Recent water quality trends and a comparison to sediment-core records for two riverine lakes of the Upper Mississippi River basin: Lake St. Croix and Lake Pepin     

Brenda Moraska Lafrancois  Suzanne Magdalene  D. Kent Johnson 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2009,41(4):603-622

Long-term water quality monitoring data from two riverine lakes in the Upper Mississippi River basin, Lakes St. Croix and Pepin, were analyzed to compare the long-term average water quality conditions and land use distributions, water quality trends and loads at lake inlets and outlets, trends from long-term versus short-term monitoring records, and the ability of paleolimnological cores to accurately infer lake water quality conditions. During the 1976–2004 period, the long-term average concentrations of nutrients, suspended solids, and chlorophyll-a were consistently lower at the Lake St. Croix inlet versus the Lake Pepin inlet, which drains a greater proportion of urban and agricultural runoff. Despite these differences, nutrient trends were similar at the inlets to both lakes; reductions in total phosphorus and ammonium concentrations were attributed to improvements in point source technologies, whereas increasing nitrate concentrations were attributed to both point source changes and nonpoint source increases. Despite improvements in several water quality variables, nitrate concentrations are increasing in both lakes, sediment trends indicate persistent nonpoint source inputs to Lake Pepin, and current total phosphorus concentrations remain well above pre-1950s levels in both lakes. Since urban development and agriculture are increasing in the Lake St. Croix and Lake Pepin Watersheds, continued point source regulation and additional nonpoint source control efforts will be needed to further improve water quality in these lakes. The 1976–2004 trends for most water quality variables were similar at inlet versus outlet sites on Lake St. Croix. Trends at Lake Pepin inlet versus outlet sites were less similar, but data availability limited the comparison to the 1993–2003 period. While the truncated data record highlighted short-term trends in both lakes, the full data record was most useful for exploring general patterns in water quality. Length of monitoring record affected our ability to detect trends at the inlets to both lakes, and altered the magnitude of detected trends. During the two decades of the 1980s and 1990s, paleolimnological estimates of retained phosphorus loads were similar to those estimated from recent water quality monitoring. These similarities support the use of paleolimnological approaches to infer past water quality conditions in Lakes St. Croix and Pepin. This is one of eight papers dedicated to the “Recent Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi River” published in this special issue of the Journal of Paleolimnology. D. R. Engstrom served as guest editor of the special issue.  相似文献   

青海湖周边地区沙丘移动监测及其气候驱动力分析   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3  

严应存  高贵生  刘宝康  肖建设  杨春玲 《中国沙漠》2009,29(4):617-622

根据青海湖周边地区3个定点沙丘监测点近5 a沙丘移动监测资料,结合邻近气象局气象资料,分析了青海湖周边地区沙丘移动距离、方向和高度变化规律及其气候驱动力。结果显示,近年来青海湖湖东地区沙丘主要向ENE方向移动,移动速度减慢,沙丘高度降低;龙羊峡水库西北部的两个沙丘主要向偏SW方向移动,移动速度东部快西部慢,沙丘高度均有所降低。沙丘移动速度及方位主要受4～8 m·s-1风速级风向出现频率的影响。近年来兴海、海晏水热条件向暖湿化方向发展,兴海风速自1996年以来变化平稳,海晏近几年虽有所增加,但在2004年前经历了16 a较平稳的低风速阶段,气候条件对沙丘发展有一定的抑制作用;共和降水增幅较小,气温持续升高,且在2004年以前经历了13 a的高风速阶段,对沙漠化具有加剧作用。  相似文献   

Walking through volcanic mud: the 2,100-year-old Acahualinca footprints (Nicaragua)     

Hans-Ulrich Schmincke  Steffen Kutterolf  Wendy Perez  Juanita Rausch  Armin Freundt  Wilfried Strauch 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2009,71(5):479-493

