Development and evolution of water vapor vesicles during fast thermal breakdown of muscovite     

K. Devineau  F. Villiéras  O. Barrès 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2007,34(8):559-572

At 1,175°C-1 bar, muscovite in natural granite powders is completely transformed after 5 min. Due to the overlapping of several processes such as dehydroxylation, mineralogical transformations, collapse and sintering of transformed lamellae, a few parts per thousand of H₂O vapor are trapped, generating bubbles in muscovite pseudomorphs. For short durations (5–40 min), the crystallographic properties of the precursor muscovite control the geometry of the bubbles that may be compared to thick disks with a rounded shape in basal sections and an elongated shape in lateral section, parallel to the former cleavage planes of muscovite. With longer durations the bubbles change from thick disks to spheres, which can be explained by the release of constraints perpendicular to basal planes upon growth of the high temperature Si–Al oxides. With time, the number of bubbles decreases while the bubble size and the porosity of the pseudomorphs increase. Bubble behavior was analyzed in terms of ripening, shape transformations and coalescence.  相似文献   

Natural hazards in Australia: droughts   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Anthony S. Kiem  Fiona Johnson  Seth Westra  Albert van Dijk  Jason P. Evans  Alison O’Donnell  Alexandra Rouillard  Cameron Barr  Jonathan Tyler  Mark Thyer  Doerte Jakob  Fitsum Woldemeskel  Bellie Sivakumar  Raj Mehrotra 《Climatic change》2016,139(1):37-54

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ELF wave generation in the ionosphere using pulse modulated HF heating: initial tests of a technique for increasing ELF wave generation efficiency   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

R. Barr  P. Stubbe  M. T. Rietveld 《Annales Geophysicae》1999,17(6):759-769

This paper describes the results of a preliminary study to determine the effective heating and cooling time constants of ionospheric currents in a simulated modulated HF heating, ‘beam painting’ configuration. It has been found that even and odd harmonics of the fundamental ELF wave used to amplitude modulate the HF heater are sourced from different regions of the ionosphere which support significantly different heating and cooling time constants. The fundamental frequency and its odd harmonics are sourced in a region of the ionosphere where the heating and cooling time constants are about equal. The even harmonics on the other hand are sourced from regions of the ionosphere characterised by ratios of cooling to heating time constant greater than ten. It is thought that the even harmonics are sourced in the lower ionosphere (around 65 km) where the currents are much smaller than at the higher altitudes around 78 km where the currents at the fundamental frequency and odd harmonics maximise.  相似文献   

Complex kame belt morphology,stratigraphy and architecture     

Harold Lovell  Stephen J. Livingstone  Clare M. Boston  Adam D. Booth  Robert D. Storrar  Iestyn D. Barr 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(13):2685-2702

The development of glacier karst at the margins of melting ice sheets produces complex glaciofluvial sediment-landform assemblages that provide information on ice sheet downwasting processes. We present the first combined geomorphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigation of the Brampton Kame Belt, an important glaciofluvial depositional zone at the centre of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data allow the broad scale internal architecture of ridges (eskers) and flat-topped hills (ice-walled lake plains) to be determined at four sites. In combination with sediment exposures, these provide information on lateral and vertical variations in accretion styles, depositional boundaries, and grain size changes. Building on existing work on the subject, we propose a refined model for the formation of ice-walled lake plains resulting from the evolution and collapse of major drainage axes into lakes as stable glacier karst develops during deglaciation. The internal structure of esker ridges demonstrates variations in sedimentation that can be linked to differences in ridge morphologies across the kame belt. This includes low energy flow conditions and multiple accretion phases identified within large S-N oriented esker ridges; and fluctuating water pressures, hyperconcentrated flows, and significant deformation within a fragmented SW–NE oriented esker ridge. In combination with updated geomorphological mapping, this work allows us to identify two main styles of drainage within the kame belt: (1) major drainage axes aligned broadly S-N that extend through the entire kame belt and collapsed into a chain of ice-walled lakes; and (2) a series of smaller, fragmented SW–NE aligned esker ridges that represent ice-marginal drainage as the ice sheet receded south-eastwards up the Vale of Eden. Our study demonstrates the importance of integrated geomorphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigations in order to understand complex and polyphase glaciofluvial sediment-landform assemblages. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Timing of glacial retreat in the Wicklow Mountains,Ireland, conditioned by glacier size and topography          下载免费PDF全文

Matt D. Tomkins  Jason M. Dortch  Philip D. Hughes  Jonny J. Huck  Toby N. Tonkin  Iestyn D. Barr 《第四纪科学杂志》2018,33(6):611-623

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Characterising soil moisture in transport corridor environments using airborne LIDAR and CASI data     

Andrew J. Hardy  Stuart L. Barr  Jon P. Mills  Pauline E. Miller 《水文研究》2012,26(13):1925-1936

