An interactive system to assist mineral identification in ore microscopy

An interactive computer system has been developed to assist the mineral identification in ore microscopy. The reference file of the system consists of optical, mechanical, and chemical properties of about 130 ore minerals. The properties are name, chemical formula, color, bireflectance, anisotropism, internal reflection, reflectance at wavelengths of 470, 546, 589, and 650 nm, and polishing hardness and micro-indentation hardness. All the properties except reflectance and microindentation hardness are qualitative or semi-qualitative. Most of the properties are given as characters relative to the more common minerals. This implies that most of the identification processes advance on the basis of the comparison between a subject mineral and coexisting minerals. For this reason, the system asks a user at first to input already identified mineral names. This is quite different from the mineral identification procedures used in petrographic microscopy. To reduce the number of possible minerals, the system presents a series of questions to a user, and the user selects any of the prepared answers according to his observation. The user can also choose any desired question independently of the sequence. The user is expected to be able to recognize some common minerals, such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and hematite, without the assistance of the system.     

电测深曲线二维反演技术及应用

本文对应用有限元及阻尼最小二乘法进行电测深二维反演解释技术做了进一步的研究。在区域网格剖分方法、有限元系数矩阵的合成、雅可比矩阵的计算及法方程的解法等方面进行了改进。由此在微机和工作站上设计了程序软件，经过对理论电测深曲线及实测电测深曲线进行的二维反演解释，结果表明，在微机和工作站上实现的二维反演解释软件可以用于实际测深资料的解释。     

计算机勘探模拟系统的剖面图交互式编辑子系统

计算机的勘探模拟系统在国外已进入实用阶段。目前我们正在做这方面的尝试。在初期设想的计算机勘探系统中很多是在剖面图上进行的,所以剖面图的交互式编辑子系统是整个系统核心的部分,它的主要设计思想是用户通过计算机键盘操作、用类似手工的方法在计算机屏幕上画出一张供自己使用的地质剖面图,并且还有修改、删除、存贮等功能,使用户感到直观、灵活、方便且易于比较。     

大地电磁二维层状模型参数化反演

本文针对目前二维反演存在求解参数过多和求其偏导数困难的两个问题，在近年来关于连续介质二维大地电磁测深资料快速反演的理论基础上，对二维层状模型反演的目标函数，进行线性近似，采用加权法来近似计算二维模型参数的偏导数。从而实现比较快速的二维层状模型的参数化反演。理论模型的反演试验表明，反演迭代可以较快地以足够的精度拟合视电阻率和相位资料，并收敛接近理论模型。     

氧化镍、二氧化钛高压相变及电导率压力效应

采用金刚石对顶砧压腔静高压技术，对氧化镍、二氧化钛在０-３２ＧＰａ压力范围内的电导率进行了测量．结果表明，电导率－压力关系曲线上的一些特征点与同一物质的高压相交点具有一致性．     

南极长城站Pi2地磁脉动特征

对南极长城站在１９９０年８月１６日至１９９０年１１月２０日的Ｐｉ２地磁脉动事件进行了分析研究，初步了解了南极长城站Ｐｉ２脉动的频次特征、频率特性和偏振特性，并对南极长城站Ｐｉ２脉动的激发机制做了一些理论探讨．     

随县-马鞍山地带地壳与上地幔结构及郯庐构造带南段的某些特征

本义利用1979-1981年中国科学院地球物理研究所在随县-马鞍山所做的人工源地震探测的资料,采用二维射线追踪来拟合地震波的走时和振幅,取得了该地带的地壳与上地慢速度结构.结果表明,该地带地壳厚度为32-37km,莫霍面起伏变化显著.地壳速度的横向变化甚为强烈,地壳中部存在低速层.在巢湖以西宽数10km的范围内,地壳结构与其它地方明显不同,上地壳速度明显偏高,莫霍面上隆并有间断;在其两侧,明显可见有两条深断裂.结合其它地球物理场特征及大地构造概况,对结果进行分析,认为郯庐构造带南段被两条深断裂所夹,构造带宽度可达数10km,并在地质历史时期曾有过地幔物质上涌.     

Measurement of the photodissociation coefficient of NO2 in the atmosphere: II,stratospheric measurements

The photodissociation coefficient of NO₂, J _{NO 2}, has been measured from a balloon platform in the stratosphere. Results from two balloon flights are reported. High Sun values of J _{NO 2} measured were 10.5±0.3 and 10.3±0.3×10^-3 s^-1 at 24 and 32 km respectively. The decrease in J _{NO 2} at sunset was monitored in both flights. The measurements are found to be in good agreement with calculations of J _{NO 2} using a simplified isotropic multiple scattering computer routine.     

