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《Applied Geochemistry》1997,12(5):593-605
The impact of sediment type on stream water geochemistry was studied in a catchment in Finland affected by sulphidic fine-grained sediments. Stream water samples for general characterisation of water quality (pH, electrical conductivity) were taken at the basin outlet during various hydrological conditions, while samples for detailed geochemical analysis were collected at 119 sites in the catchment on one single occasion during high-water flow in autumn. The occurrence of sulphidic fine sediments was estimated based on data from an airborne electromagnetic survey carried out by the Geological Survey of Finland.Growing-symbol maps, which were prepared for each of the studied variables in water, and statistical calculations including factor analysis and Spearman correlations show that the concentrations of Al, Ga, U and Tl, all the lanthanides and several alkali and alkaline earth metals (K, Mg, Na, Li, Ca, Rb, Sr), transition metals (Cd, Co, Cu, Zn, Sc, Mn, Ni, Y, Hf) and non-metals (S, Br, I, Si) increase in water when the proportion of the catchment cover of sulphidic fine sediments increases. It is therefore argued that these elements are released and mobilised in considerable amounts by the oxidation and subsequent acidification and weathering of this type of sediment. Other elements are either slightly depleted in streams in areas of sulphidic fine sediments (V, Nb, Pb, Zr), have a distribution unrelated to sediment type (Fe, Cr, Cs, Mo), or are only weakly impacted by the occurrence of sulphidic sediments in the catchment (As, Ti, Ba). It is argued that these elements are not leached extensively from the oxidising sulphidic sediments, and that their distributions at least partly may be controlled by the contents of dissolved humic material and/or suspended organic and inorganic phases in the water. 相似文献
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The central Iranian volcanic-sedimentary belt in Kerman province of Iran that is located within the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc zone is chosen to integrate diverse evidential layers for mineral potential mapping. The studied area has high potential of mineral occurrences especially porphyry copper, and the prepared potential maps aim to outline new prospect zones for further investigation. Two evidential layers including the downward continued map and the analytic signal of filtered magnetic data are generated to be used as geophysical plausible traces of porphyry copper occurrences. The low values of the resistivity layer acquired from airborne frequency domain electromagnetic data are also used as an electrical criterion in this study. Four remote sensing evidential layers including argillic, phyllic, propylitic, and hydroxyl alterations are extracted from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images in order to map the altered areas associated with porphyry copper deposits. The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images are used as well to prepare iron oxide layer. Since potassic alteration is generally the mainstay of copper ore mineralization, the airborne potassium radiometry data is used to explore both phyllic and potassic alteration. Finally, the geochemical layers of Cu/B/Pb/Zn elements and the main geochemical component responsible for ore mineralization extracted from principal component analysis are included in the integration process to prepare final potential maps. The conventional and the extended version of VIKOR method (as a well-known algorithm in multi-criteria decision making problems) produced two mineral potential maps, and the results were compared with the ones acquired from prevalent methods of the index overlay and fuzzy logic operators of sum and gamma. The final mineral potential maps based upon desired geo-data set indicate adequately matching of high potential zones with previous working and active mines of copper deposits. 相似文献
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D. Karunanidhi G. Vennila M. Suresh P. Karthikeyan 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(5):1791-1798
The increasing demand for freshwater has necessitated the exploration for new sources of groundwater, particularly in hard rock terrain, where groundwater is a vital source of freshwater. A fast, cost effective, and economical way of exploration is to study and analyze geophysical resistivity survey data. The present study area Omalur taluk, Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India, is overlain by Archaean crystalline metamorphic complex. The study area is a characteristic region of unconfined aquifer system. The potential for occurrence of groundwater in the study areas was classified as very good, good, moderate, and poor by interpreting the subsurface geophysical investigations, namely vertical electrical soundings, were carried out to delineate potential water-bearing zones. The studies reveal that the groundwater potential of shallow aquifers is due to weathered zone very low resistivity and very high thickness and the potential of deeper aquifers is determined by fracture zone very low resistivity and very high thickness area. By using conventional GIS method, the spatial distribution maps for different layer (top soil, weathered zone, first fracture zone, and second fracture zone) thicknesses were prepared. The geoelectrical approach was successfully applied in the study area and can be therefore easily adopted for similar environments. 相似文献
