Discovery of the granulite xenoliths in Cenozoic volcanic rocks from Hoh Xil,Tibetan plateau

Two-pyroxene granulite and clinopyroxene granulite xenoliths have been recently discovered in the Late Paleogene toNeogene volcanic rocks (with ages in the range of 4.27～44.60 Ma) that outcropped in Hoh Xil, central Tibetan plateau. Based on theelectron microprobe analysis data, the xenoliths provide constraints for the formation equilibrium temperatures of the two-pyroxene gran-ulite being about 783 to 818℃ as determined by two-pyroxene thermometry and the forming pressure of the clinopyroxene granulite beingabout 0.845 to 0.858 GPa that is equivalent to 27.9～28.3 km depth respectively. It indicates that these granulite xenoliths represent thesamples from the middle part of the thickened Tibetan crust. This discovery is important and significant to making further discussion onthe component and thermal regime of the deep crust of the Tibetan plateau.     

基于数字高程模型(DEM)的可可西里地貌及区划研究

基于数字高程模型(DEM)数据,应用地理信息系统(GIS)方法,对可可西里地区地貌要素进行定量分析,并对其地貌区划进行研究。可可西里地区海拔分为中海拔、高海拔和极高海拔三级,其中高海拔地区占据69.38%的区域。研究区夷平面广泛发育,根据地势起伏度可划分为丘陵、平原和台地3种类型。除东部三江源地区外,研究区主体未受到青藏高原强烈隆升造成的河流溯源侵蚀影响,坡度类型以小于15的微斜坡、缓斜坡和斜坡为主,地势平坦。依据地貌形态特征定量分析、地貌类型组合和地貌成因的差异性原则,可可西里地区可划分为4个地貌区:羌塘高原地貌区(Ⅰ)、东昆仑山山地地貌区(Ⅱ)、三江源丘状山原地貌区(Ⅲ)和柴达木高原盆地区(Ⅳ)。其中,羌塘高原地貌区又可划分为可可西里高原地貌亚区(Ⅰ_1)和唐古拉山高山地貌亚区(Ⅰ_2),东昆仑山地地貌区可划分东昆仑南部极高山地貌亚区(Ⅱ_1)和东昆仑北部高山地貌亚区(Ⅱ_2)。地貌要素研究可以直观、量化地反映可可西里地区海拔、地势起伏度及坡度特征,地貌区划研究可以反映可可西里地区高原、山地、山原、盆地的地貌格局和水平分异,对研究地貌特征、地貌类型及开发保护具有重要意义。     

生态主题与诗意书写——试论杜光辉长篇小说《可可西里狼》

分析了杜光辉的长篇小说《可可西里狼》所突出的生态批判色彩与人道主义温情主题。认为作品:一方面通过形象塑造,揭示出人类中心主义、欲望享乐原则和无限增长的现代经济发展模式才是威胁生态的真正"恶狼";另一方面塑造一批"生态卫士"的理想形象,描绘人与动物和谐共存的美好图景,并指出其作品以此呼喊生态意识的回归,重建人文精神;同时,作为优秀的生态文本它没有成为生态话语简单的传声筒,而是以一种审美诗意的方式与生态对话。     

Origin of middle Miocene leucogranites and rhyolites on the Tibetan Plateau: Constraints on the timing of crustal thickening and uplift of its northern boundary

Leucogranites play a significant role in understanding crustal thickening, melting within continental collisional belts, and plateau uplift. Field investigations show that Miocene igneous rocks from the Hoh Xil Lake area mainly consist of two-mica leucogranites and rhyolites. We studied the Bukadaban two-mica leucogranites and the Kekao Lake, Malanshan and Hudongliang rhyolites by zircon U-Pb, muscovite and sanidine 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, and whole-rock geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic analysis. Results yielded crystallization and cooling ages for the Bukadaban leucogranites of 9.7±0.2 and 6.88±0.19 Ma, respectively. Extrusive ages of the Kekao Lake and Malanshan rhyolites are 14.5±0.8 and 9.37±0.30 Ma, respectively. All rocks are enriched in SiO2 (70.99%-73.59%), Al2O3 (14.39%-15.25%) and K2O (3.78%-5.50%) but depleted in Fe2O3 (0.58%-1.56%), MgO (0.11%- 0.44%) and CaO (0.59%-1.19%). The rocks are strongly peraluminous (A/CNK=1.11?1.21) S-type granites characterized by negative Eu anomalies (δ Eu=0.18-0.39). In also considering their Sr-Nd isotopic compositions (87Sr/86Sri=0.7124 to 0.7143; δ Nd (9 Ma) =-5.5 to -7.1), we propose that these igneous rocks were generated through dehydration melting of muscovite in the thickened middle or lower crust of northern Tibet. Melting was probably triggered by localized E-W stretching decompression in the horse tails of Kunlun sinistral strike-slip faults. Reactivation of the Kunlun strike-slip faults, accompanied by emplacement of leucogranite and eruption of rhyolite in the Hoh Xil Lake area, indicates that large-scale crustal shortening and thickening in northern Tibet mainly occurred before 15 Ma. In addition, these findings suggest that the northern Tibetan Plateau attained its present elevation (~5000 m) at least 15 Ma ago.