We present the stratigraphy, lithology, volcanology, and age of the Acahualinca section in Managua, including a famous footprint layer exposed in two museum pits. The ca. 4-m-high walls of the main northern pit (Pit I) expose excellent cross sections of Late Holocene volcaniclastic deposits in northern Managua. We have subdivided the section into six lithostratigraphic units, some of which we correlate to Late Holocene eruptions. Unit I (1.2 m thick), chiefly of hydroclastic origin, begins with the footprint layer. The bulk is dominated by mostly massive basaltic-andesitic tephra layers, interpreted to represent separate pulses of a basically phreatomagmatic eruptive episode. We correlate these deposits based on compositional and stratigraphic evidence to the Masaya Triple Layer erupted at Masaya volcano ca. 2,120 ± 120 a B.P.. The eruption occurred during the dry season. A major erosional channel unconformity up to 1 m deep in the western half of Pit I separates Units II and I. Unit II begins with basal dacitic pumice lapilli up to 10 cm thick overlain by a massive to bedded fine-grained dacitic tuff including a layer of accretionary lapilli and pockets of well-rounded pumice lapilli. Angular nonvesicular glass shards are interpreted to represent hydroclastic fragmentation. The dacitic tephra is correlated unequivocally with the ca. 1.9-ka-Plinian dacitic Chiltepe eruption. Unit III, a lithified basaltic-andesitic deposit up to 50 cm thick and extremely rich in branch molds and excellent leaf impressions, is correlated with the Masaya Tuff erupted ca. 1.8 ka ago. Unit IV, a reworked massive basaltic-andesitic deposit, rich in brown tuff clasts and well bedded and cross bedded in the northwestern corner of Pit I, cuts erosionally down as far as Unit I. A poorly defined, pale brown mass flow deposit up to 1 m thick (Unit V) is overlain by 1–1.5 m of dominantly reworked, chiefly basaltic tephra topped by soil (Unit VI). A major erosional channel carved chiefly between deposition of Units II and I may have existed as a shallow drainage channel even prior to deposition of the footprint layer. The swath of the footprints is oriented NNW, roughly parallel to, and just east of, the axis of the channel. The interpretation of the footprint layer as the initial product of a powerful eruption at Masaya volcano followed without erosional breaks by additional layers of the same eruptive phase is strong evidence that the group of 15 or 16 people tried to escape from an eruption.  相似文献   

Modern pollen rain in the Lake Qinghai basin,China     

SHANG Xue    LI XiaoQiang  AN ZhiSheng  JI Ming  & ZHANG HongBin  State Key Lab of Loess & Quaternary Geology  Institute of Earth Environment  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Xi’an  China  Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2009,52(10):1510-1519

Lake Qinghai is the largest inland brackish lake in China and lies within the NE Tibetan Plateau. Our study shows that pollen assemblages in each vegetation belt are significantly correlated with the vegetation types of this area. Among the herbaceous and shrubby pollen assemblages, Artemisia is over-represented, while Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Polygonaceae are under-represented. Artemisia/ Chenopodiaceae (A/C) ratios with the regional vegetation characteristic can be used as a proper index to reconstruct the...  相似文献   

洞庭湖区减压井井管及滤层结构试验研究     

罗玉龙  罗谷怀 《岩土力学》2009,30(Z2):110-113

为研究适用于洞庭湖区二元结构堤基的减压井结构型式,采用室内试验对比分析了土工织物包扎塑料花管式、钢管式、砂滤体式及无砂混凝土式井管的排水减压效果,并结合洞庭湖区何家堤减压井试验工程研究了合理的滤层结构。试验表明,塑料盲沟和毛细板减压井是适合洞庭湖区二元堤基的两种减压井结构型式。  相似文献   

鄱阳湖湖区核心生态系统服务功能空间辨识   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

战金艳  史娜娜  邓祥征 《地理研究》2009,28(4):1022-1030

根据千年生态系统评估提出的评估概念框架,考察鄱阳湖湖区生态系统服务功能的形成机理,构建了鄱阳湖湖区生态系统服务功能表征指标体系,并利用多主题1km栅格成分数据模型,采用主成分分析法提取了鄱阳湖湖区核心生态系统服务功能综合表征指标。在此基础上,通过空间聚类分析,形成了鄱阳湖湖区生态系统服务功能分区,实现了各分区单元上生态系统服务功能的空间辨识。研究结果表明,鄱阳湖湖区核心生态系统服务功能包括了支持功能、供给功能、调节功能和文化功能,它们在空间上的排列组合形成了鄱阳湖湖区的10个生态系统服务功能分区,本文辨识了鄱阳湖湖区精细栅格水平上核心生态系统服务功能之间的差异及其空间分异特征。本研究提出的生态系统服务功能分区及其空间辨识方案,为鄱阳湖湖区生态系统服务功能的开发与保育提供决策参考信息。  相似文献   

