包头地区晚更新世—全新世地层划分对比及环境变迁

对包头平原第四纪堆积物的年代地层、生物地层、岩石地层和磁性地层的研究表明,该区晚更新世—全新世地层可与我国华北晚更新世—全新世典型地层剖面——萨拉乌苏河滴哨沟湾剖面对比,并可进一步划分出萨拉乌苏组、城川组、大沟湾组和滴哨沟湾组。这一研究不仅重新厘定了包头平原这一时段地层的层序,完成大区域地层对比,同时也为研究包头地区乃至呼包盆地晚更新世—全新世古气候和古地理环境变迁提供了基础资料。     

Fault-related folds and an imbricate thrust system on the northwestern margin of the northern Fossa Magna region, central Japan

Abstract   The Nishikubiki Mountains, which are located on the northwestern margin of the northern Fossa Magna region, central Japan, and the area offshore to the north of the mountains are underlain by folded and faulted Neogene and Quaternary sequences. The folds are composed of open, symmetric anticlines or tight, asymmetric anticlines trending north 20–70° east. On the basis of the geometry of the anticlines and growth strata, the symmetric and asymmetric anticlines are interpreted as fault-bend folds and fault-propagation folds, respectively. The formation of the anticlines is attributed to the growth of an imbricate thrust system composed of three thrust sheets that developed, from southeast to northwest, mainly in the late Pliocene, early Pleistocene, and middle Pleistocene–Holocene. The horizontal component of the northwestern-most sheet was estimated to be approximately 1.2 km on the basis of the width of the growth triangle, and the thickness of the sheet at its southeast margin was estimated to be 8.5 km on the basis of area balancing along one of the seismic profiles. The thrust is inferred to extend to a depth of more than 10 km toward the southwest. The three thrust sheets are probably connected by a detachment zone along the boundary between the upper and lower crusts. The anticlines are bounded by the Itoigawa–Shizuoka Tectonic Line (ISTL) to the west and by lateral ramps or tip lines to the northeast. The ISTL possibly continues northward offshore into the Toyama Trough. The structural model proposed in this paper suggests that similar thrust systems are wide spread in the northern Fossa Magna region and that active deformation zones have migrated and switched during the past 2–3 million years along the fold belt.     

青海通天河盆地古、新近纪沉积特征及其意义

通过对青海通天河盆地古、新近纪地层层序、沉积特征、物源区及沉积环境分析，建立其垂向相序，总结出该区具冲积扇相、三角洲相、湖泊相的特点，并得出通天河盆地古、新近纪物源区主要为北部开心岭隆起区的结论。根据石膏、灰岩夹层及粒度特征等环境标志推测：中始新世气候炎热湿润，晚始新世气候炎热干燥，渐新世气候炎热湿润，中中新世气候温暖潮湿；青藏高原的隆升具有阶段性。     

Phosphate deposits of Neogene age in Greece. Mineralogy, geochemistry and genetic implications

In Greece, several occurrences of phosphates have been located in Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks. The aim of the present paper is to describe the mineralogy, geochemistry and the origin of the phosphates deposited in marine and lacustrine basins of Neogene age in Greece. Phosphates of marine origin formed in an outer shelf-upper slope environment (Palliki Peninsula, Kefalonia Island) as well as in a hemipelagic environment (Heraklion, Crete Island). In both the deposits, the phosphate minerals belong to the apatite group. In Kefalonia Island, phosphatic material accumulations occur in the field as scattered or accumulated vertebrate bones, fish teeth and other biogenic components, hosted in a sandy limestone of Upper Tortonian age. On a microscopic scale, in the groundmass of the limestone, phosphate minerals are present as fillings and secondarily as replacements of foraminiferal and other calcareous microfossil tests. In Crete Island, burrowed cobbles and phosphatic concretions up to 10 cm in diameter have been detected east of Heraklion town. The phosphatic material is hosted in a sandy marlstone that is interbedded with diatomaceous rocks of Middle Pliocene age. Phosphates of lacustrine origin have been formed in the NW–SE-oriented Upper Miocene basins of Florina–Ptolemais and Elassona–Sarantaporo, located, respectively, in western Macedonia and Thessaly, Greece. The phosphate minerals are mainly represented by Ca/Fe phosphates such as anapaite and mitridatite and secondarily by Ca phosphates of the apatite group that are hosted in a thick succession of clayey diatomite rock. They usually form lenticular layers, asymmetric lenses, nodular and botryoidal aggregates, and faecal pellet replacements.

