东海陆架典型海洋灾害地质因素及其声反射特征

浅地层剖面探测、侧扫声纳探测、多波束测深等地球物理方法是识别海洋灾害地质因素的主要手段。根据多年来在东海陆架开展的多项海洋调查项目获得的资料,在东海陆架识别出多种海洋灾害地质因素,主要的有海底滑坡、浅层气、沙波、埋藏古河道、沙脊等,并对它们的声反射特征进行分析。各种灾害地质因素因其独特的成因机制,对海洋工程设施的影响也不同。     

浅地层剖面探测技术及应用

浅地层剖面技术是应用声学原理高效获取海底面之下浅部地质地球物理信息的探测技术,主要应用于海底浅地层信息探测和海底特殊目标调查等方面。以往研究者主要集中在浅地层剖面的具体应用,未对不同类型的浅剖应用效果进行综合对比分析,本文比较4种不同类型浅地层剖面系统的组成、工作方式和探测技术参数,认为不同尺度的探测目标需要应用不同类型的浅地层剖面系统。分析和对比不同震源类型浅剖的应用案例,发现电火花震源穿透能力最强,分辨率随工作频率的增大而提高;电磁式震源穿透深度与分辨率适中;压电换能器震源分辨率较高,穿透能力弱;参量阵震源利用差频原理,信号中包含高频与低频两部分,能够同时得到较高的分辨率与较大的穿透深度。未来浅地层剖面探测技术向深穿透、高分辨率、高效率、二维向三维甚至高维探测方面发展。     

浅海区Boom型浅地层剖面地层畸变及校正

浅地层剖面测量是海洋工程勘察、灾害地质调查和大陆架海洋地质科学研究的重要手段,资料解译的准确程度将对地质调查和研究成果的可靠性造成直接影响.由于C-Boom型浅地层剖面仪的发射换能器与水听器是分开安置的,当调查区域的水深过浅时,将其近似为自激自收的单道地震系统会导致地层的畸变,水深越浅地层畸变率越大.根据浅地层剖面仪的基本原理,推导出了C-Boom型浅地层剖面仪地层畸变率的计算公式及地层畸变校正公式,为用C-View软件更准确地解译此类浅地层剖面资料提供了参考.     

海底浅地层剖面仪应用的若干问题

随着我国海洋地质研究工作和水下工程的迅速发展,为了探测海底以下地层的分层结构,要求以高速声学探测仪器代替或减少钻井的数量。浅地层剖面仪就是利用回声测深的原理研制成的,它可以在测船航行时,连续、自动地在记录纸上直接描绘出海底以下地层的剖面图。 目前,国外已有近百种浅地层剖面仪,我国也先后研制出了多种类型的产品。我所研制出的HDP-1型浅地层剖面仪,经过多次海上工作的考验,提供了数千公里的地层剖面资     

海洋水下声探测信号的分类与分析

水下声探测是外国调查船和水下文物盗捞船进行非法调查和探测的主要技术手段,根据信号的主要声特征,对海洋水下声探测信号进行分类,分为宽带中、低频信号和窄带高频信号.在福建兴化湾海域采集了浅地层剖面仪信号、电火花声源信号、侧扫声纳信号和单频测深信号4种代表性的海洋水下声探测信号,根据声特征分析给出了对应的分类,其中:浅地层剖面仪信号为信号类型确定的中、低频信号;电火花声源信号为宽带脉冲中、低频信号;侧扫声纳信号和单频测深信号为窄带高频信号.通过对4种实测声探测数据的分析研究,给出了对应类型的海洋水下声探测信号的分析、提取方法,其中:信号类型确定的中低信号和窄带高频信号在初步的时、频分析基础上,可通过带通滤波提取;宽带脉冲中、低频信号在初步的时、频分析基础上,可尝试通过小波尺度相关滤波的方法提取.结合已知的水下声探测信号的主要声特征,实现对采集的海洋水下声探测信号的识别.     

研制海底浅地层剖面仪的某些声学问题

近十年来,探测海底几十米至几百米松散沉积层分层结构的“海底浅地层剖面仪”已逐步发展定型,并广泛用于海底工程施工和海洋地质研究方面。这种浅地层剖面仪主要采用以下几种声源装置：电致伸缩器件、磁致伸缩器件、电磁脉冲声源、电火花放电器以及气枪。 浅层剖面仪实际上是一种以地层为探测目标的主动声纳,本文给出了有关的声纳方程式,它将有助于这类仪器的工程设计和性能预报。 从探层声纳方程式出发,采用电磁脉冲声源研制了浅层剖面仪,获得了穿透地层几十米的较高分辨率的记录。对此,本文也作了简单的介绍。     

渤海海峡跨海通道区浅地层结构探测

在对2012年渤海海峡跨海通道区实测浅地层剖面资料进行地质解释的基础上,通过将浅地层剖面与钻孔地层岩性划分进行对比,标定了标准反射界面,通过对浅地层剖面各反射波组、内部反射结构的追踪、对比分析以及测线间的闭合检查,划分出5个主要反射界面和4个声学地层单元,揭示了各地层单元的分布特征。对拟建跨海通道路线选区典型探测剖面进行了系统的分析、讨论。     

海洋地球物理探测技术及其在近海工程中的应用

介绍了多波束测深、侧扫声纳测深、浅地层剖面测量、高分辨率地震测量和海洋磁力测量等五项海洋地球物理探测技术的最新进展和简单工作原理,给出了目前国内外广泛使用的主要技术产品型号以及主要参数和性能和展示了这些技术近年来在近海工程,例如海缆（海底光缆、电缆和管线等）路由调查、跨海大桥和海底隧道工程地质环境评价、工程灾害因素分析、海底目标物寻找和水下考古等方面的应用实例。     

海洋浅地层剖面资料的数据处理方法

在海上地球物理调查中,为了揭示浅部地层结构、浅层气、古河道以及其他潜在地质灾害,浅地层剖面测量是一种不可缺少的重要的手段之一,但是各种环境噪声的影响会导致采集到的原始资料质量不佳,影响后续的解释工作。以PARASOUND 70型参量式浅地层剖面仪实测资料为例,结合前人的研究成果,总结阐述了一些用于浅地层剖面资料的数据处理方法,提高了原始资料信噪比以及分辨率,为海洋地质结构的解释提供了良好的基础资料。     

全新世长江水下三角洲浅层物探资料的地质意义

近年来,随着海区第四纪地质研究的深入,为开展全新世长江水下三角洲沉积模式的研究,我局在西起长江沿岸、东至124°E,北起 32°N、南至30°10′N的四万平方公里测区内进行了3000公里的测深和浅地层剖面测量工作.浅地层剖面调查采用EG＆G公司的地层剖面系统.大量浅地层剖面结合浅钻进行的地质解释,提供了该三角洲研究中重要地质问题的依据和佐证.加强了海区浅部地层划分、厚度变化、区域分布规律,和浅部地层不稳定性的研究.一、地震反射层序的划分及其特征(一)层组的划分:沉积过程中由于岩层的密度、速度差异,沉积物内出现了声学层面和不整合面的两种物性波阻抗界面.浅地层剖面利用声波在海水和海底沉积物中的传播和界面上的反射,根据声波到达海底和各个界面的传播时间及其在地层中的速度来研究海底沉积层.根据这个原理可以按以下原则划分浅地层剖面:     

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.