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Compacted bentonite has been considered as a candidate buffer material in the underground repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. An erosion of bentonite particles caused by a groundwater flow at the interface of a compacted bentonite and a fractured granite was studied experimentally under various geochemical conditions. The experimental results showed that bentonite particles could be eroded from a compacted bentonite buffer by a flowing groundwater depending upon the contact time, the flow rate of the groundwater, and the geochemical parameters of the groundwater such as the pH and ionic strength.
A gel formation of the bentonite was observed to be a dominant process in the erosion of bentonite particles although an intrusion of bentonite into a rock fracture also contributed to the erosion. The concentration of the eroded bentonite particles eroded by a flowing groundwater was increased with an increasing flow rate of the groundwater. It was observed from the experiments that the erosion of the bentonite particles was considerably affected by the ionic strength of a groundwater although the effect of the pH was not great within the studied pH range from 7 to 10. An erosion of the bentonite particles in a natural groundwater was also observed to be considerable and the eroded bentonite particles are expected to be stable at the given groundwater condition.
The erosion of the bentonite particles by a flowing groundwater did not significantly reduce the physical stability and thus the performance of a compacted bentonite buffer. However, it is expected that an erosion of the bentonite particles due to a groundwater flow will generate bentonite particles in a given groundwater condition, which can serve as a source of the colloids facilitating radionuclide migration through rock fractures. 相似文献
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In this work, 3D discrete element method modeling of drained shearing tests with gap-graded soils after internal erosion is carried out based on published experimental results. The erosion in the model is achieved by randomly deleting fine particles, mimicking the salt dissolving process in the experiments. The present model successfully simulates the stress–strain behavior of the physical test by employing the roll resistance and lateral membrane. The case without erosion shows a strain-softening and dilative response, while strain-hardening and contractive response starts to occur as the degree of erosion increases. The dilative to contractive transition is mainly caused by the increase in void ratio due to the loss of fine particles. The change from dilative behavior to contractive behavior is more abrupt for the specimen with larger fine particle percentage because the soil skeleton is mainly controlled by the fine particles instead of by the coarse soil particles. The transition from “fines in sand” to “sand in fines” might be associated with the rapid increasing in the contacts associated with fine particles in the specimen as the percentage of fine content increases. The erosion scenario based on the hydraulic gradient is also modeled by deleting the fine particles based on the ranking of the contact force. Compared with the scenario based on random deletion, the remaining fine particles for the erosion scenario based on the ranking of contact force are more dispersedly distributed, which might benefit the small strain stiffness but result in a smaller strength. This work provides some insights for better understanding the mechanism behind the internal erosion and the associated stress–strain behavior of soil. The gradient of the critical state line increases with more loss of fine particles denoting that the fine particles are helpful for holding the structure of the soils from larger deformation.
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西北干旱地区土遗址受风化、风蚀等破坏严重,大量土质文物亟待加固抢修。加固后土遗址的各耐环境因素及加固机制研究是土遗址加固的理论基础。首次引入颗粒元程序PFC,通过改变模型中颗粒间平行连接强度,对硅酸钾（简称PS）加固前后的土样进行数值模拟。在考虑实际土样颗粒粒径和密度的前提下,拟合了生土PS加固前后的抗压和抗拉强度,并将拟合后的颗粒元模型应用于风蚀模拟。通过随机生成挟沙风颗粒,以一定的速度撞向土体,模拟挟沙风的吹蚀作用。挟沙风颗粒数与循环步数成正比例,因此,可以用挟沙风颗粒数来代表吹蚀时间的长短。挟沙风颗粒的速度则代表挟沙风风速。模拟结果表明,在20 m/s的挟沙风吹蚀作用下,风蚀程度随吹蚀时间的增加而增大,未加固土样的风蚀程度增幅度远大于加固土样;同样吹蚀时间条件下,加固土样的抗风蚀强度明显高于未加固土样。这些模拟结论与风洞试验结果的统计规律一致。本研究拟合的颗粒流模型可进一步应用于PS加固机制研究及耐风蚀、雨蚀、冻融等诸环境影响分析研究。 相似文献
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F. Badesab V. Gaikwad T. R. Gireeshkumar O. Naikgaonkar K. Deenadayalan S. V. Samiksha P. K. Dinesh Kumar V. J. Loveson S. D. Iyer A. Khan P. B. Udayakrishnan A. Sardar 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2018,77(17):625
