Geochemistry of lower Jurassic shales of the Shemshak Formation, Kerman Province, Central Iran: Provenance, source weathering and tectonic setting

Lower Jurassic shales of the Shemshak Formation of Kerman Province, Central Iran, were analyzed for major and selected trace elements to infer their provenance, intensity of palaeoweathering of the source rocks and tectonic setting. Plots of shales on Al₂O₃ wt.% versus TiO₂ wt.% diagram and Cr (ppm) versus Ni (ppm) diagram indicate that acidic (granitic) rocks constitute the source rocks in the provenance. Average CIA, PIA and CIW values (84%, 92%, 93%, respectively) imply intense weathering of the source material. Plots of shales on bivariate discriminant function diagram reveal an active continental margin setting for the provenance. The inferred tectonic setting for the Lower Jurassic shales of the Shemshak Formation of Kerman Province is in agreement with the tectonic evolutionary history of the Central Iran during the Jurassic period.     

Evolution of animal multicellularity stimulated by dissolved organic carbon in early Ediacaran ocean: DOXAM hypothesis

Oxygenation of the ocean is presumed to be an important factor stimulating the evolution of multicellular animals. The appearance of the Ediacaran‐type biota (ca 575 Ma) was assigned to the aftermath of the Gaskiers glaciation (ca 580 Ma), when substantial oceanic oxygenation is believed to have started. However, several lines of evidence reveal that at least sponges evolved before this oxygenation. For understanding the first stage of animal evolution, we propose the hypothesis that Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Stimulated the evolution for Animal Multicellularity (DOXAM). Recent geochemical studies of the Ediacaran sedimentary sequences have indicated that a substantial DOC mass was developed in the stratified ocean after the Marinoan glaciation (655–635 Ma), and this was supported by the inorganic and organic carbon isotope profiles of the Doushantuo Formation in South China. The DOC mass was an oxygen consumer in the water column; however, it could have provided a food source for filter‐feeding animals such as sponges and cnidarians, and established a primitive food‐web. Such an ecological structure is recognized in modern deep‐sea coral mounds. Results from the integrated ocean drilling program (IODP) Expedition 307 for a mound in northeastern Atlantic suggested that organic carbon suspended around the density boundary in the water column is the key feature to feed the heterotrophic deep‐sea coral community. Our hypothesis is consistent with the fact that the two most primitive animal phyla (Porifera and Cnidaria) are filter feeders. The evolution of filter feeding ecosystems removed the DOC mass and may have contributed to ocean oxygenation in the terminal Neoproterozoic when animal evolution passed into the second stage, with the appearance of bilaterians.     

浙江横山组的时代和区域地层对比

浙江横山组被认为与寿昌组上段呈整合接触而归入建德群,由于生物化石稀少,又无年龄资料,因而地层时代和层位认识分歧较大。对寿昌盆地横山组与寿昌组之间的接触关系作了重新研究,证实是假整合而不是整合。在兰溪墩头盆地、淳安甘坞盆地以及常山朱村盆地,横山组均假整合或不整合覆于老地层上,在墩头盆地横山组下部发现大量永康馆头组中常见的...     

再论华南志留系红层的时代

牙形刺P.eopennatus带的确立和P.celloni带、P.amorphognathoides带的细分,使华南Llandovery统的划分和对比发生了变化,以往归入P.celloni带的地层,极大多数都要归属到P.eopennatus带,层位变低。依据牙形刺生物地层的分析,溶溪组（下红层）的时代可能为埃隆期晚期,...     

