Pes shape variation in an ornithopod dinosaur trackway (Lower Cretaceous,NW Spain): New evidence of an antalgic gait in the fossil track record

Trackways can provide unique insight to animals locomotion through quantitative analysis of variation in track morphology. Long trackways additionally permit the study of trackmaker foot anatomy, providing more insight on limb kinematics. In this paper we have restudied the extensive tracksite at Barranco de La Canal-1 (Lower Cretaceous, La Rioja, NW Spain) focussing on a 25-m-long dinosaur (ornithopod) trackway that was noted by an earlier study (Casanovas et al., 1995; Pérez-Lorente, 2003) to display an irregular pace pattern. This asymmetric gait has been quantified and photogrammetric models undertaken for each track, thus revealing distinct differences between the right and the left tracks, particularly in the relative position of the lateral digits II–IV with respect to the central digit III. Given that the substrate at this site is homogenous, the consistent repetition of the collected morphological data suggests that differences recorded between the right and the left tracks can be linked to the foot anatomy, but more interestingly, to an injury or pathology on left digit II. We suggest that the abnormal condition registered in digit II impression of the left pes can be linked to the statistically significant limping behaviour of the trackmaker. Furthermore, the abnormal condition registered did not affect the dinosaur's speed.     

大数据在地质资料管理与服务中“落地”问题分析

大数据已成为继云计算、物联网之后新的IT热词。大数据与每个人的生活息息相关。地质资料数据包括了基础地质、矿产、地球物理、地球化学等丰富的信息,对国家、社会具有巨大的潜在应用价值和保存价值。地质资料管理与服务如何与大数据技术更好地结合,产生更大的价值,值得研究。以基层地质资料馆为例,分析地质资料管理与服务的现状及需求,探索如何借鉴大数据思维,改进地质资料管理与服务工作,实现地质数据高效管理,有效地挖掘,使宝贵的地质资料数据发挥出更大的社会使用价值。     

水文信息处理系统研究

水文信息处理系统是在Windows环境下、用Visual Basic 6．0高级语言研制开发的智能水文资料整编软件，引用数据库存储信息，调用Excel输出整编成果。该软件实现了水位、流量、泥沙等要素关系线的自动生成和人工辅助定线，并完成全部整编计算工作，结束了我国水文资料电算整编工作中依靠手工定线整编的历史，解决了计算机定线、推流和成果输出一次完成的技术难题，真正实现了水文资料整编计算机化。     

地学自由曲面径向基函数网络重建的详细算法

径向基函数(RadialBasisFunction,简称RBF)神经网络是一种理想的地学离散数据网格化工具,能够适应各种不同分布形式和边界条件的数据,收敛速度较快,可以逼近任何复杂曲面。这里详细介绍了RBF神经网络的算法。适当径向基函数的形式和偏差系数是使用RBF神经网络作地学曲面重建的关键。大量的实际数据验证结果表明,当选用Gauss型径向基函数时,一般可获得比较理想的网格化效果,同时具备"曲面平滑"和"拟合度高"的特点。     

Geohydrological models and earthquake effects at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

 Yucca Mountain, the proposed site for the high-level nuclear waste repository, is located just south of where the present water table begins a sharp rise in elevation. This large hydraulic gradient is a regional feature that extends for over 100 km. Yucca Mountain and its vicinity are underlain by faulted and fractured tuffs with hydraulic conductivities controlled by flow through the fractures. Close to and parallel with the region of large hydraulic gradient, and surrounding the core of the Timber Mountain Caldera, there is a 10- to 20-km-wide zone containing few faults and thus, most likely, few open fractures. Consequently, this zone should have a relatively low hydraulic conductivity, and this inference is supported by the available conductivity measurements in wells near the large hydraulic gradient. Also, slug injection tests indicate significantly higher pressures for fracture opening in wells located near the large hydraulic gradient compared to the opening pressures in wells further to the south, hence implying that lower extensional stresses prevail to the north with consequently fewer open fractures there. Analytical and numerical modeling shows that such a boundary between media of high and low conductivity can produce the observed, large hydraulic gradient, with the high conductivity medium having a lower elevation than the water table. Further, as fractures can close due to tectonic activity, the conductivity of the Yucca Mountain tuffs can be reduced to a value near that for the hydraulic barrier due to strain release by a moderate earthquake. Under these conditions, simulations show that the elevation of the steady-state water table could rise between 150 and 250 m at the repository site. This elevation rise is due to the projected shift in the location of the large hydraulic gradient to the south in response to a moderate earthquake, near magnitude 6, along one of the major normal faults adjacent to Yucca Mountain. As the proposed repository would only be 200–400 m above the present water table, this predicted rise in the water table indicates a potential hazard involving water intrusion. Received: 7 June 1996 / Accepted: 19 November 1996     

基于GIS的铁路地质环境多源信息管理研究——以西南地区某铁路为例

从构建铁路地质环境多源信息管理系统的必要性人手,针对目前铁路工程地质勘察与地质灾害空间多源信息管理的不足,以ArcGIS软件为应用平台,以VBA为开发工具,采用定制ArcMap的方法进行二次开发。对铁路地质环境涉及的基本内容,以及如何构建基于GIS的铁路地质环境多源信息管理系统等作了探讨。     

城镇地籍基础地理数据建库方法探讨

通过对第二次全国土地调查城镇地籍调查数据建库标准的分析,提出一套基于大比例尺城镇地形图开展基础地理数据建库的方法,探讨利用数据建库成果地形图图式的符号化回放,既满足城镇地形图的出图效果又满足基础地理数据GIS方法管理的需求.     

基于人工神经网络的航磁信息关联方法的研究

应用人工神经网络方法 ,以航磁数据为样本 ,建立了航磁信息关联的BP人工神经网络模型。对山东省 1∶5 0万航磁水平一阶导数轴向图进行计算机自动关联叠置、提取航磁解释构造轴线的研究。经与垂向二阶导数对比分析 ,证实了该方法给出的模型具有较强的非线性、自适应和学习能力。     

抗洪救灾遥感系统中河道防洪信息系统的试验研究

介绍了抗洪救灾遥感系统中河道防洪信息系统的试验研究.试验以微机作为基本硬件环境,通过对各种图形和遥感图像的输入、输出与处理方法的研究,采用以DBASE-Ⅲ为主,以FORTRAN、BASIC和C语言为辅的混合编程方法.建立了河道防洪信息系统.该系统具有数据更新、查询检索、统计报表、显示制图和对图形、图像的数据采集、编辑、存取、显示、输出与处理等功能.