ALGAL, SPORES AND POLLEN ASSEMBLAGES FROM LATE PLEISTOCENE IN THE EAST PART OF THE CHINA SEA AND THEIR PALEOENVIRONMENTS

The paper deals with fossil spores, pollen and algae from the sediments of 70,00-12,000a B. P. in the eastern sea area of China, distinguishing three spores, pollen and algal zones. Zone Ⅰ indicates that the climate was cold, the sea level was lower, the continental shelf of theDonghai Sea (the East China Sea)was exposed as the plain with various grasses thickened and manylakes andswamps dotted in which lived abundant freshwater algae of Pediastrum, Zygnema, etc.The hills in the continental margin were covered by the dark coniferous forests of Abies, Piceaand Pinus. The climate of Zone Ⅱ was warm, resulting in the sea level rising and the con-tinental shelf submerged as neritic environment with a variety of diatoms, dinoflagllate andDictyocha. The vegetation of the hills in the continental margin became mixed forests ofconiferous and broad-leaf trees mainly composed of Pinus and Quercus. Zone Ⅲ indicatesthat the climate became cold again and the continental shelf was exposed as plain with thesame lan     

MICROFOSSILS FROM LATE PROTEROZOIC MANGANESE ORE DEPOSITS IN WESTERN HUNAN PROVINCE AND EASTERN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTH CHINA

Abundant microfossils and organic residuals have been discovered by SEM and normal palynological maceration from manganese ore beds intercalated in late Proterozoic glacial rock units in western Hunan Province and eastern Guizhou Province. Taking isotopic dating into consideration, the age of manganese ore deposits in both regions is suggested to be about 750 Ma. A distinct character is that a great quantity of colonial microfossil——Sphaerocongregus (or Bavlinella) and their degradational variants have been obtained from rhodochrosite. Their biological and biochemical functions, combined with the geochemical effect of manganese in different ways, may play an important role in the manganese cycle.     

TECTONIC MIGRATION OF OIL AND GAS BASINS IN EASTERN CHINA

This paper deals with the tectonic migration of various types of basins and the regu-larity of time-space distribution of oil and gas in the eastern China basins from the availa-ble geological, geophysical and drill data, and then a preliminary discussion is made onthe relationship between tectonic migration and oil and gas formation.