滇东南地区新发现中三叠统关岭组典型 台缘生物礁和斜坡滑塌灰岩

2012年底在云南省泸西县东山镇地区中三叠统关岭组中发现大规模典型台地边缘鲕粒浅滩和生物礁,同时在向阳乡方摆村附近发现典型台地前缘斜坡相泥晶灰岩,滑塌构造发育.台缘生物礁垂向3分结构明显,礁基为浅滩相鲕粒灰岩、豆粒灰岩;礁核为粘结海绵-水螅骨架岩,蓝绿藻粘结结构和亮晶栉壳状胶结结构发育;礁盖为台缘斜坡相深灰色薄层泥晶灰岩和泥质灰岩.生物礁横向展布也具有3个明显特征:礁后为碳酸盐台地相灰岩,礁核为粘结海绵-水螅骨架岩,礁前为台缘斜坡相薄层灰岩和泥岩,局部发育滑塌构造和滑塌角砾岩.该发现可为滇东南地区继续寻找油气资源开辟新的勘探方向.     

The coral reef crisis: The critical importance of <350 ppm CO2

Temperature-induced mass coral bleaching causing mortality on a wide geographic scale started when atmospheric CO₂ levels exceeded ∼320 ppm. When CO₂ levels reached ∼340 ppm, sporadic but highly destructive mass bleaching occurred in most reefs world-wide, often associated with El Niño events. Recovery was dependent on the vulnerability of individual reef areas and on the reef’s previous history and resilience. At today’s level of ∼387 ppm, allowing a lag-time of 10 years for sea temperatures to respond, most reefs world-wide are committed to an irreversible decline. Mass bleaching will in future become annual, departing from the 4 to 7 years return-time of El Niño events. Bleaching will be exacerbated by the effects of degraded water-quality and increased severe weather events. In addition, the progressive onset of ocean acidification will cause reduction of coral growth and retardation of the growth of high magnesium calcite-secreting coralline algae. If CO₂ levels are allowed to reach 450 ppm (due to occur by 2030-2040 at the current rates), reefs will be in rapid and terminal decline world-wide from multiple synergies arising from mass bleaching, ocean acidification, and other environmental impacts. Damage to shallow reef communities will become extensive with consequent reduction of biodiversity followed by extinctions. Reefs will cease to be large-scale nursery grounds for fish and will cease to have most of their current value to humanity. There will be knock-on effects to ecosystems associated with reefs, and to other pelagic and benthic ecosystems. Should CO₂ levels reach 600 ppm reefs will be eroding geological structures with populations of surviving biota restricted to refuges. Domino effects will follow, affecting many other marine ecosystems. This is likely to have been the path of great mass extinctions of the past, adding to the case that anthropogenic CO₂ emissions could trigger the Earth’s sixth mass extinction.     

渤海湾全新世贝壳堤与牡蛎礁:古气候与海面变化

讨论了早全新世晚期以来渤海湾西岸贝壳堤平原成堤、西北岸牡蛎礁平原(及毗邻浅海区)建礁过程的同时性特征和气候变化与这一特征之间的关系,以及堤、礁记录的相对海面变化。堤、礁大致同时发育,可分为6期,依次分别被寒冷事件5、4、3、2和1分隔。堤底板前、后缘高差大致对应3m的大潮差、礁顶板大致对应海平面。据二者分别重建了南部贝壳堤平原、北部牡蛎礁平原的相对海面变化:南部自7ka cal BP以来基本与现代海平面等高,小的波动在±1m之间,压实固结作用抵消了中全新世的相对高海面;北部中全新世的相对海平面位置因新构造和固结压实双重下沉作用的影响,已位于现代海平面2~3m以下。     

