东营近岸海域重金属元素分布特征与环境质量评价

根据在东营近岸海域采集的表层沉积物测试结果,系统研究了该区沉积物类型和重金属元素分布特征,并对其环境质量进行了评价。结果表明:东营近岸海域沉积物类型主要有5种,以砂质粉砂和粉砂为主。表层沉积物中重金属Hg、Cd、Pb、Cu、Zn、Cr和As元素的平均含量分别为0.019、0.12、21.53、22.4、73.02、67.02和12.77μg/g。沉积物底质环境综合污染指数为0.27～0.73,平均为0.43,表明东营近岸海域底质环境大部分为清洁和尚清洁状态。研究区内表层沉积物重金属元素生态危害程度较低,污染程度顺序为AsHgCdCuPbCrZn。     

黄骅港北侧潮间带及浅海区沉积物粒度特征

在黄骅港北侧潮间带和浅海区,分别获得1个柱状样品(岩心长度132 cm,共分得44个样品)和50个底质样品,通过激光粒度分析仪对沉积物粒度进行了测试,获得了研究区底质和柱状样品的沉积物粒度特征,结果显示:研究区底质样品只有3种类型,即黏土质粉砂、粉砂和砂质粉砂;砂质粉砂分布在港池防沙堤附近的潮下带地区,粉砂主要分布在大...     

埕北海域底质沉积物粒度分布特征及其动力环境意义

通过分析181个埕北海域底质沉积物样品的粒度资料,并应用Flemming三角图示法对研究区进行沉积动力环境分区,结果表明:研究区底质沉积物主要为粉砂质砂、砂质粉砂、粉砂和黏土质粉砂4种类型,整体上由岸向海粒度呈现细-粗-细的分布特征,且呈条带状与岸线平行;粒度相对较粗,粒径频率曲线多以单峰为主,分选中等偏差,多为正偏;沉积动力环境分区表明该海域沉积物多以悬浮和跃移为主;粒度特征和沉积动力强度以6 m和12 m等深线为轴对称分布,12 m水深等值线两侧沉积物的分布类型和运移趋势主要受季节的风浪变化控制,6 m水深等值线两侧沉积物分布和运移趋势主要受波浪破碎的紊流作用控制。     

苏鲁交界海域表层沉积物类型和分布特征

对2002年采自苏鲁交界海域的466个表层沉积物样品作了粒度分析和粒度参数计算,并进行了沉积物分类和分布特征的研究,结果表明:(1)研究海域的表层沉积物类型主要为砂、粉砂质砂、砂质粉砂、粘土质粉砂和砂-粉砂-粘土5种。(2)研究海域的表层沉积物主体是砂,随着离岸距离的增大,砂含量将逐渐增加然后又逐渐减少。砂含量的经、纬向分带性不明显。粉砂与砂的平面分布特征正好相反,粘土含量的平面分布特征与粉砂相似。(3)研究海域表层沉积物的平均粒径为0.34~7.30,平均为4.09,沉积物颗粒的直径总体上为细砂粒径;分选系数为0.34~4.26,平均为2.10,分选差;偏态为-0.41~0.75,平均为0.29;峰态为0.66~3.69,平均为1.34。(4)根据沉积物中各组分含量、粒度参数、水深、沉积物类型的平面变化特征等,由西向东将研究区分成西部、中部和东部3个分区。由岸向海,西部分区沉积物由粗到细地变化,平均粒径等值线呈NE向与岸线平行分布;东部和中部分区,沉积物粒度变化的规律不明显。     

山东半岛东北部海底表层沉积物粒度分布特征和沉积作用研究

通过对海底表层沉积物的粒度分析,探讨了山东半岛东北部滨浅海底质沉积物的类型和分布特征。结果表明,该区的底质类型主要为粘土质粉砂、砂质粉砂和粉砂质砂三种类型,其中粘土质粉砂约占该区沉积物分布面积的60%以上,呈侧倒的“Y”字形由西北向东南展布,沉积物各粒级组的含量与海流的方向和强弱有明显的相关性。     

