Effect of structure and texture on infiltration flow pattern during flood irrigation

Understanding the flow pattern of water and solute in subsurface soils is critically important in the fields of agricultural and environmental sciences. Dye tracer tests using a flood irrigation of Brilliant Blue FCF solution (5 g l^-1) and excavation method was performed to investigate the effect of texture and structure on the infiltration pattern at three different field soils developed from granite (GR), gneiss (GN) and limestone (LS). The GR soil showed a homogeneous matrix flow in the surface soil with weak, medium granular structure and a macropore flow along pegmatitic vein and plant root in C horizon. The surface horizon (A1) of GN soil with moderate, medium granular structure and many fine roots had matrix flow. The fingering occurred at the interfaces of sandy loam A horizon and loamy sand C horizon in GR soil and loam A1 horizon and sandy loam A2 horizon in GN soil. The LS soil with strong, coarse prismatic structure and the finest texture showed a macropore flow along cracks and had the deepest penetration of the dye tracer. The macropore (crack and vein), layer interface and plant root induced the preferential flow in the studied soils.     

江汉平原土壤饱和渗透系数变化规律及影响因素

目前对影响土壤饱和渗透系数规律的机理缺乏深刻认识.以不同沉积环境、不同岩性及不同土地利用方式的江汉平原汉江下游浅层土壤为对象,采用改进的TST-55型土壤渗透仪开展室内变水头达西实验.结果表明,研究区内土壤饱和渗透系数平均值为4.94×10-5cm/s,服从对数-正态分布;粉砂壤土冲积物和湖积物的饱和渗透系数平均值为3.53×10-5cm/s和1.98×10-5cm/s,粉砂质粘壤土中,两者分别为8.13×10-7cm/s和5.88×10-7cm/s,同一岩性冲积物的饱和渗透系数较湖积物大;冲积物中,砂壤土、粉砂壤土和粉砂质粘壤土饱和渗透系数平均值为1.98×10-5 cm/s、3.53×10-5 cm/s和8.13×10-7 cm/s,表现为砂壤土>粉砂壤土>粉砂质粘壤土;耕作土壤中,粉砂壤土、粉砂质粘壤土的饱和渗透系数平均值为3.75×10-5 cm/s和8.11×10-7cm/s,非耕作土壤中,两者分别为1.88×10-6cm/s、5.93×10-7cm/s,同一岩性耕作土壤饱和渗透系数较非耕作土壤大.      

从岩石到土壤再到水系沉积物：风化过程的岩性地球化学基因

不活动元素的稳定性使得风化岩石、土壤和水系沉积物等风化产物能够保留新鲜母岩的元素特征,它们之间的含量变化趋势有可能从母岩传递到其风化产物中,这类似于生物学中基因遗传。仿照生物学中基因的特性提出了地球化学基因的概念及其构建方法,为了比较地球化学基因的相似程度进而提出基因相似度的概念及其计算方法。以风化过程中11种不活动元素为例,基于中国酸性岩、中性岩、基性岩的元素丰度数据构建了表征岩石及其风化产物地球化学特性的岩性地球化学基因,其元素序列为：Al2O3→SiO2→P→Ti→La→Fe2O3→Th→Zr→Nb→Y→U。利用豫西熊耳山地区安山岩风化剖面、残坡积—沟系土剖面、化探详查水系沉积物和区域化探水系沉积物4种比例尺尺度的样品对构建的岩性地球化学基因进行了检验,结果发现岩性地球化学基因在风化过程中具有很好的遗传性(从岩石到风化产物)和继承性(从土壤到其源岩),利用岩性地球化学基因可以对土壤样品进行物源示踪。源自同一母岩的水系沉积物和土壤之间在岩性地球化学基因方面具有很好的相似性(同源风化产物之间)。基于中国区域化探水系沉积物调查数据,可以构建岩性地球化学基因库来对岩石及其风化产物样品进行溯源分析,在地质、环境、法庭等科学领域具有潜在应用前景。     

Weathering and mineralogical variation in gneissic rocks and their effect in Sangrumba Landslide,East Nepal