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Geomagnetic (magnetic susceptibility), geoelectrical (resistivity and conductivity, self-potential/SP, induced polarization/IP), and radiometric measurements (gamma radiation of K, U, and Th) are well adapted to the needs and wants of geoscientists and exploration geologists, in particular, who widely use them in wireline tools and for ground surveys. Miniaturization of technical components resulted in the production of handheld devices which enable field geologists to an improving of the mineralogical and chemical database and the efficiency of the routine work in the field or at a drill site. The tools and devices used by a field geologist are categorized and presented in a tripartite set. The tools for routine field work with “hammer and laptop” belong to the A-level kit. The handheld devices under consideration constitute an intermediate level (B-level) to enhance the mineralogical and chemical database using physical methods. More advanced level applications make use of short-wave infra-red mineral analyzers or portable X-ray fluorescence devices (C-level). Handheld tools are designed for one-dimensional (cross-sectioning) and two-dimensional (mapping) surveys as well as drill core and cuttings examinations during terrain analysis. They can be operated in foot-borne surveys by one field geologist and the obtained data interpreted without an exuberant computing capacity. In the present overview, siliciclastic rocks and residual deposits have been singled out for their good response to the afore-mentioned methods. Their practical use is demonstrated by means of some case histories, each standing for a particular sedimentary lithology and discussed in combination with similar applications from literature: mixed-type (calcareous) siliciclastic rocks from Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins, SE Germany; residual argillaceous/kaolin deposits on top of granites of the Variscan basement, SE Germany; Neogene red-bed sediments from the promontory of the Tien Shan, East Uzbekistan; and Cretaceous gray-bed sediments with coal seams from the Baganuur basin, Central Mongolia. Cobweb diagrams, histograms, ternary diagrams, simple x-y plots and x-y plots in combination with spider diagrams have proved to be the most suitable ways when it comes to combine the data obtained from various methods and to illustrate these results for further interpretation on screen. The geophysical methods are discussed as to their strong and weak points to cater for a solution in three important subject matters of applied and genetic sedimentology: (1) constraining the redox regime, (2) determination of the lithology and mineralogy, (3) and provenance analysis and lithostratigraphy. Magnetic methods have proved to be useful for all objectives (1, 2, and 3), gamma spectrometry can successfully be applied for objectives 1 and 2, and micro-resistivity contributes significantly to solutions of objective 2. Magnetic and gamma spectrometric methods do not need any direct contact with the sedimentary rocks and therefore can be correlated with equivalent airborne surveys and are less depending on the wetability of the substrate and climate than the geoelectrical methods under study. The final goal of this review is to create a matrix of applicability of the methods and enable the field geologist to select the most suitable type of geophysical measurement or combination of tools for a solution to one of the three issues as a function of the sediment types under study. 相似文献
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资源定量评价发展方向展望 总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8
DonaldA.Singer 《地球科学》2001,26(2):152-156
未来的资源定量评价希望能够评估未发现矿产资源的量、价值并对其进行定位预测, 以能够表达矿产资源的经济潜力和不确定性.近年来金属价格的长期下跌提出了对更大型的矿床的需求.敏感度分析表明了减少评价中不确定性和风险的最有效途径是降低有关吨位估计因素的不确定性.到目前为止, 在评价中所有可能造成误差的因素中, 那些与吨位估计误差有关的因素是最重要的.鉴于吨位模型的绝对重要地位以及矿床模型是吨位最有效的预测手段, 正确地选择矿床模型是控制误差最重要的途径.地表大部分地区被大面积裸露的岩石和沉积物所覆盖.由于很多出露地表的矿床已经被发现, 人们开始把注意力转向盖层下面岩石可能显露的矿化信息上.这些区域的资源评价必需依靠对其周边地区的外推、地下覆盖岩石新的地质填图或者通过在其他成功勘探区获得的经验进行类推.盖层对评价的不确定性以及评价的方法与程序都具有深远的影响, 因为地下地质现象的不可见性和地球物理方法所获得的是一种被削弱了的信息.许多早期的评价方法都是基于从那些出露地表的矿床中总结出的地球化学和地球物理变量之间的关系而进行的, 而现在我们同样需要研究基于地下隐伏矿床的勘探经验.矿床模型在资源定量评价中的重要地位基于以下两个原因: (1) 大多数矿床类型具有明显不同的品位和吨位分布; (2) 不同的矿床类型出现在不同的地质背景中, 而这种背景可从地质图中进行区分.在综合利用地质、矿产、地球物理和地球化学等地学信息进行资源评价及矿床勘探中, 矿床模型起着至关重要的作用.品位和吨位模型以及定量描述、经济和矿床密度模型的发展将有利于减少这些新的评价的不确定性. 相似文献
