Decadal glacial lake changes in the Koshi basin,central Himalaya,from 1977 to 2010, derived from Landsat satellite images

Changes in glacial lakes and the consequences of these changes, particularly on the development of water resources and management of glacial lake outburst flood(GLOF) risk, has become one of the challenges in the sustainable development of high mountain areas in the context of global warming. This paper presents the findings of a study on the distribution of, and area changes in, glacial lakes in the Koshi basin in the central Himalayas.Data on the number of glacial lakes and their area was generated for the years 1977, 1990, 2000, and 2010 using Landsat satellite images. According to the glacial lake inventory in 2010, there were a total of 2168 glacial lakes with a total area of 127.61 km~2 and average size of 0.06 km~2 in the Koshi basin. Of these,47% were moraine dammed lakes, 34.8% bedrock dammed lakes and 17.7% ice dammed lakes. The number of glacial lakes increased consistently over the study period from 1160 in 1977 to 2168 in 2010, an overall growth rate of 86.9%. The area of glacial lakes also increased from 94.44 km~2 in 1977 to 127.61 km~2 in 2010, a growth rate of 35.1%. A large number of glacial lakes in the inventory are small in size(≤ 0.1km~2). End moraine dammed lakes with area greater than 0.1 km~2 were selected to analyze the change characteristics of glacial lakes in the basin. The results show that, in 2010, there were 129 lakes greater than 0.1 km~2 in area; these lakes had a total area of 42.92km~2 in 1997, increasing to 63.28 km~2 in 2010. The distribution of lakes on the north side of the Himalayas(in China) was three times higher than on the south side of the Himalayas(in Nepal).Comparing the mean growth rate in area for the 33 year study period(1977-2010), the growth rate on the north side was found to be a little slower than that on the south side. A total of 42 glacial lakes with an area greater than 0.2 km~2 are rapidly growing between 1977 and 2010 in the Koshi basin, which need to be paid more attention to monitoring in the future and to identify how critical they are in terms of GLOF.     

Application of Hilbert-Huang Transform to the Analysis of the Landslides Triggered by the Wenchuan Earthquake

A steep rock hill with two side slopes located at DK30+256 of National Road 213 was used as a prototype for analysis. The full process from initial deformation to sliding of the slope during ground shaking was simulated by using a new Continuum-based Discrete Element Method. During the earthquake, when shaking amplitudes were lower,the stress concentration points firstly appeared at the top of the slip mass, and then some tension failure points appeared, followed by shear failure points. At the same time, both the instantaneous frequencies of accelerations in the bedrock and that in the slip mass basically stayed in two different ranges. The energy transmittance coefficients of the sliding surface also stayed in a high range. As the ground shaking lasted,the number of failure points gradually increased until landslide occurrence. The instantaneous frequencies of accelerations in the slip mass and the energy transmittance coefficients of sliding surface gradually decreased, and both finally converged to a lower range. And then, the reasons triggering landslides are analysis in the joint time-frequency domain using Hilbert-Huang Transform, as follows: the differences of distribution and dissipation of the earthquake energy and the inconsistency of movements between the slip mass and the bedrock were the two major influence factors.     

Relict glacial landscape in the Sierra Baguales Mountain Range(50°-51° S): evidence of glaciation dynamics and types in the eastern foothills of the southern Patagonian Andes

The glacial morphology of southern South American presents invaluable evidence to reconstruct former glacier behaviour and its relation to climate and environmental changes. However, there are still spatial and temporal gaps in the reconstruction of the Holocene Patagonian glacial landscape. Here we present the first geomorphological record for the Sierra Baguales Mountain Range(SBMR), forming the eastern foothills of the Southern Patagonian Andes 200 km from the Pacific coast. This area is topographically isolated from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field(SPIF), and is affected by the Westerly Winds. The study area shows evidence of ice sheet and alpine glaciations related to Andean uplift,which caused a marked climatic contrast between its western and eastern flanks since the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM). The regional rock mass strength and precipitation gradient acted as a controlling factor in the glacial cirque distribution and sizes, as well as in the development of glaciation types. We report new radiocarbon dates associated with warm/dry to cold/wet climatic changes during the middle Holocene, when former small alpine glaciers were located in the uppermost section of the SBMR basins, and eventually converged to form a small ice field or a composite valley glacier at lower elevations.This can be explained by an estimated regional temperature drop of 3.8°C±0.8°C, based on a 585±26m Equilibrium Line Altitude(ELA) descent, inferred by geomorphological evidence and the Accumulation Area Ratio(AAR), in addition to a free-air adiabatic lapse rate. Subsequently, the glaciers receded due to climatic factors including a rise in temperature, as well as non-climatic factors, mainly the glacier bedrock topography.     

