Recent structures in the Alboran Ridge and Yusuf fault zones based on swath bathymetry and sub-bottom profiling: evidence of active tectonics

The seafloor of the Alboran Sea in the western Mediterranean is disrupted by deformations resulting from convergence between the African and Eurasian plates. Based on a compilation of existing and new multibeam bathymetry data and high-resolution seismic profiles, our main objective was to characterize the most recent structures in the central sector, which depicts an abrupt morphology and was chosen to investigate how active tectonic processes are shaping the seafloor. The Alboran Ridge is the most prominent feature in the Alboran Sea (>130 km in length), and a key element in the Gibraltar Arc System. Recent uplift and deformation in this ridge have been caused by sub-vertical, strike-slip and reverse faults with associated folding in the most recent sediments, their trend shifting progressively from SW–NE to WNW–ESE towards the Yusuf Lineament. Present-day transtensive deformation induces faulting and subsidence in the Yusuf pull-apart basin. The Alboran Ridge and Yusuf fault zones are connected, and both constitute a wide zone of deformation reaching tens of kilometres in width and showing a complex geometry, including different active fault segments and in-relay folds. These findings demonstrate that Recent deformation is more heterogeneously distributed than commonly considered. A narrow SSW–NNE zone with folding and reverse faulting cuts across the western end of the Alboran Ridge and concentrates most of the upper crustal seismicity in the region. This zone of deformation defines a seismogenic, left-lateral fault zone connected to the south with the Al Hoceima seismic swarm, and representing a potential seismic hazard. Newly detected buried and active submarine slides along the Alboran Ridge and the Yusuf Lineament are clear signs of submarine slope instability in this seismically active region.     

塔基海-气界面动量通量观测：向岸风和离岸风情形比较

本文使用塔基直接观测法研究海洋大气边界层中的海-气界面动量通量。首先,我们收集数据并和前人观测结果比对,其比对结果符合一致。其次,在低风速至中等风速条件下,我们发现海-气界面动量通量的交换系数（又称拖曳系数）对于向岸风和离岸风两种情形有所差异。为此,我们使用一个考虑表面波的参数化方案解释海-气界面动量通量对于表面波的依赖关系。这些结果一方面证实表面波对于海-气界面动量通量的影响,另一方面验证一个考虑表面波参数化方案的有效性。     

Analysis and optimization design of submarine tunnels crossing fault fracture zones based on numerical simulation

Abstract

Fault fracture zones have always been a key problem in the construction of submarine tunnels. To efficiently summarize the safety impact of different construction schemes on a submarine tunnel crossing a fault fracture, a theoretical model using numerical simulation has been established via the benching tunnelling construction method, three-step method, Center Diaphragm method (CD method), both sides heading method, Cross Diaphragm method (CRD method) and two kinds of supporting methods: pre-grouting and shotcreting. Numerical simulation studies on the excavation and support of submarine tunnels crossing fault fracture zones have been carried out. The research indicates: the fracture zone is the main area where sedimentation instability occurs; the CRD method has the lowest horizontal convergence under the support of the diaphragm; increasing the grouting strength is more effective in controlling the deformation of the surrounding rock than increasing the range of the pre-grouting and the thickness of the shotcrete in the initial support is increased, and its resulting effect is obvious. To optimize the construction scheme, we compared the settlement, horizontal convergence and surrounding rock stress of the tunnel according to the simulation results of different excavation support methods, which could provide theoretical guidance for better on-site construction techniques.     

基于卫星高度计资料提取浙江近海的潮汐信息

利用Topex/Poseidon(T/P)、Jason-1和Jason-2卫星24a的原始轨道及6a的变轨轨道高度计资料,对浙江近海区域内进行潮汐调和分析,得到8个主要分潮(Q_1、O_1、P_1、K_1、N_2、M_2、S_2和K_2)的调和常数.比较卫星轨道交叉点处潮汐调和常数结果显示,8个分潮总体综合误差在原始轨道,变轨轨道及原始轨道与变轨轨道交叉点处的和方根RSS值分别为3.16、7.02、5.54cm;用卫星高度计资料及31个近岸验潮站得到的潮汐分布与21个验潮站资料结果进行比较,M_2、S_2、N_2、K_1和O_1主要分潮的多点向量均方根偏差分别为4.32、3.64、1.97、2.61、1.83 cm;本研究结果与前人数值模拟结果比较显示M2、S2分潮在对比点处的多点向量均方根偏差在11、8 cm左右,最后给出了浙江近岸及近海区域更为精确的5个主要分潮(M_2、S_2、N_2、K_1和O_1)的同潮图.     