巢湖流域新石器至汉代古聚落变更与环境变迁   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：6  

吴立  王心源  周昆叔  莫多闻  高超  刘丽  韩伟光 《地理学报》2009,64(1)

以GIS为手段,在对巢湖流域新石器中晚期至汉代聚落遗址时空分布特征进行分析的基础上,探讨流域内古聚落变更对环境变迁的响应关系.研究表明,巢湖流域新石器中晚期至汉代古聚落变更的规律主要表现为,随着时代推进聚落遗址从高海拔逐渐向低海拔地区转移并向湖泊靠近,这种变更响应于中全新世以来流域气候由温暖湿润向温和干燥的发展,以及由此导致的巢湖湖泊收缩、水位持续下降和生活范围扩展,反映了在气候变化的大背景下,地貌演化和水文条件的改变对古聚落变更的影响;而各时期聚落遗址西多东少的分布格局,则与流域东部极易受河道摆动和洪涝灾害影响的地貌条件有关.因此,气候变化成为巢湖流域古聚落变更的重要激发因子,对古聚落的分布、扩展、演变都产生了重要影响,古聚落变更对环境变迁的响应明显.  相似文献   

鄱阳湖湿地水位与洲滩淹露模型构建   总被引：5，自引：1，他引：4  

周霞  赵英时  梁文广 《地理研究》2009,28(6):1722-1730

水是控制湿地生态过程的一个重要因子,为了研究洲滩变化和湿地草洲生长发育规律,以便更好地监测和保护湿地生态系统,有必要研究鄱阳湖水体变化特征,分析湿地洲滩水位的时空动态变化和洲滩淹露规律。本文以鄱阳湖国家级自然保护区为例,在对鄱阳湖多年水位进行分析的基础上,利用多时相遥感影像和DEM提取湿地洲滩特征;并在GIS支持下综合考虑地形、鄱阳湖水位、湖泊缓冲区等因素,建立了湿地水位及洲滩淹露模型。时空验证结果表明,该模型具有较好的模拟效果,精度在85%以上。同时,本文根据研究区特点及水体在TM2、7波段的特征差异,构建了一个新的水体指数FDWI,提取水体精度达到98%,特别是对潮湿的沙地、植被和云有很好的区分能力。  相似文献   

近50年鄱阳湖流域径流变化特征研究   总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13  

刘健  张奇  许崇育  张增信 《热带地理》2009,29(3)

利用鄱阳湖流域1955-2003年3个主要水文站(外洲、李家渡、梅港)月径流实测资料,采用统计方法和小波方法,分析近50年该流域径流的年内、年际和周期变化特征.结果表明:鄱阳湖流域年内最大径流主要出现在4月、5月或6月;就季节变化而言,春季径流量最大,夏季次之,秋季和冬季较小.径流年际变化在开始较长时段呈增长趋势,1998年出现转折,之后递减,下降速度略低于前期增长速度.外洲等3水文站存在25～26 a的第一主周期,8 a和3～4 a的次主周期,周期变化基本一致.通过对相应影响因素的分析,发现该流域径流变化是气候、流域覆被和水利工程等多种因素共同作用的结果,而气候因素中的降水和蒸发起着主要作用.  相似文献   

云南大理洱海东缘早全新世软粘土的工程特性研究     

王献礼  曲永新  蒋良文  张永双 《地质力学学报》2007,13(3):261-269

云南大理洱海周缘分布着厚层的早全新世软粘土, 大量原状样品的工程性质测试结果表明, 洱海东缘早全新世软粘土具有高含水量、孔隙比高、压缩性强、强度低、高塑性等工程特性, 其中表层软土超固结现象明显。通过对软土的物理力学指标统计分析表明, 洱海东缘软粘土的力学指标的变异系数较大, 而物理性质指标变异系数很小; 多个物理指标之间及物理指标与力学指标之间存在明显的相关性。对洱海东缘软粘土各类工程特性指标之间相互关系的认识, 不仅有助于揭示软粘土的工程性质及其形成机理, 而且可以指导软粘土工程问题处理措施的合理选择。   相似文献