A theoretical framework of tracer methods for marine sediment dynamics

A new theoretical framework of tracer methods is proposed in the present contribution, on the basis of mass conservation. This model is applicable for both artificial and natural tracers. It can be used to calculate the spatial distribution patterns of sediment transport rate, thus providing independent information and verification for the results derived from empirical formulae. For the procedures of the calculation, first, the tracer concentration and topographic maps of two times are obtained. Then, the spatial and temporal changes in the concentration and seabed elevation are calculated, and the boundary conditions required are determined by field observations (such as flow and bedform migration measurements). Finally, based upon eqs. (1) and (13), the transport rate is calculated and expressed as a function of the position over the study area. Further, appropriate modifications to the model may allow the tracer to have different densities and grain size distributions from the bulk sediment.

Geochemical anomalies of hydrothermal plume at EPR 13 degrees N

During the DY105-12, 14cruise (RN DAYANG YIHAO, November 2003) on East Pacific Rise (EPR) 12-13 degrees N, the submarine hydrothermal activity was investigated and the CTD hydrocast was carried out at EPR12 degrees 39 ' N - 12 degrees 54 ' N. From the temperature anomalies and the concentrations of magnesium, chlorine, bromine in seawater samples, we discover that magnesium depletes 9.3%-22.4%, chlorine and bromine enrich 10.3%-28.7% and 10.7%-29.0% respectively relative to normal seawater at the stations which have chemistry anomalies, moreover temperature and chemistry anomalies are at the same layer. The depletion of magnesium in the plume may be caused by a fluid lacking of magnesium which rises after the hydrothermal fluid reaches the equilibrium with ambient seawater, the enrichment of chlorine and bromine might be the result of inputting later brine which is generated by phase separation due to hydrothermal activity. In addition, the Br/CI ratio in the abnormal layers at the survey area is identical to that in seawater, which implies that halite dissolution (or precipitation) occurs neither when the fluid is vented nor when hydrothermal fluid entraining ambient seawater rises to form plume. From the abnormal instance at E55 station, it is very possible that there might exist a new hydrothermal vent site.

