东天山库姆塔格沙垄地区石炭纪化石新资料及地层厘定

东天山库姆塔格沙垄地区的地层划分争议已久。1∶5万区域地质矿产调查,于东天山康古尔塔格深大断裂之北的库姆塔格沙垄地区两套碳酸盐岩中,分别发现了牙形刺Streptognathodus suberectus,Idiognathoides sinuata和珊瑚:Pelalaxis intermedia,Lithostrotionella rarivesicula,Fomichevella kiaeri,确认其时代分属晚石炭世罗苏阶-达拉阶和达拉阶-小独山阶,划归哈尔里克地层小区底坎儿组和脐山组。由该两组沉积地层隔离的两套火山岩,空间上分布相对固定,岩石组合特征明显,野外极易识别和区别,大区易于对比,且分属早石炭世和晚石炭世。库姆塔格沙垄地区企鹅山群可由老到新进一步解体为小热泉子组、底坎儿组、企鹅山组和脐山组等4个组级岩石地层单位。     

New fossil eccoptarthrids (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China

One new genus and three new species of the weevil family Eccoptarthridae (Curculionoidea), Leptocar polychaetus gen. et sp. nov., Abrocar macilentus sp. nov., Cretonanophyes punctatus sp. nov., are described and illustrated. They pertain to the Upper Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. The host plants to the living eccoptarthrids and the floras in Yixian Formation indicate that those archaic eccoptarthrids possibly lived on conifers with a phylogenetic closeness to Cupressaceae. Besides, the early diversification of eccoptarthrids is discussed: origi- nated in Central or East Asia in the Late Jurassic, spread into Western Europe and South America during the Early Cretaceous, underwent a dramatic decline after the Early Cretaceous which likely was caused by competitive pressure and the displacement of their host plants.     

四川省壤塘县金木达晚三叠世深水沉积中的遗迹化石及沉积环境分析

四川壤塘金木达日基沟晚三叠世地层中首次发现了大量的遗迹化石,经鉴定有 38个遗迹属、6 3个遗迹种。根据不同遗迹属在不同层位的相对丰度,建立了 5个遗迹组合 全部遗迹组合均属于Nereites遗迹相。同时应用遗迹化石的生态习性分类、特征遗迹化石和遗迹相来进行沉积环境的分析,认为金木达晚三叠世中晚期的沉积环境经历了大陆斜坡下部-深海盆地边缘-大陆斜坡中下部-深海盆地-大陆斜坡下部的演变。     

川西义敦岛弧带晚三叠世植物化石

通过 1∶2 5万区域地质调查和三叠系专项研究 ,在义敦岛弧带的四川省新龙县雄龙西、白玉县热加获得一批植物化石 ,计 15属 2 0种 ,其中包括两个新种 ,一个属种为国内首次发现。这些化石不仅丰富了本区植物化石组合内容 ,而且对地层时代的确定及与邻区的对比和沉积环境的恢复提供了重要的古生物依据。     

中国重要古生物化石及其产地保护浅论

中国古生物化石资源丰富且分布较广,目前在化石的保护与利用上还存在着诸多问题,主要体现在以下几个方面:古生物化石流失严重;古生物化石管理机构不健全;保护法规宣传力度不够;对外交流工作不够;其科普教育价值没有充分发挥;公众保护意识较差等。据此提出如下保护策略及措施:加大相关法律宣传力度;正确处理化石产地、旅游与地方经济的关系;科学规划保护区;积极开展科研工作,大力推广地质科普游;建立健全稳定的资金投入保障机制;加强生态环境的保护;有机整合地质资源,增加吸引力。     

