神秘的斯托肯立石圈

有人说它们是巨人遗迹，有人说它们和金字塔同出一辙，还有人说它们是外星人的杰作，这就是神秘的斯托肯立石圈，世界上的另一个未解之谜。

抚松新屯子西山旧石器遗址试掘报告

西山遗址发现于2002年,位于抚松县新屯子镇的西山上,同年对其进行试掘,试掘面积70m2。堆积物可划分3层;石制品出自第2层的黄色亚黏土层内,共30件,类型包括石叶石核、石片、细石叶。石制品原料均为黑曜岩。通过遗存分析,该遗迹是一个古人类临时活动场所。根据石制品出土层位以及遗址内不见任何磨制石器和陶片判断,该遗址的年代可能属于旧石器时代晚期或稍晚。

突厥考古学文化初探

突厥所建立的突厥汗国、东突厥汗国和后突厥汗国,在今内蒙古草原地区和蒙古国境内都留下了大量遗存,以祭祀性遗址和石圈、石堆墓最为常见,形成了独具特色的突厥考古学文化。突厥考古学文化远可承匈奴,与同时期的的粟特、唐朝互有影响,对后来的回鹘、契丹、蒙古等都产生了不同程度的影响。

The Course of Time in the Cracking of Earth CrustCaused by Earthquake of Magnitude 8

The world,the continent and the large country at all times have similar distribution of intervals between recurrences of the great earthquakes,depending on the earthquake sequence. lt indicates that how the force source of world scale changes with time and space.

察哈尔右翼后旗境内的“克列克苏尔”石构遗存

克列克苏尔,是中国学者对蒙古国境内分布于山丘表面的圆形或方形石构遗存Khirgisuur的译称。察哈尔右翼后旗目前发现有4处克列克苏尔,是内蒙古境内的首次发现。其中有5个椭圆形的石圈,有3个长方形石围,石圈和石围的墙体宽度均为1米左右,高度在0.3-0.5米之间,地表显示比较明显。经现场测量和田野调查,认为这些石圈、石围与蒙古国发现的克列克苏尔相似,可能是古代游牧先民的宗教祭祀场所或墓葬。

Some important scientific problems in current lithospheric physics research in China

China has achieved much during recent years in the area of lithospheric physics research and promoted the development of the geosciences （Teng, 2004）. However, in the 21^st century, national needs and policy challenges the science of lithospheric physics. I suggest a general analysis, research, and development direction for lithospheric physics and point out clearly the content, core problems, and key scientific problems in this field. The realization of the earth and the discovery of the basic mechanisms of mountains, basins, minerals, and natural disasters depend basically on high-resolution observations of geophysics, the delineation of the fine structure of crust and mantle （2D and 3D） inside the lithosphere, substance and energy exchanges in the deep earth, the process of deep physical, mechanical, and chemical actions, and deep dynamical response. Therefore, geophysics should be the pioneer in the geosciences field in the first half of the 21^st century. I end with an analysis and discussion of some problems and difficulties in the research of lithospheric physics.