In this study, we utilized environmental magnetic in combination with sedimentological and hydrodynamic data to investigate the formative processes of mudbanks along southwest coast of India. We document the linkages between enrichment of silt-sized magnetic particles and formation processes of mudbanks along Alappuzha coast. A trend of increasing magnetite concentration and coarsening in magnetic grain size is observed at mudbank stations M2 and M3, while the mud-deficient station (M1) showed an opposite trend. A strong relationship between magnetic and physical grain size for all samples implies that the magnetic particle size and clastic grain size are largely adjunct. Analysis of rock magnetic and grain size data of surficial and suspended sediments from non-mudbank (M1) and two mudbank stations (M2, M3) reflect the differential sediment partitioning and transport regimes which controlled the formation of mudbanks along Alappuzha coast. Two plausible mechanisms responsible for the formation of mudbanks are identified: grain size-selective entrainment is the dominant process during pre-monsoon; weaker hydrodynamics (waves and bottom currents) favors accumulation of silt-sized (fine and coarse) magnetic and non-magnetic fractions resulting in the formation of magnetically low-enriched sediment bed of mixed grain sizes. At the onset of monsoon, wave-induced energetic bottom currents enhance the suspension of entire sediment bedload at stations M2, M3 to form fluid mud. Concurrently, mineral-density-based selective fractionation allows the settling of coarse silt-sized magnetic particles, while the fine magnetic silt-size particles accumulate forming thick fluid mud as a suspension load resulting in the formation of mudbanks. An observed increase in magnetic susceptibility and coarsening in magnetic grain size of surficial sediments at mudbank stations (M2, M3) during monsoon period supports the interpretation. Our findings are summarized in a conceptual model which can be very well applied to investigate sediment dynamics associated with mudbank formation in coastal and shelf sedimentary systems. 相似文献
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A. W. Momber 《Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering》2013,46(4):849-857
The erosion of schist due to impinging quartz and glass particles is investigated. The experimental set-up used to perform the erosion tests is briefly described. The erosion process is characterized by two failure modes, namely intercrystalline fracture and lateral cracking. The power exponent for particle velocity effects is 2.44. The schist shows the features of plastic deformation, and a model proposed by Ruff and Wiederhorn (Erosion. Academic Press, New York, pp 69–126, 1979) can be applied to the erosion process. The formation of glassy microfibers is noted, and it is attributed to localized heating due to the particle impact process. 相似文献
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In this paper, we study the use of virtual element method (VEM) for geomechanics. Our emphasis is on applications to reservoir simulations. The physical processes behind the formation of the reservoirs, such as sedimentation, erosion, and faulting, lead to complex geometrical structures. A minimal representation, with respect to the physical parameters of the system, then naturally leads to general polyhedral grids. Numerical methods which can directly handle this representation will be highly favorable, in particular in the setting of advanced work-flows. The virtual element method is a promising candidate to solve the linear elasticity equations on such models. In this paper, we investigate some of the limits of the VEM method when used on reservoir models. First, we demonstrate that care must be taken to make the method robust for highly elongated cells, which is common in these applications, and show the importance of calculating forces in terms of traction on the boundary of the elements for elongated distorted cells. Second, we study the effect of triangulations on the surfaces of curved faces, which also naturally occur in subsurface models. We also demonstrate how a more stable stabilization term for reservoir application can be derived. 相似文献
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In the study of surface processes, it is generally assumed that erosion occurs equally throughout the soil profile so that chemical depletion of the topsoil can represent the intensity of chemical weathering and the duration of surface exposure to cosmogenic radiation can reflects the soil residence time, and then the rate of erosion can be calculated. In comparison with fresh bedrock, the depletion of soluble elements in soil mainly comes from fine-grained secondary clay components, while the depletion degree of detrital minerals is weak. The preferential erosion of fine-grained secondary clay will lead to the underestimation of weathering intensity, and the retention time of detrital mineral will be longer than the total retention time of soil， and thus the soil erosion rate will be underestimated. Based on the uranium isotope