The Green Castle Sandstone Formation: A new name for the Cwmffrwd Formation (Old Red Sandstone) preoccupied by an Ordovician Member

The Geological Survey’s Framework Report on the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh region includes a proposal for a new formational name, the Cwmffrwd Formation, for the basal formation of the Daugleddau Group in Carmarthenshire, S. Wales.The name is preoccupied by the Early Ordovician Cwmffrwd Member of the Carmarthen Formation and a new name, the Green Castle Sandstone Formation is proposed for the Cwmffrwd Formation.     

贵州道真新民铝土矿区绿色勘查应用与实践

绿色勘查是绿色发展在地质勘查领域的实践,是我国地质勘查工作的必由之路。地质勘查工作中主要探矿工程包括槽探、浅井、钻探、坑探等,如不注意保护环境,实施绿色勘查,则每一种探矿工程都会对生态环境带来或多或少的影响。本文以贵州道真新民铝土矿绿色勘查示范区为例,详细介绍绿色勘查的应用与实践情况。结果表明:通过实施绿色勘查可以最大限度地减少勘查工作对生态环境的扰动和影响,实现保护生态环境和资源勘查双赢。     

基于弹性薄片格林函数的GPS应变求解方法对青藏高原东北缘三维构造变形特征的研究

基于弹性薄片格林函数的GPS三维应变求解方法,对青藏高原东北缘地区的构造变形特征进行研究。结果表明,青藏高原东北缘的应变主要集中在边界断裂上,而在断裂之间的内部块体应变分布相对较小,垂直应变最大值位于日月山断裂以东和海原断裂以南的区域,与块体旋转及物质东向运移有关,且很可能受中下地壳流的影响。本文用三维GPS应变分析为理解大陆内部构造变形动力学过程提供了新的视角。     

Virtual nature,violent accumulation: The ‘spectacular failure’ of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park

In East Africa, financially strained governments increasingly experiment with voluntary, market-based carbon offset schemes for enhancing the public management of protected areas. Often, conservationists and governments portray these as ‘triple-win’ solutions for climate change mitigation, biodiversity preservation, and local socioeconomic development. Examining such rhetoric, this paper analyses the rise and decline of an integrated carbon offset and conservation initiative at Mount Elgon National Park in eastern Uganda, involving a partnership between the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and a Dutch NGO, Face the Future. In doing so, the paper reveals the ways in which the uncompensated dispossession of local residents was a necessary precondition for the project’s implementation. Although external auditors expected the project to sequester 3.73 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO₂e) between 1994 and 2034, conflicts forced the scheme to cease reforestation in 2003. Noting this rapid decline, we problematize the ways in which Face the Future and other carbon market intermediaries represented their activities via project documents and websites, obscuring the violence that was necessary for the project’s implementation. In so doing, we argue that the maintenance of a ‘triple win’ spectacle is itself integral to the management of carbon sequestration projects, as it provides consumers with a form of ‘ethical’ use value, and greatly enhances the capacity of carbon market brokers to accumulate exchange value by attracting ‘green’ investors. Consequently, what we term a ‘spectacular failure’ manifests in at least two ways: first, in the unravelling of the heavily mediatized spectacle of harmonious, profitable conservation, and, second, in the deleterious nature of the consequences that accrue to local communities and ecosystems alike.     

Forging alliance with Russia: the example of a Green Investment Scheme

Abstract

Russian Kyoto related interests are economic and after the US withdrawal the mission of Russian actors has been to find new demand for Russian credits and allowances. Kyoto related benefits to Russia will be significantly smaller than earlier expected, however, the revenues are now more likely to be focused on climate change mitigation purposes. Competition in the Kyoto market has established buyers’ market and Russia has to accommodate the interests of investors in order to gain benefits. The Russian initiative ‘Green Investment Scheme’ to recycle revenues from International Emissions Trading (IET) to further environmental activities would convene demand for Russian AAUs but experience the same problems than the previous initiatives: inadequate institutional arrangement, unclear division of responsibilities between domestic actors, prolonged ratification process and lack of eligibility strategy. These problems have prevented implementation of GIS so far. Therefore, these problems have to be addressed by high-level Russian policy-makers if serious benefits from Kyoto are sought. Actors building alliances with Russia should focus on assisting with solving these problems.     

