AMS 14C dating of tundra lake sediments using chironomid head capsules

Radiocarbon dating of late-Quaternary sediments from high-latitude lakes is often complicated by the influx of old carbon, reservoir effects, or both. If terrestrial plant macrofossils are also absent, the dating of bulk sediment often provides the only means to establish chronologies for these problematic sediment sequences. Given that chironomid (non-biting midge) remains are sufficiently abundant in many northern lakes to be ¹⁴C-dated via the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) method, we decided to explore their utility in age-model development. Five age determinations based on chironomid material were obtained from a lake sediment core sampled in the shrub tundra of northern Québec. These results were compared to six AMS bulk sediment ages, as well as to a date obtained from Drepanocladus spp. The chironomids yielded consistently younger ages (with increasing age offset upcore), confirming both the presence of a reservoir effect and the value of chironomids in establishing more reliable ¹⁴C chronologies.     

Pteraspidomorphs (Vertebrata), the Old Red Sandstone,and the special case of the Brecon Beacons National Park,Wales, U.K.

Pteraspidomorphi are Ordovician to Devonian, jawless vertebrates devoid of paired fins that have developed a variety of phenotypes of mostly demersal aquatic animals of the neritic province. Some, however, were active swimmers in the water column or near to the surface. They show many convergences in adaptive variations with the other ossified agnathan vertebrates or ostracoderms, that is the osteostracans, galeaspids and pituriaspids. They are traditionally known as Old Red Sandstone (ORS) fish, and have been interpreted as fresh-water inhabitants. However, recent palaeoecological and sedimentological analyses have shown that they were near-shore, shallow-marine fishes in the Ordovician, that they occupied marine environments on the Silurian Baltic platform and a wide variety of environments in the Devonian, including those of the ORS (lagoonal, estuarine, deltaic, and open platform). Their peak of diversity was reached in the Early Devonian, and they all disappeared before the Frasnian-Famennian boundary biotic crisis. Within Earth sciences, they are used in biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography. They are good tools for dating siliciclastic sedimentary series of the Silurian and Devonian, including the ORS, and they are good markers of the margins of Ordovician to Devonian palaeocontinents (Laurentia, Baltica, Siberia, Gondwana).     

应用古文化层埋深确定汾渭盆地沉积速率的研究

根据４９处仰绍至东周古文化遗址埋深数据研究了距今７０００～２５００年汾渭盆地内部的沉积速率．结果表明,盆地内部的凸起地区沉积速率一般小于凹陷地区,如渭河凹陷的平均沉积速率为０．４６ｍｍ／ａ,临汾凹陷的平均沉积速率为０．３６ｍｍ／ａ,而临潼凸起和襄汾凸起的沉积速率为０．２０ｍｍ／ａ左右．分析各时代的沉积速率还发现,在仰绍（距今５０００年）之前渭河盆地内凹陷的沉积速率明显小于仰绍之后,宝鸡凸起还由东周之前的相对下降变为相对上升．沉积速率相对较大的地质单元往往是地震活跃的地区．     

黄河口水下三角洲海底冲蚀沟发育的动力机制探讨

根据老黄河口外水下三角洲海底冲蚀沟的地貌特征,用动力学方法分析了其形成发育机制.结果表明,波浪近底流是冲蚀沟形成发育的主导因素.冲蚀沟内的湍流及其次生的横向环流构成了复杂的流场,由此产生的边界切应力对冲蚀沟的侵蚀及沉积物的悬浮、扩散起重要作用.冲蚀沟的断面形态与流场结构密切相关.     

丽江古城客栈经营者社会责任缺失研究

丽江古城的客栈起步早、发展快,是丽江旅游业发展的重要支撑。通过问卷调查和实地走访形式,对丽江古城客栈经营者的社会责任缺失问题进行分析。结果显示客栈经营者的社会责任缺失是多方面的,包括：对房主责任的缺失、对员工责任的缺失、对社区居民责任的缺失以及对旅游者责任的缺失。针对这些责任缺失,提出了具体对策,包括：整合相关监督管理部门、建立行业自律协会、加强舆论监督、开展教育培训等。     

Seismic upgrading of old masonry buildings by seismic isolation and CFRP laminates: a shaking-table study of reduced scale models

The efficiency of improving the seismic resistance of old masonry buildings by means of seismic isolation and confining the structure with CFRP laminate strips has been investigated. Five models of a simple two-story brick masonry building with wooden floors without wall ties have been tested on the shaking table. The control model has been built directly on the foundation slab. The second model has been separated from it by a damp-proof course in the form of a PVC sheet placed in the bed-joint between the second and the third course, whereas the third model has been isolated by rubber isolators placed between the foundation slab and structural walls. Models four and five have been confined with CFRP laminate strips, simulating the wall ties placed horizontally and vertically at floor levels and corners of the building, respectively. One of the CFRP strengthened models has been placed on seismic isolators. Tests have shown that a simple PVC sheet damp-proof course cannot be considered as seismic isolator unless adequately designed. Tests have also shown that the isolators alone did not prevent the separation of the walls. However, both models confined with CFRP strips exhibited significantly improved seismic behavior. The models did not collapse even when subjected to significantly stronger shaking table motion than that resisted by the control model without wall ties.     