Plastic-Flow Waves (“Slow-Waves") and Seismic Activity in Central-Eastern Asia

The results inferred from experiments with analogue models carried out previously have shown that two types of plastic-flow waves, “fast-waves" and “slow-waves", are induced in the lower lithosphere (including the lower crust and lithospheric mantle) under driving at plate boundaries and both of them are viscous gravity waves formed by the superposition of major and subsidiary waves. The major waves are similar to solitary waves and the subsidiary waves are traveling waves. The plastic-flow waves in the lower lithosphere control seismic activities in the overlying seismogenic layer and result in the distribution of earthquakes along the wave-crest belts. “Fast-waves" propagated with velocities of orders of magnitude of 100～102km/a have been verified by wave-controlled earthquake migration, showing the “decade waves" and “century waves" with the average periods of 10.8 and 93.4 a, respectively, which originate from the Himalayan driving boundary. According to the recognition of the patterns of the belt-like distribution of strong earthquakes with M S≥7.0, it is indicated further in this paper that the “slow-waves" with velocities of orders of magnitude of 100～101 m/a also originated under compression from the Himalayan driving boundary. Strong earthquakes with M S≥7.0 are controlled mainly by subsidiary waves, because the major waves with a duration of up to 106 a for each disturbance cannot result in the accumulation of enough energy for strong earthquakes due to the relaxation of the upper crust. The subsidiary waves propagate with an average wave length of 445 km, velocities of 0.81～2.80 m/a and periods of 0.16～0.55 Ma. The wave-generating time at the Himalayan driving boundary is about 1.34～4.59 Ma before present for the “slow-waves", corresponding to the stage from the Mid Pliocene to the Mid Early-Pleistocene and being identical with one of the major tectonic episodes of the Himalayan tectonic movement. It is shown from the recognition of the wave-controlled belts of strong earthquakes that two optimal patterns of wave-crest belts originated simultaneously from the eastern and western segments of the Himalayan arc, respectively. The overlap of wave-crest belts of these two systems is responsible for the relative concentration of energy and forms the seismic-energy-background zones for strong earthquakes with M S≥7.0.

PRESSURE GRADIENT FROM THE CONTRIBUTION OF BOTH GEOTHERMAL AND GRAVITY IN THE LITHOSPHERE

The pressure gradient of the lithosphere is a key to explaining various geological processes, and varies also in time and space similar to the geothermal gradient. In this paper a correlation formula of geothermal gradients and pressure gradients was built with the thermocomprestion coefficients. Based on this formula, the article has studied the relation between the pressure gradients and the geothermal gradients in the lithosphere, and the results indicate that the pressure gradient in the lithosphere is nonlinear, and its minimum value is the lithostatic gradient, and that the pressure gradient of the lithosphere will increase obviously with the contribution of both geothermal and gravity, and could be twice times more than the lithostatic gradient.

A New Model of Lithosphere Deformation Beneath the Okinawa Trough Based on Gravity Data

The Ryukyu trench-arc system can be divided into two types according to its subduction model. The normal subduction in the northern part of the Philippine Sea plate creates a hinge sedimentary wedge with large deformation at the collision front, while the oblique subduction in the southern part gives rise to a smaller accretion with small deformation than that in the northern part. The mechanisms that cause the distinction between these two types have been analysed and calculated by using gravity data based on the lithosphere rheology and the stress state of the lithosphere in the subduction boundary. The two types of subduction model are associated with the internal extension in the southern Okinawa Trough and the small extension in the northern part. The difference of the stress state between the two types of subduction model is also manifested in other tectonic features, such as topography, volcanic activity and crust movement. Modeling bathymetric and gravity data from this area suggests that the oblique subduction of low angle, together with smooth geometry of the overlying plate crust, results in small stress released on the south of the trench by the subduction plate. The intraplate faults in the southern Okinawa Trough behind the trench stand in surplus intensive stress. On the other hand, the normal subduction of high angle, together with strong undulation geometry of the overlying crust, results in more intensive stress released in the northern Ryukyu Trench than that in the south. The intraplate faults in the northern Okinawa Trough behind the northern Ryukyu Trench stand in small stress.

Description of nonstationary non-Gaussian processes using finite atomic functions

The possibility of using finite atomic functions of Kravchenko-Rvachev for description of the laws of distribution of the refractive index of the troposphere,the intensity of the scattering from the sea,seasonal behavior unit radar cross section(RCS)of land areas with vegetation covering,as well as the spectrum of electromagnetic spikes of lithospheric origin is considered.

Some Results of Paleozoic Paleomagnetic Research

This application note discusses the preliminary results of paleomagnetics studies of several incisions of the Paleozoic period the territory of Armenia and neighboring regions （Minor Caucasus）. It is supposed that before the Permian period the Armenian-lranian Mezocontinent was uniform with Afro-Arabia and only at the end of the late Paleozoic the formed Mesozoic ocean separated these areas from each other. A result of application of the complex laboratory investigations were identified from samples of primary magnetization the direction of which corresponds to the time of formation of the studied rocks. On the basis of paleomagnetic researches of Triassic, Permian, Devonian, Carbonian rocks a preliminary conclusion has been made about the dipole configuration of the geomagnetic field throughout Paleozoic. The comparison of the obtained data to paleomagnetic definitions of African, Arabian plates, Europe and the Siberian platform leads to the conclusion that the Minor Caucasus existed separately from the present general lithosphere blocks of Greater Caucasus and Europe.