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Hamidreza Ramazi Mohammad Reza Hossein Nejad Aenollah Azizzadeh Firoozi 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2009,74(2):260-266
This paper is devoted to application of SP, resistivity and mise-a-la-masse method in Khenadarreh (Arak, Iran) graphite deposit
exploration. Mise-a-la-masse method is one of the main geophysical exploration methods used to investigate conductive bodies
with outcrops on the surface or in exploratory pits. By integrating mise-a-la-masse results with other geoelectrical methods,
such as self-potential and resistivity surveys, useful results can be acquired. Powerful survey design, data processing and
interpretation methods can make geoelectrical surveying results more reliable. Here, we applied integrated geoelectrical methods
to explore the Khenadarreh-bala graphite deposit in the Sarband region of the Markazi province, Iran. We present a new and
simple method for processing and interpreting mise-a-la-masse data, which corrects for the effect of distance from the current
electrode in the conductive body. After correction, the residual potential values corresponded with the SP results and the
apparent resistivity pseudosections. The geophysical results were confirmed by drill holes in the study area. 相似文献
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Salinity mapping of coastal groundwater aquifers using hydrogeochemical and geophysical methods: a case study from north Kelantan,Malaysia 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Integrated hydrogeochemical and geophysical methods were used to study the salinity of groundwater aquifers along the coastal
area of north Kelantan. For the hydrogeochemical investigation, analysis of major ion contents of the groundwater was conducted,
and other chemical parameters such as pH and total dissolved solids were also determined. For the geophysical study, both
geoelectrical resistivity soundings and reflection seismic surveys were conducted to determine the characteristics of the
subsurface and groundwater contained within the aquifers. The pH values range from 6.2 to 6.8, indicating that the groundwater
in the study area is slightly acidic. Low content of chloride suggests that the groundwater in the first aquifer is fresh,
with an average concentration of about 15.8 mg/l and high geoelectrical resistivity (>45 ohm m). On the other hand, the groundwater
in the second aquifer is brackish, with chloride concentration ranging from 500 mg/l to 3,600 mg/l and very low geoelectrical
resistivity (<45 ohm m) as well as high concentration of total dissolved solids (>1,000 mg/l). The groundwater in the third
aquifer is fresh, with chloride concentrations generally ranging from 2 mg/l to 210 mg/l and geoelectrical resistivity of
greater than 45 ohm m. Fresh and saltwater interface in the first aquifer is generally located directly in the area of the
coast, but, for the second aquifer, both hydrogeochemical and geoelectrical resistivity results indicate that the fresh water
and saltwater interface is located as far as 6 km from the beach. The considerable chloride ion content initially suggests
that the salinity of the groundwater in the second aquifer is probably caused by the intrusion of seawater. However, continuous
monitoring of the chloride content of the second aquifer indicated no significant changes with time, from which it can be
inferred that the salinity of the groundwater is not affected by seasonal seawater intrusion. Schoeller diagrams illustrate
that sulphate concentrations of the groundwater of the second aquifer are relatively low compared to those of the recent seawater.
Therefore, this result suggests that the brackish water in the second aquifer is probably from ancient seawater that was trapped
within the sediments for a long period of time, rather than due to direct seawater intrusion. 相似文献
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Singer Donald A U. S. Geological Survey Middlefield Road Menlo Park California USA 《中国地质大学学报(英文版)》2001,12(1)
Like most journeys, success depends critically on wherewe are going to be in the end. Thus, if we are to have someideas about future directions of quantitative assessments ofmineral resources, we need some basic understanding of whatthe assessments will be used for. What will be expected ofquantitative resource assessments in the future? It would behelpful to identify who will use these future assessments, howthe assessments will be used, and what are acceptable forms ofproducts. The purpose o… 相似文献
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Assessing aquifer vulnerability to pollutants by electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) at a nitrate vulnerable zone in NE Spain 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
There is an increasing demand for groundwater vulnerability maps which illustrate the exposure of aquifers against pollution.
