The Representativeness of Air Quality Monitoring Sites in the Urban Areas of a Mountainous City

Lanzhou is a typical mountainous city with severe air pollution in northwestern China. This study uses hourly observational data of air pollutants at five air quality monitoring sites in Lanzhou from July to December 2015 to discuss data quality control and the representativeness of the monitoring sites(four urban sites and one suburban site). A fuzzy matrix is applied to study primary air pollutants. The results show that of the six routinely monitored pollutants,the primary pollutant is PM_10 during the study period. Based on lag correlation analysis and one-way analysis of variance, it is concluded that there are redundant observations at the four urban sites for the timely diffusion and transport of air pollutants from the same general area. The coefficient of divergence(COD) method is then used to evaluate the spatial distribution differences, and the primary air pollutant PM_10 shows differences at each site. COD can be used as a positive indicator to describe site representativeness. To evaluate the overall air pollution in the valley, correlation analysis is performed between the PM_10 concentration retrieved from aerosol optical depth satellite data and the concentration from the four urban monitoring sites. Among these, the correlation between the workers' hospital site data and the retrieval data is the highest, passing the 90% confidence level. A new representative evaluation model for air quality monitoring sites, R_s = 0.77 COD + 0.23R_(retrieval), is established by using COD and correlation coefficients between routine observations and satellite retrieval products. From this model, it can be concluded that the biological products institute site in Lanzhou is the most representative site for the evaluation of air pollution out of the four urban air quality monitoring sites from July to December 2015.     

中国北方东部沙质荒漠化的地学观

中国北方东部的土地荒漠化主要受新构造运动以来的构造-沉积特征、青藏高原隆升所引起的全球气候变化、尤其是亚洲季风等地质背景控制。北方东部沙质荒漠化区域地质分类,按其成因可分为就地起沙型、风沙型和土地粗粒化型等3种类型。其中,就地起沙型沙质荒漠化主要分布在东部毛乌素、科尔沁、浑善达克、呼伦贝尔等沙地内,流经这些沙地的古河道,广泛发育河湖相砂质沉积物以及以砂质沉积物为母质的土壤分布区。风沙型沙质荒漠化主要分布在上述沙地的边缘地带,如毛乌素沙地以南的覆沙黄土区等。土地粗化主要分布在内蒙古锡林郭勒草原-河北坝上草原,其土壤类型多为含砾沙土,其土壤母质为基岩风化壳、残坡积或冲洪积物。荒漠化发展趋势上,尽管就地起沙型沙质荒漠化在毛乌素、科尔沁和浑善达克沙地的局部地区均有所逆转,但总体上,在北方广大地区,主要以地表土壤粗化为主的荒漠化和风沙型荒漠化等均有不同程度的扩大。上述不同类型的沙质荒漠化,总体上受地质背景控制。其中,第四纪以来的构造-沉积特征控制着不同类型荒漠化的区域分布,气候变化控制着荒漠化的进程,人类活动则是在上述背景的基础上进行。     

2018年12月16日兴文5.7级地震序列定位

Gong Yue;Zhao Min;LongFeng;Fu Ying(Sichuan Earthquake Agency,Sichuan Chengdu 610041,China)     

贵州台江凯里组的遗迹化石Treptichnus

贵州台江下中寒武统凯里组中产有丰富的、保存良好的Treptichnus Miller,计5个遗迹种（其中包括2个新遗迹种）：T．bifurcus Miller,T．pedum（Seilacher）,T．pollardi Buatois and Mdngano,T．arcus n．ichnosp．和T．taijiangensis n．ichnosp．,并与节肢动物的觅食迹、爬行迹和游泳迹等共生,属Cruziana遗迹相。产于凯里组的Treptichnus可能为节肢动物的居住迹。随着造迹生物身体的增长和沉积物的增厚,造迹生物在原潜穴的基础上不断地开拓新的潜穴,而构成三维空间复杂的潜穴系统。     

Comprehensive Utilization of Vanadium–Titanium Magnetite Deposits in China Has Come to a New Level

There are two production areas for vanadium-titanium magnetite deposits in China:the Panzhihua area in Sichuan Province and the Chengde area in Hebei Province. The Panzhihua vanadium titanomagnetite iron ore deposits are hosted by a mafic-ultramafic intrusive complex,and belong to late magmatic differentiation condensation of crystalline iron deposits.The rock mass is characterized by good differentiation,clear and differentiated facies zones and rhythm.The rock assemblage can be divided into the following rock facies combination:gabbro,gabbro-norite,gabbro troctolite,gabbro-plagioclase,gabbro-eclogite-olivine pyroxenite,and diabase types.The orebodies occur mostly as close-bedded,distributed in the dark facies zone in the bottom layers of the middle or lower part of the stratiform rock mass.The main ore minerals are granular ilmenite,magnetite,ilmenite spar,and magnesium aluminum spinel,with small amounts of pyrrhotite,pyrite and cobalt,nickel and copper sulfide.The ores have siderite and mosaic textures and occur as compact massive,banded and disseminated structures;they consist of TFeO 20％-45％,TiO2 3％-16％,V2O50.15％-0.5％,Cr2O30.1％-0.38％,associated with trace amounts of Cu,Co,Ni,Ga,Mn,P,Se,Te,Sc and Pt group elements.     

Aftershock of the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan Triggers Large Earthquake in Minxian County, Gansu

Because of the confining compression of the Pacific,Eurasian and Indian plates,the Chinese mainland is frequently stricken with earthquakes,especially in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and surrounding areas and along the NS-trending tectonic zone from Yinchuan to Lanzhou,Chengdu,and finally to the Kunming tectonic belt (Fig.1).Historical records show that there are 14 earthquakes of＞Ms 8 occurring in the two regions,eight of which occurred along the latter tectonic belt.The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake located on both the NS tectonic zone and the Longmenshan fault zone along the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.     

ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUSTAINED TORRENTIAL RAINS IN JUNES DURING 1958-2000

Day-to-day precipitation data of Junes during the 43 years of 1958-2000 from stations to the south of Yangtze River are used to divide regions and run statistical analysis of sustained torrential rainfall processes. A preliminary analysis is then made based on it and the results show that June is the month in which torrential rains in the southern half of China take place frequently and sustained torrential rains occur at the same time in South China and the area to the south of Yangtze River. In addition, the analysis gives the basic features of sustained torrential rains of June in China and their interannual variability patterns, with the suggestion that the amount of these events increases significantly after the 1990s. Lastly, the sustained torrential rains occurring in Junes of 1994, 1998 and 2005 in the southern half of China are taken as examples in the research on the basic patterns and formation mechanisms of the evolution of double rain-bands during the rain season in South China and the area to the south of Yangtze River. The analysis shows that the large scale environment field in which sustained torrential rains occur is related to the stable sustaining of the South Asia High and upper level jet streams.     

塔里木盆地天然气运聚系统与运聚模式

对塔里木盆地东部地层压力结构和天然气性质差异的研究表明,塔里木盆地东部具有多个独立的天然气运聚系统。这些运聚系统具有流体封存箱的特征。天然气只能在运聚系统内部进行短距离的运移,不能进行大规模侧向运移。因此天然气藏的形成具有近源的特点。由于不同运聚系统特征的差异,塔里木盆地大致有三种天然气运聚模式。