The volcanic debris avalanche on the SE submarine slope of Nisyros volcano, Greece: geophysical exploration and implications for subaerial eruption history

A spectacular hummocky topography was discovered offshore of the south-eastern slope of the Nisyros island volcano in the eastern sector of the Aegean volcanic arc in 2000–2001, using multibeam bathymetric mapping and seismic profiling, and interpreted as part of a volcanic debris avalanche originating onland. During E/V Nautilus cruise NA011 in 2010, a detailed side-scan sonar and ROV exploration aimed at evaluating the surface morphology of this avalanche field. Combining the new data with selected older datasets reveals that the debris avalanche is characterized by numerous (at least 78) variously sized and shaped hummocks. Some of these are distinctly round, either scattered or aligned in groups, whereas others are elongated in the form of ridges. This is consistent with existing models accounting for variations in the longitudinal and lateral velocity ratio of landslides. Maximum dimensions reach 60 m in height above the sea bottom, 220 m in length and 230 m in width. The structures outline a large tongue-shaped, submarine hummock field of about 22.2 km², approx. 4.8 km wide and 4.6 km long and with an estimated volume of 0.277 km³. Due to its characteristic shape, the collapsed volcanic flank is interpreted to represent a singular failing event, involving a rapid and virtually instantaneous downslope movement of the slide mass into the sea. Indeed, the H/L (height of 280 m vs. run-out of 7 km) ratio for the Nisyros slide is 0.04; plotted against volume, this falls within the theoretical bounds as well as measured values typical of submarine landslides. The timing of the event is probably related to the extrusion of Nikia lavas and their subsequent failure and formation of a main scarp observed at about 120 m depth on an 8-km-long seismic profile and a map of slope angle distribution, at the depth where the palaeo-coastline was located 40 ka ago. An inferred age of ca. 40 ka for the avalanche awaits confirmation based on dating of core material.     

基于船载ADCP观测对罗源湾湾口断面潮流及余流的分析

基于对罗源湾可门水道的25 h连续走航ADCP观测,成功构建了沿走航断面共12个站位的连续海流时间序列,并对这些站位的潮流、余流以及潮通量等进行了分析。结果表明可门水道内的潮流为正规半日潮流,驻波性质明显,涨潮首先出现在水道中下层而退潮则首先发生在水道上层。水道内的潮流为往复流,水道南部M₂分潮流流速较大,并且其倾角自北向南逐渐增加。此外,水道两端的浅水区域内浅水分潮M₄振幅较显著。可门水道内余流呈现出两层结构,20 m以浅余流沿东北向流出海湾,并且出流的核心位置偏南,而20 m以深的余流沿西南向流入湾内,入流的流核位于偏北的近底层区域。对潮通量的积分计算表明通过可门水道进入罗源湾的潮通量约为4.81×108 m3。     

越南离岸流跨海盆特征初步分析

为了更加清晰地分析南海的环流结构,本文利用南海表层卫星跟踪漂流浮标轨迹,结合卫星高度计资料,分析了南海中、南部跨海盆尺度海流。结果表明,2011年9~10月,越南沿岸流向南,并分别在11.5°N和8.5°N(等深线出现弯曲处)转向东形成越南离岸流。之后,这支离岸流在11°~16°N呈现蛇形路径,从越南东岸跨越南海南部海盆到达菲律宾西岸。分析卫星高度计数据,结果表明,秋季南海中北部被气旋式环流控制,气旋式环流南部为东向流,可从越南东部一直到菲律宾沿岸,从而决定了越南离岸流跨海盆的特征。越南离岸流的蛇形路径主要是由反气旋-气旋-反气旋-气旋交错出现的中尺度涡决定的。     

Effects of Ulva prolifera dissipation on the offshore environment based on remote sensing images and field monitoring data

Outbreaks of Ulva prolifera have continued in the South Yellow Sea of China(SYS) since 2007, becoming a serious marine ecological disaster. Large amounts of U. prolifera drift to the coast of the Shandong Peninsula to dissipate under the action of southeast monsoons and ocean surface currents. This causes serious harm to the ecological environment and economic activities of coastal cities. To investigate the impact of U. prolifera dissipation, this study extracted the spatiotemporal distribution...     