Sangrumba landslide is one of the largest and the most active landslides in Nepal Himalaya. Geologically the landslide belongs to the Higher Himalaya and consists of Pre-Cambrian biotite–garnet and sillimanite gneiss with some quartzite. The present paper aims at describing various degrees of rock weathering and their effect in Sangrumba landslide. Field study followed by mineralogical, geochemical and geotechnical analyses of the collected rock and soil samples from the landslide zone were used in characterizing weathering degree. The gneisses are intensely weathered while quartzite is unweathered. Petrographical and X-ray diffraction analyses showed that the rocks in the landslide zone had undergone weathering process with the formation of different types of clay minerals as kaolinite, vermiculite, smectite and chlorite. This was further confirmed by the Scan Electron Microscope and Energy Dispersive X-ray analyses. These clay minerals drastically reduced the rock strength facilitating the extensive failure of the Sangrumba landslide. The major and trace element composition of the rock and soil samples was calculated from the XRF analyses. The geochemical analyses and weathering indexes of rocks showed that they are significantly weathered and had a major influence in the formation of the Sangrumba landslide. In addition, mechanical strength measurement of rock/soil showed that the strength drastically decreases as the weathering intensity increases. Rainfall followed by the rock type are the most dominant parameters influencing the weathering process which leads to the formation of large landslide as the present one. These findings can be used in other areas with similar geological and topographical conditions.     

特殊地质地貌区填图物化探技术应用

基于物化探技术方法在特殊地质地貌区填图中的应用实验,介绍从区域物化探数据提取地质填图信息的方法,指出重磁与氡-汞气测联合应用是覆盖区探测隐伏岩体、断裂的高效低成本物化探技术组合。运用基于地球化学理论方法的元素地球化学判别技术,在强烈风化区定量划分风化等级为:基岩-弱风化-中度风化-强风化-全风化-残积土等;指出风化壳元素地球化学行为对原生矿物分解、次生矿物形成具有示踪效应;不同风化层稀土元素富集分异显著,强烈富集于全风化层（岩土界面或风化岩石顶界）中的稀土元素分布模式,可作为界定风化壳分层的重要地球化学判别指标。      

土壤中Hg离子地球化学行为模拟实验 ——以山西的典型土壤为例

土壤样品分别采于山西省大同、太原和临汾3个地区。实验分成吸附解吸实验和运移实验2个部分。其中吸附实验分成砂粒土壤和粘粒土壤2个粒级分别进行。结果表明：3种土壤对Hg的吸附量随着加入Hg离子溶液浓度的增加而增加。用4种吸附模式来拟合3种土样对Hg的吸附可以得出,Freundlich模式和Langmuir模式能较好地拟合3种土壤对Hg吸附的实验数据。3种土壤对Hg都有一定的吸持固定作用。解吸率由大到小依次为大同土壤〉临汾土壤〉太原土壤。当Hg^2＋的浓度为300mg/L时,Hg在大同土壤中的穿透速率最快,在太原土壤中穿透速率最慢。从而得出Hg^2＋在壤质砂土中运移速度最快、在粉壤土中运移速度最慢的结论。     

河北滦平周台子条带状铁矿地质特征、围岩时代及其地质意义

河北滦平县周台子铁矿位于华北克拉通北缘,是产于前寒武纪单塔子群变质岩系中的鞍山式铁矿,具有条带状铁建造(BIF)特征。矿石主要呈条带状构造,有的呈条纹和致密块状构造。矿石类型主要以石英磁铁矿型为主,含铁介于30%~35%。前寒武纪变质岩是矿床的主要围岩,出露有黑云母(角闪)斜长片麻岩和斜长角闪岩,局部见花岗片麻岩。原岩恢复表明,黑云母(角闪)斜长片麻岩的原岩为英安岩-流纹岩,斜长角闪岩原岩为玄武岩。花岗片麻岩的SiO₂含量大于56%,MgO含量小于3%,Al₂O₃含量大于15%,Sr含量大于500×10^-6,Yb含量均小于1.9×10^-6,轻重稀土元素分异明显,重稀土元素强烈亏损,并且Eu负异常不明显,表明该片麻岩具埃达克质岩石的地球化学特征。锆石U-Pb定年结果显示出几组年龄,分别是2512±21Ma, 2452±9.6Ma,2394±55Ma。大体看,2512Ma代表了火山喷发和周台子铁矿BIF沉淀年龄,2452Ma左右的锆石年龄代表了TTG质花岗片麻岩的侵位结晶年龄,2394Ma锆石年龄代表了周台子铁矿经历了一次变质作用,并对原有的岩石和矿石进行了改造。锆石Hf同位素特征显示斜长角闪岩和TTG质片麻岩的岩浆源区受到过古老地壳物质的混染。周台子铁矿构造环境可能是与裂谷有关的张性环境。     

