New data on the Lower Mesozoic basal series of the Traras mounts (Tlemcen,northwestern Algeria)

The lower Mesozoic of the Traras mount starts with the so-called Red Series, which lays uncomformably on the folded and granitized Paleozoic basement. This series is overlain by Middle Liassic limestones. On the basis of its lower and upper limits and the lack of dating evidence, former authors attribute a Permian to lower Liassic (Sinemurian) age for this series. Palynological results allow to range it in the upper Triassic probably Norian-Rhetian. The Red Series is studied from five sections that depict important thickness and facies variations from southwest to the northeast, inferring the irregularities of the Hercynian erosional surface. In the Central Traras, this series shows over 130-m-thick micaceous sandy conglomeratic units, deposited within alluvial fans, where the bedrock source corresponds to granite of Nedroma or its equivalent. In the southern and eastern Traras, where the series’ thickness respectively does not exceed 30 m and averages 40–80 m, besides alluvial deposits issued from hercynian basement erosion, it exhibits volcanic evidences interbedded by lacustrine deposits. Vertical and spatial distribution depicts synsedimentary infilling of narrow elongated rift basins, typically half-grabens, bounded on one side by a normal fault or a series of normal faults trending NNE-SSW to NW-SE, inherited from the hercynian event. The study of tectonostratigraphic units permitted to put forward geodynamics of the infilling basins.     

Towards a microzonation of the Greater Beirut area: an instrumental approach combining earthquake and ambient vibration recordings

Lebanon is situated on the 1000 km long Levant transform fault that separates the Arabic from the African tectonic plates. In Lebanon, the Levant fault splits up into a set of ramifications that had, in the past, generated major destructive earthquakes causing a lot of destruction and thousands of casualties. The most devastating one was the 551 A.D. offshore earthquake that destroyed Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. This paper presents a site effect study in Beirut, aimed at proposing a framework for future microzonation works in the city. It includes two complementary parts. A 6-month, temporary seismological experiment was first conducted to estimate the site response at 10 sites sampling the main geological units of Beirut on the basis of local and regional earthquake recordings. This spatially sparse information was then complemented by a large number (615) of microtremor measurements covering the Beirut municipality and part of its suburbs with a 400 m dense grid. The recordings were analysed with the standard site-to-reference and horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio methods for earthquake recordings, and the horizontal-to-vertical ratio for ambient noise recordings. Significant ground motion amplification effects (up to a factor of 8) are found in a few areas corresponding to recent deposits. The consistency between results from earthquake and microtremor recordings allows proposing a map of the resonance frequencies within the city and its suburbs, with frequencies ranging from 0.5 to 5 Hz for the deepest deposits, and 5–10 Hz for shallow areas. Finally, the results are discussed and a way to combine the results obtained from the temporary stations to the great number of recordings coming from the permanent Lebanese network is proposed.     

Cooling of quark stars in the colour superconductive phase: effect of photons from glueball decay

The cooling history of a quark star in the colour superconductive phase is investigated. Here we specifically focus on the two-flavour colour (2SC) phase where the novel process of photon generation via glueball (GLB) decay has already been investigated. The picture we present here can, in principle, be generalized to quark stars entering a superconductive phase where similar photon generation mechanisms are at play. As much as 10⁴⁵–10⁴⁷ erg of energy is provided by the GLB decay in the 2SC phase. The generated photons slowly diffuse out of the quark star, keeping it hot and radiating as a blackbody (with possibly a Wien spectrum in gamma-rays) for millions of years. We discuss hot radio-quiet isolated neutron stars in our picture (such as RX J185635–3754 and RX J0720.4–3125) and argue that their nearly blackbody spectra (with a few broad features) and their remarkably tiny hydrogen atmosphere are indications that these might be quark stars in the colour superconductive phase where some sort of photon generation mechanism (reminiscent of the GLB decay) has taken place. Fits to observed data of cooling compact stars favour models with superconductive gaps of  Δ_2SC∼ 15–35 MeV  and densities  ρ_2SC= (2.5–3.0) ×ρ_N  (ρ_N being the nuclear matter saturation density) for quark matter in the 2SC phase. If correct, our model combined with more observations of isolated compact stars could provide vital information to studies of quark matter and its exotic phases.     

