Origin of the hydrocarbon component of carbonaceous chondrites: the star-meteorite connection

We report the results of an experiment that produced a residue which closely matches the hydrocarbon component of the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite. This experiment suggests that the parent material of the meteoritic component originated as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon species in carbon stars during their later stages of evolution. The experiments also indicate that the pathway from those formation sites to eventual incorporation into the meteorite parent body involved hydrogenation in a plasma in the solar nebula or in H II regions prior to the solar nebula. This model is consistent with what is known about the meteoritic hydrocarbon component including deuterium abundance, the observation of cosmic infrared emission bands best attributed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules, and the inherent stability of these molecules that allows their formation in stars and subsequent survival in the interstellar medium.     

Plasma processing of interstellar PAHs into solar system kerogen

Processes resulting in the formation of hydrocarbons of carbonaceous chondrites and the identity of the interstellar molecular precursors involved are an objective of investigations into the origin of the solar system and perhaps even life on earth. We have combined the resources and experience of an astronomer and physicists doing laboratory simulations with those of a chemical expert in the analysis of meteoritic hydrocarbons, in a project that investigated the conversion of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) formed in stellar atmospheres into alkanes found in meteorites. Plasma hydrogenation has been found in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Astrophysics Laboratory to produce from the precursor PAH naphthalene, a new material having an IR absorption spectrum (Lee, W. and Wdowiak, T.J., Astrophys. J. 417, L49-L51, 1993) remarkably similar to that obtained at Arizona State University of the benzene-methanol extract of the Murchison meteorite (Cronin, J.R. and Pizzarello, S., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54, 2859-2868, 1990). There are astrophysical and meteoritic arguments for PAH species from extra-solar sources being incorporated into the solar nebula, where plasma hydrogenation is highly plausible. Conversion of PAHs into alkanes could also have occurred in the interstellar medium. The synthesis of laboratory analogs of meteoritic hydrocarbons through plasma hydrogenation of PAH species is underway, as is chemical analysis of those analogs. The objective is to clarify this heretofore uninvestigated process and to understand its role during the origin of the solar system as a mechanism of production of hydrocarbon species now found in meteorites. Results have been obtained in the form of time-of-flight spectroscopy and chemical analysis of the lab analog prepared from naphthalene.     

云南湖泊的水质及沉积物地球化学

云贵高原上的众多湖泊，其经济意义十分重要，1994年10月，对24个湖泊采集水样和沉积物，室内深入研究后提出每个湖泊化学、物理特性以及区域地质、人类活动对水质和沉积类型的影响。云南构造成因的深水湖泊的水质与浅水溶蚀湖盆有区别。一般来说，后者要比前者更具有高营养积聚，并显示出较敏感的湖滨扰动。即便如此，凡是有大型植物生长的浅水湖泊，其水体都呈低营养质特点。除了重硫酸钠型的程海外，其它湖泊均以Ca 2、Mg 2、HCO3-1离子为特征，可能是由周边区域地质环境及碳酸盐类岩层所决定。特殊的电导性和同位素δ18O呈正相关性表明：此为溶解物和18O均由蒸发作用引起的结果。滇东南大型洗水湖呈18O富态；小型深水湖泊18O呈消减态。降雨汇聚径流量显著多于自深水体的小型浅水湖中的18O也呈消减淡化。同位素证据表明：程海表面5m内的18O在减少，此为蒸发量增加、入湖汇流水体性质发生变化及多样性所致。地表冲刷是毁林、农耕、土壤侵蚀以及工业化等方面的结果。湖泊高丰度营养化物质表明：人类活动已严重影响水质。沉积物中低有机质是因为地表冲刷而使愈来愈多的非碳酸盐类和碎屑物组分混入的结果。需要由环境保护来加以控制，以平衡因经济活动而造成的生态感应和对水质的影响。     

无人机遥感技术在甘肃北山地区地质填图中的应用

甘肃北山地区岩浆岩及变质岩出露广泛,植被稀少,地势平缓,是无人机遥感开展地质填图试验的理想目标区。为解决传统地质填图方法受地形、环境限制和投入高及工作周期长等问题,选取北山长流水地区20 km²化探重点工作区为目标区,利用大疆精灵4专业版无人机采集图像,并采用Photoscan软件合成高分辨率正射影像以及三维模型,建立解译标志,对目标区域进行地质解译,获得比前人1：1万地质图更加精细的地质图。该方法较传统填图方法能够解译出地质体形态、岩脉产状、微小断裂等更详细的地质内容,并能提供划分岩脉期次的证据。     

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旋回地层学的基本原理与研究方法

旋回地层学的基本原理与研究方法刘立，薛林福（能源地质系）（地球科学系）旋回地层学（Ｃｙｃｌｏｓｔｒａｔｉｇｒａｐｈｙ）主要研究轨道旋加力（ｏｒｂｉｔａｌｆｏｒｃｉｎｇ）与沉积旋回之间的成因联系。一百多年以来，由于Ａｄｈｅｍａｒ（ｌ９４２），Ｃｒｏｌｌ...     

井间断层的计算机分析方法

井间断层分析的研究,是油气储层地质研究的一项重要基础性工作,对油气的运移和聚集其中重要的控制作用。它是利用测井资料,以地层分层为基础,采用计算机技术实现井间断层分析的一种井间断层自动分析方法。动态波形匹配算法是本次研究采用的主要算法,它能够很好地建立井间地层之间的对比关系,通过曲线拟合、特征提取、匹配代价计算等步骤,自动绘制井间地层对比的路径图解。本文在对各种构造的路径图分析的基础上,总结出正断层、逆断层、不整合、同沉积断层、犁式断层和地层尖灭等30种情况下的路径图模式,提出路径图模式及相关概念。在大港油田的实例分析中取得了很好的效果。