丹寨汞金矿床成矿构造地球化学模拟实验

位于贵州省内的丹寨汞金矿床是一典型卡林型金矿床。矿床赋在于上寒武统含有机质的海相泥质碳酸盐岩之中。成矿元素Ａｕ、Ｈｇ、Ａｓ、ｓｂ、Ｂａ密切共生，但汞矿体与金矿体的产出有一定分离。金为微细粒自然金，它与黄铁矿、含砷黄铁矿和粘土矿物有关，在碳质物中，金含量也可提高。有机质（有机碳和沥青）与Ｈｇ－Ａｕ矿化有一定关系。矿床受构造控制明显，矿体主要产出在具压性、压扭性特征的多次构造活动造成的破碎带之中。成矿作用主要是在中低温（１１０－２９０℃）和低压条件下进行的。     

黄钇钽矿形成条件的实验研究

本文实验表明,黄钇钽矿需要在温度≥500℃,溶液pH≈4.0-7.5,压力500—1500bar的范围内形成,与褐钇铌矿相比,其形成条件的范围要窄得多。 不同的稀土元素在形成黄钇钽矿时的成矿温度亦不同。钇族稀土成矿温度相对较低且相互接近,铈族稀土的成矿温度比钇族稀土高得多,并随原子序数减小而迅速增高,以致La、Ce、Pr、Nd在一般的地质条件下难以形成这种结构的矿物,这就是至今在自然界发现的黄钇钽矿均为钇族稀土占优势的原因之一。实验还表明,大量F、P等组分的存在,对黄钇钽矿的形成是不利的。     

柿竹园夕卡岩中钙铝-钙铁榴石系列石榴子石形成条件的实验研究

柿竹园夕卡岩中有早、晚形成的两种产状石榴子石。本文为查明其形成物理化学条件及与矿化的关系,采用矿区天然花岗岩、灰岩和夕卡岩化早期形成的石榴子石为试样进行了模拟实验研究。实验结果表明:夕卡岩化早期石榴子石是在温度400—750℃,压力500—1000bar,pH=5—8条件下,由富含Si、Al、Fe、Cl、F等组分的热液与上泥盆统佘田桥组灰岩交代反应形成的;晚期石榴子石是在温度250—700℃,压力500—1000bar,pH=5—14条件下,由富含Si、Al、F等组分的带钨溶液与早期石榴子石交代反应产生重结晶作用形成的。     

Digital modeling studies for evaluation of hydrogeological characteristics in Shadnagar granite basin,Andhra Pradesh,India

The use of digital models has increased significantly in recent years with the accessibility of fast computing machines. A variable dimensioned digital model was constructed for the Shadnagar granite basin using SPECTRUM-7 micro computer to integrate various hydrogeological characteristics and for their quantitative evaluation. The basin has an areal extent of 437 sq km and is demarcated with clear water divides in all directions. Transmissivity, recharge and discharge at each cell of the basin area were estimated by trial and error simulation of the hydrogeological phenomenon under steady state condition. Dynamic simulation at representative nodes facilitated the estimation of storage coefficient. The capability of the constructed model was established by the conformance of the simulated hydrographs with the actual behaviour of the ground water system. The entire studies ammended the earlier arrived estimates of various input/output hydrogeological parameters and evolved a methodology for efficient processing of aquifer simulation data     

Ground motion characterization and seismic hazard assessment in Spain: context,problems and recent developments

This article points out some particular features conditioning seismic hazard assessments (SHA) in Spain, a region with low–moderate seismicity. Although sized earthquakes occurred in the past, as evidenced by historical documents and neotectonic studies, no large events occurred during the last decades. The absence of strong motion records corresponding to earthquakes with magnitude larger than 5.5 is an important obstacle for the development of ground motion models constrained by local data, with the consequent difficulty in SHA studies. In this paper, some recent developments aiming at providing solutions to these difficulties are presented. Specifically, a strong motion databank containing a massive collection of accelerograms and response spectra from different configurations source-path-site corresponding to earthquakes all over the world is introduced, together with software utilities for its management. A first application of this databank is the development of specific ground motion models for Spain and for the Mediterranean region that predict peak ground accelerations as a function of several definitions of magnitude, distance and soil class. The predictive power of these ground motion models is tested by contrasting their estimates with recently recorded ground motions. The comparison between our ground-motion models with others proposed in the literature for other areas reveals a regular overestimation of the expected ground motions at Spanish sites by the non-local models. Consequently, SHA studies based in external models may overestimate the predicted hazard at the Iberian sites. In the last part of the paper a method for checking whether the response spectra proposed in the Spanish Building Code (NCSE-02) are consistent with actual accelerometric data from recent low magnitude earthquakes is applied. The spectral shapes of the Spanish Building Code NCSE-02 are compared with the response spectral shapes deduced from the available accelerograms by normalising the response spectra with the recorded PGA. It is appreciated that the NCSE-02 spectral shapes are exceeded by a large number of actual spectral shapes for short periods (around 0.2 s), a result to be taken into account in further revisions of the NCSE-02 code. The issues tackled in this work constitute not only an improvement for ground-motion characterisation in Spain, but also provide guidelines of general interest for potential applications in other regions with similar seismicity.     