日照近海表层沉积物中重金属分布特征及其生态风险评估

根据日照近海13个站位表层沉积物粒度和重金属含量测试结果，分析了研究区表层沉积物粒度和重金属含量分布特征，采用地累积指数法和潜在生态风险指数法评估了研究区重金属污染状况和潜在生态风险，探讨了重金属的来源和控制因素。结果表明，研究区表层沉积物可分为粉砂、粉砂质砂、砂质粉砂等3种类型，沉积物类型主要呈大致平行岸线的条带状分布，由岸向海依次为粉砂 砂质粉砂 粉砂质砂。研究区表层沉积物中Cr、Zn、Pb、As、Cu、Cd、Hg等重金属的平均含量由高到低依次为45.5、21.8、16.4、8.5、4.8、0.113、0.11 μg/g。从空间分布特征来看，Cr、Cu、Zn和Pb高值区主要出现在付疃河口近岸和研究区中西部海域，Cd和As高值区位于研究区中东部海域。污染状况评估显示，Cr、Cu、Zn、As未出现污染；Cd轻度污染，个别站位达到中度污染，Hg、Pb部分站位呈轻度污染。潜在生态风险等级依次为：Cd＞Hg＞Cu＞As＞Pb＞Cr＞Zn，其中Cd和Hg表现为中生态风险，个别站位Cd为高风险危害。表层沉积物中Cu、Cr、Zn、Hg和Pb元素主要来源于陆源细粒物质的输入，Cd和As元素可能来源于钢铁冶炼、煤炭燃烧、农药、化肥以及海水养殖等。研究区表层沉积物中重金属空间分布主要受物源控制。     

金州湾表层沉积物粒度特征及沉积环境

通过对金州湾海域72个表层沉积物样品进行粒度分析,探讨了金州湾表层沉积物物质组成和粒度参数的分布特征,根据粒度参数特征,利用Q型聚类分析将研究区划分为3组沉积区,结合粒度频率分布曲线、粒度概率累积曲线和C-M图阐述沉积物的粒径组成、沉积动力条件和沉积物的搬运沉积条件。结果表明：研究区沉积物类型为粘土质粉砂、粉砂质砂、砂质粉砂、砂和砂 粉砂 粘土。研究区可划分为3种沉积环境,Ⅰ组沉积环境：沉积物类型以砂质粉砂和粘土质粉砂为主,粒径较小,含部分粗组分颗粒物,分选差,粒度频率分布曲线呈双峰,形成较为封闭静稳的海湾环境;Ⅱ组沉积环境：沉积物类型以粘土质粉砂为主,粒径小、分选较差 差,沉积环境较为复杂,为受潮流和沿岸流作用的沉积环境;Ⅲ组沉积环境：沉积物类型以粉砂质砂和砂为主,粒径较大、分选较差,为受潮流和海流影响的沉积环境。整体上由东向西,沉积物呈现出细 较粗 粗的变化趋势。其原因在于机场人工岛的建设阻挡了潮流和海流的作用,导致东部的I、Ⅱ组沉积环境形成较为封闭的环境;Ⅲ组沉积环境为离岸较远的海洋环境,水动力较强,海洋性特征明显。因此机场人工岛的建设对金州湾海域沉积物的分布产生了显著影响。     

山东半岛白沙滩及邻近海域沉积物分布与控制因素

对山东半岛白沙滩及邻近海域表层沉积物进行了粒度分析,结合相关的地质水文资料,探讨了海岸形态对沉积物粒度的影响.研究区底质类型以黏土质粉砂和砂质粉砂为主,由东北经古龙咀岬角向西南形成S形黏土质粉砂分布带,险岛湾地区沉积物呈带状由砂逐渐过渡到粉砂,潮汐和波浪是本区沉积物输运的主要水动力,岬角的存在影响了沉积物粒度的分布,粒度趋势分析表明沉积物整体有向岬角汇聚的输运趋势.     

