海底地震观测系统

基于OHP计划研制了几种类型的海底地震观测系统。本文将介绍这些观测系统，研制的关键是使这个宽频带系统能够长期使用，并且轻便、稳定和耐用。     

论非均匀断层滑动弱化速率的标定

尝试用二维断层模型来描述断层在不稳定开始时滑动弱化速率的定标律。断层由一系列受滑动摩擦力作用变弱的片区组成，这些片区被牢固的障碍体所分隔。第一组断层包含不同尺度总滑动长度相同的片区的平均分布，而第二组断层由各种分形康托尔集合组成。破裂的整体活动性质由指数增长率λ来描述。对无限均匀的断层，系数λ由摩擦定律的弱化速率控制。在非均匀断层系中我们估算每一个断层的弱化速率，因为一个断层系的指数增长率λ与均匀断层是一致的。利用这种均匀断层的破裂过程，我们根据不同尺度均匀性断层和给定的系数λ来计算弱片区上的弱化速率。对于大尺度的破裂，弱化速率与尺度无关，长片区的开始过程类似于无限断层的破裂情况。本文考虑的是小尺度和所有不同几何形状的破裂，弱化速率记为α=β0^*／a，其中a为破裂尺度或者单个断层长度的一半，β0^*≈1．158。本文计算了滑动弱化距离Dc的值，在此基础上讨论了计算结果的物理含义，并给出了这个参数与尺度相关的可能解释。     

由ODP Leg191布设的海底井下宽频带地震仪系统

名为WP-2的新井下地震观测站由ODP Leg191成功地布设在西北太平洋海盆的ODP1179E钻孔。为了研究地球构造，WP-2台站被安置在一个独特的点位。两套宽频带地震仪用水泥固定在玄武岩层内，通过ROV号潜艇来驱动系统并检查系统的工作状态。ROV也用于回收初始数据。WP-2台站的地震噪声水平对地震观测而言是足够低的。     

FLOW FIELD IN SCOURED ZONE OF CHANNEL CONTRACTIONS

Experiments were conducted in a laboratory flume to measure the two-dimensional turbulent flow field in the scoured zone of channel contractions under a clear-water scour condition. The Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) was used to detect the flow field at different vertical lines along the centerline of uncontracted (main channel) and contracted zones of the channel. The distributions of time-averaged velocity components, turbulent intensity, turbulent kinetic energy, and Reynolds stresses are presented in nondimensional graphical form. The bed shear stresses are computed from the measured Reynolds stresses being in threshold condition within the zone of contraction where bed was scoured. The data presented in this paper would be useful to the investigators for the development of kinematic flow model and morphological model of scour at a channel or river contraction.     

Ninth International Symposium on River Sedimentation （Oct. 18-12, 2004, Yichang, China）

The Ninth International Symposium on River Sedimentation (9^th ISRS) has been successfully held on Oct. 18 to 21, 2004 at the site of the partially completed Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River near Yichang of Hubei Province, China. The Symposium is organized by the Ministry of Water Resources,     

INAUGURATION OF THE WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR SEDIMENTATION AND EROSION RESEARCH （WASER）

The World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research, the name of which has been abbreviated to WASER, was inaugurated on 19 Oct. 2004 during the 9^th International Symposium on River Sedimentation in Yichang, China. Dr. Des Walling, the President of the new Association,     

Electron microscopy study of the sakhaite from endogenous borate deposit in Hunan, China

Sakhaite was first discovered by Ostrovskaya, Pertsev and Nikitina at Siberia in the former Soviet Union. By using the X-ray diffraction technique, they proved that the crystal system of sakhaite was cubic (a = 1.464 nm), its possible space groups were Fm3m, F432, F43m, Fm3, F23, and its crystal chemical for-mula was Ca48Mg16(CO3)16(BO3)28Cl4(OH)8 4H2O[1]. Chichagov, Simonov and Belov studied the crystal structure of synthetic sakhaite and determined that its space group was F4132, …     

Estimation of annual actual evapotranspiration from nonsaturated land surfaces with conventional meteorological data

Land surface evapotranspiration is an important component both in earth surface heat and water bal-ance, on whose budgets weather and climate depend, to a great extent, for their changes are responsible for the formation and variation of vegetation features on the globe. Besides, the evapotranspiration is an im-portant topic of short-term flood forecasting and the estimation of runoff from mountainous sides. As a result, the problem as to the evapotranspiration has been one of the concerns in …     

Discovery and analysis of ultra-micro grinding grain texture in slipping lamellae of ductile-brittle zone

In the 1990s of the 20th century, we participated in the research of the stress field in fissure tectonics of scientific deep bore cores for the Deep Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC for short). Spherical and enriched ul-tra-micro granular textures (nm size), which enriches Nb element (Wang & Sun, 1990; Sun & Wang, 1993)[1,2], were found during the observation of ul-tra-micro slipping lamellae of ductile and brittle oc-curring in Late Mesozoic granites us…     

Geochemistry of ophiolite cherts from the Qinling orogenic belt and implications for their tectonic settings

Since the 1980s, one of the important progresses in the study of the Qinling orogenic belt is marked by findings of numerous ophiolite zones[1—4]. On the basis of the former orogenic models of the Paleozoic colli-sional orogeny[1,5,6] and the Mesozoic collision[7—9], another orogenic evolution model from the Paleozoic subduction-collision along the Shangdan suture to the Mesozoic final collision orogeny along the Mianle suture[3,10], including the relicts of the Jining orogeny, has been pr…