井间地震层析成像技术在岩溶勘察中的应用

介绍了井间地震层析成像技术测试的工作原理及工作方法,然后利用层析成像反演算法对现场获取的原始测试数据进行了解译,得到溶洞沿不同测线的剖面分布图和不同高程处的平面分布图,并将其与场地现有钻孔地质资料进行对比验证,结果表明井间地震层析成像技术有较高的精度和可信度,可得到场地中溶洞的空间分布,从而为工程设计提供可靠的地质资料。     

西南某水利枢纽废旧煤洞的工程效应研究

通过对西南某水利枢纽工程坝区煤系地层的系统研究,揭示了在坝区左右岸煤洞的展布特征,结合工程,分析了煤洞的存在及其变形的工程效应。最后,对煤洞的变形提出了针对性的处理建议。     

Karst breakdown mechanisms from observations in the gypsum caves of the Western Ukraine: implications for subsidence hazard assessment

The term karst breakdown is employed in this paper to denote the totality of processes and phenomena of gravitational and/or hydrodynamic destruction of the ceiling of a karst cavity and of the overlying sediments. It refers not only to the existence of a surface subsidence (collapse) feature but, first of all, to the internal (hidden in the subsurface) structures that precede development of a surface form. This study reports and discusses the results of direct mapping and examination of breakdown structures in the gypsum karst of the Western Ukraine, at the level of their origin, i.e., in caves. The accessibility of numerous laterally extensive maze cave systems in the region provided an excellent opportunity for such an approach, which made it possible to examine the relationship between breakdown structures and particular morphogenetic or geological features in caves, and to reveal stages of breakdown development. It is found that breakdown is initiated mainly at specific speleogenetically or geologically weakened localities, which classify into a few distinct types. The majority of breakdowns, which are potent to propagate through the overburden, relate with the outlet cupolas/domepits that represent places where water had discharged out of a cave to the upper aquifer during the period of transverse artesian speleogenesis. Distribution of breakdown structures does not correlate particularly well with the size of the master passages. Several distinct mechanisms of breakdown development are revealed, and most of them proceed in several stages. They are guided by speleogenetic, geological and hydrogeological factors. The study confirms that a speleogenetic approach is indispensable to the understanding of breakdown pre-requisites and mechanisms, as well as for eventual subsidence hazard assessment. Direct observations in caves, aimed both at speleogenetic investigation and breakdown characterization on regional- or site-specific levels, should be employed wherever possible.     

晋西公路黄土洞穴的危害及三维数值分析研究

黄土洞穴是晋西黄土高原发育的一种特殊地质灾害。文章在晋西黄土区调查基础上得出,黄土洞穴对公路的危害主要包括对路基路面的破坏、对路堤路堑边坡的破坏及对排水设施的破坏。文章运用三维有限元法分析黄土洞穴在自重环境下对公路路基路面的危害情况及洞穴周围剪应力的变化,得出基于洞穴位置与洞径大小双变量情况下的洞顶临界埋深求解方法,为公路洞穴的有效防治措施提供依据。     

人类和自然因素对风景旅游洞穴环境的影响研究

风景旅游洞穴的环境变化和洞穴碳酸钙景观的风化、破坏和稳定性问题已经相当严重,许多科学价值和美学价值很高的风景旅游洞穴景观因洞穴景观和环境的严重破坏而不得不关闭。因此,风景旅游洞穴的安全已引起了国内外洞穴学家、洞穴旅游管理部门以及游客的广泛关注。对洞穴环境和碳酸钙景观的安全性威胁,普遍认为旅游活动和旅游设施运行是主要的影响。综上述,人类活动和自然因素都会强烈影响风景旅游洞穴的环境变化。      

A hybrid representation for modeling,interactive editing,and real-time visualization of terrains with volumetric features

Terrain rendering is a crucial part of many real-time applications. The easiest way to process and visualize terrain data in real time is to constrain the terrain model in several ways. This decreases the amount of data to be processed and the amount of processing power needed, but at the cost of expressivity and the ability to create complex terrains. The most popular terrain representation is a regular 2D grid, where the vertices are displaced in a third dimension by a displacement map, called a heightmap. This is the simplest way to represent terrain, and although it allows fast processing, it cannot model terrains with volumetric features. Volumetric approaches sample the 3D space by subdividing it into a 3D grid and represent the terrain as occupied voxels. They can represent volumetric features but they require computationally intensive algorithms for rendering, and their memory requirements are high. We propose a novel representation that combines the voxel and heightmap approaches, and is expressive enough to allow creating terrains with caves, overhangs, cliffs, and arches, and efficient enough to allow terrain editing, deformations, and rendering in real time.     