古湖泊学研究中的鱼化石埋藏学方法

鱼化石埋藏学方法在古湖泊环境研究中主要是利用鱼死亡及其骨骼解体和保存的方式 ,去推测湖泊的水文状况、沉积环境、群落结构、鱼类的生活史、死亡方式和保存特征等 ,这种方法的可行性取决于对现代湖泊中生物与环境对应关系的观察研究。在鱼化石埋藏学研究中 ,温度是决定鱼化石保存状况的主要因素 ,当水温在 1 5℃以上 ,多数鱼尸体就会因细菌腐解产生的气体而漂浮到水面 ,然后在水面上进一步腐烂 ,最后散落到湖底 ,或者被水流带到近岸区 ,遭受更强烈的破坏 ;当水温在 1 5℃以下时 ,鱼尸体可以保存在水底 ,直至被埋藏 ,在湖下层水氧气充足、有食腐动物生活的条件下 ,也可以被食腐动物破坏     

Rejuvenation of Fossil Sutures and Related Mesozoic Intracontinental Orogenies in South China

The Huanan (South China) subcontinent was created by amalgamation of the Yangtze, Xianggan, Ca-thaysia and Zhemin microcontinents by the Guangxi orogeny in the Early Palaeozoic. The closure of the Tethyan Ocean and subsequent collision event outside the amalgamated continent reactivated fossil sutures and resulted in in-tracontinental (ensialic) orogenies in the Mesozoic. Based on evidence from deformation, molasse and granitoids, the Sichuan-Guizhou-Hunan-southern Hubei and Hunan-Jiangxi-Fujian Yanshanian fold-thrust systems and the Lower Yangtze-northwestern Fujian Indosinian fold-thrust system are thought to be intracontinental orogens. Their main features are as follows: intracontinental orogenies occurred areally, thrusting propagated towards the interior of the continental, they extend parallelly to the strikes of the fossil sutures, and the details of the temporal-spatial evolution of the orogens depend on subduction-collision events.     

一则更正和由此引发的思考

板溪群的地层时代到底是元古宙、古生代还是三叠纪？大地构造学家之间已持续争论了十多 年,争论的实际依据主要集中在所谓古生物化石的发现上。本文更正了争论中常被引为重要证据的一 则错误的化石鉴定结果,并解释了前因后果,同时呼吁就板溪群的地层时代归属和构造属性这一重大 基础地质问题开展多学科交叉配合的综合研究,特别是古生物学家应更积极地关注和参与到古生物化 石的证实工作中来。     

Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence

What effects do domestic and international policies have on household solid fuel consumption? Previous studies analyze some of the policies that national governments and international organizations have implemented to reduce solid fuel dependence, but these studies tend to examine one policy and/or one country at a time. In contrast, this article seeks to provide a more systematic analysis of whether and to what extent domestic and international policies can encourage transition to less polluting fuels. Using data on the proportion of population using solid cooking fuels, and domestic and international programs promoting renewable energy, we evaluate the association between renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence. Our statistical tests show that such policies, regardless of their domestic or international origins, matter in explaining the level of solid fuel dependence. As the number of domestic policies increases, the share of population using solid fuels tends to decline. International efforts to promote renewable energy are also linked to reduced solid fuel dependence in countries where such international programs are implemented.     

New Species of Cimbrophlebiidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Northeastern China

Four new species of three genera in the family Cimbrophlebiidae, Telobittacus decorus sp. nov., Bellicimbrophlebia heteroneura sp. nov., Cimbrophlebia amoena sp. nov., and Cimbrophlebia gracilenta sp. nov., are described and illustrated based on eleven well-preserved fossil specimens. These specimens were collected from the latest Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. This is the first record of the genus Cimbrophlebia in the Jurassic extending its age from the Lower Cretaceous to the Middle Jurassic. Due to same venational characters, we propose that an undescribed fossil specimen of Cimbrophlebiidae from the Jurassic of Germany is attributed to C. gracilenta sp. nov. Our new findings demonstrate an evolutionary trend of venational change from 185 to 50 Ma that the level of the bifurcation of Rs is gradually moving toward the base of wing in reference to the bifurcation of M.