Engineering geology of loess and loess-like deposits: a commentary on the Russian literature

Loess and loess-like deposits were much studied in the Soviet Union, and are currently under investigation in Russia and surrounding countries. There is a vast literature in Russian, which touches on all aspects of loess science and technology. In particular, the studies of the origin of collapsibility are almost totally in Russian, and of course studies on the various regions of Russia and the countries of the Former Soviet Union FSU appear in Russian. This review looks at the literature in Russian and attempts to pick out key contributors, major topics and works and to identify the critical regions and zones of investigation. Because so many regions of the FSU had people living on loess ground, there is a vast literature on engineering geology and ground engineering topics, and this tends to dominate all the literature on loess in Russian. Following Russian practice, the fine-grained deposits under consideration are divided into loess and loess-like deposits. Three main topics are recognised across the whole spectrum of loess research: formation and distribution of loess deposits; stratigraphy, cyclicity and palaeoclimatology; and engineering topics, in particular hydrocollapse and subsidence, and we concentrate on the engineering geology topics. An attempt is made, based on the map of Abelev and Abelev [Abelev, Yu.M., Abelev, M.Yu., 1968. Fundamentals of design and construction on collapsible macroporous soils, 2nd ed. Stroiizdat, Moscow, 431 pp. (in Russian)] of collapsing loess deposits, to define seven loess regions within the geographical limits of the old USSR. The seven regions are those where geotechnical problems might be expected.     

Genesis of the Xinqiao Gold-Sulfide Orefield, Anhui Province, China

The Xinqiao S-Fe-Cu-Au orefield is located in the Tongling ore cluster in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in East China. There have been many researches regarding the genesis of the Xinqiao orefield in recent years, showing that it belongs to various types, such as sedimentary-reformed type, stratabound-skarn type, sedimentary submarine rocks-hosted exhalative type. We propose that it was formed in two periods of mineralization base on systematic field observation and Pb and S isotopic analyses in nearly ten years. The first period was formed during a syngenetic sedimentary process, whereas the massive sulphide orebodies are mainly related to the Yanshanian granitic magmatism. Sulfide metallic mineral associations show zoning around a granite intrusion, i.e. magnetite and pyrite→pyrite, chalcopyrite and native gold→pyrite, sphalerite and galena. Gold orebodies occur outside the contact zone of the granite intrusion.     

新疆谢米斯台地区小岩体型矿化遥感探测

中酸性小岩体易被地质填图遗漏,严重制约了该类型矿化的发现。在新疆西准噶尔谢米斯台地区找矿工作中,首先利用ETM+数据进行小岩体扫面,进而选取重点区采用ETM+和中巴资源卫星02B HR数据进行分辨率融合后解译、识别中酸性小岩体,并利用主成分分析法提取蚀变遥感异常,结合地质、化探信息综合分析后确定重点检查区域。利用此方法共解译出14个钾质花岗岩和3个黑云母花岗岩小岩体,这些小岩体大多被野外检查所证实。经野外检查发现了5处铜、金矿化点,证实了该方法的有效性。本研究中采用的方法可以为西部地区地质填图和中酸性小岩体型矿产资源勘查提供借鉴。     

A STUDY OF MICROTEKTITES IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN

In 1979, we found many small colorless transparent and light yellow-green glassy spherules in the surface layer and core sediment samples taken from the west of the Central Pacific Occan, which are considered to be microtektites. This finding is worthy of further determination of the range of strewn field and origin of tektites.     

黑潮延伸体上游中尺度涡场的年代际振荡及其相关机制

黑潮延伸体上游区域的中尺度涡场的涡动能和涡特征尺度存在显著地年代际振荡,和黑潮延伸体路径的年代际变化有很好的相关性。当黑潮延伸体路径比较稳定时,其上游区域涡动能比较高,涡特征尺度比较大,反之相反。通过对黑潮延伸体上游区域的中尺度涡场进行集合分析发现:当黑潮延伸体处于稳定状态时,上游涡场几乎是各向均匀地,有轻微的径向伸长;而当黑潮延伸体处于不稳定状态时,上游的中尺度涡场有显著地纬向伸长。对与中尺度涡场的产生相关的线性斜压不稳定和正压不稳定进行了计算分析,结果显示,线性斜压不稳定不是控制中尺度涡场年代际变化的机制,而正压不稳定对中尺度涡场的年代际变化有积极的贡献。不稳定产生的中尺度涡之间存在非线性涡-涡相互作用。     

铜陵冬瓜山层状铜矿同位素地球化学及成矿机制研究

长江中下游地区是中国重要的铜、金、硫产地,区内分布着一系列喷流沉积及喷流沉积热液叠加改造型层状铜金矿床。本文以冬瓜山层状铜矿床为例,通过热液流体和矿石同位素地球化学研究,探讨层状铜矿床的成矿机制,重点分析了成矿物质的来源。冬瓜山铜矿床热液流体氢、氧、碳和锶同位素分析表明,成矿热液流体主要来自岩浆,混有少量大气降水;CO2可能主要来自被岩浆同化的原始地层中海相沉积碳酸盐;ISr具有地壳物质来源的特征。各种类型矿石的硫、铅同位素研究显示,硫具有海底喷流沉积和后期岩浆热液叠加作用的特征,铅则以上地壳铅为主,混有少量的地幔铅。上述同位素地球化学特征表明冬瓜山层状铜矿床是在原始沉积基础上,经燕山期岩浆热液叠加成矿作用所形成。     

热带太平洋线性海气耦合系统的主模与ENSO

本文利用包含海洋表面边界层、线性海洋大气动力学以及完整的关于不均匀气候态线性化SST预报方程的热带太平洋海气耦合模式， 在真实的气候背景态和参数域内，研究了海气耦合系统的特征值问题，确定了线性耦合系统主模的特征周期及其稳定性特征，进而揭示了主模和ENSO的关系。结果表明:准两年振荡是线性海气耦合系统中的最不稳定模态，且只有该模态类似于ENSO水平结构。因此，准两年振荡很可能是海气耦合系统固有的最根本性的振荡过程。本文也对准两年振荡的形成与年循环的关系以及它在ENSO时间尺度形成中的作用进行了讨论。     

“天绘一号”卫星在轨性能评估

“天绘一号”卫星是中国新一代传输型摄影测量卫星, 由航天东方红卫星有限公司基于CAST2000小卫星平台研制。01星于2010年8月发射成功, 02星于2012年5月发射成功。经过在轨测试, 两颗卫星性能指标均达到设计要求。本文介绍了“天绘一号”卫星在轨性能测试的结果, 为该卫星后续业务化应用提供宝贵数据。