Palaeoenvironmental forcing during the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in central-western Portugal

Geoarchaeological analysis of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic record preserved in cave, rock-shelter and open-air sites in the northern sector of the Meso-Cenozoic of the Western Iberian Peninsula margin (Portugal) reveals several disconformities (erosive unconformities), hiatuses and surface stabilization phases. A recurrent disconformity, dated to ca. 29,500-32,000 cal yr BP, in the time range of Heinrich event 3, must correspond to a main erosive event related to the impacts of climate change on the landscape, including a reduction in vegetation cover and altered precipitation patterns, with the consequent accelerated down-cutting by stream systems, slope reactivation and endokarstic reorganisation, causing the erosion of sediments and soils accumulated in cave, rock-shelter and open-air sites. These processes create a preservation bias that may explain why Early Upper Palaeolithic finds in primary deposition context remains exceptional in the carbonate areas of central-western Portugal, and possibly elsewhere in the other places of Iberia. The impact of such site formation processes must therefore be duly considered in interpretations of the current patchy and scarce archaeological record of the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in south-western Iberia.     

Stratigraphy,sedimentary development and palaeoenvironmental context of a naturally accumulated pitfall cave deposit from southeastern Australia

McEachern's Deathtrap Cave (G—49/50) is located in the Lower Glenelg region of southeastern Australia and records a Late Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentary record that has been directly influenced by surface processes during its formation. The sedimentary sequence contained within the cave is divided into lower, middle and upper sequences consisting of eight facies. The lower sequence represents the earliest phase of sedimentation, and groundwater fluctuations during the Last Interglacial period resulted in its erosion and redistribution deeper into the cave system. A decrease in the magnitude and frequency of flood events in the cave during the formation of the middle sequence indicates increasingly drier surface conditions prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. The middle sequence has a minimum age of 9840 ± 290 a BP. Moving sand sheets during the Last Glacial blocked the entrance to the cave allowing flowstones to develop on the cave floor. The surface environment surrounding the cave was probably not as dry as contemporaneous inland sites because sedimentation continued to be dominated by flowing water during this period. Holocene sedimentation is represented by the upper sequence and reflects wetter cave conditions between 7680 ± 160 a BP and 5700 ± 110 a BP. A major phase of sediment accretion occurs after 5700 a BP and correlates to a phase of dune instability in the Lower Glenelg region. Flowing water remodelled the sediment cone sometime after 2240 ± 100 a BP, which represents a period of increased surface runoff, although it is not clear whether this is due to climatic or anthropogenic influences.     

岩溶洞穴滴水环境监测研究进展

通过对已有成果的疏理总结,前人的洞穴滴水环境监测研究取得了以下几个方面的主要认识:(1)滴水的氢氧同位素组成虽然基本反映了大气降水的同位素构成,但由于洞穴上覆岩层厚度及裂隙的差异等,导致滴水对降水时间响应不同,滴水氢氧同位素变化存在多样性。(2)滴水化学组成主要受到水—土—岩—气之间相互作用影响,其中的溶解无机碳同位素及有机酸等还受到上覆植被类型以及密度的影响。(3)洞穴物理环境条件是决定洞穴滴水—沉积物中氧碳稳定同位素能否达到平衡分馏的重要因素。(4)由于滴水化学组成指示气候环境变化仍存在多解性和不确定性,需要将洞穴监测研究从洞穴内部扩大到洞穴上覆土壤、植被等中间过程,建立立体监测体系。(5)目前的洞穴环境监测仍缺乏不同自然条件下的综合对比研究,有待今后开展和加强。      

丹霞山顺层洞穴风化特征的试验研究

以丹霞盆地丹霞组2段顺层洞穴为研究对象,探讨不同岩性红层抗风化能力的差异,重点关注软岩夹层的风化特征及其对顺层洞穴发育的影响。在野外考察的基础上,选择3个典型顺层洞穴为案例,采集了洞穴剖面不同岩性红层的岩样及夹层水样品,进行一系列的岩矿理化测试和水样分析实验。结果表明：洞穴剖面岩性的不均一性及软岩夹层的风化凹进是形成丹霞山顺层洞穴的主要原因。顺层洞穴发育的软岩夹层一般是粉砂质泥岩,粘土矿物含量高,以泥质胶结为主,吸水性较强,开型空隙率较大,抗压强度小,易于风化破碎;上下岩层主要是砂岩和砂砾岩,以钙质和铁质胶结为主,吸水性较弱,开型孔隙率较小,抗压强度较大,风化速度较慢。在洞穴岩层风化过程中,粘土矿物的胀缩、钙质胶结物的溶解, 及铁质胶结物的水化作用等是导致岩体结构破坏的重要因素,但促使不同岩性红层风化的主导因素有所差别。粉砂质泥岩的风化以粘土矿物的胀缩作用为主,砂岩和砂砾岩的风化则以钙质胶结物的溶解作用为主。此外,酸性雨水渗入岩体后与各种矿物进行的一系列离子交换作用也促进了顺层洞穴岩层的风化。