THE TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE OF A POLARIZABLE SPHERE IN A CONDUCTING HALF SPACE1

A polarizable sphere embedded in a conducting half-space can give rise to negative voltage transients in a coincident-loop time-domain electromagnetic system. Such transients have been observed in field situations. Our results are obtained from a model in which the contributions of the host rock, the currents in the sphere, and the interaction between the sphere and the host rock are separated and superposed. This model uses approximations to the integral equation solutions rather than finite-element or finite-difference approximations, and so allows very rapid computation. The theoretical demonstration suggests that interpretation of the negative voltage transients as a polarization response is valid, but more detailed interpretation of polarization properties may not be possible, because the superposition of the polarization response on the normal response depends strongly on the position of the target.     

Tidally flooded back-barrier dunefield, Guerrero Negro area, Baja California, Mexico

A 45 km long barrier island exists west of the town of Guerrero Negro, Mexico, along the western coast of the Baja California peninsula, about 720 km south of San Diego, California. This barrier has developed in a mesotidal, arid-climate regime characterized by steady, strong, onshore winds from the NW. The barrier island W of Guerrero Negro has prograded seaward about 1·6 km in the last 1800 years while an aeolian dunefield fed by sand blown from beaches has advanced inland up to 13 km. Landward progradation of the dune system from the barrier has occurred during relative rise in sea-level; thus, aeolian sediments exist at or below the water table over a wide area. The progradation of dunes across marshes, tidal flats, and tidal channels, as well as the repeated submergence of interdune areas by tidal waters, has created a complex suite of mixed aeolian and subaqueous sediments in the back barrier. The complexity of the suites of aeolian sedimentary structures, together with the inclusion of subaqueously formed structures such as current and oscillation ripples, would make recognition of the aeolian origin of much of the sediments difficult in ancient rocks. In addition to the scientific importance of recognizing the aeolian deposits, the sedimentation model represented by the Guerrero Negro barrier has applications in petroleum exploration and development. Currently, most preservational models for barrier islands attach little volumetric importance to aeolian deposits. This modern example suggests that volumetrically significant aeolian deposits can be preserved behind a barrier, particularly in an arid-climate regime. If preserved and charged with oil, the resulting productive sandstone could have an extremely irregular landward edge comprised in part of onshore-prograded aeolian dune sandstone with excellent reservoir characteristics. As with current barrier models, the reservoir would be sealed landward and above by lagoonal mudstone and silt, evaporites, or evaporitic, sandy sabkha deposits. High organic productivity occurs in lagoons immediately adjacent to the dunefields of Guerrero Negro, suggesting that organic-rich source rock may exist near aeolian sandstone in ancient settings similar to Guerrero Negro.     

柴达木盆地低频地震探测结晶基底的工作方法

根据地质资料,柴达木盆地的基岩（结晶基底）埋藏深度,可达十公里以上.勘探这样深的基岩,利用反射和一般折射方法是不容易得到良好的效果.1958年6月,在柴达木盆地开始试验低频地震的方法,来接收基岩面的折射波.所用检波器的谐振频率为13周/秒,放大器最低谐振频率为8周/秒.最大接收距离为100公里左右.     

CLASSIFICATION AND CORRELATION BASED ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FUSULINA LIMESTONES

In view of the extensive distribution of the "Fusulina Limestone" in North China it was formerly suggested~1 that a careful study of the Fusulina might throw some light upon the vexed problem of the age of the Palaeozoic     

Closed-system marine burial diagenesis: isotopic data from the Austin Chalk and its components

