Outline of metallogeny of copper deposits of Cuba

Copper deposits of Cuba belong to the Jurassic lead-zinc-copper, Cretaceous copper and Paleogene copper complexes, which differ substantially in their formation conditions. The island is differentiated into a number of metallogenic zones formed at the initial and early stages of the Cuba folded province. Pinar del Rio, Pinos, Trinidad and Oriente zones, of an intrageanticlinal nature, are prospective with respect to copper vein deposits of the lead-Zinc-copper complex. The Sasa and Cauto zones - intrageosynclinal - are prospective with regard to copper-pyrite and copper vein deposits of the Cretaceous complex. A metallogenic study of the island is indicated in planning the exploration of its copper prospects. -- AGI Staff.     

Spheres of discharge of springs

Although springs have been recognized as important, rare, and globally threatened ecosystems, there is as yet no consistent and comprehensive classification system or common lexicon for springs. In this paper, 12 spheres of discharge of springs are defined, sketched, displayed with photographs, and described relative to their hydrogeology of occurrence, and the microhabitats and ecosystems they support. A few of the spheres of discharge have been previously recognized and used by hydrogeologists for over 80 years, but others have only recently been defined geomorphologically. A comparison of these spheres of discharge to classification systems for wetlands, groundwater dependent ecosystems, karst hydrogeology, running waters, and other systems is provided. With a common lexicon for springs, hydrogeologists can provide more consistent guidance for springs ecosystem conservation, management, and restoration. As additional comprehensive inventories of the physical, biological, and cultural characteristics are conducted and analyzed, it will eventually be possible to associate spheres of discharge with discrete vegetation and aquatic invertebrate assemblages, and better understand the habitat requirements of rare or unique springs species. Given the elevated productivity and biodiversity of springs, and their highly threatened status, identification of geomorphic similarities among spring types is essential for conservation of these important ecosystems.     

Developmental history of Paleozoic structure of Hsieh-fen-shan region of western Hunan and problem of boundary of Southwest Platform

The Paleozoic tectonic evolution of Hsieh-fen-shan, western Hunan, belongs to the Caledonian and Hercynian tectonic cycles. The base of the lower Paleozoic group is defined by a geographical unconformity; the Sinian system unconformably overlies the Pan-ch'i group of the Proterozoic. The Hsieh-fen movement represented by this unconformity had not transformed this area into a platform. The lower Paleozoic group may be divided into four structural stages: Lower Sinian, Upper Sinian-Cambrian, Lower Ordovician and Middle Ordovician-Silurian. These stages are represented by the corresponding sedimentary formations: lower terrigenous elastic formation, siliceous and carbonate rocks intercalated with shale, flush formation and upper terrigenous elastic. Due to the absence of magmatic activity it is believed to be of the miogeosyncline type. In the Variscan cycle this area was already consolidated and partly covered with upper Paleozoic neoplatform sediments. Hereditary characters of the early Paleozoic tectonic evolution are obvious. According to the isopachous maps there occurred a strong tectonic differentiation at the end of the Cambrian. In Early Ordovician a northeast extended flysch geosyncline formed, and to the west of it, an uplifted denudation region. The eastern part of the uplifted region rose strongly, in parallel with the flysch geosyncline and with similar dimensions, and may be considered a geanticline. The geosyncline and geanticline have asymmetrical forms, their neighboring flanks being steeper than their opposite ones. Consequently the existence of a so-called pre-Sinian Hsieh-fen axis has not been proved and the boundaries of the Southwestern Platform with the adjoining southeastern Caledonian fold may be located approximately along T'ao-yuan, Yuan-ling Chen-chi, Hsin-Hua and Ch'ien-yang. – Authors.     

