GPS monitoring and new data on slope movements in the Maratea Valley (Potenza,Basilicata)

Large-scale earth movements in the Maratea valley involving the inhabited area (Basilicata, Italy) have already been the object of scientific studies. These dislocate the outcropping clayey formations and the superimposed masses made up of detritus, carbonate units and large blocks, especially on the left side of the valley. Initial data on earth movements were obtained by the variation in distances monitored by an infrared distance-meter instrument (EDM), between 1983 and 1996.The present study brings out the results obtained by three successive high precision GPS monitoring campaigns undertaken between 1997 and 2000, on a grid of approximately 50 bench-marks. This process was supplemented by EDM monitoring carried out on a wider network of bench-marks than previously imposed. A comparison of different maps and other historical measurements complete the picture.The presence of sustained movements in correspondence with the outcropping clays in the lower part of the valley was confirmed, while such movements are drastically reduced on the detritus and large dislocated carbonate units and blocks, which occupy almost uninterruptedly the left side and the upper parts of the valley. Overall, the arrangement of the vectors allows us to achieve a first model of the on-going gravitational processes in the valley which appear to be attributable to a composite landslide: a spreading evolving lower-down into a large and deep flow. These processes should affect the dislocation of Carbonate Units on the so-called Sackung of Maratea, whose instability and causes are still being studied.     

Application of a perfectly matched layer in seismic wavefield simulation with an irregular free surface

Recently, an effective and powerful approach for simulating seismic wave propagation in elastic media with an irregular free surface was proposed. However, in previous studies, researchers used the periodic condition and/or sponge boundary condition to attenuate artificial reflections at boundaries of a computational domain. As demonstrated in many literatures, either the periodic condition or sponge boundary condition is simple but much less effective than the well‐known perfectly matched layer boundary condition. In view of this, we intend to introduce a perfectly matched layer to simulate seismic wavefields in unbounded models with an irregular free surface. We first incorporate a perfectly matched layer into wave equations formulated in a frequency domain in Cartesian coordinates. We then transform them back into a time domain through inverse Fourier transformation. Afterwards, we use a boundary‐conforming grid and map a rectangular grid onto a curved one, which allows us to transform the equations and free surface boundary conditions from Cartesian coordinates to curvilinear coordinates. As numerical examples show, if free surface boundary conditions are imposed at the top border of a model, then it should also be incorporated into the perfectly matched layer imposed at the top‐left and top‐ right corners of a 2D model where the free surface boundary conditions and perfectly matched layer encounter; otherwise, reflections will occur at the intersections of the free surface and the perfectly matched layer, which is confirmed in this paper. So, by replacing normal second derivatives in wave equations in curvilinear coordinates with free surface boundary conditions, we successfully implement the free surface boundary conditions into the perfectly matched layer at the top‐left and top‐right corners of a 2D model at the surface. A number of numerical examples show that the perfectly matched layer constructed in this study is effective in simulating wave propagation in unbounded media and the algorithm for implementation of the perfectly matched layer and free surface boundary conditions is stable for long‐time wavefield simulation on models with an irregular free surface.     

Source characteristics of the deep Philippine earthquake cluster, 23 and 24 July 2010

We determine the rupture velocity, rupture area, stress drop and duration of four strong deep-focus earthquakes in the Philippines by back-projecting the teleseismic P waves. Four deep-focus earthquakes occurred in a totally consumed Molucca microplate; their focal depths were greater than 550 km and their moment magnitudes were between M _w 6.6 and M _w 7.6. By studying this deep-focus cluster, we are able to estimate the rupture velocity, rupture area and stress drop which would assist in constraining the physical mechanism for earthquakes deeper than 500 km. Since the Molucca microplate is totally consumed, little evidence is left on the surface for us to do research. This deep-focus cluster provides us the opportunity to reveal the properties of this totally consumed microplate by using seismic method for the first time. Four earthquakes in this deep-focus cluster all have multiple rupture subevents. The M _w 7.3 event ruptures in two subevents, the M _w 7.6 and M _w 7.4 events both have three subevents. The M _w 6.6 event has single peak on the amplitude as a function of time; however, its energy releases at two spatially separated areas. Our results show that this deep-focus cluster has a slow rupture velocity which is about 0.27 to 0.43 of the shear wave velocity, long-scaled duration, concentrated energy release area, and high stress drop. These source properties are similar to those of other deep earthquakes occurring in warm slabs and indicate that the totally consumed Molucca microplate possibly is a warm plate.     

