A diffusion approximation for a network of reservoirs with power law release rule

A diffusion approximation for a network of continuous time reservoirs with power law release rules is examined. Under a mild assumption on the inflow processes, we show that for physically reasonable values of the power law constants, the system of processes converges to a multi-dimensional Gaussian diffusion process. We also illustrate how the limiting Gaussian process may be used to compute approximations to the original system of reservoirs. In addition, we study the quality of our approximations by comparing them to results obtained by simulations of the original watershed model. The simulations offer support for the use of the approximation developed here.     

Water-soluble organics in atmospheric particles: A critical review of the literature and application of thermodynamics to identify candidate compounds

Although organic compounds typically constitute a substantial fraction of the fine particulate matter (PM) in the atmosphere, their molecular composition remains poorly characterized. This is largely because atmospheric particles contain a myriad of diverse organic compounds, not all of which extract in a single solvent or elute through a gas chromatograph; therefore, a substantial portion typically remains unanalyzed. Most often the chemical analysis is performed on a fraction that extracts in organic solvents such as benzene, ether or hexane; consequently, information on the molecular composition of the water-soluble fraction is particularly sparse and incomplete.This paper investigates theoretically the characteristics of the water-soluble fraction by splicing together various strands of information from the literature. We identify specific compounds that are likely to contribute to the water-soluble fraction by juxtaposing observations regarding the extraction characteristics and the molecular composition of atmospheric particulate organics with compound-specific solubility and condensibility for a wide variety of organics. The results show that water-soluble organics, which constitute a substantial fraction of the total organic mass, include C2 to C7 multifunctional compounds (e.g., diacids, polyols, amino acids). The importance of diacids is already recognized; our results provide an impetus for new experiments to establish the atmospheric concentrations and sources of polyols, amino acids and other oxygenated multifunctional compounds.     

Histological bone structure of Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs from southwest Istria (Croatia)

Recently discovered dinosaur bones in submerged near-shore deposits of southwest Istria include one vertebra, one femur, and two rib fragments. They all show well-developed vascularization. The large amounts of primary bone tissue in the vertebral and femoral compacta as well as in one rib fragment suggest that they belong to sub-adult animals which were growing rapidly. The structure of a second rib fragment differs in that it consists of secondary bone. The absence of lines of arrested growth is evident in all investigated bones. This suggests a sustained manner of bone deposition.     

Pore fluid pressure effects in anisotropic rocks: Mechanisms of induced seismicity and weak faults

Many observations and studies indicate that pore fluid pressure in the crustal rocks plays an important role in deformation, faulting, and earthquake processes. Conventional models of pore pressure effects often assume isotropic porous rocks and yield the nondeviatoric pressure effects which seem insufficient to explain diverse phenomena related to pore pressure variation, such as fluid-extraction induced seismicity and crustal weak faults. We derive the anisotropic effective stress law especially for transversely-isotropic and orthotropic rocks, and propose that the deviatoric effects of pore fluid pressure in anisotropic rocks not only affect rock effective strength but also cause variation of shear stresses. Such shear stress variations induced by either pore pressure buildup or pore pressure decline may lead to faulting instability and trigger earthquakes, and provide mechanisms for the failure of crustal weak faults with low level of shear stresses. We believe that the deviatoric effects of pore fluid pressure in anisotropic rocks are of wide application in studies of earthquake precursors and aftershocks, oil and gas reservoir characterization, enhanced oil recovery, and hydraulic fracturing.     

论构造成矿规律及其动力学机制

本文在简述构造成矿学概念的演进之后.着重论述了构造成矿的对称性、等距性、递变性和侧向迁聚性等规律,对构造成矿的动力机制进行了初步分析.作者指出.构造动力成矿作用,是构造应力场、构造地球牾场和构造地球化学场的综合作用;构造成矿过程,是构造运动和成矿物质运动的全过程:是一种不断存在物质交换和能量交换的开放体系中的不可逆过程.构造动力作用能促使成矿元素活化.驱动含矿溶液运移.改变成矿的物理化学条件,导致成矿物质聚集.构造成矿动力学机制的研究.是构造成矿学的关键问題.随着构造成矿学研究的深入发展.逐渐形成了构造成矿学的基础理沦系统.     

