Climate negotiations beyond Kyoto: developing countries concerns and interests     

Adil Najam  Saleemul Huq  Youba Sokona 《Climate Policy》2003,3(3):221-231

Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city’s name still awaits enough qualifying ratifications to come into force. While attention has been understandably focussed on the ratification process, it is time to begin thinking about the next steps for the global climate regime, particularly in terms of a deeper inclusion of developing countries’ concerns and interests. This paper begins doing so from the perspective of the developing countries. The principal argument is that we need to return to the basic principles outlined in the Framework Convention on Climate Change in searching for a north-south bargain on climate change. Such a bargain may be achievable if we can realign the policy architecture of the climate regime to its original stated goals of sustainable development.  相似文献   

Study on a gravity precursor mode of the M_S=7.0 Lijiang earthquake     

申重阳  李辉  傅广裕 《地震学报(英文版)》2003,16(2)

Introduction Earthquake prediction must be based on some kind of precursors. The precursors are some things that will indicate a shock occurrence (MEI, et al, 1993). The information of earthquake precursors comes from a deep-seated interior of crust. Therefore the analysis and pick-up of pre-cursory information should be based on the internal process of crustal movement, which includes the earthquake preparation. Being the weak parts of crust, the slip and dislocation of faults can cause cru…  相似文献   

Long-term changes in salt marsh extent affected by channel deepening in a modified estuary   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Ruth Cox  R. A. Wadsworth  A. G. Thomson 《Continental Shelf Research》2003,23(17-19):1833

The aim of this study is to quantify the long-term (54 years) rates of marsh extension and retreat at two sites in the Westerschelde Estuary, SW Netherlands. Nine sets of aerial photographs were obtained for each of the two salt marsh sites, Zuidgors and Waarde, taken at various times between 1944 and 1998. The seaward edges of the marshes were digitised from rectified images after the photographs had been scanned and georegistered to the Dutch National Grid. Comparison of the extents of the marshes at these nine time points revealed that the areas of both marshes had fluctuated during these 54 years with periods of both extension and retreat of the seaward marsh edges. These periods of extension and retreat appeared to be approximately synchronised until the 1990s, with mean changes in position of marsh front ranging from −7.92 to 6.04 m a⁻¹.The rate of landward retreat and seaward extension of the marsh front is shown to be related to an increase in the tidal prism brought about by dredging operations to maintain or increase the depth of the main navigable channel of the estuary. The consequent greater frequency with which the high tides reach the edge of the fringing marshes increases the risk of erosion. Strong westerly winds may also be a factor in increasing erosion. No relationship between the volume of shipping traffic using the estuary and marsh erosion was found.  相似文献   

柴达木盆地第四纪环境演变、构造变形与青藏高原隆升的关系   总被引：17，自引：6，他引：17  

朱筱敏  康安  韩德馨  王延斌  康强 《地质科学》2003,38(3):367-376

青藏高原北部柴达木盆地发育了巨厚的第四纪河湖相沉积。盆内沉积地层强烈的构造变形以及湖盆环境突变进一步证实了青藏高原经历了多期挤压隆升运动。沉积环境、介形虫和植物孢粉化石及磁性地层研究表明,自距今 2.5Ma以来,青藏高原共经历了距今2.52～2.28Ma,1.94～1.66Ma,1.38～1.1Ma,0.71～0.5Ma和 0.24～0.09Ma 5次强烈的隆升阶段,分别对应于青藏运动B幕和C幕、昆黄运动A幕和B幕以及共和运动。高原内、外 9个盆地的构造—沉积记录对比研究也进一步揭示了青藏高原隆起的整体性和阶段性。  相似文献   

贵州扁平紫松晚期-罗甸期的相对海平面变化特征   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

董琳  刘家润  杨湘宁  朱李鸣 《高校地质学报》2003,9(1):54-62

根据贵州紫云扁平剖面沉积记录，分析了该区在二叠纪早期的相对海平面变化特征。研究表明，扁平地区在早二叠世紫松晚期－罗甸期存在6次连续的三级旋回海平面升降过程，其中，海平面上升速率最快的是第3次旋回；水体深度最大的是第4次旋回；海平面上升幅度最大的是第5次旋回。该时期的Ting类生物事件可能与这些特征有关。  相似文献   

