大亚湾表层沉积物镁铝含量比变化及影响因素

本文讨论了大亚湾沉积物镁铝含量比——m值的分布、季节变化及m值与水介质的关系,结果证实,水介质的盐度、pH和水温是m值的主要影响因素,且水介质的盐度是决定m值大小的最基本要素。当3个影响因素呈同向变化时,对m值的变化具有叠加作用,m值的变化幅度较大;当盐度与pH呈相反方向变化时,若△pH>0.06,可对m值产生明显的影响,m值的变化与pH同向。从大亚湾沉积物m值随季节变化的特征表明,m值对沉积环境中水介质变化的反应是灵敏的。这一结果显示了m值对水介质变化能够响应的灵敏度。     

深海氧同位素第3阶段古气候—海平面变化研究进展

根据近年来的主要研究成果,简要综述了深海氧同位素第3阶段(MIS 3)气候—海平面变化特征及其沉积记录的研究进展.MIS3期间的气候变化是古气候研究中的重要组成部分,该时段的某些气候特征与现今十分类似.取自极地冰心、海洋沉积物和陆地的古气候记录表明,在MIS3阶段全球经历了一系列数百年至千年时间尺度的快速气候突变事件,其成因、机制和影响范围还存在明显的不确定性.利用深海沉积物的氧同位素、珊瑚礁阶地、陆源碎屑沉积记录分析得出的MIS3古海平面高度偏差较大,主要认为在-50～-90 m之间波动,但也有研究表明MIS3海平面可达-15～-20 m.对MIS3古气候和海平面变化的深入研究,有赖于全球范围内更多不同类型和高分辨率的地质记录所提供的证据.     

盐度、pH对波纹巴非蛤(Paphia undulate)滤水率的影响

在实验室条件下,用流水系统分别测定了盐度和pH对波纹巴非蛤(Paphia undulata)滤水率的影响.对盐度梯度分别为24,28,32,36和pH值分别为7.0,7.5,8.0,8.5,9.0 梯度下波纹巴非蛤的滤水率进行了测定.结果表明:盐度和pH对波纹巴非蛤的滤水率有显著影响.在盐度24～32范围内滤水率随着盐度的升高而增大,在盐度32～36范围内随着盐度的升高而减小,盐度28和32时滤水率明显高于其它盐度组.在pH值7.0～9.0范围内,波纹巴非蛤的滤水率变化迅速,呈现一个峰值变化,pH值为8时达到最大值.     

岱海沉积物粒度特征及其古环境意义

处于北方环境敏感带的封闭湖泊岱海，其沉积物的粒度特征反映了岱海降水、水动力搬运强度以及湖面水位高低的变化。较为丰富的降水及较强的水动力条件容易沉积成分较粗的陆源碎屑颗粒；当湖面较低时，缩短了沉积物搬运区与沉积区的距离，也容易使沉积物粗颗粒组分增加，但仅从平均粒径大小上很难时对其沉积作用形式作出判断。通过对贷海沉积物粒度频率曲线的分析，讨论了湖泊的几种可能沉积作用，区分了正常流水沉积与极端条件下风力作用以及水流与风力作用混合沉积，从而揭示了沉积时的古环境特征，在岩心12．34－14．18m段，即10．5ka前具有低湖面、气候寒冷、降水多次波动的特点。     

昆特依盐湖氯同位素特征及古气候意义

于1994－1996年,采用高精度正热电离质谱测定氯同位素（δ37Cl）的方法,对青海柴达木盆地昆特依盐湖区的盐湖卤水、湖底盐类矿物、油田水以及该地区的盐类沉积物钻孔剖面的δ37Cl值进行了初步研究。结果表明,该地区的δ37Cl值（卤水）变化范围在-2．05‰—1．04‰,盐湖卤水的δ37Cl值较低,这与卤水的相对密度及pH值有关;盐类沉积钻孔剖面的δ37Cl值呈现自下而上逐渐降低的趋势,这一变化与该地区的古气候变化有关。盐类沉积的δ37Cl值研究将会对高原干旱、蒸发环境条件下湖相沉积古气候演化的研究提供一种新的手段。     

基于浮标监测的连云港近海紫菜养殖区水环境特征

为促进海洋渔业经济的健康可持续发展,文章以连云港高公岛附近的紫菜养殖区为研究区域,利用海洋环境综合监测浮标实时监测水环境和气象数据,采用定性和定量相结合的方法,分析紫菜养殖区海域的水温、电导率、水压、溶解氧浓度、pH值、盐度、叶绿素浓度和浊度等水环境因子的统计和变化特征及其相关性,在此基础上分析气象条件对水环境因子的影响。研究结果表明：研究区域的水温和盐度适宜紫菜养殖,浊度属于强变异性;水温和电导率整体呈逐渐升高的趋势,溶解氧浓度和pH值呈逐渐降低的趋势,其他水环境因子呈波动状态;水压的变化与气压具有一致性,水体未受到溶解氧和酸碱污染;水温与电导率之间存在较强的正相关性,水温与溶解氧浓度和pH值之间存在较强的负相关性,pH值与叶绿素浓度和盐度之间存在较强的正相关性;气象条件对水环境因子存在一定的影响,海上大风导致水体浊度陡增。     

