南祁连西北缘肃北红庙沟地区早奥陶世花岗岩年代学、地球化学特征及其地质意义

笔者对南祁连西北缘红庙沟地区发育的黑云二长花岗岩体进行了精细的年代学和地球化学研究。LA-ICP-MS测定结果表明,黑云二长花岗岩加权平均年龄为（479.7±3.4）Ma（MSWD=0.047）,岩体侵位时代为早奥陶世。在地球化学组成上,黑云二长花岗岩表现为过铝质（A/CNK=0.96~1.04）的Ⅰ型花岗岩特征,稀土元素总量相对较低（∑REE=67.55×10-6~83.07×10-6）,轻稀土相对富集,具Eu负异常;富集Rb、Ba和K等大离子亲石元素,亏损Sr和高场强元素（Nb、Ti、P）,显示弧岩浆特征。综合研究表明,本区早奥陶世黑云二长花岗岩是南祁连洋向祁连陆块俯冲过程中引起岛弧岩浆活动而形成的产物,记录了该时期重要的板块构造运动事件,为认识南祁连造山带的构造演化提供了有益资料和重要依据。     

基于贝壳生长轮方法的平端深海偏顶蛤的生长和年龄结构研究

平端深海偏顶蛤(Gigantidasplatifrons)是广泛分布于西太平洋深海热液和冷泉生态系统中的优势种和共有种,也是深海化能生态系统中重要的生境营造种。以南海F冷泉平端深海偏顶蛤为研究对象,基于贝壳日生长轮方法,分析了平端深海偏顶蛤的年龄与生长速率,建立了其年龄与贝壳壳长关系的生长方程。同时,结合获得的生长方程,分析了南海F冷泉采样点(119.285 6°E,22.115 4°N)平端深海偏顶蛤种群的年龄结构。研究结果表明,采样获得的平端深海偏顶蛤种群的最大壳长为11.4 cm,最大寿命为13.5龄。研究区域的贝壳长度分布集中在4～7 cm,占比60%;年龄分布集中在2～4龄,占比49.7%。相关研究结果为进一步开展平端深海偏顶蛤的生长研究提供了基础数据,有助于深入了解冷泉区域的种群动态变化规律。     

华南震旦纪基性火山岩的地球化学及构造环境

华南地区产于震旦纪地层中的火山岩主要见于震旦纪裂谷盆地两侧的边缘,湖南新化和广东高思火山岩为其中的二个发育地区,镜下鉴定为玄武岩系。在ＳｉＯ２－Ｋ２Ｏ＋Ｎａ２Ｏ的分类图中主要为玄武岩类,有一样品为碧玄岩类,含有较多石英杏仁体玻璃质火山岩角砾的样品为玄武质安山岩类。在ＦｅＯ＊－Ｎａ２Ｏ＋Ｋ２Ｏ－ＭｇＯ三角图中所有样品均为拉斑质岩系。样品的重元素丰度模式具大陆－初始裂谷－Ｅ－ＭＯＲＢ拉斑玄武岩的过渡特征,在Ｎｂ、Ｚｒ、Ｙ、Ｔｉ图上属板内环境。在ＴｉＯ２－Ｋ２Ｏ－Ｐ２Ｏ５三角图上显示以大洋环境为主、大陆环境为次。湖南新化拉斑玄武岩的Ｓｍ、Ｎｄ同位素特征反映岩浆来源于亏损的地幔,并受到了老基底的污染。     

中国南方二叠纪钙质海绵的基本特征、分布与古生态

本文讨论了钙质海绵化石主要类别的基本特征,归纳了它们在中国南方二叠纪生物礁中的分布,对于不同地区的钙质海绵动物群进行了综合分析,并在此基础上开展了古生态讨论,初步揭示了钙质海绵在生物礁形成中的作用及其与礁体发育、消亡的相互关系。     

A furrow runs through it: An example of sustainable traditional irrigation in Western Cape Province,South Africa

