MEETING REPORT 4th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC),Amsterdam,The Netherlands.18-20 May 1988

The Conference,organized by Dutch and Bel-gian chemometricians,was held in the FlemishCultural Centre in Amsterdam.This smalltheatre,with its dark red interior and stage-properties placed arbitrarily over the smallpresentation platform,appeared to be an inspir-ing place for the participants.A large number of     

东布什维尔德杂岩体铬铁矿矿床的产状及特征

东布什维尔德杂岩体东布什维尔德杂岩体的铬铁矿矿床产于"东部苏长岩带"中,产在层状的大片基性至超基性岩内(图1).很早以前,A.L.霍尔把沃利凡次河到斯蒂尔普特河分布的那一部分岩带,划分了如图2所示的五个主要单元.本文重点讨论其中的临界带,因为正如霍尔所确定的,该带含有东带所有的已知铬铁矿矿床.临界带以其层状构造闻名于     

System dynamics modeling of transboundary systems: the bear river basin model

System dynamics is a computer-aided approach to evaluating the interrelationships of different components and activities within complex systems. Recently, system dynamics models have been developed in areas such as policy design, biological and medical modeling, energy and the environmental analysis, and in various other areas in the natural and social sciences. The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, a multipurpose national laboratory managed by the Department of Energy, has developed a system dynamics model in order to evaluate its utility for modeling large complex hydrological systems. We modeled the Bear River basin, a transboundary basin that includes portions of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. We found that system dynamics modeling is very useful for integrating surface water and ground water data and for simulating the interactions between these sources within a given basin. In addition, we also found that system dynamics modeling is useful for integrating complex hydrologic data with other information (e.g., policy, regulatory, and management criteria) to produce a decision support system. Such decision support systems can allow managers and stakeholders to better visualize the key hydrologic elements and management constraints in the basin, which enables them to better understand the system via the simulation of multiple "what-if" scenarios. Although system dynamics models can be developed to conduct traditional hydraulic/hydrologic surface water or ground water modeling, we believe that their strength lies in their ability to quickly evaluate trends and cause-effect relationships in large-scale hydrological systems, for integrating disparate data, for incorporating output from traditional hydraulic/hydrologic models, and for integration of interdisciplinary data, information, and criteria to support better management decisions.     

Earthquake-controlled event deposits and its tectonic significance from the Middle Permian Wandrawandian Siltstone in the Sydney Basin,Australia

Earthquake is a disaster event resulting from rapid and intensive crustal vibration caused by fault activity, volcanic eruption, or block dilapidation. Heezen and Ewing[1] and Heezen and Dyke[2] were the first to note earthquake-related mass movement and associated deposits in connection to the turbidity currents and submarine slumps triggered by the Grand Bank Earthquake in 1929. Seilacher[3] defined redeposited sedimentary beds, disturbed and modified by earth- quakes, as seismite. Since t…     

Adsorption of As on hydroxy-Fe-montmorillonite complexes

DOI: 10.1360/03yd0553 Arsenic, a toxic element, is ubiquitous in the earth’s crust and may lead to health risks for humans. This may come about as a result of oxidative weathering and dissolution of As-containing minerals, use of ar-senical pesticides, excess use of some fertilizers and from mine drainage, smelter wastes and agricultural drainage water from certain arid regions. The dis-solved inorganic arsenic is transported in surface or2156 Science in China Ser. D Earth Sciences groun…     

An operational method for the real-time monitoring of E. coli numbers in bathing waters

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential application of the beta-d-glucuronidase (GLUase) activity measurement for the routine detection and quantification of E. coli in marine bathing waters. GLUase activity was measured as the rate of hydrolysis of 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-d-glucuronide. Culturable E. coli were quantified by the most probable number (MPN) microplate method. Both methods were applied to a large set of seawater samples. Significant correlation was found between the log of GLUase activity and the log of culturable E. coli. The mean coefficient of variation (CV) of the GLUase activity was less than 15% at concentrations around the current standards of International regulations whereas the CV of the microplate method was around 30%. When samples were stored at 4 degrees C and 20 degrees C, the mean CV of the GLUase activity remained below 15% up to 6 hours after sample collection whereas the range of variation of the microplate method varied between 10 and 50%. We concluded that the GLUase activity is an operational, reproducible, simple, very rapid and low cost method for the real-time enumeration of E. coli in bathing waters and should be preferred to the microplate method. The GLUase activity method should be routinely applied to the rapid enumeration of E. coli in recreational waters and recommendations for its application were suggested to water quality managers.     

东南亚锡矿带锡石多色性的特征和意义

东南亚锡矿带长约3900km,从缅甸和泰国大陆起,一直延伸到印度尼西亚群岛(见图).矿带由东带和西带组成,两带近于平行,局部为断层错开. 在此矿带内,锡矿床与花岗岩伴生,西带虽有些晚期浅成花岗岩,但中成花岗岩占优势,东带则以浅成花岗岩为主.因此,两带花岗岩之间存在着明显的矿物学差异(Hutchison,1975);同时,西带花岗岩中痕量元素的分布模式也与东带截然不同(Yeap,1974).这两个带的花岗岩有着长期而复杂的历史,每个带中都产有时代显然不同的花岗岩.不     

Combining pump-and-treat and physical barriers for contaminant plume control

A detailed analysis is presented of the hydraulic efficiency of plume management alternatives that combine a conventional pump-and-treat system with vertical, physical hydraulic barriers such as slurry walls or sheet piles. Various design settings are examined for their potential to reduce the pumping rate needed to obtain a complete capture of a given contaminated area. Using established modeling techniques for flow and transport, those barrier configurations (specified by location, shape, and length) that yield a maximum reduction of the pumping rate are identified assuming homogeneous aquifer conditions. Selected configurations are further analyzed concerning their hydraulic performance under heterogeneous aquifer conditions by means of a stochastic approach (Monte Carlo simulations) with aquifer transmissivity as a random space function. The results show that physical barriers are an appropriate means to decrease expected (mean) pumping rates, as well as the variance of the corresponding pumping rate distribution at any given degree of heterogeneity. The methodology presented can be transferred easily to other aquifer scenarios, provided some basic premises are fulfilled, and may serve as a basis for reducing the pumping rate in existing pump-and-treat systems.