Characterization of an Area Polluted by Copper and Zinc:the Relation between Soil Texture,Mineralogy and Pollutant Concentration

Abstract: Twenty-four soil samples were collected at three depths from an approximately 2.5 acre contaminated site in southern Piedmont (Italy) and then analyzed. The main soil parameters determined were: pH, Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), particle size distribution, total organic carbon (TOC) content and retained metal concentration. The mineral phases were identified by X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD). All of the samples contained Zn and Cu resulting from industrial contamination during the last century, and those obtained at depths of 20-40 cm consistently showed the highest levels. To determine which size fraction was most active in the retention process, the samples were separated into four fractions (≤2 mm, ≤63 μm, ≤30 μm and ≤2 μm) and the amount of pollutant measured in each. It was found that metal retention was the highest in the clayey fraction, whose clay minerals were identified by XRPD after K+ and Mg2+ saturation, glycerol treatment and heating to 550°C. The clayey fraction was also the richest in TOC, and a direct correlation between TOC amount and metal retention was observed.     

基于卫星遥感图象纹理特征的云类识别方法及软件设计

介绍了基于卫星遥感资料,运用纹理学识别云类的原理、方法及软件设计。理论与实际分析表明,不同的云类对纹理敏感,纹理特征量是识别云类的良好因子,软件设计充分考虑了模块化,可视化与交互性。     

安徽冬瓜山铜矿床的地球化学特征

冬瓜山铜矿床发育上部层状矿体和下部浸染状—脉状矿体,地球化学特征呈现出明显的垂向变化和二元结构性。从下部浸染状—脉状矿化岩石到上部层状块状矿石,CaO、MgO、Fe2O3、FeO、Cu、Au、Zn、Ag、As等含量和δ18O、δ12C值总体逐渐增高,SiO2、Al2O3、TiO2、K2O、Na2O、Pb、Hg、Sb、Mo、REE等含量和流体包裹体温度379·3℃→135·0℃及δ34S值总体逐渐降低。硬石膏δ34S值为 14·8‰~ 20·5‰,黄铁矿δ34S值为 2·7‰~ 7·9‰,含矿硅质岩δ18O为 12·0‰,含铜矿石中菱铁矿δ18O平均值为 13·97‰。地质地球化学特征反映冬瓜山铜矿床为海底热水喷流沉积成因。     

Experimental study of surface texture and resonance mechanism of booming sand

The sound-producing mechanism of booming sand has long been a pending problem in the blown sand physics. Based on the earlier researches, the authors collected some silent sand samples from Teng- ger Desert, Australian Desert, Kuwait Desert, beaches of Hainan Island and Japanese coast as well as the soundless booming sand samples from the Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang to make washing ex- periments. In the meantime the chemical corrosion experiment of glass micro-spheres, surface coating experiment and SEM examination were also conducted. The experimental results show that the sound production of booming sand seems to have nothing to do with the presence of SiO2 gel on the surface of sand grains and unrelated to the surface chemical composition of sand grains but is related to the resonance cavities formed by porous (pit-like) physical structure resulting from a number of factors such as wind erosion, water erosion, chemical corrosion and SiO2 gel deposition, etc. Its resonance mechanism is similar to that of Hemholz resonance cavity. Under the action of external forces, nu- merous spherical and sand grains with smooth surface and porous surface are set in motion and rub with each other to produce extremely weak vibration sound and then become audible sound by human ears through the magnification of surface cavity resonance. However the booming sands may lose their resonance mechanism and become silent sand due to the damping action caused by the invasion of finer particles such as dust and clay into surface holes of sand grains. Therefore, clearing away fine pollutants on the quartz grain surface is an effective way to make silent sand emit audible sound.     

Textural evidence for dilatant (shear thickening) rheology of magma at high crystal concentrations

Investigation of the rheology of magmas at high crystal concentrations by experimental means has proved problematic. An alternative approach is to study textures of igneous rocks that not only preserve evidence of the kinematics of magma flow, such as flow direction, but can also preserve evidence of rheology. Flow textures in multiply intruded trachyte dykes on Fraser Island, eastern Australia record evidence of dilatant flow during solidification. This conclusion is reached by interpretation of microscopic ductile shear zones that disrupt the groundmass of aligned feldspar laths. Detailed three-dimensional investigation demonstrates that the dihedral angle between conjugate micro-shear zones is approximately 65°. This conjugate angle is equivalent to that observed in dilatant granular materials such as sand. Dilatant behaviour is synonymous with shear thickening rheology indicating that the magma flow is time-dependent and resists high flow rates. Some of the dykes contain autobrecciation fragments that may represent localities where the ductile flow rate threshold was exceeded. Newtonian or pseudoplastic (shear thinning) rheology of crystal-poor magmas must progressively give way to shear thickening rheology during cooling and increasing crystal concentration.     

利用ERS-2 SAR图像纹理分析方法揭示长白山天池火山近代喷发物空间分布特征

简单介绍了SAR图像的纹理特征以及正交小波变换纹理提取方法。论述了SAR图像的纹理特征参与分类的重要性。以长白山天池火山为例,通过对ERS2SAR图像进行纹理分析,提取了SAR图像两个层次的尺度变化、时频局部化和方向性纹理特征。并将SAR纹理特征与TM图像及DEM进行复合,利用多源信息各自的优势,进行了BP神经元网络分类,从较大范围对长白山天池火山735±15aB.P.大喷发的喷发物空间分布进行评价。获取了长白山天池火山近代喷发物的空间分布及规模。这对长白山天池火山未来喷发危险性初步评价、火山地质制图及火山灾害预测有重要意义。     

