Spatial and temporal variability of pore‐water pressures in residual soil slopes in a tropical climate

It is critical to understand and quantify the temporal and spatial variability in hillslope hydrological data in order to advance hillslope hydrological studies, evaluate distributed parameter hydrological models, analyse variability in hydrological response of slopes and design efficient field data sampling networks. The spatial and temporal variability of field‐measured pore‐water pressures in three residual soil slopes in Singapore was investigated using geostatistical methods. Parameters of the semivariograms, namely the range, sill and nugget effect, revealed interesting insights into the spatial structure of the temporal situation of pore‐water pressures in the slopes. While informative, mean estimates have been shown to be inadequate for modelling purposes, indicator semivariograms together with mean prediction by kriging provide a better form of model input. Results also indicate that significant temporal and spatial variability in pore‐water pressures exists in the slope profile and thereby induces variability in hydrological response of the slope. Spatial and temporal variability in pore‐water pressure decreases with increasing soil depth. The variability decreases during wet conditions as the slope approaches near saturation and the variability increases with high matric suction development following rainfall periods. Variability in pore‐water pressures is greatest at shallow depths and near the slope crest and is strongly influenced by the combined action of microclimate, vegetation and soil properties. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Low post-Cenomanian denudation depths across the Brazilian Northeast: Implications for long-term landscape evolution at a transform continental margin

The Brazilian Northeast affords good opportunities for obtaining reliable timings and rates of landscape evolution based on stratigraphic correlations across a vast region. The landscape formed in the context of an episodically fluctuating but continuously falling base level since the Cenomanian. After formation of the transform passive margin in Aptian times, landscape development was further driven by a swell-like uplift with its crest situated  300 km from the coastline. The seaward flank of this swell or broad monocline between the interior Araripe and coastal Potiguar basins was eroded, and currently forms a deeply embayed plain bordered by a semi-circular, north-facing erosional escarpment. The post-Cenomanian uplift caused an inversion of the Cretaceous basins and generated a landscape in which the most elevated landforms correspond either to resistant Mesozoic sedimentary caprock, or to eroded stumps of syn-rift Cretaceous footwall uplands. Denudation in the last 90 My never exceeded mean rates of 10 m·My^− 1 and exhumed a number of Cretaceous stratigraphic unconformities. As a result, some topographic surfaces at low elevations are effectively Mesozoic land surfaces that became re-exposed in Cenozoic times. The Neogene Barreiras Formation forms a continuous and mostly clastic apron near the coast. It testifies to the last peak of erosion in the hinterland and coincided with the onset of more arid climates at  13 Ma or earlier. The semi-circular escarpment is not directly related to the initial breakup rift flanks, which had been mostly eroded before the end of the Mesozoic, but the cause and exact timing of post-Cenomanian crustal upwarping are poorly constrained. It could perhaps have been a flexural response of the low-rigidity lithosphere to sediment loads on the margin, and thus a slowly ongoing process since the late Cretaceous. Uplift could instead be the consequence of a more discrete dynamic event related either to Oligocene magmatism in the region, or to continental-scale far-field stresses determined by Andean convergence.     

基于突变理论的小煤窑采空区失稳判据及应用

小煤窑采空区突发性垮塌灾害是榆神府矿区重大地质灾害问题之一。采用工程地质分析及数理推导的方法,分析了小煤窑采空区成灾条件及致灾机理,构建了顶板–残留煤柱岩石力学系统,推导了基于尖点突变模型的采空区系统失稳力学判据。以枣稍沟小煤窑为例进行分析,结果表明,该方法简便实用,计算结果可靠,为小煤窑采空区稳定性定量评价提供了一种新途径。     

北秦岭华阳川地区重磁三维反演及岩浆岩特征研究

华山岩体、老牛山杂岩体等中酸性花岗岩体和华阳川韧性剪切带在北秦岭华阳川地区的成矿过程中起着重要的作用,既是构造演化的记录,又是构造—岩浆—成矿的重要指示。本文在系统研究华阳川地区地面和航空重力、磁测数据以及地面电法剖面等多种地球物理资料的基础上,完成物性统计分析、航空和地面数据融合处理,通过先验信息约束的重磁2.5D交互式反演和三维反演计算,构建了华阳川地区区域三维地质—地球物理模型,为区域地质背景和深部地质构造的研究提供地球物理依据;推断解释了华山岩体、老牛山岩体和华阳川韧性剪切带的三维形态和空间分布,探讨了华阳川韧性剪切带、老牛山岩体和华山岩体的深部接触关系,对大岩体外围接触带的铀、钼等矿床的深部找矿具有一定指导意义。     

