Protection of marine birds and turtles at St Brandon’s Rock,Indian Ocean,requires conservation of the entire atoll

A survey of seabirds and turtles at St Brandon’s Rock, 400 km north of Mauritius, was undertaken in 2010. We estimated that 1 084 191 seabirds comprising seven breeding species and excluding non-breeders were present at the archipelago and we counted 279 turtle tracks and nesting pits of green turtles Chelonia mydas. Hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata were also present. Analyses of 30 different islets that make up the atoll showed that the seabird species mostly partitioned their use of islets based on islet size, with four species preferring larger islets and two species preferring smaller islets. Alien species introduced historically are still present and other threats, such as shipwrecks, remain. We propose conservation and other measures that should adequately protect the birds, turtles and coral reef by treating the atoll as a system.     

Subsurface Transport of Inorganic and Organic Solutes from Experimental Road Spreading of Oil-Field Brine

A study designed to evaluate ground water quality changes resulting from spreading oil-field brine on roads for ice and dust control was conducted using a gravel roadbed that received weekly applications of brine eight times during the winter phase and 11 times during the summer phase of the study. A network of 11 monitoring wells and five pressure-vacuum lysimeters was installed to obtain ground water and soil water samples. Thirteen sets of water- quality samples were collected and analyzed for major ions, trace metals, and volatile organic compounds. Two sets of samples were taken prior to brine spreading, four sets during winter-phase spreading, five sets during summer- phase spreading, and two sets during the interim between the winter and summer phases. A brine plume delineated by elevated specific-conductance values and elevated chloride concentrations developed downgradient of the roadbed during both the winter and summer phases. The brine plume caused chloride concentrations in ground water samples to exceed U.S. EPA public drinking-water standards by two-fold during the winter phase and five-fold during the summer phase. No other major ions, trace metals, or volatile organic compounds exceeded the standards during the winter or summer phases. More than 99 percent dilution of the solutes in the brine occurred between the roadbed surface and the local ground water flow system. Further attenuation of calcium, sodium, potassium, and strontium resulted from adsorption, whereas further attenuation of benzene resulted from volatilization and adsorption.     

GLAST large area telescope multiwavelength planning

Gamma-ray astrophysics depends in many ways on multiwavelength studies. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has started multiwavelength planning well before the scheduled 2007 launch of the observatory. Some of the high-priority multiwavelength needs include: (1) availability of contemporaneous radio and X-ray timing of pulsars; (2) expansion of blazar catalogs, including redshift measurements; (3) improved observations of molecular clouds, especially at high galactic latitudes; (4) simultaneous broad-band blazar monitoring; (5) characterization of gamma-ray transients, including gamma ray bursts; (6) radio, optical, X-ray and TeV counterpart searches for reliable and effective sources identification and characterization. Several of these activities are needed to be in place before launch.      

高精度磁测在维西拉嘎洛铁矿勘查中的应用

测区引起磁异常的有磁铁矿(化)体和玄武岩,二者之间的磁性差异很大,为磁法勘探寻找磁铁矿奠定物性基础。通过磁法勘探的野外作业和室内数据整理分析,并经异常推断解释圈出矿体5个,并经坑探验证有效。     

内蒙古太平川铜钼矿成矿斑岩时代、地球化学及地质意义

内蒙古太平川Cu-Mo矿床位于得尔布干成矿带北段额尔古纳地区,为新近发现的斑岩型矿床。矿区内发育环带状热液蚀变,由内向外主要为硅化-绢云母化和泥化。热液蚀变围绕花岗闪长斑岩分布,Cu-Mo矿化主要受控于硅化-绢云母化蚀变,主要分布在花岗闪长斑岩中。本文获得成矿斑岩岩浆锆石U-Pb谐和年龄为202±5.7Ma,指示该矿床可能形成于晚三叠世。同时在样品中也发现继承锆石(784Ma),表明该地区可能存在晚元古基底。成矿斑岩的元素地球化学数据表明,主量元素SiO2(65.86%～68.84%)56%、Al2O3(15.18%～16.28%)15%、MgO(0.84%～1.06%)3%、Na2O/K2O1;微量元素亏损重稀土,Sr(471×10-6～513×10-6)400×10-6、Y(15.0×10-6～17.9×10-6)18×10-6、Yb(1.27×10-6～1.81×10-6)1.9×10-6,表明该花岗闪长斑岩具有明显的埃达克质岩石的地球化学特征。同时成矿斑岩具有相对高的SiO2、Yb含量和Th/Nb、Ce/Nb比值,而相对低的Al2O3、TiO2、MgO、Sr、Th含量和Th/Ce比值,这些特征与源于俯冲板片的埃达克岩相似。然而成矿斑岩(87Sr/86Sr)i(0.70943～0.71019)较大,εNd(t)为-3.4～-3.9,我们推测额尔古纳地块在岩浆上升过程中贡献了部分物质。结合区域构造演化,我们认为该矿区成矿斑岩岩浆形成于俯冲洋壳的部分熔融,矿床形成背景为早中生代蒙古-鄂霍茨克洋向额尔古纳地块俯冲的陆缘弧环境。     