厦门海域沉积物中的重金属及其潜在生态风险

对厦门海域沉积物中Cu,Zn,Pb,Cd,Cr,Hg,As的全量进行了分析,同时采用BCR连续提取法对粉砂和粘土组分(小于63μm组分)中Cu,Zn,Pb,Cd,Cr进行了形态提取。探讨了重金属在各海域的分布特征及近25a来的含量变化,并采用Lars Hakanson指数法对重金属的潜在生态风险进行了评价。结果表明:粉砂和粘土组分中重金属含量大于沉积物中的总含量,沉积物平均粒径越大,差异越明显。25a来的统计资料分析显示,研究海域水体环境逐渐改善,沉积物中大多数重金属都处于历史较低水平。沉积物重金属潜在生态风险研究发现,沉积物中重金属的不同分析方法及背景值的选择标准对其潜在生态风险评价结果具有重要影响。     

渤海湾(天津段)柱样沉积物重金属污染研究

用原子吸收法测定了渤海湾柱样沉积物中重金属的含量,分析了各元素在各站位的分布特征,同时对各重金属元素和有机质做了相关分析并对该海域底质环境进行了评价,结果表明：各重金属含量随深度的分布特征由于受沿岸不同污染源的污染影响,重金属污染物难以形成一定规律的分布状态,总体上呈波折型分布;且该海域底质环境质量总指数已达很强的生态危害,其中主要污染元素是Hg,已达极强的生态危害。     

Model of the post-Cenozoic evolution of the cryolithozone of the shelf of the western part of the Laptev Sea

The analysis of the structure of the cryolithozone, facies, and thicknesses of the Quaternary sediments and the results of the physicochemical mathematical modeling of the modern shelf of the western part of the Laptev Sea support the influence of the Late Pleistocene glaciations on the heat conditions and the distribution of the permafrost in the area. A ～200-m thick glacier formed under aerial conditions from atmospheric precipitation represented the metamorphosed snow cover. According to the modeling, the long-living (from 60?50 to 10?4 ky) glacier reduced the thickness of the permafrost rocks in the reviewed shelf area for 280–360 m. The Holocene marine transgression additionally decreased the thickness from 50–140 m on the inner shelf to 220–350 m on the outer shelf. The modern submarine cryolithozone 450-0 m thick is wide-spread in the studied region from the coast to the shelf boundary (isobaths of 130–140 m), where it pinches out at a distance of ～380 km from the coast at a depth of ～250 m above the sea level.     

Investigation of the mechanism of the long-term evolution of the carbon cycle in the ecosystem of the Sevastopol bay

We analyze the components of the carbon system of the Sevastopol bay waters and the balance of main sediment-forming substances using the data of field investigations in 1998–2008. The interannual variations of total inorganic carbon and the equilibrium partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the bay water are noted. An increase in the flux of carbon dioxide into the bay and in the content of organic carbon in bottom sediments is revealed, and an explanation of this phenomenon is given. The priority accumulation of organic carbon in the sediments of the bay is established. We assess the interannual variation in the relative abundances of organic and inorganic carbon as an index of the carbon cycle stability.     

Contemporary state of the investigation of the influence of the discharge of rivers on the hydrologic structure of the Black Sea

We generalize and analyze the state of investigations of the influence of river waters on the hydrologic structure of the Black Sea. Specific features of the water, regime and hydrography of rivers flowing into the sea, data on the discharge of rivers, and intrayear and interyear variability of the discharge are presented. We discuss and analyze works studying the transformation of river waters, routes of desalinized sea waters, and their influence on the thermohaline structure and dynamic regime of the sea. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Modelling of the ecosystem of the Black-Sea shelf zone near the estuary of the Danube

We analyze the results of numerical calculations performed according to the three-dimensional interdisciplinary model of an ecological system of the Black-Sea shelf zone near the estuary of the Danube. The complete system of equations of hydrothermodynamics is solved together with transport equations of the advection-diffusion-reaction type used to describe the transformation of a substance (nitrogen) between the components of the characteristic vectors of the ecosystem: plankton, detritus, and biogenic elements (nitrates). We describe the distinctive features of the circumcontinental distribution of components obtained as a result of numerical experiments and present arguments for the conclusion that the ecosystem of the Danube estuary water area plays the role of a buffer zone between the press of the Danubian biogenic pollutions and the neighbouring areas of the shelf zone and open sea. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Relationship between the path of the Kuroshio in the south of Japan and the path of the Kuroshio Extension in the east