The influence of stiffness of the true triaxial testing machine on the rupturing and acoustic emission of rocks and its correlation with seismic activities

This paper introduces how the ratioR of the characteristic stiffness of rock samplevs. the stiffness of testing machines would influence the rupturing process and the acoustic emission (AE) on the part of the tested rock samples. Result of the experiment shows: WhenR>0.20, the rock sample would rupture abruptly; whereas whenR<0.20, the rock samples would rupture slowly. When the samples rupture abruptly, the time-dependent variation of the AE rate takes such a pattern:peak value—stable low values—rises to the maximum value (concentration)—drops back to the minimum value (quiescence)—(rises again)—ruptures. Moreover, smallerR-value tends to be associated with longer quiescence and vice versa. WhenR>1.50, no pre-failure quiescence is detected. When the rock samples rupture slowly, the variation pattern of the AE rate (after the stress has increased to more than 50% of the rupturing stress) is as the following:stable low (or high) values—rises (or drops) to its maximum (or minimum) values and then continues for some time—ruptures. The Chinese version of this paper appeared in the Chinese edition ofActa Seismologica Sinica,13, 223–233, 1991. This study is supported by the Chinese Joint Seismological Science Foundation.     

地震部门在应急救援演练中应敢于“亮真较劲”

地震应急救援演练是检验应对地震突发事件处置能力的有效途径。如何解决地震应急救援演练中容易出现的"演为看"和"练与用脱节"等现象,厦门市地震局大胆探索、勇于实践,积累了一套科学有效的地震应急救援办法。本文结合实例,从理论与实践相结合的高度,紧紧围绕组织地震应急救援演练要做到"四真",即设置情况真、应急响应真、演练内容真、组织保障真;以及在应对地震突发事件要拧紧"四股劲",即敢于同传统观念"较劲"、敢于同自己短处"较劲"、敢于同难点难题"较劲"、敢于同突破创新"较劲"等8个方面,对如何做好新形势下的地震应急救援工作做了很好的诠释,具有较强的针对性、操作性和有效性,能够帮助人们提高对地震应急救援工作重要性的认识,促进地震应急救援工作的扎实深入开展。     

Fast-changing processes in a medium subject to loading as detected by resistivity measurements

Making measurements of electric resistivity at 16 s intervals, the authors noticed fast changes of this parameter prior to the occurrence of the main fracture. The changes are superposed on bay pulsations of increasing amplitude and decreasing period. This finding opens prospects for a wider use of an electric resistivity method and proves the high quality of automatic instruments, in particular their high resolution. It also gives evidence for the occurrence of short-period precursors in the fracture zone while the main fracture is being formed.     

成像测井技术在碳酸盐岩水平井中的应用

塔里木盆地北部地区碳酸盐岩油藏储层，非均质性较强，只依靠常规测井判断碳酸盐岩裂缝、溶孔、溶洞很困难．利用地层微电阻率扫描成像(FMI)，对碳酸盐岩水平井储层进行定性分析、定量解释，并能准确识别出碳酸盐岩目的层裂缝的性质、大小、开度、溶蚀孔洞原生孔隙、次生孔隙的发育情况等．同时并利用测试、酸压资料验证了使用成像测井判断裂缝的有效性．     

集安南部大青沟铜及多金属矿区成矿潜力及找矿方向

大青沟铜及多金属矿区地表矿化线索较多,矿化类型复杂。在充分研究已有资料的基础上,认为该区的成矿在初始矿源层(块状硫化物的矿化阶段)的背景上,叠加了与燕山期火山岩、次火山岩有关的多种矿化类型,成矿潜力较大。     

深孔纳米复合水泥基护壁堵漏材料研究

本文围绕深部钻探技术中护壁堵漏材料性能的实际需要,研制了一种深孔纳米复合水泥基护壁堵漏新材料。首先,通过分析100 ℃条件下2种水泥材料的基本性能,确定了G级油井水泥为胶凝材料;然后,基于深孔钻探护壁堵漏材料的性能缺陷,采用特种纤维、纳米材料针对性改善水泥基浆液的力学性能,并优选早强剂（ZQ）、减水剂（GB）作为外加剂进行正交实验,进而研制出纳米复合水泥基护壁堵漏材料优化配方;最后,对其主要性能进行分析评价。结果表明该材料在深孔钻探中浆液流动性好,力学性能优异,综合性能满足深孔钻探护壁堵漏需求。