Performance of the complete travel-time equation of state at simultaneous high pressure and temperature

The complete travel-time equation of state (CT-EOS) is presented by utilizing thermodynamics relations, such as; $$K_T = K_S (1 + \alpha \gamma T)^{ - 1} , \gamma = \frac{{\alpha K_S }}{{\rho C_P }}, \left. {\frac{{\partial C_P }}{{\partial P}}} \right)_T = - \frac{T}{\rho }\left[ {\alpha ^2 + \left. {\frac{{\partial \alpha }}{{\partial T}}} \right)_P } \right], etc.$$ The CT-EOS enables us to analyze ultrasonic experimental data under simultaneous high pressure and high temperature without introducing any assumption, as long as the density, or thermal expansivity, and heat capacity are also available as functions of temperature at zero pressure. The performance of the CT-EOS was examined by using synthesized travel-time data with random noise of 10^?5 and 10^?4 amplitude up to 4 GPa and 1500 K. Those test conditions are to be met with the newly developed GHz interferometry in a gas medium piston cylinder apparatus. The results suggest that the combination of the CT-EOS and accurate experimental data (10^?4 in travel time) can determine thermodynamic and elastic parameters, as well as their derivatives with unprecedented accuracy, yielding second-order pressure derivatives (?² M/?P ²) of the elastic moduli as well as the temperature derivatives of their first-order pressure derivatives ?² M/?P?T). The completeness of the CT-EOS provides an unambiguous criterion to evaluate the compatibility of empirical EOS with experimental data. Furthermore because of this completeness, it offers the possibility of a new and absolute pressure calibration when X-ray (i.e., volume) measurements are made simultaneously with the travel-time measurements.     

Management of Post-mining Large-scale Ground Failures: Blast Swarms Field Experiment for Calibration of Permanent Microseismic Early-warning Systems

In France, decades of coal and iron-ore mining have left extensive underground cavities beneath or in the vicinity of urban areas. This poses an environmental challenge for society. To ensure post-mining risk management and public safety, wherever remediation is not possible, numerous real-time microseismic monitoring systems are being installed. The objective is to detect remote rock mass fracturing processes, precursory events and acceleration phases for appropriate and timely action. Although no consistent collapse has occurred in any of the monitored areas yet, single 3-D probes record many microseismic events of very low amplitude which create difficulties in the quantitative data analysis. The development of specific quantitative processing has therefore become a major issue in our research work. For that purpose, a field experiment was carried out on six of the instrumented sites. It consisted of sequences of small blasts in mine pillars which were accurately controlled in terms of the location, orientation and energy of the explosive source. The data analysis was used to calibrate parameters (velocity model, 3-D sensor orientation, etc.) for reliable 3-D localization and to develop an empirical law to estimate the source energy from the sensor energy. This work now enables us to analyze real microseismic events with a considerably better level of accuracy and to obtain enough information and confidence to discuss these data in terms of site stability.     

个性化造影剂注射方案在提升肺动脉CTA生物应用安全性的价值研究

目的:研究个性化造影剂注射方案在提升肺动脉CTA生物应用安全性的价值。资料与方法:前瞻性纳入亭林医院2018年1月至2020年6月临床怀疑肺动脉栓塞的患者50例作为研究对象,将患者分配到A组和B组。A组为常规组,注射方案为:20 mL生理盐水+50 mL造影剂+30 mL生理盐水,注射速率均为4.5 mL/s。B组为个性化组,注射方案为:20 mL生理盐水+（造影剂注射剂量=体重×0.6 mL）+30 mL生理盐水,造影剂注射速率=造影剂注射剂量/10 s;生理盐水注射速率均为4.5 mL/s。采用独立样本的t检验,比较两组间的年龄、身高、体重、造影剂注射剂量和注射速率、肺动脉主干及左右肺动脉内的CT值、图像质量主观评分等数据。采用Kappa检验评价两名医师间对所得图像质量主观评价的一致性。结果:两组间年龄、身高、体重差异无统计学意义;两组间的造影剂注射剂量和速率差异有统计学意义;两组间肺动脉主干及左右肺动脉内的CT值、图像质量主观评分无统计学意义;Kappa检验评价两名医师图像质量主观评分一致性高度一致,Kappa=0.80。结论:在保证肺动脉CTA图像质量的前提下,给体重≤ 75 kg的患者采用个性化注射方案,可以有效减少造影剂注射剂量,减缓注射速率,从而降低造影剂给患者带来的潜在生物应用安全性风险。      

