The Genç District is located on the Bingöl Seismic Gap (BSG) of the Eastern Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) with its?~?34.000 residents. The Karl?ova Triple Junction, where the EAFZ, the North Anatolian Fault Zone, and the Varto Fault Zone meet, is only 80 km NE of the Genç District. To make an earthquake disaster damage prediction of the Genç District, carrying a high risk of disaster, we have (1) prepared a new geological map, and (2) conducted a single-station microtremor survey. We defined that three SW-NE trending active faults of the sinistral Genç Fault Zone are cutting through the District. We have obtained dominant period (T) as?<?0.2 s, the amplification factor (A) between 8 and 10, the average shear wave velocity for the first 30 m (Vs30) as?<?300 m/s, and the seismic vulnerability index (Kg) as?>?20, in the central part of the Genç District. We have also prepared damage prediction maps for three bedrock acceleration values (0.25, 0.50, 0.75 g). Our earthquake damage prediction scenarios evidenced that as the bedrock acceleration values increase, the area of soil plastic behavior expands linearly. Here we report that if the average expected peak ground acceleration value (0.55–0.625 g) is exceeded during an earthquake, significant damage would be inevitable for the central part of the Genç District where most of the schools, mosques, public buildings, and hospitals are settled-down.
In arid regions, because of spatial variability, using single climate records is difficult to reconstruct the past climate
change for the drainage basins. Holocene environmental records were collected from the upper, middle and lower regions of
the Shiyang River drainage basin in the marginal area of the Asian monsoon (northwest China). The main objective of this paper
was to compare the records from the terminal lake and the middle and upper reaches of the basin to study the basin-wide environmental
changes. During the early Holocene the vegetation was sparse, and the effective moisture was relatively low in the basin.
The Holocene Climatic Optimum started between 7.0 and 8.0 cal ka BP, during which the lake level reached the highest level
in the terminal lake; the vegetation density and the effective moisture reached the highest level during the Holocene in the
drainage basin. From 4.7 cal ka BP the terminal lake began to shrink, while the vegetation density decreased dramatically.
In the middle and upper regions of the drainage, the effective moisture began to decrease since 3.5 cal ka BP, and the arid
tendency was earlier in the terminal lake than it was in the middle and upper regions of the drainage basin. During the early
Holocene the relatively arid environment was affected by the gradually intensifying East Asian monsoon and the dry westerly
winds. The mid-Holocene Optimum benefited from the intensive East Asian monsoon and the humid westerly winds. Then, the East
Asian monsoon retreated since the late-Holocene. In the basin the arid tendency may be related to the retracting of the East
Asian monsoon. However, the intensifying acidification after 1.5 cal ka BP may be correlated to the increasing dryness of
the westerly winds. 相似文献
The Wattkopftunnel, near Ettlingen (Nordschwarzwald), drives through the eastern margin of the Rheingraben. The tunnel passes cenozoic and mesozoic sediments. Early quarternary and tertiary beds are situated west of the main thrust of the Rheingraben. Fossil record indicates upper Oligocene age (Chatt) for parts of the tertiary sediments. At the eastern border of the Rheingraben, wedges of jurassic and middle triassic series are squeezed. East of the Rheingraben the tunnel drives in the lower triassic Bausandstein. The eastern margin of the Rheingraben was investigated in detail during tunneling. Faults of the Rheingraben margin are distributed in an 130 meter wide fault zone in the tunnel. Total stratigraphic separation by the normal faults reaches more than 2 000 meters. The cenozoic sequence suffered synsedimentary to early diagenetic deformation, while the mesozoic series are characterized by ruptural deformation. The fault- and joint system is directed in the rheinische Richtung (SSW-NNE). East of the Rheingraben a second direction occur, running parallel to the lower Albtal (W-E). 相似文献