Looting, collecting, and the destruction of archaeological resources     

Ricardo J. Elia 《Natural Resources Research》1997,6(2):85-98

Archaeological sites, the material remnants of our human past, are finite and nonrenewable cultural resources that are under constant threat from environmental forces, development activities, warfare, vandalism, and looting. Site looting is the destructive removal of archaeological objects to supply the art market. Looting is part of an economic system, the antiquities market, that works to supply the demand of collectors for archaeological objects. The destruction of archaeological resources by looters is an international crisis and threatens to obliterate the world’s cultural heritage and our ability to understand past cultures. The scale and intensity of the looting problem can be estimated by studying the extent of site destruction in countries of origin and by investigating the sources of antiquities held by collectors. Finding a solution to the problem of looting will require a focus on the demand side of the market (i.e., collectors) instead of the traditional focus on the supply side (looters, dealers)  相似文献   

Private property—national legacy: Protecting privately owned archaeological sites in the united states     

Mark Michel 《Natural Resources Research》1997,6(2):131-136

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Seismic hazard assessment in the Ionian Islands based on observed macroseismic intensities     

Joanna E. Papoulia  Dario Slejko 《Natural Hazards》1996,14(2-3):179-187

Catalogues of actual observed intensities are constructed for three towns in the Ionian Islands. They are used for seismic hazard assessment and the results are compared with those obtained by standard approaches; that is, by statistics applied to the data computed from epicentral parameters. The results show that seismic hazard is better assessed using observed rather than computed data, but preparation of the local catalogue presents non-trivial difficulties.  相似文献   

U—Series Dating of Fossil Bones：Results from Chinese Sites and Discussions on Its Reliability     

沈冠军 《中国地球化学学报》1996,15(4):303-313

Calculations,according to some open-system models,point out that while a statistically significant discrepancy between the results of two U-series methods,^230Th/^234U and ^227Th/^220Th(or ^231Pa/^235U),attests a relatively recent and important uranium migration,concordant dates cannot guarantee closes-system behavior of sample.The results of 20 fossil bones from 10 Chinese sites,19 of which are determined by two U-series methods,are given,Judging from independent age controls,8 out of the 11 concordant age sets are unacceptable,The results in this paper suggest that uranium may cycle into or out of fossil bones,such geochemical events may take place at any time and no known preserving condition may securely protect them from being affected.So for the sitew we have studied,the U-series dating of fossil bones is of limited reliability.  相似文献   

岩浆型磷灰石结构四面体替换特征的标型意义   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘羽 Stoppa  F 《矿物岩石》1997,17(3):5-10

根据文献中列了的５６个产于碳酸岩－碱性岩磷灰石的成分数据，讨论了这些岩浆型磷灰石结构四面体替换特征的标型意义，并定义出四面体替换指数，（ＴＳＩ＝（Ｓｉ＋ＳＣ）／Ｐ，单位晶胞原子数百分比），以区别侵入相碳酸岩磷灰石，喷发相碳酸岩磷灰石和碱性岩磷灰石：ＩＡＰ的ＴＳＩ为０－６．９，平均３．６２，仅少量Ｃ进入Ｔ位置；  相似文献   

钻孔灌注桩常见现场事故的分析与防治     

黄跃进 《江苏地质》1997,21(1):47-51

论述了钻孔灌注桩常见现场事故的预防，分析和治理等方面的几个问题，叙述了钢筋笼上浮，导管堵塞，钢筋笼掉入孔内，导管提出混凝土面，掉钻头，串孔等事故的原因和处理方法及预防措施。  相似文献   

Study on simulation of spatial correlative earthquake ground motion field     

Xiao-Jun Li  Feng-Xin Zhao  Yu-Xian Hu 《地震学报(英文版)》1997,10(2):267-271

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钻孔岩芯饼状断裂破坏机制   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2  

刘竹华  杨家录 《工程地质学报》1997,5(4):330-334

本文首先阐述岩芯饼状断裂及其特征, 进而用断裂力学的理论与方法对岩饼破坏进行了断裂扩张机制的分析, 不但合理地解释了断裂特征及断裂破坏机制, 且以二滩坝址为例, 分析了产生钻孔岩饼的微裂纹条件及应力条件, 为定量地评价坝址地应力状态, 包括其大小及方向提供了一种新的方法。上述不仅具有重要的理论意义, 而且具有重要的工程实际意义。  相似文献   

疏勒河断裂中段新构造应力场的遥感分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘林清  余运祥 《华东地质学院学报》1997,20(4):336-342

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Use of microtremor measurement for assessing site effects in Northern Belgium – interpretation of the observed intensity during the MS = 5.0 June 11 1938 earthquake     

F. Nguyen  G. Van Rompaey  H. Teerlynck  M. Van Camp  D. Jongmans  T. Camelbeeck 《Journal of Seismology》2004,8(1):41-56

To provide quantitative information on site effects in the northern part of Belgium, forty-seven H/V microtremor measurements were performed with 5 second seismometers over an area of about 15.000 km². Most of the results show a northward regular increase of the fundamental period in agreement with the augmentation of the Mesozoic and Cainozoic soft sedimentsthickness from a few meters 40 km south of Brussels to 900 m at the Netherlands-Belgium border. The measured resonance frequency values wereconsistent with theoretical computations performed at different sites onthe basis of existing information and shallow seismic experiments. At oneparticular site (Uccle) where borehole data were available, microtremor measurements using an array of four seismological stations with differentapertures allowed to obtain the low frequency part of the Rayleigh wave dispersion curve, extending the range covered by the analysis of surfacewaves artificially generated. The Vs profile derived from the surface waveinversion corroborates the 1 Hz natural frequency of the site. Comparison of these results with the macroseismic information concerning the M_S = 5.0 1938 earthquake which occurred 50 km west of Brussels,confirmed the hypothesis that the geological structure of the Brabant massifis likely to control damage distribution during such an earthquake. Comparisonbetween the intensity map of the 1938 earthquake and the resonance period ofsediments obtained by our microtremor study shows a clear relation betweenthe two parameters. During the 1938 earthquake, site effects played a prominent role due to the dimension of the source whose corner frequency wasabout 1 Hz.  相似文献