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Khizar SAMIULLAH Omer DRAZ Riffat YASIN Bilal RASOOL Hafiz MUHAMMAD ISHAQ Muhammad HARIS AZIZ Rana MEHROZ FAZAL Shakila NAZ Tehreem RAZA Romesa NIAZI 《《地质学报》英文版》2022,96(4):1150-1165
A fossil-bearing locality near Padhri village, Dhok Pathan, 55 km away from the tehsil Dina, Jhelum District, in the Potwar Plateau, Middle Siwaliks, Punjab, northern Pakistan, is significantly rich in mammalian fossils. This site has provided an abundant mammalian fossil fauna of Late Miocene age from the Dhok Pathan Formation (Fm.). The recovered material belongs to four families: Equidae (horses), Rhinocerotidae (rhinos), Bovidae (cows), and Suidae (pigs). We discovered a new skull of hipparionine Hipparion theobaldi from this locality along with 22 specimens from the associated assemblage of fossil mammals. The recovered material includes seven other species: the aceratheriine Chilotherium intermedium, boselaphines Tragoportax punjabicus, Selenoportax vexillarius, Pachyportax latidens, the antelope Gazella lydekkeri and suinine Propotamochoerus hysudricus. The specimens are isolated teeth, fragments of maxilla, mandibles and horn cores. The Dhok Pathan Fm. is generally composed of claystone, siltstone and sandstone beds and, based on the mammalian fauna, the Padhri fossil locality is dated as Late Miocene. Thi99s formation was deposited in a subtropical paleoenvironment and the predominance of fossil bovids indicates extremely moist conditions with small but frequent standing water bodies. 相似文献
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Omer Nawaf Maaitah 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2012,30(6):1345-1356
Soil treatment is commonly resorted in order to improve the strength, stiffness properties of road foundations, and reduce the swelling potential of expansive soils. In Jordan, considerable amount of construction activity is carried out at relatively shallow depths where soil is likely to be unsaturated and subjected to low stresses level. Road damage is frequently observed when it is founded on weak sub-grade in Karak. Therefore, chemical stabilization of the base course, sub base course and sub-grade is essential. The soil will be treated by using sodium silicate and lime with different percentages. An experimental program was designed to study the behavior of soil as the percent of additive agent changes. The results showed that; the geotechnical properties have been improved when soil is treated by mixing lime and sodium silicate. The initial consumption of lime is of 4 and 2?% for sodium silicate. The reaction time is a significant parameter where strength improves as time increases. 相似文献
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The site response at 15 stations in the Adana-Ceyhan region (Southern Turkey) is calculated from the recordings of aftershocks of June 27, 1998 Adana-Ceyhan earthquake (MS=6.2) by using the Standard Spectral Ratio (SSR) and the Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) methods. While the two methods are in good harmony at a few stations in determining the site effects, they show differences on the estimated amplifications or on the site resonance frequencies at most stations. It was not clear which one of the two methods underestimates or overestimates the amplification values. We observe that at some stations, where the local site conditions are rather complex, the vertical component records are strongly influenced from the local soil conditions. Thus, the HVSR method fails at these stations. The SSR method underestimates the amplifications at some stations since the rock site, selected as reference site, has its own site response and/or the path correction we applied, considering the geometrical spreading factor only, is insufficient. At the sites where high intensity values were observed, we found high amplifications. The fundamental soil frequencies characterize the damage properties observed in the Adana-Ceyhan earthquake. The fundamental soil frequency is nearly at 1.1 Hz at the Ceyhan site, where severe damage was observed in the 5–6 story buildings, while the fundamental soil frequency is between 3–6 Hz at the Adana site, where damage was in the low-story buildings. Therefore, in addition to inefficient construction practices, it is clear that the resonance effects have also contributed to the observed damage. 相似文献
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Understanding the dynamic patch mosaic of topsoil moisture on arid hillsides has implications for understanding eco-geomorphic processes. The present study used high-resolution maps to investigate the spatial distribution of moisture in the topsoil on the shrub microenvironment scale, and its dynamics during the first days after rain events. These maps were acquired by a thermal infrared (TIR) method, based on close-range TIR imaging and on a model in which spatially consecutive TIR data are converted into soil moisture values. The main results show that, in addition to the general diminishing trend of topsoil moisture content, and in spite of the specific differences between the two research sites, there was, in both arid and semi-arid zones, a general spatio-temporal pattern of topsoil moisture in a shrub microenvironment during the first days after rainfall. This pattern is manifested in the presence of a changing moist patch under the shrub, and diminishing moisture content gradients, from the shrub center towards the bare soil that vary over space and time. An improved understanding of surface water resources is gained from investigations of the spatio-temporal patterns of soil moisture during and following rainfall events. 相似文献
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Large-scale pile tests in Mercia mudstone: Data analysis and evaluation of current design methods 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
J. R. Omer R. B. Robinson R. Delpak J. K. C. Shih 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2003,21(3):167-200
Full-scale load tests were carried out on six instrumented large diameter bored, cast in-situ piles formed in Mercia mudstone, as part of the design of a new Viaduct in Cardiff, UK. In this paper, the results from six
test piles and extensive data from 218 ground investigation boreholes are systematically processed in order to study the load
