Precambrian crustal evolution in Rangrim Massif , Korean Peninsula

Petrological, chronological and geotectonic geological analysis of Precambrian metamorphic rock in Korean Peninsula shows that the remnants ( > 314 Ga) of continental nuclei crust were formed in the Paleo-archean in the Rangrim Massif. In the massif, the main formation ages of continental crust range from 3.2 Ga to 2.5 Ga, its important growing period was 2.8 - 2.5 Ga. The subsequent expansion period of the Rangrim Massif was 2.4 - 2.2 Ga. The division events occurred in 1.85 Ga and in the Late Paleoproterozoic－Early Mesoproterozoic, respectively. Since then the massif was relatively stable. However, the last division of the Rangrim Massif occurred at 793 Ma.     

Correlation between Rimjingang belt and Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt

The Dabic-Sulu orogenic belt in central-eastern China is considered as a high-pressure and ultrahighpressure metamorphic belt that demensions are comparatively large,and formed as a result of the colli...     

A Maximum-Entropy Method for Estimating the Spectrum

Based on the maximum-entropy(ME)principle,a new power spectral estimator for random waves is derived in the form of S～(ω)=a/8H~2(2π)~(d 1)ω~-~((d 2))exp[-b(2π/ω)~n],by solving a variational problem subject to some quite general constraints.This robust method is comprehensive enough to describe the wave spectra even in extreme wave conditions and is superior to periodogram method that is not suitable to process comparatively short or intensively unsteady signals for its tremendous boundary effect and some inherent defects of FFT.Fortunately,the newly derived method for spectral estimation works fairly well,even though the sample data sets are very short and unsteady,and the reliability and efficiency of this spectral estimator have been preliminarily proved.     

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FPS SYSTEM IN BRIDGE SEISMIC ISOLATION

An experimental study of a seismically isolated and a comparable non-isolated bridge is presented. The bridge model featured flexible piers, weighed 158kN and was tested on a shake table with an array of real and simulated seismic motions with peak acceleration in the range 0⋅1–1⋅1g. When isolated, the bridge deck was supported by four spherically shaped sliding bearings (known as Friction Pendulum System or FPS bearings) with friction coefficient under dynamic conditions in the range 0⋅07–0⋅12. The experimental results demonstrated a substantial improvement in the ability of the isolated bridge to sustain all levels of seismic excitation under elastic conditions.     

磁铁石英岩铁运输沉淀的pH值条件约束:以朝鲜半岛龙渊铁矿床为例

前寒武纪时期铁矿形成过程中铁物质如何迁移的研究,已取得了众多科研成果,但仍有些问题未得到很好的解决。尤其是对陆壳来源性铁矿床(非Algoma类型)的成因,仍然具有诸多争议,焦点主要集中在铁迁移问题。笔者以朝鲜半岛龙渊铁矿床为例研究了铁介质形成和运输的问题。首先通过铁矿石的地球化学研究和前人研究结果的考察,发现此铁矿床不属于Algoma类型,而是在强酸性介质条件下陆壳物质风化、移动和沉积而形成的。那么为什么会出现如此强大的酸性环境条件呢？为了揭示这一点,对在当时环境下把水的性质能够变成酸性的物质进行了热力学计算。研究结果表明,当硫化物如黄铁矿风化时,形成了能够使铁源物质风化和迁移的介质。这些结果也符合这样一个事实,即目前从富含硫化物地层淋沥的水的pH值小于3.5,并且铁含量远高于非硫化物类型的地层。本次研究结果表明,陆壳来源的铁矿床形成过程中,不能忽视硫化物的风化作用。     

Sensitivity of Snowfall Characteristics to Meteorological Conditions in the Yeongdong Region of Korea

This study investigates the characteristics of cold clouds and snowfall in both the Yeongdong coastal and mountainous regions under different meteorological conditions based on the integration of numerical modeling and three-hourly rawinsonde observations with snow crystal photographs for a snowfall event that occurred on 29?30 January 2016.We found that rimed particles predominantly observed turned into dendrite particles in the latter period of the episode when the 850 hPa temperature decreased at the coastal site,whereas the snow crystal habits at the mountainous site were largely needle or rimed needle.Rawinsonde soundings showed a well-defined,two-layered cloud structure along with distinctive wind-directional shear,and an inversion in the equivalent potential temperature above the low-level cloud layer.The first experiment with a decrease in lower-layer temperature showed that the low-level cloud thickness was reduced to less than 1.5 km,and the accumulated precipitation was decreased by 87%compared with the control experiment.The difference in precipitation amount between the single-layered experiment and control experiment(two-layered)was not so significant to attribute it to the effect of the seeder?feeder mechanism.The precipitation in the last experiment by weakening winddirectional shear was increased by 1.4 times greater than the control experiment specifically at the coastal site,with graupel particles accounting for the highest proportion(~62%).The current results would improve snowfall forecasts in complicated geographical environments such as Yeongdong in terms of snow crystal habit as well as snowfall amount in both time and space domains.     

