Provenance of chalk tesserae from Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, UK

Thin section petrographical analysis of chalk tesserae at Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, England, identifies a range of planktonic foraminifera and the calcareous algal cyst Pithonella that identify the Late Cenomanian Rotalipora cushmani Biozone (BGS Foraminiferal Biozones 4iii to 7). The local chalk crop to the north of the villa includes rocks of R. cushmani Biozone age, and indicates a likely local, rather than long distance, source for the tesserae. Microfossils provide a powerful tool for identifying the provenance of artefacts in Roman Britain.     

山东玲珑金矿床成矿流体地球化学特征

玲珑金矿床第一成矿阶段与含金黄铁矿共生的石英中主要发育4种类型的原生流体包裹体:Ⅰ气液两相,Ⅱ含CO2三相,ⅢCO2,Ⅳ单液相包裹体。流体包裹体成分激光拉曼光谱分析及测温结果显示:①Ⅰa型包体,气液比10%~15%,均一温度为162.7~235.6℃,w(NaCl)(盐度)为4.65%~7.59%,气相平均摩尔分数为:H2O 96.48%,CO22.4%;②Ⅰb型包体,气液比30%~45%,均一温度266.9~349.2℃,w(NaCl)为10.8%~13.4%,气相平均摩尔分数为H2O 69.75%,CO224.74%;③Ⅱ型含CO2包体,CO2相所占比例为20%~90%,其均一温度为193.5~321.6℃,w(NaCl)2.9%~5.3%,CO2相中,H2O的摩尔分数为27.72%,CO2为70.6%。包裹体成分分析及测温结果综合研究认为,玲珑金矿成矿过程中存在大气降水热液与地幔来源流体的混合作用,前者与从流体中分离出的富CO2流体混合,以不同比例被捕获形成Ⅱ型包体;而与分异出CO2后的CO2不饱和地幔流体混合,被捕获形成Ⅰb型包体。两种流体混合导致的含矿热液物化条件变化对金的沉淀成矿具有重要意义。     

大型双槽渡槽结构振动特性分析

根据大型双槽渡槽的结构特点，应用薄壁梁段有限元法，考虑了渡槽横向弯扭耦合振动、约束扭转变形和盆式橡胶支座等对渡槽结构动力作用的影响；对实际工程中某大型渡槽进行了振动特性分析，研究了该渡槽设计水位变化对大型渡槽模态的影响，探讨了该大型渡槽在几种工况下的模态变化范围，所得结果可为该大型渡槽的抗震设计提供依据。     

Evaluation of vertical seismic response for a large‐scale beam‐supported aqueduct

By the theories of potential flow and structural vibration, the formulae for evaluating the ‘wet’ (with water) frequencies and mode shapes of the beam‐supported aqueduct are derived through a simplified fluid‐structure interaction analysis. The time‐history formulae of structural responses to the vertical seismic excitation are obtained. Applying the response‐spectrum principle, the equivalent vertical earthquake load exerted on the beam and the corresponding effects are also derived. Several illustrative examples are conducted. The analytical results show that: (i) The ‘wet’ frequencies of the structure are lower than the corresponding ‘dry’ (without water) frequencies due to the participating water mass, but the ‘wet’ mode shapes are identical to the corresponding ‘dry’ ones. (ii) The water mass plays an important role in the vertical seismic response, which varies with the different geological sites. For the different seismic inputs, the deeper the water is, the greater are the structural responses. (iii) The vertical seismic effects on the beam are generally not too small to be neglected and should be considered in the structural designs of a beam‐supported aqueduct. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Recent Aeolian Origin of Surficial Gypsum Crusts in Southern Tunisia: Geomorphological,Archaeological and Remote Sensing Evidence

