东沙北部底层鱼类组成及资源特点的初步研究

随着近海捕捞压力的加剧,一些主要经济鱼类资源相继遭到不同程度的破坏,渔业生产面临着新的抉择。世界一些渔业发达的国家早已纷纷把眼光放在发展外海和远洋渔业,我国近年来也开始了这方面的工作,虽发展速度不快,但已取得了可喜的成绩。本文根据1986年6—8月和1987年2—3月、6—9月在东沙北部海区进行的渔业调查取得的有关资料,就该海区鱼类种类组成和资源特点进行探讨。一、鱼类组成 1.鱼类种类:东沙北部调查海区,地处南海,作业水深较深。由于受黑潮支梢和南海水的影响,调查期间渔场表层水温为22—32℃,平均盐度在34‰以上;同时。

南海东沙岛北部第二模态内孤立波特性研究

高分一号是中国自主发射的光学遥感卫星,空间分辨率达到2、8和16 m,因此可以为尺度较小的第二模态内孤立波研究提供强有力的数据支撑。本文基于2014—2020年共7年高分一号光学遥感图像研究了南海东沙岛北部第二模态内孤立波特性,研究结果表明:在海水层结不变,海域第二模态内孤立波的光学遥感图像条纹亮暗次序与第一模态内孤立波的相反;第二模态内孤立波的波峰线远短于第一模态内孤立波的波峰线;南海东沙岛北部第二模态内孤立波在夏季被光学遥感观测到的概率最大;绝大部分第二模态内孤立波尾随在第一模态内孤立波之后,可能是第一模态内孤立波与地形凸起相互作用而产生了第二模态内孤立波。这一研究结果对于进一步研究全球海域第二模态内孤立波的特性奠定了良好基础。

Morphology, sedimentary characteristics, and origin of the Dongsha submarine canyon in the northeastern continental slope of the South China Sea

The Dongsha submarine canyon is a large canyon belonging to a group of canyons on the northeastern South China Sea margin Investigation of the Dongsha canyon is important for understanding the origin of this canyon group as well as the transport mechanism of sediments on the margin, and the evolution of the Taixinan foreland basin and the associated Taiwan orogenic belt. In this study, the morphology, sedimentary characteristics, and origin of the Dongsha canyon were investigated by inte- grating high-resolution multi-channel seismic reflection profiles and high-precision multibeam bathymetric data. This is a slope-confined canyon that originates in the upper slope east of the Dongsha Islands, extends downslope in the SEE direction, and finally merges with the South Taiwan Shoal canyon at a water depth of 3000 m. The total length and average width of the canyon are around 190 and 10 km, respectively. Eleven seismic sequence boundaries within the canyon fills were identified and interpreted as incision surfaces of the canyon. In the canyon fills, four types of seismic facies were defined： parallel onlap fill, chaotic fill, mounded divergent facies, and migrated wavy facies. The parallel onlap fill facies is interpreted as altemating coarser turbidites or other gravity-flow deposits and fine hemipelagic sediments filling the canyon valley. The chaotic fill faci- es is presumed to be debrites and/or basal lag deposits filling the thalwegs. The mounded divergent and migrated wavy seismic facies can be explained as canyon levees consisting mainly of overspilled fine turbidites and sediment waves on the levees or on the canyon-mouth submarine fans. Age correlation between the sequence boundaries and the ODP Site 1144 data suggests that the Dongsha canyon was initiated at approximately 0.9 Ma in the middle Pleistocene. Mapping of the canyon indicates that the canyon originated at the upstream portion of the middle reach of the modem canyon, and has been continuously expanding both upstream and downstream by retrogressive erosion, incision, and deposition of turbidity currents and other gravity transport processes. The ages of the sequence boundaries representing major canyon incision events are in good agreement with those of global sea-level lowstands, indicating that sea-level changes may have played an important role in the canyon＇s development. The Dongsha canyon developed in a region with an active tectonic background characterized by the Taiwan up- lifting and the development of the Taixinan foreland basin. However, no evidence suggests that the canyon formation is directly associated with local or regional faulting and magmatic activities. Turbidity currents and other gravity transport processes （includ- ing submarine slides and slumps） may have had an important influence on the formation and evolution of the canyon.

Feathered sand ridges in the Kumtagh Desert and their position in the classification system

Feathered sand ridges in the northeastern Kumtagh Desert in China cover an area of 4016 km 2 and consist of crescent sand ridges and interridge tongue-shaped dunes.Differences in grain size,mineral composition and albedo between crescent sand ridges and tongue-shaped dunes,and between windward and leeward slopes of tongue-shaped dunes,result in their feathery appearance in aerial and satellite imagery.Measurements of the sand drift potential in the region show that the sand-moving wind for feathered sand ridges can be divided into three sectors;i.e.north-northeasterly,easterly and east-northeasterly sectors roughly corresponding to the southeast,northwest and southwest slip faces.Our findings suggests that the crescent sand ridges resulting from the connection of barchan dunes along the prevailing wind direction are longitudinal dune ridges rather than transverse ones.Tongue-shaped dunes and quasi-dune shapes have obvious distinctions and are new transverse dune types.According to McKee's dune shape classification,the feathered sand ridges are not a deformation dune type but a complex one.According to Wu's dune morphological and genetic classification,they are not dune ridges or compound dune ridges that form under the action of unidirectional winds or two winds intersecting at an acute angle,but are complex dune ridges that form under the action of three winds intersecting at an acute angle.