我国内陆沙漠与海岸沙丘石英颗粒表面结构的对比研究

本文通过扫描电镜分析，对我国内陆沙漠与海岸抄丘石英颗粒表面结构进行了对比研究。研究认为，无论是内陆沙漠砂或海岸沙丘砂，其石英颗粒都具有较好的磨圆度，表面有碟形坑、麻坑及ＳｉＯ＿２沉淀物等代表风成环境的典型特征；此外，还叠加有代表原生沙物质来源于水下环境的Ｖ型撞击坑、撞击沟等痕迹。然而，受环境尤其是气候影响，其表面结构特征仍有差异，表现在内陆干旱区大陆性气候的沙漠砂的风成机械作用和化学沉淀作用，都要比沿海湿润季风性气候的海岸沙丘砂强烈；但海岸沙丘砂的化学溶蚀作用却比内陆沙漠砂要明显。同属海岸抄丘环境，其石英颗粒表面结构特征表现为北方温带海岸沙丘砂的机械作用痕迹强；而南方热带海岸沙丘砂的化学作用痕迹发育，但机械作用痕迹并非少见，仍然十分明显。     

高精度磁测在第四系覆盖地区寻找金矿靶区的应用:以内蒙古查嘎尔崩金矿为例

首先通过对查嘎尔崩金矿工作区内实测数据,进行各项改正及数据处理（化极、延拓）,绘制出简单清晰磁异常图,然后结合岩石地球物理特征、实际地质填图成果综合分析解译,大致划分出第四系覆盖下各岩性大致分布情况,推断出断层构造位置及走向。最后将它们的赋存特征与区域控矿构造对比,大致判断各推断构造赋矿性,从而划出找矿靶区。后期激电、槽探、钻探等工作证明,该靶区圈定较为准确合理。     

Rill hydraulics on a semiarid hillslope,southern Arizona

Seventy field experiments were conducted in seven rills located on a semiarid rangeland hillslope underlain by gravelly soils at Walnut Gulch, Arizona. The rills, which are characterized by wide, shallow cross-sections and gravel-covered beds, have mean at-a-station hydraulic geometry exponents of b = 0·33, f = 0·34 and m = 0·33. Although the differences between these values and typical values of b = 0·30, f = 0·40 and m = 0·30 for cropland rills are not statistically significant, they are thought to be real, as cropland rills often have more rectangular cross-sections and steeper sides than the rangeland rills under study. For rills formed in silty loamy soils, Govers developed an empirical relation between mean flow velocity and discharge. Emphasizing the generality of this relation, he suggested that it may be used as a simple means of routing runoff through rills. He also noted that this relation appeared to be unaffected by either slope or soil materials. The present data represent rills underlain by coarser and somewhat more varied gravel-rich soils. These data do not conform to Govers' relation, and a multiple regression analysis reveals that slope and soil materials, either directly or indirectly through bed roughness, exert almost as much influence on flow velocity as does discharge. Three alternative methods are developed for predicting flow velocity in the rills under study. All three methods give good results with the largest root mean square deviation being 3·115 cm s⁻¹.     

R. A. BAGNOLD: A BIOGRAPHY AND EXTENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1996 is the centenary of the birth of Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS. To mark this important anniversary this paper presents a short biography of Bagnold and an extended bibliography of his published work. The purposes of the paper are firstly, to present a synthesis of the life and significant discoveries made by Brigadier Bagnold, secondly, to communicate something of the character of the man and his work to generations of researchers who have not had the chance to meet him at first hand, and finally, to use this Technical Supplement and Software Bulletin to make summaries of his theories, empirical findings and views on science accessible to students and scholars of physical geography, geomorphology and engineering.     

阜康绿洲-荒漠交错带荒漠植被群落稳定性

以阜康绿洲-荒漠交错带的荒漠植被为研究对象,利用样区内植被常规调查资料,改进了法国生态学家M.Godron从工业生产中发现并引入生态学研究中的稳定性测定方法,并将研究方法推广到植被群落的空间稳定性研究。根据这种方法,累积种类百分数与累积相对盖度比值越趋近于20/80群落就越稳定,在20/80这一点上是群落的稳定点。研究结果证实:从空间上看,绿洲-荒漠交错带不同植物群落稳定性不同;绿洲-荒漠交错带的荒漠植被群落稳定性受种间竞争、环境压力和干扰活动三个因素的影响,即使建群种相同的群落稳定性也会出现较大差异。     