transfer and resistance mechanisms in Mercia mudstone. Data from strain gauges embedded in each pile are first analysed to
calibrate the load-deformation relationship of each pile as-built, taking into account (i) the non-linearity of concrete and
(ii) the effect of partial steel encasement on pile stiffness at various levels. The shaft and base capacity of the piles
are each predicted using 10 calculation methods belonging to the four basic categories: (i) Undrained analysis, (ii) Drained
analysis, (iii) Mixed approach and (iv) Empirical correlation. It is found that the shaft capacity prediction methods are
moderately consistent. The standard deviations of the ratio Q
sp/Q
sm of predicted to observed shaft capacity lies in the range 0.06–0.24. However, 8 of these methods are over-conservative, giving
Q
sp/Q
sm values in the range 0.29–0.67. The remaining two methods yield Q
sp/Q
sm = 1.01 and 1.49. In contrast, the prediction methods for base capacity are found to be much less consistent. The ratio Q
bp/Q
bm of predicted to measured base capacity falls in the interval 0.52–1.93, with corresponding standard deviations of 0.16–0.82.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Two-dimensional finite element model was created in this work to investigate the stress distribution within rock-like samples
with offset open non-persistent joints under uniaxial loading. The results of this study have explained the fracture mechanisms
observed in tests on rock-like material with open non-persistent offset joints (Mughieda and Alzo’ubi, Geotech Geol Eng J
22:545–562, 2004). Finite element code SAP2000 was used to study the stresses distribution within the specimens. Four-noded
isoperimetric plain strain element with two degrees of freedom per node, and the three-noded constant strain triangular element
with two degree of freedom per node were used in the present study. The results of the present study showed that the tensile
stress in the bridge area caused coalescence for specimens with overlapped preexisting cracks (joints) while the coalescence
of the secondary cracks, due to shear stress, caused the failure of specimens with non-overlapping cracks. 相似文献
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Avraham Edri Avraham Dody Smadar Tanner Nitzan Swet Itzhak Katra 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(12):607
Aeolian (wind) erosion is most common in arid regions. The resulted emission of PM10 (particulate matter that is smaller than 10 μm in diameter) from the soil has many environmental and socioeconomic consequences such as soil degradation and air pollution. Topsoil resistance to aeolian transport highly depends on the surface composition. The study aim was to examine variations in PM10 fluxes in a desert-dust source due to surface composition and topsoil disturbance. Aeolian field experiments using a boundary layer wind tunnel alongside soil composition analysis were integrated in this study. The results show variations in PM10 fluxes (ranging from 9.5 to 524.6 mg m?2 min?1) in the studied area. Higher wind velocity increased significantly the PM10 fluxes in all surface compositions. A short-term natural disturbance caused changes in the aggregate soil distribution (ASD) and increased significantly PM10 emissions. Considering that PM10 contains clays, organic matter, and absorbed elements, the recorded PM10 fluxes are indicative of the potential soil loss and degradation by wind erosion in such resource-limited ecosystems. The findings have implications in modeling dust emission from a source area with complex surfaces. 相似文献
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Rainfall distribution around shrubs: Eco-geomorphic implications for arid hillslopes 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
A single shrub in a widely spaced shrubby area acts as a roughness element and, therefore, it can affect the distribution of the rainfall received on the ground surface surrounding it. This paper focuses on such rainfall distribution on arid hillslopes and its eco-geomorphic implications. Relatively simple methods were used to measure the rainfall around shrubs growing in a small basin that is associated with a prevailing wind direction during rain events. There was a trend toward significantly reduced rainfall onto bare soil areas located on the leeward side, compared with that on other bare soil areas along the hillslope. This may alert to another potential cause for patchiness in the hydrological response of arid hillslope systems. 相似文献
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Low‐temperature thermochronology provides information on the timing of rifting and denudation of passive margins, and the Red Sea with its well‐exposed, young rift margins is a suitable setting for its application. Here we present new apatite fission‐track (AFT) data from Sudan northern hinterland and Red Sea coastal areas. From the former region we obtained ages between 270 ± 2 Ma ad 253 ± 53 Ma, and from the coastal belt between 83 ± 8 Ma and 39 ± 7 Ma. These data prompted a review and comparison with low‐temperature thermochronological data from the whole Nubian Red Sea Margin, and a discussion on their implication in assessing the margin evolutionary style. AFT data are available for Egypt and Eritrea as well as apatite (U‐Th)/He (AHe) ages for two transects transversal to the margin in Eritrea. Both in Egypt and Eritrea AFT data record a cooling event at about 20–25 Ma (Early Miocene) and an earlier, more local, cooling event in Egypt at about 34 Ma (Early Oligocene). The thermal modeling of the Sudan samples provides an indication of a rapid cooling in Miocene times, but does not support nor rules out an Early Oligocene cooling phase. The re‐assessment of new and existing thermochronological data within the known geological framework of the Nubian and conjugate Arabian margins favours the hypothesis that early rifting stages were affecting the whole Gulf of Suez–Red Sea–Gulf of Aden system since the Oligocene. These precocious, more attenuated, phases were followed by major extension in Miocene times. As to the mode of margin evolution, AFT age patterns both in Egypt and Eritrea are incompatible with a downwarp model. The distribution of AHe ages across the Eritrean coastal plain suggests that there the escarpment was evolving predominantly by plateau degradation. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献