Degradation of plastic carrier bags in the marine environment

There is considerable concern about the hazards that plastic debris presents to wildlife. Use of polymers that degrade more quickly than conventional plastics presents a possible solution to this problem. Here we investigate breakdown of two oxo-biodegradable plastics, compostable plastic and standard polyethylene in the marine environment. Tensile strength of all materials decreased during exposure, but at different rates. Compostable plastic disappeared from our test rig between 16 and 24 weeks whereas approximately 98% of the other plastics remained after 40 weeks. Some plastics require UV light to degrade. Transmittance of UV through oxo-biodegradable and standard polyethylene decreased as a consequence of fouling such that these materials received ～ 90% less UV light after 40 weeks. Our data indicate that compostable plastics may degrade relatively quickly compared to oxo-biodegradable and conventional plastics. While degradable polymers offer waste management solutions, there are limitations to their effectiveness in reducing hazards associated with plastic debris.     

泉州地震台g-Phone重力仪观测资料干扰因素分析

通过对泉州地震台g-Phone重力仪自正式运行以来观测资料的干扰因素进行总结,发现数采死机对数据影响较小,但断电造成的仪器内部温度的改变会导致原始数据漂移,从而降低数据的内在质量,建议应尽量避免人为操作如断电等造成的内部温度变化;台风影响使得数据噪声变大,表现为观测曲线变粗,呈纺锤状。希望研究结果可以为进一步利用重力资料提取地震前兆信息提供一定的参考。     

地球物理学与大陆成长

引言解释星球和原子的內部运动和活动情况的理論比关于地球的类似理論发展得更为完善,更广泛地为人接受,这是令人惊奇的。但如比較一下,地球比較容易接触到,而星球和原子則十分遙远,那么上述的情况应正好相反。这种情况之所以产生,一部分是由于許多星球和原子有強烈的輻射,因而透露出它們的性貭,一部分是由于原子和星球数量很多,因而我們有时可能对它們其中之一所发生的不寻常变化.     

Atmospheric lead fallout over the last century recorded in Gulf of Lions sediments (Mediterranean Sea)

Six marine sediment cores from the Gulf of Lions continental slope (700-1700 m water depth) were analyzed for stable lead isotopes and (210)Pb geochronology in order to reconstruct lead atmospheric fallout pattern during the last century. The detrital lead contribution is 25 microg g(-1) and the mean sediment anthropogenic inventory is 110+/-7 microg cm(-2), a little bit higher than atmospheric deposition estimate. Anthropogenic lead accumulation in sediments peaked in early 1970s (1973+/-2) in agreement with lead emissions features. For the period 1986-1997, the sediment signal also reflect the decrease of atmospheric lead described by independent atmospheric fallout investigations. The anthropogenic Pb deposition in the late 1990s was similar to the 1950s deposition, attesting thus of the output of European environmental policies.     

The value of subsidence data in ground water model calibration

The accurate estimation of aquifer parameters such as transmissivity and specific storage is often an important objective during a ground water modeling investigation or aquifer resource evaluation. Parameter estimation is often accomplished with changes in hydraulic head data as the key and most abundant type of observation. The availability and accessibility of global positioning system and interferometric synthetic aperture radar data in heavily pumped alluvial basins can provide important subsidence observations that can greatly aid parameter estimation. The aim of this investigation is to evaluate the value of spatial and temporal subsidence data for automatically estimating parameters with and without observation error using UCODE-2005 and MODFLOW-2000. A synthetic conceptual model (24 separate cases) containing seven transmissivity zones and three zones each for elastic and inelastic skeletal specific storage was used to simulate subsidence and drawdown in an aquifer with variably thick interbeds with delayed drainage. Five pumping wells of variable rates were used to stress the system for up to 15 years. Calibration results indicate that (1) the inverse of the square of the observation values is a reasonable way to weight the observations, (2) spatially abundant subsidence data typically produce superior parameter estimates under constant pumping even with observation error, (3) only a small number of subsidence observations are required to achieve accurate parameter estimates, and (4) for seasonal pumping, accurate parameter estimates for elastic skeletal specific storage values are largely dependent on the quantity of temporal observational data and less on the quantity of available spatial data.     

由帕克菲尔德圣安德烈斯断层深部观测台钻井点主动源监测得到的震前速度变化

测量地震活跃断层区内的应力变化一直是地震学长期探寻的目标。在此我们指出,利用在圣安德烈斯断层深部观测台(SAFOD)钻孔点进行的井间主动源试验所得的地震波波速对应力的依赖性就可测量到这种应力变化。在两个多月的时间里,我们观测到沿着地下固定路径传播的S波走时变化(几微秒)与气压变化之间存在非常好的负相关性。我们还发现在走时数据中有两次很大的偏移,这两次偏移的时间与两个预计在圣安德烈斯断层深部观测台会产生最大同震应力变化的地震的时间吻合。有趣的是,这两次偏移分别在地震事件之前约10小时和2小时的时间开始,说明它们可能与早期实验室研究(Braceetal,1966;Scholz,1968)观测到的破裂前应力导致的裂纹性质改变有关。     

远震体波波形反演获得的震源时间函数

地中海东部大地震成核问题的一个有趣的现象，是它们的震源时间函数的急始特性，使用同一反演方法确定了发生在世界其他一些地区破坏了地表的浅源大地震的震源时间函数都呈现出类似的特性，这些地震的断层滑动类型包括：正断层、走滑断层和冲断层型。这些急始型震源时间函数可能反映了破坏障碍体的困难性，即在破裂成核的动力断裂过程完成后，断层的局部地区仍未破坏，也可能反映了通常发生在大地震破裂期间的某些特殊的物理过程（如蠕变不稳定性）。发生在类似地质构造环境中，且震源机制也类似的地震，反映出共同的模式。     

用于地震检测与定位的卷积神经网络

近期,美国中部诱发地震的活动演变亟需详尽的编目结果,以提升地震灾害评估能力。在过去的几十年里,地震事件的数据量呈指数增长,这就需要一种高效的算法可靠地检测和定位地震。目前最复杂的方法是通过对大量连续地震记录进行扫描,寻找重复的地震信号。我们根据人工智能领域最新进展提出了ConvNetQuake,它是一个高度可扩展的卷积神经网络,应用单一波形进行地震检测和定位。我们将该技术应用于美国俄克拉何马州的诱发地震活动研究。我们检测到的地震事件数量超过了俄克拉何马州地质调查局之前编目结果的17倍之多。我们算法的处理速度较已有的方法快数个数量级。     

日本西南部山阴地区地震地壳活动的季节性变化

越来越多的证据表明,在各种构造环境中地震活动存在季节性变化。识别地震活动的周期变化能增进我们对地震触发物理机制的理解。我们使用一种采用基于概率去丛集程序导出不确定性的新方法,探讨了日本西南部山阴地区的地壳地震活动的季节性变化。我们确定了背景地震活动率的半年变化,即从1980～2017年期间地震活动率在春秋两季的增长统计是显著的。历史和现代大地震的频率分布显示出与近期背景地震活动相似的模式,这表明山阴地区的地震活动存在季节性变化已经有150多年。这些观测现象可以通过秋季降水和春季融雪引起地表质量下降从而导致断裂带内孔隙压力增大来解释。     

日本在测地学和地球动力学中空间技术的应用

日本和世界其他国家都已在测地学和地球动力学研究中引进使用ＶＬＢＩ，ＳＬＲ和ＧＰＳ。扼要综述日本近年来有关这些技术对应用方面的各种活动。ＶＬＢＩ和ＳＬＲ主要是应用在国际性实验方面。