Chronology of the Black Sea over the last 25,000 years

Deep-water sediments of the Black Sea deposited during Late Pleistocene and Holocene time are distinguished by three sedimentary units: (1) a microlaminated coccolith ooze mainly consisting of Emiliania huxleyi; (2) a sapropel; and (3) a banded lutite. The base of the first unit lies at 3,000 years B.P., that of the second at 7,000 years B.P., and that of the third at least at about 25,000 years B.P. Fossils and geochemical criteria are used to decipher the environmental events of this time period. Beginning with the base of the section dated at about 25,000 years B.P. we witness the final stage of metamorphosis from anoxic marine to oxic freshwater conditions. By the time this stage ended, about 22,000 years B.P., the Black Sea had become a truly freshwater habitat. The lake phase lasted about 12,000 to 13,000 years. Sedimentation rates were in the order of 1 m/10³ years, but began to decrease as sea level rose during the last 5,000 years of this phase (9,000–15,000 years B.P.). Starting at about 9,000 years B.P. and continuing to 7,000 years B.P., Mediterranean waters occasionally spilled over the Bosporus as a consequence of ice retreat and sea level rise. This marked the beginning of a gradual shift from freshwater to marine, and from well aerated to stagnant conditions. At about 7,000 years B.P. when deposition of unit 2 started, the H₂S zone was well established. Sedimentation rates dropped to 10 cm/10³ years. Environmental conditions similar to those of today finally became established around 3,000 years B.P., almost exactly the time when Jason and the Argonauts sailed through the Bosporus in search of the Golden Fleece.     

Evidence of the final drainage of the Baltic Ice Lake and the brackish phase of the Yoldia Sea in glacial varves from the Baltic Sea

A clay-varve chronology based on 14 cross-correlated varve graphs from the Baltic Sea and a mean varve thickness curve has been constructed. This chronology is correlated with the Swedish Time Scale and covers the time span 11530 to 10250 varve years BP. Two cores have been analysed for grain size, chemistry, content of diatoms and changes in colour by digital colour analysis. The final drainage of the Baltic Ice Lake is dated to c . 10800 varve years BP and registered in the cores analysed as a decrease in the content of clay. This event can be correlated with atmospheric Δ14 C content and might have resulted in an increase in these values recorded between 11565 and 11545 years BP. The results of the correlation between the varve chronology from the Baltic Sea, the Greenland GRIP ice core and the atmospheric Δ14 C record indicate that c . 760 years are missing in the Swedish Time Scale in the part younger than c. 10250 varve years BP. A change in colour from a brownish to grey varved glacial clay recorded c . 10770 varve years BP is found to be the result of oxygen deficiency due to an increase in the rate of sedimentation in the early Preboreal. The first brackish influence is recorded c . 10540 varve years BP in the northwestern Baltic Sea and some 90 years later in the eastern Gotland Basin.     

岳城水库汛期调度方案的改进

通过对岳城水库现行调度方案的分析,提出了“峰量控制法”调度方案.采用“峰量控制法”调度,1000年一遇水位较现状低1.1m,使水库设计防洪标准从1000年一遇提高到1600年一遇非常运用标准从2000年一遇提高到2600年一遇.在保持保持现有防洪前提准前提下,可使设计汛限水位从13lm抬高到135m.论经证,该方案具有良好的可操作性,对下游河道及水库自身的防洪是安全的.     

Chandler wobble of the poles as part of the nutation of the atmosphere-ocean-Earth system

The paper presents calculated spectra of El Niño Southern oscillation (ENSO) indices. The ENSO spectra have components with periods that are multiples of the Earth’s free (1.2 years) and forced (18.6 years) nutation periods. Analysis of a 41-year series of exciting functions for the atmospheric angular momentum confirms the existence of such periodicity. Nutation waves responsible for the El Niño phenomena in the ocean, the Southern oscillation in the atmosphere, and the presence of subharmonics of the Chandler period (1.2 years) and superharmonics of the lunar period (18.6 years) in the ENSO spectra are described. A model for the nonlinear nutation of the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system is constructed. In this model, the ENSO, acting at frequencies of combinational resonances, excites the Chandler wobble of the Earth’s poles. At the same time, this wobble interacts with the nutation motions of the atmosphere and World Ocean.     

