An Agricultural Land Resource Assessment Study Based on GIS—An Example from Guiyang City

This paper assesses the agricultural land resources of Guiyang City by means of GIS,on the basis of the pressure-state-response model in which soil heavy metal contamination is selected as a pressure indicatror.he results suggest that most of the agricultural land resources are of good quality,However,there are 17.11km^2 dry land and paddy field,which belong to the region of serious heavy metal contamination and are not fit for planting crops.At the same time,the high quality plowland,which is suitable for cultivation,has decreased nearly by 1/3 due to soil heavy metal contamination.These findings may improve our understanding that it is very important to prevent and cure heavy metal contamination of Guiyang City.     

Evolution and Application of Sealing Ability of Gypsum Caprocks under Temperature-Pressure Coupling: An Example of the ZS5 Well in the Tazhong Area of the Tarim Basin

Gypsum caprocks'' sealing ability is affected by temperature-pressure coupling. Due to the limitations of experimental conditions, there is still a lack of triaxial stress-strain experiments that simultaneously consider changes in temperature and pressure conditions, which limits the accuracy of the comprehensive evaluation of the brittle plastic evolution and sealing ability of gypsum rocks using temperature pressure coupling. Triaxial stress-strain tests were utilized to investigate the differences in the evolution of the confinement capacity of gypsum rocks under coupled temperature-pressure action and isothermal-variable pressure action on the basis of sample feasibility analysis. According to research, the gypsum rock''s peak and residual strengths decrease under simultaneous increases in temperature and pressure over isothermal pressurization experimental conditions, and it becomes more ductile. This reduces the amount of time it takes for the rock to transition from brittle to plastic. When temperature is taken into account, both the brittle–plastic transformation''s depth limit and the lithological transformation of gypsum rocks become shallower, and the evolution of gypsum rocks under variable temperature and pressure conditions is more complicated than that under isothermal pressurization. The sealing ability under the temperature-pressure coupling is more in line with the actual geological context when the application results of the Well #ZS5 are compared. This provides a theoretical basis for precisely determining the process of hydrocarbon accumulation and explains why the early hydrocarbon were not well preserved.     

Application of Prognosticating Methods of Placer Gold Resources——Taking the Upper Regions of the Nenjiang River as an Example

On the basis of analysing and studyingthe mineralizing conditions and content ratinglaws, the authors infer the geology and oresnear old placers by applying the remote sens-ing technology and analogous method, and     

Asesment on Crustal Stability Using Fuzzy Mathematics in Dam Region of Three Gorges Project on Yangtze River

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Application of Organic Inclusions in Offshore Oil—Gas Exploration

Studies of organic inclusions from the offshore oil and gas fields provide much information about the number of times,temperature,depth,time and phase state of oil-gas migration,as well as about the composition of organic inclusions.On the basis of the type,character,composition and distribution of organic inclusions in the Zhu-Ⅲ Depression at the Pearl River Mouth,information can be developed about the source rocks of oil and gas,and their evolution and migration.     

Cyclic Characteristics of the Physical Properties of Key Strata in CBM Systems Controlled by Sequence Stratigraphy—An Example from the Gujiao Block

Multiple coal seams and interbedded rock assemblages formed in vertical progression due to the influence of multiple stages of sea level transgressions.Based on mercury injection experiment,low temperature liquid nitrogen experiment,porosity and permeability experiment and breakthrough pressure experiment,the vertical variation characteristics of coal-bearing strata in Gujiao block are explained in detail.The results of the mercury injection and low temperature liquid nitrogen experiments show that the pore structure characteristics fluctuate with increasing depth in the strata,with fewer micropores followed by transition pores.The BET specific surface area and average pore diameter of the Shanxi Formation are generally larger than those of the Taiyuan Formation.Due to the continuous cyclic sequence stratigraphy changes,the porosity,permeability,breakthrough pressure and breakthrough time of the samples show a certain cyclicity.Within the same sequence,the porosity is larger,and the permeability is smaller near the maximum flooding surface.Although the permeability of the sandstone samples is higher,the porosity is lower,and the breakthrough pressure and breakthrough times are greater.The strata in the study area formed in an oxidized environment that was affected by freshwater,and the pore structure of different lithologies is quite different.After the formation of sandstone,the intergranular pores generally underwent filling with secondary quartz,clay minerals and organic matter,resulting in low porosity and permeability.     

Uncertainty Estimation for Resource Assessment—An Application to Coal

The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a national assessment of coal resources. As part of that assessment, a geostatistical procedure has been developed to estimate the uncertainty of coal resources for the historical categories of geological assurance: measured, indicated, inferred, and hypothetical coal. Data consist of spatially clustered coal thickness measurements from coal beds and/or zones that cover, in some cases, several thousand square kilometers. Our procedure involved trend removal, an examination of spatial correlation, computation of a sample semivariogram, and fitting a semivariogram model. This model provided standard deviations for the uncertainty estimates. The number of sample points (drill holes) in each historical category also was estimated. Measurement error in the thickness of the coal bed/zone was obtained from the fitted model or supplied exogenously. From this information approximate estimates of uncertainty on the historical categories were computed. We illustrate the methodology using drill hole data from the Harmon coal bed located in southwestern North Dakota. The methodology will be applied to approximately 50 coal data sets.     

