闽南第四纪晚期沉积硅藻组合与古环境研究

对闽南泉州湾外台湾海峡西部756柱状剖面和厦门岛GT剖面岩心进行系统的硅藻分析研究,获得硅藻161种和变种。根据剖面硅藻组合特征变化,结合聚类分析和最优分割的计算机运算结果,756柱状剖面自下而上可以划分为5个硅藻带,GT剖面自下而上可以划分为6个硅藻带。根据硅藻组合序列,探讨其第四纪晚期古环境的演变。     

福建沿岸晚第四纪孢粉,硅藻组合及其古环境意义

通过对福建沿岸８个钻孔的孢粉、硅藻的综合分析,发现晚第四纪地层中有８个综合孢粉组合带与７个硅藻阶段。结合古地磁和１４Ｃ测年资料认为,该地区晚第四纪地层划分为晚更新世中、晚期（早大理冰期、大理亚间冰期、晚大理冰期）和全新世（早期、早中期、晚中期、晚期）。气候变迁序列为冷而干燥→暖而湿→冷而干燥→温暖稍干→暖而湿→热暖潮湿→温暖略干→温暖湿润。据古环境分析认为有七次海侵（或海进）,且各次海侵（或海进）的影响范围差异较大     

南海西沙海槽111PC孔的硅藻与古环境记录

对南海西沙海槽111PC孔沉积物中的硅藻化石研究表明,硅藻以热带、亚热带浮游性种类和近岸性种类为主,可划分出6个硅藻组合带,大体对应于浮游有孔虫氧同位素6个期次。结合有地层对比意义的属种及组合,建立了里斯冰期以来本孔的硅藻生物地层框架。硅藻丰度、属种组合变化指示海区气候经历了冰期-间冰期气候旋回及不稳定性波动。晚玉木冰期硅藻丰度高,冰后期、中玉木冰期次之,里斯冰期至早玉木冰期丰度较低,这与南海西南部不同,与南海东北相似但也不尽相同。里斯冰期至里斯玉木间冰期转换阶段,硅藻属种对气候变暖的反应较快。硅藻属种特征显示中玉木冰期气候为弱暖期,且有早晚两个暖湿阶段。硅藻属种的不连续分布也表明沉积环境在部分时段极不稳定。     

泥河湾盆地第四纪哺乳动物群概览及若干新认识

泥河湾盆地最初以其广泛分布的含化石河湖相地层而受关注,并以其丰富的哺乳动物化石而著称于世,而今,泥河湾盆地已成为世界著名旧石器考古重地和研究第四纪地质古生物的重要场所。狭义泥河湾动物群（或下沙沟动物群）是我国北方早更新世的标准动物群,其古地磁年龄是2.2-1.7 MaBP。随着地层古生物工作的深入开展,盆地内也发现了若干中-晚更新世化石点;丁家堡水库全新统中发现的象颊齿,之前被鉴定为亚洲象,新的测年数据表明其时代大于5万年,依据牙齿测量数据和形态特征,本研究将其归入诺氏古菱齿象。目前已在泥河湾盆地发现百余个化石地点,鉴定出236种（包括未定属种）哺乳动物,分属于8目、32科和121属,其中38个属种（包括亚种）最初是以泥河湾化石材料而建立。总而言之,泥河湾盆地哺乳动物化石以早更新世者居多,并且化石材料保存完好;有些属种在欧亚大陆古北区第四纪哺乳动物群形成过程中发挥过重要作用,例如早期猛犸象、披毛犀、野牛及真枝角鹿等,还有直隶狼、貉及各种真马。泥河湾盆地由于河流和断层切割以及沉积相变等原因,导致各个化石点及史前考古遗址地层难以直接对比,更难全窥盆地内动物群演化的整体脉络;新的生物地层对比...     

