洁居纳卓组:西藏措勤地区的上新统岩石地层单位

分布于措勤县城一带的一套地层在1:100万日喀则幅区调中被划属上新统乌郁群,由下部火山岩和上部沉积岩组成。在1:25万措勤县幅区调中,根据获得的同位素年龄值已将下部火山岩地层划归古新统的典中组,而上部的沉积地层中含圆笠虫等有孔虫化石应属下白垩统。在这一地区还新发现一套陆相碎屑地层,根据其岩性组合、ESR年龄值及区域地层对比,本文将其新命名为上新统洁居纳卓组。     

藏北申扎一带下奥陶统拉塞组的发现及意义

吉林省地质调查院在进行1:25万《多巴区幅》区域地质调查时,在西藏北部申扎县一带首次发现一套富含北方珠角石动物群Armenoceras sp.,Wutinoceras sp.,Discoactinoceras multiplexum Kobayashi,Adaomsoceras sp.,Sactoceras sp.,Ordosoceras sp.,Oncoceratida,Ormoceratidae,?Curtoceras sp.,Ormoceras sp.,Liulinoceras sp.,Deiroceras cf.globsom Zholt et Shen及腕足类、牙形剌、苔藓虫、海百合茎等化石的海相碳酸盐岩地层。该地层的岩石组合特征及生物群面貌与区内已知的地层存在明显的差异,其地质时代也明显早于区内已知的其它古生代地层,故建立下奥陶统拉塞组。     

西藏尼玛地区古近纪美苏组的建立

通过1：25万邦多区幅地质调查,在尼玛县西部拉舍—岷千日一带发现一套基性—中性—酸性—酸碱性火山岩岩石组合,其时代属古新世—始新世,新创建美苏组。描述了该组的分布、岩性、岩相、古生物及同位素年代特征,讨论了其形成的构造环境。     

辽宁本溪牛毛岭马家沟组顶部剖面微相分析与沉积环境

牛毛岭马家沟组顶部剖面位于本溪国家地质公园牛毛岭景区的东部.通过对碳酸盐岩的微相分析,恢复了马家沟组顶部剖面沉积环境并总结了沉积环境变化规律.依据标本研究划分出14种微相类型,包括1种风暴岩微相类型、9种缓坡微相类型、3种标准微相类型和1种自定义微相类型.此剖面自下而上划分为3个低能型向上变浅潮缘旋回.旋回一的沉积环境由内缓坡的潮缘或潟湖,至沙滩和沙堤,至潮汐水道的潮缘;旋回二沉积环境由局限或开放的内缓坡,至潮缘的浅潮下带和个别层位的潮间、潮上带;旋回三最为典型,沉积环境由灰色灰岩的中缓坡,至潮缘,再到黄色调碳酸盐岩的潮缘浅潮下带,至潮间、潮上带的蒸发潟湖,至干旱气候下潮间、潮上带的蒸发海岸.推断染色的Fe3+和黏土矿物为陆源,此剖面点处是碳酸盐岩孤岛（洲）的潮缘环境.     

辽宁北部秀水盆地秀D1井下白垩统义县组烃源岩生物标志化合物特征及意义

应用气相色谱、气相色谱-质谱技术,研究了秀水盆地秀D1井下白垩统义县组烃源岩的生物标志化合物特征,对烃源岩有机质来源、沉积环境、热演化程度等进行了分析.结果表明,秀水盆地秀D1井下白垩统义县组烃源岩有机质丰度高,有机质类型为Ⅱ型,处于成熟演化阶段;（C20+C21）/（C23+C24）三环萜烷为0.66~5.06,C24四环萜烷/C26三环萜烷为0.38~2.25,具有典型湖相烃源岩特征;烃源岩Pr/Ph主要介于0.5~1.0之间,指示还原环境;伽马蜡烷/C30藿烷比值为0.05~0.41之间,指示处于强还原性沉积环境,并且烃源岩沉积时水体的盐度较低以及可能存在水体盐度分层;Pr/nC17、Ph/nC18关系表明有机质类型主要为Ⅱ1型,C27-C28-C29甾烷的相互关系反映有机质来源应为低等水生生物和陆生高等植物的混合来源;Ts/Tm比值为0.45~1.82,C31αβ22S/（22S+22R）比值为0.41~0.62,表明烃源岩处于低成熟-成熟演化阶段,并且具有义县组中、下部烃源岩成熟度较义县组上部高的特点.综合认为秀水盆地早白垩世义县组烃源岩形成于水体盐度较低的还原-强还原环境,有机质来源为混合来源,有利于有机质的富集,义县组具有较好的油气勘探前景.     

