Current Convenience,Desperate Deforestation: Ghana's AdjustmentProgram and the Forestry Sector     

J. Henry Owusu 《The Professional geographer》1998,50(4):418-436

Since the early 1980s, most Sub-Saharan African countries have resorted to structural adjustment programs to reform their ailing economies. Adjustment, however, may provide a convenient means for governments of the adjusting economies and international capital to meet their current economic and political interests, usually by sacrificing the physical environment, with huge environmental costs for the adjusting country. This paper uses Ghana's forestry sector, which has been characterized by a dramatic increase in woodexports since adjustment, to demonstrate a direct link between adjustment and environmental destruction. Ghana's dramatic increase in wood exports, involving a rapid and extensive deforestation, results from the government's need to meet its increasing external debt service obligations, and is exacerbated by the series of massive local currency devaluation required under adjustment “to get prices right.” The systematic reduction in government revenue from devaluation to amortize the increasing debts, keeps the government and indebted wood processing firms on a treadmill of export-based extraction/deforestation.  相似文献   

华北地区GPS监测网建设,地壳水平运动与应力场及地震活动性的关系   总被引：17，自引：1，他引：16  

李延兴  赵承坤 《中国地震》1998,14(2):116-125

简要地介绍了华北地区、特别是首都圈ＧＰＳ地震监测网的布设、观测、数据处理方法案和监测精度等,较详细地分析了地壳水平形变与构造运动、应力场变化以及地震活动的性的关系。  相似文献   

十万大山地区构造演化和含油气评价   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

尤绮妹  俞广 《海相油气地质》1998,3(1):11-22

十万大山盆地地构造演化过程为：在华夏被动大陆边缘发育的弧间洋盆基础上,经东吴、印支和燕山期碰撞造山运动,形成晚古生代－中生代前陆盆地,又经过短暂的弧后陆内裂谷阶段,形成了喜马拉雅期右列张扭性盆地。共原型盆地经历了镀嵌、交错、披盖、再镶、交错、披盖、再镶嵌等四个叠置过程。其构造发展由正反转向负反转变化,以多次构造运动叠加后保留的基底部分卷入的冲断－推覆构造形成占主导,并发育典型的楔状前陆盆地、斜坡带  相似文献   

鲁西茌平背斜构造带的演化及其古生界原生油气勘探前景     

柳忠泉  逄建东 《海相油气地质》1998,3(1):33-38

鲁西茌平背斜构造带被夹持在东侧寿张凹降和西侧监清坳陷的莘县凹陷之间,处于“凹中之隆”的有利勘探位置。该构造带的演化受西侧兰聊断裂活动的严格控制,晚三叠世,该断裂的产生接开背斜带演化的序幕。兰聊断裂的燕山期具右旋平移性质,使区内北北东向次级正断层发育,构造带基本定型。该带是相邻两凹限油气运移的主要指向地区,两凹陷内含下古生界开阔（局限）海相烃源岩和上古生界煤系源岩;带内下古生介顶部风化壳为良好储层;  相似文献   

东海陆架盆地伸展率和压缩率及构造跃迁   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

赵峰梅  李三忠  戴黎明  周均太  索艳慧  焦倩  吴奇  徐磊  徐发张建培 《地质科学》2010,45(4):1111-1127

东海陆架盆地位于欧亚板块的东南缘和西太平洋活动大陆边缘,本文选取了东海陆架盆地主要凹陷的17条地震剖面,采用平衡剖面技术,计算了主要凹陷新生代不同演化阶段的伸展率和压缩率。分析表明,东海陆架盆地构造演化总体由西向东跃迁。晚白垩世至晚古新世东海陆架盆地裂陷中心在西部坳陷带,始新世东迁至东部坳陷带,上新世东迁至东海陆架盆地东侧的冲绳海槽盆地。古新世中后期东海陆架盆地西部坳陷带北侧昆山凹陷反转;中新世东部坳陷带的西湖凹陷反转。东海陆架盆地西部坳陷带与东部坳陷带构造演化不同,证明了东海陆架盆地的东西分带。西部坳陷带北部的长江坳陷和南部的台北坳陷构造演化不同,东部坳陷带北部的西湖凹陷和南部的钓北凹陷构造演化不同,证明了东海陆架盆地的南北分块。  相似文献   

中亚地区阿姆河盆地查尔朱、布哈拉阶地构造特征及演化   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

张志伟  何永垚  王春生  邓彦涛  张宏伟  王英民 《海相油气地质》2010,15(4)

阿姆河盆地是中亚地区重要的含油气盆地,位于阿姆河北岸的查尔朱阶地和布哈拉阶地为盆地的二级构造单元,其油气资源量占全盆地的一半。油气主要富集于阶地的局部背斜构造和生物礁圈闭中,这些圈闭与该区构造形成演化密不可分。利用常规地质资料,通过精细地层对比和地震资料解释,识别出两个关键界面:侏罗纪末的断拗转换面和早第三纪末的区域角度不整合面,并结合板块构造理论确定了构造变形时期。研究认为,侏罗纪以来两阶地经历了侏罗纪—白垩纪断陷—拗陷期和早第三纪抬升—改造期两个重要演化阶段,形成了上、中、下三大构造层。断陷—拗陷阶段的沉积控制了该区的构造格局;中构造层膏盐层的发育丰富了后期的构造样式。早第三纪—晚第三纪的构造运动使该区构造发生了强烈变革,形成了典型的逆断裂、走滑断裂带和不对称复合背斜构造带。  相似文献   

Cenozoic folding in the Cumuruxatiba basin,Brazil: An approach to the deformation trigger by the Abrolhos magmatism     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2014

