关于“超微细菌”的争论:灰岩成因研究的重要驱动力

在高倍(＞50000x)扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、原子显微镜(AFM)或透射电子显微镜(TEM)下,那些在岩石和矿物中所见到的纳米级别的物体常常吸引了地质学家们的注意.这些物体大小在25～300 nm之间,多呈球状、棒状或卵圆状;对这些物体的成因,存在不同的看法而导致了剧烈的争论.因为这些物体与真菌中的球菌和杆菌总体相...     

Effects of AlN nucleation layer thickness on crystal quality of AlN grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy

In this paper, the effects of thickness of AlN nucleation layer grown at high temperature on AlN epi-layer crystalline quality are investigated. Crack-free AlN samples with various nucleation thicknesses are grown on sapphire substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The AlN crystalline quality is analysed by transmission electron microscope and x-ray diffraction (XRD) rocking curves in both (002) and (102) planes. The surface profiles of nucleation layer with different thicknesses after in-situ annealing are also analysed by atomic force microscope. A critical nucleation thickness for realising high quality AlN films is found. When the nucleation thickness is above a certain value, the (102) XRD full width at half maximum (FWHM) of AlN bulk increases with nucleation thickness increasing, whereas the (002) XRD FWHM shows an opposite trend. These phenomena can be attributed to the characteristics of nucleation islands and the evolution of crystal grains during AlN main layer growth.     

A dynamic model for fault nucleation and propagation in a mechanically layered section

When a mechanically layered section of rock is subject to a horizontal strain, faults often nucleate preferentially in one or more layers before propagating through the rest of the section. The result is a high density of small, low-throw faults within these layers, and a much smaller number of large, through-cutting faults which nevertheless accommodate most of the strain due to their much larger displacement. A dynamic model of fault nucleation and propagation has been created by combining analytical and finite element techniques to calculate the energy balance of these propagating faults. This model shows that: 1) faults may nucleate in either mechanically weak layers, or in stiff layers with a high differential stress; 2) fault propagation may be halted either by strong layers (in which the sliding friction coefficient is high), or by layers which deform by flow and thus have low differential stress. This model can predict quantitatively the horizontal strain required for faults to nucleate, and to propagate across mechanical layer boundaries. The model is able to explain the complex pattern of fault nucleation and propagation observed in a mechanically layered outcrop in Sinai, Egypt.     

低过冷雨水含量天气过程冰雹形成机制及催化机理模拟1

利用三维全弹性冰雹云模式,对2008年5月24日山东境内一次受高空冷涡影响的大范围冰雹天气过程进行模拟,分析了冰雹的形成机制和催化防雹机理。结果表明:该过程过冷雨水中心位于最大上升气流中心下方,不存在过冷雨累积区,过冷雨水含量最大值仅为4.9gm^-3,但雹云中过冷雨水含量仍然丰富,对雹胚的形成及增长起着重要作用。雹胚以冻滴为主,冻滴胚来源于冰雪晶与过冷雨水碰撞冻结以及雨滴核化过程。冻滴形成后主要以碰并过冷雨水、云水增长。冻滴胚自动转化过程是冰雹数量、质量的主要来源;冰雹形成后,前期主要靠碰并冻滴、霰和过冷雨水增长,后期主要靠碰并过冷云水增长。催化试验表明,播撒57.5g催化剂足以通过"竞争"减雹50%以上,增加AgI剂量,防雹的同时能够兼顾增雨。催化剂用量为230g时,催化后液态降水有所增加,固态降水量及占总降水量的比例减少显著,特别是冰雹。AgI主要以凝华核的作用产生人工冰晶,冰晶凝华增长导致过冷云水、雨水含量降低。催化后雹胚特别是冻滴胚数量增多,对过冷云水、雨水的竞争增强;其平均尺度、质量的减小,降低了向冰雹的转化率。冰雹碰并过冷云水、雨水增长过程被减弱,导致冰雹总质量进一步减少,达到消雹目的。     