胜利油田孤岛油区馆陶组上段沉积结构单元

结构单元分析法(Architectural-Element Analysis)作为一种比较成熟的研究方法,已广泛应用于古代河流沉积研究.本文首次根据钻孔资料分析胜利油田孤岛油区馆陶组上段5～1+2砂层组河流沉积的结构单元.该段5～1+2砂层组岩石类型简单,可分为11个岩相类型.根据界面特征、岩相组合、内部几何形态、外部几何形态和垂向剖面特征等划分出6个结构单元:河道滞流沉积(CHL)、侧向加积砂坝(LA)、天然堤(LV)、决口扇(CS)、决口水道(CR)和洪泛平原细粒(FF).其中洪泛平原细粒(FF)、决口扇(CS)和侧向加积砂坝(LA)结构单元最为发育,其次是天然堤(LV)和决口水道(CR)结构单元,而河道滞流沉积(CHL)结构单元则不甚发育.决口扇(CS)结构单元是馆陶组上段砂体发育的主要单元之一,且富含油气资源.因此,进一步加强决口扇的研究对油气资源的勘察是十分必要的.     

U–Pb dating of silicic lavas,sills and syneruptive resedimented volcaniclastic deposits of the Lower Devonian Crudine Group,Hill End Trough,New South Wales

The Hill End Trough of central‐western New South Wales was an elongate deep marine basin that existed in the Lachlan Fold Belt from the early Late Silurian to late Early Devonian. It is represented by a regionally extensive, unfossiliferous sequence of interbedded turbidites and hemipelagites of substantially silicic volcanic derivation, which passes laterally into contemporaneous shallow‐water sedimentary rocks. The Turondale and Merrions Formations of the Lower Devonian Crudine Group are two prominent volcanogenic formations in the predominantly sedimentary trough sequence. They contain a range of primary and resedimented volcanic facies suitable for U–Pb dating. These include widespread subaqueous silicic lavas and/or lava cryptodomes, and thick sequences of crystal‐rich volcaniclastic sandstone emplaced by a succession of mass‐flows that were generated by interaction between contemporaneous subaerial pyroclastic flows and the sea. Ion microprobe dating of the two volcanogenic formations by means of the commonly used SL 13 zircon standard yields ages ranging between 411.3 ± 5.1 and 404.8 ± 4.8 Ma. Normalising the data against a different zircon standard (QGNG) yields preferred slightly older mean ages that range between 413.4 ± 6.6 and 407.1 ± 6.9 Ma. These ages broadly approximate the Early Devonian age that has been historically associated with the Crudine Group. However, the biostratigraphically inferred late Lochkovian ‐ early Emsian (mid‐Early Devonian) age for the Merrions Formation is inconsistent with the current Australian Phanerozoic Timescale, which assigns an age of 410 Ma to the Silurian‐Devonian boundary, and ages of 404.5 Ma and 395.5 Ma to the base and top of the Pragian, respectively. There is, however, good agreement if the new ages are compared with the most recently published revision of the Devonian time‐scale. This suggests that the Early Devonian stage boundaries of the Australian Phanerozoic Timescale need to be revised downward. The new ages for the Merrions Formation could also provide a time point on this time‐scale for the Pragian to early Emsian, for which no data are presently available.     