Formation of an ‘a’ā lava delta: insights from time-lapse multibeam bathymetry and direct observations during the Stromboli 2007 eruption

Five consecutive multibeam bathymetries collected before, during, and after the 2007 Stromboli eruption, combined with visual inspections, allowed us to document the morphological evolution of an ‘a’ā lava-fed delta and to reconstruct the main processes acting during its submarine emplacement. The 2007 Stromboli delta extended down to 600-m water depth and covered an area of 420?×?10³ m², with a maximum thickness of 65 m and a total estimated volume of ≈7?×?10⁶ m³, i.e., three times larger than its subaerial counterpart. The lava delta grew mainly through the emplacement of discrete lobes about 50–150 m in size. Lobes were fed from point sources along the paleoshoreline, and their subaqueous pathways seem to be mainly controlled by the submarine morphology, with flows mostly filling in depressions left by previous lobes. The main controlling factors on the lobe morphology and thickness are the effusion rates and the pre-eruption morphology, i.e., the geometry and gradients of the basal surface. Data also shows that sudden slope failure of portions of the submarine delta may occur simultaneously with accretion, implying that a significant part of the delta material can be transported to greater depths by submarine gravity flows. The present study is relevant for future monitoring and hazard assessment during the growth of active lava-fed deltas as well as for a better interpretation of ancient volcaniclastic successions inland.     

The effects of vertical viscosity coefficients with different distribution characteristics on classical Ekman spiral structure

The classical Ekman theory tells us that the ocean surface current turns to the right(left) side of wind direction with 45° in the north(south) hemisphere,but the observation and research results show that the surface current deflexion angle is smaller than 45° in the Arctic and high latitude areas while larger than 45° in the low latitude areas.In order to explain these phenomena,a series of idealized numerical experiments are designed to investigate the influence of vertical viscosity coefficients with different vertical distribution characteristics on the classical and steady Ekman spiral structure.Results show that when the vertical viscosity coefficient decreases with water depth,the surface current deflexion angle is larger than 45°,whereas the angle is smaller than 45° when the vertical viscosity coefficient increases with water depth.So the different observed surface current deflexion angles in low latitude sea areas and the Arctic regions should be attributed to the different vertical distribution characteristics of vertical viscosity coefficients in the upper ocean.The flatness of the Ekman spiral is not equal to one and does not show regular behaviors for the numerical experiments with different distribution of vertical viscosity.However,the magnitudes and directions of volume transport of Ekman spirals are almost the same as the results of classical Ekman theory,i.e.,vertical viscosity coefficient distributions have no effect on the magnitudes and directions of volume transport.     

太行山南缘断裂带新构造活动及其区域运动学意义

基于TM遥感影像的构造地貌解译和野外活动断层滑动矢量的测量和分析 ,阐述了太行山南缘断裂带第四纪左旋走滑活动的构造和地貌标志 ,反演了断裂变形的构造应力场 ,探讨了太行山南缘断裂带左旋走滑活动的区域运动学意义。研究表明 ,第四纪时期太行山南缘断裂带是一条斜张左旋走滑断裂。断层滑动矢量观测显示新近纪以来有 2期引张应力作用 :早期为NE -SW向引张 ,晚期为NNW -SSE向引张 ,这个观测结果与渭河地堑盆地的新近纪—第四纪 2期引张构造应力场一致。根据华北盆地构造资料推断 ,太行山南缘断裂带向东延伸与盆地内的泌阳 -开封 -商丘断陷带相接 ,共同构成了南华北和北华北 2个断陷区的构造边界。指出该断裂带作为南华北块体北缘 ,其新构造时期的斜张左旋走滑活动与南部秦岭断裂系左旋走滑活动一致 ,它们组成了一个宽阔的、向东撒开的、弥散型分布的左旋走滑形变带 ,调节着华南地块相对于华北地块向SEE方向的构造挤出     

基于GIS的城市用地适宜性评价--以南京高淳新区为例

模糊数学评价方法是较常用的用地评价方法,它要求各个评价因子要有详细准确的数据.但规划实践中由于基础资料收集困难,很难保证所需数据的完整性,这就给用地评价工作带来困难.本文借助GIS适宜性分析模型基于3维GIS建立了新的用地评价方法,该方法要求获得各个因子的分级数据,这样对那些详细数据欠缺的评价因子只需获得其分级的数据就可以进行科学用地评价.应用该方法,本文进行了南京高淳新区的用地适宜性评价,评价结果与当地实际情况比较相符.评价中,ARCINFO三维建模及分析功能的应用,对评定工作起到很大的辅助作用.     