胶州湾悬浮颗粒物中脂肪酸的时空分布及其在初级生产者到初级消费者食物传递中的作用

研究初级食物供给与初级消费之间数量与质量的关系在海洋浮游生态系统食物网研究中占有基础地位。悬浮颗粒物及浮游动物中脂肪酸的组成和含量可以很好地为食物关系研究提供信息。当悬浮颗粒物在时空上存在数量和质量差异时，这种差异就可能在浮游动物中体现出来，而且通过脂肪酸的信息可以追踪到这种差异。本研究旨在阐明脂肪酸在悬浮颗粒物组成中的生物标记作用和在悬浮颗粒物到浮游动物食物传递过程中的营养指示作用，同时应用这一标记物研究胶州湾海域悬浮颗粒物的大体分布及其与浮游动物间的食物关系。 文章首先依据2005年3月－2006年2月胶州湾颗粒有机碳及叶绿素a的数据估测碳生物量的转化系数，发现该系数受时空环境差异的影响，平均为56，从而推导出胶州湾浮游植物有机碳浓度，进而探讨浮游植物对颗粒有机碳的贡献。对各参数分析结果显示胶州湾颗粒有机碳、叶绿素a和浮游植物有机碳年平均浓度分别为为0.47 mg.L-1、4.16 μg.L-1及0.23 mg.L-1，三者表现出相似的时空变化动态，即湾内沿岸水域较高，湾外较低，夏季较高秋冬季较低。浮游植物对颗粒有机碳的贡献较高，年平均接近37%。 对悬浮颗粒物的脂肪酸组成分析后发现饱和脂肪酸（SSFA）16:0，14:0，18:0及单不饱和脂肪酸（MUFA）Σ16:1(ω7+ω5+ω9)所占比例较高，多不饱和脂肪酸（PUFA）中EPA和DHA也相对较高。总脂肪酸在水体中的绝对浓度及在颗粒有机碳中的相对含量均存在着时空变异，二者的平均变动范围分别在4.7－60.2 μg . L-1及20.1－86.7 μg . mg-1之间，夏季高于秋冬季，空间分布上二者均在湾东部相对较高，而在湾外较低。不同脂肪酸组合的时空变化可以反映出悬浮颗粒物组成的时空动态，其中16:1ω7/18:1ω9、Σ16:1/18:1ω9、Σ16:1/Σ18:1、Σ16/Σ18、Σ16/ΣFA及20:5ω3/22:6ω3等脂肪酸组合在研究海域可以较好的指示硅藻组成，而Σ18/ΣFA 及22:6ω3/ΣFA可以指示甲藻组成，BSFA/ΣFA、Σ(Br+St)/ΣFA 、Br/St (15:0)及 Br/St (15:0+17:0)可以较好的指示细菌，SSFA/ΣFA及(24:0+26:0)/ΣFA可以示踪碎屑组分及其中的陆源成份。ω3系列脂肪酸在有机碳中的含量及在总脂肪酸中的比例以及不饱和指数可以表征悬浮颗粒物的食物质量。通过标志脂肪酸对悬浮颗粒物组成的指示发现冬季2月悬浮颗粒物组成中硅藻所占比例较高，多数月份湾内近岸水域尤其是湾东部细菌组成相对较高，而湾口至湾外水域碎屑含量相对较高。 浮游动物总平均干重生物量为72.6 mg.m-3，平面分布表现为湾内北部及中心区域生物量普遍较高，湾东部水域较低，季节变化表现为总生物量在春季4月及冬季12月形成峰值，总体上在春季5月、夏季7月及秋冬大部分月份相对较低，但不同粒径组成其动态不尽相同。浮游动物的脂肪酸组成与悬浮颗粒物存在一定差别，表现为MUFA比例下降，PUFA比例升高；SSFA中14:0的比例下降，18:0及20:0比例提高，MUFA中20:1ω9比例升高，PUFA中，EPA及DHA所占比例也相对较高。8月份总脂肪酸含量较高，9月与10月相对较小，各粒级内差别不大。 利用主成份分析发现悬浮颗粒物的组分在浮游动物中能够用相应脂肪酸指标进行示踪，当食物数量充分满足需求时，浮游动物脂肪酸特征与悬浮颗粒物组成一致性较高，同时通过脂肪酸示踪发现当潜在食物数量较丰富时，浮游动物的摄食存在选择性，这种选择可能受食物质量的调控，而当食物数量较低时，其选择性也降低。 悬浮颗粒物中EPA含量及不饱和指数是相对重要的食物质量指示物，通过对其指示特征的分析发现胶州湾总体上浮游动物的摄食会影响其食物质量组成；但在8月，浮游动物的生物量受悬浮颗粒物质量的调控，而浮游动物生物量对食物数量的摄食压力较小，认为该时期是食物质量限制对浮游动物生物量影响相对重要的时期，可以用特征脂肪酸进行清晰的分析。