comminution ages of soil in the Lesotho Highlands, we found that erosion operates differentially between the detrital and authigenic components of the soil. Uranium isotope comminution ages show a soil residence time of (543±32) ka for the detrital particles. In contrast, soil residence time of the authigenic phases is constrained to be (22±11) ka according to the accumulation of recoiled 234U from the absorbed 238U to river water. The residence time of secondary clay matches with the regional erosion rate 24-33 t/(km2·a) calculated from weathering flux, indicating that secondary clay is the main component of soil erosion. The results indicate that the decoupled erosion of different components in soil may be common. This finding implies that the intensity of weathering based on bulk soil erosion and the rate of soil erosion determined by exposure dating of coarse soil grains may be invalidated due to the preferential erosion of authigenic particles. As a result, a lower estimate of weathering flux may be made, and therefore the role of chemical weathering in the global carbon cycle could be underestimated. 相似文献
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A three-dimensional, intratidal sediment transport model is developed for the estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) in the upper
Chesapeake Bay. The model considers three particle size classes, including the fine class mostly in suspension in the water
column, the medium class alternately suspended and deposited by tidal currents, and the coarse size suspended only during
the times of relatively high energy events. Based on the results of a box model, depth-limited erosion with continuous deposition
is employed for the medium and coarse classes by varying the critical shear stress for erosion as a function of eroded mass.
For the fine class, mutually exclusive erosion and deposition is employed with a small constant value for the critical shear
stresses for erosion and deposition to assure quick erosion of recently deposited fine particles but without allowing further
erosion of consolidated bed sediments. The model is run to simulate the annual condition in 1996, and the model generally
gives a reasonable reproduction of the observed characteristics of the ETM relative to the salt limit and tidal phase. The
model results for 1996 are analyzed to study the characteristics of the ETM along the main channel of the upper bay in intertidal
and intratidal time scales. Under a low flow condition, local erosion/deposition and bottom horizontal flux convergence are
the main processes responsible for the formation of the ETM, with the settling flux confining the ETM to the bottom water.
Under a high flow condition, a distinctive ETM is formed by strong convergence of the downstream flux of sediments eroded
from the upstream of the null zone and the upstream flux of sediments settled at the downstream of the null zone. Intratidal
variation of the ETM is mainly controlled by erosion and the tidal transport of eroded sediments for a low flow condition.
Under the direct influence of a high flow event, the ETM is mainly formed by erosion during ebbing tidal current strengthened
by large freshwater discharge and by convergence of ebbing freshwater discharge and flooding tidal current. During the rebounding
stage of a high flow event, intratidal variations are mainly controlled by tidal asymmetry caused by the interaction between
tidal currents, gravitational circulation, and stratification. 相似文献
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A coupled discrete element model for the simulation of soil and water flow through an orifice 
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下载免费PDF全文 Soil erosion around defective underground pipes can cause ground collapses and sinkholes in urban areas. Most of these soil erosion events are caused by fluidization of the surrounding soil with subsequent washing into defective sewer pipes. In this study, this soil erosion process is simplified as the gradual washout of sand particles mixed with water through an orifice. The discrete element method is used to simulate the large deformation behavior of the sand particles, and the Darcy fluid model is coupled with this approach to simulate fluid flow through porous sand media. A coupled 3D discrete element model is developed and implemented based on this scheme. To simulate previous experiments using this coupled model considering the current computing capacity, we incorporated a ‘supply layer’ to study the continuous erosion process. The coupled model can predict the erosion flow rates of sand and water and the shape of erosion void. Thus, the model can be used as an effective and efficient tool to investigate the soil erosion process around defective pipes. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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The performance of the bentonite buffer in nuclear waste repository concept relies to a great extent on the buffer surrounding the canister having sufficient dry density. Loss of buffer material caused by erosion remains as the most significant process reducing the density of the buffer. In the worst case, the process is assumed to last as long as the free volume between the pellets in the pellets filled regions is filled with groundwater. Erosion rate and mass erosion are calculated based on the erosion model, and the measures are presented to prevent the geological disaster due to bentonite erosion. The groundwaters may solubilise the smectite particles in the bentonite and carry them away as colloidal particles. A dynamic model is developed for sodium gel expansion in fractures where the gel soaks up groundwater as it expands. The model is based on a force balance between and on smectite particles, which move in the water. Attractive van der Waals forces, repulsive electric diffuse layer (DDL) forces, gravity and buoyancy forces and forces caused by the gradient of chemical potential of the particles act to move the particle in the water. The effect of the fracture width and the frictions between particles and water and surrouding rock is analysed based on erosion model. The DDL forces strongly depend on the type of clay minerals and the type of ion and concentration in the water surrounding the particles. In the designed safe use of nuclear waste disposal (tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years), the safety of nuclear waste disposal is affected by the hydrodynamic and chemical effects, and bentonite erosion. Due to the bentonite erosion, the buffer/backfill layers become loose, and their permeability increases, which causes the nuclear element diffusion and convection, and even the nuclear disaster. In this paper, the mechanisms, models, experiments and control measures of bentonite erosion were systematically summarized. The current deficiencies of bentonite erosion were pointed out, and new methods were put forward to carry out the research for bentonite erosion. The measures were presented to prevent the geological disaster due to bentonite erosion through changes. The project is not only academic innovation, but also has a large practical significance. The research results of this project can be widely applied to the design, construction and maintenance of the bentonite buffer in nuclear waste repository. 相似文献
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Yuriy Elesin Taras Gerya Irina M. Artemieva Hans Thybo 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2010,3(4):477-497
We present a new 2D finite difference code, Samovar, for high-resolution numerical modeling of complex geodynamic processes.
Examples are collision of lithospheric plates (including mountain building and subduction) and lithosphere extension (including
formation of sedimentary basins, regions of extended crust, and rift zones). The code models deformation of the lithosphere
with viscoelastoplastic rheology, including erosion/sedimentation processes and formation of shear zones in areas of high
stresses. It also models steady-state and transient conductive and advective thermal processes including partial melting and
magma transport in the lithosphere. The thermal and mechanical parts of the code are tested for a series of physical problems
with analytical solutions. We apply the code to geodynamic modeling by examining numerically the processes of lithosphere
extension and basin formation. The results are directly applicable to the Basin and Range province, western USA, and demonstrate
the roles of crust–mantle coupling, preexisting weakness zones, and erosion rate on the evolutionary trends of extending continental
regions. Modeling of basin evolution indicates a critical role of syn-rift sedimentation on the basin depth and a governing
role of Peierls deformation in cold lithospheric mantle. While the former may increase basin depth by 50%, the latter limits
the depth of rift basins by preventing faulting in the subcrustal lithosphere. 相似文献
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In sand-control engineering, it is difficult to predict the optimal shrub cover, and to determine the relationship between this shrub cover and shrub height. Based on analysis of the physical mechanisms responsible for wind erosion (specifically, the increase in the threshold friction velocity required to entrain particles), a model was developed for the optimal shrub cover to control wind erosion and the optimal configuration that combines the best shrub cover and height. The value of a shrub plantation for counteracting erosion increases with increasing shrub cover and height, but is more sensitive to shrub cover. The friction wind velocity increases with increasing shrub cover and height. The optimal shrub cover was 60–65%, which confirms the results of previous Chinese field research. 相似文献
