Controls on porphyroblast size along a regional metamorphic field gradient

Garnet-bearing schists from the Waterville Formation of south-central Maine provide an opportunity to examine the factors governing porphyroblast size over a range of metamorphic grade. Three-dimensional sizes and locations for all garnet porphyroblasts were determined for three samples along the metamorphic field gradient spanning lowest garnet through sillimanite grade, using high-resolution X-ray computed tomography. Comparison of crystal size distributions to previous data sets obtained by stereological methods for the same samples reveals significant differences in mode, mean, and shape of the distributions. Quantitative textural analysis shows that the garnets in each rock crystallized in a diffusion-controlled nucleation and growth regime. In contrast to the typical observation of a correlation between porphyroblast size and position along a metamorphic field gradient, porphyroblast size of the lowest-grade specimen is intermediate between the high- and middle-grade specimens’ sizes. Mean porphyroblast size does not correlate with peak temperatures from garnet-biotite Fe-Mg exchange thermometry, nor is post-crystallization annealing (Ostwald Ripening) required to produce the observed textures, as was previously proposed for these rocks. Robust pseudosection calculations fail to reproduce the observed garnet core compositions for two specimens, suggesting that these calc-pelites experienced metasomatism. For each of these two specimens, Monte Carlo calculations suggest potential pre-metasomatism bulk compositions that replicate garnet core compositions. Pseudosection analyses allow the estimation of the critical temperatures for garnet growth: ∼481, ∼477, and ∼485°C for the lowest-garnet-zone, middle-garnet-zone, and sillimanite-zone specimens, respectively. Porphyroblast size appears to be determined in this case by a combination of the heating rate during garnet crystallization, the critical temperature for the garnet-forming reaction and the kinetics of nucleation. Numerical simulations of thermally accelerated, diffusion-controlled nucleation, and growth for the three samples closely match measured crystal size distributions. These observations and simulations suggest that previous hypotheses linking the garnet size primarily to the temperature at the onset of porphyroblast nucleation can only partially explain the observed textures. Also important in determining porphyroblast size are the heating rate and the distribution of favorable nucleation sites.     

大珠母贝Pinctada maxima(Jameson)亲贝人工促熟培育与诱导排放精卵的研究

用亚心形扁藻Platymonassubcoriformis,湛江等鞭藻Isochrysiszhanjiangensis及某些配合饲料培育大珠母贝pinctadamaxima(Jameson)亲贝,可以促进性腺发育成熟并保持易于诱导排放状态。在需要进行人工育苗时,给亲贝以一定的刺激,即可诱导产卵排精。采用这种方法进行大珠母贝人工育苗,受精率和活率都比剖贝取卵授精的方法高。而且不用杀死大珠母贝亲贝。     

玉米生育期热量指标及其不同品种的栽培北界

利用玉米分期播种资料,分析不同发育期发育速度与温度的关系得出：在作物营养生长期,用有效积温作为热量指标比较稳定;播种到出苗期,不同品种的生物学下限温度基本在８℃左右;出苗到抽雄所需的有效积温可用品种的叶片数来计算,有效积温与叶片数关系可以写成ｙ＝３０．２ｘ＋３１．８;进入繁殖生长期,用＞１０℃积温作为抽雄到成熟的热量指标,并用抽雄期进行订正。用播种到成熟各发育阶段的热量指标来确定能否成熟和因成熟度所造成的减产程度。把品种在８０％年份能够成熟的地区作为品种栽培的北界。     

Self-organization of recent rhythmic iron-manganese precipitations in underground mines in the Harz mountains

A recent early diagenetic banded iron-manganese mud has been forming underground in a closed lead-zinc mine for approximately 40 years. The processes leading to the banded structure of the precipitate were studied during a period of 2 years. Therefore, 19 physical and chemical parameters were measured regularly in short intervals. The resulting time series were analysed with respect to the data sets of the monthly chemical analyses of the descendent mine water, the daily rainfall and the mineral content. The results reveal that the precipitated material undergoes internal self-organization due to interaction of redox, colloid-chemical, microbial, electrical and ripening processes, and not exclusively produced by seasonal fluctuations of material input. Thus, the primary banding of the material, caused by externally forced fluctuations of the redox conditions within the mine water, is reorganized after a short time. The finally observed bands are controlled by non-linear coupling of reaction and transport processes within the mud. A genetic model for the banded mineralization was developed and verified by numerical simulation.     

