A model for the relation between spreading rate and oblique spreading

Atwater and Macdonald have suggested that oblique spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges which spread slowly (half rate less than 3 cm/yr), while the spreading is perpendicular at faster-spreading ridges. This paper explores this relation using the ratio of the power dissipated at ridges to that on transform faults to find the angle of oblique spreading (θ). The dependence of the energy dissipation rate on spreading rate is included in simple models of a ridge and transform. These arguments suggest that θ is related to the half spreading rate approximately by sin θ ～ V^?1.     

Local axial migration and spreading rate variations,East Pacific Rise, 31°S

Mapping and analysis of marine magnetic anomalies generated during the past 3.78 m.y. at the East Pacific Rise crest near 31°S reveals a history of ongoing small-scale migration of the spreading center. The axis first became curved and then broke when the curvature became too severe, forming a 10-km offset. The offset healed rapidly and the topographic axis of the rise is now continuous and essentially linear. Sea-floor spreading has occurred asymmetrically in this area with east and west flank rates of 86 and 77 mm/yr, respectively, since 2.41 m.y. ago. Total spreading rates show an overall decline from 176 to 145 mm/yr prior to the Jaramillo event, 0.9 m.y. ago. For the last 0.7 m.y. the total spreading rate has been 162 mm/yr.     

腾冲火山区的地震层析成像及其构造意义

利用滇西南临时台网和固定台站的地震数据反演了腾冲及邻近地区的P波速度结构,着重分析了腾冲火山区和龙陵7级地震震源区的地壳结构特点.研究结果表明,腾冲火山区下方10~20 km深度范围存在明显的低速区,其横向尺度大约在20~30 km之间;推测这一低速区代表了仍处于活动状态的壳内岩浆源,热流通道有可能通过腾冲断裂延伸至地壳深部.地壳速度结构自东向西的变化显示出与不同时期的火山活动的关系,腾冲东侧偏高的速度结构反映了龙川江一带上新世时期火山通道内冷凝固结的岩浆侵入体或不易挥发的高密度残留物质,腾冲西侧的低速异常揭示了更新世以来持续至今的岩浆作用和热流活动.龙陵7级地震震源区的地壳结构存在明显的横向非均匀性,M7.3级和M7.4级地震与怒江断裂和龙陵断裂两侧的结构差异密切相关,它们分别发生在高速区和低速区的分界附近.怒江断裂东侧和龙陵断裂西侧具有较高的速度,是震源区应力积累的主要载体;两断裂之间地壳速度明显偏低,有可能是多期次的岩浆侵入导致地壳结构强度降低,使得怒江断裂和龙陵断裂易于受构造应力作用而引发强烈地震,估计地震的震源深度在10~12 km之间.     

SHRIMP dating of volcanic rocks from Ningwu area and its geological implications

Preciselydatingofvolcanicrocksisfundamentaltotheunderstandingofthegeologicalevolutionofabasin.However,involcanicrocks,particularlyinthecaseofintermediate-maficrocks,thezirconpopulationsarecomplicatedbecauseofthecommonoccurrenceofinheritance(orcores)and/or…     

Hydrogeochemistry and its relation to groundwater level fluctuation in the Palar and Cheyyar river basins,southern India

An investigation was carried out to understand the role of water level fluctuation on major‐ion chemistry of groundwater in the Palar and Cheyyar river basins, southern India. As groundwater is the only major source of water for agricultural and drinking purposes in this area, it is important to know the effect of geological formations and agricultural activities on groundwater chemistry. Groundwater samples were collected once a month from 43 wells (641 samples in total), from January 1998 to June 1999, and analysed for major ions. The results indicate that the major‐ion chemistry of the groundwater varies with respect to space. Groundwater occurring near the River Palar has a high concentration of major ions except calcium, due to the absence of any recharge from the river, whereas lower concentrations of major ions were observed in the central part of the study area due to the recharge of fresh water from a number of surface reservoirs. The major‐ion chemistry of the study region is controlled by both mineral dissolution and anthropogenic activities. The relative contributions of mineral dissolution and anthropogenic contamination are estimated by a stoichiometric approach, which suggests that mineral dissolution is the dominant process in both the formations. The relation between water level fluctuations and major‐ion chemistry indicates that major‐ion chemistry is also greatly influenced by the water level fluctuations in different geological formations. Thus, the major‐ion chemistry of groundwater in this region is greatly influenced by mineral dissolution, anthropogenic activities and water level fluctuations in different geological formations. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