These maps show areas of greatest potential for groundwater contamination on the basis of local subsurface conditions. Parameters
affecting vulnerability are mainly permeability and thickness of each protective layer. For unconsolidated sediments, the
permeability is strongly related to the clay content, which can be deduced from indirect resistivity methods, like electrical-imaging.
Such geophysical methods can be of great help in groundwater vulnerability studies because they disturb neither the structure
nor the dynamics of the soil. Sensibility analysis was performed of the electrical resistivity tomography method for accurately
mapping soil media. Managers and public administrators may effectively use this method for assessing the potential risk of
groundwater contamination. In the studied zone, electrical resistivity exhibits a wide range of variability that can be easily
correlated to soil parameters, such as clay content and hydraulic conductivity. A numerical index of protection has been assessed
from the geophysical information derived from 2D electrical resistivity tomography. This work represents a preliminary approach
on the natural vulnerability evaluation of shallow aquifers at the Empordà basin (NE Spain) that is highly affected by diffuse
pollution by nitrates. 相似文献
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"玢岩型"铁矿和斑岩型铜矿是庐江-枞阳矿集区两个主要矿床类型,以往研究主要集中在矿床学、岩石学、年代学和地球化学等方面,地球物理工作开展相对较少。随着找矿深度不断加大,地球物理的作用越来越大。为建立典型矿床地球物理探测的解释"标尺",笔者选择泥河铁矿和沙溪铜矿为研究对象,开展三维音频大地电磁测深工作,获得了典型铜、铁矿床及围岩的三维电性结构模型。结果显示,玢岩(泥河)铁矿电性主体表现为层状结构,由浅至深主要为低阻的沉积层、高阻火山岩、相对低阻的蚀变带以及相对高阻的次火山岩,赋存于次火山岩体顶部穹隆状的磁铁矿主要表现为高阻特征。斑岩(沙溪)铜矿电性主体表现为块状(或纵向带状)结构,浅表为低阻沉积盖层,深部主要为相对高阻的沉积地层和高阻斑岩体,赋存于岩体内或围岩接触带的矿体则为中等电阻特征。为便于模型的实用,笔者将两类矿床的复杂电性模型转化为简化的概念电性模型,为寻找类似矿床提供快速对比"标尺"。 相似文献
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Gianni Gallello Mirco Ramacciotti Oreto García-Puchol Simon Chenery Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau MARíA Luisa Cervera Agustin Diez-Castillo Agustín Pastor Sarah B. McClure 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2021,50(4):1190-1208
This study investigates the stratigraphical sequence of Cocina Cave (Spain) employing and testing for the first time the capability of rare earth elements as markers of human activities in caves. Located in Dos Aguas (Valencian Community, Spain), Cocina Cave is characterized by the presence of several Holocene archaeological deposits from the final Mesolithic to the present day and is a pivotal site for understanding the socio-ecological dynamics of the last hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula and the transition to pastoral and agricultural economies in the Western Mediterranean. However, the identification of strata from particular time-periods in the cave is often difficult due to the homogeneity of layers, the poor archaeological record in some strata and the presence of severe disturbance phenomena. The methodological approach of this study consisted of cross-referencing rare earth elements and other chemical markers with the archaeological stratigraphical interpretation, in an attempt to not only support the identification of the anthropic contribution to the formation of Cocina Cave strata, but also to characterize and confirm different natural and occupational episodes, particularly those associated with hunter-gatherer, early agriculturalist, and shepherd activities. Sediments were collected from different excavation areas and analysed for major elements, trace elements, rare earth elements (REE), soil organic matter (SOM) amounts and pH. Multivariate statistics were employed to group samples according to their elemental profile, and these were then compared to the archaeological temporal interpretation. The obtained results showed that REE amount and fractionation geochemical processes were regulated by carbonates, phosphates and pH. The use of REE as markers was particularly useful as their concentrations and their calculated ratios and anomaly distributions were demonstrated to be highly consistent with the archaeological stratigraphical interpretation. 相似文献
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Karst aquifers supply a significant fraction of the world's drinking water. These types of aquifers are alsohighly susceptible to pollution from the surface with recharge usually occurring through fractures and solution openings at the bedrock surface. Thickness of the protective soil cover, macropores and openings within the soil cover, and the nature of the weathered bedrock surface all influence infiltration. Recharge openings at the bedrock surface, however, are often covered by unconsolidated sediments, resulting in the inadvertent placement of landfills, unregulated dump sites, tailing piles, waste lagoons and septic systems over recharge zones. In these settings surface geophysical surveys, calibrated by a few soil cores, could be employed to identify these recharge openings, and qualitatively assess the protection afforded by the soil cover. In a test of this hypothesis, geophysical measurements accurately predicted the thickness of unconsolidated deposits overlying karstic dolomite at a site ab 相似文献
