High sulfate concentrations in limestone springs: An important factor in conduit initiation?

Major ion concentrations in 404 springs in carbonate strata were found to exhibit a wide range in sulfate values. Sulfate concentrations are often much larger than would be expected from the analysis of samples from surface outcrops. Springs in the Sierra Madre Oriental (Mexico), the Rocky Mountains Front Range (Canada), and the Peak District (England) show similarities in sulfate concentration and in spatial distribution. Springs with high sulfate concentrations are found close to base level and are thermal. Springs with low sulfate concentration are found at higher elevations above base level and are not thermal. There is a direct relationship between sulfate concentration and spring temperature, and an inverse relationship with discharge. The results from the three areas described support a model of local and regional flow patterns, with deep regional flow providing the warm sulfate-rich water. The initial fracture porosity development in these aquifers may owe as much to the removal of sulfur minerals as to the removal of carbonate minerals. High sulfate values are frequently found in carbonate aquifers, so this model may be of widespread applicability.     

青藏高原湖泊涨缩的新构造运动意义

青藏高原位于我国的西南部,平均海拔4000—5000m。第四纪以来强烈的新构造运动,引起地壳大幅度的隆起,迫使湖泊出现了大规模的退缩及迁移。新的湖泊不断产生或扩大,古老的湖泊又不断消亡或缩小,形成了湖泊变化与构造活动周期的对应性。本文在分析了青藏高原的地貌、第四纪地质,特别是活断层及地震活动性研究的基础上,对于高原≥4km~2的367个湖泊进行了卫片解译,并取得了较好的效果。     

A QUASI-TWO-DIMENSIONAL STREAM TUBE MODEL FOR SIMULATING FLOW IN ALLUVIAL RIVERS

I. INTRODUCTIONIt is necessary, sometimes, to predict river bed deformahon during the alanning and design stages of a hydraulic project. As the nuvial process is quite complicated, the I --Dmathematical models currently in use can not satisfy the various needs in hydraulic engineering. Particularly in engineering practice, there is a strong desire of knowing the hydraulicconditions and river bed deformation in details. Some two dimensional models as well asqusi--two--dissensional models …     

智能化流动注射化学发光分析仪

本文介绍了以ＭＣＳ－９６型单片机为主体的智能化流动注射化学发光分析仪的系统硬件结构、接口、软件设计及仪器的主要技术指标等。     

软弱破碎围岩变形特性

本文在连续十余年原位监测试验资料的基础上,描述了全断面开挖的软弱围岩变形u-t全过程曲线;阐明了不同变形阶段的变形速率、变形量以及这些变形的时空效应;探讨了岩体工程地质特性、埋深、洞径、开挖方式和支护及时性等主要因素对围岩变形特性的影响;并针对具体工程提出了围岩稳定性状态划分及其判别标准、失稳险情预报原则、变形控制标准与初期支护抗力的确定原则、后期支护最佳施作时期的选择以及合理开挖方式。     

伊舒地堑的构造-沉积演化及其聚油条件

伊舒地堑早第三纪盆地的结构、充填形式和充填序列以及区域构造格局表明,它属于我国东北部(东部)新生代裂谷系中的一部分,其发育级别低于辽河裂谷盆地带,而优于佳伊地堑北段,为一初始裂谷盆地。该盆地经历了裂谷前隆升剥蚀(晚白垩—古新世)、张裂深陷(始新世)、充填淤积(渐新世)和后期改造(早第三纪末)四个阶段的演化。与我国东部其它新生代裂谷盆地的演化近同时同步。地堑中5000多米厚的早第三纪陆相沉积物具有良好的生储油条件。同时地堑的构造-沉积演化决定了所形成的油气藏具有个体多而细小的特点,在有利的油气聚集区形成复式油田。     

Adaptive adjustment of channel geometry

This paper constructs a model of channel geometry composed of three subsections: a steady-state submodel, a gradedstate submodel, and a stochastic error submodel. With the aid of this representation of the morphology of channels, the at-a-point changes in geometry can be reproduced by a simple recursive equation of autoregressive, moving-average form which is derived from methods used in the statistical analysis of time series. A set of height loss data for three Japanese rivers derived from Yatsu's (1955) paper is used to determine the effect of bed material changes on adaptations within the graded-state submodel of the channel. The results of analyzing the autocorrelation function, spectrum, and adaptive parameter shifts within this model can be used to infer that significant changes in the amplitude of height change variation, and a shift to higher frequency oscillations of bed forms are associated with the shift in bed material conditions.     

