Active tectonic and palaeoseismological features of the western section of Mustafakemalpaşa Fault; Bursa,NW Anatolia

The Mustafakemalpa?a Fault (MF), located among Manyas, Ulubat and Orhaneli faults, is a right lateral strike-slip and 47 km in length. The MF begins with a pressure ridge at the west and exhibits complex jog terminations at east ends in restraining left stepovers. The western section of the fault bounds Miocene and Quaternary units and continues towards ?lyasç?lar. The central segment of the fault, starts with approximately 750-m leftward stepover, exhibits a sinusoidal geometry between Kapakl?oluk and Kabulbaba. In this section, MF traverses mountainous terrain and cuts Ophiolite, Jurassic limestones and Miocene detritals, forming dextral faulting features and gaining reverse component. The eastern section exhibits left stepping en-echelon pattern and consists 2.5-km offset on the Orhaneli River. In this study, palaeoseismological findings related to the Holocene activity and active tectonic properties of the MF are presented. The trenches exposed mismatched stratigraphy, demonstrating evidence of events across the fault. We identified three events (before BC 2190, later AD 1425 and 1850) that have occurred during the past 4000 years. We suggest a long non-characteristic recurrence interval and ~0.7 mm/y slip-rate for MF, based on trench data and offset of the Late Pliocene drainage of Orhaneli River.     

An evaluation of Radarsat-2 individual and combined image dates for land use/cover mapping

Various land use/cover types exhibit seasonal characteristics which can be captured in remotely sensed imagery. This study examined how different seasons of Radarsat-2 data influence land use/cover classification accuracies for two study sites. Two dates of Radarsat-2 C-band quad-polarised images were obtained for Washington, DC, USA and Wad Madani, Sudan. Spectral signatures were extracted and used with a maximum likelihood decision rule for classification and thematic accuracies were then determined. Both despeckled radar and derived texture measures were examined. Thematic accuracies for the two despeckled image dates were similar with a difference of 3% for Washington and 6% for Sudan. Merging the despeckled images for both seasons increased overall accuracy by 2% for Washington and 9% for Sudan. Further combining the original radar for both seasons with derived texture measures increased overall accuracies by 9% for Washington and 16% for Sudan for final overall accuracy values of 73 and 82%.     

老挝西北部沙耶武里地区闪长岩锆石U-Pb年代学与地球化学特征

老挝沙耶武里地区发育一套二叠纪-三叠纪岩浆岩,主要岩性为玄武岩、安山岩、流纹岩和花岗岩、二长花岗岩、花岗闪长岩和闪长岩。本文报道了老挝西北部沙耶武里地区闪长岩样品LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄为253.5±1.5Ma（MSWD=1.18）,属早三叠世。该岩体明显富集K、Rb、Ba、Sr、Th、U等大离子亲石元素和轻稀土微量元素（LREE）,Nb、Ta、Ni等高场强元素相对亏损,Nb/Ta、Th/Yb、（Th/Nb）N和Nb/La比值表明岩石成因具壳幔混合特征;结合区域地质构造演化过程综合分析得出该岩体形成的大地构造背景为古特提斯洋洋壳俯冲-岛弧环境。     

新疆阿克苏寒武系吾松格尔组造迹行为的单调性

除某些蓝细菌之外,绝大多数白云岩中很难出现底栖后生动物化石。位于塔里木板块北部新疆阿克苏地区肖尔布拉克剖面的寒武系第二统吾松格尔组岩性以白云岩为主夹少量灰岩,属广阔浅潮汐带大面积强蒸发高盐度云坪环境而不利于底栖和游泳的后生动物群生存。本文首次报导该层位中一个低分异度的遗迹类群,它们均产出于薄层泥晶灰岩,鉴定遗迹属包括：Chondrites,Helminthopsis,Skolithos,Stelloglyphu,Taenidium,Thalassinoides,其形态均为小型简单的动物潜穴,属于古生代浅海地层中的常见分子;薄层灰岩中还见少量三叶虫和密集产出软舌螺。吾松格尔组白云岩沉积期海水高盐度环境在很大程度上不但抑制实体化石保存的底栖型和游泳型后生动物,也同样抑制没有实体化石保存的后生动物型遗迹造主栖居,遗迹化石的造主和带壳后生动物只能在正常盐度和动荡环境的薄层灰岩沉积期短暂迁移到此。本实例从环境角度诠释生物进化的制约机制,云坪不是后生动物的理想生态条件,这在寒武纪早期生命大爆发过程中就已经显现出来。     

The Strandja Massif and the İstanbul Zone were once parts of the same palaeotectonic unit: new data from Triassic detrital zircons

Spatially continuous rock assemblages that share similar environmental evolution or structural features can be classified as a single tectonic unit. This approach enables to link dispersed units or massifs with each other and sometimes can be subjective, depending on the classification criteria. The relationship and the nature of the contact between the Strandja Massif and the ?stanbul Zone have been controversial due to the Cainozoic cover. Amalgamation of these units was claimed as early as the Aptian-Albian.