Environmental genotoxicity and cytotoxicity in the offshore zones of the Baltic and the North Seas

Micronuclei (MN), nuclear buds (NB) and fragmented-apoptotic cells (FA) were analyzed in mature peripheral blood and immature cephalic kidney erythrocytes of flounder (Platichthys flesus), dab (Limanda limanda) and cod (Gadus morhua) from 12 offshore sites in the Baltic Sea (479 specimens) and 11 sites in the North Sea (291 specimens), which were collected during three research vessel cruises in December 2002, 2003 and in September 2004. The highest levels of environmental genotoxicity (frequencies of MN up to 0.5‰, NB – up to 0.75‰) and cytotoxicity (FA – up to 0.53‰) were observed in flatfishes from areas close to oil and gas platforms in the North Sea and in zones related to the extensive shipping and potentially influenced by contamination from large European Rivers (Elbe, Vistula, Oder). In dab from the offshore zones of the North Sea, the levels of nuclear abnormalities were higher as compared to those in dab from the Baltic Sea. Responses in immature kidney erythrocytes were higher than in mature erythrocytes from peripheral blood. MN frequency lower than 0.05‰ (the Baltic Sea) and lower than 0.1‰ (the North Sea) could be suspected as a reference level in the peripheral blood erythrocytes of flatfish.     

基于ERA5再分析资料的中国近海浅水区域风能潜力评估

风能潜力评估是风电场选址工作的基础工作。本文基于欧洲中期天气预报中心的ERA5再分析数据,采用风功率密度（Wind Power Density,WPD）中值、容量系数（Capacity Factor,CF）以及鲁棒性变异系数（Robust Coefficient of Variation, RCoV）三种指标,对中国近海浅水区域的风能潜力进行评估,研究结果表明:（1）台湾海峡和东海南部风能资源最为丰富并且风能利用率最高,风功率密度中值和容量系数分别为400~900 和0.45~0.7。总体来看,风功率密度中值从渤海到台湾海峡,呈逐渐增加的趋势,从台湾海峡到琼州湾,呈逐渐减小的趋势,容量系数大小分布情况相似。（2）鲁棒性变异系数大小无明显分布规律,广东湛江近岸海域鲁棒性变异系数在0.70~0.75之间,风能发电量最为稳定,但该地区的风能资源丰富程度较低。（3）福州近岸海域不仅有丰富的风能资源和风能利用率,且发电量较为稳定。在不考虑其它因素的影响下,是中国近海浅水区域建设海上风电场的最佳地点。     

中国海岸带及近海科学数据平台研究与开发

基于海洋数据的多样性和时空复杂性的特点,采用目前先进的大型空间数据库管理软件——Oracle9i的ArcSDE,ArcGIS桌面系统,完成了海岸带及近海科学数据平台实体的装载和组织工作,并在ArcObject组件的基础上开发了基于C/S的数据平台的前端管理系统,当前该系统可以实现面向海洋用户的遥感数据无缝拼接、多源数据多种快速查询、提取、影像数据的装载以及影像元数据的管理和修改等多种功能.该系统主要服务对象是涉及国家主管海岸带和近海专业的科研调查部门或个人,自其建立以来已经陆续开展一些应用服务,达到了理想的效果,满足了用户的需求.     

叶片变桨失效过程中空气动力失衡对海上风机影响

叶片桨距角之间的角度差异产生的空气动力失衡是海上风机的主要动力问题之一。基于海上风机分析程序FAST和水动力计算程序WADAM开发的一种时域数值模拟程序,可计算海上风机系统在风浪载荷作用下的耦合动力响应。应用此数值工具,模拟一个叶片上变桨控制系统失效的情况,研究空气动力失衡对浮式海上风机系统运动响应的影响。分析表明,空气动力载荷失衡引起的激振不仅激发了浮式基础的横向运动,而且增大了基础的纵荡运动和首摇运动。同时,空气动力失衡还大幅增加了风机塔柱底部受到的横向剪切力,对风机系统的安全性造成了威胁。     

The role of permeability evolution in fault zones on the structural and hydro-mechanical characteristics of shortening basins