黄海及邻区莫霍面起伏特征

针对地壳构造形成的动力学机制,在广泛收集区域地质、地质构造和地球物理等资料的基础上,着重对重力数据进行了数字化、坐标、重力公式、投影方式和比例尺的统一化处理,进而进行了网格化处理.为将区域异常和局部异常分离开来,以便以对深部构造的系统研究,笔者选取趋势分析法分别对研究区内预处理后的布格重力异常数据(Δg)进行了三维多项式迭代拟合计算,得到了区域布格重力异常二阶、五阶、十阶趋势分析结果.继而,利用二级近似公式迭代法对布格重力异常五阶趋势分析区域异常数据进行了三维运算处理,得到了黄海及周边地区的莫霍面埋深值.分析了黄海及邻区莫霍面起伏特征,并进行了深部构造区划,探讨了深部断裂构造与莫霍面起伏间的成因联系,为深部构造和活动断裂演化的地球动力学研究提供了依据.     

Knickpoint recession rate and catchment area: the case of uplifted rivers in Eastern Scotland

Knickpoint behaviour is a key to understanding both the landscape responses to a base‐level fall and the corresponding sediment fluxes from rejuvenated catchments, and must be accommodated in numerical models of large‐scale landscape evolution. Knickpoint recession in streams draining to glacio‐isostatically uplifted shorelines in eastern Scotland is used to assess whether knickpoint recession is a function of discharge (here represented by its surrogate, catchment area). Knickpoints are identified using DS plots (log slope versus log downstream distance). A statistically significant power relationship is found between distance of headward recession and catchment area. Such knickpoint recession data may be used to determine the values of m and n in the stream power law, E = KA^mSⁿ. The data have too many uncertainties, however, to judge definitively whether they are consistent with m = n = 1 (bedrock erosion is proportional to stream power and KPs should be maintained and propagate headwards) or m = 0·3, n = 0·7 (bedrock incision is proportional to shear stress and KPs do not propagate but degrade in place by rotation or replacement). Nonetheless, the E Scotland m and n values point to the dominance of catchment area (discharge) in determining knickpoint retreat rates and are therefore more consistent with the stream power law formulation in which bedrock erosion is proportional to stream power. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Prediction in relation to seismo-volcanic phenomena in the caribbean volcanic arc

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Reconstruction of the western Pacific warm pool SST since 1644 AD and its relation to precipitation over East China

Based on coral proxies we reconstructed the western Pacific warm pool sea surface temperature (SST) since 1644 AD. High-frequency reconstructions are based on eight high-pass filtered coral series and raw reconstructions are derived from eight unfiltered coral series, respectively. Validation and comparison with other SST/temperature series show that the reconstructed warm pool SST is highly reliable. The leading periods of warm pool SST are ~2.1, ~2.3, ~2.9, ~3.6, ~3.8, and 80.7-year during the last ~360 y...     

安徽及近邻区地震烈度衰减特征研究

利用安徽及近邻区地震烈度资料,采用椭圆衰减模型和长轴可转向与近、远场补点方法,通过多元回归方法进行拟合,建立该地区地震烈度衰减关系。该衰减关系用于安徽地震应急指挥技术系统震害快速评估模块,为地震灾害损失快速评估提供基础资料;也可用于安徽地区地震安全性评价、震害预测等防震减灾领域。     

赣中盛源盆地及邻区橄榄玄粗岩系列火山岩中黑云母化学成分特征

本文利用电子探针技术对赣中盛源盆地及邻区橄榄玄粗岩系列火山岩中黑云母的类型、化学成分及结晶时的温度和氧逸度条件等进行了研究。黑云母为镁质黑云母;结晶时温度的大致范围为1060℃～1100℃,氧逸度大致范围为10^-7bar-10^9bar。本文研究表明,黑云母的化学成分研究是揭示岩石成因类型的一种有效途径,可为研究岩体成因类型以及成岩时的物理化学条件提供依据,并对成岩具有重要的指示意义。     

