Potash–Forming Regularity of the Ordovician Marine Northern Shaanxi Salt Basin: Insight from Review and Prospect of the Deep Geology of the Ordos Basin

The Ordovician Northern Shaanxi Salt Basin(ONSSB), located in the east–central Ordos Basin, western North China Craton(NCC), is one of the largest marine salt basins yet discovered in China. A huge amount of halite deposited in the Mid-Ordovician Majiagou Formation, and potashcontaining indication and local thin layer of potash seam were discovered in O2 m65(6 th submember, 5 th member of the Majiagou Formation). This makes ONSSB a rare Ordovician potash-containing basin in the world, and brings new hope for prospecting marine solid potash in this basin. However, several primary scientific problems, such as the coupling relationship between ONSSB and the continent nucleus, how the high-precision basement fold controls the ONSSB, and how the basement faults and relief control ONSSB, are still unclear due to the limitations of the knowledge about the basement of the Ordos Basin. This has become a barrier for understanding the potash-forming regularity in the continental nucleus(CN) area in marine salt basin in China. Up to now, the material accumulation has provided ripe conditions for the answers to these questions. Latest zircon U-Pb ages for the basement samples beneath the Ordos Basin reveal that there exists a continental nucleus(Yi-Meng CN) beneath the northern Ordos Basin. And this brings light into the fact that the ONSSB lies not overlying on the YiMeng CN but to south Yi-Meng CN. Both do not have superimposed relationship in space. And borehole penetrating into the basement reached Palaeoproterozoic meta-sedimentary rocks, which suggests the ONSSB is situated in the accretion belt of Yi-Meng CN during geological history. Basement relief beneath the ONSSB area revealed by seismic tomography and aeromagnetic anomaly confirms the existence of basement uplift and faults, which provides tectonic setting for sedimentary center migration of the ONSSB. Comparative research with various data sources indicates that the expanding strata in the ONSSB adopted the shape of the basement folds. We found that the orientations of the potash sags showed high correlation with those of several basement and sedimentary cover faults in the ONSSB. The secondary depressions are also controlled by the faults. Comparative research between all the global salt basins and continental nuclei distribution suggests that distribution of the former is controlled by the latter, and almost all the salt basins developed in or at the margin of the continental nucleus area. The nature of the tectonic basement exerts a key controlling effect on potash basin formation. And on this basis we analyzed in detail the geological conditions of salt-forming and potash-forming in the ONSSB.     

从地壳密度结构看中国大陆深层油气盆地的分布

面对21世纪的中国能源问题,要研究深埋在5km以下的古生代沉积盆地和潜在油气储层。由于结晶基底密度大、磁性较强,盆地沉积岩密度低而磁性弱,可用密度成像及磁性体顶面深度反演来确定深埋沉积盆地和潜在储层的分布范围。应用重力异常多尺度分析和密度成像方法,可以计算出反映中国深埋沉积盆地和潜在储层分布的密度扰动图,预测中国深埋盆地的分布。密度成像的低密度扰动区与磁性结晶基底顶面深度大的区域吻合,与反射地震剖面探测结果一致。通过密度扰动成像预测深埋沉积盆地主要分布在中国西部的塔里木、柴达木、四川、准噶尔和鄂尔多斯等盆地深层。东部岩石圈裂谷带也可形成深埋结晶基底裂隙型储层, 分布在华北和东北下方。中国深埋沉积盆地和潜在储层的总面积可达地面沉积盆地面积的45%左右,估计陆上面积1600000km2左右,海域面积600000km2左右,具有广阔的天然气勘探前景。     

Calpionellid zones of the Tithonian–Berriasian exotic limestone clasts from the Outer Carpathians,Poland

Calpionellids and chitinoidellids were identified from exotic limestone clasts occurring in flysch deposits of the Early Cretaceous to Oligocene age from the Silesian and Subsilesian nappes of the Polish Outer Carpathians. They represent the remnants of carbonate sedimentation along the northern and southern margin of the Severin-Moldavidic Basin, areas which are no longer preserved on the surface. Chitinoidellid and calpionellid assemblages characterize the Chitinoidella, Crassicollaria and Calpionella zones (latest early Tithonian–early Berriasian). The calpionellid zonation for the Western Carpathians was used for the present study, but some difficulties were encountered resulting from the application of this zonation. Cathodoluminescence imaging (CL) was useful for the identification of these microfossils in samples containing sparse and poorly preserved specimens, especially in the studied shallow-water limestone (the so-called Štramberk-type limestones).     

塔里木盆地西南部的三维密度扰动成像

塔里木盆地西南部位于昆仑造山带东北方,地壳构造特殊,是中国天然气勘探的重要区域。在地面重力调查的基础上,笔者等对2~15 km的盆地西南部的密度扰动结构进行成像计算,并结合电阻率三维结构对地壳构造进行分析。本文根据重力场小波变换的尺度—源深度转换律,进行地面重力异常场多尺度分解,取得了反映中国地壳不同埋藏深度的小波细节,揭示了研究区地壳的密度结构。结果表明,网度足够密的区域高精度重力场测量可以获得关于沉积盆地深部构造的丰富信息,应用小波多尺度分析和三维反演方法可以把与深层构造有关的地质信息提取出来,客观地为沉积盆地内部构造演化和油气勘探提供依据。塔里木盆地西南部上地壳三维密度扰动成像揭示了昆仑山脉向北仰冲推覆构造楔和山前坳陷带的立体结构,为盆山耦合动力学研究和深层油气勘探提供了新的认识。大地电磁数据三维反演取得的盆地三维电阻率模型,从电性结构角度得到了盆地的三维构造,和盆地西南部的密度结构有很好的相关性,支持了密度扰动成像的有关结论。     