海洋盐度场对细粒沉积物临界剪应力影响

黄河口海域盐度变化受黄河入海径流量、气候及海洋动力条件的影响,河口沉积物的沉降、固结及侵蚀等动力学行为与黄河口海域盐度变化有密切关系。为研究不同盐度环境对河口沉积物抗侵蚀性变化的影响,在现代黄河三角洲刁口河路潮滩上进行原位试验,模拟不同盐度的沉积环境,使用黏结力仪(CSM)对细粒沉积物进行抗侵蚀性测试。结果表明细粒沉积物的临界剪应力为0.728~1.581Pa,且随着沉积环境盐度增加,细粒沉积物的临界剪应力呈线性增加。当沉积环境盐度增加1时,其临界剪应力增加约0.02Pa。     

海洋盐度场对细粒沉积物临界剪应力影响北大核心CSCD

黄河口海域盐度变化受黄河入海径流量、气候及海洋动力条件的影响,河口沉积物的沉降、固结及侵蚀等动力学行为与黄河口海域盐度变化有密切关系。为研究不同盐度环境对河口沉积物抗侵蚀性变化的影响,在现代黄河三角洲刁口河路潮滩上进行原位试验,模拟不同盐度的沉积环境,使用黏结力仪（CSM）对细粒沉积物进行抗侵蚀性测试。结果表明细粒沉积物的临界剪应力为0.728～1.581Pa,且随着沉积环境盐度增加,细粒沉积物的临界剪应力呈线性增加。当沉积环境盐度增加1时,其临界剪应力增加约0.02Pa。     

海水盐度对沉降泥沙固结过程影响研究

黄河每年输送上亿吨泥沙入海,其中80%以上沉积在河口附近水下三角洲。受黄河入海径流量、气候及海洋动力条件影响,黄河口海域海水盐度变化显著。目前,不同盐度海水环境下入海泥沙沉降形成的海床土,固结过程有何差异尚不清楚。本文在黄河水下三角洲潮坪配制不同盐度的流态沉积物,模拟不同沉积环境下新沉积土的固结过程,利用轻型贯入测试、十字板剪切测试等现场原位试验,实时观测沉积环境盐度对沉降泥沙固结过程的影响。研究发现:随着海水盐度增加,沉积物固结强度增大,沉积环境盐度每增高1‰,沉积物固结后强度可增加0.15倍;海水盐度对沉积物固结速率的影响,在初始阶段表现不明显,在沉积物固结后期,盐度每增高1‰,固结速率可增长1.23倍;海水盐度的增高,还加剧了沉积物固结强度的空间非均匀性。本研究的发现,促进了对河口区海底工程环境的认识。     

新疆博斯腾湖湖滨沉积物的磁学特征及其环境意义

湖滨岩心沉积相及磁学特性能够记录水动力、沉积环境和古气候等信息。选取博斯腾湖湖滨岩心沉积物为研究对象,应用环境磁学方法,并结合X衍射、粒度及有机质含量分析沉积环境变化过程。结果显示,湖滨沉积物以低矫顽力的亚铁磁性矿物为主导,颗粒较粗,磁铁矿是主要载磁矿物。在不同沉积相中,磁化率表现出不同,上部磁化率值较高,中部深色粉砂质泥层呈高值,富含有机质的泥炭土层磁性较弱,下部磁化率值降低,最下部沉积物颜色加深,磁化率值有所增加。X衍射显示沉积物以石英、长石等外源碎屑矿物为主,粒度以粉砂、砂为主,上部粗而下部细,中间波动变化。有机质含量在中部呈高值且波动明显,表明沉积环境的交替变化。通过不同深度岩性样品的磁性差异,以及粒度、有机质、岩心颜色对沉积动力的响应,指示湖滨岩心经历了滨浅湖相—湖沼浅水相—浅湖相的水文交替过程。     

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.     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

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.     

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.     

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。     

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.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

Flow Cytometric Analysis of Coastal Lagoon Bacterioplankton and Picophytoplankton: Fixation and Storage Effects

The effect of different fixation and storage protocols on the flow cytometric (FCM) simultaneous analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in coastal seawater samples (Mediterranean coastal lagoons) was investigated. FCM measurements (cell number, fluorescence and scatter characteristics) were obtained through DAPI staining. Three fixatives [glutaraldehyde (GA), formaldehyde (FA) and paraformaldehyde (PFA)] and two storage (3 months duration) methods (5 °C and −196 °C) were tested. Two dominant populations were detected in studied samples: bacteria and eukaryotic picophytoplankton. Adding fixatives (2% final concentration) appears necessary to obtain FCM exhaustive counts of all the bacteria and phytoplanktonic cells. This was related to the permeation effect of fixatives which allowed a better DAPI staining of the cells. Maximum fluorescence, i.e. optimal staining of the cells was obtained with FA or PFA, and significant lower fluorescences with GA. Fixed samples stored at 5 °C induced rapid cell loss. Only storage in liquid nitrogen of samples fixed with FA or PFA, allows mid-term (≥4 months) preservation of bacteria or picophytoplankton cell numbers, and limited evolution of DAPI-induced fluorescence and scatter characteristics.