川东北地区上二叠统盘龙洞生物礁成岩作用研究

本文对宣汉盘龙洞上二叠统生物礁古油气藏成岩作用进行了详细的研究。其主要成岩作用类型有胶结作用、新生变形作用、白云岩化作用、去白云岩化作用以及压溶和溶解作用等。根据岩石中胶结物的胶结结构和矿物特征,初步判断该生物礁主要经历了海底成岩环境、大气淡水渗流潜流环境、海水与淡水混合带成岩环境和埋藏成岩环境。该区的白云岩主要是混合白云岩化形成的。值得强调的是,该区白云岩化作用和溶蚀作用对该生物礁岩石孔隙度的增加贡献很大,提供了良好的油气储集空间,这对恢复该生物礁储层孔隙发育历史,以及油气勘探和评价都有很重要的意义。     

黄岩岛环礁地貌近40年变化的遥感分析

重建珊瑚礁的地貌变化历史将有助于理解珊瑚礁对气候变化的响应规律。因此,本文选择以南海中部相对孤立、低潮时部分露出的黄岩岛环礁（15°09'N,117°45'E）为对象,基于1977年至2019年间的Landsat和Sentinel-2共22景遥感影像来探讨南海珊瑚礁地貌的变化历史与规律。首先结合实测水深数据探讨遥感影像灰度的变化与珊瑚礁地貌带分界线位置的对应关系;然后通过基于梯度矢量流的主动轮廓线模型（GVF-Snake）和手动边缘提取相结合的方式,提取出黄岩岛环礁主要的地貌带分界线;进而利用数字化海岸线分析系统（DSAS）定量分析这些地貌带分界线位置的变化,并利用线性拟合来探讨这些地貌面积的变化趋势。结果表明：1）黄岩岛外海与礁前斜坡分界线、礁前斜坡与礁坪分界线、潟湖坡与潟湖底分界线均具有向外海移动的趋势,它们的平均移动速率分别是0.36 m/a、0.06 m/a和0.23 m/a,而礁坪与潟湖坡分界线则具有向潟湖移动趋势,平均移动速率为0.16 m/a;2）潟湖底的面积和礁体总面积都呈现增加的趋势,潟湖坡的面积有减少趋势,礁坪的面积则在1977年至1997年间以114523 m²/a的速率增加,其后在1997年至2019年间则以11289 m²/a的速率减少。进一步分析认为,近40年来,黄岩岛珊瑚礁生态系统退化致使其造礁能力的减弱,加之海平面上升、风暴潮侵蚀、海水溶解等因素的综合影响,导致黄岩岛珊瑚礁面积减少。

     

西沙群岛珊瑚礁测年与解析

采用14C、230Th/234U和电子自旋共振（ESR）等多种测年方法对西沙群岛珊瑚礁的年龄进行了对比研究,发现不同测年方法得到的年龄差别很大。应用不同测年方法的原理对年龄进行了解析,结合珊瑚礁的矿物组成,推算出石岛珊瑚礁样品的原生珊瑚形成时间约为30 000 aBP;在6 000～7 000 aBP,随着海平面的下降,珊瑚矿物组分开始发生变化,并在约5 000 aBP通过碳酸盐胶结形成较为致密的珊瑚礁。本研究解释了测年方法不同得出的年龄不一致的问题,为今后珊瑚礁测年研究提供了一种较为合理的解决思路。     

柴达木盆地西部古近纪—新近纪湖相生物礁的发现及意义

在柴达木盆地西部古近纪和新近纪地层中发育了典型的湖相生物礁,可以分为由基质支撑的叠层石礁、凝块礁和骨架支撑的藻礁3大类型,并对每种类型中亚类的特征和建造生物进行了简要介绍。生物礁孔隙度高、渗透性好,是优质储层。孔隙类型丰富多样,主要有骨架孔隙、体腔孔隙、粒内孔隙、溶孔等10种孔隙类型。生物礁的地震响应和测井曲线特征明显,在研究取心井段生物礁地球物理响应特征的基础上可以有效的识别和预测生物礁。综合应用古生物分析、孢粉分析、同位素分析、古地磁分析、地球化学分析和地球物理特征分析等技术手段,并结合生物礁发育的沉积条件和构造背景,初步探讨了生物礁对柴达木盆地古气候、古地理位置、古构造、古水介质、古沉积环境和青藏高原的隆升等方面的研究意义以及对油气勘探方面的意义。     

