A new hangingfly (Insecta,Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Purbeck Limestone Group (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and a review of Cretaceous Bittacidae

Rapid radiation of the Bittacidae during the Jurassic resulted in high diversity within this family of Mecoptera. More than 40 species within 23 genera have been described from this period. However, around the end of the Jurassic the abundance and diversity of Bittacidae decreased and only seven species in five genera are known to date from the Cretaceous. A new specimen from the basal Cretaceous of England, Tytthobittacus jarzembowski sp. nov., described here, represents the eighth species and the second fossil representative of this family from the European Cretaceous. This hangingfly belongs to an extant and relictual genus previously known only from Australia. The paper also includes a review of all known Cretaceous bittacids and a re-examination of European species Antiquanabittacus nanus Petrulevičius and Jarzembowski, 2004.     

Cisuralian coals of the Mullaley Sub-basin,northern New South Wales

The Mullaley Sub-basin of the Gunnedah Basin extends from Quirindi in the southeast, to north of Narrabri, to west of Dunedoo in northern New South Wales. There have been more than 100 boreholes sunk to basement investigating the (lower Permian) Cisuralian coal and coal seam gas resources of the Mullaley Sub-basin since the early 1990s. A desktop review of this open file information has allowed the formal correlation and naming of six Cisuralian coal members attaining a maximum 35 m of cumulative thickness within an upward coarsening sedimentary package totalling no more than 150 m. In ascending order, the coal members are: Bibblewindi (0–10 m), Bohena (3–18 m), Collygra (0.5–3 m), Coxs (1.5–4 m), Tullamullen (0.5–4 m) and Mooki (0.5–3 m).

Cisuralian coal seams in the Maules Creek Formation of the southern Mullaley Sub-basin are here correlated with those of the Greta Coal Measures at Werris Creek and Muswellbrook. It is apparent that basement paleotopography played a significant role in the Cisuralian coal development as coals are best developed where the sedimentary sequence is greater than 60 m thick, as there the thick seams (Bohena and Bibblewindi coal members) occur towards the base of the sequence. The maximum western limit of the Cisuralian coals (Rocky Glen Ridge) is further east than previously inferred with new drilling information showing the Porcupine Formation directly overlying the barren pelletoidal claystones of the Leard Formation or the underlying volcanics (Boggabri Volcanics/Werrie Basalt). Early marine transgressions at the top of the Maules Creek Formation have stopped development of the Mooki, Tullamullen and Coxs coal members in the northern and eastern Mullaley Sub-basin and allowed the development of localised paraconglomerate (diamictite) intervals up to 10 m thick. Thick (>20 m cumulative) coal occurrences are localised to the Jacks Creek and Pilliga East State Forest areas southwest of Narrabri. The coal resource potential of the Mullaley Sub-basin is estimated at 13–28 billion tonnes.     

郯庐断裂(安徽段)两侧肥东群与霍邱群特征性岩石对比研究

郯庐断裂带(安徽段)内部物质组成十分复杂,现有研究认为郯庐内部以扬子板块为主体,对于是否存在西侧华北板块物质混入尚不清楚。为此本文选取了3个特征性样品展开了细致的岩相学研究、温压估算以及锆石U-Pb定年分析,分别为:霍邱群样品WS069-1(磁铁石榴角闪岩)以及样品WS070-1(石榴黑云母片岩);肥东群样品TF003-1(石榴黑云母片岩)。研究发现,霍邱群磁铁石榴角闪岩与肥东群磁铁石榴角闪岩的矿物组合及矿物主量元素特征基本一致。针对霍邱群石榴黑云母片岩与肥东群石榴黑云母片岩的峰期变质条件评价也相互匹配。本文在霍邱群仅发现了~3.2Ga、3.0Ga、2.80Ga、2.74Ga等四组反映源区结晶时代的碎屑锆石年龄,但结合前人对霍邱群和五河群的研究可以认为霍邱群的峰期变质年龄应为2.44Ga,这与肥东群磁铁石榴角闪岩和石榴黑云母片岩的峰期变质年龄2.47~2.41Ga吻合。因此肥东群和霍邱群相同特征性岩石磁铁石榴角闪岩从岩相学、变质P-T条件及变质时代等方面皆具可比性,从而推测肥东群磁铁石榴角闪岩和石榴黑云母片岩构造透镜体应为因郯庐断裂左旋走滑作用而卷入肥东群中的霍邱群岩片。     

