Age of the MGS5 segment of the Milanggouwan stratigraphical section and evolution of the desert environment on a kiloyear scale during the Last Interglacial in China's Salawusu River Valley: Evidence from Rb and Sr contents and ratios

The MGS5 segment of the Milanggouwan stratigraphical section in China's Salawusu River Valley records 8.5 sedimentary cycles consisting of dune sands alternating with fluviolacustrine facies or/and paleosols. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of Rb and Sr within the segment and paleoecological evidence (fossils), it appears that the observed sedimentation cycles mainly resulted from fluctuations between dry-cold and warm-humid climates, which indicates that the MGS5 segment experienced at least eight cold-dry and nine warm-humid climatic fluctuations. Of these, 12 cold–warm climate fluctuations correspond to DO20–DO25 and stadia 21–26 recorded by the NGRIP ice cores. Another five cold–warm climatic fluctuations that occurred during MGS5e correspond to five substages (5e1–5e5) recorded by the GRIP ice cores from Greenland. This kind of high-frequency climatic fluctuation on a kiloyear scale was mainly subject to variations in the strength of the East Asian winter and summer monsoons.     

Integrated biostratigraphy and carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian to Albian) Adriatic-Dinaridic carbonate platform deposits in Istria, Croatia

The Adriatic-Dinaridic carbonate platform (ADCP) was one of the largest and relatively well preserved Mesozoic platforms in the Mediterranean region (central Tethys). The peninsula Istria, in the northwestern part of the ADCP, is built up predominantly of shallow-water carbonates of the Middle Jurassic (Dogger) to Eocene age and, to a lesser extent, of Paleogene clastic deposits (flysch and calcareous breccia). This study focuses on a Lower Cretaceous (Barremian to Albian) succession of strata at five localities in western Istria. Stratigraphic determinations are based on identification of nine microfossil assemblages (benthic foraminifera and calcareous algae Dasycladales) and on using their taxa as index fossils. The age of strata with these microfossil assemblages, however, is questionable. Most of the age uncertainties are associated with a regional emersion, which occurred on the ADCP during the Aptian or close to the Aptian-Albian transition. It is unclear what portions of the Upper Aptian and/or Lower Albian are missing along this unconformity. A stable isotope study was conducted on homogenous micritic matrix samples in an attempt to resolve some of these uncertainties. Variations in carbon isotope compositions proved useful for stratigraphic correlation between the examined successions of strata, for improving their age determination, and for relating them to other coeval successions that span an important time interval of major oceanographic changes and carbon-cycle perturbations associated with the Early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE 1a).     

新疆觉罗塔格小热泉子组火山岩的时代探讨

新疆东天山觉罗塔格地区广泛分布着石炭系-二叠系火山岩-沉积岩地层,小热泉子组是其中的一套以火山岩为主的地层.前人依据与之接触的底坎尔组中的中石炭世化石,将小热泉子组划为早石炭世.对觉罗塔格南部的小热泉子铜矿的研究,不同学者得出了差别较大的同位素年龄,而北部的小热泉子组目前还没有同位素年龄报道.我们对北部的底坎尔和干沟两地的小热泉子组火山岩进行了锆石SHRIMP测年,得到了271～275 Ma的年龄.这些测年数据与近几年其他学者的数据一致,表明早二叠世的岩浆活动比原来认为的更广,小热泉子组的时代应该属于早二叠世,其他地层单元的时代及其先后关系也需要重新认识.     

南阿尔金山清水泉镁铁-超镁铁质侵入体LA-ICP-MS 锆石U-Pb同位素定年及其意义

清水泉镁铁-超镁铁质层状侵入体位于南阿尔金山阿帕—茫崖构造带中-北部的清水泉地区,其北部与南阿尔金山超高压变质带紧邻。该岩体包含有3～4个由辉石橄榄岩-角闪辉长岩构成的岩浆旋回,与元古宙变质沉积岩系呈侵入接触关系。对其中的角闪辉长岩进行了LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素测年,其206Pb/238U表面年龄为(461±2)Ma～(471±2)Ma,其加权平均值为(467.4±1.4)Ma(n=21,MSWD=2.5),所测锆石具有明显的岩浆振荡环带,Th/U比值为0.32～1.16(平均0.64)。测年结果显示,清水泉镁铁-超镁铁质岩体的形成时代晚于南阿尔金山超高压变质岩的峰期变质时代(504～487 Ma),而老于该地区A型花岗岩的时代(425 Ma左右)。分析认为,伴随着同时代的"双峰式"岩浆侵入作用及广泛的变质热事件,大约465 Ma时的南阿尔金山已经由前期的陆-陆碰撞造山阶段转入到了碰撞后的裂谷伸展作用阶段。     