胶州湾典型增养殖海域有害赤潮生消过程及关键因子研究

有害赤潮（Harmful algal blooms, HAB）已成为全球性的海洋灾害，对我国近海养殖业危害尤为巨大，研究赤潮发生、发展的主要环境影响因子，对于控制赤潮的发生以及加强赤潮的防治具有十分重要的意义。本文根据国家自然科学基金“九五”重大项目“中国沿海典型增养殖区有害赤潮发生动力学防治对策研究”项目组近年来对胶州湾东北部养殖海域的监测资料，分析了该海区营养状况，结合该区自然环境特点，探讨了发生于1998年7月和1999年6月两次硅藻赤潮的主要影响因子；并应用胶州现场海水进行了室内模拟培养实验，对影响有害赤潮生消过程的关键环境因子进行了分析探讨。对1998和1999年赤潮多发季节胶州湾东北部增养殖水域海水的营养状况进行了分析，并参照潜在性富营养化的概念，应用NQI指数对该海域的富营养化水平进行了评价。结果表明：（1）胶州湾东北部增养殖海域赤潮多发季节TIN、DIP和活性硅酸盐的含量均较高，远高于同期胶州湾大面观测站各营养盐的平均含量；该海域有机污染物含量相对营养盐含量不高。（2）该海域春季氮、磷营养盐含量充足，水域属富营养化平；夏季该海域具有较高的生物具，磷酸盐水平相对较低，海域多数时间属于磷限制潜在性富营养化水平；但这种限制极易为外界补充所改变，如陆源输入、养殖废水的排放等。（3）该海域为典型增养殖区，养殖废水对海域营养盐的补充有重要意义，因此应当加强对该海域养殖业的综合管理。对分别于1998年7月和1999年6月在胶州湾东北部增养殖海域发生的中肋骨条藻（Skeletonema costatum）赤潮和浮动弯角藻（Eucampia zoodiacus）赤潮生消过程中环境因子的变化进行了探讨。发生赤潮生物量的升高常伴随海水pH值、溶解氧（DO）含量的升高以及各营养盐（氮、磷、硅）含量的降低；认为在该海域较高营养盐含量和较高生物量的情况下，赤潮发生前大规模的降雨过程及随后的气候条件为赤潮生物的快速生长繁殖创造了有利条件；无机磷和活性硅酸盐含量相对于无机氮显得较低，对该海域硅藻赤潮的生消过程起着控制作用。采集胶州湾现场海水进行了实验室模拟培养实验，对影响赤潮生消过程的主要环境因素进行了研究和探讨。结果表明，现场海水进行模拟培养时，排除了潮流、风以及水团间交流混合等因素对水体中浮游生物的影响，培养水体中的浮游植物生物量都存在增高的现象；在氮、磷、硅等营养盐含量充足的条件下，浮游植物可快速进入指数增长期，并较快发展形成赤潮，高浓度的营养盐常导致培养水体中浮游植物的较高的生长速率，浮游植物对氮磷营养盐的吸收受到环境中营养盐含量的影响；初始环境下营养盐的限制可抑制浮游植物的进一步增殖，发生赤潮水体中某种营养盐的含量降低最终导致了赤潮的消亡。

Dynamic and complex microclimate responses to warming and grazing manipulations

Synthesis efforts that identify patterns of ecosystem response to a suite of warming manipulations can make important contributions to climate change science. However, cross-study comparisons are impeded by the paucity of detailed analyses of how passive warming and other manipulations affect microclimate. Here we document the independent and combined effects of a common passive warming manipulation, open-top chambers (OTCs), and a simulated widespread land use, clipping, on microclimate on the Tibetan Plateau. OTCs consistently elevated growing season averaged mean daily air temperature by 1.0-2.0 degrees C, maximum daily air temperature by 2.1-7.3 degrees C and the diurnal air temperature range by 1.9-6.5 degrees C, with mixed effects on minimum daily air temperature, and mean daily soil temperature and moisture. These OTC effects on microclimate differ from reported effects of a common active warming method, infrared heating, which has more consistent effects on soil than on air temperature. There were significant interannual and intragrowing season differences in OTC effects on microclimate. For example, while OTCs had mixed effects on growing season averaged soil temperatures, OTCs consistently elevated soil temperature by approximately 1.0 degrees C early in the growing season. Nonadditive interactions between OTCs and clipping were also present: OTCs in clipped plots generally elevated air and soil temperatures more than OTCs in nonclipped plots. Moreover, site factors dynamically interacted with microclimate and with the efficacy of the OTC manipulations.These findings highlight the need to understand differential microclimate effects between warming methods, within warming method across ecosystem sites, within warming method crossed with other treatments, and within sites over various timescales. Methods, sites and scales are potential explanatory variables and covariables in climate warming experiments. Consideration of this variability among and between experimental warming studies will lead to greater understanding and better prediction of ecosystem response to anthropogenic climate warming.

