北太平洋夏季海平面气压场的时空分布及其与黄河、长江流域旱涝的关联*

本文应用复经验正交函数分析方法对1899—1980年期间北太平洋夏季海平面气压距平场进行分析。第一主分量表明,北太平洋海平面气压场是以副热带太平洋高压存在和位移为主要特征,其空间波动的传播方向有较大的差异。另外二个主分量则分别与我国多雨和少雨的型式相配合。此外,本文还探讨了北太平洋夏季海平面气压场与黄河、长江流域各分区旱涝的关系。     

From Local Star Formation to Global Star Formation

In this brief report we summarise the most important points raised in the course of a two-hour evening discussion session on the above topic, organised by the author. Major questions that were debated included the universality of the IMF, the history of the star formation rate in the solar neighorhood, the star formation efficiency in molecular clouds, and the role of triggered star formation. The issue of a threshold gas surface density for star formation to occur was also critically discussed. This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

川西、藏东晚三叠世诺利期牙形刺

本文描述了采自藏东贡觉—江达地区上三叠统波里拉组(T_3b)和川西白玉地区上三叠统下逆松多组碳酸盐岩段(T_3~x~2)的牙形刺 Epigondolella postera 组合,成员包括 Epigondolella postera,E.sp.,Neogondolellanavicula。含上述牙形刺化石的地层时代为中诺利期。     

聂尔库组植物化石新材料及其地层意义

聂尔库组分布于辽宁东北部新宾县南杂木一带的苏子河盆地,为一套河湖相砂页岩沉积。该组含有较丰富的动、植物化石,但由于系统采集和研究不够,自建组以来,在地层时代和对比方面迄今仍是众说纷云。作者通过系统采集,共获植物亿石12属13种,化石组合面貌与英国威尔登植物群可以比较;与辽西的海州组、辽北—吉中营城组、黑龙江东部的穆棱组植物组合亦很相似,其时代大体相当于早白垩世尼殴克姆晚期。文中对我国首次发现的属种作了描述。     

宜章县梅田的晚二叠世地层不宜采用“泡水组”之名

泡水组系杨逢清、殷鸿福1987年新建的岩石地层名称,命名地点在广西来宾县泡水,层位与长兴组相当,时代属晚二叠世晚期。杨逢清,殷鸿福将泡水组引用到湖南宜章梅田长兴阶的地层。根据岩性特征,笔者认为宜章梅田长兴阶的地层不能冠用泡水组,只能沿用梅田组、九陂组和麻田组。     

Dehydration melting of solid amphibolite at 2.0 GPa: Effects of time and temperature

The dehydration melting of the natural rock at high pressure is important to investigating the magma formation in the earth’s interior. Since the 1970s, a lot of geological scientists have paid more atten- tion to the dehydration melting of the natural rock[1―5]. Previous experiments of dehydration melting and observations of fieldwork argued that the dehy- dration melting of the rock was probably the most important fashion for the melting of the lower crust rock[6―12]. The genesis of most …     

Melt inclusion analysis of the Unzen 1991–1995 dacite: implications for crystallization processes of dacite magma

Dacitic magma, a mixture of high-temperature (T) aphyric magma and low-T crystal-rich magma, was erupted during the 1991–1995 Mount Unzen eruptive cycle. Here, the crystallization processes of the low-T magma were examined on the basis of melt inclusion analysis and phase relationships. Variation in water content of the melt inclusions (5.1–7.2 wt% H₂O) reflected the degassing history of the low-T magma ascending from deeper levels (250 MPa) to a shallow magma chamber (140 MPa). The ascent rate of the low-T magma decreased markedly towards the emplacement level as crystal content increased. Cooling of magma as well as degassing-induced undercooling drove crystallization. With the decreasing ascent rate, degassing-induced undercooling decreased in importance, and cooling became more instrumental in crystallization, causing local and rapid crystallization along the margin of the magma body. Some crystals contain scores of melt inclusions, whereas there are some crystals without any inclusions. This heterogeneous distribution suggests the variation in the crystallization rate within the magma body; it also suggests that cooling was dominant cause for melt entrapment. Numerical calculations of the cooling magma body suggest that cooling caused rapid crystal growth and enhanced melt entrapment once the magma became a crystal-rich mush with evolved interstitial melt. The rhyolitic composition of melt inclusions is consistent with this model.Editorial responsibility: H Shinohara     

粉煤灰湿陷变形的三轴试验和计算

采用双压力室三轴仪对粉煤灰试样进行了单线法湿陷试验,研究了在静水压力作用以及在不同应力状态和应力水平下粉煤灰湿陷变形的规律,得出了粉煤灰湿陷变形的经验计算公式.提出了计算粉煤灰地基湿陷变形的"全应变曲线"增量有限元法.基于本文的试验结果,对一个粉煤灰地基的湿陷变形进行了有限元计算.     

Surface gravitational field and topography changes induced by the Earth’s fluid core motions

Using a Love number formalism, the elastic deformations of the mantle and the mass redistribution gravitational potential within the Earth induced by the fluid pressure acting at the core–mantle boundary (CMB) are computed. This pressure field changes at a decadal time scale and may be estimated from observations of the surface magnetic field and its secular variation. First, using a spherical harmonic expansion, the poloidal and toroidal part of the fluid velocity field at the CMB for the last 40 years is computed, under the hypothesis of tangential geostrophy. Then the associated geostrophic pressure, whose order of magnitude is about 1000 Pa, is computed. The surface topography induced by this pressure field is computed using Love numbers, and is a few millimetres. The mass redistribution gravitational potential induced by these deformations and, in particular, the zonal components of the related surface gravitational potential perturbation (J₂, J₃ and J₄ coefficients), are calculated. Overall perturbations for the J₂ coefficient of about 10^–10, for J₃ of about 10^–11 and for J₄ are found of about 0.3×10^–11. Finally, these theoretical results are compared with recent observations of the decadal variation of J₂ from satellite laser ranging. Results concerning J₂ can be described as follows: first, they are one order of magnitude too small to explain the observed decadal variation of J₂ and, second, they show a significant linear trend over the last 40 years, whose rate of decrease amounts to 7% of the observed value.     

Understanding and Portraying the Global Atmospheric Circulation

Abstract

Atmospheric circulation and resultant surface pressure patterns are important discussion topics in many introductory geography, meteorology, and earth science courses. In the past, summary materials developed to aid in teaching these concepts have used a north-south oriented meridional cross-section of the troposphere (e.g., the three-cell model). We suggest that while the Hadley Cell model works well for the tropics, an alternative depiction incorporating two map views should be used to present a more meaningful view of the mean extratrop-ical circulation. The combination of a tropical cross-section map and an extra-tropical map will assist students in learning about first-order motions associated with the Earth's atmospheric circulation.