China's urban transition

This article describes recent changes in urban patterns in Shanghai-Nanjing, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, Canton-Hong Kong, and Dalian-Shenyang. The urban patterns in these metropolitan areas are viewed as part of an urban transition that is responding to population growth, a structural shift in employment, relaxed rules on migration and household registration, and foreign investment and trade. It is argued that these metropolitan coastal areas will form the key growth centers and will lead China's economic development. Urban transition is defined as the shift from rural to urban and from agricultural employment to industrial, commercial, or service employment. China's large cities always dominated as important centers of politics and trade. The recent shift is from interior to coastal cities due to a new world view and a movement away from the isolationism of prior centuries. It is assumed that cities are formed to take advantage of economies of scale in production, consumption, and distribution and to conform to regional specialization. Governments can intervene in growth processes. China's development of cities reflects state controls and market forces. The size and scale of China's population influenced the development process, which resulted in differences in the shape and process of the urban transition. It was under Chinese communism that cities became more than a set of discrete regional urban systems. Reference is made to Oshima's model of change that is specific to monsoon countries. Oshima argues that monsoon agricultural conditions require a distinct strategy based on full employment in order to achieve industrial transition. Rice cultivation requires a large and disciplined labor force. The discussion focuses on other models as well, such as the McGee's model of the extended metropolis and its extension by Zhou Yixing to China. China's changes may not follow Skeldon's models of urbanization in developing countries, because of state control of migration. However, the longer migrants remain in cities the more likely Skeldon's models of early European transitions apply to China's urban transition.     

Remediation and restoration of metal-contaminated sites： Concepts and appfications to mining areas

Metals, including heavy metals and metalloids, are a common group of environmental contaminants. Their sources in the environment are geogenic or anthropogenic. The growing trend in global industrialization ensures that more metals could be dispersed even in pristine ecosystems. To fuel industrialization, more metal ore mines have to be discovered and explored. These explorations often result in landscape disturbance, soil degradation and environmental contamination by unwanted mining constituents. Mine tailings brought up to the ground surface often serve as the main source of contaminants when these pyrite-rich materials oxidize. The oxidation of mine tailings results in proton generation, coupled with the dissolution of metals and other cations Unwanted anionic constituents are also produced. The so-called ＂acid mine drainage＂ may affect the productivity of farmlands and stability of receiving streams and other bodies of water-acidifying the waters and enriching the ecosystem with metals, i.e., high total dissolved solids. The acidified overburden materials become inhospitable to plant and microbial life as they are typically low in organic matter content and infertile. This exposes the landscape to runoff and erosion.     

Associations and mobility of uranium in soils near a depleted uranium （DU） weapons testing site, SW Scotland

Natural uranium has three isotopes, ^238U, ^235U and ^234U, with natural abundances of 99.27 atom %, 0.72% and 0.0055%, respectively. Only ^235U is fissile and the production of nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons involves enrichment of uranium in ^235U. This process also results in separation of ^234U from ^238U, leaving depleted uranium （DU）, with typical ^234U/^238U and ^235U/^238U activity ratios of about 0.19 and 0.013, respectively, as a waste product. The high density, high melting and boiling points and chemical stability of uranium and the availability of DU in relatively pure form mean that DU has many uses, including armour-piercing munitions. Such munitions have been developed in the UK since the 1960s and testing has been carried out by the Ministry of Defence （MoD） at firing ranges such as Dundrennan, SW Scotland and Eskmeals, NW England. The firing of DU munitions can result in the dispersion of DU and its combustion products （oxides） as aerosols or as larger fragments, with the potential for human exposure either directly at the site of detonation or via post-depositional migration in the environment. The aim of this work was to investigate the potential environmental mobility of DU by characterizing the associations of U in soil porewaters with increasing distance from a firing site. To this end, several soil cores located down-wind of the firing site at Dundrennan, near Kirkcudbright, SW Scotland, were collected in May 2006. These were sectioned on-site into 1- or 2-cm depth intervals and porewaters were isolated by centfifugation （10 minutes; 8873 g） on return to the laboratory. Following filtration through 0.2-micron cellulose nitrate filters, the porewaters were analyzed by ICP-QMS （U concentration） and ICP-OES （Fe, Al, Ca, Mg, Mn concentrations）. Sub-samples were also subjected to centrifugal ultrafiltration （100, 30, and 3 kD） and to gel electrophoretic fractionation （agarose; 0.045 M Tris-borate; 20 mA, 30 minutes）. Results showed that U was present at up to 4 μg/L in the soil porewater and that the associations of U varied with sample location and soil depth.     

