基于传播矩阵法改进的SS及其前驱波合成算法

410 km和660 km地幔间断面在地球内部动力学研究中具有重要意义. 在研究地幔间断面的方法中, SS前驱波由于具有全球采样优势得以广泛应用. SS及其前驱波模拟可利用有限差分和谱元法等数值模拟方法, 它们在模拟全球尺度地震波传播时具有高精度的特点, 但往往计算量很大. 因此, 该类方法难以应用于反射点广泛分布的情形. 而基于传播矩阵发展的SS及其前驱波模拟方法在保持高精度计算的同时, 可大幅提高计算效率. 本文针对SS及其前驱波的传播特征, 改进了基于传播矩阵方法的波形合成算法FASHSHWF. 通过简单层状模型对该算法进行了测试, 验证了算法及相应程序的正确性. 计算效率测试表明改进算法相较常规传播矩阵算法可节约50%以上的计算时间. 通过与AxiSEM计算的波形对比, 验证了FASHSHWF用于SS及其前驱波模拟的有效性. 在上述工作的基础上, 本文进一步探讨了新算法在研究全球近地表结构对地幔间断面复杂性探测影响中的应用.

     

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This study investigates the mechanism of formation of convection plumes of mushroom shape in sub-solidus mantle and their prediction.The seismic-tomographic images of columnar structures of several hundreds kilometers in diameter have been reported by several researchers,while the much cherished mushroom-shaped plume heads could only be found in computational geodynamics(CGD) models and simple small-scale laboratory analogue simulations.Our theory of transient instability shows that the formation of conv...     

Revision of the conchostracan genus Estherites from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation of the Songliao Basin and its biogeographic significance in China

The diagnosis of Estherites corrugatus from the basal part of the Coniacian Second Member of the Nenjiang Formation in Nenjiang County, north-east China is revised following the application of a new preparation technique to some of the carapaces and an examination of specimens under a scanning electron microscope, both of which revealed morphological features on the carapace that had not been recognized previously. Restudy of the type species of the two subgenera Estherites (Euestherites) and Estherites (Parestherites) also revealed details of carapace features not seen hitherto. These indicate that they should be separated from Estherites. As a result, Euestherites is upgraded to genus level and Parestherites is placed in synonymy. The importance of Estherites and Euestherites is considered in the context of Late Cretaceous assemblages of these crustaceans and the three conchostracan provinces (South-West, South-East and North China) that are recognized to have been present in China during the Turonian–Santonian period.     

塔里木盆地塔中台地上奥陶统四分珊瑚及其古地理分布

本文系统描述了新疆塔里木盆地塔中台地上奥陶统床板珊瑚形珊瑚亚纲四分珊瑚目四分珊瑚科的化石,共4属3种和2个未定种,分别为：四分珊瑚属Tetradium小四分珊瑚（比较种）Tetradium cf. minus、纤状四分珊瑚（比较种）Tetradium cf. fibratum、杆四分珊瑚属Rhabdotetradium杆四分珊瑚（未定种）Rhabdotetradium sp.、似植珊瑚属Phytopsis细胞状似植珊瑚（比较种）Phytopsis cf. Cellulosum、古槽珊瑚属Palaeoalveolites古槽珊瑚（未定种）Palaeoalveolites sp.。其中,似植珊瑚属Phytopsis为在亚洲地区的首次发现和报道。本文选取塔中822、塔中82、塔中30、塔中23和塔中43井上奥陶统取心段研究四分珊瑚化石的分布特征,发现四分珊瑚化石集中出现在奥陶系上统桑比阶—凯迪阶良里塔格组良三段至良一段,在塔中台地边缘礁滩相和台地内部泻湖相内均有分布,是一类广适型的生物。其中,礁滩相内多为似植珊瑚属Phytopsis、四分珊瑚属Tetradium的块状复体碎块,泻湖相内多为个体形态较大的四分珊瑚属Tetradium,杆四分珊瑚属Rhabdotetradium,似植珊瑚属Phytopsis及古槽珊瑚属Palaeoalveolites的块状和丛状复体碎块。结合全球其他板块四分珊瑚的古地理分布规律,认为在奥陶纪生物大辐射背景下,四分珊瑚自中奥陶统出现后,在上奥陶统凯迪期发生大规模辐射。塔里木板块塔中台地奥陶系良里塔格组中的四分珊瑚即为上奥陶统凯迪期的辐射产物,其辐射规律与全球底栖造礁生物的辐射规律一致。

     

Small sized charophyte gyrogonites in the Maastrichtian of Coll de Nargó, Eastern Pyrenees: An adaptation to temporary floodplain ponds

