Warming permafrost in European mountains   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Charles Harris  Daniel Vonder Mühll  Ketil Isaksen  Wilfried Haeberli  Johan Ludvig Sollid  Lorenz King  Per Holmlund  Francesco Dramis  Mauro Guglielmin  David Palacios 《Global and Planetary Change》2003,39(3-4):215-225

Here we present the first systematic measurements of European mountain permafrost temperatures from a latitudinal transect of six boreholes extending from the Alps, through Scandinavia to Svalbard. Boreholes were drilled in bedrock to depths of at least 100 m between May 1998 and September 2000. Geothermal profiles provide evidence for regional-scale secular warming, since all are nonlinear, with near-surface warm-side temperature deviations from the deeper thermal gradient. Topographic effects lead to variability between Alpine sites. First approximation estimates, based on curvature within the borehole thermal profiles, indicate a maximum ground surface warming of +1 °C in Svalbard, considered to relate to thermal changes in the last 100 years. In addition, a 15-year time series of thermal data from the 58-m-deep Murtèl–Corvatsch permafrost borehole in Switzerland, drilled in creeping frozen ice-rich rock debris, shows an overall warming trend, but with high-amplitude interannual fluctuations that reflect early winter snow cover more strongly than air temperatures. Thus interpretation of the deeper borehole thermal histories must clearly take account of the potential effects of changing snow cover in addition to atmospheric temperatures.  相似文献   

Morphological analysis of olivine grains annealed in an iron‐nickel matrix: Experimental constraints on the origin of pallasites and on the thermal history of their parent bodies     

Kazuto SAIKI  Didier LAPORTE  Daniel VIELZEUF  Satoru NAKASHIMA  Pierre BOIVIN 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2003,38(3):427-444

Abstract— Two types of pallasites can be distinguished on the basis of the grain shape of olivine (rounded or angular). It has been suggested that these two types of textures resulted from different degrees of annealing at high temperature in the parent body. In order to characterize the kinetics of rounding of olivine grains in an Fe‐Ni matrix, we carried out a series of annealing experiments using a mixture of olivine and Fe‐Ni powder. We were able to reproduce, at a miniature scale, the range of textures in pallasites. The rate of rounding was rapid enough to be observed and measured at the scale of a few micrometers to 20 μm, even though the experiments were performed below the solidus of the Fe‐Ni metal. For instance, grains ?14 mm in diameter became nearly spherical within 7 days at 1400°C. For the morphological analysis of olivine grains, we used two independent techniques: the “critical diameter method” and the “Gaussian diffusion‐resample method,” a new technique specially developed for our study. Both techniques indicate that the rounding time scale is proportional to the cube of the grain size and that morphological adjustments in our experiments occurred by volume diffusion in the olivine lattice, not by surface diffusion along the olivine‐metal boundaries. We used our experimental data to estimate the time scales required for the development of olivine‐metal textures in natural pallasites. We determined that small scale rounding of olivine grains in a solid metal matrix can be produced within relatively short time intervals: ?100 years to produce rounded olivine grains 0.1 mm in radius at 1300–1400°C.  相似文献   

39Ar‐40Ar chronology of R chondrites     

Eleanor T. DIXON  Donald D. BOGARD  Daniel H. GARRISON 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2003,38(3):341-355

Abstract— This study presents the first determinations of ³⁹Ar‐⁴⁰Ar ages of R chondrites for the purpose of understanding the thermal history of the R chondrite parent body. The ³⁹Ar‐⁴⁰Ar ages were determined on whole‐rock samples of four R chondrites: Carlisle Lakes, Rumuruti, Acfer 217, and Pecora Escarpment #91002 (PCA 91002). All samples are breccias except for Carlisle Lakes. The age spectra are complicated by recoil and diffusive loss to various extents. The peak ³⁹Ar‐⁴⁰Ar ages of the four chondrites are 4.35, ?4.47 ± 0.02, 4.30 ± 0.07 Ga, and 4.37 Ga, respectively. These ages are similar to Ar‐Ar ages of relatively unshocked ordinary chondrites (4.52–4.38 Ga) and are older than Ar‐Ar ages of most shocked ordinary chondrites («4.2 Ga). Because the meteorites with the oldest (Rumuruti, ?4.47 Ga) and the youngest (Acfer 217, ?4.30 Ga) ages are both breccias, these ages probably do not record slow cooling within an undisrupted asteroidal parent body. Instead, the process of breccia formation may have differentially reset the ages of the constituent material, or the differences in their age spectra may arise from mixtures of material that had different ages. Two end‐member type situations may be envisioned to explain the age range observed in the R chondrites. The first is if the impact(s) that reset the ages of Acfer 217 and Rumuruti was very early. In this case, the ?170 Ma maximum age difference between these meteorites may have been produced by much deeper burial of Acfer 217 than Rumuruti within an impact‐induced thick regolith layer, or within a rubble pile type parent body following parent body re‐assembly. The second, preferred scenario is if the impact that reset the age of Acfer 217 was much later than that which reset Rumuruti, then Acfer 217 may have cooled more rapidly within a much thinner regolith layer. In either scenario, the oldest age obtained here, from Rumuruti, provides evidence for relatively early (?4.47 Ga) impact events and breccia formation on the R chondrite parent body.  相似文献   