GLOBAL CHANGES IN CLIMATE DURING ALBIAN-LATE CRETACEOUS TIME

The northern Dabieshan metamorphic terrain (NDT) is an analogue of an Andean-type magmatic arc. The predominant rock type is a trondhjemitic-tonalitic-granodioritic (TTG) gneiss with bodies of meta-ultramafic-gabbroic rocks, basic granulite, and metasedimentary horizons. The TTG gneisses occupy about 70-80 vol% of the metamorphic rock outcrop and constitute two gneiss domes. Several approximately E-W- or NW-SE-trending ductile deforma- tion belts cut through the TTG gneisses and are especially developed in the northern and southern margins of the NDT and around the domes. Most ultramafic-mafic rocks occur as lenses in ductile deformation belts. Metasedimentary horizons consist of marble, biotite quartz schist, metaquartzite, metamorphosed calc-silicate rocks, fine-grained biotite gneiss, banded iron formation, and amphibolite. Petrographic and geochemical studies show that: (1) meta- morphic rocks in the NDT underwent amphibolite-granulite facies metamorphism, and no eclogite-facies high-pressure mineral relicts were found in any rocks; and (2) ultramafic-mafic rocks do not have the petrological and geochemical characteristics of ophiolitic rocks; they appear to be an island-arc ultramafic-gabbroic intrusion. The limited isotopic data indicate that the northern Dabieshan terrain is possibly a Paleozoic magmatic arc. The data in this paper provide some implications for formation and exhumation of ultra-high pressure metamorphic (UHPM) rocks.     

强震区土坝抗震措施研究

国内大量建于20世纪50～70年代的土坝,坝体施工质量普遍较差,且坝基为密实度较低的粉砂土。在地震作用下极易液化,为此必须开展地震动力安全性性评价,并研究相应的抗震工程措施。针对庆安水库,通过对混凝土连续墙、振冲碎石桩和抛石压重3种常用抗震加固方案的分析,推荐了土坝抗震加固的合理工程措施,可在类似工程中推广使用。     

攀枝花地区昔格达土的土壤层环境地球化学特征

攀枝花地区昔格达土系粉砂壤土和粉砂土，土壤中原生矿物主要为石英和长石，次生矿物主要为蒙脱石，伊利石和高岭石。昔格达土不同层痊稀土元素分布特征相似，稀土元素在成土过程中没有明显的地球化学迁移，对母岩具有一定的继承性。昔格达土各层位Ti、V、Cr、Ni、Cu、Zn、Pb、As、Cd等元素具有较高的地球化学背景，在地表水和地下水的作用下容易释放进入环境，造成环境污染。     

Environmental influences on the yield of spring Barley in England and Wales

Using data on crop yields and soil conditions derived from reports of the Soil Survey of England and Wales, and incorporating a variety of climatic and topographic data, relationships were identified between the yield of spring barley and edaphic and climatic conditions. Yields are highest on fine loamy and silty soils and on freely to imperfectly drained soils. Multiple regression analysis indicated that yields are related to sand contents, drainage conditions and available water capacity of the soil, potential summer soil moisture deficit and annual accumulated temperature.     

Cultural implications of architectural mortar selection at Mesa Verde National Park,Colorado

Architectural mortar from two ancestral Pueblo sites (Spruce Tree House and Nordenskiöld's Ruin 12) located in Mesa Verde National Park was investigated using visual, mineralogical, and geochemical techniques. Results indicate ancestral Pueblo people had a preference for mortars composed of sand and clay contents that produce a USDA textural class of sandy clay loam to clay loam. A temporal trajectory of soil selection is observed at Spruce Tree House, with mesa‐top soils being preferred during the early period of occupation, but with soils below cliff dwellings preferred during later periods. Mortar geochemical composition is found to differ between cliff dwellings, and sometimes between households within a cliff dwelling, due to local soil differences and/or potential amendment additions. Results from Spruce Tree House indicate that contemporaneous households shared access to mortar sources. The prevalence and possible origins of gypsum found in mortar are discussed. Finally, this research examines the possibility that land tenure rights may have extended beyond those lands used exclusively for agricultural purposes. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

