Geotechnical Hazards Associated with Desert Environment

The aridity of the Arabian Peninsula's deserts ranges between arid to hyperarid with hot dry climate, scarce precipitation and sparse vegetation. These harsh environmental conditions enhance some geomorphologic processes more than others, cause specific geotechnical problems, and increase desertification.From west to east, the general physiography of Saudi Arabia shows the Red Sea coastal plains and the escarpment foothills called Tihama followed by the Arabian Shield mountains, the Arabian Shelf plateau and finally the Arabian Gulf coastal plains. Sand moves by wind either as drifting sand or migrating dunes in four major sand seas, over the Arabian Shelf, and in the inter-mountain valleys, in the Arabian Shield causing problems of erosion and deposition. Human activities in the deserts may cause more instability to the sand bodies, enlarging the magnitude of the problem. Fine silty soil particles also move by wind, depositing loess mainly in selected areas downwind in the Tihama. These loess deposits subside and may form earth fissures by the process of hydrocompaction upon wetting. The addition of water can be either natural through storms or man-made through human agricultural or civil activities. Extensive sabkhas exist along the coastal plains of both the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf. The sabkha soil may also heave by salt re-crystallization or collapse by wetting. The shallow groundwater brines present in sabkhas also attack and corrode civil structures. Urbanization and excessive groundwater pumping may also deplete the fresh groundwater resources and may cause subsidence, ground fissuring and surface faulting as observed in some locations in the Arabian Shield. Although the average annual precipitation is very low, rain usually falls in the form of torrential storms, collected by dry valley basins and causing floods to unprotected downstream areas on the coastal plains of the Red Sea.The desert environment, being a fragile echo system, needs to be treated with care. Intercommunications between different national and international agencies and education of the layman should help to keep the system balanced and reduce the resulting environmental hazards. In addition, any suggested remedial measures should be planned with nature and engineered with natural materials.     

青藏高原气象学的研究进展和问题

分高原天气学、高原气候学、高原及邻近地区的大气环流、以及高原数值预报和模拟四方面简要回顾了新中国成立以来我国（也兼及国外）青藏高原气象学的主要进展，也提出今后研究中应注意的有关问题。     

黄土结构性力学特性研究与应用的探讨

大孔隙、高孔隙比、欠压密的非饱和黄土具有显著的结构性,结构性是影响土力学性质的关键因素。在讨论土结构性力学特性研究途径的基础上,从反映土的结构可稳性和可变性的综合结构势出发,阐述了反映力、水作用的黄土压缩变形结构性参数、应力结构性参数和应力比结构性参数,以及与土的物理性质指标对应的反映结构特征的构度。通过黄土的单轴抗压试验、非饱和直接剪切试验、三轴试验和真三轴试验,揭示了结构性参数和构度的变化规律,以及它们分别与强度指标之间的关系,提出了湿、剪变形过程等结构性临界状态的概念。将正常固结土视为结构性参数或构度等于1的无结构性土,在修正剑桥模型的基础上,考虑临界状态线和等向压缩曲线随结构性参数的变化,建立了结构性屈服面方程,为建立结构性弹塑性本构方程打下了基础。同时,阐述了黄土隧道围岩和黄土地基稳定性分析中应用结构性强度变化规律研究成果的途径,深化了黄土体稳定性分析的理论基础。     

湿陷性黄土结构性变形特性分析

基于结构性黄土应力应变特性认识和大量试验结果的分析,揭示了黄土结构性参数与应变、含水率、固结压力之间的关系,并给出了结构性参数的数学表达式。将该式引入结构性黄土应力应变特性分析,提出了考虑结构性参数的应力-应变关系。分析计算所得的应力-应变关系与试验结果有较好的一致性,说明了原状黄土结构性参数描述的合理性和基于结构性参数应力-应变关系的合理性。     

质量平衡法——定量恢复新生代青藏高原造山作用

青藏高原的形成演化及其对东亚地形，水文分布，季风起源，全球气候变化，海洋化学组分改变等的影响，一直是全球地质学家关注的热点，然而由于定量研究方法的缺乏，一些关键性的问题一直悬而未决，质量平衡法的提出为解决这一困境提供了新思路，阐述了质量平衡法的原理，并以Metivier等对西藏高原地区，东亚，印度支那和印度板块地区的研究为例，介绍了质量平衡法的应用，同时对存在的问题进行了较为详细的讨论，为进一步研究指明了重点。     

基于SRTM DEM的地形起伏度对天水市黄土滑坡的影响分析

以天水市辖区30 m分辨率的SRTM DEM数据为基础,首先利用GIS空间分析模块中邻域统计分析法,依次选取2×2、3×3、4×4、…、28×28、29×29、30×30共29个矩形邻域分析窗口,运用均值变点分析法进行最佳计算单元的计算分析。结果表明：12×12的网格大小（12.96×10⁴ m²）为曲线突变的拐点,作为曲线由陡变缓的阈值,确定12×12的网格大小（12.96×10⁴ m²）为研究区地形起伏度计算的最佳单元,生成研究区地形起伏度分级图。进而采用确定性系数法（CF）、证据权法、信息量法和条件概率法对研究区发育的黄土滑坡灾害与地形起伏度之间的相关关系进行了定量分析。研究结果表明,区内地形起伏度影响因子层中地形起伏度60~120 m的分级因子层为黄土滑坡灾害的易发因子层,而其中60~90 m区间的值最大,为黄土滑坡灾害的优势因子区间,对滑坡的响应最敏感。     

Phase Equilibrium and Phase Diagram of the Ternary System(MgCl_2 + MgB_2O_4 + H_2O) at 288 and 298 K

正1 Introduction The brines with high concentrations of magnesium and boron resources are widely distributed in the Qaidam Basin of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau,China(ZhengTang,1988).Although some works on the ternary system     

青藏高原地区能量水分循环：地表能量平衡和湍流热通量

文章给出了青藏高原能量水分循环研究的概况和总结，着重估计了能量平衡各分项和湍流热通量等。在能量平衡的计算基础上，尽管能量不平衡的原因解释仍有争论并且没有解决，但我们揭示了GAME/Tibet试验观测资料中能量不平衡现象。我们发现估算的潜热通量比实际观测的要高许多。然而，根据能量平衡假设的计算结果和SEBS的估算一致性很好。在此基础上可以归纳出差异主要由GAME/Tibet试验观测资料中能量不平衡引起，潜热通量的实际观测可能偏小。     

长江中下游地区下蜀黄土磁化率曲线比较研究

通过对镇江大港剖面地层结构和磁化率曲线特征的分析研究,以及与相邻地区风尘堆积研究成果的比较,认为长江中下游地区中更新世以来,经历了七次大的古气候冷暖旋回,旋回变化幅度较北方黄土共要小得多,冷期和暖期都存在着频繁的小尺度的气候冷暖波动,并可与深海氧同位素曲线相比较;另外,在镇江下蜀黄土磁化率测量中还发现,地下水的浸泡对剖面样品的磁化率有着较大的影响。