云南石林景区恢复植被的土壤水文结构功能研究

基于喀斯特恢复植被生态系统功能评价的要求,采用土壤水文结构功能模型评价云南石林景区恢复植被的土壤水文结构功能。选取原生滇青冈林、恢复26a的次生林B、恢复21a次生林A、恢复8a的灌丛、石漠化灌草丛和恢复30a云南松林6个样地,分别调查它们的土壤水文结构特征。相对于原生林,石漠化样地经过8a的封禁,其土壤水文结构功能可恢复31%,21a可恢复45%,人工飞播的云南松林经过30a恢复的只有38%,而砍伐林地封禁26a可恢复71%。土壤水文结构功能评价模型基本适用于岩溶区不同恢复林地的土壤水文结构功能的恢复评价。      

On the zeroing of the thermoluminescence of sediments

A method is described which allows the determination of radiation doses received by mineral grains since their last exposure to sunlight, even if this exposure was of relatively short duration or through a poorly transmitting medium. Tests of the method were made on a variety of zero-age sediments and in most cases gave values ?5 grays, some being <1 gray. This zero-point “error” would lead to an error in the age determination of an old sample of typically 2,000 years, and in one case <300 years. The method should therefore be useful for dating samples older than ～20,000 years and, in some cases, younger ones.     

黄河中下游地区夏季旱涝年低频振荡特征分析

利用1971-2010年NCEP/NCAR逐日再分析资料和黄河流域67个测站逐日降水资料, 对黄河中下游地区旱涝年的低频振荡特征进行了分析.结果表明: 黄河流域30~60 d低频降水呈现区域性分布的特征, 大值区位于黄河中下游地区, 10~20 d低频降水呈现整体性分布.黄河中下游地区旱涝年夏季降水普遍存在10~20 d和30~60 d的低频振荡, 10~20 d振荡强度整体上均强于30~60 d振荡,10~20 d低频振荡在旱涝年差异不显著.涝年30~60 d低频振荡较旱年显著, 涝年和旱年30~60 d低频振荡的传播特征不相同, 同时涝年的30~60 d低频振荡的传播特征也存在差异.影响涝年30~60 d低频降水的主要原因是低纬的低频振荡强度增强向北传播到黄河流域, 以及青藏高原热源的低频振荡向东北传播与西太平洋热源的低频振荡向西传播在黄河中下游交汇.正常年份的低频降水主要受低纬低频振荡向北传播的影响.     

Radiocarbon Dating of the Dynamics of Landslides in the Upper Reaches of the Mzymta River Basin (Western Caucasus)

The article contains materials on the study of landslide deposits in the upper reaches of the Mzymta river basin. The results of ¹⁴C analysis showed that the youngest landslides are common on the southern slope of the Psekhako Ridge and date back to less than 200 and 390 ± 90, 400 ± 70 cal. years BP and more than 770 ± 150 cal. years BP. The most ancient landslide-collapse on the northern slope of the Aibga Ridge and dates back to 1110 ± 90 cal. years BP.     

42a来天山乌鲁木齐河源1号冰川变化及趋势预测

1959-2000年间天山乌鲁木齐河源1号冰川发生了显著变化,冰川物质平衡累计达-7976.0mm,冰川末端退缩171.06m,冰川面积缩小0.217km²,冰川厚度平均减薄8.86m,冰储量减小21.9×10⁶m³,冰川运动速度平均减小39.3%,冰川成冰带谱上移,冷渗浸重结晶带消失.从冰川物质平衡反映的气候变化趋势推测,1号冰川要扭亏为盈,改变已有的巨大的物质亏损(-7976.0mm),除非要连续21a出现42a来最大正平衡(+374.0mm).已有的观测研究表明,这种情况不大可能出现,1号冰川目前的退缩趋势还将持续相当一段时间,至少在未来20～30a内不会出现明显的前进.从树木年轮反映的冷暖气候变化周期性推测,目前正处小冰期以来第三个温暖期.若这次温暖期重现62～67a周期的情况,则温暖气候还将持续20～30a左右.可见1号冰川至少还将持续退缩20～30a.     

The age of the Earth and the oldest rocks

The ages of rocks and minerals can be determined by measuring the accumulation of the products of radioactive decay within them. The results provide a time–scale for the Earth and for the major geological events which have shaped the Earth's continental crust since it first started to separate from the mantle at least 3700 million years ago. The Earth itself is about 4600 million years old.     

