Caledonian Low-Temperature Granulite-Facies Metamorphism in the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt—SHRIMP Chronological Evidence from Zircon

The West Kunlun orogenic belt is located at the conjunction of the paleo-Asian tectonic system and the Tethys tectonic system. Petrological and mineralogical studies of the Early Cambrian metamorphic surface crust in this region have shown that in case the metamorphism reached low-temperature granulate facies, the typical mineral assemblage is biotite-garnet-silimanite-K feldspar-plagioclase-quartz. The peak metamorphic temperatures are within the range of 720–740°C and the pressure is 0.6 GPa ±. Three types of metamorphic zircon have been detected in the metamorphic rocks: the complex inclusion-bearing type ; the early relic zircon inclusion-bearing type; and the inclusion-free type. SHRIMP age determination of these three types of metamorphic zircon have revealed that these zircons were formed principally during 400–460 Ma, indicating that pre-Cambrian metamorphic surface crust rocks underwent low-temperature granulite facies metamorphism during the Caledonian. In combination with the geological characteristics of this region, it is considered that when the oceanic basin was closed, there occurred intense intracontinental subduction (type A), bringing part of the Early Cambrian metamorphic basement in this region downwards to the lower crust. Meanwhile, there were accompanied with tectonic deformation at deep levels and medium- to high-grade metamorphism. This study provided important chronological and mineralogical evidence for the exploration of the evolutionary mechanism and process of the West Kunlun Early Paleozoic. Part of the results from the research project “ Research on the West Kunlun pre-Cambrian tectonic events” under the program “ Research on the important geological problems of China’ s pre-Cambrian” (No. 200113900070) sponsored by the China National Geological Surveying Bureau.     

Characteristics analysis of spatial and temporal variation on extreme weather events in Anhui Province for recent 50 years

To mitigate the impact of natural or man-made hazards on the services of an infrastructure facility, it is important to quantitatively assess its available capacity. For example, in a post-disaster scenario, critical infrastructure is likely to experience (i) excessive demand for the service of an infrastructure and/or (ii) compromised capacity because of damage to the infrastructure and the failure of infrastructure interdependencies. As the demand grows and nears the capacity limit of an infrastructure facility, a shortage of services required for the community’s recovery will occur. The development of mitigation strategies and an assessment of their effectiveness require a systematic approach. In this paper, a functional stress–strain principle for infrastructure facilities is proposed to quantitatively assess their serviceability in post-disaster scenarios. Functional stress in infrastructure management represents a service-related demand on an infrastructure facility, while strain indicates its coping capacity. The dynamic nature of infrastructure services will be considered depending on the relationship between demand and available capacity. The allowable range of functional stress is then defined, considering plastic and elastic patterns of responses of a facility during recovery to explore strain capacity variations. The proposed principle facilitates a systematic understanding of how infrastructure facilities can adapt themselves to growing stress and the maximum level of stress they can handle. The application of the proposed functional stress–strain principle is demonstrated through case studies of two infrastructure facilities in a post-earthquake scenario: a medical facility and a power facility.     

青海下柳沟铜铅锌矿床地质特征与硫化物 电子探针分析

青海祁连下柳沟铜铅锌矿床位于北祁连走廊南山南坡一带,是北祁连地区较为重要的块状硫化物矿床。矿体赋存于中寒武统黑茨沟组酸性火山岩中,受NW向断裂构造和地层控制,产状随地层变化而变化。本次研究从矿床地质特征研究入手,再对区内不同阶段的硫化物进行电子探针分析,探讨金属硫化物的地球化学特征、矿床成矿环境,从而对本区下步找矿工作提供依据。通过研究可知,下柳沟地区矿体形态复杂,矿体沿走向、倾向品位及厚度变化均较大,主要呈似层状、条带状、网脉状、透镜状等产出,矿石组合以铜铅锌矿石和铅锌矿石为主。通过对闪锌矿中Zn、S、Cd、Fe、S、Co、Ni等元素含量的分析,表明本区矿床为火山喷气沉积型块状硫化物矿床。通过黝铜矿电子探针分析可知,本区目前揭露的仅为矿体的中上部,深部可能还存在隐伏矿体。     