Local Meteorological and Synoptic Characteristics of Fogs Formed over Incheon International Airport in the West Coast of Korea

Fogs observed over Incheon international airport (IIA) in the westcoast of Korea from January 2002 to August 2006 are classified into categoriesof coastal fog, cold sea fog, and warm sea fog based on the areal extent of thefogs and the difference between the air temperature (T) and the SST, i.e.,cold sea fog if TSST = T-SST>0^oC and warm sea fog if TSST<0^oC. The numbers of coastal, cold, and warm sea fog casesare 64, 26, and 9. Coastal fogs form most frequently in winter, while cold seafogs occur mostly in summer and warm sea fogs are observed from January to Maybut not in November and December. On average the air gets colder by1.6^oC during the three hours leading up to the coastal fogformation, and an additional cooling of 1.1^oC occurs during thefog. The change in the dew point temperature (T_d) is minimal exceptduring the fog (0.6^oC). Decreases in T for the cold and warmsea fogs are relatively smaller. The average T_d is higher than SSTduring the cold sea fog periods but this T_d is more than4^oC higher than that for the corresponding non-fog days,suggesting that cold sea fogs be formed by the cooling of already humid air(i.e., T_d>SST). Increases of T_d are significant during thewarm sea fog periods (1.4^oC), implying that efficient moisturesupply is essential to warm sea fog formation. Four major synoptic patterns areidentified in association with the observed fogs. The most frequent is a northPacific high that accounts for 38% of cases. Surface or upper inversions arepresent in 77%, 69%, and 81% of the fog periods for coastal, cold, andwarm sea fogs, respectively.     

TEM and XRD determination of crystallite size and lattice strain as a function of illite crystallinity in pelitic rocks

Average crystallite size and mean-square strain of illite in rock specimens and clay separates were measured independently in TEM images and by single-line Fourier (Voigt method) profile analysis of the c. 1 nm peak of XRD patterns for a prograde sequence of pelitic rocks (illite crystallinity indices=0.17–0.58°Δ2θ) from the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. The TEM-determined crystallite sizes in clay separates approximate those determined by Fourier profile analyses and those calculated from illite crystallinity indices by the Scherrer equation, with the exception of the diagenetic sample. The crystallite sizes and mean-square strains of illite in rock samples exhibit a trend similar to that determined by profile analyses, but the average crystallite sizes are up to five times larger than those measured for clay separates. TEM images show that all rock samples have a wide range of crystallite sizes, and the proportions of larger crystallites increase with metamorphic grade. The diagenetic illite is defect-rich, fine-grained (mean thickness by volume=c. 70 nm), 1M_d material. Anchizonal illite tends to occur as separate aggregates of small 1M_d and larger 2M₁ crystals (c. 200 nm), comprising arrays of subparallel coalescing packets. The epizone sample has thick (c. 400 nm), defect-free crystals of muscovite occurring in stacks of parallel layers, or subhedral crystals intergrown with large-angle boundaries. Cleaved crystals that are free of intracrystalline layer terminations are dominant in clay separates of all samples, having ranges of smaller sizes with volume-average thicknesses of c. 43, 43, and 81 nm (c. 14, 28, 67 nm by the Voigt method), respectively, for the three zones. The results suggest that illite crystallinity indices do not provide a direct measure of a single microstructural state of illite in rocks, although they yield consistent limits for average crystallite sizes for the anchizone (23 & 48 nm here). Therefore, they serve as a general parameter of the degree of recrystallization on a relative basis, in part because the contributions of all peak-broadening variables (mixed layering, size and strain) decrease regularly with prograde regional metamorphism of pelites. The microstructural changes caused by rock disaggregation are probably a function of those variables as well. The data collectively demonstrate a trend from metastable, defect-rich, small crystals towards a stable assemblage of larger, defect-free crystals, through dissolution of strained crystals and neocrystallization, consistent with the Ostwald step rule.