A 10-Year Study on Techniques for Vegetation Restoration in a Desertified Salt Lake Area   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Yong Gao  Guo Yu Qiu  Hideyuki Shimizu  Kazuo Tobe  Baoping Sun  Ji Wang 《Journal of Arid Environments》2002,52(4):483

Vegetation restoration is one of the most common and effective ways to combat desertification and prevent adjacent areas from sand encroachment in many of the desertified regions of the world. However, vegetation restoration in desertified regions is very difficult because of low rainfall, the mobile ground surface, and cost. An effective, low-cost method of afforestation is urgently required. To determine such a method, a 10-year study was carried out in the Jilantai Salt Lake area. Five different afforestation areas were established: a ‘comparison area,’ a ‘land enclosure area,’ a ‘land enclosure + irrigation area,’ a ‘leveled-afforestation area’ (the dune areas were leveled and then planted with seedlings with added irrigation), and a ‘protected afforestation area’ (the dune areas were planted with seedlings, and the surviving natural vegetation was protected as much as possible). Vegetation-related parameters (survival rate, height, trunk diameter, coverage, canopy size, and density) and environment-related factors (relative humidity, wind velocity, and amount of sand encroachment) were measured by standard methods. Results show that the protected afforestation method had the following advantages: (1) the survival rate was higher for seedlings planted in the protected afforestation area than in the leveled afforestation area; (2) vigor (height, trunk diameter, coverage, and canopy size) was better in seedlings planted in the protected afforestation area than in the leveled afforestation area, especially in the beginning period of revegetation; (3) coverage (of individual species, of all planted vegetation, and of all vegetation) was larger in the protected afforestation area than in the leveled afforestation area; (4) density of naturally germinated plant species was higher in the protected afforestation area than in the other areas, showing that the protected afforestation method provided a suitable growing environment not only for planted species but also for naturally growing species; (5) in the protected vegetation area, relative humidity of air increased and wind velocity was greatly reduced; (6) after the establishment of vegetation by the protected afforestation method, sand encroachment into the salt lake area was significantly reduced. These results suggest that protected afforestation is an effective method of vegetation rehabilitation that has the potential not only to be applied to arid lands in China but also to desertified areas throughout the world; (7) cost-effective calculation shows that the leveled afforestation area costs much more than other areas.  相似文献   

p values of continental aftershock activity in China     

Zhixin Zhao  Kazuo Qike  Kazuo Matsumura  Jiren Xu 《地震科学（英文版）》1992,5(4):683-690

The temporal attenuation characteristics of the frequency of aftershock activity for 32 earthquakes (M being more than or equal to 5) were quantitatively analyzed by using the maximum likelihood estimation for point process. The results indicated that the average value of the attenuation coefficient of aftershock activity (p-value in the modified Omori’s formula) of the East China and the North—South Seismic Belt of China (NSB) was 0.91, being less than thep value of the western China. Comparing thep values of aftershock activities in the continental part of China with those in the Japanese islands, it was found that thep value in the continental part of China was less than that in the Japanese islands. Wherewith thep value is not related to the magnitude of main shock.  相似文献   

Planetary-type rare gases in an upper mantle-derived amphibole     

Kazuo Saito  Asish R. Basu  E. Calvin Alexander 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1978,39(2):274-280

All twenty-three stable rare gas isotopes have been measured in a mantle-derived amphibole, kaersutite. The elemental abundance pattern of the rare gases is similar to the “planetary” rare gas pattern as defined by carbonaceous chondrites. The³He/⁴He ratio, (4.9 ± 0.6) × 10^?5, is suggestive of primordial He degassing from the mantle. Excess²¹Ne is present. The measured⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar ratio,400 ± 5, may represent a mantle⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar ratio <240 when corrected for radiogenic⁴⁰Ar. The heavy isotopes of Kr and t0he Xe isotopes are within error of the atmosphere values.  相似文献   

⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar geochronological studies on submarine rocks from the western Pacific area     

Kazuo Saito  Minoru Ozima 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1977,33(3):353-369

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Sea water weathering effect on K-Ar age of submarine basalts     

Minoru Ozima  Kazuo Saito  Masahiko Honda  Sigeo Aramaki 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1977,41(4):453-461

K-Ar dating and ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar step heating experiments have been done for successive zones from the surface to the interior in two, altered dredged submarine basalts (16-2-6 and Aries V-23). The K contents show a systematic decrease (surface to the interior), whereas the K-Ar ages show a similar decrease in one sample (16-2-6) and almost no change in the other (Aries V-23).A simple diffusion model suggests that the K content decreases systematically from the surface to the interior, whereas the K-Ar age decreases or remains almost constant, depending on whether the times of solidification and of commencement of K-diffusion are close to each other or differ significantly. Comparison of the observed K content and K-Ar age variations within the rocks with the theoretical model then suggests that the solidification age of the sample Aries V-23 is much older than the commencement of the potassium-diffusion, the latter age perhaps being represented by the Eocene planktonic foraminifera on this sample. The ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar isochron age obtained for the freshest specimen of Aries V-23 is 86.6 ± 3.7 m.y., supporting the above conclusion.The mathematical simulation indicates that an apparent concordance of the K-Ar age observed in some submarine basalts may be an artifact, only reflecting the significant gap between the solidification age and the time of the commencement of the K-diffusion in the rocks. Microprobe examination reveals that the potassium enrichment in the outer margin, is mainly due to K feldspar, which is an alteration product of plagioclase.  相似文献   

Deep borehole observation of the Earth's crust activities around Tokyo-introduction of the Iwatsuki observatory     

