鄂尔多斯盆地东胜地区直罗组高分辨率层序地层与铀成矿关系探讨

文章综合利用岩心、露头、测井资料，运用高分辨率层序地层学基本理论和方法，对东胜地区直罗组地层进行不同级次基准面旋回的层序划分，共识别出8～14个短期旋回、3个中期旋回，并对不同级次基准面旋回的结构类型、叠加样式进行探讨。分析了中期旋回中可容纳空间与沉积物补给通量比值（A／S）的变化对河道砂体规模、储集性能的控制作用，指出与MSCl对应的直罗组底部的辫状河道砂体最有利于铀成矿，而与MSC2、MSC3对应的两套曲流河砂体则不利于铀成矿。文中最后分析了含铀含氧水在砂体中的运移路径，并试图回答主铀矿体为什么主要分布在砂体的中、上部，而在其翼部的矿体中，为什么下翼比上翼的厚度要大。     

Tectonic control on peritidal carbonate parasequence formation: an investigation using forward tectono-stratigraphic modelling

Studies of Quaternary extensional faults indicate that they have instantaneous amounts of throw (0·4 to 4 m), average slip rates (0·05 to 2·8 m kyr⁻¹) and frequency of recurrence (<40 000 years) accounting for the accommodation space required for the accumulation of peritidal carbonate parasequences (PCPs). Hangingwall sites and graben are characterized by fault down-dropping together with regional subsidence, and footwall sites and horsts by fault-related uplift alternating with periods of regional subsidence. The relative sea-level curves generated by these processes operating in a maritime rift setting are used as inputs to a forward stratigraphic modelling program SedTec2000 to simulate how fault-related changes in accommodation space can account for high-frequency PCP formation. Each instantaneous fault slip generates a flooding surface or aggradation in hangingwall and graben settings. High-frequency cycles in hangingwall sites are either symmetric (deepening then shallowing upward) or asymmetric (shallowing-upward). The major factor controlling cycle types is the balance between rates of carbonate accumulation and generation of accomodation space. High-frequency cycles in footwall sites and horsts comprise shallow subtidal facies, with no distinctive bathymetric trends, capped by erosional boundaries generated by footwall uplift. The modelled cycles are of the same thickness, with bathymetric trends and frequency to cycles commonly interpreted to be due to orbitally driven eustatic sea-level changes or autocyclic processes. These numerical experiments demonstrate that high-frequency PCPs can be generated by tectonic, fault-related processes, a hypothesis that is frequently discounted.     

Modelling diurnal cycles in point rainfall properties

A hybrid model for point rainfall has been explored to model the diurnal cycles in rainfall properties. The hybrid model is a product of two random processes: an occurrence process and an intensity process. Two occurrence process models, first‐order Markov chain and periodic discrete autoregressive, were compared initially. Fourier series was fitted to the properties of the occurrence and intensity processes of the observed data in order to reduce the number of model parameters. The Bayesian and Akaike information criteria were used to identify the optimum number of harmonics of the Fourier series. Simulation results of the two hybrid models were similar, if not identical, and compared well with the observed. In the average sense, the introduction of diurnal cycles in the model parameters did not improve the reproduction of the observed aggregation properties of the occurrence process. However, the diurnal distributions of the aggregation statistics were significantly improved by increasing the order of the Markov chain model. Also the information criteria tend to favour higher than first‐order Markov chain models. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

太阳黑子周极小年的统计性质——兼论第22周起始极小是否已经出现

探讨太阳周极小年的性质关系到确定极小值的位置及太阳周的长度,从而与太阳活动周的研究、太阳活动预报及水文、气象等地球物理现象的研究密切相关.当前对第22黑子周特征值的预报相当弥散,第22周起始极小是否已经出现的问题受到普遍关注.不同的太阳活动指标达到极值的时间不同,一般以太阳黑子数月均平滑最低值的位置来定义极小年.     

Time-series analysis in cyclic stratigraphy: An example from the Cretaceous of the Southern Alps, Italy

The importance of time-series analysis in cyclic stratigraphy is evaluated by comparing three different methods (adaptive multiple taper spectral analysis, auto-/cross-correlation analysis, cova functions) applied to stratigraphic time series from the Early Cretaceous Cismon section in northern Italy. Carbonate content and magnetic susceptibility vary in a quasi-cyclic fashion in this pelagic limestone section and are almost perfectly negatively correlated. The spectral technique requires a high degree of preprocessing of the original data (interpolation and resampling at a regular interval, filtering, inversion) which introduces smoothing and rounding errors. The statistical correlation analysis also requires evenly and (for cross-correlation) correspondingly spaced series. The geostatistical cova functions (a generalization of the cross-variogram) prove to be the most versatile and robust of the methods compared. Cova functions can be calculated from unevenly and noncor-respondingly spaced time series without any preprocessing. This method also retains relatively more of the signal if noise and extreme outliers obscure the picture. The periodicities detected in the Cismon time series fall in the range of Milankovitch cycles. Cycle periods of 45 cm and 80 cm likely correspond to dominant precession and obliquity cycles. Due to the inaccuracy of the Cretaceous time scale periods cannot be matched exactly yet, but cycle ratios are close to expected ratios so that there is great potential for future cyclostratigraphic work to contribute to a substantial improvement of the geologic time scale.     

