环境沉积学及其发展趋势

ENVIRONMENT SEDIMENTOLOGY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

环境沉积学是在地球科学发展到围绕资源、环境、灾害和全球变化 4个主题展开工作的情况下产生的。它是指利用沉积学的数据、原理及研究方法 ,研究人类活动与沉积环境相互作用、相互制约的关系 ,用以解决人类开发利用自然环境所碰到的和可能引起的与沉积学相关问题的学科 ,它的目标是探求防治对策 ,促进社会、经济的持续繁荣与沉积环境保护的协调发展。其主要内容包括水资源问题、地质灾害研究、城市工程研究和矿业开发环境问题等。环境沉积学与人类健康的关系研究目前已得到了重视 ,环境地球化学与生物地球化学循环、人类对地球环境影响的过程和机制等研究都是值得注意的前沿课题。未来的环境沉积学必将向环境保护。

Environment sedimentology is such a scientific subject that is applied to deal with some problems that are related to sedimentology in human’s explorating natural environment activities.Using sedimentologic data as well as theory and research methods,we do researches on the relationship between human and environment activities,which influence and control each other.The aim of environment sedimentology is to search preventing and governing countermeasures and promote social and economic prosperity and keep the harmonious development of sedimentary environment protection.The research contents of environment sedimentology include such researches as water resource,geologic hazard,city construction and mineral exploration environment.The relationship between environment sedimentology and human health has attracted much attention.The cycle of environmental geochemistry and biogeochemistry,the process and mechanism of human’s influence on the earth, are advancing fronts that are paid more attention to.The future environment sedimentology will develop encircling environment protection and hold back environmentary deterioration to the largest extent.