Ground fissures within the Main Ethiopian Rift: Tectonic,lithological and piping controls     

Jan Valenta  Kryštof Verner  Karel Martínek  Tomáš Hroch  David Buriánek  Leta Alemayehu Megerssa  Jan Boháč  Muluken Kassa  Ferdawok Legesse  Meheret Yakob  Bisrat Kebede  Jiří Málek 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2021,46(15):3158-3174

Ground fissures, especially if they open due to a sudden collapse of the surface, is a serious risk for populated areas. Their common occurrence in unconsolidated sediments of the Main Ethiopian Rift was found to be mostly a result of piping. The fissures start by piping in linear sub-horizontal underground voids, which often propagate upwards resulting in ceiling collapse and formation of deep and long ground fissures with vertical walls. In the southern and central Main Ethiopian Rift the fissures pose a serious risk to infrastructure and settlements. The ground fissures are often linear (up to several kilometres long and often tens of metres deep) and accompanied by sinkholes (along the length). A detailed field mapping of the geological (rock composition, orientation and character of lithological boundaries, primary fabrics and brittle structures) and geomorphological features (especially a length, width and depth of fissures, sinkholes and gullies) followed by in situ seismic anisotropy measurements and a laboratory determination of the geomechanical properties of volcanoclastic deposits was carried out to investigate the ground fissures' origin. The conditions and factors leading to the formation of the ground fissures have been linked to: (a) the presence of regional normal faults and the associated extensional joints and (b) the alternation of lithological units with contrasting hydraulic permeability. The latter corresponds to a sequence of less permeable hard rocks (e.g., rhyolitic ignimbrites) overlain by heterogeneous, soft and permeable, unconsolidated volcaniclastic deposits with a low amount of clay (less than 10%). The ground fissures' occurrence has shown affiliation to areas which have a significantly high seismic anisotropy (more than 20% at the study sites), which can be used as a proxy to map out high risk areas prone to piping and ground fissure formation.  相似文献   

黄土高原多沙区环境因子对土地利用变化空间异质性的影响(英文)     

罗娅  杨胜天  赵长森  刘晓燕  刘昌明  吴琳娜  赵海根  张亦弛 《地理学报(英文版)》2014,(5)

In areas with topographic heterogeneity, land use change is spatially variable and influenced by climate, soil properties, and topography. To better understand this variability in the high-sediment region of the Loess Plateau in which soil loss is most severe and sediment diameter is larger than in other regions of the plateau, this study builds some indicators to identify the characteristics of land use change and then analyze the spatial variability as it is affected by climate, soil property, and topography. We build two indicators, a land use change intensity index and a vegetation change index, to characterize the intensity of land use change, and the degree of vegetation restoration, respectively. Based on a subsection mean method, the two indicators are then used to assess the spatial variability of land use change affected by climatic, edaphic, and topographic elements. The results indicate that: 1) Land use changed significantly in the period 1998–2010. The total area experiencing land use change was 42,302 km2, accounting for 22.57%of the study area. High-coverage grassland, other woodland, and forest increased significantly, while low-coverage grassland and farmland decreased in 2010 compared with 1998. 2) Land use change occurred primarily west of the Yellow River, between 35 and 38 degrees north latitude. The four transformation types, including(a) low-coverage grassland to medium-coverage grassland,(b) medium-coverage grassland to high-coverage grassland,(c) farmland to other woodland, and(d) farmland to medium-coverage grassland, were the primary types of land use change, together constituting 60% of the area experiencing land use change. 3) The spatial variability of land use change was significantly affected by properties of dryness/wetness, soil conditions and slope gradient. In general, land use changed dramatically in semi-arid regions, remained relativelystable in arid regions, changed significantly in clay-rich soil, remained relatively stable in clay-poor soil, changed dramatically in steeper slopes, and remained relatively stable in tablelands and low-lying regions. The increase in vegetation coincided with increasing changes in land use for each physical element. These findings allow for an evaluation of the effect of the Grain to Green Program, and are applicable to the design of soil and water conservation projects on the Loess Plateau of China.  相似文献   