The major and trace element content of a representative set of rocks was studied. Their geochemistry was found to be controlled by the presence of detrital minerals, the host rock mineralogies, and the types of phosphate minerals present. The relatively high amounts of uranium, arsenic and barium detected in some of the phosphate rocks studied are mainly related with organic matter and are comparable to those detected in other phosphate deposits worldwide.

In the deposits studied, phosphogenesis was mainly promoted by the decay of organic substances derived from diatoms, fishes and other vertebrates, leaves and trunks, and faecal pellets in a highly reducing environment on or just below the sea or lake bottom, and secondarily by the feeding of the basin with phosphate-bearing nutrients that originated in the land.     

济阳坳陷东部新近系馆陶组下段辫状河三角洲沉积研究

根据水下沉积的标志 (泥岩颜色和富存的古生物化石 )和湖泊水流作用的标志 (岩性和结构、沉积构造、粒度分析、岩石的成分与结构成熟度、岩心的沉积相序以及砂体的平面形态等 ) ,证实了济阳坳陷新近系馆陶组下段为辫状河三角洲 ,而不是陆上河流或冲积扇沉积。通过解剖济阳坳陷东部某油田馆陶组的沉积序列发现 ,在馆下段沉积时期 ,辫状河三角洲发育水下辫状河道、河口砂坝以及前缘席状砂等微相 ,这为渤海湾盆地新近纪古湖泊研究和济阳坳陷新近系油气勘探提供了新的思路     

A new barn owl (Aves: Strigidae) from the early Miocene of Germany, with comments on the fossil history of the Tytoninae

Summary A previously unknown, very large barn owl,Basityto rummeli is described from the early Miocene of Grafenmühle 21 in Bavaria, Germany. This raises the number of tytonine genera known from the early Miocene to three.Necrobyas is known only from France,Prosybris from France and Austria, andBasityto so far only from Germany.Further taxonomic conclusions are as follows:Palaeotyto cadurcensis Mourer-Chauviré,Palaeobyas cracrafti Mourer-Chauviré, andTyto edwardsi (Gaillard) are excluded from the Tytoninae. Six species are synonymized:Necrobyas rossignoli Milne-Edwards withNecrobyas harpax Milne-Edwards,Necrobyas edwardsi Gaillard withNecrobyas arvernensis (Milne-Edwards),Necrobyas minimus Mourer-Chauviré withProsybris antiqua (Milne-Edwards),Tyto campiterrae Jánossy withTyto sanctialbani (Lydekker),Tyto robusta Ballmann withTyto gigantea Ballmann, andTyto melitensis (Lydekker) withTyto alba (Scopoli).Necrobyas medius Mourer-Chauviré was transferred to the genusProsybris. In addition,Strix ignota Milne-Edwards andStrix ignota Paris emerge as not available for nomenclatural purposes.

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Eine neue Schleiereule (Aves: Strigidae) aus dem Untermiozän in Deutschland: mit Anmerkungen zur fossilen Geschichte der Tytoninae

Zusammenfassung Eine neue, sehr große Schleiereule,Basityto rummeli, wird aus dem Untermiozän von Grafenmühle 21 in Bayern beschrieben. Damit ist die Anzahl der aus dem Untermiozän bekannten Schleiereulengattungen auf drei gestiegen.Necrobyas ist bisher nur aus Frankreich,Prosybris aus Frankreich und Österreich, undBasityto aus Bayern bekannt. Weitere taxonomische Ergebnisse sind wie folgt:Palaeotyto cadurcensis Mourer-Chauviré,Palaeobyas cracrafti Mourer-Chauviré undTyto edwardsi (Gaillard) wurden aus den Tytoninae entfernt. Sechs Arten wurden synonymisiert:Necrobyas rossignoli Milne-Edwards mitNecrobyas harpax Milne-Edwards,Necrobyas edwardsi Gaillard mitNecrobyas arvernensis (Milne-Edwards),Necrobyas minimus Mourer-Chauviré mitProsybris antiqua (Milne-Edwards),Tyto campiterrae Jánossy mitTyto sanctialbani (Lydekker),Tyto robusta Ballmann mitTyto gigantea Ballmann undTyto melitensis (Lydekker) mitTyto alba (Scopoli).Necrobyas medius Mourer-Chauviré wurde in die GattungProsybris überführt. Die NamenStrix ignota Milne-Edwards undStrix ignota Paris sind für nomenklatorische Zwecke nicht verfügbar.