Water and water related matters are important issues in water scarce countries like the Republic of South Africa. This is especially true for the agricultural sector that relies heavily on the availability of water for irrigation to ensure a secure food supply. In South Africa, present day irrigation projects rely on government subsidies and are usually large undertakings beyond the reach of individuals or small communities. The sustainability of such large irrigation projects is still a matter of debate. A 100 years ago a different set of rules applied. Irrigation could only be achieved by hand-dug furrows that supplied water in relatively small quantities to small farming communities. This paper investigated such a small community, the Leeukloof farming community in the Western Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. For the past 93 years this community has maintained a furrow that supplies water not only to farms bordering the Perdeberg River, which supplies the furrow with water, but also to farms not bordering the river. The authors try to reconstruct the changes in agricultural practices brought about by the furrow, methods of water extraction during each phase, as well as the development and role of the furrow system. The perception by the community of the necessity of this method of water extraction from the river system is also investigated. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Application of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to volcano mapping in the humid tropics: a case study in East Java, Indonesia

 Volcanoes in humid tropical environments are frequently cloud covered, typically densely vegetated and rapidly eroded. These factors complicate field and laboratory studies and even the basic identification of potentially active volcanoes. Numerous previous studies have highlighted the potential value of radar remote sensing for volcanology in equatorial regions. Here, cloud- and vegetation-penetrating L_HH-band (λ≈24 cm) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JERS-1) are used to investigate persistently active volcanoes and prehistoric calderas in East Java, Indonesia. The L_HH-band JERS-1 SAR produces high-spatial-resolution (18 m) imagery with relatively high incidence angle that highlights structures and topographic variations at or greater than the wavelength scale while minimising geometrical distortions such as layover and foreshortening. These images, along with Internet browse data derived from the Canadian RADARSAT mission, provide new evidence relating regional tectonics to volcanism throughout East Java. Volcanic events, such as caldera collapse at the Tengger caldera, appear to have been partly controlled by northwest-aligned faults related to intra-arc sedimentary basins. Similar regional controls appear important at historically active Lamongan volcano, which is encircled by numerous flank maars and cinder cones. A previously undocumented pyroclastic sheet and debris avalanche deposit from the Jambangan caldera complex is also manifested in the synoptic radar images. At the currently active Semeru volcano these data permit identification of recent pyroclastic flow and lahar deposits. Radar data therefore offer a valuable tool for mapping and hazard assessment at late Quaternary volcanoes. The criteria developed in the analysis here could be applied to other regions in the humid tropics. Received: 25 June 1998 / Accepted: 20 January 1999     

Mid-Holocene evolution and paleoenvironments of the shoreface–offshore transition, north-eastern Argentina: New evidence based on benthic microfauna

A sedimentary record spanning 5792–5511 cal yr BP and 3188–2854 cal yr BP was recovered at 36° 45′ 43″ S–56 ° 37′ 13″ W, south-west South Atlantic. The sedimentological features and micropaleontological (benthic foraminifera and ostracoda) content were analyzed in order to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions. Considerable environmental fluctuations are indicated by all these proxies. Five different stages were distinguished: Stage 1 (ca. 5800–5000 cal yr BP) consists of muddy sand with abundant microfossils. In this interval, species typical for inner marine shelf environments maintained a high abundance. Stage 2 consists of plastic light greenish grey clays barren of microfossils, and probably represents fluvial input from the de la Plata River to the shelf contemporaneous of a lowering of sea level. Stage 3 is composed of brownish yellow sandy silts, and represents increasing marine conditions in the area as reflected by higher faunal diversity and typical foraminifera of inner shelf environments. Stage 4 is made of homogeneous mud, barren of microfossil, which represents a new pulse of fluvial input to the shelf in consequence of a new fall in sea level. The final part of the core (Stage 5) is a coarsening upward sequence, grading from greeny brown clayey sandy silts to coarse shelly sands and represents the modern sedimentation in the area. This interpretation strengthens the stepped model of late-Holocene sea-level fall between 5511–5792 cal yr BP and 2854–3188 cal yr BP in Buenos Aires coast, and agrees with the relative sea-level history previously proposed by some authors from western South Atlantic coasts.     

