云南中甸纳帕海湖泊沉积物的磁化率及环境意义

研究区母岩特性，搬运距离和搬运营力决定了磁性矿物主要赋存在砂砾级颗粒中，纳帕海潮泊沉积物的磁化率与颗粒粒径，沉积相和有机质含量存在密切的相关关系，滨浅湖环境中砂砾级颗粒含量增加以及波浪淘洗对磁性矿物的富集作用，磁化率较高；浅湖环境中粉砂增多，砂减少，磁化率较之滨浅湖有所降低，在低能的半深湖／深湖环境中，由于缺乏磁性矿物的输入，磁化率再次降低，有机质含量很高的湖岸湖环境由于有机质的稀释作用磁化率值最低，磁化率等环境替代指标以及和北半球气候变化阶段，深海氧同位素阶段的对比，将纳帕海近6ka年来划分成6个主要的环境演化阶段，32kaB.P.(14.99m)和15kaB.P.(6.06m)分别是环境和气候变化的重要转折点，32－15ka B.P.期间出现的高湖面表明，虽然大气温度下降但有效湿度增加，全新世湖泊的急剧萎缩预示在大气温度增加的同时有效湿度降低，暖偏于构成了研究区全新世气候演化的特色。     

呼图壁河流域水体氢氧稳定同位素特征及转化关系

在气候变化和人类活动影响下,水资源短缺是干旱区面临的一个严峻问题.解决问题的关键是要深入了解干旱区独特的水循环机理,而分析不同水体中氢氧同位素特征及转化关系,是应用同位素示踪技术研究水循环机理的基础。以呼图壁河流域为研究区,分析了大气降水、河水、地下水和积雪融水氢氧同位素变化特征及不同水体的δD~δ¹⁸O关系,探讨了地表水对地下水的补给关系。结果表明：呼图壁河流域大气降水、河水、地下水和积雪融水中δD、δ¹⁸O的组成和季节变化差异较大,δD值分别为-86.25‰、-66.66‰、-69.82‰和-150.79‰,而δ¹⁸O值依次为-12.42‰、-9.94‰、-10.23‰和-19.42‰;河水受大气降水和冰雪融水的混合补给导致同位素的贫化,积雪融水主要受蒸发的影响导致同位素的富集,而河水和积雪融水对地下水有密切的水力联系,导致地下水同位素的贫化;呼图壁河上游地区河水对地下水的补给仅占到18.45%,而中下游区域的地下水补给占到90%以上。     

Environmental Health Injustice: Exposure to Air Toxics and Children's Respiratory Hospital Admissions in El Paso,Texas

Although much environmental justice research tacitly assumes that unequal environmental exposures produce geographic disparities in adverse health outcomes, very few empirical environmental justice studies have tested that assumption. This article does so by using estimates of exposure to air toxics disaggregated by emission source (point and mobile) to predict children's hospitalization rates for both asthma and respiratory infections in El Paso, Texas. Air toxics emissions from most source categories were found to be significant predictors of children's respiratory infection hospitalization rates, but not asthma hospitalization rates, at the census tract level. Findings suggest that sociospatial disparities in respiratory infection rates might be linked to environmental inequalities.     

Implementation of Rock Typing on Waterflooding Process During Secondary Recovery in Oil Reservoirs: A Case Study,El Morgan Oil Field,Gulf of Suez,Egypt

Waterflooding is one of the most common secondary recovery methods in the oil and gas industry. Globally, this process sometimes suffers a technical failure and inefficiency. Therefore, a better understanding of geology, reservoir characteristics, rock typing and discrimination, hydraulic flow units, and production data is essential to analyze reasons and mechanisms of water injection failure in the injection wells. Water injection failure was reported in the Middle Miocene Hammam Faraun reservoir at El Morgan oil field in the Gulf of Suez, where two wells have been selected as injector’s wells. In the first well (A1), the efficiency of injection was not good, whereas in the other analog A2 well good efficiency was assigned. Therefore, it is required to assess the injection loss in the low efficiency well, where all aspects of the geological, reservoir and production data of the studied wells were integrated to get a complete vision for the reasons of injection failure. The available data include core analysis data (vertical and horizontal permeabilities, helium porosity, bulk density, and water and oil saturations), petrographical studies injection and reservoir water chemistry, reservoir geology, production, and injection history. The quality of the data was examined and a set of reliable X–Y plots between the available data were introduced and the reservoir quality in both wells was estimated using reservoir quality index, normalized porosity index, and flow zone indicator. Integration and processing of the core and reservoir engineering data indicate that heterogeneity of the studied sequence was the main reason for the waterflooding inefficiency at the El Morgan A1 well. The best reservoir quality was assigned to the topmost part of the reservoir, which caused disturbance of the flow regime of reservoir fluids. Therefore, it is clearly indicated that rock typing and inadequate injection perforation strategy that has not been aligned with accurate hydraulic flow units are the key control parameters in the waterflooding efficiency.

