广东台山岬湾砂质海岸侵蚀影响因素

在海平面上升的背景下,海岸侵蚀灾害日趋加剧,砂质海岸普遍遭受海洋侵蚀。基于广东台山浪琴湾海滩和望头湾海滩2个岬湾砂质海岸的调查资料,对其海岸侵蚀现状、影响因素等进行研究分析,认为风暴潮与人为因素是目前岬湾砂质海岸侵蚀最大的影响因素。为防止砂质海岸侵蚀、保护砂质海岸提供科学参考。     

北戴河海滩养护中的原滩环境调查

从海岸演变、沉积过程、动力条件、泥沙运移等多角度阐述了北戴河海滩养护区域自然环境条件.北戴河海岸属于岬湾沙质海岸,具备岬湾养滩的天然条件,发育多条断续分布的水下沙坝,原滩剖面为侵蚀性剖面;西海滩蚀退速率＞2 m/a,属于严重侵蚀岸段;波浪的强浪向NNE和ENE,常浪向S,潮流为NE —SW向的往复流,沿岸泥沙净输沙方向为NE— SW向.洋河浅海泥沙中值粒径为0.31～0.58 mm,物化性质均符合养滩需求,为理想沙源.通过构建合适的人工岬头和离岸潜堤配合人工养滩可以恢复受蚀的海滩.     

平衡岬湾理论在莱州湾东岸砂质海滩的应用分析

岬湾海岸是世界上分布最为广泛的海岸形态,其形态特征可以反映岸线的长期冲淤变化趋势,相应的理论模型被提出来用以模拟平衡状态的岸线形态。莱州湾东岸从龙口港至刁龙嘴发育4个典型的岬湾海滩,本文利用常见的3个岬湾模型模拟该处海滩形态,并分析各模型的适用性,结果显示抛物线模型模拟结果适合本研究区,通过模拟和现场调查发现该区域绝大部分岸段将仍然处于侵蚀状态,人为作用在岸线的冲淤演化中影响巨大。     

华南岬湾海滩冲淤演变特征及其机制分析—以南澳岛前江湾为例

岬湾海滩在华南地区普遍分布,众多海滩面临侵蚀退化问题,对其海滩冲淤演变特征及机制的研究具有重要的现实意义。本文以粤东重要的旅游海岛南澳岛南部的前江湾为研究区,利用滩面调查、遥感影像数据与历史海图和实测水深数据,研究1970—2022 年海滩冲淤特征,并从水动力、沿岸输沙、稳定岸线形态等方面,探讨人类活动对海滩冲淤演变的影响机制。结果表明：前江湾海滩蚀淤演变在东南沿岸码头防波堤海岸工程建设前后呈现不同的空间变化特征,切线岸段前期侵蚀、后期侵蚀加剧,弧形岸段前期淤积、后期侵蚀;人类海岸工程造成的岬角位置变化和沿岸输沙受阻是影响海滩蚀淤演变的主要机制,导致岬湾岸线平面形态变为不稳定状态,区域沉积物的亏损也加剧了海岸失衡;自东向西的沿岸输沙的不均衡对其海岸线演变的空间特征起控制作用。     

治理海岸侵蚀的人工岬湾养滩综合法

对海岸侵蚀特征及防治措施效果的分析表明,人工养滩方法是最为环保、长效、经济的海岸侵蚀防治方法.在详细介绍静态平衡岬湾和人工养滩的基本原理的基础上,重点阐述了人工岬湾养滩综合法的设计原则和总体思路,并以北戴河西海滩恢复治理工程为例进行了方案设计.     