We examine the role of basin-shortening on the development of structural compartments in passive margin basins. A coupled flow-deformation model is used to follow the evolution of an idealized prismatic basin during lateral shortening. This includes the deformation-induced generation (lateral compaction) and dissipation (hydraulic fracturing) of pore fluid pressures and the resulting natural evolution of an underlying décollement and subsidiary fault structures. This model is used to examine the influence of strata stiffnesses, strain softening, permeability-strain dependence, permeability contrast between layers, and deformation rate on the resulting basin structure and to infer fluid charge within these structures. For a geometry with a permeability contrast at the base of the basin a basal décollement forms as the basin initially shortens, excess pore pressures build from the impeded drainage and hydrofracturing releases fluid mass and resets effective stresses. As shortening continues, thrust faults form, nucleating at the décollement. Elevated pore pressures approaching the lithostat are localized at the hanging wall boundary of the faults. Faults extend to bound blocks that are vertically offset to yield graben-like structural highs and lows and evolve with distinctive surface topography and separate pore pressure signatures. Up-thrust blocks have elevated fluid pressures and reduced effective stresses at their core, and down-thrust blocks the converse. The development of increased permeability on localized fault structures is a necessary condition to yield this up-thrust and down-thrust geometry. In the anti-physical case where evolution of permeability with shear strain is artificially suppressed, pervasive shear develops throughout the basin depth as fluid pressures are stabilized everywhere to the lithostat. Correspondingly, permeability evolution with shear is an important, likely crucial, feedback in promoting localization.     

上海邻近海域风暴潮数据同化与特征分析

风暴潮是一种复杂的对众多因素敏感又备受关注的海洋现象。本文基于协方差局地化的集合卡尔曼滤波方法（EnKF）,选择201810号台风“安比”登陆上海的风暴潮过程,首次将海洋站和FVCOM数值模拟的不同来源、不同误差信息、不同时空分辨率的风暴潮进行数据同化融合,获得了逐72 h的上海海域风暴潮的最优解,进行了同化结果评估验证,并给出了集合样本数和Schur半径设置范围。结果表明,实测计算和数值模拟的风暴增减水之间均方根误差为0.20 m,实测和同化计算的风暴增减水之间均方根误差为0.07 m,准确度提高了65%;独立观测和同化计算的风暴增减水均方根误差为0.09 m,集合离散度与均方根误差比值为0.90,同化效果较好且可信;同化后的风暴增减水能够较好地刻画双峰增水、台风眼增水、增水锋面等特征,对于风暴潮研究、数值模拟结果订正、海洋防灾减灾等有重要意义。     

海岸带区域SPOT卫星数据大气校正处理

将SPOT卫星自身近红外波段的数据作为气溶胶信息的来源,假设近红外波段暗像元受到大气影响较弱,卫星表观反射率近似等于地表反射率,且近红外波段暗像元与红光波段具备近似的线性关系,通过开源6S大气辐射传输模型的调试运行,并结合敏感性实验建立大气校正所需的查找表,最后通过一定的算法,实现了SPOT卫星Level_0级数据的大...     

基于弹簧—阻尼理论的海上变电站动力特性研究

近年来,随着海上风电的迅速发展,海上变电站的建设也逐渐兴起。然而,错综复杂、瞬息万变的海洋环境对变电站的安全性和稳定性提出了严峻的挑战,因此有必要加强对变电站分析和研究的重视。为了提高变电站数值模型分析的效率,研究以海上风电场变电站为中心,采用ABAQUS建立了实体土有限元模型和基于弹簧—阻尼理论的有限元模型,以模拟桩土相互作用。随后进行了模态分析、风浪流响应分析和地震响应分析研究。研究结果表明：使用两种模型进行模态分析得出的振型非常相似,频率误差小于5%。此外,在承受风和波流荷载时,两种模型得出的变电站结构响应具有显著的一致性。在地震荷载作用下,两个模型中样本点位移时程曲线的相位频率与测量数据非常接近。值得注意的是,基于弹簧—阻尼理论的模型计算出的振幅与地震波测量数据更为接近。此外,弹簧—阻尼理论方法还大大提高了计算效率。     

Needs for oceanographic data to determine loads on coastal and offshore structures

The theoretical design concept as it exists today depends upon the reliable estimation of the environmental factors interacting with structure. This paper deals with the requirements for the oceanographical data as best we can determine them. It is concluded that the requirements for many data are not met at present. In view of the high cost of the offshore and coastal data collection, the coordinated efforts of oceanic data gathering and analysis should be undertaken.     