     

Environmental Changes at the Desert Margin: An Assessment of Recent Paleolimnological Records in Lake Qarun, Middle Egypt

Lake Qarun has been profoundly affected by a combination of human activities and climatic changes during the past 5000 years. Instrumental records available for the 20th century show that during most of this period both lake water level and salinity increased and that by the late 1980s lake water salinity was approximately that of seawater. Sediment cores (c. 1 m long) were collected from this shallow (Z_max 8.4 m) saline lake in 1998 and the master core (QARU1) was used to examine the potential of paleolimnology for reconstructing the recent environmental history of the site. According to ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb radio-assay, the recent sediment accumulation rate in QARU1 was around 5 mm year⁻¹ during the latter half of the 20th century but radionuclide levels were low. Spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) were present in the upper c. 30 cm of QARU1 and indicates contamination by low level particulate pollution, probably beginning around 1950. The record of exotic pollen (Casuarina) indicated that sediment at 51–52 cm depth dated to around 1930. Otherwise the pollen spectra indicated a strongly disturbed landscape with high ruderals and increased tree planting particularly since c. 1950. Diatom records were strongly affected by taphonomic processes including reworking and differential preservation but typical marine diatoms increased after the 1920s. Instrumental records show that the lake became more saline at this time. Freshwater taxa were present at approximately similar abundances throughout the core. This distribution probably reflected a combination of processes. Reworking of ancient freshwater diatomites is one likely source for freshwater diatoms in QARU1 but some taxa must also be contributed via the freshwater inflows. Overall, the diatom stratigraphy indicated increasingly salinity since the 1920s but provided no firm evidence of lake eutrophication. Diatom inferred salinity reconstructions were in only partial agreement with instrumental records but inferred for the lower section of the core (pre 20th century to the 1960s) accord with measured water salinity values. Surficial sediments of Lake Qarun contain environmental change records for the 20th century period but high sediment accumulation rate and pollen reflect the high degree of human disturbance in the region. Because of poor preservation and evidence of reworking, the relationships between diatom records and past water quality changes require careful interpretation, especially in the upper section of the core. Nevertheless, early to mid 20th century measurements of increasing lake water salinity are well supported by sediment records, a change that is probably linked to ingress of saline ground water     

黑河流域环境退化特征分析及防治研究

生态环境条件的好坏,是制约我国社会、经济和人民生活可持续发展的重要问题之一,特别是在生态环境脆弱的西北干旱区的内陆河流域。本文以黑河流域为例,根据最新的野外调查数据,结合该流域已有的研究文献资料,分析了黑河流域生态环境退化的现状和主要特征。研究结果表明,黑河流域生态环境退化主要是由于人类不合理的经济活动造成的,具体表现在土地的沙漠化、水资源的变化、土壤盐渍化和植被退化等方面。在此基础上,初步提出了防止流域生态环境恶化的综合治理对策。     

Solar Rich and Water Poor: The Case for Solar Desalination in El Paso,Texas

Desalination is an increasingly important water source for the sunny, arid city of El Paso, Texas. As the city’s population grows, El Paso Water, the city’s water utility, has had to drill deeper into the Hueco Bolson aquifer, a primary water source for El Paso. This deeper drilling into the Hueco Bolson, however, has yielded progressively more saline water. In response, El Paso Water and administrators from Fort Bliss jointly constructed a reverse osmosis desalination plant to protect the Hueco Bolson’s freshwater supplies and expand the city’s water sources. Reverse osmosis water desalination, however, is an expensive, energy-intensive process currently dependent on carbon-heavy fossil fuels. Solar energy, however, is an abundant, carbon-free energy source that could potentially reduce the energy costs and carbon footprint of the reverse osmosis desalination process. We hypothesize that building a solar microgrid that supplies El Paso’s desalination plant with energy in tandem with the regional grid will reduce the plant’s energy expenditures in the long term compared to solely buying energy from the regional grid. We used the Hybrid Optimization for Multiple Energy Resources (HOMER) model created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The results suggest that a solar microgrid whose modules use one axis tracker could reduce the plant’s energy expenses. Key Words: desalination, solar energy, water resources.     