Charophytes bearing small sized fructifications dominated in fluviatile floodplain facies (red beds) from the Maastrichtian of Coll de Nargó and neighbouring basins in the southern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain). These charophytes mainly belong to the genus Microchara and are often disregarded in biostratigraphic studies, which focus their attention instead on facies from permanent lakes that are richer in species which usually bear fructifications with a larger size range. However, small sized gyrogonites are also significant for biostratigraphic purposes and even include some of the index species for Maastrichtian biozones in Europe. Indeed, the charophyte assemblages from the Maastrichtian of Coll de Nargó belong to the Microchara punctata biozone, recently calibrated to the middle-upper Maastrichtian.Floodplain ponds from the Maastrichtian red beds of Coll de Nargó (Lower Red Unit) were extremely shallow, received considerable terrigenous influx and were frequently exposed, probably resulting in turbid, warm waters with high light availability. These conditions could explain the almost exclusive occurrence of charophytes with small fructifications in the Lower Red Unit. The available data, mainly based on oospores from extant species, indicate that the small size observed in gyrogonites from temporary ponds may represent an adaptation to environmental stress. Fossil species with small gyrogonites of Microchara cristata, M. punctata and Microchara nana would thus develop massively in stressed shallow ponds on fluvial floodplains. To contrast these hypotheses, we compared our results to those of four well-known case studies with similar sedimentological contexts, ranging from the Lower Cretaceous to the upper Eocene–lower Oligocene. Gyrogonite size patterns were similar in all cases, possibly suggesting that characeans display a long history of adaptation to shallow, temporary and turbid floodplain ponds by means of producing a high number of small gyrogonites, probably representing short life cycles and opportunistic strategies.     

Ophiolite hosted chromitite formed by supra-subduction zone peridotite –plume interaction

Chromitite bodies hosted in peridotites typical of suboceanic mantle (s.l. ophiolitic) are found in the northern and central part of the Loma Caribe peridotite, in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic. These chromitites are massive pods of small size (less than a few meters across) and veins that intrude both dunite and harzburgite. Compositionally, they are high-Cr chromitites [Cr# ​= ​Cr/(Cr ​+ ​Al) atomic ratio ​= ​0.71–0.83] singularly enriched in TiO₂ (up to 1.25 ​wt.%), Fe₂O₃ (2.77–9.16 ​wt.%) as well as some trace elements (Ga, V, Co, Mn, and Zn) and PGE (up to 4548 ​ppb in whole-rock). This geochemical signature is unknown for chromitites hosted in oceanic upper mantle but akin to those chromites crystallized from mantle plume derived melts. Noteworthy, the melt estimated to be in equilibrium with such chromite from the Loma Caribe chromitites is similar to basalts derived from different source regions of a heterogeneous Caribbean mantle plume. This mantle plume is responsible for the formation of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP). Dolerite dykes with back-arc basin basalt (BABB) and enriched mid-ocean ridge basalt (E-MORB) affinities commonly intrude the Loma Caribe peridotite, and are interpreted as evidence of the impact that the Caribbean plume had in the off-axis magmatism of the back-arc basin, developed after the Caribbean island-arc extension in the Late Cretaceous. We propose a model in which chromitites were formed in the shallow portion of the back-arc mantle as a result of the metasomatic reaction between the supra-subduction zone (SSZ) peridotites and upwelling plume-related melts.     

Multiple magnetization events in the Red River carbonates, Williston Basin, Canada: Evidence for fluid-flow?

Samples collected from the Upper Ordovician Red River carbonates in a well at the centre of the Williston Basin revealed two paleomagnetic components with different inclinations, 60.3 ± 3.9° (k = 70.7, N = 12) and 20.4 ± 3.3° (k = 141.2, N = 8), but similar declination values in individual specimens. Inclination-only analysis indicates two possible scenarios for the age of these two magnetizations: in scenario (a) the timing of magnetization happened sometime between Late Ordovician to Devonian; and in scenario (b) there are two different remagnetizations, one that overlaps Pennsylvanian to Permian time while the other can have either a Late Jurassic or a Tertiary age. Whereas dolomitization and some isotopic data tend to support scenario (a), previous paleomagnetic data from the Williston Basin and from younger units in the same well, the tectonic evolution of the basin, and the hydrocarbon maturation pattern in the Red River carbonates all favour chemical remagnetization(s) driven by orogenic fluids during the Alleghenian and Laramide orogenies.     