公益性地质工作社会效益研究

1999年以来,国务院对地勘工作的管理体制和运行机制进行了重大改革,明确将地质勘查工作划分为公益性地质工作和商业性地质工作,并实行分体运行.很显然,这两种地质工作的经济属性是不同的,因而对其效果进行考核、评价时所采用的方法也是不同的,对商业性地质勘查工作来说,采用企业化经营的管理体制,以经济效益为中心,以其经济效益的高低来评价其经营工作效果的好坏,而公益性地质工作虽然也进行经济核算,争取以最少的投入、最低的消耗取得最多的成果,但对其成果的评价主要不是经济效益,而是社会效益.……     

俄罗斯西西伯利亚和外贝加尔区古河道型铀矿床

本文系统地介绍了俄罗斯3个具有工业意义的古河道型铀矿化发育区（外乌拉尔，西西伯利亚和外贝加尔）的地质背景，铀矿化特征和铀成矿条件，指出切割到基底的古河道型铀矿床，既可产于跨地区的造山周围，也可产于活化的年青地台和古老地盾，既可形成于干燥的气候条件，也可形成于潮湿的气候条件。古河道型铀矿化可以从含矿层的沉积开始一直延续到被泥岩层或玄武岩层完全封盖。古河道的后成氧化分带有两种形式：氧化带－铀矿化带－原生灰色岩石；氧化带－氧化铁再沉积带－漂白带－原生灰色岩石。古河道型铀矿床具宽广的元素谱，这主要是与含矿围岩富含有机质和在氧化带尖灭处存在各种地球化学障有关。     

充分发挥纽带作用,努力提高研究水平——"中国花岗岩地质调查与研究高级研讨班"在宜昌举办

花岗岩是大陆地壳重要的物质组分 ,是壳幔相互作用和造山作用不同阶段的产物 ,是形成众多矿产的物源 ,是揭示地球深部信息的岩石探针 ,是判别地球动力学环境的主要标志。中国花岗岩类型众多 ,特色鲜明 ,时空分布广泛 ,形成环境复杂 ,在全球地质研究中具有举足轻重的地位。目前 ,国外花岗岩地质研究发展迅速 ,已成为大陆地壳生长和地球动力学研究领域不可缺少的重要内容之一。刚刚成立的中国地质调查局花岗岩地质研究室是中国地质调查局业务支撑体系的重要组成部分 ,以“综合、指导、攻关、服务”为宗旨 ,肩负着推广花岗岩地质调查与研究的新…     

U6+化合物结构构形熵及其对热力学稳定性的影响——在核废料地质处置中的应用

在核废料地质处置库中, UO₂乏燃料将很快被氧化成U⁶⁺化合物. 由于大多数U⁶⁺化合物都具有层状或链状结构, 并且通常含有多个水分子团, 在某些结晶学位置上可能出现不同元素的类质同象混合或空位, 其中与水分子有关的氢键也可能无序排列, 因而产生类质同象混合熵和结构无序熵. 通过系统搜集铀酸盐、UO₂²⁺的氢氧化物、磷酸盐、硅酸盐、碳酸盐和硫酸盐的晶体结构分析测定结果, 发现至少31种U⁶⁺化合物中有类质同象混合, 根据对其理想混合熵的计算结果, 混合熵对某些U⁶⁺化合物的第三定律熵有较大贡献. 此外, 对U⁶⁺化合物中H₂O的晶体化学性质进行了讨论, 认为与间隙水分子有关的氢键的无序定向所产生的结构构形熵也是不能忽视的. 在核废料地质处置库近场地球化学环境中, 结构构形熵的存在可使与某些U⁶⁺ 化合物平衡的水溶液中铀的浓度降低几个数量级. 因此, 应用量热法测定U⁶⁺ 化合物的热力学参数的同时, 必须精确测定样品的化学成分和晶体结构, 并将量热法测定与溶解度实验研究相结合, 以相互印证.     

THREE DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN ESTUARINE REGIONS-A CASE STUDY OF THE HAIHE RIVER MOUTH

The paper presents the 3D finite element simulation of tidal flow and sediment transport in the estuarine region of the Haihe river. The proposed model adopts sigma-transformation of the hydrodynamic and sediment transport equations. The hydrodynamic and sediment transport models are verified in case of a simple test problem for which analytical solutions are available. Finally the models are applied to muddy Haihe river estuary of North China and it is claimed that hydrodynamic and sediment…     

电离层水平不均匀性对无线电掩星资料反演的影响

电离层水平不均匀结构是引起掩星资料反演的主要误差源.本文模拟不均匀结构对无线电掩星资料反演的影响.首先利用3-D全球射线追踪技术进行了模拟.结果指出:电离层电子密度20%的变化可能引起GPS的时延增加约12m.其次,将90%的掩星时延对应的路径长度,定义为电离层掩星测量的水平分辨率,其值为1200-2000 km.最后,计算了不同纬度电离层当地正午、子夜和日出时的电离层水平不对称指数.它表明:低纬夏季日出时,不对称指数达-78%,反演结果可能有较大误差.