鄱阳湖地区大气边界层特征的数值模拟

采用WRFV2.2中尺度数值模式对鄱阳湖地区200 km×200 km范围内,2009年11月5日00∶00至2009年11月6日12∶00不同高度的气象要素进行了数值模拟,得到了水平分辨率为1 km的鄱阳湖地区大气边界层风、温、湿度场和廓线分布的大气边界层物理特征.模拟结果发现:白天鄱阳湖面上空存在着冷岛效应并伴随湖风,而夜间湖面上空存在着热岛效应并伴随陆风,湖面与陆地之间最大温差可达6 ℃;同时地形以及下垫面类型对鄱阳湖区风场的分布具有很大影响,夜间存在一条东北西南走向的低空辐合带,白天逐渐消失;此外受风场和地形作用湖面上空的湿度分布也不均匀,白天湿度层厚度低而夜晚湿度层厚度高,湖中心右侧湿度值大于左侧湿度值.模拟结果能较好地反映鄱阳湖的大气边界层物理特征,有助于了解鄱阳湖地区区域气候的特点,以及由于地形、地理环境、地表特征所形成的不同高度上的风、温、湿的分布规律和大气边界层物理特征,为鄱阳湖地区局地天气预报、风能资源开发、环境保护等提供了科学依据.     

Response of currents in Earth’s and Saturn’s dayside magnetopause to a sudden change in the solar wind density

When the effect of a solar wind dynamic pressure pulse on the magnetospheric and ionospheric dynamics is studied, it is usually difficult to detect the effect of a sudden change in the density against the background of the other varying solar wind parameters, which often play a most pronounced role. Cases in which the solar wind plasma density gradient dominated in the dynamics of the different parameters of an interplanetary medium and its magnetic field are considered in this work. Variations in the Earth’s dayside magnetopause current caused by a change in the solar wind ion density are presented for two such cases (February 11 and January 11, 1997) based on the method developed by us previously. Variations in the dayside magnetopause current for collisions of the magnetosphere with corotating interacting flows in January 2004, studied in detail by us previously, are also presented for Saturn. The estimates are comparable with the current values in the transitional three-dimensional current systems of Saturn that were previously calculated by us.     

The 3640–3510 BC rhyodacite eruption of Chachimbiro compound volcano,Ecuador: a violent directed blast produced by a satellite dome

Based on geochronological, petrological, stratigraphical, and sedimentological data, this paper describes the deposits left by the most powerful Holocene eruption of Chachimbiro compound volcano, in the northern part of Ecuador. The eruption, dated between 3640 and 3510 years BC, extruded a ～650-m-wide and ～225-m-high rhyodacite dome, located 6.3 km east of the central vent, that exploded and produced a large pyroclastic density current (PDC) directed to the southeast followed by a sub-Plinian eruptive column drifted by the wind to the west. The PDC deposit comprises two main layers. The lower layer (L1) is massive, typically coarse-grained and fines-depleted, with abundant dense juvenile fragments from the outgassed dome crust. The upper layer (L2) consists of stratified coarse ash and lapilli laminae, with juvenile clasts showing a wide density range (0.7–2.6 g cm^?3). The thickness of the whole deposit ranges from few decimeters on the hills to several meters in the valleys. Deposits extending across six valleys perpendicular to the flow direction allowed us to determine a minimum velocity of 120 m s^?1. These characteristics show striking similarities with deposits of high-energy turbulent stratified currents and in particular directed blasts. The explosion destroyed most of the dome built during the eruption. Subsequently, the sub-Plinian phase left a decimeter-thick accidental-fragment-rich pumice layer in the Chachimbiro highlands. Juvenile clasts, rhyodacitic in composition (SiO₂?=?68.3 wt%), represent the most differentiated magma of Chachimbiro volcano. Magma processes occurred at two different depths (～14.4 and 8.0 km). The hot (～936 °C) deep reservoir fed the central vent while the shallow reservoir (～858 °C) had an independent evolution, probably controlled by El Angel regional fault system. Such destructive eruptions, related to peripheral domes, are of critical importance for hazard assessment in large silicic volcanic complexes such as those forming the Frontal Volcanic Arc of Ecuador and Colombia.     

