Complex and imitation Tectonites from the Kosciusko Pluton,snowy mountains,New South Wales

Rocks of Upper Precambrian age near Adelaide show evidence of two or more phases of deformation. The first phase has resulted in concentric and similar folds with an associated slaty cleavage. Structures of this phase are overprinted by folds with associated crenulation cleavage. Minor occurrences of later kink folds are also observed. The hypothesis that the first phase folds overprint very large folds not observable in the field is examined. The observed variation in the attitude of first phase folds could also have resulted from large scale inhomogeneities of strain.

1 “Torrens Group” is used in place of the “Torrensian Series” of Mawson and Sprigg (1950) at the suggestion of Daily (1963) since the Torrensian Series has an unwarranted time significance.

2 The scale of folds follows that of Weiss (1957). Macroscopic‐folds larger than a single outcrop. Mesoscopic‐folds on the scale of a hand specimen or single outcrop. Microscopic‐folds on the scale of a thin section.     

环境饵料丰度的季节变化对筼筜湖3种大型底栖动物食性的影响——来自稳定同位素的证据

测定了不同时期筼筜湖3种大型底栖动物(沙筛贝Mytilopsis sallei、日本大螯蜚Grandidierella japonica和腺带刺沙蚕Neanthes japonica)及其潜在食源的稳定同位素组成(δ13C和δ15 N),研究环境饵料丰度的季节变化对筼筜湖3种大型底栖动物食性的影响。结果显示,筼筜湖悬浮颗粒有机物(Particulate organic matter∶POM)的δ13C和δ15 N存在明显的季节变化。3月,受到输入筼筜湖的西海域海水大量陆源有机碎屑以及湖区周围的生活污水以及餐饮业输入的影响,筼筜湖POM的δ13 C和δ15 N明显贫化;而在9月,POM中δ13 C和δ15 N明显富集的内源性浮游植物的贡献增加。沙筛贝是典型的底栖滤食者,主要以POM为食,但它比POM富集的δ13 C值(3月和9月二者之间的Δδ13 C分别为2.9‰和1.6‰)表明它还摄入其他δ13 C相对富集的食物来源:石莼来源的有机碎屑可能是3月份沙筛贝δ13C富集的原因,而9月份则是由于再悬浮的底栖微藻对沙筛贝食源的贡献引起的。食碎屑的腺带刺沙蚕和日本大螯蜚在3月以石莼及其表面的附生生物为食,而9月份底栖微藻和浮游植物来源的POM是它们食源的主要贡献者。本研究的结果显示,筼筜湖3种大型底栖动物的δ15 N都出现明显的季节变化(Δδ15 N介于2.2‰~4.3‰),这是由于它们食源稳定同位素的季节性波动及其食性的季节变化引起的,而消费者食性的季节性变化则受到不同时期环境食物可利用性的影响。     

Trans-polar vgp shifts and earth's rotation

Abstract

At about 13,200 BP and 1000 BP, the geomagnetic field experienced trans-polar VGP shifts between main centra in Arctic Siberia and Arctic Canada, respectively. Both shifts are associated with major changes in the Earth's rate of rotation indicating a causal connection. The 1000 BP VGP shift and change in rotation is also associated with a decrease in the geomagnetic dipole field strength. The trans-polar VGP shifts seem to be of dipolar nature. They seem to be consistent with the displacement of the symmetry axis of two rotating bodies.     

1960—2005年东北地区降雪变化特征研究

利用国家气象信息中心提供的逐日降水和逐日天气现象台站资料,在运用旋转经验正交函数（Rotated Empirical Orthogonal Function, REOF）和相关分析进行降雪分区的基础上,重点研究了46 a来东北地区降雪的时空分布、演变特征和长期气候趋势。结果表明：东北地区的山地是主要的降雪地区,而平原及平原南部是降雪较少的区域,降雪区域差异明显。在空间上,大兴安岭北部（长白山地区）是降雪增加（减少）最大的地区,小兴安岭地区（平原地区）是降雪增加（减少）较明显的地区。在时间上,东北北区降雪量呈增加趋势,且在20世纪90年代发生了突变,目前增加趋势显著,而东北南区降雪量是减少的。     

1958—2007年天津降水量和降水日数变化特征

采用1958—2007年天津逐日降水观测数据,探讨降水变化特征。结果表明：近50 a来天津年降水量和年降水日数总体减少,二者每10 a分别减少8.9 mm和4.1 d,其中年降水日数的减少比年降水量的减少显著;四季中,夏冬季降水量明显减少而春秋季呈增加趋势,四季的降水日数均减少;年降水日数在1980年前后有一次明显突变,夏季降水量和春夏秋的降水日数在20世纪70年代和80年代均存在一次明显突变。降水日数和降水量的不同步变化反映发生极端降水事件的概率增加,这对农业生产和生态环境不利。     

