Paleomagnetism of the middle Cretaceous Iritono granite in the Abukuma region, northeast Japan

We have studied the paleomagnetism of the middle Cretaceous Iritono granite of the Abukuma massif in northeast Japan together with ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar dating. Paleomagnetic samples were collected from ten sites of the Iritono granite (102 Ma ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar age) and two sites of its associated gabbroic dikes. The samples were carefully subjected to alternating field and thermal demagnetizations and to rock magnetic analyses. Most of natural remanent magnetizations show mixtures of two components: (1) H component, high coercivity (B_c > 50–90 mT) or high blocking temperature (T_b > 350–560 °C) component and (2) L component, relatively low B_c or low T_b component. H component was obtained from all the 12 sites to give a mean direction of shallow inclination and northwesterly declination (I = 29.9°, D = 311.0°, α₉₅ = 2.7°, N = 12). This direction is different from the geocentric axial dipole field at the present latitude (I = 56.5°) and the typical direction of the Cenozoic remagnetization in northeast Japan. Since rock magnetic properties indicate that the H component of the Iritono granite is carried mainly by magnetite inclusions in plagioclase, this component probably retains a primary one. Thus the shallow inclination indicates that the Abukuma massif was located at a low latitude (16.1 ± 1.6°N) about 100 Ma and then drifted northward by about 20° in latitude. The northwesterly deflection is attributed mostly to the counterclockwise rotation of northeast Japan due to Miocene opening of the Japan Sea. According to this model, the low-pressure and high-temperature (low-P/high-T) metamorphism of the Abukuma massif, which has been well known as a typical location, would have not occurred in the present location. On the other hand, the L component is carried mainly by pyrrhotite and its mean direction shows a moderate inclination and a northwesterly declination (I = 42.8°, D = 311.5°, α₉₅ = 3.3°, N = 9). Since this direction is intermediate between the H component and early Cenozoic remagnetization in northeast Japan, some thermal event would have occurred at lower temperature than pyrrhotite Curie point ( 320 °C) during the middle Cretaceous to early Cenozoic time to have resulted in partial remagnetization.     

基于粗糙度的月表虹湾地区地形地貌解译

行星表面粗糙度是表面侵蚀、沉降和隆升等作用在行星表面留下的记录,对其进行的定量分析可以精确地反映其表面地质构造过程.对月球的虹湾地区选取水平方向的12条剖面进行了粗糙度各参数(均方根高程、均方根偏差、均方根坡度、Hurst指数)的计算,结果表明:①在1 km的剖面长度上,虹湾地区均方根高程的平均值在3 m左右;在0.2...     

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Capitals of the World, Version 1.5, by Keith Sutton, P.O. Box 23668, San Diego, CA 92123, Registered Copy $20. FPCL disk #2292 (Version 1.3).

Terra?Time, version 5.0, by George K. Marek, GeoGraphic Software, 126 Mountain View Road, Glastonberg, CT 06033, Registered Copy $20. FPCL Disk #1487.

World City Distance Computer, version 5.0, by George K. Marek, GeoGraphic Software, 126 Mountain View Road, Glastonberg, CT 06033, Registered Copy $15. FPCL Disk #1487.

The Transfer and Transformation of Ideas and Material Culture. by Hugill, Peter J. and Dickson, D. Bruce, eds.: College Station, Texas: Texas A&;M University Press, 1988. xxii and 281 pp., index.

The Third World: States of Mind and Being edited by J. Norwine and A. Gonzalez Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, Inc. 1988. Refs., notes, index. 275 pp. ISBN 0–04–910121–8.

The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation 1846–2003 by Peter Hall and Paschal Preston Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman Ltd. 1988. Tables, figs., refs., index. 305 pp. $34.95, cloth.     

Life Geography from the Child's Point of View

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A second look is taken at “The Geography of the U.S. in the Year 2,000.” A new interplay is seen of the countervailing pressures to disperse and to agglomerate. Polynucleated urban regions are seen, organized within and around a global poly center. There are certain imperatives: those of demographic cycles and of the economic long wave. These will interact with information-age technologies to change family structures, life styles, and locational preferences. The unexpected also should be expected: “catastrophes” in which existing arrangements are transformed and new structures put into place to replace them. A key to understanding is to continually probe the second derivatives: change in the nature of change.     

中甸矿集区普朗-红山铜多金属成矿亚带北段帕纳牛场斑岩体~(40)Ar—~(39)Ar年龄及锑矿化

普朗-红山铜多金属成矿亚带北部帕纳牛场辉锑矿床与石英二长斑岩(热液)及断裂有关。斑岩黑云母40Ar-39Ar坪年龄和等时线年龄分别为199.1±1.3Ma和199.2±2.4Ma,代表了与辉锑矿化对应的斑岩的侵位时间,是该成矿亚带上目前获得石英二长斑岩中40Ar-39Ar最年轻的新年龄值,代表了义敦岛弧普朗-红山铜多金属成矿亚带存在燕山早期的构造-岩浆活动。在印支晚期主要形成斑岩型-夕卡岩型铜多金属矿床之外,燕山早期还具有斑岩及至少与斑岩有关的热液脉状成矿作用-锑矿化,预示了本区斑岩的一种新的成矿作用和找矿方向与前景。     