Enigma variations: the stratigraphy,provenance, palaeoseismicity and depositional history of the Lower Old Red Sandstone Cosheston Group,south Pembrokeshire,Wales

The Lower Devonian (Lochkovian‐Emsian) Cosheston Group of south Pembrokeshire is one of the most enigmatic units of the Old Red Sandstone of Wales. It consists of a predominantly green, exceptionally thick succession (up to 1.8 km) within the red c. 3 km‐thick fill of the Anglo‐Welsh Basin, but occupies a very small area (27 km²). Four formations—Llanstadwell (LLF), Mill Bay (MBF), Lawrenny Cliff (LCF) and New Shipping (NSF)—group into lower (LLF + MBF) and upper (LCF + NSF) units on stratigraphical and sedimentological criteria. Two palynostratigraphic associations (Hobbs Point and Burton Cliff) are recognised in the LLF. Overall, the Cosheston succession comprises a fluvial, coarsening‐upward megasequence, mostly arranged in fining‐upward rhythms. It is interpreted as the fill of an east‐west graben bounded by faults to the north and south of the Benton and Ritec faults, respectively. Both ‘lower Cosheston’ formations were deposited by east‐flowing, axial river systems draining a southern Irish Sea landmass. Drainage reversal, early in the deposition of the LCF, resulted in ‘upper Cosheston’ lateral, SW‐flowing rivers which carried predominantly second‐ and multi‐cycle detritus. The ‘lower Cosheston’ is characterized by an abundance of soft‐sediment deformation structures, probably seismically triggered by movements along the graben's northern bounding fault. A minimum average (≥ mesoseismic) earthquake recurrence interval of c. 4000 yr is estimated for the MBF. This and the correlative Senni Formation of south‐central Wales form a regionally extensive green‐bed development that represents a pluvial climatic interval. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Ridgeway Conglomerate Formation of SW Wales,and its implications. The end of the Lower Old Red Sandstone?

The Devonian Old Red Sandstone Ridgeway Conglomerate Formation crops out in Pembrokeshire, SW Wales. It was deposited as part of a dryland alluvial fan, axial fluvial valley deposystem. It conformably overlies the mid Lochkovian Freshwater West Formation and probably predates deposition of the Lower Cosheston Group Mill Bay Formation indicating an Early Devonian (latest Lochkovian to earliest Pragian) age, rather than a Middle Devonian age as suggested by previous workers. It therefore represents the youngest preserved formation of the Milford Haven Group south of the Ritec Fault. The Formation thickens drastically into the Ritec Fault, indicating its control on sedimentation. The half‐graben topography initiated deposition of a hangingwall alluvial fan that was sourced from a southerly Lower Palaeozoic/Precambrian provenance within the present‐day Bristol Channel. The Formation is heterolithic in nature, with deposits on the fan reflecting a mixture of processes. Conglomerates were deposited primarily by laterally extensive sheetfloods, and as bars in low‐relief, laterally accreted channels. Sandstones were also predominantly deposited by sheetfloods. Gritty mudrocks in comparison demonstrate deposition by cohesive debris flows. The fan prograded northward and interfingered with a low‐gradient, high‐sinuosity fluvial channel system dominated by inclined and non‐inclined heterolithic stratification. Thinly laminated mudstone and sandstone interbeds were deposited in ephemeral fan‐toe and axial valley lakes that may have developed during sub‐humid climatic episodes. The lacustrine heterolithic association has associated matgrounds and possible ‘algal roll‐up’ structures. Calcretized peetee structures and root traces comprise a lake margin calcrete association. Fan gravels prograded into the axial fluvial valley during periods of increased sediment flux that may represent semi‐arid conditions and/or episodes of tectonic activity. Calcretes of varying development were established in both the fan and axial valley zones. Calcretes with lower stages of development are more proximal to the Ritec Fault reflecting decreased soil residence times and high deposition rates within the axial valley. More strongly developed soil profiles on the fan may indicate sequence boundaries associated with low sediment flux, or increased soil residence time due to active fan‐channel migration (the pedofacies concept). Groundwater calcretes have sharp‐based and layer‐bound calcrete profiles. Gully‐bed cements are locally developed within the fan gravels. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

长江口及废黄河口海域表层沉积物中多环芳烃分布特征和生态风险评价

2015年10月采集长江口及废黄河口51个沉积物样品,对沉积物中的多环芳烃(Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons,PAHs)的含量进行测定,探讨长江口及废黄河口海域表层沉积物中PAHs的分布组成、来源及潜在的生态风险评价。总PAHs的含量范围为4.23~292.39 ng/g,平均值含量为67.40 ng/g。研究区样品的PAHs含量呈现"北部低南部高"的空间分布特征,舟山群岛东部区域PAHs含量普遍偏高,长江口次之,废黄河口最低。与国内其他海区相比,研究区域PAHs总体处于中低等污染水平。运用统计分析和特征比值法对来源进行分析,研究区域沉积物中PAHs主要是以4环、5环为主,来源分析显示PAHs的主要来源为各类燃烧源及石油源的混合来源。根据效应区间低/中值法(ERL/ERM)评价结果显示,长江口及废黄河口海域的潜在生态风险很小,但对生态有一定的潜在威胁,也应该引起重视。     

河谷深厚覆盖层工程地质特性及其评价方法

河谷深厚覆盖层广泛分布于我国大江大河中，其研究对加我国水利水电工程建设具有重大。意义。文中以川西河流为例，论述河谷深厚覆盖层的基本特征及工程地质特性，并重点论述河谷深厚覆盖层的承载力、变形 、强度参数及渗透特性的评价方法。