内蒙白彦花水塘中现生叶肢介的生态考察及其对古环境重建的意义

在内蒙古自治区白彦花车站附近分布的20余个坑塘和1个较大的湖泊中,生活着大量的叶肢介。对该地区叶肢介的生活习性（游动、觅食、交配等）和生存环境（坑塘的大小、水温、水体的pH值和气温）进行的调查显示：叶肢介一般活动在浅水水域,如坑塘和湖泊边缘的浅水地带;他们的游动非常缓慢,大约1cm/s;当他们交配时就停留在某处,雄性用附肢拨动含有其精子的水流,使其流向雌性的壳内（即雌性壳体与软体之间）,以使卵子受精。这些事实表明,叶肢介只能适应于静水或弱流水环境。叶肢介的现代环境与古环境的对比研究显示两者是非常相似的,因此,现生叶肢介生态和环境的研究对恢复他们的古生态与古环境具有重要的意义。     

黑龙江省东部绥滨坳陷下白垩统泥岩稀土元素地球化学特征

通过对滨参1井下白垩统泥岩的取样分析,认为黑龙江省东部绥滨坳陷下白垩统泥岩的稀土元素具如下地球化学特征：（1）各组泥岩的稀土元素球粒陨石标准化配分模式都表现出轻稀土相对于重稀土明显富集和具有明显负Eu异常的特点，但∑REE、∑LREE/∑HREE、LaN/YbN 、LaN/SmN、GdN/YbN、Eu/Eu*、Ce/Ce*和（La/Yb）UCC等参数则显示出明显的不同，反映了泥岩形成时的物源有差别。滴道组和城子河组的物源可能主要为绥滨坳陷南部桦南隆起地区的花岗岩、东南部宝清地区的沉积岩和东部东三江盆地的沉积岩；穆棱组和东山组物源可能主要为绥滨坳陷东南部宝清地区的沉积岩和东部东三江盆地的沉积岩。在穆棱组和东山组沉积期，还可能有来自下地壳或幔源的深部物质加入，导致物源发生了很大的变化。（2）Ce/Ce*和Ceanom指数显示绥滨坳陷早白垩世各组泥岩的古环境均为还原环境，对油气生成十分有利。（3）绥滨坳陷早白垩世为大陆边缘环境，其构造演化过程为活动-稳定-活动。     

韩国济洲岛下西归浦组的时代及其古环境

韩国济洲岛下西归浦组的时代归属一直存在着争论。该段地层中浮游有孔虫 Globigerina calida calida、Beella digitata、 Globigerina bermudezi和 Globoquadrina conglomerata的发现表明了它应为中更新世 (晚 N 2 2带、即 Globigerina calida calida亚带 ,不晚于 40万年前 )的沉积。底栖、浮游有孔虫的定量统计分析揭示了下西归浦组沉积环境的变化 :下部的沉积环境为岸外中陆架暖水 ,而向上则演变成近岸内陆架温凉水。有孔虫组合的更替反映了下西归浦组沉积是一个由次一级的 3个亚海退和 2个亚海进组成的海退序列。     

Barite concretions as evidence of pauses in sedimentation in the Marnes Bleues Formation of the Vocontian Basin (SE France)

Several intervals rich in barite nodules occur in the mid-Cretaceous marls of the Vocontian Trough (SE France). These concretions, which grew on heterogeneities in the sediment, are arranged as horizons parallel to the bedding, and are often associated with carbonate and phosphate nodules. Detailed sedimentological and stratigraphical observations suggest that they represent the consequence of short-term pauses in sedimentation during early diagenesis, but the most important occurrences of barite are below prominent discontinuities. This may be explained by the frequency of pauses in sedimentation caused by a progressive starvation, or an increase in the energy of bottom-water currents. The high number of barite occurrences on the basin margins is directly linked to the recurrence of sedimentary breaks. The geochemical data show that the host sediment corresponds to a pelagic setting, far from hydrothermal influences, but generally in a restricted, dysoxic to suboxic, depositional environment. The sulphur isotopic composition of the barite sulphate (+16 to +76‰ rel. CDT) supports the hypothesis of an early diagenetic origin of the barite nodules. Their genesis may be explained by the fixation of a diagenetic front corresponding to the penetration of a sulphate reduction zone from the seawater–sediment interface down in the sediment which is in contact with barium-rich porewaters expelled upwards as a consequence of compaction. The barium of biogenic origin, initially stored in the underlying black shale, was mobilized under strongly reducing conditions. Such fixation is normally induced by a pause or a stop in sedimentation due to starvation or renewed bottom-water circulation. Together with other concretions, the barite nodules mark condensed stratigraphic intervals and often represent major breaks. As such they shed light on variations in sedimentary activity and their importance in the sedimentology and stratigraphy of pelagic marly sequences cannot be ignored.     