内蒙古四子王旗地区侵入白云鄂博群辉长岩的年龄及其对白云鄂博群时代的约束

内蒙古四子王旗大井坡一带发育的中新元古代白云鄂博群是白云鄂博矿区的东延部分。野外调查过程中在该地区新发现了两个侵入白云鄂博群的辉长岩体,其同位素年龄可很好地约束存在争议的白云鄂博群时代。将侵入都拉哈拉组的辉长岩体称为吉生太辉长岩,将侵入比鲁特组的辉长岩体称为大井坡辉长岩。采用LA-ICPMS法进行锆石U-Pb同位素定年,获得了吉生太辉长岩的侵位年龄为1670±14Ma(MSWD=1.6),大井坡辉长岩的侵位年龄为1342±9Ma(MSWD=0.94)。依据辉长岩的同位素年龄,通过与燕辽裂陷槽元古代地层与岩浆事件对比,厘定了白云鄂博群的形成时代,建议将都拉哈拉组与尖山组划归古元古界长城系,即国际地层表的固结系;将哈拉霍圪特组划归中元古界蓟县系,即国际地层表的盖层系;将比鲁特组划归中国地层表的待建系下部,即国陆地层表的中元代延展系;将白音宝拉格组的时代划归青白口纪。通过对比发现白云鄂博裂陷槽经历的岩浆事件与华北板块及燕辽裂陷槽基本一致,其形成可能与哥伦比亚超大陆裂解有关。     

滇西哀牢山构造带变质岩系LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

为厘定哀牢山岩群的时代和大地构造归属,选取哀牢山岩群中的花岗质片麻岩(SM-15)、花岗闪长质片麻岩(SM-22)、同变形的花岗质岩脉(SM-18)及紧邻哀牢山岩群的变质砂岩(NO-1)为研究对象,运用LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年法对其进行定年。结果显示,样品SM-15中有岩浆锆石和变质锆石2类,岩浆锆石的年龄集中于722~740Ma之间,变质锆石的~(206)Pb/~(238)U年龄加权平均值为29.9±0.5Ma。样品SM-22中2组~(206)Pb/~(238)U年龄加权平均值,原岩年龄为232.3±4.3Ma;后期变质重结晶年龄为29.2±0.4Ma。样品SM-18中锆石~(206)Pb/~(238)U年龄加权平均值为27.19±0.36Ma,代表变质年龄。样品NO-1中的碎屑锆石年龄分4组:246~276Ma、600~800Ma、800~1000Ma和1000Ma以上。以上年龄数据表明,哀牢山岩群中至少包括元古宙岩浆岩(722~740Ma)、二叠纪末—三叠纪初岩浆岩或地层(235~255Ma),以及新近纪岩浆岩(27~32Ma),是一个复杂的变质岩带,而不是以往认为的全部属于元古宙扬子地台的结晶基底。哀牢山岩群的主变质时代集中在27~32Ma之间,哀牢山岩群现今的面貌主要在这一时期成型。     

Devonian fish remains,biostratigraphy and unconformities,Narromine 1:250 000 map sheet area,central New South Wales (Lachlan Fold Belt)

A fossil fish assemblage associated with marine invertebrates from the Coonardoo Sandstone (Wallingalair Group) at Boor Hill (eastern limb of Tullamore Syncline) contains phyllolepid and bothriolepid placoderms of probable Late Devonian age. An angular unconformity with the overlying Hervey Group indicates erosion and folding during the Middle – Late Devonian, and evidently younger than the main Tabberabberan orogenic event. Invertebrate remains demonstrate a Late Devonian marine interval, not previously recognised as far west as the Tullamore Syncline, and assumed to represent the global maximum sea-level in the late Frasnian immediately preceding the Frasnian – Famennian extinction event. A phyllolepid placoderm plate from a sedimentary interbed of the Dulladerry Volcanics in the Hervey Syncline compares with abundant phyllolepid material from the Merriganowry Shale Member of the Dulladerry Volcanics near Cowra, and similar occurrences in the Comerong Volcanics and Boyd Volcanic Complex in southeastern New South Wales. Biostratigraphic data suggest a late Middle Devonian (Givetian) age for the Merriganowry Shale Member of the Dulladerry Volcanics, which appears conformable beneath the Upper Devonian Hervey Group.     