Environmental geochemistry of the Guanajuato Mining District, Mexico   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

A. Carrillo-Chvez  O. Morton-Bermea  E. Gonzlez-Partida  H. Rivas-Solorzano  G. Oesler  V. García-Meza  E. Hernndez  P. Morales  E. Cienfuegos 《Ore Geology Reviews》2003,23(3-4):277-297

The Guanajuato Mining District, once one of the major silver producers in the world, has been exploited for silver and gold from low-sulfidation quartz- and calcite-rich epithermal veins since 1548. Currently, there are some 150 million tonnes of low-grade ore piles and mine-waste material (mostly tailings) piles, covering a surface area of 15 to 20 km² scattered in a 100-km² region around the city of Guanajuato. Most of the historic tailings piles were not deposited as formal tailings impoundments. They were deposited as simple valley-filling piles without concern for environmental issues. Most of those historical tailings piles are without any vegetation cover and undergo strong eolian and hydrologic erosion, besides the natural leaching during the rainy season (which can bring strong thunderstorms and flash flows). There is public concern about possible contamination of the local aquifer with heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, As and Se) derived from the mining activities.Experimental and field data from this research provide strong geochemical evidence that most of the mine-waste materials derived from the exploitation of the epithermal veins of the region have very low potential for generation of acid mine drainage due to the high carbonate/sulfide ratio (12:1), and very low potential for leaching of heavy metals into the groundwater system. Furthermore, geochemical evidence (experimental and modeled) indicates that natural processes, like metal adsorption onto Fe-oxy-hydroxides surfaces, control the mobility of dissolved metals. Stable isotope data from surface water, groundwater wells (150-m depth) and mine-water (300- to 500-m depth) define an evaporation line (δD=5.93 δ¹⁸O=13.04), indicating some deep infiltration through a highly anisotropic aquifer with both evaporated water (from the surface reservoirs) and meteoric water (not evaporated). Zinc concentrations in groundwater (0.03 to 0.5 ppm) of the alluvial aquifer, some 15 km from the mineralized zone, are generally higher than Zn concentrations in experimental tailings leachates that average less than 0.1 ppm. Groundwater travel time from the mineralized area to the alluvial valley is calculated to range from 50 to several hundred years. Thus, although there has been enough time for Zn sourced from the tailings to reach the valley, Zn concentrations in valley groundwater could be due to natural dissolution processes in the deep portions of the epithermal veins.  相似文献   

近期准噶尔盆地西北部水利工程影响区土地利用变化特征分析   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

李新琪  郭宇宏  王永嘉  马依尔 《干旱区地理》2003,26(3):269-273

噶尔盆地西北部水利工程设施的建成及运行，对工程沿线区域土地资源的利用方式产生了深远的影响。应用RS和GIS技术作为信息获取与分析工具。通过对噶尔盆地西北部水利工程沿线区域2000年和2002年Landsat TM卫星影像进行解析。对工程沿线区域土地利用现状及工程直接影响区土地利用动态变化特征进行系统分析。并探讨了土地利用变化的驱动因素。结合野外调查验证，文章还指出该区域由于土地利用方式的变化所引起的生态环境问题，并提出了相应的对策建议。  相似文献   

Evolution of bulk composition, mineralogy, strain style and fluid flow during an HT–LP metamorphic event: sillimanite zone of the Catalan Coastal Ranges Variscan basement, NE Iberia     

