西太平洋暖池两柱样沉积物的磁性地层学研究

根据西太平洋暖池ＷＰ９２－５,ＷＰ９２－３柱样沉积的磁性地层学研究结果,发现ＷＰ９２－５柱样沉积物的磁性记录了３个地球磁场漂移（地球磁场极性反转）即ＧｏｔｈｅｎｂｕｒｇＭｏｎｏＬａｋｅ（或Ｒｕｂｊｅｒｇ）和Ｍｕｎｇｏ（或Ｍａｅｌｉｆｅｌｌ）其界限年龄分别为１２．５ｋａＢ．Ｐ．２４．０（２３）ｋａＢ．Ｐ．和３１．０（２８－３１）ｋａＢ．Ｐ．ＷＰ９２－３柱样沉积物的磁性也记录了前两个地球磁场漂移。这一     

末次冰期以来西太平洋暖池变化的浮游有孔虫记录

探讨了末次冰期以来西太平洋暖池区浮游有孔虫动物群变化对环境和全球气候变化的响应。对取自西太平洋暖池核心区WP92-5柱样中的浮游有孔虫及其壳体δ^18O的分析结果表明,西太平洋暖池末次冰期的冬季表层水温比全新世低2℃以上;浮游有孔虫Neogloboquadrina pachyderma的含量变化与Globigerinoides sacculifer的δ^18O值呈明显相关,各时段的峰值可能与YD事件和Heinrich事件H1、H2和H3大致对应,分别出现在21—29、38—46、64—72和106—117cm,^14C年龄约为9．7—11．1、12．8—14．7、19—20．9和26．2—27．4ka B．P．;浮游有孔虫N．pachyderma的含量与G．sacculifer的δ^18O在各峰值之间含有数个频次不等的亚级变化,反映了末次冰期以来西太平洋暖池区气候的短尺度快速变化特征。     

西太平洋暖池区沉积物源示踪研究进展

从沉积物中提取示踪指标是研究西太平洋暖池区古环境和古气候演化的有效途径之一,而准确识别沉积物的源区是其中的关键。目前已通过不同的物源示踪指标,如黏土矿物、石英单矿物、常量元素、稀土元素以及碎屑组分的放射性成因SrNd同位素等,对西太平洋暖池北部和西部第四纪以来的沉积物来源进行了研究,结果表明暖池区沉积物主要来源于亚洲大陆和火山岛弧,部分来源于澳大利亚和/或新几内亚。本文系统归纳和总结了上述示踪指标在西太平洋暖池区的物源研究进展和成果,以及研究中存在的问题,并对西太平洋暖池沉积物源研究提出了几点建议。     

近2Ma来东菲律宾海地球磁场相对强度变化的沉积记录

为了解东菲律宾海沉积物记录的地球磁场相对强度变化,并为研究区的地层定年提供新的手段,对东菲律宾海帕里西维拉海盆西侧F090102孔柱样沉积物进行了系统的古地磁和岩石磁学分析。根据功率谱分析,选择非磁滞剩磁作为归一化的参数,得到约2Ma以来的地球磁场相对强度变化曲线。该曲线与SINT-2000曲线可详细对比,呈比较典型的锯齿状特征,布容期内的记录与800ka以来的SINT-800曲线相符。布容/松山极性转换期呈单强度降低的特征,在极性转换期和极性漂移期,相对强度曲线表现为显著低值。     

西太平洋暖池变异及其对西太平洋次表层海温场的影响

应用热带太平洋上层XBT温度资料,分析研究了西太平洋暖池区(0°～16°N,125°～145°E)上层海洋的变化特征以及与西太平洋次表层海温场之间的关系.研究表明,西太平洋暖池区的垂向温度存在显著的年际变化,尤其在次表层(120～200m)的变化最为明显.西太平洋暖池区的次表层冷暖信号明显早于西太平洋次表层的海温异常.分析发现,西太平洋暖池区的海温异常是导致整个西太平洋次表层海温场变异的关键区,当西太平洋暖池区的次表层冷暖信号加强时,3～4个月后西太平洋海温场出现大范围的冷暖异常.     

南沙群岛永暑礁钻井珊瑚礁和珊瑚碎屑的磁学分析

通过南沙群岛永暑礁南永1、2井珊瑚礁和南永3井潟湖珊瑚碎屑的磁性测试与研究发现,它们的磁化率以负值(χ<0)为主,具抗磁性特性,但有稳定的剩余磁化强度,又具有铁磁性特性,即具有抗磁性与铁磁性共存的磁学性质。珊瑚礁和珊瑚碎屑的磁性主要来源于珊瑚骨骼及死亡后古生物和富铁细菌等壳体中变价的铁离子,这些变价铁离子在不同年代、不同环境下组成新的铁氧体,具有似单畴(PSD)的磁性特征。这个磁性不但在井深103m和254m处记录了布容/松山和松山/高斯地球磁场极性转换界限(年龄分别为0.78MaB.P.和2.58MaB.P.),而且记录了布容正极性期和松山反极性期内的琵琶湖I、II、贾拉米洛、奥都维、留尼汪Ⅰ、II地球磁场漂移,并提供了磁化率的变化可能与气候冷暖变换有关的信息。当χ<0时表示冷期,当χ>0时表示暖期。     

