Silicifications de nappe dans les formations carbonatées tertiaires du piedmont atlasique (Hamada du Guir,Maroc)     

Médard Thiry  Mohamed Ben Brahim 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(1):12-29

Résumé

Les formations tertiaires du système de piedmonts atlasiques du Sud marocain montrent de nombreuses silicifications qui affectent les différents faciès de la série : les grès calcaires, les conglomérats, les calcaires lacustres, aussi bien que les faciès plus argileux. Les accidents siliceux sont de tailles et de faciès variés, allant d’échardes millimétriques à des masses pluri-décimétriques. Dans les faciès argileux (torba), ce sont des plaquettes et des tubules de silice translucide. Dans les calcaires, ce sont surtout des faciès silexoïdes, à morphologies variées et à contours irréguliers. Dans les grès calcaires, ce sont des silicifications scoriacées, quelquefois disposées suivant un réseau de conduits anastomosés,

La pétrographie révèle que les dépôts de silice dans les vides forment une part importante des silicifications. Les silicifications translucides des faciès argileux sont entièrement formées de concrétions de calcédoine. Dans les grès calcaires, les silicifications résultent de la cimentation des grains de quartz détritiques par des dépôts de silice fibreuse et d’opale, après dissolution du ciment calcaire primaire. Dans les calcaires, certaines silicifications correspondent à la cimentation de micro-brèches karstiques par des quartz géodiques; même les plages qui apparaissent très homogènes, formées de quartz microcristallin, révèlent une porosité primaire importante. Il y a alternance de phases de dépôt de silice et de dissolution de la matrice calcaire. A côté de ces dépôts dans les vides existent aussi des épigénies, c’est à dire le remplacement de la matrice calcaire avec préservation des structures, sans formation de vides. Néanmoins, ces épigénies sont limitées à la bordure de vides à dépôts de silice.

Les silicifications sont dues à des processus diagénétiques tardifs. L’essentiel de la silice est constitué par des dépôts dans des vides ce qui permet de faire des hypothèses sur la nature des solutions nourricières. La régularité des dépôts tout autour des vides indique un milieu saturé, au sein d’une nappe. En raison de la solubilité relativement faible de la silice dans les eaux superficielles, des débits importants sont nécessaires pour renouveler constamment la silice précipitée des solutions. Ceci conduit à envisager des climats relativement humides à l’époque de la silicification, ainsi que l’existence de reliefs et de paysages incisés pour générer les écoulements de nappe suffisants.  相似文献   

Crystallization of oxidized, moderately hydrous arc basalt at mid- to lower-crustal pressures: implications for andesite genesis   总被引：6，自引：5，他引：1  

Dawnika L. Blatter  Thomas W. Sisson  W. Ben Hankins 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2013,166(3):861-886

This study focuses on the production of convergent margin calc-alkaline andesites by crystallization–differentiation of basaltic magmas in the lower to middle crust. Previous experimental studies show that dry, reduced, subalkaline basalts differentiate to tholeiitic (high Fe/Mg) daughter liquids, but the influences of H₂O and oxidation on differentiation are less well established. Accordingly, we performed crystallization experiments at controlled oxidized fO₂ (Re–ReO₂ ≈ ΔNi–NiO + 2) on a relatively magnesian basalt (8.7 wt% MgO) typical of mafic magmas erupted in the Cascades near Mount Rainier, Washington. The basalt was synthesized with 2 wt% H₂O and run at 900, 700, and 400 MPa and 1,200 to 950 °C. A broadly clinopyroxenitic crystallization interval dominates near the liquidus at 900 and 700 MPa, consisting of augite + olivine + orthopyroxene + Cr-spinel (in decreasing abundance). With decreasing temperature, plagioclase crystallizes, Fe–Ti-oxide replaces spinel, olivine dissolves, and finally amphibole appears, producing gabbroic and then amphibole gabbroic crystallization stages. Enhanced plagioclase stability at lower pressure narrows the clinopyroxenitic interval and brings the gabbroic interval toward the liquidus. Liquids at 900 MPa track along Miyashiro’s (Am J Sci 274(4):321–355, 1974) tholeiitic versus calc-alkaline boundary, whereas those at 700 and 400 MPa become calc-alkaline at silica contents ≥56 wt%. This difference is chiefly due to higher temperature appearance of magnetite (versus spinel) at lower pressures. Although the evolved liquids are similar in many respects to common calc-alkaline andesites, the 900 and 700 MPa liquids differ in having low CaO concentrations due to early and abundant crystallization of augite, with the result that those liquids become peraluminous (ASI: molar Al/(Na + K + 2Ca) > 1) at ≥61 wt% SiO₂, similar to liquids reported in other studies of the high-pressure crystallization of hydrous basalts (Müntener and Ulmer in Geophys Res Lett 33(21):L21308, 2006). The lower-pressure liquids (400 MPa) have this same trait, but to a lesser extent due to more abundant near-liquidus plagioclase crystallization. A compilation of >6,500 analyses of igneous rocks from the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada batholith, representative of convergent margin (arc) magmas, shows that ASI increases continuously and linearly with SiO₂ from basalts to rhyolites or granites and that arc magmas are not commonly peraluminous until SiO₂ exceeds 69 wt%. These relations are consistent with plagioclase accompanying mafic silicates over nearly all the range of crystallization (or remelting). The scarcity of natural peraluminous andesites shows that progressive crystallization–differentiation of primitive basalts in the deep crust, producing early clinopyroxenitic cumulates and evolved liquids, does not dominate the creation of intermediate arc magmas or of the continental crust. Instead, mid- to upper-crustal differentiation and/or open-system processes are critical to the production of intermediate arc magmas. Primary among the open-system processes may be extraction of highly evolved (granitic, rhyolitic) liquids at advanced degrees of basalt solidification (or incipient partial melting of predecessor gabbroic intrusions) and mixing of such liquids into replenishing basalts. Furthermore, if the andesitic-composition continents derived from basaltic sources, the arc ASI–SiO₂ relation shows that the mafic component returned to the mantle was gabbroic in composition, not pyroxenitic.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Groundwater management based on GIS techniques, chemical indicators and vulnerability to seawater intrusion modelling: application to the Mahdia–Ksour Essaf aquifer, Tunisia     

