This paper presents pelagic records of planktic foraminifera, as well as data of stable isotope stratigraphy and carbonate
stratigraphy since 3.5 Ma B.P. from site ODP758 in the Ninetyeast Ridge of the Indian Ocean. Based on these data, manifestations
and related mechanisms of major tectonic and environmental events such as the rapid uplift of the Himalaya Mountains, “middle
Pleistocene climatic transition” and “mid-Brunhes dissolution event” in the region are discussed. According to the analysis
and comparison of various indices and changes in terms of foraminifera assemblage, paleotemperature, paleosalinity and themocline
from site ODP758, the authors deduce that the paleoclimatic changes might correlate with the mid-Pleistocene transition at
1.4–1.7 Ma B.P. The changes of CaCO3, mass accumulation rates (MAR) of CaCO3 and non- CaCO3 MAR indicate that the loaded terrigenous sediments increased at 1.7 Ma, which is in agreement with the uplift history of
the Qinghai-Tibet plateau as shown by the available data. The last two changes coincide with the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet
plateau, hence they are called “Qinghai-Tibet movement” (1.7 Ma), and the “Kunlun-Yellow River movement” (1.2–0.6 Ma). The
changes of the CaCO3 content, coarse fraction (> 150 μm) content and planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy show that strong dissolution of abyssal
CaCO3 occurred in the study region during 0.5–0.4 Ma. The event was consistent with the “mid-Brunhes dissolution event” in the
sedimentary records of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Nansha sea area of the South China Sea.
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Translated from Geological Bulletin of China, 2007, 26(12): 1627–1632 [译自: 地质通报] 相似文献
Data from 29 tide gauges and 113 pairs of first and second order leveling lines are analyzed to determine the pattern of vertical deformation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The data span nearly 100 years and represent the interseismic elastic deformation related to the great earthquake cycle. Uplift rates calculated from leveling surveys are adjusted to a model surface in the tidal reference frame using a robust, weighted, linear, least square technique. Rapid uplift occurs in two distinct broad regions along the coast separated by a narrow zone of slow subsidence. Vertical deformation rates range from > 4 mm/year of uplift on southern Vancouver Island to > 2 mm/year of subsidence in northern coastal Oregon. The deformation pattern is consistent with the results of previous studies and subduction models. 相似文献
The Tso Morari Complex, which is thought to be originally the margin of the Indian continent, is composed of pelitic gneisses and schists including mafic rock lenses (eclogites and basic schists). Eclogites studied here have the mineral assemblage Grt + Omp + Ca-Amp + Zo + Phn + Pg + Qtz + Rt. They also have coesite pseudomorph in garnet and quartz rods in omphacite, suggesting a record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism. They occur only in the cores of meter-scale mafic rock lenses intercalated with the pelitic schists. Small mafic lenses and the rim parts of large lenses have been strongly deformed to form the foliation parallel to that of the pelitic schists and show the mineral assemblages of upper greenschist to amphibolite facies metamorphism. The garnet–omphacite thermometry and the univariant reaction relations for jadeite formation give 13–21 kbar at 600 °C and 16–18 kbar at 750 °C for the eclogite formation using the jadeite content of clinopyroxene (XJd = 0.48).
Phengites in pelitic schists show variable Si / Al and Na / K ratios among grains as well as within single grains, and give K–Ar ages of 50–87 Ma. The pelitic schist with paragonite and phengite yielded K–Ar ages of 83.5 Ma (K = 4.9 wt.%) for paragonite–phengite mixture and 85.3 Ma (K = 7.8 wt.%) for phengite and an isochron age of 91 ± 13 Ma from the two dataset. The eclogite gives a plateau age of 132 Ma in Ar/Ar step-heating analyses using single phengite grain and an inverse isochron age of 130 ± 39 Ma with an initial 40Ar / 36Ar ratio of 434 ± 90 in Ar/Ar spot analyses of phengites and paragonites. The Cretaceous isochron ages are interpreted to represent the timing of early stage of exhumation of the eclogitic rocks assuming revised high closure temperature (500 °C) for phengite K–Ar system. The phengites in pelitic schists have experienced retrograde reaction which modified their chemistry during intense deformation associated with the exhumation of these rocks with the release of significant radiogenic 40Ar from the crystals. The argon release took place in the schists that experienced the retrogression to upper greenschist facies metamorphisms from the eclogite facies conditions. 相似文献
Field investigations of the Deccan Trap lava sequence along a 70 km traverse in the Narsingpur-Harrai-Amarwara area of central
India indicate twenty lava flows comprising a total thickness of around 480 m. Primary volcanic structures like vesicles and
cooling joints are conspicuous in this volcanic succession and are used to divide individual flows into three well-defined
zones namely the lower colonnade zone, entablature zone, and the upper colonnade zone. The variable nature of these structural
zones is used for identification and correlation of lava flows in the field. For twenty lava flows, the thicknesses of upper
colonnade zones of eight flows are ∼5 m while those of eight other flows are ∼8 m each. The thicknesses of upper colonnade
zones of remaining four flows could not be measured in the field. Using the thicknesses of these upper colonnade zones and
standard temperature-flow thickness-cooling time profiles for lava pile, the total cooling time of these sixteen Deccan Trap
lava flows has been estimated at 12 to 15 years. 相似文献
1 IntroductionThe Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution and ki-netics mechanism of the intracontinental orogen are thekey subjects of continental dynamics (Ma Zongjin andGao Xianglin, 2004) and the key to understanding theregional geological tectonics (Qia… 相似文献