REVISED AGE FOR THE GOSSES BLUFF IMPACT STRUCTURE,NORTHERN TERRITORY,AUSTRALIA, BASED ON 40Ar/39Ar DATING     

Daniel J. Milton  John F. Sutter 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1987,22(3):281-289

⁴⁰Ar/³⁹ Ar dating of a pumiceous suevite clast from the melt breccia at Gosses Bluff consisting largely of extremely fine-grained sanidine yields a discordant age spectrum, probably reflecting some diffusional loss of argon. High-temperature increments that together yield a near-plateau age of 142.5 Ma are apparently not affected by argon loss and offer the best estimate of the date of the Gosses Bluff event. The event may fall in the latest Jurassic Period, but more likely falls in the earliest Cretaceous, probably in one of the reverse-polarity magnetochrons M16, M17, or M18.  相似文献   

Analyses of the chondritic meteorite Orvinio (H6): Insight into the origins and evolution of shocked H chondrite material     

Jennifer A. GRIER  David A. KRING  Timothy D. SWINDLE  Andrew S. RIVKIN  Barbara A. COHEN  Daniel T. BRITT 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2004,39(9):1475-1493

Abstract— We have studied the petrography, reflectance spectra, and Ar‐Ar systematics of the Orivinio meteorite. Orvinio is an H chondrite not an L chondrite as sometimes reported. The material in the meteorite was involved in several impact events. One impact event produced large swaths of impact melt from H chondrite material surrounding relict clasts of chondrule‐bearing material. Not only were portions of a bulk H chondrite planestesimal melted during the impact event, but shock redistribution of metal and sulfide phases in the meteorite dramatically altered its reflectance spectra. Both the melt and relict clasts are darker than unshocked H chondrite material, bearing spectral similarities to some C‐class asteroids. Such shock metamorphism, which lowers the albedo of an object without increasing its spectral slope, may partially explain some of the variation among S‐class asteroids and some of the trends seen on asteroid 433 Eros. Noble gases record the evidence of at least two, and perhaps three, impact events in the meteorite and its predecessor rocks. The most significant evidence is for an event that occurred 600 Ma ago or less, perhaps ?325 Ma ago or less. There is also a signature of 4.2 Ga in the Ar‐Ar systematics, which could either reflect complete degassing of the rock at that time or partial degassing of even the most retentive sites in the more recent event.  相似文献   

The hydrocarbons in the Isla Vista marine seep environment     

Daniel H. Stuermer  Robert B. Spies  Paul H. Davis  Douglas J. Ng  Clarence J. Morris  Sharon Neal 《Marine Chemistry》1982,11(5):413-426

Hydrocarbon analyses on samples of sediment, interstitial water, and dissolved and particulate fractions of the water column from the vicinity of the Isla Vista seep near Santa Barbara, California, are presented. The results demonstrate that a very heterogeneous distribution of hydrocarbon composition and concentration exists in the seep environment and that the life-style and feeding habits of the organisms in this environment will have a dramatic effect on their hydrocarbon exposure.  相似文献   

Ultraluminous X-ray source 1E 0953.8+6918 (M81 X-9): an intermediate-mass black hole candidate and its environs     

Q.Daniel Wang 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,332(3):764-768

We present a ROSAT and ASCA study of the Einstein source X-9 and its relation to a shock-heated shell-like optical nebula in a tidal arm of the M81 group of interacting galaxies. Our ASCA observation of the source shows a flat and featureless X-ray spectrum well described by a multicolour disc blackbody model. The source most likely represents an optically thick accretion disc around an intermediate-mass black hole  ( M ∼10² M_⊙)  in its high/soft state, similar to other variable ultraluminous X-ray sources observed in nearby disc galaxies. Using constraints derived from both the innermost stable orbit around a black hole and the Eddington luminosity, we find that the black hole is fast-rotating and that its mass is between ∼80 M_⊙–1.5×10² M_⊙. The inferred bolometric luminosity of the accretion disc is ∼(1.1×10⁴⁰ erg s⁻¹)/(cos  i ). Furthermore, we find that the optical nebula is very energetic and may contain large amounts of hot gas, accounting for a soft X-ray component as indicated by archival ROSAT PSPC data. The nebula is apparently associated with X-9; the latter may be powering the former and/or they could be formed in the same event (e.g. a hypernova). Such a connection, if confirmed, could have strong implications for understanding both the birth of intermediate-mass black holes and the formation of energetic interstellar structures.  相似文献   

An empirical calibration of star formation rate estimators     

Daniel Rosa&#;González  Elena Terlevich †  Roberto Terlevich ‡ 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,332(2):283-295

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A PRINCIPAL AXIS SHIFT IN THE AMERICAN SPATIAL ECONOMY?*     

Daniel R. Vining  Joseph B. Dobronyi  Mark A. Otness  James E. Schwinn 《The Professional geographer》1982,34(3):270-278

Gottmann in his classic Megalopolis attributes the dominance of the Northeast to its function as the hinge region of the United States. In this paper, we show, via statistics on maritime trade and interregional freight traffic by rail, that Megalopolis is no longer the dominant “hinge” region. We present evidence that the Gulf region may be supplanting it in this function. Finally, we speculate on some of the reasons for the Gulf's rather sudden assumption of this role and its implications for the economic geography of the U.S.  相似文献   

The detection of the donor star in IY UMa     

Daniel J. Rolfe  Timothy M. C. Abbott  Carole A. Haswell 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,334(3):699-704

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