Cenozoic temperate and sub‐tropical carbonate sedimentation on an oceanic volcano – Chatham Islands,New Zealand

The Chatham Islands, at the eastern end of the Chatham Rise in the South‐west Pacific, are the emergent part of a Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic stratovolcano complex that is variably covered with limestones and fossiliferous tuffs. Most of these deposits accumulated in relatively shallow, high‐energy, tide‐influenced palaeoenvironments with deposition punctuated by periods of deeper‐water pelagic accumulation. Carbonate components in these neritic deposits are biogenic and dominated by molluscs and bryozoans – a heterozoan assemblage. The widespread Middle to Late Eocene Matanginui Limestone contains local photozoan elements such as large benthonic foraminifera (especially Asterocyclina) and calcareous green algae, reflecting the general Palaeogene sub‐tropical oceanographic setting. More localized Late Eocene to Oligocene deposits (Te One Limestone) as well as Pliocene carbonates (Onoua Limestone) are, however, wholly heterozoan and confirm a generally cooler‐water oceanographic setting, similar to today. Early sea floor diagenesis is interpreted to have removed most aragonite components (infaunal bivalves and epifaunal gastropods). Lack of aragonite resulted in the absence of intergranular calcite cementation during subaerial exposure, such that most carbonates are friable or unlithified. Cementation is, however, present at nodular hardground–firmground caps to metre‐scale cycles. Such cements are microcrystalline or micrometre‐thick isopachous circumgranular rinds with insufficient definitive attributes to pinpoint their environment of formation. The overall palaeoenvironment of deposition is interpreted as mesotrophic, resulting in part from upwelling about the Chatham volcanic massif and in part from nutrient element delivery from the adjacent volcanic terrane and coeval volcanism. Biotic diversity in tuffs is two to three times that in limestones, supporting the notion of especially high nutrient availability during periods of volcanism. These mid‐latitude deposits are strikingly different from their low‐latitude, tropical, photozoan counterparts in the volcanic island–coral reef ecosystem. Ground water seepage and fluvial runoff attenuate coral growth and promote microbial carbonate precipitation in these warm‐water settings. In contrast, nutrients from the same sources feed the system in the Chatham Islands cool‐water setting, promoting active heterozoan carbonate sedimentation.     

河北小寺沟蛇纹石玉的矿物成分和化学成分研究

在野外地质调查的基础上,通过显微薄片观察、电子探针分析、X射线衍射分析、红外光谱分析、X射线荧光光谱分析、微量元素分析、稀土元素分析等现代测试方法对河北小寺沟蛇纹石玉的矿物成分、化学成分进行了研究。结果表明,小寺沟蛇纹石玉为富镁碳酸盐岩蚀变形成的蛇纹岩,其主要矿物成分为利蛇纹石,次要矿物成分有方解石、白云石、透辉石、金云母、磁铁矿、黄铁矿等。蛇纹石玉的稀土元素来源于围岩大理岩,其稀土元素球粒陨石标准化配分图与其围岩大理岩的稀土配分图非常相似,为陡右倾型,具有稀土元素总量较低、富集轻稀土、具δEu负异常的特点。     

塔里木盆地西北缘海相白垩系-古近系界线沉积物环境指标研究

发生于中生代-新生代之间的事件是地质历史上一次重大灾变和异常事件,因此白垩系-古近系之间的界线(K/T界线)就成为全球最重要的地质界线之一.通过对塔里木盆地西北缘乌恰地区库孜贡苏河剖面海相上白垩统-古新统地层的岩性和沉积环境变化以及地球化学特征研究,重点利用沉积物色度、有机碳含量、碳酸钙和碳、氧稳定同位素的明显异常变化...     

蓟县高于庄组臼齿构造形态特征及成因意义

本文以蓟县地区高于庄组发育的臼齿构造为例,通过对臼齿构造详细的岩石学、形态学和岩性与流变学的关系,以及追踪具独特岩性的臼齿构造母岩的变化.结果表明,微亮晶方解石大小、底基质岩性和粘性在臼齿构造发育过程中具有重要作用;相对的,岩性均一地层中臼齿构造形态多种多样.而臼齿构造直径与其弯曲度之间的关系说明臼齿构造形成过程本身也...     

碳酸盐中碳、氧同位素快速制样装置研制

介绍一种碳酸盐中碳、氧同位素快速制样装置。实验证明,该装置具有真空度好、使用方便、无污染、制样效率高、成本低的优点,所生成的二氧化碳具有高纯、分析结果准确、可靠等特点,完全能满足碳酸盐中碳、氧同位素分析的制样要求。     

岩层厚度对碳酸盐岩构造裂缝面密度和分形分布的影响

岩层厚度对于碳酸盐岩构造裂缝的发育起到重要作用.新疆柯坪大湾沟、青松和蓬莱坝构造性质比较稳定,剖面的构造裂缝测量结果统计分析表明,碳酸盐岩构造裂缝面密度与层厚呈负相关关系,层厚越大,构造裂缝面密度越小,但裂缝规模较大;随着层厚减薄,构造裂缝面密度线性增大,但裂缝规模较小.碳酸盐岩构造裂缝具有良好的分形特征,统计结果显示...     