山东中更新世以来冰碛年龄、雪线高程与气候演化——以蒙山、崂山为例

古雪线直接反映了冰期时的气候特征,因此雪线是古冰川研究最终要解决的问题。2017年笔者等基于蒙山雪线的初步研究,发现东亚地区存在的雪线低洼区,采用了东亚冷槽的概念来表述该槽状雪线低洼区,并初步绘制了东亚冷槽的雪线高程。本文主要介绍了山东段(蒙山-崂山)的研究情况。根据山东蒙山、崂山34个光释光、宇生核素等方法获得的冰碛年龄数据及对应冰期雪线高程研究,表明崂山的雪线比蒙山要低,且在MIS6之前的冰期,崂山东侧冰碛多被现代海面淹没。研究表明,我国东部的气候敏感度要明显强于西部高原区,冰期时强劲的北路寒潮是我国东部地区冰川形成的核心气候因素。     

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Distribution features of stable oxygen isotopes in the typical monsoon temperate-glacier region, Mountain Yulong in China

During the summers of 1999 and 2000, sampling was carried out in Mt.Yulong, for the investigation of the spatial distribution of oxygen stable isotope in the atmospheric-glacial-hydro system and similar results obtained in the two years have confirmed our conclusion. There is an evident negative correlation between stable isotopic composition and air temperature-precipitation amount, suggesting that there exits a strong “precipitation amount effect” in this typical monsoon temperate-glacier region. There are marked differences between the δ1'O values in winter-accumulated snow, glacial meltwater, summer precipitation and glacier-feeding stream. Under the control of varied climatic conditions, spatial and temporal variations of above glacialhydro mediums are apparent. Isotopic depletion or fractionation and ionic changes had occurred during the phase-change and transformation processes of snow-ice, icemeltwater, flowing of runoff and contact with bedrock. The variation of stable isotope in a runoff can reflect not only its own flowing process but also its different feeding sources.     

西秦岭北缘漳县含盐红层盆地构造分析及古构造应力场反演

对漳县含盐红层盆地的构造节理、褶皱等构造形迹进行野外观察、测量、分期配套,应用吴氏网赤平投影法来反演古构造应力场。分析表明,漳县红层盆地白垩系沉积地层形成后至少经历了4期构造活动：第一期构造应力场的最大主压应力方向为NW-SE向,第二期构造应力场的最大主压应力方向为NE-SW向,第三期构造应力场的最大主压应力方向近E-W向,第四期构造应力场的最大主压应力方向近S-N向,4期构造应力场中间主压力轴（δ2)多近于直立。反演结果显示,该区域自白垩系沉积后区域构造特征以走滑作用为主。     

Quaternary glacio-erosional landforms in Laoshan Mountain and their constraints on the origin of Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao, east of China

A field investigation on Quaternary glacial landforms in Laoshan Mountain has discovered many glacial potholes, scouring grooves on top of granite ridges, and large boulders. These erosional landforms were formed by the meltwater from the overlying ice cap, suggesting that there was at least an ice cap covering Laoshan Mountain and the surrounding areas or even a continental ice sheet over the vast area of Shandong Province in the Late Pleistocene. The ice sheet was obstructed by the Laoshan Mountain, Dazhu Mountain and Xiaozhu Mountain in the coastal areas as it moved toward the Yellow Sea. The ice flows eroded the bedrock and carved the weak intersection of the fault systems in the NE and NW directions into a deep channel, which gradually formed a fjord in the area of the Jiaozhou Bay basin by 20.00 ka BP. The seawater gradually invaded the fjord from the beginning of the Holocene (11.00 ka BP) and Jiaozhou Bay was eventually formed. Similar fjords are easily found along the east of China and they share a similar origin because of the Quaternary glaciation in the region.     

湘江沟头地表和深部地质约束的水系侵蚀能力差异及袭夺预测分析

基于地表基础地质调研、GIS流域分析与深部地球物理相结合的综合方法, 选取长江支流湘江沟头的两条具有共同溯源侵蚀点(矮塘村)的水系作为研究对象, 对比两条水系程江和注江相同河长流经区的地形地貌、水位高程、地层、构造背景以及深部电阻率数据, 综合分析两者的侵蚀能力的差异性。其中, 注江流域的基岩易于被侵蚀, 节理较为发育, 使得其下蚀作用和溯源侵蚀能力较强。预测两条水系的演化趋势会在矮塘村周边发生河流袭夺现象, 从而影响到程江下游的鲤鱼塘镇的城市居民生活用水和工农业生产。此外, 注江的持续下蚀作用会加强对基岩白垩系红层的侵蚀作用, 推测其流域未来可呈现更为壮观的丹霞地貌。      

