Spatially distributed modelling of soil erosion and sediment yield at regional scales in Spain

Initiated by the need to quantify erosion rates and the impacts of global changes on erosion, several attempts have been made to apply erosion models at regional scales. However, these models have often been directed towards on-site soil erosion estimates, emphasising sheet and rill erosion processes, and disregarding gully erosion, channel erosion and sediment transport. These models are therefore of limited use for the assessment of sediment yield, off-site impacts of erosion, and for the development of environmental management to control these impacts at regional scale. This study analyses and compares three spatially distributed models for the prediction of soil erosion and/or sediment yield at regional scales: the WATEM-SEDEM model that is based on the empirical Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) in combination with a sediment transport equation, the physics-based Pan European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment model (PESERA), and a newly developed Spatially Distributed Scoring model (SPADS). The three models were applied to 61 Spanish drainage basins and model predictions were evaluated against data on measured reservoir sedimentation rates. Global data sets on land use, climate, elevation and soil characteristics were used as model input for WATEM-SEDEM and SPADS, whereas published soil erosion estimates of PESERA at 1 km² resolution were used directly. SPADS and WATEM-SEDEM provided best results after separate calibration for basins with a Sediment Delivery Ratio (SDR) higher than 5% and those with an SDR lower than 5%. In this way, SPADS explained 67% of variation in sediment yield, while WATEM-SEDEM explained 48% of the variation. PESERA represents a promising alternative to the use of empirical models at the regional scale as it can be applied to very diverse environments with little calibration. However, PESERA provides soil erosion rates and not sediment yield estimates. For most basins PESERA soil erosion rates vary between fifty and close to zero percent of total sediment yield. Two major factors may explain this discrepancy between modelled soil erosion rates and measured sediment yield. First, it may be that PESERA underestimates soil erosion under Mediterranean conditions, although PESERA soil erosion rates are of the same order of magnitude as erosion rates measured in erosion plot studies. Second, gully-, river channel erosion and sediment transport processes may be much more important than sheet- and rill erosion for regional scale sediment yield in these environments. These issues therefore require further attention in future model development. Although spatially lumped models provide better predictions of sediment yield at the basin scale, and while validation of the predicted spatial patterns of sources and sinks of sediment requires further research, spatially distributed models are expected to be of value to support management decisions regarding the assessment of on-site and off-site impacts of erosion at the regional scale.     

Methane-rich fluid inclusions and their hosting volcanic reservoir rocks of the Songliao Basin, NE China

Methane-rich fluids were recognized to be hosted in the reservoir volcanic rocks as primary inclusions.Samples were collected from core-drillings of volcanic gas reservoirs with reversed δ12C of alkane in the Xujiaweizi depression of the Songliao Basin. The volcanic rocks are rhyolite dominant being enriched in the more incompatible elements like Cs, Rb, Ba, Th, U and Th with relative high LREE, depleted HREE and negative anomalies of Ti and Nb,suggesting a melt involving both in mantle source and crustal assimilation. Primary fluids hosted in the volcanic rocks should have the same provenance with the magma. The authors concluded that the enclosed CH4 in the volcanics are mantle/magma-derived alkane and the reversed δ13C of alkane in the corresponding gas reservoirs is partly resulted from mixture between biogenic and abiogenic gases.     

海上油藏勘探经济评价方法——以胜利滩海地区为例

正油气勘探经济评价是勘探项目可行性研究的重要组成部分,在此之前经济评价是从探明储量上报开始,在勘探阶段对经济评价工作研究较少,缺乏一套适应当前油气勘探市场形势的经济评价理论和方法(郭元岭,2005)。海上油藏相较于陆上成本更高、风险更大,因此本文针对海上油藏勘探开发特点,利用现金流法建立计算模型,由于勘探阶段资料相对匮乏,本次主要通过数据统计和类比等方法,以最简化的方式     

油气田开发中油气藏地质成因分析

本文从油气藏地质成因分析的基础资料入手,总结该项研究的主要内容包括:构造、储层和油气水分布特征等3方面.结合自身科研实践,认为油气藏地质成因分析方法主要包括:野外露头和现代沉积考察、岩心观察描述、显微镜下薄片观察鉴定、地球物理解释预测、地质统计学分析、分析测试、各种物理模拟和数值模拟、油气藏动态监测和生产动态等,并阐述了不同研究方法的优缺点.目前油气藏地质成因分析存在的主要问题包括:对油气藏地质成因分析重视程度不够、研究方法偏定性、地质成因分析和油气藏表征结合不紧密、油气藏表征精度制约了地质成因分析的准确度、油气藏地质成因分析综合性不强、特殊类型油气藏地质成因分析还存在诸多难题等.本文指出了该研究未来发展方向.主要包括:依靠油气藏地质成因分析解决油气田开发中的难题、通过各种模拟方法提高油气藏地质成因分析定量化水平、加强地质成因分析以提高油气藏表征水平、利用油气藏表征促进地质成因分析进步、拓展油气藏地质成因分析在油气田开发中应用的领域、特殊类型油气藏地质成因分析等.     