Progress in the Research on the Impact of Wind Farms on Climate and Environment

Wind power has become one of the fastest growing renewable energy. With the large-scale deployment of wind farms in the world, people have started to pay attention to the impact of wind farms on the ecological environment and climate. This paper summarized the impact of wind farms on climate and ecological environment by investigating relevant literature: In the areas of wind farms, on the one hand, the set-up of wind turbines changes original aerodynamic roughness height and strengthens the dragging of the land surface against turbulence, directly affecting the turbulent motion of the boundary layer, resulting in the changes of intensity and pattern of material energy and water vapor exchange between land surface and near-surface atmosphere, further affecting the atmospheric circulation and climate. On the other hand, wind turbines convert the majority of the wind kinetic energy into electric energy, which produces the wake effect of the wind turbine. The budget patterns and spatial and temporal distribution of large-scale kinetic energy in the boundary layer are changed correspondingly, generating changes in various fluxes (heat flux, water vapor flux, etc.) in the atmosphere, which affect temperature, precipitation, and wind speed. Generally, the warming or cooling effect of wind farms on the near-surface is related to the stability of atmosphere. However, simulations in the global climate model showed that the average impact of wind farms on global climate is small, much smaller than the expected changes in greenhouse gas emissions and the interannual changes in natural climate.Wind power emits almost no carbon dioxide and pollutants. Compared with other traditional energy sources, it reduces water consumption but may generate some negative ecological impacts such as animal habitats, bird collisions, and noise, vision impact. However, some measures can be taken to mitigate these adverse effects.     

黄渤海底层盐度预报方法的研究

根据二维流体动力学方程和深度平均盐度扩散方程在河口径流量以及蒸发和降水之差为已知情况下构成的闭合方程组,预报出深度平均盐度,然后利用底层盐度与深度平均盐度、水深和时间(月)之间的经验关系,给出底层盐度的二维预报。为了检验试报结果的可靠性,文中将黄渤海底层盐度的试报结果(1979年7月11日,时效为3d)与标准断面观测资料(7月4—14日观测,124.5°E以西,共104站)作一粗略比较。比较表明,试报结果与实测值的相关系数为0.96,均方误差为α=0.26,绝对误差小于0.2和0.3的站数分别占总站数的63.5％和77.0％,而总均绝差为0.19。由此可见,试报的效果是令人满意的。     

注射鳖源致病性嗜水气单胞菌ZHYYZ-1引发中华鳖(Trionyx sinensis)稚鳖感染和致死的定量研究

以20日龄中华鳖稚鳖为实验动物,采用静水停食实验法,在水温(27.4±1.3)℃、pH7.1条件下,进行了注射鳖源嗜水气单胞菌ZHYYZ-1引发中华鳖稚鳖感染和致死的定量实验研究。结果表明:(1)该菌为高致病性菌株,异常排泄是该菌致稚鳖表露临床感染症状的重要标志;(2)注射该菌引起稚鳖感染与致死具明显的剂量—时间效应,随注射菌量递增依次出现不表露临床感染症状、表露临床感染症状而不出现死亡和大量死亡三种情形,稚鳖表露临床感染和出现死亡的时间均随注射菌量增大而明显缩短,绝大多数稚鳖表露临床感染和出现死亡的时限分别为2h和48h;(3)濒死稚鳖体内该菌的底限含量为3.3×106CFU/g,稚鳖体内菌注射含量可控安全范围为(1.2—8.8)×103CFU/g。     

