滇东北地区中泥盆统缩头山组石英砂岩特征及其沉积环境

滇东北地区具有丰富的石英砂岩矿产资源,主要赋存于中泥盆统缩头山组,矿体厚度大,矿石质量好。本文在大关-彝良地区1∶5万矿产地质调查的基础上,对区内缩头山组石英砂岩的岩石特征、粒度分布、沉积环境进行了详细研究。岩性统计表明,缩头山组含矿层几乎全由石英砂岩(95%)组成,仅含少量的粉砂岩(3%)和泥岩(2%)。粒度分析结果显示,石英砂岩样品分选系数(S0)介于0. 65~0. 87之间,粒度集中分布于1~4"之间,为0. 0625~0. 5mm,缺少拖移总体和悬移总体,跃移总体含量占97%,为典型的前滨带沉积粒度分布特征。     

羌塘盆地隆鄂尼-鄂斯玛古油藏带中侏罗统布曲组岩相古地理研究

羌塘盆地隆鄂尼-鄂斯玛古油藏带中侏罗统布曲组含油白云岩带主要由潮坪相及潮下浅滩相颗粒灰岩和藻纹层白云岩、颗粒白云岩组成。藻纹层白云岩与颗粒灰岩组成旋回性沉积,发育藻纹层构造、鸟眼构造;含油白云岩带之间为潟湖相暗色微泥晶灰岩、泥质灰岩、介壳灰岩。采用优势相原则,横向对比分析编制隆起剥蚀区、潮坪相带、潟湖相带和潮下浅滩相带古地理展布,以及研究区生油岩与储集层及油气藏的空间分布,预测覆盖区可能存在残存油气藏分布区。     

西秦岭伯阳—元龙地区中泥盆统变砂岩碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄和地球化学特征及地质意义

对北秦岭—祁连结合部位伯阳—元龙地区一套变砂岩进行的碎屑锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb同位素测年结果表明,变砂岩碎屑锆石年龄的时间跨度极大(407～2483 Ma),有多个测点的年龄数据落入早泥盆世范围,说明变砂岩的沉积时代不应早于早泥盆世,结合区域地质资料将其形成时代确定为中泥盆世。变砂岩的主要物源是西秦岭造山带和扬子克拉通。结合地球化学特征推断变砂岩主体形成于活动大陆边缘构造背景,石英砂岩原岩中含有偏基性的火山物质,经过高绿片岩相—低角闪岩相变质作用形成富含黑云母和角闪石的变砂岩。本文的研究结果表明,中泥盆世天水—武山板块缝合带已经基本缝合,但未完全缝合,一方面导致源自扬子克拉通的碎屑物可以到达西秦岭北带,另一方面在西秦岭天水—武山构造带的部分区域可能仍有残余洋盆俯冲活动。     

庐枞矿集区与钨矿床有关的花岗岩的年代学及地球化学特征:岩石成因及其对长江中下游晚白垩世成矿的启示

长江中下游是中国东部一个重要的与中生代岩浆作用有关的Cu-Au-Mo-Fe矿成矿带。近期勘查工作在庐枞矿集区东顾山地区深部首次发现了与隐伏花岗岩密切相关的钨钼多金属矿化。岩石学和岩石地球化学研究结果表明,隐伏花岗岩具有高硅富碱高钾、贫铁贫镁及铝弱饱和的特征,属于高钾钙碱性系列岩石;具有富集Rb、Th、U等强不相容元素和轻稀土元素,亏损Nb、P、Ti、Y等高场强元素,低ε_(Nd)(t)(-18.2~-17.1)和相对高的((~(87)Sr/~(86)Sr)_i)(0.70596~0.70631)的特征,推测其岩浆来源于扬子下地壳的部分熔融,岩浆在就位之前经历了一定程度的分异结晶作用。利用LA-ICP MS锆石U-Pb定年获得96.7±1.3Ma的锆石年龄,表明其属于晚白垩世早期岩浆活动的产物。结合区域成岩成矿时空格架,认为东顾山地区隐伏花岗岩及与之有关的钨钼多金属矿化可能代表了长江中下游成矿带的新一期成岩成矿事件。     

Middle Eocene vertebrates from the sabkha of Gueran,Atlantic coastal basin,Saharan Morocco,and their peri-African correlations

The sabkha of Gueran in the Southwest Moroccan Sahara has yielded a rich and diverse fauna of late middle Eocene vertebrates that include the world's richest Bartonian age archaeocete assemblage. Archeocete remains were described previously and here we report on the rest of the vertebrate fauna. The Gueran fauna includes abundant chondrichthyan species belonging to Lamniformes, Carcharhiniformes and Rhinopristiformes, and actinopterygian assemblage consisting of Cylindracanthus, of a siluriform, and of Perciformes. Turtles are represented by at least two marine taxa referred to as Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae. Crocodylian remains belong to at least two longirostrine species, including gavialoid remains. Snakes are represented by Pterosphenus cf. schweinfurthi (Palaeophiidae). Seabirds are represented by a pseudo-toothed bird (Pelagornithidae). The avian fossil belonged to a gigantic soaring bird and constitutes the earliest occurrence of the genus Pelagornis. The presence of proboscideans is attested by dental fragments. This fossil assemblage from Gueran shows affinities with those of the Eocene beds of Egypt and Libya. The numerous shared taxa support a close biogeographical connection between faunas from southeastern and southwestern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.     