Intraseasonal Oscillation of the South China Sea Summer Monsoon and Its Influence on Regionally Persistent Heavy Rain over Southern China

The intraseasonal oscillation（ISO） in the South China Sea summer monsoon（SCSSM） and its influence on regionally persistent heavy rain（RPHR） over southern China are examined by using satelhte outgoing long wave radiation,NCEP/NCAR reanalysis,and gridded rainfall station data in China from 1981 to 2010.The most important feature of the ISO in SCSSM,contributing to the modulation of RPHR,is found to be the fluctuation in the western Pacific subtropical high（WPSH）,along with a close link to the Madden-Julian oscillation（MJO）.Southern China is divided into three regions by using rotated empirical orthogonal functions（REOFs）for intraseasonal rainfall,where the incidence rate of RPHR is closely linked to the intraseasonal variation in rainfall.It is found that SCSSM ISOs are the key systems controlling the intraseasonal variability in rainfall and can be described by the leading pair of empirical orthogonal functions（EOFs） for the 850-hPa zonal wind over the SCS and southern China.Composite analyses based on the principal components（PCs） of the EOFs indicate that the ISO process in SCSSM exhibits as the east-west oscillation of the WPSH,which is coupled with the northward-propagating MJO,creating alternating dry and wet phases over southern China with a period of 40 days.The wet phases provide stable and lasting circulation conditions that promote RPHR.However,differences in the ISO structures can be found when RPHR occurs in regions where the WPSH assumes different meridional positions.Further examination of the meridional-phase structure suggests an important role of northward-propagating ISO and regional air-sea interaction in the ISO process in SCSSM.     

Observations of the Labrador Sea eddy field

This paper is an observational study of small-scale coherent eddies in the Labrador Sea, a region of dense water formation thought to be of considerable importance to the North Atlantic overturning circulation. Numerical studies of deep convection emphasize coherent eddies as a mechanism for the lateral transport of heat, yet their small size has hindered observational progress. A large part of this paper is therefore devoted to developing new methods for identifying and describing coherent eddies in two observational platforms, current meter moorings and satellite altimetry. Details of the current and water mass structure of individual eddy events, as they are swept past by an advecting flow, can then be extracted from the mooring data. A transition is seen during mid-1997, with long-lived boundary current eddies dominating the central Labrador Sea year-round after this time, and convectively formed eddies similar to those seen in deep convection modeling studies apparent prior to this time. The TOPEX / Poseidon altimeter covers the Labrador Sea with a loose “net” of observations, through which coherent eddies can seem to appear and disappear. By concentrating on locating and describing anomalous events in individual altimeter tracks, a portrait of the spatial and temporal variability of the underlying eddy field can be constructed. The altimeter results reveal an annual “pulsation” of energy and of coherent eddies originating during the late fall at a particular location in the boundary current, pinpointing the time and place of the boundary current-type eddy formation. The interannual variability seen at the mooring is reproduced, but the mooring site is found to be within a localized region of greatly enhanced eddy activity. Notably lacking in both the annual cycle and interannual variability is a clear relationship between the eddies or eddy energy and the intensity of wintertime cooling. These eddy observations, as well as hydrographic evidence, suggest an active role for boundary current dynamics in shaping the energetics and water mass properties of the interior region.     

江南造山带西南段宰便辉绿岩年代学、地球化学及其构造意义SCIEI北大核心CSCD

宰便地区位于江南造山带西南段,发育有一系列新元古代镁铁质-超镁铁质火成岩。然而,其成因与构造背景仍存在广泛争议。因此,本文选择江南造山带西南段宰便辉绿岩为研究对象,系统开展岩石学、地球化学、Nd-Hf同位素和锆石U-Pb年代学研究。研究结果表明,辉绿岩具有高Mg^(#)(50~69)、高Al_(2)O_(3)(13.94%~18.63%)、低钾(0.03%~0.33%)、低磷(0.04%~0.28%)特征,显示为低钾拉斑系列岩石特点。同时,岩石整体相对富集Th、U等大离子亲石元素,亏损Nb和Y等高场强元素,Eu具有微弱负异常特征。辉绿岩的Nb/Ta、Zr/Nb比值揭示了母岩浆在岩浆侵位过程中未发生地壳混染。3件样品的锆石U-Pb年龄分别为820.7±3.0Ma、821.1±9.2Ma和823.1±9.5Ma,表明岩浆侵位时代为新元古代早期。锆石ε_(Hf)(t)值介于-13.6~7.7之间,Hf的t_(DM2)值介于1214~2547Ma之间,结合全岩地球化学特征,揭示其原始岩浆可能源于富集地幔,并伴有一定的亏损地幔参与。综合前人和本次研究的地质、地球化学和年代学数据,本文认为江南造山带西南段宰便地区在新元古代早期处于板内构造环境。