珠江三角洲环境梯度上葫芦藓中硫、氮含量 和δ13C、δ15N的差异及其环境指示

以华南地区广泛分布的葫芦藓为研究对象,以珠江三角洲环境梯度上的中心城区广州、近郊区肇庆及边缘区怀集3个地理单元作为样品采集地,对样本葫芦藓植物中的硫、氮元素含量和δ13C、δ15N的组成进行了研究。结果表明：葫芦藓植物中硫含量与工业化程度表现出正相关关系,其中硫含量广州、肇庆和怀集依次为2 485.86、1 778.15、1 339.84 mg/kg;葫芦藓氮含量与工业化程度表现出正相关关系,广州、肇庆和怀集依次为 2 106.50mg/kg、2 007.39mg/kg和1 661.88 mg/kg;葫芦藓的C/N值与交通量呈负相关关系,其中C/N值广州为18.377,肇庆18.513,怀集23.905,3地C/N值大小差异揭示了从广州到怀集的环境梯度上,大气氮的主要组份发生了变化,即广州大气中的氮元素来源以工业排放的NOx-N（硝态氮）为主,怀集大气中的氮元素来源以农业排放的NHx-N（铵态氮）为主。     

水汽来源和环境因子对典型亚热带季风区降水稳定同位素的影响——以湖口地区为例

基于亚热带季风区湖口降水稳定同位素进行高频监测,利用HYSPLIT模型、潜在源贡献因子算法和质量浓度权重轨迹等方法对湖口区降水水汽来源进行分析,研究结果表明：① 湖口地区大气降水同位素组成呈夏季低、春冬季高变化趋势,湖口地区大气降水线斜率（8.19）和截距（12.5）与全球大气水线较为接近,说明整体上该研究区气候环境相对湿润。② 湖口降水同位素组成与降水量、湿度和温度均成显著负相关关系,这表明其具有显著的降水量效应、湿度效应和反温度效应。③ 湖口地区水汽来源主要受东南沿海内陆地区、南海和孟加拉湾源区水汽影响显著,其造成降水同位素值也明显偏小,尤其在夏季和秋季。④ 湖口地区降水同位素组成变化还受锋面天气系统（准静止锋和冷锋）和台风影响,台风降水的水汽来源主要来自中国南海和东海地区,此水汽往内陆输送过程中不断形成降水,此过程中降水重同位素（¹⁸O和²H）不断被冲刷造成其值逐渐变小;受准静止锋面系统影响降水δ¹⁸O值为极小值,这与锋面系统中冷、暖气团相遇造成强烈空气对流活动密切相关;而在冷锋面系统影响下,湖口地区降水δ¹⁸O值和d-excess较大,这与中国南方内陆局地再循环水汽补充有关,该研究结果将为鄱阳湖流域大气环流和水循环过程研究提供科学依据和数据支撑。     

Columbia Mountain landslide: late-glacial emplacement and indications of future failure, Northwestern Montana, USA

