雪峰山中段古生代变形的特征及意义——以绥宁-靖州-天柱-新晃剖面为例

对雪峰山中段绥宁-靖州(会同)-天柱-新晃剖面的研究表明,雪峰山中段的变形自东向西减弱,由东部的向西倒转紧闭褶皱过渡到西部的开阔褶皱。东部(绥宁-靖州段)卷入褶皱的为南华系和震旦系—下古生界,褶皱样式表明东部在南华系与板溪群之间存在一区域性的滑脱面,本段缩短11km。剖面西段(靖州(会同)-天柱-新晃段)卷入变形的为板溪群、南华系和震旦系—下古生界,主要滑脱面位于板溪群下部或冷家溪群与板溪群之间,该段缩短46km。东西2段之间的界线是早期控制板溪群和南华系沉积的正断层。研究得出的缩短量为最小值,与前人的研究结果一致,表明古生代雪峰山逆冲推覆距离不大。雪峰山中段石炭系与南华系之间的超覆不整合、靖州盆地的构造属性和雪峰山剖面的变形特征显示,雪峰山中段的变形发生在早古生代。雪峰山早古生代变形是早期裂谷的反转,属薄皮构造。     

A densely feathered ornithomimid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation,Alberta, Canada

A recently discovered articulated partial skeleton of Ornithomimus from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada is remarkable in the extent and quality of preservation of integumentary structures including feathers. It is the first ornithomimid to preserve a tail bearing extensive plumaceous feathers that are slightly more elongate in comparison to those present on the remainder of the body. However, the underside of the tail and the hind limb distal to the middle of the femur appear devoid of plumage. Overall, the plumage pattern in Ornithomimus is similar to that of Struthio camelus (ostrich) and other large palaeognaths, indicating a probable function in thermoregulation. The specimen also preserves the body outline around the legs, including a skin contour anterior to the femur, analogous to skin webs in extant birds. Whereas the knee web of birds bridges the knee to the abdomen, in Ornithomimus it spans from the mid-femoral shaft to the abdomen, and is herein referred to as an anterior femoral web. This is the first report of such soft tissue structures in non-avian theropods. It may indicate that the resting position of the femur was positioned more anteroventrally in ornithomimids than in most theropods, and in that sense may have been transitional to the situation in modern birds.     

Résultats préliminaires sur la sédimentation pélagique de l'Atlantique tropical au Crétacé et au Tertiaire (plateau de Demerara,Leg ODP 207)

Five sites located on a bathymetric transect of the distal Demerara Rise were studied by ODP Leg 207. Albian sediments of essentially terrigenous nature (clay, siltstone, sandstone) are the oldest drilled stratigraphic levels and form apparently the top of the synrift sequence. They are overlain by Cenomanian to Santonian finely laminated black shales, rich in organic matter of marine origin, which accumulated on a thermally subsiding ramp. Early Campanian hiatuses are thought to be the result of final disjunction of Demerara Rise (South America) from Africa and the onset of deep water communication between the two Atlantic basins (south and central). The overlying Uppermost Cretaceous–Oligocene chalk includes rich and diversified calcareous plankton assemblages, as well as two radiolarian-rich intervals (Late Campanian and Middle Eocene). A complex erosional surface developed during the Late Oligocene–Early Miocene. Sedimentation was impeded since then on the intermediate and deep sites of Demerara Rise, possibly due to the action of deep submarine currents. To cite this article: T. Danelian et al., C. R. Geoscience 337 (2005).     

The oldest osoriine rove beetle from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

A remarkable new genus and species, Mesallotrochus longiantennatus n. gen. n. sp., is described and figured based on a well-preserved individual in the lowermost Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber from Myanmar. Mesallotrochus is placed in the extant tribe Thoracophorini based on its general habitus, including the protibia with inner edge straight, without ctenidium, exposed protrochantins, open procoxal cavities, and more or less flatted body. Mesallotrochus is separated from other allied genera by the long antennae, very long maxillary palpomere 4, contiguous procoxae, and well-developed anterolateral pronotal angles. The new discovery of the oldest Osoriinae from about 99 million years not only suggests the antiquity of the subfamily, but also bears significant biogeographic implications.     