Nutrient chemistry and hydrology of interstitial water in brackish tidal marshes of Chesapeake Bay

Nutrient concentrations in interstitial water were measured throughout the year in two brackish tidal marshes differing in elevation and vegetation. At all sites, sulfate to chloride ratios were lowest during the fall. In contrast, dissolved ammonia, phosphate, organic nitrogen, and organic phosphorus concentrations did not vary seasonally but differed among sample sites. These nutrients were generally enriched in interstitial water relative to tidal water and those that were most enriched declined in concentration with increasing proximity to creeks. In the low elevation marsh, flow of interstitial water towards creek banks was traced with Rhodamine WT dye. Consequent seepage of interstitial water into the creek of the low marsh was estimated from continuous monitoring of water table heights and from measurements of hydraulic conductivity. The estimated seepage could account for a portion, probably less than half, of the tidal export of dissolved nutrients from the low marsh.     

New times of minimum and a period study for GO Cygni

Times of minimum derived from photometry obtained in 1963, 1967, 1978, and 1979 are presented. With these and previously published times, the period is studied. A constant period increase (quadratic ephemeris) represents most of the times but there was a period decrease in 1934 and possibly in 1984. A 50-year magnetic cycle is discussed On leave from Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.     

Climate Changes and Cyclic Sedimentation in the Mid-Late Permian: Kennedy Group, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Climate has an important direct and indirect influence of sedimentation, and especially on the development of cyclic sedimentation. Climate influences both accommodation and supply, the major controls on the architecture of sedimentary sequences. The Permian paleoclimate is the subject of increasing controversy, giving rise to numerous differing models developed and an expanding database of fossil evidence for climatic conditions.Western Australian basins, in particular the Carnarvon Basin, are unique among nearby Gondwanan basins in that they do not have extensive coal measures within their Permian successions. The Kennedy Group, the uppermost unit in the onshore Carnarvon Basin Permian succession, has a detrital composition indicative of arid weathering conditions. Within the Kennedy Group, even lagoonal and very nearshore sediments are devoid of plant debris or indications of the nearby presence of extensive flora. Presumed surfaces of subaerial exposure do not show paleosol development or root-traces. There has been little development of clay and chemical grain degradation is almost entirely related to diagenetic cementation and dissolution phases, rather than transport and source weathering. Nearby basins, at similar latitudes, in India and East Australia contain coal measures, consistent with the humid climates that are predicted for this latitude. It is suggested therefore that the inferred aridity in the climate of the Carnarvon Basin and other Western Australian Basins is due to local climatic effects, probably related to an interruption in atmospheric circulation caused by tectonic rifting and uplift to the west.Cyclicity in the Kennedy Group indicates regular Late Permian, Milankovitch scale eustatic sea-level change, and may signify the presence of some ice at the poles. The development of cycles may have been enhanced by shifting climate belts controlled by Milankovitch cyclicity.     

银川盆地中更新世以来的孢粉植物群古气候旋回探讨

利用银川地区孢粉时间序列的随机数字滤波分析的研究成果 ,应用频谱分析方法探讨银川盆地孢粉植物群气候波动特征 ,确定 0 .80MaB .P .以来存在 6 0× 10 4 a、30× 10 4 a、10 (或 6 )× 10 4 a的准周期 ,依据孢粉植物群的时空分布建立了该区多重气候旋回模型。该模型将该区 0 .80MaB .P .以来的气候划分为 1个 0 .6 0Ma的气候幕 ,3个 0 .30Ma的气候期 ,10个 0 .10 (0 .0 6 )Ma的气候段。并且讨论了模型与自然环境演变的关系 ,指出 0 .80～ 0 .5 5MaB .P .期间为冷凉旋回 ,0 .5 5～ 0 .2 0MaB .P .期间为暖温旋回 ,0 .2 0MaB .P .～今为冷凉旋回     

膨胀土干湿循环胀缩裂隙演化的CT试验研究

对南阳重塑膨胀土在干湿循环过程中裂隙的演化进行了CT试验研究，试样的CT图像显示了原有裂隙开展，新裂隙产生，裂缝数量增加并连通，最后形成裂隙网络的过程。定义了基于CT数据的裂隙损伤变量，分析了裂隙损伤变量随累计干缩体变的变化规律。