滇东北松梁铅锌矿床成矿物质来源：来自S、Pb、Zn同位素的证据

川滇黔铅锌多金属成矿域内,碳酸盐岩容矿的热液铅锌矿床多达400个。松梁铅锌矿床地处滇东北与川东南的交接处,位于川滇黔铅锌多金属成矿域的核心部位;铅锌矿体赋存于震旦系灯影组白云岩内,矿体产出明显受断裂控制;矿石矿物组成简单,主要由闪锌矿、方铅矿和黄铁矿组成。文章重点研究了松梁铅锌矿床硫化物的S、Pb、Zn同位素组成,进而探讨了其成矿物质来源及矿床成因。研究表明,松梁铅锌矿床的硫化物δ³⁴S_CDT值在+4.6‰~+13.7‰之间,平均值为+10.5‰,显示硫来源于赋矿围岩,为震旦系灯影组硫酸盐经TSR的产物;硫化物的Pb同位素比值为²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=18.158~18.513、²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.633~15.895、²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=38.096~38.786,反映成矿物质为壳源铅,源自震旦系灯影组白云岩与结晶基底的混合;闪锌矿的δ⁶⁶Zn为-0.126‰~+0.082‰,揭示成矿物质可能源自震旦系灯影组碳酸盐岩和结晶基底的混合。松梁铅锌矿床为后生碳酸盐岩容矿型铅锌矿床。     

Church-based social capital, networks and geographical scale: Katrina evacuation, relocation, and recovery in a New Orleans Vietnamese American community

This research examines the role of social capital and networks to explain the evacuation, relocation, and recovery experiences of a Vietnamese American community in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As the single largest community institution, the parish church’s complex bonding and bridging social capital and networks proved particularly critical in part because of its historically based ontological security. The process of evacuation, but especially relocation and recovery, was dependent on deploying co-ethnic social capital and networks at a variety of geographical scales. Beyond the local or community scale, extra-local, regional, and national scales of social capital and networks reproduced a spatially redefined Vietnamese American community. Part of the recovery process included constructing discursive place-based collective-action frames to successfully contest a nearby landfill that in turn engendered social capital and networks crossing ethnic boundaries to include the extra-local African American community. Engaging social capital and networks beyond the local geographical scale cultivated a Vietnamese American community with an emergent post-Katrina cultural and political identity.     

江西城门山铜矿含矿斑岩体风化作用地球化学特征

文章利用城门山铜矿露天采坑系统地研究了含矿斑岩体风化作用过程中常量元素和微量元素的地球化学行为.结果表明,含矿斑岩体具有2个明显的风化旋回,风化作用过程主要表现为铝硅酸盐矿物的水解、水化作用,斑岩体中Ca、Mg、Na、K等元素大量淋失,Ca、Mg、Na淋失量可达80%以上,而Si、Al、Ti、Fe残留在风化层中.城门山铜矿含矿斑岩体具低Ti、Nb、Ta、Zr、Hf和低稀土元素含量(ΣREE=77.69×10-6～104×10-6),具有较稳定的Nb/Ta和Zr/Hf比值,稀土元素配分模式为较缓的右倾模式,无明显的铕异常(δEu＞0.73),ΣCe/ΣY比值为3～8.这些特征可作为评价城门山铜矿含矿中酸性岩体主要的地球化学指标之一.     

滇西高黎贡山变质带变质深成岩特征及时代

高黎贡山变质岩带中(腾冲大蒿坪地区),原划归古元古代高黎贡山岩群中广泛存在的变质深成岩类,原岩实际为早白垩世(163.5±5.7 Ma)花岗闪长岩和晚白垩世(74.0±2.0Ma)二长花岗岩类,属变质的燕山期深成侵入岩,可划分为扬飞水角闪黑云花岗闪长质片麻岩、芹菜塘花岗片麻岩两个变质地体单元.早白垩世花岗闪长岩形成于造山前期同碰撞火山弧环境;晚白垩世二长花岗岩侵入岩形成于造山前期碰撞造山环境,并沿断裂带强烈侵位.原岩经喜马拉雅早期韧性剪切带动力变质,变质强度达高绿片岩相或低角闪岩相,形成花岗质片麻岩类,喜马拉雅中期叠加脆韧性动力变质作用.