新疆及邻区强震发生的深部条件与坚固体孕震模式的新证据

根据新疆及其邻近地区地壳，上地幔三维结构的最新研究结果，联系这个地区的强震震源分布、剖析强震孕良，发生的深部构造特征，结果表明：该区浅源强震与中原强震的震源均位于地壳或上地幔速度结构横向，纵向非均匀性较明显的地区，且位于相应层内的高速扰动区或高低速过渡带中，从而有力一证明了“坚固体孕震模式”的合理性。     

Geochronology of Middle and Upper Pleistocene Loess Sections in Hungary

The application of both thermoluminescence and infrared stimulated luminescence dating to the extensively studied “classical” Hungarian loess/paleosol sequences from Basaharc, Mende, and Paks provides a reliable chronological framework and climatostratigraphic reconstruction for the last interglacial/glacial cycle. Based on this combined luminescence dating study a new chronology is proposed for the “Young Loess” in Hungary. Luminescence dating suggests that the loess below the MF2 horizon formed during the penultimate glaciation. The MF1 horizon probably formed during an interstade within oxygen isotope stage 3. For the youngest loess, overlying MF1, a very high accumulation rate was determined. Large time gaps occur above MF2 and MF1, indicating that most of the record of the last glaciation is missing in the standard sections at Basaharc, Mende, and Paks. Either large discontinuities or a very low accumulation rate occurred in all three type sections during the soil-forming periods. High-resolution studies of climatic proxies using this combined luminescence dating approach provide a reliable chronological framework for loess and loess derivatives of the last glacial cycle in Hungary, although a precise and complete chronostratigraphic reconstruction cannot be achieved from the incomplete records found at these sites.     

室内土工模型试验的新方法——桩基渗水力土工模型试验

本文通过桩基渗水力工模型试验实例，介绍了一种新的室内土工模型试验方法－渗水力土工模型试验。它利用水在土体中的渗流来提供土工模型试验中必须的体积力，因而克服了常规模型试验和离心模型试验中一些缺陷。该方法在桩基研究及工程实际中具有良好的应用前景。     

略阳─石泉边界地质体特征

略阳─石泉构造带是一板块缝合带，经历了长期复杂的演化历史。现由不同时期、不同构造体制下的断裂构造系统，裹挟不同构造演化阶段的各类建造─蛇绿混杂岩、陆缘楔状体，岛孤岩浆岩及外来岩块等，共同组成了分隔秦岭、扬子地块的一个特殊边界地质体。     

宝鸡岩体颜家河超单元岩浆反序演化特征

本文依据宝鸡岩体颜家河超单元各单元的岩石组构、矿物成分、岩石化学和地球化学等方面的资料，研究了它们由早到晚的变化特征，并将各种特征有机地联系在一起，发现该超单元岩浆从早到晚存在着反序演化的特点，即由偏酸性岩浆向偏基性岩浆演化，并建立了该超单元的岩浆演化模式。     

The mechanisms of shallow earthquakes and the monitoring of a comprehensive test ban

The ability of seismological criteria to identify earthquakes from underground explosions depends partly on the orientation of the earthquake source. Well-determined double-couple moment tensor solutions for a large number of earthquakes have been published in the Harvard centroid moment tensor (CMT) and United Slates Geological Survey (USGS) catalogues. Statistical analyses of these catalogues indicate that the distribution of the orientation of earthquake mechanisms is not random. The distribution of the T axes shows significant clustering around the downward vertical, indicating that a larger number of earthquake mechanisms radiate compressional P -wave energy to teleseismic distances from near the maximum of the radiation pattern than is predicted if earthquake sources are randomly oriented double couples. The clustered T axes correspond to compressional dip-slip mechanisms, and it is this type of mechanism which is believed to cause both the m _b: M _s (the ratio of body-wave to surface-wave magnitude) and first-motion criteria to misidentify an earthquake as an explosion.     

Deconvolution of teleseismic recordings for mantle structure

Delineation of detailed mantle structure frequently requires the separation of source signature and structural response from seismograms recorded at teleseismic distances. This deconvolution problem can be posed in a log-spectral domain where the operation of time-domain convolution is reduced to an additive form. The introduction of multiple events recorded at many stations leads to a system of consistency equations that must be honoured by both the source time functions and the impulse responses associated with propagation paths between sources and receivers. The system is inherently singular, and stabilization is accomplished through the supply of an initial estimate of the source time function. Although alternative choices exist, an effective estimate is derived from the eigenimage associated with the largest eigenvalue in a singular-value decomposition of the suite of aligned seismograms corresponding to a given event. The relation of the deconvolution scheme to simultaneous least-squares deconvolution is examined. Application of the methodology to broadband teleseismic P waveforms recorded on the Canadian National Seismograph Network demonstrates the retrieval of effective Green's functions including secondary phases associated with upper-mantle structure.     

Ibex diggings in the Negev Desert highlands of Israel as microhabitats for annual plants. Soil salinity, location and digging depth affecting variety and density of plant species

About 400 Nubian ibex (Capra ibex nubiana) dig many hundreds of temporary night beds, approximately 80 cm × 110 cm and 15 cm deep, on slopes near the edges of the cliffs bordering the Zin valley. The beds are used according to the wind direction and the size of the ibex group, which depends on the ibex social behaviour during the year.The diggings are gradually abandoned and become important microhabitats for seed accumulation and germination, seedling development and annual plant establishment. These are influenced by soil salinity, slope direction and angle, digging depth, and the time since the diggings were abandoned. A greater variety of plant species and plant density were found in these diggings than upslope from the diggings.