江汉平原47号钻孔中的化石硅藻及其在古环境分析上的意义

江汉平原47号钻孔,位于湖北省江汉平原的江陵县,在其上段的46.6-2.2m层位上,有丰富的化石硅藻,约有26属148种,其中绝大多数是现存的淡水种类,并以附生性、沿岸带和浅水性的种类为主。种类较多的属有:Navicula(28种)、Cymbella(23种)、Achnanthes(15种)、Gomphonema(14种)和Eunotia(13种)。主要种类有Gomphonema tropicale var. nonpunctatum、Cyclotella comta、Cocconeis placemula vat. lineata和Stephanodiscus dubius等。硅藻中的种数(种/层)和数量(个/每克干沉积物)经历了一个从无到有、由少到多再逐渐减少直至消失的过程。这反映了水体环境也相应地经历了一个漫长的变迁过程:河流(可能是长江古道)→边滩和河漫滩→泛滥平原的积水洼地(湖泊或沼泽)→水体变深加宽→水体消失。从不同沉积相中各种类型(适酸碱度不同)的硅藻比例(即硅藻种谱),可以推测当时水体的酸碱度的变化不大,在中性或中性偏碱的范围。由化石硅藻并结合孢粉的矿物分析,可以推测当时硅藻大量生长繁殖时期的水温较凉,气候可能偏冷。硅藻的数量与沉积物的平均粒度呈明显的相关性,硅藻的种数与沉积物的平均粒度也呈明显的相关性。     

亚洲土著类群硅藻鼠科的演化

硅藻鼠科是仅分布于亚洲的啮齿类类群,头骨具豪猪型咬肌结构,下颌则为松鼠型。该类群代表了一个从梳趾鼠类分化出的区域性支系,虽与豪猪次目相近,但并不是它的成员。最早的硅藻鼠化石记录发现于Baluchistan渐新世陆相地层中,稍晚的记录发现于南业晚渐新世。印度次大陆连续的地层为该科的演化历史提供了主要的化石依据。早中新世晚期至中中新世,硅藻科化石也发现了泰国、中国以及日本。其后的硅藻鼠种类少且鲜有化石记录。晚中新世早期在巴基斯坦有一个种,中国南部晚中新世也可能有一个种。尽管在最早的化石地点发现的标本较多,但其后的时段内除泰国李盆地外化石并不丰富,这指示了其特殊的生活习性或其生活区域化石保存的偏差。已知的化石记录并没有指示出该类群的多样性,也可能是缺少石化作用的结果。硅藻鼠类在水系外围区域延续生存与最近在老挝中部多岩石地带发现的现生Laonastes也是一个硅藻鼠的假设相一致。     

山东山旺中新世植物群研究进展

 山旺盆地位于东经118º,北纬36º,是一个中新世中期内陆湖泊沉积盆地。地层内保存了丰富的植物及动物化石。自40年代至今,已对山旺中新世植物群中的大植物化石(87属125种),植物孢粉(41属71种),硅藻(16属45种)及真菌(9属15种)进行了详细的研究。考虑到山旺中新世植物群处于全球气候变化的转折期,对其进行埋藏学,古环境重建等深入细致的研究,对阐明全球中新世气候变化的机制具有重要意义。     

中全新世以来大兴安岭中段红水泡泥炭地硅藻组合记录的古环境演化

本文提取大兴安岭中段红水泡泥炭地中晚全新世以来泥炭沉积中所含的硅藻化石,在82个样品中共发现32属94种硅藻。结合硅藻化石中优势种类生态特征,通过主成分分析发现,水位为控制该区域硅藻组合变化的最主要因素。其中,Meridion circulare,Meridion criculare var.constrictum等硅藻百分含量的升高指示水位的上升,Hantzschia amphioxys,Pinnularia spp.等硅藻百分含量的升高伴随水位的下降。根据主成分得分建立的红水泡泥炭地古水位曲线发现,中晚全新世以来当地气候经历了数次干湿交替变化,在总体上趋于干旱。其中5 000-3 300 cal a BP为相对湿润期,优势种类为M.circulare,M.criculare var.constrictum;3 300-1 900 cal a BP为气候转干期,H.amphioxys,C.meneghiniana,Pinnularia spp.成为该带中的优势种类;1 900-600 cal a BP,该段内红水泡泥炭地水位较上一阶段进一步下降,气候继续转干;600-200 cal a BP为气候转湿期,红水泡泥炭地水位迅速上升,Achnanthes lanceolata含量迅速增加成为该段优势种;200 cal a BP至今,红水泡泥炭地水位迅速下降,Pinnularia spp.成为该带中的绝对优势种。通过与季风区边缘其他研究区的古气候变化特征对比发现,红水泡泥炭地气候变化与多数研究区气候变化特征具有良好的一致性,因而推断其主要受东亚季风活动控制,泥炭沉积中硅藻化石组合记录可作为反映东亚季风变迁历史的良好指标。     

洛阳首次发现旧石器

本文系记述洛阳市首次发现的旧石器。它发现于距地表约12米的砂土层中,并与似诺氏古菱齿象化石共同出土,其地质时代为更新世晚期。这一发现为研究中原地区旧石器文化和洛阳地区第四纪地层划分提供有意义的资料。     

