The Southwest Atlantic intertidal burrowing crab Neohelice granulata modifies nutrient loads of phreatic waters entering coastal area

Along the coastal areas of the Southwest Atlantic estuaries and embayments, phreatic water often circulates through very extended areas (up to several hundred meters perpendicular to the coast), dominated by dense assemblages of deep burrows of the crab Neohelice granulata (formerly Chasmagnathus granulatus). This crab inhabits the intertidal area, from mudflats to marshes vegetated by species of Spartina, Sarcocornia and Juncus, generating extensive burrowing beds where burrow density may reach up to 60 burrows m⁻². Since the lower limit of the crab burrows is usually the water table, we investigated through field experiments the effect of N. granulata and their burrows on the chemical characteristics of this phreatic water. Water analysis from experimental (1) occupied burrows (with crabs), (2) unoccupied burrows (where crabs were excluded), and (3) sediment pore water show remarkable differences. Water oxygenation, and nitrate, ammonium and sulphate concentrations inside occupied burrows were higher than in the water inside unoccupied burrows or pore waters. Moreover, directed sampling of phreatic water entering and leaving the crab bed, shows that dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration is enhanced as the water crosses the crab bed. These results may be ascribed to the fact that in the salt marsh the crabs spend most of their time within burrows, where presumably they store food (plants) and defecate. These activities generate an area of accumulation of excrements and nutrients in different decomposition states. The present work shows a novel way by which bioturbating organisms can affect nutrients exportation from salt marshes to the open waters.     

下辽河平原地下水多年动态变化特征分析

地下水水位动态变化,实际上是含水层中地下水资源量变化的一种反映,地下水水位的升降,直接反映了地下水补给与消耗量的变化.依据多年地下水水位监测数据,总结分析了下辽河平原1996~2005年间孔隙潜水的变化特征及趋势.揭示了孔隙潜水或孔隙承压水在多年升降变化过程中水位动态主要随降水量的变化而变化.此外,地下水开采规模、局部开采布局的调整等措施,也是影响其变化特征的主要因素.     

Ultramafic intrusion triggers hydrothermal explosions at Colle Fabbri (Spoleto, Umbria), Italy

The eroded Colle Fabbri volcano comprises intrusive and extrusive rocks which cover an area of about 10,000 m² in the Umbria region, Central Italy. The outcrop is located at the SW boundary of the Umbria Valley Graben (Umbria Region) on an N140 normal fault inside the Intramountain Ultra-Alkaline Province of carbonatite and melilitite rocks of central–southern Italy. A field survey of the outcrop allowed a reconstruction of igneous activity events of this unusual small-scale volcano. It is younger than 0.7 m.y. and rests on Lower Pleistocene conglomerates with intercalated clay beds. A palaeosoil marks the base of the volcanic sequence. It follows several metres of extrusive breccias composed of fragments of thermometamorphosed clay and travertine. Key features of these breccias are mud shells on blocks, plastic mud lumps, slumps, and mechanical injection from one layer into another, as well as plastic and vesiculated, micro-brecciated matrix. The breccias are cemented by a variety of silicate, sulphate, and sulphate–carbonate minerals deposited by intense hydrothermal circulation. The breccias are related to phreatic explosions triggered by the eruption of a superficial hydrothermal system. Up to 1 m thick sill and a dykelet swarm intrude the breccias. In the southern part of the outcrop there is a plug of melilitolitic composition which intrudes the breccias and deforms them upward. A variety of contact breccias is also scattered around the sill and the plug. In some places, hyaloclastite formed when melt invaded water pockets contained in the encasing rocks under hydrostatic pressure conditions. A thermal aureole, which moves up to 10 m away from the contact, is characterised by cordierite–trydimite association, thus indicating high-temperature (>>1000 °C) contact phenomena.     