华宁暮车露天矿开采对周边地质环境影响评价

现场调查评价区地裂缝特征和成因机制,对形成地裂缝的直接原因——采矿诱发斜坡的失稳进行了定性、定量评价,提出不稳定斜坡的相应防治对策。     

A STATISTICAL PROCEDURE TO EVALUATE CLEAN-UP STANDARDS

The object of this paper is to develop a suitable statistical procedure to evaluate clean-up standards athazardous waste sites.Under the assumptions that contaminant masses at a site follow a gammadistribution and that the data from the pre-remediation baseline sample as well as from the interim orfinal sample taken after a certain period of operation are both distributed as gamma with the same shapeparameter but different scale parameters,we derive a uniformly most powerful unbiased test of thehypothesis that a specified percentage of contaminant mass has been reduced.A large-sampleapproximation of the exact test procedure and a comparison with the likelihood ratio test are provided.     

Geochemical Indication of Sinian Bedded Siliceous Rocks in the Hunan-Guizhou-Guangxi Area and Their Environmental Significance

In the Hunan-Guizhou-Guangxi area there have developed very thick bedded siliceous rocks of the late Sinian. The rocks have a fairly pure composition, with an average content of siliceous minerals exceeding 95%. They are relatively rich in Fe and Mn, and poor in Al, Ti and Mg. The Fe/Ti, (Fe+Mn)/Ti, Al/(Al+Fe+Mn) and U/Th ratios and the Al-Fe-Mn and Fe-Mn-(Ni+Co+Cu)×10 triangle diagrams all show that they are hydrothermal sedimentary siliceous rocks. In the rocks the total amount of REEs is low, the δCe shows an obvious negative anomaly and the 8Eu a weak anomaly, and LREE>HREE, all indicating that they are products of hydrothermal processes. The δ30Si and δ18O values, as well as the formation temperature of the rocks all clearly show that the silica forming the rocks comes from hot water. Besides, analyses of the depositional environment of the rocks using the MnO/TiO2 ratio and the δCe and δ30Si values yield the same conclusion that they are formed in environments from continental marginal slope     

西加拿大盆地油砂储层中的泥夹层特征

西加拿大盆地含有丰富的油砂资源,主要产于阿尔伯达省东北部的下白垩统马克马里组(McMurray Formation)．该组含有不等的砂泥斜互层．这些砂泥斜互层(IHS)在局部很发育．描述其中的泥夹层为建立客观的储层模型提供了的重要数据．试图从6个方面对泥夹层进行描述并简要讨论如何利用这些描述结果去建立客观有效的储层模型．     

Coping with Pressures of Modernization by Traditional Farmers： a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development in Yunnan, China

Traditional farming practices conform to sustainable rural livelihoods, while agricultural modernisation tends to undermine these practices through various perturbations. A case study in Tengchong County (western Yunnan, China) shows that transformation of traditional alder (Alnus nepalensis) and dry rice (upland rice) rotational farming to introduced Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.) plantations leads to localised water scarcity and soil fertility decline. While farmers are aware of ecological sustainability of traditional farming, they prefer Chinese fir forestry because it is less labour-intensive, has a high market value, and releases time for profitable off-farm work. Farmers adapt to economic liberalization by planting high value crops and trees. However, alternatives to make local agricultural production more profitable through competitive business strategies, cooperative approaches, innovations in integrating high value crops and 'downstream' processingfor sustainable rural livelihoods have been overlooked largely due to poor information availability and lack of organisational framework.