J. Reche Estrada  F. J. Martinez 《Tectonophysics》2002,348(1-3)

Metamorphic rocks in the Osor complex (Guilleries massif, NE Iberian Peninsula) show the following structural and compositional features: strong differentiation into quartz-rich gneissic semipelitic and quartz-absent, mica-rich schistose bands, higher density of igneous (both basic and leucogranitic) and quartz veins in the schistose domains and strong strain partitioning in the pelitic bands. Garnet is present in both kinds of lithologies, showing also differential textural and chemical features interpreted to be dependent on bulk composition, deformation and fluid interaction histories. Textures, mineral composition and thermobarometry suggest the operation of concurrent mechanical, mass transfer and thermal phenomena such as: (1) variations in strain style, (2) fluid infiltration, (3) magmatic injection and (4) HT–LP metamorphic and metasomatic episodes. The following sequence of events is suggested: initially the cooling of syntectonic high-T basic quartz diorite sheets promoted high strain rates, low dP/dT thermobaric evolution, incipient anatexis in the pelitic bands and devolatilization through a pervasive to vein-channelized prograde fluid flow. The prograde flow enhanced an ongoing compositional tectono-metamorphic differentiation and produced metasomatism through depletion of the Osor rocks in alkalis and calcium. Later injection and cooling of peraluminous leucogranitoid sheets, preferentially along pelitic bands, increased the ratio of magmatic/metamorphic components in the fluids and strongly enriched them in alkalis producing a second metasomatic episode. During crystallization of quartz and leucogranitoid veins, the pelitic bands were strongly enriched back again in alkalis, promoting the blastesis of big crystals of post-peak muscovite and albite as well as the retrogression of garnet. The metasomatic mica-rich levels must have been the preferred locus for development of a new deformation style dominated by shear band fabrics in metapelites and related to a release of the gravitational instability originated previously due to crustal thickening. The increasing decompressional component of the retrograde P–T path also suggests that this style of deformation was prevalent during, if not responsible for, a phase of exhumation of the metamorphic complex. It is suggested that similar patterns of thermomechanical and mass transfer phenomena could well be a fundamental characteristic common to all HT–LP metamorphic belts.  相似文献   

Research on Outcrop Sequence Stratigraphy of Permian in Middle—Lower Yangtze Region     

ZhangKexin  HeWeihong 《中国地质大学学报(英文版)》2002,13(2):192-202

According to the latest International Chronostratigraphic Scheme (ICS, 2000), the Permian in the Middle-Lower Yangtze region of South China can e divided into three series and nine stages relevant to the traditional six stages of South China. From Assellian to Changxingian of Permian, 44 Main age range, the strata are composed of 14 third-order sequences, each of which is 3.14 Ma in average age range. There is one third-order sequence of Zisongian, equivalent to middle and upper Chuanshan Formation or equal to Asselian and two thirds of Sakmarian. There are two third-order sequences, corresponding to Liang-shan Formation or Zhenjiang Formation and upper Chuanshan Formation, which are assigned to Longlingian, coinciding with Artinskian and one third of Sakmarian. In addition, three third-order sequences, equal to Qixia Formation, are attributed to Chhsian, corresponding to Kubergandian and one third of Roadian. Four third-order sequences, comprising Gufeng, Maokou, Yanqiao,Yinping and Wuxue formations, are assigned to Maokouan, equivalent to two thirds of Roadian, Wordian and Capitanian. Two third-order sequences, equal to Longtan Formation or Wujiaping Formation, are included in Wuchiapingian. Other two third-order sequences, corresponding to changxing Formation or Dalong Formation, are assigned to Changhsingian. In brief, these above third-order sequences can be incorporated into 4 sequences sets.  相似文献   

Évolution temporelle et architecture interne d'un banc sableux estuarien : la Longe de Boyard (littoral atlantique,France)     

Éric Chaumillon  Hervé Gillet  Nicolas Weber  Michel Tesson 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(2):119-126

The evolution and the internal architecture of an estuary type sand ridge has been studied with a set of bathymetric data recorded during the last two centuries and with a dense grid of recent very high resolution seismic profiles. Bathymetric data of the so-called, Longe de Boyard sand ridge, displays sand losts due to wave and tide erosion. Internal geometry, through seismic profile analysis, indicates two main phases of deposition recording both, a recent high energy environment and an older low energy one, respectively. Such an evolution is believed to record changes in sedimentation processes mainly related to the end of the Holocene transgression (8 000–5 000 yr BP). To cite this article: É. Chaumillon et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 119–126.  相似文献