辽宁本溪中三叠世苏铁类密脉中国似查米亚

中国似查米亚属Sinozamites Sze是中国北方中、晚三叠世苏铁植物门Cycadophyta代表成分之一.自该属发现以来,该属在分类上属于苏铁目还是本内苏铁目一直不清楚.本文对产于辽宁本溪中三叠世林家组的密脉中国似查米亚S.myrioneurus表皮构造进行了研究.由于标本未保留角质层,故选择超景深显技术,发现该属气孔器属于单唇型,从而确立了该属植物属于苏铁目.研究过程中,既用盐酸又用硝酸来清除化石表面杂质.另根据已有的标本所显示的裂片和羽轴上下过渡关系,对该种羽片进行了部分重建.在此基础上,系统比较了类似的苏铁植物.     

Politics of critique: Understanding gender in contemporary Middle East

This paper explores the implications of spatial production of academic knowledge on the Middle East, through the critiques of Orientalist discourses on the “Muslim woman.” It begins with an examination of the success of postcolonial studies and scholarship on democratization in challenging racist perceptions and politics in the West. Then it reflects on the ways in which this knowledge production travels and is reconfigured in places where power inequalities are different. This requires a consideration of the regional consequences of either an over-emphasis on differences in agencies of “Muslim women” or a relative silence on issues of gender inequality. The paper’s suggestion is to shift the focus from representation and discourse to the structural circumstances in which ordinary men and women’s agencies play out; various political mechanisms which participate in the production of acceptable cultural practices; and patterns of resistance, which may defy arguments about culturally specific definitions of agency. This is a quest for making the “exotic” familiar, without exoticizing the familiar.     

Recurrent spring‐fed rivers in a Middle to Late Pleistocene semi‐arid grassland: Implications for environments of early humans in the Lake Victoria Basin,Kenya

The effect of changing palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment on human evolution during the Pleistocene is debated, but hampered by few East African records directly associated with archaeological sites prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. Middle to Late Pleistocene deposits on the shoreline of eastern Lake Victoria preserve abundant vertebrate fossils and Middle Stone Age arte‐facts associated with riverine tufas at the base of the deposits, which are ideal for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. New data from tufas identified on Rusinga Island and on the mainland near Karungu, Kenya are provided from outcrop, thin sections, mineralogical, stable isotopic and U‐series dating analyses. Tufa is identified in four sites: Nyamita (94·0 ± 3·3 and 111·4 ± 4·2 ka); Kisaaka, Aringo (455 ± 45 ka); and Obware. The age ranges of these tufa deposits demonstrate that spring‐fed rivers were a recurrent, variably preserved feature on the Pleistocene landscape for ca 360 kyr. Poor sorting of clastic facies from all sites indicates flashy, ephemeral discharge, but these facies are commonly associated with barrage tufas, paludal environments with δ¹³C values of ca 10‰ indicative of C₃ plants and fossil Hippopotamus, all of which indicate a perennial water source. Other tufa deposits from Nyamita, Obware and Aringo have a mixed C₃/C₄ signature consistent with a semi‐arid C₄ grassland surrounding these spring‐fed rivers. The δ¹⁸O values of tufa from Nyamita are on average ca 1‰ more negative than calcite precipitated from modern rainfall in the region, suggesting greater contribution of depleted monsoonal input, similar to the Last Glacial Maximum. Microdebitage and surface‐collected artefacts indicate that early modern humans were utilizing these spring‐fed rivers. The presence of spring?fed rivers would have afforded animals a reliable water source, sustaining a diverse plant and animal community in an otherwise arid environment.     

Middle Jurassic continental to marine transition in an extensional tectonics context: the Genna Selole Fm depositional system in the Tacchi area (central Sardinia,Italy)

In Eastern Sardinia during the early Middle Jurassic, Alpine Tethys opening triggered the rise of a temporary tectonic high. The high collapsed rapidly, was fragmented into separate blocks, and subsequently covered by continental, transitional, and finally shallow marine deposits forming a narrow depositional system comprising the Genna Selole Fm. Present‐day exposures in the southern part of the palaeo‐high allow the sedimentological evolution of the transgressive cover sequence to be ascertained. Initial terrestrial deposits comprise alluvial fan deposits located at the mouths of palaeovalleys. These pass into braid‐deltas and in the coastal areas located between adjacent valleys mouths, palustrine and coastal plain tidally‐influenced environments developed. These environments interfingered laterally and passed seaward into a transitional, siliciclastic to carbonate tidal environment. With the collapse of the tectonic high, the continental to transitional environments were transgressed with deposition of marine carbonates. A comparison with similar coeval deposits of the W‐Mediterranean domain has been undertaken. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中秦岭地带重力异常特征及地壳结构的探榷

对陕西榆林—重庆鱼泉综合地球物理大断面中在陕西户县经中秦岭至镇巴测段的重力场给以分析和探讨.文中给出了中秦岭造山带（或中秦岭块体） 的地壳密度结构、Moho界面深度与山根构造特征.并重点分析研究了本测段的重力异常在其地壳结构与构造解释中所明显反应的断裂构造（带）.即中秦岭北侧断裂构造带;中秦岭中部断裂构造系;中秦岭南侧的宁陕断裂构造带;安康（石泉西南）断裂构造带;芭蕉口断裂构造;城口断裂构造带北延段;镇巴断裂构造带;鱼渡断裂构造和铁溪断裂构造.并对各断裂构造带对应的重力异常段计算其水平方向导数V_xz,给出了断裂构造的分布位置、形态、倾向等要素.最后从重力学角度对中秦岭造山带的地壳结构与断裂构造具有的衔接与过渡特征作了相应的探搉.