Tectonic implications of paleomagnetic data from upper Cretaceous sediments in the Oyubari area, central Hokkaido, Japan

Abstract   Paleomagnetic studies provide constraints on the geometric configuration of the eastern Eurasian margin on geological time scales. Characteristic remanent magnetization components were isolated from eight sites by progressive demagnetization executed on samples from 25 sites in the Oyubari area, central Hokkaido where the Late Cretaceous Yezo Group is distributed. After tilt-correction, all sites show normal polarity site-mean directions, and well-clustered directions pass a positive fold test and a correlation test. Planktonic foraminifera indicate an age range of Cenomanian to Turonian, and the studied section is correlated to the geomagnetic polarity chron C34n. Reliable formation-mean directions that have been corrected for post-depositional shallowing (D = 7.5°, I = 65.9°, α₉₅ = 6.6°) are characterized by inclination data indicative of no significant latitudinal translation since the Late Cretaceous. Central Hokkaido has, therefore, been situated adjacent to easternmost Mongolia including Sikhote Alin around the present latitude since the Late Cretaceous. Declination data require significant differential rotation between Hokkaido and the eastern Asian margin, which may be indicative of rearrangement of crustal blocks along the continental margin.     

藏南亚东地区前寒武纪亚东岩群的建立及其特征

藏南亚东地区前寒武纪结晶岩系以往统称为“聂拉木群”。本次研究发现该结晶岩系可划分为上、下两部分,二者之间原始接触关系为角度不整合。下部结晶岩系为本次新建的“亚东岩群”,其岩石组合为：下部为多种片麻岩夹少量细粒石英岩和黑云片岩;中部为多种混合岩;上部为多种片麻岩夹少量变粒岩、石英岩和片岩。不同部位的片麻岩和混合岩中含辉石岩、高压麻粒岩等“暗色”包体。研究表明,亚东岩群为角闪岩相─高角闪岩相变质作用的产物,经历了多期深部构造层次的韧性变形,与“聂拉木群”显著不同。因此,认为“聂拉木群”代表喜马拉雅地区全部“前寒武系”是值得商榷的。     

川滇地区成组强震活动判别指标研究

在成组地震孕育模型的指导下, 分析研究了川滇地区M≥6.5地震成组孕育的地震学和前兆异常特征。 结果表明, 川滇地区的M≥6.5成组地震都发生在云南强震活跃期内, 这个时期云南地区多点水汞测值出现了比正常值高出几十倍甚至上百倍的变化, 比强震平静期的“异常”测值也要高得多; 成组地震前1～2年的中期阶段地震活动会出现大面积增强; 成组地震的首发地震发生时有30%以上的前兆异常持续发展, 不出现转折变化, 而单一强震和成组地震的最后1个地震, 震前有异常震后不出现转折继续发展的数量≤15%; 成组地震的首发地震前兆异常数量比结束地震多。     

Weak redshift discretisation in the Local Group of galaxies?

We discuss the distribution of radial velocities of galaxies belonging to the Local Group. Two independent samples of galaxies as well as several methods of reduction from the heliocentric to the galactocentric radial velocities are explored. We applied the power spectrum analysis using the Hann function as a weighting method, together with the jackknife error estimation. We performed a detailed analysis of this approach. The distribution of galaxy redshifts seems to be non‐random. An excess of galaxies with radial velocities of ∼24 km s^–1 and ∼36 km s^–1 is detected, but the effect is statistically weak. Only one peak for radial velocities of ∼24 km s^–1 seems to be confirmed at the confidence level of 95%. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)