Last glacial pollen record from Lanzhou (Northwestern China) and possible forcing mechanisms for the MIS 3 climate change in Middle to East Asia

The vegetation on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau is highly sensitive to climatic changes and thus represents a potentially interesting environmental archive. Pollen samples from the Fanjiaping Loess section in Lanzhou on the western Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) were analyzed in conjunction with OSL dating. The results indicate that pollen zone B (60.6–46.0 ka, correlative to the early MIS 3) had the greatest abundances of Cupressaceae, Tsuga, Gramineae and Cyperaceae of the entire section, suggesting a warm phase during the last glacial period. These pollen taxa decreased significantly in abundance in the zones C (46.0–39.0 ka) and D (39.0–27.0 ka), reflecting a substantial climate cooling from the middle MIS 3 to MIS 2. These results correlate with climate records from the South China Sea, the CLP, Baikal Lake, North America, North Atlantic Ocean and other regions, and probably correspond with the decline of northern high-latitude insolation and the increase of global ice volume from 50 to 20 ka. In particular, arboreal pollen, fern spore and algae abundances declined sharply since ～40 ka, while shrub and herb pollen reached the highest abundances. Conifer pollen Picea and Abies abundance also rose markedly and increased up the section. This implies significant climate deterioration and likely corresponded with substantial growth of the polar ice sheets since ～40 ka. The decreasing temperature caused by an insolation decline during the last glacial period probably reinforced the cooling effect in a ‘snow/ice/albedo’ feedback, which would result in less climate sensitivity to radiative forcing. Meanwhile, vegetation decline in the Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial period and tundra development at high latitudes possibly caused additional cooling, enhancing the growth of polar ice sheets since 40 ka. The development of polar ice sheets increased the polar-to-equator temperature and pressure gradients, strengthening the westerlies and supplying plenty of moisture to Northwest China during 40–30 ka. Lake sediments developed widely on the Tibetan Plateau during 40–30 ka, probably related to an increase in the seasonality of middle-to-low latitude insolation which caused an enhancement of glacier melting on the Plateau.     

The response of a gravel‐bed river planform configuration to flow variations and bed reworking: a modelling study

A 2D depth‐averaged model has been developed for simulating water flow, sediment transport and morphological changes in gravel‐bed rivers. The model was validated with a series of laboratory experiments and then applied to the Nove reach of the Brenta River (Northern Italy) to assess its bed material transport, interpret channel response to a series of intensive flood events (R.I. ≈ 10 years) and provide a possible evolutionary scenario for the medium term. The study reach is 1400 m long with a mean slope of 0.0039 m m^?1. High‐resolution digital terrain models were produced combining LiDAR data with colour bathymetry techniques. Extensive field sedimentological surveys were also conducted for surface and subsurface material. Data were uploaded in the model and the passage of two consecutive high intensity floods was simulated. The model was run under several hypotheses of sediment supply: one considering substantial equilibrium between sediment input and transport capacity, and the others reducing the sediment supply. The sediment supply was then calibrated comparing channel morphological changes as observed in the field and calculated by the model. Annual bed material transport was assessed and compared with other techniques. Low‐frequency floods (R.I. ≈ 1.5 years) are expected to produce negligible changes in the channel while high floods may erode banks rather than further incising the channel bed. Location and distribution of erosion and deposition areas within the Nove reach were predicted with acceptable biases stemming from imperfections of the model and the specified initial, boundary and forcing conditions. A medium‐term evolutionary scenario simulation underlined the different response to and impact of a consecutive sequence of floods. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

绵竹市清平乡芍药沟泥石流危险性评价分析

5.12汶川8.0级地震后,引发了大规模的震后灾害,绵竹市清平乡芍药沟在地震影响下,先后发生了3次大规模的突发泥石流,对流域沟口处的二级电站厂房威胁较大,且相关人员的安全也受此影响.本文在野外调查的基础上,利用单沟泥石流法对芍药沟泥石流进行研究分析,以确定泥石流的危险程度等级.研究发现:区内总物源量达16.84万m3,...     

印度尼西亚库泰盆地油气地质特征及勘探方向

库泰盆地是印度尼西亚最大、最深的第三系含油气盆地,也是该国最主要的产油气盆地。盆地经历了断陷期、拗陷期和反转期三个发育阶段,充填的第三系沉积物厚度达14 km。盆地发育四套烃源岩,其中,中中新统三角洲平原煤和三角洲前缘碳质泥岩是滨浅海区有效烃源岩,上中新统富含碳质碎屑浊积岩是深水区有效烃源岩;油气纵向上主要富集于中中新统、上中新统及上新统,平面上主要富集于背斜构造中。综合分析认为,深海平原区上中新统斜坡扇、盆底扇砂岩是下库泰盆地潜在勘探领域,渐新统—下中新统是三马林达复背斜带有利勘探领域,始新统盆地边缘上超尖灭砂体是上库泰盆地潜在勘探领域,始新统—中新统台地生物礁是库泰盆地深层潜在勘探领域。     

The influence of the Jahn–Teller effect at Fe<Superscript>2+</Superscript> on the structure of chromite at high pressure

