Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Approach for Modeling Flow and Transport Phenomena in Porous Medium Systems: 8. Interface and Common Curve Dynamics

This work is the eighth in a series that develops the fundamental aspects of the thermodynamically constrained averaging theory (TCAT) that allows for a systematic increase in the scale at which multiphase transport phenomena is modeled in porous medium systems. In these systems, the explicit locations of interfaces between phases and common curves, where three or more interfaces meet, are not considered at scales above the microscale. Rather, the densities of these quantities arise as areas per volume or length per volume. Modeling of the dynamics of these measures is an important challenge for robust models of flow and transport phenomena in porous medium systems, as the extent of these regions can have important implications for mass, momentum, and energy transport between and among phases, and formulation of a capillary pressure relation with minimal hysteresis. These densities do not exist at the microscale, where the interfaces and common curves correspond to particular locations. Therefore, it is necessary for a well-developed macroscale theory to provide evolution equations that describe the dynamics of interface and common curve densities. Here we point out the challenges and pitfalls in producing such evolution equations, develop a set of such equations based on averaging theorems, and identify the terms that require particular attention in experimental and computational efforts to parameterize the equations. We use the evolution equations developed to specify a closed two-fluid-phase flow model.     

The geotectonic characteristics and geodynamic evolution of the Red Sea Rift and its adjacent areasSCIEI北大核心CSCD

红海是地球上最年轻的大洋,其板块构造活动正处于威尔逊旋回的幼年期。红海南北两端分别连接着威尔逊旋回的胚胎期和终结期,即东非大裂谷和地中海。这一独特的地理位置和构造部位使其成为板块构造理论研究的圣地。本文通过对已有的地质、地球物理和地球化学资料进行综合分析,了解了红海地区的地形、重磁异常和沿脊的玄武岩地球化学组成等地质构造特征,探讨了红海裂谷的洋壳分布、地幔源区不均一性以及扩张演化历史等问题。红海地形中间深、南北两端浅,可以分为北、中北、中南、南等四段。重磁异常的条带主要出现在中南段,其他段不明显,因而限制了以往对红海扩张历史的认识。目前认为红海全段存在洋壳,红海两岸的沿岸悬崖是共轭扩张陆缘,呈向南开口的喇叭型扩张,而非对应红海岸线的梭子型。红海裂谷沿脊的地幔源区具有明显的不均一性,南段玄武岩显示E-MORB特征,表现为阿法尔地幔柱的影响。红海的发育经历了裂谷前火山作用(31~29Ma)、大陆张裂(29~13Ma)和洋底扩张(<13Ma)三个主要阶段。红海裂谷的形成演化与非洲大陆的裂解、阿法尔地幔柱的活动、新特提斯洋的闭合等密切相关,了解红海的地球动力学过程将为揭示区域大地构造演化以及板块运动规律提供依据。     

腾冲地块晚白垩世-古近纪富锡花岗岩成因:岩浆源区及分异演化条件SCIEI北大核心CSCD

腾冲地块锡成矿作用主要与晚白垩世-古近纪岩浆活动相关,但仅矿区花岗岩体具有较高的锡含量(平均25×10^(-6)),区域上同时代的非成矿花岗岩体并未发生锡的富集。本文通过搜集分析现有研究数据,总结了富锡成矿岩体和区域非成矿岩体在岩浆源区、演化条件和结晶分异程度的异同:区域非成矿岩体锆石ε_(Hf)(t)值(-15.1~+3.39)表明,自东北向西南幔源物质加入有升高的趋势,但区域玄武岩中低含量的Sn(1.61×10^(-6))表明幔源物质混入不利于岩浆中锡的富集。晚白垩世部分非成矿岩体与成矿岩体具有相同ε_(Hf)(t)(-9.7)值,表明其皆源于古老地壳物质的部分熔融,但岩体均表现为准铝质-弱过铝质特征,且锆石Hf同位素(t_(DM2)=1724Ma)和全岩Nd同位素(t_(DM2)=1836Ma)二阶段模式年龄基本一致,因此其源区可能并非富锡的高黎贡山群变质沉积岩,而可能是其中未经风化的变质花岗岩。根据腾冲地块地层厚度(28km)和莫霍面深度(47~35km)推断岩浆源区至少位于地下30km(8.4kbar),由于仅靠地温梯度(25℃/km)无法达到初始熔融温度(>1066℃),源区部分熔融过程很可能受地幔热的影响。根据Fe_(2)O_(3)/FeO比值,非成矿岩体(0.59)与成矿岩体(0.48)均具有较低的氧逸度,属钛铁矿系列,但成矿岩体的结晶分异程度明显高于非成矿岩体,且成矿岩体富含挥发分,高含量的挥发分降低了岩浆固结温度(650~550℃),延长了结晶分异时间,促进了锡在晚期岩浆中的富集。因此腾冲地块富锡花岗岩主要是普通岩浆在低氧逸度环境下发生高度结晶分异的结果。     