重组质粒HF443-EGFP的构建及其在赤潮毒素检测中的应用初探

采用基因工程的方法，进行重组质粒HF443一EGFP的构建和在哺乳动物细胞中的表达，并进行了其用于赤潮毒素检测的可能性研究。结果表明，用PCR技术扩增EGFP基因，用XbaⅠ、Hind Ⅲ双酶切并纯化，与同样双酶切并纯化的HF443质粒连接，可构建重组质粒HF443-EGFP；利用Lipofect AMINE2000转染体外培养哺乳动物BIU-87细胞。在培养体系中加入不同浓度的GTX，而后加入Na^ 通道激活剂乌头碱以诱导绿色荧光蛋白表达，荧光显微镜下观察细胞中绿色荧光蛋白表达的变化情况。细胞发出的荧光随毒素浓度的增加而减弱，存在一定的剂量效应关系，提示毒素GTX可显著影响绿色荧光蛋白的表达，重组质粒：HF443-EGFP用于赤潮霉素检测有一定的可行性.     

海洋管藻目绿藻——刺松藻和假根羽藻PSI荧光特异性的研究

采用分离、原位扫描和光谱分析方法,将管藻目录藻刺松藻和假根羽藻的叶绿体、类囊体膜、PSI复合物及其亚复合物的结构及光谱性质与软丝藻和菠菜做了比较。结果表明,管藻止录藻缺少作为高等植物PSI表征的730nm长波荧光,这一特异现象主要与LHCI结构的差异有关。采用PAGE法分离出的4种PSI复合物的荧光主发射峰分别在698、690、685和677nm,在710－715nm处有一个随分子量减小和逐渐明显的肩峰。不同去污剂处理只影响PSI复合荧光峰的高低,而不影响其峰位。PAGE再分离得到的假根羽藻LHCI由24－27．5kDa的4种多肽构成,Chl-a/Chl-b=1.2,77K荧光发射峰在682nm;CCI只含有67和56kDa多肽,是叶绿体715nm荧光的发射部位。当有HLCI存在时,该荧光不明显。     

2021年日本福岛县冲地震的震源破裂过程分析基于采用经验格林函数方法的波形反演

利用中小震作为经验格林函数,选取0.2~2.0 Hz频段的强震数据进行波形反演,获得了2021年福岛县冲地震的破裂过程。结果表明:该地震的破裂主要集中在断层面距离震源约25 km的区域内,沿震源向东北延伸约5 km,向西南延伸约20 km;在该区域内,识别出两个滑动量集中的区域,均分布在距离震源约15 km西南侧,主要滑动量集中区域最大滑动量约3.2 m,深度基本与震源一致;次要滑动量集中区域略比主要滑动量集中区域浅约18 km。该震源模型对应矩震级M_w7.3,破裂速度为2.4 km/s。通过选择不同的中小震组合进行波形反演,结果对该震源模型特性无显著影响,揭示了该震源模型的稳健性;基于该震源模型合成反演分析中未使用的强震观测台站强震动,获得的合成波形与观测波形有很好的相关性,充分证明了该震源模型时空特征的可靠性。     

PUBLICATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Abstract

Explicit algebraic expressions of influence coefficients of an aquifer system are addressed. The methodology is straightforwardly exemplified using a one-dimensional (1D) semi-confined homogeneous aquifer model. It consists of the integration of the governing equation from two different viewpoints. On the one hand, the analytical solution to the governing equation is presented under an integral form involving the appropriate Green function. On the other hand, equations resulting from a finite difference discretization are processed to deduce a fully explicit algebraic expression of the nodal hydraulic head. This latter, arranged after the previously developed continuum solution, helps with deriving an explicit algebraic expression of influence coefficients corresponding to the studied aquifer model. Finally, the study is extended to an inhomogeneous aquifer model.     

3D scattering of obliquely incident plane SV waves by an alluvial valley embedded in a fluid-saturated,poroelastic layered half-space

The indirect boundary element method is used to study the 3D dynamic response of an infinitely long alluvial valley embedded in a saturated layered half-space for obli- quely incident SV waves. A wave-number transform is first applied along the valley＇s axis to reduce a 3D problem to a 2D plane strain problem. The problem is then solved in the section perpendicular to the axis of the valley. Finally, the 3D dynamic responses of the valley are obtained by an inverse wave-number transform. The validity of the method is con- firmed by comparison with relevant results. The differences between the responses around the valley embedded in dry and in saturated poroelastic medium are studied, and the effects of drainage conditions, porosity, soil layer stiffness, and soil layer thickness on the dynamic response are dis- cussed in detail resulting in some conclusions.