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Tourmaline in the central Swedish ore district 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
More than 40 recently discovered tourmaline occurrences have been investigated in the Mid-Proterozoic Bergslagen ore district of central Sweden. Some are spatially associated with ores, others with zones of leaching, remobilization and migmatization. Among the tourmaline-bearing ore deposits are the Dammberg ZnPb-Fe sulphide deposit, the Sala Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, the Dalkarlsberg, Pershyttan and Håksberg Fe oxide deposits, the Leja Cu deposit, and the Zinkgruvan Zn-Pb-Ag deposit. Tourmaline has been recorded a) as tourmalinites and tourmaline-bearing chemical sediments; b) in tourmaline-bearing skarns; c) in tourmaline-quartz veins; d) as disseminations along the foliation in schists; e) in tourmaline pegmatites; f) in tourmalinized haloes in metavolcanites along tourmaline pegmatites; and g) in late joints. Tourmalinites, tourmaline-bearing chemical sediments and tourmaline-bearing skarns are spatially associated with sulphide and oxide mineralizations. The dravite components in these tourmalines are proportional to the size of Zn-Pb sulphide mineralizations. Tourmalines from quartz veins close to and within ore deposits contain high Zr and Cr contents. With increasing distance away from these deposits, the Zr and Cr contents fall significantly. Tourmalines from pegmatites have inherited a number of trace element enrichments through partial melting and assimilation of volcaniclastic sediments into granitic melts. Despite magmatic homogenization, Zn contents in these tourmalines reflect the proximity of Zn-Pb-sulphide deposits, decreasing away from them. Tourmalines from late joints with Zn contents above the 100 ppm level are also indicative for the proximity of Zn-Pb sulphide mineralizations. Thus, some trace elements in these tourmalines may represent suitable exploration tools. 相似文献
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In part of a large abandoned mining complex, electromagnetic geophysical surveys were used along with data derived from cores and monitoring wells to infer sources of contamination and subsurface hydrologic connections between acidic refuse deposits and adjacent undisturbed geologic materials.Electrical resistivity increases sharply along the boundary of an elevated deposit of pyritic coarse refuse, which is highly contaminated and electrically conductive, indicating poor subsurface hydrologic connections with surrounding deposits of fine refuse and undisturbed glacial material. Groundwater chemistry, as reflected in values of specific conductance, also differs markedly across the deposit's boundary, indicating that a widespread contaminant plume has not developed around the coarse refuse in more than 40 yr since the deposit was created. Most acidic drainage from the coarse refuse is by surface runoff and is concentrated around stream channels.Although most of the contaminated groundwater within the study area is concentrated within the surficial refuse deposits, transects of apparent resistivity and phase angle indicate the existence of an anomalous conductive layer at depth (>4 m) in thick alluvial sediments along the northern boundary of the mining complex. Based on knowledge of local geology, the anomaly is interpreted to represent a subsurface connection between the alluvium and a flooded abandoned underground mine. 相似文献
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P.D.Hughes P.L.Gibbard J.C.Woodward 《《幕》》2005,28(2):85-92
Glacial deposits in locally-glaciated mountain regions are often expressed through their surface form and the study of these deposits constitutes a major branch of geomorphology. Studies of glacial depositional records in mountain areas have often neglected formal stratigraphical procedure resulting in an ad hoc development of quasi-stratigraphical nomenclature. Here, a formal stratigraphical procedure is recommended, since this enables a systematic approach to the subdivision of glacial deposits in mountain regions. Moreover, such an approach facilitates, in some instances, the development of a formal chronostratigraphy that can be compared to regional and global geological time scales. This is important in locally-glaciated mountain regions where glacial deposits represent one of the most important records of cold stage environments. Given that glacial landforms represent a key component of the Quaternary record, maintaining a formal link between geomorphological and geological stratigraphical procedure is a fundamental requirement of a consistent and comparable stratigraphical framework. 相似文献