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水库溯源冲刷试验是评估在水库速降水位过程中,结合工程控制条件、水沙条件、冲刷时机和初始水库蓄水条件等因素,研究支流拦门沙坎破坏程度对干流溯源冲刷的影响。采用按照水库高含沙模型相似律建立的小浪底水库实体模型开展了4个组次的水库降水库区发生溯源冲刷的试验,第1~4组次库容恢复率依次为11.6%、6.8%、12.2%和6.6%。拦门沙坎破坏越严重,水量越大,库区溯源冲刷量越大,库容恢复率大;侵蚀基准面越低,库区溯源冲刷量大,库容恢复率大;库区淤积量42.00亿m3时采用降低水位引起库区发生溯源冲刷优于库区淤积量32.00亿m3。对原有的陕西水利科学研究所与清华大学的逐日溯源冲刷公式在考虑支流促因的基础上进行了改进,说明支流蓄水量进入干流越多,引起支流口以下的干流河段冲刷量越大,其计算结果与实测值满足生产实践精度,可作为多沙河流水库调水调沙方案制定参考。 相似文献
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It has been reported that sand production, which is a simultaneous production of soil particles along with gas and water into a production well, forced to terminate the operation during the world's first offshore methane production test from hydrate-bearing sediments in the Eastern Nankai Tough. The sand production is induced by internal erosion, which is the detachment and migration of soil particles from soil skeleton due to seepage flow. The inflow of the eroded soil particles into the production well leads to damage of the production devices. In the present study, a numerical model to predict the chemo-thermo-mechanically coupled behavior including internal erosion during hydrate dissociation has been formulated based on the multiphase mixture theory. In the proposed model, the internal erosion is expressed as mass transition of soil particles from soil skeleton to the fluidized soil particles. Since the internal erosion is considered to depend on the soil particle size, mass of soil particles are divided into several groups that have different representative particle diameters, and the constitutive equations for the onset condition and the mass transition rate of the internal erosion are formulated for each group. Also, transportation of soil particles in the liquid phase is formulated for each particle size group in the proposed model. Finally, a simulation of the methane gas production from the hydrate-bearing sediment by depressurization method is presented, and the internal erosion and the dissociation behavior are discussed. 相似文献
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VALENTINA FLORES‐AQUEVEQUE STEPHANE C. ALFARO SANDRINE CAQUINEAU GILLES FORET GABRIEL VARGAS JOSE A. RUTLLANT 《Sedimentology》2012,59(3):990-1000
The analysis of the aeolian content of marine cores collected off the coast of the Atacama Desert (Mejillones Bay, Chile) suggests that marine sediments can record inter‐annual to inter‐decadal variations in the regional southerly winds responsible for particle entrainment at the surface of the nearby desert. However, the establishment of a simple and direct correlation between the sediment and wind records is complicated by the difference of time scales between the erosion and accumulation processes. The aim of this work is to: (i) assess the inter‐annual variability of the surface winds responsible for the sand movements; and (ii) determine whether the integration over periods of several months completely smoothes the rapid changes in characteristics of the transported and deposited aeolian material. To accomplish this aim, 14 years of 10 m hourly wind speed, measured at the Cerro Moreno (Antofagasta) Airport between 1991 and 2003 and at the Orica Station between 2000 and 2004, were analyzed. For each year, the wind speed statistical distribution can be represented by a combination of two to three Weibull functions. Winds of the lowest Weibull mode are too weak to move the sand grains at the surface of the pampa; this is not the case for the intermediate mode and especially for the highest speed mode which are able to erode the arid surface and transport particles to the bay. In each individual year of the period of study, the highest speed mode only accounted for a limited number of strong erosion events. Quantitative analysis of the distribution of the friction velocities and of their impact on erosion using a saltation model suggests that, although all wind speeds above threshold produce erosion events, values around 0·45 m sec?1 contribute less to the erosion flux. This gap allows separation of the erosion events into low and high saltation modes. The correlation (r = 0·997) between the importance of the third Weibull mode and the extent of higher rate saltation indicates that the inter‐annual variability of the erosion at the surface of the pampa, as well as the transport of coarse particles (>100 μm), are directly related to inter‐annual variations in the prevalence of the strongest winds. Finally, a transport and deposition model is used to assess the possible impact of the wind inter‐annual variability on the deposition flux of mineral particles in the bay. The results suggest that inter‐annual differences in the wind speed distributions have a quantifiable effect on the intensity and size‐distribution of this deposition flux. This observation suggests that a detailed analysis of the sediment cores collected from the bay could be used for reconstructing the inter‐annual variability of past winds. 相似文献
