THE MONUMENT AND THE BUNGALOW

ABSTRACT. Students of human landscapes often view those landscapes as documents and seek to “read” them for cultural and historical meaning. But how does one learn to read landscape? And how can students be taught to do it? After many years of teaching courses about commonplace American landscapes, I have discovered that students must learn two things before they can expect to read human landscapes. First, they must learn to pay attention to commonplace things which most Americans normally ignore. Second, they must master vocabularies that permit them to classify elements in the landscape and to connect small things with larger ideas. Two examples in the landscape of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania—the town's war memorial and a scattering of California bungalows-demonstrate how these ideas work.     

地气灾害与地质科学问题

地下气体的形成与地质构造或活动有关,导致地下气体的喷发或溢出主要有自然或人为（钻探或采矿等地下工程等）2种因素。20世纪初国内外开始关注地下气体的喷发或溢出,主要目的是用于地震监测或预报。随着人类活动空间的扩展和地球内部能量周期性聚集释放,地下气体向其它空间排放现象日趋频发,其主要成分有CH4、CO2、H2S等,是造成大气、地下水、土壤污染和人身伤害的主要原因之一。同时,大量文献和证据证明地震、温室效应、雾霾等与地下气体喷发或溢出有关。所以,地下气体泄漏是一种新型的地质灾害,属于民生地质的重要部分,涉及了诸多科学问题。本文结合南太行山前（鹤壁）由钻井工程诱发多起地下气体喷发或溢出现象,就其危害和成因进行了分析研究,并提出了具体的地质科学问题和建议。     

Channel sediment variability along a river: A case study of the Siret River (Romania)

The Siret River has the largest drainage basin (42 274 km²) in Romania. It gathers all the rivers from the eastern part of the Eastern Carpathians, a fact that causes marked asymmetry of the basin. This study is principally concerned with changes in the form of the longitudinal profile and the grain size variability introduced by the Carpathian tributaries. Channel sediment analyses considered the petrography, granulometry, and morphometry of the pebbles, relating these to the river bed and floodplain geometry and to some properties of the drainage basin. The following conclusions arise. The Siret River undergoes an intense regrading of its longitudinal profile, with marked aggradation between transects 24 and 26 (see Figures 1 and 2). This reflects selective accumulation of coarse material due to the massive contribution of the Carpathian tributaries. This phenomenon has been continuous throughout the Holocene, resulting in the gravel sheet formation of the Pericarpathian piedmont.     

论天山山麓带第四纪的重大事件及其深入研究的必要性

本文简要论述了天山南北山麓地带第四纪的重大事件。它们是强烈的第四纪构造活动、黄土堆积、山麓冰川作用以及古人类活动等。指出这些事件中诸多问题需要深入研究的必要性。     

Use of Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) imagery to investigate upslope particle size controls on arid piedmont morphology

Geomorphic differences between slopes backing two distinct desert piedmont types provide a proxy indicator for the kind of landform developed at the corresponding mountain base. Here, the term ‘bedrock pediment’ describes subaerial bedrock platforms that emanate from a mountain base while ‘alluvial slope’ describes suballuvial bedrock platforms that extend from the mountain. Mountain slopes backing bedrock pediments have been demonstrated to be mantled by larger clast sizes than corresponding slopes backing alluvial slopes in the Phoenix region, Arizona, USA. The present research focuses on using the disparate particle sizes between slopes backing bedrock pediments and alluvial slopes as an indicator for the piedmont form developed at the mountain base, and uses high-resolution remotely sensed digital data as a medium for quantitative landform assessments. A gravel + bedrock versus soil index developed from airborne midinfrared multispectral imagery acquired by the Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) indicates the presence of slopes mantled with larger particle sizes versus slopes mantled with smaller particle sizes and greater soil coverage. Two test areas confirm the applicability of this method and further demonstrate the usefulness of high-resolution midinfrared multispectral imagery as a geomorphic tool in arid regions.     