日照石臼港人工岬湾海岸设计及稳定性研究

基于日照万平口海区三期水深地形调查资料、水动力及海底沉积物调查数据,研究了日照石臼港海域人工岬湾海滩建设前后波浪场的变化、沉积物在波浪作用下沿岸输运变化及海岸侵蚀冲淤特征,并模拟验证了人工沙滩建设后的平衡岸线,明确了不同长度防波堤建设后海滩的稳定性及其设计的合理性。结果表明:防波堤建设前研究区入射波浪与岸线有一定夹角,导致波浪作用下沉积物有由南向北输移的趋势;人工岬湾的建设可改变近岸波浪场,继而影响沿岸泥沙输运,对岸滩稳定有重要影响;海岸工程、波浪场及泥沙输运三者相互作用,是人工岬湾海岸稳定性的关键因素。     

北戴河西海滩潜堤岬头养滩功效研究

根据北戴河西海滩人工养滩后实际监测数据,对养滩工程中潜堤岬头的养滩功效进行分析,并通过数值模拟的方法进行验证。结果表明,潜堤岬头起到了很好的消浪促淤效果。岬头建成后,沙滩整体以淤积为主,局部岸段发生侵蚀,但侵蚀量不大,低潮滩以上沙滩平均单宽淤积量为21.3 m~3/m,其中,M4剖面单宽淤积量最大,为98.3m~3/m;数值模拟结果肯定了岬头的消波减能功效,其预测的岸线形态与实测岸线基本一致。     

静态平衡岬湾海岸理论中抛物线方程在海滩养护中的应用

岬湾海岸是全球重要的海岸地形,约占全球岸线的51%。岬间海滩又是岬湾海岸地形中最重要的组成部分。20世纪40年代以来,海洋地质学家和海岸工程师们对岬湾海岸做了大量的研究。尤其在20世纪80年代,有关抛物线形状海湾方程的成果发表和后来相关计算机软件的开发,都对判断岬湾岸线稳定性和预测岬头下游海岸的静态平衡起到至关重要的作用。详细介绍了静态平衡岬湾的概念,并且通过在由动态平衡向静态平衡转化、以岸外坝群保护平直沙岸、提高单岬或丁坝下游的稳定性等方面的具体应用,验证了方程的有效性。通过适当的人工构筑物,配合人工养滩,创造静态平衡的海滩,对海岸带的开发和保护具有重要意义。     

华南岬间砂质海岸稳定性研究

岬间海湾平衡平面形态规律在海岸长期侵蚀演变预测方面有着广泛的应用,已成为国外研究砂质海岸演变与稳定的重要课题。首先回顾了三种比较典型的经验岬湾形态方程,然后运用当前确定岬间海湾静态平衡形态最广泛使用的经验关系—抛物线关系,对华南31个岬间海湾的稳定状况进行了预测、分类。同时,采用数字岸线分析系统,计算了1990~2000年前后华南岬湾海滩的岸线进退速率,进一步分析、探讨了华南岬间海湾岸滩的稳定状况。     

秦皇岛金梦海湾海滩生态修复设计

金梦海湾位于秦皇岛海港区西浴场,其海岸侵蚀速率约为-1.26～-2.98m/a。生态修复工程利用秦皇岛港防波提并建设生态离岸潜堤,构建静态平衡岬湾,工程近岸补沙方量为172.5×104 m3,工程后取得了较好的效果。从设计理念、设计要素和养滩监测等方面,对秦皇岛金梦海湾海滩养护工程进行了总结和探讨。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

Flow Cytometric Analysis of Coastal Lagoon Bacterioplankton and Picophytoplankton: Fixation and Storage Effects

The effect of different fixation and storage protocols on the flow cytometric (FCM) simultaneous analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in coastal seawater samples (Mediterranean coastal lagoons) was investigated. FCM measurements (cell number, fluorescence and scatter characteristics) were obtained through DAPI staining. Three fixatives [glutaraldehyde (GA), formaldehyde (FA) and paraformaldehyde (PFA)] and two storage (3 months duration) methods (5 °C and −196 °C) were tested. Two dominant populations were detected in studied samples: bacteria and eukaryotic picophytoplankton. Adding fixatives (2% final concentration) appears necessary to obtain FCM exhaustive counts of all the bacteria and phytoplanktonic cells. This was related to the permeation effect of fixatives which allowed a better DAPI staining of the cells. Maximum fluorescence, i.e. optimal staining of the cells was obtained with FA or PFA, and significant lower fluorescences with GA. Fixed samples stored at 5 °C induced rapid cell loss. Only storage in liquid nitrogen of samples fixed with FA or PFA, allows mid-term (≥4 months) preservation of bacteria or picophytoplankton cell numbers, and limited evolution of DAPI-induced fluorescence and scatter characteristics.