The well preserved and undissected Columbia Mountain landslide, which is undergoing suburban development, was studied to estimate the timing and processes of emplacement. The landslide moved westward from a bedrock interfluve of the northern Swan Range in Montana, USA onto the deglaciated floor of the Flathead Valley. The landslide covers an area of about 2 km², has a toe-to-crown height of 1100 m, a total length of 3430 m, a thickness of between 3 and 75 m, and an approximate volume of 40 million m³. Deposits and landforms define three portions of the landslide; from the toe to the head they are: (i) clast-rich diamictons made up of gravel-sized angular rock fragments with arcuate transverse ridges at the surface; (ii) silty and sandy deposits resting on diamictons in an internally drained depression behind the ridges; and (iii) diamictons containing angular and subangular pebble-to block-sized clasts (some of which are glacially striated) in an area of lumpy topography between the depression and the head of the landslide. Drilling data suggest the diamictons cover block-to-slab-sized bedrock clasts that resulted from an initial stage of the failure.The landslide moved along a surface that developed at a high angle to the NE-dipping, thinly bedded metasediments of the Proterozoic Belt Supergroup. The exposed slope of the main scarp dips 30–37°W. A hypothetical initial rotational failure of the lower part of a bedrock interfluve may have transported bedrock clasts into the valley. The morphology and deposits at the surface of the landslide indicate deposition by a rock avalanche (sturzstrom) derived from a second stage of failure along the upper part of the scarp.The toe of the Columbia Mountain landslide is convex-west in planview, except where it was deflected around areas now occupied by glacial kettles on the north and south margins. Landsliding, therefore, occurred during deglaciation of the valley while ice still filled the present-day kettles. Available chronostratigraphy suggests that the ˜1-km thick glacier in the region melted before 12,000 ¹⁴C years BP—within 3000 years of the last glacial maximum. Deglaciation and hillslope failure are likely causally linked. Failure of the faceted interfluve was likely due tensile fracturing of bedrock along a bedding-normal joint set shortly after glacial retreat from the hillslope.Open surficial tension fractures and grabens in the Swan Range are limited to an area above the crown of the landslide. Movement across these features suggests that extensional flow of bedrock (sackung) is occurring in what remains of the ridge that failed in the Columbia Mountain landslide. The fractures and grabens likely were initiated during failure, but their morphologies suggest active extension across some grabens. Continued movement of bedrock above the crown may result in future mass movements from above the previous landslide scarp. Landslides sourced from bedrock above the scarp of the late-glacial Columbia Mountain landslide, which could potentially be triggered by earthquakes, are geologic hazards in the region.     

区域社会经济与农业技术扩散环境协调发展研究——以西北地区为例

从扩散环境与社会经济协调发展以及协调度的定义出发,利用因子分析和相关分析相结合的方法,设计了一套定量化评价区域社会经济与扩散环境协调发展的方法,并对西北地区352个县域的农业技术扩散环境与社会经济协调发展状况进行了定量化评价.结果表明:根据扩散环境相似性、发展水平相近性、协调发展一致性等原则,利用聚类分析法,可将西北地区各县域分为高度协调发展型、中等协调发展型、初级协调发展型和整体发展滞后型4种类型区域:把空间分布类型转化为时间发展阶段,以发展阶段作为区域社会经济与农业技术扩散环境协调发展状态的背景时,西北地区各县域协调度呈明显的空间"S"型变化特征,根据协调度随社会经济发展的"S"型曲线变化特征,可划分为初级不协调、低级协调、中级协调、高级失调和高度协调5个阶段.     

Effectiveness of reforestation in erosion mitigation and implications for future sediment yields,East Coast catchments,New Zealand: A review

This paper argues that reforestation of unstable and degraded parts of the East Coast region, predominantly with exotic pines, has successfully stabilised existing erosion forms and prevented the initiation of new ones. Effectiveness is often assessed by capturing erosion scars on aerial photography taken before and after reforestation and any change in scar size is measured in a geographic information system (GIS). Combined with forest age data, modelled reforestation scenarios indicate that sediment generation from earth flows and shallow landslides would be negligible within eight to 10 years after planting, and if all remaining gullies were to be reforested before 2020, sediment yield could halve by 2030 and remain constant thereafter. In a similar time frame, the risk to infrastructure by sedimentation and flooding would likely decrease.     

Application of Land Magnetic and Geoelectrical Techniques for Delineating Groundwater Aquifer: Case Study in East Oweinat,Western Desert,Egypt

Natural Resources Research - Two geophysical tools were used to delineate the configuration of the Nubian sandstone aquifer in the study area. Three hundred magnetic points were measured and...     