中国黑戈壁地区气候变化特征

利用1959-2011年黑戈壁地区12个气象站的年平均气温、年降水量、年平均地面风速、年大风日数和年沙尘暴日数,采用气候趋势法分析了黑戈壁地区气候变化基本特征,并与荒漠化地区气候变化数据相比较。结果表明：黑戈壁地区年平均气温增温速率为0.34 ℃/10 a,高于0.25 ℃/10 a的荒漠化地区;年降水量增长率为1.33 mm/10 a,略小于荒漠化地区1.66 mm/10 a的年降水量增长率;年地面风速减小率为-0.10 m·s^-1/10 a,不如荒漠化地区-0.14 m·s^-1/10 a的值;年大风日数减少率为-1.83d/10a,远不如荒漠化地区-3.44 d/10 a的值;年沙尘暴日数减少率为-1.83 d/10 a,比荒漠化地区-1.77 d/10 a的减少率略明显。Mann-Kendall方法检验表明,除年降水量外,其他气候因子只有一个突变点。不同气候因子的空间分布是不同的。     

2011年春夏季节长江中下游旱涝急转可能成因

利用1980-2011年观测的降水和美国NCEP/NCAR大气再分析等资料,采用经验正交分解（EOF）和线性回归等统计方法,讨论了2011年发生在长江中下游地区春夏旱涝急转的成因。结果表明：该年1-5月持续的La Nina事件导致西北太平洋副热带高压位置位于125°E以东,西北太平洋副热带高压西北侧的西南风伴随的水汽通量无法达到长江流域,从而导致了2011年长江流域1-5月份的持续性干旱现象。伴随La Nina的减弱,6月份的青藏高原的感热明显增强,诱发西北太平洋副热带高压自东向西北方向移动到110°E,引导西南风水汽向长江流域输送,而青藏高原对流的加强和向东移动与来自西北太平洋副热带高压西北侧的西南气流在长江中下游地区的汇合导致了6月份长江中下游降水的急剧增加,从而形成了2011年长江中下游地区春夏季节的旱涝急转。     

关于东亚夏季风突变的机制研究

建立一个一维模型来模拟东亚季风,模型的中心是水汽平流反馈。通过分析发现,它允许两种稳定状态存在,分别是暖湿和少雨的东亚夏季风。这个模型可以用来证明冰川边界条件的改变会对季风系统产生重要影响。最为显著的结论是,随着控制系统热量平衡的某些特征量如行星反照率、CO2浓度等的变化,东亚夏季风模型会出现一些突变点。这个发现表明,由于人类活动的影响,如土地利用的改变、硫化物的扩散、温室气体浓度的增加等,都有可能对东亚夏季风系统造成很大的影响,甚至能引发突变。     

Costly stakeholder participation creates inertia in marine ecosystems

Ecosystems often shift abruptly and dramatically between different regimes in response to human or natural disturbances. When ecosystems tip from one regime to another, the suite of available ecosystem benefits changes, impacting the stakeholders who rely on these benefits. These changes often create some groups who stand to incur large losses if an ecosystem returns to a previous regime. When the participation cost in the decision-making process is extremely high, this can “lock in” ecosystem regimes, making it harder for policy and management to shift ecosystems out of what the majority of society views as the undesirable regime. Public stakeholder meetings often have high costs of participation, thus economic theory predicts they will be dominated by extreme views and often lead to decisions that do not represent the majority viewpoint. Such extreme viewpoints can create strong inertia even when there is broad consensus to manage an ecosystem towards a different regime. In the same manner that reinforcing ecological feedback loops make it harder to exit an ecosystem regime, there are decision-making feedback loops that contribute additional inertia.     

Progress in refining the global radiocarbon calibration curve using New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) tree-ring series from Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

Ancient kauri (Agathis australis) buried in bogs across Northland, New Zealand, provide potential for a continuous high-precision radiocarbon calibration curve that extends to the full chronologic range of the dating method. Here we report four new tree-ring series which in addition to previous work represent some 5312 years across Oxygen Isotope Stage 3, a period during which human evolution, migration and extinction took place against a backdrop of extreme and abrupt global climate and environmental change. We compare our radiocarbon-dated series against three different calibration datasets and find considerable differences in the wiggle-matched solutions, demonstrating the difficulty in undertaking high-precision correlation between ice, marine and terrestrial sequences. One way around the apparent impasse is the use of ¹⁰Be in the Greenland and Antarctic ice cores to precisely link to kauri ¹⁴C from which a decadally/bidecadally-resolved floating ‘calibration’ dataset can be generated.