Echo-resonance and hydraulic perturbations in magma cavities: application to the volcanic tremor of Etna (Italy) in relation to its eruptive activity

A study is presented of spectral features of volcanic tremor recorded at Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy) following the methods of analysis suggested by the resonant scattering formalism of Gaunaurd and Überall (1978, 1979a, 1979b) and the model for hydraulic origin of Seidl et al. (1981). The periods investigated include summit and flank eruptions that occurred between 1984 and 1993. Recordings from a permanent station located near the top of the volcano were used, and the temporal patterns associated with (a) the average spacing ( ) between consecutive spectral peaks in the frequency range 1–6 Hz, (b) the spectral shape and (c) the overall spectral amplitude were analyzed. values are thought to depend on the physical properties of magma, such as its density, which, in turn, is controlled by the degree of gas exsolution. Variations in the spectral shape are tentatively attributed to changes in the geometrical scattering from the boundary of resonant conduits and magma batches. Finally, the overall amplitude at the station should essentially reflect the state of turbulence of magma within the superficial ascending path. A limit in the application of the resonant scattering formalism to the study of volcanic tremor is given by the fact that the fundamental modes and integer harmonics are difficult to identify in the frequency spectra, as tremor sources are likely within cavities of very complex geometry, rather than in spherical or cylindrical chambers, as expected by theory. This study gives evidence of some correlations between the analyzed temporal patterns and the major events in the volcanic activity, related to both lava flow and explosions at the summit vents. In particular, relatively high values of have been attained during the SE crater eruption of 1984, the complex eruptive phases of September–October 1989 and the 1991–1993 flank eruption, suggesting the presence of a relatively dense magma for all of these events. Conversely, very low values have been recorded in coincidence with the December 1985 activity and the paroxysmal explosions at the summit craters of early 1990, which are interpreted here as fed by fluid-vesiculated magma. Appreciable modifications in the spectral shape have been observed in relation to changes of the volcanic activity that probably preceded the opening and disactivation of shallow dykes or magma batches. Finally, the overall amplitude seems to be a sensitive indicator of the state of gas turbulence within the shallow conduits, as is suggested by the high values attained during phases of intense volcanic activity.     

Sources of dissolved inorganic carbon in rivers from the Changbaishan area,an active volcanic zone in North Eastern China

Major elements and carbon isotopes of dissolved inorganic carbon(DIC)have been measured in the waters of Changbaishan mountain,a volcanic area in northeastern China,between June and September 2016 to decipher the origin of the CO_2 involved in chemical weathering reactions.Spatial variations of major elements ratios measured in water samples can be explained by a change of the chemical composition of the volcanic rocks between the volcanic cone(trachytes)and the basaltic shield as evidenced by the variations in the composition of these rocks.Hence,DIC results from the neutralization of CO_2 by silicate rocks.DIC concentrations vary from 0.3 to 2.5 mmol/L and carbon isotopic compositions of DIC measured in rivers vary from-14.2‰to 3.5‰.At a first order,the DIC transported by rivers is derived from the chemical weathering’s consumption of CO_2 with a magmatic origin,enriched in~(13)C(-5%)and biogenic soil CO_2 with lower isotopic compositions.The highest δ~(13)C values likely result from C isotopes fractionation during CO_2 degassing in rivers.A mass balance based on carbon isotopes suggest that the contribution of magmatic CO_2 varied from less than 20%to more than 70%.Uncertainties in this calculation associated with CO_2 degassing in rivers are difficult to quantify,and the consequence of CO_2 degassing would be an overestimation of the contribution of DIC derived from the neutralization of magmatic CO_2 by silicate rocks.     