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Pb-isotope evidence for the origin of lead in strata-bound Pb-Zn deposits in triassic carbonates of the Eastern and Southern Alps 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
A comparison of ore-lead isotope ratios of Pb-Zn deposits hosted in Triassic carbonates of the Eastern and Southern Alps with the isotopic composition of trace leads of their host rocks, of Triassic volcanics, and of the underlying clastic sediments shows that these rocks could have supplied only part of the ore lead. The isotopic signature of feldspar lead from crystalline basement rocks, however, reveals that they must have contributed a significant amount of metal to these deposits. The presence of barite and of thallium is also indicative that feldspars were the main source of lead. Arsenic is one of the few important trace elements in these deposits and is known to occur in some areas of Lower Paleozoic metasediments in unusually high concentrations. Any model explaining the origin of these deposits must consider the extensive leaching of the basement and to some extent of the overlying clastic sediments as well. How the metal-bearing solutions entered the lagoonal back-reef areas is still open to question as feeder channels have not yet been positively identified. The results further demonstrate that the basement also acted as a metal source for galena-bearing deposits hosted in Permian sediments, vein-type deposits in Permian volcanics, and probably the barite-fluorite polymetallic deposits along a Devonian erosional surface in the Carnic Alps as well. 相似文献
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国外勘查地球物理的若干进展——1996年 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
本文根据1996年国外发表的勘查地球物理文献,概要列举了物探方法发展的新前沿。在矿产勘查方面介绍了金属矿预测和普查工作的新进展以及金伯利岩、滑石矿床的找矿方法和实例。在环境勘察方面,回顾了电法在水质调查中的应用,介绍了物探方法在城市垃圾场调查、煤矿闭坑善后工作、城市人工物理场环境效应调查中的应用以及滑坡和洞穴调查中新采用的方法。在区域和深部地球物理调查方面,概述了西方国家近年来实施的矿产勘查开创计划、大规模的电导率结构研究和南极磁异常图的编制。在新技术新方法方面,介绍了新的航空电磁系统———FLAIRTEM、电(磁)法中非接触数据采集技术、谱激发极化法在环境调查中的应用、探测油气蚀变柱的区域勘查新方法和海洋重力仪。 相似文献
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Facies model for a coarse‐grained,tide‐influenced delta: Gule Horn Formation (Early Jurassic), Jameson Land,Greenland 
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下载免费PDF全文 Christian Haug Eide John A. Howell Simon J. Buckley Allard W. Martinius Bjørn Terje Oftedal Gijs A. Henstra 《Sedimentology》2016,63(6):1474-1506
Tide‐dominated deltas have an inherently complex distribution of heterogeneities on several different scales and are less well‐understood than their wave‐dominated and river‐dominated counterparts. Depositional models of these environments are based on a small set of ancient examples and are, therefore, immature. The Early Jurassic Gule Horn Formation is particularly well‐exposed in extensive sea cliffs from which a 32 km long, 250 m high virtual outcrop model has been acquired using helicopter‐mounted light detection and ranging (LiDAR). This dataset, combined with a set of sedimentological logs, facilitates interpretation and measurement of depositional elements and tracing of stratigraphic surfaces over seismic‐scale distances. The aim of this article is to use this dataset to increase the understanding of depositional elements and lithologies in proximal, unconfined, tide‐dominated deltas from the delta plain to prodelta. Deposition occurred in a structurally controlled embayment, and immature sediments indicate proximity to the sediment source. The succession is tide dominated but contains evidence for strong fluvial influence and minor wave influence. Wave influence is more pronounced in transgressive intervals. Nine architectural elements have been identified, and their internal architecture and stratigraphical distribution has been investigated. The distal parts comprise prodelta, delta front and unconfined tidal bar deposits. The medial part is characterized by relatively narrow, amalgamated channel fills with fluid mud‐rich bases and sandier deposits upward, interpreted as distributary channels filled by tidal bars deposited near the turbidity maximum. The proximal parts of the studied system are dominated by sandy distributary channel and heterolithic tidal‐flat deposits. The sandbodies of the proximal tidal channels are several kilometres wide and wider than exposures in all cases. Parasequence boundaries are easily defined in the prodelta to delta‐front environments, but are difficult to trace into the more proximal deposits. This article illustrates the proximal to distal organization of facies in unconfined tide‐dominated deltas and shows how such environments react to relative sea‐level rise. 相似文献