地球内磁层场向电流的统计特征

利用ISEE－1和ISEE-2飞船观测的磁场数据,分析了地球内磁层场向电流的统计特征,包括场向电流的空间（L值和地方时）分布;流进和流出电离层的场向电流随地方时的变化;场向电流发生率与地磁活动水平（以AL指数表征）、行星际磁场（IMF）Bz的关系,电流强度和密度随地磁活动水平的变化等．发现,场向电流大都发生在夜间,且集中在L为6—10区域内,场向电流发生率,强度和密度随地磁活动增强而增大,行星际磁场南向时的发生率远远高于北向时的发生率．这些结果表明,内磁层场向电流的产生是太阳风和磁层、电离层间电动耦合增加的结果．     

气象厅的强震波形观测、汇集与服务

目前,气象厅的数字强震波形观测和汇集业务是采用９５型烈度计实施的。现已在全日本以２０ｋｍ的间隔布设了约６００个采用９５型烈度计的全国性观测网（其中气象厅约１５０个,都市约１３０个,郡约１４０个,海啸地震早期检测网测点约１６０个,机动观测点约２０个）。...     

华侨建筑形态与宗族意义场所的重构 ——陈慈黉故居的建筑地理学研究

通过文献法和访谈法对陈慈簧故居建筑形态演变进行梳理,从建筑地理学视角探析建筑演变与社会文化构建之间的互动关系与作用机制。研究发现,故居的建筑形态演变与前美村的社会文化建构间的互动关系存在耦合关联,由于在建设之初、冲突和重构3个不同时期双方作用力量有所差异,因此两者所呈现的形态与关系亦有所不同,宗族意义场所是两者的交汇点,建筑形态表现其场所意义,时代特征推动故居场所意义经历从宣示家族荣耀与权力―试图规训宗族意志―展演宗族与地方文化的重构。侨乡建筑的时空叠合的性质以及由其文化内涵所产生的场所意义是人文地理研究值得关注的对象。     

Numerical simulations of astrophysical jets from Keplerian discs – III. The effects of mass loading

We present 2.5D time-dependent simulations of the non-linear evolution of non-relativistic outflows from the surface of Keplerian accretion discs. The gas is accelerated from the surface of the disc (which is a fixed platform in these simulations) into a cold corona in stable hydrostatic equilibrium. We explore the dependence of the resulting jet characteristics upon the mass loading of the winds. Two initial configurations of the threading disc magnetic field are studied: a potential field and a uniform vertical field configuration.
We show that the nature of the resulting highly collimated, jet-like outflows (steady or episodic) is determined by the mass load of the disc wind. The mass load controls the interplay between the collimating effects of the toroidal field and the kinetic energy density in the outflow. In this regard, we demonstrate that the onset of episodic behaviour of jets appears to be determined by the quantity     which compares the speed for a toroidal Alfvén wave to cross the diameter of the jet, with the flow speed v _p along the jet. This quantity decreases with increasing load. For sufficiently large N (small mass loads), disturbances appear to grow leading to instabilities and shocks. Knots are then generated and the outflow becomes episodic. These effects are qualitatively independent of the initial magnetic configuration that we employed and are probably generic to a wide variety of magnetized accretion disc models.     

跨越太平洋的合作--美日预防地震损失策略

在日本神户和美国加州北岭破坏性地震发生后,美国和日本加强了在地震政策方面的合作.1996年4月,"减轻自然灾害活动"成为两个面临全球严峻挑战的国家之间正在进行的美日全球远景规划合作计划(the United States-Japan Common Agenda for Cooperation in the Global Perspective)的一部分.