碳酸盐白云化作用模式研究进展

碳酸盐白云化作用是白云石(白云岩)成因研究中一个重要领域,对不同碳酸盐白云化作用模式的总结和应用是白云石(白云岩)成因研究的重要内容之一,因而,进一步深入理解目前已有的不同碳酸盐白云化作用模式,将对今后更好地应用和改进现有的模式、甚至总结全新的模式都有重要的现实意义.在大量国内外文献资料分析的基础上,较系统地总结了目前...     

Impact of dynamic sedimentation on facies heterogeneities in Lower Cretaceous peritidal deposits of central east Oman

This study, based in the Haushi‐Huqf area of central east Oman, aims to characterize the controls on facies distribution and geometries of some of the best preserved examples of Lower Cretaceous tidal flat facies within the Tethyan epeiric platform. Field, petrographic and geochemical data were acquired from the Barremian–Aptian Jurf and Qishn formations that crop out in a 500 × 1000 m² butte, thus allowing for pseudo three‐dimensional quantitative data acquisition of the dimensions and spatial distributions of discontinuity surfaces and sedimentary bodies. The interpretation presented here suggests that the main processes impacting sedimentation in the Lower Cretaceous peritidal environment of the Haushi‐Huqf were transport and erosion processes related to storm waves and currents. The vertical evolution of the carbonate system is organized into six types of metre‐scale depositional sequences, from subtidal dominated sequences to supratidal‐capped sequences, which are bounded by regional discontinuity surfaces. At subaerial exposure and submarine erosion surfaces associated with a base level shift, sedimentary horizons along the entire depositional profile are cut by scours possibly created by storm events. Chemostratigraphy allows correlation between the Haushi‐Huqf and the age‐equivalent sections logged in the interior of the platform in Oman. The correlation suggests that the change from subtidal to intertidal depositional sequences during the late highstand is coeval with the development of rudist dominated shoals on the shelf. This study is the first to discuss the controls on Lower Cretaceous peritidal carbonate cyclicity of the Arabian epeiric platform. The results presented here also offer a unique quantitative dataset of the distribution and dimensions of peritidal carbonate shoals and storm scours in a regional sequence stratigraphic context.     

Cainozoic Stratigraphy of the lake Eyre basin and part of the arid region lying to the South

The Cainozoic history of the Lake Eyre region opened with a period of deep weathering during which many of the older rocks were extensively kaolinized. Following erosion and later deposition of a thin sheet of Tertiary fluviatile deposits, a period of weathering resulted in the widespread formation of silcrete. Another period of erosion and deposition was followed by soil formation and minor silici‐fication.

An important period of erosion followed during which some of the main elements of the present landscape were outlined. Warping during this interval gave rise to shallow basins in which lacustrine sediments accumulated. At about the same time, a system of mound springs developed near the western margin of the Great Artesian Basin. Another major period of erosion followed, by which time the main topographic features of the present landscape had evolved. This last event probably took place near the close of the Tertiary. Throughout the Tertiary, drainage was external and ancestral Lake Eyre remained fresh.

The Quaternary was characterized by four periods of aeolian and, to a lesser extent, water erosion and deposition alternating with periods of landscape stability, when weathering and soil formation took place.

Throughout the Cainozoic there was an alternation of relatively humid and dry periods, but true aridity and internal drainage did not appear until the Quaternary. Sand ridges were not formed until the late Quaternary. Intervals of gentle warping occurred from time to time during the Tertiary, but the Quaternary has for the most part been a period of stability. These events have given rise to a sequence of distinctive rock and soil‐stratigraphic units whose characteristics are considered in some detail.     

渤海海域沙一、二时期碳酸盐岩沉积特征及主控因素分析

渤海海域沙一、二时期湖相碳酸盐岩分布广泛。根据其沉积特征可划分为台地型、斜坡型、水下隆起型和混合沉积型4大类及相应的亚相、微相,其中位于湖平面之下浪基面之上的各类浅水湖泊碎屑滩(生物滩、陆屑滩)储层最为发育。该时期渤海海域为温暖潮湿的北亚热带气候、封闭的微咸水-半咸水的环境。古地貌特征为影响碳酸盐岩发育和富集分布规律的主控因素,周边陆源碎屑供给能力则影响碳酸盐岩的发育程度。