Estimation of Background Noise for International Monitoring System Seismic Stations

v--vThe prototype International Data Centre (IDC) in Arlington, Virginia has been acquiring data from seismic stations at locations designated in the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty for the International Monitoring System (IMS) since the start of 1995. A key characteristic of these stations is their background noise levels and their seasonal and diurnal variability. Since June 1997 an automated sample selection effort has collected over 700,000 individual noise sample spectra from 39 primary and 57 auxiliary stations. Monthly median and 5 and 95 percentile estimates have been calculated for each channel of every station. Compatibility of median spectra obtained for the same station and channel in the same month for two different years confirms the consistency of the noise-sampling algorithm used. A preliminary analysis of the results shows strong (more than a factor of two) seasonal variation at a quarter of all stations. Strong diurnal variations at half of the sites indicate that many of the selected sites are poorly located with respect to cultural noise sources. The results of this study are already being used to evaluate station quality, improve those processes that require background noise values, such as automatic association and requesting auxiliary station data, and to improve the estimation of station and network detection and location thresholds.     

Retention of white perch and striped bass larvae: Biological-physical interactions in Chesapeake Bay estuarine turbidity maximum

Physical and biological properties of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) region may influence retention and survival of anadromous white perch (Morone americana) and striped bass larvae (Morone saxatilis). To evaluate this hypothesis we collected data in five cruises, three during May 1998 and two during May 1999, in upper Chesapeake Bay. Time series of freshwater discharge, water temperature, wind, and water level explain differences in ETM location and properties between cruises and years. During high flows in 1998, a two-layer response to wind forcing shifted the ETM up-estuary, while a high discharge event resulted in a down-estuary shift in the salt front and ETM location. In 1999, extremely low discharge rates shifted the salt front 15 km up-estuary of its position in 1998. During 1999, the ETM was less intense and apparently topographically fixed. Gradients in depth-specific abundance of ichthyoplankton were compared with salinity and TSS concentrations along the channel axis of the upper Bay. During 1998, the high flow year, most striped bass eggs (75%) and most early-stage white perch larvae (80%) were located up-estuary of the salt front. In addition, most striped bass (91%) and white perch (67%) post-yolk-sac larvae were located within 10 km of maximum turbidity readings. Total abundance of white perch larvae was lower in 1999, a low freshwater flow year, than in 1998, a high flow year. In 1999, striped bass larvae were virtually absent. White perch (1977–1999) and striped bass (1968–1999) juvenile abundances were positively correlated with spring Susquehanna River discharge. The ETM regions is an important nursery area for white perch and striped bass larvae and life-history strategies of these species appear to insure transport to and within the ETM. We hypothesize that episodic wind and discharge events may modulate larval survival within years. Between years, differences in freshwater flow may influence striped bass and white perch survival and recruitment by controlling retention of egg and early-stage in the ETM region and by affecting the overlap of temperature/salinity zones preferred by later-stage larvae with elevated productivity in the ETM.     

一种改善MT低频数据质量的方法及其应用

电磁干扰是影响大地电磁测深方法（MT）数据质量的主要因素。目前，除从仪器电路上考虑压制50Hz的工业干扰外，主要的压制干扰的方法为近，远参考的ROBUST技术，它对高频电磁干扰或随机干扰有明显的压制作用。但在强干扰地区（通常具有很强的低频电磁干扰，如长，短脉冲和方波等低频干扰），低频数据的质量仍然很差，这是因为在低频数据处理时，强的低频电磁干扰使得级联分样后的数据发生了强的崎变，与实际的有用信号相差甚远，从MT时序数据出发，提出了应用小波变换的方法，重组低频干扰并加以消除，达到提高信噪比的目的，经实际资料处理证明，此方法效果明显。     

Pressure dependence ot SrSO4 solubility

The solubilities of SrSO₄ in seawater, 0.65 M NaCl and and distilled water were measured as a function of pressure at 2°C. The thermodynamic solubility product was determined from the distilled water measurements and stoichiometric solubility products were determined from the seawater and Nad measurements. The equilibrium quotient for SrSO₄ dissolution at ionic strength of 0.65 was calculated from the NaCl measurements, using the known NaSO₄^? ionpairing association constant. For each of the solubility products values of $\text{Θ V}$ were determined. These experimental values were all $\text{11.0 ± 0.3}\text{ml}$ mole_? lower than the theoretical values based on anhydrous SrSO₄. This difference may be due to the equilibrating solid phase being a hydrated form of SrSO₄.     

