Risks for poisoning of coastal and inland population due to asteroid impacts in Southern regions of Black Sea

The hydrogen sulfide rich waters of the Black Sea pose a potential danger for the surrounding land regions. The impact of an asteroid exceeding tens of meters in size may cause both a tsunami wave and a catastrophic poisonous gas release in the atmosphere. Some effects of this last phenomenon on the Southern Black Sea coastal regions are evaluated in this paper. The initial surface area of the poisonous cloud depends on asteroid size. The initial thickness of the cloud depends, in addition, on sea depth at impact location. The wind speed plays an important role in H₂S cloud dynamics. At 10 m/s wind speed, the cloud margins reach 185 km from the impact location in about 3 h. The maximum distance traveled by the hydrogen sulfide cloud increases by increasing the asteroid size and wind speed. The influence of the impact position on the distance traveled by hydrogen sulfide clouds is rather weak, as long as the seawater depth does not change significantly. The land surface area covered by the H₂S cloud generated by a 1,000 m size asteroid ranges between about 6,400 and 12,000 km². This may affect up to 3,000,000 people. When a 250 m size asteroid is considered, the covered land surface area ranges between about 1,400 and 2,100 km² and up to 120,000 people may be affected. In case of a 70 m size asteroid, the cloud covers up to 280 km² of land. This may affect up to about 70,000 people. These evaluations do not include the population of the towns on or near the seashore. A simple methodology to estimate the environmental risks of the potential asteroid impact was proposed. Sites less than 160 km from the impact place are at risk.     

盐场卤水氧化-吸附联合脱色工艺的研究

以天津汉沽盐场高镁卤水为研究对象,分析其成色原因,建立了过氧化氢氧化-氢氧化锆吸附联合脱色工艺,分别考察了脱色剂用量、温度、pH值等因素对卤水色度、CODCr及镁离子损失率的影响,确定了最佳的脱色工艺条件:用卤水处理量1%(体积比)的过氧化氢于室温下将卤水氧化2 h后,在pH值为2～3的条件下经氢氧化锆吸附脱色40 min,氢氧化锆用量为60 g/L。在此条件下,卤水色度及CODCr去除率分别可达99%和85%,镁离子的损失率可控制在1%以下,均高于目前使用的工艺方法。吸附剂氢氧化锆经脱附后可循环使用,大大降低了工艺运行成本。     

Spectral Diagnostics of the Magnetic Field Orientation in a Prominence Observed with SOHO/SUMER

During several campaigns focused on prominences we have obtained coordinated spectral observations from the ground and from space. The SOHO/SUMER spectrometer allows us to observe, among others, the whole Lyman series of hydrogen, while the Hα line was observed by the MSDP spectrograph at the VTT. For the Lyman lines, non-LTE radiative-transfer computations have shown the importance of the optical thickness of the prominence – corona transition region (PCTR) and its relation to the magnetic field orientation for the explanation of the observed line profiles. Moreover, Heinzel, Anzer, and Gunár (2005, Astron. Astrophys. 442, 331) developed a 2D magnetostatic model of prominence fine structures that demonstrates how the shapes of Lyman lines vary, depending on the orientation of the magnetic field with respect to the line of sight. To support this result observationally, we focus here on a round-shaped filament observed during three days as it was crossing the limb. The Lyman profiles observed on the limb are different from day to day. We interpret these differences as being due to the change of orientation of the prominence axis (and therefore the magnetic field direction) with respect to the line of sight. The Lyman lines are more reversed if the line of sight is across the prominence axis as compared to the case when it is aligned along its axis.     

过氧化氢对全铁测定的影响

由过氧化钠分解试样的熔融物，经水提取后，会产生大量的过氧化氢。它对重铬酸钾测定全铁的结果，会产生偏高的影响。如果加热煮沸或以饿驱除它，则所得结果将令人满意。     

Detection of H2 emission towards the wolf-rayet nebula NGC 2359

We report the first detection of molecular hydrogen emission in the vicinity of a Wolf-Rayet star and nebula. The spatial distribution of the excited molecular gas is filamentary and is not correlated with the distribution of the ionised gas as traced by optical emission lines. The typical H₂ surface brightness in the filaments is 5× 10^–5 ergs s^–1 cm^–2 str^–1. We demonstrate that the excitation mechanism can be shocks or fluorescence from the strong ultraviolet flux of the WR star.     