Influence of lanthanum on the uptake of trace elements in cucumber plant

The effects of La3+ on the uptake of trace elements (Se, Co, V, and Tc) in cucumber plants were studied by a radioactive multitracer technique. It was observed that the uptake and distribution of these trace elements in roots, stems, and leaves are different under different La3+, treatments. Furthermore, in the control, the plant accumulates Se-75, Co-56, and V-48 all in the order roots>leaves>stems, whereas Tc-95m was in the order leaves>stems>roots. The accumulations of Se-75 and Tc-95m in plants treated with different La3+ concentration were in the same order as those in the control, but the uptakes percentages of other kinds of element changed differently. The results indicate that lanthanum treatments to a growing cucumber lead to the change of uptake of trace elements, which suggest that a rare earth element is directly or indirectly involved in the ion transport of the plant and affects plant growth by regulating the uptake and distribution of elements that influence the plant cell physiology and biochemistry.

Variation in mitochondrial DNA and phylogeny of six species of pikas (Ochotona)

Phylogenetic relationships of six species of Ochotona were investigated using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) restriction-site analysis. The phylogenetic tree constructed using PAUP was based on 62 phylogenetically informative sites with O. erythrotis designated as an outgroup. Two clades were evident. One contained O. curzoniae, O. huangensis, and O. thibetana. in the second, O. daurica was a sister taxon of O. cansus. The five species appear to come from different maternal lineages. The branching structure of the tree and sequence divergence confirm that huangensis and cansus are distinct species, and that mol-osa is a synonym of O. cansus rather than O. thibetana. Divergence time, estimated from genetic distances, indicates that the ancestors of the two maternal lineages diverged ca. 6.5 x 10(6) years ago. O. curzoniae diverged from O. huangensis, and O. daurica diverged from O. cansus, at about the same time (ca. 3.4 x 10(6) years ago). These data suggest a period of rapid radiation of the genus Ochotona in China, perhaps during the late Pliocene. These calculations correspond roughly to tectonic events and environmental changes in China throughout this period, and appear to be substantiated by the fossil record.

北大别黄土岭麻粒岩变质演化：对大别造山带演化进程的指示意义

Granulites from Huangtuling in the North Dabie metamorphic core complex in eastern China preserve rare mineralogical and mineral chemical evidence for multistage metamorphism related to Paleoproterozoic metamorphic processes, Triassic continental subduction-collision and Cretaceous collapse of the Dabieshan Orogen. Six stages of metamorphism are established, based on detailed mineralogical and petrological studies: (I) amphibolite facies (6.3–7.0 kbar, 520–550 °C); (II) high-pressure/high-temperature granulite facies (12–15.5 kbar, 920–980 °C); (III) cooling and decompression (4.8–6.0 kbar, 630-700 °C); (IV) medium-pressure granulite facies (7.7–9.0 kbar, 690–790 °C); (V) low-pressure/high-temperature granulite facies (4.0–4.7 kbar, 860–920 °C); (VI) retrograde greenschist facies overprint (1–2 kbar, 340–370 °C). The P–T history derived in this study and existing geochronological data indicate that the Huangtuling granulite records two cycles of orogenic crustal thickening events. The earlier three stages of metamorphism define a clockwise P–T path, implying crustal thickening and thinning events, possibly related to the assembly and breakup of the Columbia Supercontinent ca. 2000 Ma. Stage IV metamorphism indicates another crustal thickening event, which is attributed to the Triassic subduction/collision between the Yangtze and Sino–Korean Cratons. The dry lower crustal granulite persisted metastable during the Triassic subduction/collision due to lack of hydrous fluid and deformation. Stage V metamorphism records the Cretaceous collapse of the Dabieshan Orogen，possibly due to asthenosphere upwelling or removal of the lithospheric mantle resulting in heating of the granulite and partial melting of the North Dabie metamorphic core complex. Comparison of the Huangtuling granulite in North Dabie and the high-pressure (HP)–ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks in South Dabie indicates that the subducted upper (South Dabie) and lower (North Dabie) continental crusts underwent contrasting tectonometamorphic evolution during continental subduction–collision and orogenic collapse. High-pressure granulites are generally characterized by the absence of orthopyroxene. However, the Huangtuling felsic granulite rarely preserves the high-pressure granulite facies assemblage of garnet + orthopyroxene + biotite + plagioclase + K-feldspar + quartz. To investigate the effects of bulk rock composition on the stability of orthopyroxene-bearing, high-pressure granulite facies assemblages in the NCKFMASHTO (Na2O–CaO–K2O–FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O–TiO2–Fe2O3) system, we constructed a series of P–T–X pseudosections based on the melt-reintegrated composition of the Huangtuling felsic high-pressure granulite. Our calculations demonstrate that the orthopyroxene-bearing, high-pressure granulite facies assemblages are restricted to low XAl [Al2O3/(Na2O + CaO + K2O + FeO + MgO + Al2O3) < 0.35, mole proportion] or high XMg [MgO/(MgO + FeO) > 0.85] felsic–metapelitic rock types. Our study also reveals that the XAl values in the residual felsic–metapelitic, high-pressure granulites could be significantly reduced by a high proportion of melt loss. We suggest that orthopyroxene-bearing high-pressure granulites occur in residual overthickened crustal basement under continental subduction–collision zones and arc–continent collision belts.

