Land use and land transformation

Types and pattern of land use in the GDR are controlled both by the historical development and the strong influences of technological, social and political alterations during the last four decades. Owing to these factors and the favourable natural conditions the share of non-arable area is small. The two basic features of land transformation are land use alteration and intensification. Compared to other European countries the first process lies on the average. It is still remarkable because most alterations of land use drastically reduce the agricultural area. Intensification consequently is the main type of land transformation in all sections of regional development. In most cases the benefit of strong intensification serves to particular users. Therefore various by-effects arise like pollution, contamination, blocking and devastating of renewable natural resources. Under the auspices of long term rationalization land transformation must be accompanied by the development of a dense network of protective measures and reservation areas, and in addition by different types for multiple utilization of renewable natural resources. At present complicated systems of land use are in evolution.     

Potential for Solute Retardation on Monitoring Well Sand Packs and Its Effect on Purging Requirements for Ground Water Sampling

Monitoring well sand packs are theoretically capable of retarding metal ions and organic contaminants. If this retardation does indeed occur it may have a significant effect on the purging requirements of newly installed monitoring wells. Calculations based on mass balance and retardation concepts demonstrate that if common guidelines for well purging are followed, contaminants may not be detected or may be detected in lower concentrations than are actually present in the ground water. This problem is greatest in relatively shallow wells installed in low to moderate permeability materials. In most cases, the effect of solute retardation in the sand pack can be avoided simply by additional purging prior to the first sampling of the monitoring well. Common purging guidelines can then be applied to subsequent samplings. The methodology outlined in this paper can be used to calculate the purging requirements of existing monitoring wells or it may be applied to alternative monitoring well designs to test which will require the smallest volume of purged water.     

System-wide submerged aquatic vegetation model for Chesapeake Bay

A predictive model of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) biomass is coupled to a eutrophication model of Chesapeake Bay. Domain of the model includes the mainstem of the bay as well as tidal portions of major embayments and tributaries. Three SAV communities are modeled: ZOSTERA, RUPPIA, and FRESHWATER. The model successfully computes the spatial distribution and abundance of SAV for the period 1985–1994. Spatial distribution is primarily determined by computed light attenuation. Sensivitity analysis to reductions in nutrient and solids loads indicates nutrient controls will enhance abundance primarily in areas that presently support SAV. Restoration of SAV to areas in which it does not presently exist requires solids controls, alone or in combination with nutrient controls. For regions in which SAV populations exist at the refuge level or greater, improvements in SAV abundance are expected within 2 to 10 years of load reductions. For regions in which no refuge population exists, recovery time is unpredictable and will depend on propagule supply.     

Coda-Q before and after the 1986 Andreanof Islands earthquake

Coda-Q values before and after the May 7, 1986 Andreanof Islands earthquake in the central Aleutian subduction zone were calculated from microearthquake seismograms on the basis of Aki's single backscattering model. Digital waveforms from 329 microeathquakes in 5.4 years before the mainshock and 40 aftershocks recorded by 11 stations of the Central Aleutians Seismic Network were utilized. Before the mainshock, coda-Q in the rupture zone west of the mainshock epicenter was 15% higher than theQ outside the rupture zone to the west. A lowQ in the region east of the mainshock epicenter is inferred, but lacks solid evidence. The highQ region accords with the part of the rupture zone where most seismic moment was released. During approximately two months after the mainshock, coda-Q in the rupture zone decreased about 10%. PrecursoryQ changes were not found in the 5.4 years before the mainshock. It is deduced that a coda-Q precursor, if it existed, was of small magnitude (<10%), or its duration was either shorter than one year or longer than four years.     

The product spectra of gravity and barometric pressure in Europe

A total of 111 000 hourly values of gravity and barometric pressure from stations in Europe is analysed. The data consist of two sets of records from Brussels, an early set of 36 000 h length and a more recent set of 21 000 h length, a set of records from Bad Homburg of 24 000 h length, and a set of records from Strasbourg of 30 000 h length. All of the gravity measurements were made with similar superconducting instruments and the pressure data were recorded simultaneously at each superconducting gravimeter site. The four sets of records have different time bases, and to bring out common features and suppress individual station systematic errors, the product spectrum is introduced. Spectral density estimates are first computed for a common spectral window for each record, and the product spectrum is formed by multiplying individual spectral estimates across records. The cumulative distribution function is found for the product spectrum and confidence intervals are calculated from it by iteration. The product spectrum in gravity reveals a triplet of resonances in the subtidal band which are shown by an automated computer search to be uniquely associated with the translational modes of the solid inner core. The product spectrum in barometric pressure clearly reveals the first 10 solar heating tides in the atmosphere, but otherwise does not show common features with the gravity product spectrum. In particular, the triplet of resonances in the subtidal band of the gravity product spectrum do not show up in the product spectrum of barometric pressure, climinating the atmosphere as their source.     

Zur Baugeschichte der Ardennen I

Zusammenfassung Die bereits kaledonisch gefalteten Massive in den Ardennen wurden von der variscisdien Tektogenese (asturische Phase) mehr oder weniger überprägt. Vorstellungen über diese Überprägung älterer Strukturen und deren Vergitterung mit jüngeren Verformungsrichtungen sowie über den Einfluß der kaledonischen Kerne (Unterstockwerk) auf das Faltenstreichen der devonischen Mantel-Schichten (Oberstockwerk) lassen sich vor allem in der Antiklinalzone der Hochardennen im Massiv von Rocroi, im Massiv von Serpont und im Massiv von Stavelot gewinnen.

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Résumé Les massifs des Ardennes, déjà plissés à l'ère caledonienne furent plus ou moins remaniés par la tectogénèse hercynienne (phase asturienne). C'est surtout dans la zone anticlinale des hautes Ardennes, dans le massif de Rocroi, dans le massif de Serpont et dans le massif de Stavelot qu'on peut se faire une idée en bons affleurements de ce remaniement de structures plus anciennes et de leurs interférences avec des directions de déformation plus jeunes ainsi que de l'influence des anciens massifs calédoniens (étage inférieur) sur la direction du plissement des couches de revêtement dévoniennes (étage supérieur).Dans ces massifs, les couches du dévonien sont plus ou moins fortement plissés ou disposés par écailles avec le socle calédonien. Dans le massif de Rocroi, dans le massif de Serpont et dans la partie ouest du massif des Stavelot les couches du socle présentent des structures qui sont totalement différentes des couches de revêtement dévoniennes et coupé de façon discordante des couches gedinniennes inférieures.Dans le massif de Rocroi et surtout dans le massif de Serpont, la tectogénèse hercynienne a exercé le même effet que l'orogénèse calédonienne plus ancienne sous l'influence d'un plan d'efforts semblable orienté Nord-Sud. L'auteur, à l'aide d'un exemple, celui du massif de Serpont, essaye d'analyser la structure du plissement calédonien originel déroulement des plis des couches gedinniennes et reformation constructive de la déformation conditionnée par le clivage hercynien.A la différence des deux massifs occidentaux, dans le massif de Stavelot, les structures de plissement calédoniens orientées d'est en ouest furent remaniées sous angle oblique par la tectogénèse hercynienne. Ce mouvement a entraîné, à différents endroits, le déplacement des axes calédoniens en direction hercynienne. C'est ce qui a produit un style de mouvement et de structure étranger aux autres massifs. Le fort rétrécissement hercynien eut pour conséquence des charriages à différents endroits.