青海省贵南县过马营一带早中三叠世隆务河组沉积特征

青海贵南县过马营一带隆务河组为一套典型的浊流沉积,对此套浊积岩的沉积特征进行研究。通过对过马营一带隆务河组浊积岩的岩石组合特征、地层层序及鲍玛层序特征分析,探讨其沉积环境特征,并与典型浊积扇模式对比,建立沉积模型。综合分析认为,隆务河组由下向上的3个段分别位于浊积扇的外扇、中扇、内扇,其中中扇辫状河道发育。此研究对于西秦岭造山带的沉积环境分析及构造演化具有重要的意义。     

鄂尔多斯盆地东缘中生代延长组浊流沉积的发现与意义

作者在鄂尔多斯盆地东缘发现了一套典型的浊积岩系．在露头剖面上连续发育的厚约２０ｍ的浊流沉积可划分为６４个鲍玛层序，既广泛发育有代表浊流沉积特征的递交砂和多种底痕构造，又有Ｔａ—Ｔｅ都发育的典型层序，在层序组合上呈周期性变化。浊流沉积形成于晚三叠世，其上被下侏罗统富县组和中侏罗统延安组所覆，与邻区对比，其间缺少一套三角洲前缘及三角洲平原沉积．表明印支运动使鄂尔多斯盆地抬升造成差异剥蚀和在深水－半深水湖盆条件下与三角洲发育有关的浊流沉积类型出现的广泛性．     

深水沉积研究前缘问题

深水沉积研究经历了50年,争论也持续了50年。从浊流及鲍玛序列开始,随着对浊流定义的过分使用,到今天对鲍玛序列作为浊积岩相序及相关的扇模式普遍持否定态度,深水沉积研究经历了一个认识的旋回。主要问题和争论的焦点是：是否所有深水砂岩都是浊流成因,鲍玛序列能否代表浊积岩相序;是否所有的深水扇水道下方都能形成席状的、平行的、加厚的、具有丘状外形的浊积砂岩沉积;是否可以利用地震方法识别深水扇的砂岩储层。对“浊流”概念的过分使用把深水扇模式内几乎所有深水沉积都解释成浊流成因,导致了曾经为之建立模式的学者纷纷撰文抛弃原有扇模式。深水沉积研究面临着对过往认识的否定和如何建立新的理论模式。尽管浊流及相关的深水扇模式研究走向穷途末路,石油工业却从浊流理论和相关模式中获得了许多油气发现,勘探家们仍然希望通过这些模式寻找更多的油气,科学理论和应用出现了分化。对深水沉积过程和流态的认识及沉积模式的建立是当今深水沉积研究的难点,实现深水砂岩储层的有效预测是深水沉积研究的主要目的。我国深海油气勘探在即,深水沉积的科学问题同样不可逾越。     

浊流沉积研究的新进展:鲍马序列、海底扇的重新审视

本文在总结前人对浊流沉积研究的基础上,分析前人对浊流与浊积岩、浊流沉积与浊流相模式的对应关系之间的认识,并对鲍马序列进行重新审视。在海底扇研究过程中,鲍马序列已经不能充分反映浊流沉积的全过程。鲍马序列所反应的沉积模式其实是由碎屑流、浊流、底流等多种形式流体组合和改造后的结果,海底扇沉积模式不能笼统归结为浊流沉积作用的结果。在完善重力流、底流等沉积作用的同时,建立一个与沉积作用相互联系的深海沉积系统,以对深海研究提供更好地指导和预测。     

东濮凹陷文南—刘庄地区沙二下亚段浅湖风暴沉积

风暴沉积是一种特殊的事件沉积,反映了区域特定时期的古地理环境和古气候变化.通过区域古地理研究和精细地层对比,探讨了东濮凹陷文南—刘庄地区沙二下亚段沉积时期浅湖风暴沉积证据及特征,在此基础上总结了风暴沉积模式.结果表明:沙二下亚段沉积时期湖盆沉积层序主要受气候条件控制,气候频繁变化导致风暴沉积广泛分布、多期发育;风暴沉积主要发育在湖侵体系域和高水位体系域,沉积早期发育在深水区,而到沉积晚期分布范围扩大;风暴沉积一般发生在每期砂组的边界附近,作为短期、等时的一种事件沉积,可以用来作为层序划分的辅助标志;研究区风暴沉积模式主要有Ⅰ类和Ⅱ类两种;Ⅰ类风暴沉积为类深水风暴沉积,发育A-D段沉积的类鲍马序列层序,但粒度要较深水风暴沉积细得多,多见于漫湖沉积环境相对深水区;Ⅱ类风暴沉积不发育Ⅰ类风暴的B和D段沉积;风暴流在风暴停止时越靠近湖盆中央,其沉积特征就越类似深水风暴沉积,反之则越类似Ⅱ类风暴沉积.     

The Research Progress of Turbidity Currents and Related Deep-water Bedforms

Since turbidity current was reported in the 19th century, its flow dynamics, depositional processes and products have drawn much attention of geoscience community. In the last decades, with the help of rapid development of geophysical technology in deep-water areas, superficial bedforms formed by turbidity currents like cyclic steps have been widely documented on the seafloor, and they have been interpreted to be closely related to turbidite facies defined by the Bouma sequence. However, there is still a lack of direct observation on turbidity currents due to difficulties in the design and deployment of flow-measuring instruments under the sea. Such difficulties also result in much uncertainties in the explanations for the formation of bedforms and related flow processes. This paper summarized and discussed current research status of turbidity-currents classification, the formation and evolution of bedforms. Examples of supercritical-bedform studies using various methods such as experiments, numerical simulation, bathymetric data and seismic data, were shown in this paper. As one of main supercritical flow bedforms, cyclic steps were described in detail in this paper, including its formation, evolution and relationship with Bouma sequence. The variations in initial bed morphology and hydrodynamic parameters are responsible for the changes in the shapes of bedforms. Turbidites formed under different hydrodynamic conditions correspond to different units of Bouma sequence. Not all turbidity events can form a complete Bouma sequence. Therefore, traditional Bouma sequence cannot be applied to all turbidite studies. A more complete turbidite facies model must be established through studies from modern deep-sea sediments, outcrops, physical and numerical simulations. Additionally, turbidity currents and related supercritical bedforms are receiving more and more attention. They are important components of understanding the dynamic evolution of deep-water continental slope. The study of cyclic steps and other bedforms related to turbidity currents not only helps to characterize flow dynamics, but also provides a theoretical basis for the research of turbidite reservoirs. Finally, we proposed future research directions of turbidity currents and their related supercritical bedforms.     

云南景洪上泥盆统南光组沉积环境新议

云南景洪东南地区出露一套泥盆系,前人将其以粗粒碎屑岩为特征的部分命名为怕当组,根据腕足类化石鉴定其地质时代为中泥盆世;以碎屑岩、凝灰岩为特征的部分被命名为南光组,根据植物化石斜方薄皮木（Lepotophloeum rhombicum）划归晚泥盆世。对其沉积环境尚存在陆相和海陆交互相、浅海陆架相、半深海-深海相沉积环境的不同认识。本研究发现,粗粒碎屑岩层序中也发现有晚泥盆世标准植物化石斜方薄皮木（Lepotophloeum rhombicum）,并且粗粒碎屑岩层序位于剖面上部,南光组位于剖面下部,说明两者的地质时代均为晚泥盆世。故建议废除怕当组,将两者合并为上泥盆统南光组。南光组具有典型的鲍马序列特征,含有放射虫等海洋环境生物化石,属于深海浊流沉积层序。     

对《西藏高原雅鲁藏布江北岸蛇绿岩带的发现及其地质意义》一文的商榷

综合1：5万区调成果，系统阐述了赣西北地区双桥山群的沉积学特征，认为是一套形成于滨海－半深海环境的重力流沉积体系，基本发育－系列重力流沉积相单元，即块状混杂砾岩相，正递变砾岩相，经典浊积岩相等，对各单元基本层序特征进行了总结论述，并结合地球化学特征及粒度分析成果探讨了沉积环境。     

Subaqueous sediment density flows: Depositional processes and deposit types

Submarine sediment density flows are one of the most important processes for moving sediment across our planet, yet they are extremely difficult to monitor directly. The speed of long run‐out submarine density flows has been measured directly in just five locations worldwide and their sediment concentration has never been measured directly. The only record of most density flows is their sediment deposit. This article summarizes the processes by which density flows deposit sediment and proposes a new single classification for the resulting types of deposit. Colloidal properties of fine cohesive mud ensure that mud deposition is complex, and large volumes of mud can sometimes pond or drain‐back for long distances into basinal lows. Deposition of ungraded mud (T_E‐3) most probably finally results from en masse consolidation in relatively thin and dense flows, although initial size sorting of mud indicates earlier stages of dilute and expanded flow. Graded mud (T_E‐2) and finely laminated mud (T_E‐1) most probably result from floc settling at lower mud concentrations. Grain‐size breaks beneath mud intervals are commonplace, and record bypass of intermediate grain sizes due to colloidal mud behaviour. Planar‐laminated (T_D) and ripple cross‐laminated (T_C) non‐cohesive silt or fine sand is deposited by dilute flow, and the external deposit shape is consistent with previous models of spatial decelerating (dissipative) dilute flow. A grain‐size break beneath the ripple cross‐laminated (T_C) interval is common, and records a period of sediment reworking (sometimes into dunes) or bypass. Finely planar‐laminated sand can be deposited by low‐amplitude bed waves in dilute flow (T_B‐1), but it is most likely to be deposited mainly by high‐concentration near‐bed layers beneath high‐density flows (T_B‐2). More widely spaced planar lamination (T_B‐3) occurs beneath massive clean sand (T_A), and is also formed by high‐density turbidity currents. High‐density turbidite deposits (T_A, T_B‐2 and T_B‐3) have a tabular shape consistent with hindered settling, and are typically overlain by a more extensive drape of low‐density turbidite (T_D and T_C,). This core and drape shape suggests that events sometimes comprise two distinct flow components. Massive clean sand is less commonly deposited en masse by liquefied debris flow (D_CS), in which case the clean sand is ungraded or has a patchy grain‐size texture. Clean‐sand debrites can extend for several tens of kilometres before pinching out abruptly. Up‐current transitions suggest that clean‐sand debris flows sometimes form via transformation from high‐density turbidity currents. Cohesive debris flows can deposit three types of ungraded muddy sand that may contain clasts. Thick cohesive debrites tend to occur in more proximal settings and extend from an initial slope failure. Thinner and highly mobile low‐strength cohesive debris flows produce extensive deposits restricted to distal areas. These low‐strength debris flows may contain clasts and travel long distances (D_M‐2), or result from more local flow transformation due to turbulence damping by cohesive mud (D_M‐1). Mapping of individual flow deposits (beds) emphasizes how a single event can contain several flow types, with transformations between flow types. Flow transformation may be from dilute to dense flow, as well as from dense to dilute flow. Flow state, deposit type and flow transformation are strongly dependent on the volume fraction of cohesive fine mud within a flow. Recent field observations show significant deviations from previous widely cited models, and many hypotheses linking flow type to deposit type are poorly tested. There is much still to learn about these remarkable flows.     

Recognition of cyclic steps in sandy and gravelly turbidite sequences,and consequences for the Bouma facies model

Preservation of cyclic steps contrasts markedly with that of subcritical‐flow bedforms, because cyclic steps migrate upslope eroding their lee face and preserving their stoss side. Such bedforms have not been described from turbidite outcrops and cores as yet. A conceptual block diagram for recognition of cyclic steps in outcrop has been constructed and is tested by outcrop studies of deep water submarine fan deposits of the Tabernas Basin in south‐eastern Spain. Experimental data indicate that depositional processes on the stoss side of a cyclic step are controlled by a hydraulic jump, which decelerates the flow and by subsequent waxing of the flow up to supercritical conditions once more. The hydraulic jump produces a large scour with soft‐sediment deformation (flames) preserved in coarse‐tail normal‐graded structureless deposits (Bouma Ta), while near‐horizontal, massive to stratified top‐cut‐out turbidite beds are found further down the stoss side of the bedform. The architecture of cyclic steps can best be described as large, up to hundreds of metres, lens‐shaped bodies that are truncated by erosive surfaces representing the set boundaries and that consist of nearly horizontal lying stacks of top‐cut‐out turbidite beds. The facies that characterize these bedforms have traditionally been described as turbidite units in idealized vertical sequences of high‐density turbidity currents, but have not yet been interpreted to represent bedforms produced by supercritical flow. Their large size, which is in the order of 20 m for gravelly and up to hundreds of metres for sandy steps, is likely to have hindered their recognition in outcrop so far.