拼装式顶管接头抗弯刚度及管节内力计算

随着顶管断面尺寸不断增大，管节的运输问题逐渐突显，拼装式顶管技术可以有效解决该问题。在现有拼装式结构接头基础上，提出了拼装式顶管管节横向接头的连接方式，并以螺栓拼装式管节为研究对象，建立了横向接头抗弯刚度计算模型，结合盾构管片梁-弹簧模型，提出了拼装式管节结构计算方法。其内力计算结果表明:拼装式和整体式管节内力分布规律基本一致；拼装式管节的侧壁弯矩小于整体式管节，顶部和底部弯矩大于整体式管节，二者内力无急剧变化；从内力分布与大小看，拼装式管节是可用的。      

关于利用一维波动理论计算土层地震反映传递函数的讨论

对利用一维波动理论计算土层地震反应时，将基岩假定为具有自由边界的半无限空间，输入地震记录、计算传递函数，进而计算土层地表的地震反应这一方法步骤的合理性进行了讨论。理论推演表明，从基岩面输入地震记录和计算传递函数时，应当考虑基岩和上覆土层的相互作用影响。数值算例表明，考虑与不考虑基岩和上覆土层相互作用的影响，算得的土层地面地震反应，无论加速度时程、峰值和反应谱，均存在不可忽视的差异。     

湖北巴东地区滑脱构造与地震活动特征

通过对川东-鄂西地区弧形薄皮构造以及岩石力学性质的研究认为,本区存在中三叠统巴东组、下三叠统大冶组、下二叠统栖霞组、下志留统罗惹坪组4个易于发生构造滑脱的软弱地层。结合三峡地区地球物理探测结果,构建了巴东地区多层滑脱构造的理论模型。结果显示,该区地震活动的空间分布与滑脱构造的几何形态非常一致,地震活动多沿着区内3条NE向滑脱背斜的枢纽方向分布,背斜核部地震较少,而两翼地震较多,且较大地震多发生在两翼较深处。多层滑脱构造组成的构造背景、碳酸盐岩的大面积分布以及库水位的反复加卸载是造成巴东地区地震特征复杂性的3个主要因素。     

黑方台地区崩塌灾害发育类型和发育机制分析

以甘肃省永靖县黑方台地区实地调查为基础,通过野外勘察黄土崩塌变形破坏特征及总结地质现象,并结合数据统计分析进行研究,得出黑方台地区崩塌地质灾害的分布特点,并且发现凸型和阶梯型坡面更容易发生崩塌灾害。崩塌发育因素可分为2方面,一方面是自然因素,包括地形地貌,地层构造和水文地质条件;另一方面是人为因素,主要是人类工程活动。天然条件下,斜坡在自重或其他因素作用下,后缘黄土垂直节理或裂隙受拉张作用力开始破裂,并向深部扩展,随着水流下渗,逐渐形成贯通面,潜在崩塌体中心外移,最终形成崩塌。黑方台地区崩塌灾害按崩塌物质成分分为黄土崩塌和基岩崩塌2类,按崩塌发生的主控因素分为自然型崩塌、人为型崩塌和人为—自然复合型崩塌3类,而大量的节理裂隙发育是发生崩塌灾害的内在因素。通过野外调查,根据动力形成机制分析,在自然因素和人为因素影响下,将黑方台地区崩塌形成方式分为4种,并阐述其发育机制。     

Vegetation change as related to terrain factors at two glacier forefronts,Glacier National Park,Montana, U.S.A.

Glacier recession is a globally occurring trend. Although a rich body of work has documented glacial response to climate warming, few studies have assessed vegetation cover change in recently deglaciated areas, especially using geospatial technologies. Here, vegetation change at two glacier forefronts in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.was quantified through remote sensing analysis,fieldwork validation, and statistical modeling.Specifically, we assessed the spatial and temporal patterns of landcover change at the two glacier forefronts in Glacier National Park and determined the role of selected biophysical terrain factors(elevation, slope, aspect, solar radiation, flow accumulation, topographic wetness index, and surficial geology) on vegetation change(from nonvegetated to vegetated cover) at the deglaciated areas.Landsat imagery of the study locations in 1991, 2003,and 2015 were classified and validated using visual interpretation. Model results revealed geographic differences in biophysical correlates of vegetation change between the study areas, suggesting that terrain variation is a key factor affecting spatialtemporal patterns of vegetation change. At Jackson Glacier forefront, increases in vegetation over some portion or all of the study period were negatively associated with elevation, slope angle, and consolidated bedrock. At Grinnell Glacier forefront,increases in vegetation associated negatively with elevation and positively with solar radiation.Integrated geospatial and field approaches to the study of vegetation change in recently deglaciated terrain are recommended to understand and monitor processes and patterns of ongoing habitat change in rapidly changing mountain environments.     