Multi-Layer Strain Rate Field Controlled by Netlike Plastic-Flow in the Lithosphere in Central-Eastern Asia

According to the ＂Netlike Plastic-Flow （NPF）＂ continental dynamics model, the transition of the deformation regime from brittle in shallow layers to ductile in deep layers in the lithosphere, and the controlling effect of NPF in the lower lithosphere result in intraplate multilayer tectonic deformation. NPF is a viscous （plastic） flow accompanied by shear strain localization, forming a plastic-flow network in the lower lithosphere. The strain rates in the seismogeulc layer can be estimated using the ＂earthquake-recurrence-interval＂ method, in which the strain rate is calculated in terms of the recurrence interval of two sequential earthquakes and the seismic probability of the second earthquake. The strains in the lower lithosphere are estimated using the ＂conjugate-angle＂ method, which takes the relationship between the conjugate angles and the compressive strains of the network, and calculates the characteristic strain rates in this layer from the strains and the durations of deformation inferred. The contour map of characteristic maximum principal compressive strain rates in the lower lithosphere in central-eastern Asia given in the paper shows strain rates with magnitudes on the order of 10^-15 - 10^-14/s in this region. The strain rates within the plastic-flow belts, which control seismic activities in the seismogeulc layer, are greater than the characteristic strain rates of the network and, in addition, the strain rates and seismic activities in the seismogeulc layer are also influenced by other factors, including the directive action of driving boundary along the upper crust, the effects of plastic-flow waves and the existence of the transitional weak layer distributed discontinuously between the upper and lower layers. The comparison between the strain rates in the seismogeulc layer and the characteristic strain rates in the lower lithosphere for 11 potential hypocenter areas in the region from the Qinghai-Xizang （Tibet） plateau to the North China plain indicates that, except for the considerable deviation in the Linfen basin, Shanxi Province, the linear correlation between the strain rates in the upper and lower layers is obvious for all other 10 areas with a slope β= 1.75 ±0.5 （i.e. the ratio of strain rate in the upper layer to that in the lower one）. It is suggested that the contour map of characteristic strain rates together with the ratio β can be used to approximate the strain rates of potential hypocenters in medium- and long-term earthquake predictions, and the effects of driving boundaries and relative stable blocks on the hypocenter areas should be considered as sufficiently as possible for taking the β values properly.

Lithospheric Structure Model of Central Indian Ocean Basin Using Ocean Bottom Seismometer Data

The intense deformation zone in the central Indian Ocean, south of Indian continent is one of the most complex regions in terms of its structure and geodynamics. The deformation zone has been studied and debated in 1990s for its genesis. It was argued that deformation is mainly confined to sedimentary and oceanic crustal layers, while the large wave length geoidal anomalies, on which the deformation region lies, called for deeper sources. The inter connection between deeper and the shallower sources is found missing. The current study focuses on the complexities of this region by analyzing OBS （ocean bottom seismometer） data. The data acquired by five OBS systems along a 300 km long south-north profile in the CIOB （central Indian Ocean basin） have been modeled and the crustal and sub-crustal structure has been determined using 2-D tomographic inversion. Four subsurface layers are identified representing the sediment column, upper crustal layer, lower crustal layer and a sub-crustal layer （upper mantle layer）. A considerable variation in thickness as well as velocity at all interfaces from sedimentary column to upper mantle is observed which indicates that the tectonic forces have affected the entire crust and sub-crustal configuration. The sediments are characterized by higher velocities （2.1 kin/s） due to the increased confining pressure. Modeling results indicated that the velocity in upper crust is in the range of 5.7-6.2 km/s and the velocity of the lower crust varies from 7.0-7.6 km/s. The velocity of the sub-crustal layer is in the range of 7.8-8.4 km/s. This high-velocity layer is interpreted as magmatic under-plating with strong lateral variations. The base of the 7.0 km/s layer at 12-15 km depth is interpreted as the Moho.

