Causes of rockfalls in Al-Huwayshah area,Yemen

According to topography of Yemen,most areas and villages are located at obligated crest,toe of mountain and under cliffs.Therefore Al-Huwayshah consisting of Tawilah sandstone group is characterized by steep slope reach to 90° in some areas.This area is affected by strong tectonic movements and faults that occurred during the geological epochs.This effect enhances to find out fractures and joints as well as the rocks become brittle and ready to slide depending on the position of area.And there are some frac...     

Analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons in mangrove sediments of Red Sea of Yemen

A field work has been carried out to identify the occurrence of oil and oil products pollution in mangrove sediment from Red Sea of Yemen. The concentration of total petroleum hydrocarbons is from 700ng/g at Kamaran Island station to 400 ng/g at Al-Hodiedah station, and the total organic carbon （TOC） in samples ranges from 0. 07% at Dhubab station to 0. 03% at Kamaran Island station. This pollution is as a result of localized oil pollution and/or heavy ship traffic in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.     

Foreword

Destructive earthquakes have caused great damage in China and the United States and collapsing buildings have caused many deaths and injuries. The field of earthquake engineering studies     

New observations and transit solutions of the inflated exoplanets HAT-P-40b and HAT-P-51b

We present high-precision photometric observations of the transiting exoplanets HAT-P-40 b and HAT-P-51 b by the Rozhen 2-m telescope.The newly-observed transit of HAT-P-40 b is the first one with a complete curve.The orbital periods of the two targets were improved.We modeled the observed transits and found bigger stellar radii than those derived from the stellar models.The planet radii of HATP-40 b and HAT-P-51 b obtained from our transit solutions are bigger than the values calculated by the empirical relations for Jupiter-mass and Saturn-mass planets respectively.Their values reveal the highlyinflated nature of the two targets,especially that of HAT-P-51 b.We established that the best transit solutions correspond to a quadratic limb-darkening law.The fitted limb-darkening coefficients of HAT-P-40 are close to the theoretical ones while those of HAT-P-51 are a little different.The precise astrometric Gaia distances of the two targets are smaller by 6%–7%than the calculated values from the stellar models.We propose the Gaia distances to be used for improvement of the stellar models as well as for more reliable calculation of the parameters of the known exoplanets.     

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Late Ediacaran Rare-metalAlbite Granites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield

The Abu Dabbab albite granite(ADAG), in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt, hosts the most significant rare metal ore deposit in the northern part of the Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield. Here, we report detailed field,petrographic, mineralogical and geochemical investigation of the ADAG, an isolated stock-like granitic body with sharp intrusive contacts against metamorphic country rocks, probably emplaced at about 600 Ma. The fine-grained porphyritic upper unit is a preserved remnant of the shallowly-emplaced apex of the magma chamber, whereas the medium-grained lower unit crystallized at deeper levels under subvolcanic conditions. The peraluminous leucocratic ADAG shares common geochemical characteristics with post-collisional intraplate A-type magmas. In addition to the conspicuous enrichment in Na2 O, the ADAG is remarkable for its anomalous concentrations of Ta, Nb, Li, Hf, Ga, Sn, Zn and heavy rare-earth elements. Nb-Ta minerals in the ADAG are mixed with Fe-Mn oxides, forming black patches that increase in abundance toward of the base of the intrusion. Columbite-tantalite, cassiterite and wolframite are the most important ore minerals.Pronounced negative Eu anomalies(Eu/Eu* = 0.10–0.24) reflect extreme magmatic fractionation and perhaps the effects of late fluid-rock interaction. The ADAG was most likely generated by partial melting of the juvenile middle crust of the ANS as the geotherm was elevated by erosional uplift following lithospheric delamination and it was emplaced at the intersection of lineations of structural weakness. Although formation of the ADAG and its primary enrichment in rare metals are essentially due to magmatic processes, late-stage metasomatism caused limited redistribution of rare metals. Fluid-driven subsolidus modification was limited to the apex of the magma chamber and drove development of greisen, amazonite, and quartz veins along fracture systems.     

地磁场解释的数学方法(续)

磁场分解为分量场。我们对总的地磁场的统计性质作了分析之后,随之而来的便是将地磁场分解为分量场。在全球范围内研究总磁场时,需要划分出正常场;在研究区域磁场时,则需要把异常分成不同级次。     

太古代和元古代科马提岩的野外地质特征和岩石学

引言虽然现在已知有些早已描述过的超基性岩是喷出成因的(例如,Naldrett & Mason, 1968),但对超基性熔岩的认识和首先作明确描述的应归功于Viljoen & Viljoen(1969),他们认为南非巴伯顿山地绿岩带中的许多超基性岩单位是火山成因的。他们建议把包括这些超基性熔岩以及有关的基性火山岩和超基性岩墙和岩床的一套岩石称为科马提岩(Komatiite)。作为喷出证据,他们描述了冷却的岩流顶部构造、     

硫化物饱和的和硫化物未饱合的科马提岩熔融体的化学和热力模拟

科马提岩熔融体的化学的和热力的模拟试验进行了我们对卡姆巴尔达型镍矿床成因的认识。化学模拟的价值明显地受工程使用资料的质量的限制。现有的模式是以Rajamani和Naldrett(1978)提出的镍分配系数的实验测定为根据的。这些系数是在1200℃和1300℃间温度的玄武岩熔融体在未知S及O逸度条件下测定的。如果把这些资料用于模拟科马提熔融体的分馏,就可外推更多超镁铁质成分和超过1500℃温度条件下的结果。     

原始地核:离子探针为西格陵兰和恩德比地(南极洲)太古宙地区大约4000Ma地壳物质提供的证据

对古老岩区的典型花岗片麻岩中提取单—锆石颗粒内一些直径为15μm的点,用离子探针测量了~(207)pb/~(206)pb的比值表明,这些地方保存一个~(207)pb/~(206)pb比值范围。在含有较高铀含量的锆石内一般可测得~(207)pb/~(206)pb的最低比值,计算的~(207)pb/~(206)pb年龄,一般与反映它们形成后各岩层经受的比较主要地质事件可以对比。似乎可能的是,在年轻事件期间,由于遭受锆石粒高铀区放射性的破坏,使这些地带的放射性铅损失了。在含     

元古代及早古生代的微古植物化石

当前,在许多国家和地区古生物工作者十分重视研究古老的微植物化石,特别对于晚元古代及早古生代的微古植物化石的研究,取得了显著成绩。根据外貌特征,微古植物可以分成六个主要群落:球状藻(Sphaeromorphida),棱状藻(Scaphomorphida),多面藻(Edromorphida),刺球藻(Sphaerohystrichomorphida),卵形藻(Ooidomorphida)及椭状藻(Ellipasoidomorphida)。并包括几个亚群落和很多