Unconventional Natural Gas Accumulations in Stacked Deposits:A Discussion of Upper Paleozoic Coal-Bearing Strata in the East Margin of the Ordos Basin,China

The Upper Paleozoic(Carboniferous to Permian) succession in the east margin of the Ordos Basin in the North China Craton has a potential to contain significant hydrocarbon resources, though attention have been mainly attracted for its successful development of coalbed methane(CBM). To improve the previous resource estimates and evaluate the hydrocarbon play possibilities, this study incorporated new discoveries of hydrocarbon units and their stratigraphic relation with source rocks, hydrocarbon migration and trapping configurations. Continuous hydrocarbon accumulation units were identified within the Upper Paleozoic, including the Taiyuan, Shanxi and Xiashihezi formations with great tight gas potential, and the Taiyuan and Shanxi formations also containing shale gas and CBM. Different strata combinations are identified with coal deposition and favour for continuous gas accumulations, including the tidal flat, deltaic and fluvial systems distributed in most of the study areas. Methane was not only generated from the thick coal seams in the Taiyuan and Shanxi formations, but also from shale and dark mudstones. The coal, shale and tight sandstones are proved of remarkable gas content and hydrocarbon indications, and the gas saturation of tight sandstones decreases upward. The stacked deposit combinations vary isochronally in different areas, while the coal seams were developed stably showing good gas sources. Two key stages control the hydrocarbon enrichment, the continuous subsidence from coal forming to Late Triassic and the anomalous paleo-geothermal event happened in Early Cretaceous, as indicated by the fluid inclusions evidence. Extensive areas show good hydrocarbon development potential presently, and more works should be focused on the evaluation and selection of good reservoir combinations.     

呼和浩特—包头盆地岩石圈细结构的深地震反射探测

跨呼和浩特-包头盆地(以下简称"呼包盆地")完成的91.8km长的深地震反射剖面,揭示了呼包盆地的岩石圈精细结构和断裂的深、浅构造特征.结果表明,本区地壳和岩石圈具有清晰的层状反射结构特征,其中,地壳厚度约45~48km,岩石圈厚度约82~87km.莫霍面在大青山之下出现约3.5km的抬升,暗示大青山的隆升不是因为地壳物质增厚所致,即大青山可能不存在"山根".呼包盆地为南浅、北深的"箕状"断陷盆地,盆地沉积层最厚处位于大青山山前,其厚度约为7~8km.鄂尔多斯北缘断裂和大青山山前断裂作为呼包盆地的南、北边界断裂,在剖面上均表现为由3~4条断裂组成的"Y"字形断裂构造,它们对呼包盆地的形成、地层沉积、基底变形和地震活动都有重要的控制作用.剖面揭示的岩石圈深断裂位于大青山山前断裂的下方,该断裂向上进入上地壳,向下切割中-下地壳、莫霍面,进入上地幔.深断裂的存在为深部热物质的上涌与能量强烈交换提供了通道,而上涌的软流层物质与岩石圈地幔发生交代和侵蚀作用导致岩石圈减薄.     

三维过渡等参单元在岩土工程有限元分析中的应用

土石坝等复杂土工结构物有限元三维建模中多采用精度较高的六面体单元辅以部分过渡用的退化单元,而退化单元由于形态不好,会导致有限元计算精度较差。解决该问题的途径之一是采用过渡性的等参元。总结了几种常遇到的过渡等参单元（楔形体、四面体、金字塔）的插值函数和高斯积分局部坐标和权重,并编入了有限元程序。通过比较六面体单元和金字塔单元剖分理想土石坝的有限元计算结果,说明所引入的金字塔单元是满足精度要求的。将各种过渡单元应用于实际土石坝工程的有限元计算,结果表明,使用过渡等参单元是可以在一定程度上提高计算精度的。最后讨论了二次单元在弹塑性有限元动力计算中的应用。二次单元的使用,可以改善动力计算中的超静孔压分布,提高计算精度。     

南海珊瑚礁周围过渡性水域主要鱼类食性与食物的关系

对路氏双髻鲨Sphyrna lewini、侧条真鲨Carcharhinus limbatus、大眼六鳃鲨Hexanchus vituius、灰六鳃鲨Hex-anchus griseus、及达尖犁头Rhynchobatus djiddensis、灰三齿鲨Triaenodon obesus、裸狐鲣Gymnosarda unicolor、扁舵鲣Auxis thazard、黄斑胡椒鲷Plectorhynchus flavomaculatus、密点胡椒鲷Plectorhynchus gaterinus、尖嘴Dasyatis zugei、星点Caranx stellatus、黑Caranx lugubrisr等13种南海主要珊瑚礁周围过渡性水域鱼类进行食性分析,根据其胃含物中饵料生物的重量组成和出现频率,分为4种食性类型。同时还分析了13种鱼的食物关系和营养级,为该海域渔场生态系食物网的研究提供基础资料。     