高塑性黏土设置区域对土石坝混凝土结构应力变形影响

在土石坝混凝土结构周围设置一定范围的高塑土可以控制防渗墙改善应力集中、控制可能发生的裂缝。对设置不同高塑土区域心墙堆石坝进行有限元计算分析比较,结果表明,在廊道和主防渗墙顶局部设置高塑土,比沿心墙底部通长布置更能改善混凝土结构应力。心墙底高塑土区域设置过大,反而会使得原来局部设置高塑土分散的坝体荷载重新调整,从而导致廊道和主防渗墙的应力增加。     

兴蒙-华北地球化学走廊带稀土元素含量与空间分布

为研究兴蒙造山带-华北克拉通地球化学走廊带区域地球化学组成及其横向空间变化,统计分析不同地理单元和五万图幅单元的REE含量并绘制其空间分布折线图.内蒙古半干旱草原土壤中稀土含量较低,与其草原沙土的粘土矿物较少有关;江苏北部冲积平原区的土壤中稀土含量较高,与降雨量存在良好空间对应关系.内蒙古红格尔到河北张家口,土壤与岩石∑REE的比值绝大多数小于1,REE发生贫化;山东章丘到江苏连云港,比值基本大于1,REE发生富集.华北克拉通内蒙地块土壤稀土特征与兴蒙造山带相似,可能受其草原沙土景观的影响.在不同构造单元之间,LREE与HREE亏损与富集的空间分布存在细微差异.结果表明:地理景观,特别是黏土矿物是影响土壤REE含量的重要因素,降雨量与REE存在良好空间对应关系,REE自身的地球化学性质的差异在土壤形成过程中对轻重稀土元素分异具有重要影响.      

Batch and column experiments to support heavy metals (Cu,Zn and Mn) in alluvial sediments

Laboratory batch sorption and column transport experiments were performed on heterogeneous alluvial soils with a wide range of physical characteristics from wells that are located in the region between Mogan Lake and Eymir Lake, Gölba??, Ankara. The mean values for the K _d of Cu were found to be highest in clay (32550.350 L/kg) and lowest in loamy sand (18170.76 L/kg). The minimum and maximum sorption capacity values (mean values) for Zn were found to be in clay (10985.148 mg/kg) and in silty loam (8597.14 mg/kg) units, respectively. Similarly, the minimum and maximum values for Mn were found in loamy sand (4908.695 mg/kg) and clay (7587.391 mg/kg) units. The non-linear least-squares optimization code “CXTFIT” was used to determine transport parameter values by curve-fitting. The results of the column experiments demonstrate dispersivity values within the range of 0.024–1.13 cm for soil samples.     

Magnetic detection of heated soils at paleolithic sites in Japan

We present a methodological approach to detect heated soil on ancient sites, using magnetic measurements. The method is based on changes in magnetic signals of soil by heating. The following three types of soil were used for testing the method: silty soil (SS), weathered volcanic ash (WVA, = loam) and fairly fresh volcanic ash (VA) called Odori tephra. On heating above 250–600°C, the magnetic susceptibility and remanent magnetization intensity increased for the SS and WVA samples, reflecting chemical alteration of magnetic minerals (from goethites to magnetites through hematites). The VA sample showed no susceptibility change suggesting the absence of goethites within it. On heating below 250°C, only the intensities of all the samples increased. This is possibly due to acquisition of thermal remanent magnetization. The largest change of the magnetic signals was identified for the SS sample and the smallest one was seen for the VA sample. Therefore, the in situ susceptibility measurement, which is the nondestructive and indirect method, seems to be effective to detect heated soil for sites of aqueous deposits as the SS. On the other hand, for sites of aeolian deposits as the WVA (loam) and VA, the intensity measurement of collected soils seems to be the most reliable method to detect evidence of heating. The degree of the magnetic stability (coercivity) against progressive alternating-field demagnetization was also an important parameter, indicating whether the investigated soils were heated or unheated. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Modelling the behaviour of a retaining wall in residual soils for a cut and cover construction of a deep station in Metro do Porto