化学作用下高庙子膨润土屏障性能演化行为

深地质处置库运营过程中,受地下水化学成分、可能泄露的核素等近场化学条件影响,膨润土工程屏障性能可能发生衰减。围绕化学作用下膨润土屏障性能的演化行为,以我国北山处置库预选场地为工程背景,以内蒙古高庙子膨润土为研究对象,首先介绍了高庙子膨润土的基本物理性质及北山预选场地近场化学条件;在此基础上,详细总结了化学作用下高庙子膨润土水力、力学及阻滞等屏障性能演化行为相关研究成果。结果表明:化学作用对膨润土持水、渗透特性的影响可分别依据渗透吸力及双电层理论解释;化学作用下膨润土膨胀力的衰减与其水化膨胀机制有关,化-力耦合及化-水-力耦合作用下膨润土变形特性因渗透固结、化学软化效应而发生改变;膨润土的吸附与扩散特性受核素浓度、离子环境、pH值等因素影响。最后,提出化学作用下膨润土屏障性能演化研究应重点关注的方向。     

Construction of a fluvial facies knowledge graph and its application in sedimentary facies identification

Lithofacies paleogeography is a data-intensive discipline that involves the interpretation and compilation of sedimentary facies. Traditional sedimentary facies analysis is a labor-intensive task with the added complexity of using unstructured knowledge and unstandardized terminology. Therefore, it is very difficult for beginners or non-geology scholars who lack a systematic knowledge and experience in sedimentary facies analysis. These hurdles could be partly alleviated by having a standardized, structured, and systematic knowledge base coupled with an efficient automatic machine-assisted sedimentary facies identification system. To this end, this study constructed a knowledge system for fluvial facies and carried out knowledge representation. Components include a domain knowledge graph for types of fluvial facies (meandering, braided and other fluvial depositional environments) and their characteristic features (bedforms, grain size distribution, etc.) with visualization, a method for query and retrieval on a graph database platform, a hierarchical knowledge tree-structure, a data-mining clustering algorithm for machine-analysis of publication texts, and an algorithm model for this area of sedimentary facies reasoning. The underlying sedimentary facies identification and knowledge reasoning system is based on expert experience and synthesis of publications. For testing, 17 sets literature publications data that included details of sedimentary facies data (bedforms, grain sizes, etc.) were submitted to the artificial intelligence model, then compared and validated. This testing set of automated reasoning results yielded an interpretation accuracy of about 90% relative to the published interpretations in those papers. Therefore, the model and algorithm provide an efficient and automated reasoning technology, which provides a new approach and route for the rapid and intelligent identification of other types of sedimentary facies from literature data or direct use in the field.     

The role of organic matter in the sorption capacity of marine sediments

Past studies have suggested that desiccation enhances hydrophobicity of salt marsh sediment, and that drying and rewetting sediment can be used to investigate sorption mechanisms of amino acids and other organic compounds [Liu, Z., Lee, C., 2006. Drying effects on sorption capacity of coastal sediment: The importance of architecture and polarity of organic matter. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 70, 3313–3324]. Here we further develop this technique to study sorption of hydrophobic and hydrophilic organic compounds in a wide range of marine sediments. Our results show that hydrophilic compounds sorb strongly to wet coastal sediments; in dried sediments, sorption of hydrophilic compounds decreases, while sorption of hydrophobic compounds is greatly enhanced. Small compounds with aromatic rings sorb more in dried than wet coastal sediments, suggesting that aromatic groups have a stronger effect on sorption than polar groups like amino and carboxyl moieties. Sorption of lysine, glutamic acid and putrescine decreases greatly when sediment is pretreated with KCl, indicating the importance of cation ion exchange. However, α-amino acids sorb much more than corresponding β- or γ-amino acids, and l-alanine sorbs more than d-alanine, suggesting that amino group location and chiral selectivity play an important role in sorption. Comparison of lysine and tyrosine sorption in different sediments indicates that source and diagenetic state of organic matter are important factors determining sorption capacity. Lysine sorbs much more to organic detritus from salt marsh sediment than to fresh Spartina root materials, marine particles, lignin or humic acids, indicating the importance of structural integrity in sorption. Desorption hysteresis of glutamic acid, putrescine and lysine (in dried sediment) suggests the presence of enzyme-type sorption sites of high sorption energy or multiple binding mechanisms. Taken together, these findings suggest that organic matter plays the major role in amino acid sorption in organic-rich sediments.     