卡姆斯特煤田侏罗系八道湾组地层层序及聚煤特征

综合利用卡姆斯特煤田钻孔测井、野外露头及古生物化石等资料,应用经典层序地层学基本理论和方法,对卡姆斯特煤田八道湾组进行了层序地层划分,共识别出SQ1和SQ2两个三级层序,并根据地层叠置样式、沉积旋回特征细分为6个体系域。通过沉积基础图件、沉积环境的分析明确了研究区八道湾组沉积演化主要受古地形起伏、古气候条件等古地理因素的综合影响。确定研究区内目的层段主要在高位和低位时期聚煤,湖侵时期不利于聚煤。通过详细研究卡姆斯特煤田八道湾组的沉积环境和聚煤特征,为今后寻找和开发卡姆斯特地区煤炭资源提供地质依据。     

塔里木盆地侏罗系层序地层特征

通过野外露头资料、测井资料和地震资料分析,塔里木盆地侏罗系可识别出8个层序边界,除层序边界JSB6和JSB7为Ⅱ型外,其他均为Ⅰ型.层序界面上下常表现为沉积相突变或地层缺失.根据8个三级层序边界可识别出7个三级层序,即JSQ1～JSQ7,各层序在盆地内的分布却不均匀.JSQ1和JSQ2层序分布在阿克库勒凸起的于奇地区、...     

A New Darwinopterid Pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Western Liaoning, Northeastern China and its Ecological Implications

A new species of Darwinopterus, D. robustodens sp. nov. is described and named. Based on the new specimen, the diagnostic characters of Darwinopterus are amended and include: rostral dentition composed of well-spaced, spike-like teeth; the longest teeth are confined to the anterior half of the tooth row; tooth alveoli have raised margins; nasoantorbital fenestra confluent; inclined quadrate; elongate cervical vertebrae with low neural spine and reduced or absent ribs; long tail of more than 20 caudals partially enclosed by filiform extensions of the pre- and postzygapophyses; short metacarpus less than 60 per cent length of humerus, fifth toe with two elongate phalanges and curved second pedal phalanx of the fifth toe with the angle between the proximal and distal segments about 130 degrees. The complete specimen of the new pterosaur D. robustodens sp. nov. provides much more osteological information. The differences in tooth morphologies between Darwinopterus modularis and D. robustodens sp. nov. suggest that they filled different ecological niches. The hard integument-bearing Coleoptera may have been the main food source of Darwinopterus robustodens.     

A New Genus and Species of Damsel-Dragonfly (Odonata: Isophlebioidea: Campterophlebiidae) in the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China

The campterophlebiid new genus and species Ctenogampsophlebia reni is described from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It shows close similarities with the Lower to Middle Jurassic genera Gampsophlebia, and Petrophlebia, with closed and short subdiscoidal cells, confirming the attribution of these two other genera to the Campterophlebiidae.     

Ostracoda during the Early Aptian (Early Cretaceous) greenhouse period on the Isle of Wight, England

The earliest Aptian marine transgression of the Lower Cretaceous across southern England resulted in the collapse of the generally freshwater Barremian environment and the initiation of marine mileux. Salinities passed from fresh-oligohaline to meso- and pliohaline, reaching fully marine conditions during the obsoletum Subzone (P. fissicostus Zone). Newly formed environmental niches were rapidly occupied by ostracod associations. In the Isle of Wight, freshwater Cypridea-rich assemblages in the lower Shepherd's Chine Member (Vectis Formation) were gradually replaced by faunas dominated by Sternbergella cornigera, Mantelliana mantelli and Theriosynoecum fittoni. Marine taxa recorded from the Atherfield Clay Formation migrated predominantly from the Paris Basin and include Asciocythere albae, Schuleridea derooi, Neocythere gottisi, N. bordeti, Cythereis geometrica, Cytheropteron stchepinskyi and Protocythere croutesensis.     

Direct terrestrial-marine correlation demonstrates surprisingly late onset of the last interglacial in central Europe

An interdisciplinary study of a small sedimentary basin at Neumark Nord 2 (NN2), Germany, has yielded a high-resolution record of the palaeomagnetic Blake Event, which we are able to place at the early part of the last interglacial pollen sequence documented from the same section. We use this data to calculate the duration of this stratigraphically important event at 3400 ± 350 yr. More importantly, the Neumark Nord 2 data enables precise terrestrial-marine correlation for the Eemian stage in central Europe. This shows a remarkably large time lag of ca. 5000 yr between the MIS 5e ‘peak’ in the marine record and the start of the last interglacial in this region.