜇的整个生活史。海蜇生活史具有刺胞动物门典型的世代交替特征,分为两个世代:水螅体世代和水母体世代。在水螅体世代整个过程中,海蜇螅状体于海底基质上营固着生活,以无性生殖     

四川盆地北缘大巴山前陆构造中—新生代构造隆升史

大巴山前陆构造的抬升剥蚀与保存条件对其矿床和油气藏勘探潜力评价极为重要。应用磷灰石裂变径迹热年代学方法,通过研究大巴山前陆构造热演化史,恢复构造隆升过程,确定其中—新生代构造抬升剥蚀量,探讨大巴山前陆晚期构造隆升对矿床和油气资源的影响。结果表明:大巴山前陆构造在152Ma以前快速沉降,沉降速率平均高达150m·Ma-1,此后便长期处于隆升过程;136~152Ma时期为快速隆升阶段,隆升速率平均为56.3m·Ma-1,隆升量约为900m,是燕山运动导致秦岭造山期后的一次陆内挤压;70~136Ma时期为较缓慢隆升阶段,隆升速率平均为39.4m·Ma-1,隆升量约为2 600m,是秦岭造山晚期挤压的结果;0~70Ma时期的隆升速率为42.8m·Ma-1,持续时间较长,隆升幅度约3 000m,是喜马拉雅构造运动的结果。中生代构造隆升对本区低温热液矿体和油气保存极为不利;上新统以来(8Ma或5Ma),青藏高原快速隆升向东扩展的远程效应对大巴山前陆构造的影响不明显。     

关中盆地深部地下热水残存沉积水的同位素证据

应用环境同位素水文地球化学方法,结合区域沉积演化史,对关中盆地固市凹陷、咸阳-礼泉断阶和西安凹陷深部地下热水成因类型进行了探讨,并就残存沉积水存在的可能性,寻找氢氧同位素关系、硫氧同位素关系、碳氧同位素关系、N(87Sr)/N(86Sr)与古盐度的关系等环境同位素证据,rNa/rCl值、ρ(Cl-)/ρ(Br-)、rBr/rI值与ρ(Cl-)的关系等水文地球化学证据以及沉积演化史证据。结果表明:固市凹陷华阴地下热水的同位素、水文地球化学特征已基本符合沉积水的特征,推测其为混有古入渗水的残存沉积水;固市凹陷华阴之外的其他构造单元、咸阳—礼泉断阶和西安凹陷地下热水的同位素和水文地球化学特征部分接近沉积水的特征,部分介于古入渗水和沉积水之间;咸阳—礼泉断阶东部地下热水可能为古入渗水或残存沉积水与后期入渗水的混合;西安凹陷及咸阳—礼泉断阶西部地下热水属于现代入渗水与古入渗水的混合水。     

基于地理国情普查对开发冰雪丝绸之路旅游带的思考

黑龙江省第一次地理国情普查已全面展开,其目的是全面掌握黑龙江地理国情现状,系统掌握全省自然、人文地理要素的现状和空间分布情况。黑龙江省是资源大省,除煤、木、粮、油、机外,旅游资源也十分丰富。作为连接中原与黑龙江地区的水陆大通道,黑龙江冰雪丝绸之路比西北丝绸之路早了1000多年,且一直繁荣了几千年,存有大量的历史遗迹,但近百年来却鲜为人知。充分利用基于现代测绘地理信息技术获得的地理国情数据和信息,恢复和开辟黑龙江冰雪丝绸之路旅游带,对弘扬黑龙江历史文化,宣传黑龙江意义重大,功在当代,利在后世。     

从DNA角度认识中国黄牛的起源和利用历史

中国黄牛的起源及驯化一直是遗传学家和考古学家共同关注的热点问题.中国拥有丰富的牛种资源,仅中国地方黄牛品种就多达55个,境内及周边还分布着能与黄牛杂交的近缘野牛,这导致中国黄牛的遗传背景和形成历史非常复杂.利用DNA可以解析中国黄牛的起源和利用历史,通过Y染色体、线粒体和核基因组遗传标记已经从父系遗传、母系遗传和基因组...     

Beach Ridge Geomorphology at Cape Grinnell,northern Greenland: A Less Icy Arctic in the Mid-Holocene

Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):337–355, 2010

In northern Greenland, the Cape Grinnell beach ridge plain offers a 9,000year multi-proxy record for isostatic recovery, storm history, and the hydrological changes related to precipitation and slope evolution. The chronology of uplifted beach ridges is constrained by ten geological 14C ages on shell and sea mammal bones and eleven upper limiting ages from archaeological sites that span the last 3,000 years. Beach ridges formed under the influence of open water storms with renewed frequency and intensity ca. 3 ka and 1 ka ago. A lack of shell may reflect cooler sea surface temperatures. The presence and absence of ice can be inferred by push-features. Three intervals of heightened precipitation produced extensive fan deltas: (a) after 9 ka BP (b) prior to 4.5 ka BP and (c) during the Little Ice Age (AD 1350–1900). Active solifluction lobes and colluvia cover beach ridge deposits that are between 9 and 7 ka old.     

A Review of “Putting “America” on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States”

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Sharp, Joanne P. Condensing the Cold War: Reader's Digest and American Identity

Gleeson, Brendan and Low, Nicholas (eds.) Governing for the Environment: Global Problems, Ethics, and Democracy

Isenberg, Andrew The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750 – 1920

Albert, Donald P., Gesler, Wilbert M. and Levergood, Barbara (eds.) Spatial Analysis, GIS, and Remote Sensing Applications in the Health Sciences

Wright, Dawn J. and Bartlett, Darius J. (eds.) Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems

Jankowski, Piotr and Nyerges, Timothy Geographic Information Systems for Group Decision Making: Towards a Participatory Geographic Information Science

Gerber, Rod and Chuan, Goh Kim (eds.) Fieldwork in Geography: Reflections, Perspectives, and Actions

Craige, Betty Jean Eugene Odom: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist

Lowenthal, David George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation

Schroeder, Richard Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Practices in The Gambia

Lovell, W. George A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala

Lichtenberger, Elisabeth Austria: Society and Regions     

The beginning of geography didactics in Norway

At the end of the 19th century geography became a mandatory subject in primary and secondary schools in Norway. Geography was seen as a useful subject that contributed to the modernization of society, but also as a subject that strengthened the national ideology. A need for better education in geography arose and consequently some authors of geography textbooks wrote about teaching geography. In order to strengthen teachers’ education, geography was taught at university level, and to develop the subject it became necessary to relate it to other subjects, especially geology. The author shows that there are several similarities between the content of geography taught in Norwegian schools in the late 19th century and geography taught in schools today.     

Unpopular Archives

This article explores the “unpopular” archived life of Charles P. Daly, thirty-five-year president (1864–1899) of the New York–based American Geographical Society. This one-time highly prominent judge and civic leader popularized geography among professionals and the public alike. Daly's popular geography, along with his subsequent containment within the archives, suggests explanations for his dismissal among geographical audiences of today. It is a useful and necessary exercise to trace the neglect of Daly within histories of geography and recapture him for today's audiences, not only because of his influence on post–Civil War American geography but also because his story can shed light on how “disciplinary remembering” functions in geography.