The differential impact of some soil loss factors on flow,runoff creep and rainwash

The Hortonian model of runoff flow which had been thought to be applicable in arid areas has previously been shown not to be valid, notably in Israel, where inverse relations have been observed between slope angle, and runoff discharge and slope erosion. The paper discusses laboratory experiments on simulated slope conditions in a rather arid environment. It is shown by rain simulation on granite grus that infiltration capacity is a function of rainfall intensity, slope angle and runoff discharge. The infiltration capacity f can equal the rainfall intensity beyond a critical distance x(m) so that discharge becomes constant. Debris covers affect runoff hydraulics, especially on poorly cohesive soils, and both slow downslope and upslope movements which correspond to the process of so-called runoff creep can occur. Coarse debris and grass covers, as roughness factors, induce hydraulic discontinuities and activate local turbulent flow and slope erosion. Instead of being merely protective elements these factors tend to catalyze the slope wash, in comparison with naked surfaces, if the Reynolds number of the flow exceeds a certain critical value.     

Drainage area and the variation of channel geometry downstream

Recent geomorphological studies tend to deal with small basins. The understanding of small basin dynamics provides important information for the understanding of large basin dynamics assuming that the extrapolation of small basin data to larger basins is valid. This work tests the validity of this extrapolation of data with reference to channel geometry. An analysis of the variation of channel width downstream reveals that the value b =0.5 (W = aQ^b) is a ‘good’ average. However, the use of a one-line model consisting of a simple power function incurs a loss of a considerable amount of relevant information concerning the channel form and hence the channel processes. It has been shown that the –b– value for small basins and very big basins is lower than the one for the intermediate basins.     

Eine Simulierung orographischer Effekte durch Quellsingularitäten zur Fixierung stromaufwärts gelegener Randwerte

Zusammenfassung Ein zweidimensionales, linearisiertes Strömungsmodell für orographisch induzierte Effekte wird vorgestellt: Unter Voraussetzung von Pseudo-Instationärität lassen sich in einem schwach-geschichteten, reibungsfreien Medium mittlerer Größenordnung dynamisch-thermodynamische Störungen parameterisieren. Beim Überströmen eines Hindernisses, das durch effektiven QuellflußQ simuliert wird, kann man für normierte Stromlinien eine inhomogene Helmholtz-Gleichung ableiten, deren vier Randbedingungen durch das Eingreifen zweier Zusatzterme, welche das instationäre Verhalten beschreiben, modifiziert werden. Man wählt im folgenden den Quellfluß derartig, sodaß vonQ ein aufz=0 aufliegender, endlich ausgedehnter Rücken (mit dem ungefähren Querschnitt eines Halbzylinders) beschrieben wird.Näherungslösungen für den stromaufwärts liegenden Teil eines Rechteckbereiches nach Erreichen eines stationären Strömungszustandes sind mit den Methoden von Laplace-Fourier bestimmbar. Die numerische Größenabschätzung dieser kolumnaren Wellen zeigt, daß die im Windfeld orographisch induzierten Scherungszonen noch in beträchtlicher Entfernung stromaufwärts eines endlichen Hindernisses auftreten. Ihre Größenordnung gleicht jener von Scherungen, welche aus Effekten des thermischen Windes entstehen können. Die horizontale Perturbation der Geschwindigkeit ist bloß um eine Größenordnung kleiner als die Fließgeschwindigkeit des Grundstromes.Die Vorteile des neuen Ansatzes werden diskutiert: Quellsingularitäten sind besser als die üblichen analytischen Darstellungen der Topographie geeignet, die mitunter über weite Distanzen laufenden Störwellen niedrigster Frequenzen mit kolumnarem Charakter zu erfassen.Im Anhang findet man die Verallgemeinerung auf ein analoges dreidimensionales Modell: Ein System zweier partieller Differentialgleichungen führt zu Pseudo-Stromlinien des dreidimensionalen Raumes.

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Source disturbances simulating orographical effects: The determination of upstream boundary values

Summary As outlined in an Appendix a system of partial differential equations is derived for the stream surfaces of a flow of a stratified fluid over an obstacle for the so-called pseudo-instationary case of an inviscid linearized model for mesoscale motions in three dimensions.The solution for the two-dimensional case, which is the basic part of this paper, results in a Helmholtz Equation, the four boundary conditions of which are partially modified by two additional terms characterizing the instationarity of the problem. The orographic effects are parameterized by the effective source singularity. (The latter corresponds roughly to a mountain range with a semi-circular cross-sectional profile).For the upstream part of a rectangular range steady-state solutions in the limit of long time are obtained by the methods of Laplace-Fourier. The numerical calculation shows, that a system of orographically caused shear-layers (columnar waves) exists. The wind shears induced are of the order of shears due to thermal wind effects, though quite apart from these effects. The perturbations of horizontal velocity are only one order of magnitude smaller than the velocity of the fluid-flow itself.The results show that source singularities are good means to represent topographical effects: Especially they may explain more precisely upstream influences due to horizontally propagating waves having near-zero frequencies than the usual analytical formulations of orography can do it.Finally the theoretical results are compared with some data-sets taken from fluid-tank experiments and from observations from instrumented aircraft.