蒙新高原盐湖资源及盆地结构

通过蒙新高原典型盐湖区的解剖研究，查清了代表性盐湖盆地的相环境及其沉积建造，将盐湖盆地环境的变化形式划分为沉陷型、抬升型和改造型，并归结了盐湖盆地相环境分异与盆地地质结构之间的相互关系，为开发大陆干旱区盆地的盐湖和卤水资源及其环境演化的理论研究提供了依据。     

关于青藏高原地壳的隆升与增厚

本文扼要地评述了国内外地质学家、地球物理学家关于青藏高原地壳隆升与增厚机制的研究成果,并对大地测量学者深入该项研究提出了几点意见。     

过去2．5百万年间黄土与深海古气候变化周期的对比分析

过去２．５Ｍａ间宝鸡黄土粒度记录和深海氧同位素曲线的Ｆｏｕｒｉｅｒ功率谱分析结果表明：在１．６Ｍａ以上部分，两者的周期性相当一致；但在２．５-１．６Ｍａ时段，两者的周期记录差异很大．深海氧同位素曲线记录的全球大陆冰量变化周期以与地轴倾斜度有关的０．０４１Ｍａ为主，而黄土粒度曲线记录的内陆风力强度变化周期则以与偏心率有关的０．４Ｍａ和０．１Ｍａ为主．造成这种异同的原因是：在２．５-１．６Ｍａ时段，内陆风力强度变化主要受地球轨道变化驱动，而从１．６Ｍａ前开始，转而主要受全球大陆冰量变化驱动．     

SOIL SHEAR STRENGTH: AN INDICATOR FOR ERODIBILITY OF THE LOESS SOILS

ＳＯＩＬＳＨＥＡＲＳＴＲＥＮＧＴＨ：ＡＮＩＮＤＩＣＡＴＯＲＦＯＲＥＲＯＤＩＢＩＬＩＴＹＯＦＴＨＥＬＯＥＳＳＳＯＩＬＳＷＡＮＧＧｕｉｐｉｎｇ；ＷＥＩＺｈｏｎｇｐｉｎｇａｎｄＺＨＡＮＧＺｈｉｇｕｏＡｂｓｔｒａｃｔ：ＦｉｅｌｄｅｘｐｅｒｉｍｅｎｔＳｕｎｄｅ...     

安太堡露天煤矿排土场基底黄土的微结构演化与弱层的形成机理

本文根据安太堡露天煤矿排土场基底黄土的粘土矿物组成的微结构及其在分级荷载下微结构变化的研究，论述了排土场基底黄土内弱层的形成机理，提出弱层是在上覆排土压力下由于黄土的微结构变化而形成的演化弱层。并指出弱层的形成是导致排土场失稳滑坡的主要控制因素，这种弱层在新排土场设计时期并不存在，极具隐蔽性，但在设计时必须考虑在排土增至一定高度后，弱层的形成对排土场稳定性的影响，否则必将会存在重大滑坡隐患。     

求震源机制P波初动解的格点尝试概率法

考虑到Ｐ波初动数据在震源球面上分布的不均匀性对节面解的可能影响，不用矛盾符号所占比例的大小作为选择可取节面解的标准，而是将震源球面分成许多小块，再确定有Ｐ波初动数字的小块为正号区或负号区的概率，最后以全部有数据小块的平均概率的高低作为选择解答的标准。用此改进方法重新测定了徐纪仁等（Ｘｕ ｅｔ．ａｌ，，１９８８）发表的青藏高原地区９９个地震的震源机制解，从中筛选出了２０个可信的解答。     

Plate tectonics,palaeoenvironments and limestone geomorphology in West-Central Britain

The variety of active, exhumed, and buried limestone landforms of northern England, North Wales, and the Isle of Man arises in part from the way in which Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) sedimentation was affected by a tilt-block basement structure evolved during the closure of the Iapetus Ocean suture to the north, and partly to subsequent plate tectonic movements associated with the closure of the proto-Tethys ocean, the opening of the Atlantic Ocean and the Alpine orogeny. Landforms created during the Dinantian now form important exhumed and buried landscape features. The Permian half-graben structures of the eastern Irish Sea-Cheshire-Worcester Basins account for many of the contrasts between the upland karsts of the Pennines and the lowland karsts of coastal areas.     

Relationship between pedogenetic manifestations in some arid soil and age of the landforms

Arid soils with slight variations in parent material, vegetation and climate were studied for their morphological, chemical and mineralogical characteristics. Results show that the soils are at different stages of profile development. Varying degrees of pedogenic features have been tied up with data on palaeoenvironment to develop a relationship between the soil and age of the landform. Studies reveal that Dune and Shergarh sandy soils with least degree of manifestation belong to early Holocene to latest Pleistocene, whereas Chirai sandy soil with weakly developed B horizon belongs to the upper Holocene. Soils (Khajwana and Gajsinghpura) with well-developed B horizon and a calcic layer with lime segregations belong to mid-Pleistocene whereas Pali and Pipar soils with illuvial clay in B horizon belong to early Pleistocene.     

Rates of cave and landform development in the Yorkshire Dales from speleothem age data

Uranium-series ages have been obtained for 87 speleothems collected from nine major cave systems in the Craven district of northern England. Large systems such as Ease Gill Caverns, the West Kingsdale caves, and Gaping Gill-Ingleborough Cave, which contain relict high-level tunnels, are found to be older than 350,000 years (the limit of the ²³⁰Th/²³⁴U dating method). There is little evidence to indicate a significant enlargement of these passages since this time. Estimates of the age of Victoria Cave from ²³⁴U/²³⁸U isotopic ratios suggest that the cave has been fully relict for more than 500,000 years. Ages of in situ speleothems immediately adjacent to local base level cave streams show that mean maximum downcutting rates in limestone channels are about 2 to 5 cm 1000 yr. These rates are significantly lower than those obtained from direct measurements on limestone bedrock in stream channels but are comparable to areal denudation rates based on solute budgets. Using the present elevation of caves with respect to adjacent valley floor levels, mean maximum valley entrenchment rates are found to range between 5 cm/ky and < 20cm/ky, which corresponds to 6 m to < 24 m of lowering per glacial/interglacial cycle. These rates suggest that upper beds of the limestone were incised to form the Yorkshire Dales between 1 and 2 million years ago. The results indicate that the erosional effects of individual glaciations are not as severe as previously proposed in the literature.     

豫西东部黄土工程特性研究

豫西东部堆积了第四纪不同时期的风成黄土及冲积、冲洪积黄土状土,全新统黄土、上更新统黄土具有湿陷性,为弱—中等湿陷。中更新统黄土一般不具有湿陷性。黄土的微观结构与土的形成时代、成因类型关系密切,全新统黄土颗粒间为开放或次开放式架空结构,具有较高的湿陷性,上更新统黄土接近接触式胶结,存在粒间架空孔隙,潜在弱—中等湿陷性;中更新统黄土为不等粒基底胶结结构,存在骨架接触式孔隙,一般不具有湿陷性;同时,黄土的渗透性又具有各向异性。