华北及周边地区层析成像研究

Our study deals with the high resolution body wave tomography in North china and adjacent areas(30°N-43°N，100°E-130°E), where earthquakes occurred many times in history and has a very complicated geological structure. 6870 events recorded at 273 digital seismic stations from CDSN during 1996－2002 and stations settled by Seislab of IGCAS in Bohai Bay area, including 1382 local earthquakes and 5488 teleseismic earthquakes are used in this study. In the data we used, the average number of received stations is greater than 5, the error of picking up direct arrival time is 0.1－0.5s. Before the inversion, we use Checkerboard method to confirm the reliability of result of Local events; use Restoring Resolution Test to confirm the reliability of result of teleseismic events. We also analyzed the effect of different parameters in the inversion. Based the analysis above, the model used in this paper is divided into small blocks with a dimension of 0.33°in the latitude and longitude directions and 5km、15km、30km in depth, and initial velocity model. Using pseudobending method to calculate the ray traveling path, LSQR algorithm to inverse, finally, we got the body velocity images below 25km and above 480km in this area using Joint- inversion with local events and teleseismic events. We made the conclusion at last: (1)at top zone of the south of Sichuan Basin , there exits low velocity anomalies, below 40km is the high velocity zone extend to 300km; (2) Above the 40km of Ordos block exits low velocity zone, while below 40km until 240km, the high velocity anomalies are interlaced by low velocity anomalies. Below 300km, the anomalies are unclear any more; (3) On the whole, the velocity structure below 400km on the mantle transition zone of Eastern China area shows its changes from low velocity to high velocity.

