Chlorinated pesticides and PCBs in the sea-surface microlayer and seawater samples of Singapore

Sea-surface microlayer (SML) and seawater samples collected from Singapore's coastal marine environment were analyzed for selected chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The SML is a potential site of enrichment of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) compared to the underlying water column. The concentration ranges of SigmaHCH, SigmaDDT and SigmaPCB in subsurface (1 m depth) seawater were 0.4-27.2 ng/l (mean 4.0 ng/l), 0.01-0.6 ng/l (mean 0.1 ng/l) and 0.05-1.8 ng/l (mean 0.5 ng/l) respectively. In the SML, the concentration ranges of SigmaHCH, SigmaDDT and SigmaPCB were 0.6-64.6 ng/l (mean 9.9 ng/l), 0.01-0.7 ng/l (mean 0.2 ng/l) and 0.07-12.4 ng/l (mean 1.3 ng/l) respectively. High spatial and temporal distribution was observed for all POPs measured. However, overall levels measured in the SML were lower than levels reported in the literature for SML samples from temperate coastal regions-possibly due to loss of semi-volatile compounds in the tropical climate of Singapore. Atmospheric wet deposition during the monsoon season may be an important source of POPs to the SML. This study provides the first scientific data on POP concentrations and enrichment factors in the SML for Southeast Asia.     

Evaluation of Karst Hazards for Civil and Industrial Buildings

The European part of Russia exhibits highly developed sulphate and carbonate karst. It mostly occurs within river valleys with relatively thin covering deposits. These conditions may induce karst collapses, which appear to be the main danger for civil and industrial buildings. Evolution of karst rocks includes several epochs of karst development, which causes complicated distribution of karst caves in karst rocks and, as the result, irregular distribution of karst caves on the surface. Karst hazards prediction is mostly reliable within the geotechnical system "Karst-Construction", using probability methods. This approach allows creating 3 types of antikarst protection (alternative design of construction arrangement on a plan, structural protection of a construction and plugging of karst caves beneath construction foundation) and selecting the optimum or the most effective version or their rational combination.     

Anisotropy and Dissipation of Turbulence and Their Effects on Solar Models

1 INTRODUCTIONThe maing-length theory (MLT) is the most commonly used approach to calculate convective energy transport in stars and other astrophysical situations. Based on the original idea ofPrandtl (1952) that turbulent parcels trallsfer heat in a similar way as molecules of gas do inthermal conduction, the MLT assumes that convection cells, drived by buoyancy, move thlougha ~ng length 1 and release the heat they carry when they merge with their environment. Themost widely adopted f…     

Lower Permian formations of different geodynamic environments in A＇nyemaqen ophiolitic zone （Buqingshan Mts., eastern Kunlun, Qinghai Province, China）

Lower Permian formations within the Buqingshan Mountains （A＇nyemaqen ophiolitic zone, eastem sector of the eastern Kunlun） were formed in the following paleogeodynamic environments （from north to south） ： （ 1 ） shelf and slope of a passive continental margin in a marginal sea; （2）partially Permian metamorphic rocks of subduction-accretion complexes and volcanogenic rocks of an ensimatic island arc, of the age limited from above by the Asselian - Sakmarian; and （3） an island are slope and oceanic trench. Subduction-accretion complexes and the island are volcanites are overlain with a sharp angular unconformity by a carbonate-conglomerate sequence, which presents as local molasse of the Early Permian age. Based on fusulinids from the basal limestone, the age of the local molasse is first defined as the Yakhtashian-Bolorian, i.e, Artinskian-Kungurian （？）. The thorough investigations revealed that the initial closure of the eastern Paleotethys within the eastern Kunlun corresponded to the Sakmarian-Yakhtashian （Artinskian） boundary, whereas in the western Paleotethys sector （Northern Pamirs） the closure occurred considerably earlier, prior to the Late Bashkirian. Thus, the idea that the Paleotethys in the eastern Kunlun reached its maximum width in the Permian, is highly questionable. During the Early Permian the A＇nyernaqen branch of the Paleotethys intensely decreased. Beginning from the Bolorian （Kungurian） and up to the end of the Permian this branch represented its relict in the form of a marginal sea depression. It may be suggested that the Paleotethys closure in the A＇nyemaqen took place gradually from the west to the east and covered a long period from the Late Carboniferous to the terminal Early Permian.     

西峪煤矿采空区上方泉水断流后复出的机理

从西峪煤矿寨沟井田二水平2619、2617工作面采空区上方地表泉水断流10年后又复出的现象出发,对泉水断流、复出并逐渐增大的机理进行了比较全面而深入的研究。得出泉水的复出是由于石岔沟内粉煤灰浆水沿着原来泉水的出口处溢到地表所致。故而进一步推出西煤矿采空区上方地表裂缝不必要充填的结论,也为热电厂处理粉煤灰以及其它煤矿在今后治理、美化矿山环境中指出几条有借鉴意义的方法和途经。     

关于最佳夯击次数的讨论

提出最佳夯击次数严格、普遍的定义 ,并对最佳夯击次数的确定方法进行了探讨 ,特别针对粘性一砂性土地基 ,作者根据强夯施工中孔隙水压力的时空规律性 ,提出了一种确定其最佳击次数的有效方法。     

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION OF DEBRIS FLOWS

Discussion open until 2002.EmunmL SwrY ONEQUII.thare CONCENTRATION OF DEBRIS rrOWSBin YU1AaSTsiCTThe paPe PresentS experimntal study of debris flows. The equiMm concentIation of solidparticle in the now is a hahon of the energy slope, density of solid Particle and kinetic ffichonange of paxtiles. The kinhc forhon angle is a funhon of intemal ffichon angle, the cOnCentrationof solid phocles and the mtalmum POssible concewhon. TO deteImin th6 hahon between thekinetic fficho…