Shallow landslides in deeply weathered slates of the Sierra de Collcerola (Catalonian Coastal Range, Spain)

Stability conditions in an area located NW of Barcelona (Spain) are discussed. Here, several mass movements were observed, mainly affecting weathered Paleozoic slates. Many of these failures involved slopes cut along recent infrastructures: debris flows, wedge and plane failures, generally surficial, occurred more frequently. After a detailed geological and geomorphologic survey, geomechanic characterization was carried out, according to RMR and SMR classifications. This rating gave a prediction of slope behaviour, in fairly good agreement with the real observed one.

Stability numerical analysis was carried out for the main cut slopes, based upon the Limit Equilibrium Method. First of all, the deterministic factor of safety was computed using the mean values of parameters. After that, a simulation technique based upon the Monte Carlo Method was applied in order to obtain factor of safety distributions. The probability of failure was estimated as P(F<1).

Finally, results from deterministic and probabilistic approaches were compared. The effectiveness of different possible remedial measures was highlighted by means of a sensitivity analysis, which showed that the more important parameters in the study area are the geometrical ones (height, slope and failure plane angles). The final technical solutions adopted are briefly outlined.     

豫皖交界“梅山群”的古构造环境研究及其意义

摘要：“梅山群”是豫皖交界地段变质程度与佛子岭群、石炭系不同的变质岩系。它主要由斜长角闪岩、变粒岩、浅粒岩、云英片岩、角闪片岩、黑云片岩、大理岩和辉石岩等组成,在区域上可以和商城群歪庙组对比,形成时代为早古生代．对“梅山群”的岩石化学研究表明,其形成的古构造环境可能为弧后盆地。笔者认为早古生代,南北大陆板块构造的碰撞以华北板块仰冲、扬子板块俯冲为特征,大别造山带古缝合带的位置应在“梅山群”分布区域的南侧。     

河南小秦岭东闯金矿床矿物标型特征研究

东闯金矿床为特大石英脉型金矿。通过对矿石中主要矿物黄铁矿、石英及自然金等的标型特征研究,探讨了矿床的成因及评价指标,认为金矿成矿与岩浆热液和老变质岩系（太华群）关系密切。     

滇西时代不明变质岩系的解体和时代厘定

建立在岩石组合、变质、变形、碎屑组分和同位素年代学基础上的研究成果表明,滇西时代不明变质岩系是两个时代不同的构造岩片,分别相当于中元古界崇山群和二叠系吉东龙组,二者是喜山期构造混杂带的重要组成部分。崇山群在晚元古时期(727～956 Ma)发生区域性的动热变质作用,加里东时期(397 Ma)又叠加了一次变质作用。吉东龙组中有喜山期(32 Ma)变质作用的叠加。     

安徽省国土资源科技十年回顾

回顾了过去十年来安徽省国土资源科研工作的主要成果,介绍了基础研究和应用研究领域一些重要的进展,进行了简略的点评,并对部分研究课题继续开展深入研究作了展望。     

常规测井资料识别裂缝性储层流体类型方法研究

裂缝性储层流体类型识别一直是测井界亟待解决的难题．一方面裂缝性储层具有岩性复杂、储集类型多样、物性变化大和非均质性强等特点,因而其测井解释和流体类型识别要复杂和困难得多．另一方面,复杂岩性油气藏越来越得到人们的重视．本次研究中,通过对流体类型影响因素的分析,认识到不同流体类型与电阻率比值的高低、粘土含量的多少以及孔隙度的大小密切相关．提出了综合考虑上述三项因素的流体类型识别参数FTI．该方法应用于辽河盆地大民屯凹陷变质岩和碳酸盐岩潜山地层流体类型识别,效果良好．     

H<Subscript>2</Subscript>-rich and Hydrocarbon Gas Recovered in a Deep Precambrian Well in Northeastern Kansas

In late 2005 and early 2006, the WTW Operating, LLC (W.T.W. Oil Co., Inc.) #1 Wilson well (T.D. = 5772 ft; 1759.3 m) was drilled for 1826 ft (556.6 m) into Precambrian basement underlying the Forest City Basin in northeastern Kansas. Approximately 4500 of the 380,000 wells drilled in Kansas penetrate Precambrian basement. Except for two previous wells drilled into the arkoses and basalts of the 1.1-Ga Midcontinent Rift and another well drilled in 1929 in basement on the Nemaha Uplift east of the Midcontinent Rift, this well represents the deepest penetration into basement rocks in the state to date. Granite is the typical lithology observed in wells that penetrate the Precambrian in the northern Midcontinent. Although no cores were taken to definitively identify lithologies, well cuttings and petrophysical logs indicate that this well encountered basement metamorphic rocks consisting of schist, gneiss, and amphibolitic gneiss, all cut by aplite dikes. The well was cased and perforated in the Precambrian, and then acidized. After several days of swabbing operations, the well produced shows of low-Btu gas, dominated by the non-flammable component gases of nitrogen (20%), carbon dioxide (43%), and helium (1%). Combustible components include methane (26%), hydrogen (10%), and higher molecular-weight hydrocarbons (1%). Although Coveney and others [Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 71, no, 1, p. 39–48, 1987] identified H₂-rich gas in two wells located close to the Midcontinent Rift in eastern Kansas, this study indicates that high levels of H₂ may be a more widespread phenomenon than previously thought. Unlike previous results, the gases in this study have a significant component of hydrocarbon gas, as well as H₂, N₂, and CO₂. Although redox reactions between iron-bearing minerals and groundwater are a possible source of H₂ in the Precambrian basement rocks, the hydrocarbon gas does not exhibit the characteristics typically associated with proposed abiogenic hydrocarbon gases from Precambrian Shield sites in Canada, Finland, and South Africa. Compositional and isotopic signatures for gas from the #1 Wilson well are consistent with a predominantly thermogenic origin, with possible mixing with a component of microbial gas. Given the geologic history of uplift and rifting this region, and the major fracture systems present in the basement, this hydrocarbon gas likely migrated from source rocks and reservoirs in the overlying Paleozoic sediments and is not evidence for abiogenic hydrocarbons generated in situ in the Precambrian basement.