东海南部陆缘(莆、泉段)全新世沉积硅藻

对东海南部陆缘莆田、泉州地区两口钻井岩芯系统的沉积硅藻研究,共发现33属117种（或变种）硅藻化石,根据剖面硅藻组合特征的变化,结合计算机的对应分析结果划分了硅藻带,建立该区全新世的7个硅藻组合序列,恢复当时古环境演变的7个阶段,填补该区沉积硅藻系统研究的空白,丰富了海陆过渡沉积硅藻的研究。     

我国某些常见化石硅藻的环境分析

本文详细研究了中国海表层沉积物中的常见化石硅藻,结果表明,这些种的分布范围及数量变化随环境的不同而变化。因此,根据柱状样品中这些种类数量的变化,能够推断古气候变化,恢复古地理环境,再现海平面波动历程,进而划分、对比第四系地层。     

南极乔治王岛燕鸥湖晚第四纪硅藻（Ⅲ）：Diatomales，Achnanthales和Surirellales

本文对南极乔治王岛燕鸥湖晚第四纪硅藻中的等片藻目（Ｄｉａｔｏｍａｌｅｓ）、曲壳藻目（Ａｃｈｎａｎｔｈａｌｅｓ）和双菱藻目（Ｓｕｒｉｒｅｌｌａｌｅｓ）进行了系统分类描述,计有２４个种和８个变种,其中包括１个新种,５个新变种。它们可归属于：１）世界普生种,淡水或半咸水生境,中性－偏碱性;２）南极近岸浅海海域中常见种。     

珠江三角洲中山地区ZK201-2钻孔硅藻组合及古环境意义

经对珠江三角洲中部中山地区ZK201-2钻孔86个岩芯样品进行硅藻分析,鉴定出45属168种(包括未定种和变种),分属海水种、半咸水种和淡水种3种生态类型,据其组合状况和部分典型属种的现代生态环境指示意义,结合钻孔地层沉积特征和AMS14 C测年结果,在该孔自下而上确定了6个组合带。组合1 Ethmodiscus rex-Cyclotella striata-Paralia sulcata和组合2 Cyclotella striata-Paralia sulcata-Coscinodiscus divisus中硅藻均发生明显溶蚀现象,样品中个体数量(丰度)变化较大,两组合分别对应晚更新世河口湾相及末次盛冰期花斑粘土风化沉积层;组合3 Gomphonema kaznakowii-Cymbella affinis-Eunotia clevei,组合4 Paralia sulcata-Coscinodiscus divisus-Coscinodiscus excentricus,组合5 Cyclotella striata-Paralia sulcata-Nitzschia cocconeiformis和组合6 Cyclotella striata-Coscinodiscus blandus-Coscinodiscus divisus,分别对应全新世河漫滩-滨海河湾、潮滩相、河口湾相、河口坝-湿地沉积。该钻孔硅藻分析结果表明研究区晚更新世晚期以来经历了海洋氧同位素MIS3和MIS1期两次较大的海侵海退旋回。     

THE IMPORTANCE OF DIATOM CELL SIZE IN COMMUNITY ANALYSIS1

The large variation in size and shape in diatoms is shown by morphometric measurements of 515 benthic and pelagic diatom species from the Baltic Sea area. The largest mean cell dimension (mostly the apical axis) varied between 4.2 and 653 μm, cell surface area between 55 and 344,000 μm², and cell volume between 21 and 14.2 × 10⁶μm³. The shape‐related index, length to width ratio, was between 1.0 and 63.3 and the shape‐ and size‐related index, surface area to volume ratio, was between 0.02 and 3.13. Diatom community analysis by multivariate statistics is usually based on counts of a fixed number of diatom valves with species scores irrespective of cell size. This procedure underestimates the large species for two reasons. First, the importance of a species with higher cell volume is usually larger in a community. Second, larger species usually have lower abundances and their occurrence in the diatom counts is stochastic. This article shows that co‐occurring small and large diatom species can respond very differently to environmental constraints. Large epiphytic diatoms responded most to macroalgal host species and small epiphytic diatoms most to environmental conditions at the sampling site. Large epilithic diatoms responded strongly to salinity, whereas small epilithic diatoms did so less clearly. The conclusion is that different scale‐dependent responses are possible within one data set. The results from the test data also show that important ecological information from diatom data can be missed when the large species are neglected or underestimated.     