Evolutionary convergence of the highly adapted desert rodent Tympanoctomys barrerae (Octodontidae)

Octodontid rodents have a long evolutionary history in arid landscapes of South America. The red vizcacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae , is a monotypic, micro-endemic species that inhabits salt pan-sand dune habitats in west-central Argentina. Its natural history is almost unknown. We present an analysis of the ecology, morphology, behavior, and physiology of the red vizcacha rat and assess the overall degree of convergence of this species with rodents that inhabit similar habitats in different deserts. Our results show that Tympanoctomys barrerae is highly adapted to salt flat basin habitats. Its diet of halophytic vegetation with a high salt content, and physiological and anatomical traits related to salt consumption, are similar to those found in some members of the families Heteromyidae (Dipodomys microps) of North America, and Muridae (Psammomys obesus and Rhombomys opimus) of Africa and Asia. Similarities include feeding behavior, diet composition, kidney morphology, and urine concentration, among other traits. Tympanoctomys barrerae is more similar to these desert rodents than it is to confamilials that do not feed on halophytes.     

末次冰期40 ka以来阿拉善高原地区的环境演变与地貌演化

阿拉善高原末次冰期（40 ka）以来的环境演变研究是揭示中纬度沙漠的发展变化与物质来源的重要依据,为不同尺度区域乃至全球气候变化间的比较提供依据,进一步揭示气候要素的发展变化。目前已有大量的研究工作及成果见诸文献报道,但缺乏系统性的总结与对比分析,尤其是40 ka以来的环境演变过程及其原因。本文通过对中西方已有文献的系统总结和对比研究,从末次冰期、全新世早、中、晚期的古气候变化记录、地貌演化记录及环境变化的原因、可能存在的问题等方面,分析了阿拉善高原地区末次冰期以来的环境演变历史。指出约40 ka到末次盛冰期结束时的环境比现在湿润,之后至更新世结束环境普遍干旱,风沙活动增强;但是乌兰布和沙漠的环境演变与区域总体的变化结果不同,即整个末次冰期均表现为干旱的环境;全新世早期和中期环境普遍湿润,湖泊、植被等进一步发育,风沙活动弱,全新世晚期环境干旱,沙漠或进一步扩大。但是,腾格里沙漠全新世早期表现为干旱的环境,并且存在争议最大的是巴丹吉林沙漠全新世中期的干旱事件,这些问题仍需要进一步研究。此外,西风带、东亚季风在不同时期对研究区气候变化的影响不同,关于研究区与全球气候变化的具体关系的研究很少,缺少代表性事件的证据。沙源的研究结果存在不一致性,由于研究方法的局限性和地貌营力作用的复杂性,沙源的定性和量化分析具有一定的难度;沙丘的形态、分布与风的方向、能量具有相互指示性,适当的风能才是沙丘建造的关键;从气候变化的全球尺度分析,沙漠的形成普遍与冰期或者气候寒冷干燥时期相对应。     

Food deserts,activity patterns, & social exclusion: The case of Tokyo,Japan

This study attempts to identify areas with a high level of discrepancy in the probability for an individual to exceed the threshold of walking time for grocery shopping. It is based on an assumption that a higher discrepancy is associated with more relative disadvantages for socially excluded people, the elderly, with no car and unemployed. A geographically weighted logistic model that incorporates individual constraints and spatial accessibility is developed to yield a probability, capturing the spatial variation of relations of factors. In the city of Tokyo, the north-eastern area shows a significant discrepancy for the socially excluded group. The distribution of high level of discrepancy differs compared to that of the area with low accessibility. This study's methodology and results provide convincing evidence that in determining food desert areas, relative accessibility estimated with personal attributes should be taken into account.     

The recent evolution of dune landforms and its environmental indications in the mid-latitude desert area (Hexi Corridor)

Journal of Geographical Sciences - The history of dune landform changes and dust activity at mid-latitudes is a good archive for exploring environmental changes and related landscape response. In...     

Nocturnal passage of passerines in Western Kazakhstan in autumn

We provide a test of the hypothesis that most Palaearctic-African migratory passerines breeding to the east of Eastern Europe avoid crossing western deserts of Central Asia during autumn migration and make a detour through the steppes and semi-deserts north of the Caspian Sea. Trapping data at a migratory stopover and moon-watch observations in September 2003 in western Kazakhstan in a semi-desert location 375 km north of the Caspian Sea support this hypothesis.