Latitudinal patterns and influencing factors of soil humic carbon fractions from tropical to temperate forests

Soil humic carbon is an important component of soil organic carbon (SOC) in terrestrial ecosystems. However, no study to date has investigated its geographical patterns and the main factors that influence it at a large scale, despite the fact that it is critical for exploring the influence of climate change on soil C storage and turnover. We measured levels of SOC, humic acid carbon (HAC), fulvic acid carbon (FAC), humin carbon (HUC), and extractable humus carbon (HEC) in the 0–10 cm soil layer in nine typical forests along the 3800-km North-South Transect of Eastern China (NSTEC) to elucidate the latitudinal patterns of soil humic carbon fractions and their main influencing factors. SOC, HAC, FAC, HUC, and HEC increased with increasing latitude (all P<0.001), and exhibited a general trend of tropical < subtropical < temperate. The ratios of humic C fractions to SOC were 9.48%–12.27% (HAC), 20.68%–29.31% (FAC), and 59.37%–61.38% (HUC). Climate, soil texture, and soil microbes jointly explained more than 90% of the latitudinal variation in SOC, HAC, FAC, HEC, and HUC, and interactive effects were important. These findings elucidate latitudinal patterns of soil humic C fractions in forests at a large scale, and may improve models of soil C turnover and storage.     

Modeling-Based Multiscale Deep Prospectivity Mapping: A Case Study of the Haoyaoerhudong Gold Deposit,Inner Mongolia,China

The mineral system modeling approach for prospectivity mapping is an efficient and economic method to assess undiscovered mineral potential quantitatively. It is a procedure of modeling, acquiring, and coupling the proxies of footprints of mineral systems at multiple scales (e.g., regional, district, and deposit scales). In this approach, the critical issue from multiple scales is that the data collected are asymmetrical from the superficial to the deep or from mine to its brown fields, so that it is hard to employ and integrate them. To complete this study, firstly, multi-tactic 3D geological modeling methods, including the explicit, the implicit, and inversion, were used to build geological models in the condition of asymmetrical datasets at the deposit and district scales. Secondly, indicators acquired in drill-intensive fields among multisource datasets composed of geology, geochemistry, geophysics and alteration data were transferred to studies in deep and brown fields. Finally, deep (~?1,100 m) and circumjacent potentials of mine were targeted in the Haoyaoerhudong gold deposit situated in the Urad Middle Banner area, Inner Mongolia, which is one of the largest black-rock-series-type gold mines in China. This proposed procedure is more visual, clear, intuitive, and transferable to drive mineral system approach to exploration discovery than previous GIS-based studies.

     

硫酸盐型钾盐浮选尾矿的矿质分析及浸取实验研究

针对青海大浪滩盐湖地区钾盐浮选尾矿,研究了尾矿中钾盐的赋存形式,并探索了以稀释老卤为溶剂浸取尾矿中钾的优化条件。结果表明,钾主要以钾石盐矿的形式存在于尾矿中,该矿样属于典型的硫酸镁亚型矿质。同时,考察了不同稀释倍数的老卤的物理性质变化,得到了室温条件下该钾盐浮选尾矿最适宜的浸取条件,老卤/淡水的比例为1∶4,固/液比为3∶2,搅拌反应1 h。在优化条件下,得到了钾离子含量为3.93%的富钾卤水,此时K+浸取率达到86.9%,该卤水进一步蒸发结晶可得到软钾镁矾。本研究为低品位硫酸盐型钾矿的综合开发利用提供了数据支持和参考。     

山西地震台网地震预警时间及盲区半径分析

影响地震预警能力的关键技术指标是预警时间及预警盲区。通过分析山西地震台网勘选完成的1 101个预警台站布局,计算地震台站平均台间距,根据预警盲区半径与台间距关系式得出盲区半径。根据计算结果及相关分布图,分析认为,在预警区内,平均台间距及盲区半径分布与地震活动的相关性较高,勘选完成的地震预警台站布局比较合理。     

不同海域中国花鲈营养成分的比较研究

对威海、舟山、福州、厦门、北海 5个沿海野生群体的中国花鲈的肌肉进行了营养成分的比较研究。结果表明 ,它们都富含蛋白质 ,且必需的氨基酸种类齐全 ,配比合理 ;富含不饱和脂肪酸和微量元素 ;蛋白质、氨基酸含量具有由北向南逐渐升高的趋势 ,总脂质含量反之 ;不饱和脂肪酸相对含量也由北向南逐渐升高的趋势 ,南方多不饱和脂肪酸含量高于单不饱和脂肪酸含量 ,北方则反之。     

