法国罗纳河及其流域整治

罗纳河历史上曾经是欧洲的一条典型的"野性"河流,洪水汹涌,桀骜不驯。后来,它又成了一条为法国近代的工业革命和现代经济发展作出重大贡献的"驯服"的河流。在500多公里的河段,建造了20多座水电站,为河流水电站梯级开发之"世界之最"。然而,自从1980年代以来,随着法国能源政策转向大力发展核电,水电站梯级开发时代的结束,环境保护的呼声日益高涨,罗纳河的整治逐渐进入以自然生态环境的恢复和保护为中心的持续发展时代。人们开始拆除水坝和河堤,恢复河漫滩湿地,等等。在这人与河流复杂的相互关系的历史中,河流流域整治的观念,政策都发生了巨大的变化,整治的科技手段也有了很大的进步。罗纳河流域整治以"健康河流"和"河流健康"为中心的发展战略,为中国河流流域整治提供了值得借鉴的经验。     

Oxygen 1.27-μm emission from the atmosphere of Venus

The emission of O₂ in the ${}^1\text{Δg}$ band at 1.27 μm originating from the upper atmosphere of Venus is computed. Seven different production mechanisms are compared. The adopted value for the quenching rate coefficient is 3 × 10^?20 cm³ sec^?. The results are compared with the measurements by Connes and it is shown that the values of the ozone profile calculated by N. D. Sze and M. B. McElroy (1975, Planet. Space Sci.23, 763–786) are too low to explain the emission at 1.27 μm on the basis of the ozone photolysis. In this case, the ozone quantity would be underestimated by a factor of at least 10. The scarcity of kinetic data relative to the other processes, which involve ClO for example, does not allow a reliable identification of the main process responsible for the emission.     

Geology and biostratigraphy of the Jurassic and lower cretaceous series to the north of the Lhasa Block (Tibet,China)

Abstract

— The Lhasa Block (s.l.) is bounded to the South by the Tertiary Yarlung Zangbo suture zone and to the North by the terminal Jurassic/earliest Cretaceous Bangong Nu Jiang suture zone. Several tectonostratigraphic units have been recognized in the central-northern part of the Lhasa Block. These are from bottom to top : 1) a thick turbiditic series with a few lenses of allodapic limestones which have yielded an Aalenian — Bajocian foraminiferal assemblage. This series is tectonieally overlain by the Donqiao ophiolite; 2) the continental to shallow marine late Malm to lowermost Cretaceous Zigetang Formation which disconformably overlies the Donqiao ophiolite and 3) continental red detrital rocks or marine Early/Late Aptian boundary to Early Albian foraminifera-rich bedded limestones in which some volcanic rocks are locally interbedded.

We discuss the palaeogeographical distribution and biostratigraphical meaning of some foraminifera (Gutnicella cayeuxi (LUCAS), Palorbitolina fen<ícu/o?(Bl .LMKNBACIl), Praeorbitolina cormyi SCHROEDER and Palor-bilolmoides hedini CHREREHI and ScilKOKDK.lt) and their bearing on the radiometric age of the Aptian-Albian boundary.     

Notes de lecture

Abstract

3D stratigraphic geometries of the intracratonic Meso- Cenozoic Paris Basin were obtained by sequence stratigraphic correlations of around 1 100 wells (well-logs). The basin records the major tectonic events of the western part of the Eurasian Plate, i.e. opening and closure of the Tethys and opening of the Atlantic. From earlier Triassic to Late Jurassic, the Paris Basin was a broad subsiding area in an extensional framework, with a larger size than the present-day basin. During the Aalenian time, the subsidence pattern changes drastically (early stage of the central Atlantic opening). Further steps of the opening of the Ligurian Tethys (base Het- tangian, late Pliensbachian;...) and its evolution into an oceanic domain (passive margin, Callovian) are equally recorded in the tectono-sedimentary history. The Lower Cretaceous was characterized by NE-SW compressive medium wavelength unconformities (late Cimmerian-Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary and intra- Berriasian and late Aptian unconformities) coeval with opening of the Bay of Biscay. These unconformities are contemporaneous with a major decrease of the subsidence rate. After an extensional period of subsidence (Albian to Turanian), NE-SW compression started in late Turanian time with major folding during the Late Cretaceous. The Tertiary was a period of very low subsidence in a com- pressional framework. The second folding stage occurred from the Lutetian to the Lower Oligocene (N-S compression) partly coeval with the E-W extension of the Oligocene rifts. Further compression occurred in the early Burdigalian and the Late Miocene in response to NE-SW shortening. Overall uplift occurred, with erosion, around the Lower/Middle Pleistocene boundary. © 2000 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS     

Warm brine lakes in craters of active mud volcanoes,Menes caldera off NW Egypt: evidence for deep-rooted thermogenic processes

The Menes caldera is a fault-controlled depression (~8 km in diameter) at ~3,000 m water depth in the western province of the Nile deep-sea fan off NW Egypt, comprising seven mud volcanoes (MVs) of which two are active. Based on multichannel and chirp seismic data, temperature profiles, and high-resolution bathymetric data collected during the 2000 Fanil, 2004 Mimes and 2007 Medeco2 expeditions, the present study investigates factors controlling MV morphology, the geometry of feeder channels, and the origin of emitted fluids. The active Cheops and Chephren MVs are 1,500 m wide with subcircular craters at their summits, about 250 m in diameter, generally a few tens of metres deep, and filled with methane-rich muddy brines with temperatures reaching 42 °C and 57 °C respectively. Deployments of CTDs and corers with attached temperature sensors tracked these warm temperatures down to almost 0.5 km depth below the brine lake surface at the Cheops MV, in a feeder channel probably only a few tens of metres wide. Thermogenic processes involve the dissolution of Messinian evaporites by warm fluids likely sourced even deeper, i.e. 1.7 and 2.6 km below the seabed at the Cheops and Chephren MVs respectively, and which ascend along listric faults. Seepage activity appears broadly persistent since the initiation of mud volcanism in the Early Pliocene, possibly accompanied by lateral migration of feeder channels.     

