ON THE SEEDS OF THE PTERIDOSPERM EMPLECTOPTERIS TRIANGULARIS HALLE

Recent studies of the Late Palaeozoic floras of China have brought to light a comparatively great number of Pteridosperms with attached seeds. From the Permian of Shansi have been described no less than five species of seed-bearing fronds, whereas the total number of established cases of connexion     

A PETROGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE CHINESE AGALMATOLITES

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION. The most popular Chinese agalmatolites are Shoushanshih (壽山石), Changhuashih (昌化石), Chingtienshih (青田石) and Kwanglushih (廣綠石). They are named after the names of places, as the name Shoushanshih is from     

中国北方黄土高原地区黄土的微结构模型(详细摘要)

试样为取自中国北方黄土高原标准剖面^①中的马兰(Q₃)、离石(Q₂)、午城(Q₁)以及次生的洪积-冲积(Q₄)黄土.各方面成功的配合与多手段的综合性研究使我们能对黄土的微结构模型有了概念,能分析结构特征对黄土某些性质的影响,并可用来解释已提出的有关成因的一些看法.     

地震电磁发射前兆的特性

分析了日本60多个有关地震前兆的电磁发射数据的事件。分析指出,主震震级(M)越大,可观测到信号的地点距震中的距离(D_(max))越大。M—D_(max)间的关系与其他地球物理前兆相一致。没有观测到前兆时间和震级M的关系,这种情况与前震前兆是非常相同的。电磁发射前兆的平均前兆时间为0.26天,因此前兆基本上是短期的。     

利用背景噪声校正海底地震仪钟差

地震记录中时间的精确性对于现代处理技术至关重要。然而,对于由无法直接通信的仪器组成的台阵来说,仪器之间的时钟同步是很困难的。通过全球定位系统(GPS)进行时间同步是陆上的一个选择,但不能用于水下测量,因为电磁信号在水中不能有效传播。如果时钟漂移是线性的,那么可以通过部署前后的全球定位系统同步来估计海底地震仪的时间校正。但对于很多应用来说,这还不够,因为在长时间的实验中,这种漂移的非线性部分可以达到数十到数百毫秒。我们提出两种技术方法来提取同步记录的海底仪器在部署完成之后的时间记录差异。这两种技术都是基于对地震背景噪声的互相关分析,即使时钟漂移是非线性的,也都是有效的。第一种称为时间对称性分析(TSA),易于应用但需要合适的解释,以使噪声互相关函数在时间上是对称的;第二种基于重复地震分析方法,没有这种限制。本文分别讨论了两种方法的优缺点。通过在两组海底地震仪数据集的实际应用,表明两种方法都可以将仪器时钟同步误差控制到约5ms以下(主周期的百分之几)。     

Cross-borehole flowmeter tests for transient heads in heterogeneous aquifers

Cross-borehole flowmeter tests have been proposed as an efficient method to investigate preferential flowpaths in heterogeneous aquifers, which is a major task in the characterization of fractured aquifers. Cross-borehole flowmeter tests are based on the idea that changing the pumping conditions in a given aquifer will modify the hydraulic head distribution in large-scale flowpaths, producing measurable changes in the vertical flow profiles in observation boreholes. However, inversion of flow measurements to derive flowpath geometry and connectivity and to characterize their hydraulic properties is still a subject of research. In this study, we propose a framework for cross-borehole flowmeter test interpretation that is based on a two-scale conceptual model: discrete fractures at the borehole scale and zones of interconnected fractures at the aquifer scale. We propose that the two problems may be solved independently. The first inverse problem consists of estimating the hydraulic head variations that drive the transient borehole flow observed in the cross-borehole flowmeter experiments. The second inverse problem is related to estimating the geometry and hydraulic properties of large-scale flowpaths in the region between pumping and observation wells that are compatible with the head variations deduced from the first problem. To solve the borehole-scale problem, we treat the transient flow data as a series of quasi-steady flow conditions and solve for the hydraulic head changes in individual fractures required to produce these data. The consistency of the method is verified using field experiments performed in a fractured-rock aquifer.