基于数字岩心的碳酸盐岩孔隙结构对弹性性质的影响研究(上篇):图像处理与弹性模拟          下载免费PDF全文

赵建国  潘建国  胡洋铭  李劲松  闫博鸿  李闯  孙朗秋  刘欣泽 《地球物理学报》2021,64(2):656-669

碳酸盐岩复杂的孔隙结构如何影响其弹性性质一直是地球物理研究的难点问题,在此基础上如何半定量甚至是定量地对碳酸盐岩储层预测,特别是如何有效地获取孔隙结构参数相关的地震属性体一直是油气工业界追求的目标.本研究从数字岩心角度入手,联合测井以及地震数据尝试探究这一问题的解决方案,包括如下几个方面:(1)代表性碳酸盐岩储层样品获取;(2)CT扫描数字岩心数据体获取;(3)数字岩心数据的图像处理;(4)数字岩心数据的静态弹性模拟;(5)数字岩心子数据体的孔隙结构因子提取;(6)孔隙结构因子表征与分类下的弹性性质与孔隙度的定量化量版建立;(7)数字岩心-井-地震联合的孔隙度属性提取;(8)孔隙结构因子的地震属性体获取.本研究分为两篇系列文章上篇与下篇,上篇主要阐述如上提出的(1)—(4)方面,重点在于针对碳酸盐岩二值化图像处理的流程建立与验证,以及数字岩心静态弹性模拟的理论方面,这两方面是基于数字岩心获得精确的碳酸盐岩弹性性质模拟结果的关键所在;下篇主要阐述利用数字岩心数据获得孔隙结构因子的思路、理论与流程,以及为碳酸盐岩储层预测为目标而获得孔隙结构因子的地震属性体的实际应用方面.由于两篇文章共享数字岩心数据,同时所涉及的研究思路与流程形成一个有机整体,因此写成两篇系列文章而非两篇独立文章.本文为两篇系列文章的第一篇:上篇.  相似文献   

Variation of particulate organic carbon and its relationship with bio-optical properties during a phytoplankton bloom in the Pearl River estuary   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Wang G  Zhou W  Cao W  Yin J  Yang Y  Sun Z  Zhang Y  Zhao J 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,62(9):1939-1947

In this study, variations in the particulate organic carbon (POC) were monitored during a phytoplankton bloom event, and the corresponding changes in bio-optical properties were tracked at one station (114.29°E, 22.06°N) located in the Pearl River estuary. A greater than 10-fold increase in POC (112.29-1173.36 mg m⁻³) was observed during the bloom, with the chlorophyll a concentration (Chl-a) varying from 0.984 to 25.941 mg m⁻³. A power law function is used to describe the relationship between POC and Chl-a, and the POC:Chl-a ratio tends to change inversely with Chl-a. Phytoplankton carbon concentration is indirectly estimated using the conceptual model proposed by Sathyendranath et al. (2009), and this carbon is found to contribute 47.21% (±10.65%) to total POC. The estimated carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio of phytoplankton in diatom-dominated waters is found to be comparable with results reported in the literature. Empirical algorithms for determining the concentrations of Chl-a and POC were developed based on the relationships of these variables with the blue-to-green reflectance ratio. With these bio-optical models, the levels of particulate organic carbon and Chl-a could be predicted from the radiometric data measured by a marine optical buoy, which showed much more detailed information about the variability in biogeochemical parameters during this bloom event.  相似文献   

Consistent parameter constraints for soil hydraulic functions   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Andre Peters  Wolfgang DurnerGerd Wessolek 《Advances in water resources》2011,34(10):1352-1365

Parameters of functions to describe soil hydraulic properties are derived from measurements by means of parameter estimation. Of crucial importance here is the choice of correct constraints in the parameter space. Often, the parameters are mere shape parameters without physical meaning, giving flexibility to the model. A fundamental requirement is that the hydraulic functions are monotonic: the retention function and the conductivity function can only decrease as the capillary suction increases. A stricter physical requirement for the conductivity function is that its decrease with respect to saturation is at least linear. This linear decrease would occur if all pores of a capillary bundle had an equal radius. In the first part of this contribution, we derive constraints for the so-called tortuosity parameter of the Mualem conductivity model, which allow highest possible flexibility on one hand and guarantee physical consistency on the other hand. In combination with the retention functions of Brooks and Corey, van Genuchten, or Durner, such a constraint can be expressed as a function of the pore-size distribution parameters. In the second part, we show that a common modification of retention models, which is applied to reach zero water content at finite suction, can lead to the physically unrealistic case of increasing water content with increasing suction. We propose a solution for this problem by slightly modifying these models and introducing a correct parameter constraint.  相似文献   