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宇宙成因核素在地球科学中的应用 总被引：11，自引：0，他引：11
随着加速器质谱的出现 ,宇宙成因核素展示了其在地球科学中的生命力。文中介绍了宇宙成因核素的生成、示踪原理及近些年来在地球科学中的应用 ,特别着重地介绍了原地生成宇宙成因核素定年这一新的技术。宇宙成因核素是宇宙射线粒子 (包括原生和次生粒子 )与大气及岩石发生核反应所生成的新的核素 ,其在大气及岩石中的生成量可用已知物理过程定量地描述。大气生成宇宙成因核素在考古、古环境及地球各圈层的相互作用方面得到了广泛的应用 ,原地生成宇宙成因核素则在地貌学研究中扮演着重要的角色 ,成为一门新的实验技术。这门技术可以定量地描述地表的暴露历史和侵蚀速率 ,在解决许多地质问题上成为惟一的手段 相似文献
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Gold and platinum-group-metals (PGM) are cycled through Earth’s environments by interwoven geological, physical, chemical and biological processes leading to the trans/neoformation of metallic particles in placers. The placer deposit at Corrego Bom Successo (CBS, Brazil) is one of the few localities worldwide containing secondary gold- and PGM-particles. Placer gold consists of detrital particles from nearby hydrothermal deposits that were transformed in the surface environment. Processes that have affected these particles include short-distance transport, chemical de-alloying of the primary gold‑silver, and (bio)geochemical dissolution/re-precipitation of gold leading to the formation of pure, secondary gold and the dispersion of gold nanoparticles. The latter processes are likely mediated by non-living organic matter (OM) and bacterial biofilms residing on the particles. The biofilms are largely composed of metallophillic β- and γ-Proteobacteria. Abundant mobile gold and platinum nanoparticles were detected in surface waters, suggesting similar mobilities of these metals. Earlier hydrothermal processes have led to the formation of coarsely-crystalline, arborescent dendritic potarite (PdHg). On potarite surfaces, biogeochemical processes have then led to the formation of platinum- and palladium-rich micro-crystalline layers, which make up the botryoidal platinum‑palladium aggregates. Subsequently potarite was dissolved from the core of many aggregates leaving voids now often filled by secondary anatase (TiO2) containing biophilic elements. The presence of fungal structures associated with the anatase suggests that fungi may have contributed to its formation. For the first time a primary magmatic PGM-particle comprising a mono-crystalline platinum‑palladium-alloy with platinum‑iridium‑osmium inclusions was described from this locality, finally defining a possible primary source for the PGM mineralisation. In conclusion, the formation of modern-day placer gold- and PGM-particles at CBS began 100s of millions of years ago by magmatic and hydrothermal processes. These provided the metal sources for more recent biogeochemical cycling of PGEs and gold that led to the trans/neoformation of gold- and PGM-particles. 相似文献
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MARION BOUGAMONT SLAWEK TULACZYK 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2003,32(1):178-190
Geologic evidence such as subglacial troughs and grounding zone wedges indicate that soft-bedded, West Antarctic ice streams are capable of eroding, transporting and depositing large volumes of debris at high rates (˜100 m3 yr-1 per meter width). In order to understand the dynamics of ice streams and the geologic effects of their activity, it is important to understand the physical mechanisms that control these high rates of sub-ice-stream sediment generation and transport. Here, we use a numerical model of Ice Stream C run over c. 8500 model years to quantify the effects of a recently proposed, till-ploughing mechanism of till formation and redistribution beneath ice streams (Tulaczyk et al. 2001; Clark et al. in press). Our results show that this 'transport-limited' mechanism, in which till transport rates scale with ice velocity and erosion rates with spatial gradients of velocity, is consistent with existing constraints. For instance, our model results predict significantly higher (˜0.6 mm yr-1 ) average erosion rates beneath ice-stream tributaries, which are underlain by deep subglacial troughs, than beneath ice-stream trunks (˜0.2mm yr-1 ), whose subglacial troughs have a significantly smaller relief. We would not obtain this satisfactory result if subglacial erosion was parametrized in the model using the more traditional approach of scaling erosion rates with ice velocity (what we call the 'production-limited' parametrization). Because of the requirement of ice continuity, the magnitude of ice velocity generally increases downstream in polar ice streams, and so do the production-limited erosion rates. Pending further investigations, we propose that geologic and geomorphic effects of soft-bedded ice streams should be quantified using some form of a 'transport-limited' parametrization of subglacial erosion rates, e.g. the till-ploughing mechanism. 相似文献