Distribution of caesium-137 in soils across a hillslope hollow

The distribution of soil ¹³⁷Cs in relation to selected soil and landform properties was studied across a 16 ha hillslope hollow in the Hunter valley, New South Wales, Australia. The hillslope was used as grazing for cattle. Caesium-137 was not significantly related to the amount of sand, silt, or clay, the bulk density, the organic matter content, the slope angle or the relative distance downslope. However, ¹³⁷Cs was significantly related to the thickness of the soil A horizon. Spatial variations in ¹³⁷Cs were compared with topographic units and a six-element hillslope model, but there was little correspondence. It was thought that the effects of microtopography could have masked potential interrelationships between ¹³⁷Cs and broader scale landform parameters.     

Inelastic constitutive properties and shear localization in Tennessee marble

The inelastic response of Tennessee marble is modelled by an elastic plastic constitutive relation that includes pressure dependence of yield, strain‐softening and inelastic volume strain (dilatancy). Data from 12 axisymmetric compression tests at confining pressures from 0 to 100 MPa are used to determine the dependence of the yield function and plastic potential, which are different, on the first and second stress invariants and the accumulated inelastic shear strain. Because the data requires that the strain at peak stress depends on the mean stress, the locus of peak stresses is neither a yield surface nor a failure envelope, as is often assumed. Based on the constitutive model and Rudnicki and Rice criterion, localization is not predicted to occur in axisymmetric compression although faulting is observed in the tests. The discrepancy is likely due to the overly stiff response of a smooth yield surface model to abrupt changes in the pattern of straining. The constitutive model determined from the axisymmetric compression data describes well the variation of the in‐plane stress observed in a plane strain experiment. The out‐of‐plane stress is not modelled well, apparently because the inelastic normal strain in this direction is overpredicted. In plane strain, localization is predicted to occur close to peak stress, in good agreement with the experiment. Observation of localization on the rising portion of the stress–strain curve in plane strain does not, however, indicate prepeak localization. Because of the rapid increase of mean stress in plane strain, the stress–strain curve can be rising while the shear stress versus shear strain curve at constant mean stress is falling (negative hardening modulus). Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

甘蔗“新台糖10号”农艺性状试验

以“粤糖63／237”为对照品种进行新植、宿根共3年的对比试验，结果表明，“新台糖10号”的新植、宿根的蔗茎产量及蔗糖份均高于对照品种。“新台糖10号”是适合遂溪县蔗区种植的早熟、高产、高糖以及宿根性好的甘蔗品种。     

吉林省1：20万区域化探一些矿致异常的分散模式

在《吉林省1∶20万水系沉积物地球化学异常筛选研究》工作中,对省内五个典型矿床地球化学异常进行了剖析性研究。本文以其中某已知铜金矿床区域性异常为例,论述了矿致的水系沉积物地球化学异常的基本特征和分散模式,进一步阐述了水系沉积物地球化学找矿模式及找矿远景预测。     

Limits on the chirality of interstellar and intergalactic space

We raise the question of whether velocities of left and right circularly-polarized photons might be different (for reasons other than the well-known Faraday effect). Such a difference could manifest itself either in the time profiles of pulsed or bursting astronomical sources or in the rotation of the direction of polarization of linearly polarized radiation from them. The existing observations of pulsars, gamma ray bursters, and quasar jets are used to set limits to the difference in speed, between 10^-17and 10^-32     

Transport properties and microstructural characteristics of a thermally cracked mylonite

An experimental study was carried out on a granitic mylonite (La Bresse, France) to analyze the influence of pore microstructure on transport properties. Different crack networks were obtained by a controlled thermal treatment. Microstructures were analyzed by means of gas adsorption and mercury porosimetry. Transport properties have been investigated by measuring gas permeability and electrical conductivity. The dependence of permeability on confining pressure shows an exponential decrease, characteristic of a porosity made of cracks. Correlations between measured parameters have been analyzed by comparing them with relations deduced from theoretical models. Linking the formation factor to the porosity leads to a rather low tortuosity value (about 2.4), characterizing a medium with a well connected porosity. Correlation between permeabilityk and formation factorF leads to a power-law relationk F ^–n wheren2.9, which is consistent with a crack model describing the behavior of the thermally treated rock.     

关于GIS工具软件可视化设计的几点注记

文中从实用的角度 ,结合具体实践 ,对 GIS工具型软件可视化设计及实现阶段的基本问题 ,提出了 Visual C++5.0软件环境中有效的解决方法。     

On the Formulation of Lagrangian Stochastic Models of Scalar Dispersion Within Plant Canopies

Lagrangian stochastic models, quadratic in velocity and satisfying the well-mixed condition for two-dimensional Gaussian turbulence, are used to make predictions of scalar dispersion within a model plant canopy. The non-uniqueness associated with satisfaction of the well-mixed condition is shown to be non-trivial (i.e. different models produce different predictions for scalar dispersion). The best agreement between measured and predicted mean concentrations of scalars is shown to be obtained with a small sub-class of optimal models. This sub-class of optimal models includes Thomson's model (J. Fluid Mech. 180, 529–556, 1987), the simplest model that satisfies the well-mixed condition for Gaussian turbulence, but does not include two other models identified recently as being in optimal agreement with the measured spread of tracers in a neutral boundary layer. It is therefore demonstrated that such models are not universal, i.e. applicable to a wide range of flows without readjustment of model parameters. Predictions for scalar dispersion in the model plant canopy are also obtained using the model of Flesch and Wilson (Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 61, 349–374, 1992). It is shown that, when used with a Gaussian velocity distribution or a maximum-missing-information velocity distribution, which accounts for the measured skewness and kurtosis of velocity statistics, the agreement between predictions obtained using the model of Flesch and Wilson and measurements is as good as that obtained using Thomson's model.     

碎屑岩储层的两种不同成岩序列

碎屑岩储层的成岩作用可分为两大序列,即连续埋藏成岩序列和间断埋藏成岩序列。前者表现为沉积物沉积后一直下沉,其各种成岩事件的演化受埋深的控制,储层孔隙度的演化及储集性也随埋深变化而具有明显的分带性;后者表现为多种成岩事件的演化主要受构造运动的影响,成岩演化复杂,其储层的储集性受不整合面控制。