Field measurements of NO and NO2 emissions from fertilized and unfertilized soils

Field measurements of NO and NO₂ emissions from soils have been performed in Finthen near Mainz (F.R.G.) and in Utrera near Seville (Spain). The applied method employed a flow box coupled with a chemiluminescent NO _x detector allowing the determination of minimum flux rates of 2 g N m^-2 h^-1 for NO and 3 g m^-2 h^-1 for NO₂.The NO and NO₂ flux rates were found to be strongly dependent on soil surface temperatures and showed strong daily variations with maximum values during the early afternoon and minimum values during the early morning. Between the daily variation patterns of NO and NO₂, there was a time lag of about 2 h which seem to be due to the different physico-chemical properties of NO and NO₂. The apparent activation energy of NO emission calculated from the Arrhenius equation ranged between 44 and 103 kJ per mole. The NO and NO₂ emission rates were positively correlated with soil moisture in the upper soil layer.The measurements carried out in August in Finthen clearly indicate the establishment of NO and NO₂ equilibrium mixing ratios which appeared to be on the order of 20 ppbv for NO and 10 ppbv for NO₂. The soil acted as a net sink for ambient air NO and NO₂ mixing ratios higher than the equilibrium values and a net source for NO and NO₂ mixing ratios lower than the equilibrium values. This behaviour as well as the observation of equilibrium mixing ratios clearly indicate that NO and NO₂ are formed and destroyed concurrently in the soil.Average flux rates measured on bare unfertilized soils were about 10 g N m^-2 h^-1 for NO₂ and 8 g N m^-2 h^-1 for NO. The NO and NO₂ flux rates were significantly reduced on plant covered soil plots. In some cases, the flux rates of both gases became negative indicating that the vegetation may act as a sink for atmospheric NO and NO₂.Application of mineral fertilizers increased the NO and NO₂ emission rates. Highest emission rates were observed for urea followed by NH₄Cl, NH₄NO₃ and NaNO₃. The fertilizer loss rates ranged from 0.1% for NaNO₃ to 5.4% for urea. Vegetation cover substantially reduced the fertilizer loss rate.The total NO _x emission from soil is estimated to be 11 Tg N yr^-1. This figure is an upper limit and includes the emission of 7 Tg N yr^-1 from natural unfertilized soils, 2 Tg N yr^-1 from fertilized soils as well as 2 Tg N yr^-1 from animal excreta. Despite its speculative character, this estimation indicates that NO _x emission by soil is important for tropospheric chemistry especially in remote areas where the NO _x production by other sources is comparatively small.     

Fluid inclusions in rocks from the amphibolite-facies gneiss to charnockite progression in southern Karnataka, India: direct evidence concerning the fluids of granulite metamorphism

Abstract Fluid inclusion studies of rocks from the late Archaean amphibolite-facies to granulite-facies transition zone of southern India provide support for the hypothesis that CO₂,-rich H₂O-poor fluids were a major factor in the origin of the high-grade terrain. Charnockites, closely associated leucogranites and quartzo-feldspathic veins contain vast numbers of large CO₂-rich inclusions in planar arrays in quartz and feldspar, whereas amphibole-bearing gray gneisses of essentially the same compositions as adjacent charnockites in mixed-facies quarries contain no large fluid inclusions. Inclusions in the northernmost incipient charnockites, as at Kabbal, Karnataka, occasionally contain about 25 mol. % of immiscible H₂O lining cavity walls, whereas inclusions from the charnockite massif terrane farther south do not have visibile H₂O Microthermometry of CO₂ inclusions shows that miscible CH₄ and N₂ must be small, probably less than 10mol.%combined. Densities of CO₂ increase steadily from north to south across the transitional terrane. Entrapment pressures calculated from the CO₂ equation of state range from 5 kbar in the north to 7.5 kbar in the south at the mineralogically inferred average metamorphic temperature of 750°C, in quantitative agreement with mineralogic geobarometry. This agreement leads to the inference that the fluid inclusions were trapped at or near peak metamorphic conditions. Calculations on the stability of the charnockite assemblage biotite-orthopyroxene-K-feldspar-quartz show that an associated fluid phase must have less than 0.35 H₂O activity at the inferred P and T conditions, which agrees with the petrographic observations. High TiO₂ content of biotite stabilizes it to lower H₂O activities, and the steady increase of biotite TiO₂ southward in the area suggests progressive decrease of aH₂O with increasing grade. Oxygen fugacities calculated from orthopyroxene-magnetite-quartz are considerably higher than the graphite CO₂-O₂ buffer, which explains the absence of graphite in the charnockites. The present study quantifies the nature of the vapours in the southern India granulite metamorphism. It remains to be determined whether CO₂-flushing of the crust can, by itself, create large terranes of largeion lithophile-depleted granulites, or whether removal of H₂O-bearing anatectic melts is essential.