Middle to Late Cenozoic tectonic events in south and central Palawan (Philippines) and their implications to the evolution of the south-eastern margin of South China Sea: Evidence from onshore structural and offshore seismic data

Using recently gathered onland structural and 2D/3D offshore seismic data in south and central Palawan (Philippines), this paper presents a new perspective in unraveling the Cenozoic tectonic history of the southeastern margin of the South China Sea. South and central Palawan are dominated by Mesozoic ophiolites (Palawan Ophiolite), distinct from the primarily continental composition of the north. These ophiolites are emplaced over syn-rift Eocene turbidites (Panas Formation) along thrust structures best preserved in the ophiolite–turbidite contact as well as within the ophiolites. Thrusting is sealed by Early Miocene (∼20 Ma) sediments of the Pagasa Formation (Isugod Formation onland), constraining the younger limit of ophiolite emplacement at end Late Oligocene (∼23 Ma). The onset of ophiolite emplacement at end Eocene is constrained by thrust-related metamorphism of the Eocene turbidites, and post-emplacement underthrusting of Late Oligocene – Early Miocene Nido Limestone. This carbonate underthrusting at end Early Miocene (∼16 Ma) is marked by the deformation of a seismic unit corresponding to the earliest members of the Early – Middle Miocene Pagasa Formation. Within this formation, a tectonic wedge was built within Middle Miocene (from ∼16 Ma to ∼12 Ma), forming a thrust-fold belt called the Pagasa Wedge. Wedge deformation is truncated by the regionally-observed Middle Miocene Unconformity (MMU ∼12 Ma). A localized, post-kinematic extension affects thrust-fold structures, the MMU, and Late Miocene to Early Pliocene carbonates (e.g. Tabon Limestone). This structural set-up suggests a continuous convergent regime affecting the southeastern margin of the South China Sea between end Eocene to end Middle Miocene. The ensuing structures including juxtaposed carbonates, turbidites and shallow marine clastics within thrust-fold belts have become ideal environments for hydrocarbon generation and accumulation. Best developed in the Northwest Borneo Trough area, the intensity of thrust-fold deformation decreases towards the northeast into offshore southwest Palawan.     

基于专利信息的海上风电技术趋势分析

基于德温特数据库中的专利信息,通过对比海上风电和其他海洋主要可再生能源的年专利信息,结合海上风电专利数量与碳减排压力以及年新增装机数量之间的相关性分析,对海上风电技术发展做了分析,归纳了海上风电的重点技术领域;构建了海上风电技术成熟度预测分析模型。分析结果表明,海上风电技术发展迅速,目前整体的技术成熟度已达到0.87,已从成熟期进入饱和期。浮式风电作为一种具有替代性特征的新兴技术,也得到了快速的发展,目前的技术成熟度已达到0.54,从技术成长期进入技术成熟期。     

Extension of the Paraná Basin to offshore Brazil: Implications for coalbed methane evaluation

Coalbed methane (CBM) is a worldwide exploration target of the petroleum industry. In Brazil, the most important coal-bearing succession is associated with the Permian Rio Bonito Formation of the Paraná Basin. The gas-prone areas are located at the southeastern margin of the Paraná Basin and possibly in the offshore region of the northern part of the Pelotas Basin. Coalfields end abruptly at the present day shoreline, a result of rifting of Gondwana and the evolution of the South Atlantic Ocean. All geologic indicators suggest that in pre-rift times the coal seams extended further eastwards, probably now lying deeply buried below the sedimentary succession of the Pelotas Basin. The present paper discusses structural, stratigraphic, seismic and aeromagenetic data that support the preservation of continental crust beneath ocean sediment. If the coal beds had similar lateral extent to known onshore coals, and coal beds extended across the projected extension of the Parana basin, and there was a conservative 5 m of cumulative coal thickness, then a potential methane volume can be estimated for this newly inferred resource. Average onshore coal gas content is 32 scf/ton (1.00 m³/ton). If this is similar in the offshore coal deposits, then the hypothetical methane volume in the offshore area could be in excess of 1.9 × 10¹² scf (56 × 10⁹ m³). Metamorphism from dikes associated with rifting are potential complicating factors in these deposits, and since no borehole reaching the deep-lying strata in the offshore area are available, this is a hypothetical gas resource with a certain level of uncertainty which should be tested in the future by drilling a deep borehole.