     

海南岛蓬莱地区新第三纪火山盆地沉积特征与成矿

根据《海南省地层多重划分对比研究》项目,笔者对石门沟村、石马村等剖面做了详细的研究,并对蓬莱一带火山岩进行了重新划分,新建中新统石马村组、上新统石门沟村组,就其岩石特征、时代和与成矿的关系进行了讨论。     

Contrôle tectonique de la sédimentation néogène dans la zone des diapirs de Tunisie septentrionale

During the Neogene, the sedimentary succession changed from marine shallow water formations during the Early and Middle Miocene to lagoonal and continental formations during the Late Miocene and the Pliocene. This succession is subdivided into three sedimentary major cycles that are mainly due to compressional tectonic events. Propagating folds above a detachment within the evaporitic Triassic strata caused the formation of the tectonics. To cite this article: M. Chikhaoui, C. R. Geoscience 336 (2004).     

Middle Miocene to Pleistocene magneto-biostratigraphy of ODP Sites 1150 and 1151, northwest Pacific: Sedimentation rate and updated regional geological timescale

Abstract Shipboard and shore‐based investigation on siliceous and calcareous microfossil biostratigraphy, magneto‐stratigraphy and tephrostratigraphy identified numerous datum events from the sedimentary sequences of Sites 1150 and 1151 drilled on the forearc basin of northern Japan by the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 186. Some 83 datum events were selected to construct new age–depth models for the sites. Based on the reliable magneto‐stratigraphy from the Pleistocene to the Upper Miocene, which were correlated to the standard geomagnetic polarity timescale, and on excellent records of diatom and radiolarian biostratigraphy throughout the sequences, the shipboard age model was revised. Major revisions referred to stratigraphic position of the Miocene–Pliocene boundary that has been shifted more than 200 m downward in each sequence. The age–depth relations of the forearc sites represent drastic changes in the sedimentation rate—extremely high (40 cm/k.y. on average) in the Early Pliocene and low (less than 2 cm/k.y. on average) in the Middle Miocene—and several hiatuses exist throughout the sequence. The drastic changes can be related mostly to changes in diatom sedimentation and the tectonics of the Japanese Island Arc. Local ages for some foraminiferal, calcareous nannofossil and radiolarian bioevents are estimated from the age–depth models at each site. These newly calibrated bioevents and biozones as well as established diatom biostratigraphy are incorporated into the updated magneto‐biochronologic timescale, which will contribute to an improvement in biochronologic accuracy of Neogene sediments in northern Japan and adjacent areas.     

Evolution of Chinese Neogene Rhinocerotidae and Its Response to Climatic Variations

Chinese Neogene Rhinocerotidae has quite a complete record and its temporal range is the Early Miocene to Late Pliocene. The samples include 25 species in 4 tribes of 2 subfamilies. They are used as a foundation for the study of the evolution of the family and its relation to climatic changes. Taxonomic diversity, new records and extinctions are estimated for each Chinese Neogene mammal faunal unit (NMU). The diversity of Chinese Rhinocerotidae varies noticeably throughout the Neogene and is recognized within five stages: the Middle Miocene and Late Miocene are stages of high diversity and the Early Miocene, early Late Miocene and Pliocene are stages of low diversity. Rhinocerotid diversity and morphology are closely related to environmental factors and particularly sensitive to changes in ambient temperature and humidity. The interpretation of climatic variation reflected in the evolution of Rhinocerotidae corresponds precisely with the conclusions drawn from other workers and provides new evidence fen