Trace and rare earth element geochemistry of the Upper Triassic mudstones in the southern Ordos Basin,Central China

Oil‐source correlation studies have demonstrated that the crude oils in the Ordos Basin were mainly derived from organic‐rich lacustrine mudstones of the Yanchang Formation. The sedimentology, petrology and organic geochemistry of these mudstones have been studied intensively, but their trace and rare earth element (REE) characteristics have received little attention. In this paper, we present trace and rare earth element data of the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation mudstones in the southern Ordos Basin to constrain the palaeoenvironment, provenance and depositional setting. Our results show that the REE and trace element concentrations of the Yanchang Formation mudstones are higher than those of the upper continental crust (UCC). The Sr contents and Sr/Ba and Y/Ho ratios of these mudstones indicate the absence of a marine transgression during the sedimentation of the Upper Triassic mudstones. The depositional environment of the Upper Triassic mudstones was slightly oxic as evidenced by the values of Eu/Eu*, Ce/Ce*, Ce_anom, δU, U/Th, V/Cr and Ni/Co. The UCC‐normalized distribution pattern of REEs, spider diagrams, the ratios of related elements, the bivariate diagrams of Th/Sc–Zr/Sc and La/Th–Hf and the ternary plots of La–Th–Sc and Th–Sc–Zr/10 signify that the provenances of the Chang9–7 mudstones were mainly derived from a continental island arc, whereas the provenances of the Chang6–3 mudstones were mainly derived from a mixture of continental island arc and active continental margin, and the latter contain less recycled materials. Combined with the previous studies of detrital zircon dating and petrography of the Yanchang Formation sandstones in the southern Ordos basin, we propose that the Qinling orogenic belt served as one of the primary source regions occurring between the Chang7 and Chang6 periods, corresponding to the initial uplift of the west Qinling Mountains due to the collision between the Yangtze and North China blocks. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

贵州盘县新民地区关岭组中三叠世盘县动物群产出层段碳酸盐岩微相分析和古环境恢复

通过野外观察和显微镜下碳酸盐岩薄片微相分析,以颗粒类型、颗粒基质含量对比、沉积组构、化石生物组合、化石埋藏学特征作为主要微相类型的划分依据,贵州中三叠世盘县动物群产出地层78-91层及上覆地层92层和下伏地层77层共识别出10种微相类型,在垂向上归纳为三种向上变浅的沉积相序列：开阔台地、局限台地、潮道环境。按照水深及水...     

青海黄河源盆地早更新世以来环境演变

黄河源盆地位于青藏高原东北部,是黄河的源头地区,对环境和气候变化非常敏感。对黄河源盆地中的河湖相沉积物进行了孢粉分析,获得丰富的孢粉数据,结果显示孢粉组合以菊科、蒿科、藜科、禾本科、松、桦等草本和木本植物花粉为主。通过对各类植物的孢粉组合特征分析,揭示了黄河源地区早更新世以来古植被、古气候的演替和变化。其演变经历了4个阶段：第一阶段223.9～90.1万年,为森林草原环境,反映了温暖潮湿的气候;第二阶段90.1～35万年,为灌丛草原环境,反映了总体干冷的气候;第三阶段35～2.8万年,为稀树草甸草原环境,属湿润寒冷的气候;第四阶段2.8～0.8万年,为荒漠草原环境,反应干冷的气候。     

Pleistocene fluvial sediments,palaeontology and archaeology of the upper River Thames at Latton,Wiltshire, England

Pleistocene fluvial sediments of the Northmoor Member of the Upper Thames Formation exposed at Latton, Wiltshire, record episodic deposition close to the Churn–Thames confluence possibly spanning the interval from Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 7 to 2. The sequence is dominated by gravel facies, indicating deposition by a high‐energy, gravel‐bed river. A number of fine‐grained organic sediment bodies within the sequence have yielded palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphical data from Mollusca, Coleoptera, vertebrates, pollen and plant macrofossils. The basal deposit (Facies Association A) contains faunal material indicating temperate conditions. Most of the palaeontological evidence including a distinctive small form of mammoth (Mammuthus cf. trogontherii), together with the U‐series age estimate of >147.4 ± 20 kyr suggest correlation with MIS 7. The overlying deposits (Facies Associations B and C) represent deposition under a range of climatic conditions. Two fine‐grained organic deposits occurred within Association B; one (Association Ba) in the northern part of the pit as a channel fill and the other (Association Bb) in its southern part as a scour‐fill deposit. The coleopteran assemblages from Ba, indicate that it accumulated under temperate oceanic conditions, while Bb, which also yielded a radiocarbon age estimate of 39 560 ± 780 ¹⁴C yr BP, was formed under much colder and more continental climatic conditions. The sequence is considered to represent deposition within an alluvial fan formed at the Churn–Thames confluence; a depositional scenario which may account for the juxtaposition of sediments and fossils of widely differing age within the same altitudinal range. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.