中更新世气候转型期西太平洋暖池的表层海水温度和氧同位素变化

通过对大洋钻探(ODP)第130航次807站A孔井深12.54～16.38m沉积物中浮游和底栖有孔虫的稳定同位素δ18 O以及浮游有孔虫壳体的Mg/Ca测试,揭示了中更新世气候转型期(800～1 000kaBP)西太平洋暖池表层海水温度和氧同位素的变化。研究发现,中更新世时期ODP 807站的表层海水温度在25.1～30.9℃之间浮动,平均为28.4℃,接近现代暖池区实测温度值,冰期/间冰期之间的温度差值在1.5～5℃左右,与晚第四纪时的温差相近;同时,表层海水温度和底栖有孔虫氧同位素呈现同步变化的趋势,没有明显的超前或滞后的相位关系,区别于前人在暖池区的研究结果。间冰期时,表层海水温度上升伴随着温跃层变深、盐度降低,与现代西太平洋暖池La Ni珘na状态类似;冰期时则类似于El Ni珘no状态。中更新世气候转型期,西太平洋暖池的表层海水温度、温跃层深度变化受低纬热带驱动影响,都显示出强烈的岁差周期(16.8ka),而底层水氧同位素更多受到高纬的影响。     

末次冰期以来巽他陆架的演变及其对南沙群岛海区古环境的影响

通过对南沙群岛海区NS94－93柱样磁组构，矿物成分分析，结合^14C测年，分析了末次冰盛期巽他陆架出露成陆及其后巽他陆架被海水淹没后南沙群岛海区沉积环境的变化，认为巽他陆架在13.2kaB.P。时开始被海水淹没，约经历600a左右趋于稳定，在末次冰期，南沙群岛海区水体封闭，沉积物以陆源物质为主，碳酸盐含量低，13.2-10kaB.P，沉积物以陆源物质为主，碳酸盐含量逐渐增加，至10kaB.P.南沙群岛海区进入全新世，水体交换条件得到较大改善，沉积物中生源物质显著上升，陆源物质明显减少，碳酸盐含量一直维持在较高水平。     

冲绳海槽北部15ka B.P.以来沉积物源及控制因素——稀土元素的证据

用等离子体质谱法(ICP-MS)对冲绳海槽北部Y127孔16个沉积物样品的稀土元素(REE)进行了分析。根据AMS14C测年结果,Y127孔记录了冲绳海槽约15kaB.P.以来的沉积历史。约11.1kaB.P.以来,沉积物的稀土元素总量(ΣREE)由表层102.4μg/g向下增加到136.1μg/g,平均为123.3μg/g。15—11.1ka,ΣREE在149.1—169.2μg/g之间,平均为158.6μg/g,总体趋势由上向下逐渐增加。轻、重稀土元素比值(ΣLREE/ΣHREE)在上述两个时间段中分别为8.16和9.42,其变化趋势与∑REE的完全相同。La/Sm在两个时段分别为6.70和7.15。球粒陨石标准化的结果表明,15kaB.P.以来冲绳海槽北部沉积物具有相同的配分模式,表现为LREE富集,HREE弱亏损。δEu的值在0.69—0.76之间,中等程度的负Eu异常;δCe在0.85—0.95之间,为弱的负Ce异常。经页岩标准化(NASC)后,REE配分模式曲线平坦,弱的正Eu异常和弱的负Ce异常。通过Y127孔沉积物REE特征与长江、黄河沉积物的对比研究,在15—11.1kaB.P.沉积物的REE组成基本反映了源区的物质组成特征,沉积物主要以长江物质为主,影响沉积物REE特征的主要因素是海平面变化和源区的物质特征。11.1kaB.P.以来,由于海平面上升,可能仅有少量黄河来源物质进入冲绳海槽北部,源区沉积环境和沉积物的组织,加上火山物质和生源组分的共同作用,形成了这一时期沉积物的REE特征。     

南海夏季风爆发与西太平洋暖池区热含量及对流异常

利用1955～1998年逐月的上层海洋热含量资料和NCEP/NCAR再分析资料,研究了南海夏季风爆发与热带西太平洋暖池区热含量异常的关系,并对影响过程进行了探讨.结果表明:(1)热带西太平洋暖池区是热带上层海洋热含量变化最大的区域,暖池区的热含量的变化与ENSO关系密切,是ENSO循环的重要组成部分,也是影响南海夏季风爆发最明显的地区.(2)南海夏季风爆发与前期(特别是前期冬、春季)暖池热状态的变化有密切关系,当前期暖池热含量高时,南海夏季风爆发早,反之爆发晚,这与由暖池变化所产生的上空大气的对流活动密切相关;4月暖池区热含量高(低)是预报南海夏季风爆发早(晚)的一个很好指标.(3)西太平洋暖池区热含量正异常时,辐散中心位于南海—西太平洋,对流强,西太副高弱且位置偏东,季风环流(印度洋纬向环流和经向环流)和Walker环流为正距平环流;正距平的季风环流有利于低空西到西南气流的加强,南海夏季风爆发早,反之爆发晚.由暖池变化所引起的大尺度季风环流和Walker环流的异常变化可能是影响南海夏季风爆发的一个重要动力机制.     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.