Soil degradation: a global problem endangering sustainable development

1 Introduction Soil is not only the major natural resource on which human being depends for the production of food, feed, fiber, renewable energy and raw materials, but also plays a key role in maintaining the complex terrestrial ecosystems and climate systems of this planet. Recent rapid increase in the human population is placing a great strain on the worlds soil resources. Only about 11% of the global land surface covered by the soils are being used to raise crops and livestock, in other …     

以企业文化建设为依托 提升企业的核心竞争力

党的十六大深刻阐明了加强党风廉政建设的重要性和必要性,明确提出了新世纪新阶段加强和改进党的建设、深入开展反腐教育的任务和要求。能否使广大的党员干部着眼防范,筑牢思想道德防线,将直接关系到企业党风廉政建设的成效,也关系到企业可持续发展战略的全面实施。     

2002年北半球大气环流特征及其对中国气候异常的影响

2002年春末夏初一次新的厄尔尼诺事件形成；1～12月北半球大气环流的主要特征表现为：中纬度地区纬向环流盛行，西太平洋副热带高压持续偏强偏西，我国大部地区气温偏高，降水呈南多北少分布；欧亚地区夏季500hPa位势高度距平场上，中高纬从西到东呈现为“ - ”分布形式，贝加尔湖地区为正距平中心，7月在贝加尔湖地区出现典型阻高；东亚夏季风偏强，南亚夏季风及热带对流指数偏弱；夏季赤道辐合带偏弱等。在上述大气环流的影响下，我国的天气气候发生了异常。     

Formation Environment of the High-Pressure Metamorphic Rocks, Western Tianshan, Xinjiang, China

1.IntroductionFromexperimefltalphaseequilibrium,stableisotOPe,andthermo-barometricstudies,ProgradebineschistdineralparageneseshavebeenproducedexclusivelyatrelativelyhighPadratios(DeRoever,1956;Miyashiro,1961;DobretsovandSobolev,1984;Emst,1973,1988;Maruyamaetal.,1996).InthelastthreedeCades,withtheadvanceofplatetectonics,manygeologistssuggestedthatblueschists,representinghigh-Pressurelow-tCmperamre~rphism,areformedbysubductionofoceanicplate(Emst,1973).Blueschistshavealsobeenregardedasoneof…     

Study on the Gravity Field and Deep-Seated Crustal Structure at the North Margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

1.I~ductionThenorthernmarginoftheQinghai-TibetplateauincludestheAltllnMis.,theQilianMis.,KunlunMis.,theQaidambasinandthesouthernTarimbasin.ThisareaistCctonicallycharacterizedbyintensiveCenozoicdeformationwithcomplicateddeformationalmechedsm(Molnaretal.,1987;Zheng,1991;Culetal.,1994;Ding,1995andXuetal.,1996).Thedeformationalmechanismsincludethrust-napping,strike-slipping,extensionandblockrotation,aswellassimultaneousupliftingandtypicalbasin-rangetectonics(CulandXu,1996).IntermsofCenozoi…     

Crust-Mantle Electrical Structure in the Area along the Yadong-Burn Co Profile

1.IntroductionUntilnowTibetisstillthearchetypalregionwithcontinentalcollisiongoingoninit,henceitisanidealnaturallaboratoryforstudyingthegeologicevolutionofintracontinentalorogenicbeltandthecrust-mantledeepprocesses,aswellastheinteractionbetweenthemandthesupracrustalmovements.Forthisreason,forseveraldecadesgeologistsandgeophysicistsfromvariouscountrieshavemadeunremittingeffortsinthisregiontoprobeintotheoriginandprocessoftheplateauformation,withavarietyofcognitionsproposed.TheCMPresultsoftheSi…     

A Study on Sequence Stratigraphy of Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic in Southern North China Platform

INTRODUCTIONThestrataofMesoprotCrozoicandNeoproterozoicaredevelopedcompletelyinthesouthpartoftheNorthetnaplatformandconsistofthreesystems,inasCendingorder,Jixiaulan,QingbaikouanandSlman.BasedonadetailedinvestigationontheolltcropandthecomprehenSiveanalysis,wediscussthecharaCterofsequencestratigraphyandthecorrelationoftheMemo--Neoproterozoicinthearea.FnThRrsor~unCrsANDPARA~unCrsMeSO--NooprotffezoicRadonalfortigraphyThesouthernpartofNorthChinaplatformherereferstotheareasincluding…     

Early Ordovician Sea Level Changes in South China and Their Worldwide Correlation

INTRODUCTIONTheoaf~ansed~arewidelydistributedinSouthetna,fromtheYanalCratondPborminnorthtocontinentalmarginofsoutheastern~insouth.ThePreSentpaperdiscussesmainlytheEarlyOrdovidan(thehoeofHirmtodontussimplex~tothebaseofNemopagngraciliszone,Wangatal.,1992)sealeVelchangeSandtheirworldwidecorrelationbasedonasyntheticalstudyofseqUenCe,bioshatiglaphyandaretratigl'aphy.Thisapproachwillfillinthe~instudyoftheOrdovidanofChina,andimprovethesu~ionandCO~ionofbio--,litho--andcbronostheigraphy.Mea…     

New Evidence for Eastward Extension of Late Hercynian－Early Indosinian Qinling Sea

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Geochemical Features of Ophiolite in Mianxian Lueyang Suture Zone，Qinling Orogenic Belt

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