In-situ testing study on convection and temperature characteristics of a new crushed-rock slope embankment design in a permafrost region

For the purpose of enhancing air convection and controlling solar radiation, a new crushed-rock slope embankment design combined with a sun-shade measure is proposed. A newly designed embankment was constructed in the Tuotuohe section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and a field-testing experiment was carried out to determine its convection and temperature characteristics. The results show that distinct air convection occurred in the crushed-rock layer of the new embankment, especially in cold seasons, which was enhanced when it flowed upwards along the slope. This preliminarily indicated that the new design of the embankment slope was good for reinforcing air convection in the crushed-rock layer. The frequent fluctuations of the convection speed and the environmental wind speed were in good agreement, suggesting that the convection in the crushed rock primarily came from the ambient wind. It was also preliminarily determined that the new embankment had a better cooling effect and sun-shade effect for decreasing the temperature of the embankment slope compared with a traditional crushed-rock slope embankment, and the mean temperature difference between them was up to 1.7 °C. The mean annual temperature at the bottom boundary of the crushed-rock layer was obviously lower than that at the top boundary, and heat flux calculation showed that the shallow soil beneath the embankment slope was weakly releasing heat, all of which indicated that the new embankment slope design was beneficial to the thermal stability of the embankment. This study is helpful in providing some references for improved engineering design and maintenance of roadbeds in permafrost regions.     

偶氮氯膦Ⅲ双波长分光光度法同时测定铀矿石中钍和铀

本文对偶氮氯膦Ⅲ与钍、铀的显色反应作了研究,提出了三烷基氧膦-G.D.X-301萃取色层分离、偶氮氯膦Ⅲ双波长分光光度法同时测定铀矿石中钍和铀的方法。方法简便,精密度、准确度良好。     

Relationships between carbon isotope evolution and variation of microbes during the Permian–Triassic transition at Meishan Section, South China

This paper investigates kerogen carbon isotopes, the difference between carbonate and kerogen carbon isotopes (Δ¹³C_carb-kero = δ ¹³C_carb − δ ¹³C_kero) and the difference between carbonate and n-C₁₉ alkane compound-specific carbon isotopes (Δ¹³C_carb-n-C19 = δ ¹³C_carb − δ ¹³C _n-C19) during the Permian–Triassic transition at Meishan, South China. The results show that kerogen carbon isotopes underwent both gradual and sharp shifts in beds 23–25 and 26–29, respectively. The differences between carbonate and organic carbon isotopes, both the Δ¹³C_carb-kero and Δ¹³C_carb-n-C19, which are mainly affected by CO₂-fixing enzyme and pCO₂, oscillated frequently during the Permian–Triassic transition. Both the variations of Δ¹³C_carb-n-C19 and Δ¹³C_carb-kero coupled with the alternation between cyanobacteria and green sulfur bacteria indicated by biomarkers. The episodic low values of Δ¹³C_carb-n-C19 corresponded to episodic blooms of green sulfur bacteria, while the episodic high values of Δ¹³C_carb-n-C19 corresponded to episodic blooms of cyanobacteria. The relationships between the variation of carbon isotopes and biota show that the microbes which flourished after the extinction of macroorganism affected the carbon isotope fractionation greatly. Combining the carbon isotope compositions and the pattern of size variation of the conodont Neogondolella, this paper supposes that anoxia of the photic zone at bed 24 was episodic and it would be caused by the degradation of terrigenous organic matters by sulfate reducing bacteria in the upper water column. Considered together with results from previous research, the high resolution variation of the biogeochemistry presents the sequence of the important geo-events during the Permian–Triassic crisis.     

Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of early Devonian mafic dike–granite association in the northern West Junggar,NW China

Mafic dike–granite associations are common in extensional tectonic settings and important and pivotal in reconstructing crust–mantle geodynamic processes. We report results of zircon U–Pb and hornblende ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar ages and major-element and trace-element data for mafic dike–granite association from the northern West Junggar, in order to constrain their ages, petrogenesis, and geodynamic process. The mafic dike–granite association was emplaced in the early Devonian. The Xiemisitai monzogranites have high SiO₂ contents and low MgO, Cr, and Ni concentrations, suggesting that they were mainly derived from crustal sources and were probably generated by partial melt of the juvenile mid-lower crust. The mafic dikes have low Mg^# and Cr and Ni abundances, suggesting that they have experienced significant fractional crystallization. The Xiemisitai mafic dikes contain hornblende and biotite and display negative Nb–Ta–Ti anomalies, enrichment of LREEs and LILEs, and depletion of HREEs and HFSEs, consistent with an origin from a lithospheric mantle metasomatized by subducted slab-derived fluids. In addition, the Xiemisitai mafic dikes are plotted within melting trends with little to no garnet (Cpx: Grt = 6:1) in their source. The La/Yb versus Tb/Yb plot also indicates the presence of less than 1% residual garnet in the source region for the Xiemisitai mafic dikes. Therefore, it can be inferred that the Xiemisitai mafic dikes were generated at a correspondingly shallow depth, mostly within the spinel stability field. The Xiemisitai mafic dikes were most probably generated by the partial melting of the metasomatized lithospheric mantle at relatively shallow depths (<80 km). The Xiemisitai mafic dike–granite association could have been triggered by asthenospheric upwelling as a result of the rollback of the subducted Irtysh–Zaysan oceanic lithosphere.     