AgI焰剂对层状云催化的数值模拟

使用包含详细微物理过程的一维层状云全分档模式,并加入AgI焰剂催化方案,对2007年吉林省长春市一次层状云降水过程进行AgI播撒试验。分别选取云内过冷水含量峰值区(4000 m)、最大冰面过饱和度区(5000 m)和低温度区(5500 m)作为播撒试验区,播撒时间选择云体未充分发展阶段和充分发展阶段。结果显示,在同等播撒剂量下,地面降水对云内AgI播撒高度较为敏感。ST2方案模拟400 min后地面累计降水量增加10.4%。同等条件下,播撒时间越早,催化效果越佳。在充分发展的云体内播撒AgI焰剂,40 min后云内过冷水含水量减少70%以上,表明云内过冷水消耗量与地面雨强增加量之间具有良好的正相关性。4种播撒方案均显示,云内AgI主要靠凝华核化机制产生冰晶,而接触核化机制对AgI核化过程贡献较小。与未催化云体相比,催化后云内冰晶粒子总凝华速率增加明显。同时,地面雨强增加,最大雷达回波强度减小。地面水滴粒子谱分布显示,相比于未播撒时,各播撒方案均使直径400 μm左右的水滴粒子浓度增加1个数量级以上,而水滴粒子谱宽均略有下降,这表明AgI播撒后主要通过增加可降水粒子数量来影响地面降水强度和累计雨量,而对降水粒子谱型拓宽的贡献有限。     

新型AgI末端燃烧器及其在增雨作业中的应用

文章对我国新型AgI末端燃烧器的研制情况、结构和改造及其使用作了介绍,简述了这种新催化工具的特点,结合2002年12月至2004年9月,新型AgI末端燃烧器在河北、河南、青海、山东和北京飞机人工增雨探测作业试验,介绍了新型AgI末端燃烧器在3种增雨探测作业机型中的使用情况,并就其中遇到的问题进行了讨论,对如何结合探测作业飞机上所加载的GPS导航数据记录系统及其它辅助记录数据进行催化作业情况记录进行了说明。     

Some comments on inclusion relationships

Abstract Evaluation of two commonly used microstructural criteria for determining the origin of inclusions, namely the existence of a host–inclusion orientation relationship and continuity between inclusions and matrix, using two specific examples of inclusions of tschermakite in actinolitic hornblende, shows that these criteria can be difficult to implement and if not applied carefully will give contradictory results. Consequently, it may be difficult to establish the origins of inclusions; petrographic studies should therefore clearly state the criteria used for interpretation of host–inclusion relationships and how these criteria were implemented.     

Microscopic calcite dendrites in cold-water tufa: implications for nucleation of micrite and cement

Dendritic calcite forms in an active cold-water tufa system in association with extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that discontinuously coat bryophytes and cyanobacteria. Dendrites consist of 100–200 nm thick calcite fibres that form 3D lattice-like domains. In each dendrite domain, fibres have three structurally equal orientations, which correspond in disposition to radii from the centre of a calcite unit cell to the convex triple face junctions on its surface. Fibres do not form in the orientation of the c-axis. The external form of each dendrite has the shape of half of a shortened octahedron, with an upper triangular surface parallel to the substrate. Dendrite nucleation takes place on or in microbial EPS, whether microbial cells are present or not, and is probably effected by attraction of Ca²⁺ cations to negatively charged EPS, together with CO₂-degassing and concomitant pH increase of supersaturated spring water in stream splash zones. Ensuing dendrite growth is abiogenic and controlled by diffusion. Dendrite c-axes are perpendicular to the substrate, probably because the negative charge of EPS forces the orientation of Ca²⁺ and CO planes within the developing dendrite crystal to be parallel to the EPS film surface. Dendrites are eventually filled and overgrown by solid, syntaxial calcite, which gradually and completely obliterates the dendrites as more familiar calcite crystal forms develop. No trace of the dendritic nucleus remains in the rock record. Calcite crystal nucleation may take place by this mechanism in many marine and meteoric settings, given that microbial EPS is now assumed to be virtually ubiquitous in these environments. This phenomenon could contribute to the development of familiar fabrics such as marine micrite cement and fibrous calcite cement, radial ooids, peloids, ‘abiogenic’ stromatolites, sea floor precipitates, microbialites, tufa, travertine, speleothems, and some meteoric cements. It may also contribute to the substrate-normal orientation of c-axes of common cement fabrics.