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ELF and VLF radio waves     

R. Barr  D. Llanwyn Jones  C. J. Rodger 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2000,62(17-18)

This review covers developments in ELF and VLF radio-wave propagation research over the last 50 years of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. A review of such a large field, over such a long period, cannot be fully comprehensive and the authors have therefore covered important areas which have they themselves have found interesting. The survey begins with a review of work on natural and man made sources of ELF and VLF radiation. This is followed by sections on experimental and theoretical studies of unperturbed (ambient) ELF and VLF radio propagation. Schumann resonance research, which is currently undergoing a renaissance, is then reviewed. A review of research into transient perturbations of ELF and VLF propagation follows, extending from the early work on nuclear explosions up to the current work on sprites. The review concludes with a brief summary of the VLF navigation systems of the USSR and USA, (Alpha and Omega) whose development and life-span covered most of the last 50 years.  相似文献   

A Service Oriented Geoprocessing System for Real‐Time Road Traffic Monitoring     

Aengus McCullough  Philip James  Stuart Barr 《Transactions in GIS》2011,15(5):651-665

The emergence of the Sensor Web has paved the way for a new set of innovative software applications that exploit the enhanced availability of real‐time information. This article describes one such application built from Sensor Web components that aggregates GPS track data from a fleet of vehicles to provide an overview of road traffic congestion at the city scale. The application embodies a Service Oriented Architecture; web service components are used to archive and pre‐process incoming sensor observations, to encapsulate a horizontally partitioned spatial database that performs geoprocessing, and to disseminate results to client applications. Our results confirm that floating car data can provide an accurate depiction of current road traffic conditions. The presented solution uses Open Geospatial Consortium web services where possible and serves to highlight the difficulties inherent in achieving horizontal database scalability in sensor based geoprocessing systems.  相似文献   

A reconstruction of extratropical Indo-Pacific sea-level pressure patterns during the Medieval Climate Anomaly     

Ian D. Goodwin  Stuart Browning  Andrew M. Lorrey  Paul A. Mayewski  Steven J. Phipps  Nancy A. N. Bertler  Ross P. Edwards  Tim J. Cohen  Tas van Ommen  Mark Curran  Cameron Barr  J. Curt Stager 《Climate Dynamics》2014,43(5-6):1197-1219

Subtropical and extratropical proxy records of wind field, sea level pressure (SLP), temperature and hydrological anomalies from South Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Patagonian South America and Antarctica were used to reconstruct the Indo-Pacific extratropical southern hemisphere sea-level pressure anomaly (SLPa) fields for the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA ~700–1350 CE) and transition to the Little Ice Age (LIA 1350–1450 CE). The multivariate array of proxy data were simultaneously evaluated against global climate model output in order to identify climate state analogues that are most consistent with the majority of proxy data. The mean SLP and SLP anomaly patterns derived from these analogues illustrate the evolution of low frequency changes in the extratropics. The Indo-Pacific extratropical mean climate state was dominated by a strong tropical interaction with Antarctica emanating from: (1) the eastern Indian and south-west Pacific regions prior to 1100 CE, then, (2) the eastern Pacific evolving to the central Pacific La Niña-like pattern interacting with a +ve SAM to 1300 CE. A relatively abrupt shift to –ve SAM and the central Pacific El Niño-like pattern occurred at ~1300. A poleward (equatorward) shift in the subtropical ridge occurred during the MCA (MCA–LIA transition). The Hadley Cell expansion in the Australian and Southwest Pacific, region together with the poleward shift of the zonal westerlies is contemporaneous with previously reported Hadley Cell expansion in the North Pacific and Atlantic regions, and suggests that bipolar climate symmetry was a feature of the MCA.  相似文献   

Melts of garnet lherzolite: experiments, models and comparison to melts of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Timothy L. Grove  Eva S. Holbig  Jay A. Barr  Christy B. Till  Michael J. Krawczynski 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2013,166(3):887-910

Phase equilibrium experiments on a compositionally modified olivine leucitite from the Tibetan plateau have been carried out from 2.2 to 2.8 GPa and 1,380–1,480 °C. The experiments-produced liquids multiply saturated with spinel and garnet lherzolite phase assemblages (olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and spinel ± garnet) under nominally anhydrous conditions. These SiO₂-undersaturated liquids and published experimental data are utilized to develop a predictive model for garnet lherzolite melting of compositionally variable mantle under anhydrous conditions over the pressure range of 1.9–6 GPa. The model estimates the major element compositions of garnet-saturated melts for a range of mantle lherzolite compositions and predicts the conditions of the spinel to garnet lherzolite phase transition for natural peridotite compositions at above-solidus temperatures and pressures. We compare our predicted garnet lherzolite melts to those of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite and develop criteria for distinguishing among melts of these different source types. We also use the model in conjunction with a published predictive model for plagioclase and spinel lherzolite to characterize the differences in major element composition for melts in the plagioclase, spinel and garnet facies and develop tests to distinguish between melts of these three lherzolite facies based on major elements. The model is applied to understand the source materials and conditions of melting for high-K lavas erupted in the Tibetan plateau, basanite–nephelinite lavas erupted early in the evolution of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, as well as younger tholeiitic to alkali lavas from Kilauea.  相似文献