如东县紫菜养殖对潮滩地貌的冲淤影响

在放射性核素 210Pb测年分析的基础上,综合运用沉积物粒度、沉降板测量及遥感影像解译等方法,对如东县紫菜养殖前后潮滩沉积环境尤其是潮滩地貌的冲淤变化进行了初步探讨。研究结果表明:在以年计算的长时间尺度上,紫菜养殖对潮滩地貌的冲淤不会产生明显影响,紫菜养殖区沉积物的沉积速率符合自然状况下沉积物的沉积速率,这一变化规律与紫菜养殖区沉积物粒径变化规律相一致。但在紫菜养殖期间,由于网帘、竹竿的架设及紫菜对水动力的阻滞作用,会大大加速该区域潮滩的沉积,此期间紫菜养殖区呈淤积状态; 而一旦进入非紫菜养殖期间,潮滩在水动力作用的冲刷下又将恢复到原来的自然状态,滩面保持冲淤平衡,这一变化规律与沉降板泥沙厚度测量及遥感影像分析结果互为印证。因此,潮滩紫菜养殖本身并不会对养殖区潮滩地貌的冲淤变化产生明显的影响,但养殖紫菜期间所引起的频繁人类活动,在一定程度上会加速该区域低潮滩的侵蚀。     

Study on Retrieving Key Ecological Parameters in Mountainous Regions by Remote Sensing Methods and Evaluating Their Spatio-temporal Representativeness

Focusing on the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China “A study on retrieving key ecological parameters in mountainous regions by remote sensing methods and evaluating their spatio-temporal representativeness”, this paper introduced the project background, objectives, research status, the key scientific questions, main contents of the research, the overall methodology and the deliverables. Choosing different topographic gradient and vegetation background, this project will conduct researches on retrieving key ecological parameters such as LAI and NPP in mountainous areas, evaluating their spatio-temporal representativeness, analyzing the influence of complex terrain on remote sensing signals and the remote sensing products, and finally trying to make a breakthrough in the theory and methodology of ecological parameters retrieving in mountains area.     

黄骅坳陷港西开发区新近系明化镇组沉积微相三维建模

本文以黄骅坳陷港西开发区为例，探讨在油田开发阶段，如何通过密井网区沉积微相定量几何学数据对新近系明化镇组沉积环境相似的稀井网区进行沉积微相三维建模的方法。密井网区研究表明，港西开发区河流相的单河道砂体宽度约50-300 m，一般为100-200 m，厚度约5-15 m，一般为6-10 m；漫溢砂体长、宽一般小于200 m；砂体结构主要为迷宫状和拼合板状两种型式。应用密井网区沉积微相定量几何学数据，采用标点过程方法，对井网较稀的目标研究区进行了三维沉积微相建模研究，并取得了良好的应用效果。     

Effects of precipitation variation on severe acid rain in southern China

Acid rain has been recognized as a serious environmental problem in China since the 1980s,but little is known about the effects of the climatic change in regional precipitation on the temporal and spatial variability of severe acid rain.We present the effects of the regional precipitation trend change on the area and intensity of severe acid rain in southern China,and the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of SO2 and NO2 concentrations are analyzed on the basis of SO2 and NO2 column concentration data.The results are as follows.(1) The emission levels of SO2 and NO2 have reached or passed the precipitation scavenging capacity in parts of southern China owing to the emission totals of SO2 and NO2 increasing from 1993 to 2004.(2) Notable changes in the proportion of cities subject to severe acid rain occurred mainly in the south of the middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River during 1993-2004.With an abrupt change in 1999,the severe acid rain regions were mainly located in central and western China during 1993-1999 and moved obviously eastward to the south of the lower-middle reaches of the Yangtze River with the proportion of cities subject to severe acid rain increasing significantly from 2000 to 2004.(3) The spatial distribution and variation in the seasonal precipitation change rate of more than 10 mm/10a are similar to those of severe acid rain in southern China.An abrupt change in 1999 is seen for winter and summer precipitation,the same as for the proportion of cities subject to severe acid rain in southern China.The significant increase in summer storm precipitation from 1991 to 1999 mitigated the annual precipitation acidity in the south of the Yangtze River and reduced the area of severe acid rainfall.On the other hand,the decrease in storm rainfall in summer expanded the area of severe acid rainfall in the south of the Yangtze River in 2000-2006.Therefore,the change in seasonal precipitation is an important factor in the severe acid rain regions moving eastward and expanding in southern China.     

隆林县2009—2010年秋冬春连旱成因分析与评估

分析2009～2010年隆林秋冬春连旱的直接原因和深层次原因,并利用降水距平百分率和相对湿润度指数对气象干旱等级进行评估,为政府和有关部门抗旱救灾和灾害评估提供参考。     

近20年来热带印度洋与热带太平洋海气系统相互作用特征的诊断研究

利用1979年1月～1998年12月的月平均海表温度(SST)、向外长波辐射(OLR)和l000hPa纬向风速等NCEP/NCAR再分析资料，对近20年来热带印度洋与太平洋海温异常(SSTA)及相关的环流特征量进行综合分析和研究，发现热带印度洋的内部耦合动力特征模态—偶极子模的强度，存在着年代间的差异，80年代偏弱，90年代偏强。热带印度洋与热带太平洋海气耦合系统之间存在着相互作用，80年代热带印度洋的SSTA主要是对太平洋ENSO的响应，90年代太平洋ENSO的异常发展在一定程度上是受印度洋偶极子模态异常活跃影响的结果。从观测资料诊断分析的角度，找出了90年代后ZC耦合模式对ENSO事件预报失败的可能原因。