纳如松多矿集区电性结构特征及对成矿作用的约束

为了研究西藏纳如松多矿集区的电性结构特征和对成矿作用的约束,对覆盖矿集区的大地电磁测深数据进行全面的数据处理分析,得到了可靠的二维电性结构模型.研究结果表明,分别在深度为40~50 km,20~30 km和10 km处见高导体,推测这些高导体可能为部分熔融和水流体共同所致.由于纳如松多矿集区内矿床为岩浆-热液型,深部岩浆的上涌在成矿作用中起到关键作用,所以壳内高导体可能为与成矿有关岩浆房的电性痕迹,将这些高导体连起来可能代表着深部热液向上运移的古通道.电性结构主要体现了壳内高导体与区域成矿动力作用的关系,向上运移的富矿岩浆也可能通过局部的隐伏构造运移到Pb-Zn和Fe-Cu矿床的位置,再演化形成矿体.     

不整合体结构特征研究: 以永1井区侏罗系-白垩系不整合为例

永1井区位于准噶尔盆地腹部昌吉凹陷,中晚侏罗世受燕山运动的影响在盆地腹部形成车莫隆起带,使得下伏西山窑组地层受到超覆、削蚀,形成了一系列岩性、地层及复合油气藏。在油气运聚成藏过程中不整合体的结构发挥了重要作用,故对不整合结构进行了三级层次划分:一级为盖层和不整合体层;二级将不整合体层分为上覆层、不整合层及下伏层;三级是成藏要素级,包括运聚层、隔挡层、风化黏土层和风化淋滤带。借助测井资料,运用岩性、物性、岩石学特征等分析不整合体纵向结构,研究区不整合体三级结构发育完整。地震资料结合测井资料,通过自然伽马反演明确不整合体结构层中运聚层和隔挡层的展布。风化淋滤带厚度自高部位向凹陷方向逐渐减薄,风化黏土层反之,二者具有较好的负相关性。不整合体的结构控制了本区最重要的两类储盖组合,分别是不整合体上覆层-不整合体盖层的储盖组合及不整合体下伏层-风化黏土层的储盖组合。     

珠江口盆地惠州地区珠江组砂体上倾尖灭的地质-地球物理“逐级预测”方法

砂体上倾尖灭油气藏是岩性油气藏中重要类型之一,砂体上倾尖灭的刻画与描述是上倾尖灭圈闭有效性评价的关键。在以三角洲前缘沉积为主构成的三级层序内,三角洲沉积相关砂体上倾尖灭的地质-地球物理“逐级预测”描述方法对于认识上倾尖灭油气藏分布规律及其油气勘探具有重要意义。该方法由5个部分组成:在三级层序识别的基础上,运用高精度层序地层划分技术建立了四级层序构成的高频层序地层格架;在高频层序约束下,利用地震沉积学技术描述沉积相的平面分布;在地质模型指导下,利用频谱成像技术定性确定尖灭带的分布;利用相控储层反演半定量、定量预测砂体尖灭线;根据不同成因砂体的沉积特点,利用正演模拟技术开展尖灭线的外推预测。     

改进的贝叶斯迭代反演方法及其在白云岩致密储层识别的应用

由于低孔隙度和低渗透率的白云岩致密油储集层的纵波阻抗与其围岩差异非常小,利用叠后反演技术难以有效预测储层,而可以提取丰富弹性信息的叠前反演是解决此问题的有效手段,但是由于噪声等问题,叠前反演方程有较强的不适定性,笔者在贝叶斯框架下引入了改进的多变量柯西分布和改进的低频约束因子,重新推导了反演方程,获得了新的目标函数,有效地减少了反演的不适定性,从而提高了反演的稳定性,并结合迭代的思想来不断更新反演求解过程中的背景纵横波速度比值,从而增加了反演结果的精度。模型数据测试和实际资料应用都证明了该方法的稳定性和适用性。统计表明,利用提出的反演方法,目的层段内优质储层厚度预测吻合率高达89.75%。因此,此方法对类似硅质致密储层的勘探有重要的借鉴意义。     

西南地区某岩溶水库渗漏分析

西南地区某水库位于云贵高原中北部,库区可溶盐岩分布较广且岩溶较发育,中部有一条近南北走向的区域性断裂（F1）穿过两岸,为论证此水库成库的可能性,通过地表调查及物探,结果表明:此水库向低邻谷渗漏的可能性小,沿F1断裂带向南部或向下游渗漏的可能性问题不大,存在沿灰岩溶蚀通道向下游和向库外渗漏的可能性,沿左岸大理岩与灰绿岩接触带或大理岩向坝下游绕坝渗漏的可能性不大;水库正常蓄水位在Kc1底板高程以下有成库的可能。      

黄骅坳陷新生界火成岩岩相与储集性能分析

通过取芯段火成岩岩芯观察、测井以及地震相分析,将黄骅坳陷新生界火山岩划分为爆发相、溢流相、火山通道相和火山沉积相4种,并根据储集空间特征进一步划分为10种亚相,将侵入岩划分为3个相带。在此基础上建立黄骅坳陷火成岩岩相模式,并分析不同岩相火成岩的储集性能。研究认为：研究区溢流相上下区亚相和爆发相储集物性优越,构造裂缝和原生气孔发育,气孔、溶蚀孔缝、构造缝为主要储集空间;侵入相和次火山岩相火成岩由于热液作用造成围岩发生变质,原岩结构构造发生变化,使原来孔渗条件极差的泥岩变质为具有一定储集性能的储集岩;主要储集空间为收缩裂隙和构造裂隙。