The mechanisms of shallow earthquakes and the monitoring of a comprehensive test ban

The ability of seismological criteria to identify earthquakes from underground explosions depends partly on the orientation of the earthquake source. Well-determined double-couple moment tensor solutions for a large number of earthquakes have been published in the Harvard centroid moment tensor (CMT) and United Slates Geological Survey (USGS) catalogues. Statistical analyses of these catalogues indicate that the distribution of the orientation of earthquake mechanisms is not random. The distribution of the T axes shows significant clustering around the downward vertical, indicating that a larger number of earthquake mechanisms radiate compressional P -wave energy to teleseismic distances from near the maximum of the radiation pattern than is predicted if earthquake sources are randomly oriented double couples. The clustered T axes correspond to compressional dip-slip mechanisms, and it is this type of mechanism which is believed to cause both the m _b: M _s (the ratio of body-wave to surface-wave magnitude) and first-motion criteria to misidentify an earthquake as an explosion.     

LANDSCAPE PERMANENCE AND NUCLEAR WARNINGS

ABSTRACT. From the perspective of a human lifetime, the hazards of some nuclear wastes are permanent, so the warnings we place at contaminated nuclear sites must be permanent too. I address questions of how best to provide one hundred centuries of public warning at the first facility for permanent disposal, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Scenarios of intrusion developed to guide the design of warning markers predicted that most of the changes in the area will be social and cultural. Because blatant and permanent markers will increase, not reduce, the probability of inadvertent intrusion, the most appropriate warning is a “landscape of illusion.” Such a landscape needs not permanent surface markers but underground warning devices beneath a soft surface marker. No warning can guarantee deterrence for 10,000 years, however.     

Unsiting Nuclear Power Plants: Decommissioning Risks and Their Land Use Context*

Nuclear power plant siting provided the first significant public opportunity to examine nuclear safety and to affect nuclear policy. These discussions were prompted and fueled by perceptions of nuclear risk. Now, as we begin the process of nuclear decommissioning, we are finding that power plant removal—unsiting–is also likely to attract public interest. This paper presents a preliminary survey of how we are likely to react to this emerging theme, applying these findings within a land use context to see if it is likely to produce issues salient to the public. In so doing it also examines how these issues could affect decommissioning timing and type. It suggests that the most likely prospect is that power plants will remain on the landscape long after they are closed.     

柿竹园钨锡钼铋矿床合理的勘探方法及储量比例探讨

本文剖析了柿竹园钨锡钼铋矿床地勘阶段地质观察粗浅，勘探投入超前，探明储量积压、Ｂ＋Ｃ级储量比例偏大等不合理的勘查工作及其原因。在此基础上，探讨矿区合理的勘探程度，储量比例及由此带来的经济效益。     

印尼中加里曼丹波拉湾煤勘探区的构造解析

本文从区域构造背景出发，根据波拉湾煤勘探区地表及钻孔资料综合分析，建立了逆冲断层Ｆ１、Ｆ２及其配套的ｆ１、ｆ２……构造，理顺了错综复杂的构造格局，将推覆构造理论成功地用于援外生产实践。     

核技术找水二十年

本文简要地叙述了核技术找水的研究历程 ,阐明了含水构造放射性异常机制和规律探索对方法技术发展的影响。列出了部分县市的实用数据 ,表明在推广应用中 ,核技术找水的成功率高于 75 %。     

时间剖面上小断层的计算机自动检测

煤田地震勘探一直探寻着对小断层的自动检测方法，因受各种因素的影响，至今尚无良策。本文介绍了多元地震参数的模式识别方法，并通过模型及实测资料成功地检测到１０ｍ以下小断层。     

弹性波CT技术及应用

弹性波ＣＴ技术是一种新的物探方法。本文简单地介绍了该技术的方法原理及影响图像重建的因素，并以实例说明了弹性波ＣＴ技术在煤矿井下的应用效果     

煤矿采空区场地建筑适宜性工程地质研究方法

简述了煤矿采空区场地存在的工程地质问题；提出了查明采空区场地工程地质条件的现场勘察和室内模拟研究方法。并结合采空区活化特点，对采空区场地建筑适宜性作了分析；提出了地基处理和建筑物防护措施     

浅海油气地球化学勘查前景

在我国,浅海油气地球化学勘查还刚刚开始,规模较小,但前景广阔。本文根据我们在东海平湖地区的实践,较系统地介绍了浅海油气地球化学勘查的发展概况、方法技术及初步成果,并简要地讨论了其影响因素及推断解释方面的有关问题。