New insights into a late-Pleistocene human occupation in America: The Vale da Pedra Furada complete chronological study

Within the framework of the studies focusing on the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas, our French-Brazilian team has undertaken a pluridisciplinary research on different archaeological sites, inside and in the neighborhood of the Serra da Capivara National Park, in Brazilian Nordeste. The present study regards an archaeological site, Vale da Pedra Furada, situated in the Piauí state in Brazil. The results of technological and functional studies suggest the existence of different successive human occupations during the Pleistocene in this region. Moreover, the geological and geomorphological studies shed new light on our understanding of sedimentary processes and confirm that the levels were not subject to any significant post-depositional processes. This is also confirmed by macro- and micro-analysis of quartz artefact surfaces. The chronological study has recently been completed employing both radiocarbon and luminescence techniques; radiocarbon dates were obtained on charcoal, multi-grain and single-grain OSL ages on sedimentary quartz grains. The results obtained with the different methods are consistent with each other: the most recent archaeological level is dated to around 8 ka and the oldest to 24 ka, indicating the open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada to be a succession of human occupations beginning from OIS 2. These results are discussed in the context of some archaeological sites studied in the Serra da Capivara National Park of the last few decades.     

钢锚墩在锦屏一级水电站地下厂房的运用

锦屏一级水电站地下厂房地应力高,分层开挖完成后随着地应力的释放及重新分布,局部岩体出现压碎、层状劈裂破坏,围岩松弛深度及变位不断加深、加大。为了尽快实现锚索锚固支护效应以确保地下厂房洞室群围岩稳定和工程安全,施工时将部分原设计现浇混凝土锚墩调整为钢锚墩进行施工,取得了较好的质量、进度效果。主要介绍了钢锚墩的施工工艺、质量控制要点及其与混凝土锚墩的工效对比分析。     

新疆克孜尔水库F_2断层近期形变特征初探

通过对布设在克孜尔水库大坝及库区一等水准点及 GPS监测网多期观测结果的分析 ,对贯穿大坝的 F2 断层近期形变特征进行了初步研究。结果表明 :F2 断层的活动属于新构造继承性运动 ,其水平形变速率大于垂直形变速率 ,并与地震活动存在着一定相关性     

Discrimination Between Foreshocks and Earthquake Swarm from the Change of First Motion Sign

Based on the data of first motion of 11 earthquake sequences with ML ≥ 3.0 recorded by the Telemetric Seismic Network of Shanxi since the 1980s, the first motion characteristics of each earthquake sequence were studied. It is known that earthquake sequences of different types have different consistency characteristics of focal mechanism. The decrease and increase of the first motion contradictory sign ratios could be taken as an index to judge whether there would still be a larger earthquake to come after the earthquake sequence.     

伊通－舒兰断裂分段及地震危险性探讨

本文用地震活动性参数等地震学方法和用时间域小地震地震图测量震源物理参数及介质Ｑ值等震源参数方法，对伊通－舒兰断裂进行分段及地震危险性探讨。初步研究结果表明该断裂乌拉街－舒兰段（北段）、伊通－双阳段（南段）存在明显差异，北段介质强度大，易积累能量而发生较大地震。     

我国首次发现的多水钼铀矿

多水钼铀矿属铀酰钼酸盐类矿物。我国首次发现的多水钼铀矿产于北方某火山岩型铀钼矿床的氧化带，为非晶质矿物，在显微镜下呈均质性，电子探针分析既含铀又含钼等是其主要特征。     

Elimination of Zinc from Roof Runoff through Geotextile and Clinoptilolite Filters

Direct infiltration of roof runoff into the ground may pose a potential risk of soil and groundwater contamination. The performance of two different barrier materials for the retention of zinc from roof runoff of an eleven year old zinc roof was examined in a field study. As barrier materials geotextile and clinoptilolite were applied. Automatic samplers were used to take samples both at the inlet and at the outlet of the retention facility. Samples of twenty rain events were examined. Zinc was detected in the roof runoff in concentrations of up to 25 mg/L, and lead which originates from the tin‐solder was present in concentrations of up to 84 μg/L. Under most circumstances, a first flush could be observed for the analysed substances. No retention of heavy metals was observed, where only geotextile was used as a barrier material. The clinoptilolite filter was able to adsorb up to 97 % of zinc from the roof runoff.     

Interpretation of first arrival travel times in seismic refraction work

The necessary condition for the seismic refraction method to succeed is that the refracted first arrivals from each layer in a multilayered earth system should be detected on a seismogram as first arrivals, and this is possible only when velocities of all underlying layers are successively greater. The usual procedure to interpret the refraction travel times is to fit such a data set with several intersecting straight lines by employing a visual technique which may lead to errors of subjective judgment, as the velocity model depends on the selection of various line segments through the data. To remove the visual fit we propose here a layer stripping method based on minimum intercept time, apparent velocity, rms residual, and maximum data points by least-squares fitting to yield several intersecting straight lines. Once data are segmented out, the conventional equations can be used to determine the velocity structure.     

频率域线源大地电磁法有限元正演模拟

本文介绍了频率域线源大地电磁法有限元正演模拟的研究结果. 在外边界上统一应用适合于人工源的一阶吸收边界条件来形成边值问题,可减小基于平面波假设造成的人为截断边界的影响. 程序编辑中设计了两个二维数组分别存储总体系数矩阵的非零元素和在总体结点编号中的位置,使内存占用量减少,且物理意义明确,方便用高斯-赛德尔等迭代法解有限元方程时调用. 采用视δ函数模拟线源,提高了解方程组的稳定性. 最后通过对1个简单模型和1个复杂模型的模拟,证明所用的方法对异常体能够有明显的反映,说明了该方法的可靠性和有效性.     

二氧化碳相变技术应用于新型震源研发的可行性研究

为了研究二氧化碳物理相变技术应用于新型震源研发的可行性,在地下成层性较好的某煤田地震测区,开展了利用二氧化碳相变技术激发地震波的野外人工震源激发-接收实验．并与传统炸药震源进行了对比．地震数据利用Aries2.66型垂直分量反射地震仪和PDS-2型三分量地震仪接收．根据实测地震数据,从野外地震记录震相识别,初至波传播距离分析,震源近场地震信号时频分析,CO_2相变激发震源子波提取和基于CO_2震源子波的地震初至波波形反演实验等多个方面,进行了关于CO_2相变激发技术能否产生地震波信号以及能否将其应用于新型震源研发的可行性研究．研究结果表明CO_2物理相变膨胀能够产生能量集中的地震波信号;在实验区地质条件和激发参量下地震记录中初至波的可识别的传播距离约为1km;震源近场地震信号的主频集中在8～13Hz;利用震源近场数据提取了CO_2震源子波;通过地震初至波波形反演实验认为这种震源子波能够应用于波形反演等方面的研究．因为CO_2相变激发具有绿色、环保、安全等方面的优点,若能进一步在激发能量、激发—延迟时间一致性等方面加以改进,该技术有望在城市隐伏活动断层探测、城市地下空间探测、煤矿高瓦斯环境人工地震勘探等领域发挥重要的作用．