Anomalous electrical resistivity anisotropy in clean reservoir sandstones

We report novel laboratory measurements of the full electrical resistivity tensor in reservoir analogue quartzose sandstones with clay contents less than 1.5%. We show that clean, homogeneous, visually uniform sandstone samples typically display between 15% and 25% resistivity anisotropy with minimum resistivity normal to the bedding plane. Thin‐section petrography, analysis of fabric anisotropy, and comparison to finite‐element simulations of grain pack compaction show that the observed anisotropy symmetries and magnitudes can be explained by syn‐depositional and post‐depositional compaction processes. Our findings suggest that: electrical resistivity anisotropy is likely to be present in most clastic rocks as a consequence of ballistic deposition and compaction; compaction may be deduced from measurements of electrical anisotropy; and the anisotropy observed at larger scales in well logging and controlled‐source electromagnetic data, with maximum resistivity normal to bedding, is most likely the result of meso‐scale (10^?1 m–10¹ m) periodic layering of electrically dissimilar lithologies.     

Factor analysis for El Niño signals in sea surface temperature and precipitation

Maximum likelihood factor analysis (MLFA) is applied to investigate the variables of monthly Tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures (SST) from Niño 1+2, Niño 3, Niño 3.4, and Niño 4 and precipitation over New South Wales and Queensland of eastern Australia, Kalimantan Island of Indonesia, and California and Oregon of the west coast of the United States. The monthly data used were from 1950 to 1999. The November-February SST with time leads of 0, 1, 2, and 3 months to precipitation are considered for both El Niño warm phases and non El Niño seasons. Interpretations of the factor loadings are made to diagnose relationships between the SST and precipitation variables. For El Niño signals, the rotated FA loadings can efficiently group the SST and precipitation variables with interpretable physical meanings. When the time lag is 0 or 1 month, the November–February El Niño SST explains much of the drought signals over eastern Australia and Kalimantan. However, when the time lag is 2 or 3 months, the same SST cannot adequately explain the precipitation during January–May over the two regions. Communality results of five factors for precipitation indicate nearly 100% explanation of variances for Queensland and California, but the percentages are reduced to only about 30% for Oregon and Kalimantan. Factor scores clearly identify the strongest El Niño relevant to precipitation variations. Principal component factor analysis (PCFA) is also investigated, and its results are compared with MLFA. The comparison indicates that MLFA can better group SST data relevant to precipitation. The residuals of MLFA are always smaller than the PCFA. Thus, MLFA may become a useful tool for improving potential predictability of precipitation from SST predictors.     

中国北方寒武—奥陶系岩溶层组类型及其区域变化规律

本文在大量剖面资料统计的基础上,根据岩层的厚度比例和连续厚度及其组合形式,对我国北方寒武—奥陶系岩溶层组类型进行了划分,着重论述了岩溶层组类型的区域变化规律。为含水层系统的划分和水资源评价及区域岩溶发育规律的研究,提供了重要的基础资料。     

赣南大吉山五里亭岩体的锆石ELA-ICP-MS定年及其与钨成矿关系的新认识

大吉山是南岭地区一个著名的大型钨多金属矿床,五里亭岩体是矿区出露规模最大的火成岩体,岩性为中粗粒似斑状黑云母二长花岗岩。锆石 ELA-ICP-MS 定年结果表明其形成年龄为 237.5±4.8 Ma,属印支期岩浆活动的产物。与南岭地区典型钨多金属矿床成矿岩体相比,五里亭岩体贫硅,富钙、镁、铁,Rb/Sr、Rb/Ba 和 U/Th 比值低,K/Rb 比值高,铕负异常不显著,分异指数低,尚未达到矿化岩体的分异演化程度,不具备矿化岩体的地球化学特征。元素—同位素综合示踪显示区内白云母碱长花岗岩为五里亭岩体经高度分异演化的产物,它与钨多金属矿成矿直接有关。矿区范围内出露的闪长岩起源于地幔,这一岩浆侵位所引起的高热场环境有利于花岗质岩石的形成与演化,对成矿具有重要的意义。     

鄂尔多斯盆地热演化程度异常分布区及形成时期探讨

鄂尔多斯盆地在中生代晚期存在一期构造热事件,本文在对大量的镜质体反射率、火成岩年龄、磷灰石裂变径迹等资料分析的基础上,对构造热事件发生的时间、存在的地区及形成机理进行了深入的研究。鄂尔多斯盆地中生代晚期地热异常区主要分布在盆地南部的吴旗—庆阳—富县一带,构造热事件主要发生在中生代晚期早白垩世约140～100Ma,构造热事件持续时间约在10～40Ma之间。鄂尔多斯盆地中生代晚期构造热事件发生的根本原因在于中生代晚期岩石圈深部的热活动增强,盆地南部岩石圈深部热活动性更强,早白垩世鄂尔多斯盆地处于一种弱拉张的构造环境,地幔发生底侵作用,岩石圈减薄,发生岩浆侵入和喷发。异常地温场形成可能与秦岭造山带燕山晚期强烈的构造活动导致鄂尔多斯盆地岩石圈深部活动有密切的关系。