美国东南部若干矿床硫化矿中痕量元素的研究

对美国东南部某些硫化矿物中的几种痕量元素进行了研究,测定了25个矿床,其中11个属于蓝岭地区,4个属于毗邻的皮德蒙特地区.所研究的矿床位置见图1.所测定的黄铁矿、磁黄铁矿、黄铜矿、闪锌矿等矿物是经过挑选的,因为这些矿物的存在比较普遍,虽然磁铁矿在皮德蒙特地区少见.我们从116个矿石光面上选取矿物相分析了钴、镍、锰、铅、锡、铬、钼和金,一共有372个样品.痕量元素是用原子吸收分光光度计按标准方法测定.这次所研究的痕量元素,是指存在于矿物中而不影响该矿物化学式的那些元素.对于铅只有当矿石中方铅矿(硫化铅)很少或没有,不能构成清晰的矿物相时,才把它看作痕量元素.     

二维薄板体自电异常的定量解释

薄板体自电异常的解释方法,经罗伊、乔德赫里、迈泽和保罗等人的不断研究,得到进一步发展.对于走向无限延伸、斜倾或直立薄板的自电异常,作者在这里提出另一种解释方法.     

菲律宾用激发极化法填图找斑岩铜矿床

前言菲律宾寻找斑岩铜矿广泛地运用了激发极化法,四年来发现了几个大型新矿床,另外还在几个生产矿区周围圈定了矿体的延伸部分和周围的矿带.菲律宾的斑岩铜矿床板块构造对菲律宾斑岩铜矿床的形成起了很大作用.如图1所示,巴拉湾岛和民都洛岛的西半部位于不活动的或隐伏火山稳定区.菲律宾群岛其余部分是一个典型的岛弧体系,东海岸为活动的消减带.菲律宾海沟的突然中断被认为是将吕宋岛切成两半的转换断层所致.有一主要断层系叫做菲律宾断     

Teleconnections：Summer Monsoon over Korea and India

This study investigates the relationship between the summer monsoon rainfall over Korea and India,by using correlation analysis and Singular Value Decomposition(SVD).Results reveal that summer monsoon rainfall over Korea is negatively(significant at the 99% level) correlated with the rainfall over the northwest and central parts of India.In addition,coupled spatial modes between the rainfall over Korea and India have been identified by the SVD analysis.The squared covariance fraction explained by the first mode is 70% and the correlation coefficient between the time coefficients of the two fields is significant at the 99% level,indicating that the coupled mode reflects a large part of the interaction between the summer monsoon rainfall over Korea and India.The first mode clearly demonstrates the existence of a significant negative correlation between the rainfall over the northwest and central parts of India and the rainfall over Korea.Possible mechanisms of this correlation are investigated by analyzing the variation of upper-level atmospheric circulation associated with the Tibetan high using NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data.     

Interpretation of spring recession curves

Recession curves contain information on storage properties and different types of media such as porous, fractured, cracked lithologies and karst. Recession curve analysis provides a function that quantitatively describes the temporal discharge decay and expresses the drained volume between specific time limits (Hall 1968). This analysis also allows estimating the hydrological significance of the discharge function parameters and the hydrological properties of the aquifer. In this study, we analyze data from perennial springs in the Judean Mountains and from others in the Galilee Mountains, northern Israel. All the springs drain perched carbonate aquifers. Eight of the studied springs discharge from a karst dolomite sequence, whereas one flows out from a fractured, slumped block of chalk. We show that all the recession curves can be well fitted by a function that consists of two exponential terms with exponential coefficients alpha1 and alpha2. These coefficients are approximately constant for each spring, reflecting the hydraulic conductivity of different media through which the ground water flows to the spring. The highest coefficient represents the fast flow, probably through cracks, or quickflow, whereas the lower one reflects the slow flow through the porous medium, or baseflow. The comparison of recession curves from different springs and different years leads to the conclusion that the main factors that affect the recession curve exponential coefficients are the aquifer lithology and the geometry of the water conduits therein. In normal years of rainy winter and dry summer, alpha1 is constant in time. However, when the dry period is longer than usual because of a dry winter, alpha1 slightly decreases with time.     

New combined log and tracer test interpretation method for identifying transfers in fissured aquifers

Tracer tests represent the most appropriate approach for assessing hydrodispersive parameters such as transversal and longitudinal dispersivities or kinematic porosity on an aquifer scale. They are generally carried out by injecting a tracer in a borehole and measuring its concentration over time in neighboring boreholes by extracted volume sampling or downhole measurements. Logging is one of the most suitable methods for evaluating fissured reservoirs. But short circuits between fractures with different hydraulic potential through boreholes induce mixing phenomena that cannot be avoided without packers. This mixing can shift the breakthrough curves deduced from the logs for each producing fracture and distort determination of their location.
The method proposed in this paper aims at measuring the flow rate and the solute breakthrough for hydraulically active fractures, in open boreholes. It involves estimating a velocity profile along the borehole column by the analysis of two successive logs: a shift function according to depth is thus determined by comparison between log portions on each successive one. The velocity gradients reflect the inward or outward flow rates produced by each fracture. On the basis of these flow rates, it is possible to determine the mixing effects inside the borehole and then to plot unbiased breakthrough curves for each producing fracture.
This method was applied at a granitic site in the eastern Pyrenees. In spite of some questionable limitations, the results showed that the method seems adapted to situations with many fractures. The precise hydraulic pattern which is obtained at the borehole scale is discussed in terms of a dual porosity model. Furthermore, interpretation of the breakthrough curves for fractures corrected for mixing effects revealed that Peclet numbers are strongly underestimated if this phenomenon is not considered.     