Salwa Saidi  Salem Bouri  Hamed Ben Dhia 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,70(4):1569-1570

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Groundwater management based on GIS techniques, chemical indicators and vulnerability to seawater intrusion modelling: application to the Mahdia–Ksour Essaf aquifer, Tunisia     

Salwa Saidi  Salem Bouri  Hamed Ben Dhia 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,70(4):1551-1568

In arid and semi-arid countries worldwide, conflicts between human development activities and conservation of groundwater resources are widespread and attract many public debates. This research aims to propose groundwater management alternatives for a coastal aquifer by studying its vulnerability and in particularly the risk of seawater intrusion. An additional objective is to propose some agricultural policies aimed to conserve groundwater resources in Mahdia and Ksour Essaf. Intensive groundwater mining, for irrigation and for water drinking, has caused an overexploitation of the water resources. In addition, the degradation of water quality, caused by septic tanks and intensive agricultural activities, has given rise to notable crucial state of the groundwater resources. With the aim of tackling the groundwater degradation problem, integration into a common platform of vulnerability assessment, seawater intrusion modelling and hydrochemical analysis is proposed. This platform can considerably reflect the water resources state in order to propose some solutions reducing the contamination of the Mahdia–Ksour Essaf aquifer. The groundwater management alternatives, proposed in this study, were prepared within a geographical information system.  相似文献   

Scoring IDC SEL1 events for identifying misformed events     

Y. Ben Horin  David M. Steinberg 《Journal of Seismology》2013,17(4):1109-1123

The International Data Center (IDC) produces several automatic seismic event lists followed by a reviewed event list as part of the verification regime for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. For the time period from 2005 to 2011, on average, approximately 160 events per day were included in the first IDC automatic Standard Event List (SEL1). For the same time period, “only” 86 events per day were included in the IDC Reviewed Event Bulletin (REB). Several possible reasons may explain why an event included in SEL1 is excluded from the REB; for example: misassociation, namely, the association process generated an artificial event by associating information from stations that recorded several different events. Reducing the number of SEL1 events that are ultimately excluded from the REB would improve the automatic process relying on the SEL1 Bulletin and would reduce the workload of the analysts at the IDC. In this work, we present a scoring method that indicates the probability that an SEL1 event will “survive” the analysis process and be included in the REB. The method tries to imitate “good” analyst practice. Namely, based on the experience gained in analyzing information from a specific region with a seismic network, the analyst can decide if an event is a “real” event or not. The score was created for the International Monitoring System primary seismic stations based on the REB for the time period of 2005 to the beginning of 2011. The score is designed to indicate if the set of stations contributing/not contributing to the event is consistent with what is expected based on the analysis of past events that occurred in the same region. A byproduct of the analysis needed for the score is a statistical measure that assesses the typical contribution of a specific station to a specific region. This information can be useful in its own right, for example, to design subnetworks that will increase automatic processing efficiency.  相似文献   

Filling Some Black Holes: Modeling the Connection Between Urbanization,Infrastructure, and Global Service Intensity     

Elien Van De Vijver  Ben Derudder  David Bassens  Frank Witlox 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):82-90

This empirical article combines insights from previous research on the level of knowledge-intensive service in metropolitan areas with the aim to develop an understanding of the spatial structure of the global service economy. We use a stepwise regression model with the Globalization and World Cities research network's measure of globalized service provisioning as the dependent variable and a range of variables focusing on population, infrastructure, urban primacy, and national regulation as independent variables. The discussion of the results focuses on model parameters as well as the meaning of outliers and is used to explore some avenues for future research.  相似文献   