云南澜沧老厂大型银多金属矿床成矿年代及地球化学

老厂矿床位于三江成矿带南段昌宁—孟连裂谷的次级澜沧断陷盆地中，昌宁—孟连裂谷是三江成矿带南段的重要成矿段之一，其大地构造位于保山―掸邦微陆块东缘，兰坪—思茅盆地、临沧地块西缘，属东特提斯构造域，是冈瓦纳古陆与欧亚大陆巨型缝合带的组成部分。 矿床开采历史悠久，始于明朝永乐二年（1404年），至今已605年。古时炼银弃铅，最高年产白银30万两。解放后主要开采古人废弃的高铅炉渣，并对深部原生矿体进行了初步勘探，90年代至今对深部银铅矿体进行了详细勘查，深部矿体是矿床主要的开采对象。它以独特的成矿地质特征、富银（铅锌矿石中平均含量为629×10-6，方铅矿中平均2069×10-6）、伴生元素多（In、Se、Te、Ga、Cd、Bi）、规模大（In、Se、Te、Cd已达大型规模）、含Sn等特征而受到广大地质工作者的关注。它是“三江”成矿带南段最具代表性的铅银矿床类型之一，也是昌宁—孟连裂谷内目前探明的唯一大型银铅锌多金属矿床，具有十分重要的研究价值。 虽然前人已从矿床地质、成矿条件、控矿因素等方面对老厂大型银铅锌多金属矿床进行过研究，但研究工作较为零散，在成矿物质与成矿流体来源、矿床成因、花岗斑岩与成矿等方面还存在较大争议。本文在深入细致的野外地质工作基础上，利用多种现代分析测试技术，对矿床进行了较为系统的矿物学、岩石学、年代学和矿床地球化学研究，进而查明了矿床成矿物质与成矿流体来源、揭示了成矿地球动力学背景、探讨了矿床的成因、初步建立了矿床成因模式。论文取得的主要成果如下： 1．查明了硫化物的物质组分及形成阶段。闪锌矿以高铁（早期平均11.51%，晚期平均8.41%）为基本特征，并伴生多种特征的微量元素，早期闪锌矿是Fe、In的主要载体，Cu、Cd、Mn则主要富集在晚阶段闪锌矿中；方铅矿是Ag的主要载体，其早期富Ag、Te、Bi，含Se、Cu，中期主要富Ag，晚期以含As、Bi为特征；其它硫化物成分较单一。 2．揭示了伴生元素赋存状态和富集规律。矿床伴生元素含量高，闪锌矿中Cd平均4293.19×10-6，In平均555.37×10-6，方铅矿中Te平均143.81×10-6，As、Se、Bi、Ga含量也很高。初步估算金属储（万吨）量分别为： Ga 0.097，Cd1.84， In0.13，Se0.06 ，Te0.15，Bi1.28，As4.31。闪锌矿是Ga、In、Cd主要载体，Te、Bi主要赋存在方铅矿中，Se则主要在铅锌、黄铁矿石中富集。 3．首次获得了精确的成矿年代学数据。单颗粒闪锌矿—黄铁矿Rb-Sr法获得矿床成矿年龄t=（45±3.6）Ma，（87Sr/86Sr）i=0.70977±0.00034。证实了矿床成矿与隐伏花岗斑岩关系密切，矿床形成是三江成矿带南段对喜马拉雅碰撞造山成矿运动的响应。 4．首次系统研究了花岗斑岩的地质、地球化学特征。矿床花岗斑岩具高硅、超钾、富碱、贫钠和低镁、钙、铁、磷的特征，岩石为过铝质岩石；其轻稀土富集、Eu为弱负异常、基本无Ce异常、岩石富集大离子亲石元素，具有较高的锶初始值和较低εNd及高的Nd模式年龄，与三江地区富碱斑岩具有相似的地球化学特征。岩浆主要来源于加厚下地壳重熔，成岩过程中有地幔物质的加入，为同碰撞构造环境下形成。 5．首次探讨了容矿沉积建造及矿石、矿物的地球化学特征。矿床碳酸盐岩轻稀土富集、Eu正异常及Ce异常和其微量元素特征与热水沉积岩石相似，表明了碳酸盐岩的热水沉积成因，同时矿石及其硫化物微量和稀土元素特征也指示了在早石炭世矿区发生了广泛的火山喷流热水沉积成矿作用。 6．查明了成矿物质及成矿流体来源。成矿元素研究显示矿床成矿物质具有多来源的特征，Pb同位素研究表明矿床Pb可能来自不同地层岩石的淋滤， S同位素组成显示其可能主要来源于海水对下伏火山岩地层的淋滤与海水硫酸盐的还原，花岗斑岩岩浆也可能提供了部分S。C-O、H-O同位素和矿石及其硫化物稀土元素反映矿床早期成矿流体主要源于深部岩浆，晚期主要来源于喜山期花岗斑岩岩浆热液。 7．初步建立了成矿模式。老厂矿床是长期以来多种地质作用下的综合产物，具有成矿物质多来源，成矿阶段多期次特点。经历了早石炭世火山喷流热水沉积成矿和喜山期花岗斑岩岩浆热液叠加改造成矿作用，热水成矿作用下形成了以黄铁矿为主的块状硫化物矿床，喜山期富碱花岗斑岩岩浆热液流体携带了大量的Cu、Mo、Ag、Pb等成矿元素，在它的叠加改造作用下形成了老厂银多金属矿床。总之矿床为火山喷流沉积—岩浆热液叠加改造成因。