大鹏湾夜光藻种群的季节变化和分布特征

于1990年3月－1992年6月对中国南海大鹏湾盐田附近海域的夜光藻种群动态及时空分布进行综合调查。结果表明，夜光藻种群的出现期间一般为每年的1－6月，最早是1991年的12月，数量高峰期为3－5月，种群密度的波动极为显著；调查期间共发生8次赤潮，且都发生在3月初至5月初；大鹏湾夜光藻赤潮的发生特点是，赤潮的发生和消失突然，持续时间短，一般不超过3d；调查海域夜光藻种群的空间分布模式为近岸的高于中央水域的，表面的高于底层的。     

The impact of boundary on the fractional advection–dispersion equation for solute transport in soil: Defining the fractional dispersive flux with the Caputo derivatives

The inherent heterogeneity of geological media often results in anomalous dispersion for solute transport through them, and how to model it has been an interest over the past few decades. One promising approach that has been increasingly used to simulate the anomalous transport in surface and subsurface water is the fractional advection–dispersion equation (FADE), derived as a special case of the more general continuous time random walk or the stochastic continuum model. In FADE, the dispersion is not local and the solutes have appreciable probability to move long distances, and thus reach the boundary faster than predicted by the classical advection–dispersion equation (ADE). How to deal with different boundaries associated with FADE and their consequent impact is an issue that has not been thoroughly explored. In this paper we address this by taking one-dimensional solute movement in soil columns as an example. We show that the commonly used FADE with its fractional derivatives defined by the Riemann–Liouville definition is problematic and could result in unphysical results for solute transport in bounded domains; a modified method with the fractional dispersive flux defined by the Caputo derivatives is presented to overcome this problem. A finite volume approach is given to numerically solve the modified FADE and its associated boundaries. With the numerical model, we analyse the inlet-boundary treatment in displacement experiments in soil columns, and find that, as in ADE, treating the inlet as a prescribed concentration boundary gives rise to mass-balance errors and such errors could be more significant in FADE because of its non-local dispersion. We also discuss a less-documented but important issue in hydrology: how to treat the upstream boundary in analysing the lateral movement of tracer in an aquifer when the tracer is injected as a pulse. It is shown that the use of an infinite domain, as commonly assumed in literature, leads to unphysical backward dispersion, which has a significant impact on data interpretation. To avoid this, the upstream boundary should be flux-prescribed and located at the upstream edge of the injecting point. We apply the model to simulate the movement of Cl⁻ in a tracer experiment conducted in a saturated hillslope, and analyse in details the significance of upstream-boundary treatments in parameter estimation.     

Large-scale seafloor stability evaluation of the northern continental slope of South China Sea

Abstract

With the continuous expansion of energy demand, the deep-water continental slope in the northern South China Sea has become one of the significant offshore oil and gas exploration regions. The frequent occurrence of marine geological hazards in this region, especially submarine landslides, can cause serious damage to engineering facilities. However, there have been few studies on the stability of the northern continental slope of the South China Sea; these studies mainly focused on a specific submarine slope or small-range evaluation, resulting in a lack of large-scale and quantitative understanding. Hence, considering the variation in the physical and mechanical properties of marine soils with depth, formulas for calculating the safety factor of submarine slopes by an infinite sliding model are established, and the factors affecting slope stability such as soil properties, slope gradient and horizontal seismic action are systematically investigated. Using GIS techniques, the terrain slope gradients and a historical seismic database of the northern South China Sea are obtained. Combined with soil mechanical parameters, a regional stability evaluation of the northern continental slope is carried out. Furthermore, the distribution of risk zones is given. On the whole, under strong seismic action, large-scale submarine slope instability occurs and must be highly considered when assessing risk. This achievement is of great significance to engineering sites, route selection and engineering risk assessment.     

水流作用下斜桩局部冲刷及流场变化试验研究

为研究水流作用下斜桩周围局部冲刷特性及流场变化并掌握斜桩同垂直桩的差异,本研究在不同流速条件下开展了包含反斜桩、垂直桩、正斜桩等多种工况的水槽试验,测量分析了斜桩的冲刷历时曲线、床面形态、沿程流速分布、最大冲刷深度等数据.结果表明:清水条件下斜桩周围局部冲刷坑及桩后沙丘尺度明显减小;斜桩桩前最大冲刷深度随倾角的增加而逐...     

渤海开边界潮汐的伴随法反演

潮汐潮流数值模拟中的一个主要难点在于开边界条件的确定。本文采用伴随法 ,由渤海沿岸 1 9个验潮站的潮汐调和常数来反演渤海海域的开边界条件 ,以实现渤海潮波的数值模拟。计算所得调和常数与实测值之差的绝对平均值 :m1 潮波振幅差为 1 4cm ,迟角差为5 0°;M2 潮波振幅差为 2 4cm ,迟角差为 5 0°。数值模拟结果正确地反映了渤海m1 和M2 潮波的基本特征