Upper mantle structure of the South American continent and neighboring oceans from surface wave tomography

We present a new three-dimensional SV-wave velocity model for the upper mantle beneath South America and the surrounding oceans, built from the waveform inversion of 5850 Rayleigh wave seismograms. The dense path coverage and the use of higher modes to supplement the fundamental mode of surface waves allow us to constrain seismic heterogeneities with horizontal wavelengths of a few hundred kilometres in the uppermost 400 km of the mantle.The large scale features of our tomographic model confirm previous results from global and regional tomographic studies (e.g. the depth extent of the high velocity cratonic roots down to about 200–250 km).Several new features are highlighted in our model. Down to 100 km depth, the high velocity lid beneath the Amazonian craton is separated in two parts associated with the Guyana and Guapore shields, suggesting that the rifting episode responsible for the formation of the Amazon basin has involved a significant part of the lithosphere. Along the Andean subduction belt, the structure of the high velocity anomaly associated with the sudbduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate reflects the along-strike variation in dip of the subducting plate. Slow velocities are observed down to about 100 km and 150 km at the intersection of the Carnegie and Chile ridges with the continent and are likely to represent the thermal anomalies associated with the subducted ridges. These lowered velocities might correspond to zones of weakness in the subducted plate and may have led to the formation of “slab windows” developed through unzipping of the subducted ridges; these windows might accommodate a transfer of asthenospheric mantle from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean. From 150 to 250 km depth, the subducting Nazca plate is associated with high seismic velocities between 5°S and 37°S. We find high seismic velocities beneath the Paraná basin down to about 200 km depth, underlain by a low velocity anomaly in the depth range 200–400 km located beneath the Ponta Grossa arc at the southern tip of the basin. This high velocity anomaly is located southward of a narrow S-wave low velocity structure observed between 200 and 500–600 km depth in body wave studies, but irresolvable with our long period datasets. Both anomalies point to a model in which several, possibly diachronous, plumes have risen to the surface to generate the Paraná large igneous province (LIP).     

柴西地区扎哈泉致密油储层特征及评价

柴西地区致密油储层内部结构复杂、非均质性强,为了更高效地进行致密油勘探开发,利用岩芯薄片、X衍射、场发射扫描电镜、CT扫描和物性分析等方法,对扎哈泉地区上干柴沟组开展致密储层特征及储层物性控制因素研究。研究表明,上干柴沟组为典型的致密储层,以细砂岩和粉砂岩为主,填隙物含量较高,以原生孔隙为主,微米级孔隙是主要的储集空间,有效储层平均孔隙度为5. 9%,平均渗透率为0. 43 m D。储层内部孔隙分布较均匀,总体呈现微米级孔隙加纳米级喉道的特征,其中微米级孔隙基本呈片状分布,连通性好,纳米级孔隙则呈点孤立状分布。储层物性受原始沉积条件和后期成岩作用控制,坝砂泥质含量低,纯度高,物性较好。压实作用和碳酸盐胶结使储层变差,硬石膏胶结对孔隙的影响具有两面性,晚成岩期的溶蚀作用对储层改善作用明显。研究区致密油有效储层可分为三类,其中Ⅰ类有效储层为本区的"甜点"区,是下一步优先勘探开发的重点区块,Ⅱ-Ⅲ类有效储层则是重要的挖潜区,通过工程技术攻关可切实实现柴西地区的增产扩能。     

Flat mantle reflectors in Eastern China: possible evidence of lithospheric thinning

Recent 24 s deep seismic reflection records revealed five flat reflectors in the lithospheric mantle in Eastern China. With increasing depth, they are named M1 to M5 and can be seen on both field single-shot and stacked records. Reflector M1 corresponds to the Moho discontinuity, whereas M5 may be the reflection from the bottom of the current lithosphere, which is about 78 km deep according to geothermal measurements. The other three reflectors seem peculiar and might result from interactions between the lithosphere and deeper mantle. Based on lithological and geochemical data, it is suggested that the lithosphere has been thinned from about 150 km to about 60 km in the Late Mesozoic, and then has been thickened to about 78 km during the Cenozoic. The thinning process produced a granulite layer in the old lower crust caused by magmatic underplating, whereas an eclogite layer formed beneath owing to the subduction of the Paleo-Tethys and Yangtze Craton during the Permian and Early Mesozoic. Reflector M2 at about 12 s two-way traveltime (TWT) might result from the Paleozoic Moho, which represents the boundary between the previous granulite and eclogite facies. Reflector M3 at about 14 s might correspond to the bottom of the eclogite layer, beneath which the old lithospheric mantle remained. The old and the newly developed mantle may have different compositions, resulting in reflector M4. The multi-layered mantle reflectors demonstrate a mantle structure that possibly correlates with the lithospheric thinning process that occurred in Eastern China during the Late Mesozoic. The discovery of multi-layered mantle reflectors in the studied areas indicates a high heterogeneity of the upper mantle. Reflection seismology with improved technology, together with velocity and resistivity imaging and rock-physics measurements, can provide more details of the heterogeneity and related dynamic processes that occurred in the lithospheric mantle.