Gold Ore Deposits in the Gezhen Metallogenic Belt, Hainan Province of South China: An Example of Orogenic-Type Deposit?

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Application of syringe-driven chelate-minicolumn in determination of trace elements in water samples

The direct determination of most trace elements in natural water samples is still very difficult even if the high-sensitivity atomic analytical instrument, such as ICP-MS, is available. The reasons are (1) the natural concentrations of most trace elements…     

Lead Isotopic Steep-Dipping Zone and Mineralization—An Example from Mineral Deposits Concentrated Area in East Qinling,China

INTRODUCTIONBecause of the inhomogeneity of material composition andtexture in the earth lithosphere,on the margins of differentearth blocks often exists the change of geochemicalcharacteristic values and geophysical gradients. The Pb-isotopetopological diagram which divides different Pb-isotopeprovinces within Chinese continent shows (Zhu,1995) thatsome margins of the Proterozoic basement or boundaries ofancient plates are presented as geochemical steep-dippingzones. The Pb-isotopic co…     

The Occurrence and Geochemistry of Di—and Trimethyl—2—（4,8,12—trimethyltridecyl）Chromans and Benzohopanes in Fushun Cannel Coal,Northeast China

The distribution of methy1-2-(4,8,12-trimethyltridecyl)chromans (M-MTTC)is relat-ed to sedimentary environments.5,7,8-tri-Me-MTTC,5,8-di-Me-MTTC and 7,8-di-Me-MTTC have been found in coal for the first time,implying thatM-MTTC is widely spread in sediments.The distri-bution of M-MTTC the presence of C32-C35 benzohopanes,high Pr/Ph ratio,obvious even-odd pre-dominance in C24-C34 alkanes and odd-even predominance in normal alkanes provide strong evidence of a near-shore lacustrine environment.     

Application of CSAMT in hydrogeology exploration in Shandong Province–An example from geothermal exploration in Changdao County(south four islands)

The geophysical exploration in Changdao County is conducted using controlled source audio-frequency magnetotelluric(CSAMT) method. The inversion results reveal obvious evidences of one existed fault and five new blind faults, including their location, size, occurrence and development degree. Another two low resistance anomaly zones are delineated. According to the results, a geothermal well drilling test is applied in the middle of South Changshan Island, discovering a large flow of salt hotspring with bromine and strontium. The outlet temperature is 36 ℃ and the yield of a single well is 1 830 m~3/d. This study on island hotspring exploration marks the first of its kind conducted in Shandong Province. It provides basic high-quality information for subsequent similar studies.     

An Experimental Study of Oxygen Isotope Fractionation in the Quartz—Wolframite—Water System

Oxygen isotope fractionation was experimentally studied in the quartz-wolframite-water system from 200 to 420 °C. The starting wolframite was synthesized in aqueous solutions of Na₂WO₄ · 2H₂O + FeCl₂ · 4H₂O or MnCl₂ · 4H₂O. The starting solutions range in salinity from 0 to 10 equivalent wt.% NaCl. Experiments were conducted in a gold-lined stainless steel autoclave, with filling degrees of about 50%. The results showed no significant difference in equilibrium isotope fractionation between water and wolframite, ferberite and huebnerite at the same temperature (310 °C ). The equilibrium oxygen isotope fractionation factors of wolframite and water tend to be equal with increasing temperature above 370 °C, but to increase significantly with decreasing temperature below 370 °C: 1000 ln α_wf-H₂o= 1.03×10⁶T−2-4.91 (370 °C ±200 °C ) 1000 ln α_wf-H₂o = 0.21×10⁶T −2-2.91 (420 °C -370 °C ±) This projects was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Metallogenic Model of Bauxite in Central Guizhou Province: an Example of Lindai Deposit

The bauxites in central Guizhou are hosted by the Lower Carboniferous Jiujialu Formation.Geochemistrial characteristics of the Lindai bauxite deposit indicate that the underlying Shilengshui Formation dolomite is the precursor rock of mineral resources.Weathering simulation experiments show that Si is most likely to migrate with groundwater,the migration rate of which is several magnitude higher than Al and Fe under nature conditions （pH=3-9）.The neutral and acid nonreducing condition is the most conducive to the Al rich and Si removal,while the acid reducing conditions is the most conducive to the Al rich and Fe removal.In the process of bauxite formation,coal beds overlying the Al-bearing rock series or other rock formation rich in organic materials can produce acid reducing groundwater,which are important for the bauxite formation.Finally,propose the metallogenic model of the bauxite in central Guizhou Province and put forward three new words which are ＂original bauxite material＂,＂bauxite material＂ and ＂original bauxite＂.