This paper presents a re-appreciation of the ground characterisation and the criteria to select the most representative geomechanical parameters to consider in a numerical model to predict the behaviour of a retaining wall of a deep excavation in highly weathered granite rock masses and residual soils. This study was focused in the construction of a deep station of Metro do Porto, which involved a cut and cover solution, with unusual proportions (in plant and in depth), built in the typical Oporto's granite weathered profiles, being the excavation conducted with retaining walls consisting of multi-anchored concrete piles. Specific sections were carefully instrumented, due to the presence of historic buildings in the vicinity. The definition of representative model parameters was based on precise laboratory tests over high quality soil samples, including oedometer and high-precision triaxial tests. Geotechnical and geological characterisation of all the area for the original design, was initially based on in situ tests, such as SPT and rock masses classification, and on the local experience on this type of ground. After this construction, the assumptions of parameterisation, using a constitutive modelling based on new laboratory tests over high quality block samples, allowed a reanalysis of the assumptions on the design phase. A back-analysis of monitored displacements and forces during the construction was made, assuming the designed structural solutions, which were in fact implemented in construction, but considering the new approaches on the definition of the geomechanical parameters for the prevailing weathered rock masses, necessary for the numerical simulation based on the commercial software Plaxis®, using the Mohr-Coulomb and “Hardening-Soil” models. Some specific changes of the constructive sequence during the excavation and activation of supporting system were attained, by looking at the information found during the construction. The results of this parametrical re-approach and analysis of the singularities of highly weathered granite and corresponding residual soils masses for modelling of retaining walls of large excavations are discussed.     

鲁西地区新太古代中期岩浆活动——新甫山与上港等岩体锆石SHRIMPU—Pb定年的证据

新甫山、上港岩体分布于鲁西新太古代早期泰山岩群和英云闪长质片麻岩、条带状英云闪长质片麻岩组成的古陆核的东北部。主要岩性为片麻状花岗闪长岩及片麻状奥长花岗岩。根据新的锆石SHRIMPU—Pb定年结果,片麻状花岗闪长岩形成年龄为（2613±12）Ma,片麻状奥长花岗岩形成年龄为（26234±9）Ma,为新太古代中期形成。在泰山桃花峪一下港之间出露的条带状英云闪长质片麻岩中奥长花岗质脉体锆石U—Pb年龄在2660～2600Ma。该期岩体是新太古代早期英云闪长质片麻岩发生变质作用与重熔岩浆作用的产物。     

别子型火山成因块状硫化物矿床的地质和地球化学特征

别子型矿床最早形成于古元古代,并在显生宙海沟环境或弧前盆地广泛发育,其成矿区域发育厚层沉积岩地层,覆盖在火山岩之上,对成矿流体物质交换和金属元素富集有重要意义。别子型块状硫化物矿床下盘发育强烈的黄铁绢英岩化,而上盘仅发育微弱的绿泥石化、碳酸盐化。矿床常呈单个矿体产出或2~3个矿体连生,剖面上,由下至上表现为枕状玄武岩→块状含铜黄铁矿矿石→块状、条带状燧石黄铁矿矿石→块状碧玉岩。别子型矿床的火山岩围岩多为钙碱性系列,少量拉斑系列,与活动大陆边缘的岛弧火山岩具有相似的微量和稀土元素地球化学特征。成矿流体中的硫为幔源硫和海水硫的混合来源,成矿元素来源为幔-壳混合源。     

Geochemistry of soils of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica: Implications for pedogenesis in cold polar regions

Fine fractions of soils on the Barton Peninsula, King George Island, West Antarctica have been forming during the last 6000 yr since the last deglaciation. Texturally, they are mostly composed of mineral and rock fragments with some volcanic ashes, which are also indicated by geochemical compositions representing for the nonclay silicate minerals and low values of chemical index of alteration. No significant changes are observed in major- and trace element abundances. Such geochemical characteristics suggest that chemical weathering of bedrocks on the Barton Peninsula seems insignificant and that the soils are composed of physically weathered mineral and rock fragments which are mixed with eolian additions of volcanic ashes and Patagonian dusts. Chondrite-normalized rare earth element (REE) distribution patterns of the Barton Peninsula soils are slightly different from those of bedrocks, indicating that the REE abundances and characteristics were influenced by eolian additions. Mixing calculations, which mass-balance the REEs, suggest that volcanic ashes blown from Deception Island were the major eolian contributor, followed by atmospheric dusts sourced from Patagonia, South America. Even in the warmer and humid climatic conditions in the maritime Antarctic region, the chemical weathering of bedrocks appears to be insignificant, probably due to the relatively short duration of weathering since the last deglaciation.