A quaternary diatomite from the Western Sudan

Diatoms from a deposit in Western Sudan, North Africa were studied. The mass appearance of diatoms in this area might be linked with: (1) the eruption of the Jebel Marra group of volcanoes during Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene times; (2) the increase of rainfall at the onset of the pluvials in the Early Pleistocene. The identified diatom species range from Tertiary to Recent times. They now occur, elsewhere, in fresh or slightly brackish water. Pelagic, epiphytic, and deep-water forms were found and they indicate the presence of a fairly deep and extensive Quaternary lake in an area which is today semiarid.     

AUXOSPORE FORMATION AND THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE INITIAL CELL OF THE MARINE ARAPHID DIATOM GEPHYRIA MEDIA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE)1

Recent studies have led to a rapid increase in knowledge of auxospore formation in diatoms. However, these studies have been limited to centric and raphid pennate diatoms, and there is still very little information for the araphid pennate diatoms. Using LM and SEM, we studied the development of the auxospore and the initial cell of the marine epiphytic diatom Gephyria media Arnott. Auxospores were bipolar and curved in side view, as in many other pennate diatoms. SEM revealed many transverse perizonial bands, all of which were incomplete rings. There was an elongate, sprawling, silicified structure beneath the ventral suture of the transverse perizonial bands. This structure is presumably equivalent to the longitudinal perizonial band in other pennate diatoms, although we could not determine the homologous relationship between the two features. Scales were found both in the inner wall of the perizonium and around the primary perizonial bands. The presence or absence of scales may be of phylogenetic significance in diatoms, only during the final stages of auxospore formation because scales are found in early spherical stages. The distinctive finger‐like structures observed throughout all stage of G. media have not been observed before in the other diatom taxa.     

EFFECTS OF LIGHT AND SUBSTRATE ON THE BENTHIC DIATOMS IN AN OLIGOTROPHIC LAKE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES1

Benthic diatoms form a particularly important community in oligotrophic lakes, but factors influencing their distribution are not well known. This study reports the depth distribution of living motile and total diatoms (living plus dead diatoms) on both natural (from sand to fine organic mud) and artificial substrates in an oligotrophic lake. On artificial substrates, motile diatom densities peaked in abundance (24–30 cells · mm^?2) between 0.6 and 1.9 m depth; on natural sediment surfaces, motile diatoms were generally more numerous and peaked in abundance (925 cells · mm^?2) at 1.3 m depth. Total diatom densities on artificial substrates were highest (1260 valves · mm^?2) at 0.6 m depth, with very low values below 3 m depth; on natural sediment surfaces, total diatom abundances were generally much higher (21600 valves · mm^?2) at 3 m depth and declined gradually with depth. Significant relationships were found between light and diatom densities on the artificial substrate. Ordination analysis indicated that substrate type significantly correlated with the variation of diatom composition on artificial and natural substrates. Our results suggest that in oligotrophic lakes, light influences benthic diatom abundance, whereas substrate type has more influence on benthic diatom composition.     

Comparison of contemporary and fossil diatom assemblages from the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

During the past ten years, the Antarctic Peninsula has been identified as the most rapidly warming region of the Southern Hemisphere and it is important to place this warming in the context of the natural climate and oceanographic variability of the recent geological past. Many biological proxies, such as marine diatom assemblages, have been used to determine Southern Ocean palaeoceanographic conditions during the Late Quaternary, however, few investigations have attempted to link observations of modern floras with the fossil record. In this study we examine a suite of modern austral spring (December 2003) and summer (February 2002) surface water samples from along the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) continental shelf and compare these to core-top, surface sediment samples. Using detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) of diatom abundance data we investigate the relationship of contemporary diatom floras with the fossil record. This multivariate analysis reveals that our modern assemblages can be divided into three groups: summer southern WAP sites, summer northern WAP sites, and spring WAP sites. Sea surface temperature (SST) is an important environmental variable for explaining seasonal differences in diatom assemblages between spring and summer, but sea surface salinity (SSS) is more important for understanding temporally-equivalent regional variations in assemblage. Our summer diatom samples are more reminiscent of early season assemblages, reflecting the unusually late sea ice retreat from the region that year. When the modern assemblages are compared to the fossil record, it is clear that most of the important diatoms from the summer assemblage are not preserved into the sediments, and that the fossil record more closely reflects spring assemblages. This observation is important for any future attempts to quantitatively reconstruct palaeoceanographic conditions along the WAP during the Late Quaternary and highlights the need for many more such studies in order to address longer timescales, such as interannual variability, in the context of the fossil record.