Stratigraphic architecture of sedimentary basin induced by mantle diapiric upwelling and eustatic event

The stratigraphic architecture of sedimentary basin provides important constraints on the rheological structure of the upper mantle and the crust, eustatic events and tectonic movements. In this study, we examined the convective coupling between the uppermost mantle and ductile lower crust as a formation mechanism of sedimentary basins. In this mechanism, the lower crust is squeezed by the upper mantle flow associated with mantle diapiric upwelling, resulting in the surface subsidence and formation of sedimentary basin. We investigated the stratigraphic architecture by taking into account the horizontal migration of the upwelling in time and spatial domains. The sedimentary basin is characterized by both the thickness and formation period for its gross feature and the sequence stratigraphy. The decay of the upwelling causes the surface uplift, and some parts of sediments deposited during the surface subsidence are consequently eroded. The subsidence area moves as the activity of upwelling horizontally migrates, resulting in the formation of unconformity for the uplifted and eroded area over the previous upwelling. We also incorporated the effects of third order eustasy, with amplitude of 100 m and period of 1 Myr, into convective coupling model. An application of our model to Karatsu-Sasebo coalfield in the Tertiary of the northwest Kyushu, Japan, indicates that the stratigraphic architecture of sedimentary basin including two effects, i.e. convective coupling and eustasy, may provide important information about the viscosity structure of the lower crust and uppermost mantle and spatio-temporal growth and decay histories of the mantle diapiric upwelling.     

甘肃石包城盆地新生代沉积特征及与阿尔金断裂的关系研究

阿尔金断裂是由阿尔金主干断层及其它次级断裂组成的巨型走滑断裂系,其分布规律符合左行走滑挤压模式。石包城盆地位于阿尔金断裂带内,为祁连山所围限,面积大约为3 000 km~2。通过对盆地上新统地层、砾岩砾石成份、古流向等沉积特征的综合研究分析表明:盆地南部边缘位于土大坂以南,主要由砾岩和含砾砂岩组成,其中灰岩占砾石成份80%以上;盆地东部边缘在石包城乡地区,砾岩砾石成份以花岗岩、片岩和片麻岩等变质岩居多,夹杂少量硅质岩;盆地的沉降中心位于双泉井子附近,靠近阿尔金断裂一侧;石包城盆地古水流方向为北西和北北西方向,说明该地区地势自南东至北西方向逐渐降低,盆地南东方向应为隆起区;石包城盆地双泉井子以西物源区应为盆地南缘的大雪山等一系列山体,而东北部物源应来自石包城乡附近的山体。石包城盆地是阿尔金断裂带中主干断层与分枝断层联合作用形成的走滑分枝盆地,从上新世以来,盆地至今扩张量约为30～40 km。按相同的位移速率,本文估算了阿尔金主干断层石包城段自渐新世以来的走滑量,大约为218 km。     

Steps toward dating early diagenetic K-feldspar by the Ar-Ar method

Authigenic sedimentary low-temperature K-feldspar separated from Albian-Turonian carbonates in Israel was dated by the step-heating ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar method. In contrast to high-temperature K-feldspars, ca. 90% of the radiogenic Ar was released at temperatures lower than 600 °C and fusion mostly occurred below 750 °C. Though formed under low temperature, Ar loss in all but one sample is estimated to be less than 2%. Nevertheless, the effect of ³⁹Ar recoil is evident in some separates, probably due to their very fine size (4-10 μm). The plateau age of one sample with the highest content of authigenic K-feldspar (93%, 96 Ma) is slightly younger than the assumed stratigraphic age and thus defines the timing of an early diagenetic event within a few million years after deposition. Other samples where a plateau age could be determined yield ages slightly older. Strong acid etching (7 N HNO₃, 85 °C) of the K-feldspar-enriched fraction may have improved the ³⁹Ar-⁴⁰Ar spectra but did not eliminate the presence of minute quantities of detrital K-bearing minerals. Though the present set of data is insufficient for a clear-cut conclusion, the activation energy of the authigenic K-feldspar is in the range of 14-26 kcal mol^− 1 s^− 1, much lower than that of magmatic and hydrothermal K-feldspars and can probably be attributed to the heating schedule and the small crystal size. It is not clear whether the formation at low temperatures (< 50 °C) has any effect on the activation energy.