Influence of relative positions between RF coil and crucible on sapphire crystals by edge-defined film-fed growth(EFG) technique

To obtain the stable temperature field required for growing sapphire crystals, the influence of relative positions between RF coil and crucible on the performances of sapphires produced by edge-defined film-fed growth（EFG） technique was investigated. For comparison, the crucible was located at the top（case A） and the middle（case B） of the RF coil, respectively. Furthermore, the lattice integrities were studied by the double-crystal X-ray diffraction, and the dislocations were observed under the optical microscope and atomic force microscope after corroding in molten KOH at 390 ℃. The crystals in case B exhibit better lattice integrity with smaller full width at half maximum of 29.13 rad·s, while the value in case A is 45.17 rad·s. The morphologies of dislocation etch pits in both cases show typical triangular symmetry with smooth surfaces. However, the dislocation density of 2.8×104 cm-2 in case B is only half of that in case A, and the distribution is more uniform, compared to the U-shaper in case A.

Correlated Crust and Mantle Strain Field in China

Plate motion is one of the major dynamic sources for deformation in the crust and the mantle. Since the deformation in the crust can be observed by GPS and geological observation, the comparison between the deformation of the crust and that of the mantle becomes one of the major methods available for studying the coupling between crust movement and mantle deformation. Regional crustal strain rate tensor values in China, inferred from Quaternary fault slip rates and earthquake deformation data within areas of approximately 200×200 km, are interpolated with smooth, continuous functions (spline) to determine a self-consistent model velocity gradient tensor field for the present-day Chinese continent. In the interpolation process, GPS velocity vectors are also matched, within a defined frame of reference, by the model velocity field. The directions of shear deformation calculated from the model velocity field are compared with the fast directions of shear-wave splitting inferred from SKS phases and Pn waves. The results might represent the shear deformation in mantle and the deep crust, respectively. There is a relatively large difference between the average direction of crustal shear and that of mantle shear in the area of active tectonics, which may indicate that in these active areas the crust and the mantle may be decoupled.

Medium-Deep or Very Deep Disposal of Highly Radioactive Waste？

Commonly proposed concepts, like KBS-3V, for disposal of highly radioactive waste imply construction at medium depth （400-600 m） in granitic rock, which is excellent for constructing a stable repository. VDH （very deep boreholes） represent an altemative concept with the advantage that the rock is much less permeable and that the very salt, heavy groundwater is stagnant. Both require engineered barriers in the form of canisters and waste-embedding clay but for somewhat different purposes. Canisters are the most important waste-isolating barriers for KBS-3V but are less important for VDH. The waste-embedding clay is needed for preserving the KBS-3V canisters by being tight and ductile, but plays a minor role for the VDH. The backfilled deposition tunnels in a KBS-3V repository provide very limited hindrance of radionuclides to move to the biosphere while the clay seals of VDH effectively prevent possibly released radionuclides to reach up to the biosphere. Comparison of the KBS-3V and VDH concepts indicates that the last mentioned one has several advantages but that certain issues remain to be worked on for becoming a number one candidate.

纳格尔久那孔达巨石文化遗存试析

印度克里希纳河下游纳格尔久那孔达峡谷的3处巨石文化遗址早经发掘。根据发掘报告介绍的资料,分析出63号遗址石圈群的石圈遗迹有着一大一小两两成对的组合关系,这可能是同组内两个体量有别的竖穴之反映。石圈组从东北向西南依序布列,3处巨石文化遗址也恰好由东北向西南连成一线,预设出这样的排布规则,不仅是出于峡谷由内向外的走向,更重要的是河对岸锥形山丘的特殊地貌,而这可能体现了更广之地域内人类的共同信仰。