The distribution characteristics of bacterial beta-glucosidase activity in Taiwan strait

Twenty stations were established in the near-shore regions of South Fujian Shoal (116°10′–119°00^′ E, 21°20′–24°10′ N) on summer and winter cruises during the period from August 1997 and February to March 1998. The distribution pattern of marine bacterial β-glucosidase activity (β-GlcA) has been investigated by using fluorogenic model substrate (FMS) technique in order to have better understanding of the β-GlcA, as well as its relation to marine bacterial biomass, productivity and environmental factors in Taiwan strait. The results showed that: (1) In summer, the average of β-GlcA at the Southern stations of Taiwan strait was 1.94 nmol/1 h. While in winter, the average of β-GlcA at the Northern stations was 0.86 nmol/1 h and the range of variation (0.34–1.89 nmol/1 h) was much more narrow than that in summer (0.31–8.1 nmol/1 h). (2) According to the carbon conversion factor, the β-GlcA was 0.14 and 0.062 ugc/1 h in summer and winter respectively. These β-GlcA values were higher than the bacterial production of the two seasons respectively. (3) The β-GlcA gradually rises from offshore water to near-shore water. (4) The correlation between the β-GlcA and the bacterial secondary production was not so obvious. (5) The correlation between the section distributions, daily varying of the β-GlcA and the bacterial production was not obvious. (6) In the surface water, the distribution character of free-state β-GlcA from bacteria was equal to that of the total β-GlcA in the whole sea area.     

Toxic contaminants and their biological effects in coastal waters of Xiamen,China. I. Organic pollutants in mussel and fish tissues

Organochlorines and organophosphates were measured in four fish species (Lateolabrax japonicus, Pagrasomus major, Miichthys miiuy and Epinephalus awoara) and the mussel Perna viridis collected from aquaculture cages in coastal waters of Xiamen, China. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolites were also measured in fish bile. Sites in Xiamen coastal waters (the harbour, Maluan and Tongan) are compared with a "cleaner" reference site at Dongshan Island. DDT was found in livers of all fish sampled (May 1998, 1999 and December 1999) ranging from 0.15 to 2.2 microg/g WW, but levels in muscle tissue (<0.5 ng/g to 0.22 microg/g WW) were at least an order of magnitude lower in the harbour, and were not detectable (<0.5 ng/g) in Tongan samples. All other pesticides examined were not detected in fish or mussels, except for dieldrin in one liver sample (0.07 microg/g WW). Food of the caged fish, small fish and dried pellets, had very low (0.015-0.027 microg/g WW) or non-detectable levels of DDT, indicating significant bioaccumulation of contaminants in caged fish and/or other possible sources of uptake (water and sediments). DDT levels in fish varied with species. DDT contamination in fish livers and whole mussels varied significantly with location. Highest concentrations in fish occurred in the harbour, and less consistently so in Tongan. Dongshan and Maluan had comparatively low levels of DDT. Relatively low residues of DDT in both fish and mussels at Dongshan likely reflect lower levels of pesticide input at this reference site. However, the low levels of DDT contamination in fish tissues from Maluan were unexpected in view of the close proximity of the harbour and possibly reflect the removal of particulate-bound contaminants by the intensive bivalve culture there. Consistently high proportions of DDT in the form of the parent compound (p,p'-DDT: fish 30-45%; mussels 40-65%) from all sites suggest recent releases of this chemical to the environment. Levels of two main groups of PAH metabolites (naphthalene and phenanthrene) in fish bile suggest a different environmental distribution pattern than that of pesticides, in that Dongshan fish appear to be no less exposed to hydrocarbons than those from Xiamen coastal waters.     

Rheological properties of deep subducted oceanic lithosphere and their geodynamic implications

According to the experimental studies on the rheology of two important mantle rocks (eclogite and harzburgite), the rheological properties of the deep subducted oceanic lithosphere are investigated by assuming a simplified harzburgite type slab model with moderate thickness of basaltic layer. When the mantle convergence rate is small or the subducting slab has been trapped in the mantle for an enough long time, the strength profile of the slab is characterized by a strong subducting crustal component lying on a weak subducting upper mantle. However, if the convergence rate is large enough, the subducting slab will be featured only by a rigid cold center. Our study suggests that the detachment of the subducting crust component from the underlying upper mantle is only likely to happen in hot slow subducting slabs, but not the cold fast subducting lithosphere. Rheological properties of the harzburgitic and the eclogitic upper mantle vary with depths. The eclogitic upper mantle is stronger than the peridotitic upper mantle across the upper mantle. Transition zone is the high strength and high viscosity layer in the upper mantle except the lithosphere.