前置掺气坎阶梯溢洪道近壁掺气特性

为更清楚地认识前置掺气坎阶梯溢洪道近壁面沿程掺气规律,对其掺气特性进行了研究,得到了在不同坡度、单宽流量、台阶体型条件下阶梯竖直面和水平面近壁处掺气浓度沿程分布规律,并与不设前置掺气坎但设置过渡阶梯溢洪道的掺气规律进行了对比分析。研究表明:前置掺气坎式阶梯溢洪道中阶梯水平面与竖直面掺气浓度沿程的分布规律相似,受前置掺气坎的帮助,掺气浓度很高,沿程逐渐减小,达到一定距离后趋于稳定;掺气浓度随单宽流量的增大而减小,随坡度的减缓而减小;前置掺气坎克服了过渡阶梯存在前几级的底部清水区的缺陷,能够用于更大单宽流量。     

鄂尔多斯盆地志丹群沉积时期的古沙漠盆地体系

笔者基于一个完整的沙漠盆地内，各种地理景观、沉积环境与沉积作用、沉积类型间有机的密切联系，提出并使用沙漠盆地体系和沙漠盆地沉积体系的概念，结合将今论古的原理，在大量实际资料的分析、研究基础上，首次确定了在志丹群洛河组和罗汉洞组上段的沉积期间，有两期不同的古沙漠盆地体系和古沙漠盆地沉积体系的存在。根据各种沉积类型和剖面结构的古环境和古地理意义，对它们的次级环境和沉积体系进行了划分和讨论，重塑了这两期古沙漠盆地体系的古地理环境．依据保存的条件和地表的出露，笔者识别与恢复出洛河期古沙漠盆地体系从现盆地南部向北依次是砾模环境、丘外过渡环境和沙丘环境，而岩漠环境一般是不易被保存的，罗汉洞晚期的古沙漠盆地体系仅保存有沙丘环境和位于其南、北两侧的丘外过渡环境，而岩漠环境和现盆地市部的砾漠环境未被保存，现盆地北部的砾漠环境可能是未出露。对各种环境中的沉积类型和特征、剖面结构等均作了详尽地叙述和讨论。最后，并指出古沙漠相或古风成相的研究在沉积学的理论上和国民经济实践中的重要意义。     

塔里木盆地早古生代构造古地理演化与烃源岩

塔里木陆块为一具前寒武系基底的克拉通盆地,早震旦世—寒武纪陆块内和边缘发生裂解,至中奥陶世转为被动大陆边缘,组建塔北和塔中两个遥相对应的碳酸盐台地和边缘斜坡,其间的阿瓦提—满加尔地区为克拉通内浅海—深水盆。满参1井以东至满加尔为欠补偿的深海槽盆,早期沉积了富生物营养链的烃源岩,晚奥陶世克拉通转为前陆碎屑岩沉积,满加尔坳陷反转为浊流盆地。碎屑岩由东向西、由南东向北西迁移,造成向塔北和塔中海侵上超,结束碳酸盐台地演化的同时,沉积了局限台地型和台缘斜坡灰泥丘相的烃源岩。奥陶纪时塔里木盆地演化和沉积相的配置,是加里东期盆山转换的重要反响,形成多个沉积-构造转换面。早加里东运动,造成下早奥陶统与寒武系的假整合;中加里东运动即晚奥陶世始,塔里木转为前陆盆地,塔北和塔中分别为前陆隆起,阿瓦提—满加尔为复合隆间盆地;晚加里东运动(始于早志留世)发生了大规模的海退。     

The stratigraphic record and processes of turbidity current transformation across deep‐marine lobes

Sedimentary facies in the distal parts of deep‐marine lobes can diverge significantly from those predicted by classical turbidite models, and sedimentological processes in these environments are poorly understood. This gap may be bridged using outcrop studies and theoretical models. In the Skoorsteenberg Formation (South Africa), a downstream transition from thickly bedded turbidite sandstones to argillaceous, internally layered hybrid beds, is observed. The hybrid beds have a characteristic stratigraphic and spatial distribution, being associated with bed successions which generally coarsen and thicken‐upward reflecting deposition on the fringes of lobes in a dominantly progradational system. Using a detailed characterization of bed types, including grain size, grain‐fabric and mineralogical analyses, a process‐model for flow evolution is developed. This is explored using a numerical suspension capacity model for radially spreading and decelerating turbidity currents. The new model shows how decelerating sediment suspensions can reach a critical suspension capacity threshold beyond which grains are not supported by fluid turbulence. Sand and silt particles, settling together with flocculated clay, may form low yield strength cohesive flows; development of these higher concentration lower boundary layer flows inhibits transfer of turbulent kinetic energy into the upper parts of the flow ultimately resulting in catastrophic loss of turbulence and collapse of the upper part of the flow. Advection distances of the now transitional to laminar flow are relatively long (several kilometres) suggesting relatively slow dewatering (several hours) of the low yield strength flows. The catastrophic loss of turbulence accounts for the presence of such beds in other fine‐grained systems without invoking external controls or large‐scale flow partitioning and also explains the abrupt pinch‐out of all divisions of these sandstones. Estimation of the point of flow transformation is a useful tool in the prediction of heterogeneity distribution in subsurface systems.     

新疆东昆仑山早二叠世四射珊瑚新资料

新疆东昆仑山阿其克库勒地区下二叠统下部碧云山组,上部喀尔瓦组,两组均含珊瑚、(竹蜓)及腕足化石.对其中的四射珊瑚化石进行了描述.研究结果,该区早二叠世的珊瑚动物群属暖水型的Iranophyllum动物群.推测碧云山组相当栖霞组,喀尔瓦组相当茅口组.