祁连山断裂带中东段地下水地球化学特征研究

祁连山断裂带是中国西部地震活动最强烈的地区之一。本文应用Aquachem5.1对该断裂带中东段10口井水进行了水化学分析;同时利用Phreeqc软件对地下水化学组分和饱指数SI值进行了模拟计算;并结合氢氧和氦同位素组成特征初步分析了该断裂带地下水成因、水质类型、循环速度及循环深度。研究表明祁连山断裂中东段地下水均为大气成因,总体上体现为循环深度小、滞留时间短、水-岩反应程度较弱等特点,其化学活动性在空间上具有西弱东强分布特征。这一结论为今后进一步研究地下流体地震前兆异常提供了依据。     

铜陵狮子山矿田大团山铜（钼） 矿床流体包裹体研究

大团山铜（钼） 矿床是安徽铜陵狮子山矿田内较为典型的岩浆热液叠加型铜钼矿床,其成因与早白垩世大团山石英 二长闪长岩有密切关系。系统采集硫化物阶段的矿化石英脉并经岩相学显微观察发现,石英中捕获有大量的流体包裹体, 主要分为三种类型,即富气相（Ⅰ型）、富液相（Ⅱ型） 的两相水溶液包裹体和含子晶的三相水溶液包裹体（Ⅲ型）。显微 测温研究表明,流体包裹体的均一温度统计峰值分别出现在375~405°C和285~315°C之间,流体盐度的统计峰值出现在5.0 wt.%~10.0 wt.% NaCl eq.之间。激光拉曼探针分析表明,流体包裹体的气相成分以水蒸汽为主,含有少量CO2和CH4。流体 氢、氧同位素组成呈岩浆流体特征。研究表明,大团山铜（钼） 矿床的成矿流体主要来源于岩浆流体,在成矿过程中经历 了相态变化,沸腾的流体体系受到了不均匀捕获。结合前人研究成果,狮子山矿田内早白垩世叠加改造型流体表现出同源 特征,在物理化学演化方面具有一定规律性,流体的多次沸腾作用很可能对成矿元素的分配、迁移与沉淀起到了重要作用。     

A multiple stable isotope record of Late Quaternary limnological changes and chironomid paleoecology from northeastern Iceland

We present results from multiple stable isotope analyses (δ¹⁸O of chironomid larval head capsules, chironomid adult thoraxes and other insect remains and δD, δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N of total organic matter—TOM) of a lake sediment core (04-SVID-03) taken from Stora Vidarvatn in northeastern Iceland to reconstruct past environmental, limnological and δ¹⁸O of past lake water changes during the Holocene. Core 04-SVID-03 represents a ∼12,000 cal. yrs BP to present record. Large magnitude changes in δ¹⁸O occurred during the Holocene at the site. Downcore shifts in δ¹⁸O of chironomids did not correlate with measurements of the δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N of chironomid head capsules, implying that the δ¹⁸O changes were not primarily driven by changes in chironomid diet during the Holocene. The δD of TOM provided a proxy of relative lake-water δD changes at the site and also showed large magnitude changes during the record. This approach was supported by analyses of a modern training set where δD_TOM analyses were conducted using surface sediments from a suite of freshwater lakes over a large latitudinal gradient. The magnitude of changes in both the δ¹⁸O and δD and the relatively negative δ¹⁸O values throughout much of the core suggest that the proxies represent more paleoenvironmental information than solely temperature. Additional possible influences on lake-water isotopic composition are discussed, including changes in the seasonality of precipitation, in the patterns of air masses supplying precipitation to Iceland and in the dominant mode of the North Atlantic Oscillation.