Landslides in Emilia-Romagna region (Italy): strategies for hazard assessment and risk management

In Emilia-Romagna, over 32,000 landslide bodies cover one-fifth of the hilly and mountainous territory. The majority of them originated as earth-flows after the last glacial maximum and grew during the rainiest periods of the Holocene through the superimposition of new earth-flows. Reactivation of these large landslides is the main problem the geologists of Emilia-Romagna are facing now. Intense and/or prolonged precipitation play a major role as triggering factors in reactivating landslide bodies, but also the importance of snowmelt is suggested by the monthly distribution of landslide events. Almost all the present-day landslide activity is due to the reactivation of pre-existing landslide bodies. Consequently, territorial planning and geo-thematic cartography are fundamental tools for the reduction of risk. The Emilia-Romagna geo-thematic cartography (1:10,000) is legally binding and regulates land use in regional, municipal and basin plans.     

Impacts of karst paleo-sinkholes on mining and environment in northern China

The karst paleo-sinkhole is a special geological structure widely found in the coal measures of northern China. Some paleo-sinkholes have high permeability and connectivity, making them excellent connectors between the karst aquifer and the coal seam. Consequently, during coal extraction disastrous water inrushes take place frequently, which cause severe loss not only in mine submersions and personnel casualties, but also in environmental quality. Locations and the geological and hydrogeological characteristics of paleo-sinkholes in northern China are presented. In-situ drilling and excavation results show that paleo-sinkholes have different hydrogeological behaviors in different regions and in different mines. Based on observed data, mining-induced strata failure in the seam floor is analyzed. The existence of paleo-sinkholes increases the floor strata failure zone. Numerical simulation then is adopted to model coal mining with the effects of both the paleo-sinkholes and the water pressure in the confined aquifer. Analyses of the simulation conclude that the paleo-sinkhole induces the increase in the strata failure and deformation. These make water inrushes more likely to happen.     

三峡库区小流域生态农业发展模式探讨--以杨家沟、戴家沟为例

以位于三峡库区的杨家沟、戴家沟小流域为案例,在实地调查研究的基础上,深入分析了三峡库区小流域由于自然和人为因素所导致的生态环境功能降低、生态农业发展滞后等实际问题,在技术和模式层面探讨了山地小区域的生态农业发展。以水土保持为导向发展生态农业应立足资源和环境本底,在农民可以接受的农业技术层次和经济发展水平上做文章,最终走生态产业化和产业生态化的可持续发展之路。这对于在山地小区域维持生态系统的功能,协调人地关系,发展生态农业以及提高居民的生活水平,有重要的理论和实践价值。     

都市圈规划与管理研究

都市圈作为一种创新的区域发展模式,是地理学研究的一个领域,为经济学界、规划学界及其他相关学科所关注。本文系统的讨论了都市圈的定义、特征及基本理论问题,阐述了都市圈的城市、产业、空间结构等要素的研究概况,分析了都市圈规划与管理的研究现状,进一步探讨都市圈理论与实践研究的方向和趋势。     

中国生态工业园与循环型公司空间扩张模式问题探讨

采用理论和实践相结合的研究方法，探讨了中国生态工业园与循环型公司空间扩张模式的若干问题。作者指出了国内外生态工业园内涵的差异，并认为具有重污染的企业不仅可以进入生态工业园，而且是中国众多生态工业园的主导产业。提出循环型公司空间扩张的5种基本模式，并探讨了其在中国的应用。认为生态工业园规划与设计忽视创新网络的构建和创新环境的营造、学习系统的作用、中介服务组织的作用和政府在促进园区创新网络和创新环靖营诰方面的作用．并提出了具体对策。     

Palaeolimnological Development of Lake Njargajavri, Northern Finnish Lapland, in a Changing Holocene Climate and Environment