Lower Triassic sedimentary rocks, which are overlain by the Carboniferous flysch with a N-verging thrust fault are exposed NW of the ?stanbul Zone. This study reveals the spatial relationship between the Strandja Massif and the ?stanbul Zone deduced from the U-Pb dating and Lu-Hf isotopes of the detrital zircons from these Lower Triassic clastics. Our results show that the early Triassic basin was fed from a provenance that included arc-related Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian magmatic rocks which is much more likely to be the Strandja Massif than the ?stanbul Zone. The second outcome of this study is that a unit that previously assigned to Palaeozoic turned out to be Triassic, which brings the Strandja Massif farther to the east, into the northern ?stanbul Zone.     

Variability of the apparent quantum efficiency of CO photoproduction in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic

The photochemical oxidation of colored, dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is important for carbon cycling in the ocean. This oxidation process produces a number of products, including carbon monoxide (CO). While the photochemical production efficiency of CO (apparent quantum yield, AQY, defined in terms of CDOM absorbance) has been reported to be similar for many water types, a full evaluation of the observed natural variability in CO AQY requires additional study. Here we use a polychromatic irradiation system to determine twenty AQY spectra at sea on fresh samples ranging from the near coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine to the offshore waters of the Northwest Atlantic. Despite the geographic variability of these marine samples the AQY of CO production in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic exhibited only a small degree of variability, none of which was not correlated with measured environmental parameters. Consequently, a single aggregate AQY spectrum _λ = e^{(−(9.134+0.0425(λ−290)))+e(−(11.316+0.0142(λ−290)))} was found to adequately represent the entire data set. Significantly, the accuracy of an AQY spectrum determined using this multispectral/statistical technique was confirmed with data obtained from a monochromatic irradiation technique on a single open ocean sample. Taken together, the AQY spectra determined in this study were similar in magnitude and shape to those previously published for marine samples and, overall, were somewhat lower than those previously reported for freshwater studies.     

应用高分辨率质谱分析苏丹高酸值原油成因

苏丹Muglad和Melut盆地是苏丹乃至整个中、西非剪切带最富含油气的盆地,所发现的原油主要为中质油(重度为20°～34°API),其次为重质油(重度小于20°API),普遍高含沥青质、高含蜡、高酸值、低含硫。为了探讨高酸值原油的成因,选择了苏丹地区18个不同酸值的原油样品,尝试高分辨率质谱分析上述原油有机酸的组成。结果表明,高酸值原油的有机酸主要由环烷酸组成;环烷酸的平均相对分子质量随降解作用程度增加而增大,分子碳原子数分布范围变宽;环烷酸以一环、二环、三环环烷酸为主。生物降解作用是形成高酸值原油的主要原因。     

Solar and proxy-sensitivity imprints on paleohydrological records for the last millennium in west-central Europe

This paper presents a lake-level record established for the last millennium at Lake Saint-Point in the French Jura Mountains. A comparison of this lake-level record with a solar irradiance record supports the hypothesis of a solar forcing of variations in the hydrological cycle linked to climatic oscillations over the last millennium in west-central Europe, with higher lake levels during the solar minimums of Oort (around AD 1060), Wolf (around AD 1320), Spörer (around AD 1450), Maunder (around AD 1690), and Dalton (around AD 1820). Further comparisons of the Saint-Point record with the fluctuations of the Great Aletsch Glacier (Swiss Alps) and a record of Rhône River floods from Lake Bourget (French Alps) give evidence of possible imprints of proxy sensitivity on reconstructed paleohydrological records. In particular, the Great Aletsch record shows an increasing glacier mass from AD 1350 to 1850, suggesting a cumulative effect of the Little Ice Age cooling and/or a possible reflection of a millennial-scale general cooling until the mid-19th century in the Northern Hemisphere. In contrast, the Saint-Point and Bourget records show a general trend toward a decrease in lake levels and in flood magnitude anti-correlated with generally increasing solar irradiance.     

滇西北香格里拉地区钨矿成矿规律及找矿方向

滇西北香格里拉地区已成为我国重要的铜钼资源勘查开发基地,区内的燕山期岩浆岩带呈南北向纵跨义敦岛弧、甘孜-理塘结合带及扬子西缘坳陷带,并伴随着钨钼多金属矿化,形成了休瓦促、麻花坪等大中型钨多金属矿床.区内的钨矿床与花岗岩有直接成因和空间联系,具有剩余重力低异常、弱正磁异常、钨锡钼铋组合异常及钨锡自然重砂异常特征.本文通过...