汪民在全国地质勘查管理座谈会上指出矿业权管理要依法予以规范

在7月16目召开的全国地质勘查管理座谈会上，国土资源部副部长汪民指出，按照我国法律法规，探矿权两级管理、采矿权四级管理，不存在初审问题。     

The Geologic Time Scale and the Italian stratigraphic record

The construction of the Geologic Time Scale (GTS) is a titanic scientific challenge that has been under way for two centuries and will require much dedicated effort in the future. Italy preserves a paramount stratigraphic record of Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine sediments that have been significant in the development of the modern GTS. The Italian stratigraphic record has been histori-cally important in introducing and defining the standard Chronostratigraphic Units (CUs) of the Neogene and Quaternary. Pelagic successions from Northern Apen-nines and Southern Alps have been used in the seventies for integrating the late Cretaceous-Paleogene Geomag-netic Polarity Time Scale (GPTS) with planktonic microfossil biostratieraohv and standard CUs. This was a major contribution to the construction of a new gener-ation of GTS based on integrated magnetobiochronol-ogy. The middle Miocene to early Pleistocene marinerecord from Sicily and southern Italy has been funda-mental for establishing the recently developed Astro-nomical Time Scale (ATS). In prospect, there are many potentials still to be exploited in the Italian marine stratigraphic record for implementing the GTS by defin-ing GSSPs of various CUs, improving magneto-biochronology and extending downwards the ATS.     

浓浓山水情--记我国著名水文地质学家、中科院资深院士陈梦熊

采访陈老,似乎在翻阅一本情节生动、内容丰富、内涵十分深刻的书,他不断地吸引着我去叩开一位科学家的心扉,去探寻久远岁月中那一篇篇动人的故事。 ——作者手记     

青海地矿局"十一五"地质工作展望

“十一五”时期是我们认真贯彻国务院刚刚出台的《关于加强地质工作的决定》，实现地质工作与国民经济和社会发展的全方位和多层次相结合，是构建与社会主义市场经济体制相适应的地质工作体系，努力实现地质找矿新的重大突破，为全面建设小康社会提供更加有力的资源保障和基础支撑的关键时期。     

中央投20亿元启动地质勘查基金——着重用于重点矿种、重点成矿区带的前期勘查

为了加大国家财政对矿产资源勘查投入力度，鼓励和引导社会资金投入，建立矿产资源勘查投入良性循环机制，财政部、国土资源部近日发布《中央地质勘查基金（周转金）管理暂行办法》。这是贯彻落实《国务院关于加强地质工作的决定》的第一个配套文件。     

庆祝中国共产党建党八十五周年——山东省地质科学研究院“七一”活动纪实

近期，山东省地质科学研究院为庆祝中国共产党建党85周年开展了一系列丰富多彩的纪念活动。6月29日，组织全院党员、团员到莱芜战役纪念馆学习参观，缅怀了革命先烈的丰功伟绩，游览了溪水潺潺、层峦叠翠的“九龙大峡谷”。7月1日，全院隆重召开了庆祝中国共产党建党85周年大会暨“树立社会主义荣辱观”演讲交流会。院党委书记、院长王君仁作了重要讲话。来自院属各单位的14位代表围绕“学党章、知荣辱”主题，联系实际畅谈了学习体会和收获。该次学习活动对全院干部职工树立“八荣八耻”道德观，推动全院精神文明建设起到了积极的作用。     

ANALYSIS OF DRIVING FORCES ON THE CHANGE OF HISTORICAL FARMLAND USE IN SHANDONG PROVINCE DURING THE QING DYNASTY （1644-1911）

How land-cover has been changed by human use over the last 300 years is one of the five overarching questions guiding the Land-use/Cover Change (LUCC) Science/Research Plan. China has variety of historical docu-ments providing unique data superiority. So the characteristics of farmland area in Shandong Province during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) are summarized firstly: 1) the rising trend of farmland area was striking; 2) farmland area had re-markable fluctuation; 3) farmland area per capita decreased dramatically; 4) wasteland reclamation index increased rapidly. Then, the driving forces of farmland area change are analyzed. It is concluded that natural and human factors are jointly influential. Among the driving forces, human dimensions are the main factors of farmland area change,which direct the general tendency of the changes mentioned above. And the natural factors influence the stability of farmland area as well. Variation of the natural factors would act as the major contributory factor to farmland area change during years or periods of abrupt climatic changes, or during the intensive occurring periods of natural hazards.Besides, the passive aspects of human factors, such as war chaos also influenced the fluctuation of the farmland area.This research indicates that it is feasible to study the land-use/cover change by Chinese historical literatures, which has huge potential to provide a comprehensive picture of the growing dominance of human land-use and land-cover pat-terns that can be used in many global change research oroiects.