关于多旋回开合构造及区域成矿若干观点的认识

板块说与槽台说相结合是研究大陆演化和矿产形成的重要理论依据。开合构造、板块构造与槽台构造三者在形成机制上具有内在的联系。多旋口开合构造是指以多旋回开合观点研究的构造，它是研究开合过程中所有地质现象，包括开合序列、开合旋回等。开合构造的主要表现形式包括区域性断裂，地壳的扩张与挤压，地壳的水平运动与垂直运动，构造过渡与构造迁移。开合演化过程称为“多旋回四阶段开合递进律”。开合构造的主要特征具有多旋回性、方向性、不平衡性、迁移性、两重性、层次性和有限性等。开合构造和岩石圈演化的基本动力是地球内部热能运转的结果，导致地壳和岩石圈裂开和聚合运动，包括传送带式、手风琴式和雪撬式三种主要的不同运动方式。正是多旋回开合构造发展，导致了多旋回成矿作用。在研究矿床分类时，首先要以多源的成矿物质来源作为矿床分类的主要依据，同时，也需要注意结合诸如成矿作用、成矿构造环境、成矿理化条件以及含矿建造等因素，以多旋回开合构造一成矿的观点来研究成矿控制和成矿规律。     

Intracrystalline fractionation of Fe in synthetic (Fe, Mg, Zn) - bearing staurolite: a Mössbauer spectroscopic study

⁵⁷Fe-Mössbauer spectra of eleven Fe-Mg-bearing staurolite samples, synthesized at 5, 20 and 25 kbar and 680°C, ranging in composition from x_Fe?=1.00 to x_Fe?=0.15, and of two Zn-Fe-bearing staurolite samples, synthesized at 20 kbar and 700°C with x_Fe?=0.10 and x_Fe?=0.32 were collected at room temperature. The spectra reveal that about 80% of Fe_tot (in case of Fe-Mg-bearing staurolite) and about 70% of Fe_tot (in case of Fe-Zn-bearing staurolite) are located as Fe²⁺ at the three subsites Fe1, Fe2 and Fe3 of the tetrahedral T2-site. The refinement of the spectra results in almost identical values for the isomer shift (IS) (±1.0 mm/s) but significantly different values for the quadropole splitting (QS) for the three subsites which is in accordance with the different distortions of these sites. About 8% of Fe_tot (in case of Fe-Mg-bearing staurolite) and 13% of Fe_tot (in case of Fe-Zn-bearing staurolite) are located as Fe²⁺ at the octahedral M4 site, while the remainder percents of Fe_tot indistinguishably occur as Fe²⁺ at the octahedral M1 and M2 sites of the kyanite-like part of the structure. Within the whole Fe-Mg-staurolite solid solution series the Mössbauer parameters QS of the sites M4 and (M1, M2) vary systematically with composition whereas IS remains constant. There is a high negative correlation of the total Mg-content with Fe-occupation of all the Fe-bearing sites indicating a continuous substitution of Fe²⁺ by Mg on all these sites. Synthetic Fe-staurolites show no increasing occupation of the octahedral sites by two-valent cations with pressure, as was assumed by several authors.     

社会主义宪法应该代表先进生产力的发展要求

根据“三个代表”的思想 ,社会主义宪法应该代表先进生产力的发展要求。中国的宪法发展说明 ,什么时候代表了中国先进社会生产力发展的要求 ,什么时候中国宪法就能健康发展     

完善我国现行矿产资源法的理论分析

文章对我国现行矿产资源法立法的历史继承性、时代特征、宪法依据等进行了理论分析,剖析了其立法上的有关局限性,尤其是在综合专家、学者观点的基础上,对矿业权之权利属性进行了一定的归纳分析,为完善我国现行矿产资源法的构想进行了理论上的探讨。