The improvement of an object-oriented classification using multi-temporal MODIS EVI satellite data

Abstract

This paper investigates the contribution of multi-temporal enhanced vegetation index (EVI) data to the improvement of object-based classification accuracy using multi-spectral moderate resolution imaging spectral-radiometer (MODIS) imagery. In object-oriented classification, similar pixels are firstly grouped together and then classified; the produced result does not suffer the speckled appearance and closer to human vision. EVI data are from the MODIS sensor aboard Terra spacecraft. 69 EVI data (scenes) were collected during the period of three years (2001–2003) in a mountainous vegetated area. These data sets were used to study the phenology of the land cover types. Different land cover types show distinct fluctuations over time in EVI values and this information might be used to improve object-oriented land cover classification. Two experiments were carried out: one was only with single date MODIS multispectral data, and the other one including also the 69 EVI images. Eight classes were distinguished: temperate forest, tropical dry forest, grassland, irrigated agriculture, rain-fed agriculture, orchards, lava flows and human settlement. The two classifications were evaluated with independent verification data, and the results showed that with multi-temporal EVI data, the classification accuracy was improved 5.2%. Evaluated by McNemar's test, this improved was significant, with significance level p=0.01.     

中尺度涡影响下目的层地震成像的畸变与影响因素分析

将PE方法与地震数值模拟方法相结合研究了中尺度涡影响下目标地层成像的畸变.模拟了不同声源频率、不同水深条件下的地震波场.计算结果发现,中尺度涡的存在使得真实地形结构无法在地震成像中反映,而且地震成像畸变随着海水深度、震源频率的增加而增大.机理分析表明,中尺度涡所带来的水体温度梯度变化是产生地震成像畸变的主要因素.为了便于工程应用,本文还推导了有效涡强度、温度差与地形畸变率的关系式.本文的研究结果将对提高深海地震成像精度有一定的指导意义.     

弹性矢量波成像域联合层析反演

在地震弹性矢量波场框架下,推导了多波联合层析速度反演方程以及走时残差与角道集剩余曲率的转换关系式,提出了一种利用成像域角道集更新P波、S波速度的走时层析反演方法.其实现过程可以概括为:将弹性波多分量数据作为输入,基于高斯束实现矢量波场成像并提取角道集,利用层析反演方程求解慢度更新量,最终获得多波联合反演结果.模型试算和实际资料处理验证了该方法的反演效果,能够为弹性矢量波联合深度偏移提供高质量的叠前速度场.     

一种确定震源中心的方法：逆时成像技术(二)——基于人工地震的检验

人工地震的激发时间和震源位置是已知的,因此,用人工地震观测资料检验地震定位技术是十分有效的技术途径.为了检验逆时成像技术的实用性,我们收集了10次人工地震的观测资料,5次气枪和5次化学爆破.气枪记录台网的孔径20 km左右,而化学爆破记录台网的孔径200 km左右.首先,通过测定值与真实值的比较,从已有速度模型中筛选出两种较好的模型,然后,利用筛选出的两种模型分别对10次事件定位,并通过测定值与真实值的比较以及测定值的不确定性分析挑选出最佳模型,与此同时确定出最佳定位结果.结果表明,在现有最佳速度模型情况下,气枪与化学爆炸的震中偏差均在500 m左右;气枪震源深度的偏差在100 m左右,而化学爆破震源深度的偏差在200 m左右;化学爆破的激发时间的偏差在0.06 s左右,而气枪的激发时间的偏差较大,约在0.4 s左右,这可能是由于局部水域的较低波速所致.由此可见,利用逆时成像技术能够在合理的准度和精度水平上确定发震时刻和震源位置,甚至包括震源深度.     

Observations and conceptual modelling of morphological coupling in a double sandbar system

Nearshore sandbars, located in <10 m water depth, can contain remarkably periodic alongshore undulations in both cross‐shore position and depth. In a double sandbar system, the alongshore spacing of these morphological patterns in the inner sandbar may be identical to those in the outer sandbar. Although this morphological coupling has been observed previously, its frequency and predominance remain unclear. In this paper, we use a 9.3‐year dataset of daily low‐tide time exposure images from the double‐barred beach at Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast, Australia) to analyse the temporal and spatial characteristics of morphological coupling within a double sandbar system. We distinguish five types of morphological coupling between the inner and outer sandbars, of which four coincide with a downstate progression of the outer bar. Coupling is either in‐phase (with a landward perturbation of the inner bar facing an outer‐bar horn) or out‐of‐phase (with a seaward perturbation of the inner bar facing an outer‐bar horn), where the coupled inner‐bar features either consist of rip channels or, predominantly, perturbations of the low‐tide terrace. Cross‐correlation of the image‐derived inner‐ and outer‐bar patterns shows coupling to be a common phenomenon in the double sandbar system studied here, with coupling in 40% of the observations. In contrast to previous observations of sandbar–shoreline coupling at single‐barred beaches, in‐phase coupling (85% of all coupled bar patterns) predominates over out‐of‐phase coupling (15%). Based on our observations and bathymetries assimilated from the images for a restricted set of coupling events, we hypothesize that the angle of offshore wave incidence, wave height and depth variations along the outer sandbar determine the type of flow pattern (cell circulations versus meandering currents) above the inner bar and hence steer the type of coupling. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.