ABSTRACT
The carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of the Austin Chalk was examined in cores representing a range of depths from surface to 3000 m in order to document the effects of burial diagenesis on carbon and oxygen isotopic composition. Low magnesium calcite oysters were separated (from 500 um wide areas) and analysed to estimate the starting composition of Cretaceous marine sediment. These gave an average value of -2·5%δ¹⁸O; + 2·0%δ¹³C (PDB). The compositions of micrite, intergranular cement, and fracture cement were analysed, and their deviation from this original marine composition was evaluated to document the progression of chalk diagenesis. Interestingly, micrite exhibits only minor variation in composition from marine values despite present burial depth ranges in excess of 3000 m. The average deviation from δ18O marine is less than 1·5. Furthermore, intergranular cement and particularly fracture cements, which occur only in the deepest cores and which clearly post-date micrite lithification, are generally indistinguishable from micrite in composition. Isotopic compositions exhibit no correlation with depth of burial despite abundant petrographic evidence of deep burial diagenesis. This uniformity in composition is interpreted as reflecting a closed, rock-dominated diagenetic system in which the compositions of precipitated carbonate cements were controlled by the composition of dissolving carbonates during lithification. As such, the composition of burial cement is not representative of the rock-water temperatures during precipitation.
Thus, in the context of isotopic analyses from other carbonate systems, unless the degree of openness of the diagenetic system is known, oxygen isotopic signatures of cements cannot directly be converted to the rock-water temperatures at which they were precipitated unless the composition of the ambient porefluid is also known.     

中国地震区域划分圖及其說明 Ⅰ.总的說明

为国家工業建設地点提供地震参考資料,和全国地震危險地区的划分,是中国科学院地球物理研究所解放以来重点工作之一,承各方面的协助,笔者和徐煜坚等九人在苏联顧問帮助下編成了我国的“全国地震区域划分圖”。現在提出,作簡单的說明,請讀者提意見,以便作进一步的修正。     

A GENERAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE DIRECT INTERPRETATION OF RESISTIVITY DATA OVER TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES*

The indirect method of interpreting resistivity data is capable only of limited success because of the difficulty of calculating type curves for complex structures. Consequently a need arises for a direct method of interpretation for complex generalized structures. Such a technique for the direct interpretation of apparent resistivity data, obtained by electrical soundings carried out over two-dimensional structures, has been developed from an examination of the Hankel transform of such data. The method is based on the observation that the asymptotic expansion of the Hankel transform is critically dependent upon the minimum distance between the measuring device and the surface of discontinuity in resistivity. The variation in the across strike direction may be mapped by a sequence of depth soundings made parallel to each other and separated in the across strike direction.     

地球表面的主要断裂带

地球上满布着大大小小、各式各样的断裂,其中一部分,断到了地壳深处乃至地肉(Mantle)中,这类断裂通常被称为深断裂或主要断裂。关于这类断裂的研究,早在本世纪初,W.H.霍布斯就已推想到某些地形特征可能与地壳裂缝有关。R.A.松德尔着重研究了线形构造(Lineament),强调了北东-南西向和北西-南东向线形构造的重要性,并认为沿它们进行的平移剪切运动(Rhegmagertese)是地壳的主导运动之一。深断裂这一术语是A.B.裴伟首先提出来的,在1956午,他又发表了两篇有关深断裂的总结性论文。 F.A.维宁.迈勒慈研究了星球性剪切网络及它与极位移、壳下对流的关系。     

利用平移气球探测北京上空晴空大气垂直扰动

利用平移气球(或称等高气球或等压面气球)观测大气运动轨迹以及沿轨迹气象要素的分布,具有独特优点,因此在气象工作中的应用已日益广泛。目前所用的平移气球大致有两种。一种较大,一般用于对流层上层和平流层,主要探测大尺度气流特征;另一种较小,用于对流层中、低层。1956年我们进行了平移气球观测试验。本文将介绍我们所用气球的性能,并根据1957年和1958年观测资料对北京及附近地区对流层中下层晴天扰动进行初步分析。     

1958年8月4—12日西太平洋副热带高压减退过程的研究

本文对1958年8月4—12日中国大陆上西太平洋副热带高压减退过程作了分析。结果指出:它的减退是从200—400毫巴层次中开始,然后向上向下传递,最大变化发生在200毫巴层上,500毫巴以下高度场的变化是很小的,这是由于对流层顶附近的动力因子所决定的。文中还指出,大型环流发展所引起的经圈环流和东风急流显著的变动,是造成高压减退很主要的因素。本文还进一步分析了东风急流减退的物理机制和高压本身结构的演变特点,以及这种变化对高压减退所起的作用。