An absolute paleotemperature record from 10 to 6 Ka inferred from fluid inclusion D/H ratios of a stalagmite from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

By using continuous helium flow during the crushing of calcite speleothem samples, we are able to recover liberated inclusion waters without isotopic fractionation. A paleotemperature record for the Jacklah Jill Cave locality, Vancouver Island, BC, was obtained from a 30-cm tall stalagmite that grew 10.3-6.3 Ka ago, using δ¹⁸O values of the crushed calcite and of the inclusion water as inferred from its δD. It is found that the locality experienced mean annual temperature variations up to 11 °C over a 4-Ka period in the early Holocene. At the beginning of the period, local temperature quickly increased from a minimum of ∼1 °C to around 10 °C, but this early climate optimum, about 3 °C warmer than today, only lasted for ∼1200 years. About 8.6 Ka ago, temperature had declined to ∼7 °C, approximately the same as the modern cave temperature. Since then, the study area has experienced only minor temperature fluctuations, but there was a brief fall to ∼4 °C at around 7 Ka ago, which might be caused by a short lived expansion of local alpine glaciers. The long-term T-dependence of δD was 1.47‰/°C, identical to the value in modern precipitation.     

Transmission and visualization of large geographical maps

Transmission and visualization of large geographical maps have become a challenging research issue in GIS applications. This paper presents an efficient and robust way to simplify large geographical maps using frame buffers and Voronoi diagrams. The topological relationships are kept during the simplification by removing the Voronoi diagram’s self-overlapped regions. With the simplified vector maps, we establish different levels of detail (LOD) models of these maps. Then we introduce a client/server architecture which integrates our out-of-core algorithm, progressive transmission and rendering scheme based on computer graphics hardware. The architecture allows the viewers to view different regions interactively at different LODs on the network. Experimental results show that our proposed scheme provides an effective way for powerful transmission and manipulation of large maps.     

我国地面气温参考站点遴选的依据、原则和方法

由于城市化和观测环境变化的影响,我国现有国家级气象台站网观测的地面气温资料许多已不能满足气候变化检测研究的要求。利用我国全部气象观测站网的台站信息,对地面气温资料序列质量进行了系统评价,遴选出可用于气温变化研究的参考站点。这项工作建立了地面气温参考站点遴选的原则、方法和步骤,并据此确定了138个地面气温参考站。这些台站可代表背景地面气温场,其长期气温观测资料可用作城市台站或国家级台站城市化增温评价的参考,也可直接用于我国地面气温变化的检测分析。     

天津地区表土PAHs含量的多尺度空间相关性

本文应用因子克立格分析方法,分析了天津表土16种PAHs之间多尺度空间结构特征。分析结果显示,天津表土PAHs在空间上可以划分三种尺度:块金尺度(0～5km),小空间尺度(5～10km)和大空间尺度(10～50km)。在不同的空间尺度上,16种PAHs之间表现出不同的空间相关性,具有空间尺度相关性。这种空间尺度相关性,是由于不同的空间污染过程造成的,有助于下一步的多尺度空间污染源的判断和污染物迁移转化规律的识别。     

豫西一次强对流天气过程的诊断分析

2010年9月4日凌晨,豫西地区出现罕见的强对流天气过程,造成严重损失.利用1°×1°的NCEP再分析资料、常规观测资料、卫星观测资料以及多普勒雷达资料,对此次过程进行诊断分析.结果表明,此次强对流天气过程中不仅具有明显的低层辐合、高层辐散的气流垂直运动,而且在多普勒雷达上有明显的辐合型中气旋存在.通过对垂直积分液态水...     

德国地震监测系统简介

1　德国地震监测系统德国的地震监测工作由德国联邦地学与自然资源研究院(BGR)负责,具体工作由格拉芬堡地震台阵(GRF)、德国区域地震台网(GRSN)、格拉芬堡地震观测中心(SZGRF)和试验地震观测台阵(GERESS)完成。图1　格拉芬堡地震台阵和德国区域地震台网台站分布格拉芬堡地...     

Quantitative Assessment of Impacts of Regional Climate and Human Activities on Saline-alkali Land Changes： A Case Study of Qian＇an County, Jilin Province

Interdecadal and interannual variations of saline-alkali land area in Qian’an County, Jilin Province, China were comprehensively analyzed in this paper by means of satellite remote sensing interpretation, field flux observations and regional climate diagnosis. The results show that on the interannual scale, the impact of climate factors accounts for 71.6% of the total variation of the saline-alkali land area, and that of human activities accounts for 28.4%. Therefore the impact of climate factors is obviously greater than that of human activities. On the interdecadal scale, the impact of climate factors on the increase of the saline-alkali land area accounts for 43.2%, and that of human activities accounts for 56.8%. The impact of human activities on the variation of saline-alkali land area is very clear on the interdecadal scale, and the negative impact of human activities on the environment should not be negligible. Besides, changes in the area of heavy saline-alkali land have some indication for development of saline-alkali land in Qian’an County.     

STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NIUSHOU MOUNTAIN AND ITS GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN CENTRAL NINGXIA

There are many thrust-related structures occurring in the Paleozoic strata of the Niushou Mountain in the central part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The fault-related folds are the typical structures in this area. Based on the analysis about these structures and their relationships, the processes by which these structures of the Miboshan Formation were formed are reconstructed, and the strata underwent about three stages of deformation: (1) horizontal shortening, (2) folding, and (3) thrusting. And the fact that the Niushou Mountain is the leading edge of an old thrust sheet was proved, the Niushou Mountain, the Daluo Mountain and the Xiaoluo Mountain together constitute the front part of this old thrust zone, so the Niushou Mountain and the Ordovician strata in the central and southern parts of Ningxia now are likely allochthons. In the period from middle Ordovician to Devonian, the areas of the central and southern Ningxia belonged to the back-arc foreland basin of North Qilianshan orogen, which was adjacent to the continent in the north. In the later part of the early Paleozoic period, the Niushou Mountain was formed after the closure of the back-arc foreland basin.     

脉金矿床控矿条件及源区性质刍议

目前对脉金矿床，特别是大型金矿床的形成研究已取得重要进展，它在时间和空间上具有明显的一致性表明：大型脉金矿床的形成与特定的地质背景有密切关系，矿源具有深源性质，而与探矿岩系金的丰度值基本无关。     

煤中黄铁矿的成因研究

本文在系统地研究四川晚二叠世高硫煤中黄铁矿矿物学的基础上，运用微区电子探针、中子活化、Ｘ光电子能谱和硫同位素等多 种方法综合地研究煤中黄铁矿的结构、成分、价态及同位素等成因标型特征，对黄铁矿标型特征进行了成因探讨，有效地判别了成岩期形成的Ｉ型脉状黄铁矿及后生热液Ⅱ型脉状黄铁矿。同时提出直接沉淀系列（自形晶→集合→聚晶）和复杂成因（微粒、莓粒→圆球→结核→团块）等两大类成因演化模式。它不仅对不同类型