A relationship between paths of the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension (KE) is investigated, using the satellite-derived altimetry dataset of 1993–2008. When the Kuroshio takes the nearshore nonlarge meander path or typical large meander path and resultantly goes through the deeper channel (about 2500 m) of the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge, the KE path adopts a relatively stable state with the two quasi-stationary meanders. On the other hand, when the Kuroshio takes the offshore nonlarge meander path and then passes over the shallower part of the Ridge (about 1000 m), the KE path tends to be convoluted, i.e., an unstable state.     

Dynamics of the ice cover and peculiarities of the ice transportation of the sediments at the tidal flats of the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea

Ten years of semistationary studies of the interaction of the ice cover and the coastal relief of the Kandalakhsa Gulf in the White Sea allowed us to reveal the peculiarities of these processes in the warm and cold years and the mechanisms of the origination of ice forms, including ice tents, which govern the character of the tidal flats. Three dynamic fast ice zones are distinguished by their geomorphological location, morphology, and ice dynamics. The dependence of the mechanisms and volumes of the enrichment of the fast ice in the sediments on the coastal zone??s relief was established. At the coast of the Kindo Peninsula (Velikaya Salma Strait), the ice mostly contains fine-sandy sediments. Coarser sediments, including boulders, are occasional and frozen into the ice at the contact of the fast ice and the bottom. At the expense of the ice??s spreading by 4?C6 times in the warm years and 2?C4 times in the cold years, several thousand tons of sediments mostly from the tidal flat??s surface (100?C700 m³ from 1 km of coast in the wide tidal flats and <50 m³ on the steep coasts) are delivered to the water area.     

Parameters of the sediments of the deep-water basin of the Black Sea

The methodology and the first results of the computations of the volumes, masses, and growth rates of the sedimentary body of the buried Black Sea basin are presented. Their temporal evolution reflects the regional paleogeodynamics, in particular, the reorientation of the vector of the relative movement of the Arabian and Eurasian lithospheric plates and the related intensification of their collision in the late Miocene-Pliocene.     

Variability of the nutrient runoff of the rivers of the Arctic Basin

The spatiotemporal variability of the hydrochemical composition of the riverine runoff in nearmouth areas is presented using the example of selected rivers of the Arctic Basin. The temporal dynamics of the riverine nutrient runoff are mainly determined by the seasonal and interseasonal variations in the drainage basins. The spatial variations in the chemical composition of riverine waters in the near-mouth areas are mainly caused by the dynamics of the water flow and the river bed relief and, to a lesser degree, by biochemical processes. It is shown that the variations in the nutrient composition of the waters in near-mouth areas are comparable in magnitude to those at the river-sea geochemical barriers.     

A model of the dynamics of the ecosystem of the Sea of Azov

We use many-year archival observations of hydrologic and hydrobiologic state of the Sea of Azov for the identification of the structure of a model of its ecosystem. The ecosystem model, supplemented with expert estimates of bioresource consumption (fish reserve), contamination level, and possible ecologic fines for violation of the sea natural state, is formalized by the method of system dynamics. Hereat, the major part of influence functions is found in terms of observational data with application of self-organization algorithms. We also present the results of simulated experiments with the model of the ecosystem, which enable us to analyse scenarios of its behaviour under the influence of various external factors (wind, river discharge, water exchange with the Black Sea, etc.). Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

On the Relationship between the Characteristics of the Annual Variations of the Virtual Height of the Ionospheric Sporadic E Layer with the Seasonal Rearrangements of the Stratomesospheric Circulation

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Analysis of the temporal variations of the virtual heights of the sporadic E layer (h?ES) determined from ionograms with increased accuracy (1...