Multimodal accessibility modeling from coarse transportation networks in Africa

Accessibility is a key driving factor for economic development, social welfare, resources management, and land use planning. In many studies, modeling accessibility relies on proxy variables such as estimated travel time to selected destinations. In developing countries, estimating the travel time is hindered by scarce information about the transportation network, making it necessary to take into account off-network travel coupled with considerations of multimodal options available within the existing network. This research proposes such a hybrid approach that computes the travel time to selected destinations by optimizing together a fully modeled multimodal network and off-network travel. The model was applied in a region around Kisangani located in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Travel times to Kisangani from the hybrid approach were found to be in close agreement with field-based information (R ² = 0.98). The developed approach also proved to better support real-world transportation constraints (such as transfer points between travel modes or barriers) than cost-distance-based travel-time modeling. Demonstration results from the hybrid approach highlight the potential for impact assessment of road construction or rehabilitation, development of secondary towns or markets, and for land use planning in general.     

Analyse du transport solide en suspension dans le bassin versant de l'Oued El Hammam (Algérie du Nord)

Résumé

Dans les régions semi-arides et arides, caractérisées par des précipitations relativement faibles et souvent à caractère torrentiel, les facteurs climatiques jouent un rôle primordial dans l'érosion des sols à l'échelle des versants. La majeure partie de l'exportation des matériaux solides est effectuée par les cours d'eau lors des crues. La présente étude traite de l'évaluation et de la quantification du transport solide dans le bassin versant de l'Oued El Hammam, un sous-bassin important de la Macta caractérisé par une forte érosion hydrique. La sensibilité des roches à l'érosion, l'intensité des précipitations et les perturbations du régime d'écoulement font que le flux des matières en suspension (MES) transportées par l'Oued El Hammam atteint des valeurs très importantes. L'analyse du bilan qui règle le processus pluie–ruissellement–transport solide montre de bonnes relations, notamment entre la lame d'eau écoulée et la quantité de charge solide transportée. Nous présentons des modèles statistiques permettant de reproduire les flux de MES. Après calage et validation des modèles sur les chroniques mesurées, ils sont utilisés afin de reconstituer des chroniques de flux de MES non mesurées, à partir de données historiques de débit et de pluie. L'étude de la relation C–Q à l'échelle de la crue a été modélisée par une fonction puissance Y = aX^b ; une analyse statistique de la constante a et de l'exposant b a été menée afin d'expliquer le comportement de ces deux paramètres et de mieux comprendre l'aspect aussi bien pratique que théorique des processus.

Citation El Mahi, A., Meddi, M., et Bravard, J.-P., 2012. Analyse du transport solide en suspension dans le bassin versant de l'Oued El Hammam (Algérie du Nord). Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57 (8), 1642–1661.     

New UPb zircon ages from Tonga (Cameroon): coexisting Eburnean–Transamazonian (2.1 Ga) and Pan-African (0.6 Ga) imprints

The central domain of the Pan-African Belt in Cameroon is characterized by abundant porphyritic granitoids, which were emplaced synkinematically and variably orthogneissified in relation with ENE-striking steeply dipping transcurrent shear zones. These plutonic rocks have intermediate to felsic compositions and constitute a high-K calk-alkaline series. Conventional UPb zircon dating yields an age of 618 Ma for this syntectonic Pan-African magmatism in the Tonga area. The country rocks are made of metabasites (garnet amphibolites) and tonalitic to trondhjemitic gneisses, which suffered two distinct orogenic cycles: the first one is the Palaeoproterozoic Eburnean–Transamazonian cycle at 2.1 Ga and the second one is the Pan-African orogenesis. These new ages confirm the existence of an extensive Palaeoproterozoic crust in Cameroon and question the areal extent of the Congo–São Francisco craton towards the north. To cite this article: E.L. Tanko Njiosseu et al., C. R. Geoscience 337 (2005).     

Photochemistry of flourine in the mesosphere of Venus

In the laboratory, reactions with flourine species proceed rapidly with high rates but under mesospheric conditions the effeciency of these compounds is low due to the rapid formation of HF and to the lack of reactivity of this species. Even if diffusion processes are included, the result of calculations leads to fluorie concentrations typically less than 20 cm^?3. The low photodissociation coeffecient of HF leads to the expectation of a scale height of HF greater than or equal to the mean scale height. If the troposphere appears to be a sink for hydrofluoric acid, the maximum value of fluorine is obtained with a downward flux of 1.3 × 10⁸ HF atoms cm^?2 sec^?1 at the level of the clouds.