Hiroshi Takahashi  Kazuo Hamada 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1975,113(1):311-320

Summary As a part of the Japanese earthquake prediction programme, deep borehole observation of the earth's crustal activities has been planned in and around Tokyo by the National Research Center for Disaster Prevention. The first place selected was in the city of Iwatsuki, about 30 km from the centre of Tokyo. Starting in 1970, the main construction was completed at the end of 1973. The tentative observation of micro-earthquakes and crustal movement by tiltmeters has been carried out since May, 1973. As expected, noise at the bottom of the hole (3500 m depth) is extremely small, about 1/1000–1/300 of that at the surface. We could, possibly, detect earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 2.0 within 50 km radius from the Iwatsuki observatory.  相似文献   

Single beam analogy for describing soil–pile group interaction     

Kazuo Konagai  Yuanbiao Yin  Yoshitaka Murono   《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2003,23(3):31-39

Most laterally loaded piles are flexible in the sense that they are not deformed over their entire lengths. Instead, pile deflections become negligible below an ‘active pile length’ L_a. This L_a is an important parameter that governs the overall behavior of a rigidly capped pile group. In the present approach, piles closely grouped together beneath a superstructure are viewed as a single equivalent upright beam whose stiffness matrix determines L_a. This idea is verified for different cases of pile spacing, and is further extended for nonlinear behavior of soils surrounding grouped piles.  相似文献   

Relationships between electrochemical properties of leachate and resistivity of strata in the landfill site consisting mainly of combustion residuals   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kazuo Kamura 《Environmental Geology》2002,41(5):537-546

There are many landfill sites consisting mainly of combustion residuals in Japan. The disposed materials are chemically unstable. Therefore, temporal changes of waste deposit conditions must be monitored for environmental management of landfill sites. Electrochemical properties of leachate and the relationships between the leachate properties and the resistivities of strata were studied in such landfill sites. In addition, incineration ashes immersed in distilled water were prepared and the temporal changes of electrochemical properties of the solution were examined. In composition, the ashes used in the experiment are similar to those disposed in the above sites. From the above results, the electrochemical properties of waste deposits consisting mainly of combustion residuals have been studied and the efficiency for managing landfill sites by resistivity measurements has been established.  相似文献   

An example of landslide-inflicted damage to tunnel in the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture earthquake     

Kazuo Konagai  Muneyoshi Numada  Athanasios Zafeirakos  Jörgen Johansson  Amir Sadr  Toshihiko Katagiri 《Landslides》2005,2(2):159-163

A large number of landslides induced by the 2004 Mid Niigata Prefecture earthquake resulted in the closure of 233 segments of national and prefectural routes in Higashiyama mountain district, and 61 localities were completely isolated. Since railway and road facilities follow closely the motion of soils, damage to these facilities has to be discussed in terms of soil deformations that they experienced. The example of Kizawa tunnel shows that even relatively small soil deformations can be large enough to cause serious cracking of tunnel lining.  相似文献   

Metamorphic Environments around the Cretaceous Kurihashi Pluton in the Kitakami Mountains, NE Japan: in Comparison to the Ganidake Pluton - Kamaishi Skarn Metasomatism     

Kazuhiro Sasaki    Kazuo Nakashima  Satoshi Kanisawa 《Resource Geology》2005,55(2):111-122

Abstract. Many granitic plutons of Early Cretaceous age are intruded on various scales in the Kitakami Mountains. The stock‐type Ganidake pluton accompanies enormous Fe‐Cu mineralization of the Kamaishi deposits, whereas the Kurihashi pluton accompanies less mineralization. To elucidate the cause of these differences, the metamorphic conditions and redox state of the contact metamorphic aureole around the Kurihashi pluton have been examined by the petrochemical study and gas analysis of the metamorphic rocks. A typical mineral assemblage in the pelitic rocks in the lowest‐grade part is biotite‐muscovite‐chlorite‐quartz‐plagio‐clase‐graphite, which occur more than 2 km away from the contact point with the Kurihashi pluton. Graphite disappears at the 1550 m point, and cordierite and garnet appear in the middle and highest‐grade parts, respectively. A typical mineral assemblage in the tuffaceous rocks in the lower‐grade part is chlorite‐actinolite‐biotite‐quartz‐plagioclase. Actinolite changes into hornblende near to the pluton. The CO₂/CH₄ ratios obtained in measurements by gas chromatography exceeds 100 in the pelitic rocks at the contact point with the pluton. The ratios decrease and become less than 0.1 with distance from the pluton. Equilibrium temperatures calculated from a garnet‐biotite pair in the pelitic rock and a hornblende‐plagioclase pair in the tuffaceous rock are 640d? and 681 d?C at the contact point, respectively. The log?o₂ values among these metamorphic aureoles estimated from the CO₂/CH₄ ratios are slightly lower than the FMQ‐buffer. Redox states of the contact metamorphic aureole are kept in an intermediate condition between oxidized magma of the Kurihashi pluton and graphite‐bearing pelitic country rocks. Judging from these metamorphic conditions around the Kurihashi pluton and from the re‐evaluation of the previous knowledge about contact metasomatism around the Ganidake pluton, the Kurihashi metamorphism has occurred at higher temperatures and dry conditions than the Ganidake metasomatism. These differences in the metamorphic conditions and presence or absence of a large limestone mass around the pluton might be the principal reasons why the Kurihashi pluton accompanies less mineralization and the Ganidake pluton accompanies gigantic Kamaishi skarn mineralization.  相似文献