Preservation of biological information in thermal spring deposits: developing a strategy for the search for fossil life on Mars

Current interpretations of the early history of Mars suggest many similarities with the early Earth and therefore raise the possibility that the Archean and Proterozoic history of life on Earth could have a counterpart on Mars. Terrestrial experience suggests that, with techniques that can be employed remotely, ancient springs, including thermal springs, could well yield important information. By delivering water and various dissolved species to the sunlit surface of Mars, springs very likely created an environment suitable for life, which could have been difficult, if not impossible, to attain elsewhere. The chemical and temperature gradients associated with thermal springs sort organisms into sharply delineated, distinctive and different communities, and so diverse organisms are concentrated into relatively small areas in a predictable and informative fashion. A wide range of metabolic strategies are concentrated into small areas, thus furnishing a useful and representative sampling of the existing biota. Mineral-charged springwaters frequently deposit chemical precipitates of silica and/or carbonate which incorporate microorganisms and preserve them as fossils. The juxtaposition of stream valley headwaters with volcanoes and impact craters on Mars strongly implies that subsurface heating of groundwater created thermal springs. On Earth, thermal springs create distinctive geomorphic features and chemical signatures which can be detected by remote sensing. Spring deposits can be quite different chemically from adjacent rocks. Individual springs can be hundreds of meters wide, and complexes of springs occupy areas up to several kilometers wide. Benthic microbial mats and the resultant stromatolites occupy a large fraction of the available area. The relatively high densities of fossils and microbial mat fabrics within these deposits make them highly prospective in any search for morphological evidence of life, and there are examples of microbial fossils in spring deposits as old as 300 Myr.     

北京西部山地景观生态整治与景观规划--以北京房山区史家营乡的典型研究为例

北京市西部山区是因矿区开发使山地景观生态环境破坏的重点地区,在北京市生态环境整治与建设中具有十分重要的典型意义。不合理的煤炭资源开采导致了矿点密度大,采空塌陷区分布广,水资源急剧减少,水质污染严重,植被大规模遭破坏,水土流失严重,泥石流等灾害加重以及煤尘污染问题突出等一系列环境问题,呈现出山地生态系统遭受严重破坏的景观生态特征。本文以史家营为例,在典型调查的基础上,规划了景观生态环境恢复与重建区、种植养殖和观光生态农业示范区、果粮养殖生态农业区、林草放牧生态畜牧业示范区、生态旅游区的五个景观规划区域,探讨了生态型矿业、中低山特色生态农业和生态旅游发展的产业发展模式,并初步提出了景观生态整治的措施。     

落后地域经济瓶颈的诊断分析：以安康地区粉列

以区域系统运动理论和 贫困的恶性循环理论基础，运用图论中“度”的理论和方法，并以安康地区为例，对区域瓶颈因素诊断的理论和方法做了尝试性的研究，具有较强的理论基础的较客观的研究结果。     

论旅游发展战略研究的创新与体系

近年来,旅游发展战略研究是被人们忽视的一个研究领域,从目前旅游理论研究现状和实践应用领域来看,旅游战略研究与旅游发展战略规划具有独立于其它研究和规划并成为独立领域的趋势.结合新的研究与发展趋势,探讨了以项目和活动为核心、以主题旅游为核心、区际旅游战略整合与战略伙伴关系、投资体制变革与规划研究等旅游发展战略研究创新的6个方面,并在此基础上尝试性地构建了旅游发展需求型发展战略、资源型发展战略和投资型发展战略的创新框架,初步探讨了旅游发展战略研究的创新与体系.     

北京市郊区传统村落价值评价及可持续利用模式探讨——以北京市门头沟区传统村落的调查研究为例

北京市西部门头沟区保留有许多传统村落,这些传统村落经过历史的积淀而具有典型的地域特征和深厚的文化底蕴,成为京西独特的景观旅游资源。在深入系统调查的基础上,结合悠久性、完整性、乡土性、协调性、典型性对传统村落的价值特征进行了综合评价,将传统村落划分为遗产性村落、特色性村落和保护性村落三种类型。在探讨传统村落可持续利用机制的基础上总结了传统村落可持续利用的6种模式。     

西班牙LaCodosera地区钻孔中金品位与矿脉厚度间的分形关系

西班牙西部钻孔中石英脉厚度和金品位的分析表明二者大体服从幂次律分布，暗含着一种分形关系。脉厚（ｔ）对累积频率（Ｎ）的双对数困反映出与金、品位有关的系统变化。在方程Ｎ＝ｃｔ￣（－Ｄ）中的幂指数Ｄ，在高品位区间内较低，表明较厚的脉中扩张作用较强，从而为含金流体的运移提供了通过。因此，脉体厚度分布的鉴别为区别脉状金矿床中矿化与非矿化构造提供了一种方法。