Morphology and internal structure of two new abelisaurid remains (Theropoda,Dinosauria) from the Adamantina Formation (Turonian – Maastrichtian), Bauru Group,Paraná Basin,Brazil

The knowledge on the Brazilian theropod fauna is hampered by the limited number of specimens unearthed so far. The most potential deposits for the finding of those dinosaurs are the layers of Bauru Group, which comprises several different formations of Late Cretaceous age. Most of those remains are referred to Abelisauroidea, a clade that is particularly well represented in Gondwana. Here we report two new abelisaurid specimens comprising a left ilium (DGM 927-R) and the distal articulation of a right femur (MCT 1857-R) unearthed from the outcrops of Adamantina Formation (Turonian – Maastrichtian) in the locality known as Santo Anastácio, that comprises an abandoned quarry located in the outskirts of the homonymous city in São Paulo State. The ilium has a preacetabular process horizontally oriented and ventrally deflected, as well as an acute angle between this process and the pubic peduncle. The femur shows a well-developed anteromedial crest, but not to the same degree as in noasaurids, and ossified ridges between condyles and tibiofibular crest. Those features allow us to assign both specimens to Abelisauridae. CT-scans of those specimens shows that the ilium has pneumaticities similar to the camellate pattern previously recorded in neosauropods and reveals the diverticula invasion of abdominal air-sacs. The femur presents a developed anisotropic trabecular system, which suggests that the main muscular strain is located at the distal portion of this bone. These features have not been previously reported in Abelisauridae, indicating that the internal organization of the postcranial skeleton in the group is rather complex and quite variable.     

Discovery of 2Obaichthyidae gars (Holostei,Ginglymodi, Lepisosteiformes) in the Aptian Codó Formation of the Parnaíba Basin: Remarks on paleobiogeographical and temporal range

Here we report the first 2obaichthyid gar from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Codó Formation of the Parnaíba Basin, Northeastern Brazil. It shows the following obaichthyid characters: numerous odontods firmly attached to the outer surface of the dermal bones, free and mobile maxilla, presence of interopercle, lack of contact between the metapterygoid and ectopterygoid, absence of lacrimomaxillary bones, and a prominent spine at the posterior margin of the scales. Due to the presence of scales bearing a prominent ventral posterior spine and a number of additional posterior marginal spines, the fish from the Codó Formation is noticeably the same species found in the Albian Santana Formation of the Araripe Basin, Dentilepisosteus laevis. Although probably restricted to fresh or brackish water, the new discovery adds one more taxon to the assemblages found in the Parnaíba and the Araripe basins. The new record extends the temporal range of this species down into the Aptian (about ∼10 myr older than the previous occurrence).     

The Early Cretaceous Jacuí Group,a newly discovered volcaniclastic–epiclastic accumulation at the top of the Paraná Basin,southern Brazil

The presence of volcaniclastic rocks related to the silicic magmatism within the Serra Geral Formation has been a matter of long-standing debate. In this paper, we present extensive documentation that supports the presence and abundance of these rocks in the Jacuí Group, a newly discovered volcaniclastic and epiclastic accumulation in southern Brazil. The Jacuí Group is composed of two interfingered stratigraphic units, the Volta Alegre and Tupanciretã formations, and it represents the uppermost stratigraphic unit of the Paraná Basin. The Volta Alegre Formation is primarily composed of resedimented volcaniclastic tuffites, the pyroclasts which were sourced from the Santa Maria subgroup of the Palmas-type of the Serra Geral Formation. The Tupanciretã Formation is composed of fluvial and aeolian deposits transported towards the north–northwest. Deposition of the Jacuí Group began in the Early Cretaceous (∼132 Ma) and was coeval with the acidic volcanism of the Santa Maria subgroup. This group was deposited in a probable interior sag basin that represents either the beginning of the extension in the inner part of the continent that subsequently migrated to the east or the far-field impact of extensional processes that preceded the break-up of Gondwana and the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean.