北极斯瓦尔巴德群岛Bolterskardet湖泊沉积纹层形成机理及古环境重建

北极斯瓦尔巴德群岛Bolterskardet湖(78°06′N,16°01′E)发育了完好的纹层沉积。纹层显微研究及137Cs年龄数据表明该湖的纹层为年纹层(Varve)。纹层层偶由暗色的粉砂层和浅色的粘土微层组成。其形成机制为:在短暂的湖泊开封期,积雪及冰川的融化,携带大量的碎屑物在湖泊中沉积下来,形成颗粒较粗的粉砂层;而颗粒极细的粘土,形成于湖泊结冰后的静水环境。浅色的粘土微层是区别、鉴定年层偶的重要标志。较高的沉积速率、长期冰封、明显的季节水文特征以及封闭的地貌环境是该湖形成纹层的主要原因。Bolterskardet湖纹层厚度与夏季温度的变化…     

青藏高原北部可可西里地区近4000年来尘暴事件初探——来自库赛湖沉积物粒度的证据

通过分析库赛湖近4000年来湖相沉积物粒度组成特征,对比人工俘获风成物粒度特征,表明库赛湖沉积物中粗颗粒组分（>64 μm）主要由风力搬运作用进入湖泊沉积,记录了该地区尘暴事件历史。重建的尘暴事件序列表明:2 500～800 cal aBP时段为该地区近4 000年来尘暴事件高频发生的阶段,4 000～2 500 cal aBP和800 cal aBP以来的时段尘暴事件发生频率较低;近千年来的尘暴事件主要发生于小冰期内的3次降温时段。与贵州董歌洞石笋氧同位素对比分析表明,库赛湖地区近4 000年来气候变化受亚洲季风的影响,尘暴事件多发生于夏季风较弱的气候干冷时段。     

青藏高原北部可可西里库赛湖沉积物及风成物的粒度特征

对青藏高原北部可可西里地区库赛湖钻孔沉积物、冰面风成物和流域风成物粒度特征进行了研究,结果表明:库赛湖冰面风成物的粒度特征同流域风成物的粒度特征具有明显的区别,而钻孔沉积物的粒度分布特征却和流域风成物的粒度分布特征相似.对库赛湖钻孔沉积物端元组分的分析表明,库赛湖沉积物的来源主要有径流搬运、风力和冰川搬运组分构成,所占的平均比例分别为55.5%,35.9%和8.5%.库赛湖沉积物风成物端元组分的粒度分布特征,得到了冰面风成物粒度特征的验证.尽管没有获得径流搬运组分的样品,但钻孔沉积物的粒度分布特征同流域风成物的粒度分布特征具有的相似性,可能说明,由于库赛湖地区降水较少,湖区径流不发育,流域的风化作用很弱,流域风成物通过流水汇人径流,成为径流搬运的主要物质来源.     

从微观角度认识微生物席在中元古代的繁盛--以豫西云梦山组为例

豫西云梦山组发育了大量的微生物成因沉积构造（MISS）。在地层纵剖面上,毫米级的深色沉积物层和浅色的石英颗粒层交替出现,形成典型的微生物席纹层,代表着微生物席在沉积表面的多次生长和埋藏。深色层包含有泥质物和细砂-粉砂颗粒,被认为是先前微生物席的残留区;浅色层则是较纯净的石英颗粒,由物理沉积作用形成。进一步对纹层区的薄片...     

青藏高原典型地区沉积物地球化学特征与矿物组成的粒度效应

地表松散沉积物中不同粒级的颗粒蕴含着不同的信息,这种差异与其物质来源、搬运和沉积过程中的分选作用以及沉积后的风化作用等有关。因此,可根据沉积物中不同粒级颗粒地球化学特征与矿物组成的差异,进行沉积物物源追踪或沉积环境重建。选择青藏高原在气候和地貌方面具有典型意义的柴达木盆地、错那湖、雅鲁藏布江流域作为研究区,分别采集了这几个地区的沙丘沙、黄土、湖积物、冲积物、洪积物、残坡积物等地表松散沉积物样品,用干筛法将沉积物样品分为两个部分,粗颗粒部分粒径范围为≥75~500 μm,细颗粒部分粒径<75 μm。对上述粗、细颗粒分别进行稀土与微量元素、Sr-Nd同位素、轻矿物组成的实验室分析测试,并对沉积物中粗、细颗粒的测试结果采用古典多维尺度方法进行相似性分析。结果表明：青藏高原松散沉积物中粗、细颗粒在轻矿物组成、微量和稀土元素含量、稀土特征、元素参数等方面存在差异;细颗粒部分蕴含了更多的环境信息,富含容易受化学风化影响的黏土矿物以及硬度较小、容易被磨蚀的方解石等矿物。在物源示踪中不同气候区的沉积物细颗粒不宜进行直接比较,应根据样品的粒度分布情况优先选择合适的粗颗粒组分进行物源示踪。     

洞庭湖砂纹淤泥质土固结过程微观结构变化

砂纹淤泥质土是一种特殊的夹有微薄层粉细砂的洞庭湖湖相沉积软土,具有独特的薄砂层构造。该软土固结过程中的微观结构变化,对解释宏观的工程现象、揭示土体变形的本质和采取合理的地基处理措施具有重要意义。本文利用X射线微区衍射试验和扫描电子显微镜试验,研究洞庭湖砂纹淤泥质土的矿物成分和微观结构,同时结合固结试验探讨砂纹淤泥质土微观孔隙与结构单元体参数变化特征。研究结果表明:洞庭湖砂纹淤泥质土主要矿物成分为绿泥石、白云母和石英,微观结构为片状或板状聚体结构;随着固结压力增加,等效粒径增长呈先快速后放缓的规律,结构单元体形态参数则先增大后减小;砂纹淤泥质土压缩系数与竖直切面结构单元体定向概率熵呈明显负相关关系。     

山东山旺中新世硅藻土的纹层类型及成因

山东临朐山旺地区中新世山旺组硅藻土极为发育。通过对该地区硅藻土纹层的研究,确定其分类和成因,为进一步确立年纹层的存在、利用其进行高分辨率测年、探讨高频古气候旋回奠定基础。山旺组硅藻土的单层纹层厚度一般为100μm左右。依据纹层的物质成分,单层纹层可分为硅藻纹层、有机纹层和粘土纹层三种类型。各类单层纹层组合成为明暗相间的层偶,层偶厚度一般为100～400μm,常常表现为浅色的硅藻纹层逐渐向深色的粘土纹层或有机质纹层渐变过渡。纹层层偶可分为:薄层硅藻纹层-有机质层偶,厚层藻纹层-有机质层偶,薄层粘土纹层-有机质层偶,厚层粘土纹层-有机质层偶和硅藻纹层-粘土纹层层偶。山旺组硅藻土中不同类型的单层纹层以及层偶的形成主要受控于当时湖盆内粘土物质的沉积速率、硅藻的繁盛程度和有机物质的沉积和保存条件。     

湖泊年纹层研究进展与展望

【意义】湖泊年纹层是季节—年际尺度的超高分辨率地质记录，对发展高精度地质年代学和研究古气候与古环境具有重要意义。【进展】综合前人研究成果，对湖泊年纹层的形成和保存、识别和分类、纹层年代学以及湖泊年纹层对古气候和古环境的指示等方面进行了总结：（1）湖泊年纹层的形成和保存受季节性气候和环境变化的影响，在北半球中高纬地区分布较广；（2）对湖泊年纹层的鉴定需结合其物理、化学和生物特征，并通过放射性同位素定年手段进行交叉验证；（3）湖泊年纹层可用于建立精确的或浮动的年代学标尺；（4）湖泊年纹层普遍用于重建年际古气候与古环境，但是研究程度不均衡，时间上主要集中于第四纪，空间上主要集中于欧美地区。【结论与展望】结合目前湖泊年纹层的研究现状和不足，未来应加强现代沉积过程监测，优化湖泊年纹层识别标准。同时利用多种研究手段，系统构建并完善湖泊年纹层研究体系。深入挖掘深时湖泊年纹层的研究价值，聚焦深时年际古气候变化等科学前沿。     

岷江上游叠溪古堰塞湖沉积物粒度特征及环境意义

利用古堰塞湖沉积物中连续的地质记录来研究区域过去气候变化规律,这一方法是继通过深海沉积、极地与高山冰芯、黄土、湖泊、洞穴石笋、珊瑚等沉积物中的地质记录来研究全球气候变化途径之后的又一新途径。反映沉积物中环境信息的代用指标有多种,其中粒度特征就是其中一种,它可以反映沉积过程中的古环境、古气候特征。通过该项研究可以建立青藏高原东部边缘(岷江上游叠溪地区)2万年以来的古环境古气候演化规律以及地质环境的演化规律,找到气候环境变化与地质环境演化的相关性。本文采用精细粒度分析和系统粒度分析等方法提取了堰塞湖相沉积物的粒度特征资料,并与已有的冰川湖沉积物的研究成果进行了对比分析。通过精细分析得到了堰塞湖相沉积物多为粉土和黏土;深色沉积物与粗颗粒相对应,浅色沉积物与细颗粒相对应的关系;并结合有机质测试发现:深色沉积物有机质含量多于浅色沉积物,表明粗颗粒土代表的是雨水充沛水动力条件好且植被相对茂盛的气候环境特征,细颗粒土则与其相反;沉积物中深浅交替的纹层厚度约为2～5 cm;这些特征与冰川湖沉积物特征差别很大,因此其代表的气候环境意义也完全不同。通过整个剖面的系统粒度分析得到了整个沉积过程的粒度变化特征,并据此结合年代测试结果将整个沉积剖面划分了7个粒度变化周期,揭示了该沉积过程中该地区经历了7次气候环境的变迁。     

济阳坳陷古近系页岩的纹层组合及成因分类

在济阳坳陷古近系中发育大量湖相页岩及纹层状的碳酸盐岩,页岩类型多样。通过对300多块页岩薄片的显微镜下观察分析表明,这些湖相页岩和纹层状碳酸盐岩均由3种基本纹层构成:富有机质纹层(即富含有机质的黏土矿物纹层)、隐晶碳酸盐纹层和黏土纹层。按纹层组合和比例的不同,可将页岩和纹层状碳酸盐岩系统地划分为黑页岩、钙质纹层页岩、富有机质纹层页岩、泥页岩、钙质页岩、纹层状泥灰岩和纹层状灰岩等7种类型,并尝试提出利用纹层组分划分页岩类型的三角形成因分类方案。由于不同纹层形成的古湖泊条件不同,该分类方案不仅能够反映各种页岩的纹层组成,同时也可反映页岩的成因。     

基于扫描电镜分析的猪野泽全新世砂层成因探讨

猪野泽全新世沉积物剖面中存在砂层和灰绿色湖相沉积层相间分布的现象。本研究对猪野泽QTH01、QTH02剖面砂层的石英砂样品进行扫描电镜分析,且与古湖泊岸堤和现代沙丘砂样做了对比,探讨了猪野泽全新世剖面中部和底部砂层的成因。研究发现,猪野泽QTH01、QTH02剖面样品中大部分石英砂兼具风成结构和水成结构,且水成特征大都覆盖于风成特征之上,V型坑分布频率相对较小,磨圆度特征与现代沙丘样品较为相似,与岸堤石英砂具有相似的结构特征,但剖面砂层不具岸堤典型的斜纹层理。结果说明,猪野泽砂层先经历了风成环境,后期转向湖相沉积,也有少部分砂是通过河流沉积于剖面位置;剖面砂层与岸堤砂层的成因相似,但剖面所在位置并非湖泊岸堤;剖面砂层形成时期风沙活动强烈,湖泊水动力条件稳定,河流对湖泊影响较小。     

湖泊沉积物中风成和水成组分定量判据的初步研究———以青海湖为例

对青海湖沉积物进行物质来源进行聚类分析, 并对周边风成黄土与现代湖泊表层沉积物进行粒度分析, 在此基础上, 以青海湖周边典型风成黄土作为风成组分端元, 以青海湖表层沉积物作为水成组分端元, 首次利用已知端元的粒度分布特征对青海湖沉积物中典型粒度分布进行拟合, 进而估算了其中风成和水成组分的比例。结果表明, 青海湖沉积物粒度分布特征可分为三大类:1.水成组分占主导; 2.风成组分占主导(风成黄土主导); 3.两者以不同比例混合。希望此方法能成为未来湖泊沉积物中不同组分的定量判据和古环境的解读提供新途径。      

Mechanism of Varve Formation and Paleoenvironmental Research at Lake Bolterskardet, Svalbard, the Arctic

On the basis of observation of thin sections and 137Cs data, laminations in sediment are interpreted to be varves in Bolterskardet Lake (78°06' N, 16°01' E), Svalbard, the Arctic. Varves appear under a petrologic microscope as couplets of dark-silt and light-clay layers. The mechanism of varve formation is surmized as follows: each silt layer is the production of sediment inflow interpreted as mainly derived from snowmelt during summer; each clay layer was deposited in a stillwater environment during an ice-cover period. A light -clay layer provides an important index bed to identify the annual interface. The high accumulation rates, long period of ice cover, and topographically closed basin are probably all critical factors in forming and preserving varves. Varve thickness is known to be controlled mainly by summer temperature. The variation of varve thickness in Lake Bolterskardet can then be used to reconstruct summer temperature. The varve series show that there has been distinct decade-scale variability of summer temperature over the past 150 years. Warm periods occurred in the 1860s, around 1900, the 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s, and in the last 20 years. The varved sediments of Lake Bolterskarde preserve an ideal record for high-resolution paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental research in this data-sparse area.     

湖泊沉积物年纹层的研究方法及其意义

文章总结了前人对湖泊沉积物年纹层类型的划分,并根据年纹层的形成过程和组分特征分为3个大类,即碎屑年纹层、生物成因年纹层(如硅藻年纹层等)和化学成因年纹层(如方解石年纹层、菱铁矿年纹层、黄铁矿年纹层、蒸发盐年纹层等)。介绍了目前应用于湖泊沉积物年纹层研究的主要方法和技术包括:1)新鲜沉积物表面照相、X射线照相技术;2)光学显微镜观察;3)数字化图像分析;4)扫描电子显微镜技术等。而岩相学大薄片是目前年纹层研究工作中应用非常广泛的材料,对目前制作大薄片比较普遍采用的快速冷冻-冷冻干燥和水-丙酮-环氧树脂交换这两种方法进行了介绍并比较了各自的优劣。湖泊沉积物年纹层研究的古环境意义主要体现在两个方面,一是提供了高精度的纹层年代学时间标尺,在诸如气候突变事件的时限、大气¹⁴C浓度变化、火山灰层定年、古地磁场长期变化主曲线重建等方面有重要意义;二是年纹层性质研究如年纹层厚度和年纹层微相变化本身所蕴藏的高分辨率古气候环境变化信息,在太阳活动周期、ENSO等气候事件的研究中也有重要意义。最后,文章简单介绍了我国东北龙岗火山区四海龙湾玛珥湖沉积物中年纹层的特征并展望了其研究潜力。     

晚第四纪湖泊沉积物盐类与碎屑矿物反相关关系的沉积学解释

湖泊沉积物中矿物组合是古气候环境研究的敏感性指标之一, 充分认识湖泊沉积物中各类矿物组合类型、沉积过程, 对正确解释矿物学指标有重要意义. 我国晚第四纪湖泊沉积记录中, 盐类矿物与碎屑矿物含量普遍存在反相关关系, 影响了矿物组合作为气候指标的解释和应用. 从地球科学的角度正确理解这种关系, 可以为湖泊动力学以及古气候环境定量研究提供重要的科学依据. 选择甘肃民勤盆地石羊河下游终端湖猪野泽不同位置5个全新世剖面, 在明确湖泊沉积物来源、搬运方式和沉积动力机制的基础上, 研究了以碳酸盐矿物为主的盐类矿物含量与粒度指标之间的关系. 结果表明:猪野泽各剖面砂层富含的中砂、细砂沉积物主要是来自于巴丹吉林沙漠和腾格里沙漠的风成砂; 水动力作用主导了湖相沉积层200 μm以下沉积物的沉积, 风力作用对20~70 μm粉砂组分沉积也有所贡献. 同时, 猪野泽湖相沉积层中高含量的碳酸盐主要来自于流水搬运, 湖相沉积层位200 μm以下的粉砂和极细砂是碳酸盐的主要富集区. 综上所述, 干旱区湖泊沉积物中盐类矿物含量与其沉积过程密切相关, 盐类矿物在全球变化研究中的应用要建立在充分研究其沉积动力机制的基础上.     

The enigma of fine-grained alluvial basin fills: the Permo-Triassic (Cumbrian Coastal and Sherwood Sandstone Groups) of the Solway Basin,NW England and SW Scotland)

The late Permian to Triassic sediments of the Solway Basin consist of a layer-cake succession of mature, predominantly fine-grained red clastics laid down in semi-arid alluvial plain to arid sabkha and saline marginal marine or lacustrine environments. The Cumbrian Coastal Group consists of Basal Clastics and Eden Shales. The Basal Clastics are thin regolith deposits resting unconformably on all-underlying units and are composed of mixtures of angular local gravel and far-transported fine to very fine-grained sands deposited as basal lag. The Eden Shales are predominantly gypsiferous red silty mudstones, with thin very fine-grained sandstone beds, and with thick marine gypsum beds at the base, deposited at a saline lake margin. The overlying Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group consists of the Annan and Kirklinton Sandstones. The Annan Sandstones are predominantly thick-bedded, multi-storied, fine-grained mature red quartz sandstones in which coarse sand is practically absent despite channels with clay pebbles up to 30 cm in diameter. The overlying, predominantly aeolian, Kirklinton Sandstones consist of festoon cross-bedded and parallel-laminated fine-grained sandstones, almost identical to the Annan Sandstones except that mica and clay are absent. The Stanwix Shales, located above, consist of interbedded red, blue and green mudstones, siltstones, and thin very fine-grained sandstones, with gypsum layers. Although the entire succession can plausibly be interpreted as deposited in a large desert basin opening into a hypersaline marine or lacustrine embayment to the southwest, the uniformly fine-grained nature of the succession is unusual, as is the absence of paleosols, and body and trace fossils. There is almost no coarse sand even in the river channel units, and it seems likely that the basin was not only extremely arid but supplied predominantly by wind rather than water.     

On the history of the Late Devensian Lake Sparks in southern Fenland,Cambridgeshire, England

A section in a gravel quarry at Somersham, Cambridgeshire, has revealed evidence for a lake, named Lake Sparks, in Fenland during the Late Devensian substage of the Pleistocene. Varved sediments were deposited in this lake over a minimum period of ca. 65 yr. The varved clays contain red diamicton clasts, interpreted as dump, delivered to the area by icebergs or floes from the ice-front in the Wash that deposited the Hunstanton Till. The lake is therefore considered a result of impounding by the Late Devensian ice advance on the east coast. A small number of pale varves have a characteristic structure indicating increased calcite deposition in the summer. They are interpreted as a result of cooler summers with reduced gelifluction from the surrounding Jurassic (Ampthill) Clay. Such gelifluction introduced a mudflow into the varved sequence at the southern end of the section. Pollen analysis confirms the derivation of the clays from the surrounding Ampthill Clay. The varved clays are succeeded by fluviatile sediments related to a delta building into the lake from the north. The delta sediments show periodic influx of sand into the lake interrupted by quiet periods with the development of Chara meadows. A thin spread of fluviatile gravels succeed the delta sediments, indicating the development of a braided river plain as the lake drained on the melting of the Late Devensian ice. This was followed by permafrost development, with the formation of thin thermal contraction cracks and coversand deposition. Later, degradation of the permafrost was associated with the formation of diapirs and a solifluction mantle, and incision of the fluviatile and lacustrine sediments took place. Flandrian peat and marl later filled the valley so formed. A radiocarbon date of 18310 yr BP from Salix leaves in a drift mud at the top of channel sands preceding lake sediment, in a neighbouring section, confirms the relation of the lake to the Late Devensian ice advance. The significance of the Late Devensian sediments at Somersham lies in the information they give on the timing and variety of processes related to drainage and ice movement in the period before, during and after the ice advance to the Wash. A period of low deposition rate in the lake was followed by rapid delta sedimentation and lake drainage, with implications for climatic change.     

Geochemical characteristics and depositional environment of Kalpakkam, southeast coast of India

Sediments from Kalpakkam, southeast coast of India were geochemically analyzed to document the provenance, tectonic setting, and role of chemical weathering. The sediments are dominated by quartz (Si), and the higher concentration of Si suggests the presence of quartz (±feldspar) dominated terrigenous sands. The study demonstrates that the sediments are derived from the granitic to gneissic or from a sedimentary source. Beach sediments are deposited in a passive continental margin setting and seabed sediments are deposited in active continental margin. In the A–CN–K diagram, most of the samples fall in the lower part, i.e., below the plagioclase feldspar joint which indicates a low degree of alteration. Only S6 falls just above the plagioclase feldspar joint, close to the AK boundary suggesting a slightly advanced weathering of sediment and source. Beach and seabed sediments lie close to CNK and FM region suggesting the presence of ferromagnesian minerals (likely to be pyroxene) except S6 which falls in the inner triangle of the minerals feldspar, garnet, and biotite in A-CNK-FM diagram. Both CIA and CIW values depict the unweathered nature of the sediments under humid to semi-humid climatic conditions.