川东北新元古代克拉通裂陷的厘定及其深层油气意义

四川盆地安岳震旦—寒武系特大型气田的发现,极大地鼓舞了相关学者对四川盆地深层油气勘探新领域的探索热情,然而,对于川东北地区深层古地理格局的认识尚存在不少争议.本文通过对四川盆地北缘、东北缘新元古代—寒武纪地层剖面的综合调查与区域对比研究,基于关键事件序列的系统厘定,重建了川东北及邻区的新元古代—寒武纪原型盆地地层格架;...     

地震属性法在南黄海北部盆地勘探新区烃源岩厚度预测中的应用

新区、深层和深水等低勘探程度地区是今后油气勘探的重要方向,而烃源岩厚度预测则是沉积盆地勘探新区烃源岩评价的重要问题。以南黄海北部盆地勘探新区东北凹陷的烃源岩早期评价为背景,基于地震反射特征追踪东北凹陷内烃源岩的发育层位和空间展布研究成果,首次应用地震属性方法对东北凹陷的主力烃源岩(上白垩统泰州组和古新统阜宁组)厚度进行了初步预测,并结合地震速度岩性分析法对本区泰州组烃源岩厚度的预测结果加以验证。结果表明南黄海盆地东北凹陷泰州组烃源岩较阜宁组烃源岩分布广且厚度大,西次洼为东北凹陷主力生烃洼陷。地震属性法是沉积盆地勘探新区内定量化预测烃源岩厚度的一种行之有效的新方法,其对于类似盆地勘探早期的烃源岩评价研究也具有非常重要的借鉴意义。     

Trawls and cooling-water intakes as estuarine fish sampling tools: Comparisons of catch composition,trends in relative abundance,and length selectivity

Fish populations in estuaries are often monitored with traditional sampling gears such as trawls. Trawling is relatively expensive and may be hindered by environmental conditions such as tides and substrates. Power station cooling-water intake screens have been effectively used as estuarine fish sampling devices for many years, but very few quantitative comparisons of intake fish-catch characteristics with samples from other collection methods have been made. Fish collected at the cooling-water intake of a large power station in the lower Forth estuary, UK, were more similar in assemblage composition to fish caught by nearby pelagic trawling than to fish caught by Agassiz (demersal) trawling, mostly because the intake and pelagic-trawl catches were largely composed of clupeids (Sprattus sprattus and Clupea harengus). The intake catch was typified by pelagic, demersal, and benthic species, however, and was less variable than the catches made by the two trawls. Monthly trends in relative abundance correlated reasonably well between the intake and trawl samples. Fish collected at the intake tended to be significantly smaller than those collected by trawling, which was probably attributable to the intake's smaller mesh size. The study highlighted the utility of a cooling-water intake as an efficient, low-cost fish sampling device, which should be considered as an alternative to trawling as the cost of the latter increases into the future.     

东北地区及邻区晚古生代晚期构造特征及演化规律

本文通过区域物探、地质资料的综合分析和野外调查,在重新厘定了东北地区晚古生代晚期区域断裂构造和区域构造格局的基础上,重点探讨了石炭—二叠纪的沉积构造特征。     

南沙群岛海域风场特征--卫星散射计观测资料分析

通过对欧空局提供的ERS卫星微波散射计风场资料的再分析，研究了南沙群岛海域的风场特征，主要包括南沙群岛海域的东北季风和西南季风随纬度的变化以及一年中根据风应力特征划分的4个时期的风应力与风应力旋度的分布特征。     

Patterned fen development in northern Scotland: Hypothesis testing and comparison with ombrotrophic blanket peats

Patterned fens are part of the diverse Holocene peatland landscape of the Flow Country, northern Scotland. Their present vegetation and morphology allies them with boreal systems in Scandinavia and North America. However, previous work has shown that their mode of formation is rather different and has suggested a developmental model in which the poor fens have formed only recently and have arisen as a result of local hydrological change. These ideas are tested here by morphological, stratigraphical and macrofossil studies on three additional patterned fens covering a wider geographical and ecological range. Two sites corroborate the hypotheses of the earlier study, and one site which refutes the earlier findings can be shown to be dependent on different topographic controls. A comparison of two patterned fens with an ombrotrophic mire site in the same area shows that hydroseral processes dominate the early development of individual components of the mire complex. The time of initiation of patterned fens coincides with increasing surface wetness on the ombrotrophic mire. This may be due to climatic change and/or the coalescence of the constituent parts of the present integrated blanket mire system. The hydrological changes arising from this led to the emergence of the springs that currently supply the patterned fens with their water and elevated nutrient levels. The study supports the idea that landscape-scale research and conservation are essential for the understanding and hydrological integrity of blanket mire landscapes such as the Flow Country.     