库水位等速上升中均质库岸塌岸现象及浸润线试验研究

为了研究库水位等速上升过程中均质水库岸坡的塌岸现象及岸坡内浸润线的变化特点,以取自三峡库区的含黏粒粉砂为主要试验土料,设计了3个不同结构的均质岸坡模型,对每个模型进行了4种不同速率的水位上升试验。试验结果表明,库水位上升速率越大,均质水库岸坡的塌岸现象越易发生;在库水位上升过程中,库水和地下水与岸坡土体的相互作用同时存在对岸坡稳定有利和不利的因素,其中地下水浸没区的毛细力消失是引起塌岸的关键因素;试验测得浸润线与理论计算结果的比较分析表明,浸润线的理论计算方法可能过高地估计浸润线的位置。     

E0值对潜水蒸发计算精度影响分析

目前常用潜水蒸发经验公式中,都包含了埋深为零时的潜水蒸发强度,并认为可用水面蒸发强度代替。但对不同土质,由于土壤含水孔隙大小及与大气直接交换的空间不同,必然造成不同土壤质地埋深为零时的蒸发量差异。选用阿维里扬诺夫公式、清华公式和叶氏公式,利用新疆渭干河灌区地下水均衡试验场实测潜水蒸发数据、就E0分别为水面蒸发强度和埋深为零时潜水蒸发强度两种情况进行计算与对比分析。结果表明:除细砂和砾石外,若用水面蒸发强度代替埋深为零时的潜水蒸发强度,计算结果会产生一定误差,应选用埋深为零时的潜水蒸发强度进行计算。提出了清华公式中参数η新的求解方法,建立了η与地下水埋深的指数函数关系。研究结果对潜水蒸发经验公式求解不同土质潜水蒸发量时E0的选用及清华公式中参数η的计算提供参考。     

内蒙古西胡里吐盆地下白垩统大磨拐河组沉积相及砂岩型铀矿成矿作用

西胡里吐盆地是一个早白垩世断陷盆地，盆地盖层由下白垩统大磨拐河组构成。受同沉积断裂作用的影响，盆地的古地理格局总体为南陡北缓，南部主要发育冲积扇相、扇三角洲相，盆地北部以河流相、三角洲相为主，仅上部层位发育冲积扇相，而盆地中部的广大区域则以巨厚的湖泊相沉积占优势。大磨拐河组可进一步划分为三个岩性段。第一段形成于盆地断陷发育的初始阶段，以冲积扇、河流、三角洲发育为特征；第二段形成于湖泊迅速扩张至最大时期，沉积了一套巨厚的湖相泥岩，构成盆地盖层的主体，在晚期有河流、三角洲等粗碎屑沉积；第三段以冲积扇的极大发育为特征，代表盆地进入萎缩阶段。三个段总体表现为一段、三段岩性粗、煤层少且薄，二段岩性细、泥岩厚、煤层发育多。从第一段到第三段，基本构成了盆地一次完整的沉积充填历史。主要含矿层位大磨拐河组的沉积特点不仅控制着盆地内铀矿化的空间展布，而且也控制着本区的铀矿化类型。“粗～细～粗”的地层结构特点决定了本区的铀成矿作用主要发生于湖泊最大扩张的上部地层，即第二段上部及第三段的粗碎屑沉积物中，主要矿化层位为该套地层内的冲积扇、辫状河与三角洲相沉积，含矿岩石主要为渗透性好、富含有机质的砂砾岩、砂岩；同时由于上部含矿层位具有“砂多泥少”的特点，决定了本区铀矿化类型主要为具垂直分带的潜水氧化带型，仅局部存在潜水转层间氧化带型。     

