Origin and controlling factors of chlorite coatings—an example from the reservoir of T_3x Group of the Baojie area,Sichuan Basin,China

The study of the chlorite coatings always attracts scholars in China and other countries because the chlorite coatings play an important role in the preservation of residual primary pores in sandstone reservoirs.At present,the study of the origin and the controlling factors is relatively few.The occurrence,time of formation,genesis,controlling factors,and the mechanism of chlorite coatings inhibiting quartz overgrowths were studied in detail with thin section and SEM analysis.Samples were from the sandstone reservoirs of the T3x Group in the Baojie area,the transitional zone from the middle to the south of Sichuan Basin.The results indicate that the chlorite coatings on the walls of the pore spaces are oriented perpendicular to grain surfaces in the form of isopachous(even-thickness) grain-coating,while the chlorite coatings at the contacts between adjacent detrital grains are arranged with a preferred orientation tangential to the surface of detrital grains.The chlorite coatings were formed in the eogenetic stage.They were formed by recrystallization of Fe-rich clay films during the syndepositional period,and chlorite cements would be recrystallized after the coatings’ formation.The formation of chlorite coatings was mainly controlled by the depositional environment,provenance conditions,and diagenetic environment.The presence of chlorite coatings could result in the preservation of primary pores in deeply buried sandstone reservoirs by effectively inhibiting quartz overgrowths and the development of compaction and pressure solution.

The final collision of the CAOB:Constraint from the zircon U-Pb dating of the Linxi Formation,Inner Mongolia

The Linxi Formation occupies an extensive area in the eastern Inner Mongolia in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt （CAOB）. The Linxi Formation is composed of slate, siltstone, sandstone and plant, lamellibranch microfossils in the associated strata. Major and trace element data （including REE） for sandstones from the formation indicate that these rocks have a greywacke protolith and have been deposited during a strong tectonic activity. LA-ICPMS U-Pb dating of detrital zircons yield ages of 1801 to 238 Ma for four samples from the Linxi Formation. 425-585 Ma, together with the ~500 Ma age for the metamorphism event previously determined for Northeast China, indicates that their provenance is the metamorphic rocks of Pan-African age that have a tectonic affinity to NE China. A few older zircons with U-Pb ages at 1689-1801 Ma, 1307 1414 Ma, 593-978 Ma are also present, revealing the Neoproterozoic history of NE China. The youngest population shows a peak at ca. 252 Ma, suggesting that the main deposition of the Linxi Formation was at late Permain. Moreover, the ca. 250 Ma zircon grains of all four samples yield weighted mean ^206pb/^238U ages of 250 ± 3 Ma, 248 ± 3 Ma, 249 ± 3 Ma, and 250 ± 2 Ma, respectively. These ages, together with the youngest zircon age in the sample ZJB-28 （ca. 238 Ma）, suggest that the deposition of the Linxi Formation extended to the early Triassic. Combining with previous results, we suggest that the final collision of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt （CAOB） in the southern of Linxi Formation, which located in the Solonker-Xra Moron-Changchun suture, and the timing for final collision should be at early Triassic.

Calculation method for the formation time of dynamic filter cake in slurry shield tunneling

In slurry shield tunneling,the stability of tunnel face is closely related to the filter cake.The cutting of the cutterhead has negative impact on the formation of filter cake.This study focuses on the formation time of dynamic filter cake considering the filtration effect and rotation of cutterhead.Filtration effect is the key factor for slurry infiltration.A multilayer slurry infiltration experiment system is designed to investigate the variation of filtrate rheological property in infiltration process.Slurry mass concentration C_(L),soil permeability coefficient k,the particle diameter ratio between soil equivalent grain size and representative diameter of slurry particles d_(10)/D_(85) are selected as independent design variables to fit the computational formula of filtration coefficient.Based on the relative relation between the mass of deposited particles in soil pores and infiltration time,a mathematical model for calculating the formation time of dynamic filter cake is proposed by combining the formation criteria and formation rate of external filter cake.The accuracy of the proposed model is verified through existing experiment data.Analysis results show that filtration coefficient is positively correlated with slurry mass concentration,while negatively correlated with the soil permeability coefficient and the particle diameter ratio between soil and slurry.As infiltration distance increases,the adsorption capacity of soil skeleton to slurry particles gradually decreases.The formation time of external filter cake is significantly lower than internal filter cake and the ratio is approximately 3.9.Under the dynamic cutting of the cutterhead,the formation time is positively associated with the rotation speed of cutter head,while negatively with the phase angle difference between adjacent cutter arm.The formation rate of external filter cake is greater than 98%when d_(10)/D_(85)≤6.1.Properly increasing the content or decreasing the diameter size of solid-phase particles in slurry can promote the formation of filter cake.