Implications of sensor design for coral reef detection: Upscaling ground hyperspectral imagery in spatial and spectral scales

Remote sensing offers a potential tool for large scale environmental surveying and monitoring. However, remote observations of coral reefs are difficult especially due to the spatial and spectral complexity of the target compared to sensor specifications as well as the environmental implications of the water medium above. The development of sensors is driven by technological advances and the desired products. Currently, spaceborne systems are technologically limited to a choice between high spectral resolution and high spatial resolution, but not both. The current study explores the dilemma of whether future sensor design for marine monitoring should prioritise on improving their spatial or spectral resolution. To address this question, a spatially and spectrally resampled ground-level hyperspectral image was used to test two classification elements: (1) how the tradeoff between spatial and spectral resolutions affects classification; and (2) how a noise reduction by majority filter might improve classification accuracy. The studied reef, in the Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat), Israel, is heterogeneous and complex so the local substrate patches are generally finer than currently available imagery. Therefore, the tested spatial resolution was broadly divided into four scale categories from five millimeters to one meter. Spectral resolution resampling aimed to mimic currently available and forthcoming spaceborne sensors such as (1) Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) that is characterized by 25 bands of 6.5 nm width; (2) VENμS with 12 narrow bands; and (3) the WorldView series with broadband multispectral resolution. Results suggest that spatial resolution should generally be prioritized for coral reef classification because the finer spatial scale tested (pixel size < 0.1 m) may compensate for some low spectral resolution drawbacks. In this regard, it is shown that the post-classification majority filtering substantially improves the accuracy of all pixel sizes up to the point where the kernel size reaches the average unit size (pixel < 0.25 m). However, careful investigation as to the effect of band distribution and choice could improve the sensor suitability for the marine environment task. This in mind, while the focus in this study was on the technologically limited spaceborne design, aerial sensors may presently provide an opportunity to implement the suggested setup.     

海南省麒麟菜自然保护区的资源分布、存在问题与保护对策

海南省麒麟菜自然保护区由文昌和琼海两个省级麒麟菜自然保护区合并而成,面积17 517 hm~2。区域内资源丰富,有麒麟菜2种,面积19.40 km~2,平均覆盖度0.54%;造礁石珊瑚75种,分布面积约92.34km~2,平均覆盖率10.21%;海草8种,面积约46.16 km~2,平均覆盖度35.15%。目前保护区存在功能区划缺失、重点保护对象缺位、保护区域重叠、管理力度不足及区域内资源退化严重等问题。提出了调整保护区结构、开放实验区参观考察和旅游功能以及健全保护区管理等相关建议,以期为海南省海洋保护区的建设与发展提供参考。     

Managing marine invasive species through public participation: Lionfish derbies as a case study

The management of invasive species can be facilitated by public participation. The drivers of public involvement and success at invasive removal in tournaments (derbies) to catch Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) in the Western Atlantic were examined. Information on 69 lionfish derbies held in the wider Caribbean region from 2010 to 2015 was compiled. Derbies attended mainly by artisanal fishers reported lower catches but higher participation than derbies dominated by recreational divers or attended by a mixed public. As predicted, the number of lionfish caught increased with effort and with time since lionfish were established in an area. In contrast, participation was best predicted by national wealth (GDP per capita) and number of local dive shops. From the point of view of public engagement, derbies should therefore be held in areas where lionfish are well established, and where the pool of potential participants is large. However, if the management goal is instead to slow the invasion, early detection is critical. The focus should then shift to areas where no or very few lionfish have been detected, and the derby approach modified to a more frequent or continuous, monitoring-like incentive scheme.