The H Lyman-α emission line from the upper atmosphere of Jupiter: Parametric radiative transfer study and comparison with data     

L. Ben Jaffel  Y.J. Kim 《Icarus》2007,190(2):504-527

This study uses the adding-doubling radiative transfer method in which we take into account the curvature effect of the planetary atmosphere in order to test the sensitivity of the jovian Ly-α emission line in relation to H column density, eddy diffusion coefficient, frequency redistribution function for photon scattering, temperature vertical profile, and an added hot atomic H layer on the top of the atmosphere. We also focus here on developing new diagnostic tools that will help us to obtain more confidently the underlying thermospheric structure of Jupiter. First, using the brightness distribution for specific wavelength bands as proposed by Ben Jaffel et al. [Ben Jaffel, L., Magnan, C., Vidal-Madjar, A., 1988. Astron. Astrophys. 204, 319-326], we show that the spatial thickness of the atomic H layer above the homopause level can be measured directly as the separation between the vertical positions of respectively the line core and line wing optical limbs. This thickness also constrains the [H] column and the value KH of the eddy diffusion coefficient at the homopause level at the disc location under consideration. We also propose to refine the value of KH and [H], respectively, at a specific planetary latitude, using the Q ratio of the limb peak brightness to the intensity from other regions over the planetary disc. Finally, the relationship between the disc brightness distribution from specific wavelength bands of the emission line and the temperature gradient in the thermosphere is demonstrated, thus providing an accurate tool to access this key information from high resolution observations. Quick, preliminary comparisons with some existing HTS/STIS data show the H layer thickness at auroral latitudes (∼1700 km) is much smaller than at equatorial latitudes (∼3900 km). These results strongly support the existence of a gradient in both H density and KH versus latitude, with higher values of KH at high latitudes and higher values of the H density at the equatorial regions. Such a small H layer thickness at auroral latitudes is consistent with a high mixing in the atmosphere that brings the hydrocarbons upwards, reducing consequently the column of hydrogen that scatters photons. These preliminary results show the strength of the proposed approach and open new horizons to use strong resonant emission lines at high resolution as a diagnostic for the state and structure of planetary upper atmospheres.  相似文献   

First results from the Very Small Array – III. The cosmic microwave background power spectrum     

Paul F. Scott  Pedro Carreira  Kieran Cleary  Rod D. Davies  Richard J. Davis  Clive Dickinson  Keith Grainge  Carlos M. Gutiérrez  Michael P. Hobson  Michael E. Jones  Rüdiger Kneissl  Anthony Lasenby  Klaus Maisinger  Guy G. Pooley  Rafael Rebolo  José Alberto Rubiño-Martin †  Pedro J. Sosa Molina  Ben Rusholme ‡  Richard D. E. Saunders  Richard Savage  An&#;e Slosar  Angela C. Taylor  David Titterington  Elizabeth Waldram  Robert A. Watson §  Althea Wilkinson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,341(4):1076-1083

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Progress on the Front of Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars     

Gilles Fontaine  Elizabeth M. Green  Pierre Brassard  Stéphane Charpinet  Pierre Chayer  Malvina Billères  Suzanna K. Randall  Ben Dorman 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2004,291(3-4):379-386

We briefly review the recent advances that have been made on the front of pulsating subdwarf B (sdB) stars. The first family of sdB pulsators, the EC 14026 stars, was discovered a few years ago and consists of short-period (～100?200 s) p-mode variables. The second type of pulsating sdB’s consists of the PG 1716+426 stars, a group of variables showing long-period (～1 h) g-mode pulsations. The existence of the latter was first reported less than a year ago. While the two types of sdB pulsators differ markedly in their observational characteristics, we recently found a unifying property in the sense that the observed modes in these objects are excited through the same driving process, a classic kappa mechanism associated with the radiative levitation of iron in the stellar envelope.  相似文献   

塔里木盆地东北部侏罗系烃源岩特征及初步评价   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

党犇  赵虹  姜常义 《地球科学与环境学报》2004,26(1):1-5

塔里木盆地是中国最大的含油气盆地,其东北部的侏罗系分布面积广、厚度大,主要发育一套煤系烃源岩.根据钻井及大量的实验测试等资料,研究了侏罗系煤系烃源岩的发育特征及其有机地球化学、有机岩石学特征,表明其有机质丰度较高,达到中等-好级别;有机质类型以Ⅲ型为主、Ⅱ型为辅;有机质热演化程度处于未成熟-低成熟阶段,部分地区可能达成熟阶段;烃源岩主要生烃显微组分为基质镜质体,少量孢子体、角质体和碎屑壳质体.综合分析表明,塔里木盆地侏罗系烃源岩具备一定的生烃条件和油气勘探前景.  相似文献