湖北省西凉湖浮游动物群落周年动态变化及其与环境因子的关系

2007年11月至2008年10月对西凉湖浮游动物进行了4次调查,共检出浮游动物224种,其中原生动物112种,轮虫90种,枝角类15种,桡足类7种.秋季浮游动物物种数最多,为111种,冬季最少,为75种,春季和夏季分别为107种和88种.冬季浮游动物丰度最高,为126731 ind./L,春季最低,为71356ind...     

火山地层结构特征及其对波阻抗反演的约束

火山地层是由似层状、层状和块状结构组成的复合体,其地层结构的拟合是火山岩储层地震预测的难点所在,火山地层结构模型的建立是火山岩勘探开发中首先需要解决的关键问题.通过对九台和大屯典型火山岩地层结构的解剖,分析似层状结构和层状结构特征.似层状结构地层内部的岩层倾向和倾角变化大,与地层顶底面表现为斜交.从火山机构喷发中心到远端的同一方向的岩层具有同倾向、倾角逐渐变小的趋势,据此沿其顶面或底面的趋势进行内插可以得到火山机构准确的地层结构模型.以YS2井营城组火山岩为例,在其他条件相同的情况下分别用层状模型和似层状模型拟合地层结构约束波阻抗反演.结果表明二者间的低波阻抗分布范围和厚度均存在较大的差异,其后果是导致储层地震预测的偏差,所以用层状模型不适用于似层状结构火山岩储层刻画、同样反推也不妥.解决的方法是在火山机构的限定下进行储层反演,即在明确各个火山机构的地层结构的基础上,通过对内部结构的插值得到地层结构模型,才能使储层反演结果更加逼近真实情况.该研究可为火山岩油气藏高效勘探开发提供理论依据.     

Hydrothermal process in volcanic areas and its relations to magmatic activity

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Holocene vegetation change in relation to fire and volcanic events in Jilin,Northeastern China

Volatiles erupted from large-scale explosive volcanic activities have a significant impact on climate and environmental changes.As an important ecological factor,the occurrence of fire is affected by vegetation cover,and fire can feed back into both vegetation and climatic change.The causes of fire events are diverse;and can include volcanic eruptions.The amount of charcoal in sediment sequences is related to the frequency and intensity of fire,and hence under good preservation conditions fire history can be reconstructed from fossil charcoal abundance.Until now,little research on the role of fire has been carried out in northeastern China.In this study,through research on charcoal and tephra shards from Gushantun and Hanlongwan,Holocene vegetation change in relation to fire and volcanic events in Jilin,Northeastern China,was investigated.Where tephra shards are present in Gushantun it is associated with low level of both conifers and broadleaved trees,and is also associated with a pronounced charcoal peak.This suggests forest cover was greatly reduced from a fire caused by an eruption of the Tianchi volcano.We also detected one tephra layer in Hanlongwan,which also has the almost same depth with low level forest pollen values and one charcoal peak.This was caused probably by an eruption of the Jinlongdingzi volcano.     

Frequency-specified EOF analysis and its application to Pacific decadal oscillation

A frequency-specified empirical orthogonal function (FSEOF) analysis is proposed in this study. The aim of FSEOF is to specify a prescribed-band of frequency in leading principal components with less information losing at the ends of the data, thus well characterizing the signals of interest. The FSEOF can well capture prescribed variability in leading modes, and has intrinsic merits in resolving frequency-related modes, especially those associated with low frequency oscillations. An application of the FSEOF to the tropical and northern Pacific sea surface temperature shows that this new method can successfully separate Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) mode from the El Niño-Southern oscillation mode, and clearly detect all regime shifts of PDO in the past century.     

岩浆活动与构造应力的相互作用及其与火山活动状态的关系

本文考虑一个包含岩浆囊和火山隆起的三维黏弹性地壳有限元模型,通过数值模拟的方法揭示了岩浆活动与构造应力之间的相互作用.首先,在底部岩浆的持续补给作用下,总结了火山地表形变、应力大小和岩浆囊过剩压力在岩浆补给不同状态下的特征和表象;同时本文研究了构造应力场变化对火山岩浆囊应力的影响,发现10 MPa的板块应力作用能够引起岩浆囊内±1.2~1.6 MPa的压力变化,这个量级足以对岩浆囊形成扰动,从而引发各种火山活动.