Reconstruction of the summer rainfall regime for the last 500 years in China

The anomalies of summer rainfall (June–August) for the last 500 years in China have been estimated according to the relationship between the instrumentally observed rainfall and the degrees of floods and droughts for the last 25 years. It is shown that calculated anomalies of average rainfall for 10, 20 and 30 year periods have sufficient accuracies. The long-term climatic variations for the last 500 years are discussed based on the estimated anomalies of summer rainfall of 25 stations over the E part of China for the last 500 years. For example, there were prolonged drought in the N of China at about the end of Ming dynasty, but there were extensive floods in China for the early times of Qing dynasty. The anomalies of rainfall for the last 500 years were averaged along latitude zone and their decade running mean were formed. It was found that the long-term variations are very clear. The 80 year cycle is predominating. Besides, an about 200 year cycle is also shown in the charts of 50-year mean rainfall anomalies. It is indicated that both above mentioned cycles relate closely to the solar activity.     

青藏高原近50年来的气候变化研究(英)

In this paper, records of mainly meteorological stations of recent 50 years in Tibetan plateau are compared, and three cold periods and three warm periods as well as the rule of dry and humid variation in the Tibetan plateau during the last 50 years are summarized. It is discovered that the vicissitude time of every warm and cold period at the edge of the plateau is four years earlier than that of the inland, and the year-to-year variation phase of mean monthly temperature of January and July is relatively earlier than that of mean annual temperature. And there are different characteristics of correspondence between mean annual temperature and mean monthly temperature of January and July on the south and the north of the Tanggula Range.     

中国西部全新世历史气侯的变化

本文在收集冰川、地质、沙漠、湖泊、树木年轮及历史文献记载等历史气候研究成果的基础上,给出了我国西部全新世以来气候变化序列。主要结果如下:1.全新世气候变化的总趋势按其演变可分为三个阶段。由中全新世向晚全新世的转变可能出现在3500年以前,比我国东部大约早500年,同时发现这种转变具有某种程度的突变性。2.全新世以来,千年尺度的气候振荡经历了6个寒冷期和5个温暖期。寒冷期分别在8700～7500a.B.P,5900～5400a.B.P,4200～3800a.B.P,3000～2700a.B.P,2000～1400a.B.P,1000a.B.P至今;温暖期分别为7500～5900a.B.P,5400～4200a.B.P,3800～3000a.B.P,2700～2000a.B.P,1400～1000a.B.P。千年尺度气候振荡的周期变化在1000～3000年之间。3.近千年来,百年尺度气候振荡的温度变化出现了6个低温期和5个高温期。低温谷值分别在公元1100's(1100～1109年),1310's,1480's,1680's,1830's,1950's;高温峰值分别在公元1220's,1390's,1570's,1780's,1900's,变化周期在120～210年之间。近千年中最冷的时期出现在17世纪中到18世纪初。近500年来,公元1480～1650年是我国西部降水最少、干旱频率最高的时期,出现了三次特大旱灾。18世纪前期是降水量较多的时期。近百年来,我国西北地区东部及华北地区出现了变干的趋势。     

20世纪暴雨和洪水极值的年代际变化

利用20世纪100年(特别是后50年)2万多个雨量站和175个大中河流水文站的实测和调查雨量和流量资料,分析了中国大陆(外流区)暴雨和洪水极值的年代际变化,其中包括长期站暴雨的年代均值变化、20世纪50年点雨量极值的前后期平均值对比、最大点雨量发生年代分布和特大洪峰流量的年代分布。分别就5种历时、不同地区的暴雨洪水极值随年代的变化作了分析,揭示了变化的事实,计算了多项年代比率,探讨了影响因子。     

Antarctic Glacial Retreats and the Records of Sea Level Change in Deposits at the North Bank of the Shenzhen Bay,South China

In view of the huge ice cover of 24.5 X 10⁶ km³ in Antarctica, which accounts for over 90% by volume of the ice body on earth, the movement of Antarctic glaciers is a major control on global sea-level change and climatic fluctuation. As recorded in the Quaternary deposits in King George Island, West Antarctica, three rapid ablations can be recognized at 11000, 9000 and 6100 years ago and the global climate within the past 6000 years is characterized by small-amplitude warm-cold fluctuation. Intertidal deposits at the north bank of the Shenzhen Bay suggest a periodic variation in sea level in about every 670 years over the last 6000 years with low sea levels recorded in the periods of 5500-4900, 3900-3600, 2400-2200 and 1300-1200 years ago. Between these periods the sea level rised for about 80 cm on average. The modern warming climate in the last century corresponds with a rise of sea level at the rate of 2~3 mm/a. A state key project under the Antarctic Science & Technology Program (No. 905-02-04-03) and is partially financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province.     