南中国海东沙海域水合物成藏动力学模拟

基于南中国海东沙海域某地震剖面资料,利用Basin2二维模拟软件,结合研究区有关地温场、热流探测资料和ODP184航次调查的岩心数据,重塑了研究区沉降史、有机质生烃史、古地温场与热史变迁。进而利用“生物成因天然气水合物成藏动力学模拟系统”(Hydrate Dynamics)软件,模拟了水合物聚集的过程与分布范围。模拟结果表明,研究区水合物稳定域较厚(200~250 m),有机质含量适中,生物成因甲烷主要在海底1 km以浅范围内形成。稳定域之下早先埋藏的沉积物中有机质形成的生物成因甲烷在压实流的作用下能够向浅部层位中运移聚集,从而对现在的矿层有所贡献。水合物主要赋存于稳定域底部以上50 m的层位内,富集带中水合物的平均含量约为5%。     

浅谈钛金属在首饰表面装饰中的运用

钛金属作为一种新型材料在装饰画领域中得到运用,但目前对其在首饰设计中的运用研究甚少.本次研究以钛金属运用到首饰表面进行装饰为目的,通过钛金属单纯氧化、氧化基础上的机械方式、化学蚀刻等制作方式对钛金属表面首饰性装饰进行运用和分析.研究结果表明,在机械方式基础之上,对钛金属表面进行化学蚀刻同时结合单纯氧化可以达到钛金属首饰表面装饰的效果.     

多年冻土融沉性分类研究

在冻土工程中,冻土的融沉性评价是工程地质勘察的主要内容之一,融沉性分类是冻土地基基础设计施工的重要依据．根据345个冻土原状样品融沉压缩试验数据,提出了细砾、砂土、粉土、黏性土、泥炭化黏性土和泥炭质土等6类土的融沉系数一含水量或融沉系数一超塑含水量线性回归方程式,得到与各融沉性分级相应的界限含水量或界限超塑含水量．最后...     

石窟围岩地震变形破坏机制的数值模拟分析

针对石窟文物的特点,阐述了影响石窟围岩变形稳定性的主要因素和动力有限元分析方法。以敦煌莫高窟的2个典型工段为实例,通过对不同峰值加速度、频谱、持续时间的动荷载作用下石窟围岩位移场、应力场分布特征的数值模拟计算,揭示了岩土体及其附属构筑物在地震作用下的动态响应和变化规律,指出了窟体防护加固的重点部位。分析结果表明,随着地震动峰值加速度(PGA)、反应谱特征周期和地震动持续时间的增大,洞窟的位移和应力值明显增大,应力集中区的范围扩大,围岩损伤的可能性增加,稳定性降低。应力分布与洞窟数量、组合特性、几何形状和尺寸密切相关,并控制了石窟围岩的震害特征。其成果为石窟文物的科学保护和岩体抗震加固与减灾提供理论基础和实践依据。     

Causes of salinization of the Gulf of Taganrog

Using the database of automatic hydrometeorological stations, installed in the Don RIver delta and Taganrog Bay seashore, the sources of the anomalois scale water negative surge and salinization of the Azov Sea under conditions of low river flow in 2015–2016 are studied. The new schemes of stratification and advection of salty sea waters in the Don River mouth under different weather conditions, water discharge and levels are given.     

湘东南某市地形地貌对地质灾害发育规律的控制作用分析

地形地貌是崩塌、滑坡、泥石流等地质灾害活动的基础,它在很大程度上决定了崩塌、滑坡、泥石流等地质灾害能否形成及其类型、数量、密度和规模大小。本文基于湘东南详细地质灾害调查成果,对该市不同地貌类型、坡形、坡度以及高程的差异对地质灾害发育规律的控制作用进行了总结分析。     

土体再压缩变形规律的试验研究

结合大量不同土性土体的回弹再压缩试验、模型试验,提出再加荷比、再压缩比率的概念,并在此基础上得出了土体再压缩变形的基本规律：当再加荷量为卸荷量的20%时,土样产生的再压缩变形量已接近回弹变形量的40%~50%;当再加荷量为卸荷量的80%时,再压缩变形量与回弹变形量大致相等,则此时回弹变形完全被压缩;当再加荷量与卸荷量相等时,再压缩变形量大于回弹变形量,且再压缩变形的增大程度与土性有关。可见在土样的再压缩过程中,在初始阶段再压缩变形增长速率较大,之后增长速率随着加荷量的增加反而逐渐降低。由此得出土体的再压缩变形发展规律为两阶段线性规律,这一规律具有工程实用意义：基底以下土体的回弹再压缩变形对于减小主群楼之间的差异沉降是一种有利因素;再压缩变形的发展规律为建筑物基底以下土体的回弹再压缩变形而产生的沉降计算提供了依据     