The Cumuruxatiba basin is located in the central portion of the eastern Brazilian margin surrounded by Cenozoic magmatic highs that belong to the Abrolhos Magmatic Complex. This basin was formed by rifting, in the Neocomian followed by thermal subsidence during late Cretaceous like other basins along the Eastern Brazilian margin. In the Cenozoic, the Abrolhos magmatism took place as sills and dykes intruded the sedimentary section, primarily during the Paleogene. In that time, there was a strong NS contractional deformation in the basin represented by folds related to reverse faults coeval with Abrolhos magmatism activity. The structural restorations of regional 2D seismic sections revealed that most of the contractional deformation was concentrated at the beginning of the Cenozoic with maximum peak at the Eocene (up to 33% of total shortening and rate of 6 km/Ma). The Post-Eocene period was marked by a decrease in the strain rate that continues to the present day (around 4 km/Ma to less than 1). 3D structural modelling exhibited a major, well-developed E–W to NE–SW fold belt that accommodated most of the contractional Cenozoic deformation between Royal Charlotte and Sulphur Minerva magmatic highs. Volcanic eruptions and magmatic flows from the Abrolhos complex resulted in differential overburden on edge of the basin, acting as a trigger for halokinesis and the subsequent formation of fault-related folds. In general, such structures were developed close to adjacent magmatic highs, commonly exhibiting vergence towards the centre of the basin. Some magmatic features formed coeval with Cenozoic syn-deformation sediments clearly indicate that Abrolhos magmatism activity and contractional deformation development were associated. The study of the thickness variation of the syn-deformation section in relation to fault-related folds on deformation maps and maximum strain diagrams revealed that most folds were activated and re-activated several times during the Cenozoic without a systematic kinematic pattern. This lack of systematic deformation might be related to the variation of the magmatic pulse activity of adjacent magmatic highs resulting in a complex interference pattern of Cenozoic folds. These structural interpretations of the timing of fault-related folds that are potential Cenozoic traps in the Cumuruxatiba basin play a fundamental role in petroleum systems and exploration of low-risk hydrocarbon prospects.  相似文献   

扬州市江都区地热资源前景分析     

胡秀艳 《江苏地质》2014,38(2):339-342

江都区位于宁通隆起与苏北坳陷接合部,具有良好的地热地质开发利用前景。地热资源主要为传导型,分为孔隙型和岩溶裂隙型2个地热系统。根据地热地质条件分为北部、中部及南部3个地热资源分区。北部以孔隙型为主,中部、南部以构造裂隙型为主。预测可采地热水资源总量约11.18万m3/d,地热水温度40～68℃。  相似文献   

Structure and Fluid Transportation Performance of Faults in the Changxing-Feixianguan Formation,Xuanhan County,Northeastern Sichuan Basin     

DU Chunguo  WANG Jianjun  ZHANG Jun  WANG Ping  XUE Mei  ZHOU Huayao 《《地质学报》英文版》2014,88(3):865-877

On the basis of field observations, microscopic thin-sections and laboratory data analysis of ten faults in Xuanhan County area, northeastern Sichuan Basin, central China, the internal and megascopic structures and tectonite development characteristics are mainly controlled by the geomechanical quality in brittle formation of the Changxing-Feixianguan Formation. The fluid transportation performance difference between the faults formed by different geomechanics or different structural parts of the same fault are controlled by the mcgascopic structure and tectonite development characteristics. For instance, the extension fault structure consists of a tectonite breccia zone and an extension fracture zone. Good fluid transportation performance zones are the extension fracture zone adjacent to the tectonite breccia zone and the breccia zone formed at the early evolutionary stage. The typical compression fault structure consists of a boulder-clay zone or zones of grinding gravel rock, compression foliation, tectonite lens, and dense fracture development. The dense fracture development zone is the best fluid transporting area at a certain scale of the compression fault, and then the lens, grinding gravel rock zone and compression foliation zones are the worst areas for hydrocarbon migration. The typical tensor-shear fault with a certain scale can be divided into boulder-clay or grinding gravel rock zones of the fault, as well as a pinnate fractures zone and a derivative fractures zone. The grinding gravel rock zone is the worst one for fluid transportation. Because of the fracture mesh connectivity and better penetration ability, the pinnate fractures zone provides the dominant pathway for hydrocarbon vertical migration along the tensor-shear fault.  相似文献   

Structural Characteristics of the Andaman Forearc Inferred from Interpretation of Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data     

Anith  GOLI  Dhananjai K. Pandey 《《地质学报》英文版》2014,88(4):1145-1156

The Andaman Forearc Basin(AFB) is asymmetric in configuration and filled with a ~6 kmthick pile of Neogene to Recent sediments(~4 s in two-way travel time:TWT) with distinct zonation.It shows gradual thinning up to ~3 km(0.8 s in TWT) towards the eastern end with a seabed gradient of 1:30.Thick deformed sediments ~2 s(TWT) of the Outerarc are associated with intense faulting and occasional folding caused by recent tectonics.Development of a series of faults within the upwarped sedimentary column of Oligocene top to Recent is observed with a rotated fault block.These features are manifestations of Recent igneous intrusion,and reveal the presence of a mild N–S compressional regime.Its effect on the AFB resulted in further uplift of sediments,which can now be seen as the Invisible Bank.Forward gravity modelling supporting our seismic interpretation reveals that it is associated with igneous intrusion from the Moho(~9 km depth),and also suggests that continental crust underlies the AFB.Strong Bottom Simulating Reflector(BSR)-like features in the Miocene sediments of Outerarc and Forearc basin at a depth of 0.6 s below the seabed suggest the inferred probable occurrence of gas hydrates in the AFB.  相似文献