Revision of the lateglacial Swedish varve chronology

A survey of the revised lateglacial varve chronology is given. Almost all revisions are based on new, independent measurements not yet finished. Compared with the old time scale, the preliminary datings (calendar years ± a margin of error) of the ice margin retreat are 'older', mainly due to the fact that the postglacial varve chronology has been extended by 365 years. This implies that the so-called zero year ( sensu De Geer 1940: limit of late glacial and beginning of postglacial varve sedimentation). earlier estimated at 6,923 B.C. (Nilsson 1964), is now dated 7,288 B.C. According to the new time scale, deglaciation from Stockholm to the area of zero-year formation in Indalsälven's valley lasted about 1,190 ± 40 years, compared with 1,073 years in De Geer's (1940) time scale or 1,092 in Jarnefors' (1963). Preliminary varve graph correlations, which are still very weak concerning the Fennoscandian moraine zone, indicate that the ice receded from Högsby, northwest of Kalmar at approximately 10,700⁺²⁰⁰₋₃₀₀ B.C. At localities just to the north of the Fennoscandian moraines, deglaciation started about 8,750⁺⁵⁰₋₁₅₀ years B.C. according to the new varve measurements, and the ice front receded in southern Stockholm 8,470⁺⁴⁰₋₁₄₀ B.C. Varve dating now gives older ages (calendar years) than ¹⁴C-dating; about 200–400 years older regarding some ice margin positions in south Sweden.     

The Review and Development of the Microstructure Research of the Soil

The engineering mechanical properties of the soil are under the influence of the various factors. The microstructure character of the soil is one of the main factors, concerned by engineering technicians and scientists in recent years. In this paper, the historical development of the microstructure research for the soil is simply retraced. It is mentioned that some contents and results of microstructure research in foreign country and the research results of various representive soil of recent years in our country. Furthermore, the viewpoints about the further research of the microstructure is proposed by the author.     

土的微观结构研究概况和发展

土体的工程力学特性受许多因素的影响,其中土的微观结构特征是重要因素之一,近年来受到许多工程技术人员和科研人员的重视。本文简要地回顾了土结构研究的历史进程,扼要介绍了国外的某些研究内容,成果和我国近几年来对不同代表性土的研究结果。最后,对微结构研究的进一步发展提出了一些看法。     

Intra-Seasonal Oscillation (ISO) of south Kerala rainfall during the summer monsoons of 1901–1995

Time series of daily averaged rainfall of about 40 rain gauge stations of south Kerala, situated at the southern-most part of peninsular India between latitudes about 8‡N and 10‡N were subjected to Wavelet Analysis to study the Intra Seasonal Oscillation (ISO) in the rainfall and its inter-annual variability. Of the 128 days, 29th May to 3rd October of each of the 95 years 1901-1995 were analysed. We find that the period of ISO does not vary during a monsoon season in most of the years, but it has large inter-annual variability in the range 23 to 64 days. Period-wise, the years cluster into two groups of ISO, the SHORT consisting of periods 23, 27 and 32 days and the LONG with a single period of 64 days, both the sets at a significance level of 99%. During the 95 years at this level of significance there are 44 years with SHORT and 20 years with LONG periods. 11 years have no ISO even at the 90% level of significance. We composited NCEP SST anomalies of the summer monsoon season June to September for two groups of years during the period 1965–1993. The first group is of 5 years with a LONG ISO period of 64 days for south Kerala rainfall at significance level of 99% and the second group is of 12 years with SHORT ISO periods of 23, 27 and 32 days at the same level of significance. The SST anomaly for the LONG (SHORT) ISO resembles that for an El Nino (La Nina).     

南水北调西线一期工程引水区和黄河上游区域气候特征分析

利用引水区和黄河上游地区25个站1951—2000年50 a的气温和降水逐日资料,分析了研究区域降水的时空分布特征;把引水区和黄河上游地区分成7个小区,利用小波分析的方法研究了各小区气温和降水的多时间尺度特征.结果表明:黄河上游和南水北调西线引水区夏、秋、冬三季降水以同步的变化为主,其次为黄河上游与引水区之间存在反位相的变化.春季降水主要表现为黄河上游与引水区之间存在反位相的变化,其次才表现为一致的变化.各区的气温均以同步升温为主.降水具准3 a和准22 a周期,气温的振荡周期主要是2~5 a的小周期和准11 a的周期.引水区和黄河上游地区近50 a来夏季的降水在一致变化的基础上也有着明显的区别.