CFG桩复合地基沉降计算探讨

CFG桩（水泥粉煤灰碎石桩）复合地基是新近发展起来的一项地基处理技术,具有承载力提高幅度大,地基沉降小,适用范围广,造价低,施工方便等特点。阐述了CFG桩复合地基加固机理及沉降模式,详细讨论了其沉降计算,包括它的计算厚度、影响因素、压缩模量选取及附加压力计算等。提出按变形控制理论进行变形计算有其优点,但仍有很多工作要做。     

北京市海淀区地下水污染风险性评价

地下水受污染的风险性主要由含水层本身的防污性能、人为污染源污染地下水的灾害等级和地下水受污染后造成的后果严重程度等因素决定的,地下水污染风险性高是指高价值的地下水资源受到灾害高的污染源的污染可能性大,评价地下水污染风险需要编制3张基础图：地下水易污性图、地下水价值图和地下水污染源灾害分级图。本文介绍并应用了定量评价的DRASTIC方法和定性评价的矩阵方法,定量和定性相结合,综合了含水层易污性、地下水开发利用价值和污染源对地下水影响等因素,对北京市海淀区浅层地下水受污染的风险性进行了综合评价。     

Aspects of tectonics of Kamchatka

The tectonics of Kamchatka are reviewed in some detail and in several cases reinterpreted in light of recent geological and geophysical studies. Maps present major structural features and magnetic data, obtained by aerial survey. Recent work has confirmed four young phases of tectogenesis, accompanied by intrusions: 1) Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene (Laramian or Kamchatka phase), 2) early Miocene (Kuril phase), 3) late Miocene (Aleutian phase), and 4) late Pliocene (Sakhalin phase). These account for the young folded region that covers most of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Koryak uplands to the northeast. Three structural-stratigraphic zones are recognized. The west zone is a marginal trough filled with coal- and oil-bearing strata, moderately folded. The central zone is an inner volcanic arc made up of volcanic rocks cut by granitoid rocks. The east zone consists of thick flysch with basic and ultrabasic igneous rocks characteristic of external folded arcs. In general, major synclinoria and anticlinoria have northeast strikes, and magnetic values in general correlate with the strike and composition of these belts. The meridionally oriented Central Massif of ancient rocks controlled the development of structures in nearby Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks. Deep faults also trend northeast and determined the position of volcanic and metallogenic zones, the ophiolite belts, and the chain of intrusive massifs. Geophysical work shows that the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk is of platform type; it has recently been postulated that the Okhotsk massif is part of the Siberian platform.—W.D. Lowry     

岩石坚硬程度对核电厂地基-基础地震响应特征的影响分析

考虑核电厂地基-基础的动力相互作用,应用显式动力有限差分法分析了地震作用下极软岩、较软岩、坚硬岩上核电厂建筑结构基础的地震响应特征,比较了岩石坚硬程度对基础加速度反应谱的影响。研究表明：随着岩石坚硬程度的提高,核电厂建筑物结构基础的地震响应有增加的趋势;在周期轴上,基础处的加速度反应谱曲线会随着岩石坚硬程度的提高逐渐向短周期（高频段）方向移动。在高频段,建造于较坚硬岩石上基础结构的加速度反应谱值偏大;在中等频段,建造于较软岩石上基础结构的加速度反应谱值偏大;在低频段,岩石坚硬程度对加速度反应谱的影响不显著。     

百年勘查成果与成矿规律之集大成——首部《中国矿产地质志》研编阶段性进展概述

继顾琅和鲁迅1906年出版《中国矿产志》以来的100多年中,中国社会发生了根本性改变,中华民族由半殖民地半封建国家逐步走上了康庄大道,矿产资源功不可没。根据《国土资源"十三五"规划纲要》"总结百年勘查成果和成矿规律"的要求,《中国矿产地质志》的各项研编工作全面部署,并取得实质性进展,截止目前共完成59部成果报告,取得了一系列重要成果:制定了统一的研编技术要求,清理出全国已发现矿产地近6.5万处,划分出18种矿床类型;修订和统一了部分省区的岩石地层划分方案和地层系统;划分或修正了大地构造单元和成矿区带,探讨了大地构造格局、演化与成矿作用,总结了重点Ⅲ级成矿区带成矿规律,建立了区域成矿模式和成矿谱系;完成了部分全国性、省级(单矿种)志书和普及本,获得了一批地球化学/年代学数据,深化了典型矿床和成矿规律研究,在钨、锡、锰、镍、银、锑矿等重要矿产矿床成因与成矿规律、华南洋构造演化与成矿、前寒武纪成矿等方面取得了一些创新性成果,不仅提升了矿床学理论研究水平,还指导了成矿预测和找矿勘查,普及了矿产知识,实现了边研编、边服务,取得了显著的社会效益。     

