First observations in a high rocky-shore community after the Erika oil spill (December 1999, Brittany,France)

The high mediolittoral rocky-shore community on the island of Groix (Brittany, France), was studied for the year immediately following the Erika oil spill (12/12/1999). The macrofaunal assemblages of three habitats (exposed bedrock, crevices, boulders) under three situations (non-impacted, impacted and not washed, impacted and washed) were monitored monthly. The assemblage of each habitat showed specific responses to the impacts and initiated various patterns of succession: the bed rock assemblage changed in terms of abundance but no species-richness variations occurred; in the crevices richness variations occurred both in the disappearance of some species and the immigration of opportunistic ones; the boulder assemblage lost many species and remained unstructured one year after the oil spill. These first results of this most recent oil spill in Europe, raised the question of the relative importance of habitat-species and species interactions on the community structure.     

Harmful algal bloom species and phosphate-processing effluent: field and laboratory studies

In 2002, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection began discharging phosphate-processing effluent into Bishop Harbor, an estuary within Tampa Bay. Because of concerns that the effluent would serve as a nutrient source for blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, a field monitoring program was established and laboratory bioassays were conducted. Several harmful algal bloom (HAB) species, including Prorocentrum minimum and Heterosigma akashiwo, were observed in bloom concentrations adjacent to the effluent discharge site. Blooms of diatoms were widespread throughout Bishop Harbor. K. brevis was observed with cell concentrations decreasing with increasing proximity to the effluent discharge site. Bioassays using effluent as a nutrient source for K. brevis resulted in decreased cell yields, increased growth rates, and increased time to log-phase growth. The responses of HAB species within Bishop Harbor and of K. brevis to effluent in bioassays suggested that HAB species differ in their response to phosphate-processing effluent.     

UPPER CAMBRIAN OF KAIPING BASIN.

The Cambrian of China is developed in Yunnan, Shantung, Chihliand Manchuria. The first collection of Cambrian fossils was made by VonRichthofen and described by Dames and Kayser. Dames studied thetrilobites and Kayser described the brachiopods.     

STRATIGRAPHY AND PAL?EONTOLOGY OF THE SINIAN ROCKS OF NANKOU

INTRODUCTION The Sinian rocks in China as far as we know are most well developedin Chihli and Shansi provinces. In Chihli, they are usually restricted to theupper part, as in Ta Yang, Pei Yu, Hsia Ma Ling, Ching Pei Kou and other     

加利福尼亚小狼湖地震引起的边坡崩塌的动力学分析

引 言 纽马克(Newmark)(1965)提出的动力边坡稳定性分析的方法正在不断地用于地震区的土坝工程设计、公路渠道和其它人造坡。这种分析此处称为“纽马克分析”,它结合了两种资料:(1)临界加速度,在这种加速度情况下,边坡可达到其最大强度的地面加速度值;2)强震地震图,它记录了地面加速度的对应时间。纽马克分析根据强震图应用与边坡主题有关的加速度历史原始材料中相同的临界加速度计算出刚性摩擦块体的位移。因此,边坡工程的设计必须两者择一:(1)很牢固,足以屈服在预计地震发生的过程中出现的仅有的小位移。(2)很柔韧,足以承受一个较大的位移。所以,纽马克分析给设计人员提供了当第一种方法不可行时,可选择第二种方法的自由。     

辽南金州拆离带糜棱状花岗岩脉体变形特征及锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄——韧性拆离时限的新证据

辽南金州拆离断层带中发育糜棱状花岗岩脉。野外观察与显微构造分析显示该脉体为同构造变形脉体,与围岩太古宙片麻岩一起经历了伸展韧性剪切变形。长石Fry法的应变测量结果显示样品的付林参数K=0.83,罗德参数υ=0.09,应变强度Es=0.71,表明该岩石应变以平面应变为主,且有限应变较强;运动学涡度为Wk=0.89,表明剪切作用类型以简单剪切为主。对该花岗岩脉进行锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年代学测定,10颗岩浆锆石的206Pb/238U年龄加权平均值为129±2 Ma(MSWD=1.6),代表岩脉侵位年龄。结合该区研究的最新成果,表明金州拆离断层至少在129 Ma已经开始韧性变形,辽南地区构造体制在此时已经从缩短转折到伸展。     

ON A COLLECTION OF YANGSHAO CULTURAL REMAINS FROM MIENCHIHHSIEN, HONAN

When surveying the Cenozoic geology between Loyang and Sian, the authors had an opportunity of visiting the famous Aeneolithic sites at Yangshaotsun (仰韶村) and Puchiaochai (不召塞), Mienchihhsien, Honan pro-     

THE LATE CENOZOIC FORMATIONS OF S.E.SHANSI

Up to 1931 nothing was positively known concerning the Cenozoicformations eventually preserved in S.E.Shansi.The large area bounded by