中文摘要：

大陆红层的红色色素主要来自其内的微粒赤铁矿。地质方面的最新研究成果表明，红层的色素起源于成岩阶段而非沉积阶段，是成岩过程中的高地温导致沉积物中铁的含水化合物脱水所致。本文采用对现代黑色淤泥沉积物进行不同方式的加热实验，并使用Perkin—ElmerLambda950紫外-可见-近红外分光光度计，用漫反射光谱法测定实验样品针铁矿和赤铁矿特征峰的变化，同时计算样品的红度值，以定量实验样品的染色程度等方法，模拟沉积物变红、亦即红层色素生成的过程。实验结果表明，现代淤泥沉积物中的铁主要以铁的水化物（针铁矿）形式出现；针铁矿脱水转化为赤铁矿的初始温度约为150℃，温度升高或加热时间延长，均可造成针铁矿含量减少和赤铁矿含量增加，样品的红度值与赤铁矿特征峰高度呈正相关关系。实验结果为红层色素热起源的认识提供了重要支持。

英文摘要：

Red pigment of continental red-bed is known originating from the fine-particle hematite in the rocks. Advance of re- searches on the origin of continental red-bed demonstrates that the red pigment of red-bed originated from its diagenetic but not depositional process. The high diagenetic temperature causes the dehydration of iron hydrate to form hematite, generating the red pigment. For examining the above hypothesis, the authors of this paper designed an experiment to approach the reddening process, i.e. formation of the red pigment of continental red-bed. Black ooze sampled from the Holocene sediments of the Pearl River Delta was heated in different ways. The diffuse reflectance spectroscopy （DRS） of those heated ooze samples were detected with Perkin-Elmer Lamdba 950 ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared spectrophotometer, and moreover, red-values of the samples were calculated for determining their coloring levels. Iron in black ooze sediment is predominantly in the form of goethite. Exper- imental results verified that initial dehydration-temperature of goethite is about 150 ~C, either enhancing temperature or prolon- ging heating time is accompanied with decreasing goethite and increasing hematite, and a positive relationship exists between red- value of samples and peak-height of hematite. The experimental results strongly support the idea of thermal origin of continental red-bed.