云南早泥盆世植物稳定碳同位素特征及其古气候意义*

受到植物化石材料局限性与时代久远性的限制,目前用古生代植物化石δ¹³C值来反演古环境的研究程度较低。文中通过对云南省曲靖市下泥盆统徐家冲组和文山州下泥盆统坡松冲组的部分植物化石进行稳定碳同位素测试,分析了早泥盆世植物的光合作用途径以及古环境。结果表明: 徐家冲组镰蕨属(Drepanophycus)δ¹³C值为-29.0‰~-22.8‰,平均值为-24.5‰,其中镰蕨属茎轴的δ¹³C值高于叶片0.1‰~0.3‰;坡松冲组工蕨属(Zosterophyllum)和始叶蕨属(Eophyllophyton)δ¹³C值分别为-24.8‰~-22.1‰和-23.0‰~-22.6‰,平均值分别为-23.2‰和-22.7‰;三者的δ¹³C值分布范围都与现代C3植物一致。自徐家冲组第57至第79沉积旋回,δ¹³C值总体呈上升趋势,达到2‰左右,推测可能与早泥盆世大气CO₂浓度下降和气候变冷相关。镰蕨属和工蕨属的C_i/C_a值较为稳定,说明这2种植物可能对大气CO₂浓度变化较为敏感,曲靖市古气候可能为当今的热带疏林草原气候或热带季风气候。     

綦江观音桥中上奥陶统微量元素地球化学特征

中上扬子地区广泛发育着完整的奥陶系地层,其中的上奥陶统宝塔组中出现地球化学异常。綦江观音桥剖面中上奥陶统地层的地球化学研究表明,宝塔组中V、Ni出现亏损,V/(V+Ni)值表现为低值,而Th/U、Ni/Co与Sr/Ba值却表现为高值,判断晚奥陶世中宝塔期为强氧化气候,海水突然加深,是一次明显的海侵过程。中上奥陶统地球化学异常是华夏板块与扬子板块相互作用的结果。     

渤海湾西北部CH19孔全新统硅藻组合、年代学与古环境

对渤海湾西北部浅海区CH19孔岩心全新世沉积硅藻进行了系统研究,发现硅藻17属36种。与沉积学、年代学(OSL和AMS14C)研究相结合,将该孔自下而上划分为Ⅰ—Ⅶ7个硅藻带,显示研究区全新世以来经历了从陆到海的演化过程:约11kacalBP时,进入全新世潮上带湖沼环境(硅藻Ⅰ带);约10kacalBP时开始了潮间带(硅藻Ⅱ带)至浅海(Ⅲ—Ⅶ带)的长期海水影响。其中,约10~7kacalBP为潮间带环境;6.77~3.47kacalBP的中全新世硅藻Ⅲ带,是受到风暴事件影响的、1.7m厚的贝壳碎屑与泥砂混杂堆积层;硅藻Ⅳ带复归正常浅海环境;Ⅴ带再次动荡;Ⅵ带水体盐度略有降低;Ⅶ带则反映了渤海湾西北部浅海区现代硅藻组合的状况。     

Late Albian–Middle Cenomanian palynofacies and palynostratigraphy, Abu Gharadig-5 well, Western Desert, Egypt

Quantitative analyses of palynomorph assemblages, particulate organic matter (kerogen), and total organic carbon (TOC) have been made on samples of the Albian–Cenomanian Kharita and Bahariya formations encountered in the Abu Gharadig-5 well, Western Desert, Egypt. Two assemblage palynozones are defined: Assemblage Zone A (Kharita Formation) of late Albian–early Cenomanian age and Assemblage Zone B (Bahariya Formation) of early–middle Cenomanian age. Palynofacies of the Kharita Formation suggest that sedimentation of these strata took place in a warm, shallow, nearshore-marine environment. The deposition of the lower Bahariya Formation took place initially in similar conditions but subsequently further offshore in somewhat deeper water of the inner shelf. The relatively high percentage of Ephedripites, Afropollis and elaterate pollen in both formations indicates an arid climate. The Kharita Formation yields kerogen types III and IV whereas the assemblages recovered from the Bahariya Formation contain types II and III. The TOC is generally between 0.42 and 0.65% in the Kharita Formation, while it ranges between 0.42 and 0.80% in samples of the Bahariya Formation. The spores and pollen grains are pale in colour; hence little source potential for hydrocarbons is indicated.     