Weathering: Toward a Fractal Quantifying

Weathering occurs over a wide range of scales. To link features through these scales is a major challenge for interdisciplinary weathering studies. Fractal approach seems to be specially useful for this purpose. We introduce a multistep fractal weathering assessment scheme devoted to extract fractal weathering classifiers from texture analysis of the mineral's image. Our scheme enables to quantitatively estimate the global and local information about the geometry of the weathering pattern. This information is basic to develop geometrical indices of weathering, which can significantly enrich the common qualitative and semiquantitative weathering assessment schemes. To justify the fractal approach, a strong statistical self-similarity has been documented for both the weathering and fresh features of two common silica minerals: quartz and biogenic A-opal (phytolith) over four orders of length scales. The procedure is fast, drastically reduces thresholding bias, promises to be universal, it is valid for genetically different minerals and rock types, scale independent, and specially useful for monitoring the changes in the mineral's roughness during the alteration. Two of the proposed classifiers seem to be potentially useful for direct application in the field and be used by nonspecialist.     

浙西北淳安银山地区银铅锌矿床矿石结构构造、矿石成分及成矿机制

浙西北与同处钦杭成矿带东段的赣东北和皖南相比,由于其地质研究程度较低,在该区尚未能找到大型多金属矿床。近年来,随着地质勘查程度的不断提高,淳安地区银山一带发现中型以上银铅锌矿床。本文选取银山矿区钻井岩芯中富含银、铅、锌矿石样品,利用显微镜观察和电子探针分析等方法,对其中的银等多金属的矿石结构构造、矿石成分及成矿机制等进行了较深入的研究。研究表明,银山地区多金属(银、铅、锌)矿体主要分布在蓝田组上段与上覆皮园村组之间的接触带中,另有部分处于蓝田组层内岩性变化的界面以及蓝田组底部白云质灰岩和下伏南沱组含砾泥岩之间,均呈似层状展布。矿石呈自形-半自形粒状结构、他形粒状结构和交代残余结构以及块状构造、浸染状构造和网脉状构造。金属矿物组合主要分为黄铁矿-黄铜矿-方铅矿-闪锌矿和磁黄铁矿-毒砂-闪锌矿两组,其中前者位于蓝田组顶部和皮园村组之间,属于中低温热液型的矿物组合,后者位于蓝田组下部和南沱组之间,属于中温热液型的矿物组合。通过对不同金属矿物中银含量的对比分析,得出银山地区银元素主要赋存在方铅矿中。脉石矿物有石英、方解石、白云母、绿泥石、单斜辉石等,尤其在矿石中多见的细粒单斜辉石按其成分上的差异分为透辉石和钙铁辉石两类,指示了热液作用对成矿的显著影响。综上所述,笔者认为浙西北银山多金属矿床成因很可能为早期层控-后期中低温热液改造的叠生型矿床。其形成机制是:震旦纪时期海相火山喷流沉积使得部分多金属成层聚集,蓝田组地层为银山多金属矿床的形成提供了部分的物质来源,加里东期的变质变形作用及其发育的断裂构造也具有一定的控制作用;随后,大规模的燕山期花岗质岩浆及其流体组分沿断裂带上侵,不仅使得原有地层中的多金属元素进一步富集,而且其本身也可能带入部分多金属流体,从而使得富含多金属元素热液流体在具有地球化学障的岩性界面上富集成矿。此项研究对该地区及邻区进一步找矿勘探具有重要的科学意义和应用价值。     

安徽峙门口铜—铁—金—硫矿床地球化学特征

峙门口铜—铁—金—硫矿床发育上部层状矿体和下部脉状矿体。上部层状矿石重晶石的δ~(34)S值为+14.10‰～+18.90‰。上部层状矿石黄铁矿和方铅矿的δ~(34)S值为+3.50‰～+5.84‰,下部脉状矿石黄铁矿的δ~(34)S值为+4.80‰～+6.80‰。下部脉状矿石中脉石英的δ~(18)O值为+14.3‰～+1 8.5‰,δ~(30)Si值为-0.3%0～-0.2‰。下部脉状矿石黄铁矿Re/Os比值为78.342～175.540,上(顶)部层状矿石中黄铁矿Re/Os比值为62.298～169.545。从下部脉状矿石到上部层状矿石,δ~(34)S值、Re/Os比值和流体包裹体温度249 ℃→97 ℃逐渐降低,~(206)Pb/~(204)Pb、~(207)Pb/~(204)Pb、~(208)Pb/~(204)Pb平均值和Os_总、Re、~(187)Re等含量逐渐增高。矿石黄铁矿Re-Os同位素等时线年龄303±33 Ma。地质地球化学特征反映峙门口铜—铁—金—硫矿床为海底热水喷流沉积成因。     

Single explosions at Stromboli in 2002: Use of clast microtextures to map physical diversity across a fragmentation zone

A combination of fortuitous eruptive and wind conditions at Stromboli volcano in September 2002 enabled the collection of samples of multiple lapilli from individual observed explosions. These ejecta present the first opportunity to analyze the vesicularity of material ejected in a single Strombolian explosion. Samples of between 40 and 92 lapilli were collected from each of six sequential explosions on 30 September 2002, and 28 lapilli were obtained from a single explosion  24 h later (1 October). Density measurements and microtextural observations show that considerable heterogeneity existed within each of the seven samples. Centimeter to millimeter size bubble-rich and bubble-poor zones are present and are, in places, mingled together. These data confirm that the shallow conduit at Stromboli is a texturally diverse environment at the instant of a single explosion, and that a similar range of heterogeneity can persist through closely-spaced sequences of explosions on a timescale of hours and, probably, days, despite the dynamic processes of ascent of melt and decoupled gas phases.