Late Quaternary stratigraphy of the northern Rockall trough and Faeroe-Shetland channel,northeast Atlantic Ocean

A late Quaternary deep-water stratigraphic framework has been established for the deep-water areas (>450m) of the northern Rockall Trough and Faeroe-Shetland Channel. Four stratigraphic units (1–4) are identified; these are primarily biostratigraphic units based on dinoflagellate cyst evidence. Unit 1 represents the late Weichselian glacial (pre-13 000 yr BP); unit 2 the Late Glacial Interstadial (11 000-13 000 yr BP); unit 3 is of Younger Dryas age (10 000-11 000 yr BP); and unit 4 represents the Holocene interglacial (post-10 000 yr BP). This stratigraphy is supported by the discovery of the mixed Vedde Ash (10 600 yr BP) and North Atlantic Ash zone 1, and the Saksunarvatn Ash (9000–9100 yr BP), concentrated in units 3 and 4 respectively. The sedimentology indicates that the oceanographic regime underwent a major change between the glacial and interglacial stages. This is marked by the onset of strong bottom current activity, allied to the restoration of overflow of the Norwegian Sea Deep Water into the North Atlantic, towards the end of the Younger Dryas Stadial. Despite intense bioturbation and bottom-current reworking the basic stratigraphic framework is maintained. Recognition of two volcanic ash markers enables correlation with established onshore and offshore sequences of marine and non-marine environments.     

新疆与东北部毗邻国家金属矿产资源对比

新疆在国内虽为资源大省,但有些矿种资源并不丰富.而与新疆北部和东北部毗邻的俄罗斯的山区阿尔泰地区和蒙古国金属矿产资源十分丰富,这正好填补了新疆资源的不足.加之新疆与这一地区接壤,无论从资源互补性还是从地理位置上讲,新疆实施“走出去”利用境外资源,这一地区都应得到充分重视.     

Problems associated with luminescence dating of Late Quaternary glacial sediments in the NW Scottish Highlands

Linking the timing of glacial episodes and behaviour to climatic shifts that are documented in ice and marine sedimentary archives is key to understanding ocean-land interactions. In the NW Scottish Highlands a large number of closely spaced (‘hummocky’) moraines formed at retreating glacier margins. Independent age control on one palaeo-glacier limit is consistent with the timing of Younger Dryas (YD) glaciation in the area, but adjacent glacier lobes have remained undated due to the lack of sites and material for ¹⁴C dating. Direct dating of ice-marginal moraines using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques has never been attempted before in Scotland, but if successful, they may be the most appropriate methods for constraining the age of sediment deposition in the absence of organic material. Coarse-grained quartz and K-feldspar minerals from supraglacial sheet flow deposits and glacilacustrine sediments within ice-marginal moraines were analysed using the single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol. Independent age control and clear geomorphological relationships indicate that all samples should yield YD or post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ages. Quartz OSL shine down curves showed low luminescence sensitivity, significant medium-to-slow components, a weak fast component, and scattered SAR data; Linearly Modulated-OSL (LM-OSL) measurements confirmed that the fast component was weak or absent. In contrast, feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) was highly sensitive with excellent SAR data. However, SAR data from 3 mm diameter aliquots of feldspar (200 grains) give higher than expected equivalent doses (D_e) by an order of magnitude. SAR measurements of small clusters of feldspar grains (ranging from 1–8) considerably broaden the apparent D_e distribution, but even the lowest value is about 2–3 times the expected D_e. Two possibilities arise to explain the quartz and feldspar data: (1) that glacial sequences in the NW Highlands re-work inherited (older) glacial deposits and that some of the pre-Devensian existing glacial landforms have only been modified during Devensian glaciation; or (2) that the sedimentary processes operating in these ice-marginal environments are not conducive to adequate bleaching of quartz and feldspar grains. Our study implies that ice-proximal supraglacial sediments from this region in NW Scotland reflect older ages of deposition, but dating YD sediments has not been possible.