Soil morphological variations on the Taoyuan Terrace, Northwestern Taiwan: Roles of topography and groundwater

To understand whether soils on the same geomorphic surface have similar properties, this study examines the morphology of soils developed on the 30-kyr-old Taoyuan Terrace, Northwestern Taiwan. Relationships among soil morphology, variations in the groundwater table, and soil forming processes were established based on field investigations and previously published datasets. The soil series in the study area can be grouped into seven types, including three homogeneous groups, two mottled groups, one gley group, and one reworked group. Fifteen hand-core samples collected in the field and borehole data were used to understand spatial variations in soil morphology. The results indicate that soil morphology on the southern Taoyuan Terrace changes systematically from the fore-edge to the back-edge: from red/orange soils to yellow soils, then to mottled soils, and finally to gley soils. The borehole data indicate that the groundwater table is generally parallel to the ground surface but drops significantly near the terrace fore-edge. This pattern matches with the observed soil toposequence, indicating that the pedogenic processes in the study area are mainly controlled by groundwater distribution determined by topography. Although soils on the terrace fore-edge have developed under the well-drained conditions that favor lateritization, at least two distinct soil types (i.e., red and orange) can be observed there, reflecting different geomorphological settings in a paleo-fluvial landscape. This work suggests that geomorphological and hydrological conditions should be examined carefully before using soil morphology for correlating geomorphic surfaces.     

Sociodemographic characteristics,cultural biases,and environmental attitudes: An empirical application of grid-group cultural theory in Northwestern China

Natural resource-management studies have become increasingly attentive to the influences of human factors. Among these,cultural biases shape people's responses to changes in natural resource systems. Several studies have applied grid-group cultural theory to assess the effects of multiple value biases among stakeholders on natural resource management. We developed and administered a questionnaire in the Heihe River Basin(n = 364) in northwestern China to investigate the appropriateness of applying this theory in the Chinese context of natural resource management. The results revealed various cultural biases among the respondents. In descending order of prevalence, these biases were hierarchism(46.98%), individualism(26.65%), egalitarianism(18.96%), and fatalism(2.78%), with the remaining respondents(4.67%) evidencing no obvious bias. Our empirical study revealed respondents' worldviews and the influence of sociodemographic characteristics on cultural biases, as theoretically posited. Among the variables examined, age had a positive and significant effect across all biases except individualism. The correlation of income to all cultural biases was consistently negative. Only education had a negative and significant effect across all biases. Women were found to adhere to egalitarianism, whereas men adhered to individualism and hierarchism. Thus, grid-group cultural theory was found to be appropriate in the Chinese context, with gender, age, education, and income evidently accounting for cultural biases. Relationships between environmental attitudes and cultural biases conformed with the hypothesis advanced by grid-group cultural theory. This finding may be of value in explaining individuals' environmental attitudes and facilitating the development and implementation of natural resource-management policies.     

人居环境评价在城市规划政策研究中的工具性作用

从认识论的视角出发,提出人居环境评价作为一种工具,在城市规划与城市发展政策中具有三个层面的作用,一是表达,二是交流与合意,三是分析和决策。结合上述观点,对国内外相关研究的进展进行了评述。结果表明,目前,我国人居环境评价的研究成果大部分定位于空间表述,以交流与合意,分析和决策为目标的研究很少,因此限制了研究成果在政策中的深层次应用。为了改变这一现状,急需加强人居环境的价值化评价和政策效果的分析,使人居环境评价上升为更高级的研究工具,以便在政策实践中发挥更大作用。     

汉江上游谷地归仙河口剖面风化成壤特征及其记录的气候变化事件

对汉江上游谷地归仙河口剖面的地层学、沉积学特征以及磁化率、粒度组成、Rb/Sr比值等理化指标进行了研究。结果显示:归仙河口剖面地层完整,具有表土(MS)→全新世黄土(L0)→古土壤(S0)→过渡性黄土(Lt)→马兰黄土(L1)→河流相沉积物(AD)的地层序列,它记录了汉江第一级阶地抬升以来东亚季风的变化信息。不同地层单元的风化成壤差异明显,其成壤强弱序列为:S0>L0>Lt>L1。归仙河口剖面风化成壤强度的变化表明:18 000～11 500 a BP,气候干冷,风尘大量堆积,成壤微弱,其中在12 500～12 400 a BP出现特大洪水事件;11 500～8 500 a BP,气候逐渐向暖湿方向转变,成壤作用有所增强;8 500～3 000 a BP,气候最为温暖湿润,成壤作用非常强烈,而在7 500～7 000 a BP汉江流域频繁发生特大洪水;距今3 000年开始,气候重新进入一个相对干旱少雨时期,期间气候并不稳定,其中在3 100～3 000 a BP和1 000～900 a BP出现特大洪水事件。