A note on the deflection of a baroclinic current by a continental shelf

The deflection, at a step-shelf fronted coast, of a constant potential vorticity current in a reduced-gravity, inviscid model ocean is studied theoretically. The step shelf, with a depth smaller than the reservoir depth, forces the uplifting of the approaching current and causes water column foreshortening, leading to relative vorticity generation that enhances current deflection to the right (facing the coast). As a consequence, in comparison to the case of a vertical wall coast, the proportion of the transport to the right is increased. For normal incidence for a shelf-depth/reservoir-depth ratio of 0.3 and shelf width to deformation radius ratio of 1.5, more than 90% of the approaching current transport goes to the right and less than 10% to the left. In addition, the (barotropic) dynamic pressure at the coast is low to the right and high to the left (with the highest pressure at the stagnation point). In the vertical wall case, the wall pressures on the flank are equal. For oblique incidence from the left, the deflection to the left is drastically reduced. In fact, there is practically no steady-state flow diverted to the left (less than 2%) when the approach angle is greater than 60° to the left of normal. In the vertical wall case, the same angle would have to be 90° for the flow to the left to vanish, namely only when the approach current is parallel to the coast to the right.     

Heavy metal pollution in the Arcachon Basin (France) : Bonding states

Information available (since 1977) from a great many recent surveys on the Arcachon Basin has enabled us to determine three characteristic environments and study the behaviour of heavy metals (Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Hg). The relationship between heavy metals and grain-size fractions has been determined after having specified whether metals were preferentially organically or inorganically bound. This study has allowed us to establish the origin (natural or anthropogenic) of metallic enrichment and assess the extent of pollution.     

地震层析成像板块构造及地幔演化动力学

地震层析成像技术的飞速发展给人类提供了一个探测地球内部结构的强有力的工具，也给人类展示了一片新的天地，使人类更加清晰地在两个层次之上（地球的层圈构造和内部横向不均匀性）了解地球内部，特别是对幔内部非均匀结构，从全球和区域的尺度上揭示出地球内部特别是地壳和上地幔横向不均匀结构。呈现出全新的地球，特别是地幔结构的三维图像框架，很容易理解，这一基本框架正是地幔演化热动力学过程的现代表现，如此，我们可以利用该框架去追溯、探讨全球构造特别是地幔构造演化的历史，从而深化对于我们这个星球演化过程的理解。     

EMC存储系统在天津测震台网JOPENS数据库服务中的应用

主要阐述EMC存储系统在天津测震台网的JOPENS数据库服务中的应用情况,对采用本地存储、EMC SATA硬盘和EMC光纤硬盘存储进行了分析对比,为现存的基于本地存储模式的测震台网JOPENS数据库服务器扩展到统一数据存储模式做示范;为省级区域中心进行统一的数据存储应用环境提供参考.     

二次创业与南方海相碳酸盐岩油气勘探的发现与展望

本文概述了中国南方碳酸盐岩地区的油气勘探经历和认识过程.在刘光鼎院士提出的"油气资源二次创业"理论方法指导下,我国在海相碳酸盐岩地区开展的地球物理勘探工作取得了重要成果.海相碳酸盐岩地区具有更复杂的地质构造和演化过程,该类地区寻找油气是世界性难题,传统勘探手段已不适用.本文给出了该类地区进行地球物理勘探的新思路、新方法、新技术,并以举世瞻目的普光大气田的发现说明了新方法的合理性和优势.文章最后给出在南方海相碳酸盐岩地区进行油气地球物理勘探的发展远景.     

柯达M7B型洗片机的故障分析与检修

为保证自动睛机能够正常运转,给ＣＴ机,Ｘ光机提供最佳质量的图象,已成为放射维修人员工作的重要内容之一。本文以柯在Ｍ７Ｂ型洗片机为例,从维修角度上谈一谈怎样能够快速准确地寻找出机器的故障点,并及时维修,使洗片机能够正常运转。     

早期左心功能不全的一种CT征象——胸膜下区宽带状影的研究

早期左心功能不全的诊断目前仍较困难,作者在部分病人的胸部CT 图象上发现一种胸膜下区宽带状影与早期左心功能不全有密切关系,表现为两肺背部呈带状的模糊影象,这种胸膜下宽带状影对诊断早期左心功能不全,尤其是舒张功能有一定的临床意义。