汶川地震震前龙门山区域地壳密度动态变化分析

利用龙门山区域重力网经平差处理和去基准点干扰、去高程变化影响的1997-2007年11期重复重力观测数据,借助密度的三维反演方法,分析研究了龙门山地区地壳各深度的介质密度的动态变化特征。结果显示：汶川8.0级地震孕育发生过程中区域密度场的整体时空分布均表现出显著特征,从时间进程来看,震前十年的密度变化趋势呈现阶段性变化：密度变化平稳阶段—变化剧烈阶段（加速增加—缓慢减少）—变化缓慢减少阶段—密度变化缓慢增加阶段,密度变化程度由强到弱,表明大地震孕育达到了最后阶段;从空间分布来看,密度变化分布有“分散—相对集中”的趋势,震前地下密度场具有熵值减小的现象;密度变化剧烈地方多发生在龙门山断裂带及其以西的川西高原上。此外,随深度的增加,密度变化趋势越来越明显。通过比较分析,在汶川地震前密度变化对重力的影响远远超过高程变化对重力的影响。     

航空重力仪减振系统振动研究

航空重力减振系统是有效减弱机载环境下高频振动的主要途径,从而提高航空重力的测量精度。因此,设计减振系统的首要问题是设定其合理的刚度、阻尼和质量等重要的特性参数。笔者通过建立航空重力仪两种减振系统类型运动微分方程,经过理论和实例探讨了减振系统模型,旨在深入了解航空重力减振系统的减振规律,为其特性参数设计提供理论依据。     

非局部均值滤波在重力异常数据处理中的应用

根据小子域滤波原理,小子域滤波产生异常边界扭曲主要表现为高频干扰,提出小子域滤波与非局部均值滤波联合的方法以克服小子域滤波存在的异常边界扭曲问题。利用小子域滤波良好的边界增强能力和非局部均值滤波高频细节保护能力,在压制小子域滤波缺陷的同时尽可能保护小子域滤波的边界增强效果。通过模拟计算和莱州湾海域实测重力数据处理表明,本文方法在增强异常边界的同时压制小子域滤波产生的边界扭曲效应,获得了更好的重力异常处理效果。与单一小子域滤波相比,本文方法不需要考虑异常边界形态,具有更强的稳定性和普适性。     

青藏高原东北侧断层活动引起的地壳三维变形与重力场变化研究

本文推导了断层活动与地面重力变化的理论关系,讨论了与断层活动有关的三维形变场变化与实际观测的重力变化之间的关系。利用位错理论模型模拟了青藏高原东北侧的多组断层活动引起的地壳三维变形与重力场变化分布。并结合该地区2001年11月14日昆仑山Ms8．1地震前观测的两期重力资料,讨论了该地区的地质构造活动与重力变化过程与地震活动的关系。     

拓展国际合作的视野--出席第23届IUGG大会有感

第23届IUGG大会一个突出的特点就是学科间的交叉和融合，充分反映了新世纪地球科学以实现全球变化的预测为目标，进行多学科综合研究的发展趋势。文章从IUGG内部跨学科的合作研究，IUGG与国际科联(ICSU)各专业委员会之间的合作交流，以及IUGG与政府间组织和其他国际机构的合作三个层面，简要介绍了IUGG在全球范围内开展国际合作研究的概况。在此基础上，结合我国的实际，就拓展国际合作领域，提高我国地球科学研究水平，扩大我国的国际影响等提出了相应的建议。     

Crustal structure of eastern Cuba,derived by constrained 3D gravity inversion

A three-dimensional crustal model for Eastern Cuba, obtained through a process of gravity data inversion is presented. The study area cover a rectangular area of 64 600 km². The initial model for the inversion was constrained by surface geology, seismic and drilling data. The inversion algorithm uses gravity data to estimate 3-D topographies from the main geological units. The model provides quantitative information on the depths and thicknesses of the geological formations. The resulting model provides new information about the regional composition of the crust. Alien sequences are observed with different compositions and origin over the basement of Bahamas carbonate platform. Most of the maximum gravity anomalies are associated with presence of dense shallow ophiolite sheets. The most remarkable detail is the gravity “southwest” maximum, related to the presence of denser oceanic crust generated in the Cayman spreading center.     

A new approach to the calculation of the cratering rate of the Earth over the last 125 ± 20 Myr

The recent cratering record of the surface of the Earth is re-examined using a new technique that concentrates on estimating the mean areas occupied by individual craters, together with the gradients of linear plots of crater numbers versus crater ages. This analysis indicates that the lower limit of the rate at which craters have been produced over the last 125±20 Myr is, for example, (12.0±0.7)×10⁻¹⁵ km⁻² yr⁻¹ for D 2.4 km craters, (9.5±0.6)×10⁻¹⁵ km⁻² yr⁻¹ for D 5.0 km craters, (6.5±0.5)×10⁻¹⁵ km⁻² yr⁻¹ for D 12 km craters, and (3.0±0.3)×10⁻¹⁵ km⁻² yr⁻¹ for D 22 km craters. These figures indicate that previous researchers have considerably overestimated the rate at which small (2.4< D <20 km) craters are being produced. It is also found that the relationship between crater production rate and crater diameter is not a simple power law in the 2.4< D <40 km diameter range. On the most stable areas of the Earth's continents, and over the last 125±20 Myr it seems that the rate at which craters are eroded below the detection limit does not depend on crater diameter throughout the above size range.     

2011日本东北大地震前震余震重力效应分析

针对2011年日本东北大地震(Tohoku-Oki地震)发生前后较短时间内的多次较大前震和余震和主震混在一起,不利于提取出主震同震信号的问题,该文利用弹性位错理论模拟计算了Tohoku-Oki地震一次较大前震和两次较大余震的同震重力变化,讨论了这3次地震单独和综合的重力效应,并与主震重力变化对比分析,认为这3次前震和余震引起的重力变化数值较大,影响范围广,会直接影响到Tohoku-Oki地震主震的同震重力信号提取,所以需要作为重要误差考虑。     

Comment on the paper “Fast tidal cycling and the origin of life” by Richard Lathe

We show that the fast tidal cycling postulated by Lathe [Lathe, R., 2004. Icarus 168, 18-22] is not a plausible mechanism to explain the origin of life on Earth about 3.9 Ga ago. The value of LOD at this remote epoch was probably comprised between 15 to 17 h, and the Earth-Moon distance was only about 20% smaller than nowadays, implying that the tidal frequencies and amplitudes were not so dramatically different from the present ones as stated in Lathe's paper.     

Geopotential from space techniques

The monitoring of the perturbed motion of artificial satellites since the 1960's has provided a valuable resource for improved activities in geodesy. These observations and the improved geodetic techniques they fostered have provided an unparalleled means for studying both the gravity field and the Earth's shape. In this paper, we will review the various determinations of the Earth's gravity field produced at many research centers over the years from space techniques. The specific methods which have been used to measure our planet, such as satellite altimetry and satellite orbital perturbation analyses (over short and long periods of time), will be compared.