Modeling of suspended sediment transport with waveinduced longshore current in Huanghe (Yellow) River Delta

A three-dimensional suspended sediment model(SED)developed by the present authors is coupled with the combinatorial model of COHERENS(Luyten et al.,1999) (the three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamical-ecological model for Regional and Shelf Seas) and SWAN(Holthuijsen et al.,2004) (the third generation wave model).SWAN is regarded as a subroutine of COHERENS and gets time-and space-varying current velocity and surface elevation from COHERENS.COHERENS gets time-and space-varying wave relevant parameters provided by SWAN.Effects of wave on current are applied in bottom shear stress,wave-induced depth-dependent radiation stress and surface drag coefficient calculation.At the same time,the damping function of suspended sediment on turbulence is introduced into COHERENS.So the sediment model SED has feed back on circulation model COHERENS.The SED obtains current as sociated parameters from COHERENS.Then a couple dhydrodynamic-sediment model COHERENS-SED being able to account for interaction between wave and current is obtained.COHERENS-SED is adopted to simulate three-dimensional suspended sediment transport in the Huanghe River delta.In terms of simulation results,there is obvious diffierence between top and bottom layer of wave-induced longshore current.The values of time series of sediment concentration gotten by COHERENS-SED have,generally,an accepted agreement extent with measurement.Significant wave heights and wave periods obtained by COHERENS-SED show that wave simulation case with current’s effect can give better agreement extent with measurement than case without current’s effect.In the meantime,suspended sediment concentration distributing rule obtained by COHERENS-SED is similar to former researches and measurement.     

Structural control on syn-rift sedimentation,northwestern Red Sea margin,Egypt

Detailed field mapping of a 120-km-long segment of the northwestern Red Sea margin reveals the existence of a number of sediment-input sites where Lower Miocene sediments form coarse-grained fan delta systems. Localizations of the fan deltas at the sediment-input sites (Wadis Gassus, Guesis, Quwyh and Sharm El Bahari) are controlled by structural and topographic elements, including relay ramps between interacting normal fault segments, cross-trend transfer faults, reactivated Precambrian basement fabrics and the plunge directions of tilted fault blocks. Sedimentary facies and geometrical characteristics of the fan deltas indicate that they are progradational and “Gilbert-type” fan delta systems. Variations in size and composition of the conglomerate clasts reflect the heterogeneous lithologies of the Precambrian basement and pre-rift strata in the source areas along the rift margin. Palaeocurrent data show marked changes in paleoflow directions, from northeast in the northernmost fans to east and southeast directions in the southern fans. This change occurs across the Duwi accommodation zone which formed a topographic high separating the oppositely dipping half-grabens in the study area. The data presented in this paper clearly demonstrates that the structural architecture of the northwestern Red Sea margin together with its related topographic expressions played a fundamental role in controlling the drainage network systems, sediment dispersal and localization of the fan deltas in this part of the rift system.     

黄河三角洲地区平原水库规模论证

黄河三角洲可垦荒地和滩涂面积大 ,开发条件优越 ,地下石油丰富 ,黄河口流路横贯三角洲 ,是三角洲地区开发建设的宝贵水源。黄河三角洲地区平原水库的建设规模是一项重要的工程规划指标 ,平原水库规模的大小 ,对三角洲地区国民经济和社会发展将具有重大的影响 ,因此必须从来水、需水以及可供水量等多方面考虑 ,综合分析和确定。通过方案计算和比较分析 ,黄河三角洲地区平原水库库容规模为 6641 0× 1 0 4 m3。     

黄河口水下三角洲及其邻近水域线虫群落结构的比较研究

采用多元统计分析法，对黄河口水下三角洲及其邻近渤海莱洲湾和渤海中部的线虫群落结构进行了比较研究，结果表明，与10年前相比，线虫群落的种类组成有了显著的变化，渤海中部的非选择性沉积食性者（1B型）增加了1倍，莱洲湾则增加了5倍，表明该海域有机碎屑沉降量的显著增加，线虫群落在物种，属和科的水平上所作的多元统计图形比较表明，在物种和属水平上的图形无显著差异，这说明，这线虫而言，鉴定到属的样品分析，减少了鉴定到种的分类负提，能满足实际的工作需要。     

长江三角洲南部地区晚更新世年代地层和海水进退

根据长江三角洲晚第四纪4个钻孔详细的测年和微体古生物分析结果,对该区约110kaBP来的地层进行了年代学划分,并且重建了晚更新世海侵海退过程。研究发现,形成于120～110kaBP的蓝灰色硬土是本区晚更新世底界的标志,而晓更新世顶界的标志是形成于17～10kaBP的暗绿色或棕黄色硬土。晚更新世早期110～60kaBP间,本区主要发育河流相的含砾砂,但其中100～80kaBP间发生一次较弱海侵,以溺谷相沉积为主。晚更新世中期60～22kaBP,沉积物经历粗—细—粗3个阶段,分别是60～40、40～34和34～22kaBP。其中第2阶段在西部地区出现硬土层,而中东部地区60～22kaBP期间海侵层连续,且在43～40和34～22kaBP出现两次较高海面。     

