晚冰期以来青藏高原降水序列集成重建

选取青藏高原36条(34个地点)由孢粉已重建的降水序列(8条)和化石孢粉谱(28条),分别采用直接提取和现代类比法获得1852个具有年代的定量降水数据,以高原4个分区为单位,建立青藏高原晚冰期以来古降水数据集。构建分区古降水空间模拟-多区面积加权的集成方法,即借助GIS分析,基于现代高原降水空间分布的地理因子模拟,集成重建晚冰期以来高原古降水序列。结果表明:16~12 ka B.P.,高原总体降水量较少,其中16 ka B.P.不到200 mm,约为现代降水量的一半,15~13 ka B.P.后降水显著增长,较前期上升70 mm;13~12 ka B.P.,又跌至220 mm,较现代低100 mm。进入全新世后,降水量迅速增长,降水在全新世早期的9.2~8.7 ka B.P.即达到最大值,高出现代70 mm,9.2~5.0 ka B.P.为全新世湿润期,平均高出现代50 mm;5 ka B.P.之后,降水波动较小,与现代基本持平。集成降水与其他高低分辨率环境记录有很好的可比性,说明集成序列有很好的代表性和一定的准确性。此外,高原降水变化区域差异明显,全新世最大降水呈现出西早东晚,西南季风(ISM)区早于东南季风(EASM)区的特点,高原西部和南部全新世早期9 ka B.P.左右即达极大值,而高原东缘迟至全新世中期的8.0~7.5 ka B.P.;降水增加最为明显的是高原西北部,最盛期降水约高出为现代的1倍,高原东部和南部现季风控制区域,只比现代高出0.2倍。     

An elastoplastic constitutive model for frozen saline coarse sandy soil undergoing particle breakage

The mechanical property of frozen saline sandy soil is complicated due to its complex components and sensitivity to salt content and confining pressure. Thus, a series of triaxial compression tests were carried out on sandy samples with different Na₂SO₄ contents under different confining pressures to explore the effects of particle breakage, pressure melting, shear dilation and strain softening or hardening. The test results indicate that the stress–strain curves exhibit strain softening/hardening phenomena when the confining pressures are below or above 6 MPa, respectively. A shear dilation phenomenon was observed in the loading process. With increasing confining pressure, the strength firstly increases and then decreases. By taking into consideration the changes between the grain size distributions before and after triaxial compression tests, a failure strength line incorporating the influences of both particle breakage and pressure melting is proposed. In order to describe the deformation characteristics of frozen saline sandy soil, an elastoplastic incremental constitutive model is established based on the test results. The proposed model considers the plastic compressive, plastic shear and breakage mechanisms by adopting the non-associated flow rule. The breakage mechanism can be reflected by an index related to the initial, current and ultimate grain size distributions. The hardening parameters corresponding to compressive and shear mechanisms consider the influence of particle breakage. Then the effect of particle breakage on both the stress–strain and volumetric strain curves is analyzed. The calculated results fit well with the test results, indicating that the developed constitutive model can well describe the mechanical and deformation features of frozen saline sandy soil under various stress levels and stress paths. In addition, the strain softening/hardening, contraction, high dilation and particle breakage can be well captured.

     

Centrifuge and numerical modeling of the frost heave mechanism of a cold-region canal

Acta Geotechnica - In cold regions, frozen soil is common and causes various forms of frost damage to engineering projects, particularly canals constructed in seasonally frozen ground. The freezing...     

A generalized thermal conductivity model of geomaterials based on micro-structures

Acta Geotechnica - Knowledge of particle shape and configuration-dependent thermal conductivity is necessary to investigate heat or water transfer in geomaterials, especially under freezing states....     

饵料浓度、温度对缢蛏能量代谢的影响

本文以缢蛏（Sinonovacula constricta）为实验对象,使用实验室静水法,研究其在不同饵料浓度、温度梯度下的代谢情况,测定其摄食、呼吸、排粪、排泄等生理参数,并根据能量平衡原理估算了缢蛏的能量收支情况。结果表明:（1）缢蛏的摄食能、呼吸能、排泄能随饵料浓度的上升而增加;随着温度的变化,其摄食能呈峰值性改变,呼吸能和排泄能有缓慢增长趋势;（2）缢蛏从球等鞭金藻（Isochrysis sphaeric）中摄取的有机碳源主要通过呼吸代谢消耗,以粪便的形式排出,少部分随排泄代谢产物流出,余下的碳主要用作贝类自身的生长;（3）单因素方差分析表明,饵料浓度和温度均显著影响缢蛏的摄食率和耗氧率（P<0.05）,温度为23℃时,缢蛏的摄食率和耗氧率在饵料浓度为3.0×105 cells/mL时达到最高;饵料浓度为3.0×105 cells/mL时,缢蛏的摄食率在23℃时达到最大值,而耗氧率和排氨率在31℃时达到最高。     

湖南川口三角潭钨矿床中辉钼矿Re-Os同位素定年及其地质意义

三角潭钨矿是产于衡阳盆地东侧的一个大型石英脉型钨矿床,矿体主要赋存在斑状黑云母二长花岗岩与围岩的内接触带上。为了查明该矿床的形成年代,作者采集了6件石英脉型钨矿中伴生的辉钼矿样品进行ReOs同位素年代学研究。结果表明,三角潭钨矿辉钼矿的Re-Os同位素模式年龄(222.5±3.3)Ma~(226.9±3.2)Ma,加权平均年龄为(224.9±1.3)Ma,等时线年龄为(225.8±4.4)Ma,揭示三角潭钨矿形成于晚三叠世。三角潭钨矿成矿地质事件的厘定,为华南地区印支期成矿提供了新的有力证据。在前人研究的基础上,对华南地区已有的印支期花岗岩高精度年代学数据和矿床年代学数据进行统计,发现花岗岩成岩年龄集中于210~240 Ma,矿床成矿年龄介于211~232 Ma,矿床成矿年龄与与之密切相关的花岗岩成岩年龄基本吻合,指示华南地区存在一次区域性的、与印支期花岗岩有关的成矿作用,成矿潜力大。     