有孔虫Pseudorbitoides属地理分布新知及其西藏新种

Pseudorbitoides是Dilly(1973),Gorsel(1978)等作者所划分的晚白垩世加勒比区有孔虫动物群的主要成员。在西藏南部所发现的Pseudorbitoides yini(sp.nov)及印度标本Pseudorbitoides ariyalurensis(Rao)分类位置的确定,使该属的地理分布范围大为扩大,也使对上述作者的晚白垩世全球大有孔虫动物地理区的划分进行修改更为必要。     

Oceanographic and eustatic control of carbonate platform evolution and sequence stratigraphy on the Cretaceous (Valanginian–Campanian) passive margin,northern Gulf of Mexico

An integrated sequence stratigraphic study based on outcrop, core and wireline log data documents the combined impact of Cretaceous eustacy and oceanic anoxic events on carbonate shelf morphology and facies distributions in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The diverse facies and abundant data of the Comanche platform serve as a nearly complete global reference section and provide a sensitive record of external processes affecting Cretaceous platform development. Regional cross‐sections across the shoreline to shelf‐margin profile provide a detailed record of mixed carbonate–siliciclastic strata for the Hauterivian to lower Campanian stages (ca 136 to 80 Ma). The study window on the slowly subsiding passive margin allows the stratigraphic response to external forcing mechanisms to be isolated from regional structural processes. Three second‐order supersequences comprised of eight composite sequences are recognized in the Valanginian–Barremian, the Aptian–Albian and the Cenomanian–Campanian. The Valanginian–Barremian supersequence transitioned from a siliciclastic ramp to carbonate rimmed shelf and is a product of glacial ice accumulation and melting, as well as variable rates of mid‐ocean ridge volcanism. The Aptian–Albian supersequence chronicles the drowning and recovery of the platform surrounding oceanic anoxic events 1a and 1b. The Cenomanian–Campanian supersequence similarly documents shelf drowning following oceanic anoxic event 1d, after which the platform evolved to a deep‐subtidal system consisting of anoxic/dysoxic shale and chalk in the time surrounding oceanic anoxic event 2. Each period of oceanic anoxia is associated with composite sequence maximum flooding, termination of carbonate shelf sedimentation and deposition of condensed shale units in distally steepened ramp profiles. Composite sequences unaffected by oceanic anoxic events consist of aggradational to progradational shelves with an abundance of grain‐dominated facies and shallow‐subtidal to intertidal environments. Because they are products of eustacy and global oceanographic processes, the three supersequences and most composite sequences defined in the south Texas passive margin are recognizable in other carbonate platforms and published eustatic sea‐level curves.     

论西藏扎达上白垩统波林夏拉组

上白垩统波林夏拉组的命名地点位于西藏西南部扎达波林,是一套以泥灰岩及灰岩为主的地层,底部以含海绿石灰岩与下伏下白垩统嘎姐组含海绿石石英砂岩整合接触,未见顶。波林夏拉组的时代据其所含丰富浮游有孔虫可被确定为晚白垩世Albian晚期至Maastrichtian晚期,其所含化石组合可以与晚白垩世特提斯喜马拉雅从台地到盆地的同...     

安徽黄山地区侏罗纪—白垩纪层序地层学特征

通过 1∶ 5万区域地质调查工作对屯溪—休宁盆地、歙县洪琴盆地、绩溪华阳盆地、祁门盆地各类陆相沉积建造的沉积环境、沉积相、陆相沉积体系域进行了分析描述 ,将侏罗纪—白垩纪地层划分为四级地层层序 ,在层序地层学分析的基础上 ,建立了初步的红盆地层格架     

论浙江东部早白垩世中期断陷事件和断陷岩套

早白垩世中期中国东南部发生过一次断陷事件,并形成一事件地层单元——断陷岩套。叙述了断陷岩套的形成机理、特征和类型,并利用事件地层单元同时性原理,论证了建组剖面"塘上组"的层位与永康群下部馆头组相同,而非高居永康群之上的"新构造亚层";也论证了嵊县三界一带的所谓"大爽组二段"应为馆头组。这两个断陷岩套中所含生物群证实:事件地层学原理所得的关于其层位与时代的结论是正确的。     

SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age and significance of Early Paleozoic volcanic rocks in East Kunlun orogenic belt, Qinghai Province, China

A great deal of practical data in recent years have proved that the East Kunlun orogenic belt and even the China central orogenic belt are complex orogenic belts that underwent polycycle orogenic evolvement[1―7]. Each orogenic cycle has left a compositional print, the multi-period ophiolites[4―6] and various types of tec-tono-magmatic production in the same orogenic belt. There is a suite of shallow metamorphic volcanic rocks in the Nuomuhong area in the east part of the East Kunlun orogen…