矿井深部巷道围岩变形浅析及控制

矿井深部巷道开挖后处于裂隙、塑性、弹性围岩包围范围内。通过计算对包围巷道围岩的3种圈层范围的力学性能进行分析,进而阐述了巷道的变形机制,得出了塑性圈层围岩内的应力应变表述式。对于选择巷道的支护机制,经济有效的控制裂隙化圈层范围的扩大,改善其应力状态,提高其自身的残余强度和承载能力,对深井巷道锚杆综合支护体系的选择,提供了一定的理论支持。     

红层软岩结构特征与工程评价初探

通过研究红层软岩风化程度、完整性、饱和单轴抗压强度、结构灵敏性、分散性、胶结系数、崩解性、不同尺度结构类型等工程参数与岩土体结构的关系,提出了岩土"结构稳定性"的工程概念与分析思路,初步建立了由结构类型、风化系数、完整性系数、坚硬程度、崩解模式、结构灵敏度、分散度、胶结系数等工程参数组成的红层岩土结构稳定性综合判别标准,将红层岩土分为结构稳定性强、结构稳定性中等、结构稳定性差三类,为理解红层岩土工程性能、工程安全设计等提供了参考。     

Reaction of zoning of garnet

Compositional zoning of garnet in metamorphic or igneous rocks preserves evidence of the equilibration history of the sample and can be interpreted in terms of a growth-fractionation, diffusion-exchange, or diffusion-reaction model. Diffusion zoning is usually assumed to result from exchange reactions between garnet and other phases as the partitioning coefficient varies in response to changing environmental conditions, primarily temperature. However, in many natural environments where garnet grew originally in divariant equilibrium with other phases, changing conditions can promote continuous or “divariant” reactions and consequent compositional shifts of phases that can be much greater in some systems showing these reactions than those related to the small changes of partitioning. Diffusional zoning related to overstepping of these continuous reactions must be related to incongruent reaction and necessitates formulation of a kinetic diffusion-reaction model involving moving phase boundaries as well as solid-state diffusion. Three samples containing zoned garnets from the metamorphic aureole around the Ronda ultramafic intrusion in southern Spain are used to illustrate two possible models of diffusion-reaction processes. The examples are particularly informative because the reactions are demonstrably irreversible and evidence of the reaction system is preserved. Partitioning data indicates that compositions of product phases are not in equilibrium with the original garnet and do not vary with extent of reaction; therefore, exchange reactions with garnet were not possible and garnet changed composition only by incongruent reaction. After a small amount of reaction, Mg/Fe of the rim composition approaches a value apparently in equilibrium with product phases, but the garnets are zoned inward to the original garnet composition preserved in the interior. Grossularite content is approximately constant and spessartite content variable but small, thus, the rim composition of pyrope or almandine is assumed to be fixed by the external reaction process and is taken as a boundary condition in the following models. The zoning profile of pyrope or almandine component between the fixed rim and core compositions (assumed to extend to ∞) is described in semiinfinite, half-space models appropriate for large garnets with narrow rims. The first model corresponds to a reaction system in which all garnet compositions are metastable (case 1) and zoning depends on the independent variables of the diffusion constant, velocity of the interface between garnet and matrix, and time. The second model, corresponding to systems in which the initial garnet composition is metastable but an equilibrium composition is stable (case 2), depends on the independent variables diffusion constant, time, and a function of reaction compositions. In case 1 the consumption velocity is assumed constant and a steady state zoning profile is reached at large time, whereas, in case 2, the velocity decreases with the concentration gradient and steady state is not possible. The models were tested using a reaction time estimated from cooling models of the aureole, mass of garnet consumed, determined petrographically, and phase compositions. The two cases are somewhat independent in that different parameters are independent variables. The estimate of the diffusion constant of 10^?18±2 cm²/sec (assumed to be a mutual or binary coefficient for almandine and pyrope) is considered reasonable for the temperature range of reaction (probably 600–900° C), and the two models are consistent considering the probable error and possible real temperature differences. It is obvious that details of the metamorphic reaction system must be known to successfully apply diffusion models. Kinetic models, involving consumption or growth of the phase as well as diffusion are probably necessary when dealing with natural rocks. Several possible and interesting complications, such as cross coupling between components, can be investigated if more data were available. Experimental determination of diffusion constants allow natural reaction rates to be estimated by this method. Diffusion zoning is an important consideration that could increase the efficiency of experimentation with chemically recalcitrant phases.     