Recent quarring of the surficial gypsum crusts adjacent to Djebel Sidi Bou Hellas has revealed sections typically showing a discontinuous surface gravel cover underlain by more than 7 m of microcrystalline gypsum. The location, elongate shape, form in cross-section and chemistry of this deposit suggests an aeolian origin, whereby aeolian sands have been trapped against a glacis d'erosion terrace, and subsequently consolidated by meteoric waters. One gypsum quarry revealed a midden and the remains of a Roman dwelling now buried within the crust. A radiocarbon date of organic matter in the midden and a Roman coin found within it suggest an age of AD324–345 for the deposit. This is the first firm date for a surficial gypsum crust in southern Tunisia and the age is surprisingly young. Previous studies have speculated on phases of crust development between the Villefranchian and early Holocene but none since. Remote sensing and field evidence show that gypsiferous sands are currently deflated from the dry parts of the mudflats of Chott Fedjaj. They are subsequently transported in a southwesterly trajectory and trapped against glacis on the southern margins of Chott Fedjaj, forming contemporary analogues of the Roman deposit. Sands that are not trapped form dune fields and sandflats where gypsum crusts appear to be forming today. If the source area of gypsum sands has remained constant since Roman times, then the predominant wind direction has moved 45° to the southwest since then. The other possible source of aeolian gypsum for the Roman deposit, the vast mudflats of Chott Djerid, involves an even greater change in predominant wind direction. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Late Holocene Mediterranean coastal change along the Tiber Delta and Roman occupation of the Laurentine shore, central Italy

A line of Roman villas once dominated the Mediterranean coastline to the south of the Tiber river mouth near Ostia in central Italy. The Roman remains, which were constructed within a series of dune ridges, now lie up to 900 m from the current shoreline as a result of the continued evolution of the Tiber delta in response to postglacial sea level rise, sediment inputs from the Tiber river catchment and tectonic uplift. Infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) ages of potassium-rich feldspars extracted from dune sands are in good agreement with the independent age control provided by the Roman structures and allow us to hypothesise an increase in aggradation rates of five times since the end of the period of Roman occupation compared with the earlier Holocene.     

Pollution au plomb dans la Savoie antique (II–IIIe s. apr. J.-C.) en relation avec une installation métallurgique de la cité de Vienne

In Lake Anterne (NW French Alps), the Roman period is characterised by a lead contamination more important than that of the 1970s, due to the use of leaded gasoline. The maximum of this contamination period has been varve-dated 220 AD, i.e., during the optimum of Roman civilization in the Alps. Crossing palaeoenvironmental and archaeological evidences points out the economic importance of the town of Passy for the City of Vienne and yields a new example of lead contamination due to local metallurgical activity rather than distant impact of the exploitation of the Spanish Rio Tinto mine. To cite this article: F. Arnaud et al., C. R. Geoscience 338 (2005).     

渡槽中流体非线性晃动的边界元模拟

应用边界元法分析了流体非线性晃动及其对渡槽的作用效应,将所得结果与线性解析结果作了比较．数值计算表明：流体以较大幅度晃动时,线性模型结果与非线性边界元结果有较大偏差,计算有限幅流体晃动反应宜采用非线性模型．     

Equivalent mechanical models of sloshing fluid in arbitrary‐section aqueducts

This paper reports on a semi‐analytical/numerical method to model sloshing water in an arbitrarily shaped aqueduct. The water motion is assumed to be inviscid, compressible, and linear (small displacement). The transverse sloshing fluid in an aqueduct is equivalently simplified as a fixed rigid mass M₀ and a mass–spring system (M₁, K₁). According to a rule that the actual fluid (computed with finite element model) and its equivalent mechanical model have the same first sloshing frequency and acting effects on the aqueduct, the analytical solutions of the fixed (impulsive) mass M₀, sloshing (convective) massM₁, spring stiffness K₁, and their locations in the aqueduct body are acquired by the least squares (curve fitting) algorithm. Applying this equivalent principle, the equivalent mechanical models are respectively obtained for the sloshing water in rectangular, semicircular, U‐shaped, and trapezoid aqueducts. The equivalent principle and fluid models are validated through comparison investigations involving rectangular and U‐shaped aqueducts. The dynamic properties and seismic responses of the original and equivalent systems are simulated, compared, and discussed for a U‐shaped aqueduct bridge. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a simplified model of sloshing fluid for the seismic/wind‐resistant computation of the support structures of the aqueduct bridge. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.