3D image-based characterization of fluid displacement in a Berea core

Improved network flow models require the incorporation of increasingly accurate geometrical characterization of the microscale pore structure as well as greater information on fluid–fluid interaction (interfaces) at pore scales. We report on three dimensional (3D) pore scale medium characterization, absolute permeability computations for throat structures, and pore scale residual fluid distribution in a Berea core. X-ray computed microtomography combined with X-ray attenuating dopants is used to obtain 3D images of the pore network and to resolve phase distributions in the pore space.     

Evaluation of the SEDD model for predicting sediment yield at the Sicilian experimental SPA2 basin

In this paper a spatially distributed model of the hillslope sediment delivery processes, named the sediment delivery distributed (SEDD) model, is initially reviewed; the model takes into account the sediment delivery processes due to both the hillslope sediment transport and the effects of slope curvature. Then the rainfall and sediment yield events measured at the experimental SPA2 basin, in Sicily, are used both to calibrate the SEDD model and to verify the predictive capability of the distributed sediment delivery approach at event scale. For the SPA2 basin discretized into morphological units and stream tubes, the SEDD model is calibrated at event scale using the measurements carried out at the outlet of the experimental basin in the period December 2000–January 2001. The model calibration is used to determine a relationship useful for estimating the unique coefficient β_e of the model by rainfall erosivity factor R_e at event scale. To test the predictive capability of the β_e = f(R_e) relationship, 20 events measured in the period September 2002–December 2005 are used; the comparison between measured sediment yield values and calculated ones for all monitored events shows that the sediment delivery distributed approach has a good predictive ability at event scale. The analysis also shows that estimating β_e by the relationship β_e = f(R_e) gives a better agreement between measured and calculated sediment yields than obtained with the median value β_e,m of all 27 calculated β_e values. Finally the analysis at annual scale, for the period 2000–2005, allows the estimation of the median value β_a,m representative of the annual behaviour. This analysis shows that the sediment delivery distributed approach also has a good predictive ability at annual scale. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Equilibrium and disequilibrium degassing of a phonolitic melt (Vesuvius AD 79 “white pumice”) simulated by decompression experiments

Equilibrium and disequilibrium degassing of a volatile phase from a magma of K-phonolitic composition was investigated to assess its behavior upon ascent. Decompression experiments were conducted in Ar-pressurized externally heated pressure vessels at superliquidus temperature (1050 °C), in the pressure range 10–200 MPa using pure water as fluid phase. All experiments were equilibrated at 200 MPa and then decompressed to lower pressures with rates varying from 0.0028 to 4.8 MPa/s. Isobaric saturation experiments were performed at the same temperature and at 900–950 °C to determine the equilibrium water solubility in the pressure range 30–250 MPa. The glasses obtained from decompression experiments were analyzed for their dissolved water content, vesicularity and bubble size distribution. All decompressed samples presented a first event of bubble nucleation at the capsule–melt interface. Homogeneous bubble nucleation in the melt only occurred in fast-decompressed experiments (4.8 and 1.7 MPa/s), for ΔP ≅ 100 MPa. For these decompression rates high water over-saturations were maintained until a rapid exsolution was triggered at ΔP > 150 MPa. For slower rates (0.0028, 0.024, 0.17 MPa/s) the degassing of the melt took place by diffusive growth of the bubbles nucleating at the capsule–melt interface. This process sensibly reduced water over-saturation in the melt, preventing homogeneous nucleation to occur. For decompression rates of 0.024 and 0.17 MPa/s low water over-saturations were attained in the melt, gradually declining toward equilibrium concentrations at low pressures. A near-equilibrium degassing path was observed for a decompression rate of 0.0028 MPa/s. Experimental data combined with natural pumice textures suggest that both homogeneous and heterogeneous bubble nucleations occurred in the phonolitic magma during the AD 79 Vesuvius plinian event. Homogeneous bubble nucleation probably occurred at a depth of ∼ 3 km, in response to a fast decompression of the magma during the ascent.     

裂隙概化模型的非饱和渗流试验研究

借鉴多孔介质非饱和渗流试验的研究成果,研制出一套可同时测定单裂隙毛细压力-饱和度以及非饱和渗透系数-毛细压力关系的试验装置.为检验试验装置的可信度和试验原理的正确性,并初步探讨单裂隙非饱和渗流的机理,特制作了一阶梯开度的裂隙概化模型(本文称之为“S-H”裂隙模型),并在上述试验装置上进行了“S-H”裂隙模型的非饱和渗流试验,初步阐明了单裂隙非饱和渗流的一些基本水力特性,同时试验结果也表明本文试验装置和试验原理合理可靠.     

DUT-1合成模型冰的弯曲强度和弹性模量实验分析

依据渤海海冰物理和力学特征值和国内水池实验室能力,以1:10～1:30比尺要求,发展了DUT-1合成模型冰.文中简介该模型冰的理想参数、成分和制备过程.就其弯曲强度和弹性模量进行系统的实验分析.通过500多次弯曲实验,获得该模型冰在不同加载速度下的破坏方式,各向同性证据和弯曲强度为35～65kPa和弹性模量平均53MPa的结果.并且得到弯曲强度和弹性模量在实测湿密度范围内呈递增关系,浸水模型冰性能稳定时间超过4h,弹性模量与弯曲强度之比82%超过2000.