Address of the retiring President of the International Association of Sedimentologists: Differences in size distributions of populations of particles among sands of various origins

This address reminisces and reflects on a subject in which I have been involved for more than twenty years: the effect of depositional processes on various parameters of the size-frequency distribution of sands. Movements of air and water generally separate particles by their sizes; the distribution of sizes relates to (1) the availability of different sizes of particles in a parent material, (2) processes operating where the sediments are deposited, particularly the competency of flow, and (3) concentrations of particles in suspension. Differences in size-frequency distributions among sands correlate with various origins, that is with their terminal depositional environments. Reminiscences in this address express my personal experience, both its up and downs, in advocating the study of this relationship, particularly in applying the method of moments on the basis of the concept that one statistical function expresses the characteristics of the population of particles. This address re-emphasizes some points made in previous studies (Friedman, 1961, 1962b, 1967) on the interrelationship between textural parameters and depositional processes for beach, dune, and river sands and then complements and supplements data which have not been presented before. These new data are grouped on scatter plots for sands of various origins. Finally, this address displays on maps regional trends of process-induced changes in size distributions of populations of particles in sands of four different settings: (1) a beach-dune setting, as exemplified by Padre Island, Texas, on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico; (2) a point-bar setting in the Arkansas River of Oklahoma; (3) a continental shelf-slope setting in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; and (4) a continental shelf setting of the western Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey. This address concludes with the observation that the distribution of particles in sands will be influenced by the conditions that determine what happens in the depositional environment, hence statistical parameters that define the size-frequency distribution may be related to formative process.     

Paleogeography of Cretaceous ammonoids of the Pacific coast of Russia

This work presents the results of a study of the biogeographical distribution of Late Albian-Maastrichtian ammonites, found in sequences of the Pacific coast of Russia. The taxa typical of the Pacific Realm were identified, and their distribution traced beyond the borders of this region. In addition, species-migrants, distributed within the studied area were established. As a results of our works, a high level of endemism of ammonite fauna of the East of Russia was noted (75–88% of endemic species, on average). The bipolarity, previously established in the distribution of ammonoids within the Pacific Paleobiogeographical Realm, as well as their high regional provincialism, was confirmed. The following division of the studied area into faunal ammonite provinces in the Late Cretaceous was proposed: Arctic Province; Boreal-Pacific Province, including northeastern Russia (Chukotka Peninsula, the Koryak Upland, Penzhyna Gulf) and the boreal coast of North America (Alaska Peninsula, Arctic Canada and British Columbia); Northwest Pacific Province, including the Primorye Territory, Sakhalin and Shikotan Islands, the Japanese Islands; Northeast Province of the Pacific (the western coast of the United States and Mexico); Southwest Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, Oceania) and Southeast (the western coast of South America and Antarctica, Seymour and James Ross Islands) Provinces. This division is confirmed by data on inoceramid species. In addition, levels of global transgressions and general sea level rise, associated with the appearances of most of widespread marine taxa in the Pacific shelf seas, are established. These include Late Albian, Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Late Coniacian, Late Campanian, Early-Late Maastrichtian boundary. Moreover, migration of ammonites occurred due to the Tethys Ocean extension and followed the northern sea straits in the Arctic Ocean and within the Pacific Realm, depending on warm currents. Both the counter and one-way migrations were established.