香蕉催熟过程中的温湿效应分析及模拟控制

文中通过香蕉催熟过程中各种人工影响小气候因素的连续性观察和分析，总结出了一套适合河西西部生蕉催熟的经验和方法，并对主要因素进行了模拟控制试验和研究。对提高当地上市香蕉的品质具有较高的参考价值。     

Evolution of crystal sizes in the series of dissolution and precipitation events in open magma systems

We propose a model that describes the evolution of crystal sizes and crystal size distributions (CSD) of igneous phenocrysts in a sequence of dissolution and crystallization events. This model is based on the assumption that crystal dissolution is rate-limited by diffusion in melt while crystal growth is controlled by the slower kinetic of new nucleation and growth. As a result, the dissolution rate is inversely proportional to crystal size coming into effect through the curvature of the crystal's surface, but the growth rate does not depend on the crystal size. Closed-form analytical solution of equation for CSD is obtained. We apply results of modeling to quartz and zircon, two prime minerals in silicic igneous systems that are widely used in geochemical and isotopic investigations. The time-series of multiple solution–reprecipitation episodes generate concave-downward CSDs and this result fits well with experimental and natural observations on the abundant concave-down CSD in silicic igneous rocks. We suggest that maturation of crystal populations with sizes above several micrometers can not be caused by a size effect on the solubility of the crystals (Ostwald ripening), but is rather driven by thermal oscillations in experiments and in nature. The model predicts that mean crystal size increases with time proportionally to ∼ t^0.20, which is very close to the published experimental results for quartz maturation with the exponent of 0.19–0.22. Our proposed model gives an opportunity to use natural CSDs for interpretation of pre-eruptive magma history, when solubilities and diffusion data are available for constituent elements of the dissolving mineral. In particular, we present time estimates for maturing zircon populations in large volume ignimbrites and estimate that it takes 100–1000 yrs to mature an initially exponential CSD to a lognormal CSD.     

Observations on the origin of micrite crystals

The transformation of depositional lime mud to microporous micrite has been the subject of several important papers recently in response to the recognition that micropores are important to the production of carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs. The origin of micrite has generally been described as a micro dissolution and reprecipitation process (often referred to as Ostwald ripening), with nanometer-sized depositional particles being dissolved and larger crystals (micrite) averaging 2 μm in diameter being precipitated. These conclusions were tested by detailed scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations of micrite and minimicrite crystals found in the mid-Pliocene to upper Miocene section of the Clino core taken on the western edge of the Bahama Bank. Minimicrite in this data set is shown to be composed of both aragonite and calcite with calcite being the dominate mineral. In addition, micrite crystals are composed of cemented nanometer-sized calcite crystals and are not individually precipitated calcite crystals. As a result, the faces of the micrite are anhedral and knobby in appearance rather than being smooth, euhedral crystal faces. Extensive size measurements could find no size selectivity in the dissolution of the calcite minimicrite, indicating that the Ostwald ripening process is not active. Aragonite and calcite crystals are dissolved and some calcite crystals act as nuclei for the precipitation of the dissolved carbonate. The origin of the micropores is also debated. Some authors call upon a dissolution event to increase porosity of a partially cemented micrite, based largely on the anhedral nature of the micrite. Others conclude that porosity is originally inherited from the deposition lime mud and that porosity is lost by overgrowth cementation, which results in euhedral micrite crystals. The observations presented here show that anhedral crystals are due to the inclusion of nanometer calcite crystals rather than to dissolution of euhedral crystals. Lastly, these micrite crystals are formed by calcite and aragonite sediment precipitated from an aragonitic sea, disproving the assertion of some authors that porous micrite only forms from sediments deposited in calcitic seas.     

栉江珧亲贝室内升温促熟培育技术的研究

研究了栉江珧种贝在繁殖期之前提早入池培育,通过逐渐升温和强化营养等技术措施,促使栉江珧种贝提早成熟产卵排精。实验证表明,可以根据室内培养期间的肥满度变化,来决定诱导产卵排精时间,当肥满度达到50%以上时,即可进行诱导产卵排精,其个体平均产卵量为800万粒。闭壳肌指数的变化情况跟肥满度变化情况正好相反,但不如肥满度明显。     

大批量长毛对虾室外越冬和性腺促熟试验

1987年11月至1988年6月在福建佛昙湾两口换水条件好、砂泥底质的深水养虾池进行长毛对虾室外越冬和性腺促熟试验,结果表明:这两口池长毛对虾越冬成活率分别为75%和84%,性腺促熟率分别达到82%和61.3%,每尾亲虾的育苗量分别为3.5万尾和2.5万尾,切除眼柄促熟率的亲虾每尾育苗量也分别达到3.8万尾和2.5万尾,达到了生产的要求。文中还分析了这两口池促熟率差异的原因。     

天津蓟县二维纳米级伊利石研究

天津蓟县中元古界串岭沟组上部黑色页岩产有丰富的伊利石,其矿物组合仅为石英和伊利石,是重要的可利用伊利石资源。运用化学成分分析和XRD方法确定出伊利石含量为64％～70％。由Scherrer方程计算的平均c^*轴方向厚度为12nm,平均6轴方向长度为167nm,结合伊利石的片状生长习性,可确定串岭沟组上部黑色页岩所产伊利石为二维纳米级伊利石,具有重要的纳米属性。化学成分分析表明,黑色页岩所产伊利石具有0．75的层间电荷和二八面体为主的二八-三八面体的过渡类型八面体结构特点。对数正态粒度大小的分布特征表明黑色页岩中的伊利石经历了由成核→等体积转移→最终长大的Ostwald成熟效应。