东吴运动的沉积学响应——以湘鄂西及邻区二叠系茅口组顶部不整合面为例

湘鄂西及邻区二叠系茅口组顶部广泛发育了岩溶角砾岩,并形成了一个分布范围广阔的不整合面,该不整合面特征在各地存在明显差异,其上覆孤峰组与龙潭组也存在不同程度的缺失。东吴运动为两幕式构造运动,上述现象正是东吴运动Ⅰ幕、Ⅱ幕在不同地区的沉积学响应。     

广东连州长兴期含煤地层

九陂组(亚田煤组)是粤北和湘南晚二叠世重要的含煤地层,其下伏"梅田灰岩"的涵义和(虫筵)化石Gallowayinella meitienensis的层位问题曾长期未得澄清.通过对梅田组剖面的详细工作,建立了下部的Gallowayinella组合和上部的Nanlingella jiaozishanica-Sphaerul...     

Eutrephoceras subplicatum (Steinmann, 1895) is a junior synonym of Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum (Forbes in Darwin, 1846) (Cephalopoda, Nautiloidea) from the Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation of Chile

Nautilus subplicatusSteinmann, 1895 is a latest Cretaceous species of nautiloid which is common in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and the Antarctic Peninsula and which is best assigned to the genus EutrephocerasHyatt, 1894. Nautilus dorbignyanusForbes in Darwin, 1846 and Nautilus valenciennii Hupé in Gay, 1854 are here considered to be senior synonyms which later authors have apparently overlooked. The type material of these two taxa is reillustrated. On the basis of this and additional material it is demonstrated that only a single nautiloid species occurs in the Quiriquina Formation of late Maastrichtian age. For this we propose to use N. dorbignyanus as the oldest available name.     

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.     

鄂尔多斯盆地下石盒子组盒8段储集砂体发育控制因素及沉积模式研究

以鄂尔多斯盆地二叠系下石盒子组盒8段储集砂体为研究对象,在众多前人研究成果的基础上,综合研究了盆地内下石盒子组盒8段沉积演化过程中储集砂体发育特征,主要表现为:岩石类型多样,包括含砾粗砂岩、中粒砂岩、细粒砂岩等;成因复杂:包括冲积扇砂体、河流砂体、辫状河三角洲砂体等;分布广泛:具有广覆式大面积分布特征。在上述基础上,系统深入分析了控制盒8大面积砂体分布的关键因素,主要包括:强物源、多物源供给是基础,多水系发育是前提,平缓古地貌是背景,高流速河流是动力。其中,强物源、多物源不仅为盆地内提供了丰富碎屑物质,而且控制着盆地内不同区域储集砂体的岩性特征;多水系发育为形成大面积砂体分布提供了条件,发源于物源区向盆地内搬运陆源碎屑物质的六条水浅流急的辫状河道在盆地中部汇合交叉控制着单层砂体厚度及其连片性。平缓古地貌控制着多河道发育和长距离搬运过程中河道摆动、迁移频繁,并相互叠置交叉。高流速河流控制着平缓古地形上发育的多河道不断交叉、复合。并定量计算了盒8段储集砂体沉积时的地形古坡度,平均坡降为1.10m·km^-1,平均坡度为0.063°;古河流水体平均流速为8.31m·s^-1。进而,结合盆地内钻井实际建立了下石盒子组盒8段独具特色的"强物源供给的缓坡浅水辫状河三角洲沉积模式"。     

塔里木盆地卡塔克隆起卡1三维区块奥陶系鹰山组储层特征与影响因素

奥陶系鹰山组一直是塔里木盆地油气勘探的重点层位。综合运用岩心、薄片、成像测井、分析测试以及三维地震资料,对鹰山组储层特征以及影响因素进行了分析。结果表明:鹰山组整体岩性以粉-细晶白云岩,砂屑灰岩,灰质白云岩为主,储集空间以溶蚀孔洞、裂缝为主;上部为风化壳岩溶储层,溶孔-裂缝发育,中下部为裂缝性储层,裂缝发育,纵向上具有上孔下缝特征,储层非均质性强;加里东中期I幕运动形成的构造不整合面是该区岩溶储层发育的重要因素;加里东中期—早海西期形成的断裂和构造裂缝是该区储层发育的关键;早二叠世时期与火山作用伴生的岩溶烘烤以及埋藏溶蚀作用对储层发育具有积极作用。