黄河、长江和珠江三角洲沉积物中碎屑矿物的组合特征

黄河、长江和珠江三角洲沉积物中碎屑矿物的组合特征,分别反映了碱性、弱酸性,酸性的物源环境及比较温凉干旱、温暖湿润和炎热多雨的气候特点。 从黄河沉积物的特征矿物是方解石、珠江沉积物的特征矿物是β石英可看出轻矿物在确定沉积物的物源方面也具有重要意义。     

现行黄河口水下三角洲海底形貌及不稳定性

高分辨力的声学仪器调查表明,现行黄河口水下三角洲海底的形貌十分复杂,由于高浓度巨量黄河泥沙快速沉积的结果,使河口底坡出现了大量的不稳定性现象,如塌陷冲沟,高密度沉积物重力流,切割—充填结构海底,V形水下河谷、滑塌等。根据海底扰动程度作了分区,划分了地形单元,并对不同的海底形态的成因作了分析。比较了1985和1986年两个航次考查结果的变动,分析了原因。     

我国海洋环境地质

我国海洋地质环境研究始于20世纪50至60年代,80至90年代是我国海洋环境地质学形成和快速发展时期。灾害地质是海洋环境地质研究的先行领域,全球变化研究也取得长足进展。全球变化、区域海洋环境地质调查、滨海城市地质、沿海地下水环境、海洋灾害地质、海底不稳定性、滨海湿地、人类活动对海洋地质环境影响等,都是今后我国海洋环境地质研究的重要方向。我国海岸带地质环境,具有构造活动性强、入海泥沙大、多风暴潮、人工环境非常突出等特征。海岸带基本环境问题包括地质资源利用、人为工程环境、流域环境变化、海平面上升等对海岸带环境影响4个方面。黄河、长江、珠江三大三角洲,除共性问题外,还存在各自独特的环境地质问题。海底不稳定性和灾害地质因素是目前近海环境地质学研究的主要课题,大抵可分为构造、斜坡、底型和结构4种不稳定性。中国近海有六大类约40种灾害地质因素。根据地质环境特征,中国近海可分为17个环境地质区。     

Seasonal air temperature variations retrieved from a Geladaindong ice core, Tibetan Plateau

A 70-year history of precipitation δ18O record has been retrieved using an ice core drilled from a plat portion of the firn area in the Guoqu Glacier (33o34′37.8″ N, 91o10′35.3″ E, 5720 m a.s.l.) on Mt. Geladaindong (the source region of Yangtze River) during October and November, 2005. Based on the seasonality of δ18O records and the significant positive rela-tionships between monsoon/non-monsoon δ18O values and summer/spring air temperature from the nearby meteorological stations, the history of summer and spring air temperature have been reconstructed for the last 70 years. The results show that both summer and spring air temperature variations present similar trends during the last 70 years. Regression analysis indicates that the slope of the temperature-δ18O relationship is 1.3℃/‰ for non-monsoon δ18O values and spring air temperature, and 0.4℃/‰ for monsoon δ18O values and summer air temperature. Variation of air temperature recorded in the ice core is consistent with that in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), however, the warming trend in the Geladaindong region is more intense than that in the NH, reflecting a higher sensitivity to global warming in the high elevation regions. In addition, warming trend is greater in spring than in summer.     

湖盆三角洲沉积坡度带特征及其与滑塌浊积岩分布关系的初步探讨

三角洲前缘滑塌浊积岩是分布于深水环境中一种重要的储集砂体,也是陆相湖盆中一种重要的岩性油气藏。三角洲沉积体系一般存在三个地形坡度转折点,即顶积层与前积层之间的转折点、三角洲前缘斜坡与前三角洲沉积之间的转折点、三角洲沉积体系与正常湖泊沉积作用之间的转折点,其中前缘斜坡的地形坡度最大。前缘斜坡地形坡度是控制滑塌作用和形成滑塌浊积岩的关键因素之一,滑塌作用一般发生于前缘斜坡的上部,而滑塌浊积岩主要分布于前缘斜坡的根部和前三角洲外侧,这些地区是三角洲沉积体系中地形坡度的转折点。前缘斜坡的坡度决定了前三角洲外侧坡度转折点的位置,坡度越大,转折点越靠近前缘斜坡带,结合东营三角洲的精细解剖分析,建立了两者之间的定量关系式。