The crystal structure of chromite FeCr₂O₄ was investigated to 13.7 GPa and ambient temperature with single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. The unit-cell parameter decreases continuously from 8.3832 (5) to 8.2398 (11) Å up to 11.8 GPa. A fit to the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state (EoS) based on the P–V data gives: K ₀ = 209 (13) GPa, K′ = 4.0 (fixed), and V ₀ = 588 (1) ų. The FeO₄ tetrahedra and CrO₆ octahedra are compressed isotropically with pressure with their Fe–O and Cr–O bond distances decreasing from 1.996 (6) to 1.949 (7) Å and from 1.997 (3) to 1.969 (7) Å, respectively. The tetrahedral site occupied by the Fe²⁺ cation is more compressible than the octahedral site occupied by the Cr³⁺ cation. The resulting EoS parameters for the tetrahedral and the octahedral sites are K ₀ = 147 (9) GPa, K′ = 4.0 (fixed), V ₀ = 4.07 (1) ų and K ₀ = 275 (24) GPa, K′ = 4.0 (fixed), V ₀ = 10.42 (2) ų, respectively. A discontinuous volume change is observed between 11.8 and 12.6 GPa. This change indicates a phase transition from a cubic (space group Fd-[`3]{\overline{3}} m) to a tetragonal structure (space group I4₁ /amd). At the phase transition boundary, the two Cr–O bonds parallel to the c-axis shorten from 1.969 (7) to 1.922 (17) Å and the other four Cr–O bonds parallel to the ab plane elongate from 1.969 (7) to 1.987 (9) Å. This anisotropic deformation of the octahedra leads to tetragonal compression of the unit cell along the c-axis. The angular distortion in the octahedron decreases continuously up to 13.7 GPa, whereas the distortion in the tetrahedron rises dramatically after the phase transition. At the pressure of the phase transition, the tetrahedral bond angles along the c-axis direction of the unit cell begin decreasing from 109.5° to 106.6 (7)°, which generates a “stretched” tetrahedral geometry. It is proposed that the Jahn–Teller effect at the tetrahedrally coordinated Fe²⁺ cation becomes active with compression and gives rise to the tetrahedral angular distortion, which in turn induces the cubic-to-tetragonal transition. A qualitative molecular orbital model is proposed to explain the origin and nature of the Jahn–Teller effect observed in this structure and its role in the pressure-induced phase transition.     

ATLAS, and Wide-Angle Tail Galaxies in ATLAS

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), ATLAS (Australia Telescope Large Area Survey) is imaging two fields totalling 7 square degrees down to 10 μJy beam^− 1 at 1.4 GHz. We have found 6 wide-angle tail galaxies (WATs), 4 of which have sufficient data to identify associated galaxy overdensities. The largest WAT, at a red-shift of 0.22, appears to be associated with an overdensity of galaxies that is spread over an unusually large extent of 12 Mpc, with a velocity range of 4500 km s^− 1. Here we present the WATs in ATLAS and discuss the implications of these observations for future large-scale radio surveys such as ASKAP-EMU.     

Tailed Radio Sources in the CDFS Field

Using 1.4 GHz ATCA & VLA images with 5.5 GHz ATCA data, we present a sample of 12 bent-tailed galaxies over the 4 deg² area of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). We find 10 new sources, one of which is possibly the highest red-shift bent-tailed galaxy detected at z ∼ 2.     

月球形状及其重力场EI北大核心CSCD

本文首先从测绘科学与技术在月球探测中的应用角度,对月球形状及重力场的研究进展、获取方法及代表性成果进行了综述;进而针对现有的月球DEM及重力场模型中存在的主要问题进行分析,并提出了解决方案;最后结合各国的探月计划和我国正在实施的“嫦娥”四期工程,对月球形状和重力场研究面临的机遇和挑战进行了展望。     

基于SWAT-MODFLOW耦合模型的巴音河中游泽令沟盆地地表水−地下水转换关系研究

为准确刻画资料缺乏、地表水–地下水转换频繁的泽令沟盆地地表水?地下水不同时空尺度上的转换关系,利用河道径流数据、遥感蒸散发数据、地下水位观测数据等对SWAT-MODFLOW耦合模型进行率定和验证,在此基础上对泽令沟盆地水循环过程进行模拟分析。结果显示：① SWAT-MODFLOW耦合模型模拟效果较好,率定期和验证期月径流量的R²≥0.73,NSE≥0.67,PBIAS在?20%~20%。其各子流域实际蒸散发的R²均大于0.91,NSE均大于0.85,PBIAS在?10%~10%。此外,模拟地下水位与实测值误差在0.6 m以内,R²为0.94。② 地表水补给地下水的河道占整个河道长度90.31%,年平均补给量占年总交换水量的50.20%;季节尺度上,补给的最大值出现在7月,为331043.31 m³/d,最小值出现在12月份,为41208.33 m³/d。地下水对地表水的补给量较为稳定,季节性变幅在?2.5%~2.5%,年际变幅处于?6.5%~0.6%之间。