洛坝铅锌矿床的构造演化分析

洛坝铅锌矿床位于黄诸关韧脆性变形带所波及的范围内,断裂、褶皱、劈理、节理等形态构造类型均很发育,经对小型构造的统计及应力场分析证明,矿区变形主要是在海西—印支期长期存在的南北向古应力场持续作用下形成的。     

日照市海岸带海滩沉积物粒度特征及物源分析

根据日照市海岸带2个重点海滩所采集的样品,通过粒度、磁化率、主微量及稀土元素等方面的调查资料,综合分析了研究区沉积物类型、分布特征、搬运路径及物质来源。结果表明,研究区沉积物类型以砂为主,在平行海岸方向上,沉积物粒径自北至南由细变粗。在垂直海岸方向上,从滩肩到滩面再到低潮线处,沉积物粒径逐渐变细。海滨国家森林公园海滩的分选性要好于万平口海水浴场海滩。沉积物受黄海沿岸流影响,多自北向南运移。海滩中浅部物质的来源与陆内一侧基岩中斜长片麻岩和二长花岗岩的关系较为密切,深部物质的来源与靠海一侧基岩中花岗斑岩和花岗闪长岩的关系较为密切。     

基岩面形状对土体变形破坏的影响实验研究

采用离心模型试验研究基岩面形状对重力式加筋挡土墙土体变形破坏的影响,基岩面形状设置为直线形和台阶形,直线情况下基岩与挡墙分别围成三角形和梯形,台阶则分为两级台阶和三级台阶,试验共进行4组。试验结果表明,水平位移和沉降变化剧烈的位置主要在土体顶部靠近挡墙的位置,近岩面处土体水平位移和沉降都比较小;在挡土墙底部基岩与挡墙之间应当有足够的水平距离才有利于土体的稳定;基岩与挡墙所围形状为三角形时对土体的变形和稳定最为不利,基岩与挡墙围成梯形或基岩为台阶形时对土体稳定比较有利。     

基于有限元修正节理岩质边坡稳定性计算的解析解

采用有限元方法探讨在人工开挖或自然侵蚀环境下,岩质边坡体内应力场的变化及节理发育形成机理,并采用有限元强度折减法对后缘具有张节理边坡的稳定性影响因素进行敏感性对比分析,进而得出具有非贯通节理边坡稳定性计算的修正解析解.结果表明:卸荷及风化作用导致边坡体由表及里出现应力重分布及应力集中的现象,使边坡后缘由顶部向下发育一簇...     

Provenance of Sediments Filling a Paleo-Channel that Formed on the Western Yellow Sea Continental Shelf During the Last Glacial Period

Several buried paleo-channels are located on the continental shelf of the western Yellow Sea. Research on the paleochannels is significant for both theoretical studies and practical applications. In this paper, we analyse and discuss the mineralogy of sediments in a core (SYS-0803) recovered from a buried paleo-channel on the continental shelf of the western Yellow Sea. The aim is to determine the provenance of sediments that fill the paleo-channel. The heavy mineral assemblage of sediments in the core consists of schistose minerals, common hornblende, epidote, and ilmenite. The light mineral assemblage consists of plagioclase, quartz, lithic fragments, and K-feldspar. Analysis of the compositional maturity of the sand fraction revealed a quartz/feldspar ratio of < 1. A relatively high percentage of smectite is recorded throughout the entire paleo-channel fill, with the greatest percentage in the middle to lower parts. The detrital mineral assemblage and clay mineral content indicate that the paleo-channel sediments were sourced mainly from the Huanghe River during the last glacial period.     

Distribution and Characteristics of Hazardous Geological Features in the Marine Coastal and Offshore Areas of Zhejiang Province,East China Sea

Newly acquired high-resolution shallow seismic profiles(7069 km in length) in the coastal and offshore areas of Zhejiang Province, East China Sea, China, have revealed eight marine hazardous geological features: shallow gas, sand ridges, erosion ditches, scarps, irregular bedrock features, underwater shoals, buried paleo-channels, and submarine deltas. Based on the seismic profiles, we have constructed a marine geological map of these hazardous features. Shallow gas accumulations are common and occur mainly in two separate nearshore regions that cover 4613 and 3382 km~2 respectively. There are also scattered shallow gas accumulations in the offshore area, typically accompanied by paleo-channels that occur mainly in the middle of the study area. Sand ridges, erosion ditches, scarps, and irregular bedrock features are found mainly in the northeast of the study area in association with each other. In the southeastern part of the study area, the sand ridges have a linear form and trend NW–SE, representing the western part of the linear sand ridges in the East China Sea. The maximum slope gradient is 1?, which suggests that this area is prone to landslides. These hazardous marine geological features are important to marine and engineering activities in this region.