Effect of upstream ponds on stream temperature

Many tributaries feeding streams are connected to ponds that heat up during summer months; however, the influence of these ponds on receiving stream temperature was not known. Stream temperature affects microfauna and fish habitats in aquatic ecosystems. Three tributaries with headwater ponds exposed to sunlight and one tributary unassociated with a large, upstream pond were selected for study within the Pennypack Creek watershed in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. Temperature loggers were installed in the pond (when applicable), associated tributary, and in the Pennypack Creek up and downstream of its confluence with the tributary. Although diurnal temperature fluctuations were apparent, the study showed no significant differences in temperature up and downstream of tributary discharge to Pennypack Creek. Pond water temperatures were up to 4°C warmer than the Pennypack Creek; however, temperatures downstream and upstream of the tributaries leading out of the ponds were within 1°C of each other.     

塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地的气候表现

通过塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地满参、肖塘两地气候观测数据和北缘山前绿洲轮台的气象站资料进行对比分析，结果表明：从沙漠外缘至腹地温度呈升高超势，气温日较差和年较差最大值在位于外缘和腹地之间的肖塘；降水表现为外缘多于内部，某一时期内部降水又明显多于外缘，并且年降水量决定于某一次降水过程；愈深入沙漠内部，湿度越低、蒸发越大。     

色尔腾山山前断裂东段与西段转折处构造演化特征

色尔腾山山前断裂位于鄂尔多斯块体西北角,控制着临河凹陷（河套盆地西部）的持续沉降。对色尔腾山山前断裂东段与西段转折处构造演化模式的研究,有助于提高对正断层演化规律和区域地震风险的认识。本文在研究区大比例尺活动断裂填图的基础上,通过对重点区域进行无人机微地貌的测量、探槽开挖、钻孔资料与第四纪测年等方法获取数据,并运用构造地质学、地貌学和沉积地层学等理论,综合探讨断层转折处的构造演化模式及地震危险性。通过研究认为,近东西走向的色尔腾山山前断裂西段与北西走向的东段间以三角状的转换斜坡相连。现今的转折点为应力的积累区,具有较高的地震风险。水平拉伸力的持续作用使断层不断向盆地一侧迁移,同时使断裂转折部位更加平滑。     

Evaluating the effects of urbanization age on the morphology of low-order urban streams in the U.S. southern Piedmont

We used space-for-time substitution, correlation, and regression analyses to study the effects of urbanization age on stream channel variables from 19 low-order urban watersheds in the southern Piedmont of the United States. The results are used to address questions regarding which variables are most responsive to urbanization age, the duration of response relative to system size, and changes in adjustment rate over time. Few morphological variables were found to be well correlated with metrics of urbanization age. The maximum-width/maximum-depth ratio (Wmax/Dmax) exhibited the best correlations to multiple metrics of urbanization age, with all correlations positive. A dearth of young urbanization ages in our dataset makes mathematically derived response times and end states for Wmax/Dmax highly uncertain. Inferences from the age range that is better represented suggest that the period of major response has occurred within the first three decades following urbanization. Subsequently, gradual increase in Wmax/Dmax appears to continue over 40 or more years. Response of channel form to urbanization and time elapsed in these low-order Piedmont streams is constrained by the presence of resistant bedrock below streambeds, a circumstance addressed by recent channel evolution models.     

基于地震与非地震联合约束下复杂冲断带构造建模:以西昆仑山前柯东构造带为例

柯东构造带是揭示西昆仑山前冲断带变形过程的关键区之一,也是当前油气勘探重要的目标区。由于该区构造变形 强、地层速度变化快以及地表条件复杂等因素,导致当前勘探面临着地震勘探资料品质差,构造建模多解性强等问题。文 章利用R型因子降维分析方法,通过对柯东构造带甫沙地区的重、磁、电反演成果进行降维分析,结果表明甫沙地区深部 发育断块构造,不存在地震剖面上显示的背斜构造;同时联合地震资料的综合解释,认为现今的甫沙地区发育的断块构造 是早期的完整背斜受早更新世山前右旋走滑断裂改造的结果。在柯东构造带的综合建模实践表明,通过地震与非地震方法 的联合约束可以为认识复杂冲断带的构造变形提供有效的手段。