黄土塬竖井剖面黄土-古土壤碳同位素记录特征

选取位于黄土高原中部西峰和洛川塬面中心地区,分别开挖一个竖井获得L2以来连续黄土-古土壤沉积序列的剖面,并对剖面样品的总有机碳、无机碳酸盐的碳同位素组成进行分析.结果显示黄土-古土壤的有机质碳同位素变化与前人对天然剖面的研究结果一致,同时也注意到黄土-古土壤序列有机碳δ813Corg与无机碳酸盐δ13Ccarb有相似的变化趋势,两者在统计学分析意义上均呈显著正相关关系,西峰塬和洛川塬的相关系数分别为r=0.615和r=0.314,a<0.01,该结果与以往对黄土高原塬面边缘天然露头剖面获得有机碳与总碳酸盐碳同位素呈反相关趋势的结论不一致.对于这种现象的初步解释可能是:(1)来自后期的改造作用:由于黄土沟谷出露的天然剖面多发生在雨水冲刷黄土塬面所切割形成的沟谷两侧,这样天然剖面处于一个开放或半开放的环境,其表层至某一深度受外界水热环境和气体交换影响黄土中的无机碳酸盐;(2)同时黄土-古土壤竖井剖面也可能受土壤CO2分压的影响造成土壤次生碳酸盐的形成而导致同位素变化趋势的复杂性;(3)采样点区域性的差异.结果表明,深入研究不同地区塬面竖井剖面黄土-古土壤碳同位素组成并与相应地区的天然剖面碳同位素组成进行对比,将有助于更准确地理解黄土-古土壤碳同位素所记录的古植被和古气候变化历史.     

From sink to volcanic source: Unravelling missing terrestrial eruption records by characterization and high‐resolution chronology of lacustrine volcanic density flow deposits,Lake Inawashiro‐ko,Fukushima, Japan

Eruption records in the terrestrial stratigraphy are often incomplete due to erosion after tephra deposition, limited exposure and lack of precise dating owing to discontinuity of strata. A lake system and sequence adjacent to active volcanoes can record various volcanic events such as explosive eruptions and subaqueous density flows being extensions of eruption triggered and secondary triggered lahars. A lacustrine environment can constrain precise ages of such events because of constant and continuous background sedimentation. A total of 71 subaqueous density flow deposits in a 28 m long core from Lake Inawashiro‐ko reveals missing terrestrial volcanic activity at Adatara and Bandai volcanoes during the past 50 kyr. Sedimentary facies, colour, grain size, petrography, clay mineralogy, micro X‐ray fluorescence analysis and chemistry of included glass shards characterize the flow event deposits and clarify their origin: (i) clay‐rich grey hyperpycnites, extended from subaerial cohesive lahars at Adatara volcano, with sulphide/sulphate minerals and high sulphur content which point to a source from hydrothermally altered material ejected by phreatic eruptions; and (ii) clay‐rich brown density flow deposits, induced by magmatic hydrothermal eruptions and associated edifice collapse at Bandai volcano, with the common presence of fresh juvenile glass shards and low‐grade hydrothermally altered minerals; whereas (iii) non‐volcanic turbidites are limited to the oldest large slope failure and the 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake events. The high‐resolution chronology of volcanic activity during the last 50 kyr expressed by lacustrine event deposits shows that phreatic eruption frequency at Adatara has roughly tripled and explosive eruptions at Bandai have increased by ca 50%. These results challenge hikers, ski‐fields and downstream communities to re‐evaluate the increased volcanic risks from more frequent eruptions and far‐reaching lahars, and demonstrate the utility of lahar and lacustrine volcanic density flow deposits to unravel missing terrestrial eruption records, otherwise the recurrence rate may be underestimated at many volcanoes.     

上海地区浅层地下水有机污染基本特征

上海地区浅层地下水中含有不同种类的有机物,大多数检出浓度相对较低,并呈散点状空间分布特征。局部地段存在有机物聚集与含量偏高,与以往的工业污染源关系密切。环境治理成效的显现将使地下水中有机物的检出与含量进一步降低。     

地下水位变化对透—阻型岩溶塌陷影响的分析

文章从一维地下水运动和渗透力学的角度,分析比较潜水位上升与承压水位下降对岩溶地区透—阻型盖层中阻水层渗透稳定性的影响,重点讨论了承压水位下降速度(降速)与下降深度（降深）对阻水层中渗透坡降的影响,结果表明:地下水位变化（潜水位上升或承压水位下降）产生的非稳定渗流不利于岩溶洞穴开口上方阻水层的稳定,承压水位的下降对岩溶开口附近处阻水层中渗透力的影响远大于潜水位的变化;在承压层水位最大降深确定的条件下,承压水位下降速度愈快,岩溶开口附近处阻水层中向下渗透力愈大。因此,在覆盖型岩溶地区抽取地下水时,为了减缓或避免覆盖型塌陷的发生,应同时控制好最大降深和最大开采速度。