ITRF2014框架简介

介绍了ITRF2014的定义、测站的全球分布、输入数据的基本情况、处理数据的基本策略以及相对于ITRF2008的改进。ITRF2014首次考虑了非潮汐大气载荷模型,提升了参考框架的精度并优化了内部模型。在推出台站坐标、速度、残差、EOPs等常规产品的基础上,ITRF2014提出两个新产品：只基于SLR的地心运动模型和震后形变模型。原有模型的改进与新模型的提出为世界各区域坐标系的更新与精化、地震的预测等作出了新的贡献。     

无人机模糊图像自动检测方法

图像模糊程度是图像评价的一个关键指标参数,它影响着图像的质量和信息。特别对于无人机拍摄的图像,如果利用模糊的图像参与计算,会造成很大的误差甚至出现颠覆性的结果。因此对于图像模糊的检测显得至关重要。传统的图像模糊检测方法大都基于人工检测、且有合格的参考图像参与评价过程,方法耗时、费力,无法用于大量无人机拍摄图像的分析。因此本文基于Sobel边缘检测原理,利用4个方向的Sobel算子,寻找图像中每个Sobel边缘点的模糊邻域,并构建模糊邻域宽度值的计算准则,由此来计算出整幅图像的平均模糊邻域宽度值,并将这个计算结果作为检测模糊的直接依据。同时考虑到无人机拍摄图像的特点,将其按照拍摄时间顺序排列,依次将相邻图像互为参考,通过对比互为参考图像的模糊邻域宽度值的变化情况,将宽度值突变的图像确定为模糊图像。据此对无人机拍摄的所有图像进行模糊检测。最终通过7组2322张 图像进行自动检测发现151张图像模糊,通过人工检测发现158张图像模糊,平均检测率95.57%。该检测方法具有较强的 适用性。     

Quartz OSL dating of sand dunes of Late Pleistocene in the Mu Us Desert in northern China

The Mu Us Desert, located in the northwestern fringe of the East Asian monsoon region, is sensitive to climate variability. The desert is characterized by mobile, semi-fixed and fixed sand dunes. Alternating units of dune sands and sandy palaeosols in the Mu Us Desert imply multiple episodes of dune building and stabilization, in response to the ebb and flow of the East Asian monsoon. Desert evolution and climatic change of high-resolution in the Mu Us Desert are still poorly understood due to limited numerical dating results. In the present study, 19 samples collected from five sand dune sections along a northwest–southeast transect in the Mu Us Desert were dated using quartz optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and single aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol. Internal checks of the OSL dating indicate that the SAR protocol is appropriate for equivalent dose (D_e) determination for the samples under study. Combined with the lithologic stratigraphy and the luminescence chronology, the sand dune development in the Mu Us Desert during the Late Pleistocene is discussed. Our results indicate that the sand was mobilized approximately at 91 ka, 71 ka, 48–22 ka, 5 ka, 1 ka, and 0.44 ka; the sand was fixed approximately at 65 ka and Holocene Optimum period in the interior Mu Us Desert. The Mu Us Desert formed at least before ～144 ka, and has shown increasing aridity in the Late Pleistocene.     

Quartz OSL dating of archaeological sites in Xiao Qaidam Lake of the NE Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and its implications for palaeoenvironmental changes

In the past decades, archaeologists have found evidences for prehistorical human activity in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). In 1982, some Paleolithic stone tools were found in a section from a terrace of the Xiao Qaidam Lake in the Qaidam Basin, NE of the QTP. The age of this Paleolithic site has remained unknown by far. Some believed that the age of human inhabitation in this Paleolithic site was about 30 ka. In this study, quartz optically stimulated luminescence was used to date 10 samples collected from four sections in the Xiao Qaidam Lake, using the single-aliquot regeneration-dose protocol. The two samples from section XCDH2, which is from a lake terrace about ～7–8 m above the present lake level and in which the top gravel layer contains stone tools, were not well-bleached before deposition. Their ages (>101 and >159 ka) determined by SAR should be considered minimums. OSL dating results of six samples from two sections (XCDH1 and XCDH3) of an adjacent lake terrace, which is ～12 m above the present lake level, suggest two possibilities for the age of the tool-bearing gravel layer: (1) younger than ～3 ka if the lake terrace of XCDH2 is younger than the terrace represented by XCDH1 and XCDH3; or (2) between ～3 and 11 ka if these two terraces are part of the deposit of the same time period. In either case, the age of the archaeological layer should be much younger than the previously proposed ～30 ka. As the climate in the early Holocene after 11 ka was increasingly warm and the Xiao Qaidam Lake area could be suitable for human inhabitation then, we deduce that the age range of ～3–11 ka is more likely the time frame for this archaeological site. The age of 3.1 ± 0.3 ka for the surface of terrace XCDH1/XCDH3 suggests a significant lake level decrease after this time and a corresponding arid event at ～3 ka; the lake level did not reach this level again after that time. Section XCDH4 is more than 40 m above the present lake level, and two samples gave ages of 37 ± 4 and 51 ± 4 ka. These two dates and the dates from the other sections demonstrate that two lake levels higher than present existed for Xiao Qaidam Lake, one at ～12 m and dated ～3–11 ka and the another at >40 m and dated ～37–51 ka.