黄土震陷系数与物性关系的研究          下载免费PDF全文

李兰  王兰民  石玉成 《地震工程学报》2011,33(Z1)

以Q3原状黄土为研究对象探讨了震陷系数与各种物理性指标的内在联系,采用多因素回归分析建立了震陷系数与含水量(W)、干密度(γd)、孔隙面积(A)、粘性含量(Pc)、初始动弹性模量(E0)的分析模型,构建了一个综合因子Y1代表上述5指标。结果显示震陷系数与物理指标间具有良好的相关性,其中天然含水量对震陷系数的总影响最大,干窖重次之。说明了原状黄土震陷性参数描述的合理性和基于物性指标参数关系的合理性。  相似文献   

摩擦-碟簧三维复合隔震支座的性能试验研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

李雄彦  薛素铎 《世界地震工程》2011,27(3)

对适用于大跨结构的摩擦-碟簧三维复合隔震支座进行了振动台试验研究,该支座在水平向和竖向分别采用摩擦滑移装置和碟型弹簧隔震。在水平向,试验重点测试了简谐激励和地震动激励下支座的滞回性能,考察了竖向荷载变化及地震动强度对隔震性能的影响,以期为建立水平隔震理论模型提供依据;在竖向,对碟型弹簧的等效阻尼比和等效刚度进行了测试,研究了竖向预压荷载和动力荷载对竖向滞回性能的影响。结果表明,复合隔震支座在水平向和竖向均具有较好的滞回性能,竖向等效阻尼比在0.10～0.15间,且随着预压荷载的增加而增大。  相似文献   

Joint elastic‐electrical effective medium models of reservoir sandstones     

Angus I. Best  Lucy M. MacGregor  Jeremy Sothcott  Tim A. Minshull 《Geophysical Prospecting》2011,59(4):777-786

Improvements in the joint inversion of seismic and marine controlled source electromagnetic data sets will require better constrained models of the joint elastic‐electrical properties of reservoir rocks. Various effective medium models were compared to a novel laboratory data set of elastic velocity and electrical resistivity (obtained on 67 reservoir sandstone samples saturated with 35 g/l brine at a differential pressure of 8 MPa) with mixed results. Hence, we developed a new three‐phase effective medium model for sandstones with pore‐filling clay minerals based on the combined self‐consistent approximation and differential effective medium model. We found that using a critical porosity of 0.5 and an aspect ratio of 1 for all three components, the proposed model gave accurate model predictions of the observed magnitudes of P‐wave velocity and electrical resistivity and of the divergent trends of clean and clay‐rich sandstones at higher porosities. Using only a few well‐constrained input parameters, the new model offers a practical way to predict in situ porosity and clay content in brine saturated sandstones from co‐located P‐wave velocity and electrical resistivity data sets.  相似文献   

Rock warming and drying under simulated intertidal conditions,part I: experimental procedures and comparisons with field data     

Martin A. Coombes 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2011,36(15):2114-2121

The wetting–drying and warming–cooling behaviours of rock and stone are known to influence the nature and rate of weathering. The way materials warm‐up and dry‐out also influences their suitability as biological substrata. While rock thermal behaviours have been measured under controlled laboratory conditions, previous experiments have largely been restricted to terrestrial simulations due to practical constraints. Where efforts have been made to simulate intertidal conditions, expansion and contraction of rocks or rates of breakdown (i.e. sediment production and weight loss) have been measured, while detailed observations of thermal and drying behaviours have rarely been made. A simple, semi‐automated procedure is described that enabled measurement of surface temperatures and desorption (evaporative water loss) for different material types (rock and concrete) under simulated semidiurnal tide conditions. Some preliminary results are presented illustrating the types of data that were obtained, and comparisons are made with temperature data collected on a rock platform in the UK to assess the ability of the procedure to adequately represent field conditions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Bio-optical characteristics of Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea) waters     

Laura Lorenzoni  Chuanmin HuRamón Varela  Glenda AriasLaurencia Guzmán  Frank Muller-Karger 《Continental Shelf Research》2011,31(6):582-593

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