Effects of the formation time of parton shower on jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions

Jet quenching has successfully served as a hard probe to study the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma(QGP).As a multi-particle system,jets require time to develop from a highly virtual parton to a group of partons close to mass shells.In this study,we present a systematical analysis on the effects of this formation time on jet quenching in relativistic nuclear collisions.Jets from initial hard scatterings were simulated with Pythia,and their interactions with QGP were described using a Linear Boltzmann Transport(LBT) model that incorporates both elastic and inelastic scatterings between jet partons and the thermal medium.Three different estimations of the jet formation time were implemented and compared,including instantaneous formation,formation from single splitting,and formation from sequential splittings,before which no jet-medium interaction was assumed.We found that deferring the jet-medium interaction with a longer formation time not only affects the overall magnitude of the nuclear modification factor of jets but also its dependence on the jet transverse momentum.

Age,Association and Provenance of the “Neoproterozoic” Fengshuigouhe Group in the Northwestern Lesser Xing'an Range,NE China:Constraints from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology

The formation time of the Fengshuigouhe Group in the northwestern Lesser Xing＇an Range , NE China, remains controversial owing to the lake of the precise dating data. This article reports zircon U-Pb ages for the leptynite and gneissic granitoids from the Fengshuigouhe Group in the northwestern Lesser Xing＇an Range. The aim is to constrain the formation time and prove- nance of Fengshuigouhe Group. Field observation indicates that the Fengshuigouhe Group consists of a suit of metamorphic rocks （leptynite） and gneissic granitoids intruding the leptynite, and that both of them are cut by late granitic pegmatite. Zircons from two leptynites are euhedral-subhedral in shape and display oscillatory zoning in CL （cathodeluminescence） images. These detrital zircons give weighted mean ages of 255, 291,321,361, 469, and 520 Ma. The youngest age of them is interpreted to maximum deposi- tional age of the protoliths of these leptynites. Zircons from gneissic granites are euhedral and subhedral in shape and exhibit typical oscillatory zoning in CL images. The dating results indicate that the gneissic granites were formed in the Early Jurassic （185~2 Ma）. Zircons from the late granitic pegmatite are sub- hedral in shape and exhibit two types in CL images： structureless and oscillatory zoning. The former gives a weighted mean age of 143~1 Ma, considered to represent the timing of crystallization of the pegmatite, the latter yield several groups of ages： 178, 273, 319, 482, 611, and 788 Ma, representing the crystallization age of inherited or captured zircons entrained by the pegmatite. Taken together, we conclude that the Fengshuigouhe Group in the northwestern Lesser Xing＇an Range formed between Late Paleozoic （255Ma） to Early Mesozoic （185 Ma）, rather than Neoproterozoic as previously believed, and that the sediments in the Fengshuigouhe Group were sourced directly from geological bodies in the study area and adjacent regions. KEY WORDS： the Lesser Xing＇an Range, Fengshuigouhe Group, formation time, leptynite, zircon U-Pb geochronology.

UAV-based spatial pattern of three-dimensional green volume and its influencing factors in Lingang New City in Shanghai,China

Three-dimensional green volume(TDGV)reflects the quality and quantity of urban green space and its provision of ecosystem services;therefore,its spatial pattern and the underlying influential factors play important roles in urban planning and management.However,little is known about the factors contributing to the spatial pattern of TDGV.In this paper,TDGV and land use intensity(LUI)extracted from high spatial resolution(0.05 m)remotely sensed data acquired by an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV),anthropogenic factors^(1))and natural factors^(2))were utilized to identify the spatial pattern of TDGV and the potential influencing factors in Lingang New City,a rapidly developed coastal town in Shanghai.The results showed that most of the TDGV was distributed in the western part of this new city and that its spatial variations were significantly axial.TDGV corresponded well with the chronologies of land formation,urban planning,and construction in the city.Generalized least squares(GLS)analysis of TDGV(grid cell size:100×100 m)and its influencing factors showed that the TDGV in this new city was significantly negatively correlated with both LUI and distance from roads and significantly positively correlated with land formation time and distance from water.Distance from buildings did not affect TDGV.Additionally,the degree of influence decreased in the following order:distance from water>land formation time>distance from roads>LUI.These results indicate that the spatial pattern of TDGV in this new town was mainly affected by natural factors(i.e.,the distance from water and land formation time)and that the artificial disturbances caused by rapid urbanization did not decrease the regional TDGV.The main factors shaping the spatial distribution of TDGV in this city were local natural factors.Our findings suggest that the improvement in local soil and water conditions should be emphasized in the construction of new cities in coastal areas to ensure the efficient provision of ecological services by urban green spaces.