西昆仑库地蛇绿岩中基性火山岩的Sm-Nd等时线年龄

本文总结了前人有关库地蛇绿岩系各组成单元以及与其有成因联系的岩浆岩的年代学资料,同时利用Sm-Nd法测定了一些克沟基性火山岩的形成时代,获得了 2个晚元古代全岩等时线年龄:1023±51 Ma和834±29 Ma。在此基础上,对库地蛇绿岩系的形成和演化时代进行了讨论,认为库地蛇绿岩中基性火山岩的Sm-Nd等时线年龄可能代表了库地洋开始消减俯冲的年代。     

西藏色林错12ka以来的湖泊退缩过程——基于古湖岸线的OSL测年

青藏高原内陆封闭湖泊的水体演化是古气候变化的良好地质载体,其中湖泊古湖岸线变迁蕴含了丰富的地质信息,对其识别和研究是认识导致湖泊退缩的气候或构造变化的关键。色林错是青藏高原第二大内陆湖泊,保存了一系列古湖岸线。我们对色林错东北岸保存完好的古湖岸线进行了研究。对这些古湖岸线样品中的石英颗粒使用单片再生法(Singlealiquot regeneration)进行OSL测年,测定年龄分别为12.2±0.8 ka、6.3±0.4 ka和2.3±0.2 ka。表明色林错在约12.2 ka、6.3 ka和2.3 ka±至少出现了3次阶段性湖泊收缩过程。     

晚第四纪柴达木盆地东部古湖泊高湖面光释光年代学

高湖面是湖泊演化的鼎盛期,指示区域的温暖湿润气候。关于青藏高原湖泊高湖面的年代有不同的观点。一种观点(主要是基于14C测年)认为在氧同位素三阶段晚期青藏高原普遍存在"大湖期"或"泛湖期",并且其温度和降水可能比全新世还高。另一种观点(主要基于释光、铀系测年等)认为青藏高原湖泊的最高古湖面出现在氧同位素五阶段,之后湖面逐渐下降。柴达木盆地位于青藏高原的东北部,其高湖面年代的研究可为认识青藏高原环境演化提供基础资料。本文选择柴达木盆地东部的托素湖和尕海湖高出现代湖面的湖相沉积和湖岸砂堤为研究对象,利用石英光释光测年方法建立其年代序列。根据沉积物沉积特征和光释光年代结果认为,尕海湖和托素湖古高湖面出现在82～73ka、63～55ka、34.4ka和全新世早期。通过与青藏高原及周边湖泊高湖面年代记录对比,认为尕海湖和托素湖的最高湖面主体出现在氧同位素五阶段,之后湖面逐渐下降。     

Early Holocene dune activity linked with final destruction of Glacial Lake Minong, eastern Upper Michigan, USA

The early Holocene final drainage of glacial Lake Minong is documented by 21 OSL ages on quartz sand from parabolic dunes and littoral terraces and one radiocarbon age from a lake sediment core adjacent to mapped paleoshorelines in interior eastern Upper Michigan. We employ a simple model wherein lake-level decline exposes unvegetated littoral sediment to deflation, resulting in dune building. Dunes formed subsequent to lake-level decline prior to stabilization by vegetation and provide minimum ages for lake-level decline. Optical ages range from 10.3 to 7.7 ka; 15 ages on dunes adjacent to the lowest Lake Minong shoreline suggest final water-level decline ∼ 9.1 ka. The clustering of optical ages from vertically separated dunes on both sides of the Nadoway-Gros Cap Barrier around 8.8 ka and a basal radiocarbon date behind the barrier (8120 ± 40 ¹⁴C yr BP [9.1 cal ka BP]) support the hypothesis that the barrier was breached and the final lake-level drop to the Houghton Low occurred coincident with (1) high meltwater flux into the Superior basin and (2) an abrupt, negative shift in oxygen isotope values in Lake Huron.     

东天山卡拉塔格早古生代红海块状硫化物矿床精确定年及其地质意义

东天山卡拉塔格矿带红海块状硫化物Cu-Zn矿床产于卡拉塔格海相火山岩建造中,矿层主要与两个岩性段的火山-碎屑岩地层有关:(1)盖层为中性-酸性火山岩、火山角砾岩、凝灰岩,夹凝灰质砂岩;(2)赋矿层位主要由中基性-中酸性火山角砾岩、凝灰角砾岩、凝灰岩和沉凝灰岩组成。高精度的锆石离子探针U-Pb同位素定年获得矿体上盘围岩底部酸性火山岩的年龄为416.3±5.9Ma,为成矿时代的上限年龄;K-Ar同位素定年获得矿体下盘强绢云母化蚀变围岩年龄为424±7Ma,记录了最晚一期成矿热液活动的时代。同位素年代学研究显示,卡拉塔格地区在早古生代末期存在一期铜多金属成矿作用,这个认识不仅为吐哈盆地南缘古生代火山岩地层的时代划分提供了年代学限制,而且扩大了卡拉塔格地区和区域找矿空间。