This study used palaeolimnological approaches to determine how Holocene climatic and environmental changes affected aquatic assemblages in a subarctic lake. Sediments of the small Lake Njargajavri, in northern Finnish Lapland above the present treeline, were studied using multi-proxy methods. The palaeolimnological development of the lake was assessed by analyses of chironomids, Cladocera and diatoms. The lake was formed in the early Holocene and was characterized by prominent erosion and leaching from poorly developed soils before the establishment of birch forests, resulting in a high pH and trophic state. The lake level started to lower as early as ca. 10,200 cal. BP. In the resulting shallow basin, rich in aquatic mosses, pH decreased and a diverse cladoceran and chironomid assemblage developed. It is likely that there was a slight rise in the water level ca. 8000 cal. BP. Later, during the mid-Holocene characterized by low effective moisture detected elsewhere in Fennoscandia, the lake probably completely dried out; this is manifest as a hiatus in the stratigraphy. The sediment record continues from ca. 5000 cal. BP onwards as the lake formed again due to increased effective moisture. The new lake was characterized by very low pH. The possible spread of pine to the catchment and the development of heath community may have contributed to the unusually steep (for northern Fennoscandia) decline in pH via change in soils, together with the natural decrease in leaching of base cations. Furthermore, the change in pH may have been driven by cooling climate, affecting the balance of dissolved inorganic carbon in the lake.     

Late Holocene development of a floodplain along a small meandering stream, northern Québec, Canada

This paper describes the activity of a small meandering stream and the development of its floodplain during the last 4600 years (calendar years BP) in the northern boreal zone of Québec. Three trenches were excavated across the floodplain's full width and permitted the interpretation of morphosedimentary units in relation to modern analogs. Chronological controls within trenches was provided by the dendrochronological and radiocarbon dating of buried tree trunks. From 4600 to 2900 cal. BP and from 1000 to 120 cal. BP, the channel migrated and constructed its floodplain at very slow rates, mostly because of low flow velocities, vegetated streambanks and the cohesive texture of marine sediments reworked by the channel. Vertical accretion rates were extremely variable on the floodplain, with high rates proximal to the modern channel and low rates over distal (also older) portions of the floodplain. Following a major channel shift (meander cut-off or avulsion) around 2900 cal. BP, channel migration appears to have been constrained to a narrow zone adjacent to the modern channel. Within this constrained zone, the migrating channel has reworked its own sediments leading to a marked unconformity between 2900–1000 cal. BP. It is thought that underlying marine sediments protrusions, and perhaps the forested banks, protected older alluvial sediments from being eroded during the last three millenniums. Our study shows that small boreal floodplains may contain, in a very small area, abundant and diversified archives of their evolution.     

The urbanization process of Bohai Rim in the 1990s by using DMSP/OLS data

This paper firstly derived urban information from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) data in 1992, 1996 and 1998 with the support of statistical data, and then developed three basic urban models of polygon-urbanization, line-urbanization and point-urbanization in urban agglomerations from viewpoint of spatial analysis. The conclusions are as follows: (1) Urban patch numbers in the Bohai Rim increased from 1659 to 2053 with an annual average increase number of about 66. Meanwhile, the small urban patches accounted for a larger proportion in the region and the patch density increased fast. In addition, the urban barycenter of the region showed a moving trend toward northwest from 1992 to 1998. Urbanization in the Bohai Rim in the 1990s is fast and obvious. (2) Urbanization in the Bohai Rim can be reflected by three basic processes, i.e., the polygon-urbanization around the big cities, the line-urbanization around the transportation lines and the point-urbanization emerging in large areas. Of them, the polygon-urbanization has been in dominance. It is obviously within an effective range of 3-4 km surrounding the urban patches. The line-urbanization and point-urbanization in the region was relatively small, both of which showed an obvious increasing trend.     

煤田三维地震数据处理中方差体 技术的参数优选及应用效果

方差体技术是基于统计学原理,利用三维地震数据体中相邻道之间地震信号的相关性计算样点的方差值,提取数据体中不连续信息,用以识别小断层和陷落柱等岩性变化点。笔者以山西某煤矿采区为例,通过方差体各项参数的测试,介绍方差体的运算模式、运算道数和时窗大小等参数对计算成果的影响,使方差体技术在确定煤层小断层和陷落柱等地质体时取得较好效果。     

金窝子金矿金的赋存状态和金矿物特征

金窝子金矿属于岩浆热液型金矿床,金矿化类型有石英脉型和蚀变糜棱岩型.金多呈独立金矿物形式出现,少许呈分散状,以银金矿为主,次为自然金,平均成色782.金矿物以粒间金、裂隙金、连生金和包体金等形式嵌布于黄铁矿、石英、方铅矿及闪锌矿等主要载金矿物中,且黄铁矿、石英较金属硫化物中占优势,黄铜矿中未见金矿物.金矿物形态各样,粒度以中细粒为主.金矿物特征反映出本区金矿床的成矿物质主要来源于变质岩,成矿作用与华力西、燕山期中酸性侵入岩有关.这与地质地球化学研究所获得的矿床成因认识相一致.