赤峰地区孢粉分析与先人生活环境初探

从考古孢粉学角度，根据赤峰七锅山剖面孢粉分析，结合赤峰地区古文化遗址的考古资料，探讨了赤峰地区8000aB.P.以来的先人生活环境，以及人类活动和自然环境演变的过程之间的相互关系，结果表明：8400－6200aB.P. 为温暖湿润的草原气候，先人既狩猎捕鱼，也种植作物和放牧；6200－4000aB.P,，随着森林的破坏，环境逐渐恶劣，农业水平下降；4000－2500aB.P.植被以草原为主，气候温干，先人以旱作农业为主，2500aB.P.至现在，植被为典型的蒿草草原，气候温和偏干，农业和畜牧业相对发展，人类活动加剧。     

再论萨拉乌苏组的地层划分及其沉积环境

本文对萨拉乌苏组的沉积地层进行了详细的划分，按照岩性将其划分为１７层；结合本文及前人的测年结果将萨拉乌苏组定为中更新世—全新世的沉积，因此，提出“萨拉乌苏组与晚更新世的马兰黄土为同期异相或异期异相”的看法是值得商榷的；此外，本文对萨拉乌苏组中末次间冰期以来的沉积作了重点研究，建立了这一时间段的气候曲线，并通过与典型的风成沉积及深海氧同位素阶段的对比，讨论了最后一个气候旋回中这一地区的环境演变历史。     

云南腾冲盆地晚更新世孢粉组合及古植被、古气候和古环境演化

根据69个钻孔样品的孢粉及9个硅藻分析,讨论了滇西腾冲盆地晚更新世植被、气候及环境的变迁。在研究区可划分出四个孢粉优势带和三个硅藻优势带,此盆地晚更新世古环境经历了三个演化阶段,不仅与新构造运动有关,而古气候对古植被和古环境起到控制作用。     

Geochemical characterization of Malm Zeta laminated carbonates from the Franconian Alb, SW-Germany (II)

During Jurassic times, especially within the Malm ζ stage, local depressions formed on the Eastern Bavarian Carbonate Platform that were surrounded by wall reefs. This created a unique depositional environment, where in an open-marine setting stagnant and anoxic bottom waters developed in an intra-reef depression. Anoxic conditions were stabilized below wave base by enhanced salinity in the bottom waters and establishment of a density stratification. Biomarker analysis was applied to characterize palaeosalinity and redox conditions, utilizing organic sulfur compound, methylated chroman, hopanoid and saturated isoprenoid distributions. Prevention of terrigenous influx by protecting reef walls lead to iron deficiency in intra-reefal sediments causing early diagenetic sulfurization of functionalized lipids. Absence of clay-mineral catalysts and early sulfurization favored an unusual steroid distribution lacking rearranged analogues but providing coexistence of saturated steranes with βαα-, ααα- and αββ-configuration, Δ¹³⁽¹⁷⁾-spirosterenes, unknown sterenes and steradienes as well as mono-, di- and triaromatic steroids. Desulfurization of the polar fraction was carried out for two samples to verify that palaeoenvironment reconstruction based on free hydrocarbon and heterocompound distribution was not invalidated by sulfur quenching of selected compounds. Gammacerane was found to be the only component to occur exclusively in the sulfur-bound fraction. Only minor amounts of hydrocarbons were released upon desulfurization implying that free bitumen analysis was applicable for organofacies characterization. Organic petrological investigation of organic mats revealed the presence of two different types of such structures. Comparison of organoclast fluorescence spectra with those of extracted porphyrin fractions indicate an origin of porphyrins exclusively from cyanobacterial mats whereas algal dominated mats yield no porphyrins. This aims towards a better localization of specific biomarker origin in geological samples.     

A coastal reservoir of terrestrial resources for neanderthal populations in north‐eastern Iberia: palaeoenvironmental data inferred from the small‐vertebrate assemblage of Cova del Gegant,Sitges, Barcelona

Coastal areas as reservoirs of resources for hominid groups have been widely studied in recent years. These areas combine marine with terrestrial and wetland resources and would have been optimum sites for hominids, including Neanderthals. This is the case with the Cova del Gegant, a cave that today opens directly onto the Mediterranean Sea and is located in the north‐eastern Iberian Peninsula. The geomorphological evolution of the Massis del Garraf has provided evidence that during the late Pleistocene there was a littoral platform between 8 and 13 km wide in front of the Cova del Gegant. Within this framework, the data derived from analysis of the small vertebrates and large mammals recovered from Cova del Gegant, including taxa currently absent from the Massis del Garraf, suggest that the landscape surrounding the cave provided a richer terrestrial ecosystem for Neanderthals than is available in this zone today. Analysis of the small‐vertebrate association from the cave reveals that the landscape surrounding the cave was dominated by woodland‐edge and open environments and that the climate was Mediterranean. The results have been compared with the only Iberian site with similar characteristics to the Cova del Gegant, Gorham's cave (southern Iberia, Gibraltar), revealing differences and similarities in the landscape and climate on the basis of the small‐mammal assemblages as well as the differences in the accessibility to terrestrial mammalian resources for the Neanderthal groups. The landscape and the climate were reasonably similar at the two sites, but the differences in the accessibility of resources for the Neanderthals are directly related to the location of the sites and the coastal position. Whereas the Cova del Gegant was on a route of mammal migration (between the Ebro Valley and France) suited for securing terrestrial resources, Gorham's cave is located on a small peninsula with a lower abundance of terrestrial mammal resources. This is probably why the Neanderthal groups at Gorham's cave exploited marine resources, whereas there is no evidence of marine resources having been exploited at Cova del Gegant, even though the seashore was nearby. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.